Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippers fans, Welcome to the Game
two postgame live. Hang. I am Chuck Wlckler. Adam osen
is doing his thing over at Clippers Talk and for
the radio AM five seventy. Will Updike might pop in.
I don't know. I am basking and unclenching from that
incredibly stressful game to win in Denver. The Clippers pull
it out. It was a back and forth game the
entire time. Kawhi Leonard absolutely dragged the Clippers to this one.
He had thirty nine points at one point he was
the only Clipper who was able to score. Just an
unbelievable performance from Kawhi Leonard. James Harden turned it on late.
But game one, they talked about needing, you know, Kawhi
to be an attack That's what Tyler said after this game.
Kawhi was in attack mode for this one. I think
he put up thirty nine points, he only missed four shots,
he hit all of his free throws, and he played
good defense. Absolutely incredible win. To say that the Clippers
needed that is an incredible understatement. Yeah, if you're listening
to this later after we do the live, you can
find us at YouTube dot accomplished at Clippers podcasts. I
am incredibly excited. There's a lot of there are things
to worry about from this game. We hope to see
more good things happen with Norm Powell, who got it
going late. Norm hit an incredibly clutch shot with a
minute thirty left in this one. Norm was bad for
most of this game, but he hit a three with
a minute thirty left to put the clips up. It
was incredibly clutch from Norm, which is something we know
we can rely on. We know we can rely on that. Happy,
incredibly happy for David Booker. David Booker wife hates him
right now for watching the game which you wanted to
watch a movie. Yes, thank god the Clippers delivered. Kawhi
Leonard got the assist for you on that one on
a night when he was doing most of the scoring.
It is you want to get the split. The Clippers
should have won game one. Probably not that they shouldn't
have won this game, but game one. They threw this
one away. This one they corrected their mistakes, which I liked.
In the first quarter in this game, the Clippers had
five turnovers and the second they had two. So the
Clippers cleaned up the turnovers after the first quarter, except
for a really egregious one Harden had late that was
almost That would have been maybe more of the subject
of this postgame live if that had happened. And then
they limited the second the fast break points for the Nuggets.
The Nuggets had zero fast breakpoints in the second quarter
and the third court, which is fantastic. I think they
had ten or something like that in the first quarter.
So they they shored up some things, which was good
to see. The rotation did not change, we did. I
wrote down some questions for this game, which was how
did the Clippers take care of the ball? Was Kawhi
in attack boat? The answer to that second question is
absolutely yes. He had thirty nine points. He looked unstoppable.
Norm did not look good. We need to keep his offense.
Simple logan reps saying Aaron, Well, I am unwill too.
That was an incredible game, But there were some bad things.
I do want to give The refs were crazy in
this one. Jamal Murray should have got a tech for
picking up Norm, which was comical. We should have got
a tech for that. I didn't like that. Jamal Murray
has played good defense other than the stuff that he
was doing. The Clippers survive Jokic having a twenty six
point triple dom. Jokic had eight points in the first
half of this one. The Clippers did a good job
of making his life difficult. Other guys were hitting shots,
but it was inevitable he was going to pop out
at some point, so limiting that first half to eight
is great. Yeah, we do have to talk about there
were two incredibly disrespectful flops by Nikola Jokic in this game.
Only one of them resulted in a foul call. But
he flopped on Norm. Norm touched him and he flopped over,
and then he flopped on a James Harden. He tried
to sell the James Harden elbow to his chest. It
was egregious. The flops were insane. Yes, Ben Simmons actually scored.
He made a layup, which was good. Ben Simmons made
a layup and hit Chris Down with an incredible outlet pass.
In this game, I thought offensively, Ben Simmons was good.
He was only out there for seven minutes. I don't
want what more we want other than he out of board.
He had an assist. It wasn't bad. Yeah, A lot
of people, uh, Kylie Sparks. Kylie, hope you're doing well.
