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Speaker 1: Adam a Adam Ousley brownhum.
Speaker 2: Kings of New York after the Clippers win one's twenty
Speaker 2: six to one thirteen at Madison Square Garden over the
Speaker 2: New York Knicks. Welcome into your postgame show. This is
Speaker 2: Clippers Talk. I'm out of Maslin coming up. We'll get
Speaker 2: your phone calls. Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Just a spectacular turnaround from this Clippers team.
Speaker 2: You go from being down by as many as fourteen
Speaker 2: early to up by as many as nineteen. That is
Speaker 2: a thirty three point turn around. Boy, what a difference
Speaker 2: hot shooting makes for so many people coming at coach
Speaker 2: lou because his first game back, they lost by two
Speaker 2: points to the best team in the league in Oklahoma City. Thunder. Say, well,
Speaker 2: this time the Clippers U didn't shoot twenty percent from
Speaker 2: the outside. They were sixteen of thirty. They went eight
Speaker 2: of eleven from three in the third quarter when James
Speaker 2: Harden went off and at one point hit three straight threes.
Speaker 2: Then but Tom hit a three. Harden had sixteen points,
Speaker 2: sixteen of his team leading twenty nine in the third.
Speaker 2: We didn't even know if he would play. How can
Speaker 2: you question coach lou letting him continue to play last
Speaker 2: time out when he look this good the very next game.
Speaker 2: Apparently he felt good enough to play. James Harden, he
Speaker 2: looked amazing out there. They don't win the game without him.
Speaker 2: But the Clippers did start off slow. Felt like in
Speaker 2: that first quarter they couldn't get the car out of
Speaker 2: the driveway. They just kept stalling. They started down eleven
Speaker 2: to two. The Knicks started off shooting eight of nine
Speaker 2: from the field. You had some bad turnovers by the Clippers,
Speaker 2: three in the first quarter leading to eight points. Guess
Speaker 2: what the rest of the game. They had just two
Speaker 2: turnovers the final three quarters. That's incredible. James Harden had two,
Speaker 2: he had six assists, Zubats had two. Norm Pal had won.
Speaker 2: That's it. Those three players accounted for five total turnovers.
Speaker 2: The Clippers had thirteen offensive rebounds, leading to nineteen points.
Speaker 2: You take care of the basketball like that. And it
Speaker 2: started in the second quarter. After the Clippers trailed many
Speaker 2: as fourteen. It was thirty three to twenty twelve minutes in.
Speaker 2: Zubots started the second quarter. I asked law Murray this pregame,
Speaker 2: do you think coach lou will start him in the
Speaker 2: second quarter. He wasn't so sure about that. He did Zubots, Kawhi, Simmons,
Speaker 2: Bogie and DJ to start the second Heart picked up
Speaker 2: his third foul early. Bogie found Zue early for a
Speaker 2: nice floater off a beautiful feed. Nick still were hanging around.
Speaker 2: They led forty to twenty six early in the second quarter.
Speaker 2: I should say the Clippers were hanging around because they
Speaker 2: were the team down fourteen. Zuo hits a floater, the
Speaker 2: Clippers guys to within ten. Nicks get up by twelve
Speaker 2: after a Bridge's lay up on Kawai, where it looked
Speaker 2: like Kawai was playing at half speed at that time. Oh,
Speaker 2: he got in a six gear eventually, no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: The game really turned as Kawhi hit a jumper off
Speaker 2: a Zoo pass to him on the right elbow to
Speaker 2: make it forty four to thirty four, and then Norm
Speaker 2: started to get it going a little bit. Norm goes
Speaker 2: left for a bucket. It's an eight point game. Nick's turnover,
Speaker 2: Norman pawal again, floater, six point game, cat over, Zoo
Speaker 2: back to an eight point game, Norm three, five point game.
Speaker 2: Then Michale Bridges misses and Kawhi finds Chris Dunn for
Speaker 2: a streaking layup going past Landry Sham and I think
Speaker 2: they thought there was a travel there, and the Clippers
Speaker 2: had it to within three. In the span of two
Speaker 2: minutes and fifty six seconds. They got it down to three.
Speaker 2: By the end of the first half, they would be
Speaker 2: trailing by just one at fifty five to fifty four.
Speaker 2: Now in the third quarter, it was back and forth.
Speaker 2: At first, Kawhi tied it at fifty seven with a
Speaker 2: fade on a double team with Karl Anthony Towns and
Speaker 2: Josh Hart near the right block, right baseline fall away,
Speaker 2: Kawhi starting to feel it. Michale Bridge's answers with the layup,
Speaker 2: Nicks up by two, fifty nine to fifty seven. Towns
Speaker 2: three Clippers are down by five. Harden three two point
Speaker 2: game sign of things to come, Towns and one on
Speaker 2: Zoo spinning on him. Zoo look lost. That hasn't happened
Speaker 2: very often this season, but Zoo came right back with
Speaker 2: a floater. I'd love seeing that Og would hit a three.
