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Speaker 1: The Clippers knock them down from three in Game three
Speaker 1: and win by thirty four over the Denver Nuggets. Final
Speaker 1: score one seventeen eighty three in their first ever playoff game.
Speaker 1: Hear and into a dome. That's how you open up
Speaker 1: the postseason here in your first ever home Clipper Nation.
Speaker 1: I want to start things off by saying this. We'll
Speaker 1: get your phone calls. Eight sixty six, ninety seven, two
Speaker 1: five seventy, of course, but everybody in the arena, you
Speaker 1: guys made the difference tonight. This Clippers team got blitzed early.
Speaker 1: They were down by seven. Denver was not missing. They
Speaker 1: went eight of nine. It looked like, uh oh, are
Speaker 1: they stepping up? Are they trying to quiet the crowd?
Speaker 1: Hear it into a dome. They couldn't do it. And
Speaker 1: this Clippers crowd and Clipper Nation experience that we just
Speaker 1: had hear it into a dome was special. You guys
Speaker 1: fueled this truly. I thought the Clippers were in deep trouble.
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon was hitting everything to start. He had eleven
Speaker 1: points in the first quarter, first points to the ballgame.
Speaker 1: He finished with just fifteen. The crowd was never taken
Speaker 1: out of it. Even when the Clippers were up by
Speaker 1: as many as thirty four their final score they won
Speaker 1: by thirty four. It just felt like the wall, the swell,
Speaker 1: the atmosphere, the environment. It was to perfection. A plan
Speaker 1: coming together that had been in the works for years.
Speaker 1: Was Steve Balmer, Gillian Zucker, this Clippers organization, to give
Speaker 1: them a home court advantage, to give fans the best
Speaker 1: experience in sports, to make sure Clipper Nation was heard.
Speaker 1: You were heard, and you affected the ballgame. You guys
Speaker 1: were the difference tonight. Clippers came out, Yes, they started
Speaker 1: to hit shots, but it was the crowd underneath them.
Speaker 1: You provided that jet fuel. Because Denver came out out
Speaker 1: scorching hot and focused. Klibernation wasn't going anywhere, neither was
Speaker 1: this ball club. By the end of the first quarter,
Speaker 1: they flipped things around after being down by seven. The
Speaker 1: Clippers were up by seven at thirty five to twenty eight.
Speaker 1: They went on a ten to oher run to end
Speaker 1: that first quarter. They went plus eleven with Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: out there on the floor against Nikola Jokicic. There are
Speaker 1: some people that would look at the box score after
Speaker 1: Game one and be like, what did Ben Simmons do?
Speaker 1: He didn't do anything. He didn't affect this game at all.
Speaker 1: What do you mean You can look at tonight's box score.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, Adam? He played nine minutes? Like,
Speaker 1: what could you have really done out there? He went, oh, two,
Speaker 1: three boards, a steal, a block. How could he be
Speaker 1: that impactful? Well, you pick up Jokics full court, you
Speaker 1: hound him, you make him work for everything, and you
Speaker 1: flip a ball game early on when the Denver Nuggets
Speaker 1: had all the momentum. Plus eleven is what Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: went on the court in that first quarter before Zooke
Speaker 1: came back in to start the second and because of
Speaker 1: coach lose brilliance, it got zoom minutes where Yokic wasn't
Speaker 1: out there on the floor, and the Clippers opened things
Speaker 1: up in the second quarter to leading by as many
Speaker 1: as twenty and that was it. Once they got up
Speaker 1: by ten, it stayed above ten. This team showed a
Speaker 1: ton of poise and just a resilient nature while leading
Speaker 1: through out most of the ball game. Denver made a
Speaker 1: couple of runs, but it never felt like the lead
Speaker 1: was in doubt. The Clippers were that dominant on both ends,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about pinpoint precision with their execution in
Speaker 1: this ball game on both ends. When they started a
Speaker 1: heat up from three, going nine to thirteen from three
Speaker 1: in the first quarter, it just looked like they were
Speaker 1: taking whatever was available. Defensively, whoever Denver left opened, they
Speaker 1: were finding. They weren't forcing anything. And then when you're
Speaker 1: hitting shots like that and at the half you're still
Speaker 1: twelve of twenty two from three to fifty one percent
Speaker 1: from the floor. When you're hitting shots at a eight
Speaker 1: like that and taking care of the basketball just four
Speaker 1: turnovers in the first half, well, you can set your
Speaker 1: defense on the other end, and we know how good
Speaker 1: they are when they can set their defense. The Nuggets
Speaker 1: had three fast break points in the game. They all
Speaker 1: came in the first quarter. That's it. Clippers showed more heart,
Speaker 1: more hustled. They outrebounded them by ten by four. When
Speaker 1: it came to offensive rebounds. This was as well played
Speaker 1: a ball game. It was the best executed game I've
Speaker 1: seen from the Clippers all season long. They were that
Speaker 1: good on both ends of the floor. They hold it
Speaker 1: teamed to eighty three points, the fourth best offense in
Speaker 1: the regular season to eighty three points. Suffocating defense. Jokic
Speaker 1: got off fourteen total shots after just sixteen last game.
Speaker 1: That's impossible, but the Clippers come at you in waves,
Speaker 1: these delayed doubles and triple teams at times that they
Speaker 1: mixed up with coverages. It's got Jokic off balance. It does.
