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Speaker 2: At follow Adam a Adam Ousley. The Clippers just had
Speaker 2: their largest victory and franchise history. They went it into
Speaker 2: a dome one twenty six to sixty seven over the
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Nets. It was fifty points. That was in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two against the Oklahoma City Thunder. They just won
Speaker 2: by fifty nine in this ballgame over the Nets. I'm
Speaker 2: at a Mosland. This is Clippers Talk here on a
Speaker 2: five to seventy LA Sports and at Clippers Talk on
Speaker 2: the YouTube side. As Kawhi Leonard just had his best
Speaker 2: game of the season in so many ways, scoring wise,
Speaker 2: twenty three points in twenty four minutes, the fadeaways, the jumpers,
Speaker 2: just beautiful basketball. Finished it with a left handed layup
Speaker 2: going to his left. This is last year's version of Kawhi.
Speaker 2: It at least tells me it's all still there. We
Speaker 2: haven't seen a throw down yet, but his movement, his burst,
Speaker 2: his separation getting to his spots on the floor, the
Speaker 2: handle that I noticed right off the bat in the
Speaker 2: first quarter was different. And oh guess what, Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 2: had the ball in his hands and was bringing the
Speaker 2: ball up the floor. A ton who has been telling
Speaker 2: you on here for a month at least that when
Speaker 2: Kawhi comes back, turnovers will lower and you won't necessarily
Speaker 2: need Chris Done in the starting lineup anymore because the
Speaker 2: reason he's in the starting lineup is for ball handling duties.
Speaker 2: But when Kawhi is playing heavier minutes, the ball will
Speaker 2: be in his hands. A ton, he'llate some of that
Speaker 2: pressure off of James Harden. And that's what he did.
Speaker 2: He was playing point in the first quarter. The quickness,
Speaker 2: the assertiveness, the decisiveness, I think it all came from
Speaker 2: getting the ball in his hands early last game. I
Speaker 2: don't think he touched the ball the first five possessions.
Speaker 2: This game, he brought the ball up at least the
Speaker 2: first three. Incredible. It brought out superstar Kawhi twenty three
Speaker 2: to twenty four minutes. We'll hear from coach Lewin just
Speaker 2: a little bit. I'm sure he'll be talking about Kawhi.
Speaker 2: Kawhi had a jumper after a dribbling exhibition, then a
Speaker 2: fadeaway jumper that looked like vintage Kawhi got that going first,
Speaker 2: had a step back three on the far side he
Speaker 2: missed at the end of the shot clock. He came
Speaker 2: out the four to fourteen mark after knocking down those
Speaker 2: two jumpers early on that were just unguardable shots MJ
Speaker 2: ninety six stuff, just the handle. No defender can block
Speaker 2: those shots from Kawhi. The first two he hit in
Speaker 2: the first quarter. He came out the four to fourteen mark.
Speaker 2: Comes back to start the second missus a hook shot,
Speaker 2: then went baseline with the quick move, got doubled, brought
Speaker 2: it back out. The first of four defensive three seconds
Speaker 2: were called on the Brooklyn nets. He would hit the
Speaker 2: free throw, but he keeps demanding the double team. Already
Speaker 2: we've seen it. Then he hit a jumper on the
Speaker 2: right elbow out of a timeout the seven to thirty
Speaker 2: mark of the second. Then he was long after hitting
Speaker 2: another free throw off another defensive three second call. Kawhi
Speaker 2: had a lefty floater that was a beautiful thing to watch.
Speaker 2: Then he had a back it down fade away from
Speaker 2: the dotted line to get to his twelve points in
Speaker 2: the first half. That was at the five to thirty
Speaker 2: six mark of the second. He gets fouled on a
Speaker 2: three in the third quarter. Then he had that behind
Speaker 2: his back spinning to a fade away on the right
Speaker 2: baseline jumper that fell. That was reminiscent of the shot
Speaker 2: he hit over Grayson Allen last season with the Phoenix Suns,
Speaker 2: also spinning into a fade away. Then he had a
Speaker 2: mid post fade away a right elbow jumper, and then
Speaker 2: that layup going to his left off the glass with
Speaker 2: the left hand, gets to twenty three points with ease,
Speaker 2: just like last season when he set the all time
Speaker 2: efficiency mark, where over a thirty game stretch he put
Speaker 2: up shooting splits of fifty seven, fifty one, ninety two.
