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Speaker 2: Ben Simmons. In his first game as a Clipper, he
Speaker 2: gets baptized in the Clippers culture, which is a never
Speaker 2: give in, never give up mentality. They were down by
Speaker 2: twenty in Utah. They come back to winning overtime one
Speaker 2: twenty to one sixteen over the Jazz and enter the
Speaker 2: All Star Break. Eight games over five hundred, which is
Speaker 2: fifteen games played by Kawhi Leonard so far. Welcome in
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Speaker 2: What a victory? What a way to finish the first
Speaker 2: three fourths of the season. Let's call it with the
Speaker 2: All Star Game on Sunday, Norman Powell in the three
Speaker 2: point shootout Saturday night. In the clippers next game a
Speaker 2: week from now in Milwaukee, the Clippers had to have it.
Speaker 2: They played with desperation. They played their guys huge minutes,
Speaker 2: including Ben Simmons, who got up twenty seven minutes in
Speaker 2: this one. You only averaged seventeen per game with the
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Nets. They need all twenty seven minutes from him.
Speaker 2: Twelve points, six assists, three steals, eight boards and zero
Speaker 2: turnovers from Ben Simmons. Did I mention a change of
Speaker 2: scenery could be good for him? How about that start
Speaker 2: his debut as a Clipper and he's playing big time
Speaker 2: crunch time minutes in the fourth quarter in overtime, Coach
Speaker 2: lou went with what got him back into the game,
Speaker 2: going small after the Clippers looked to be making a
Speaker 2: little bit of hay getting back into the ballgame earlier
Speaker 2: in the third quarter when they were down by just
Speaker 2: six and a half after trailing fifty to thirty at
Speaker 2: one point in the second quarter, where the Clippers went
Speaker 2: almost five minutes without making a field goal. They couldn't
Speaker 2: hit anything. The small ball wasn't working. Then. Ben Simmons
Speaker 2: didn't look great then, but he went back to it late.
Speaker 2: He didn't give up on it, and it paid dividends.
Speaker 2: The Clippers still trailed ninety five to eighty six entering
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, but James Harden said, get on my back.
Speaker 2: I got this. I've been doing this all season long.
Speaker 2: He's been their MVP, he's been their best player. He's
Speaker 2: been so reliable. And on a back to back, a
Speaker 2: back to back they just beat Memphis last night. James
Speaker 2: Harden ends up playing fifty minutes and the fourth quarter
Speaker 2: has ten points. That fourth quarter into ot was just
Speaker 2: heroic by this team. Start off with a miss from
Speaker 2: James Harden, though Ben Simmons then wins a jump ball.
Speaker 2: Was very active defensively. They had Bogey Simmons, but toom
Speaker 2: Harden norm out there. Simmons goes to the line guys
Speaker 2: and knock down Ollas free throws. Now the Clippers are
Speaker 2: down by seven. After he's two a Simmons layup, it's
Speaker 2: a five point game. As he bodied Philipowski, who had
Speaker 2: his best game as a rookie for the Utah. Jazz
Speaker 2: looked unstoppable. They got him into foul trouble, though he
Speaker 2: eventually filed out on a play for Norman Powell. Then
Speaker 2: Simmons has a dime to Norman Powell for a layup
Speaker 2: as he split the defenders with that pocket pass. Ben
Speaker 2: Simmons early fourth quarter, Jazz hit free throws, hardened layup,
Speaker 2: scooped to his right. Five point game. Then you have
Speaker 2: back to back turnovers Bogie and Norman Powell. It wasn't
Speaker 2: all great, but Toom gets blocked by John Collins after
Speaker 2: a great feed, Nor misses a jumper and Nico gets
Speaker 2: a little bit of revenge block and Collier on the
Speaker 2: other end hard and three. Two point game off a
Speaker 2: pass from Ben Simmons Harden to the line, miss is one,
Speaker 2: but now it's a one point game. Harden was very
Speaker 2: good at times defensively, two gained deflections. He had a
Speaker 2: steal that led to a misfloater, but a norm putback
Speaker 2: Lawler's law. The Clippers got to one hundred first. It
Speaker 2: was one hundred and ninety nine after they were down
Speaker 2: nine entering the fourth that hard and steel I believe
Speaker 2: on Philipowski missed the floater norm was there for the
Speaker 2: putback as he went up high forward among the trees.
