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Speaker 1: At follow Adam a adam Ousley. Clippers win Game one
Speaker 1: of this season's edition in the Battle of Los Angeles
Speaker 1: here and into it Dome for the first time, they
Speaker 1: beat the Lakers one sixteen to one two in their
Speaker 1: new setting, in their new home and really their first home.
Speaker 1: I'm Oudam Oslin. Welcome into a special edition of Clippers Talk,
Speaker 1: taking you up until the bottom of next hour. Coming up,
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Speaker 1: already made because Carlo As is with us for the
Speaker 1: next forty five minutes. Here, your radio voice of the Clippers.
Speaker 1: We didn't get you enough tonight. I needed more.
Speaker 3: I know. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Give me some more.
Speaker 3: This is my makeup.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not here to talk about that. Who was
Speaker 1: your player to watch? By the way, I had to
Speaker 1: Beata Zubash You did. Big Bro knows it too. He's bad.
Speaker 1: Big Bro wanted Big Zoo. But I did I not
Speaker 1: call him out first? I did?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Boy? Was he? That?
Speaker 1: Are we still going back and forth after the last
Speaker 1: game too? Between Norman Terrence man Beazzazoobas is one of
Speaker 1: the main storylines coming out of this ball game with
Speaker 1: how effective he was against Anthony Davis. You you've watched
Speaker 1: the show. You know what people say. Sometimes people come
Speaker 1: in here. There's this guy named Quintin. I think he said,
Speaker 1: Viza Zubas just dumps the basketball. That's all he can do.
Speaker 1: When he's one of the more skilled players big men
Speaker 1: in the modern.
Speaker 4: NBA, the guy who leads the NBA and made hook shots.
Speaker 4: Just junks the basketball. That's what and told me Quinton,
Speaker 4: he's a watching more basketball.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Feel like you just called him a casual.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, look at this, that's my guy.
Speaker 1: Look at this. Well, he's also said he doesn't show
Speaker 1: up against elite defenders, against other good bigs. I feel
Speaker 1: like Anthony Davis qualifies.
Speaker 4: Oh no, Adam, you're right, because there's no other good
Speaker 4: bigs in the NBA. That's the only way that statement
Speaker 4: makes sense. Yeah, no, I mean Anthony Davis qualifies. Let's
Speaker 4: think about this everyone and eats the zoo. Butts has
Speaker 4: two twenty point nineteen rebound games against Jaron Jackson Junior
Speaker 4: and Anthony Davis. Okay, those are top five NBA bigs.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: He rests his case. Carlo's on the case, and now
Speaker 1: he arrests it. Clippers win tonight big over the Lakers.
Speaker 1: You know, in that second half, things did get a
Speaker 1: little bit dicey for a second, just because the circumstances
Speaker 1: when the other team knows Kawhi Leonard's not coming back
Speaker 1: into this ball game and we have a chance to
Speaker 1: make en roads before the third quarter is over, where
Speaker 1: the Clippers led by many as twenty six, but that
Speaker 1: thirteen to two run by the Lakers and the confidence
Speaker 1: they could probably draw from after the game last season
Speaker 1: when they came back down twenty one to the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: it felt like it wasn't over till it was over.
Speaker 1: And maybe that right wing three from James Harden finally
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter edit things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this Clipper team, I mean they allowed it to
Speaker 4: get a little close down the stretch. But what's impressive is, Adam,
Speaker 4: they never broke in this game. They were they bent,
Speaker 4: they bent. It was eleven points multiple times in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter. Clippers never allowed it to get any closer,
Speaker 4: and they played their brand of basketball. I think the
Speaker 4: most impressive part about this, Adam, is the Clippers just
Speaker 4: enforced their will. I mean every single aspect of the game.
Speaker 4: They dominated the rebounding board, they dominated the termover battle.
Speaker 4: They were able to not allow the Lakers to have
Speaker 4: this drastic difference at the free throw line. You talked
Speaker 4: about it on your preview, but the Clippers. The Lakers
Speaker 4: average about plus five from the free throw line every night.
Speaker 4: I mean only plus five tonight. You'll take that if
Speaker 4: you're this Clipper team. They checked every box in this game. Now,
Speaker 4: Tomorrow night against Chicago, when James Harden plays forty, nor
Speaker 4: one plays thirty sevens who plays thirty five? Is that
Speaker 4: gonna be a tough game, especially when you have the
Speaker 4: Celtics and the Wizards one day after that. After TYLERU Tyler,
Speaker 4: there's been conversation around this lock about this coaching staff
Speaker 4: at him, and we might have to do some digging.
Speaker 4: I thought, and half this coaching staff believes they banned
Speaker 4: four games and five nights. I thought that wasn't a
Speaker 4: thing anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean I tried to ban it. I didn't know
Speaker 1: they were trying to as well. I tried to ban
Speaker 1: five and sevens too. But that's happening now.
Speaker 4: Also, there's a heated debate in the coach among the
Speaker 4: coaching staff about the ability to play five five.
Speaker 1: Wow, well this is intel. This is a scoop from
Speaker 1: Carlo Jimenez.
Speaker 3: I guess so.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm just trying to figure out too, to
Speaker 4: be honest with you, I'm just trying. I did not
Speaker 4: know you could play. I knew you could play five
Speaker 4: and seven, right, because you play two games day off,
Speaker 4: game day off, two games.
