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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, Dan, it's about Kawhi after he hits that
Speaker 2: game winner here and into a dome n ot Clippers
Speaker 2: win one eleven to one ten over the sac of
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Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. As Kawhi the claw comes through late
Speaker 2: with a spinning left handed floater runner. Push shot. Tough
Speaker 2: shot is what it was over three defenders to get
Speaker 2: the victory for the Clippers in OT. After look like
Speaker 2: multiple times the Clippers were gonna fall due to miscues
Speaker 2: at the charity stripe, they went fifteen to twenty five.
Speaker 2: That often comes back to bite you. Not in this
Speaker 2: one against the Sacramento Kinks. The Clippers had to get it.
Speaker 2: The Kings were just a half game behind them, and
Speaker 2: if you want to talk about building momentum, turning this
Speaker 2: three game winning streak into something more, those are the
Speaker 2: type of victories in the manner that the Clippers got
Speaker 2: this one tonight that you'll remember where were you? And
Speaker 2: Kawhi hit that first buzzer beater game winner at into
Speaker 2: a dome and did so in overtime and a huge
Speaker 2: contest against the Sacramento Kings when he was just seven
Speaker 2: of nineteen from the field overall one of seven from
Speaker 2: the three. An unbelievable victory by this Clippers team and
Speaker 2: a big shot from their superstar and the guy you
Speaker 2: need to play through when going gets tough in Kawhi.
Speaker 2: Leonard said it before and I'll say it again. They're
Speaker 2: only going as far as Kawhi takes them. So to
Speaker 2: reestablish that pecking order and to show that confidence in Kawhi,
Speaker 2: he's your fifty million dollar player. He's the one who
Speaker 2: needs to take that final shot and make it. He
Speaker 2: got it to go tonight after what I thought was
Speaker 2: gonna be a tough break where it rolled off the rim,
Speaker 2: but it dropped, and I think we've seen Kawhi have
Speaker 2: one of those Plinko chip like basketball's fall for him
Speaker 2: before in a pretty big game winning situation. It was
Speaker 2: a series winning shot for the Toronto Raptors back in
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen in Game seven against the Philadelphia seventy six Ers.
Speaker 2: Kawhi went from having his worst game of the season
Speaker 2: to his best. His was necessary to having at least
Speaker 2: his biggest shot when they need it most. You wonder
Speaker 2: how much that could turn things around for this Clippers
Speaker 2: team coming out of the All Star Break. They sweep
Speaker 2: the home stand, they go three to zero, as I
Speaker 2: thought they could mentioned it on clips and did, but
Speaker 2: things looked dire late. It looked like the Clippers weren't
Speaker 2: gonna have enough as they trailed ninety seven to ninety
Speaker 2: with a minute forty eight left in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: What happened the next time down for the Clippers. Guess
Speaker 2: who made the shot? Kawhi Leonard a tough and one
Speaker 2: where he just threw it up on the mid post
Speaker 2: near side and it went and he shook his head
Speaker 2: and it looked like he was saying to himself, that's
Speaker 2: the toughest shot. I've gotten all night, he gets fouled,
Speaker 2: he throws it up. It's a circus shot. That's the
Speaker 2: toughest shot I've taken all night, and that's the one
Speaker 2: that goes while he was missing a ton of easy ones.
Speaker 2: So you could say foreshadowing a sign of things to
Speaker 2: come with them getting that shot from Kawhi down seven
Speaker 2: with a minute forty eight left. He brings it to
Speaker 2: within four with a minute forty left. It gave them hope.
Speaker 2: Then a great pick and roll with James Harden to
Speaker 2: a beats A Zubats for a huge throw down with
Speaker 2: two hands after Yonas Valence Chuness was called for an
Speaker 2: offensive foul. Then you have a couple of huge critical
Speaker 2: replays in the ballgame. Instant replay machine was going off,
Speaker 2: and I think they got all of them right. Honestly,
Speaker 2: they had what looked to be what could have been
Speaker 2: the game ceiling foul on to mart on the left
Speaker 2: wing on a three by Derek Jones Junior. The Clippers
Speaker 2: challenged it, they reviewed it, they said the contact was marginal.
