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Speaker 4: The Clippers. We stood incredibly hot shooting from the Houston
Speaker 4: Rockets where they were twenty of forty from three as
Speaker 4: the Clippers matched from going nineteen of thirty seven from
Speaker 4: the outside and would win here. Add into a Dome.
Speaker 4: The Dome is home one thirty four to one seventeen
Speaker 4: over the Houston Rockets. The Clippers have won six straight.
Speaker 4: They have won sixteen of nineteen. They are searching with
Speaker 4: just two games remaining in the regular season, and they
Speaker 4: close out the regular season here and into a Dome,
Speaker 4: winning thirteen of their last fourteen games here. They ended
Speaker 4: up going thirty and eleven in their new home. They
Speaker 4: are in this position currently in the five spot in
Speaker 4: the West. Without this home court advantage, without the wall,
Speaker 4: the swell, without Clipper Nation embracing their new and first
Speaker 4: ever home Thank you, Steve Balmer. It worked, it was successful,
Speaker 4: and I can't wait to see what it looks like
Speaker 4: in a playoff setting. That's what I'm looking forward to next.
Speaker 4: But the Clippers still have work to do. They got
Speaker 4: help tonight from San Antonio off a Harrison Barnes game
Speaker 4: winning three pointer up in San Francisco to beat the
Speaker 4: Golden State Warriors. That means if the Clippers can win
Speaker 4: in Sacramento on Friday, even if Golden State beats him
Speaker 4: on Sunday, they can't move ahead of them in the standings.
Speaker 4: Huge implications there with that loss tonight by at Golden
Speaker 4: State Warriors. In this win by your LA Clippers six
Speaker 4: straight sixteen of nineteen, they have been top two in
Speaker 4: offense and defensive rating over the last eighteen games heading
Speaker 4: into this ballgame, and they was stood a fifty three
Speaker 4: point shooting night from the Houston Rockets. No, they didn't
Speaker 4: have all their guys, they were resting, but Reed Shepherd
Speaker 4: went off. He had twenty They had six to three pointers.
Speaker 4: I mean he hit a three pointer in the face
Speaker 4: of Kawhi Leonard just unconscious. Jeff Green went for his
Speaker 4: season high of nineteen, four of six from the outside,
Speaker 4: Aaron Holliday sixteen, four of six from the outside. They
Speaker 4: rose to the occasion. They're tough the Clippers, though they
Speaker 4: matched them, they didn't let up. Nothing is more encouraging
Speaker 4: from this Clippers team than playing the way they are
Speaker 4: leading into the playoffs and consistently not having letdowns. Right now,
Speaker 4: even when a team shoots fifty percent from three, the
Speaker 4: Clippers don't have a letdown. Incredible Clippers. In that first quarter,
Speaker 4: I thought they could pull away early. James Harden was
Speaker 4: found on a three pointer and at one point they
Speaker 4: led by ten at twenty two to twelve. But the
Speaker 4: Houston Rockets weren't going anywhere, and they would show that
Speaker 4: hot shooting early in the first where by the end
Speaker 4: of the quarter after a holiday three, even though hard
Speaker 4: would match him with a three pointer. On the other end,
Speaker 4: I read chep three a turnover, a Shepherd steal for
Speaker 4: an easy one, and the Clippers, after leading by ten
Speaker 4: in the first quarter, are only up thirty six to
Speaker 4: thirty five. You could tell right away this was different.
Speaker 4: Houston started seven of ten from three. They were scorching hot.
Speaker 4: I believe they would then go one for their next eight,
Speaker 4: but the three ball would return Nko Batoum, who I
Speaker 4: just saw, who was walking around here on the court.
Speaker 4: Hear at into a dome or near it and said
Speaker 4: postgame he's good. After not playing in the second half
Speaker 4: after a groin issue some soreness, Niko Batoum gave them
Speaker 4: a huge lift. They needed all of his fifteen points
Speaker 4: in the first half, where he cooked and went four
Speaker 4: a five from three, He got fouled on one for
Speaker 4: a four point play. He made another three. Eventually it
Speaker 4: was reviewed, they took it away. They called it a
Speaker 4: two pointer. An incredible lift from Saint Nick because after
Speaker 4: the Rockets got a three to start the second quarter
Speaker 4: from Jeff Green and it hit seven of their first
Speaker 4: ten from the outside. Then it was Nico's turn. He
Speaker 4: hit a three to make it thirty nine thirty eight.
