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Speaker 1: At follow Adam a Adam Mosley. The Clippers ran up
Speaker 1: the score with the Bulls.
Speaker 4: In a three point shootout where they would win by
Speaker 4: five at one forty two to one seventeen and one
Speaker 4: of their most efficient game shooting wise of the season.
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Speaker 4: After a couple of days of panicking and saying it's over,
Speaker 4: we saw trade every Clippers win one game. The same
Speaker 4: people who are saying where do we go from here?
Speaker 4: Well they go back to La. Now those same people
Speaker 4: are saying, like, I believe in this team, they can
Speaker 4: be a contender again. I hey, if you want to
Speaker 4: live and die with every game, that's what being a
Speaker 4: fan is about. Sometimes I would just say, if you
Speaker 4: can't hold on to a little bit of perspective and
Speaker 4: not be a prisoner of the moment, it's good for
Speaker 4: your heart. It's better than prilosec. It's really good for
Speaker 4: your heart. That's the area I like to live in.
Speaker 4: This Clippers team was in trouble. It started off okay.
Speaker 4: They led heading in to that second quarter by a
Speaker 4: score of thirty one to twenty six, after Dereck Jones
Speaker 4: Junior had nine points on the first quarter alone to
Speaker 4: lead them in that area. I still was going, though,
Speaker 4: as Kawai gonna assert himself a little bit more? Is
Speaker 4: he gonna attack a little bit more? The only got
Speaker 4: up three shots the first seven and a half minutes.
Speaker 4: A mere coffee though, also saved him with seven points
Speaker 4: off the bench in the first and then just start
Speaker 4: the second.
Speaker 1: Who would have thunk it?
Speaker 4: I know you guys often don't like these lineups, and
Speaker 4: you call out coach lou all the time when they happen,
Speaker 4: so you're gonna give him credit when they are successful.
Speaker 4: He starts the second quarter with Ben Simmons, Niko Batoum,
Speaker 4: Drew U Banks, Bogie, and Emir and from the end
Speaker 4: of the first to the start of the second, that
Speaker 4: girl grows on a twelve two run. They cooked. They
Speaker 4: were awesome. A Mer had seven more points in that
Speaker 4: second quarter. Bogie was getting more involved offensively. Drew you,
Speaker 4: Banks played really well, was playing aggressive basketball out there,
Speaker 4: guarding on one end, had four points on the other.
Speaker 4: And the Clippers got up by twelve.
Speaker 1: They looked great.
Speaker 4: Then the starters came back in and they just gave
Speaker 4: it away, mostly due to turnovers. Within the span of
Speaker 4: three minutes and twenty seconds.
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 4: They went from being up twelve to down one, and
Speaker 4: they would head into the half down one at sixty
Speaker 4: to fifty nine. During those three minutes and twenty seconds,
Speaker 4: or during the last really seven minutes of the second
Speaker 4: quarter when the starters came back in, they had four turnovers.
Speaker 4: And during that stretch when the turnaround happened, three of
Speaker 4: them were by James Harden, some really bad ones where
Speaker 4: he didn't get back on defense done and beats. Zubas did,
Speaker 4: but he didn't. Kawhi had another one. I was frustrated.
Speaker 4: Harden looked completely out of gas.
Speaker 3: He looked cooked.
Speaker 4: He looked like a guy that has been playing far
Speaker 4: too many minutes because he has. Coach Louz even apologized
Speaker 4: for it. They've needed him to. Kawhi came back for
Speaker 4: this ballgame, thank goodness. And somehow after an abysmal first
Speaker 4: half from James Harden, where he had more turnovers than points,
Speaker 4: he turned things around in a hurry in that third quarter.
Speaker 4: To start the third it was Kawhi Leonard and I
Speaker 4: was talking about him, need to be a little bit
Speaker 4: more aggressive. And actually, as Carlo asked me heading into
Speaker 4: the third quarter, right away, what.
Speaker 1: The key is here the Clippers?
Speaker 4: We uh, I think we got a highlight for you
Speaker 4: of that, we got a clip for you. Daniel West
Speaker 4: is grabbing it. I thought Kawhi needed to start straw
Speaker 4: in the third quarter. He only took six shots in
Speaker 4: the first half, and uh, yeah he did.
Speaker 5: We got it sure to start this second half, Adam,
Speaker 5: what are you looking for with this group here? In
Speaker 5: half them or two?
Speaker 1: Well, let's see Kawhi be more assertive. He's only taking
Speaker 1: six shots so far.
Speaker 4: He's had good bounce to him, but he's got to
Speaker 4: be more aggressive and lead this team.
Speaker 5: He had twenty two in his last game, a season high.