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting. I think that forty point game is
Speaker 1: still coming. He's that good. But the Clippers have been
Speaker 1: as good as anyone defending him that I've seen over
Speaker 1: the last five years. It starts with the Vitza Zubats,
Speaker 1: because he's good enough. One on one, he caused a
Speaker 1: travel by Jokic. They finally called it, and you have
Speaker 1: the best player in the world looking a little bit
Speaker 1: fatigued and maybe even rattled out there. Just utter domination
Speaker 1: by this Clippers team. The Big four were set loose.
Speaker 1: Norman Pale looks to be back. The fourth quarter he
Speaker 1: had in Game two. That stuff is meaningful. It translated
Speaker 1: into this ball game. He finished with twenty points in
Speaker 1: twenty eight minutes. His defense was better too. He had
Speaker 1: a play where he just locked up Christian Brown, who
Speaker 1: got a couple of easy ones early on. He had
Speaker 1: four points in the first quarter, cutting to the basket
Speaker 1: the way he likes to. And then the Clippers just
Speaker 1: shut the water off. I mean they gave up. Let's see,
Speaker 1: they gave up twenty eight points in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: So the last three quarters they gave up fifty five
Speaker 1: total points. What was this the two thousand and four
Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons Ben Wallace out there, that was the original
Speaker 1: fear of the fro unheard of. Just fifty five points
Speaker 1: the final three quarters by this Clippers team given up
Speaker 1: to a Denver team that had a top five offense
Speaker 1: and has Nikola Joki whenever he's on the floor. I
Speaker 1: got the best offense in the league. He looked tired.
Speaker 1: Coach lou so far has played this beautifully. He didn't
Speaker 1: tire out his guys in Game one. I was worried
Speaker 1: about them losing that game the way they did and
Speaker 1: not playing guys heavy minutes. But it's had that compounding
Speaker 1: effect where over the length of the series the Denver
Speaker 1: Nuggets have been playing their guys more and coach lou
Speaker 1: has been playing his guys less. Now they look very
Speaker 1: tired and their bench. They're in trouble right now. Because
Speaker 1: we knew Michael Porter Junior was banged up heading into
Speaker 1: this one. He tried to get it out. Played thirty
Speaker 1: five minutes two of nine, though just seven points. Six
Speaker 1: boards went to the locker room at the end of
Speaker 1: this game. Russell Westbrook went out with a foot injury
Speaker 1: in this game, and russ has been good the first
Speaker 1: two games. He played just eight minutes, one of five
Speaker 1: airborne to three. The wall let him hear it. He
Speaker 1: was one of five and they were all threes. They
Speaker 1: only got four points off the bench. Peyton Watson had two,
Speaker 1: Zeke Najee had a point at the charity stripe and
Speaker 1: by the way, the wall in the first half when
Speaker 1: Denver was shooting on that side they went four of eight.
Speaker 1: Seemed to be effective. I think it's gonna survive. Coach
Speaker 1: David Adelman. I don't think the NBA is doing anything
Speaker 1: with it. I think what's going to happen is they're
Speaker 1: going to be trend setters and trailblazers and future arenas
Speaker 1: will see how cool this is and they're gonna say, hey,
Speaker 1: we want a wall too. The revolutionizing arenas with what
Speaker 1: they did here, this ingenuity from Steve Balmer, Gillian Zucker,
Speaker 1: there's nothing else like it, and teams are realizing this.
Speaker 1: This was only game one in the postseason. But you
Speaker 1: can't tell me the crowd, the wall, this atmosphere didn't
Speaker 1: have an effect on this game. It did. It wasn't
Speaker 1: just different, it was effective. Everybody did their job. I
Speaker 1: know Bogie got a bucket late and inconsequential time, I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that gets him going. They left him out there
Speaker 1: just to get that shot. He got it went one
Speaker 1: of three. He's been in a deep funk. He is
Speaker 1: far too amped. I think out there on back to
Speaker 1: back or one sequence. He had an offensive foul on
Speaker 1: one end and then got fouled and took a tough
Speaker 1: fall against Julian Strather trying to guard him coming around
Speaker 1: a screen. But everybody else pointed in the right direction,
Speaker 1: and I got a lot of faith in bodn Bodanovich.
Speaker 1: He has played in some really big games. He has
Speaker 1: performed in some really big games. You almost beat Team
Speaker 1: USA last summer. He and Yokish together. So yeah, from
Speaker 1: the windows to the wall, everything worked. Just a dream
Speaker 1: opening playoff game here and into it. Don't perfection Chef's
Speaker 1: kiss beautiful Inclipernation. You did it. You were able to
Speaker 1: affect the game. There's a real home court advantage. Now.
Speaker 1: Now you got to bring it again on Saturday for
Speaker 1: game four. Stay on them, do it all over again.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I've no doubt you will. We'll take a
Speaker 1: quick time out, we'll come back. We'll get to your
Speaker 1: phone calls. Eight sixty six ninety eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 1: Eight sixty six ninety eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 1: the number I'm out of Moslin. After the Clippers went
Speaker 1: by thirty four here in Game three with the final
Speaker 1: score one seventeen to eighty three for the Denver Nuggets.
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Speaker 1: Clippers win one seventeen to eighty three over the Denver
Speaker 1: Nuggets here and into a dome in the first ever
Speaker 1: postseason event here Clippernation, Welcome home. The dome is home
Speaker 1: and it's one oh in playoff basketball. Clippers dominated by
Speaker 1: thirty four. Just a sound victory, a sound beating of
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets in this game in all facets. But
Speaker 1: to me, the biggest thing about this win is it
Speaker 1: happened here in the Clippers' own home. Finally they have
Speaker 1: their own home, and it worked in postseason game number
Speaker 1: one here at into it Home. Everything that was designed
Speaker 1: here was about bringing a home court advantage for big
Speaker 1: games like this. It's worked all season. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: They went thirty to eleven here, and that was after
Speaker 1: losing their first four games. But tonight a true test.