Speaker 4: Clippers another three forty two to thirty eight. Kawhi misses
Speaker 4: a floater and then Nico gets fouled on a three
Speaker 4: on the same possession, gets the four point play. Clippers
Speaker 4: up by six. My goodness, though Jeff Green then hits
Speaker 4: another three. They started eight to thirteen from three. The
Speaker 4: Clippers are seven of thirteen they're matching them. They have
Speaker 4: been playing like anything you can do, I can do better.
Speaker 4: Whatever it takes, we don't care. But Tom hit another three.
Speaker 4: Then on the right wing forty eight to forty two.
Speaker 4: Clippers Tate leap for Houston. Four point game. Then we
Speaker 4: saw Kawhi get busy a little bit. Near the end
Speaker 4: of the second quarter. The Clippers led fifty four to
Speaker 4: forty eight. It's a six point game. Avitza Zubas heads
Speaker 4: to the free throw line, hits a couple. Is an
Speaker 4: eight point game. Kawhi gets a rebound and goes hard
Speaker 4: in transition, splits the defense and just dunks on multiple guys.
Speaker 4: Reed Shepherd and Dante were there, didn't matter. Kawhi another steal,
Speaker 4: missed a three, but then Harden gets a steal and
Speaker 4: Kawhi leonards still on the other end, cherry picking long
Speaker 4: outlet pass from Harden, Kawhi layup eight oh run sixty
Speaker 4: to forty eight. Kawhi was playing with force and had
Speaker 4: six points in the final three minutes of the second quarter.
Speaker 4: Started to wake up. He also found Aviasta Zubas on
Speaker 4: a nice pass for a push shot, but the Clippers
Speaker 4: eventually went on an eighteen to two run. During that
Speaker 4: stretch I'm talking about, Harden found Zoo for a big dunk.
Speaker 4: They're up sixty six to fifty. Eventually they're up sixty
Speaker 4: eight to fifty off an eighteen to two run. By
Speaker 4: the end of the half, after it was just a
Speaker 4: four point game, they were up seventy one to fifty eight.
Speaker 4: Then we got the bad news though, with Nico sore
Speaker 4: right growing out for the remainder of the ball game.
Speaker 4: He was critical in the first half. He gave him fifteen.
Speaker 4: He did enough, said postgame he'll be good. Harden floater
Speaker 4: to start the third quarter, Harden fouls gets fouled on
Speaker 4: a three to four point play seventy seven fifty eight.
Speaker 4: Then after a steal by eathen On Kawhi for a
Speaker 4: runout layup far too easy seventy seven to sixty two.
Speaker 4: Kawai comes back, turns the corner on one of the
Speaker 4: better defenders in the league, Atari Easton, who a lot
Speaker 4: of people have compared to Kawhi Leonard. He turned the
Speaker 4: corner on him something fierce and threw it down with
Speaker 4: a right handed dunk. Dun Will miss a three on
Speaker 4: the other end, but dounk came into this ballgame hitting
Speaker 4: eighteen of his last thirty nine from the outside, so
Speaker 4: now it's nineteen of his last forty from three over
Speaker 4: his last eleven games Houston. Though, even with the Clippers
Speaker 4: playing this well, even with their hot shooting, they just
Speaker 4: refuse to go away. There was a wild player, a
Speaker 4: no call on a dangerous play that I couldn't believe
Speaker 4: in this ballgame where Harden got stripped by Nate Williams
Speaker 4: and Whitmore got clipped by DJ in transition on a dunk.
Speaker 4: He fell to the ground awkwardly. I was glad he
Speaker 4: was okay. It was a no call. It was kind
Speaker 4: of unbelievable, and it led to a Chris Dune three
Speaker 4: on the other end, and the Clippers had their biggest
Speaker 4: lead at eighty six to sixty seven in the third.
Speaker 4: Nineteen was their largest lead in the ballgame. They called
Speaker 4: a time out right afterwards and then went more cut.