Speaker 2: He got twenty three points to night on eleven shots,
Speaker 2: most of them tough mid range shots for anybody else,
Speaker 2: but he's a master at that. Just incredible the efficiency
Speaker 2: and the Clippers' ability to just put the clamps on
Speaker 2: the Brooklyn nets. I know Brooklyn's struggling outside Nick Claxton,
Speaker 2: Keon Johnson. Not a lot of guys are recognized out
Speaker 2: there tonight. No a Clowney, you got ejected, Jalen Wilson.
Speaker 2: Of course they were missing a ton of guys after
Speaker 2: they played in Portland last night. But let me tell you,
Speaker 2: they're fourteen and twenty seven on the season. They've been bad,
Speaker 2: and nobody else has beat them by fifty nine. You
Speaker 2: could say, oh, it's Brooklyn people in here saying the
Speaker 2: Clippers G League team would beat them.
Speaker 4: That's not true.
Speaker 2: These are still pros guys who are out of the
Speaker 2: G League. The Clippers did against them what nobody else
Speaker 2: has done. Give them credit. The Clippers just stayed locked in.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's twenty one all. After the first quarter,
Speaker 2: where I thought the Clippers just gave the Nets confidence,
Speaker 2: they missed their last six shots of the quarter. Kawhi
Speaker 2: came out and they just couldn't find a rhythm and
Speaker 2: he flowed to their offense, and then they win the
Speaker 2: second quarter thirty seven to fourteen. The Nets had a
Speaker 2: six minute drought in the second quarter. They had another
Speaker 2: one to start the fourth quarter where their first shot
Speaker 2: came I think around the eight to thirty mark. So
Speaker 2: they went about three and a half minutes there. The
Speaker 2: Clippers led by Nintendo sixty four. They were up sixty
Speaker 2: four points at one time in the fourth, they win
Speaker 2: by fifty nine. They outdo their largest margin of victory
Speaker 2: ever by nine points. History was made tonight. Appreciate you
Speaker 2: guys in the chat. I know a lot was made
Speaker 2: pregame where Coach Lou this time had Terrence Man as
Speaker 2: one of the backups with Kevin Porter Junior, a role
Speaker 2: reversal of what happened last game getting into coaches DNPCD.
Speaker 2: So no KPJ. But Man was out there, and Man
Speaker 2: looked good and then got hurt calf contusion five point
Speaker 2: thirteen mark of the second quarter, went to the locker room.
Speaker 2: That's the only blemish on this ball game outside that
Speaker 2: it was a perfect night. On the front end of
Speaker 2: a back to back. The most any other starters played
Speaker 2: was twenty four minutes, and that was Kawhi, and he
Speaker 2: needed all those. He's not playing tomorrow anyways. I don't
Speaker 2: think he's ever playing another back to back. Somebody in
Speaker 2: here is like, well, if you only played fifteen minutes,
Speaker 2: could they play like ten minutes tomorrow? You don't understand
Speaker 2: they have a plan for this. Please have some understanding
Speaker 2: for a guy who hasn't been able to finish the
Speaker 2: last four seasons, you want him to play against Portland tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Do you not see the big picture? They're trying to
Speaker 2: have him available for an entire playoff series. That is
Speaker 2: the goal. That just it still shocks me in here.
Speaker 2: He's like, O, why can't he play?
Speaker 3: Oh God, have you.
Speaker 2: Not been paying attention to what's been happening. Time is
Speaker 2: precious with Kawhi Leonard in that right knee. Any game
Speaker 2: you have Kawhi Leonard is precious. It's important. But you
Speaker 2: want him especially when the games mean the most. That's
Speaker 2: what we need now. Tonight was progress, a huge leap
Speaker 2: forward for Kawhi and the Clippers with how good he looked.
Speaker 2: I thought there were flashes last game. I put him up.
Speaker 2: Pat follow out of May said ooh, Kawhi is some
Speaker 2: quickness here getting around Terry Rozier to that mid post
Speaker 2: fall away. Tonight just a different level because the ball
Speaker 2: was in his hands to start. I told you guys
Speaker 2: this was gonna happen. It's not just it gonna be
Speaker 2: James Harden having the ball in his hands. When Kawhi
Speaker 2: is available much of the time, he's gonna bring the
Speaker 2: ball up too, and therefore DJ can be in the
Speaker 2: starting lineup. It Oh, look what happened tonight exactly that
Speaker 2: something else I was talking about the last couple of days.
