WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:02.480 Phoning in. 2 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:05.200 They're taking your calls on the LA Clippers right now. 3 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:08.519 This is Clippers Talk on Aaron on Demand, the Clippers 4 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:11.720 Show of Record, Your chance to react to everything. 5 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:13.560 Clippers Clippers news happens. 6 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:16.559 Let me guess it's about Kawhi. Here we are and 7 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:19.559 now here he is the host of your LA Clippers 8 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:23.039 free and postgame at follow Adam a Adam Mosley. 9 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:26.000 Well, yeah, Dan, it's about Kawhi after he hits that 10 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.280 game winner here and into a dome n ot Clippers 11 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:31.679 win one eleven to one ten over the sac of 12 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:34.679 Menzo Kings. Welcome in to Clippers Stock. I'm out of 13 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:37.359 maslin to eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. 14 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:40.759 Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is 15 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:45.640 the phone number. As Kawhi the claw comes through late 16 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:51.320 with a spinning left handed floater runner. Push shot. Tough 17 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:55.600 shot is what it was over three defenders to get 18 00:00:55.640 --> 00:01:00.200 the victory for the Clippers in OT. After look like 19 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:05.359 multiple times the Clippers were gonna fall due to miscues 20 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:07.959 at the charity stripe, they went fifteen to twenty five. 21 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:11.760 That often comes back to bite you. Not in this 22 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:16.599 one against the Sacramento Kinks. The Clippers had to get it. 23 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:19.480 The Kings were just a half game behind them, and 24 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.599 if you want to talk about building momentum, turning this 25 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:27.439 three game winning streak into something more, those are the 26 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:30.319 type of victories in the manner that the Clippers got 27 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:33.599 this one tonight that you'll remember where were you? And 28 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:37.200 Kawhi hit that first buzzer beater game winner at into 29 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:39.680 a dome and did so in overtime and a huge 30 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:43.159 contest against the Sacramento Kings when he was just seven 31 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:46.680 of nineteen from the field overall one of seven from 32 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:53.560 the three. An unbelievable victory by this Clippers team and 33 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.879 a big shot from their superstar and the guy you 34 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:00.000 need to play through when going gets tough in Kawhi. 35 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:04.400 Leonard said it before and I'll say it again. They're 36 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:08.280 only going as far as Kawhi takes them. So to 37 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:14.919 reestablish that pecking order and to show that confidence in Kawhi, 38 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:18.840 he's your fifty million dollar player. He's the one who 39 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:23.479 needs to take that final shot and make it. He 40 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:27.080 got it to go tonight after what I thought was 41 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:30.159 gonna be a tough break where it rolled off the rim, 42 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:35.800 but it dropped, and I think we've seen Kawhi have 43 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.319 one of those Plinko chip like basketball's fall for him 44 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:42.400 before in a pretty big game winning situation. It was 45 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:46.000 a series winning shot for the Toronto Raptors back in 46 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.439 twenty nineteen in Game seven against the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. 47 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:55.560 Kawhi went from having his worst game of the season 48 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:02.520 to his best. His was necessary to having at least 49 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:07.560 his biggest shot when they need it most. You wonder 50 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:11.240 how much that could turn things around for this Clippers 51 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:14.199 team coming out of the All Star Break. They sweep 52 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:18.759 the home stand, they go three to zero, as I 53 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:22.960 thought they could mentioned it on clips and did, but 54 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:28.879 things looked dire late. It looked like the Clippers weren't 55 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:34.199 gonna have enough as they trailed ninety seven to ninety 56 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:37.560 with a minute forty eight left in the fourth quarter. 57 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.719 What happened the next time down for the Clippers. Guess 58 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:48.039 who made the shot? Kawhi Leonard a tough and one 59 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.759 where he just threw it up on the mid post 60 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:54.560 near side and it went and he shook his head 61 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:57.280 and it looked like he was saying to himself, that's 62 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:59.599 the toughest shot. I've gotten all night, he gets fouled, 63 00:03:59.879 --> 00:04:02.080 he throws it up. It's a circus shot. That's the 64 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:04.520 toughest shot I've taken all night, and that's the one 65 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:07.599 that goes while he was missing a ton of easy ones. 66 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:12.560 So you could say foreshadowing a sign of things to 67 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:18.199 come with them getting that shot from