Speaker 2: But this is the turning point. With the Clippers down
Speaker 2: six at sixty eight to sixty two, Norm hits a
Speaker 2: three pointer of a great feed from Chris Dunn. Og
Speaker 2: misses a three, Zoo put back one point game off
Speaker 2: of his own miss. Done hits a three, and the
Speaker 2: Clippers take their first lead of the ball game at
Speaker 2: seventy to sixty eight as Done was left open on
Speaker 2: a near side corner three that would complete an eight
Speaker 2: zero run. Eventually, they would take it to ten as
Speaker 2: James Harden got fouled going left hit both free throws.
Speaker 2: Clippers up seventy two to sixty eight, and then the
Speaker 2: end of the third quarter happened. Kawhi comes off the
Speaker 2: floor after hitting a big three to make it seventy six.
Speaker 2: All we had a plethora of ties in this ballgame.
Speaker 2: It's eighty one point eighty knicks. Harden plays great defense
Speaker 2: and has a block and the Knicks miss a three
Speaker 2: pointer after that, and then he hits a three on
Speaker 2: Landrew Shammitt. Clippers go from down one to up two
Speaker 2: with eighty three to eighty one. Harden another three, eighty
Speaker 2: six eighty one, Shamit hits a three. Harden another three
Speaker 2: hook for Josh Hart, this time three straight threes from James.
Speaker 2: Harden hits eighty nine to eighty four. Knicks miss free throws,
Speaker 2: but Toom hits a three. It's ninety two to eighty
Speaker 2: four off a hardened pass brought in the defense attack
Speaker 2: the paint kicked it back out to Nico Saint Nick,
Speaker 2: always good against the Knicks. Simmons then has a putback
Speaker 2: off of James Miss and it's a ten point lead.
Speaker 2: They go eight of eleven from three in the third quarter.
Speaker 2: James Harden has sixteen in the third. The Clippers are
Speaker 2: up ten heading into the fourth. After a sixteen to
Speaker 2: six run to end the third period, it's ninety four
Speaker 2: to eighty four. The Knicks, though, get an a one
Speaker 2: from Towns to start the fourth. At this point the
Speaker 2: lineup is Batoom, Kawhi, Simmons, Bogie and DJ Towns, though
Speaker 2: would miss the free throw. Nicks were missing some free
Speaker 2: throws all of a sudden. Now Kawhi hits a three
Speaker 2: pointer in og Ananobi's face. He might have been fouled,
Speaker 2: didn't get the call, doesn't matter. Shammitt misses a three,
Speaker 2: they call a flopping foul on right and Kawhi hits
Speaker 2: the technical. That's a big deal sometimes just getting to
Speaker 2: the free throw line and knocking one down and Kawhi
Speaker 2: kind of faded away on the technical free throw. A
Speaker 2: little bit can let you catch your rhythm. Towns would
Speaker 2: make it a ten point game. Kawhi mid range on
Speaker 2: og It's one hundred and eighty eight. Clippers. Kawhi fouled
Speaker 2: by Shammitt, goes to the line, puts them up one
Speaker 2: o two to eighty eight. Now the Clippers are up
Speaker 2: fourteen after trailing by as many as fourteen back in
Speaker 2: the second quarter. Early fourth, they're up fourteen at one
Speaker 2: oh two to eight twenty eight point turnaround. Kawhi has
Speaker 2: scored eight straight points for them. Sham at three, Kawhi
Speaker 2: middy and get the gets the fallaway over bridges like
Speaker 2: just an insane shot. He has scored ten straight for
Speaker 2: the Clippers. They lead one oh four to ninety one,
Speaker 2: and this thing's starting to get out of hand. DJ
Speaker 2: hits a three towns turnover. DJ gets fouled, thought he
Speaker 2: was hurt for a second, got up, and the Clippers
Speaker 2: got up by nineteen. All they needed was a big
Speaker 2: Zoo throwdown late to put him up one fourteen to
Speaker 2: ninety seven. Just a little bit of breathing room, but
Speaker 2: Og hit a three Kawhi had a big throw down
Speaker 2: the other way. Clippers are up one sixteen to one hundred.