Speaker 2: After that huge Dunkey ad last night against Memphis, now Dama,
Speaker 2: I didn't talk about that enough postgame. Norms got hops too.
Speaker 2: Was in a dunk contest in high school. Put him
Speaker 2: into the three point god test and the dunk contest
Speaker 2: game got tied up at one hundred and the fourth
Speaker 2: after George went to the line went one of two
Speaker 2: hardened three ball as it was him, but Toom Simmons
Speaker 2: done in Norm on the floor. That was a key
Speaker 2: small ball lineup for coach lou down the stretch. Nico
Speaker 2: then misses a three. The Clippers brought in Bogie for
Speaker 2: Bennett the five to twelve mark, and I thought, well,
Speaker 2: this is it. They're up by one. Ben Simmons night
Speaker 2: is probably over. He hit twenty minutes. He was on
Speaker 2: a minutes restriction. He doesn't play back to backs anymore.
Speaker 2: He was averaging just seventeen minutes per game as a
Speaker 2: member of the Brooklyn Nets. I thought he was done.
Speaker 2: Norm gets fouled on a layup with the Clippers up
Speaker 2: one hits both Clippers up three, marketing jumper. It's a
Speaker 2: one point game. Hard and airballs a three at the
Speaker 2: four minute mark end of the shot clock. Look to
Speaker 2: be getting gassed out there. Clippers are up by one
Speaker 2: at one oh five to one oh four. Marketing retakes
Speaker 2: the lead with a bucket for the Utah Jazz makes
Speaker 2: it one oh six to one oh five. Jazz hardened
Speaker 2: to the line. I mean this was a back and
Speaker 2: forth battle. The Jazz wanted this one. I didn't think
Speaker 2: Marketing was going to play. I didn't think John Collins
Speaker 2: was playing in this game. They didn't have Sexton, they
Speaker 2: didn't have Kessler, but Philipowski was fantastic. Ben Simmons then
Speaker 2: comes back into the ball game and the Clippers get
Speaker 2: a turnover thanks to Ben Simmons and his defense on Philipowski,
Speaker 2: who threw it out a bounce looking for a guy
Speaker 2: on the far side corner, but Harden gives it right
Speaker 2: back on a bad pass to Simmons on the right block.
Speaker 2: Simmons gets a deflection, Clippers have the ball. They're up
Speaker 2: by two. Harden misses a three but then gets a steal.
Speaker 2: The Clippers had a three on two. They slow it down.
Speaker 2: Ben Simmons finds Chris Done for a jumper around the
Speaker 2: free throw line. Can't get it to go. But it
Speaker 2: was a good pass and you just saw the ball
Speaker 2: was hopping around when Ben Simmons was out there next
Speaker 2: to James Harden. This Clippers team, they didn't just enough late,
Speaker 2: even though they were missing some shots. They got the
Speaker 2: Jazz to miss. Cante George missed, and then Collier gets
Speaker 2: that offensive rebounding in a timeout with one point one
Speaker 2: seconds left at the end of the fourth quarter. But George,
Speaker 2: I believe, missed the three pointer to put it into
Speaker 2: overtime one oh eight. All it wasn't gonna be easy.
Speaker 2: It looked like at one point the Clippers were gonna
Speaker 2: win this one in the fourth quarter, the Jazz kept backing.
Speaker 2: Collier hit a couple of tough free throws at forty
Speaker 2: five seconds or with forty five seconds left in the
Speaker 2: fourth to tie it at one o eight, but then
Speaker 2: that miss to go into overtime. As it was, they
Speaker 2: don't put the tracker here. I think it was Cante George,
Speaker 2: you missed that three pointer. The team that scores first
Speaker 2: in overtime has a huge advantage, which just five minutes
Speaker 2: left and a bunch of guys gassed out there and
Speaker 2: Carlo Jimenez asked me, what's the key. I said, get downhill,
Speaker 2: don't settle for jumpers, get to the line. It was
Speaker 2: a tight whistle out there and right away with Harden,
Speaker 2: but Tooms, Simmons, Norman Dunn out there to start overtime.