Speaker 2: They jumped it up at half court and a Visa
Speaker 2: Zubots would win that jump ball. That was critical as
Speaker 2: well well. The Clippers and Kings would both miss some
Speaker 2: shots after that, and a mere Coffee missed three pointer,
Speaker 2: a DeMar Derosen miss three pointer, and three shots at
Speaker 2: the free throw line for DeMar Derosen, who is twelve
Speaker 2: of twelve at the charity stripe might have been enough
Speaker 2: for Sacramento to pull this out. So now the Clippers
Speaker 2: are down by two with the basketball which twenty two
Speaker 2: seconds left, and they don't waste much time at all,
Speaker 2: down ninety seven to ninety five, to get that into
Speaker 2: the front court and to get a little push shot
Speaker 2: runner where I think even James Harden got a friendly
Speaker 2: role the basket by the wall. That's a magnet ball
Speaker 2: right there for the Clippers, at least it was in
Speaker 2: this one. He ties the game at ninety seven with
Speaker 2: eleven point nine seconds left, Kings still have plenty of time.
Speaker 2: And I thought this shot was going from Zach Levine.
Speaker 2: In fact, I was more certain about this jumper from
Speaker 2: Zack Levine going than I was the Kawhi shot going.
Speaker 2: It looked good out of his hands, the defense was
Speaker 2: good from Chris Dunn. But Zach Levine can elevate. He
Speaker 2: can get a shot whenever he needs to. Doesn't fall.
Speaker 2: We got ot extra basketball, lost it out on an
Speaker 2: hour last night, gained five more minutes tonight. Hear it
Speaker 2: into it, don't and you get into overtime. James Harden
Speaker 2: goes to the free throw line, goes one of two.
Speaker 2: De Marta Rosan hits a jumper. Clippers are down by one.
Speaker 2: Big Zoo gets to the free throw line, goes one
Speaker 2: of two. But then it looked like the Clippers were
Speaker 2: gonna run away with it. James Harden huge three Derek
Speaker 2: Jones junior seven footer. The Clippers are up by five,
Speaker 2: two thirty eight left. Feels like a lot more than
Speaker 2: that when points start at a premium. I mean, we
Speaker 2: had overtime and teams still only got to one eleven
Speaker 2: to one ten, but the Kings weren't going away. Zach
Speaker 2: Lavine huge three pointer top side, back to a two
Speaker 2: point game, one O four, one O two to Marta.
Speaker 2: Rosan would tie it at one oh four. Derek Jones
Speaker 2: junior clutch three pointer off of James Harden assist, Clippers
Speaker 2: back up by three. Torosa at the line, Clippers up
Speaker 2: one one O seven to one oh six. DJ would
Speaker 2: then miss it three pointer. Demart Rosen hits a long
Speaker 2: two pointer amid some controversy with the shot clock, as
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard blocks you own as valanchiutis and what would
Speaker 2: have been an easy layup on the switch. It was
Speaker 2: a great block by Kawhi, by the way, so a
Speaker 2: little defense to offense, you could say, in some ways
Speaker 2: late from Kawhi Leonard doing it. All that block though,
Speaker 2: reset the shot clock and it shouldn't have. They reviewed
Speaker 2: it and they figured out that Demarta rozen still got
Speaker 2: the shot off within twenty four seconds. I think they
Speaker 2: said there was one point eight seconds left, and it
Speaker 2: was the right call. I agree with it, but we
Speaker 2: were on pins and needles down the stretch. It was
Speaker 2: a long two. The Clippers are down by one, one
Speaker 2: o eight to one oh seven. Harden goes flying into
Speaker 2: the front court for a little floater from three feet out.
Speaker 2: The Clippers are back up by one. DeMar gets fouled
Speaker 2: by Chris Dunn, goes to the free throw line. With
Speaker 2: twenty one seconds left, the Kings are up one one
Speaker 2: ten to one oh one ten to one oh nine,
Speaker 2: and uh, Daniel West, if you don't mind Carl Jimenez again,
Speaker 2: because I would love to hear it.
Speaker 4: Game clock at fifteen, Clippers down one, Kawhi hovers the
Speaker 4: ball above the shoots tops at ten, working on Murray
Speaker 4: still has his dribble.
Speaker 2: Eight seconds.
Speaker 4: It's Leonard against the world with six dribbles it with five,
Speaker 4: right elbow with four, Kawhi with three, back to the basket,
Speaker 4: spins into the paint.
Speaker 2: The florder for the.
Speaker 5: Wind fold and the Clippers climp back. Defeat the Kings
Speaker 5: one eleven, one ten. Phi the hero in overtime.
Speaker 2: And into its.
Speaker 6: He struggled all night go in the team needed him most.
Speaker 2: The club pumps through in the clutch.
