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Speaker 2: Clippers avenge in early season loss, winning this time here
Speaker 2: and into a Dome over the Portland Trail Blazers by
Speaker 2: a final of one twenty seven to one oh five.
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Speaker 2: at eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Clippers make it nine straight victories here
Speaker 2: at the Dome. The Dome is home Clipper Nation. You
Speaker 2: showed up again. You brought some energy and this Clippers team,
Speaker 2: it took it out to the court with them. I
Speaker 2: really think developing that sixth man. They called it the
Speaker 2: twelfth Man up in Seattle. This is a six man
Speaker 2: like atmosphere where the Clippers just get a little bit
Speaker 2: of an extra boost out here in a jolt as
Speaker 2: a mere coffee. Showed that in the second half and
Speaker 2: specifically in the fourth quarters, they would pour it on.
Speaker 2: A mere coffee was sixteen of his nineteen points in
Speaker 2: the fourth Clippers win big, this time over the Portland
Speaker 2: trail Blazers after they got into a game that was
Speaker 2: a little bit dicey where I felt like they let
Speaker 2: go and missed an opportunity to really put Portland away early.
Speaker 2: Not easy in today's league, even when you're up by
Speaker 2: twelve at twenty four to twelve in the first quarter
Speaker 2: to end a game that early because of the three
Speaker 2: point shooting. But the Clippers defense was phenomenal to start
Speaker 2: off the ballgame. They were so connected. Five guys on
Speaker 2: a string, Chris Dunn, guys that steal and turn over
Speaker 2: he got on Anthony Simons, one of the better young
Speaker 2: players in this league in the second half, where he
Speaker 2: got it in the back court, just picking him up
Speaker 2: ninety four feet and causing a turnover on the near sideline.
Speaker 2: That's freaky stuff. You don't see that very often at
Speaker 2: this high of a level in the National Basketball Association.
Speaker 2: From a guy like Anthony Simons. Dunn was just wrecking them.
Speaker 2: I cannot believe some of the defense he was able
Speaker 2: to play. There was defense on Kamara at the three
Speaker 2: minute mark of the second quarter that caused a turnover,
Speaker 2: and then a dun steal to Norman Powell in the
Speaker 2: second quarter for a dunk. But what he did to
Speaker 2: Anthony Simons was nasty. That was early in the third quarter,
Speaker 2: picking him up full court, setting the tone as the
Speaker 2: Clippers did to start off first and third quarters. To
Speaker 2: start off halves, we've seen they've been better in that area.
Speaker 2: Their best two quarters are the first and third quarters.
Speaker 2: Net rating wise, they've been top five in first quarters,
Speaker 2: which I know is kind of a paradigm shift for
Speaker 2: Clipper Nation to expect them to start fast. Now they are.
Speaker 2: They're playing great to start ball games, and then they
Speaker 2: start fast and third quarters where they have a net
Speaker 2: rating this top ten. But the Clippers had to put
Speaker 2: together a run near the end of that third quarter
Speaker 2: to really gain some separation against this Portland trail Blazers team.
Speaker 2: It was highlighted by the James Harden three to end
Speaker 2: the third quarter. Of course, spectacular play. I think it
Speaker 2: was against a double team to make it ninety one
Speaker 2: to seventy eight heading into the fourth. But I felt
Speaker 2: like when it was seventy five seventy and midway through
Speaker 2: the third, Mobama comes in. He gets here's a block
Speaker 2: on Camara. James Harden's getting to the line. Bomba hits
Speaker 2: a three to put the Clippers up by ten. After
Speaker 2: Portland had another turnover. Then Bomba had a steal on Denny.
Speaker 2: Bomba had a steal on Jeremy Grant. James Harden hits
Speaker 2: a three. Now they go up ten to up thirteen.
Speaker 2: At eighty three seventy, Kamara matches it with a three,
Speaker 2: and that's when Grant had the strip steel on Terrence Man,
Speaker 2: who was down for some time. We knew something was wrong.
Speaker 2: He was looking at his left hand. I was hoping
Speaker 2: it was just a dislocation. They could pop it back
Speaker 2: in like Gary Vedy did Kobe Bryant back in the
Speaker 2: day in La. It wasn't fractured left middle finger. For
Speaker 2: Terrence Man. We're guessing is going to be out for
Speaker 2: some time. He left to go to the locker room,
Speaker 2: was clenching that left hand. Amrr comes in. Then I
Speaker 2: keep saying DeAndre because dj Derek Jones, not DeAndre Jordan,
Speaker 2: but he's got crazy hops. He almost had I don't know,
Speaker 2: the dunk of the year on Denny got to the
Speaker 2: line instead, but then Mobamba had another block. Amir hits
Speaker 2: a three, and then James Harden hits that three and
Speaker 2: they're up ninety one to seventy eight heading into the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter. But Harden stayed out there. We thought, is
Speaker 2: he really gonna play the entire second half again? Well
Speaker 2: he didn't have to. They showed some killer instinct early
Speaker 2: in that fourth quarter. That's what I'm gonna take away
Speaker 2: from this Clippers game. They really execute when they had
Speaker 2: to to get James Harden rest on the front end
Speaker 2: of a back to back because the Clippers were shot
Speaker 2: out of a cannon to start the fourth quarter. Harden, Emir,
Speaker 2: Jordan Miller, Obamba and Niko Batoum, the same guys who
Speaker 2: ended the third quarter, came back out there. Jordan Miller
Speaker 2: goes baseline for a reverse layup to start it. Then
Speaker 2: Batoom has this crazy low trajectory passed to a mere
Speaker 2: coffee for a three pointer. More to come. It's ninety
Speaker 2: six seventy eight. Then James to Batoomb who goes behind
Speaker 2: his back to Jordan Miller for three and the Clippers
Speaker 2: are up twenty one. Time out get James Harden now
Speaker 2: the game just like that awesome execution. Oh and guess
Speaker 2: who comes in Norman Powell floater three layup. He gets
Speaker 2: to thirty in I don't know a minute and a half.
