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Speaker 2: Clippers creating a little bit of buzz after a one
Speaker 2: forty three to eighty eight victory over the Charlotte Hornets
Speaker 2: where they have now won six of their last seven games.
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Speaker 2: Coach Lou and the players after the Clippers just completely
Speaker 2: dominate and win by thirty five over the Charlotte Hornets,
Speaker 2: when the game where they led by as many as
Speaker 2: thirty eight. Here it into a Dome. There are times
Speaker 2: during a long regular season where I think a blowout
Speaker 2: victory like This isn't that helpful, doesn't tell you that
Speaker 2: much about your team. This is not one of them.
Speaker 2: This was necessary, This was needed. This validates what we've
Speaker 2: been seeing as of late from the Clippers. This confirms
Speaker 2: a lot of the good play that we've seen against
Speaker 2: better teams, and it carried over into what you would
Speaker 2: expect against a bad team who, by the way, just
Speaker 2: had an abysmal shooting night. Some of this is the
Speaker 2: Clippers defense. Some of this is the law of averages
Speaker 2: going against the Charlotte Hornets, because they hit twenty six
Speaker 2: to three pointers their last game against San Antonio, the
Speaker 2: record is twenty nine. Tonight, they went six of thirty
Speaker 2: three from the outside. So if everybody's saying Clippers luck
Speaker 2: hot shooting, the opposition always finds the bottom of the
Speaker 2: net against the Clippers outliers shooting. Not tonight, Not this time.
Speaker 2: This was the Clippers team being helped out by the
Speaker 2: law of averages going in their favor. Kind of a
Speaker 2: big deal. One of the reasons you get a lopside
Speaker 2: victory like this. The Clippers were good, they were very good.
Speaker 2: The Charlotte Hornets were also just miserable shooting the basketball.
Speaker 2: They shot thirty nine percent from the field and eighteen
Speaker 2: percent from three, and nobody scored more than eighteen points.
Speaker 2: That would be Mark Williams who had eighteen and fifteen. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: the Clippers, I saw a lot of guys heating up
Speaker 2: at different times. It starts with James Harden, though that
Speaker 2: first quarter from James. We've seen it a lot this season.
Speaker 2: He has been the Clippers MVP. He has been that
Speaker 2: steady force for them, getting them set up on the
Speaker 2: offensive side, running the show, being a system, insade these system,
Speaker 2: he said, a system Harden got. Things started with the
Speaker 2: mid range sploater on the left elbow. Then it stepped
Speaker 2: back three, another floater, three from the far side. It's
Speaker 2: twenty to thirteen Clippers after they let I want to say,
Speaker 2: nine to two, and then it was tied up at
Speaker 2: eleven to eleven, and then they really pulled away. He
Speaker 2: had nan one down the left alley to make it
Speaker 2: twenty six sixteen and had fifteen points in the first
Speaker 2: quarter in the opening period, setting the tone. Not everybody
Speaker 2: else had it going. James Harden kind of said, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be hot tonight. Don't worry about it. I'll start
Speaker 2: five of seven and two of three from the outside
Speaker 2: to get to those fifteen points. Clippers won the first
Speaker 2: quarter thirty two to twenty one. I also think we
Speaker 2: got some good stuff from Bogie near the second half
Speaker 2: of the first quarter when he came in early for
Speaker 2: Norman Powell. Welcome back Norm. He struggled, he was rusty.
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter. They need him moving forward desperately and they
Speaker 2: need him to catch a rhythm. More about that, but
Speaker 2: Bogie came in, had a little eurostep transition, bucket, then
Speaker 2: knocked down a three pointer. Didn't play heavy minutes, just nineteen,
Speaker 2: but had seven points three or four shooting one on
Speaker 2: one from the outside. Clippers in the second quarter ran
Speaker 2: into a little bit of trouble where at one point
Speaker 2: I believe they had missed six straight shots to start
Speaker 2: off the second But then Kawhi after starting zero three
Speaker 2: in this game, he missed a right elbow jumper over
Speaker 2: bridges early on the mellow went around a screen for
Speaker 2: a floater on him. He was short on a mid
Speaker 2: range shot. There was a transition played the other way.
Speaker 2: Second quarter, he misses a midi long. His first bucket
Speaker 2: was a fade away at the eight forty five mark
Speaker 2: of the second over Miles bridges, then another fade away
Speaker 2: over bridges, then Kawhi a straightaway three off a zoos
Speaker 2: screen made it forty three to thirty two. The Clippers
Speaker 2: were starting to pull away. Kawhi a layup in transition,
Speaker 2: a swooping layup where he got hit on the head
Speaker 2: by LaMelo Ball. No call, you almost hit him in
Speaker 2: the neck, it was. It was a pretty obvious one
Speaker 2: and Kawhi couldn't get the call. Didn't really sell it either.
Speaker 2: Did say something to the officials later. But the Clippers
Speaker 2: at the half, after getting eleven points in that second
Speaker 2: quarter from Kawhi, are up twenty four. So they outscored
Speaker 2: the Hornets in the first half by a point per
Speaker 2: minute to lead by twenty four. After the first twenty
Speaker 2: four minutes. It's sixty five to forty one Clippers at
Speaker 2: the half. James Harden has twenty three. He had eight
Speaker 2: more points in that second quarter beats a zoobox. He's
Speaker 2: already had eleven in and five assists. Zuo was dishing
Speaker 2: out there. Kawhi had eleven, so make it he had
Speaker 2: nine points in that second quarter. Correction there not eleven
Speaker 2: had eleven points of the half, but after missing his
Speaker 2: first three shots, I believe he hit his next six
Speaker 2: out there. Kawhi was good, real good. There were some
Speaker 2: tough shots that he hit in the third quarter. First
Speaker 2: of all, got an easy one on a back cut
Speaker 2: free feed from James Harden to start the period. Then
Speaker 2: Harden hits a three. Then Kawhi hits a three. The
Speaker 2: Clippers are up thirty. Then he would finally miss. So
Speaker 2: from the span of the end of the second into
Speaker 2: the third quarter, Kawhi had hit six straight shots after
Speaker 2: missing his first three shots at the game, he finished
Speaker 2: nine of sixteen, so he went nine for his last
Speaker 2: thirteen to get his twenty three points. But it was
Speaker 2: really good to see. I often say this with Kawhi.