Speaker 3: That makes sense four and five though.
Speaker 1: And we have had situations once this season, once last
Speaker 1: season where the Clippers had played two games and started
Speaker 1: the second one less than twenty four hours after the
Speaker 1: first one. We thought that was illegal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it turns out twenty two hours is the minimum
Speaker 4: amount of time in between games. Yeah, so if they
Speaker 4: played that game at twelve forty five.
Speaker 3: He couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: I felt like Brian Seman gave us the misinformation there,
Speaker 1: though I'm not trying to hate. Oh is Brian still here?
Speaker 1: Oh no, he's not.
Speaker 3: He's not shoot.
Speaker 1: All right. Clippers win over the Lakers, big. Hear it
Speaker 1: into a dome one sixteen to one oh two. You
Speaker 1: talk about Kawhi Leonard being out of that game down
Speaker 1: the stretch. We knew it coming into the ballgame. He'd
Speaker 1: be at about twenty four minutes and the Clippers having
Speaker 1: to make big shots late in the ball game some
Speaker 1: of them, and a lot of them did come with
Speaker 1: the Beatza Zubats back out there on the floor. But
Speaker 1: that little hook shot that he got over Jackson Hayes
Speaker 1: when the double came late on the left block out
Speaker 1: of the time out, that was a big moment. And
Speaker 1: then he had the big defense on Anthony Davis on
Speaker 1: that fallaway guess the rebound. I mean he was doing
Speaker 1: it all. He wasn't just getting the stop. Then he's
Speaker 1: closing out the possession, gaining the board.
Speaker 4: The comfortability that he shows when he has it in
Speaker 4: the block. You mentioned that in one he was patient.
Speaker 4: He knew the double team was coming. He was able
Speaker 4: to use that double team to create contact and finish.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, Adam the ball and we've
Speaker 4: talked about this. Three assists to night for Big Zoo
Speaker 4: Clippers are eleven and one this season when he is
Speaker 4: four or more. I mean, he's also moving the basketball
Speaker 4: for this team. It was a very impressive showing from
Speaker 4: a Vita Zoo bots and his ability to be able
Speaker 4: to take over a game in which you didn't realize
Speaker 4: he was taken over until he looked at the box score, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you.
Speaker 4: Watch this game, you're thinking, wow, Zu's having a good game,
Speaker 4: but nobody it's like any twenty one to nineteen.
Speaker 3: You know, he just dominated.
Speaker 4: I felt like a lot of those rebounds too late
Speaker 4: in the game offensive rebounds the Clippers do have. And
Speaker 4: Mobamba was reading Twitter bit Mobamba when Zoo is getting
Speaker 4: every by. Lauren Rosen postgame said, top five center, top
Speaker 4: five center. I think that's a real conversation. This is
Speaker 4: somebody who's six in the league and field goal percentage,
Speaker 4: He's top five in offensive and defensive rebounding. He's averaging
Speaker 4: fifteen points and twelve rebounds. This is a player who
Speaker 4: checks every box when you think about his ability to
Speaker 4: be a top five player. He's top five in the
Speaker 4: in the categories that would make you a great center
Speaker 4: at him, and there needs to be real I know
Speaker 4: we're pushing Norman bal for All Star and it's a
Speaker 4: lot tougher at a big man spot to be an
Speaker 4: All Star because the league is so guard heavy and
Speaker 4: guards often put up these ridiculous numbers. But it beats
Speaker 4: the zoo bots. If he's not on an All NBA team,
Speaker 4: I think there's there's a real conversation if he continues
Speaker 4: to play like this. There needs to be a real
Speaker 4: conversation because this is a guy top five in every
Speaker 4: major category.
Speaker 3: He needs to be top five.
Speaker 1: I mean, his defense has been criminally underrated for years.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is look at rim protection
Speaker 1: or defense within six feet of the what guys shoot there.
Speaker 1: He's top five every season and I believe last year
Speaker 1: did he end up number one in a rim protection.
Speaker 4: On guys who guarded over two hundred shots. There was
Speaker 4: no better protector from the rim to five feet than
Speaker 4: it eats a Zubos.
Speaker 1: And it's something where that's what today's that's how you
Speaker 1: can have a good defense. In today's NBA, you have
Speaker 1: to have that anchor. You have to have that guy
Speaker 1: who's good to being the backbone goo to being the
Speaker 1: rim protector and protecting the mode, as we often say.
Speaker 1: And the Clippers have an elite one. So he's already
Speaker 1: been great in this area. He has been an established
Speaker 1: elite rint protector going back five plus years. Now with
Speaker 1: this Clippers team, you can check the data on that
Speaker 1: and you can check just how important it is to
Speaker 1: have one of those guys. But now he's being featured more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a bigger part of the offense. People are starting
Speaker 1: to see the skill set, the well rounded game he
Speaker 1: has in the offensive end. It is far from just
Speaker 1: dunks out there of eats the zoobots. Maybe tonight in
Speaker 1: a game against Anthony Davis where he apps aslutely crushed
Speaker 1: his competition at that position, maybe this will give him
Speaker 1: a little bit more recognition.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine?
Speaker 4: Can you believe, Adam that when they signed Zoo to
Speaker 4: that three year, fifty six million dollars deal, some people
Speaker 4: said it was an overpay.
Speaker 3: You can that even I mean, I mean, I can't even.