Speaker 2: I would go with Terrence Man and Chris Dunn as
Speaker 2: your backup ball handlers. Said, look what happened tonight. Unfortunately
Speaker 2: t Man got injured. The Clippers have or they just
Speaker 2: started six games and nine nights after they got another
Speaker 2: back to back after the reschedule when they missed the
Speaker 2: game because of the fires last Saturday against Charlotte, So
Speaker 2: they have seventeen back to backs this season to my knowledge,
Speaker 2: most anybody has had so tonight to win like this
Speaker 2: to save legs, you gotta play Portland tomorrow. Then you
Speaker 2: do have a couple of days off before playing the
Speaker 2: Lakers huge game on Sunday. Just outside Terrence Man getting
Speaker 2: banged up. Hopefully he's okay. We'll hear from coach lou
Speaker 2: on that about as well executed of a game plan
Speaker 2: as you could have. In fact, let's hear how long
Speaker 2: is this?
Speaker 3: Daniel?
Speaker 2: All right, we'll hear from him after we go to
Speaker 2: a phone call and take a quicker break. Alan from
Speaker 2: the Swell who I told to Colin last time? Alan?
Speaker 2: What's up here on Clippers?
Speaker 3: Sock with that?
Speaker 2: I'm Awlson.
Speaker 5: Adam Wow? Did Kawhi? Look if we can have that guy?
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 2: Alan, I've been telling you it's coming.
Speaker 3: You have.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 5: It's a weird sidelight in garbage time or whatever you
Speaker 5: want to call that period. Jordan Miller, What are going
Speaker 5: on with that player?
Speaker 6: He's not taking shot?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: And it's a.
Speaker 5: Weird thing to pick on a great night. And you
Speaker 5: know they should have played Sweet Georgia Brown. You know,
Speaker 5: we were playing the General tonight a little bit, but
Speaker 5: it looked like the Generals. We need to look that way.
Speaker 5: But it's kind of hard to watch Jordan right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you. Alan, Your phone was cutting in
Speaker 2: and out a little bit there. But Jordan Miller, I
Speaker 2: think he's going through one of those ruts that happened
Speaker 2: with young players. You have a bad game, it bleeds
Speaker 2: into another. You start to lose your confidence. Seeing it
Speaker 2: with Dalton connect with the Lakers two. Now he's gonna
Speaker 2: be twenty five in January, so he's not that young,
Speaker 2: but he hasn't been getting obviously tonight, those weren't significant minutes,
Speaker 2: those weren't minutes of consequence. He went over two and
Speaker 2: fourteen minutes, so still a plus ten, believe it or not.
Speaker 2: In the game where the Clippers won by fifty nine
Speaker 2: over the brook Brooklyn Nets. He just needs to find
Speaker 2: a swagger again, get his mojo back, have a moment
Speaker 2: or two, see a couple of shots fall. I think
Speaker 2: it was shocking to him when guys could actually stop
Speaker 2: him at the ram in the NBA, because he looked
Speaker 2: so unstoppable with getting downhill and gain those little push
Speaker 2: shots and floaters or runners to go where nobody was
Speaker 2: able to, you know, impede his progress in the G
Speaker 2: League and in preseason and in Summer league, and even
Speaker 2: started off good with the Clippers this season, but then
Speaker 2: had a couple of bad games and things kind of
Speaker 2: spiraled from there. So I'm not overly concerned Clippers win.
Speaker 2: Definitely not overly concerned about the night's game one twenty
Speaker 2: six to sixty seven left no doubt. I asked in
Speaker 2: the third quarters, Brooklyn gonna get to seventy points? They didn't.
Speaker 2: My understanding, this is their largest defeat ever, Clippers biggest
Speaker 2: margin of victory ever, fifty nine points, a fifty nine
Speaker 2: burger on the nets. I'm Adam Oslin. Quick time out,
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Speaker 2: Hey look, I'm all for Mobama and Kai Jones minutes
Speaker 2: on there on the court together when they're up fifty
Speaker 2: Clippers led by as many as sixty four. They won
Speaker 2: by fifty nine over the Brooklyn Net's largest margin of
Speaker 2: victory for your Los Angeles Clippers and franchise history, it
Speaker 2: was fifty points back in twenty twenty two against the
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Thunder. I'm Adam Oslin. This is Clippers Sock.
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Speaker 2: the chat. Let's hear from Mike and La Mike, how
Speaker 2: we doing, my friend?
Speaker 6: Hey, and I'm doing great exports tonight. It is a
Speaker 6: great win. You know, your early, your previous caller, you know,
Speaker 6: mentioned about Jordan Miller and you know his current struggles.