Speaker 1: Would it translates to the postseason. Would teams get rattled intimidated?
Speaker 1: Didn't look like it at first with Denver, but after
Speaker 1: a quick start, they cooled af off quickly. Clippers held
Speaker 1: him to fifty five points the final three quarters. They
Speaker 1: were so in tune, they were so connected on both
Speaker 1: ends of the floor. The execution was at its apex tonight.
Speaker 1: Offense defense. I could not believe the way the Clippers
Speaker 1: were dissecting them and finding the right player every single possession,
Speaker 1: over and over again. No agendas, nobody looking for theirs,
Speaker 1: nobody trying to take over the game or do it
Speaker 1: by themselves. It was a complete team victory. Six players
Speaker 1: in double figures, and four of the five starters had
Speaker 1: nineteen or more, including Norman Powell, who looks to be back.
Speaker 1: He had twenty in the ballgame. Let's go too. We
Speaker 1: can start things off with Jene from North Carolina. Jane,
Speaker 1: you're on Clippers, stop with out of Maazen? What's up? Gene?
Speaker 4: It was going on? Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: I hear a Geen?
Speaker 4: Hey, man, I'm surprised I'm first on this on this call, Hey,
Speaker 4: I would say, like, you know, they call you the
Speaker 4: energize of Bunny, you know, double E. I'm gonna call
Speaker 4: you triple A because you know you are the Adam
Speaker 4: augln and you are awesome for what you do.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Man. It's good to be a part
Speaker 1: of this. It's easy. It's easy. It's easy. Like pell
Speaker 1: ask me, why do you keep doing this show all
Speaker 1: the time. It's two hundred and two straight days. There
Speaker 1: have been times where late at night, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I want to do a show tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'm tired. This is gonna end the streak. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stop doing it. And then I wake up and I'm energized,
Speaker 1: and I start to think about this Clippers team and
Speaker 1: how just great this season has been, how exciting it's been,
Speaker 1: the possibilities moving forward and clippernation. People are texting me,
Speaker 1: tweeting me, I don't want to let you guys down,
Speaker 1: like I love to hear from you. Once I figured
Speaker 1: out I could take calls on off days, I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: the streak is never stopping now, Okay, not never stopping,
Speaker 1: but until this Clipper season is over, whatever that may be,
Speaker 1: I'm not stopping. I can't stop. So I appreciate the love.
Speaker 1: But really, just like what we saw tonight with this
Speaker 1: crowd fueling the Clipper squad, it is the same thing
Speaker 1: to me all the time, Like I just feel like Clipernation.
Speaker 1: They're so on fire for this team. It just gets
Speaker 1: me excited.
Speaker 4: Rea and Big Gray, Well, we longtime Clipper fans, even
Speaker 4: some of the newest, We need this energy from you
Speaker 4: because the thing about it is is like a lot
Speaker 4: of people have the same energy you have, but they
Speaker 4: don't have a venue leon what I'm saying to basically
Speaker 4: express it. And I and I think it's great that
Speaker 4: you put this out there because I think it'll aspire
Speaker 4: a lot of other Clipper fans to actually speak up
Speaker 4: and you know, do what they do. Because we have
Speaker 4: been faithful for a long time. We don't go to
Speaker 4: other you know, with this team hot We're gonna go
Speaker 4: to this team, you know, because we know a lot
Speaker 4: that happens a lot. We stayed with our team. We've
Speaker 4: been there for years and I came in early two
Speaker 4: thousand and one. I'm in Podcasski, but I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: talk about that, but I'm just gonna say kudos for
Speaker 4: what you do. And then I want to talk about
Speaker 4: the game a little bit.
Speaker 1: But yeah, all right, Gene, tell me what you saw
Speaker 1: of the game. I appreciate it, of course, and it's
Speaker 1: good talking to a long time Clipper fan that's got
Speaker 1: a great phone as well and a great voice. So, Geane,
Speaker 1: what do you want to say?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to talk about thanks stakes for the
Speaker 4: you know, for the compliment, but I want to say
Speaker 4: that one thing that I realized this game that a
Speaker 4: lot of people, I don't think a lot of people
Speaker 4: were really recognized, is that one thing that has been
Speaker 4: hurting us is we've been getting beat up on the boards.
Speaker 4: And so like Kawhi, he would do whatever he needs
Speaker 4: to do, and so he took a step back in
Speaker 4: this game. And maybe he didn't do what he did
Speaker 4: the last game, but what he did was he made
Speaker 4: sure that he hit them boards because see a lot
Speaker 4: of our players are not doing that, and Kawhi was like,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna hit these boys. But he did double duty
Speaker 4: because you know, he has to score, he has to
Speaker 4: play defense, and so he was on the boards because
Speaker 4: that's what we was getting killed on the boards. So
Speaker 4: Kawhi made it a point that made sure that he
Speaker 4: was gonna be like, Oh, I'm gonna hit these boys
Speaker 4: and make sure we get these rebounds because we're not
Speaker 4: getting killed in these boys again. We gotta take away,
Speaker 4: we gotta take away these these these ridiculous uh turnovers.
Speaker 4: But we got to hit the bulls. And Kawhi was like,
Speaker 4: that's gotta that's gotta stop.