Speaker 4: Comprehend with the way he's playing that that could be
Speaker 4: a legitimate thing.
Speaker 3: People could say.
Speaker 1: He's already outperforming the extension that hasn't kicked in.
Speaker 3: The guy's unbelievable. He's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: And I think you brought up a great point talking
Speaker 4: about having that back line of defense, because how many times,
Speaker 4: I mean, even when I was researching the Lakers, something
Speaker 4: Dorian Phinty Smith said about getting excited to join the
Speaker 4: Lakers is you have a guy like Anthony Davis where
Speaker 4: you can gamble more on the outside. We've we've heard
Speaker 4: that from from people who play with Wemby and San
Speaker 4: Antonio that I could I could reach, I could.
Speaker 3: Play up all the time.
Speaker 4: And it allows guys like Derek Jones Junior, and Chris
Speaker 4: Dunn and Kawhi Leonard to excel at such an elite
Speaker 4: level on the defensive end because they know we have help.
Speaker 4: And if you want to just think about, well, what
Speaker 4: does it look like when you don't have help. Norman
Speaker 4: Pale got three lamps when Jackson Hayes was in the game,
Speaker 4: I mean, he got to the rim with no resistance.
Speaker 4: When you do not have that rim protector out there,
Speaker 4: it completely changes.
Speaker 3: The way you have to play defense.
Speaker 4: And the Clippers have that room protector in a Viatz
Speaker 4: zubots four blocks today for the big man.
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons the Lakers struggles so much
Speaker 1: on that end. Now you can say, well, Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: is their rim protector, and he can be at times,
Speaker 1: but teams try to pull him away from the basket
Speaker 1: because he's so athletic and has that switchability. Sometimes he's
Speaker 1: on guards. He's pulled out to the perimeter multiple times
Speaker 1: in this game. Basically anytime they weren't doubling Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: the Lakers, that meant Anthony Davis was on him instead.
Speaker 1: So Kawhi is pulling him out to the mid range,
Speaker 1: pulling him out to the perimeter. He can't protect the
Speaker 1: rim when he's out there. That is the strategy teams
Speaker 1: have been using against the Lakers since they lost to
Speaker 1: Veil McGee, since they lost Dwhite Howard, since they lost Marcassohl.
Speaker 1: They haven't been able to replace those guys. And you
Speaker 1: see the value in somebody like that. With the Vitza
Speaker 1: zoobots out there today for the Clippers and Jackson Hayes
Speaker 1: just not being that guy that's not one of his
Speaker 1: strengths protecting the rim. You mentioned it Norm Pale going
Speaker 1: right at him, but somebody else said in here, god,
Speaker 1: if Zoo could just shoot well. First of all, we
Speaker 1: don't know he can't. We know this though. Last season
Speaker 1: from five to nine feet out he led the league
Speaker 1: in field goal percentage. He was better there than Nikola Jokic.
Speaker 1: So the float game, the push shot game, the little
Speaker 1: runners from a vitza zubots, I mean, those are very
Speaker 1: skilled shots where you have to have touch.
Speaker 4: It is I mean his ability at him. We interviewed
Speaker 4: him in Charlotte. I never forget ask him about So
Speaker 4: you get to that right hand and he cut me
Speaker 4: off and he goes, yeah, that's money he got me.
Speaker 3: They're not going to me right hand hook shot. That's
Speaker 3: the first shot he learned.
Speaker 4: And he has been absolutely effective and automatic for this
Speaker 4: Clipper team when he gets to the right hand hook shot.
Speaker 4: His ability to be a threat in the entire paint,
Speaker 4: I think is where you see that be effective. I
Speaker 4: mean he's shooting right handed float from the dotted hash
Speaker 4: and that is money every single time he gets to
Speaker 4: that area. You talked about him being a great defender,
Speaker 4: but I also want to bring up how it's kind
Speaker 4: of a symbiotic relationship because the Clippers. You mentioned how
Speaker 4: eight is always switching on to the double team, and
Speaker 4: the Clippers don't really have to double with Zoo because
Speaker 4: they have such good on ball defenders, right, Chris Dunn
Speaker 4: and Derek Jones Junior fight over screens, So you don't
Speaker 4: see Zubots in that same precarious situation where he's out
Speaker 4: on the guard. I mean, how often have we seen
Speaker 4: that this season? Not much, if at all, have we
Speaker 4: seen of Eats Zubots isolated on a guard. And when
Speaker 4: we have, we saw it today. I thought he's done.
Speaker 4: He's done a pretty good job one on one on
Speaker 4: the outside. For this Clipper team, it just continues to shine.
Speaker 4: You have to give all the credit in the world
Speaker 4: to one Lawrence Frank for find saying, hey, that other
Speaker 4: team in LA has a big man.
Speaker 3: They're just gonna give to us. Yeah, we'll take them.
Speaker 1: We'll think so how much credits and magic?
Speaker 4: Well, give a little credit to magic thinking magic. And
Speaker 4: then also the Clippers staff are just developing of Eats
Speaker 4: Zoubots into the absolute monster that he is right now
Speaker 4: for the Clippers.
Speaker 3: Just so so so good.