Speaker 2: It's like he's sighting the scope and the accuracy comes.
Speaker 2: Eventually he's a little bit wide right and a little
Speaker 2: bit wide left, and then he centers it and then
Speaker 2: he just can't miss. That's when Kawhi is at his
Speaker 2: best and just looks unstoppable and sees through defenders on
Speaker 2: those jump shots. But there's not much more important to
Speaker 2: this Clippers team than Kawhi. Leonard obviously looking like himself.
Speaker 2: We've been talking about this for a while, and I
Speaker 2: thought tonight was another step in the right direction. Twenty
Speaker 2: three points in just twenty seven minutes. He also had
Speaker 2: five assists. The Clippers almost assisted on seventy percent of
Speaker 2: their made field goals. They had thirty assists to forty
Speaker 2: five made field goals, thirteen of twenty six from the outside.
Speaker 2: They're shooting fifty percent from three, and Kawhi was three
Speaker 2: or four. So we've been watching that. How do his
Speaker 2: legs look from distance? From deep? Does he have the
Speaker 2: lift we did tonight? It just took three shots to
Speaker 2: get him out of his system and then he centered
Speaker 2: the scope and then he was on target. That is
Speaker 2: a dangerous version of the claw. Now, I'm still gonna
Speaker 2: say his play has been somewhat up and down, and
Speaker 2: I need to see more, but he is trending in
Speaker 2: the right direction. If you look overall of the numbers
Speaker 2: in March from Kawhi Leonard and his averages, I believe
Speaker 2: he was averaging twenty three coming into this ballgame in
Speaker 2: March twenty four. I think that's now included on his
Speaker 2: ESPN game log. But he's played seven games in March.
Speaker 2: He had thirty three, his highest scoring game, that second
Speaker 2: game against the Lakers twenty one against Phoenix, where he
Speaker 2: looked I think even better than he did against the Lakers.
Speaker 2: That dunk he had on Nick Richards was probably the
Speaker 2: most explosive play he's had this season. I thought through
Speaker 2: the first three quarters, remember the Clippers were up by
Speaker 2: twenty three, that was the best he had looked. Then
Speaker 2: he struggled a little bit at times against the Knicks,
Speaker 2: twenty points on six of eighteen shooting, struggled against the
Speaker 2: Kings till he hit the game winner seven to nineteen
Speaker 2: against seventeen points against New Orleans. I thought he looked
Speaker 2: really good for three quarters, but he wasn't aggressive in
Speaker 2: the fourth, still finished with twenty nine. Clippers lost that game,
Speaker 2: though to a hot shooting, hot shooting Pelicans team, and
Speaker 2: then he played with a much more force in pop
Speaker 2: against Atlanta. I would say with his twenty five points
Speaker 2: on twenty one shots, but I like seeing him get
Speaker 2: up twenty one shots, and he had a couple of
Speaker 2: really spectacular layups, but he was just one of four
Speaker 2: from three in that game. Well tonight he goes three
Speaker 2: or four at twenty three points in twenty seven minutes,
Speaker 2: so he was on his way to a thirty spot,
Speaker 2: but the Clippers were up by thirty. He didn't need
Speaker 2: to play much good to see. I think this helps
Speaker 2: their confidence knowing that, Okay, we're dismantling teams. We're getting
Speaker 2: back to that point where we're handling bad teams the
Speaker 2: way we should in just annihilating the Charlotte Hornson. This
Speaker 2: game fourth game this season where the opponent was held
Speaker 2: under ninety points. Hornets at eighty eight second lowest opponent
Speaker 2: three point percentage on the season at what eighteen percent?
Speaker 2: The low would be Sacramento win seventeen point five percent
Speaker 2: from three against them back in November and then it
Speaker 2: was their season high and offensive rebounds was seventeen the Clippers.
Speaker 2: They had seventeen second chance points off those seventeen offensive rebounds.
Speaker 2: There were times where Charlotte was getting multiple offensive rebounds.
Speaker 2: They had one possession where they had three opportunities in
Speaker 2: the first half, but the Clippers got three stops. They
Speaker 2: ended up with eleven offensive rebounds. There's really no area
Speaker 2: where the Clippers were glaringly bad. They had just ten turnovers,
Speaker 2: and guys, I've been telling you they have cut down
Speaker 2: on the turnovers in a big way post All Star Break,
Speaker 2: where they have been averaging around twelve per game. So
Speaker 2: while they have been struggling in some areas and losing
Speaker 2: ball games out of the All Star Break, there was
Speaker 2: this dirty little secret that you know, they're getting better
Speaker 2: taking care of the basketball. Now, if you can marry
Speaker 2: that with some better shooting from the outside, is the Clippers.
Speaker 2: You know, we're struggling at times from three, while other
Speaker 2: teams coming out of the All Star Break we're knocking
Speaker 2: down everything, then they could be in business. So now
Speaker 2: we're starting to see what happens with a Clippers team
Speaker 2: that offensively is playing better and they're still taking care
Speaker 2: of the basketball. Really good to see James Harden just
Speaker 2: two turnovers, seven assists. Now, he did have six last
Speaker 2: game against Atlanta, but all six came in the first half.
Speaker 2: Second half zero. What happened? They blew him out in
Speaker 2: the second half. Atlanta is a better basketball team than
Speaker 2: the Hornets. Obviously, Hornets are in seems like a perpetual rebuild.
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan not the best talent evaluator. I don't think
Speaker 2: he's a minority owner anymore, but responsible for some of
Speaker 2: the lack of talent, but look, they've also had a
Speaker 2: ton of injuries this season. You know, Brandon Miller breaking
Speaker 2: his wrist. I think it was was a tough blow
Speaker 2: for them. Grant Williams, I think tearing his acl was tough.
Speaker 2: So while they're rebuilding, they're also having these difficult injuries
Speaker 2: to work through. And the bright spot has been LaMelo
Speaker 2: at times, but he's inefficient, I think mostly because the
Speaker 2: team he's on. Miles Bridges had been playing really well though.
