WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.760 --> 00:00:05.440 We're taking your calls on the LA Clippers right now. 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.960 Peace Clippers talk on Aaron on Demand, The Clippers Show 3 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:12.039 of Record, your chance to react to everything. 4 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:13.800 Clippers Clippers news happens. 5 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:15.839 Let me guess it's about Kawhi. 6 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:17.280 Here we are and now here. 7 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:20.199 He is the host of your LA Clippers free and 8 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:23.359 post game at follow Adam a Adam Osley. 9 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:27.280 Clippers defeat the Wizards by seventeen. Hear it into a 10 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:29.920 home with the final score of one ten to ninety three. 11 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:33.560 I'm at a Mosland after your Clippers improved to twenty 12 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:37.079 five and nineteen on the season. They did enough to 13 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:41.359 come through and not very impressive fashion tonight over the 14 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:44.719 Washington Wizards. We'll talk about that. There were some bright spots. 15 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:47.920 But as soon as I started this live, people started 16 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.079 to say if last night was a good loss, this 17 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:52.759 was a bad win, and that resonated with me. I 18 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:57.119 was feeling the same way. Not gonna be overly harsh. 19 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:00.159 This is not going to define their season. It is 20 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:07.680 still a victory. Bad teams be good teams pretty much 21 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:12.799 every night in the NBA. It happens. I just didn't 22 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:16.000 feel like the Clippers won this game as much as 23 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.680 the Washington Wizards just lost it. Because they're the worst 24 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:25.439 team in the NBA. They have six victories. They fell 25 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:29.599 to six and thirty seven on the season. They fell 26 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:35.760 to straight twelve straight losses. This was not as focused 27 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:39.239 of an effort like we saw against Brooklyn recently, where 28 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:43.280 the Clippers won by fifty nine. It's at a franchise record. 29 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:46.519 I wasn't expecting that. But when you're up by twenty 30 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:50.480 two and a half, I'm expecting a thirty point victory, 31 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:55.159 a twenty five point victory. I'm not expecting starters to 32 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:59.200 have to come out back up off the bench cold 33 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.840 in the four fourth quarter because it's a twelve point game. 34 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.159 All of a sudden, after Kyle Kuzma hits a three 35 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:09.680 at the seven to forty one mark, did they respond 36 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:12.400 the way you'd like to see them respond. Yes, Norm 37 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:19.159 Powle layup, Norm pow three pointer, beats zubats floater Norman 38 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:24.280 another three. They put them away. They did. They got 39 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:29.199 back up by twenty two within three minutes after it 40 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:33.360 was down to twelve. It's good to see they could 41 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:37.199 find the gas pedal again when they needed to. I 42 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:42.599 was just a little bit alarmed that they did have 43 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:46.560 to go back to the starters, and starters means no 44 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:51.000 Kawai obviously because he hit twenty four minutes. And yeah, 45 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:53.960 they might have gotten a little bit complacent, as Yannie 46 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.280 Tears said in the chat here at Clippers Talk on 47 00:02:56.319 --> 00:03:02.280 the YouTube side, they looked a little bit disinterested. You're 48 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:04.560 upe by as many as twenty five in the first half, 49 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:10.800 twenty seven early in the third quarter. But often what 50 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:13.639 we've seen from this Clippers team is they'll put you 51 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:18.879 away and they will get run for the backups and 52 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:23.560 they will win convincingly handedly. They won't have to get 53 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:27.319 Ooron Powell back out there to play thirty two minutes, 54 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:29.879 or James Harden to play thirty two minutes, or beats 55 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:33.319 the Zubas to play thirty or Dereck Jones Junior, after 56 00:03:33.319 --> 00:03:37.919 playing big minutes last night, playing twenty six Mere Coffee, 57 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:43.000 had to play twenty eight. He just played heavy minutes 58 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:49.080 last night. Wasn't good process by them in the third quarter. 59 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:51.960 To me, it looked like a team that was just 60 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:54.960 trying to get by in the easiest way possible without 61 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:58.280 really running their offense. Ah well, I so we have 62 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:02.280 the better players. I will take some threes and get 63 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:04.840 some kill shot threes up and hopefully put them away 64 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:10.400 without having to go downhill. Ah, we'll cherry pick and 65 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:14.479 get a couple of easy scores that way. That's what 66 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:16.519 I saw on the third quarter. I didn't see them 67 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:20.519 running their offense, getting into their actions, playing with purpose. 