Speaker 2: Norman gets foult on a layup, hits both, puts them
Speaker 2: up one ten to one oh eight. Philipowski bucket ty
Speaker 2: game and then one of the biggest shots of the
Speaker 2: ball game, maybe the biggest Saint Nick three pointer, up
Speaker 2: three and overtime feels like you're up ten. Sometimes they
Speaker 2: get a stop. Norm goes to the rim again. He
Speaker 2: went right the first time, then left the second time.
Speaker 2: When at Philapowski fouls out. Norm hits both free throws
Speaker 2: one point fifteen, one ten, and the Clippers finally had
Speaker 2: a little bit of distance. Norman gets to the rim
Speaker 2: again for a layup, going to his left. Just awesome.
Speaker 2: There were a couple of bad turnovers, the Clippers had
Speaker 2: tired legs. They overcome it all and they win in
Speaker 2: ot one twenty to one sixteen over the Jazz as
Speaker 2: Norman Powell had forty one and forty six minutes and
Speaker 2: James Harden forty nine forty nine minutes played almost fifty
Speaker 2: minutes out there. He had thirty two ten boards, seven assists,
Speaker 2: three steals, two blocks, and just three turnovers. And I
Speaker 2: think part of the reason he had more gas left
Speaker 2: in the tank when they needed his offense was because
Speaker 2: Ben Simmons was playing next to him a ton and
Speaker 2: the first half. I noticed right away how they were
Speaker 2: using Ben Simmons was he'd bring the ball up the
Speaker 2: floor with pace, with tempo end of the first quarter
Speaker 2: into the second and then give it up to James
Speaker 2: Harden so James wouldn't have to bring it up. It's taxing.
Speaker 2: It's those little things that make a difference in a
Speaker 2: game where he ends up playing fifty minutes almost That
Speaker 2: kept him fresh enough, Ben Simmons taking up some of
Speaker 2: the ball handling responsibilities out there. Awesome victory, great way
Speaker 2: to go into the All Star break. Great introduction for
Speaker 2: Ben Simmons as a Clipper to have that hashtag comeback
Speaker 2: clips type of victory. You know that can build up
Speaker 2: some camaraderie in the locker room after a victory like that.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Tagus and Walnut Tajous you're on Clipper
Speaker 2: stoff without a Mall's and what's uptagous?
Speaker 4: What's up at him? Matt? What a great game if
Speaker 4: everyone had a hand in this victory. I thought you
Speaker 4: basically described how the Clippers use Ben Simmons the way
Speaker 4: I like, the way we envisioned, and that's the way
Speaker 4: it manifested. Like like you said, bringing the ball up,
Speaker 4: taking the pressure off playmaking ability. And we know he
Speaker 4: can't shoot from the outside, but he can still get
Speaker 4: those buckets inside.
Speaker 2: Hey, and when he's not afraid to get those buckets,
Speaker 2: when he's not afraid to get those layups, that's a
Speaker 2: huge thing. I know. I talked to guys who cover
Speaker 2: the Brooklyn nets. This has been an issue. Sometimes he'll
Speaker 2: do it. He'll do the hard stuff. He'll get downhill,
Speaker 2: he'll be relentless. He'll go there and go into attack mode.
Speaker 2: And it looked like he had all the confidence in
Speaker 2: the world because he was also knocking down free throws.
Speaker 2: So this whole label of Ben Simmons being afraid to
Speaker 2: attack because he doesn't want to get fouled, well, he
Speaker 2: went four to four the Charity stripe, four or five
Speaker 2: from the field, twelve points. It was an awesome performance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and now on the defensive end, him creating havoc
Speaker 4: and he can pretty much guard one through five. It
Speaker 4: was awesome to see and he could take the pressure
Speaker 4: off and Kawi doesn't have to maybe play the five
Speaker 4: incern lineup.
Speaker 2: Well, you know who was playing it the majority of
Speaker 2: the time. It was Betoom next to Ben Simmons in
Speaker 2: the second half, right.
Speaker 4: It was that was just when Kwi is there. Maybe
Speaker 4: Batoom doesn't get those minutes or those tagroom depending on
Speaker 4: what they need between Batuen Simmons and that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: But you know, I just wanted to, you know, make
Speaker 4: one point. And before the season started, we got a
Speaker 4: lot of you know, the Clippers front office a lot
Speaker 4: of backlash obviously for saying that, you know, they let
Speaker 4: Paul George go for free.