Kawhi down seven 68 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:20.839 with a minute forty eight left. He brings it to 69 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:24.959 within four with a minute forty left. It gave them hope. 70 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:29.040 Then a great pick and roll with James Harden to 71 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:31.720 a beats A Zubats for a huge throw down with 72 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:34.160 two hands after Yonas Valence Chuness was called for an 73 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:44.800 offensive foul. Then you have a couple of huge critical 74 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:47.639 replays in the ballgame. Instant replay machine was going off, 75 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:50.120 and I think they got all of them right. Honestly, 76 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:54.759 they had what looked to be what could have been 77 00:04:55.120 --> 00:05:00.839 the game ceiling foul on to mart on the left 78 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:06.519 wing on a three by Derek Jones Junior. The Clippers 79 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:11.399 challenged it, they reviewed it, they said the contact was marginal. 80 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:15.639 They jumped it up at half court and a Visa 81 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:23.279 Zubots would win that jump ball. That was critical as 82 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:29.360 well well. The Clippers and Kings would both miss some 83 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.839 shots after that, and a mere Coffee missed three pointer, 84 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:37.879 a DeMar Derosen miss three pointer, and three shots at 85 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:40.800 the free throw line for DeMar Derosen, who is twelve 86 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:44.279 of twelve at the charity stripe might have been enough 87 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:47.639 for Sacramento to pull this out. So now the Clippers 88 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:53.560 are down by two with the basketball which twenty two 89 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:57.079 seconds left, and they don't waste much time at all, 90 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:01.720 down ninety seven to ninety five, to get that into 91 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:04.240 the front court and to get a little push shot 92 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:06.519 runner where I think even James Harden got a friendly 93 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:12.199 role the basket by the wall. That's a magnet ball 94 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:14.399 right there for the Clippers, at least it was in 95 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:17.720 this one. He ties the game at ninety seven with 96 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:21.560 eleven point nine seconds left, Kings still have plenty of time. 97 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:25.079 And I thought this shot was going from Zach Levine. 98 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:27.399 In fact, I was more certain about this jumper from 99 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:30.480 Zack Levine going than I was the Kawhi shot going. 100 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:33.759 It looked good out of his hands, the defense was 101 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:39.160 good from Chris Dunn. But Zach Levine can elevate. He 102 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:43.360 can get a shot whenever he needs to. Doesn't fall. 103 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:48.439 We got ot extra basketball, lost it out on an 104 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:52.399 hour last night, gained five more minutes tonight. Hear it 105 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:58.360 into it, don't and you get into overtime. James Harden 106 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:02.279 goes to the free throw line, goes one of two. 107 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:06.920 De Marta Rosan hits a jumper. Clippers are down by one. 108 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:11.079 Big Zoo gets to the free throw line, goes one 109 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:13.240 of two. But then it looked like the Clippers were 110 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:18.000 gonna run away with it. James Harden huge three Derek 111 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:23.000 Jones junior seven footer. The Clippers are up by five, 112 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:26.319 two thirty eight left. Feels like a lot more than 113 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:28.920 that when points start at a premium. I mean, we 114 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:31.319 had overtime and teams still only got to one eleven 115 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:35.759 to one ten, but the Kings weren't going away. Zach 116 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:39.759 Lavine huge three pointer top side, back to a two 117 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.800 point game, one O four, one O two to Marta. 118 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:47.519 Rosan would tie it at one oh four. Derek Jones 119 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:52.319 junior clutch three pointer off of James Harden assist, Clippers 120 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.759 back up by three. Torosa at the line, Clippers up 121 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:59.519 one one O seven to one oh six. DJ would 122 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:05.680 then miss it three pointer. Demart Rosen hits a long 123 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:10.680 two pointer amid some controversy with the shot clock, as 124 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:14.600 Kawhi Leonard blocks you own as valanchiutis and what would 125 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:16.800 have been an easy layup on the switch. It was 126 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.279 a great block by Kawhi, by the way, so a 127 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:22.759 little defense to offense, you could say, in some ways 128 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:28.240 late from Kawhi Leonard doing it. All that block though, 129 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:34.879 reset the shot clock and it shouldn't have. They reviewed 130 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:38.960 it and they figured out that Demarta rozen still got 131 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.840 the shot off within twenty four seconds. I think they 132 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:44.559 said there was one point eight seconds left, and it 133 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:49.200 was the right call. I agree with it, but we 134 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:51.960 