Speaker 4: A lob Zu got a floater off a hardened feed
Speaker 4: in the pick and roll to make it eighty eight
Speaker 4: to sixty nine. But then Bogie came in for Chris
Speaker 4: Dunn at the five point thirty mark. Bogey starwed this
Speaker 4: ballgame zero for four, and you could see they ran
Speaker 4: a play to him right away. When he came back
Speaker 4: late in the third, he got a reverse leg up.
Speaker 4: Ninety two to seventy five. Clippers rockets three, ninety two
Speaker 4: to seventy eight. Harden lobbed to Zoo, but he couldn't corral.
Speaker 4: It was a little bit too high. Aaron Holiday hits
Speaker 4: a three. He's about to go on a run. It's
Speaker 4: ninety two and eighty one. Clippers were just up by nineteen.
Speaker 4: Timeout Clippers DJ lefty floater. It's Zubot's hardened DJ. Kobe
Speaker 4: Brown in and Bogeye on the floor. Aaron Holiday scoop layup.
Speaker 4: It's a nine point game. Zoo gets to his double
Speaker 4: double at this point, his thirteenth in a row, longest
Speaker 4: streak of his career double double wise. Kobe Brown then
Speaker 4: gets a layup going to his right after the Clippers
Speaker 4: went over two minutes scoreless to make it ninety four
Speaker 4: to eighty three. Aaron Holiday three again, This is not
Speaker 4: the Hall Day vacation I was looking for. Holiday made
Speaker 4: it ninety four to eighty six, Clippers DJ three to
Speaker 4: answer it, Holiday lay up the other way. What an
Speaker 4: Aaron Holiday score here, two, three, five seven. He had
Speaker 4: ten points in the span of like two minutes for
Speaker 4: the Houston Rockets. Late in the third quarter, Hardwood goes
Speaker 4: to the free throw line, hit both as the Clippers
Speaker 4: were nineteen of nineteen to the charity stripe, and then
Speaker 4: Kobe Brown after he got the layup, hit a three
Speaker 4: pointer one O two eighty eight. This was the best
Speaker 4: sequence I would say of his career so far. They
Speaker 4: needed him. It's the second I have of back to back.
Speaker 4: NK goes out viatzuz Zubas played heavy minutes last night,
Speaker 4: and Kobe Brown answered the bell. He rose to the occasion.
Speaker 4: Jock Landale hit a three on the other end to
Speaker 4: answer it. Bogey hit a three to answer that, and
Speaker 4: the Clippers are up fourteen at one five to ninety
Speaker 4: one entering the fourth. Aaron Holiday three to start the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter. It's one O four to ninety five. Then
Speaker 4: a careless Chris Dunn turnover in the backcourt. Jeff Green
Speaker 4: Steel easy runout nine point game. U Banks tries to
Speaker 4: find Kawhi who's short with it. Kawhi Bogie done, Brown
Speaker 4: and you Banks are out there to start the fourth.
Speaker 4: It is a six point game. After a reed Shepherd
Speaker 4: three that made it one oh five to ninety nine. Bogee,
Speaker 4: big game, Bogee big shot. Answers with a three right away.
Speaker 4: Clippers are up one o eight to one hundred. Early
Speaker 4: fourth and Kawhi went to the hoop for a huge throwdown.
Speaker 4: He got fouled. He didn't get the dunk. I believe
Speaker 4: it was with his left hand, but oh my god,
Speaker 4: the force he came with for that throwdown. It would
Speaker 4: have been his best since the dunk on the Celtics
Speaker 4: last year. He had bad intentions, went to the free
Speaker 4: throw line, hit. Both Clippers are up by ten. Bogie
Speaker 4: gets a steal, gets fouled after Kawhi three. The Clippers
Speaker 4: are up by fifteen at one fifteen to one hundred.
Speaker 4: They're starting to gain some separation. The game is turning
Speaker 4: into triple double watch with Aviatsa zubats.
Speaker 5: As.