Speaker 2: He ended up leading the Clippers with thirty points. Norman
Speaker 2: Powell on just fifteen shots in twenty five minutes. He
Speaker 2: outdid his performance Sunday night against Denver efficiency wise, or
Speaker 2: he had twenty eight points in twenty five minutes Tonight
Speaker 2: thirty in twenty five. It was like he he was
Speaker 2: gonna be on the minutes restriction, was like, I gotta
Speaker 2: get get it in now because they're gonna pull me
Speaker 2: when I get to twenty five minutes. I don't know
Speaker 2: what the minutes restriction is. Maybe it's twenty eight thirty,
Speaker 2: but I guess we'll never know, as Kanye once said,
Speaker 2: because he went eleven of fifteen, five of seven from three,
Speaker 2: and had thirty points in twenty five minutes. Norman Powell,
Speaker 2: this was his seventeenth game of the season, and the
Speaker 2: efficiency it's not stopping guys, you can't slow him down.
Speaker 2: You can't. He's coming to his right and when he
Speaker 2: gets that little hopstep dribble skip, you know he's pulling
Speaker 2: up and it is cash. I think it was five
Speaker 2: for eight from three Sunday night. He's five for seven tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing he's gonna be over fifty percent now from
Speaker 2: three on the season. After this game, a mere Coffee
Speaker 2: was shooting forty two percent from three coming into this one.
Speaker 2: He goes five to seven from three, but after the
Speaker 2: Clippers shot only thirty three percent from three in the
Speaker 2: six games without Norman Pale, Well, you can see the
Speaker 2: impact the last two games. Now back with him, it
Speaker 2: just makes life and spacing so much easier for the
Speaker 2: Clippers because against Denver they ended up with what eighteen threes,
Speaker 2: eighteen of thirty nine, that's forty six percent from three,
Speaker 2: and then tonight they end up going nineteen of thirty seven.
Speaker 2: That's fifty one percent from three. That is the Norman
Speaker 2: pal effect. When teams have to account for a guy
Speaker 2: like that, it gets other guys good looks. And really,
Speaker 2: anytime Norman pal is pulling up from beyond the arc,
Speaker 2: it's a very good look right now. X Mango Project
Speaker 2: said Norm gotta be an All Star this season. Timothy
Speaker 2: says batoom extra passes are so nice. I missed them
Speaker 2: last year. Yeah. From the hardened pass to batomb after
Speaker 2: Harden was triple teamed to batomb five Jordan Miller for
Speaker 2: that three in the fourth right before the time out
Speaker 2: to get James Harden out of the game. That was
Speaker 2: the sequence right there put the Clippers up twenty one.
Speaker 2: The ball movement was just beautiful. It was hopping. Al said,
Speaker 2: Norm's getting like three assisted game. Now. Got a lot
Speaker 2: of great layups this game. Yes, he did, and got
Speaker 2: some good boards too. Norm plays some low man defense
Speaker 2: early on after the Clippers started off by doubling and
Speaker 2: trapping the ball handler for the Portland Trail Blazers, which
Speaker 2: completely threw them off. And Norm actually played really good
Speaker 2: defense on DeAndre Aiden who caught the ball in the
Speaker 2: short roll and Norm was waiting for him. Played good
Speaker 2: defense and got the rebound. Norm Powell is playing like
Speaker 2: an All Star. He had the first bucket off a
Speaker 2: hardened feed to start the game, made it to nothing.
Speaker 2: The Clippers then got a shot clock violation. That is
Speaker 2: a Norm three. It's five to Ozho. Then that low
Speaker 2: man defense by Powell. Then he gets another three wins,
Speaker 2: twelve to five. He's already eight points, another three. He's
Speaker 2: got eleven points in the first quarter. Second quarter, lay
Speaker 2: up as soon as he came in. Then I lay
Speaker 2: up going to his left. Midway through the second quarter,
Speaker 2: just bleue past Denny. I made forty six to forty four.
Speaker 2: He had what was it was it eighteen points in
Speaker 2: the first half of Norm Powell. He just got back
Speaker 2: twenty points. Sorry Norm, shortage of two. He was seven
Speaker 2: of eight from the field and three of four from
Speaker 2: distance in the first half. But Denny Abadi, he's still
Speaker 2: he had fifteen points himself. They obvious excuse excuse me
Speaker 2: they Abdia had fifteen points in the first half and
Speaker 2: really kept Portland afloat. He was six of eight and
Speaker 2: three of three from three. DeAndre eight and also was
Speaker 2: eating against a viatz Zubas. Again, I didn't have a
Speaker 2: great game. I don't know what it is against DeAndre eight,
Speaker 2: and he seems to be struggling against him certainly as
Speaker 2: of late. But even when he was in Phoenix at times,
Speaker 2: Zoo ended up twenty eight minutes four of eight eight
Speaker 2: points ten boards. He kind of rided the ship a
Speaker 2: little bit in the second half, and he had two
Speaker 2: blocks near the end of the second quarter beat to
Speaker 2: Zoobots that were impressive, two great possessions defending the rim
Speaker 2: for Big Zoo. I did like seeing that as I'm
Speaker 2: watching DeAndre Aid and I'm walking on the court now postgame.