Speaker 6: Clippers win it one eleven, one ten and take the
Speaker 6: season series against Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard take some home with that w as Now
Speaker 2: they embark on a three game road trip. What a
Speaker 2: moment heard into it Dome, his teammates mobbing him at
Speaker 2: half court. His former teammate was it at Todio going
Speaker 2: way back, Patty Mills game of chess, bump at half court.
Speaker 2: Just the dramatics down the stretch between these two teams
Speaker 2: fighting for something late in the season, and that's playoff
Speaker 2: positioning in the standings. What a critical victory by the
Speaker 2: Clippers one eleven to one ten was your final thanks
Speaker 2: to Kawhi with the game winner coming up, we'll get
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Speaker 2: doing what superstars do. I'm out of Moslins and this
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Speaker 2: S Man gets paid, clutch Man gets paid. Kawhi was
Speaker 2: clutch late. We'll make it with a K for Kawhi
Speaker 2: as he is the game winner in ot and the
Speaker 2: Clippers win one eleven to one ten. Here it into
Speaker 2: a dumb over the Sacramento Kings in a game with
Speaker 2: huge standings implications, in a game where the Clippers can
Speaker 2: feel good heading out on the road for the next
Speaker 2: three including a back to back start things off. They
Speaker 2: will be in New Orleans on Tuesday. The Clippers now
Speaker 2: a game and a half up on the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 2: Clippers at thirty five and twenty nine, Kings at thirty
Speaker 2: three and thirty and make it two and a half
Speaker 2: games up. You know why because they just sealed the
Speaker 2: head to head tiebreaker, which is where things start against Sacramento.
Speaker 2: They have won all three games against the Kings. They
Speaker 2: don't have tie breakers against a lot of teams, but
Speaker 2: two of the teams around them they do the Kings
Speaker 2: in the Golden State Warriors. They don't against a team
Speaker 2: they're a game behind and make it two games behind.
Speaker 2: Because Minnesota has the head to head tiebreaker against the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Huge victory. And while we have a moment, let's pause
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Speaker 2: Some people are still hating on Kawhi. We know he
Speaker 2: didn't have a good game over we know he was
Speaker 2: just seven of nineteen. We're aware. You know what happens
Speaker 2: with great players. They put the next one up anyways,
Speaker 2: and in a high pressure situation, not in a tie game.
Speaker 2: There's a difference. In a game they're down by one,
Speaker 2: he doesn't make that shot. It's not that they go
Speaker 2: to double overtime. They lose. That's where you see the
Speaker 2: separation in guys. In those moments, Clippers were down by one,
Speaker 2: Kawhi hid it. It looked like they had what they
Speaker 2: wanted Keikan Murray against him. Kawhi kept his dribble at
Speaker 2: the top of the arc with the King's best defender
Speaker 2: on him, puts it on the floor with the right hand,
Speaker 2: gets in the mid posts, turns spins against a triple
Speaker 2: team as Ellis and Jonas Valenciunis and Keiga Murray, who
Speaker 2: was there all along, all converged on him. But the
Speaker 2: way he gets that shot off is by getting it
Speaker 2: off with the left hand, using his right side to
Speaker 2: shield himself from said defenders. I got news for you, guys.
Speaker 2: Kawhi ain't left handed. This ain't Amir Coffee, this ain't
Speaker 2: James Harden. But that's how skilled he is, that's how
Speaker 2: special he is. And that's why I've been saying for
Speaker 2: a while now, you gotta start playing through Kawhi more.
Speaker 2: And I thought they did, even in a game where
Speaker 2: he struggled. That's who you count on to win it
Speaker 2: for you. Kawhi also with a crucial and one in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter with a minute forty left with the
Speaker 2: Clippers down by seven. Just he hit the two toughest
Speaker 2: shots that he took all night, right in the two
Speaker 2: biggest moments. Really, that's it, and that tells you what
Speaker 2: guys are made of when they have to have it.
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard, he'll get it special. What a victory, and
Speaker 2: you're hoping it hoping since we've talked about spring forward
Speaker 2: a lot, this will spring them forward to an extended
Speaker 2: winning streak after sweeping this homestand quickly, Demitrius, you got
Speaker 2: thirty seconds, Demetrius in Manhattan Beach here on Clippers South
Speaker 2: without a moslimd Hi, Demetrius.