Speaker 4: You get twenty one to nineteen from your big man,
Speaker 4: I adam it. It makes you think, like when you
Speaker 4: compare I know DeAndre Jordan had this long, illustrious career,
Speaker 4: but when you compare those guys, two amazing bigs for
Speaker 4: the Clippers in the last twenty years to center their defense,
Speaker 4: and it eats to Zubots is slowly inching towards the
Speaker 4: level of legendary status that DeAndre had with the Clippers.
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Speaker 1: Clippers take down the Lakers and their first matchup add
Speaker 1: into it one sixteen to one OHO two. Patch yourself
Speaker 1: on the back, Clipper Nation, You showed up. You were
Speaker 1: loud tonight. We all felt like it was seventy thirty
Speaker 1: Clippers fans to Lakers fans in a Lakers city with
Speaker 1: their history. That was impressive. The movement is working. The
Speaker 1: Into It Dome is working. Yeah, everything that Steve Balmer
Speaker 1: has had the vision for is happening right now. I
Speaker 1: was a little bit shocked that there weren't more Lakers
Speaker 1: fans in the building tonight, but I was pleasantly surprised
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 4: I mean, shout out the Clippers for building a twenty
Speaker 4: six point lead. You really never heard them if they
Speaker 4: weren't the building till late in that came. It was
Speaker 4: fun at them, It was really really fun. Adam, I
Speaker 4: do have to leave you for ten minutes, but I
Speaker 4: will be back before the end.
Speaker 3: Of the show.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's the tease.
Speaker 3: I promise I will be back.
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Speaker 1: win one's sixteen one o two over the Lakers. Hey,
Speaker 1: does anybody have what the biggest point disparity? What the
Speaker 1: biggest point differential is over three games?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Because the Clippers just went plus one oh two over
Speaker 1: their last three ball games, what's the record for that.
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Speaker 1: Clippers win Round one against the Lakers. In the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four twenty twenty five season, they reached the midway
Speaker 1: point in style. They're seven games above five hundred after
Speaker 1: they take down the Lake Show one sixteen to one
Speaker 1: oh two. Here it into a dome in their first
Speaker 1: game ever played here in the Clippers new arena, and
Speaker 1: really their first. Clippers are twenty four and seventeen. Lakers
Speaker 1: dropped to twenty two and eighteen. We'll update you on
Speaker 1: the standings coming up here. But I know Clipper Nation
Speaker 1: is excited after this one, and there's excitement growing because
Speaker 1: of how good Kawhi Leonard has looked so far, and
Speaker 1: he has. I didn't expect him to look this good
Speaker 1: this quickly. I did preface his return coming back from
Speaker 1: this injury versus the acl in telling everyone it's just swelling,
Speaker 1: there's no structural damage. So they get the swelling down.
Speaker 1: He should be able to move the same way he
Speaker 1: did last season. So Kawhi starts off the game on Lebron,
Speaker 1: who he guarded multiple possessions. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: matchup data said, but he was isoled on Lebron good six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight times, and he created a steal right away as
Speaker 1: the Lakers are going for a pocket pass, but he
Speaker 1: missed the three on the right wing. Then Kawhi did
Speaker 1: lose Lebron at the six to forty mark, who hit
Speaker 1: a three pointer. He hit some tough ones too. The
Speaker 1: Lakers started off fast from three. I want to say
Speaker 1: they were four to eight. Then Kawhi is a fade
Speaker 1: away over a d at the five minute mark. At
Speaker 1: the first second quarter, Kawhi drops Austin Reeves and hit
Speaker 1: a fade away on the far side. Then at the
Speaker 1: four to thirty mark, had a one handed scoop layup
Speaker 1: with the right hand off an inbounds pass from James
Speaker 1: Harden and then a spinning layup that was tough on
Speaker 1: the left block, went around his defender. I think it
Speaker 1: was Gabe Benson on him too small, and Kawhi definitely
Speaker 1: made him look small on that play. So those were
Speaker 1: his eleven points in the first half, but he has
Speaker 1: eight more than the third and they really used up
Speaker 1: all the Kawhi powers in the minutes that he was
Speaker 1: given tonight. Before he was leaving the game, you knew
Speaker 1: who was gonna be out around twenty four minutes. Coach
Speaker 1: Lou told his pregame that his minutes haven't been extended yet.
Speaker 1: But the layup he caught between the pass he caught
Speaker 1: from James Harden for the layup between multiple defenders right
Speaker 1: underneath the basket, and that pass caught the Lakers by
Speaker 1: surprise that James Harden was able to make that. But
Speaker 1: that was a really beautiful exchange between Uno Doves and
Speaker 1: James Harden. Of course he can do that all day.
Speaker 1: Then Kawhi hit a mid range over Reeves, then a
Speaker 1: floater over a double team to put him up eighty
Speaker 1: one to sixty two, and then a fade away his
Speaker 1: final bucket over Dorian Finney Smith, who, if you remember,
Speaker 1: was with the Dallas Mavericks in that first round series
Speaker 1: against the Clippers back in twenty twenty one, and Kawhi
Speaker 1: torched him in the game. He had forty five in
Speaker 1: the must win situation in Dallas in Game six, So
Speaker 1: Kawhi hits that fade away over DFS, it's eighty three
Speaker 1: to sixty two by the time he goes out of
Speaker 1: the ballgame and hits his minute limit. It's eighty eight
Speaker 1: to sixty four. The Clippers are up by twenty four.
