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Speaker 1: At follow Adam a Adam Howsley. There's no place like home.
Speaker 1: There's no place like home where you get to see
Speaker 1: James Harden drop a fifty spot here and into a
Speaker 1: dome in the Clippers return as they win over the
Speaker 1: Pistons one twenty three to one point fifteen. Welcome into
Speaker 1: Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Osland. The dome is home. Welcome
Speaker 1: back Clipper Nation. After a tumultuous eight game road trip
Speaker 1: where they went two and six, they win on the
Speaker 1: second night of a back to back without Kawhi, without DJ,
Speaker 1: without Norman Powell. What are performance from James Harden? A
Speaker 1: fifty spot his first fifty ball since twenty nineteen in
Speaker 1: all timer, If you were here, and many were, including
Speaker 1: the former President of the United States and Barack Obama,
Speaker 1: including Jared Goff, was there some golfense out there from
Speaker 1: James Harden. The Clippers dropping one hundred and twenty three
Speaker 1: points on the number one defense since January first in
Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons. That's how you cleanse the palate. Now
Speaker 1: we're feeling a little bit better right Clipernation needed that.
Speaker 1: Great to see it. James Harden apology forms will be
Speaker 1: handed out as you're leaving the arena. He was fourteen
Speaker 1: for his last fifty his last three games. He drops
Speaker 1: fifty points in this one. Fourteen of twenty four from
Speaker 1: the field, sixteen of twenty at the Charity stripe. Just incredible.
Speaker 1: Most points obviously he has scored as a member of
Speaker 1: the Clippers. Most points scored here and into it Dome.
Speaker 1: This is the current scoring high here in this building.
Speaker 1: In his inaugural year, James Harden had fourteen of his
Speaker 1: fifty in the fourth quarter. Had twenty three points in
Speaker 1: the first quarter to lead them, twenty eight points at
Speaker 1: the half, another nine in that third quarter. I want
Speaker 1: to shout out the Clippers second unit though, and the
Speaker 1: guys who didn't completely let go when James Harden went
Speaker 1: to the bench. He plays the entire first quarter. He
Speaker 1: comes back in the second quarter, and I want to
Speaker 1: say it's around the seven minute mark. It's at the
Speaker 1: six forty three mark. He's almost out the first half
Speaker 1: of the second quarter, Clippers led by six. After he
Speaker 1: left the ballgame, they led by five. By the time
Speaker 1: he came back in at forty four to thirty nine.
Speaker 1: Big Zoo held it down. A mere coffee bogie. I
Speaker 1: believe Niko was out there, drew U Banks. Awesome. Awesome
Speaker 1: performance by the other guys who did not let the
Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons back in when Harden went to the bench.
Speaker 1: Same thing he plays the entire third quarter. After three
Speaker 1: the Clippers led by two. They closed the third quarter
Speaker 1: with a hardened layup in and one. I believe, Uh,
Speaker 1: this wasn't right. It wasn't an and one. I don't think.
Speaker 1: Oh it was the technical foul on Isaiah Stewart. Clippers
Speaker 1: went from down by one with eighteen point eight seconds
Speaker 1: left to end the third to being up by two.
Speaker 1: Big big stretch right there. Coffee also hit a jumper.
Speaker 1: Miller had to put back dunk during that stretch. So
Speaker 1: they were able to outscore them seven to two in
Speaker 1: the final minute twelve of the third quarter. But to
Speaker 1: have that two point lead. Knowing that James Harden won't
Speaker 1: be starting the fourth quarter, was big out there to
Speaker 1: start the fourth Here was the crew, U Banks, Bogie, Emir,
Speaker 1: Kobe Miller. Kobe Big put back on an a Mere
Speaker 1: Coffee miss to put him up ninety three to eighty
Speaker 1: nine to start the fourth. Cade comes back and has
Speaker 1: a layup on a Mere. He did miss an open three.