68 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:24.839 That's what I was looking for. The purpose seemed to be, 69 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:30.000 let's just get this over with. Well, they messed around 70 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:34.399 and almost found out it was as close as twelve. 71 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:39.240 It was gonna take somebody getting ridiculously hot for the Wizards, probably, 72 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:43.839 but it wasn't out of reach at the eight minute 73 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:48.639 mark of the fourth. It's the modern NBA that stuff happens. 74 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:54.879 Probably lucky the Wizards are this bad with how the 75 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:59.399 Clippers played tonight, and they have to play much better 76 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:03.319 in this Aainst Milwaukee on Saturday. They do, they get 77 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:07.600 that victory. Hey, I'll say, what did this game matter? 78 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:16.920 But I still feel like there are opportunities to get 79 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:20.839 better no matter who you're playing, to show some growth, 80 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:26.879 to make progress, to become a little bit more sound 81 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:29.040 with your game plan and how you want to execute, 82 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:36.399 and just continue to build chemistry. I don't know if 83 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.160 they learned a lot tonight. I don't know if they 84 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:45.879 got better. I could be wrong. They come out and 85 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:50.839 slaughter Milwaukee on Saturday night. What did tonight mean? Could 86 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:56.600 have just meant fourth game and five nights. But I 87 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:59.040 have a hard time going there with the excuse when 88 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:02.439 you know I didn't play last game. Narrated to Zubots, 89 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:07.399 Norman Powell, James Harden, Nico. They still don't have Chris Dunn. Okay, 90 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:11.519 I think they had plenty of guys. They had most 91 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:17.199 of the usuals. I was just hoping to see a 92 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:22.920 more crisp, a more sound beating of the Washington Wizards tonight. 93 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:27.199 And maybe that's getting greedy their professional team, but look, 94 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:31.639 they shot thirty four percent. It's the Clippers offense that 95 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:35.480 I didn't like. It's not that they couldn't execute their offense, 96 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:39.240 because when they needed to that did. I just didn't 97 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:43.199 like seeing them getting away from it throughout most of 98 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:47.560 the second half and just kind of waiting for the 99 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:50.120 time to run out and going through the motions. I 100 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:52.480 would have rather seen more high pick and roll, more 101 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:56.199 reps there with Zubots and James Harden saw some of 102 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:00.160 the first half beats of Zubots looked really good. A 103 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:07.439 couple of fierce dunks that second quarter. Mobamba going off 104 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:10.839 from three, went three of three. Maybe had his best 105 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:13.759 game as a Clipper thirteen points, four of six, shooting 106 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:17.480 six boards in fifteen minutes. So there's something to take 107 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:25.279 away from this game. Again, you know, we're here to 108 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:27.720 try to do some analysis postgame and not just say, well, 109 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:30.600 the Clippers won, so everything's great. That'd be a pretty 110 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.759 short show. Or last night, oh they lost, everything's bad. No, 111 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:39.439 I saw progress by certain players last night that carried over. 112 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:42.680 Derek Jones Junior got up twenty shots last night. That 113 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:45.000 was the blessing in disguise with all the guys out. 114 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:47.600 He got up twenty shots and went four of seven 115 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:49.720 from three. After entering that game, he was seven for 116 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:52.639 his last thirty five from the outside. And then tonight, 117 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:56.040 guess what he had nineteen coming off his career high 118 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:59.279 last night with twenty nine. He has nineteen tonight and 119 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:01.279 went three of five from distance to seven of ten 120 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:03.639 from the field, and really he was seven of eight 121 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:05.720 before he had to come back in. He missed a 122 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.600 couple of shots. He was three of three from three 123 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:11.279 before he had to come back in. When the game 124 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:15.879 was down to twelve. So that's why I say a 125 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:18.879 loss isn't a loss, a win isn't a win. You 126 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:23.240 can build bad habits and a victory. You can have 127 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:25.920 some good process and just get beaten a loss, but 128 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:29.800 that good process eventually leads to a win later on. 129 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:36.039 I hope tonight's lost didn't have them picking up any 130 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:40.519 bad habits of coasting. It could have just been a 131 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:46.320 tired team that feels like they've once again got the 132 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:51.039 short end of the stick with the schedule. And it's 133 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:52.879 the second I have a back to back, a four 134 