Speaker 5: He's got it left wing, He jams right, looks at
Speaker 5: the rim, puts it on the floor, fires and hits
Speaker 5: good call. Adham sixty one sixty. Clippers lead by one.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it goes your way like that. So Kawhi starts
Speaker 4: things off for the Clippers. They take the lead, he
Speaker 4: gets fouled their next time down, makes a couple of
Speaker 4: free throws. He took their first three shots of that
Speaker 4: third quarter.
Speaker 1: And I liked what I was seeing.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I thought it was a good process. It's time
Speaker 4: to getting back to playing through Kawhi more and for
Speaker 4: him to process quickly what's happening out there, and when
Speaker 4: he's being doubled, make quick decisions. And I was seeing
Speaker 4: some of it, and I thought, this Clippers offense has
Speaker 4: a nice rhythm to it. Little did I know what
Speaker 4: would be occurring in that third quarter very quickly, because yeah,
Speaker 4: they found their legs. They found their offense that third quarter.
Speaker 4: As Kawhi Leonard handed to the baton over to James
Speaker 4: Harden after Kawhi. I want to say, I had a
Speaker 4: quick six points in the third and then Harden, who
Speaker 4: had just three points, just three in the first half,
Speaker 4: just went go active.
Speaker 1: As Brian Seeman would say, super nova. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: just him.
Speaker 4: Everybody started hitting from the outside. It was incredible. This
Speaker 4: Clippers team went eight of eleven from three in the
Speaker 4: third quarter alone, and James Harden dropped twenty. He could
Speaker 4: not miss. We've seen this many times before. They needed
Speaker 4: him badly. He took over.
Speaker 1: But the problem was the Chicago Bulls weren't going anywhere.
Speaker 4: They were knocking down everything too. They ended up going
Speaker 4: eight of eleven from three in the third quarter as well.
Speaker 4: I told you guys, my key to victory was well,
Speaker 4: Chicago averages forty three attempts from the outside per game,
Speaker 4: and their third in makes from three per game sixteen.
Speaker 1: Can't let them get going. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: Clippers let them get going.
Speaker 4: Like some of these guys just got scorching hot and
Speaker 4: were knocking down shots with a hand in their face.
Speaker 4: I was taking note of this. A lot of them
Speaker 4: were well defended, and it didn't matter in that third
Speaker 4: quarter specifically when they went eight of eleven from three.
Speaker 4: They finished nineteen of forty two, so they made three
Speaker 4: more than they typically do. The Clippers got challenged, they
Speaker 4: got somewhat of an outlier shooting performance from a team
Speaker 4: that shot what eight percent better from three than they
Speaker 4: normally do. But the Clippers, they had one of their
Speaker 4: most efficient shooting games themselves, nineteen of thirty seven. A
Speaker 4: lot of that's James Harden seven of fourteen, but really
Speaker 4: it was between him, Kawhi and Bogie. Those guys ended
Speaker 4: up going fourteen of twenty four from three. Fourteen of
Speaker 4: twenty four. That's fifty eight percent. And I told you
Speaker 4: guys who were giving up on Bogie already and saying,
Speaker 4: you know, he lost us the game the other night,
Speaker 4: stick with him. This guy is a professional shooter, and
Speaker 4: he got off the snide four of five from three
Speaker 4: with huge ones in the fourth. Like the Clippers, they
Speaker 4: weren't pulling away. Chicago wasn't going anywhere. Even with that
Speaker 4: James Harden twenty point third quarter, that level of takeover
Speaker 4: where he hit went the far side corner, then on
Speaker 4: the right wing, then straight away to put him up
Speaker 4: ninety five to eighty seven. Even with all that, as
Speaker 4: he was playing and just around the world on the perimeter,
Speaker 4: knocking down three pointers like Kobe White couldn't miss, it
Speaker 4: was going against him too. He ended up going four
Speaker 4: of eleven. Josh Giddy was four of four. Are you
Speaker 4: kidding me? Trey Jones was two of two.
Speaker 1: Herder who has.
Speaker 4: Been struggling ever since that first round series with the
Speaker 4: Kings against the Golden State Warriors a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4: From three, he hasn't been the same. His confidence has
Speaker 4: been down.
Speaker 3: I didn't know.
Speaker 4: Josh Giddy was shooting thirty seven percent from three on
Speaker 4: the season.
Speaker 1: That's impressive. Maybe they didn't need to get a first
Speaker 1: round pick in.
Speaker 4: That trade with Alice Cruzo going to ok see, he's
Speaker 4: been good, he's become a better shooter. But so they're
Speaker 4: getting a taste in our own medicine right back at him,
Speaker 4: and the Clippers are only up five heading into the fourth.
Speaker 1: To start the fourth, both teams turn it over.