Speaker 1: Caid gets blocked on a layup by U Banks. Jordan
Speaker 1: Miller gets out, he's running, he gets fouled, but if
Speaker 1: eats a Zubots comes back in at the ten thirty
Speaker 1: nine mark. By the time James Harden comes back into
Speaker 1: the ballgame in the fourth quarter, it was at the
Speaker 1: seven to forty four mark. The Clippers trailed by two,
Speaker 1: so they went minus four. Not terrible about the first
Speaker 1: four and a half minutes of the fourth quarter without James.
Speaker 1: He took him home fourteen points in the final seven
Speaker 1: minutes and forty four seconds of the fourth quarter for James.
Speaker 1: But there were some other big shots out there. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Bogie, a three pointer, Bogie, a fadeaway on
Speaker 1: the near side baseline. Big Zoo stayed in vague. That's
Speaker 1: what we want to see and just you get them
Speaker 1: however you take do you take them however you can
Speaker 1: get them when it comes to victories. Right now, James
Speaker 1: Harden's got to go out there and get fifty for
Speaker 1: you to take down the Pistons, the hottest team in
Speaker 1: the league. You do it. One twenty three to one
Speaker 1: fifteen was your final quick time out. We'll come back.
Speaker 1: I'll get to some of your comments here on the
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Speaker 1: two five seventy. Eight sixty six ninety eight seven two
Speaker 1: five seventy is the phone number. I'm Ada Moslin. After
Speaker 1: the Clippers somehow, some way have one of those gut
Speaker 1: check victories where they are shorthanded and undermanned without Kawhi,
Speaker 1: without Norm, without DJ, without Ben Simmons, they win once
Speaker 1: twenty three to one fifteen thanks to fifty from James Harden.
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Speaker 1: Clippers get fifty from James Harden and win one twenty
Speaker 1: three to one fifteen. Over the Detroit Pistons, back it
Speaker 1: into a dome for the first time. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: two and a half weeks, three weeks, it's been a while,
Speaker 1: it's been a long time. Big brother says, three weeks.
Speaker 1: I believe him. Yo, one, twenty three to one fifteen
Speaker 1: was your final great win, necessary win, some would say
Speaker 1: must win. There's twenty games left in the regular season.
Speaker 1: But to get this performance against this Pistons team, with
Speaker 1: the guys that were missing on the second night of
Speaker 1: a back to back, after blowing a twenty three point
Speaker 1: lead last night, special special win, Clipper Nation, and you
Speaker 1: showed up in a big way tonight here at into
Speaker 1: a dome. Give yourself some credit here. You help fuel
Speaker 1: this team. There were times where it looks like the
Speaker 1: game was getting away from the Clippers. They were down
Speaker 1: in the early third by four after a Thompson run
Speaker 1: out sixty one to fifty seven. Bogie then hit a
Speaker 1: three pointer that touched every part of the rim in
Speaker 1: the back part, and I think the basketball God said,
Speaker 1: we owe you one. We know you've been missing some gimmes. Bogee,
Speaker 1: here you go the Clippers. I believe from that point
Speaker 1: on that was in the midst of them hitting nine
Speaker 1: straight shots in the third quarter, not that the Pistons
Speaker 1: weren't hitting. Cad would get some free throws after that,
Speaker 1: but then a Zoo push shot. Clippers are down one.
Speaker 1: Kate to the rim for a bucket done to Zoo
Speaker 1: for a floater. Zuo picked up his third foul with
Speaker 1: the nine thirteen mark of the third and I got
Speaker 1: a little bit concerned, but Coach Luke kept him in
Speaker 1: smart move but Toom three. Now the Clippers are up
Speaker 1: sixty seven to sixty six, but Malik Beasley hit a
Speaker 1: three to answer. He's a forty four percent three point shooter.
Speaker 1: Zoo tough layup sixty nine, all nice, done a three
Speaker 1: off that Zoo feed. In the short roll, Clippers up
Speaker 1: by one. A Zoo layup, Clippers up by three, hard
Speaker 1: and three Beasley layup. Clippers up seventy seven to seventy four.