Speaker 2: I think he'd been averaging thirty over the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks, and he was completely held in check to
Speaker 2: just seven points tonight, and the Melow just had sixteen
Speaker 2: on five of eighteen shooting. Bridges just took ten shots
Speaker 2: and was three of ten, one of seven from three.
Speaker 2: This is the game where you have to say, to
Speaker 2: some degree, the law of averages played in the Clippers
Speaker 2: favor with a hot shooting team that maybe got all
Speaker 2: that hot shooting out of their system against San Antonio,
Speaker 2: because tonight they were ice cold for three six of
Speaker 2: thirty three. When they're coming off a game where they
Speaker 2: hit twenty six threes, it might've been a franchise record. Obviously,
Speaker 2: it was a season high for them. I mean the
Speaker 2: all time record twenty nine. They hit twenty six trees.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. Clippers win one twenty three to eighty eight
Speaker 2: over the Charlotte Hornets. Hear it into a Dome. We'll
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Speaker 2: that one for KiB eight six Demetrius in La Demetrius.
Speaker 2: What's up here on clipper stopt for that am auzl
Speaker 2: Hi Demetrius.
Speaker 4: Adam, I love cooling the game, and I love Casey
Speaker 4: and the sunshine. Ben Man, you you got a lot
Speaker 4: of rhythm going here. Uh, it's just amazing. Long time.
Speaker 4: I don't think I spoke to you in a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks for expenish few games. Very excited. It seemed
Speaker 4: like you've been a coach, Adam, because you you hit
Speaker 4: right on the money when we talk about big zoos,
Speaker 4: you've been. You got the receipt. And I keep hating
Speaker 4: to keep bringing up Big Zoo because of the phenomenal
Speaker 4: job that he's been doing and we've been talking about
Speaker 4: give him acclimated in the game. He makes the game
Speaker 4: much easier and then also it gives him a ton
Speaker 4: a ton of a ton of credit moving forward, especially
Speaker 4: going forward into the play I just love what this
Speaker 4: team is doing.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: The elite defense is showing up. We talked about all
Speaker 4: four players now welcome back Pow. All four players been
Speaker 4: in double digits. I think that's what I wanted to
Speaker 4: speak to you about, is that now we have four
Speaker 4: players going into the playoffs in double digits. With the
Speaker 4: bench that we have, with the defense playing eleat defense,
Speaker 4: I think we're going to be in a real serious
Speaker 4: situation here, and I think moving forward, I think we
Speaker 4: got about what fourteen games to go. I'm hoping we
Speaker 4: can go eleven and three, twelve and two. I know
Speaker 4: it's a push because of the back to backs, but
Speaker 4: I truly believe that, Adam, we got something going here.
Speaker 4: What do you think.
Speaker 2: To me? Jeers? I appreciate the phone call. I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I like the way they're playing defensively the last three games,
Speaker 2: holding the Heat to one oh four, holding and to
Speaker 2: ninety eight, now holding the Charlotte Hornets to eighty eight points.
Speaker 2: It looks like they're getting back to their defensive principles
Speaker 2: and getting back to that defensive intensity on that end
Speaker 2: that we saw early on this season throughout the majority
Speaker 2: of the season, but they haven't been as good the
Speaker 2: last month or so on the defensive side. That's really
Speaker 2: encouraging to me. And then if you can merge that
Speaker 2: great defense with them having more talent on the offensive end,
Speaker 2: with Kawhi being back and now norm being back, that's how,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you get to a place where
Speaker 2: this Clippers team can be extremely dangerous and looked like
Speaker 2: what we had hoped to see early on with Kawhi,
Speaker 2: which is a team that's a top five defensive team,
Speaker 2: and then can they get to be in a top
Speaker 2: ten offensive team when Kawhi is back. Well, they have
Speaker 2: been better as of late on the offensive end. They
Speaker 2: have won six of seven. It's starting to trend that way.
Speaker 2: I know, you guys can't hear the audio. I'm not
Speaker 2: into a dome. You can never hear the audio when
Speaker 2: I bring up callers, unfortunately from Burbank what I'm here,
Speaker 2: I know it's a problem, but I'll just try to
Speaker 2: transcribe some of what our callers said. Demetrius, he's asking
Speaker 2: about how I feel about the Clippers, how I feel
Speaker 2: about him right now. He's hoping they can go eleven
Speaker 2: and three the last fourteen games of the season, and
Speaker 2: the state of the team right now. They're in a
Speaker 2: good place, but they're entering the eye of the storm.
Speaker 2: And the schedule also the Clippers this week, it's not
Speaker 2: just the Cavaliers on Tuesday, but then Friday you're taking
Speaker 2: on Memphis and then Sunday you're taking on the Thunder.
Speaker 2: So this is a four game homestand after that three
Speaker 2: and one road trip they just came back from and
Speaker 2: they'll head back out for an East Coast road trip,
Speaker 2: so three tough games coming up, which is why getting
Speaker 2: guys read and reacclimating somebody like Norman Powell in a
Speaker 2: game like this where you you know, didn't have to
Speaker 2: play high intensity, late clutch time basketball and have guys
Speaker 2: with tired legs going into that game against the Cavaliers
Speaker 2: was so important. And Colord Demetriz brought up Norman Powell
Speaker 2: as well. Good to see him back. There was something
Speaker 2: interesting that happened in the second half. Norm started the game,
Speaker 2: as we expected, he didn't start the second half, so
Speaker 2: he starts the game with the starting lineup of Kawhi,
Speaker 2: DJ Zoo, Norman Powell, and James Harden. That starting lineup
Speaker 2: has one of the best net ratings in the league.
Speaker 2: They haven't been able to throw it out there enough
Speaker 2: because of injuries going on, but that starting lineup with
Speaker 2: DJ in there next to Norm, next to James Harden
Speaker 2: next to Kawhi next to him each a Zubots has
Speaker 2: been elite of the elite. They've been incredible this season
Speaker 2: and I was interested to see interested to see which
Speaker 2: way coach lou was going to go with Norm back.
Speaker 2: I expected him to be in the starting lineup, But
Speaker 2: who would be that fifth guy? Would it be Nico?
