WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.080 --> 00:00:05.000 Phoning in. We're taking your calls on the LA Clippers 2 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:05.480 right now. 3 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:08.119 This peace Clippers Talk on Aaron. 4 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:09.839 On Demand, the Clippers Show of Record. 5 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:12.000 Your chance to react to everything. 6 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:13.839 Clippers Clippers news happens. 7 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:16.960 Let me guess it's about Kawhi. Here we are and. 8 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:19.839 Now here he is the host of your LA Clippers 9 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:21.480 pre and postgame. 10 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:25.719 At follow Adam a adam Ousley. Clippers win Game one 11 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.280 of this season's edition in the Battle of Los Angeles 12 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:31.800 here and into it Dome for the first time, they 13 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:35.200 beat the Lakers one sixteen to one two in their 14 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:37.799 new setting, in their new home and really their first home. 15 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:42.079 I'm Oudam Oslin. Welcome into a special edition of Clippers Talk, 16 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:45.799 taking you up until the bottom of next hour. Coming up, 17 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:47.920 we'll get to your phone calls eight sixty six nine 18 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.600 eight seven two, five seventy And if you're watching on 19 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:53.679 the YouTube side at Clippers Talk, we got you in 20 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:57.719 the chat. And if you're watching, well, spoiler alert was 21 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:01.079 already made because Carlo As is with us for the 22 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:05.000 next forty five minutes. Here, your radio voice of the Clippers. 23 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.400 We didn't get you enough tonight. I needed more. 24 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:09.120 I know. I'm sorry. 25 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:09.920 Give me some more. 26 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:10.640 This is my makeup. 27 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:14.359 Oh, I'm not here to talk about that. Who was 28 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:15.680 your player to watch? By the way, I had to 29 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.719 Beata Zubash You did. Big Bro knows it too. He's bad. 30 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:22.799 Big Bro wanted Big Zoo. But I did I not 31 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:24.799 call him out first? I did? 32 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:25.439 Man? 33 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:27.480 Boy? Was he? That? 34 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:31.719 Are we still going back and forth after the last 35 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:35.879 game too? Between Norman Terrence man Beazzazoobas is one of 36 00:01:35.959 --> 00:01:38.400 the main storylines coming out of this ball game with 37 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:42.239 how effective he was against Anthony Davis. You you've watched 38 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:45.120 the show. You know what people say. Sometimes people come 39 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:47.400 in here. There's this guy named Quintin. I think he said, 40 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:50.680 Viza Zubas just dumps the basketball. That's all he can do. 41 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:53.000 When he's one of the more skilled players big men 42 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:54.239 in the modern. 43 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:58.319 NBA, the guy who leads the NBA and made hook shots. 44 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.799 Just junks the basketball. That's what and told me Quinton, 45 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:03.159 he's a watching more basketball. 46 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:03.319 Man. 47 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:04.719 Feel like you just called him a casual. 48 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:07.599 I mean, I mean, look at this, that's my guy. 49 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:10.960 Look at this. Well, he's also said he doesn't show 50 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:15.840 up against elite defenders, against other good bigs. I feel 51 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:17.360 like Anthony Davis qualifies. 52 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:19.560 Oh no, Adam, you're right, because there's no other good 53 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:21.960 bigs in the NBA. That's the only way that statement 54 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:26.599 makes sense. Yeah, no, I mean Anthony Davis qualifies. Let's 55 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:28.759 think about this everyone and eats the zoo. Butts has 56 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:32.759 two twenty point nineteen rebound games against Jaron Jackson Junior 57 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.360 and Anthony Davis. Okay, those are top five NBA bigs. 58 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:37.520 Thank you. 59 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.439 He rests his case. Carlo's on the case, and now 60 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:46.439 he arrests it. Clippers win tonight big over the Lakers. 61 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:48.520 You know, in that second half, things did get a 62 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:51.560 little bit dicey for a second, just because the circumstances 63 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:54.719 when the other team knows Kawhi Leonard's not coming back 64 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:56.599 into this ball game and we have a chance to 65 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:59.240 make en roads before the third quarter is over, where 66 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:01.840 the Clippers led by many as twenty six, but that 67 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:05.199 thirteen to two run by the Lakers and the confidence 68 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:07.639 they could probably draw from after the game last season 69 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:09.639 when they came back down twenty one to the fourth quarter, 70 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:12.199 it felt like it wasn't over till it was over. 71 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:14.800 And maybe that right wing three from James Harden finally 72 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:16.080 in the fourth quarter edit things. 