Speaker 1: Then a turnover and a Cad dunk. But that sequence
Speaker 1: was huge for the Clippers, so they're down by one
Speaker 1: at seventy seven to seventy six Pistons. After that, Clippers
Speaker 1: turnover to a Caid runout, then Bogie left it for
Speaker 1: Zoo on a great feed where he threw it back
Speaker 1: to him for an easy layup. Then Bogey has the
Speaker 1: deflec on the other end, Clippers get the steal Bogee
Speaker 1: no look past to done farside corner three eighty two
Speaker 1: seventy six. Clippers. That was them making nine straight shots.
Speaker 1: That was the sequence right there that might have won
Speaker 1: them the game. In some ways, that was just critical
Speaker 1: because it looked like, oh, here come the Pistons. Tie
Speaker 1: game of the half. They go up four quickly in
Speaker 1: the third quarter. Clippers showed a lot of poise and
Speaker 1: then the end of the third quarter as well, after
Speaker 1: a nine to ozho Detroit run, Emir hits a jumper
Speaker 1: to calm the waters. The Clippers are only down by
Speaker 1: one at eighty seven to eighty six. Kobe Steele and
Speaker 1: Jordan has the put back off the Kobe miss and
Speaker 1: transition Stuart push shot. Pistons back up one defensive three
Speaker 1: seconds though on the Pistons, it's eighty nine to all.
Speaker 1: Harden gets a layup before the quarter is over and
Speaker 1: before he's out of the ballgame, so the Clippers are
Speaker 1: up by two heading into the fourth at ninety one
Speaker 1: to eighty nine, and then they held it down without him.
Speaker 1: They got down by two by the time he came
Speaker 1: back around the seven minute mark of the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and from there Harden was cooking. Bogie was two. He
Speaker 1: hit back to back threes. The first one put him
Speaker 1: to one hundred. Shout out Ralph Lawler first to one
Speaker 1: hundred wins. Then Thompson had a turnover after Harden swiped
Speaker 1: down at the basketball created it. Bogey hits another three.
Speaker 1: Then Bogie draws the offensive foul. Clippers up one o
Speaker 1: three to ninety nine. Harden dunk going to his left,
Speaker 1: still got it said he went air force one mode
Speaker 1: with the Barack Obama and attendance, and maybe it was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a shout out or a nod
Speaker 1: to Derek Jones Junior on his bibblehead night. His bibblehead
Speaker 1: does have wings airplane mode, James Harden saying, Hey, since
Speaker 1: you can't throw it down tonight, I'll do it. Eight oh.
Speaker 1: Clippers run after that, Done has a steal on Cade,
Speaker 1: then Done to Harden for a floater one oh seven
Speaker 1: to ninety nine. Hardens at forty. Malik Beasley, he worried
Speaker 1: me all night. He hit a three pointer to bring
Speaker 1: it to one o seven to one o two. Doun
Speaker 1: hits a floater. Dennis hits a three hard and right
Speaker 1: wing three one twelve to one o five. Dennis answers
Speaker 1: with a three that goes in and out and back in.
Speaker 1: It's one twelve one oh eight. The Clippers were pushed
Speaker 1: hardened layup gets him to forty five. Thompson a turnover
Speaker 1: in the near side corner where he fell to the
Speaker 1: ground was crucial. The Clippers ended up with I thought
Speaker 1: it was a bad ISO, but what can you say
Speaker 1: about a guy who has fifty points. Harden went ISO
Speaker 1: on Dennis the menace. Dennis Shrewder lost the ball out
Speaker 1: of bounds. Clippers had it with two point two seconds
Speaker 1: left from the shot clock. They go to a beats
Speaker 1: the Zoo bots. He gets fouled, fall on Duran, so
Speaker 1: the shot clock recess to fourteen. Harden ended up missing
Speaker 1: a three, but Beasley missed on the other end fall
Speaker 1: on Zoo underneath. But it was Caine fouling James Harden
Speaker 1: and putting him at the line. This was a big
Speaker 1: foul for the Clippers to steady things a little bit.