Speaker 2: Hear it into a dome after the Clippers make it
Speaker 2: nine straight eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy,
Speaker 2: eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy Kyle from Brooklyn,
Speaker 2: You're first up here on Clippers Talk after they win
Speaker 2: big over the Portland Trailblazers here at the dome. What's up, Kyle?
Speaker 4: How's it going?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 4: Long term listener, I'm here.
Speaker 5: I moved to Brooklyn from Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: Recently.
Speaker 2: Were Brooklyn. We're Brooklyn At, We're Kyle at. He's in Brookly.
Speaker 5: All right, Sorry, it's cold, it's cold.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you that it's cold.
Speaker 7: But man, I love this team, and I love this
Speaker 7: team so much. And like I've been hearing and listening
Speaker 7: to the let Lawrence Frank Cook thing, and so here's
Speaker 7: the thing, here's the thing. I'm with you on that.
Speaker 4: To a certain degree. But at the same time, if
Speaker 4: we're gonna say that, then do we have to look
Speaker 4: at that as an indictment on my favorite player personally,
Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard, because some of the decisions that have been
Speaker 4: made over this time have seemed to have been dictated
Speaker 4: by Kawhi Leonard. I was happy Paul George left. I'm
Speaker 4: with the addition by subtraction, I'm with that. I am
Speaker 4: he's here because of him. He told him flat out
Speaker 4: that Shay was going to be fantastic. He told him
Speaker 4: He's gonna be fantastic. A shot, it was gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 2: It's reported that that happened, whether it was him or
Speaker 2: Doc Rivers said it, but nobody knew how long it
Speaker 2: would take. And to be honest, if Shay didn't go
Speaker 2: to OKC, get that year with CP three, get on
Speaker 2: a team where he could play all the minutes he
Speaker 2: wanted to, I don't think he'd be at this point
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 5: So then the other thing that really killed me over
Speaker 5: the last couple of years was Hardenstein did not want
Speaker 5: to lose him. We needed a backup, quality, backup for
Speaker 5: a long time. I've always loved Zoo. I do, however,
Speaker 5: say and you bring this up. The first year, the
Speaker 5: hands were like bricks. Now if he was injured, he
Speaker 5: was injured. But it was tough. But I was glad
Speaker 5: we stuck with him. I'm glad we stuck with him.
Speaker 4: He's fantastic. I love him, But we lost a fantastic
Speaker 4: backup who wanted to stay with this team. And the
Speaker 4: reason we lost him is because we had to go
Speaker 4: after a point guard. And that's just that came from
Speaker 4: those two.
Speaker 2: Let me say this, Kyle, let me say this. It
Speaker 2: wasn't just those two. It was coach Lou Won, a
Speaker 2: point guard and your two superstars. So what exactly is
Speaker 2: Lawrence Frank gonna do? At every front office in this
Speaker 2: league at some point has to help out their superstars
Speaker 2: and have that partnership where they bring in guys that
Speaker 2: they want and look at it this way, if Kawhi
Speaker 2: doesn't do his acl in twenty twenty one, who wins
Speaker 2: the championship?
Speaker 5: Kyle, Yeah, we won the championship.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what Lawrence Frank put that team together and
Speaker 2: those guys helped with that. They wanted Reggie Jackson Paul
Speaker 2: George won, Reggie Jackson, and he was huge in those playoffs.
Speaker 2: So at that time, some of those guys that they
Speaker 2: brought in to appease superstars, it was all working. But
Speaker 2: you can't account for an injury. You can't predict that.
Speaker 2: That's what's unfortunate. So I still feel like overall, Lawrence
Speaker 2: Frank has been cooking in his tenure as the president
Speaker 2: of Basketball Operations.
Speaker 5: But what I'm what I'm getting at is, does it
Speaker 5: and this is what pains me to think about, Okay,
Speaker 5: because I'm a huge Kawhi fan, does it worry you
Speaker 5: about Kawai? About what?
Speaker 4: Like what's going on right now? The fact that Tyleru
Speaker 4: came out and said, yeah, I'm not I didn't expect
Speaker 4: it to take this long. The fact that he was
Speaker 4: going to play in the Olympics and all of a
Speaker 4: sudden was taking so long, you.
Speaker 2: Know, doesn't worry me. I've been concerned since April. I've
Speaker 2: been talking about this Kawhi injury and.
Speaker 4: Hell, I mean about the mind state, about the mind
Speaker 4: state of what Because I always thought of Kauai as
Speaker 4: just a champion, a terminator. That's how I looked at him,
Speaker 4: And like I'm not sure what's going on here. It
Speaker 4: feels to me a little bit like he's holding out
Speaker 4: so he doesn't show his power before the trade deadline,
Speaker 4: as if there's something going on here that's pushing us now.