Speaker 6: I mean to me, this is sort of a a
Speaker 6: common you know, a common narrative, if you will, and
Speaker 6: where you know, someone comes up from the G League
Speaker 6: or you know what used to be with the CBA
Speaker 6: or the D League or whatever, and you know, they
Speaker 6: do really well and then the you know, scouting report
Speaker 6: gets out on them and they have to adjust. So
Speaker 6: I think, you know, Jordan Miller's at that point where
Speaker 6: he needs to, you know, figure out how to you know,
Speaker 6: still do his thing when now that the quote unquote
Speaker 6: word is out on him. And uh, you know, I
Speaker 6: think he will. I think he will.
Speaker 2: Now the Clippers won by fifty nine. Some of you
Speaker 2: guys want to talk about Jordan Miller tonight, but uh,
Speaker 2: I'm here to talk about Kawhi, James Harden, how much
Speaker 2: better he looks and how much more efficient he's been
Speaker 2: next to Kawhi. All the things I was telling people
Speaker 2: when they were kind of worried that oh, quick Kawhi
Speaker 2: upset our rhythm when the Clippers were five games above
Speaker 2: five hundred. What if Kawhi hurts our rhythm? And I'm
Speaker 2: sitting here going, guys, they're almost a bottom five offense.
Speaker 2: In what world is Kawhi going to hurt them on
Speaker 2: the offensive end? And how is he going to hurt
Speaker 2: him offensively too? He's a two time Defensive Player of
Speaker 2: the Year winner. This is yeah, game four and we
Speaker 2: already got Kawhi looking this good.
Speaker 4: Mike.
Speaker 6: I agree, I agree. I mean, he his progress has
Speaker 6: been great, and yeah, I mean it's great. You know,
Speaker 6: he's looking great and it's moving well, you know, certainly
Speaker 6: better than you know, I guess you know one way
Speaker 6: it two years ago when he you know, came back
Speaker 6: and they had him, you know, playing off the bench.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's looking great and it's incredibly encouraging. Uh
Speaker 6: and you know he's given some you know, much need
Speaker 6: reffit to harden and I mean, it's all it's all
Speaker 6: looking good.
Speaker 2: It's all looking good, man, all systems. Go appreciate your Mike.
Speaker 2: As always. Clippers win by fifty nine at home, new
Speaker 2: franchise record for largest victory ever. They do it against
Speaker 2: the Brooklyn Nets. I know Brooklyn's bad, well, they've been
Speaker 2: bad against other teams too, and nolready beat him by
Speaker 2: fifty nine. So get the Clippers some credit. It's not
Speaker 2: that easy. It's also game plan discipline when you know
Speaker 2: you're on the front end of a back to back.
Speaker 2: In fact, your next six games all take place within
Speaker 2: a back to back c NBA, so you gotta handle
Speaker 2: business against lesser teams. Boy did they business was good.
Speaker 2: They got a game tomorrow against Portland, tipping off at seven.
Speaker 2: They don't have a starter play more than twenty four minutes.
Speaker 2: That would be Kawhi. He's not playing tomorrow. We found
Speaker 2: that out pregame. He's the guys. He's not gonna be
Speaker 2: playing a back to backs. Like I don't care if
Speaker 2: he played tennis tonight. You're not playing him in a
Speaker 2: back to back. Temnus in an NBA game is taxing.
Speaker 2: We want him for a playoff series. We want to
Speaker 2: preserve him as much as possible. We want to bottle
Speaker 2: up what we saw from Kawhi tonight and hopefully get
Speaker 2: that when it matters most in a seven game series.
Speaker 2: That's the recipe for success. That's the plan. That's how
Speaker 2: the Clippers can be a contender in the Western Conference
Speaker 2: with this version of Kawhi, with this Clippers team, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think they got a shot against anybody in the West.
Speaker 2: Boston and Cleveland, though, I think are a cut above.
Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll see. Has this performance from Kawhi
Speaker 2: and the Clippers changed your mind about prognostications or long
Speaker 2: term outlook from this team or where you believe their
Speaker 2: ceiling is Alfredo Rodriguez saying ABC equals all business Clippers, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it is. Maddox is asking me, Adam, do you think
Speaker 2: we could beat okay See with a healthy Kawhi. I
Speaker 2: think they could. I don't know if they'd be able to,
Speaker 2: but I think they would have a chance. Sees the
Speaker 2: saying on the chat at Clippers Talk. The good thing
Speaker 2: is that Kawhi looked good out there tonight. I mean,
Speaker 2: what was the bad thing tonight? Who're saying the good thing?
Speaker 2: Like there was some silver lining? At least Kawhi looked good.