Speaker 1: No, I agree with the gene. That was a huge
Speaker 1: keych to this game, and I appreciate the phone call
Speaker 1: and Kawhi led them in that area. He said enough
Speaker 1: when it comes to them beating us up on the boards,
Speaker 1: he had eleven. The reason Zubos didn't get to his
Speaker 1: typical double double, the reason that streak is over is
Speaker 1: because of Kawhi because he was so aggressive getting rebounds,
Speaker 1: and the Clippers out rebounded them by ten in this
Speaker 1: ball game, by four. When it came to offensive rebounds,
Speaker 1: Zu did have five of those. Kawhi had two, though,
Speaker 1: so there's different ways to impact a game. No, he
Speaker 1: didn't go fifteen of nineteen. He was seven of seventeen,
Speaker 1: but having eleven boards and only being second to Jokis
Speaker 1: with thirteen. Kawhi knew if we shore up this area,
Speaker 1: if you know, we plugged this hole, this leak on
Speaker 1: the ship, then we can become that much better. We
Speaker 1: can start to eliminate some of these weaknesses we've had.
Speaker 1: You become a more complete team, a more balanced team,
Speaker 1: and you find other ways to win. And that's what
Speaker 1: it's all about, because you're not always gonna have your shot.
Speaker 1: Kawhi is seven to seventeen. I thought he got a
Speaker 1: kind of a rough whistle at times in this game.
Speaker 1: Two of his fadeaways on the right baseline over Christian Brown,
Speaker 1: he was He was on the officials a little bit
Speaker 1: wanting those to be and ones. He eventually did get
Speaker 1: a big and one. It kind of was one of
Speaker 1: the bigger buckets to make sure. The Clippers slammed the door,
Speaker 1: boarded it up and turn it into a wall, so
Speaker 1: Denver had no chance to come back on this one.
Speaker 1: But Kawhi is a complete player. He is a two
Speaker 1: way superstar. He does the little things. That's what makes
Speaker 1: him so special. It's not just that he can get
Speaker 1: you in a fish at thirty, is that he can
Speaker 1: do it while doing role player like stuff. That's the
Speaker 1: difference with Kawhi. He's exceptional in that way. He's very
Speaker 1: unique in that way, and he's very selfless every once
Speaker 1: in a while to a fault. Maybe when he first
Speaker 1: came back, I felt like he should be more aggressive,
Speaker 1: and we said in game one he should be more aggressive,
Speaker 1: but he turned it around. Kawhi was excellent in this ballgame.
Speaker 1: Probably their best player out there tonight, but there's a
Speaker 1: lot of guys to choose from. James Harden had all
Speaker 1: twenty of his points in the first half. And the
Speaker 1: one thing I loved about James Harden the first half
Speaker 1: was half of his ten shots were threes. He went
Speaker 1: three or five, so his other two makes were going
Speaker 1: downhill going to the basket, and he got found multiple times.
Speaker 1: He went five or six from the charity stripe. So
Speaker 1: even though the Clippers, you know, they they were taking
Speaker 1: a ton of threes rightfully, so they were making them.
Speaker 1: They started nine to thirteen from the outside after I
Speaker 1: think Denver was three of three to start the game
Speaker 1: from three. But they cooled off quickly. But the Clippers,
Speaker 1: I was concerned about what happens when the threes aren't
Speaker 1: falling what are you falling back on? How do you
Speaker 1: then get back into just executing and going through your
Speaker 1: actions and running your system, running your offense. And James
Speaker 1: Harden was making sure to steal, get downhill and get
Speaker 1: points in the paint, because the Clippers at the half,
Speaker 1: while taking twenty two to three pointers and hitting twelve
Speaker 1: of them, still were tied in points in the paint
Speaker 1: with Denver at twenty. That I thought was a huge deal.
Speaker 1: They won points on the paint by the end of
Speaker 1: this game forty two to thirty eight, even while hitting
Speaker 1: eighteen three pointers, so you still had enough balance there.
Speaker 1: They didn't just put them up from the outside. And
Speaker 1: by the way, the reason they were doing it is
Speaker 1: because typically if the Clipper, if the Clippers are knocking
Speaker 1: them down from three, it's a sign that their ball
Speaker 1: movement is really good and they're finding the open man.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna force them, they're gonna take the right
Speaker 1: type of threes. Well, they ended up taking almost forty
Speaker 1: in this game, which is about six more than they
Speaker 1: typically attempt. That tells you that the ball movement was
Speaker 1: great and the Clippers offense was finally tuned. When they're
Speaker 1: putting up a lot of threes. Typically that means the Clippers, Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody's touching the basketball and they're finding the open man,
Speaker 1: and they were. You look at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: how many guys ended up hitting three pointers for them,
Speaker 1: norm with three, Kawhi with three, Done with two, James
Speaker 1: Harden with three, Niko Batoum with four, Derek Jones Junior
Speaker 1: with two, Patty Mills at the end knock one down.
Speaker 1: It's a really good sign for this team when that
Speaker 1: Typically when they are taking more threes. But James Harden
Speaker 1: ended up with nine assists to one turnover, didn't score
Speaker 1: a point in the second half, still affected the game.
Speaker 1: Awesome to see. Let's go to ELT's do be good here.
Speaker 1: We got eight six six, ninety seven two five seventy
Speaker 1: Lenny and Englewood. Lenny, give me like thirty forty five seconds.
Speaker 1: I gotta make sure he gets everybody all right.
Speaker 5: Listen, we should easily be up three to l Man.
Speaker 5: There hasn't been one game I wasn't worried about this
Speaker 5: game the night I felt that because here's the deal.
Speaker 5: We come into the gym already putting a plose to
Speaker 5: ninety on the board, Nuggets don't have enough offense to
Speaker 5: stay with us. Man.