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:55.799 and five where they did go to and two and 135 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:57.799 they beat the Lakers, and that's all I asked for. 136 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:01.960 When I saw the four and five with the rescheduling, 137 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:05.679 I said to myself, just go to and two with 138 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:09.240 a win against the Lakers and you're good. That's it. 139 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:14.000 And that did happen. So there's a lot of praise 140 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:18.679 with this team. They're easily overachieving. There's six games over 141 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:21.519 five hundred and they've only had Kawhi Leonard for six 142 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:27.039 games so far. It's incredible. I'm just nitpicking the individual 143 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:29.840 game tonight and saying what I liked, what I didn't, 144 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:32.559 and there was probably more I didn't like, even in 145 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:41.440 a win by seventeen. But overall, I love where this 146 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:45.440 Clippers team is at. I love what we saw at 147 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:48.840 times and spurts from Kawhi tonight. And we'll take a 148 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:51.159 quick time out and we'll go through some of his plays. 149 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:53.279 We'll get to your phone calls eight sixty six nine 150 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.840 eight seven two five seventy, eight sixty six, ninety seven 151 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:58.000 two five seventy, and we'll also hear from coach Louke 152 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.159 coming up add into a dumb after the Clippers win 153 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:04.279 one ten to ninety three over the Wizards. I'm at 154 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:07.000 a Mosland and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers 155 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:07.720 Audio Network. 156 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:14.320 I love this team. I never miss a game. 157 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:18.720 You're listening to LA Clippers Basketball free Ball, Yes, sir, 158 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:22.080 right here on the LA Clippers Audio Network. 159 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:28.480 Slippers win one ten to ninety three over the Washington Wizards. 160 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:32.279 Hearing into it home, they sweep the season series. It 161 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:37.039 was Kawhi leonard sixth game of the season. So Kawhi 162 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:40.240 starts thing, starts things off in the first quarter by 163 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:44.840 missing a step through. Then I miss at the five 164 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:47.120 minute mark. But if visa Zubos got the tip in 165 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:50.120 he had the dunk. I think he was letting out 166 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:52.679 some frustration. He wasn't getting a call out there. They 167 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:55.759 were playing him tight, they had doubles, and Kyle Kuzma 168 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:59.039 was just really good. He knows Kawhi really well from 169 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.519 his time with the Lakers. That was the guy they 170 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:07.080 would sick on. Kawhi Leonard long, strong, young player. Now 171 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:13.279 he's twenty eight, twenty nine, still good and defensively seems 172 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:15.759 to get up with the challenge. So Kawhi is getting 173 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.879 frustrated and eventually has a dunk that made it twenty 174 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:22.759 three to twelve in the first quarter. He comes out 175 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:24.200 of the game with the four to forty mark of 176 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:28.720 the first, comes back in the second, starts the second, 177 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:32.600 attacks that close out and gets to his fade away 178 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:35.960 at the dotted line for his second bucket after the 179 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:40.600 dunk in the first. Then he lost the basketball trying 180 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:44.559 to go at Kuzma and Jordan Poole, but they took 181 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:47.519 it away for an easy layup. On the other end, 182 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:53.679 Kawhi has a straightaway three pointer, then misses a fade 183 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:57.799 away on the right elbow in the second. A Kawhi 184 00:11:57.879 --> 00:12:01.679 bad turnover on an inbounds pass that's taken away by 185 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:04.759 Pool who hit a three, and Kawhi kind of put 186 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:07.080 his hand up and acknowledge, Yeah, that's my bad. That 187 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:13.159 is definitely my bad. But he would hit a midi 188 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:16.320 on the far side mid post in the second quarter 189 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:21.159 as well, and then the third Kawhi got a layup 190 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:24.000 right away going right and there was some explosiveness there. 191 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:27.919 He had a dho then from Vitze Zubas doing it again. 192 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:30.960 There was an early time out taken by the Washington 193 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:33.639 Wizards in that third quarter as the Clippers got up 194 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:38.960 by twenty seven, but Kawhi did have a nice defensive 195 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:41.799 play against Kuzma that was noticeable to me in the 196 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:44.360 third quarter. I think it ended up with Washington getting 197 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:47.519 a tip in anyways, but Kuzma was driving left and 198 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:50.399 Kawhi was all over him. But then he got blocked 199 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:53.519 on a runout where he thought he had an easy 200 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:58.360 one by Kyle Kuzma. Kawai was flexing his hand for 201 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:00.919 a second. I'm not trying to worry any but he 202 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:03.159 looked to be fine. Afterwards, he would miss a fade 203 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:06.279 away over Kuzma. Then he was short on a three short. 