Speaker 2: They won by fifty nine, outside of Terrence Man getting
Speaker 2: banged up, which sucks. He just came back gets hurt again. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's tough because they're gonna need everybody over the next
Speaker 2: couple of weeks. With so many games, we thought this
Speaker 2: was gonna be a break in the schedule. Instead six
Speaker 2: games and nine nights, and staid they got a four
Speaker 2: in five next week, and staid they have three straight
Speaker 2: back to backs. They finish this one off tomorrow in Portland,
Speaker 2: two days off. Then it's the Lakers Sunday, Bulls Monday,
Speaker 2: then Wednesday, Celtics, Thursday, Washington. Seventeen back to backs for
Speaker 2: this team. Does anybody else have seventeen back to backs
Speaker 2: in the league this year? Somebody from the Pelicans said, no,
Speaker 2: we have nineteen. I said proof. I know. Coming into
Speaker 2: this year, eleven teams had sixteen back to backs, including
Speaker 2: the Clippers. That was the most, and now they're at seventeen.
Speaker 2: They got an additional one. Meanwhile, the Lakers got one
Speaker 2: less after this rescheduling. They took away one of their
Speaker 2: back to backs and the Clippers get one more. I
Speaker 2: just I can't. I can't. Like they built the arena,
Speaker 2: what's the excuse for this? I'm sorry, I just can't believe.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 2: Into a dome's first season, the Clippers have the most
Speaker 2: back to backs in the NBA. The excuse for this
Speaker 2: before was well their third billing at Crypto behind first
Speaker 2: the Kings, then the Lakers, then they get to pick well,
Speaker 2: nobody else has playing it into a Dome with them.
Speaker 2: I don't understand it all right, Quick time out will
Speaker 2: come back looking for coach lou Audio. Clippers have their
Speaker 2: biggest victory ever, one twenty six to sixty seven. They
Speaker 2: beat down the Brooklyn Nets by fifty nine points. I'm
Speaker 2: Adam Oslin and this is Clippers Talk here on five
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard to be humble when you win
Speaker 2: by fifty nine, biggest victory ever by your Los Angeles Clippers.
Speaker 2: They hold the Brooklyn Nets to sixty seven. They win
Speaker 2: one twenty six to sixty seven at into a Dome
Speaker 2: and improved to twenty two to seventeen on the season.
Speaker 2: And they will be in Portland tomorrow night taking on
Speaker 2: the Blazers. Tip off at seven pregame show right back
Speaker 2: here at six. Not the only historic thing that happened
Speaker 2: tonight James Harden surpassed Dominique Wilkins for sole possession of
Speaker 2: fifteenth place on the NBA's all time points list. Let's
Speaker 2: hear from the Bearded Wonder James Harden postgame in that
Speaker 2: you need heading into next week?
Speaker 6: This was next week?
Speaker 8: Oh no, you know, man fust is one game in
Speaker 8: his own so you know tonight he was you know,
Speaker 8: both the tomorrow is Portland.
Speaker 1: I'm both from then when you started playing in this league,
Speaker 1: could you magic?
Speaker 6: Maybe his score is fifteen? Thmes, guys, not the league.
Speaker 9: At all.
Speaker 8: Another coach for me was a d It was the
Speaker 8: fastest dream to be a NBA player. So you live
Speaker 8: in the moment. You hear from work and uh, you know,
Speaker 8: you hear your results.
Speaker 4: So that's well, it was the best party like that,
Speaker 4: Stashie for the moment. Yeah, I think everybody.
Speaker 8: Everybody contributed and and and play well, you know, and
Speaker 8: I need guys to have confidence going into you know,
Speaker 8: each game, cause that's very important.
Speaker 6: James, I know that, Uh, you're fully aware of what
Speaker 6: Kawhi is capable of.
Speaker 4: But with how long he's been out, what was it
Speaker 4: like to see him have a night like tonight him
Speaker 4: particularly that their quarter where he got going.
Speaker 8: He needs to do that all the time, you know
Speaker 8: what I mean, which is difficult because you know, just
Speaker 8: knock getting back. So you wanna, you know, build the
Speaker 8: confidence of mixed or you know, his legs and everything's
Speaker 8: gonna be under them. But the only way to do
Speaker 8: it and have build the confidence that's just going out
Speaker 8: there and doing it at a high level. So tonight
Speaker 8: was a great science for you know, obviously him and
Speaker 8: the rest of our team. And just continue to keep
Speaker 8: it doing that. You seem to get big when you
Speaker 8: got somebody an athlete running with you.
Speaker 1: And along the way, what was just your favorite part
Speaker 1: of getting those lives in it to.