Speaker 4: You got Simmons, Kawhi but toom Bogie and a mirror
Speaker 4: out there. Simmons then has a steal that leads to
Speaker 4: an a mirror layup and Chicago already with a sense
Speaker 4: of urgency. There called a time out with the Clippers
Speaker 4: only up six. The Bulls then, and this was one
Speaker 4: disturbing trend. While they were hitting some crazy threes in
Speaker 4: the second half, when they were missing shots, they were
Speaker 4: getting those long rebounds. They were getting to a lot
Speaker 4: of those fifty to fifty balls against the Clippers. I
Speaker 4: didn't like seeing that. The offensive rebounds, that's on the Clippers.
Speaker 4: There were far too many of them. They ended up with.
Speaker 4: I want to say fourteen. It's my box score saying
Speaker 4: eleven doesn't make sense. Their second chance points were really
Speaker 4: hurting the Clippers. Yeah, they had fifteen offensive rebounds leaning
Speaker 4: to nineteen second chance points. Clippers had eleven offensive rebounds
Speaker 4: lean to seven. The turnovers were helping the Clippers by Chicago,
Speaker 4: and that was because the Clippers ramped up the defensive
Speaker 4: intensity in the second half. Chicago had just three turnovers
Speaker 4: in the first half, fourteen to the second half. That
Speaker 4: turned into seventeen turnovers for twenty nine points.
Speaker 3: For the Clippers. This is what they do.
Speaker 4: Their second in the league in points off of turnovers.
Speaker 4: This is who they are. So I was very happy
Speaker 4: to see. I think they had nine of them in
Speaker 4: the third quarter alone, them getting back to doing what
Speaker 4: they do best, turn you over. That's what the Clippers
Speaker 4: brand of basketball is. But early in the fourth they
Speaker 4: were still getting offensive rebounds even during a shot clock
Speaker 4: violation out of that timeout. After the Clippers went up
Speaker 4: by six or excuse me seven and they called the timeout,
Speaker 4: then Simmons, it's a floater. Clippers are n't by nine.
Speaker 4: Chicago misses a three. Whoo, But then Trey Jones hits
Speaker 4: a three. It's one o, two to ninety six. They
Speaker 4: kept hitting these threes to keep them in it. That's
Speaker 4: the modern NBA. Like you can play a bad team
Speaker 4: and if they get hot by three or hot from three,
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. Like sometimes defense can be spectacular. You
Speaker 4: can have a hand in their face, you can not
Speaker 4: give up any airspace. They're knocking them down. Guys catch
Speaker 4: a rhythm. It is hard to stop them. In today's NBA.
Speaker 1: That's just not something you had to deal with in
Speaker 1: the nineties.
Speaker 3: We've done with the nineties.
Speaker 4: Simmons had then a pass to a mirror over his
Speaker 4: shoulder and over the shoulder pass, beautiful pass to a
Speaker 4: mir for a layup Bogie hits a three, Clippers are
Speaker 4: up by eleven, one oh seven to ninety six.
Speaker 1: I thought this was it.
Speaker 4: We're not gonna have crunch time minutes. We're not gonna
Speaker 4: maybe have to have James Harden get back into the ballgame.
Speaker 4: Giddy hits a three, went four to four from three.
Speaker 4: Simmons missed a layup, then a putback, then another tip in.
Speaker 4: Clippers got it back, and then Kawhi turned it over.
Speaker 4: Then you had Zach Collins, who had a huge game
Speaker 4: against them. He gets a bucket on the other end.
Speaker 4: You go from being up eleven to being up five again.
Speaker 4: Just like that, Kawhi gets a three to beat the
Speaker 4: shot clock on the right wing from distance.
Speaker 1: Clippers are up by eight. Can they extend it out?
Speaker 1: Can they stretch out this lead? Please?
Speaker 4: Get some breathing difference, get him at arm's length. Zoo
Speaker 4: comes in for Ben Simmons. Another offensive rebound leads to
Speaker 4: a Herder three. Five point game again, Kawhi missus offensive
Speaker 4: rebounds again by Chicago, a three by Jones.
Speaker 1: Again, it's a two point game.
Speaker 4: Bokei has a block with the Clippers up to where
Speaker 4: it looks like he got hurt.
Speaker 1: A mirror hit, a clutch jumper.
Speaker 4: By the way, everybody hating on a mere coffee lately.
Speaker 4: Everybody's in shambles right now from him. But right after that,
Speaker 4: Hrder got a run out for a layup as he
Speaker 4: beat James Harden. It's one, twelve, one ten, Clippers still
Speaker 4: up by two. A mere miss is a three, Kawhi
Speaker 4: gets the rebound, Harden misses, Kawhi gets the rebound, Hard
Speaker 4: misses again. Clipper's gonna stop on the other end, and
Speaker 4: Bogie hits a three to put him up five. They're
Speaker 4: just not going anywhere though. Zach Collins, who looks like
Speaker 4: an antagonist on one tree hill or something.
Speaker 1: He has to hate. The face look to him two
Speaker 1: pretty maybe for his own good.
Speaker 4: The hair seems like he cares about it a lot.