Speaker 2: Would it be Chris Dunn? But he's out tonight unfortunately
Speaker 2: Leftnie sore on us again coming out of the game
Speaker 2: against Atlanta. So DJ gets the start, and it made
Speaker 2: a lot of sense to me because the net rating
Speaker 2: has been that good, so harden Kawhi, Norm Palabats Zubas,
Speaker 2: Dereck Jones Junior. They have and I don't think this
Speaker 2: includes tonight's minutes, but it might. I doubt it. They
Speaker 2: have an offensive rating of one twenty six point eight
Speaker 2: and a defensive rating of one oh one point six.
Speaker 2: That's a net rating of twenty five point two in
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy four minutes, and for a while
Speaker 2: in this may still be true. Of lineups that had
Speaker 2: played one hundred and fifty minutes, they had the best
Speaker 2: net rating in the league. I'd have to double check
Speaker 2: on that, but at worst it's near the very top.
Speaker 2: So it makes sense for DJ to be the fifth guy.
Speaker 2: It makes sense to start Horn Pal, who's been their
Speaker 2: leading scorer on the season. Some people were saying, oh,
Speaker 2: is Norm really gonna start? Why would he not start?
Speaker 2: He's averaged twenty four per game, but in the second half,
Speaker 2: Coach Lou started Nikopatoom. Now I'm looking for postgame audio
Speaker 2: from Coach Lou about that, but I think it was
Speaker 2: to get him one long stint from the midway point
Speaker 2: of the third quarter into the first half of the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter where he wasn't coming in and out off
Speaker 2: the hamstring, and he could get more time with some
Speaker 2: of the others and role players out there. That's just
Speaker 2: the rest of the starters who he's more familiar with. Anyways,
Speaker 2: I think that was the point, because if you started
Speaker 2: him in the third quarter, he might only play the
Speaker 2: first eight to ten minutes of the third and then
Speaker 2: his knight's done, and he hasn't played much with the
Speaker 2: guys in the second unit in some of his new
Speaker 2: teammates with Ben Simmons, with Bogie, with you Banks, I
Speaker 2: think that's what they were doing. But we'll see. I'm
Speaker 2: interested to hear from Coach low about that. Is it
Speaker 2: something where he's gonna be tinkering with the starting lineup.
Speaker 2: I just don't see how you take Norman Powell out
Speaker 2: at this point with how good of a season he's had,
Speaker 2: where you can make the argument, I think he had
Speaker 2: a better year than Jay Dubb. He could have been starting,
Speaker 2: or he could have been an All Star over Jalen Williams.
Speaker 2: With the Thunder, Norm Spin, their leading scorer, their go
Speaker 2: to guy a lot of the season, and the efficiencies there,
Speaker 2: So you're gonna bring that guy off the bench? Does
Speaker 2: that make sense to anybody? Someone's pointing out Powell starting
Speaker 2: doesn't mean he A finishes or B starts every game
Speaker 2: of every series. I mean maybe, but he's been finishing
Speaker 2: before he was a starter. He was finishing games last season.
Speaker 2: Remember the Powell Rangers lineup their most devastating lineup. He
Speaker 2: has the best, some of the best clutch numbers, and
Speaker 2: the best fourth quarter numbers in the league the last
Speaker 2: two seasons. Norn Powell not even debatable, not even close.
Speaker 2: He shot like close to sixty percent from the field
Speaker 2: in fourth quarters last year and close to fifty percent
Speaker 2: from three and then before he went out with injury,
Speaker 2: he was around the same place in fourth quarters year
Speaker 2: with those percentages. So how do you not have that
Speaker 2: guy in, especially on a team that they've been great
Speaker 2: defensively even with Norm pal starting. What they lack at
Speaker 2: times is offensive punch play finishers on the offensive end.
Speaker 2: Norm fits in so well because he doesn't need the
Speaker 2: ball in his hands to cook. He doesn't need to
Speaker 2: play with the basketball or over dribble. He just gets it,
Speaker 2: shoots it, catch and shoot guy or off the dribble
Speaker 2: guy going to his right quickly to the basket. That's
Speaker 2: who Norm is. He doesn't dance much, he doesn't have
Speaker 2: a huge bag. You don't need to. So while Kawhi
Speaker 2: and James Harden are going io and if east the
Speaker 2: Zubats might back down his man like he did tonight
Speaker 2: against Musachia, Baze punished him. Norm is just quick decisions,
Speaker 2: quick actions out there that's perfect to fit next to
Speaker 2: this team with the way it's constructed. Clippers win by
Speaker 2: thirty five over the Charlotte Hornets. And while we have
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Speaker 2: Harold in North Hollywood near on Clippers stock without a masa.
Speaker 6: You know what we call it, I see your your
Speaker 6: tone drops it a little bit.
Speaker 2: Not at all, Harold in North Hollywood.
Speaker 5: Let's go, hey, Anam, I want to say that Daniel
Speaker 5: is a nice guy. Is answered the phone and put
Speaker 5: me on Look, you know, Clippers aside, that was a
Speaker 5: big victory for.
Speaker 6: Against the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 7: You know where I'm going.
Speaker 6: The NBA has bigger problems, Adam, and nobody wants to
Speaker 6: address it. I talked to you, you'll go out there.
Speaker 6: The quality, the quality of the game is not when
Speaker 6: I'm used to watching.
Speaker 4: It's older.
Speaker 2: The game is better than ever. You just listen to
Speaker 2: pundits and analysts who are old timers that want to
Speaker 2: crap on the game all the time because it makes
Speaker 2: their era look better. I can't agree with you there,
Speaker 2: I can't. I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: That's okay.
Speaker 2: There are more. There are more tough shot makers in
Speaker 2: this league, guys who are more unguardable than ever. The
Speaker 2: forty eight points we just show from Shake Gilds Alexander
Speaker 2: yesterday in that game against Detroit. Some of the moves
Speaker 2: he made are just basketball god stuff, stuff that players
Speaker 2: in the past couldn't dream of doing. Incredible, untouched the.