Speaker 2: Kyle, Kyle, it's as simple as it's a guy who's
Speaker 2: had al before that the quadriceps injury in that leg,
Speaker 2: then the meniscus, then the swelling last season, and they
Speaker 2: want to make sure he is for sure one hundred
Speaker 2: percent before they bring him back. All the reports are
Speaker 2: And when I heard coach Louse say this in a
Speaker 2: preseason game pregame, that we have to save Kawai from
Speaker 2: himself basically even if it upsets him, that to me
Speaker 2: says this is not about Kawhi. This is about the
Speaker 2: organization and making sure that you protect a player from
Speaker 2: himself and you wait to bring him back until he's
Speaker 2: one hundred percent ready to go. I'm not worried about
Speaker 2: Kauwhi's mindset or does Kawhi want to play right now. No,
Speaker 2: like this is being overly cautious, understandably with a player
Speaker 2: that is this injury prone and this importance to this team.
Speaker 2: They're fourteen to nine without their best player. But we
Speaker 2: know what could happen in a playoff series if you
Speaker 2: get a healthy Kawhi. This Clippers team, uh, they could
Speaker 2: beat ay one.
Speaker 5: I so I hope, I hope the Uh. Look, he's
Speaker 5: like I said, I'm not even playing. He's my favorite player.
Speaker 5: I love him. I'm so happy he's here.
Speaker 4: I just want him back on the court.
Speaker 2: All right, that's it, Kyle. I appreciate your phone call.
Speaker 2: I want you back here on Clippers Talk. I like
Speaker 2: your style. Man, it's been too long, all right, Kyle,
Speaker 2: appreciate it.
Speaker 5: It's been a bit. All right, have a good night.
Speaker 2: There goes Kyle from Brooklyn. Now I'm at a Maslin
Speaker 2: Clippers win tonight once twenty seven to one oh five.
Speaker 2: Here over the Portland Trail Blazers add into it Dome.
Speaker 2: They have won nine straight. Now at home, we'll take
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Speaker 2: Here they win tonight once twenty seven to one oh five.
Speaker 2: Avenge and early season loss of the Portland trail Blazers
Speaker 2: here at into a dome when they couldn't win, when
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Speaker 2: seventy l A Sports looking for postgame audio or some
Speaker 2: quotes coming out from coach Lou but got some good
Speaker 2: notes here from Chris Taylor. Our leads statistician James Harden's
Speaker 2: scoring by quarter seven in the first, four in the second,
Speaker 2: twelve in the third, including that big three pointer at
Speaker 2: the buzzer over a double team top side edit up
Speaker 2: with twenty three in the ball game, six of fifteen,
Speaker 2: three of ten from distance. Not his most efficient night,
Speaker 2: but he led them in the plus minus. He was
Speaker 2: a plus twenty seven, seven assists, four turnovers, again twenty
Speaker 2: three points and thirty one minutes for James Harden, so
Speaker 2: didn't have to play thirty five, but did have to
Speaker 2: go above thirty tonight against Portland. I really love the
Speaker 2: decision that Coach lou made though, to keep the momentum
Speaker 2: going into the fourth quarter with that group that got
Speaker 2: up by thirteen at the end of the third, and
Speaker 2: to run them out there for what two minutes to
Speaker 2: start the fourth before pulling James Harden because they got
Speaker 2: up by twenty one. Just great focus and execution by
Speaker 2: the Clippers to begin that fourth quarter. The Jordan Miller reverse,
Speaker 2: a mere Coffee three, Jordan Miller three, time out, just
Speaker 2: a quick Edo run in less than two minutes, in
Speaker 2: a minute fifty seven, Clippers up ninety nine to seventy eight.
Speaker 2: That was it. That was game. They still brought in
Speaker 2: Norman bow though, who then scored what a quick seven points.
Speaker 2: Norm got a couple of layups, a three pointer, Big
Speaker 2: Zoo did have a putback after he missed an easy
Speaker 2: one after Jeremy Grant blocked him in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: and then a mere Coffee just went radioactive. As Brian
Speaker 2: Seman would say, sixteen points in the fourth quarter, sixteen
Speaker 2: of his nineteen insane, as good as norm was. He
Speaker 2: started five to five from the field. Do you guys
Speaker 2: know what a mere Coffee started from the floor?
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 2: I want to say at one point he was like
Speaker 2: six of seven, Is that right? A mirror was awesome.
Speaker 2: Nineteen points in twenty two minutes. And as Carlo Jimenez
Speaker 2: wisely pointed out last game, a mere Coffee goes out
Speaker 2: in the second half, bang's knees. Terrence Man comes in,
Speaker 2: picks him up. Tonight, Terrence Man goes out in the
Speaker 2: second half, A mere Coffee comes in, picks him up,
Speaker 2: just picking up the slack, next man up, staying ready.
Speaker 2: It is remarkable the way this Clippers team just comes
Speaker 2: at you in waves. They got so many guys that
Speaker 2: are solid two way players that do it on both ends.