Speaker 1: Kawhi's out of the ballgame. I took a deep breath,
Speaker 1: but I also said to myself, I've seen this Lakers
Speaker 1: team come back down twenty one against the Clippers. Just
Speaker 1: last season. That happened, and it was nasty, and it
Speaker 1: was the worst loss to me of the two to
Speaker 1: one three era in the regular season, because a twenty
Speaker 1: one point turnaround in a fourth quarter is an old timer.
Speaker 1: And I knew they'd have some confidence still, the Lakers
Speaker 1: in this game that they could come back because it's
Speaker 1: known to both teams Kawhi's out for the rest of
Speaker 1: the game. We got the memo too. The Clippers were
Speaker 1: transparent about this. They weren't gonna try to fool anybody.
Speaker 1: They said pregame, he's at the same minutes restriction, which
Speaker 1: against Brooklyn it was twenty four. We expected twenty four.
Speaker 1: And the Lakers started to make a run near the
Speaker 1: end of that third quarter after the Clippers got up
Speaker 1: by as many as twenty six. After in a mere
Speaker 1: coffee jumper that was at the three forty mark. It
Speaker 1: was ninety to sixty four Clippers. They go on a
Speaker 1: thirteen to two run on them. Lebron floater got to
Speaker 1: twenty Dalton to Hayes for a dunk Dalton three pointer,
Speaker 1: and it's ninety two to seventy seven heading into the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and I really felt like this was too
Speaker 1: close for comfort, especially as the Lakers kept coming. They
Speaker 1: got it down to eleven multiple times in the fourth,
Speaker 1: but the Clippers were resilient and poised because some of
Speaker 1: the big shots they were able to hit, and a
Speaker 1: lot of that was with the Visa Zubats back in.
Speaker 1: As soon as he re entered the game. I think
Speaker 1: it was a thirteen point Clippers lead. At ninety six
Speaker 1: to eighty three, Norm missed a three porter that was
Speaker 1: a little bit forced off a pass from KPJ. Lebron
Speaker 1: misses a layup and put back, and a Visa Zubats
Speaker 1: comes in and Lebron misses a fade away and Zu
Speaker 1: gets the rebound. Zubots immediately made an impact when he
Speaker 1: came back in. Now ninety six to eighty five, eleven
Speaker 1: point lead. Multiple times had happened. There's a time out called,
Speaker 1: and this is one of the biggest plays of the
Speaker 1: game and was telling to me in a big picture
Speaker 1: sense of how the Clippers feel about Avista Zubas because
Speaker 1: you know me, I get frustrated nowadays. Everybody want to
Speaker 1: talk about they got something to say, but it comes
Speaker 1: out when they move the lips, just a bunch of
Speaker 1: gibberish and they forget about Zoo. I can't take it.
Speaker 1: And in a game like this where Kawhi is off
Speaker 1: the floor and it beats Zubos is playing that, well,
Speaker 1: you have to get him the basketball. And out of
Speaker 1: that time out, Big Zoo got nan one on Jackson
Speaker 1: Hayes who could not handle him, so that eleven point
Speaker 1: lead goes back up to fourteen. At ninety nine to
Speaker 1: eighty five, huge play for the Clippers. Then Zoo gets
Speaker 1: the stop and the board on Anthony Davis, who couldn't
Speaker 1: hit the tough fallaway over him. Zu gets a jump
Speaker 1: ball with dfs that he lost somehow, but Davis misses
Speaker 1: another fall away over it beats a Zoobots. Then Zoo
Speaker 1: gets no respect from the officials when he got hit
Speaker 1: in the head underneath, and I thought this was going
Speaker 1: to be troublesome for the Clippers. He can't get the
Speaker 1: foul call, but the Lakers are coming the other way
Speaker 1: with numbers, and Norman Powell gets the steal and finds
Speaker 1: James Harden for a right wing three to put him
Speaker 1: up one, two to eighty five. They're up seventeen, and
Speaker 1: I I think that was the eventual kill shot. When
Speaker 1: you look back at this game, that was at the
Speaker 1: six ' ten mark, still six minutes left, but you're
Speaker 1: up seventeen. That should give you enough room for error,
Speaker 1: enough cushion out there. I think it did. But if
Speaker 1: eats the Zubas tonight, one of the stories and for
Speaker 1: all the people that have been telling me for years
Speaker 1: and beats the Zubas, isn't that good? Some of you
Speaker 1: all said Kay Jones was gonna start over him this season.
Speaker 1: He just dominated Anthony Davis, he dominated Triple J and
Speaker 1: Zach Edy recently. I don't know what more you need
Speaker 1: to see to know that I eats a Zubas. Yes
Speaker 1: is in the discussion top five center Mobamba was cheerleading
Speaker 1: form in the locker room afterwards. I mean, I've been
Speaker 1: telling you how important A eatsa Zubas was. No, I
Speaker 1: never said he is as important as Kawhi but his defense.
Speaker 1: They aren't nearly this good a top two defense in
Speaker 1: the league without him. And I've known that he's been
Speaker 1: this good on the offensive end and just hasn't gotten
Speaker 1: the opportunity. I told you back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: He's a long lost Causall brother. He is skilled on offense.
Speaker 1: He can do a lot of that Marcus al stuff.