Speaker 6: Game, Adam. The game has changed the three point play
Speaker 6: is great, but I think it's changed the quality these
Speaker 6: guys who shooting three is when it's so unnecessary and
Speaker 6: they're cranking.
Speaker 2: Because they make them, No, they make them way more
Speaker 2: than guys in the past, way more.
Speaker 6: What is per what's the percentage not the great ones
Speaker 6: like Curry and Alexander? What's the percentage of most of
Speaker 6: the players in the league on three point shots?
Speaker 2: Oh, league average is around thirty six percent, Harold, But
Speaker 2: what if I told you this? What if I told
Speaker 2: you the math works like this. If you're shooting thirty
Speaker 2: three percent from three, which is three percent below league average,
Speaker 2: that's the equivalent of shooting fifty percent from two. So
Speaker 2: even when you're not shooting it that well, it still
Speaker 2: is a decent shot.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, because it's worth.
Speaker 2: The extra point. It is the math. The math has
Speaker 2: unlocked a different style of play, Okay, Like instead of
Speaker 2: taking a lot of long twos like you used to
Speaker 2: see in the NBA, they're still ping back two feet
Speaker 2: and taking a shot that's worth a point more.
Speaker 8: Okay, that sounds that sounds cool, But what do we
Speaker 8: I saw the Suns today against the Lakers, and I
Speaker 8: saw the Hornets against the Clippers, it was almost unwatchable.
Speaker 2: Well what about last game where the Hornets hit twenty
Speaker 2: six threes? Like it?
Speaker 9: I could go the other way with it. I guess
Speaker 9: there are some games where well, in NBA history there
Speaker 9: it's a make or miss league. There are some games
Speaker 9: where you're on more than others. You can't expect perfect
Speaker 9: basketball every game, or just point to the bad games,
Speaker 9: Harold and say, see the game isn't as good as
Speaker 9: it used to be, or see this is unwatchable. It's like,
Speaker 9: well was it watchable when they knock down twenty six threes?
Speaker 10: What's your record?
Speaker 2: There are a bad league. But it doesn't They're not
Speaker 2: bad because they take threes. They're bad because they don't
Speaker 2: have the most talent and they have a bunch of
Speaker 2: guys bang.
Speaker 11: Up and banged up.
Speaker 8: I don't care if they hit them all in the line,
Speaker 8: if they couldn't win.
Speaker 2: That has nothing to do with style of play, Harold.
Speaker 2: There have always been bad teams in the league. I
Speaker 2: can give you bad teams from yesteryear too. The Charlotte
Speaker 2: Hornets are a bad team in today's league at seventeen
Speaker 2: and fifty.
Speaker 10: That's nothing new, But he just said they scored twenty
Speaker 10: six points the other day.
Speaker 6: They ain't scoring many points on threes.
Speaker 2: They said, hit twenty six threes the other day. Yes,
Speaker 2: tonight they did not. It's kind of a lot of
Speaker 2: hours things.
Speaker 8: Okay, Look, sure, I appreciate you.
Speaker 7: Let me talk.
Speaker 6: You're a good guy, Adam, and Daniels is a nice guy,
Speaker 6: and we're not always going to agree at him. But
Speaker 6: I respect your opinions.
Speaker 2: All right, I appreciate you, Harold. Thank you for the
Speaker 2: phone call. We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back.
Speaker 2: Clippers win over the Charlotte Hornets by thirty five, with
Speaker 2: the final score one twenty three to eighty eight. Here
Speaker 2: at into a dome as they get ready to take
Speaker 2: on well the best team in the league, the Cleveland
Speaker 2: Cavaliers on Tuesday night. Right back here seven thirty. Tip
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Speaker 2: phone number Clippers played a sound basketball game. The Charlotte
Speaker 2: Hornets have seventeen victories on the season. They're struggling. Is
Speaker 2: what happens when you have these two worlds collide. Where
Speaker 2: the Clippers are ascending right now, the problems not quite
Speaker 2: up the standings because there's two teams in front of
Speaker 2: them that refuse to lose, in the Minnesota Timberwolves and
Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors. But they are, as I've been talking
Speaker 2: about for a week now, pretty secure in that eighth spot.
Speaker 2: So at worst, I believe they're going to finish eighth,
Speaker 2: which would put them in a playing game between the
Speaker 2: team that finishes seventh, currently the Minnesota timber Wolves. They'd
Speaker 2: have to go out on the road if they're the
Speaker 2: eighth spot, though not easy. They've gone to Minnesota before
Speaker 2: for a playing game back in twenty twenty two and
Speaker 2: lost that one, but that was with Paul George. They
Speaker 2: have Kawhi. He looked very good overall, very efficient out
Speaker 2: there with his twenty three points in just twenty seven
Speaker 2: minutes on nine of sixteen shooting. After he missed his
Speaker 2: first three shots, he caught fire after that. Let's hear
Speaker 2: from one of my favorites, got cleanse the Palette, Lenny
Speaker 2: in Inglewood. Lenny, you're on Clippers stock without a most.
Speaker 7: Are you feeling what's saying?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 7: Listen?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 7: Great win you know they they put the smack down
Speaker 7: on them, which I'm glad, but you're not gonna like
Speaker 7: what I'm about to say, because here's the deal. The
Speaker 7: Clippers are finally Ryan the super Guard. They're finally coming
Speaker 7: in in the forum. But we have not been we
Speaker 7: have not beaten, okay, seeing about three years in about
Speaker 7: two three years like a serious what they had everybody,
Speaker 7: We had everybody. So these next three games we gotta go.
Speaker 7: I don't care if we drop the Grizzlies, because we
Speaker 7: already proved that we can get the Grizzlies, but getting
Speaker 7: into getting into Cleveland, getting it, getting into that stuff
Speaker 7: and then beaten okay, see, to me, are pretty much
Speaker 7: damn near MUSC wins. We gotta we gotta be able
Speaker 7: to show it to ourselves.
Speaker 2: That Cleveland and Okay see those are both must wins.
Speaker 2: You want the Clippers to show show.
Speaker 7: Say again, I need you.
Speaker 2: To see them beat Cleveland and Okay see.
Speaker 7: Yes to so to to really believe that we're there,
Speaker 7: or else I see another first second round, first round exit.