Speaker 4: He's a good player. I like Zach Caltz get it
Speaker 4: have a hard time, but again another bucket from him.
Speaker 4: Three point game, Harden hits a floater. Five point game.
Speaker 4: Harden gets a steal on Giddy, But then there's that
Speaker 4: offensive foul on Bogie as he made this shot with
Speaker 4: the Clippers up five, and it would have been an
Speaker 4: and one. They reviewed it. They lost the challenge. They
Speaker 4: had a couple of timeouts left, they rolled the dice.
Speaker 4: Some people here in the chat were saying, coach Lou
Speaker 4: always loses his reviews.
Speaker 1: No, he doesn't.
Speaker 4: I think ten over five hundred on reviews this season.
Speaker 4: It's either nine or ten.
Speaker 1: They're really good with reviews. They're one of the best
Speaker 1: in the league.
Speaker 3: Of the Clippers.
Speaker 4: The good news was after losing, as the call stood,
Speaker 4: as the offensive foul stood. There, that's a turnover by
Speaker 4: the Clippers. Collins traveled on the other end, he kind
Speaker 4: of lost the ball in a pass and picked it
Speaker 4: back up for a double dribble. Clippers ball up five
Speaker 4: and James Harden now is an offensive foul on a
Speaker 4: floater turnover, White layup three point game. Bogie would miss
Speaker 4: a floater, White would miss a three. Done, gets the rebound,
Speaker 4: and James Harden, with about fifteen seconds left, knocks down
Speaker 4: a huge three pointer for the Clippers that would give
Speaker 4: them a little bit of airspace, a little bit of
Speaker 4: breathing room. They would go on to win this one
Speaker 4: one twenty two to one seventeen over.
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Speaker 4: Clippers win by five thanks to twenty seven in the
Speaker 4: second half from James Harden and all is well in
Speaker 4: the chat again. Everybody who's been panicking over the last
Speaker 4: couple of games.
Speaker 1: Now, I was like, you know what, I can see
Speaker 1: the vision. I can see them as contenders.
Speaker 4: You get norm Pal healthy, you get Kawhi playing at
Speaker 4: an all NBA level. This seems dangerous. We'll take you
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Speaker 4: The Clippers almost had a fifty to fifty ninety game,
Speaker 4: fifty two percent from the field, fifty one percent from
Speaker 4: three eighty eight percent from the free throw line. Well,
Speaker 4: as Carlo pointed out, Chicago only went six of eleven,
Speaker 4: only got up eleven free throws while teams have been
Speaker 4: averaging thirty free throws attempted.
Speaker 1: Over the last three games.
Speaker 3: It had been an issue.
Speaker 4: Clippers win in Chicago once twenty two to one seventeen over.
Speaker 1: The Bulls of Bulls of bulls and Bulls of bulls.
Speaker 4: Clippers with forty four points off the bench. Chicago was
Speaker 4: good there too, with thirty six Clippers on ones. They
Speaker 4: had twenty four in the first half off the bench.
Speaker 4: A mere coffee with twenty himself, he had fourteen in
Speaker 4: the first half. Awesome game from a mirror, showing a
Speaker 4: ton of toughness out there. Really appreciate his effort. They
Speaker 4: don't win this game without him, and he's been taking
Speaker 4: a lot and I think some unwarranted incoming recently. He
Speaker 4: started the game hitting a three in the first quarter,
Speaker 4: then the second quarter of three, curled for a lamp
Speaker 4: going left, a turnaround fade away on the right baseline,
Speaker 4: a big jumper when they needed it in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 4: two huge shot create a mere coffee. Cred this Clippers
Speaker 4: team out shooting the Bulls. The Bulls are went nineteen
Speaker 4: to forty two from three. I'm telling you, guys, these
Speaker 4: were not wide open threes. I was beside myself with
Speaker 4: some of the shots that were being hit by Chicago
Speaker 4: from guys who aren't accustomed to always hitting them.
Speaker 3: No disrespect, but come on.
Speaker 4: Zach Collins also was incredible with twenty one points seventeen rebounds.
Speaker 4: I mean, Josh Giddy going four to four from three,
Speaker 4: Zack Collins going two.
Speaker 3: To four from three.
Speaker 1: What what?
Speaker 4: But the Clippers overcame it all with their own hot shooting.
Speaker 4: I'm so happy for Bogey because he's been a Lakers
Speaker 4: killer in his past life as a member of the
Speaker 4: Sacramento Kings, and for him to catch a rhythm like
Speaker 4: this after going something like two for his last twenty
Speaker 4: from three, and then tonight he goes four or five hits,
Speaker 4: two of them in the fourth quarter. I think maybe
Speaker 4: all of them were in the second half. Just a
Speaker 4: huge game for Bogie to have those fourteen points in
Speaker 4: a knockdown four threes heading into two massive games this
Speaker 4: weekend against a team he used to torture when he played
Speaker 4: for the Kings. Got telling you, guys, don't give up
Speaker 4: on Bogdanovic. Ooh, if I went through some of the
Speaker 4: receipts I had on people talking about Bogie, why was
Speaker 4: he playing last game? It's like, this is why you
Speaker 4: had to let him shoot himself out of that slump.