73 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:19.159 Yeah, this Clipper team, I mean they allowed it to 74 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:23.599 get a little close down the stretch. But what's impressive is, Adam, 75 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:26.680 they never broke in this game. They were they bent, 76 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:29.520 they bent. It was eleven points multiple times in the 77 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:32.879 fourth quarter. Clippers never allowed it to get any closer, 78 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:35.840 and they played their brand of basketball. I think the 79 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.879 most impressive part about this, Adam, is the Clippers just 80 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:43.240 enforced their will. I mean every single aspect of the game. 81 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:47.039 They dominated the rebounding board, they dominated the termover battle. 82 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:50.120 They were able to not allow the Lakers to have 83 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:54.080 this drastic difference at the free throw line. You talked 84 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:56.680 about it on your preview, but the Clippers. The Lakers 85 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:59.879 average about plus five from the free throw line every night. 86 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:02.960 I mean only plus five tonight. You'll take that if 87 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:06.159 you're this Clipper team. They checked every box in this game. Now, 88 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:09.400 Tomorrow night against Chicago, when James Harden plays forty, nor 89 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:11.400 one plays thirty sevens who plays thirty five? Is that 90 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.400 gonna be a tough game, especially when you have the 91 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:18.600 Celtics and the Wizards one day after that. After TYLERU Tyler, 92 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:21.040 there's been conversation around this lock about this coaching staff 93 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:22.920 at him, and we might have to do some digging. 94 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.240 I thought, and half this coaching staff believes they banned 95 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:29.000 four games and five nights. I thought that wasn't a 96 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:29.639 thing anymore. 97 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:32.480 I mean I tried to ban it. I didn't know 98 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:34.519 they were trying to as well. I tried to ban 99 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:36.560 five and sevens too. But that's happening now. 100 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:39.279 Also, there's a heated debate in the coach among the 101 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:42.399 coaching staff about the ability to play five five. 102 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.040 Wow, well this is intel. This is a scoop from 103 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:45.839 Carlo Jimenez. 104 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:46.279 I guess so. 105 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:47.839 I mean, I'm just trying to figure out too, to 106 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:49.839 be honest with you, I'm just trying. I did not 107 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:52.560 know you could play. I knew you could play five 108 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:54.639 and seven, right, because you play two games day off, 109 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:56.000 game day off, two games. 110 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:58.480 That makes sense four and five though. 111 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:02.759 And we have had situations once this season, once last 112 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:06.240 season where the Clippers had played two games and started 113 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:08.519 the second one less than twenty four hours after the 114 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:11.600 first one. We thought that was illegal. 115 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.879 Yeah, it turns out twenty two hours is the minimum 116 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:17.120 amount of time in between games. Yeah, so if they 117 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:18.920 played that game at twelve forty five. 118 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:20.079 He couldn't do it. 119 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:22.600 I felt like Brian Seman gave us the misinformation there, 120 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:25.040 though I'm not trying to hate. Oh is Brian still here? 121 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:25.639 Oh no, he's not. 122 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:26.920 He's not shoot. 123 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:31.519 All right. Clippers win over the Lakers, big. Hear it 124 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.319 into a dome one sixteen to one oh two. You 125 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:36.639 talk about Kawhi Leonard being out of that game down 126 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:39.319 the stretch. We knew it coming into the ballgame. He'd 127 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:42.319 be at about twenty four minutes and the Clippers having 128 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:45.839 to make big shots late in the ball game some 129 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:48.079 of them, and a lot of them did come with 130 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:51.040 the Beatza Zubats back out there on the floor. But 131 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:54.319 that little hook shot that he got over Jackson Hayes 132 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:57.519 when the double came late on the left block out 133 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:00.160 of the time out, that was a big moment. And 134 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:02.600 then he had the big defense on Anthony Davis on 135 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:05.480 that fallaway guess the rebound. I mean he was doing 136 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:07.879 it all. He wasn't just getting the stop. Then he's 137 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:09.480 closing out the possession, gaining the board. 