Speaker 2: Like a Mere Coffee, who is having his best season
Speaker 2: as a Clipper so far. He is the start he
Speaker 2: has had going back to preseason. I remember the first
Speaker 2: game in Hawaii. I want to say he had nine
Speaker 2: points at the very end of that game in like
Speaker 2: three minutes and just like it looked like a man
Speaker 2: amongst boys against Golden State's backups. And he played well
Speaker 2: throughout the entire preseason and all of it carried over
Speaker 2: into the regular season. I'm guessing he's shooting around forty
Speaker 2: three from three now so far after tonight's game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he went five to seven from three. But what did
Speaker 2: he start shooting? Wise? Nor made his first five shots?
Speaker 2: How many in a row did a mere coffee make?
Speaker 2: As people are talking about eighton versus beats the Zoo Boss,
Speaker 2: I think it just throws Big Zoo off because eighten,
Speaker 2: he didn't make a three tonight. I don't believe he
Speaker 2: took one in the far side corner, which was reminiscent
Speaker 2: of the one he made. He only took one and
Speaker 2: he missed it, but was reminiscent of the one he
Speaker 2: made at Into It Dome. That was a big shot.
Speaker 2: And they're one six, one oh five victory here just
Speaker 2: a month ago. But I think it's the fact that
Speaker 2: DeAndre Ayton has that mid range and Zoo's in drop
Speaker 2: and he's given him that shot, but then when he
Speaker 2: comes up on him, DeAndre Aiden's able to get around him.
Speaker 2: He's just a tough cover and he probably has some
Speaker 2: confidence against Big Zoo. It's not like he had a
Speaker 2: crazy game. DeAndre Aiden only had three boards, probably because
Speaker 2: he was playing away from the basket some but sixteen points.
Speaker 2: He knocked down a couple in the mid range. One
Speaker 2: was over James Harden, one was Zoo was just daring him.
Speaker 2: Fifteen footer made it. I don't know where it is.
Speaker 2: And the numbers they're not so lopsided that I joke
Speaker 2: that it's like how some bonus is to Anthony Davis,
Speaker 2: where he just destroys him every time. It's not like
Speaker 2: that with DeAndre Aiden and a Vitza Zubas. It's not
Speaker 2: look at the overall numbers of the matchup data. Some
Speaker 2: of it is just because DeAndre eight and his average
Speaker 2: four more minutes head to head against Viza Zubats, so
Speaker 2: he's had more time to accumulate numbers. But tonight Big Zoo,
Speaker 2: like Sunday, just didn't have his best offensive game, didn't
Speaker 2: have his best touch around the basket. Still, I don't
Speaker 2: think he was terrible, but I'm very happy the Clippers
Speaker 2: have Mobamba guys. Because third quarter Mobamba cooked the three pointer,
Speaker 2: the blocks, the steals. Mobama came in and was a presence,
Speaker 2: played really hard. I like the upgrade at backup center.
Speaker 2: I like Mobamba. I think he is an obvious upgrade
Speaker 2: and I thought so this offseason that he'd be better
Speaker 2: than Mason Plumbley. That's all I wanted. And I think
Speaker 2: it's been well, it's only been a few games. What
Speaker 2: are they eight and one now with mo Obama since
Speaker 2: he came back from injury, but I've been impressed and
Speaker 2: three point shooting can come around because he started a
Speaker 2: little bit cold from the outside. I know Dime has
Speaker 2: called him like a fake stretch big or something, Dime dropper.
Speaker 2: I just really really like the way this team is playing,
Speaker 2: how they're playing together, the way they're starting halves, the
Speaker 2: way they have you know, battled through some adversity when
Speaker 2: it got closed in this game, when they knew they
Speaker 2: had to give starters rest okay, come out and put
Speaker 2: them away early in the fourth quarter. They did it
Speaker 2: right away. And Jordan Miller, Jordan Miller, you know, I
Speaker 2: wanted to see him from game one. He started this
Speaker 2: game with a fallaway floater. The second quarter, he misses
Speaker 2: a floater but then got the put back He's quick
Speaker 2: to boards. That's something I noticed in summer league. He's
Speaker 2: so athletic and just has a nose for the basketball
Speaker 2: when it's coming off the ram. He knows when he misses,
Speaker 2: and it's not often on the floater. He started I
Speaker 2: think six of seven, then he had a layup in
Speaker 2: transition that made it forty two all in the second quarter.
Speaker 2: He did have some defensive lapses where Banton blew by him,
Speaker 2: where anthrety Simon's got the step on him, but he
Speaker 2: had that no look to Terrence Mann in the second
Speaker 2: quarter for reverse and up. Note, guys, Jordan Miller was
Speaker 2: the first guy off the bench tonight. He came in
Speaker 2: for Chris Nunn. How about that? Coach lu said, he's
Speaker 2: earned distrust. Sure looks like it right. It's one thing
Speaker 2: to say that, it's another to give him even more minutes,
Speaker 2: a longer leash. He was playing a lot with the starters,
Speaker 2: certainly with James Harden out there. This comes from Joey
Speaker 2: Lynn on X at Joey Lynn two ends with an
Speaker 2: underscore at the end. Jordan Miller said he's constantly asking
Speaker 2: his veteran teammates questions. Quote. I even asked Kawhi questions
Speaker 2: tonight and he helped me out awesome. Jordan Miller said,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to make it hard when everybody is healthy
Speaker 2: to keep me off the floor. Ooh, I like it.
Speaker 2: I like it. Norton Powell postgame was praising James Harden's
Speaker 2: leadership dating back to the summer when he was organizing
Speaker 2: those team workouts. He said, it's carried over into the season.