Speaker 2: I thought it was over, but with about a minute
Speaker 2: and a half left, the nick did get it to
Speaker 2: within eight. Clippers responded immediately. Norman Palell three dagger and
Speaker 2: then Zoo dunked on Og bodied him. Game over. Clippers
Speaker 2: win one twenty six to one thirteen, from down fourteen
Speaker 2: to winning by thirteen. Norman Powell this was his best
Speaker 2: game since returning from the hamstring injury and really returning
Speaker 2: from the knee injury as well. Seven of twelve a
Speaker 2: key eight points in the second quarter, finished with nineteen
Speaker 2: but four or five from three. He hadn't hit two
Speaker 2: threes in a game since he came back. This was
Speaker 2: game four for him. He hit four in this one
Speaker 2: and that big three, the silencer to put the game
Speaker 2: away when it was eight point lead within a minute
Speaker 2: and a half. It's a little bit dicey boom. Madison
Speaker 2: Square Garden clears out, Clippers leave with the victory. We'll
Speaker 2: come back. We'll get to your phone calls. Age sixty
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy. Clippers win one twenty
Speaker 2: six to one thirteen at MSG over the Knicks. They're
Speaker 2: heading to Brooklyn next on Friday. I'm out of Mousland
Speaker 2: and this is Clippers sock here on AM five to
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Speaker 3: I love this team. I never miss a game.
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Speaker 2: Clippers win one twenty six to one thirteen over the
Speaker 2: Knicks at Madison Square Garden to start off this four
Speaker 2: game roadie with a dub. There are ten games left
Speaker 2: in the regular season for your LA Clippers. They're currently
Speaker 2: in the sixth spot in the Western Conference. We'll update
Speaker 2: you on the standings, but I don't want to get
Speaker 2: to some phone calls here eight six six nine eighty
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Speaker 4: Hi, Chris, Hey, Hey Adam, Massive win, brother, massive win.
Speaker 4: As always, you know, Tylu really needs to get more
Speaker 4: credit than what he does. If anyone in the Clipper
Speaker 4: world thought we'd have forty one wins before March was up,
Speaker 4: I don't think so. And we're at forty one wins.
Speaker 4: We go six and four, seven and three get you
Speaker 4: to forty seven forty eight wins. For sure will be
Speaker 4: in the five or six hole. But I want to
Speaker 4: say this three massive stats in this game. Twenty five
Speaker 4: assists five turnovers, as you pointed out, only two in
Speaker 4: the from the second from the first quarter on. But
Speaker 4: guess what Kawhi Leonard forty one minutes and if you
Speaker 4: haven't seen him start to turn it up, you better
Speaker 4: start watching. Look at what he did against Cleveland cooked,
Speaker 4: Look what he did against OKC cooked. Look what he
Speaker 4: did tonight looked we're starting to seek wide Leonard groove
Speaker 4: right into playoff. Kawhi, He's now played twenty eight, twenty
Speaker 4: nine games. Remember, no offseason for him. He had knee surgery,
Speaker 4: so he's starting to feel his oats. Three straight double
Speaker 4: doubles we go. Unfortunately, I disagree with quote Carlo and
Speaker 4: excuse me, Harden and Kawhi are the stars. Stars show up,
Speaker 4: the others win championships. Zubac, Ben Simmons, those guys, Chris
Speaker 4: Dunn's defense, Derek Jones junior event. We are right fricking there, man,
Speaker 4: And I don't mean to use bad any sort of
Speaker 4: bad language at him. This is as fired up as
Speaker 4: I've been about a Clippers team been about four or
Speaker 4: five years. You go backwards. We haven't had a squad
Speaker 4: disconnected at this late in the season in quite some time.
Speaker 4: The sky's the limit. And oh, by the way, hats
Speaker 4: off to the front office for making that move to
Speaker 4: go and say, hey, we're gonna put a bunch of gritty,
Speaker 4: tough guys to together. Compliment them with James, compliment them
Speaker 4: with Kawhi, and say, hey, Zubach, hey, Palell, increase your
Speaker 4: stats from last year. And that'll fulfill what we got
Speaker 4: from Paul George. And that's what's happened. Pal's up ten
Speaker 4: points a game, Zubo's up five points a game. There's
Speaker 4: fifteen George average twenty two. If you want to add
Speaker 4: in some of the other guys. Harden's points are up
Speaker 4: four points between the three of them. They've made up
Speaker 4: for George. And I'm going to tell you right now,
Speaker 4: nobody wants to play us in the first round of
Speaker 4: the playoffs, now that we're in the sixth hole, and
Speaker 4: I firmly believe seven and three, six and four is
Speaker 4: very attainable. For these last ten games, forty seven to
Speaker 4: forty eight wins get you into the top six, and
Speaker 4: I'm telling you nobody wants to play us at all. Adam,
Speaker 4: I've got to tell you, the ball movement has been unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Norman being out at first really hurt us, but if
Speaker 4: you look at it, it gave Bogie an opportunity to
Speaker 4: get comfortable. Although he didn't play a lot tonight, but
Speaker 4: it wasn't his turn tonight. Each night there's another that
Speaker 4: stand steps up each night. The other of these nine
Speaker 4: out of the last eleven games have been phenomenal. Let's
Speaker 4: not forget Cleveland and Okay, so you have the two
Speaker 4: best teams in the league and the next with than
Speaker 4: the third hole in the East. Ye, so we are
Speaker 4: right there. I'm eager to see how we play against Brooklyn,
Speaker 4: that back to back against Cleveland. Then we're back home
Speaker 4: next Wednesday with New Orleans and then back to back
Speaker 4: with Dallas. And those are winnable games. All of them
Speaker 4: are winnable games in my opinion. And I got to
Speaker 4: tell you, Adam, and I'm sorry to dominate the whole conversation,
Speaker 4: but you know I always get fired up when I'm
Speaker 4: on the phone. Here Zubach fifty double doubles, fifty forty nine,
Speaker 4: He's gonna get fifty and more. The guy really should
Speaker 4: be most improved player. I know everybody wants to give
Speaker 4: a fifty double doubles for Zubac.