204 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:10.960 On another three, it looked like the Clippers were just 205 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.960 cherry picking as Harden found him for a long outlet pass. 206 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:16.799 Who had and then Kawhi had a dump with his 207 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.440 left hand. He wasn't getting locked this time. It was 208 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:21.600 a nice play. I need to see the replay of 209 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:26.440 that still, but that's when he reached minute twenty four 210 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:29.480 for him. That was the end of the ball game. 211 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:32.399 I thought it was a little bit up and down 212 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:37.240 from Kawhi, but there were definitely some good moments, just 213 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:40.759 seeing him dunk the basketball again, because I think that's 214 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:46.720 a confidence thing, just feeling like, Okay, I'm healthy, I'm good. 215 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:49.919 And by the way, as I always tell you, he's 216 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:54.240 a left legged leaper, so he can still get up. 217 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:59.519 All the injuries have happened to his right leg. This 218 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:04.440 Clipper team, it was in ugly second half. They got 219 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:07.799 out scored by five and I mentioned Kawhi in the 220 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:10.879 third quarter, but some of those shots weren't great process. 221 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:15.960 The Clippers are just one pass possessions, settling saying you 222 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.240 go get a bucket, now, you get a bucket. They 223 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:20.559 weren't playing hot potato with a basketball. They weren't going 224 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.279 through their offense, and they let Washington back into it. 225 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:27.360 Then to me, because they got up there was a 226 00:14:27.399 --> 00:14:31.600 timeout after they scored the first two buckets of the 227 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:36.200 third immediate timeout. First it was a DJ putback dunk, 228 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:40.320 then that Kawhi layup. Then there's a timeout and Washington 229 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:45.720 refocused a little bit and the Clippers just got sloppy. 230 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:50.039 That's what I saw. We're still looking for Coach lou 231 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:54.080 postgame audio here if you guys liked to get on 232 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:56.480 eight six six ninety eight seven two five to seventy 233 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:00.559 eight six six ninety seven, two five to seventy. I 234 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:03.080 think somebody called in from Chicago a little bit earlier. 235 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:06.559 Just saw that dunk from Kauhi again with the left 236 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:10.399 hand being the defender to the basket on that long outlet. 237 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:15.200 But that's my problem is it was a lot of 238 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:20.120 cherry picking. Kawhi just hanging around waiting to get a 239 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:24.279 wide open dunk. I will finish him in the lowest 240 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:27.720 effort way possible tonight. That's what it felt like in 241 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:30.720 the third and fourth quarter. We'll we'll get to it, 242 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.080 we'll put them away, but we're gonna do it in 243 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:36.840 a low effort fashion. We're not gonna get into our offense. 244 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:41.240 We're not gonna just keep playing like at zero zero. 245 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:45.960 I thought it was noticeable that the Clippers weren't going 246 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:50.720 as hard in the second half, But maybe some of 247 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.879 that is fatigue and I need to give him a break. 248 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:57.600 I'm just looking big picture stuff and how you gotta 249 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:02.480 play now, Mobaba, if you're looking for the bright side 250 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:05.240 and the seventeen point win, I know that's plinty to 251 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:07.519 say he had a three to start the second quarter. 252 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:10.080 He's out there with Kawhi, and I've kind of speculated. 253 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:13.679 I wonder when Kawhi comes back, is that going to 254 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:16.440 bring out the best of Mobamba? Because they're boys, they're friends. 255 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:21.399 You know that stuff's funny. Sometimes it can work like that. 256 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:24.440 He hits the three to start the second quarter, and 257 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:28.120 he has a big block on Carrington at least to 258 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:29.879 in a mirror three on the other ends. In the 259 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:33.000 second Clippers are up nineteen. Bamba another three off of 260 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:35.919 a shovel pass from Man to make it forty four 261 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:39.440 to twenty two at the eight minute mark. Man also 262 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:42.480 found him for a dunk underneath the basket in this game, 263 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:46.159 but overall, Mobama finished with thirteen points. In fifteen minutes, 264 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:50.480 four of six, shooting three of three from three. He 265 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:53.559 has been a career thirty six percent three point shooter 266 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:58.240 league average. He has not been that as a Clipper 267 