Speaker 4: The Clippers are up one seventeen to one hundred, and
Speaker 4: we'll take even further down here after Harden comes in
Speaker 4: for Kobe. At the seven thirty four mark, it's won
Speaker 4: seventeen to one to oh three. Clippers. Kawhi had a
Speaker 4: possession where he was double team lost the basketball somehow
Speaker 4: regained it in his balance. It was a wildly impressed
Speaker 4: to play from a ball handling standpoint, because I thought
Speaker 4: he was gonna lose it. They were blitzing and trapping
Speaker 4: him and trying to get the ball out of his hands,
Speaker 4: and somehow he was stood that got it back, but
Speaker 4: then missed the jumper. Green hit a three. It's eleven
Speaker 4: point game again as Jeff Green Uncle Jeff was hitting
Speaker 4: knocking him down and had his season high in this
Speaker 4: game of nineteen and Harden hit a calming right elbow jumper,
Speaker 4: just a silencer shot to put him back up by thirteen.
Speaker 4: Then Harden had a great feed to Drew u Banks
Speaker 4: for an easy right handed layup. Kawhi, though, gambled right
Speaker 4: afterwards and Jeff Green got by him in transition for
Speaker 4: a dunk, but out of a timeout it was a
Speaker 4: Kawhi layup a bogie three, and the Clippers were up
Speaker 4: one twenty six to one twelve. Late in the fourth over,
Speaker 4: and Kawhi almost had another huge putback dunk on a
Speaker 4: DJ miss on a three pointer on the far side corner.
Speaker 4: I mean the explosiveness, the bounce, the pop from Kawhi
Speaker 4: was special tonight now what we're watching is if it
Speaker 4: beats A Zubots is gonna end up getting his first
Speaker 4: triple double. He would off of a three pointer late
Speaker 4: from Bogee on the left wing, his buddy. They left
Speaker 4: him out there to get the triple double. He got it.
Speaker 4: Congrats to a Eatsa Zubots. He finished with oh you know,
Speaker 4: twenty eleven, ten assists, nine to thirteen, shooting first triple
Speaker 4: double of his career. As Bogie was so clutched in
Speaker 4: the second half after starting four, he would hit five
Speaker 4: of his seven shots in the second half and get
Speaker 4: to sixteen points, his final three points coming on that
Speaker 4: three pointer to get Aviatza Zubots his first triple double
Speaker 4: as he made the assist in the pass over to
Speaker 4: his buddy in Bogee and the Clippers go on to
Speaker 4: win one thirty four to one seventeen. Hear it into
Speaker 4: a dome over the Houston Rockets. Quick time out, We'll
Speaker 4: come back more Clippers dock. I'm out of maslans and
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Speaker 4: an five seventy, LA Sports.
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Speaker 4: Hear it into a Dome in their regular season finale
Speaker 4: here at the Dome. God bless Steve Balmer. They go
Speaker 4: thirty and eleven. Add into a dome this season after
Speaker 4: starting off zh to four. You remember the turning point
Speaker 4: down twenty six in the first quarter to the San
Speaker 4: Antonio Spurs. They came back of Eaza Zubats, played through
Speaker 4: a bad first half against Wemby, got the best of
Speaker 4: them in the second half, and they came back down
Speaker 4: twenty six to get their first ever victory. Hear it
Speaker 4: into a home that got things started. They've now won
Speaker 4: thirteen to the last fourteen here and they went thirty
Speaker 4: and seven after losing the first four games. Into a home.
Speaker 4: The Dome is home. There's no place like dome. The
Speaker 4: into a Dome eight six six nine, eight seven two
Speaker 4: five seventy is the phone number. The good news is this,
Speaker 4: Nico Batoum said postgame. He's feeling okay and he'll be fine.
Speaker 4: Tweet is right growing, Tweet is growing. Coach lou said,
Speaker 4: not sure yet on how severe the right growing injury
Speaker 4: is but Nico said he'll be fine Coach Lou. About
Speaker 4: Coach Lou on leaving of East zou bots In to
Speaker 4: get that triple double postgame quote, Yeah, I usually don't
Speaker 4: like doing that bad karma, but he had a chance
Speaker 4: earlier this season and I took him out, so I
Speaker 4: gave him one more play. That was huge for Zoo
Speaker 4: and huge for our team and the morale of our team.