Speaker 1: I mean, I heard has only had one hundred and
Speaker 1: five though, I mean then yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: But here's here's the thing about Kawhi that I love.
Speaker 5: If Kawhi would have came out and tried to go
Speaker 5: for thirty, to me, he's Carmelo Anthony. But that's not Kawhi.
Speaker 5: Kawhi does he knows that from that last game what's
Speaker 5: been happening where like you said, we've been been getting
Speaker 5: beat up on the boards. We didn't need that. We're
Speaker 5: coming back home. Our role players are going to play better,
Speaker 5: which they did. Norman Powell stepped up like we said
Speaker 5: he was Jones and then Nico coming off the bench.
Speaker 5: You know, role players always played better at home. That's
Speaker 5: the math. You can't beat the math. The math is math.
Speaker 5: That's where it always happened. So we're gonna get this
Speaker 5: next game and uh Nika Jokic those minutes, it's you know,
Speaker 5: the playoffs is a game, and so you're right, we
Speaker 5: don't need Simmons to come in there and play lockdown
Speaker 5: defense for taxing. We just need him to bother him,
Speaker 5: make it hard for him for three four minutes at
Speaker 5: a time. That's it. It's the game. The playoffs are
Speaker 5: game of inches, man. So you're right, we're moving forward here,
Speaker 5: and you got to if you look at it, Bro,
Speaker 5: I don't see how anybody can't say that we're not
Speaker 5: the second best team in the West. We dem there
Speaker 5: have four NBA All Stars and one and playoff NBA MVP.
Speaker 5: So anybody who's on these chats saying anything otherwise, just
Speaker 5: stay off the chats, man, because you don't believe. And
Speaker 5: there's why waste time messing with y'all, because this is
Speaker 5: real and they're very impressive, man, and I'm just I'm
Speaker 5: just very proud of what they're doing. So keep it
Speaker 5: up at him.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I agree when they're rolling like this,
Speaker 1: when they're humming, when they're on all cylinders, it's like
Speaker 1: they got four All Stars out there between James Zuo
Speaker 1: Kawhi and Noran Powell, and four guys that are so
Speaker 1: different in what they can do and how they star
Speaker 1: in their roles. Not necessarily as role players, but they
Speaker 1: are still playing roles. They have different ways they affect
Speaker 1: the game that compliment one another. Out there, Ryan Seman
Speaker 1: was talking to coach Lou about this pregame, like, you've
Speaker 1: had maybe more talented teams in the past, but now
Speaker 1: you have a team where guys one through twelve, everybody
Speaker 1: knows their lane, knows their role and what is required
Speaker 1: of them that night. Instead of having somebody that you know,
Speaker 1: maybe wants to score, maybe wants to pass, maybe wants
Speaker 1: to be more of a role player take a back seat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am talking about Paul George a little bit, and
Speaker 1: he's an all time great Clipper. There were CP three
Speaker 1: was in the house. He's an all time great Clipper
Speaker 1: to me. Pat Bev is a legend here, but Paul
Speaker 1: George was a moving target with his role. At times
Speaker 1: you didn't know what you were gonna get night to night.
Speaker 1: Norn Pall has more of a scoring appetite than Paul George.
Speaker 1: It's true, he's looking to get buckets. Now they're different players.
Speaker 1: Paul George does offer more, but it starts with being
Speaker 1: an attack mode and looking for your offense when you're
Speaker 1: a star. I just think the way this Clippers team
Speaker 1: has been built and has been constructed, the pieces fit
Speaker 1: much better. Not that last year's team couldn't have made
Speaker 1: a run. They could have if they were healthy, of course.
Speaker 1: But this team makes a lot of sense in different ways,
Speaker 1: and you're seeing it out there right now. We'll take
Speaker 1: a quick time out. We'll come back. Clippers win one
Speaker 1: seventeen to eighty three over the Denver Nuggets. I'm at
Speaker 1: a Muslim and you're listening to Clippers talking here on
Speaker 1: the emphire.
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Speaker 1: Clippers win one seventeen to eighty three. Great defensively, great
Speaker 1: on the offensive end, a complete game on both ends
Speaker 1: of the floor. And that's how you get a thirty
Speaker 1: four point victory in Game three, after the first two
Speaker 1: games were decided by a total of one point. The
Speaker 1: Clippers win this one and leave no doubt, winning by
Speaker 1: thirty four in their first ever game here it into
Speaker 1: a dome. Just incredible, the environment, the atmosphere, the noise
Speaker 1: David Adalman that was put out by Clipper Nation deafening.
Speaker 1: I didn't check to see if they did the decimal
Speaker 1: meter like they typically do. I might have missed it
Speaker 1: at some point. One thirty is the record at a
Speaker 1: basketball game, but it was loud, loud as I've ever
Speaker 1: heard it. Here, it into a dome. It was awesome,
Speaker 1: Just a perfect night for Clipper Nation. Celebrate it, enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Let's recap this ballgame, because it didn't look great early on.
Speaker 1: I must say there were some bad signs. Zu got
Speaker 1: blocked by Michael Porter Junior to start the game, and
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon got an in one on the other end.