138 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:13.519 The comfortability that he shows when he has it in 139 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:16.000 the block. You mentioned that in one he was patient. 140 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.680 He knew the double team was coming. He was able 141 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:21.600 to use that double team to create contact and finish. 142 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:24.360 But at the same time, Adam the ball and we've 143 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:26.839 talked about this. Three assists to night for Big Zoo 144 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:29.399 Clippers are eleven and one this season when he is 145 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:32.399 four or more. I mean, he's also moving the basketball 146 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:36.040 for this team. It was a very impressive showing from 147 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:39.120 a Vita Zoo bots and his ability to be able 148 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:42.439 to take over a game in which you didn't realize 149 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:44.959 he was taken over until he looked at the box score, right. 150 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:46.160 I mean, if you. 151 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:48.560 Watch this game, you're thinking, wow, Zu's having a good game, 152 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:51.199 but nobody it's like any twenty one to nineteen. 153 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:52.319 You know, he just dominated. 154 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:54.399 I felt like a lot of those rebounds too late 155 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:58.160 in the game offensive rebounds the Clippers do have. And 156 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:02.160 Mobamba was reading Twitter bit Mobamba when Zoo is getting 157 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:04.879 every by. Lauren Rosen postgame said, top five center, top 158 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:07.319 five center. I think that's a real conversation. This is 159 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:09.439 somebody who's six in the league and field goal percentage, 160 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:12.959 He's top five in offensive and defensive rebounding. He's averaging 161 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.839 fifteen points and twelve rebounds. This is a player who 162 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:20.560 checks every box when you think about his ability to 163 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:22.439 be a top five player. He's top five in the 164 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:25.360 in the categories that would make you a great center 165 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:28.879 at him, and there needs to be real I know 166 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:31.879 we're pushing Norman bal for All Star and it's a 167 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:34.079 lot tougher at a big man spot to be an 168 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:36.240 All Star because the league is so guard heavy and 169 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:39.639 guards often put up these ridiculous numbers. But it beats 170 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:42.800 the zoo bots. If he's not on an All NBA team, 171 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:44.959 I think there's there's a real conversation if he continues 172 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:46.120 to play like this. There needs to be a real 173 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:48.560 conversation because this is a guy top five in every 174 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:49.360 major category. 175 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:50.480 He needs to be top five. 176 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:54.879 I mean, his defense has been criminally underrated for years. 177 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.000 All you have to do is look at rim protection 178 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:01.519 or defense within six feet of the what guys shoot there. 179 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.279 He's top five every season and I believe last year 180 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:08.000 did he end up number one in a rim protection. 181 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:10.319 On guys who guarded over two hundred shots. There was 182 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:15.000 no better protector from the rim to five feet than 183 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:15.839 it eats a Zubos. 184 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:20.279 And it's something where that's what today's that's how you 185 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:22.800 can have a good defense. In today's NBA, you have 186 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:25.480 to have that anchor. You have to have that guy 187 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:27.879 who's good to being the backbone goo to being the 188 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:31.000 rim protector and protecting the mode, as we often say. 189 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:33.519 And the Clippers have an elite one. So he's already 190 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.399 been great in this area. He has been an established 191 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:39.320 elite rint protector going back five plus years. Now with 192 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.240 this Clippers team, you can check the data on that 193 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:43.360 and you can check just how important it is to 194 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:47.039 have one of those guys. But now he's being featured more. Yeah, 195 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:49.480 he's a bigger part of the offense. People are starting 196 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:51.759 to see the skill set, the well rounded game he 197 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:53.799 has in the offensive end. It is far from just 198 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:57.320 dunks out there of eats the zoobots. Maybe tonight in 199 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:01.279 a game against Anthony Davis where he apps aslutely crushed 200 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:04.399 his competition at that position, maybe this will give him 201 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:05.399 a little bit more recognition. 202 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:06.399 Can you imagine? 