Speaker 7: I mean we got to. I mean Kawhi is back.
Speaker 7: And the thing I liked about Kawhi the last game
Speaker 7: was those five steals. That to me says a lot
Speaker 7: about his game because everybody knows that that in basketball
Speaker 7: to do you know, defense is effort, is effort, effort, effort,
Speaker 7: and the thing about you're gonna you're always gonna get
Speaker 7: effort with Kawhi, So if he's healthy, he's gonna give
Speaker 7: it to you. And it's contagious. You know, he gets
Speaker 7: to steal and it just it begins to you know,
Speaker 7: it's like begins to set off everybody. Everybody wants to steal,
Speaker 7: everyoneants to get into it. So to me, we got it.
Speaker 7: That's the most We gotta go. We gotta go to
Speaker 7: and one one and all in three is a questioned.
Speaker 7: But if we only beat one. I'm not happy with
Speaker 7: Dad's I'm not believing it. We gotta win. We gotta
Speaker 7: win two of these, man. And and the thing about
Speaker 7: it is that, like Ia so I saw this article.
Speaker 11: To day, we gotta be It's like, we can do it.
Speaker 11: We can still get that six spot if we get
Speaker 11: if we go to win one with these next three,
Speaker 11: the next three games.
Speaker 7: We'll be in that six spot. I know he will.
Speaker 7: But like I said, I.
Speaker 2: Don't even know if mathematically, I don't know if that's
Speaker 2: true mathematically. I gotta be honest with you, you know,
Speaker 2: gold to say it's thirteen and one or something like
Speaker 2: that with Jimmy Butler. Now they're not losing, yeah, I know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Minnesota's not losing either. I think they've won eight in
Speaker 2: a row. So they need help. They don't control their
Speaker 2: own destiny. They need help.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm talking about for our confidence level. We have
Speaker 7: to beat we have to be some of the get we.
Speaker 11: Got we like I said, do we ain't beat Okay,
Speaker 11: see in like two years. That's not good.
Speaker 7: That's that's not a good son.
Speaker 2: They've been the best team in the West trade years. Now.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, man, We agree with you.
Speaker 7: All right. Well, like I said, well, I'm looking forward
Speaker 7: to the game on Tuesday and dial then and uh,
Speaker 7: you know, let's just go get it, man, I Dugs,
Speaker 7: I'm ready, man, I think all the fans are ready.
Speaker 7: I mean, they've done an amazing job this year. Van
Speaker 7: Gundy has just been a god man. I mean even
Speaker 7: Bogdanovich to talk about it to day, how he challenges
Speaker 7: you and brings the best out. I hope he stays
Speaker 7: with him another year. Lubok is a definite eighteen eighteen
Speaker 7: twelve players, so he's right there where we need him.
Speaker 7: And I mean it's there, man. We got all the
Speaker 7: pieces we need, and we got still got the best coach,
Speaker 7: one of the best coaches in the league. And like
Speaker 7: I said, we gotta go to in one, man. We
Speaker 7: have to go to in one.
Speaker 2: All right, Lenny. It's a high standard, but I get it.
Speaker 2: If you want to feel like you're a contender, you
Speaker 2: got to beat the top team. So it makes sense.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it, Lenny. Clippers win by thirty five here adding
Speaker 2: to a dome over the Charlotte Hornets, Lenny and Inglewood
Speaker 2: saying he doesn't care if they lose a Memphis because
Speaker 2: they beat him twice already. He's confident against them. I
Speaker 2: am too. In a seven game series, it's the ideal
Speaker 2: matchup in the first round. Of course, to get to
Speaker 2: the first round series, they're probably gonna have to win
Speaker 2: a playing game. It's them then Houston. To me, those
Speaker 2: are the top two teams you want to see. But
Speaker 2: to Lenny's point, they haven't beat the game they did win.
Speaker 2: You know what, they did have one victory against OKC
Speaker 2: where both teams were pretty fully loaded. That was last
Speaker 2: season at Staples at Crypto where Kawhi had the block
Speaker 2: on SGA late and it was a measuring stick type performance.
Speaker 2: It was late December, early January, measuring stick performance. A
Speaker 2: couple of them coming up, starting with Cleveland Tuesday night. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if you want to believe this team is for real
Speaker 2: and can beat anybody in play with anybody, they got
Speaker 2: to prove it. The regular season matters. How you play
Speaker 2: against them now matters, and it would give them a
Speaker 2: ton of confidence if they could beat Cleveland and okay,
Speaker 2: see this week they get them at home. I think
Speaker 2: that would change a lot of Clippers fans' minds. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's many people who have been doom and gloom, and
Speaker 2: they only show up in the chat when the Clippers lose,
Speaker 2: and they haven't been shown up as of late. And
Speaker 2: I think it's because the Clippers are starting to prove
Speaker 2: them wrong. They've won six of seven, they're not folding
Speaker 2: on the season. Their defense is coming back, their offense
Speaker 2: has been playing better. You merge those two things during business.
Speaker 2: But we'll see Tuesday night, big test against the best
Speaker 2: team in the league. I don't believe Carlo was bringing
Speaker 2: this up earlier that Cleveland has lost two games in
Speaker 2: a row this season, and they just lost to Orlando
Speaker 2: tonight at home. So they're gonna be hungry. They're gonna
Speaker 2: be up for that ball game. I think Evan Mobley
Speaker 2: rested today. It's probably playing back in SOCl former Trojan,
Speaker 2: I'd expect them to be playing. We'll take a quick
Speaker 2: time out, we'll come back. We'll get back to your
Speaker 2: phone calls. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Clippers win by thirty five. Here
Speaker 2: into a dome over is struggling Charlotte Hornet's team. But
Speaker 2: the Clippers are now won six to seven, and it
Speaker 2: could have been seven in a row. You know the
Speaker 2: game they lost in New Orleans where the Pelicans hit
Speaker 2: eighteen threes and shot fifty five percent from the outside,
Speaker 2: their best three point percentage of the season. The next
Speaker 2: two games they shoot ten percent from three. Clippers luck
Speaker 2: But tonight the Charlotte Hornets, coming off a game where
Speaker 2: they hit twenty six threes, only hit six total tonight
Speaker 2: and shot eighteen percent from three. So goes both ways.