Speaker 4: Look at Bogey's face when he hits that shot. He
Speaker 4: doesn't even care Harry hit the three. He cares that
Speaker 4: because he hit the three. It gotta beat to Zubas
Speaker 4: his first triple double ever and the season. This remarkable
Speaker 4: for the Clippers, and especially beats to Zubas individually with
Speaker 4: his growth, and he talked about it postgame last night.
Speaker 4: But a lot of this is just bigger opportunity, been
Speaker 4: waiting for it. He ends up with a triple double.
Speaker 4: Now unbelievable. Eight six six ninety seven two five seventy.
Speaker 4: Jose and Southgate, Jose, you're on Clippers, stop with out
Speaker 4: of Mazin.
Speaker 5: What's up? I don't can hear me? All right?
Speaker 4: I got you, Jose, you.
Speaker 5: Know how to call it? In last some home game.
Speaker 5: All right, Look, PG was gone, car Landon was out
Speaker 5: for an unknown amount of games. We start or and
Speaker 5: four into a dome. There was a point of time
Speaker 5: you asked me who do who did I want in
Speaker 5: the playoffs? I would say, I didn't care. Just get
Speaker 5: us there and we're here, baby, I don't care.
Speaker 7: Ok.
Speaker 5: See talking about LAC Lakers are fakers. Nuggets will give Kawhi.
Speaker 5: Leonard Jordan's gonna give them buckets. Slap clapart.
Speaker 4: Asea saying, I don't care who we get in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: This team's ready. They looked the part. They looked that good.
Speaker 4: They've won six in a row, they won sixteen of nineteen.
Speaker 4: Most importantly during that stretch they have They came into
Speaker 4: this game with the top net rating in the league
Speaker 4: over that time, and if you're looking at the teams
Speaker 4: around them, it's all the best teams.
Speaker 2: They have.
Speaker 4: The advanced stats that show they're one of the best
Speaker 4: teams in the league. Now. Since Kawhi got back to
Speaker 4: looking like Kawhi, he had twenty two again, took him
Speaker 4: twenty two shots to get there, but he missed a
Speaker 4: couple of dunks in this game that would have been spectacular,
Speaker 4: and he didn't miss him because oh he's thirty three.
Speaker 4: He's not the same. He just missed him because the
Speaker 4: ones he made were fierce, nasty dunks. The one in
Speaker 4: the first half in transition where he split two defenders
Speaker 4: to throw it down was big. Another one where he
Speaker 4: missed a floater a little while after that and then
Speaker 4: got his own rebound and threw it down with the
Speaker 4: right hand in the first half was big. And then
Speaker 4: turning the corner on tari Yeason in the second half
Speaker 4: or a right hand and throw down. This is last
Speaker 4: year's Kawhi. What did I say all season long? If
Speaker 4: he gets back to last year's version, the Clippers are
Speaker 4: in business. Yeah, they can contend in the Western Conference.
Speaker 4: He looks just as good as that stretch we saw
Speaker 4: last season where he set the all time efficiency record
Speaker 4: over thirty games. Special special for the Clippers to be
Speaker 4: peaking at the right time to have a chance at
Speaker 4: the four to the five spot in the Western Conference.
Speaker 4: They're currently fifth, they went out. I don't believe they
Speaker 4: can be worse than fifth. If they get a loss
Speaker 4: from Denver and went out, I believe they'll be fourth.
Speaker 4: I say I believe because you know, if you look
Speaker 4: at some of the seating implications and who needs to
Speaker 4: win and who do you need to lose, it's a mess.
Speaker 4: I'm looking for Justin Russo for a clarity tweet regarding
Speaker 4: what the Clippers need now to end up in the
Speaker 4: fourth spot or the five spot, because things are still close.
Speaker 4: Denver one tonight against Sacramento, where the Clippers will be
Speaker 4: on Friday night. Let's take a quick time out. We'll
Speaker 4: come back beats. Zubas gets his first triple double and
Speaker 4: gave the game ball away to a kid as he
Speaker 4: was walking into the tunnel. More assists for Big Zoo.
Speaker 4: I guess he knows, you know, I'll get another one.
Speaker 4: It's not that big of a deal. With the way
Speaker 4: he is blossoming in front of our eyes right now,
Speaker 4: I don't doubt it. They had five assists last night.