Speaker 2: Maybe from the casuals in the national media. They didn't
Speaker 2: let him go for free. Yeah, they got under the
Speaker 2: first apron because of it. They brought in DJ, they
Speaker 2: brought back Nico, they got Chris Dunne because of it.
Speaker 2: I mean, none of those moves happened if they had
Speaker 2: brought back Paul George exactly.
Speaker 4: And it's not because he had a bad game last game.
Speaker 4: Paul George had a really bad game. I'm not bringing
Speaker 4: that because of that, but if you really want to
Speaker 4: see what the front office was here for, the perfect
Speaker 4: example is look at Bradley Beal and Phoenix Suns. He
Speaker 4: has a big contract, a Supermas contract or whatever it is,
Speaker 4: and a no trade class. It's exactly what and look
Speaker 4: how hard it was for them to trade them.
Speaker 5: They couldn't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and every team probably was scared to get that contract.
Speaker 4: And it's exactly what the Clippers. The front office was
Speaker 4: scared could happen and just wanted to make that point.
Speaker 2: And another guy they wouldn't have been able to get,
Speaker 2: and is a great point tageous is Ben Simmons, because
Speaker 2: if you're over even the first apron, you can't get
Speaker 2: a guy in the buyout market that was making more
Speaker 2: than the mid level exception obviously he was bought out
Speaker 2: of forty million dollars. He was way above that. I've
Speaker 2: said all summer Lawrence Frank cooked. Now a lot of
Speaker 2: people are realizing that Lawrence Frank in this front office,
Speaker 2: they've done a tremendous job. They've helped orchestrate this Clippers
Speaker 2: record where they're eight games over five hundred and they've
Speaker 2: only had Kawhi for fifteen so far. At the All
Speaker 2: Star break, we'll take a big time out, we'll come back.
Speaker 2: We'll get to your phone calls. Eight sixty six ninety
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy, eight sixty six ninety seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy in classic Clippers fashion, but with a new
Speaker 2: look with Ben Simmons out there in bogie. They went
Speaker 2: in ot after they were down by twenty one. Twenty
Speaker 2: to one sixteen was your final, Clippers over the Jazz
Speaker 2: in Utah. I'm out of Mosland and you're listening to
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Speaker 3: I love this team. I never miss a game.
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Speaker 2: Clippers win in Utah in dramatic fashion. One twenty to
Speaker 2: one sixteen was your final in overtime. As the Clippers
Speaker 2: trailed by as many as twenty points in the first half,
Speaker 2: it was fifty thirty Jazz. They cut it to six
Speaker 2: at the half, but a key moment was after the
Speaker 2: Jazz got it back up to sixteen at the four
Speaker 2: eighteen mark of the third quarter. Back to back threes
Speaker 2: by the Clippers, Nico Batoom, big shot, sign of things
Speaker 2: to come, Norman Paw with the three to back it up.
Speaker 2: Now it's a ten point game, and the Clippers got
Speaker 2: it down to just a nine point lead heading into
Speaker 2: the fourth. Instead of the being down by double digits,
Speaker 2: it was ninety five eighty six manageable. Then Harden took
Speaker 2: over for ten of his thirty two points in the fourth,
Speaker 2: and Norm took him home. I want to say he
Speaker 2: had nine of his forty one nine of the Clippers
Speaker 2: twelve points in ot just hashtag comeback Clips Brandon basketball tonight.
Speaker 2: And they did so with their newest Clipper in Ben Simmons.
Speaker 2: Let's go to one of my favorites. Have him talked
Speaker 2: to him in a while, Lenny in Inglewood, Lenny, what's
Speaker 2: up here? On Clippers South with Adam Aslin?
Speaker 6: What's up Adam Man? Let me just say this. Let
Speaker 6: me I got a couple of things I think seriously.
Speaker 6: I thought Lawrence Frank was kind of lost his a
Speaker 6: little bit of his way. But man, when he orchestrated
Speaker 6: addition by subtraction and uh, Norm Powell. But I'm gonna
Speaker 6: tell you something. If he was the one suggested to
Speaker 6: get rid of Obama, they should give him a statue.
Speaker 6: He should be the first one, because I couldn't take it. Man,
Speaker 6: that dude didn't look like he was ready for the
Speaker 6: moment at all. And when he brought in, uh, Ben Simmons.