Speaker 2: Fifty it's insane.
Speaker 4: Go through all the centers in the league.
Speaker 2: He yesterday, he's at worst, the fifth best center of
Speaker 2: the league. He's at worse the fifth best worst. This season.
Speaker 2: This season when you account for availability, Zoo has been
Speaker 2: had a top five season for a center.
Speaker 4: He plays every game. The guy plays every game. Barely
Speaker 4: misses a game. And you know what, I was the
Speaker 4: first one skeptical when we flipped all those guys last
Speaker 4: year to get James Harden. Boy, am I eating crow
Speaker 4: And I'm smiling every bite I have of it because
Speaker 4: James Harden has not only been the back, James Harden
Speaker 4: has been selfless and James Harden has been a leader.
Speaker 4: And everything that the pun did say I put away
Speaker 4: because every game I watch him play, he does something
Speaker 4: that is amazing. And what it is is he's thirty
Speaker 4: five years old and plays every game and plays thirty
Speaker 4: five plus minutes a game. Yep, thirty five plus minutes
Speaker 4: a game. It's unbelievable at him. I hope I'm not
Speaker 4: as I'm not too bullish on this. But we're an
Speaker 4: analytics team. We're an analytics organization. And when you look
Speaker 4: at the analytics, boy oh boy, they scream off the
Speaker 4: page that we are right there. We have an identity
Speaker 4: where a defensive minded team that now all of a sudden, oh,
Speaker 4: the offense is starting to click.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, Chris, who told you that would happen? Back
Speaker 2: in November? O I said was if this is their
Speaker 2: level of defense, you get KAUI back, there'll be a
Speaker 2: top ten offense. You pair it with this defense. Now
Speaker 2: you're talking about a dangerous team. And that's what we're seeing.
Speaker 4: Now, very dangerous team. You think about the other night,
Speaker 4: and I don't mean to go away from the next team.
Speaker 4: This is a very good next team, very good next team.
Speaker 4: Tom Thibodeau. Teams don't give up one hundred and twenty
Speaker 4: six points, let alone one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 5: Or whatever it is.
Speaker 4: But you go back the other night, the combination of
Speaker 4: Chris Dunn and Derek Jones junior on Shay Gildris Alexander,
Speaker 4: the MVP of the league. He looked a shell of himself.
Speaker 4: And that's what we're gonna see. That's why teams, when
Speaker 4: you get into the playoffs and you know this is
Speaker 4: better than I do, it becomes a half court, grindin
Speaker 4: out type of game. That's what we played the best.
Speaker 2: I agree with.
Speaker 4: Turnovers tonight five turnovers two and the two turnovers and
Speaker 4: what was it thirty six minutes two? Come on, Adam,
Speaker 4: we're I'm telling you we're right there. Clipper Nation. Adam's
Speaker 4: been saying it since November. I've been saying it too.
Speaker 4: We are legitimate and don't come and try to play.
Speaker 4: This is not the Clippers of the last four years.
Speaker 4: This is a team that shares the sugar, and when
Speaker 4: we take care of the basketball, we can beat anybody.
Speaker 4: Four out of seven, I'm not I'm convinced of that
Speaker 4: four out of seven. This team's going to make a
Speaker 4: run in the playoffs, Adam. Nobody wants to playoffs, and
Speaker 4: there's nobody better in the playoffs x's and o's in
Speaker 4: the NBA than Tyron Lou How many times has Tyrone
Speaker 4: new team's come back down three to one? I think
Speaker 4: he did it against the Warriors with Cleveland, He did
Speaker 4: it with the Clippers, did it with the Clippers twice
Speaker 4: against Das in Utah, right or maybe not Utah, but
Speaker 4: did with.
Speaker 2: That one they were down oh two, yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Guess two to Utah, excuse me, but still in both
Speaker 4: three one, three one to Dallas. It was two o
Speaker 4: two to Utah and basically we ended the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 4: They broke that team up after that. I'm putting the
Speaker 4: coach down of the Mitchell Ruga everybody else. So again,
Speaker 4: super fired up when we were down eighteen to five
Speaker 4: to start the game today, I said, Okay, let's see
Speaker 4: what we're made of. And you know what, we're made
Speaker 4: stronger than any team we've had in the last five years.