Speaker 2: This team is close guys. Pale said, quote A lot
Speaker 2: of Vets don't do that in the they do their
Speaker 2: own thing. I don't think James Harden can help himself.
Speaker 2: He's just a hooper, like he wants the ball. He
Speaker 2: doesn't miss games, so you might as well get the
Speaker 2: guys together, right. But the leadership has been outstanding as
Speaker 2: a Clipper for the knock on him being that, like
Speaker 2: you know, he's some selfish player or doesn't care as
Speaker 2: a partier. Has that been the case at all? So?
Speaker 2: Coach lou said, there's been times when the Clippers wanted
Speaker 2: to rest James Harden, but he won't sit out. He
Speaker 2: called off Chris Dunn when was it late second quarter?
Speaker 2: He had just hit a couple of shots and he
Speaker 2: called off Chris Dunn, who was trying to come into
Speaker 2: the ball game. Because the first make by James Harden
Speaker 2: I want to say it was at the one forty
Speaker 2: two mark of the first quarter. Yeah, he hit a three.
Speaker 2: Then he had a layup to make it fifty fifty
Speaker 2: at the three thirty seven mark in the second quarter,
Speaker 2: and at one point he waved off Chris is done
Speaker 2: from coming in. And you guys notice that too. So
Speaker 2: this is fact from Coach Lou. He won't sit out.
Speaker 2: Coach Lou said, quote even when we want to sit
Speaker 2: him down, when we have four games in five nights,
Speaker 2: he doesn't want to do it. I love the mentality.
Speaker 2: And he's looking better. He's looking more spry. It looks
Speaker 2: like he has more burst explosiveness. We've noticed that too. Ax.
Speaker 2: He said, we were starting to look scary, but we
Speaker 2: need to eat more. I et plenty today. Check out
Speaker 2: that picture that Brian Seman took and texted me that
Speaker 2: I put on x I follow out of May. He
Speaker 2: caught me in four k eating some cookies at the
Speaker 2: cookie bar. Hear it into it Dome pregame wasn't my
Speaker 2: best moment. He had a good laugh. Everyone had a
Speaker 2: good laugh. I guess at my expense. The last time
Speaker 2: I eat a cookie here, I didn't know I was
Speaker 2: being watched. The paparazzi, TMS was out there and the bushes.
Speaker 2: Brian Semon doing me dirty like that basity. Ric seven said,
Speaker 2: James is getting his legs. X Mango Projects said, we
Speaker 2: got the version of Harden that has more wisdom because
Speaker 2: he is older. Oh you wouldn't say older. You said
Speaker 2: you were starting to because James Harden doesn't like that
Speaker 2: word that he's an old player or old. He's thirty
Speaker 2: five years young. Alfie said, Season two Starting five with
Speaker 2: James Harden will be fire. I haven't watched season one.
Speaker 2: Ray said, season legs have arrived. Plus, don't forget he's
Speaker 2: going to be a co star on the next season
Speaker 2: of Starting five.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 2: Two guys bring that up at the same time. Kevin
Speaker 2: Richards said, Adam, if you're going to hit ten percent,
Speaker 2: you need to start stocking your freezer with healthy meals
Speaker 2: you can microwave while you're streaming. Maybe so I just
Speaker 2: try to eat less. And I ran seven miles today.
Speaker 2: I think I earned those cookies. And then Brian Seaman
Speaker 2: had the goal and the nerve as we're walking up
Speaker 2: the stairs after the national anthem. This has happened multiple
Speaker 2: times now where he catches me slipping where I'm walking
Speaker 2: up the stairs over here to our section. Where are
Speaker 2: we at Big Bro twenty five is live section twenty
Speaker 2: five up here, And I'm walking up the stairs in
Speaker 2: just a little bit of a ways and I already
Speaker 2: ran seven miles And he comes running up the stairs
Speaker 2: and laughs at me and goes ten percent huh as
Speaker 2: he passes me by going up the stairs. Friends like these,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, all right, we'll take a quick time out.
Speaker 2: We'll come back. We'll get to your phone calls. I
Speaker 2: know we got Sean and Inglewood.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: This is Clippers stock on a five to seventy LA
Speaker 2: Sports after the Clippers win by a final of one
Speaker 2: twenty seven to one oh five over the Portland trail Blazers.
Speaker 2: Hear it into a dome. You're listening to a five
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Speaker 1: This is the LA Clippers Audio network.
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Speaker 2: Back to Clippers basketball. Clippers win one twenty seven to
Speaker 2: one oh five. Here it into a dome. Make it
Speaker 2: nine straight from the nine to nine to the two
Speaker 2: thousand Clippers. Take it on Minnesota tomorrow night. Right back here.