Speaker 4: Clippers win by seventeen over the Houston Rockets. Here it
Speaker 4: into a dome. I'm out a Maslems and you're listening
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Speaker 4: Clippers win one thirty four to one seventeen over the
Speaker 4: Houston Rockets. Here it into a Dome where this place
Speaker 4: has become an absolute fortress. After starting zero to four here,
Speaker 4: the Clippers were winners of thirty of their next thirty
Speaker 4: seven games here in their new and first ever home
Speaker 4: the Into a Dome. They shoot it well here too,
Speaker 4: nineteen to thirty seven from three. Rockets shoot it well too.
Speaker 4: The Rockets, in all four games this season against the
Speaker 4: Clippers have shot no worse than forty eight percent from three.
Speaker 4: They are a bottom ten three point shooting team. That
Speaker 4: is wild. That is just some real bad luck. Let's
Speaker 4: go to Matt in La Matt near a Clippers stop
Speaker 4: with out of Malsen.
Speaker 7: What's up, Matt, Hey, Adam, thanks for having me. It's
Speaker 7: just been an amazing year. Kind of echo a year
Speaker 7: just saying I went to eighteen home games, I did
Speaker 7: not see the Clippers lose, and something really cool I
Speaker 7: saw tonight was a couple of spunky radio guys having
Speaker 7: a touching moment, taken a picture outside the arena, and
Speaker 7: I was just wondering, what's this season meant to you,
Speaker 7: and what's it been like experiencing this new arena.
Speaker 4: You saw myself and Carlo taking a picture outside the
Speaker 4: arena pregame mat I did.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we were.
Speaker 4: Doing a TikTok video. We were recording for Carlo.
Speaker 1: Oh, we should.
Speaker 4: Have found you because we were doing a little Clipper
Speaker 4: Nation quiz. But to your question, oh.
Speaker 7: Dag, I didn't want to interrupt. I thought you guys
Speaker 7: were having a moment.
Speaker 4: Now, no, no, it's all family with Clipper Nation. Please
Speaker 4: come up and say hi always. But Matt, I appreciate
Speaker 4: the phone call and congratulations on going to eighteen home
Speaker 4: games this season and never seeing the Clippers lose. That's
Speaker 4: how good they've been. Hearing into it though, this team
Speaker 4: means a lot to me, this organization, this season has
Speaker 4: been really special. There's work to be done. I know
Speaker 4: a lot of this is gonna be defined what happens
Speaker 4: in the postseason. It's gonna be defined by what happens
Speaker 4: in the postseason. But I do want to appreciate how
Speaker 4: good this Clippers team has been. They're forty eight wins, guys,
Speaker 4: They're ten wins up on where they're over. Under was
Speaker 4: set around thirty seven and a half wins. There are
Speaker 4: ten wins above that. Just incredible. I can't say enough
Speaker 4: about the heart of this team, the way they have
Speaker 4: been able to be resilient with only having Kawhi for
Speaker 4: thirty five games. Norreon pal has missed twenty plus games
Speaker 4: now wasn't able to go tonight right shoulder issue, but
Speaker 4: coach lou said he's good, He's all right. Houston Rockets
Speaker 4: weren't playing anybody. Clippers saw that they get by. They
Speaker 4: did get by Nico, but Toomb's okay. But the growth
Speaker 4: of a beats the Zoubots. You know, That's that's how
Speaker 4: a lot of this season is going to be remembered.
Speaker 4: The workhorse that James Harden has been for this team,
Speaker 4: and Kawhi getting back to looking like himself over the
Speaker 4: last fifteen games or so where now the Clippers have
Speaker 4: won sixteen of their last nineteen. It's just a group
Speaker 4: that has come together and they truly believe they can
Speaker 4: do something special. If you listen to Norman Powell last
Speaker 4: night in the locker room afterwards, he said it. He
Speaker 4: thinks they have that championship pedigree. He thinks they have
Speaker 4: what it takes. He knows what it takes. He won
Speaker 4: in Toronto with Kawhi and twenty nineteen. So while we
Speaker 4: celebrate what this Clippers team has done during the regular
Speaker 4: season with two games left, because this is the final
Speaker 4: regular season game here at into it dumb, there's also
Speaker 4: much to look for two so Clippers have a very
Speaker 4: good chance of finishing outside of the plan, which has
Speaker 4: been the goal. And the sense of urgency you've seen
Speaker 4: over the last couple of weeks where they won six straight,
Speaker 4: is because they don't want to end up seventh or
Speaker 4: eighth in the Western Conference. And since they put that
Speaker 4: pressure on themselves to win, they've looked better than ever
Speaker 4: and I think that's very telling. The stakes have raised
Speaker 4: and the Clippers did not shrink. No, they're playing better
Speaker 4: because they have to right now. They don't have a choice.