Speaker 1: He can finish with both hands. I'm proud of Big
Speaker 1: Zoo tonight. I'm proud of this Clippers team, not just
Speaker 1: holding on but running through and finishing through the tape. Late. Yes,
Speaker 1: Carl Tart did get na beatsu zubash Jersey. To my knowledge,
Speaker 1: that's how good Big Zoo has been this season. Clippers
Speaker 1: win one sixteen to one oh two over the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Quick time out will come back. I'm looking for postgame
Speaker 1: quotes from coach Lou and the players after the Clippers
Speaker 1: improved his seven games above five hundred. Get a win
Speaker 1: against a team in the Western Conference, get a win
Speaker 1: against a t team right behind them, and oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that team happened to be the Los Angeles Lakers. Cherry
Speaker 1: on top, and oh yeah, it was the first Battle
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles. Here it into a dome. You knew
Speaker 1: what would have happened if the Lakers one tonight in
Speaker 1: the first game, here it into a dome between these
Speaker 1: two teams. Lakers fans Tyler would have called in, we
Speaker 1: owed you at into a dome. We own the dome,
Speaker 1: That's what they would have said. Clippers weren't having it.
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Speaker 1: Clippers beat the Lakers. Hear it into a dome. I
Speaker 1: was about to say, they beat the Lakers again, but
Speaker 1: different setting, different venue, a much more beautiful atmosphere for
Speaker 1: a win over the Lakers. I would say, here at
Speaker 1: into it home final score one sixteen to one two.
Speaker 1: They have won thirty eight of the last forty eight
Speaker 1: games against the Los Angeles Lakers, going back to the
Speaker 1: twenty twelve twenty thirteen season. No, I didn't make that up.
Speaker 1: Check it for yourself. That's real. So's this post game.
Speaker 1: As Carlo Amenez rejoins the show, Anthony Davis had this
Speaker 1: to say about of East Zoobots quote, He's worked on
Speaker 1: his post game, that jump hook. He's always been a
Speaker 1: good screener, good roller, lob thread, offensive rebounder, good rim protector.
Speaker 1: He's developed his post game where they're throwing it to
Speaker 1: him and he's finishing with his right hook. He's added
Speaker 1: that to his arsenal game. Recognize his game here, Carlo yep,
Speaker 1: come on now, Lebron James showing James Harden some love
Speaker 1: postgame quote. Simply just a great player who loves to
Speaker 1: play the game, plays at his own pace, has won
Speaker 1: every stop that he's been at. Okay, see, I played
Speaker 1: against him and he was super young. Went off to Houston.
Speaker 1: We know what he did there, went to Philly and
Speaker 1: played some great ball, and here playing great ball. He's
Speaker 1: just a guy who's a selfless guy. Go out there
Speaker 1: and just plays the game. He's been able to reinvent himself.
Speaker 1: At what point he was giving guys fifty point triple doubles,
Speaker 1: sixty point triple doubles. He just plays the game the
Speaker 1: right way. Lebron James post game there talking about James Harden.
Speaker 1: Really cool to see. My only concern. Oh and I
Speaker 1: talked about this yesterday with Joban. A loss like this
Speaker 1: for the Lakers to their crosstown rival could create a
Speaker 1: little bit more sense of urgency in the Lakers organization
Speaker 1: to go out and make a move now, because they
Speaker 1: realize they just don't stack up, not just against the Clippers,
Speaker 1: but they're not an elite team in the Western Conference.
Speaker 1: They know kawhai'son a man restriction. They know this Clippers
Speaker 1: team has only had him for five games so far,
Speaker 1: and they're still ahead of them in the state. They're
Speaker 1: just a cut above where the Lakers are at. I
Speaker 1: expect them to make a move sometime in the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: I don't think I'd be surprised. We know the Lakers
Speaker 4: organization at him. If there's anybody that's active around the
Speaker 4: trade deadline, it's always them. I'm really interested in those
Speaker 4: Daniel Gafford sweech stakes if those rumors are true that
Speaker 4: Dallas is shopping Gafford.
Speaker 3: For a wing defender.
Speaker 4: Definitely see somebody like Finny Smith maybe getting offered up.
Speaker 4: But the backup big spot, and we've talked about this
Speaker 4: a thousand times, is probably one of the most coveted
Speaker 4: positions in the NBA. There are not a lot of
Speaker 4: teams who have two good big men. Would not be
Speaker 4: surprised if we see the Lakers make a run at Gafford.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would hope Mark Cuban would not make a
Speaker 1: trade like that with the Los Angeles. Lakers could say
Speaker 1: their history, but they give it the right player. Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard post game on reaching fourteen thousand points in his career,
Speaker 1: one of the more interesting careers. Fifty years from now,
Speaker 1: people are gonna look back and be like, it's are
Speaker 1: to assess just where he stacks up in NBA history
Speaker 1: because of the injuries derailing so many great moments and
Speaker 1: season four seasons for Kawhi. But I always say, I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's ten players better in NBA history
Speaker 1: that I take over him in a seven game series
Speaker 1: when the stakes are at their highest than Kawhi.
Speaker 3: Yeah there are.
Speaker 4: I don't think Adam more than two other players who've
Speaker 4: won finals MVP with two different teams. Do you want
Speaker 4: to talk about? And one of them we just watched,
Speaker 4: So you want to talk about somebody who is just
Speaker 4: at another level? And I think what I hope people
Speaker 4: remember and I hope we get to see this season
Speaker 4: is playoff Kawhi, Because there are levels to Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 4: and when he made that run in Toronto, I mean
Speaker 4: his backpack was so big, putting that team on his
Speaker 4: back late it was impressive.