Speaker 7: Adam, Adam, what a game, What a game? A game
Speaker 7: we had to have since this as an urgency game
Speaker 7: with all the haters out here, with Kawhi and Tubox's
Speaker 7: let's gill find Brian Shaw late execution, Adam, Let's give
Speaker 7: him a bunch of credit. I think he. I thought
Speaker 7: Brian Shaw did an excellent job of letting the world
Speaker 7: know that, Hey, in order for us to win, we
Speaker 7: meet our guys, and our guy is Kwi Lynn. And
Speaker 7: I think he sent the message not only through the
Speaker 7: Clipper organization but everybody and all the haters out there
Speaker 7: that keeps saying, oh, he's not the best player on
Speaker 7: the team, Well you just found out who actually is
Speaker 7: the best player on the team by far. And again,
Speaker 7: a very tough shot, but he's a tough shot maker.
Speaker 7: And like you said, again rough night tonight. But listen,
Speaker 7: we me and you talked about this, Adam. This was
Speaker 7: a gutted out type of game. And give Sacramento credit.
Speaker 2: And yeah, to be interesting, you know, I appreciate you,
Speaker 2: my guy. The fact that Brian Shaw b Shaw is
Speaker 2: filling in for coach lou He trust Kawhi late Kawhi
Speaker 2: trust Kawhi after the night he had to still have
Speaker 2: that confidence when they know if that doesn't work out,
Speaker 2: they're facing the firing squad. They're gonna get hit for
Speaker 2: going back to Kawhi when he was six of eighteen
Speaker 2: on the night. I really, James Harden, I mean, beats
Speaker 2: the Zubas. There are other places and other guys who
Speaker 2: are more consistently carrying you tonight. But you still go
Speaker 2: to Kawhi. Why because you're only going as far as
Speaker 2: he takes you. Anyways, you have to put that trust
Speaker 2: in him. If you don't go to Kawhi, you're fifty
Speaker 2: million dollar player in that spot where we're saying we're
Speaker 2: winning or losing the game on this possession right now,
Speaker 2: what's that going to do for his confidence moving forward?
Speaker 2: Is he gonna have some identity crisis? I thought I
Speaker 2: was the guy on this team. You're paying me like
Speaker 2: I'm the guy. Shouldn't I be taking these shots? These
Speaker 2: money shots? So it was the right play, And even
Speaker 2: if he had missed it, I would have argued, look,
Speaker 2: I get the process there. I get what they're trying
Speaker 2: to do. The only way the Clippers have a chance
Speaker 2: to make real noise in the Western Conference of the
Speaker 2: playoffs is if Kawhi is playing at a superstar level
Speaker 2: every game. Is if he returns to being your number
Speaker 2: one option all the time and the guy you play through.
Speaker 2: So establish it now. I think this is a big
Speaker 2: moving forward for the Clippers. I do. Some people are
Speaker 2: saying Kawhi should not be playing forty minutes even in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. It's like he doesn't play forty minutes, they
Speaker 2: don't win the game. The playoffs have started, Tom van Dyk,
Speaker 2: if you lose this game, you have a chance of
Speaker 2: losing the tiebreaker. With the Kings falling down into the
Speaker 2: nine or ten spot, meaning it's single elimination in the
Speaker 2: plan the playoffs have started. If not now, win when
Speaker 2: it comes to extending Kawhi's minutes. If not now, when
Speaker 2: things are dire, you were at a breaking point. You
Speaker 2: just lost six of seven coming out of the All
Speaker 2: Star Game. I said before they got into OT, I
Speaker 2: wonder what happens with Kawhi's minutes in and overtime. Well,
Speaker 2: he played the entire fourth quarter he came out for.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it was of game time, but
Speaker 2: it was a very short amount of time that he
Speaker 2: was subbed out and subbed back in in overtime because
Speaker 2: he had just played the entire fourth quarter. So I
Speaker 2: get it. I think he was the only one out
Speaker 2: there that had But you're saying Kawhi shouldn't have to
Speaker 2: play forty minutes. Great, that'd be nice if every team
Speaker 2: just laid down and said, hey, beat us up and
Speaker 2: rest your stars tonight. That's not how it works. The
Speaker 2: game isn't played on paper. The Kings have been playing well.
Speaker 2: They had just won five of six and during that
Speaker 2: time they have been the number one offense and defense
Speaker 2: in the league. The last six games where they won
Speaker 2: five of a six, and the Sacramento Kings were the
Speaker 2: number one offense and defense offensive rating and defensive rating.