Speaker 1: You didn't go up strong at first. I was a
Speaker 1: little bit concerned, and for whatever reason, they started off
Speaker 1: the ballgame trying to throw a wrinkle at the Clippers
Speaker 1: with Michael Porter Junior on eacht Zubots and with Jokic
Speaker 1: on Kawhi. Maybe it worked for a second. They did
Speaker 1: it for two or three possessions, and then they went
Speaker 1: back to their usual covers on defense at Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone asked David Adelman about that.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do some Clipper stock after dark once they
Speaker 1: get back to Burbank after the game. But let's just
Speaker 1: say Denver led seventeen to eleven after an Aaron Gordon
Speaker 1: three in the first quarter. He was hot, he had
Speaker 1: eleven points, and I was getting worried. I was thinking
Speaker 1: about the twenty five he had in Game one, and
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon, noticeably by the end of this game looked exhausted.
Speaker 1: More on that coming up, but there was this back
Speaker 1: and forth three point shooting going on where Ag hits
Speaker 1: that three point to put him up by six. Chris
Speaker 1: Dunn hits a three pointer off a nice pass from
Speaker 1: Norm pal At seventeen to fourteen. Ag another three. They're
Speaker 1: up by six again, He's already at his eleven points.
Speaker 1: We're four minutes in to the first quarter. Harden misses
Speaker 1: a corner three. It was wide open timeout. Clippers. They're
Speaker 1: down twenty to fourteen, and Denver is eight of nine
Speaker 1: from the field. Clippers get a stop, though, and Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard got in transition and had a beautiful move on
Speaker 1: Nikola Jokic to go around him for a scoop layup.
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray misses a three with the Visa Zubos on him.
Speaker 1: Done three pointer that spins out. Can't get it. It's
Speaker 1: still twenty sixteen. Denver zoo blocks then Aaron Gordon there's
Speaker 1: a foul cold and some people didn't like this challenge
Speaker 1: by coach Lou but I think this was an early
Speaker 1: turning point. He challenged it. They said it was marginal
Speaker 1: contact and the Visa Zubas got a ton of ball.
Speaker 1: He got him slightly with the body, but they won
Speaker 1: the challenge. Now it ended up being Denver's ball because
Speaker 1: Gordon at the end of the play came down with
Speaker 1: it imminent possession. But they ended up having a backcourt
Speaker 1: violation afterwards, as Jamal Murray dribbled the basketball off his foot,
Speaker 1: crit the wall. You guys were very loud. Now Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons comes in for Big Zoo. Here we go. Russ
Speaker 1: came in for Michael Porter Junior. Norm starts this runoff
Speaker 1: missing a three pointer. Jokics to Brown for a dunk
Speaker 1: after a double comes at Jokic and I thought, uh oh,
Speaker 1: is the Ben Simmons lineup not gonna work this time?
Speaker 1: Now here we go. It's twenty two sixteen, and now
Speaker 1: Norm hits a three pointer. Here comes Storm and Norman Powell.
Speaker 1: It was important the fact that he ended up in
Speaker 1: the first quarter with eight points. So his last quarter
Speaker 1: of game two he has seven. First quarter of game
Speaker 1: three he has eight. Norm's back, He's engaged, he looks good,
Speaker 1: He's pumping up the crowd, but still there's a Christian
Speaker 1: Brown back door cut and one twenty four to nineteen.
Speaker 1: He would miss the free throw against the wall. Now
Speaker 1: it's DJ batoom, Hardened Simmons and Norm Jokics is still
Speaker 1: out there. The beatsa Zubos has been off the floor.
Speaker 1: There was some miscommunication on a bad turnover on the
Speaker 1: far sideline, but then an offensive foul on Russ on
Speaker 1: the other end. Who generated it, Ben Simmons. It's still
Speaker 1: twenty four to nineteen. DJ missed an easy floater. He
Speaker 1: has missed a couple of those I've noticed in this series.
Speaker 1: Murray's alone for a Jokic pass and gets an easy layup.
Speaker 1: Six point game. Nope, that was the seven point lead
Speaker 1: they had. It was twenty six to nineteen. Harden hits
Speaker 1: a three pointer. Here we go twenty six, twenty two turnover.
Speaker 1: Christian Brown looking for Jokic cutting underneath on a back
Speaker 1: door cut. He thought he was fouled, didn't get the call.
Speaker 1: Harden hits another three pointer. Here we go, twenty six
Speaker 1: to twenty five, one point game. Jokis layup out of
Speaker 1: a timeout. Twenty eight to twenty five Denver. Norm free
Speaker 1: throws brings it back to one. Clippers get a stop
Speaker 1: hard and foul, but a side out. Now James gets
Speaker 1: a layup and I love seeing this him going left
Speaker 1: for a layup. Clippers are up twenty nine to twenty eight,
Speaker 1: their first lead of the ball game. I believe russ
Speaker 1: Miss is a three on the left wing. Harden another three,
Speaker 1: this one over picket. He's got thirteen points in the
Speaker 1: first quarter and the Clippers are on a seven to
Speaker 1: oher run. It's thirty two to twenty eight Clippers. Russ
Speaker 1: Miss is another three, but Toomb three on the right wing. Oh,
Speaker 1: these Niko Buttoomb get plays in this ballgame special. Clippers
Speaker 1: lead thirty five to twenty eight after the first quarter.
Speaker 1: They ended on a ten to ozer run. They went
Speaker 1: plus eleven in the Ben Simmons minutes with Jokic out
Speaker 1: there on the floor. They were nine of thirteen from three.