Speaker 6: And I've been saying this for a minute, he just
Speaker 6: needs the right spot. Man. He had worn his welcome
Speaker 6: out at the nets and anything that can shut up
Speaker 6: that loud mouth stephen A. Who I cannot stand this.
Speaker 6: Dude just dogs people out. And I'm telling you, Ben
Speaker 6: Simmons with Tyler's guidance. Brian the other what's the guy
Speaker 6: who see the Lakers, Brian the assistant.
Speaker 2: Coach assistant with the Clippers, former Laker.
Speaker 6: Brian Shaw. Yeah, man, b Shaw, They're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 6: work with that. Capt mean, I'm I think this is
Speaker 6: Ben Simmons' best game in a in a year I've
Speaker 6: never seen, I mean, just all around and the fact
Speaker 6: that now he can give Kawhi some relief at Garden
Speaker 6: at four and five. Kawhi can't do that no more, man,
Speaker 6: his body cannot. I mean, when you get those dudes
Speaker 6: and they lean up on you for two three quarters
Speaker 6: that just that takes a toll, and you get a
Speaker 6: big body like Ben Simmons who can give you that relief.
Speaker 6: Lawrence frank Man, I'm serious. I think, straight up he
Speaker 6: should be the first dude to get a statute because
Speaker 6: if they if they get to where first of all,
Speaker 6: the Forbes magazine said they're the second best team in
Speaker 6: the Western Conference, that these moves that they pulled. G Man.
Speaker 6: You know, we loved him when he was here, but
Speaker 6: it was time for him to move on. Give him
Speaker 6: the space somewhere else. Vogdanovich can hit that three. He's
Speaker 6: got to settle in. We need him to settle in
Speaker 6: and start banging that the space, that floor three.
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about body at all. I'm not worry
Speaker 2: about Bogie at all. They will start to fall in bunches,
Speaker 2: believe that.
Speaker 6: Well if he does, Man, and let me tell you something,
Speaker 6: they should do this for the fans, everybuddy. They'd just
Speaker 6: going ahead and make Norman Powell just a bone. He
Speaker 6: should retire Clipper Man. This dude has been doing it.
Speaker 6: The fact that he went out and produced this kind
Speaker 6: of season when they knew Paul George's that that just
Speaker 6: doesn't it's over.
Speaker 2: They're calling the fight. Norman Powell is a better player
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five than Paul George. That is over.
Speaker 2: That's a bait. I didn't I didn't know we would
Speaker 2: be having the conversation this early. But I said early
Speaker 2: in the season, in November, I said, we may be
Speaker 2: having a dialogue by the time this season is over,
Speaker 2: that Norman Powell at this age, at thirty one, is
Speaker 2: better than Paul George at thirty four. Regardless of the contract.
Speaker 2: He's just better exactly now.
Speaker 6: He can't match his podcast skills. But that we were
Speaker 6: all with that too, you know, because I didn't like
Speaker 6: that his focus is his focus has not seen. That
Speaker 6: wasn't in the right place for me. Man, norm power
Speaker 6: was about basketball getting better and getting the most he
Speaker 6: can out of his out of his abilities. And Lawrence
Speaker 6: Franken and guys. They bought in Derrick Jones, they got
Speaker 6: a squad. Man, I just and ty Lou. You give
Speaker 6: him pieces. He's a chess master. Give him the pieces
Speaker 6: that he needs.
Speaker 2: So I look for and Ben Simmons is like a
Speaker 2: queen on a chess board with all the different things
Speaker 2: he can do for you.
Speaker 6: Right, absolutely, Man, baby one through five. And like I said,
Speaker 6: he's six ' ten. He can he can guard the five,
Speaker 6: he can guard the four. He can let Kawhi, you know,
Speaker 6: float back into that, you know, float where he is.
Speaker 6: But Kawhi cannot be holding power forwards. That's That's the
Speaker 6: one thing I always said. I said, that's not gonna work.
Speaker 6: That's not But I'm glad they got a big body
Speaker 6: to come in there and Ben Simmons and Ben Simmons
Speaker 6: I think is gonna be the comeback kid man. I
Speaker 6: know he can't get the war. I mean, Norm Powell
Speaker 6: has it to me, but just a really good chemistry man.