Speaker 2: They're at the very top. So yeah, it was gonna
Speaker 2: be a battle tonight. I don't know what everybody else expected,
Speaker 2: but the Kings have been playing a really good defense.
Speaker 2: The Clippers have been getting back to that over the
Speaker 2: last couple of games. Now, if you want to argue, hey,
Speaker 2: hit your free throws, sure you can't miss ten and
Speaker 2: get away with it, usually fifteen or twenty five at
Speaker 2: the charity stripe and Nick Romos gets it. That was
Speaker 2: practically a playoff game. The playoffs have started. You need
Speaker 2: to have that sense of urgency. So if the Clippers
Speaker 2: emptied the tank and push things to forty minutes with Kawhi,
Speaker 2: it's because the circumstances dictated it. Hear it into it,
Speaker 2: don't tonight. This is a monumental victory for the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Now we'll see they come out and lay an egg
Speaker 2: in New Orleans against one of the worst teams in
Speaker 2: the league. They lose that game on Tuesday was their carryover.
Speaker 2: No can you say something was born out of this
Speaker 2: victory if it ends up with their next game being
Speaker 2: a defeat, No, But if they do really start to
Speaker 2: get rolling here, which is eighteen games left, this might
Speaker 2: be a game we look back upon and say, Okay,
Speaker 2: there was carryover, there was legs to this. It paid dividends.
Speaker 2: The Clippers came together. It was a galvanizing victory. It
Speaker 2: established the hierarchy, the pecking order, who you're going to
Speaker 2: in what situation, how you have to play. And I thought,
Speaker 2: even with Kawhi struggling in this game, this was the
Speaker 2: best from an aggressiveness standpoint, from a scoring appetite standpoint,
Speaker 2: this was the best game I saw from Kawhi in
Speaker 2: that respect, because not because he made shots, because he
Speaker 2: was missing shots. He was stayed aggressive out there, like
Speaker 2: you knew you got to shoot your way out of this.
Speaker 2: This is this is you, this is this is on
Speaker 2: you to figure out. And he did with you could say,
Speaker 2: the two biggest shots of the game, or at least
Speaker 2: two of the biggest obviously the last one of the
Speaker 2: biggest shot of the game, but that and one he
Speaker 2: had when they were down seven, when they were staring
Speaker 2: at a loss with a minute forty left. That was critical.
Speaker 2: So the fact that they really made sure to play
Speaker 2: through Kawhi, even in a game where he didn't have
Speaker 2: his best throughout most of it, and it ends with
Speaker 2: a dub and him hitting the game winner. I think
Speaker 2: that kind of lays out the formula and the game
Speaker 2: plan moving forward. Now, obviously they got a back to
Speaker 2: back coming up. He's likely missing one of those games,
Speaker 2: and you got to reconfigure things and figure out rotations
Speaker 2: and lineups once again. And hopefully coach lou was good
Speaker 2: because obviously you back injury, whatever's going on, and then
Speaker 2: you gotta fly out. That's difficult, but let's hope this
Speaker 2: is the spring board. So we sprung forward. Last night,
Speaker 2: Clippers win one eleven to one ten over the Sacramento
Speaker 2: Kings in ot on a game winner with the left
Speaker 2: hand from Kawhi letter. You know it helps even if
Speaker 2: you're not left handed, if you got big myths like that,
Speaker 2: he's still got great control and touch on the basketball.
Speaker 2: To Kawhi leonard Is, it's all a part of his
Speaker 2: story and he is a two time Finals MVP and
Speaker 2: champion for a reason. He does not will to shy
Speaker 2: away from those moments. Big time game winner from Kawhi
Speaker 2: propelling the Clippers to victory. One eleven to one to ten.
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Speaker 2: In a game with fourteen ties and twenty three lead changes,
Speaker 2: that last lead change was your game winner from Kawhi
Speaker 2: Leonard on the left side mid host against three defenders.
Speaker 2: Just a little hook push shot runner that he got
Speaker 2: to fall with the friendly bounce. Kawhi Leonard has been
Speaker 2: sweet talking the room for sometimes for some time. He
Speaker 2: has been getting those friendly bounces for a long time.
Speaker 2: Good to see him do it tonight in the Clippers
Speaker 2: uniform against the Sacramento Kings in their biggest game to
Speaker 2: day so far this season. And good to see the
Speaker 2: Clippers trust him with the game on the line like that.