were on pins and needles down the stretch. It was 135 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:55.639 a long two. The Clippers are down by one, one 136 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:59.600 o eight to one oh seven. Harden goes flying into 137 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:05.080 the front court for a little floater from three feet out. 138 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:09.279 The Clippers are back up by one. DeMar gets fouled 139 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:12.320 by Chris Dunn, goes to the free throw line. With 140 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:16.240 twenty one seconds left, the Kings are up one one 141 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:18.799 ten to one oh one ten to one oh nine, 142 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:24.480 and uh, Daniel West, if you don't mind Carl Jimenez again, 143 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:26.840 because I would love to hear it. 144 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:30.639 Game clock at fifteen, Clippers down one, Kawhi hovers the 145 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:33.399 ball above the shoots tops at ten, working on Murray 146 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:34.639 still has his dribble. 147 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:35.279 Eight seconds. 148 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:38.240 It's Leonard against the world with six dribbles it with five, 149 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:41.240 right elbow with four, Kawhi with three, back to the basket, 150 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:42.320 spins into the paint. 151 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:43.159 The florder for the. 152 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:49.480 Wind fold and the Clippers climp back. Defeat the Kings 153 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:55.480 one eleven, one ten. Phi the hero in overtime. 154 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:56.879 And into its. 155 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:05.000 He struggled all night go in the team needed him most. 156 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:08.399 The club pumps through in the clutch. 157 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:14.240 Clippers win it one eleven, one ten and take the 158 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:17.200 season series against Sacramento. 159 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:23.840 Kawhi Leonard take some home with that w as Now 160 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:27.200 they embark on a three game road trip. What a 161 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:31.320 moment heard into it Dome, his teammates mobbing him at 162 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.759 half court. His former teammate was it at Todio going 163 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:40.600 way back, Patty Mills game of chess, bump at half court. 164 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:46.840 Just the dramatics down the stretch between these two teams 165 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:50.039 fighting for something late in the season, and that's playoff 166 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:54.440 positioning in the standings. What a critical victory by the 167 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:57.840 Clippers one eleven to one ten was your final thanks 168 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:00.440 to Kawhi with the game winner coming up, we'll get 169 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.720 your phone calls. Want check out the chat here at 170 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.320 Clippers Talk on the YouTube side as well the claw 171 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:11.279 doing what superstars do. I'm out of Moslins and this 172 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:15.480 is Clippers stock here on five seventy LA Sports. 173 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:21.159 The Clippers. 174 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:25.080 You're listening to LA Clippers Basketball. Take us with you 175 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:27.799 wherever you are on the iHeartRadio app. 176 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:32.120 S Man gets paid, clutch Man gets paid. Kawhi was 177 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.679 clutch late. We'll make it with a K for Kawhi 178 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:38.320 as he is the game winner in ot and the 179 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:41.399 Clippers win one eleven to one ten. Here it into 180 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:44.799 a dumb over the Sacramento Kings in a game with 181 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:50.039 huge standings implications, in a game where the Clippers can 182 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.879 feel good heading out on the road for the next 183 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:55.159 three including a back to back start things off. They 184 00:11:55.200 --> 00:12:00.759 will be in New Orleans on Tuesday. The Clippers now 185 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:03.519 a game and a half up on the Sacramento Kings. 186 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:06.200 Clippers at thirty five and twenty nine, Kings at thirty 187 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:09.559 three and thirty and make it two and a half 188 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:12.159 games up. You know why because they just sealed the 189 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:17.120 head to head tiebreaker, which is where things start against Sacramento. 190 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:19.759 They have won all three games against the Kings. They 191 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:22.039 don't have tie breakers against a lot of teams, but 192 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:25.919 two of the teams around them they do the Kings 193 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:30.320 in the Golden State Warriors. They don't against a team 194 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.759 they're a game behind and make it two games behind. 195 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:36.240 Because Minnesota has the head to head tiebreaker against the Clippers. 196 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:41.159 Huge victory. And while we have a moment, let's pause 197 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:44.279 ten seconds for station identification. Here on AM five seventy 198 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:47.440 LS Sports, this is. 199 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:51.639 La Clippers Basketball. AM five to seventy KLAC, Los Angeles, 200 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:56.399 ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio station. 