Speaker 4: Do you agree with that statement, Adam?
Speaker 2: I do, and I agree with your phone call. Overall,
Speaker 2: they're made of sterner stuff. That's what this Clippers team is.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you, Chris, but I do have some other
Speaker 2: calls to get to. You're dominating your roller there. Let's
Speaker 2: go to And I must say this for those hating
Speaker 2: on the decision of letting Norman Powell play heavier minutes
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter where it didn't look like he
Speaker 2: had it going last time out against Okay see and
Speaker 2: he missed that three pointer on Sunday that he had
Speaker 2: a good look at. For those hating on coach Lou
Speaker 2: for that, if you don't do stuff like that, well,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you get the game you got
Speaker 2: today from Norm Powell. He showed the belief in him
Speaker 2: sticking with his guy. It paid off today. Best Norm
Speaker 2: Powell's looks since he returned bargov from Maryland. What's that bargov?
Speaker 6: My guy, Adam good bro.
Speaker 2: The governor is in the house, must be a big
Speaker 2: victory off.
Speaker 6: You are you already know you already know East Coast games,
Speaker 6: so I'm I'm able to call in, you know, still up,
Speaker 6: So hey, man, what a win? You know you start
Speaker 6: off slow, terrible start. He keeps the composure, stays in
Speaker 6: the game, you know, norm bounce back, game, balanced effort.
Speaker 6: Uh And then yeah, James Harden explosion and a third
Speaker 6: I like that lineup, man, that bench lineup. I think
Speaker 6: it was Bogey been but toom dij and Derek Jones
Speaker 6: and then and Harden went went Ham and then Kawhi
Speaker 6: came in with that same lineup and exploded in the fourth.
Speaker 6: Just the impressive win, man. I love the composure they kept.
Speaker 6: And yeah, how about Kawhi, Dude, here.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you. I'll tell you about Kawhi. Here's his
Speaker 2: last six games, because I think the real turning point
Speaker 2: from him defensively where he started to look like two
Speaker 2: way Kawhi again, happened in Atlanta. If you go off
Speaker 2: his last six games, he's averaging twenty six points. Let's
Speaker 2: see the game against Atlanta, He's eleven of twenty one
Speaker 2: from the field. Next game, he's nine of sixteen against Charlotte.
Speaker 2: Against Cleveland his best game of the season. Has thirty
Speaker 2: three on just nineteen shots against Memphis, has twenty three
Speaker 2: points on just twelve shots, has twenty five on his
Speaker 2: twenty shots, ten of twenty two or four from the
Speaker 2: outside against Okac against some great defense, and then tonight
Speaker 2: has twenty seven on eighteen field goal at Stamps with
Speaker 2: a couple of three point owners, ten boards, seven assists.
Speaker 2: He's had double doubles last three games. I think it's
Speaker 2: really the last six games from Kawhi that I've seen
Speaker 2: a different version of him. And by different, I mean
Speaker 2: he looks just like last year's version of Kawhi. And
Speaker 2: that's all I needed to see.
Speaker 6: Dude, the way he was moving. Second quarter, he flew
Speaker 6: in for a lefty layup where you know, he landed
Speaker 6: on the ground, flew in. Second half, Dude, he's all
Speaker 6: over the place. He attempted a what was that a
Speaker 6: reverse dunk baseline up, yes, open under dunk. I mean, dude,
Speaker 6: that was literally like, yo, is this twenty seventeen again?
Speaker 6: The way this man's flying. I mean, obviously you know
Speaker 6: he's not that quite athletic, but it was just it
Speaker 6: was incredible.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 6: Shout out to ty Lu, a lot of different diversity,
Speaker 6: different lineups. He can go to, you know, with the
Speaker 6: tomb DJJ and shout out to Ben Ben Simmons man.
Speaker 6: I mean his offense. You know, you can't really count
Speaker 6: him to make that short bunny. It's like a prayer
Speaker 6: every time, every time it goes up.
Speaker 2: If you look at the plus minus. While the backups
Speaker 2: didn't have huge scoring nights, Dereck Jones Junior did have
Speaker 2: twelve and he was a plus twenty four, Ben Simmons
Speaker 2: a plus nineteen, Bogie a plus fourteen, Nico a plus eighteen.
Speaker 2: Their backups were on the floor when the Clippers were
Speaker 2: pulling away one hundred percent.
Speaker 6: You don't what I like about Ben Simmons. He's smart
Speaker 6: on defense and he has high IQ on defense. And dude,
Speaker 6: even though he doesn't have the same you know, athleticism,
Speaker 6: he can't get up like he used to it. He
Speaker 6: moves up laterally very well. He's strong, he keeps guys
Speaker 6: in front, he can body you up. I mean he's
Speaker 6: a good blue collar player, honestly, and yeah, dude, shout out,
Speaker 6: shout out the team. Total holistic victory.