Speaker 2: This is it. We're going out winning or losing with
Speaker 2: the ball in Kawhi's hands. That's how you do it
Speaker 2: like those shots. You have to understand James Harden made
Speaker 2: some huge shots and that floated to tie it in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. There was still time left. It's not
Speaker 2: the same situation as we're playing for the final buzzer.
Speaker 2: On this shot, Harden was great. Harden has been their
Speaker 2: MVP this season. I don't know why people are trying
Speaker 2: to make this about Harden versus Kawhi. I'm just telling
Speaker 2: you on a night where Kawhi shot that poorly from
Speaker 2: the field and they went to him to take the
Speaker 2: final shot late, that does say something, and it says
Speaker 2: what I've been saying for a while. You gotta play
Speaker 2: through them. It's the right way to do things. Kawhi
Speaker 2: needs to be your number one option to go as
Speaker 2: far as they could take this thing. I think their
Speaker 2: ceiling is lower with James Harden as the number one
Speaker 2: option than Kawhi. To put it plainly, the ceiling is
Speaker 2: higher with Kawhi as your number one superstar. Doesn't mean
Speaker 2: James is not important.
Speaker 7: He is.
Speaker 2: He's orchestrating the offense at times, He's getting guys easy shots.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they're the one two punch Huno dos with
Speaker 2: their jersey numbers. Kawhai is the one who is the
Speaker 2: two time Finals MVP, So put it on him. Put
Speaker 2: it on his broad shoulders at the end of the
Speaker 2: game and hopefully he takes you home with a victory.
Speaker 2: He did tonight in OT one eleven to one ten
Speaker 2: was your final. They had seven lead changes in overtime
Speaker 2: of this game. That is incredible, incredible. The Clips have
Speaker 2: now won the season series over the Kings. They have
Speaker 2: the tiebreaker over them. They're three to zero against the
Speaker 2: Kings this season. So the Kings led ninety seven to
Speaker 2: ninety after a Lavigne jumper with one forty eight left.
Speaker 2: The very next play was that crazy Kauhi push shot
Speaker 2: and one where he was fouled and shook his head
Speaker 2: after this circus shot that he got to go And
Speaker 2: I wonder what that did for him later because it
Speaker 2: was the toughest shot he took all game and he
Speaker 2: got it to go, but he was shaking his head like, finally,
Speaker 2: that's the one that goes crazy because he missed a
Speaker 2: lot of open ones. He was one of seven from three,
Speaker 2: been struggling from three all of a sudden. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: if you watch the final possession from Kawhi. He knows
Speaker 2: he's taken the last shot. He was burning clock, letting
Speaker 2: it go down. He knew, Oh we're off. Something fell out,
Speaker 2: something fell out. This thing that I pushed over this
Speaker 2: is look, it's it's the power. It's the power. Uh,
Speaker 2: let's see. Oh okay, okay, I got and we're back, Daniel.
Speaker 2: Let me know if you can still hear me. All good.
Speaker 2: Kawai came through and Big Bro saved the day as well.
Speaker 2: We found a way to get back on line. We'll
Speaker 2: take our final time out. We'll come back to your
Speaker 2: phone calls, Christopher Hassan, We'll get to you. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine seventy eight six six seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: Kawhi with the game winner in overtime. Clippers win one
Speaker 2: eleven to one ten over the Sacramento Kings. I'm out
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Speaker 2: Then Kawhi Leonard we trust, even with his non dominant hand,
Speaker 2: the left handed hook that rolled through in overtime to
Speaker 2: take down the Sacramento Kings. Here it into a dome
Speaker 2: with the final score one eleven to one ten. Brought
Speaker 2: to you by Kawhi Leonard. Sorry, I'm saying it like
Speaker 2: dime dropper Leonard. An exhilarating victory for the Clippers before
Speaker 2: they head out on the road in a necessary one
Speaker 2: over the Kings, who they're battling and jockeying for position
Speaker 2: with in the standings. Clippers now really two and a
Speaker 2: half games up on Sacramento because they own the tiebreaker.
Speaker 2: Kawhi was clutch, and clutch is everything. And yeah, the Beam,
Speaker 2: the Beam team set to off tonight. It looked like
Speaker 2: the Kings, We're gonna pull this one out after seven
Speaker 2: lead changes in overtime. Wild to see. Unbelievable game, unbelievable
Speaker 2: game winner. Great call by Carlo Jimenez. Quickly Christopher in
Speaker 2: La Christopher, you're on Clippers offt of that amuson.
Speaker 8: De jav Boo.
Speaker 2: Are you there, Adam, I'm there. You want to expand.