Speaker 2: It's the front end of a back to back, and
Speaker 2: I think the Clippers, for the most part execute exactly
Speaker 2: what coach Lou wanted to see. The game was over
Speaker 2: early in the fourth quarter. Can't ask for much more
Speaker 2: than that, Okay, you can, you can. I thought when
Speaker 2: they were up twelve but twenty four to twelve and
Speaker 2: they were just being absolute dogs defensively against Portland early,
Speaker 2: that they were gonna put the game away early. Put
Speaker 2: it on ice. It was getting late early for Portland
Speaker 2: is what I thought not to be unfortunately, but they
Speaker 2: regrouped and I thought they kind of hit the reset
Speaker 2: button with their defense, and they were much better in
Speaker 2: the third quarter, specifically when they started to open things up,
Speaker 2: the effort was much better. They found their defense again
Speaker 2: after there was some slippage after the first six minutes
Speaker 2: of the game. I'm fine with that. I like seeing
Speaker 2: a team that can, you know, flip the switch here
Speaker 2: and there. Oh, we have an update. So the Clippers
Speaker 2: we got their two games. Now that they are not
Speaker 2: making it to the knockout rounds. We know the two
Speaker 2: games that are being scheduled. Friday, December thirteenth, Clippers in
Speaker 2: Denver taking on the Nuggets. I knew that was gonna happen.
Speaker 2: I just knew it. I knws it. I'd be don't
Speaker 2: i'd be knowing the other game Monday, December sixteenth, Utah
Speaker 2: here against the Clippers. I'll take that exchange. I'll take that.
Speaker 2: Those are your two rescheduled games with the Clippers not
Speaker 2: making the knockout round in the nd season tournament. I'll
Speaker 2: sign up for that. The Denver game is gonna be rough,
Speaker 2: that's gonna be tough game. But guys, they're only going
Speaker 2: to have from let's see when we got here. What's
Speaker 2: today's date? Where am I? From December fifth? So after
Speaker 2: tomorrow's game. From December fifth to December eighteenth, the Clippers
Speaker 2: are only playing three games in thirteen days. From December
Speaker 2: fifth to December eighteenth. There is rest for the weary.
Speaker 2: Finally it's happening. I can't believe it. It's a scheduling miracle.
Speaker 2: It's an early Christmas miracle, a late Thanksgiving miracle, festiveest miracle.
Speaker 2: It beautiful. Finally, I'll sign up for that. The three
Speaker 2: games are Clippers Houston on Sunday, then Clippers in Denver
Speaker 2: Friday the thirteenth, and Clippers taking on Utah back here
Speaker 2: at into it Dome December sixteenth. I will take it.
Speaker 2: I'm good with that. How do you guys feel about
Speaker 2: the scheduled games? One really tough one one against Utah
Speaker 2: that you gotta win? Right? Can the Clippers sign Jordan Miller?
Speaker 2: They don't have an open roster spot right now, Here's
Speaker 2: what I think is gonna happen. Guys, They're gonna make
Speaker 2: a trade. I'll take a time out and tell you
Speaker 2: who is going to be involved to get Jordan Miller
Speaker 2: on that standard contract, to convert the two way to
Speaker 2: a standard contract. I will tell you my plan for
Speaker 2: that coming up next final time out here on Clippers
Speaker 2: stock after they win over the Blazers Big one twenty
Speaker 2: seven to one oh five. Norman pal thirty points in
Speaker 2: twenty five minutes. Are you kidding me? He's better than
Speaker 2: this current version of Paul George. In fact, early on
Speaker 2: when he was going on that heater and had fourteen
Speaker 2: in the first quarter, I said, it's like Norman Palell
Speaker 2: saw that Paul George scored twenty nine tonight and was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: bet guess what he ended up with thirty on fifteen shots.
Speaker 2: I've ad a Moslin and you're listening to a five
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 3: Take us with you wherever you are on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Back to Clippers basketball. So something we've talked about recently
Speaker 2: as you're back on Clippers stock here it into a
Speaker 2: doom after they won one twenty seven to one oh
Speaker 2: five over the Portland trail Blazers, is that on December fifteenth,
Speaker 2: a lot of guys are available to be traded. I
Speaker 2: think at that point the Clippers are going to find
Speaker 2: a way to make a move, maybe with PJ and
Speaker 2: Bones Island, to bring in one guy a two for one.
Speaker 2: Therefore there's an open roster spot. Therefore you convert Jordan
Speaker 2: Miller's two way to a standard contract. That's what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. I gotta think that's a plan. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying they haven't been trying to find a landing spot
Speaker 2: for PJ. Tucker. It's not, is he He hasn't been
Speaker 2: productive over the last year, and he hasn't wanted to
Speaker 2: play for the Clippers because apparently what he wants to
Speaker 2: go to a place where he can play, and it's
Speaker 2: a contender as well. I don't know. I don't like it.
Speaker 2: I'm glad they're classy and being accommodating to him, but
Speaker 2: at almost forty, couldn't he just be a good vet
Speaker 2: on the bench and help out guys on this team
Speaker 2: get some minutes here and there. I don't understand that.
Speaker 2: Speaking of guys, sometimes I don't understand Sean and Inglewood. Sean,
Speaker 2: you're on Clippers stop without a masahe Sean.
Speaker 6: Nice d before you let me on the phone, Adam.
Speaker 2: I thought it was all right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was wondering about you, I said, Is he
Speaker 6: just gonna cover every topic before he let anybody get
Speaker 6: on the phone and talk. But I'm sorry, Sean, thank
Speaker 6: you for thank you for the vine. Okay, anyway, A
Speaker 6: couple of things. First of all, Norman Powell is outscoring
Speaker 6: his averages hired than Paul George's was last year. That's
Speaker 6: really night. Another thing on your show two years ago
Speaker 6: when we got Mason Plumbley, I said, I wouldn't have Mobama.
Speaker 6: You said it on you.