Speaker 4: There's nothing wrong with his mechanics. There's nothing wrong with
Speaker 4: his shot. He's moving well. It was in his head.
Speaker 4: He said it postgame. You don't give up on guys
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 1: Career thirty eight percent three point shooters on.
Speaker 4: High volume, that can do it off the bounce, not
Speaker 4: just catch and shoot. You don't give up on guys
Speaker 4: like that. Bogey can swing a playoff game. He might
Speaker 4: be able to swing a playoff series. The Clippers can't
Speaker 4: get to where they want to go without him. So
Speaker 4: the reason coach lou stuck with him and showed that
Speaker 4: level of confidence in him is because nights like this
Speaker 4: can happen the very next game. I don't know if
Speaker 4: it happens. If he had taken Bogie out against the Pistons,
Speaker 4: not one for twelve performance. You look at body of work,
Speaker 4: that's you assessed guys. Sure if he was a different player,
Speaker 4: if he had some catshtrophic injury, and he was never
Speaker 4: the same and there was something accounting for this, I'd
Speaker 4: be like, yeah, he's not the same anymore.
Speaker 1: There's no reason he can't be the same, that he
Speaker 1: can't be a thirty.
Speaker 3: Eight percent three point shooter.
Speaker 4: Right now, he's played i think thirty one games now
Speaker 4: this season. He hasn't gotten up enough threes to say that,
Speaker 4: Oh now he's you know, lost his confidence his shot
Speaker 4: just because he was shooting thirty percent when he came
Speaker 4: over from Atlanta. Bogie is far from washed. Yeah, Free
Speaker 4: TV in here is admitting to being a little bit
Speaker 4: of a prisoner of the moment.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I heard a lot of people saying it, shoot the
Speaker 1: shot is the last thing to go.
Speaker 4: Like, you guys ever watched Mark Jackson beat Steph Curry
Speaker 4: in a three point shooting contest back when he was
Speaker 4: the head coach of the Golden State Warriors. Like, these
Speaker 4: guys can all still shoot it. There's no reason outside
Speaker 4: of it being mental that he was missing threes.
Speaker 1: There was nothing physical going on.
Speaker 4: That's why I kind of outlined that in the show
Speaker 4: yesterday and played the audio for you of him talking
Speaker 4: with La Murray about it.
Speaker 1: He's like it's it's here, pointing to his head. It's
Speaker 1: all up here.
Speaker 4: He is a tough minded guy. He has been in wars.
Speaker 4: He has been in battles in this league, in the Olympics,
Speaker 4: in Europe, He's been in big games. I fully believe
Speaker 4: in Bogey Ball. They need him desperately. He can be
Speaker 4: a norm off the bench and out to the degree
Speaker 4: normous playing at now this season, but he can get
Speaker 4: you fifteen off the bench.
Speaker 1: He can. He's like that. He's thirty two, not thirty eight.
Speaker 4: Clippers win thanks to Bogey going four or five from
Speaker 4: three and bouncing back after a one of twelve. I
Speaker 4: don't know career worst performance ever, like in any league
Speaker 4: that he's since he's a kid. I'm sure he never
Speaker 4: went one of twelve from three. I think it was
Speaker 4: the worst shooting performance by a Clipper in franchise history
Speaker 4: on Monday night and tonight he goes four or five.
Speaker 4: You know, give up on talent like that. Happy for
Speaker 4: Bogie and this is perfectly primed for him going into
Speaker 4: two games against the Lakers this weekend. Looking for postgame audio,
Speaker 4: we'll talk more about the Lakers coming up in that
Speaker 4: series Battle of Los Angeles this weekend Friday and Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'm outam Mosland.
Speaker 4: After the Clippers head back to LA victorious after a
Speaker 4: one twenty two to one seventeen victory over the Chicago Bulls.
Speaker 4: God bless James Harden twenty seven of US thirty in
Speaker 4: the second half, twenty point third quarter of three to
Speaker 4: put the game away.
Speaker 1: Incredible, He's been there, MVP. This has been James Harden's
Speaker 1: team this year.
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Speaker 4: Clippers a little bit hotter than the Bulls. They get
Speaker 4: a victory in Shytown. Final score one twenty two to
Speaker 4: one seventeen.
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Speaker 1: All right, so this is interesting.
Speaker 4: I just saw this from La Murray of the Athletic
Speaker 4: So the Clippers have had five three game losing streaks
Speaker 4: this season. All of them were snapped once they saw
Speaker 4: either Zach Collins or Kyle Philipowski.
Speaker 1: So that one, Zach was still a Spur. They had
Speaker 1: a three game losing streak.