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:04.279 so far. In fact, coming into this game, as they 268 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:05.960 look up the stats here, because it has been a 269 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.240 little bit disappointing with him from beyond the arc of 270 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:13.160 course obligatory low volume numbers here, but coming into this game, 271 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:17.680 he was twelve of forty five from three. So now 272 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:22.839 he is fifteen of forty eight. What's that put him up? 273 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:26.119 So now he's at thirty one percent. One game takes 274 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:30.680 him from twenty seven percent to thirty one percent just 275 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.240 going three or three to one ball game, So he 276 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:37.240 still has time. And after last game, I asked coach 277 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:40.759 Lupe pre game what he saw from Kobe Brown because 278 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:43.519 I thought he played pretty well yesterday against Boston. I 279 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:49.039 did preface the question saying, obviously, Boston's the perfect team 280 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:51.640 for Kobe Brown because they play smaller and have a 281 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:55.160 lot of switchability out there, and Kobe Brown's a versatile defender, 282 00:17:55.960 --> 00:17:57.880 or at least he projects to be. I thought he 283 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:00.759 showed some of that yesterday. I had a good possession 284 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:04.039 against Jayson Tatum defensively really did before that three point 285 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:05.799 made by Jalen Brown. He had to give it up 286 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:09.599 because he couldn't lose Kobe Brown. But I asked him 287 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:12.160 pregame about, you know, Kobe Brown playing the five in 288 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:14.359 training camp and how much of that translated to that 289 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.319 game and what he saw against Boston and overall it 290 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:19.759 seemed like he was pleased with its performance. Obviously he 291 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:22.720 had eleven boards. It's just the outside shooting is not 292 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:25.319 materialized yet with him not in the G League, not 293 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.599 the professional level. And we talked about a pregame with 294 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:32.599 Law Murray and this is something I've been thinking about too, 295 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:36.559 but is shooting isn't as necessary when he's playing the five. 296 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:40.480 It'd be nice he'd be a stretch five, but it's 297 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:43.920 really when you're playing the four, because then you're playing 298 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:46.759 next to a big who likely isn't a shooter. We 299 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:49.279 know beats Zubots isn't, or at least we haven't seen 300 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:53.279 it yet. Never know, but you have to be able 301 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:54.480 to shoot the ball if you're playing next to a 302 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:56.559 beats Zuobots or else you're gonna clog up the paint 303 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:00.160 on the offensive end. I having two guys that to 304 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.440 be close to the basket. It may help you on defense, 305 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:03.880 it's not gonna help you on the offensive end. It 306 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:05.599 may help you with rebounding, it's not going to help 307 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:11.359 you spread the floor and stretch the floor and give 308 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:15.440 the Clippers driving lanes and open looks unless somebody at 309 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:19.119 the four and five can shoot it. So unfortunately, it 310 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:23.000 just hasn't happened so far with Kobe Brown. Law thinks 311 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:25.319 the shot looks a little bit flat, too much like 312 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:28.160 a line drive shot. Not enough arc on Kobe Brown's 313 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:31.319 three pointers, and I think he went like zero three 314 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:34.640 last night against Boston. But that's something we talked about 315 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:36.799 this when they drafted him. The shooting has to be 316 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:39.160 there from Kobe for him to get minutes, and I 317 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:41.720 think that still is the case. But if he can 318 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:43.680 play some small ball five where at least he can 319 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:46.640 distribute a little bit and get boards and hustle and 320 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:49.839 get put backs at the five, it's not as much 321 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:53.480 of a problem him not shooting it well because there's 322 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:55.680 gonna be somebody at the four who is a good shooter. 323 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:58.359 The other four guys out there could all be shooters, 324 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:03.279 or at least three of them that's what it's about. 325 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:08.440 So he doesn't play tonight, or he doesn't until very 326 00:20:08.519 --> 00:20:11.319 late in the ball game, obviously in consequential garbage time 327 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.759 minutes Mobaba plays and that could just be because Jonas Balanceew. 328 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:18.039 This is physical and big and it's a good matchup 329 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:21.400 from and he played well. I just want to see 330 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:25.240 if anything materializes moving forward here with Kobe Brown, because 331 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:27.440 I thought he looks olid last night against Boston. He 332 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:33.480 played thirty eight minutes, forty minutes. We will see. We'll 333 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:36.319 take a quick time out here. We'll get your phone 334 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:38.440 calls at eight sixty six nine eight seven two five 335 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:41.359 seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. 