Lesson learned. I need to rage quite at the two
minute mark and put my homework watching on if we
want to win. Okay, I think that's right, Kylie. We're
looking to you for game three. But yeah, a lot
of people are gonna ask why Nick Tune didn't close
in this one. Nick, but Tumbe was was good in
this one, two A five from three. The rotations late
we're interesting in this one as my computer fucking up game. Mhmm,
we're back. All right, we're back. Thanks reestream for figuring
that shit out. But Tune was great. But tum raised
the floor. He was hitting shots when the Clippers needed
someone to hit shots, but he uh isn't in the
late game rotation, which I don't know how I feel about.
They got the win, which is good. But to the
people who want Norm Powell out of the main rotation,
which I'm sure we're going to hear about in the
next couple of days. The clippers next game is on Thursday.
Into it Don was going to be rocking, which is fantastic.
Norm hit a shot with a minute thirty left that
put the Clippers up which was incredibly clutch, right, and
so it was a bad norm game. He started really bad.
Him and Bogey were really bad. Bogie we're gonna talk
about too, because Bogie cannot be missing shots. That is
not ideal. We don't need that. Yeah, the unplayable thing
is tough. If Bogie's not hitting shots, obviously the floor
is way lower for the team in general. So the
Bogie thing is an issue. He's got to figure that
shit out. He had fifteen minutes tonight. He went oh five.
He obviously gets he's a priority for them on defense
then being the other team. But I don't know, I
don't know. Yeah, this is a great point by a chief.
But for all the offense, Claude de Liliberty sealed the
game with that steel virtuos performance. He was fantastic. He
was so good. I also want to give a shout out.
We haven't talked about this guy yet. The Clippers went
on a run late in the second mostly because the
defense stepped up, but Chris Dunn was a huge part
of that. Chris Dunn played phenomenal team defense today. Did
not shoot the ball well. Again, you look at game
one as a game the Clippers should have won and didn't.
You look at this game and you say, okay, Kawhi
was otherworldly. That's fantastic. Maybe they didn't deserve or it
didn't shake out as you'd think the Clippers would win
this game, but they did. A lot of wacky stuff
happened in this game. Aaron Gordon missed a dunk late,
but no anyway, hats off to Chris Done. He was
huge defensively in the second when the Clippers needed a boost.
That was really good. This one was odd, like Zuba
came out earlier than he usually does. Zu Bots looks
a little tired. That is something to look to look
at as we move forward. It's nice to have these
days off, but Zoo does look a little tired. I
thank god he hit most of his freet throws today.
That was very much needed. Keep an eye on Zoo's
fatigue going forward. And the shot profile for Jokic was
really interesting in this one. Interesting in the fact that
it helped the Clippers. He basically only took threes in
the first half. Let me see if the shot chart
is updated yet. It hasn't, but he basically only took
threes in the first half, which is a win for
the Clippers, I have to assume, but yeah, I don't know.
This is so in the fourth quarter, Norm Powell was
three or four with seven points with an assist. Two
of the shots he made in the fourth gave the
Clippers the lead. I don't know if tylu is going
to take Norm Powell out because of basically because of
what I just said. I'm not sure one hundred percent
agree with it, but you cannot deny that Norm was
incredibly clutch, and that is kind of why he's in there,
because you have nights like this where Kawhi gets nineteen
field goal attempts and Harden gets seventeen because you need
him to kind of be the third. I mean, he
did have the third most field goal attempts on the team.
But I don't think he's he's he's leaving that rotation
anytime soon. I don't think that's gonna happen. So the rebounding, Yeah,
the rebounding down the stretch has been a little rough
to watch for the Clippers. It was not we just
see kind of the same the long offensive rebounds things
like that from the Nuggets, which is incredibly frustrating. But yeah,
I agree with what people are saying, Renzo the old head.
I agree. The rebounding is something to keep an eye on.