Speaker 8: Djuh getting some excitement from the crowd and you know highlights.
Speaker 8: I mean, I can't do it, so I'll be the faster.
Speaker 8: But you know, you guys some some you know guys
Speaker 8: like you know dj who's just athletic ability is inside
Speaker 8: of his world. You know, you gotta give him a
Speaker 8: chance to put on the show. So that's what I did.
Speaker 9: Logistically, you guys, get on a long flight. Now you
Speaker 9: play again tomorrow, you get on another flight. All the
Speaker 9: games that are coming up, when the starters are able
Speaker 9: to all play twenty four minutes and fewer. We've talked
Speaker 9: about the fountain of youth that you're drinking from, but
Speaker 9: what kind of a difference can it make?
Speaker 6: All the difference?
Speaker 1: All the difference?
Speaker 8: So you know, tomorrow isn't you know, another opportunity for us,
Speaker 8: And you know, as a group, man, we can't. This
Speaker 8: league is too good so and everybody's fighting for their
Speaker 8: life literally, so we can't. We don't have the luxury
Speaker 8: of looking forward, you know, weeks past. We gotta tell
Speaker 8: you literally game by game and you know, slowly getting
Speaker 8: guys healthy and and and then figuring out what we
Speaker 8: got to have as a whole, you know what I mean,
Speaker 8: and the kind of like, you know, seeing how far
Speaker 8: we can take it. So, uh, there's a lot of
Speaker 8: moving variables that that that comes with that. But you know,
Speaker 8: I think just you know, our health is is the
Speaker 8: most important thing. And we're healthy, So lineups and all
Speaker 8: the good stuff and way we wanna play like, we'll
Speaker 8: figure that out. But healthy is the most important thing.
Speaker 8: And I'm happy we're we're close.
Speaker 9: To just for those of us that don't understand what
Speaker 9: it feels like though, when you sit down in the
Speaker 9: third quarter and you know there's a chance that you
Speaker 9: can be done for the night and and start preparing
Speaker 9: your body for tomorrow. Like what is that mental realization?
Speaker 8: Like, I mean that's with you. That's like it's the
Speaker 8: the ultimate dream situation for you know, athletes in the
Speaker 8: sense of or starters will play heavy minutes and you
Speaker 8: know you wanna play well, and then you're gonna give
Speaker 8: other guys that who don't get the the minutes, uh
Speaker 8: that they feel like they deserve an opportunity to play
Speaker 8: world too, So happy to see you know, guys like
Speaker 8: Bones and Ki, you know, get out there and play
Speaker 8: a good minute. So for us, it is another opportunity
Speaker 8: tomorrow to get better. So you know, I'm excited for it.
Speaker 4: James, I think you obviously take these game one any time,
Speaker 4: focusing the season that you've had a pig individual season yourself.
Speaker 1: I can do at seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 2: Fifteen to day gout find that you know, number two
Speaker 2: all time three point three point, Like, how are you
Speaker 2: processing these records that you're.
Speaker 8: Kind of making even the season, I'm not what.
Speaker 2: Does your process kind of look like when you look
Speaker 2: at yourself in the all time rankings.
Speaker 8: We'll figure that out when it's all done. But right now,
Speaker 8: it's just, you know, I keep you going. I gotta
Speaker 8: keep you know, get closer, and I'm breaking more work records.
Speaker 8: It's all of a sudden done, which I have a
Speaker 8: lot of time after I could sit back and realize
Speaker 8: what I actually accomplished in my life. But you know,
Speaker 8: for now, and I'm in a moment, I'm as well.
Speaker 2: Just keep going, all right that James Harden living in
Speaker 2: the moment, focused on the present, and he finished with
Speaker 2: in a efficient twenty one points on just ten shots,
Speaker 2: got fouled on a three, made a four point play,
Speaker 2: had eleven assists to one turnover. I'm telling you, guys,
Speaker 2: I've been saying everybody concerned about the turnovers. I said, guys,
Speaker 2: when Kawhi comes back, the turnovers will go down. James
Speaker 2: Harden's usage rating will drop by at least five percent.
Speaker 2: It's happening. Last couple of games. The Clipper's been much
Speaker 2: better with the turnovers. I know there was some of
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter tonight, so it kind of skewed the
Speaker 2: numbers a little bit. But Kawhi is going to have
Speaker 2: the ball in his hands a ton and that's what
Speaker 2: you saw tonight. I've been preaching this for some time.
Speaker 2: Clippers win by fifty nine. We'll take a quick time out,
Speaker 2: We'll come back. We got an update on Terrence Man
Speaker 2: and Kawhi Leonard from coach Lou I'm out of Mosland.