Speaker 1: It was on the near sideline hit him in the
Speaker 1: face accidentally came over to him, asked James Harden if
Speaker 1: he was all right. I really really like Kate Cunningham.
Speaker 1: He is a great young star in this league. I
Speaker 1: was wrong. I thought Jalen Green would be better coming out.
Speaker 1: Kay is better. Harden goes to the line. Clippers are
Speaker 1: up by eight. Beasley misses bogey fade away. Clippers are
Speaker 1: up by ten. They hold on, They win one twenty
Speaker 1: three to one fifteen. Let's go to Nick leaving the game. Nick,
Speaker 1: you got thirty seconds here on Clippers Tuck, how you feeling?
Speaker 2: Hey great, thank you for taking my call. I gotta
Speaker 2: tell you, I think this is gonna be a springboard
Speaker 2: for the Clippers tonight. You know it's a must win game.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, but the fact that like we
Speaker 2: want it, let's use it as a springboard to go
Speaker 2: up the Western Conference all the way up to maybe
Speaker 2: the four or the three, or even catch the Lakers
Speaker 2: at two. I think that the Pistons coming off the
Speaker 2: extra rest and the Clippers coming off the road trip
Speaker 2: with the back to back, it's crazy that we won tonight, Adam,
Speaker 2: thank you, cousin, Armando and I had a great time
Speaker 2: at the game. I'll take all your comments off the air.
Speaker 1: Love you bye, Nack, appreciate you, Love you too, my guy.
Speaker 1: Dive home safe. I like that A victory like that
Speaker 1: like this can rally, You can have legs, can have
Speaker 1: carryover because this Pistons team, hottest team in the NBA,
Speaker 1: best defense since January first. This is a great victory
Speaker 1: by the Clippers. They responded after what happened last night.
Speaker 1: They ran through the tape. I'm telling you, I just
Speaker 1: went through some of the play by play late in
Speaker 1: the game. They were pushed, they had to close, they
Speaker 1: had to finish, They had to do what they couldn't
Speaker 1: last night. And I think a lot of this is
Speaker 1: because they're back home, sleep in your own beds, feel
Speaker 1: good home cooking, the crowd behind you into a dome,
Speaker 1: home court advantage. They've been awesome here after losing their
Speaker 1: first four. God they win eleven in a row. What
Speaker 1: was it? But the crowd definitely helped carry them at times.
Speaker 1: How far it's gonna win like this take them, We'll
Speaker 1: find out which twenty games left in order to catch
Speaker 1: a team like the Lakers or the Denver Nuggets, who
Speaker 1: are seven games up on the Clippers and have the
Speaker 1: eyebreakers against them. Those are lofty expectations. Can they catch
Speaker 1: Golden State right now? Meaning can they get out of
Speaker 1: the play in let's just start there. That's a team
Speaker 1: they have the tiebreaker over their only game back of them.
Speaker 1: They still have one more game against them. Uh, quickly,
Speaker 1: Mike in La, Mike, you're on Clipper stop without a massle.
Speaker 4: How do I couldn't agree with you more? We got
Speaker 4: to really focus that six you know, sixty we get there.
Speaker 2: That is you know, awesome.
Speaker 4: I'd be, you know, so happy. And tonight was just
Speaker 4: we needed this one. I mean, this was great. This
Speaker 4: is a great win. And I want to, you know,
Speaker 4: give some love to Chris Dunn because you know, obviously
Speaker 4: there were the guys who you know, played you know,
Speaker 4: fifty points and then you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bog and you know Chris, he plays key plays.
Speaker 4: Exactly, he plays, made some shots, the great defense as
Speaker 4: always got.