201 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:58.919 Some people are still hating on Kawhi. We know he 202 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:02.840 didn't have a good game over we know he was 203 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:08.559 just seven of nineteen. We're aware. You know what happens 204 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:12.960 with great players. They put the next one up anyways, 205 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:18.519 and in a high pressure situation, not in a tie game. 206 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:22.279 There's a difference. In a game they're down by one, 207 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:24.799 he doesn't make that shot. It's not that they go 208 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:30.960 to double overtime. They lose. That's where you see the 209 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:38.320 separation in guys. In those moments, Clippers were down by one, 210 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:43.639 Kawhi hid it. It looked like they had what they 211 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:49.720 wanted Keikan Murray against him. Kawhi kept his dribble at 212 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:52.720 the top of the arc with the King's best defender 213 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:54.960 on him, puts it on the floor with the right hand, 214 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:59.399 gets in the mid posts, turns spins against a triple 215 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.600 team as Ellis and Jonas Valenciunis and Keiga Murray, who 216 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:06.159 was there all along, all converged on him. But the 217 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:09.960 way he gets that shot off is by getting it 218 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:14.000 off with the left hand, using his right side to 219 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:19.840 shield himself from said defenders. I got news for you, guys. 220 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:23.919 Kawhi ain't left handed. This ain't Amir Coffee, this ain't 221 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:29.559 James Harden. But that's how skilled he is, that's how 222 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:34.799 special he is. And that's why I've been saying for 223 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:39.080 a while now, you gotta start playing through Kawhi more. 224 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:41.519 And I thought they did, even in a game where 225 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:45.320 he struggled. That's who you count on to win it 226 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:50.159 for you. Kawhi also with a crucial and one in 227 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:52.879 the fourth quarter with a minute forty left with the 228 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:58.000 Clippers down by seven. Just he hit the two toughest 229 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:01.080 shots that he took all night, right in the two 230 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:07.240 biggest moments. Really, that's it, and that tells you what 231 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:09.600 guys are made of when they have to have it. 232 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:18.399 Kawhi Leonard, he'll get it special. What a victory, and 233 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:21.120 you're hoping it hoping since we've talked about spring forward 234 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:25.600 a lot, this will spring them forward to an extended 235 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:30.879 winning streak after sweeping this homestand quickly, Demitrius, you got 236 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:34.000 thirty seconds, Demetrius in Manhattan Beach here on Clippers South 237 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:36.799 without a moslimd Hi, Demetrius. 238 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:39.399 Adam, Adam, what a game, What a game? A game 239 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:43.120 we had to have since this as an urgency game 240 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:48.240 with all the haters out here, with Kawhi and Tubox's 241 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:52.759 let's gill find Brian Shaw late execution, Adam, Let's give 242 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:55.360 him a bunch of credit. I think he. I thought 243 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:58.919 Brian Shaw did an excellent job of letting the world 244 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:01.679 know that, Hey, in order for us to win, we 245 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:04.639 meet our guys, and our guy is Kwi Lynn. And 246 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:06.840 I think he sent the message not only through the 247 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:10.679 Clipper organization but everybody and all the haters out there 248 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:12.840 that keeps saying, oh, he's not the best player on 249 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:15.879 the team, Well you just found out who actually is 250 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:18.879 the best player on the team by far. And again, 251 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:22.679 a very tough shot, but he's a tough shot maker. 252 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:25.840 And like you said, again rough night tonight. But listen, 253 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:28.519 we me and you talked about this, Adam. This was 254 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:32.120 a gutted out type of game. And give Sacramento credit. 255 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:35.240 And yeah, to be interesting, you know, I appreciate you, 256 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:42.480 my guy. The fact that Brian Shaw b Shaw is 257 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:46.679 filling in for coach lou He trust Kawhi late Kawhi 258 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:49.720 trust Kawhi after the night he had to still have 259 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.720 that confidence when they know if that doesn't work out, 260 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:56.600 they're facing the firing squad. They're gonna get hit for 261 00:16:56.720 --> 00:16:59.679 going back to Kawhi when he was six of eighteen 262 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:08.200 on the night. I really, James Harden, I mean, beats 263 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:10.279 the Zubas. There are other places and other guys who 264 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:15.119 are more consistently carrying you tonight. But you still go 265 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:21.519 to Kawhi. Why because you're only going as far as 266 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:23.640 he takes you. Anyways, you have to put that trust 267 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:28.440 in him. If you don't go to Kawhi, you're fifty 268 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:33.480 million dollar player in that spot where we're saying we're 269 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:35.759 winning or losing the game on this possession right now, 270 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:39.599 what's that going to do for his confidence moving forward? 