Speaker 2: I'm with you. Good to hear from your barg off, Uh, bargov.
Speaker 2: The governor calling in. Maybe we'll do it again on
Speaker 2: Friday as they stay on this East coast swing. Uh,
Speaker 2: we'll take a quick time out. We'll come back. More
Speaker 2: of your phone calls eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy. Clippers were down fourteen. They win by thirteen
Speaker 2: at Madison Square Garden over the Knicks. They get fourteen
Speaker 2: to the fourth quarter from Kawhi Leonards sixteen to the
Speaker 2: third from James Harden. Norman Palell has his best game
Speaker 2: since he returned, with an efficient nineteen points on twelve shots,
Speaker 2: four or five from the outside. Clippers win one twenty
Speaker 2: six to one thirteen. More Clippers stock coming up next
Speaker 2: here on M five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: I love this team. I never miss a game.
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Speaker 2: Clippers win one twenty six to one thirteen over the
Speaker 2: Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Rough start, magnificent finish by
Speaker 2: the Clippers pulling away, getting up as many as nineteen
Speaker 2: taking down the Knicks. I'm out a Moslin. This is
Speaker 2: Clippers Sock here on M five seventy LA Sports. Before
Speaker 2: we hear for James Harden post game. Whoorhe a Ventura,
Speaker 2: You're on Cooper Stop with Adamson. What's up for.
Speaker 8: Hi?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 5: Well, thank you for taking my call. I uh, I'm
Speaker 5: a big fan and uh I heard all you were
Speaker 5: saying earlier. You know, the main thing, the main topic
Speaker 5: is you know who's going to step that up, especially
Speaker 5: on the finals if you get there, hopefully and definitely Kawhi.
Speaker 5: Now I also think James Harden is going to be
Speaker 5: the one. I think that he can step that up.
Speaker 5: To be honest with you, that's the main key, you know,
Speaker 5: if you want to win the championship, like for example,
Speaker 5: at the the Rockets when James Harden was with Chris Paul.
Speaker 5: You know, Chris Paul step it up, but he got
Speaker 5: injured and you know they were right there against the Warriors.
Speaker 5: And then also what else you know, and Toronto with
Speaker 5: Kawhi Kawhi Leonard, you know he's pep it up. Who
Speaker 5: will step it up? Yeah, I'll come step it up.
Speaker 5: You know, Marco Saul step it up. And you know
Speaker 5: there's a lot of people so you know, so far,
Speaker 5: I think James Harden, you know, and Kawhi and hopefully
Speaker 5: someone else like Bogie. You know, we're right there.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, Orge, You got a lot of different
Speaker 2: guys stepping up for this team. They're talented, but it
Speaker 2: starts with the big four. When I see Kahib twenty seven,
Speaker 2: James Harden have an efficient twenty nine, and then Norman
Speaker 2: Poud getting into a rhythm too, and it beats Zubos
Speaker 2: being featured and getting up fifteen shots. That's all I need.
Speaker 2: The big four has to lead them, everybody else feeling
Speaker 2: around them, and you're gonna be just fine, right Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, but yeah, to be honest with you, you
Speaker 5: know who's going to step it up, and I think,
Speaker 5: you know, uh, hopefully Subach, you know, and hopefully James Harden.
Speaker 5: But that's the main key.
Speaker 2: All right, speaking of taking my call, appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Orge.
Speaker 2: We got James Harden post game after we didn't know
Speaker 2: if he'd play today. He was questionable yesterday. He's available.
Speaker 2: He starts, He leads them with twenty nine points on
Speaker 2: eight of sixteen, shooting six of nine from three. Sixteen
Speaker 2: of his twenty nine points coming in that third quarter,
Speaker 2: and here he was postgame on fan Duel TV with
Speaker 2: Christina Pink And.
Speaker 9: It was a slow start for you guys, but you
Speaker 9: battled back and showed the resilience of this group. What
Speaker 9: did you like about how you finished?
Speaker 8: That's why it's a four quarter game. You know, as
Speaker 8: much as we wanted to be perfect every single possession
Speaker 8: of every single quarter, you know it's not gonna be
Speaker 8: like that. So we started off slow for whatever reason,
Speaker 8: and we found ways to just inched back into defensively
Speaker 8: and offensively got going.
Speaker 9: Coming into this one, James, we talked about how much
Speaker 9: you love playing in this environment at Madison Square Garden
Speaker 9: twenty nine points, six assists. Why does this place bring
Speaker 9: out the best in you?