Speaker 2: After Christ done.
Speaker 1: All right, Mike, I appreciate the phone call. Shout out
Speaker 1: to you always being consistent calling in Chris in La.
Speaker 1: Another regular here, Chris, you're on Clippers soft with out
Speaker 1: of mauzl.
Speaker 2: Lo.
Speaker 5: I had him first time calling you since January finally
Speaker 5: got to a Clipper game into it doom.
Speaker 1: Oh you you were treated to one tonight. Royalty was
Speaker 1: in the house. It wasn't just Barack Obama, it was
Speaker 1: Chris in La.
Speaker 5: I came with my cousin. His name is Christopher.
Speaker 1: Also Chris came through and Chris Donne.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So being the first timing into it doom for a
Speaker 5: Clipper game, I liked what I saw as far as
Speaker 5: you know, the video screen and the scoreboard and you know,
Speaker 5: same Clipper at with the colar fans chooting on our team.
Speaker 1: Great victory, Chris. I'm with you. Don't make it the
Speaker 1: last time the Dome is home.
Speaker 5: This is on Sunday for that lunch pop.
Speaker 1: Okay, coming on Sunday, so you know it's infectious you
Speaker 1: get in here. You want to come back immediately, Chris
Speaker 1: and La and we'll be back for the Clippers game
Speaker 1: on Sunday. That one will be against the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 1: That's a team right next to them in the standings.
Speaker 1: The Clippers leave frogged over them as the Kings loss
Speaker 1: tonight in Denver. We'll talk more about the standings. We'll
Speaker 1: get back to your phone calls. Eight sixty six, ninety
Speaker 1: seven two five seventy on our night where Chris and
Speaker 1: La showed up and we got to watch James Harden
Speaker 1: drop fifty, set the into a dome scoring record not
Speaker 1: gonna be easy to beat. I'm outa Mosland Clippers went
Speaker 1: over the Pistons one twenty three to one fifteen, and
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Speaker 1: Dames Harden drops fifty tonight here and into a dome
Speaker 1: when the Clippers win one twenty three to one fifteen
Speaker 1: over the Detroit Pistons. Welcome back into your postgame show.
Speaker 1: I'm out of Moslin. Beautiful victory by your LA Clippers
Speaker 1: when they need it most. After losing six of their
Speaker 1: first seven games out of the All Star Break, all
Speaker 1: out on the road, and their first game back, you
Speaker 1: get a win like this over this Pistons team, with
Speaker 1: the way they've been playing, they just beat the Clippers.
Speaker 1: Hopefully this is the start of something. Got to be
Speaker 1: starting something. Hopefully Clippers only ten turnovers. I want to
Speaker 1: say they had seven or eight, and then only twelve
Speaker 1: the game before that. So they've been taking care of
Speaker 1: the basketball last three games, which is key. Guys, they
Speaker 1: have been in so many of these games that they
Speaker 1: have lost as of late. You want to see the
Speaker 1: tide turn in their favor and be able to close
Speaker 1: out and have some cold three points shooting from the opposition.
Speaker 1: Finally it happened. Pistons were only eleven of thirty five.
Speaker 1: I want to say they were one for the first thirteen.
Speaker 1: It was bad, but they hit some threes late and
Speaker 1: the Clippers didn't get rattled this time. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: what we saw yesterday in Phoenix, where they made a
Speaker 1: push and the Clippers had no counter. Tonight, on the
Speaker 1: second night of a back to back, James Harden huge
Speaker 1: counterpunches some Floyd Mayweather stuff. In thirty eight minutes, he
Speaker 1: has fifty points on twenty four shots and sixteen free
Speaker 1: throws that were made most this season. Let's go most.
Speaker 1: As a Clipper, I believe that may not be accurate.