Speaker 6: And like I said, straight up, I think lowns flank
Speaker 6: that they should look at him for a statue if
Speaker 6: they get if they if they get to the Western
Speaker 6: Conference finals, and we'll say what happened beyond this that
Speaker 6: that was a phenomenal. It's one of the best managerial
Speaker 6: GM moves of the last.
Speaker 7: Couple of years.
Speaker 6: So anyway, man, you're doing a great job at them,
Speaker 6: and I'm glad. I'm glad I can enjoy watching these
Speaker 6: cats again. Thank you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you. Lenny. Don't be a stranger, don't take
Speaker 2: too long between phone calls eight six six ninety seven
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Speaker 2: seventy we'll take a time out. Clippers winning overtime. They
Speaker 2: overcome a twenty point deficit in the first half, a
Speaker 2: sixteen point deficit with about four minutes left in the
Speaker 2: third quarter. They take it to ot. They win in
Speaker 2: overtime one twenty to one sixteen in Utah over the Jazz.
Speaker 2: That's what they ride into the All Star Break at
Speaker 2: thirty one to twenty three. More Clippers stock coming up
Speaker 2: next here on M five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: I love this team. I never miss a game.
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Speaker 2: Clippers winning over time one twenty to one sixteen. They
Speaker 2: trailed by twenty hashtag comeback Clips. They're back. They take
Speaker 2: down the Jazz in Utah. They've won three in a
Speaker 2: row after losing three in a row. They go in
Speaker 2: two the All Star Break thirty one and twenty three.
Speaker 2: Welcome back in Clipper Nation. I'm out of Moslin. This
Speaker 2: is Clippers Talk here on the M five seventy LA
Speaker 2: Sports I talked about this early on, but the Clippers
Speaker 2: got twenty six turnovers from the Utah Jazz. They only
Speaker 2: turn it into twenty points, but that's their average points
Speaker 2: off of turnovers per game. It's twenty their second best
Speaker 2: in the league in that area. It is necessary for
Speaker 2: this team to get victories. This is what they have
Speaker 2: to do. It's a part of what they do. So
Speaker 2: is this normn Powell big Bucket's late He has been
Speaker 2: a stone cold killer in fourth quarters going back to
Speaker 2: last season where he shot I think fifty over fifty
Speaker 2: five percent from the field and about forty eight percent
Speaker 2: from three in fourth quarters last season, and he's right
Speaker 2: there again this season. Eight six, six, ninety seven to
Speaker 2: two five seventy. Kyle in La, Kyle, what's up here
Speaker 2: on clippersoft with that Amazen?
Speaker 5: Hey man, how's it been. It's been a lot of
Speaker 5: time since I reached out, but uh, you know, what
Speaker 5: a great game. I'm super excited and I'm just actually,
Speaker 5: I'm just super happy for Ben Simmons. I'm glad you
Speaker 5: guys been getting out on about it. Like he looked
Speaker 5: like he loved basketball again. He looked like it. And
Speaker 5: it's just like I can't expect too much from him
Speaker 5: because I do kind of believe that he's got demons
Speaker 5: that have where he's getting his own way, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, all kind of feel like that he
Speaker 5: might have.
Speaker 2: Exercised some in this ballgame, Kyle, with the way he
Speaker 2: was able to get to the basket and looking fearless
Speaker 2: out there of going to the free throw line and
Speaker 2: making big shots.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm so happy for him. I mean, he mean,
Speaker 5: the stats didn't even say as much. He had a
Speaker 5: hand in everything. That little his his his flash to
Speaker 5: the top of the free throw and then and then
Speaker 5: a quick pass. He's just ritling those balls right out.
Speaker 5: The passes are fantastic. Super excited about him. I'm just
Speaker 5: happy for him because he's had a rough go of it.
Speaker 5: I know he's got some shitty stuff he's got to
Speaker 5: go through, But I'm happy for him. And I love
Speaker 5: and I love our organization.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: People come here and we support them, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean.
Speaker 2: This is what Clipperation does.
Speaker 5: They feel like they have a role.
Speaker 2: There's another reason I was surprised Paul George left. You know,
Speaker 2: he went from a place where people got into the
Speaker 2: trenches backing him when he'd have a bad series, that's
Speaker 2: not going to happen in Philly. But when you're with Clippernation,
Speaker 2: when you're rolling with Clipperination, we got your back and
Speaker 2: they are going to support Ben Simmons, and I think
Speaker 2: this is going to be a breath of fresh air
Speaker 2: of this environment for him as a Clipper. I think
Speaker 2: this is a good fit.