Did they win. They got smoked in rebounds today by
like a lot, by like twenty. The Nuggets had thirty
five defensive rebounds. Nuggets had thirty five defensive rebounds. The
Clippers had thirty seven total rebounds. Yeah. I was stressed
out about this too. Russ had a really good fourth
quartery at two threes and got the whistle. I was
worried about Russ for sure taking over in this one.
You look at the other side, you look at the Nuggets.
They got a lot more from Michael Porter Junior offensively,
but they got a lot less from Aaron Gordon. He
finished with fourteen points. That yeah, the Norm thing. Sorry
not to keep going back to the Norm thing. Yeah,
the boards. MPJ really made his presence felt on the
on the offensive glass for them. Six is crazy. The
Norm thing is, you just got to keep his offense simple.
Norm's offense is a simple game. You get the ball,
you catch the ball and shoot it, or you catch
the ball and you run forward. That is why, that
is what he needs to do. And again he was
incredibly clutching this game. I don't know. I think people
wanting a lineup change are not going to get one
ahead of game four or game three. Excuse me, I
don't think that's gonna happen. One thing to Monor is
gonna be Michael Porter Junior's shoulder dune fell on him
in a weird way and then he had to come
out of the game. So just something to keep an
eye on to think about for as this goes on.
I don't think he's gonna miss time, but it's I
think it's going to affect him in some way. The
headline of this game, if you're just joining us, Kawhi
Leonard with thirty nine points, he goes fifteen for nineteen.
Incredible performance from the claw on both ends again and
in a game where to start this game, Kawhi was
the only person for the Clippers making shots. It cannot
be overstated how badly the Clippers needed Leonard to make
every single shot. I think he missed it made as
what first seven or eight, So yeah, with just an
incredible performance all the way around. Before this series, I
said that how far was the gap between Jokic and
Kawhi in terms of the best player on the floor.
I was a homer and obviously said I didn't think
the gap was that far. Thank you Kawhi for making
me seem a little bit not insane for saying that. Yes,
Kawhi was absolutely our life support, aunt's addict. He was tough.
There was also, this was not the best James Harden game.
He did not shoot well from three, He only had
four turnovers. He cleaned it up after the first quarter.
The turnovers were brutal in the first, but then Harden
cleaned it up late. But they still won. Again. Should
have won Game one, didn't Maybe shouldn't have had a
good of a chances they didn't win this game, and
they did. That's playoff basketball. That's what happens when Kawhi
is thirty nine. He keeps you in any game. And
that's what happens when Norm has clutch shooting in the fourth.
The rebounding is an issue. I'm not gonna sit here
and pretend like the rebounding is not an issue. I
don't know if starting Nick Batoum fixes that issue for
the Clippers. I don't think it does. It was a
huge three minute and thirty left. Norm takes the three
of the Clippers take the lead. It was gigantic. Yeah, this
is a good point playoff. Murray is genuinely scary. He's
answered the bell defensively, which hats off to him. He
played really good defense aside from picking up norm where
he should have got a tech. Murray's played played good
defense in this game. Specifically, for the most part, the
physicality was there. Yeah, I don't know, so the things
I guess could kind of transition this a little bit
into what to watch out for in Game three, which
is going to be an into it cannot wait to
be there, into it is going to be insane. If
you can get a ticket, go So this is a
nice segue from Ben Brow thank you asking are we
in bench bogie territory? I don't think they're in bench
bogey territory. I don't know who's getting his other fifteen minutes.
Just realistically, what up JC? The bench rotation is something
we just have to kind of ride it out. I
know that sounds terrifying right now, but I don't think
we're cutting down to effectively an eight guy rotation because
I think that asks too much for Nico. Nico's already
not playing that much. People want Nico to play more.
But I don't know why they're not doing that. There
has to be some kind of worry or something, you
know what I mean. Coffee Kelly Johnson was singing a
mere coffee's praises. We'll see about that. Defensively, yeah, it's good,
but right now the Clippers offense has been the issue.