Speaker 8: Some of the best fans in the world. You know
Speaker 8: Sports Sports city for sure. You know I played here
Speaker 8: for a year in the city, So it's just the
Speaker 8: energy to vibe in here, and you want to come,
Speaker 8: you want to play your best, and you want to
Speaker 8: obviously will come away with the win. So for us,
Speaker 8: it was it was all about that, and we did that.
Speaker 4: James.
Speaker 9: You came into this one battling some footsore neess the
Speaker 9: last couple of days. Why was it so important for
Speaker 9: you to be out here?
Speaker 8: Uh? Because we find for our lives right now, you know,
Speaker 8: so you know, whatever text to win the game. And
Speaker 8: you know, I mean obviously if I was very, very
Speaker 8: very hurt and that I wouldn't be playing. But you know,
Speaker 8: some different tests and you know I'll figure it out.
Speaker 8: So come in with the wain when we got ten
Speaker 8: games left and every game is.
Speaker 2: Important for us. James Harden post game with Christina pink there,
Speaker 2: I wondered yesterday I texted this to Chuck Mockler. What
Speaker 2: if James plays against the Knicks and then rest against Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: You can't look past Brooklyn. You have to win that game.
Speaker 2: They are in the capture of the Flag sweepstakes, though
Speaker 2: they're not exactly trying to win. It's the less competitive
Speaker 2: team of the two games in New York. Could we
Speaker 2: see that? We'll find out. They still got a day
Speaker 2: day off tomorrow though, And James Harden just he hates
Speaker 2: missing any time. What are performance twenty nine and thirty
Speaker 2: seven minutes? Kawhi with twenty seven and forty one minutes.
Speaker 2: Clippers win one twenty six to one thirteen over the Knicks.
Speaker 2: We'll take a time out, we'll come back. We got
Speaker 2: a couple of closing calls up next, Jose and Downey,
Speaker 2: and then Clay Vaughan from Michigan is on hold, looking
Speaker 2: forward to that. I'm out of Masland and you're listening
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Speaker 2: Clippers win one twenty six to one thirteen over the
Speaker 2: Knicks in New York. Coming back down fourteen in the
Speaker 2: second quarter, we're up as many as nineteen, win by thirteen.
Speaker 2: I'm at a Moaslim. It's Clippers stock here on a
Speaker 2: M five seventy LA Sports Jose in Downey, Jose, what's
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Speaker 6: Hey, Adam, thanks for thinking about call man. I agree
Speaker 6: with that previous color.
Speaker 10: It takes a little bit of everybody. Man. I've been
Speaker 10: a long time Clip fan. I was a little down
Speaker 10: on him this year. You taking my calls when I
Speaker 10: was down in him, but got a call when they're
Speaker 10: also doing well they're doing a little bit of everything.
Speaker 10: They're hustling, James Harden showing that after getting hurt that
Speaker 10: he wants to play. And I've never thought I see
Speaker 10: the day that Kawhi was going to play more minutes
Speaker 10: than everybody on the team. They're building onto something. They
Speaker 10: just got to keep being scrapping. They got to keep
Speaker 10: playing hard and hopefully it turns out. This is the
Speaker 10: most excited I've been about them in a long time.
Speaker 10: So they got to keep that urgency. And like you said,
Speaker 10: that big four.
Speaker 6: To shoot, to be able to shoot fifty or more,
Speaker 6: that makes a big difference.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and you mentioned Kawhi's minutes there, Jose great point.
Speaker 2: Last two games has totaled eighty one minutes. He's averaging
Speaker 2: thirty seven minutes in. He must be feeling good. They
Speaker 2: got ten games left before the playoffs. You gotta keep
Speaker 2: them healthy. Just keep them healthy for that seven game series.
Speaker 10: I agree, man, And then every game matters. I mean,
Speaker 10: I would love to see Hardin play the next game,
Speaker 10: even if he plays some limited minutes. If you're gonna,
Speaker 10: you know, if you're gonna give him five minutes per
Speaker 10: quarter to try to make that difference for the team,
Speaker 10: be that quarterback for the team. That's fine with me.
Speaker 10: I think if he wants to play, as long as
Speaker 10: it's safe, let him play because he is needed. He
Speaker 10: just as much as he's had his ups and downs
Speaker 10: and he is there. Is sometimes where he has lapses
Speaker 10: on those passes when we really need him, like in
Speaker 10: the fourth quarter against Okay see. But they were there
Speaker 10: and that's all that matters. I know they were missing
Speaker 10: a couple players, but they were there and just built
Speaker 10: on it because today was a big sign of we
Speaker 10: take it important and we want to make the difference,
Speaker 10: and that's why they're on the court.
Speaker 2: Level of seriousness was way up, especially the last three
Speaker 2: quarters where they only had two turns over that time.
Speaker 2: Before we get out of here, we'll close things out
Speaker 2: with Clavon from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Clavon, keep it clean,
Speaker 2: but keep it live. What's upon?