271 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:42.400 Is he gonna have some identity crisis? I thought I 272 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:43.839 was the guy on this team. You're paying me like 273 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:47.079 I'm the guy. Shouldn't I be taking these shots? These 274 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:55.839 money shots? So it was the right play, And even 275 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:58.640 if he had missed it, I would have argued, look, 276 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:01.759 I get the process there. I get what they're trying 277 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:05.039 to do. The only way the Clippers have a chance 278 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:08.039 to make real noise in the Western Conference of the 279 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:11.519 playoffs is if Kawhi is playing at a superstar level 280 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:16.839 every game. Is if he returns to being your number 281 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:18.759 one option all the time and the guy you play through. 282 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:25.720 So establish it now. I think this is a big 283 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:30.039 moving forward for the Clippers. I do. Some people are 284 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:32.279 saying Kawhi should not be playing forty minutes even in 285 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:38.079 the playoffs. It's like he doesn't play forty minutes, they 286 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:42.000 don't win the game. The playoffs have started, Tom van Dyk, 287 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:46.359 if you lose this game, you have a chance of 288 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:49.319 losing the tiebreaker. With the Kings falling down into the 289 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:52.640 nine or ten spot, meaning it's single elimination in the 290 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:58.799 plan the playoffs have started. If not now, win when 291 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:02.359 it comes to extending Kawhi's minutes. If not now, when 292 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:10.319 things are dire, you were at a breaking point. You 293 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:12.480 just lost six of seven coming out of the All 294 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:22.480 Star Game. I said before they got into OT, I 295 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:26.119 wonder what happens with Kawhi's minutes in and overtime. Well, 296 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:30.799 he played the entire fourth quarter he came out for. 297 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:34.440 I don't know what it was of game time, but 298 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:36.559 it was a very short amount of time that he 299 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:41.759 was subbed out and subbed back in in overtime because 300 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:44.000 he had just played the entire fourth quarter. So I 301 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:46.720 get it. I think he was the only one out 302 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:54.640 there that had But you're saying Kawhi shouldn't have to 303 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:59.319 play forty minutes. Great, that'd be nice if every team 304 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:02.440 just laid down and said, hey, beat us up and 305 00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:07.480 rest your stars tonight. That's not how it works. The 306 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:10.200 game isn't played on paper. The Kings have been playing well. 307 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:12.279 They had just won five of six and during that 308 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:15.200 time they have been the number one offense and defense 309 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:18.160 in the league. The last six games where they won 310 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:20.279 five of a six, and the Sacramento Kings were the 311 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:24.839 number one offense and defense offensive rating and defensive rating. 312 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:28.640 They're at the very top. So yeah, it was gonna 313 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:33.880 be a battle tonight. I don't know what everybody else expected, 314 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:36.519 but the Kings have been playing a really good defense. 315 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:40.039 The Clippers have been getting back to that over the 316 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:44.759 last couple of games. Now, if you want to argue, hey, 317 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:50.880 hit your free throws, sure you can't miss ten and 318 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:55.319 get away with it, usually fifteen or twenty five at 319 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:58.720 the charity stripe and Nick Romos gets it. That was 320 00:20:58.759 --> 00:21:02.960 practically a playoff game. The playoffs have started. You need 321 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:08.640 to have that sense of urgency. So if the Clippers 322 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:12.599 emptied the tank and push things to forty minutes with Kawhi, 323 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:18.640 it's because the circumstances dictated it. Hear it into it, 324 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:24.759 don't tonight. This is a monumental victory for the Clippers. 325 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:26.720 Now we'll see they come out and lay an egg 326 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:29.519 in New Orleans against one of the worst teams in 327 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:33.960 the league. They lose that game on Tuesday was their carryover. 328 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:37.119 No can you say something was born out of this 329 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:40.640 victory if it ends up with their next game being 330 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.319 a defeat, No, But if they do really start to 331 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:49.640 get rolling here, which is eighteen games left, this might 332 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:52.279 be a game we look back upon and say, Okay, 333 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:55.160 there was carryover, there was legs to this. It paid dividends. 