Speaker 8: De jav Boos, the master of the multiple bounds buzzer.
Speaker 2: Peeter did it again.
Speaker 7: He did.
Speaker 2: I said it after Kawhi. He is uh not exactly
Speaker 2: foreign to having a game winner with multiple bounces. That's
Speaker 2: how he doesn't Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was beautiful to watch.
Speaker 2: All right, Christopher. I appreciate the phone call, my friend.
Speaker 1: What's that all right?
Speaker 2: Anything else?
Speaker 3: Wonderful? Watch?
Speaker 2: Were you a into a dome?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 7: It was?
Speaker 2: Did you fall?
Speaker 4: I got the lunch boxing, you know, stay for the
Speaker 4: whole game?
Speaker 2: Right on, Christopher, Well you were here for a good one,
Speaker 2: a great one. Made the best victory of the season.
Speaker 2: Clippers win one eleven to one, sent over the Sacramento
Speaker 2: Kings thanks to the Kawhi game winner. Let's go to
Speaker 2: Hassan and Anaheim. Hassan, you're on Clippers South without a.
Speaker 8: Mauzzle at uh, what's going on awfome game today? I
Speaker 8: wanted to say, you know, I know it's about Kawhi,
Speaker 8: but I can't say enough about James, Harden and Zubach.
Speaker 8: You know, they've just been absolute beasts and hopefully this
Speaker 8: is the catalyst for a nice long winning streak. We
Speaker 8: can climb back out of the plan. So go plit.
Speaker 8: Talk to you later.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, a son, I'm hoping they're already
Speaker 2: a three games straight. Can this turn into I don't know,
Speaker 2: five game winning streak? Six game winning streak. How far
Speaker 2: can they take this? Again? If you didn't know coach
Speaker 2: Lou was out with a back issue, b Shaw was
Speaker 2: your active head coach and apparently postgame they did a
Speaker 2: little FaceTime FaceTime with coach Lou. B Shaw said afterwards
Speaker 2: it looked like he was going to have a heart attack.
Speaker 2: It was one of those games, it was. It was
Speaker 2: one of those nights. But the first night here at
Speaker 2: into a dome in a game winning setting like this,
Speaker 2: that's what makes this so special. This is the atmosphere
Speaker 2: created by Steve Balmer. We hadn't got a game winner yet,
Speaker 2: to get it in overtime, to get it from Kawhi Leonard,
Speaker 2: this was truly special. And I hope, like Asan said,
Speaker 2: this is a catalyst and the Clippers can build off
Speaker 2: of this and it's not just a one off and
Speaker 2: they go to New Orleans and somehow land Egg and
Speaker 2: don't find a way to win that ball game. Now
Speaker 2: it's interesting because they have a back to back coming up.
Speaker 2: So what does that mean for Kawhi. You're in New
Speaker 2: Orleans on Tuesday, in Miami on Wednesday. If he's only
Speaker 2: playing a one one based upon record, you'd say, well,
Speaker 2: he should play the game against Miami, But do you
Speaker 2: really want to lose this momentum in a game where
Speaker 2: they played through them a ton You kind of want
Speaker 2: to get more of those reps. So currently my guess
Speaker 2: is he does play against the Pelicans, and if he's
Speaker 2: not playing on back to back still, and that's likely
Speaker 2: the case, and he's out for the game against Miami,
Speaker 2: then they're in Atlanta on Friday, and then back here
Speaker 2: a week from tonight against the Charlotte Hornets. They need
Speaker 2: to go three and one during this stretch. At worst,
Speaker 2: they do that, they'll be in good shape in the
Speaker 2: Western Conference standings. But they also need help at this point.
Speaker 2: They need Golden State to start losing some. They made
Speaker 2: their own luck tonight being the Kings, putting them firmly
Speaker 2: behind them. But the King's schedule's tough moving forward to
Speaker 2: the Golden State Warriors. Isn't Minnesota Timberwolves easier schedule than
Speaker 2: the Clippers the rest of the way. So the Clippers
Speaker 2: have to continue to win while standing's watching a little
Speaker 2: bit seeing what Minnesota's up to, what's the Golden State
Speaker 2: Warriors up to? Those are things I've been watching for
Speaker 2: some time now standings watch is not stopped here in
Speaker 2: a while. I do want to highlight Derek Jones Junior,
Speaker 2: who I thought was really good in this ballgame with
Speaker 2: his offense, his defense. We take it for granted. But
Speaker 2: seven of nine from the field, two of three from
Speaker 2: the outside clutch shots, seventeen points from DJ. It's a
Speaker 2: huge ballgame. Darris Joe Junior had as many points as
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard now Quiet, the game winner, but he took
Speaker 2: ten more shots to get the same amount of points.