Speaker 1: I pride myself on accuracy.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: It's a season high in free throws made. I can
Speaker 1: tell you that much. Zubat six straight double double, his
Speaker 1: fortieth this season. Man Zubas haters still in shambles two
Speaker 1: like you got can't get away from this guy, right,
Speaker 1: I mean he's just dunking, not just on the opposition
Speaker 1: but on you, like every night. And for those who
Speaker 1: uh have listened to me and how much I think
Speaker 1: he should be involved, well you see the result when
Speaker 1: they play through zoom much more. He ended up taking
Speaker 1: twenty shots in this ball game. He had twenty two
Speaker 1: and eleven and three assists. Let's go to Arthur in
Speaker 1: La Arthur, you got thirty seconds here on Clippers sock.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm not in the politics, but yeah, but that
Speaker 5: was a bounce back win. And how long Ben Simmons
Speaker 5: gonna be out?
Speaker 1: We don't know. Ben Simmons is day to day.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, hey, thanks Adam.
Speaker 1: All right, Arthur, appreciate the phone call. Eight sixt six
Speaker 1: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 1: this Clippers team. I mean, I hope this cure is
Speaker 1: what ails them, because after what happened last night, I
Speaker 1: was thinking to myself, they forgot how to win. Losing
Speaker 1: a twenty three point lead. They forgot how to win.
Speaker 1: They can't close multiple games during this losing streak, they
Speaker 1: couldn't close out They should have won a game up
Speaker 1: by thirteen against the Bucks, and I believe eleven times
Speaker 1: this season they have lost a game where they were
Speaker 1: up by ten or more. It's not good. Those are
Speaker 1: bad habits. They need to rid themselves of the immediately.
Speaker 1: Tonight step in the right direction because the Pistons pushed them,
Speaker 1: and the Clippers still outscored them in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: thirty two to twenty six, and they answered every time
Speaker 1: the Pistons made a run. That's what's most impressive to me.
Speaker 1: They didn't, you know, have some minus twenty in five
Speaker 1: minute like performance. When James Harden was out of the game.
Speaker 1: They didn't fall apart at the seams just because he
Speaker 1: wasn't on the court. At times, they fought, they did
Speaker 1: what they could. I want to give everybody credit tonight.
Speaker 1: The bench included Emir Drew, you Banks, Jordan Miller, Kobe Brown.
Speaker 1: They gave them what they needed during those times when
Speaker 1: James Harden was out. And I really liked the way
Speaker 1: Coach lou was staggering taking out of EASTA Zoobots earlier
Speaker 1: in the first quarter, earlier in the third quarter, getting
Speaker 1: him back earlier in the second, in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: when James was still out so they could play through them.
Speaker 1: Really smart. Chris Dunn was looking for him a lot.
Speaker 1: Give coach Lou a ton of credit for everybody saying
Speaker 1: where's free TV? In the chat, where's that doomer? This
Speaker 1: team is quit on coach Lou. Do they look like
Speaker 1: they quit on coach Lou? Ooh? Kate Cunningham getting spicy
Speaker 1: post game. He was asked about how the Clippers were
Speaker 1: able to pull away and beat the Pistons. He said,
Speaker 1: they got calls. Bickerstaff upset too, didn't like how James
Speaker 1: Harden was officiated tonight. This is a rarity for anybody
Speaker 1: to accuse the Clippers of getting calls. This is this
Speaker 1: is extremely rare. This is Haley's comment stuff, guys, Jamie
Speaker 1: Bickerstaff said postgame quote. If you're not allowed to put
Speaker 1: your body on him legally talking about James, he's allowed
Speaker 1: to shoot twenty free throws, you're not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to guard him. It just makes your job extremely to difficult. Wow. Well,
Speaker 1: considering the bad whistle historically bad whistle that it seems
Speaker 1: like the Clippers have gotten throughout the existence of their franchise.