Speaker 2: Clippers win one, twenty six to sixty seven over the
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Nets, their biggest margin of victory f they do
Speaker 2: into it Dome or it feels like they can't lose now.
Speaker 2: They lost their first four games there. Since then, what
Speaker 2: are they? Fourteen and two? Impressive twenty two and seventeen
Speaker 2: on the season. While the Western Conference standings update from
Speaker 2: Danielle West before we get out of here as well,
Speaker 2: I'm out of Moslin. You're listening to a five to
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Speaker 2: Who cares it's Brooklyn? I'm sorry. Are the Clippers the
Speaker 2: only team to have played the Brooklyn Nets so far
Speaker 2: this season? Oh? They're not? Or did any other team
Speaker 2: beat the Nets by fifty nine and led by his
Speaker 2: many sixty four. As the Clippers have their largest margin
Speaker 2: of victory one twenty six to sixty seven over the
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Nets. They do it into a dome. History was
Speaker 2: made tonight. It was fifty they brought it up to
Speaker 2: fifty nine. They won by fifty nine over the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 2: I'm Adam Moslin, welcome back in This is Clippers Talk.
Speaker 2: Clippers tomorrow. You can't spoil this, as Mike Dang says
Speaker 2: in the chat here on the YouTube side, by laying
Speaker 2: an egg tomorrow in Portland, you lose tomorrow in Portland tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say it doesn't matter. I'm going to
Speaker 2: say they got exactly what they needed to have fresh
Speaker 2: legs to win tomorrow night in Portland. So you gotta
Speaker 2: do it. You have to because they got a four
Speaker 2: and five coming up after that, four games in five nights, Lakers, Sunday, Bulls,
Speaker 2: Monday day off, Onto, then Wednesday at the Boston Celtics,
Speaker 2: then Thursday the Washington Wizards. After I saw the schedule
Speaker 2: realignment or rescheduling going on earlier today with the Clippers
Speaker 2: gaining another back to back, I said they didn't have enough.
Speaker 2: I said, okay, half to half to half two. It's
Speaker 2: imperative to win the next two very winnable games, Part
Speaker 2: one of a two part mission accomplished. But they got
Speaker 2: to win tomorrow in Portland too, and then just split
Speaker 2: the four games and you're fine. You're six games over
Speaker 2: five hundred coming out of that four and five. That's
Speaker 2: all you need. Then they'll be in really good shape.
Speaker 2: So coach Lou said this, speaking of being in shape,
Speaker 2: and what is the state of some guys coming out
Speaker 2: of this game. Terrence Man is flying with them to Portland.
Speaker 2: That's a good sign. Had a calf contusion, left the
Speaker 2: game in the second quarter after he was looking pretty good.
Speaker 2: He just can't, you know, can't catch a break or
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's great wording. So when we're
Speaker 2: talking about injuries, poor Terrence Man. Right now, he gets
Speaker 2: back in the rotation KPg, gets the dnp CD, looks good,
Speaker 2: and then gets hurt. Man finished two of three, knocked
Speaker 2: down a three pointer, caught noop from a mere coffee
Speaker 2: after he had a steal. Everybody played so well. A
Speaker 2: mirror at thirteen points. Bones came in thirteen minutes and
Speaker 2: had nine. Everything was working, all five starters and double figures,
Speaker 2: and Kawhi would not have played in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Coach lu said, So, I think twenty five is his
Speaker 2: new minutes restriction. Does it get bumped to thirty against
Speaker 2: the Lakers? See, Kawhi is about to have three days
Speaker 2: off before the Laker game. He's not playing tomorrow. We
Speaker 2: knew that pregame. Do they ramp up the minute some
Speaker 2: more after he looked this good? Or does he stay
Speaker 2: at twenty five?
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 2: All I know is I've now seen the Clippers' largest
Speaker 2: victory ever, winning by fifty nine points over the Brooklyn
Speaker 2: Nets one twenty six to sixty seven. So what does
Speaker 2: it all mean? What's the landscape at the Western Conference?
Speaker 2: For that, we must go to Daniel West producer Daniel
Speaker 2: West on how the West is won.
Speaker 3: Will be won?
Speaker 2: Yes, we haven't worked that part out. We got time,
Speaker 2: all right, We got a few minutes left here update
Speaker 2: us on the standings here at Daniel and what games
Speaker 2: of consequence affected them. I guess all right.