Speaker 1: Like climate everst I mean.
Speaker 4: Seriously, the way he carried them down the stretch, it
Speaker 4: felt like and it feels like when he gets that
Speaker 4: mid range, Kawhi Leverard, similar to Thanos, is just inevitable.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's happening and you're gonna watch it happen,
Speaker 3: and that's it.
Speaker 4: So I hope and I keep my fingers crossed and
Speaker 4: I say my prayers and I light my candles that
Speaker 4: we see Kawhi Leonard in a one more playoff run
Speaker 4: this season with the Clippers and an opportunity to really
Speaker 4: show and remind the world. Similar to after that twenty
Speaker 4: nineteen finals where people were saying, is he the best
Speaker 4: player in the NBA? I mean that was the conversation
Speaker 4: that he can still be.
Speaker 3: At that level.
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard had this to say postgame on reaching fourteen
Speaker 1: thousand points in his career, quote, I'm not looking at
Speaker 1: that as a milestone. I'm more of a team guy
Speaker 1: and get the win, be the last team standing. But
Speaker 1: thank God for being able to get that opportunity. Most
Speaker 1: people don't. I take every opportunity and blessing and don't
Speaker 1: take it for granted. Pretty cool comment there from Kawhi.
Speaker 1: This is somebody that's been through so much. Here he
Speaker 1: is on how he feels. Quote, I'm happy with the progress.
Speaker 1: I'm coming out the games feeling great. Still got work
Speaker 1: to do, and we're gonna keep taking each step.
Speaker 4: How when you think about the Clippers right now, I mean,
Speaker 4: how much of it is a luxury atom that we
Speaker 4: can There's just no need to rush this like at all.
Speaker 4: They're winning games with playing twenty four minutes to night right,
Speaker 4: I mean, we're not looking I think if maybe things
Speaker 4: go the other way tonight. You're wondering, man, maybe if
Speaker 4: you structure Kawhi's minutes a little different, they come out
Speaker 4: with the win.
Speaker 3: But they've won four in a row. They're four and
Speaker 3: one of the games he's played. There's just no reason.
Speaker 4: I think it's just such an added luxury for this
Speaker 4: team that you know, when they're going back and the
Speaker 4: medical staff is talking about it, no one on the
Speaker 4: coaching side is saying, look, we need this guy back now,
Speaker 4: because they're winning games now and I think having those
Speaker 4: two things in tandem really creates a scenario where Kawhi Leonard,
Speaker 4: as he's talked about, is on his own timeline when
Speaker 4: it's coming to this, and the Clippers have done a
Speaker 4: fantastic job. Credit for prioritizing his minutes, for burning timeouts
Speaker 4: when it's time to pull him out of the game.
Speaker 4: I mean, they have made this such a Kawhi centered experience.
Speaker 4: And they're winning games, which I mean those two things.
Speaker 4: One player's playing preseason minutes, the other guys are playing
Speaker 4: minutes at.
Speaker 3: The forty game mark, and they're winning games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it hasn't disrupted the flow what they've had going
Speaker 1: at all. He only adds to their strengths. He strength
Speaker 1: strengthens strengths and weaknesses. He's a very special and unique
Speaker 1: type of superstar. Quick time out. We'll come back, close
Speaker 1: things out with Carla Jimenez here and into a dome.
Speaker 1: After the Clippers take down the Lakers for the first
Speaker 1: time this season, for the first time in a game
Speaker 1: here add into a dome. There was a showdown in
Speaker 1: a battle for Los Angeles and your La Clippers win
Speaker 1: by fourteen, led by as many as twenty six. You're
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Speaker 1: Clippers win. Ope, the Lakers won sixteen to one oh two.
Speaker 1: Hear at into a dome. Some will say best victory
Speaker 1: of the season considering the opponent. Kawhi Leonard in Game
Speaker 1: five goes for a season high of four assists but
Speaker 1: nineteen points and help the Clippers get up by twenty six.
Speaker 1: And in the same way that the Clippers have this
Speaker 1: luxury right now of not trying to force things with Kawhi,
Speaker 1: you know, they can end up winning a ballgame where
Speaker 1: he doesn't play for what the last eighteen minutes against
Speaker 1: a team like the Los Angeles Lakers that they're still
Speaker 1: twenty two and eighteen, they are four games above five hundred.
Speaker 1: This is not some you know, twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: Lakers team when they were winning twenty five games per season.
Speaker 1: This is a team that at times has looked like
Speaker 1: one of the better teams in the West, and the
Speaker 1: Clippers dismantled them playing a Clippers brand of basketball.
Speaker 4: The Clippers just their ability to play to their strengths
Speaker 4: tonight to be able to make sure that they could
Speaker 4: dominate every single aspect of this game. And then also, Adam,
Speaker 4: just never give up the lead. I mean at all tonight.
Speaker 4: The Lakers led by two early in that first quarter
Speaker 4: on Lebron three. I believe they made it five to two,
Speaker 4: and that.
Speaker 3: Was literally it.
Speaker 4: I mean, the Clippers dominated today and it just shows
Speaker 4: that like this is a team, Adam, it does not
Speaker 4: need to score one hundred and twenty points to win.