Speaker 7: Ooh wait back one more? Gives Am with my boy
Speaker 7: Adam on Clippers talk. Whoa yeah, yeah, we back in
Speaker 7: the running now. We didn't did it first road game
Speaker 7: Clippers and came out making it happen like Cavin Crunch,
Speaker 7: let's do this. I ain't gonna talk to you, Adam,
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. Over the whole couple of
Speaker 7: points we lost by okay, see that's all right, though,
Speaker 7: I'm glad to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 7: Man, we out there, we was looking good and Clippers
Speaker 7: is like that old eighty five Chevy, a Chevy Caprice,
Speaker 7: all right, and they gotta take a little bit of
Speaker 7: time to warm up. But once to warm up, you forget.
Speaker 7: It's like a va underneath the hood. You understand, we
Speaker 7: take that time. Don't look everybody's already quick and start
Speaker 7: tripping off the first core. We always do that, even
Speaker 7: if we have a good one. You gotta realize everybody
Speaker 7: has not. They're not used to everybody being healthy out there.
Speaker 7: They assume just because we got a whole bunch of
Speaker 7: good players, everybody's great. You gotta understand, even great men
Speaker 7: have to learn how to play amongst each other. And
Speaker 7: now that we got everybody that's healthy out there, fans
Speaker 7: looking good, who were getting strong, now we getting strong now.
Speaker 7: And we got that eye of the tiger because we
Speaker 7: out there, well, we in the sixth spot right now.
Speaker 7: All we got to do is maintain that spot. And
Speaker 7: if we keep playing one thing I will say on
Speaker 7: some real business and on one thing I will say,
Speaker 7: when you have the Clippers when they come down to
Speaker 7: come down to court and they have a wide open
Speaker 7: court that have everybody set up, well, we're not seeing
Speaker 7: enough player of rotation. When our players start rotating, like
Speaker 7: other teams, they'll rotate, but it's I don't know if
Speaker 7: it's like because we are customer playing isolation. This is
Speaker 7: a lot of ISO ball. We'll bring it down the
Speaker 7: court and nobody is moving, and then it gets to the.
Speaker 2: Point where well, part of the reason is clave on.
Speaker 2: Part of the reason is they're set up around the
Speaker 2: perimeter to let the ISO guys ISO to pull the
Speaker 2: defenders out to the perimeter so they have more space
Speaker 2: to work with. When you have what rated the two
Speaker 2: best ISO players in the game last season with Kawhi
Speaker 2: then a big gap than James Harden, you're gonna ISO some.
Speaker 7: That's how it works, right, But it gets predictable, you
Speaker 7: know a lot of the times.
Speaker 2: And yeah, but games, your night games though, always come
Speaker 2: down to ISO basketball always.
Speaker 7: True, true, true, that's what we pay. Hey, that's what
Speaker 7: we paid you know, the stars for the big money,
Speaker 7: just for those moments just like this. But I was
Speaker 7: looking back, so it got repetitive. And and sometimes other
Speaker 7: teams can read us. You know, when we mix it up,
Speaker 7: that's good. But when you're doing a play at the
Speaker 7: play at the play, I start seeing other teams read
Speaker 7: we don't want to pass it, and they and they
Speaker 7: when we fall into a slump where you know, they
Speaker 7: start playing hero ball, putting enough shots because they look
Speaker 7: up at the at the clock and they put up
Speaker 7: I feel like that's what happened. And when we were
Speaker 7: playing okay season, like I was, so, I was like, man,
Speaker 7: I saw Powell open in the corner and then I
Speaker 7: was surprised to Kawhi turned or get the turnaround jumper
Speaker 7: on the little egghead dude. I can't remember his name.
Speaker 7: I'll keep forgetting. I forget his name because I don't
Speaker 7: like the dude.
Speaker 2: SOO damn it, Cleven, I gotta run, give me ten seconds,
Speaker 2: give me something positive.
Speaker 7: Hey, man, Look, look were going into the next game.
Speaker 7: We going to the playoffs. We ain't going to no
Speaker 7: play ins. We're not going to it all right, we
Speaker 7: got this get strong now?
Speaker 2: Whoa cleve in Michigan After the Clippers win once forty
Speaker 2: six to one, thirteen and put themselves in the sixth
Speaker 2: spot thanks to a victory of Madison Square Garden. Before
Speaker 2: we get out of here, I do want to thank
Speaker 2: the Clippers organization, ralpha'l'brian Semen no ego, Carlo Jimenez, big
Speaker 2: brother Jake Warner back here in the band, our producer
Speaker 2: Daniel West doing a great job as always, the callers,
Speaker 2: the listeners, the chatters. We'll talk to you back here
Speaker 2: on Friday starting at three thirty with your Clippers pregame
Speaker 2: show Clippers in Brooklyn taking on the nets. I met
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