Speaker 1: You know, I got the world's smallest violin for anybody
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of the Clippers getting a good
Speaker 1: whistle for once. I ain't sweating it either. Come on,
Speaker 1: Clippers win one twenty three to one fifteen. James Harden
Speaker 1: has fifty. The Pistons are upset well, They're not used
Speaker 1: to losing lately, so I get it. And the Clippers
Speaker 1: put up one twenty three on a team that has
Speaker 1: had the best defensive ratings since January. First, more Clippers
Speaker 1: stock coming up. I'm out of Moslins. Looking for more
Speaker 1: postgame quotes eight six, six, nine eighty seven two five seventy. Also,
Speaker 1: if you want to get on, Clippers win one twenty
Speaker 1: three to one fifteen over the Pistons here on a
Speaker 1: mPire seventy LA Sports. I love this team. I never
Speaker 1: miss a game.
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Speaker 1: Clippers rev the engine a little bit on the Pistons
Speaker 1: winning one twenty three to one fifteen here and into
Speaker 1: a dome thanks to James Harden dropping a fifty piece
Speaker 1: with the former pres in Barack Obama in attendance. Welcome
Speaker 1: back in I'm out of Moslin. This is Clippers talk.
Speaker 1: AH sixty six ninety seven two five seventy. James Harden
Speaker 1: postgame had some quotes talked about scoring fifty in front
Speaker 1: of Barack Obama. Quote, I wanted my pick with Prezy
Speaker 1: after the game he left. I guess he wanted to
Speaker 1: beat traffic. We got a pretty cool relationship. We've met
Speaker 1: a few times. It's pretty cool to see him at
Speaker 1: the game. Probably the reason why I played so well.
Speaker 1: Thanks Obama giving him credit. I like it. He was
Speaker 1: also asked if it takes a lot out of him
Speaker 1: to score fifty points. He said, no, I can do it.
Speaker 1: It's not my first time. No, it's not. Talked about
Speaker 1: the Clippers bouncing back from last night's loss. Quote, that's
Speaker 1: the beauty of this league. Things aren't going well, you
Speaker 1: got to continue to work through it. Things can change
Speaker 1: for you like that. I've been in this league a
Speaker 1: long time and I've seen it. So just trying to
Speaker 1: be as much of a leader as I can and
Speaker 1: communicate that to the guys. Things aren't going our way.
Speaker 1: You got to figure out ways to fight through it
Speaker 1: and get closer and be tighter. Tonight was a good
Speaker 1: star for us. Love hearing that from James Harden postgame.
Speaker 1: That is extremely encouraging, I said pregame. As quickly as
Speaker 1: things have gone against the Clippers with coming into tonight
Speaker 1: being losers of six of their last seven games out
Speaker 1: of the All Star Break is quick. Things have gone
Speaker 1: away from them and gotten away from them. It can
Speaker 1: turn around on a dime back in their favor too.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget that. Hopefully tonight is the start of
Speaker 1: something for this Clippers team. They need it desperately right now.
Speaker 1: Have to find a way to get out of this funk.
Speaker 1: And James Harden got out of his because I'm telling
Speaker 1: you he was shooting I think twenty eight percent from
Speaker 1: the field his last three games he was fourteen of fifty,
Speaker 1: and tonight he drops fifty. Justin Russo, said James Harden. Vitezubasen,
Speaker 1: bog Don, Bogdanovich combined for sixty of the Clippers' field
Speaker 1: goal attempts on the night and ninety five of the
Speaker 1: team's one hundred and twenty three points. That's a big
Speaker 1: three right there. James Harden also became the eighth oldest
Speaker 1: player in NBA history to notch a fifty point game.