Speaker 2: You said I did well. How was he available?
Speaker 6: Yes he was, and he wasn't available. He was available.
Speaker 6: I don't know how. I don't go over all the details,
Speaker 6: but he was available at that.
Speaker 2: It sounds a little sketchy. It sounds a little sketchy.
Speaker 2: Sean at Inglewood says, Hey, Sean at Inglewood has pulled
Speaker 2: some receiats tonight chat. He's saying he wanted Mobamba two
Speaker 2: years ago when they got Mason Plumbley.
Speaker 6: All right, yo, you got Mason Plumbley the first time
Speaker 6: you got him. You you brought it up to me
Speaker 6: when I called, then, how about Mason? I said, he's okay,
Speaker 6: but I'd rather we had to get Mobomble. He's more
Speaker 6: versatile and better offensively. I did say that, so, yeah,
Speaker 6: you played the tape. I said it, but you know,
Speaker 6: I'm not trying to I just always liked the fact
Speaker 6: that he had more versatility and Plumbly is more you know,
Speaker 6: brick later he hustled. I like him, but he didn't
Speaker 6: have the offensive Bomba.
Speaker 2: Oh, my problem with Mason Plumbley was more about the
Speaker 2: interior defense. Now Bomba isn't significantly better, but I do
Speaker 2: think he's been better and pretty much everything you need
Speaker 2: Now that Visa Zubas is getting more minutes out there,
Speaker 2: you just need ten, twelve, fifteen minutes at most from
Speaker 2: your backup center.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree, But he's also a better block shot
Speaker 6: threat and then plumbing, Yes too, So I agree.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. The interior defense, to me, is
Speaker 2: the biggest differentiator, not their offense necessarily, but I guess Obamba, yeah,
Speaker 2: can hit a couple threes here and there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you also want that makes you want to
Speaker 6: think twice before you come into the hole, you know,
Speaker 6: if you got Obama back there with the very long,
Speaker 6: ridiculously long arm, you know, so that that's also it
Speaker 6: makes you think, you know and hesitated. Second, that's important.
Speaker 2: All right, thirty seconds here, Sean, What else you got
Speaker 2: because I gotta get out at the top of the hour.
Speaker 6: Hey, I mean we're fourteen and nine. That's good, Okay,
Speaker 6: Thank you for your show, Thank you for covering every
Speaker 6: topic nobody else has anything to talk about tonight, and
Speaker 6: love your show. Have a good night.
Speaker 2: I love you, Sean. And it's not opposite day or
Speaker 2: something appreciation Sean Sean and Inglewood. Sandy loves the show tonight,
Speaker 2: it says, or fourteen to nine. That's good. It's Tony
Speaker 2: the Tiger Great. Let me check the NBA standings here
Speaker 2: and see where the Clippers are after another victorim here
Speaker 2: at the end to a Dome. Clippers now in the
Speaker 2: fifth spot in the Western Conference. Now it's tight, the
Speaker 2: three games behind Oka. See they're the top spot, the
Speaker 2: number one spot. They're also just two and a half
Speaker 2: games above the team that's out of the play in
Speaker 2: in the Minnesota Timberwolves, who they see tomorrow night. Clippers
Speaker 2: take it on the Tea Wolves right back here at
Speaker 2: into It Dome. Tip Off is at seven point thirty.
Speaker 2: We got pregame at six thirty. As the revenge tour continues.
Speaker 2: Not only did Norman Powell get revenge on a former team,
Speaker 2: Nico Batoum as well, it's been a while since he
Speaker 2: was in Portland. But the Clippers made up for what
Speaker 2: I thought was the worst loss of the season, losing
Speaker 2: one oh six to one oh five about a month
Speaker 2: ago here at into a dumb against the Portland Trail Lazers.
Speaker 2: What a difference a month and a couple of days
Speaker 2: make as the Clippers now have one to ninth straight
Speaker 2: after losing fourth straight. Here at the tongst they are
Speaker 2: establishing a fortress. No one can breach the doors, no
Speaker 2: one can bring out the battering ram here against this castle,
Speaker 2: Castle Blackstone Er. I don't know what's one of the
Speaker 2: names or the ringers. I can't remember. It's getting late.
Speaker 2: I'm precious, Pore, you get out of here. I do
Speaker 2: want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seaman,
Speaker 2: Noah Eagle, Carlo Jimenez on the call, Chris Taylor, our
Speaker 2: lead statistician. Tonight, Joey helping out to big brother Jake Warner.
Speaker 2: There's somebody who I've been thinking about a lot, and
Speaker 2: I gotta get back to doing this because I think
Speaker 2: enough time has passed where it's appropriate to start doing it.
Speaker 2: But I missed Dennis Agastino, who we lost over last year.
Speaker 2: He was our statistician. But the Clippers statistician to the
Speaker 2: stars is what I always said, because he's been doing
Speaker 2: it for a long time, and unfortunately we lost him
Speaker 2: over the last year. So we'll bring it back. But
Speaker 2: stat of the night, we remember Dennis Agastino. I'm out Amsland.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow at six point thirty. That's
Speaker 2: our pregame show Clippers Minnesota and Rules right back here
Speaker 2: at into a Dome. Can they get to double digit
Speaker 2: wins here at the Dome? Tune in to find out,
Speaker 2: Talk to you, then hey them