Speaker 2: That's how much he was struggling. Again, if you're gonna
Speaker 2: have faith in your superstar, you gotta show it with
Speaker 2: your actions by putting the ball in his hands in
Speaker 2: a game like this late when he doesn't have his
Speaker 2: best say Okay, we know you can still find it.
Speaker 2: We know you're a shot away from being that guy.
Speaker 2: But DJ, I mean, he was playing as good as
Speaker 2: he has been this season. This was one of his
Speaker 2: best games. That three to put him up one oh
Speaker 2: seven to one oh four in overtime. Thought that might
Speaker 2: be the game's ceiling type of shot, but the Kings
Speaker 2: weren't given up either. This was a playoff like environment.
Speaker 2: This game was as competitive of a game we've seen
Speaker 2: in this building because of the stakes, and it's just
Speaker 2: here one here and into it, dolt, there's only eighteen
Speaker 2: games left, but I'm not kidding it. Flip the switch now,
Speaker 2: get into playoff mode. Now it's time. Dj also had
Speaker 2: a floater to put him up five. Thought they were
Speaker 2: gonna pull away. Then in overtime there's a lot of
Speaker 2: big shots from him in this game. Critical you don't
Speaker 2: typically rely on his offense. They were leaving him open.
Speaker 2: Sacramento Kings, they had the scouting report, and he killed him.
Speaker 2: He burned him. Those two three pointers, I want to
Speaker 2: they both came in the near side corner. But I
Speaker 2: just love the adversity from this team. They didn't have
Speaker 2: their best offensively. They missed ten free throws. They're down
Speaker 2: seven a minute forty eight left. They rally, They go
Speaker 2: on a seven to zero run to tie, to go
Speaker 2: into ot and they find a way by playing through
Speaker 2: their best player in the end, No, Daniel, let's play
Speaker 2: it one more time. Here here was the Clippers needing
Speaker 2: a bucket late, down by one to Sacramento with second tremating.
Speaker 4: Team clock fifteen, Clippers down one. Kawhi hovers the ball
Speaker 4: above the shoot tops at ten working on Murray still
Speaker 4: has his dribble.
Speaker 2: Eight seconds.
Speaker 4: It's Leonard against the world with six dribbles it with five,
Speaker 4: right elbow with four, Kawhi with three back to the basket,
Speaker 4: spins into the paint.
Speaker 5: The fluarder for the win, fold in, and the Clippers
Speaker 5: climp back to beat the Kings one eleven, one ten
Speaker 5: to Whi the hero in.
Speaker 6: Overtime and into it. He struggled all night go when
Speaker 6: the team needed him most, the claw pumps through in
Speaker 6: the clutch. Clippers win it one eleven, one ten and
Speaker 6: take the season series against Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard came through when they needed him most. Carlo
Speaker 2: Jimenez on the call. There there's your game winner. Clippers
Speaker 2: win by one over the Sacramento Kings. Hear it into
Speaker 2: a dome and the most exhilarating, dramatic contest played in
Speaker 2: this building yet, dude, so far, plenty of these to come,
Speaker 2: hopefully with plenty more game winners from your Clippers. What
Speaker 2: a victory. Now they got to head out on the road,
Speaker 2: Cliper Nation. You helped fuel them during this sweep at
Speaker 2: the three game homestand now Hopefully the Clippers got plenty
Speaker 2: left in the tank that they can draw upon on
Speaker 2: this road trip. They can band together. They'll need one.
Speaker 2: Another three games out on the road, starting on Tuesday
Speaker 2: in New Orleans against the Pelicans. Tip off at five
Speaker 2: pregame at four. Before we get out of here, I
Speaker 2: do want to thank the Clippers organization Ralph lall O'Brien
Speaker 2: seeman know what igo Carlojiman is with the game winning
Speaker 2: call there, Big brother Jake Warner, our head engineer, David
Speaker 2: helping us out here tonight as well, Joey our satistician
Speaker 2: paus Chris Taylor. Yeah, it takes a village to get
Speaker 2: this operation off the grounds. Clippers taking on the Pelicans
Speaker 2: on Tuesday. I'm out of Mosland. We'll talk to you then.
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