336 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:44.880 I'm Madam Mosland, and you're listening to Clippers Talk here 337 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:49.240 on MFI seventy LA Sports. 338 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:51.200 I love this team. I never miss a game. 339 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:55.599 You're listening to LA Clippers Basketball Free Ball, Yes, sir, 340 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:58.960 right here on the LA Clippers Audio Network. 341 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:02.480 Slippers win one, ten to ninety three. Hear it into 342 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:06.960 a dome over the Washington Wizards as Kawhi as his 343 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:09.759 first dunk and make it two of the season. And 344 00:21:09.799 --> 00:21:13.119 you know why that's significant. I think well Outam he's 345 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:16.440 a professional, of course, Yeah, he's six seventy. He should 346 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:20.079 be fine to dunk it. Still, Yeah, it's significant because 347 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:23.440 the last time I believe we saw Kawhi Leonard dunk 348 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:27.880 the basketball, it was Game three in Dallas, off that 349 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.759 oop from Paul George in transition where Kawhi to go 350 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:33.880 up and get it, and then he was hanging on 351 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:36.720 the rim because he was afraid of dropping to the 352 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:39.359 floor and the impact that would have on his right knee. 353 00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:42.720 He was noticeably hurting that Game three, especially, he was 354 00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:45.400 not moving well. He goes up for that dunk, he's 355 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:49.079 hanging from the rim. That's the significance to me of 356 00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:52.480 him dunking for the first time tonight, having that confidence 357 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:56.880 again of the impact of dropping to the floor. He 358 00:21:56.960 --> 00:22:00.920 ends up with fifteen points on sixteen shots in twenty 359 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:05.480 four minutes, which is still his minutes limit. I made 360 00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:08.480 a prediction in the pregame show or during the broadcast 361 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:13.200 that I think I have no knowledge of this. I'm 362 00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:18.559 just guessing. I think there's a chance Kawhi and his 363 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:23.400 minutes go up on Saturday. Now, that's all assuming he 364 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:30.079 wakes up out of bed tomorrow and feels good. But 365 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:32.519 I wouldn't be surprised by that. If his minutes went 366 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:37.240 up to thirty or twenty eight against Milwaukee and we 367 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:39.960 get Kawhi Leonard in the fourth quarter, I wouldn't be 368 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:47.119 shot by that. But it's just an uneducated prediction. It's 369 00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:49.680 just going off of how many games in a row 370 00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:55.200 he's been at twenty four minutes now, that's all it is. 371 00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:59.079 And it's a big game, and he's been really good 372 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:05.079 against Johanna in the past defensively. Zoo started the game 373 00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:08.240 off in goggles, by the way, that was a subplot 374 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:13.400 to this game. The Zoo vision era was short lived, 375 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:17.759 maybe two minutes. He said enough. He didn't like it, 376 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:20.240 couldn't see out of them. Some guys just hate it. 377 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:23.839 Anthony Davis across town felt the same way, and he's 378 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:25.839 had a couple of different eye injuries and he just 379 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:32.000 it's just as rupts his vision. Can't have it. It's 380 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:35.000 just too unfamiliar. They've been playing basketball one way forever. 381 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:41.960 They don't want to look through some goggles. Oh L, Frank, 382 00:23:42.279 --> 00:23:47.039 what's on the broadcast? I didn't even know. So he 383 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:50.400 was right next to us over here talking with Jim 384 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:52.720 Jackson and Brian Seman. I wasn't paying attention to that. 385 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:57.119 I'm to check that audio post game. I did not 386 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:01.400 know about that. That I record every game and I 387 00:24:01.480 --> 00:24:04.319 will be listening to that later. But Ray said, of course, 388 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:06.880 he emphasized the need to get him healthy into the postseason. 389 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:09.680 Talking about Kawhi. Let's hear from coach lou post game 390 00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:12.359 after the Clippers win one, ten to ninety three over 391 00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:14.200 the Wizards, peered into it, don't you. 392 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:16.200 Can't dictate who's gonna get the shots if you play 393 00:24:16.200 --> 00:24:18.400 in basketball the right way, you know, And so I 394 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:20.559 don't think we did that the second half of the 395 00:24:20.559 --> 00:24:21.319 third on all. 396 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:22.000 The way through. 397 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:26.720 Ty James at his seventy ninth Coura tripled up today, 398 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:29.839 I think eighth all time. Just what can you say 399 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:34.079 about just his longevity, the overall complete game that he's 400 00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:37.160 able to provide for you know, long time in the NBA. 401 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:41.200