Speaker 4: They saw him, they beat him, obviously, Philipowski with the
Speaker 4: Utah Jazz.
Speaker 1: This was the first time.
Speaker 4: This also comes from La Murray at La Murray DNU
Speaker 4: in twenty six days that the Clippers did not trail
Speaker 4: by double digits in a game.
Speaker 3: Seems good. Seems good to break that streak.
Speaker 4: In fact, in this one, I want to say they
Speaker 4: never trailed by more than four, and that was early
Speaker 4: in the ballgame, or they were down they're down four
Speaker 4: or five to zero.
Speaker 1: I believe it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, bulls led by as many as five, and I
Speaker 4: think it was when they were down five nothing. It's
Speaker 4: a must win game. It's a find any way to
Speaker 4: win whatever it takes game.
Speaker 1: Refuse to lose game.
Speaker 4: You had to have a game. But I also think
Speaker 4: there was some good process stuff in there. The ball
Speaker 4: movement was really good by the Clippers throughout for the
Speaker 4: most part. They had thirty three assists on forty four
Speaker 4: made shots. That is let's see here, I think that's
Speaker 4: assisting on like seventy Yeah, that's over.
Speaker 1: That's over.
Speaker 4: That's assisting on about seventy two percent of your main shots.
Speaker 4: They were moving it well in a game where James
Speaker 4: Harden had a takeover like that and you still have
Speaker 4: thirty three assists.
Speaker 1: Love to see it.
Speaker 4: I thought Bogey had some good assists when they started
Speaker 4: that second quarter. He finished with six. He had some
Speaker 4: assists to James Harden in the second half, also when
Speaker 4: he was on ball. James Harden was off ball, but
Speaker 4: he had a couple of good assists in that second
Speaker 4: quarter with Drew Youu Banks out there.
Speaker 1: With a mirror that second quarter group with Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 4: They need him and maybe I don't know, did that
Speaker 4: give him confidence with a shot too, just having the
Speaker 4: ball in his hands, getting a fuel, getting a rhythm
Speaker 4: because it was more in his hands in this game.
Speaker 1: And he's very capable. Guys, Bogie is a three level score.
Speaker 4: Who can hail the rock, can create, can run, pick
Speaker 4: and roll, and can shoot off the catcher off the bounce.
Speaker 4: This is why you don't give up on guys like that. Oh,
Speaker 4: he's washed one for twelve performance, he's done. No coach
Speaker 4: Lou instilled confidence in him. Continue to believe. Stuck with him,
Speaker 4: and it paid dividends in this game. Now, some people
Speaker 4: were talking about it each Zoo box a little bit.
Speaker 4: In thirty minutes he had ten and ten. He was solid,
Speaker 4: a couple of blocks, three assists, And I will say this,
Speaker 4: for as much as I get on them for not
Speaker 4: getting of each Zoo bots involved enough, he only took
Speaker 4: eight shots. As much as I do, I can understand
Speaker 4: in this game why because they were that hot from three,
Speaker 4: Because James Harden had a twenty point quarter. So yeah,
Speaker 4: you gotta apply the contexts there. It's okay. This wasn't
Speaker 4: a game where they were struggling to score and I'm
Speaker 4: screaming and going.
Speaker 1: Get it to big Zoo, get it to him.
Speaker 4: And they did get it to him multiple times against
Speaker 4: Zach Collins, and he cooked him a couple of times
Speaker 4: on the block.
Speaker 1: That was good to see too.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm talking about with good process. There were
Speaker 4: a few like little little grains, little breadcrumbs there. We're like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is this is the Clippers' identity, This is not
Speaker 4: any need to play. They're moving the ball better, they're
Speaker 4: playing through Kawhi. To start the third of each Zubats
Speaker 4: got the ball on the block a few times against
Speaker 4: Zach Collins.
Speaker 1: This is good.
Speaker 4: If Chicago isn't, you know, going super nova god'sier from three,
Speaker 4: this game would have been over much earlier. Credit them,
Speaker 4: they shot lights out.
Speaker 1: Clippers did too.
Speaker 4: But it's like, well, James Harden is the top seventy
Speaker 4: five player. Ever, so much more of the.
Speaker 1: Exception to the rule.
Speaker 4: Him going for a twenty point quarter or some of
Speaker 4: these guys from Chicago that were on fire like that
Speaker 4: was insane. They just don't have the resume that James
Speaker 4: Harden does.
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I was hard on James Harden going into the ath.
Speaker 4: I said, look, if he's this tired out there, if
Speaker 4: he's going to turn the ball over like this and
Speaker 4: not get back on defense, you might have to take
Speaker 4: him out.
Speaker 1: And I get it.
Speaker 4: He's been overtaxed. His usage rating is twenty eight percent.
Speaker 4: That's way too high. Last year I think it was
Speaker 4: twenty percent. The reason is because Kawhi has only played
Speaker 4: his seventeenth.