334 00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:59.359 The Clippers came together. It was a galvanizing victory. It 335 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:03.039 established the hierarchy, the pecking order, who you're going to 336 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:06.880 in what situation, how you have to play. And I thought, 337 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:10.039 even with Kawhi struggling in this game, this was the 338 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:16.839 best from an aggressiveness standpoint, from a scoring appetite standpoint, 339 00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:19.960 this was the best game I saw from Kawhi in 340 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:23.519 that respect, because not because he made shots, because he 341 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:26.319 was missing shots. He was stayed aggressive out there, like 342 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:29.920 you knew you got to shoot your way out of this. 343 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:32.200 This is this is you, this is this is on 344 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:37.240 you to figure out. And he did with you could say, 345 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:39.640 the two biggest shots of the game, or at least 346 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:41.680 two of the biggest obviously the last one of the 347 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:43.599 biggest shot of the game, but that and one he 348 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:47.519 had when they were down seven, when they were staring 349 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:51.920 at a loss with a minute forty left. That was critical. 350 00:22:54.599 --> 00:22:59.359 So the fact that they really made sure to play 351 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:02.799 through Kawhi, even in a game where he didn't have 352 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:05.279 his best throughout most of it, and it ends with 353 00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:08.559 a dub and him hitting the game winner. I think 354 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:10.480 that kind of lays out the formula and the game 355 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:13.519 plan moving forward. Now, obviously they got a back to 356 00:23:13.559 --> 00:23:16.240 back coming up. He's likely missing one of those games, 357 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:19.960 and you got to reconfigure things and figure out rotations 358 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:22.200 and lineups once again. And hopefully coach lou was good 359 00:23:23.319 --> 00:23:26.000 because obviously you back injury, whatever's going on, and then 360 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:33.440 you gotta fly out. That's difficult, but let's hope this 361 00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:37.400 is the spring board. So we sprung forward. Last night, 362 00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:41.480 Clippers win one eleven to one ten over the Sacramento 363 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:44.960 Kings in ot on a game winner with the left 364 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:49.920 hand from Kawhi letter. You know it helps even if 365 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:53.039 you're not left handed, if you got big myths like that, 366 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:56.640 he's still got great control and touch on the basketball. 367 00:23:58.440 --> 00:24:01.240 To Kawhi leonard Is, it's all a part of his 368 00:24:01.319 --> 00:24:05.599 story and he is a two time Finals MVP and 369 00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:09.960 champion for a reason. He does not will to shy 370 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:15.240 away from those moments. Big time game winner from Kawhi 371 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:18.160 propelling the Clippers to victory. One eleven to one to ten. 372 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:19.440 We'll take a time out. We'll get back to your 373 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:21.599 phone calls. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five 374 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:25.000 seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy. I'm 375 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:28.039 out of Masland and you're listening to Clippers sock. You're 376 00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:29.920 in a five seventy LA Sports. 377 00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:34.920 The Lague Clippers. 378 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:38.839 You're listening to LA Clippers Basketball. Take us with you 379 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:41.559 wherever you are on the iHeartRadio app. 380 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:46.559 In a game with fourteen ties and twenty three lead changes, 381 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:56.000 that last lead change was your game winner from Kawhi 382 00:24:56.559 --> 00:25:02.960 Leonard on the left side mid host against three defenders. 383 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:06.319 Just a little hook push shot runner that he got 384 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:09.720 to fall with the friendly bounce. Kawhi Leonard has been 385 00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:12.440 sweet talking the room for sometimes for some time. He 386 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:15.480 has been getting those friendly bounces for a long time. 387 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:18.200 Good to see him do it tonight in the Clippers 388 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:21.960 uniform against the Sacramento Kings in their biggest game to 389 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:24.880 day so far this season. And good to see the 390 00:25:24.920 --> 00:25:27.640 Clippers trust him with the game on the line like that. 391 00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:32.880 This is it. We're going out winning or losing with 392 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:36.400 the ball in Kawhi's hands. That's how you do it 393 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:42.920 like those shots. You have to understand James Harden made 394 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:45.799 some huge shots and that floated to tie it in 395 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:49.720 the fourth quarter. There was still time left. It's not 396 00:25:49.839 --> 00:25:55.119 the same situation as we're playing for the final buzzer. 397 00:25:55.119 --> 00:26:01.920 On this shot, Harden was great. Harden has been their 398 00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:04.599 MVP this season. I don't know why people are trying 399 00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:08.839 to make this about Harden versus Kawhi. I'm just telling 400 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:13.519 you on a night where Kawhi shot that poorly from 401 00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:16.400