Speaker 1: Nine of their eleven makes in the first quarter were
Speaker 1: from three, and they went from down seven to up
Speaker 1: seven quickly. It's thirty five twenty eight hitting into the
Speaker 1: second Now it's tom bogy kawhi dj zoo. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, You more than did your job. Zuo's coming
Speaker 1: back in and he's got minutes now or Jokic isn't
Speaker 1: out there on the floor. He quickly gets a tip
Speaker 1: in after missing his initial tip in on a miss
Speaker 1: from three from Kawhi Leonard. Now Kawhi Overpiket throws a
Speaker 1: pass to a Viata Zubats, who, excuse me, had picket
Speaker 1: on him for a lefty hook. So I Viata Zubats
Speaker 1: has the first four points of the second quarter, and
Speaker 1: Kahi was looking for him. Oh, you got the mismatch,
Speaker 1: We're going to you. That's what was like all night.
Speaker 1: Who's got the advantage, who's open, who's got the advantage.
Speaker 1: We're not messing around. We're getting to our offense quickly.
Speaker 1: Now we get a Nico Batoomb block on Aaron Gordon
Speaker 1: who had an easy layup and incomes, but Toombo block.
Speaker 1: Tomb was there. That I think was a huge tone setter,
Speaker 1: because everything was coming easy early on for Aaron Gordon,
Speaker 1: not now dj left wing three pointer. We went from
Speaker 1: Denver was up twenty eight to twenty five in the
Speaker 1: first quarter to a seventeen to zero run by the Clippers,
Speaker 1: where now they're up forty two to twenty eight. In
Speaker 1: the second quarter, Denver went almost seven minutes without a
Speaker 1: field goal. Clippers aren't done though here. Well. They would
Speaker 1: get to the free throw line Denver for a couple now,
Speaker 1: but Toom hits a three off a nice bogie pass.
Speaker 1: Clippers are up by fifteen. Nico came in and made
Speaker 1: a huge impact right away. He got a three pointer
Speaker 1: to go that hit off the front of the rim
Speaker 1: and got the friendly shooter's bounce where it had enough
Speaker 1: rotation to drop and fall in. Incredible this Clippers team,
Speaker 1: even though it got down to a ten point lead
Speaker 1: after a Russ made three, he was one of five
Speaker 1: from the outside. And I'm going they should be up
Speaker 1: by more right now. Why is it only fifty to forty?
Speaker 1: Are they relying too much on the three ball? Is
Speaker 1: this hot shooting gonna hold up well? Out of the timeout,
Speaker 1: Kawhi and Zoo run a pick and roll. It took
Speaker 1: him two tries, but eventually Kawhi found him and he
Speaker 1: had some really nice passes in this one, by the way,
Speaker 1: and they got the bucket out of the timeout to
Speaker 1: go back up by twelve. Jokic misses a three, Kawhi
Speaker 1: missed a baseline jumper. Ag misses a three pointer offensive
Speaker 1: rebound Brown, another miss three goes to Gordon, Russ misses
Speaker 1: a three. Then after that they had multiple possessions, they
Speaker 1: had opportunities to knock one down and that was the
Speaker 1: lone blemish, I would say in the rebounding battle, that
Speaker 1: one possession where they had I think three shots the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets in the first half. Now is Batoom, Kawhi done,
Speaker 1: Harden Zoo been one? See more of this lineup. Harden
Speaker 1: gets a layup. Remember he's not just settling for three pointers.
Speaker 1: That was key in him getting to his twenty points
Speaker 1: in the first half. Niko Batum gets another block. He's
Speaker 1: everywhere guys. Harden then gets fouled on the three from
Speaker 1: Michael Porter Junior on the right wing fifty four to forty.
Speaker 1: Pale comes back in for Batum at the four oh
Speaker 1: seven mark. Harden did miss the last free throw of
Speaker 1: those three that he got to. Russ airballs a corner
Speaker 1: three in the far side, and now Kawhi has a
Speaker 1: turnaround jumper on the right baseline on Christian Brown to
Speaker 1: put him up by eighteen. It was their largest lead
Speaker 1: at that point. Kawhi wasn't happy also, he thought there
Speaker 1: was contact. Jokic got fouled, went up against the wall
Speaker 1: and the horses that were there, and went one of
Speaker 1: two to make it fifty eight to forty one. Norm
Speaker 1: then has a beautiful on a pass to of Easta
Speaker 1: Zubots rolling to the basket for a big dunk after
Speaker 1: Zoom missed a bunny where he didn't know how wide
Speaker 1: open he was because of this great lob pass to
Speaker 1: the interior over the defense from James Harden like there
Speaker 1: were blitzing James, and he threw a perfect pass to
Speaker 1: of Easta Zubots. He was so wide open. I don't
Speaker 1: think he realized it and he missed a bunny, but
Speaker 1: Norm would find him two possessions later and get him
Speaker 1: a huge dunk. Clippers are back up by seventeen. Clippers
Speaker 1: end up being up at the half by eighteen. I
Speaker 1: was concerned because I thought, not necessarily by them being
Speaker 1: up eighteen and a half, but there were moments where
Speaker 1: it was just a ten point lead in that second quarter,
Speaker 1: and I thought, I have the Clippers done enough? Have
Speaker 1: they done enough to put away this Denver Nuggets team.
Speaker 1: But Kawhi had a beautiful pass before the the end
Speaker 1: of the first half as well to dj as a
Speaker 1: double team came and he dunked it basically to end
Speaker 1: the first half. It was sixty five to forty seven.
Speaker 1: We'll recap the second half after this time out. Clippers
Speaker 1: win one, seventeen to eighty three over the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 1: Hear it into a Dome first ever postseason game here.
Speaker 1: We'll get back to your phone calls as well. I'm
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Speaker 2: The LA Clippers and the Denver Nuggets. This is Round
Speaker 2: one playoff action on the LA Clippers audio Network.