Speaker 7: Kyle.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, that's why I appreciate what the last Foller set.
Speaker 5: I think it was Lenny talking about the addition by
Speaker 5: subtraction thing that Cole was getting that before the season
Speaker 5: like it truly is. And I'm glad he brought up
Speaker 5: the podcast because man, I feel like people are hard
Speaker 5: on PGD and they take his words out of context
Speaker 5: a lot of times. But I would get so annoyed
Speaker 5: when he would put up like ten shots and then
Speaker 5: go on a podcast and be in a good mood.
Speaker 5: It would just kill me. When you look at normOn Powell,
Speaker 5: Norton Powell is just a dog. He's just a dog.
Speaker 5: He's just someone you want in a fight, and I
Speaker 5: just love him, so I love him so much. It
Speaker 5: definitely was a edition by subtraction. I do think he
Speaker 5: should have gotten over Kyrie.
Speaker 2: I agree with you there, there's really no argument. Like
Speaker 2: the Clippers are ahead of them in the standings. They've
Speaker 2: gotten I think even with Luka Doncic now a Laker,
Speaker 2: and how many games he missed, he hadn't played for
Speaker 2: them since I think January first or something like that
Speaker 2: he'd been out for I still think they've gotten more
Speaker 2: more games from Luka Doncics to the Dallas Mavericks this season.
Speaker 2: Then the Clippers have gotten so far from Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 2: and Norman Pale's been their leading scorer. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: been their guy. He might be at twenty five points
Speaker 2: per game after just dropping forty one in this one.
Speaker 2: So like there's a clear argument. But look, I get it.
Speaker 2: It's a name game, it's a popularity contest.
Speaker 6: It's fan service.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Never like it. But I like this phone call, Kyle.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: Call in uh next Thursday.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, man, have a good night.
Speaker 2: We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back. We'll
Speaker 2: finish the phone calls here. Eight sixty six, nine eighty
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy Clippers big victory, down twenty in
Speaker 2: the first half, down sixteen. Late in the third quarter,
Speaker 2: they come back to winning overtime in Utah one twenty
Speaker 2: to one sixteen, entering the All Star breaking style. James
Speaker 2: Harden will be playing in the game on Sunday for
Speaker 2: I think the old Man Squad or og squad is
Speaker 2: what they're calling themselves. He's playing with some of the
Speaker 2: older players. I think he's on Lebron's teams, Steph's team.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a different format this year, but Saturday night,
Speaker 2: Norman Palell in three point contest. Knock him down. Norm
Speaker 2: make the league pay for not making you an All
Speaker 2: Star because you should have been. Take it out on him.
Speaker 2: I'm out a Moslin. This is clipperstock here on the
Speaker 2: M five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: I love this team. I never miss a game.
Speaker 1: You're listening to LA Clippers Basketball Free Ball, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: right here on the LA Clippers Audio Network.
Speaker 2: Clippers win one twenty to one sixteen in ot as
Speaker 2: Norman storm and Powell or Stormer. Norman Pale dropped forty
Speaker 2: one points in the victory. Should have been an All Star. Quickly,
Speaker 2: we got some phone calls to get to Julio in Wilmington.
Speaker 2: Julio you're on Clipper stop with that of Auslin.
Speaker 6: He was a brother.
Speaker 7: I was just coming because, uh so, I'm glad you
Speaker 7: kind of brought it at I'm just trying to figure
Speaker 7: out what's up with Norman Powell. Why why he wasn't
Speaker 7: an All Star. I mean, it is kind of crazy
Speaker 7: the fact that he dropped forty this game. He's been
Speaker 7: like our best player, and uh I.
Speaker 2: Think he's been their best scorer. I would say James
Speaker 2: Harden is their best player. Norman Powell is more dependent
Speaker 2: on James Harden than James Harden is on Norm Powell.
Speaker 7: So you think if James you think if James Harden
Speaker 7: was down on this team, Norman Power would have been
Speaker 7: doing the same thing.
Speaker 2: I think Norm would struggle much more without James Harden.