Right like for worry about offense, I don't know. I
don't know. I don't think. I don't think that a
mere Coffee will be having any imminent injection into the
Clippers rotation. I'll me crazy. I just don't think that's
gonna happen. They just split in Denver with the usual rotations.
So I don't know. Let's what The rebounds have to
get better. I can't believe that they lost rebounds by
twenty two tonight and still get the win. But that's
what happens when you don't turn the ball over twenty times.
So the Clippers. The Clippers did, for the most part,
everything that they said they needed to fix after Game one, right,
it was self inflicted. Was with the turnovers. They limited those.
They had eleven turnovers, which is great, and Kawhi was
in attack mode. Tily mentioned that after Game one, I
think it was very evident that Kaui was an attack mode. Again.
They still got killed on the boards, which is not ideal,
but they did do a good job of limiting fast
break points after the first quarter. Again, the Nuggets had
zero fast break points in the second and third quarters.
It was fantastic. A lot of good stuff in that game,
and a lot of stuff to still be stressed about
this series. I picked this series to go six and
it feels like it's going that way. Just an incredible game.
Ummm pardoned ant even attempt to free throw this game
and the Clippers won. There's a lot of goofy shit
in this game. James Harden did not have a free throw.
He played thirty nine minutes. There's goofy stuff. Yeah, I
think the Amir Coffee love I don't. I don't know
what's going on with that, but I don't mean that disrespectfully.
But I think there's bigger things to worry about. The
demere Coffee getting minutes because again Norm was clutch in
the end of this game. That's not He's not going
to forget that. I don't know. I'm feeling great that
the Clippers got the split great that Cohi got back
into a tack mode. I am worried about the glass.
I am worried about the fast breakpoints because I don't
know if they'll go that cold again for basically an
entire half of basketball. Ben Brow asking, do we think
that games three and four are going to be as
close as one and two? Absolute freaking lutely, Ben, I
have no doubt in my mind that the games three
and four are going to be as close as one
is two. It's gonna be insane and into it is
going to be so goddamn loud. Be ready for how
loud and insane into it's gonna be. I don't think
we can be, but just try and be ready for
how loud it's going to be. They flubbix Jokich tonight,
which I liked. Jokich had seven turnovers, which you don't
often see, so I appreciate that. Yeah, not surprised I
didn't get as much from Gordon offensively. That'll be interesting
to see. Zoo's fatigue is something I want. I'm gonna
be looking out for it too, because you came out
earlier than usual in this game to start, and Ben
Simmons came in for him, and he looked a little
tired because he has tried to guard Jokic well. He's
playing very well against him effort wise, he's making life
difficult for Yoki. Joki is still Jokic, I want to
make that clear, but he's also having to do a
lot offensive, so he's looking tired. I'm curious to see
how that looks. We're gonna have a full Oh, this
is a great call. Thank you for bringing this up, Anthony.
So sorry this is so late. The double team timing
was a lot better today. It was really good to
see that they were waiting for Yokic to turn his
back a little bit. Yes, thank you for bringing that up.
This happened in the seven zero round of the second
with Chris Dunn out there, so it's gonna be interesting.
I like that point. Thank you for bringing that up, Anthony.
All right, I'm gonna head out. We're gonna have a
full crew pod for y'all on Wednesday night. Adam will myself,
thank you for hanging out the Clipper's split in Denver.
There's still things to worry about, but Kawhi as an
attack mode nor maybe he's getting some momentum after being
incredibly clutched on this game. Look at the fourth quarter stats.
Let's hope the boards are better, Let's hope the turnovers
are staying in check, and let's hope they've figured out
a way to prevent as many fast break points from
the Nuggets. Hell of a game as these all are
going to be. Here's to an incredibly loud night at
into It Dome this Thursday. As always, let's go clips.
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