Speaker 4: And I don't even know they are top six in
Speaker 4: the NBA when it comes to scoring one hundred points
Speaker 4: and their record. They are twenty two now and nine
Speaker 4: on the season, six in the NBA in winning percentage
Speaker 4: when they score one hundred and more.
Speaker 3: I know I'm gonna say it. We might have to
Speaker 3: bring back Lawler's law. We might have to.
Speaker 1: I mean some people in the chat have been asking for.
Speaker 4: I mean, at this point, guys, if you're twenty three
Speaker 4: and nine and you score if it gets the first,
Speaker 4: I think we should bring it back. I think if
Speaker 4: you're the best even the NBA, when you score hundred points,
Speaker 4: think the Cavaliers will ever give that up.
Speaker 1: But but I'm just saying homage to the great Ralph Lawler. Yes,
Speaker 1: Sir Lawler's Law still in effect here in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: of course. So the Clippers are at the midway point
Speaker 1: the season, Carlos, And if I had told you that
Speaker 1: even with an offensive rating of twenty second, they would
Speaker 1: be twenty four and seventeen, maybe your follow up question
Speaker 1: would be what are they on the defensive line? And
Speaker 1: their second only to the OKC thunder second in defense,
Speaker 1: and they've had Kawhi Leonard for five games.
Speaker 3: I mean, Adam pulled the tape.
Speaker 4: But I said on one of these preseason Clipper Talk
Speaker 4: episodes that I won in Hawaii, maybe I felt like
Speaker 4: the Clippers mimicked Minnesota the way they built this team.
Speaker 4: And when you think about the Tim Bowls last year,
Speaker 4: they were seventeenth offensively first, defensively Clippers second, I mean
Speaker 4: a little bit of a difference. But I look, Kawhi
Speaker 4: Leonard has not played yet, so we have not seen
Speaker 4: this team at their complete powers. And I think, as
Speaker 4: we saw in that second and third quarter at him,
Speaker 4: when Kawhi Leonard's on the floor, the offense is humming
Speaker 4: because sometimes it's just Kawhi Leonard and that's enough. They
Speaker 4: don't need anybody else. So I think for this Clipper team,
Speaker 4: that offensive rating is going to hike. But back to
Speaker 4: their original question about them being twenty second offensively, there's
Speaker 4: a Clipper team that they would probably tell you, look,
Speaker 4: our standards are a little higher than twenty second. But
Speaker 4: with the focus they have brought defensively throughout the season,
Speaker 4: I mean, is it is fun to watch this group
Speaker 4: because defense travels for them and their ability to just
Speaker 4: shut another team down. The old adage rings true defense
Speaker 4: wins championships. It does, it does in today's NBA, and
Speaker 4: the Clippers have a top five defense.
Speaker 1: And when's the Battle of Los Angeles where the Clippers
Speaker 1: create a little bit more distance between them and the Lakers.
Speaker 1: They're now a game and a half up on them.
Speaker 1: Clippers still in the five spot, and they are a
Speaker 1: game and a half back of the Denver Nuggets who
Speaker 1: are in the four spot. But currently because of conference record,
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets will have the tiebreaker against the Clippers.
Speaker 1: They're sixteen and eleven against the West. The Clippers sixteen
Speaker 1: and sixteen, but they've won four in a row. They
Speaker 1: have a real shot to be a top four seed
Speaker 1: at the midway point of the season, right there within
Speaker 1: striking distance. Well like if you had told me they'd
Speaker 1: be five with only five games from Kawhi Leonard, I
Speaker 1: would have said, get out of here. The Elaine vennice push.
Speaker 3: What were you talking about? We're saying, well, six seed
Speaker 3: I think is a.
Speaker 4: Reasonable I thought that was I thought that was like
Speaker 4: top end. Yeah, that's a goal for the best case scenario.
Speaker 4: They have a real possibility to four seed. They were
Speaker 4: real possibility and they could. I mean they were only
Speaker 4: adam the difference from this point last year's three games.
Speaker 4: They're twenty seven and fourteen at the midway point last year. Wow,
Speaker 4: it is And you think about those first four games
Speaker 4: they lost, yeared into it them all probably winnable contest
Speaker 4: now if Kawhi and it's a big if, but it
Speaker 4: looks good right now. If Kawhi Leonard can be the
Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard of last year for the sixty six games
Speaker 4: that he was Kawhi Leonard. No one wants to see
Speaker 4: this Clipper team in a first round series.
Speaker 1: Quick absolutely, no one, quickly before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: Jose and Southgate. If he's still there, Jose, you know
Speaker 1: what to do. Let's choll Cliffers. Let's go Clippers. They
Speaker 1: win one sixteen to one oh two in their first
Speaker 1: ever matchup against the Lakers, hearing their new home ad
Speaker 1: into it before we get out of here. I do
Speaker 1: want to think here Los Angeles Clippers organization, Steve Balmer
Speaker 1: for creating this atmosphere and this home court advantage. Of course,
Speaker 1: the great Ralph Lawler, Brian's Seamen, Noah Ego, Carlo Jimenez
Speaker 1: on the call, big brother Jake Warner, our head engineer
Speaker 1: here and into it dumb. We have our guy, Daniel
Speaker 1: West back in Burbank, our producer. Thanks to the chatters,
Speaker 1: Thanks to the listeners. Until tomorrow. Right back here at
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