203 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:09.279 Can you believe, Adam that when they signed Zoo to 204 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:11.519 that three year, fifty six million dollars deal, some people 205 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:12.480 said it was an overpay. 206 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:17.519 You can that even I mean, I mean, I can't even. 207 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:19.879 Comprehend with the way he's playing that that could be 208 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:21.200 a legitimate thing. 209 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:22.679 People could say. 210 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:25.240 He's already outperforming the extension that hasn't kicked in. 211 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.200 The guy's unbelievable. He's unbelievable. 212 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:31.200 And I think you brought up a great point talking 213 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:34.000 about having that back line of defense, because how many times, 214 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:36.320 I mean, even when I was researching the Lakers, something 215 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:39.039 Dorian Phinty Smith said about getting excited to join the 216 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:41.240 Lakers is you have a guy like Anthony Davis where 217 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.360 you can gamble more on the outside. We've we've heard 218 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:45.559 that from from people who play with Wemby and San 219 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:48.639 Antonio that I could I could reach, I could. 220 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:49.879 Play up all the time. 221 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:53.840 And it allows guys like Derek Jones Junior, and Chris 222 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:57.519 Dunn and Kawhi Leonard to excel at such an elite 223 00:09:57.600 --> 00:09:59.960 level on the defensive end because they know we have help. 224 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:02.440 And if you want to just think about, well, what 225 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:04.080 does it look like when you don't have help. Norman 226 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:06.679 Pale got three lamps when Jackson Hayes was in the game, 227 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:09.679 I mean, he got to the rim with no resistance. 228 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:11.879 When you do not have that rim protector out there, 229 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:13.679 it completely changes. 230 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:14.960 The way you have to play defense. 231 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:17.200 And the Clippers have that room protector in a Viatz 232 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:20.600 zubots four blocks today for the big man. 233 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:23.759 It's one of the reasons the Lakers struggles so much 234 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:26.240 on that end. Now you can say, well, Anthony Davis 235 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:29.080 is their rim protector, and he can be at times, 236 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:31.639 but teams try to pull him away from the basket 237 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:35.360 because he's so athletic and has that switchability. Sometimes he's 238 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:38.120 on guards. He's pulled out to the perimeter multiple times 239 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:42.279 in this game. Basically anytime they weren't doubling Kawhi Leonard 240 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:45.399 the Lakers, that meant Anthony Davis was on him instead. 241 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:47.559 So Kawhi is pulling him out to the mid range, 242 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:49.960 pulling him out to the perimeter. He can't protect the 243 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:52.919 rim when he's out there. That is the strategy teams 244 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:55.200 have been using against the Lakers since they lost to 245 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:59.240 Veil McGee, since they lost Dwhite Howard, since they lost Marcassohl. 246 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:02.240 They haven't been able to replace those guys. And you 247 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:05.360 see the value in somebody like that. With the Vitza 248 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.120 zoobots out there today for the Clippers and Jackson Hayes 249 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:10.679 just not being that guy that's not one of his 250 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:13.320 strengths protecting the rim. You mentioned it Norm Pale going 251 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:16.080 right at him, but somebody else said in here, god, 252 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:18.559 if Zoo could just shoot well. First of all, we 253 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:22.159 don't know he can't. We know this though. Last season 254 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.919 from five to nine feet out he led the league 255 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:30.600 in field goal percentage. He was better there than Nikola Jokic. 256 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:34.240 So the float game, the push shot game, the little 257 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:38.360 runners from a vitza zubots, I mean, those are very 258 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:40.480 skilled shots where you have to have touch. 259 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:44.039 It is I mean his ability at him. We interviewed 260 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:46.080 him in Charlotte. I never forget ask him about So 261 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:48.120 you get to that right hand and he cut me 262 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:50.159 off and he goes, yeah, that's money he got me. 263 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:52.600 They're not going to me right hand hook shot. That's 264 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:53.600 the first shot he learned. 