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Speaker 2: AIP Clippers blowout the Charlotte Hornets a decisive victory. Here
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Speaker 2: Clippers one twenty three, the Hornets eighty eight. As the
Speaker 2: Clippers prepare for bigger fish to fry. They got the
Speaker 2: Cleveland Cavaliers coming in best record in the league, but
Speaker 2: they lost today. They're gonna be even hungrier. They're fifty
Speaker 2: six and eleven. I don't believe they've lost two games
Speaker 2: in a row all season long. I should double check
Speaker 2: on that. But coach Lou postgame called this a professional
Speaker 2: victory by the Clippers, you know, a taking care of
Speaker 2: business type of win. You have a BA team coming
Speaker 2: in they've only won seventeen games. Okay, Cleveland did lose
Speaker 2: back to back games once, and they lost them to
Speaker 2: the same team, the Atlanta Hawks back in November beat
Speaker 2: him in back to back games. They beat him in Cleveland,
Speaker 2: then they beat them in Atlanta. Actually, is this true. They've
Speaker 2: lost three in a row before for a team that
Speaker 2: only has eleven losses. It's a little bit surprising. Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm glad I checked. Then they lost three in a
Speaker 2: row in late January at Houston at Philly and then
Speaker 2: Houston at home. So it's not unprecedented for them to
Speaker 2: lose two games in a row the Cavaliers. But yeah,
Speaker 2: they're dominant. They moved the ball beautifully, beautifully. Kenny Atkinson
Speaker 2: has done wonders for their ball movement. They played great
Speaker 2: team basketball out there. Shack the other day said something like,
Speaker 2: what happens Donovan Mitchell get shut down? So well, I
Speaker 2: don't know. They have two other All Stars on their team.
Speaker 2: Guys don't even watch. It's a joke. It's a sick
Speaker 2: joke because they get paid to watch, but they don't watch.
Speaker 2: They have a lot of different ways to beat you.
Speaker 2: They wi embarrass you at times if you don't bring it.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Mike and La. Mike, you're on clipperstock
Speaker 2: with out of Maus and Hi, Mike.
Speaker 10: Hey, and I'm yes, this definitely was a professional win today.
Speaker 10: Two things I want to just mention. The first is
Speaker 10: James Harden. Every time, you know, I think well, maybe
Speaker 10: he's just done for the year, maybe he's just you know,
Speaker 10: worn out, he comes back and has a phenomenal stretch
Speaker 10: and that's what he's been doing and it's been great
Speaker 10: to see. The second thing this got, you know, really
Speaker 10: emphasized today, but it's been a thing for a bit now,
Speaker 10: I think is Zoo's passing. It is really good this
Speaker 10: year and it's been a big part of you know,
Speaker 10: or for be an even bigger part of our offense
Speaker 10: going Forwland.
Speaker 2: Zoo almost had a triple double in this game. Mike,
Speaker 2: you bring up a great point.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 2: He also had five turnovers, but he had eight assists
Speaker 2: to fourteen boards and seventeen points. But I honestly think
Speaker 2: he had to get more reps. They had to actually
Speaker 2: get him the ball more for him to gain this
Speaker 2: experience where he's being doubled all the time now and
Speaker 2: therefore he's had to become a better passer because of
Speaker 2: all the double teams and you're seeing the fruits of
Speaker 2: his labor.
Speaker 7: You aren't.
Speaker 10: I think that's going to be very important for the
Speaker 10: Cleveland game. I think, you know, getting Zoo involved and
Speaker 10: making sure that, you know, because Cleveland's got those bids,
Speaker 10: making sure that they have to work hard on defense, uh,
Speaker 10: and you know, maybe slow down the game a bit,
Speaker 10: munk it up a little is going to be very.
Speaker 2: Important against Cleveland on Tuesday.
Speaker 10: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cleveland Cavaliers, And I appreciate the phone call, Mike.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have Bob Smid on our voiceover guy, imaging
Speaker 2: guy AM five to seventy and Fox Sports Radio and
Speaker 2: also the host of the Fear of the Fro podcast
Speaker 2: on tomorrow. But the Cavaliers have a historic offensive rating
Speaker 2: of one twenty one point five one twenty one point five.
Speaker 2: They're ninth in pace. Also, Clippers are twenty first, so
Speaker 2: contrasting styles, and Cleveland also has the seventh best defense,
Speaker 2: and that's dropped down a little bit as of late.
Speaker 2: They're so balanced, they really don't have any glaring weaknesses
Speaker 2: outside of Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland aren't elite defenders
Speaker 2: and they're undersized, and you can go at that guy
Speaker 2: at those guys some, but they're still a top ten defense.
Speaker 2: You get by them, you gotta deal with the Twin Towers,
Speaker 2: with Mobley, with Jared Allen. They have so many ways
Speaker 2: to beat you, and a lot of it for them
Speaker 2: was just between the years where a couple of years
Speaker 2: ago they lost in that first round series the New
Speaker 2: York Knicks in a series they shouldn't have lost. They
Speaker 2: were the better team. Then last season it took them
Speaker 2: seven I believe to get out of the first round
Speaker 2: against Orlando. They've needed more experience. I mean, Jared Allen
Speaker 2: in that series or after the series against the New
Speaker 2: York Knicks said, I guess the lights were a little
Speaker 2: too bright, admitted it. Now there's expectations now. They have
Speaker 2: the best record in the league. They're the best non
Speaker 2: Lebron Cavaliers team ever. They're a tough matchup for anyone,
Speaker 2: but it's gonna tell us a lot about Aviza Zubats
Speaker 2: and how much they trust him in this game against
Speaker 2: those two bigs. How much is Vita Zubas going to
Speaker 2: be featured assuming Evan Mobley's play, I am how much
Speaker 2: are they going to let him go to work if
Speaker 2: he doesn't have it make the correct pass out of
Speaker 2: double teams? And I think he is better than Jared Allen.
Speaker 2: Evan Mobile is kind of a different beast because he
Speaker 2: can shoot. He's more of a modern big, But I
Speaker 2: would take Big Zoo or Jared Allen at this point.