Speaker 1: Game now.
Speaker 4: And they haven't had, you know, a real reliable backup.
Speaker 4: Now they have Bogie. Now they have Ben who can
Speaker 4: both bring the ball up.
Speaker 1: They have more options. Chris Duncan do it.
Speaker 4: But the minutes have been extreme for James, so it's
Speaker 4: not so much that I was, you know, blaming him
Speaker 4: for being tired. I'm just saying, if he's that tired
Speaker 4: and ineffective, you might have to take him out.
Speaker 1: And then he drops.
Speaker 3: Twenty in the third.
Speaker 4: If you guys are watching on the YouTube side, you
Speaker 4: can see the agg on my face at Clippers Stock, well.
Speaker 1: Take a time out.
Speaker 3: Clippers win.
Speaker 4: In Chicago one twenty two to one seventeen as James
Speaker 4: Harden drops a game winning three with fifteen seconds left,
Speaker 4: has twenty seven of US thirty points in the second half,
Speaker 4: and the Clippers are taken on the Lakers for two
Speaker 4: and are in a road game against the Lakers, a
Speaker 4: true road game for the first time in twenty five
Speaker 4: years at.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't always pretty.
Speaker 4: I mean sometimes it was you hit nineteen three pointers,
Speaker 4: but I am about pretty. Sometimes you just need to
Speaker 4: see that at w that looked real nice after losing
Speaker 4: three in a row. The Clippers win one twenty two
Speaker 4: to one seventeen in Chicago over the Bulls. Welcome back
Speaker 4: in I'm Oudam Moslin. This is Clippers Sock. Here on
Speaker 4: NI seven E LA Sports and on YouTube at Clippers Talk.
Speaker 4: James Harden had twenty seven of his thirty points in
Speaker 4: the second half and a game winner late.
Speaker 1: Can we play that, Daniel?
Speaker 4: I want everybody to hear that one more time. It's
Speaker 4: a big shot and a big call from Carlo Jimenez.
Speaker 4: We'll get that forty in a second. But James Harden,
Speaker 4: it was this forty sixth career game of thirty plus
Speaker 4: points and seven plus three pointers. He wins seven to
Speaker 4: fourteen from three. He only trails Steph Curry, who's got
Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty two of those, and Damian Lillard,
Speaker 4: who's got forty nine all time. Here was James Harden late,
Speaker 4: Clippers up three under thirty seconds left.
Speaker 5: Trying to split the season series with Chicago, cording right
Speaker 5: angle step.
Speaker 6: Back a three nylon James Hoarding a big time shot
Speaker 6: for the right wing doubles.
Speaker 1: The Clipper lead one twenty one.
Speaker 6: Fourteen time out Chicago fourteen point four to play. Shot
Speaker 6: clucks h and the Clippers have a two possession lead.
Speaker 1: They needed a bucket.
Speaker 5: They caught a bucket from the Beard. What a shot
Speaker 5: down the stretch.
Speaker 4: Fear the Beard, Chicago. Great call by Carlo. You know
Speaker 4: it's a big bucket when when he drops the nylon.
Speaker 4: James Harden came through tremendous second half. As bad as
Speaker 4: the first half was, I thought, tremendous, unreal second half.
Speaker 4: It's what superstars do. Even at the age of thirty five,
Speaker 4: he has been carrying this team.
Speaker 1: I do not know where they would be without him.
Speaker 1: Probably at the very bottom of the Western Conference. Maybe
Speaker 1: they would be a bottom four team, as many predicted
Speaker 1: coming into this season without James Harden.
Speaker 4: Currently that is not the case. They are in the
Speaker 4: sixth spot in the West. There was an outlier game
Speaker 4: by Evil Zach Collins. He's not actually evil, he just
Speaker 4: looks like an evil villain at times. He's too good looking.
Speaker 4: It's a compliment, that's all. That's all I'm saying. He
Speaker 4: had a season high twenty one points. Don't like seeing that,
Speaker 4: a career high seventeen boards. The Bulls did have twenty
Speaker 4: two fast break points. That's not good. That's been a
Speaker 4: recurring trend against the Clippers as of late teams getting
Speaker 4: out running, whether or not it's on a live ball turnover,
Speaker 4: just a misshot by the Clippers. A lot that was
Speaker 4: happening in the second quarter when there was a quick
Speaker 4: turnaround from the Clippers being up twelve to three minutes
Speaker 4: later being down one thirteen point turner in just over
Speaker 4: three minutes. But they stood at all because sometimes you
Speaker 4: just gotta get a victory and they needed this. It
Speaker 4: wasn't just Bogie getting off the snide with his shooting.