Speaker 1: Justin Russo said, it was just a three big, three
Speaker 1: game losing streak, but because there was one win sandwiched
Speaker 1: in between another three game losing streak, it felt worse
Speaker 1: than that. It really did, And because of the time
Speaker 1: off from the All Star break, you wanted to see
Speaker 1: the Clippers come out of the gates firing here. It
Speaker 1: hasn't happened. It's tonight that turning point. We'll find out
Speaker 1: on Friday. They're back home against the Knicks. But at
Speaker 1: the very least, you gotta think James Harden is gonna
Speaker 1: have a ton of confidence with his shot, with or
Speaker 1: without Barack Obama in the building here and into it
Speaker 1: dumb on Friday. Could we make I know we did
Speaker 1: a lot of this during COVID. We had cardboard cutouts
Speaker 1: all over the place. Maybe we just have one if
Speaker 1: you can't be in attendance understandably, busy man, maybe we
Speaker 1: could just have a cardboard cutout a Barack Obama next
Speaker 1: to Steve Bamer very next game. That'd be nice if
Speaker 1: that's what it takes for a fifty point game from
Speaker 1: James hard and then come on and maybe a hologram.
Speaker 1: We got the technology. Now this is into It Dome.
Speaker 1: Steve Omer has spared no expense. I just we need
Speaker 1: that aura apparently because James Harden set himself probably the
Speaker 1: reason he played so well. They're friends, you know, Barack
Speaker 1: Obama huge basketball fan. But special night here and into
Speaker 1: It Dome. Jared Goff also in attendance, former QB with
Speaker 1: the Rams at a tough out in the playoffs this season,
Speaker 1: but Detroit was the number one seed. The Commanders took
Speaker 1: him down and the crowd tonight was loud. Big brother
Speaker 1: Jake Warner took note of it. I think early pregame
Speaker 1: set that's the most people I've seen the wall is
Speaker 1: that facts like the wall was so full early on,
Speaker 1: it was rowdy. It just you know, when you have
Speaker 1: just gotten a taste of having your own home, finally
Speaker 1: having your own arena, and you're three weeks away from it,
Speaker 1: absence makes the heart grow fonder. It was so good
Speaker 1: to be back tonight and so good to see a
Speaker 1: performance like this. Just refreshing, heartening, It says some of
Speaker 1: these disheartening performance we have seen, that's all a part
Speaker 1: of this. This doesn't happen, I believe without the Clippers
Speaker 1: being heard into a dome in this setting, back home
Speaker 1: with their fan base surrounding them. This was a great,
Speaker 1: great victory and Clipper Nation, you helped push them across
Speaker 1: the finish line. You were integral to this one tonight,
Speaker 1: that moment at the end where you knew James Harden
Speaker 1: needed to hit one for throw out to get to
Speaker 1: fifty and the wall was chanting we won fifty, and
Speaker 1: James Harden looked and kind of gave like a yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I can do that smirk, looked towards the wall.
Speaker 1: The interaction there is just great to see. He was
Speaker 1: in his comfort zone. Clippers win one twenty three to
Speaker 1: one fifteen here at into it zme Clippers next game
Speaker 1: right back here. This is a home stand and these
Speaker 1: are huge games. This is three game homestand Friday against
Speaker 1: the Knicks, Sunday against the Kings. They need both ball games. Friday.
Speaker 1: We expect Kawhi Leonard to be back. You know, Norm
Speaker 1: won't be because as of yesterday he was ten days
Speaker 1: away from being reevaluated. Maybe DJ's back, maybe Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: is back. Is the cavalry on the way that could help.
Speaker 1: But build off of this, find something in this win
Speaker 1: that can propel you forward and springboard you towards a
Speaker 1: winning streak. Tip off against the Knicks. Here it into
Speaker 1: a Dome on Friday, seven thirty pregame show starting at
Speaker 1: six thirty. Before we get out of here, I do
Speaker 1: want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Sieman,
Speaker 1: Noah Igo, Carlo Jimmenez, Paper the Jay Warner, our head
Speaker 1: engineer here at the Dome, our producer back in Burbank,
Speaker 1: Daniel West, Thank you. Daniel. Our leads statistician Chris Taylor.
Speaker 1: Till Friday with Clippers and Knicks with ther pregame show
Speaker 1: starting in six thirty. I'm Ouda Moslin. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you then. How about James Harden.
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