Speaker 4: We'll start at the top here. The Oklahoma City Thunder
Speaker 4: is still number one, thirty three and six. I know,
Speaker 4: thirty three and six record number two. The Houston Rockets
Speaker 4: twenty seven and twelve. They won tonight. The Grizzlies sit
Speaker 4: at number three, twenty six and fifteen record. They won
Speaker 4: night as well. Denver Nuggets sitting at four twenty four
Speaker 4: and sixteen.
Speaker 2: Oh, they lost it.
Speaker 4: They took an l against the Rockets.
Speaker 2: Okay, so a little friendly fire for the Clippers.
Speaker 4: That's right. The enemy of my enemy is exactly very
Speaker 4: good news because as we speak right now, sitting at
Speaker 4: number five with the record of twenty two and seventeen,
Speaker 4: you're Los Angeles Clippers. Oh, the win tonight, the franchise record,
Speaker 4: win tonight. Six. The Lakers are in there, then seven
Speaker 4: with the twenty two to nineteen record. The Dallas Mavericks,
Speaker 4: who lost tonight to the Pelicans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that dropped them. Were they fourth?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking fifth. I'm looking as of yesterday, it
Speaker 4: looks like they were one, two, three, four, five, six.
Speaker 4: They're six yesterday.
Speaker 2: They were sick yesterday, so they got leap fraud by
Speaker 2: both LA teams.
Speaker 4: They fall there. Wolves are at number eight with a
Speaker 4: twenty one to nineteen record. They played a classic against
Speaker 4: the Warriors tonight. I ought to check the highlights on
Speaker 4: that one. I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2: What was the final score?
Speaker 4: The final score in that one that was one sixteen
Speaker 4: one fifth fifteen? Who the Warriors won. They came all
Speaker 4: the way back to almost win it.
Speaker 2: Wow, Steph Curry threely, it looks like apparently.
Speaker 4: He turned around and looked at someone in the audience
Speaker 4: after he as it was going down, as stiff Curry does.
Speaker 2: That's classic, Steph. Did you say good night to him too?
Speaker 2: That's big helpful the Clippers.
Speaker 4: Actually big deal. So the Kings are the nine seed
Speaker 4: right now twenty and twenty, and then the Warriors with
Speaker 4: that win are the last team in the playing discussion
Speaker 4: twenty and twenty record as well.
Speaker 2: Clippers currently in the fifth spot. Very good, a game
Speaker 2: and a half behind the Denver Nuggets in the fourth spot.
Speaker 2: I like it, Daniel, Thank you for the updot. Very welcome,
Speaker 2: Daniel West, producer, Daniel all Right, Clippers in a good position.
Speaker 2: They got to win tomorrow night. They're taking on Portland.
Speaker 2: Remember maybe their worst loss of the season happened to
Speaker 2: the Blazers, add into a domet. This time they're going
Speaker 2: up north where Portland just lost to the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 2: Now you might think transitive property, Well, the Clippers just
Speaker 2: beat the Brooklyn Nets by fifty nine, and yet Portland
Speaker 2: lost to them by what is this eighteen? So that
Speaker 2: means the Clippers are supposed to beat Portland by eighty.
Speaker 2: That is not how anything works. Then that was some
Speaker 2: fuzzy math too. I was closed, But yeah, that's not
Speaker 2: how it works. Okay, you're not playing the record, you're
Speaker 2: playing the team. I know they're thirteen to twenty six.
Speaker 2: If anything, the fact that they just lost to Brooklyn
Speaker 2: means they're gonna be hungrier. That's a dangerous ballgame for
Speaker 2: the Clippers. But they handled their business the right way
Speaker 2: tonight and put themselves in a prime position to win
Speaker 2: that game tomorrow by winning and putting this one to
Speaker 2: bed early. They win by fifty nine over the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 2: Final score Clippers one twenty six, Nets sixty seven. It's
Speaker 2: the Clippers' largest victory in franchise history. Where were you
Speaker 2: when the Clippers won by fifty nine? History was made
Speaker 2: Before we get out of here. I do want to
Speaker 2: thank the Clippers organization. Ralph Lawler, Bryan Seaman, no eagle,
Speaker 2: I an eagle who I missed today? I know he
Speaker 2: said Hi, I'm cool like that. I know I an Eagle,
Speaker 2: but I wasn't able to go to the game and
Speaker 2: into a dome. Carlo Amennez on the call, Big Brother,
Speaker 2: Jake Warner, lead statistician, Chris Taylor, Daniel West here in
Speaker 2: the bank, I'm out of Moslim. We'll talk to you
Speaker 2: tomorrow at six pm. Clippers in Portland taken on the Blazers.
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