265 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:57.799 And he has been absolutely effective and automatic for this 266 00:11:57.840 --> 00:11:59.879 Clipper team when he gets to the right hand hook shot. 267 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:03.600 His ability to be a threat in the entire paint, 268 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:06.120 I think is where you see that be effective. I 269 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:08.639 mean he's shooting right handed float from the dotted hash 270 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:11.960 and that is money every single time he gets to 271 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.480 that area. You talked about him being a great defender, 272 00:12:14.519 --> 00:12:16.480 but I also want to bring up how it's kind 273 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:19.960 of a symbiotic relationship because the Clippers. You mentioned how 274 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:22.159 eight is always switching on to the double team, and 275 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:24.840 the Clippers don't really have to double with Zoo because 276 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:27.240 they have such good on ball defenders, right, Chris Dunn 277 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:29.720 and Derek Jones Junior fight over screens, So you don't 278 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:33.120 see Zubots in that same precarious situation where he's out 279 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:35.240 on the guard. I mean, how often have we seen 280 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:37.919 that this season? Not much, if at all, have we 281 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:40.399 seen of Eats Zubots isolated on a guard. And when 282 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:42.559 we have, we saw it today. I thought he's done. 283 00:12:42.679 --> 00:12:45.039 He's done a pretty good job one on one on 284 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:49.559 the outside. For this Clipper team, it just continues to shine. 285 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:51.919 You have to give all the credit in the world 286 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:56.120 to one Lawrence Frank for find saying, hey, that other 287 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:57.720 team in LA has a big man. 288 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:00.480 They're just gonna give to us. Yeah, we'll take them. 289 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:02.320 We'll think so how much credits and magic? 290 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:06.039 Well, give a little credit to magic thinking magic. And 291 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:09.799 then also the Clippers staff are just developing of Eats 292 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:13.519 Zoubots into the absolute monster that he is right now 293 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:15.559 for the Clippers. 294 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:17.360 Just so so so good. 295 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:19.840 You get twenty one to nineteen from your big man, 296 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:23.480 I adam it. It makes you think, like when you 297 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:27.159 compare I know DeAndre Jordan had this long, illustrious career, 298 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.399 but when you compare those guys, two amazing bigs for 299 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.320 the Clippers in the last twenty years to center their defense, 300 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:36.679 and it eats to Zubots is slowly inching towards the 301 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:39.799 level of legendary status that DeAndre had with the Clippers. 302 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:43.919 Oh wait a moment, let's pause ten seconds for station identification. 303 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:46.919 Here on AM five seventy l A Sports, this. 304 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:51.879 Is LA Clippers Basketball. AM five to seventy KLAC Los Angeles, 305 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:56.679 ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio station. 306 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:59.519 Clippers take down the Lakers and their first matchup add 307 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:02.799 into it one sixteen to one OHO two. Patch yourself 308 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:05.360 on the back, Clipper Nation, You showed up. You were 309 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:08.320 loud tonight. We all felt like it was seventy thirty 310 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:12.039 Clippers fans to Lakers fans in a Lakers city with 311 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:17.120 their history. That was impressive. The movement is working. The 312 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:21.000 Into It Dome is working. Yeah, everything that Steve Balmer 313 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.840 has had the vision for is happening right now. I 314 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:28.200 was a little bit shocked that there weren't more Lakers 315 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.759 fans in the building tonight, but I was pleasantly surprised 316 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:32.159 as well. 317 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:34.559 I mean, shout out the Clippers for building a twenty 318 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:37.039 six point lead. You really never heard them if they 319 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.679 weren't the building till late in that came. It was 320 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:41.559 fun at them, It was really really fun. Adam, I 321 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:43.639 do have to leave you for ten minutes, but I 322 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:45.120 will be back before the end. 323 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:45.519 Of the show. 324 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:46.679 Okay, there's the tease. 325 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:48.000 I promise I will be back. 326 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.480 We'll take a quick time out. We'll get to your 327 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:53.080 phone calls eight sixty six ninety eight seven two five 328 00:14:53.159 --> 00:14:56.399 seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy with 329 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:59.159 you till the bottom of the hour. As the Clippers 330 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:01.559 win one's sixteen one o two over the Lakers. Hey, 331 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.399 does anybody have what the biggest point disparity? What the 332 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:08.279 biggest point differential is over three games? 333 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:08.600 Now? 334 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:12.559 Because the Clippers just went plus one oh two over 335 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:16.279 their last three ball games, what's the record for that. 336 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:19.600 I'm out of Boslin and you're listening to AF five 337 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:24.120 seventy LA Sports. 