Speaker 1: Seed to eighty three in Game three. Hear it into
Speaker 1: a Dome first ever game here and they win by
Speaker 1: thirty four. Complete domination went through the first half. Second
Speaker 1: half recap, Clippers led by eighteen. It was sixty five
Speaker 1: to forty seven heading into the third and Aaron Gordon
Speaker 1: missed a layup to start the third and I thought
Speaker 1: to myself, Oh, Niko Batoum is still out there. Actually
Speaker 1: he's seeing ghosts because he had his shot blocked so
Speaker 1: badly in the first half. Kawhi goes to the line.
Speaker 1: Now the Clippers are up by twenty, they would stay
Speaker 1: up by twenty for some time. They would end the
Speaker 1: third quarter being up by twenty as well. But Jokic
Speaker 1: some of the memorable plays in that third quarter. He
Speaker 1: actually got called for a travel, the same travel he
Speaker 1: wasn't getting called for the first two games. He tried
Speaker 1: to go one on one against the beast of Zubots,
Speaker 1: and I think it led to him doing a little
Speaker 1: bit too much feat shuffling out there. Zu gets a
Speaker 1: floater right away on the other end. Now the Clippers
Speaker 1: are up by twenty two. In the third quarter, there
Speaker 1: was a great play from Norman Powell that caused Christian
Speaker 1: Brown to miss badly on a fallaway, and then Norm
Speaker 1: hit a three on the other end to put him
Speaker 1: up by twenty one when Denver was trying to make
Speaker 1: a run. Time out Denver after that Zoo will put
Speaker 1: him up by twenty four when he got one off
Speaker 1: the left window. The Clippers were really starting to open
Speaker 1: things up. When Norm got that and one as he
Speaker 1: split two defenders to put him up by twenty five,
Speaker 1: I said, I think we're gonna be okay tonight, guys.
Speaker 1: But to end the third quarter to really have the
Speaker 1: Clippers in a good spot where they could have just
Speaker 1: been a seventeen point game Nico, but toom huge three
Speaker 1: pointer and then the steal on Peyton Watson on the
Speaker 1: other end, and the Clippers are up ninety to seventy
Speaker 1: after three. Star of the fourth was brutal fouls being
Speaker 1: called on both sides, offensive fouls. Kawhi did have a
Speaker 1: great fee to DJ again for a nice dunk, but
Speaker 1: the moment you felt where, Okay, the Clippers have some
Speaker 1: distance here. It's not gonna be Denver's night. It's not happening.
Speaker 1: Even with the Clippers missing free throws, they were all,
Speaker 1: we'll have a thirteen from the charity stripe before the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and the wall got to him. It happens
Speaker 1: once in a while. Kawhi made a really aggressive move
Speaker 1: after his an eighteen point game with Yoki change some
Speaker 1: free throws on the other end and drew a tough
Speaker 1: foul on Jokic, and it just seemed like Kawhi's will
Speaker 1: was there. He wasn't gonna let this happen. He was
Speaker 1: gonna do it the hard way. He wasn't gonna settle
Speaker 1: for a jumper. It was when Jokic thought he knew
Speaker 1: what the play was on the other end, and Kawhi
Speaker 1: just went right at him on the left base line.
Speaker 1: Then he finally was able to hit some free throws
Speaker 1: the Clippers were able to. Jokic also was doing some
Speaker 1: stuff where he was trying to give them a possible
Speaker 1: challenge on an out of bounds play and was tying
Speaker 1: his shoe and James Harden came up to him and
Speaker 1: said he was he was trying to tie his shoes
Speaker 1: for him because Jokic was taking so long to delay
Speaker 1: it so they could have a look at it to
Speaker 1: see if they could have an opportunity or to challenge it.
Speaker 1: But Zoo had a beautiful step through as they found
Speaker 1: him with Christian Brown on him for a pushot to
Speaker 1: make it ninety eight to seventy six, and then Harden
Speaker 1: found Zoo again for an easy donk one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy eight. They were blitzing. They have no answer for
Speaker 1: the pick and roll guys, they have nothing. They have
Speaker 1: nothing for it. They try to mix up coverages. Clippers
Speaker 1: were dissecting everything tonight. The DJ three made it one
Speaker 1: o six to eighty two. It was game over. Bogee
Speaker 1: finally got his bucket at the end of this game.
Speaker 1: That was good to see. Let's go to Mike in La.
Speaker 1: Mike quickly here thirty seconds.
Speaker 6: Alrighty Adam, First, thanks for continuing to do this. Two
Speaker 6: hundred and whatever it was days in a row? Was
Speaker 6: it two o two?
Speaker 1: Two hundred in a row? Straight days of Clippers stock
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 6: That's awesome, man, Thank you, uh, thank you.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't happen without you.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 6: I just want to follow up on the last thing
Speaker 6: you said. I think it really was great to see
Speaker 6: Bogie get that, you know, one shot, even in garbage
Speaker 6: time at the end. Just hopefully that you know, gets
Speaker 6: him going, because if you know, we can get him going,
Speaker 6: quit keeping everything else as it is, and to watch out.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. If they get Bogey going, nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna want to see this team. But the Clippers have
Speaker 1: work to be done. And I appreciate the phone call. Mike,
Speaker 1: your regular so I wanted to close things out with you.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I can get to all your guys' phone calls.
Speaker 1: I feel terrible. I will do some Clippers talk after
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Speaker 1: back in Burbank, and Big Brother Jake Warner mister three
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Speaker 1: Big Bro, it couldn't have been a better night here
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Speaker 1: My friend, I'm Adam Oslin. We'll talk to you guys
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