Speaker 2: He doesn't create as much off the bounce. James Harden
Speaker 2: is the offense. He is the system out there much
Speaker 2: more as asked of him. Norm pal isn't bringing the
Speaker 2: ball up the court all the time. It's completely different.
Speaker 2: But I gets your point. He's their number one score
Speaker 2: and he has been super efficient out there all season
Speaker 2: going back to last year too. I mean, what was
Speaker 2: that he was effishing last season? As well.
Speaker 7: No, I know, but that's what I'm saying, Like, what
Speaker 7: if if Norman wasn't on this team but James was.
Speaker 7: I mean, what's what would be the difference?
Speaker 2: You know, I think they would have much more trouble.
Speaker 2: I've seen James Harden without Norman Pale some I think
Speaker 2: they would have much more trouble without James Harden than
Speaker 2: they would Norman Palell. You gotta understand James Harden is
Speaker 2: playing two roles. He's tasked with scoring, He's also tasked
Speaker 2: with the orchestra in the offense and saying the table.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the phone call, Julio. We gotta get to
Speaker 2: some more people on here. Calling next Thursday. Julio was
Speaker 2: a very good point by you, Sergio and Whittier. You're
Speaker 2: on clippers sock with that Amusen Sergio, Sergio, you're killing
Speaker 2: me man. How are you gonna stay on hold and
Speaker 2: then not be ready? Sergio? I'll throw you back on hold.
Speaker 2: Quentin from the Chat has called in. Quentin Cornett from
Speaker 2: Los Angeles is with us. The man who believed I
Speaker 2: beats the Zubats. All he does is dunk when he
Speaker 2: has fifty more hook shots than anyone else in the
Speaker 2: NBA this season. Quentin, I'm glad you called in. How
Speaker 2: are you? And Quintin hangs up? Man? Sergio, Sergio? We
Speaker 2: got you now, Sergio and Wittier one for two? What's up? Sergio?
Speaker 2: This is not the way to go into the All
Speaker 2: Star break. I don't know what the problem is with
Speaker 2: our phones all of a sudden. Can we try Jose
Speaker 2: and downy for the love? Jose, are you there?
Speaker 6: What's up? Adam? How you doing?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 5: Great win?
Speaker 6: Brother?
Speaker 2: I'm not exactly shooting like norm here, very inefficient with
Speaker 2: the phone calls. We just went one for three there,
Speaker 2: Thank you for being ready. Jose, what's up? Quickly?
Speaker 5: Hey man?
Speaker 8: I have a question on the what are we getting
Speaker 8: to see a little bit more.
Speaker 5: On you banks?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 8: I didn't know he was injured. I think Zuke can
Speaker 8: use the health. I think Ben Simmons was a big
Speaker 8: help to him today. Ben Simmons had a great game
Speaker 8: and they shot. They shot well when they needed to. Man,
Speaker 8: that defense showed up today. I'm really glad. Biggest thing
Speaker 8: I think I was glad to see them win a
Speaker 8: back to back. I know the Jazz had it back
Speaker 8: to back, but they're younger. It was good to see
Speaker 8: them man actually show up when they needed to.
Speaker 2: Jose's showing up in a big way. People in the
Speaker 2: chat saying Jose is carrying us right now, Quentin couldn't
Speaker 2: be relied upon. Maybe it was the shot I took
Speaker 2: it him about his Vista Zoobots take. I don't know
Speaker 2: what it was, but Jose, I appreciate you calling next Thursday.
Speaker 2: All right, Clippers winning overtime in Utah one twenty to
Speaker 2: one sixteen. They got about a week off now it'll
Speaker 2: be in Milwaukee next Thursday. But this weekend, do not
Speaker 2: miss James Harden in the All Star Game on Sunday,
Speaker 2: Norm Pale All Star Festivity Saturday Night and three point Shootout.
Speaker 2: Before we get out of here, I do want to
Speaker 2: thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Seemen, Noah Igo, Carlo Jimenez,
Speaker 2: big brother, Jake Warner, what's up, bro? Our producer back
Speaker 2: here in the bank, Daniel West, well done as always.
Speaker 2: You know, if you're listening on the YouTube side, we'll
Speaker 2: have another Clippers Talk episode for you. We're not missing
Speaker 2: a day during the All Star break. Starting tomorrow, we'll
Speaker 2: be on with you I'm adam Os, and we'll talk
Speaker 2: to you then