Speaker 2: I think that's clear, but you still have to prove it.
Speaker 2: You still have to play like it. He's been playing
Speaker 2: like it all season season long, but in a head
Speaker 2: to head matchup, I want to see him perform. This
Speaker 2: will be his toughest test and the Clippers to make
Speaker 2: sure to rely on him, make him a focal point consistently.
Speaker 2: If you look at a Visa Zoobots and what he's
Speaker 2: done in the month of March in nine games, he
Speaker 2: is averaging twenty one and eleven on sixty six percent
Speaker 2: shooting from the field and getting up fifteen shots per
Speaker 2: game on the season, he's only getting up eleven shots
Speaker 2: per game. As of late, he's been getting the ball
Speaker 2: much more. He's been playing heavier minutes. There have been
Speaker 2: some injuries, Norm's back. Who'll get less shot attempts? A
Speaker 2: caller asked me how many he should get or somebody
Speaker 2: in the chat when the Clippers are healthy. I think
Speaker 2: he should get fourteen shot attempts per game. Honestly, he's
Speaker 2: too important. I don't know if he will. I doubt
Speaker 2: it based upon him only an averaging eleven point five.
Speaker 2: But he has to play to his size against guys
Speaker 2: that can match him, and he has. He has dominated
Speaker 2: some really good bigs. He dominated Triple J, He's dominated
Speaker 2: AD this season. He has met the challenge he's past
Speaker 2: tests with flying colors. I just know Tuesday night now
Speaker 2: it's not just that he's facing some good bigs, and
Speaker 2: two of them them. It's the best team in the
Speaker 2: league record wise. They, while losing today, have been running
Speaker 2: on all cylinders and have played more consistently at a
Speaker 2: higher level than anybody else throughout the majority of this season.
Speaker 2: The Cleveland Cavaliers. This is as tough as a guess.
Speaker 2: You get him at home, then you get him in
Speaker 2: Cleveland a couple weeks later. You gotta get a win
Speaker 2: against him. To quote one of our callers earlier, one
Speaker 2: of my favorites, Lenny Inglewood, like, show me something to
Speaker 2: get a lot of people to rally behind this team
Speaker 2: and believe again that if healthy, and this has always
Speaker 2: been the caveat all season, if healthy, you get Kawhi
Speaker 2: in a seven game series, you got a shot against
Speaker 2: anybody to still believe that. I think you have to
Speaker 2: beat some of these UBB Rachelon teams coming up. They
Speaker 2: beat Memphis twice, can they get at least one game
Speaker 2: against Cleveland? And okay, see if they get both, a
Speaker 2: lot of people will have their faith restored in this
Speaker 2: Clippers club. Kawhi's gotta be great too. I mentioned some
Speaker 2: of their weaknesses, like you gotta match up hunt with them,
Speaker 2: those two smaller guards. Kawhi's play has been from efficiency standpoint,
Speaker 2: a little bit up and down and just not at
Speaker 2: that level yet. I think we're twenty five games in
Speaker 2: with him this season where I can say, Okay, he's
Speaker 2: the same version of himself from last year. I can't
Speaker 2: say that yet. He hasn't been. He hasn't been as
Speaker 2: efficient as that guy was last year. Is he holding
Speaker 2: things back? Has he not fully flipped the switch or
Speaker 2: turned it on, turned it up. That could be the case,
Speaker 2: because I've seen at times that dunk on Nick Richards
Speaker 2: in Phoenix. I was like, whoa, Okay, that's prime Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 2: We've seen it in spurts. He has been running and
Speaker 2: pushing it with pace more as of late. I've liked
Speaker 2: seeing that tonight after starting zero for three, he hits
Speaker 2: a mid range shot and then hit his next six.
Speaker 2: Couldn't miss that's last year's version of Kawhi, or he
Speaker 2: might miss a couple. Well, once he gets one to go,
Speaker 2: it's it's over. He's become super efficient. But you need
Speaker 2: your stars to perform. The Clippers have lost some of
Speaker 2: these close games as of late because their stars weren't
Speaker 2: good enough, or they didn't close against Phoenix, they didn't
Speaker 2: close well enough against the Lakers. They weren't good enough
Speaker 2: against New Orleans. I thought Kawhi was a little bit
Speaker 2: too passive a early in that fourth quarter. Their stars
Speaker 2: have to be better in the big moments. Against Milwaukee,
Speaker 2: even with Giannis Is off the court and a thirteen
Speaker 2: point lead in the fourth quarter, Giannis is off the
Speaker 2: court the last six minutes. Never should have lost that game.
Speaker 2: Now with Norm back and hopefully he gets you know,
Speaker 2: the knocks, the rust off in this game going three
Speaker 2: to thirteen, and it's just enough reps for him to
Speaker 2: get into a more comfort zone where his shots start
Speaker 2: falling against Cleveland immediately. He just needs to see a
Speaker 2: couple go right away, and I'm sure he'll be fine.
Speaker 2: He was moving well overall out there. He did hit
Speaker 2: a three pointer, but we don't know if Chris Dunn's
Speaker 2: gonna be available. He's day to day. I mean, that
Speaker 2: would be great. Sick him on Darius Garland or Donovan
Speaker 2: Mitchell's spider. Of course, Tuesday night, it is a showdown
Speaker 2: here for I think, a prove it type of game
Speaker 2: for Clipper Nation to see that, Okay, this team, the
Speaker 2: blueprints still out there. There's formula that if they're healthy,
Speaker 2: they can hang with anyone. Tip off from into a
Speaker 2: Dome Tuesday Night between the Clippers and Cleveland Cavaliers is
Speaker 2: at seven thirty pregame at six thirty. Before we get
Speaker 2: out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization.
Speaker 2: Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, Noah Ego, Carlo Jimenez on the call.
Speaker 2: We miss you, big bro, but thanks to David for
Speaker 2: filling in our head engineer here at into a dome.
Speaker 2: Daniel West, our head producer back in Burbank. The callers,
Speaker 2: the listeners, the chatters, love you all. We'll talk to
Speaker 2: you on Tuesday.
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