Speaker 4: This was a feel good win for the Clippers. Believe me,
Speaker 4: winning like that in some ways you went on a
Speaker 4: game winner and a performance like that in James Harden
Speaker 4: in some ways, maybe it's better than blowing him out. Honestly,
Speaker 4: like you learn more from being in tough battles where
Speaker 4: the bulls were just unconscious from three, not because the
Speaker 4: Clippers were so terrible defensively on the perimeter.
Speaker 1: I watched these shots closely. They were guarded closely a
Speaker 1: lot of them.
Speaker 4: It was frustrating. Giddy is not a one hundred percent
Speaker 4: three point shooter. He's a thirty seven percent three point
Speaker 4: shooter this season. He went four to four in this game,
Speaker 4: and I'm telling you those were well defended. It looked
Speaker 4: like it could just be the bulls n type of thing,
Speaker 4: and the Clippers could pack it in and say, well,
Speaker 4: it's a fourth straight loss. The season is dwindling down
Speaker 4: with twenty four games left, and we're falling apart.
Speaker 1: I didn't see that.
Speaker 4: I saw a team that fought, a team that didn't
Speaker 4: give in, and a player in James Harden's the.
Speaker 1: Reason he was an All Star.
Speaker 4: I know people are hating on his overall efficiency this season.
Speaker 4: It's like, well, look at the context of his usage rating, man,
Speaker 4: he has the usage rating.
Speaker 1: Would you just take it easy?
Speaker 4: Man? Sorry, I had a big Lebowski moment there myself.
Speaker 4: The way I said that, I heard the.
Speaker 7: Dude look at his usage rady, Man, he shouldn't have
Speaker 7: the usage rating like Shay does, like Luca does.
Speaker 4: That'll go down next to Lebron, of course, but like
Speaker 4: young guys do. He's thirty five twenty five anymore. So,
Speaker 4: if you have to have the ball in your hands
Speaker 4: that much, it's probably gonna affect your fueld goal percentage,
Speaker 4: your three point percentage, I'm just just saying there's a
Speaker 4: real explanation for this. I'm not trying to make excuses.
Speaker 4: I think it's more of an explanation. I think it's
Speaker 4: fair to bring up that James Harden is still the
Speaker 4: system at thirty five and Kawhi has only been able
Speaker 4: to play seventeen games.
Speaker 1: Now, Kawhi, I thought there were some times where it looked.
Speaker 4: Like he had some real pop out there. It looked
Speaker 4: like he had some juice. They're gonna need all of
Speaker 4: that against the Lakers. I'm gonna make a prediction, guys,
Speaker 4: I know some of you were complaining. Kawhi goes out
Speaker 4: of the game and around the three minute mark of
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter, he hit his minutes restriction. Around thirty
Speaker 4: three minutes, I'm gonna make a prediction. As long as
Speaker 4: he comes out of this game feeling good the foot,
Speaker 4: the knee, I think that minute restriction is going to
Speaker 4: be lifted against the Lakers. Just a prediction. Don't have
Speaker 4: any intel, no inside knowledge. Just know how meaningful these
Speaker 4: games are this weekend, and I could see which twenty
Speaker 4: four games left, and if you want any chance of
Speaker 4: chasing down the Lakers, who are four games up, on
Speaker 4: the Clippers right now, you gotta win both. I could
Speaker 4: see him getting a thirty six minutes in one of
Speaker 4: if not both, these games.
Speaker 1: I could see it. I could see it happening, and
Speaker 1: I thought for the most part, he looked pretty good with.
Speaker 3: His movement out there. I did.
Speaker 1: I watch it closely.
Speaker 4: You guys know Kawhi watch on here, never stops, always
Speaker 4: going with Kawhi watch. And by the way, here's a
Speaker 4: good sign from him. Kawhi has been shooting it well
Speaker 4: from three. When you talk about legs and having them,
Speaker 4: people look at your outside shot. Are you short on everything?
Speaker 4: So let's see here, he's at forty one percent now in.
Speaker 3: And they're a little there.
Speaker 4: Seven games in February, he's at forty one percent from three,
Speaker 4: three or five.
Speaker 1: This game, four of eight, his last game. It's coming around.
Speaker 4: Let's hope he's fully unleashed against the Lakers, because the
Speaker 4: only way this team is going to that place where
Speaker 4: they can be a contender in the West is if
Speaker 4: Kawhi takes them there. Is if he gets back to
Speaker 4: an all NBA level. First, I think his minutes need
Speaker 4: to get back to being mid thirties. That could happen
Speaker 4: this weekend against the Lakers. I could see it happening.
Speaker 4: Tip Off Friday at Crypto is at seven. We'll have
Speaker 4: your pregame show starting at six. Before we get out
Speaker 4: of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization,
Speaker 4: Ralph Flaler, Brian Seman, Noah Eagle, shout out YG YG
Speaker 4: two point zero and Carlo had made is great call,
Speaker 4: specially with the Nylon thanks to producer here Daniel West.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you man, big brother Jake Warner.
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