338 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:34.360 The l Lague Clippers. You're listening to LA Clippers Basketball. 339 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:37.840 Take us with you wherever you are on the iHeartRadio app. 340 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:43.639 Clippers win Round one against the Lakers. In the twenty 341 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:47.759 twenty four twenty twenty five season, they reached the midway 342 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:51.519 point in style. They're seven games above five hundred after 343 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:53.639 they take down the Lake Show one sixteen to one 344 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:55.600 oh two. Here it into a dome in their first 345 00:15:55.639 --> 00:16:00.200 game ever played here in the Clippers new arena, and 346 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:04.360 really their first. Clippers are twenty four and seventeen. Lakers 347 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:07.600 dropped to twenty two and eighteen. We'll update you on 348 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:11.360 the standings coming up here. But I know Clipper Nation 349 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.919 is excited after this one, and there's excitement growing because 350 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:18.240 of how good Kawhi Leonard has looked so far, and 351 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:21.559 he has. I didn't expect him to look this good 352 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:27.480 this quickly. I did preface his return coming back from 353 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:31.879 this injury versus the acl in telling everyone it's just swelling, 354 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:36.919 there's no structural damage. So they get the swelling down. 355 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:40.279 He should be able to move the same way he 356 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:44.679 did last season. So Kawhi starts off the game on Lebron, 357 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:47.559 who he guarded multiple possessions. I don't know what the 358 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:53.320 matchup data said, but he was isoled on Lebron good six, seven, 359 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:57.799 eight times, and he created a steal right away as 360 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:00.320 the Lakers are going for a pocket pass, but he 361 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:05.519 missed the three on the right wing. Then Kawhi did 362 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:09.400 lose Lebron at the six to forty mark, who hit 363 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:12.960 a three pointer. He hit some tough ones too. The 364 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.519 Lakers started off fast from three. I want to say 365 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:19.319 they were four to eight. Then Kawhi is a fade 366 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:21.319 away over a d at the five minute mark. At 367 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:27.920 the first second quarter, Kawhi drops Austin Reeves and hit 368 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:31.039 a fade away on the far side. Then at the 369 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:34.920 four to thirty mark, had a one handed scoop layup 370 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:37.880 with the right hand off an inbounds pass from James 371 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:42.240 Harden and then a spinning layup that was tough on 372 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:45.880 the left block, went around his defender. I think it 373 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:50.000 was Gabe Benson on him too small, and Kawhi definitely 374 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:54.519 made him look small on that play. So those were 375 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:58.880 his eleven points in the first half, but he has 376 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:03.319 eight more than the third and they really used up 377 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:07.160 all the Kawhi powers in the minutes that he was 378 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:09.960 given tonight. Before he was leaving the game, you knew 379 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:11.799 who was gonna be out around twenty four minutes. Coach 380 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:15.880 Lou told his pregame that his minutes haven't been extended yet. 381 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:22.240 But the layup he caught between the pass he caught 382 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:25.240 from James Harden for the layup between multiple defenders right 383 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:28.279 underneath the basket, and that pass caught the Lakers by 384 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:31.160 surprise that James Harden was able to make that. But 385 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:37.880 that was a really beautiful exchange between Uno Doves and 386 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:40.480 James Harden. Of course he can do that all day. 387 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:43.960 Then Kawhi hit a mid range over Reeves, then a 388 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:47.359 floater over a double team to put him up eighty 389 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:50.000 one to sixty two, and then a fade away his 390 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:53.880 final bucket over Dorian Finney Smith, who, if you remember, 391 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:56.480 was with the Dallas Mavericks in that first round series 392 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:59.319 against the Clippers back in twenty twenty one, and Kawhi 393 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.319 torched him in the game. He had forty five in 394 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:05.599 the must win situation in Dallas in Game six, So 395 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:11.440 Kawhi hits that fade away over DFS, it's eighty three 396 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:14.079 to sixty two by the time he goes out of 397 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:19.039 the ballgame and hits his minute limit. It's eighty eight 398 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:23.359 to sixty four. The Clippers are up by twenty four. 399 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:28.079 Kawhi's out of the ballgame. I took a deep breath, 400 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:30.240 but I also said to myself, I've seen this Lakers 401 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:32.880