Speaker 4: These are must win games if you want to stay
Speaker 4: out of the plan. That's what I'm most encouraged about.
Speaker 4: That's the type of stuff that can translate to the postseason.
Speaker 4: Clippers win one point thirty four to one seventeen over
Speaker 4: the Houston Rockets, quick time out, come back, We'll close
Speaker 4: things out. Hear it into a dome. I'm at a
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Speaker 4: five seventy LAS Sports.
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Speaker 4: Clippers win one thirty four to one seventeen over the
Speaker 4: Houston Rockets. Here at into a dome. The dome is home.
Speaker 4: I'm at a Maslind celebrating the first regular season hear
Speaker 4: it into a dome.
Speaker 2: It was very successful.
Speaker 4: Clippers ended up going thirty and eleven at home. I'm
Speaker 4: telling you, guys, they're not in the conversation for being
Speaker 4: four or five in the Western Conference. If they didn't
Speaker 4: have into a dome, they're not. This home court advantage
Speaker 4: has been real, it's been felt. It's a huge advantage
Speaker 4: for them. Thank you, Steve Balmer. This was his vision.
Speaker 4: This was his dream to create a real home court advantage,
Speaker 4: not just to give them their own arena, but to
Speaker 4: have it in a unique way that sets itself apart
Speaker 4: from everything else, that makes it special Declipper Nation and
Speaker 4: makes it difficult for opponents. The wall has done that.
Speaker 4: How loud this place gets because of the design. It's
Speaker 4: just been a remarkable inaugural year here at into a
Speaker 4: dome for the Clippers. It beats. The Zubats got his
Speaker 4: first triple double, another special night here, twenty eleven ten
Speaker 4: assists and Bogdan Bogdanovich gave it to him hitting that
Speaker 4: three pointer near the end of the ball game where
Speaker 4: they kept Big Zoo in for him to attain this goal.
Speaker 4: Zubat said postgame he told Bogi He's never paying for
Speaker 4: a dinner again after making that three pointer to secure
Speaker 4: Vats the Zubas's first triple double. James Harden spoke postgame
Speaker 4: about how this Clippers team has impacted him. Quote, man,
Speaker 4: it's special, really just giving yourself up for something bigger.
Speaker 4: Coming into this season. It was no expectations for this team,
Speaker 4: for real. You look at the standings. They predicted us
Speaker 4: to be thirteenth seed or twelve seed in the West.
Speaker 4: Being around these guys from day one, it started in
Speaker 4: Arizona when I put that mini camp together, and then
Speaker 4: going into training camp and seeing we got something special,
Speaker 4: We got some dogs in the locker room. Here we
Speaker 4: are with an opportunity to be a four or five
Speaker 4: seed in the West and have a pretty good run
Speaker 4: in this postseason. They've impacted me in a positive way.
Speaker 4: They've made me locking on both ends of the ball
Speaker 4: and really just have that competitive mindset to want to
Speaker 4: go out and do whatever it takes to win. And
Speaker 4: that's the beauty of a team. Unquote. Awesome statement there
Speaker 4: from James Harden. He gifted everybody a pair of his
Speaker 4: signature V nine shoes. By the way, James Harden been
Speaker 4: a blessing for this team. He's just a tank. He's
Speaker 4: just a regular season floor raser. Like we haven't seen
Speaker 4: his team's never missed the playoffs. Looks like it's about
Speaker 4: to happen again. Yeah, you have James Harden, You're making
Speaker 4: the playoffs. This was supposed to be the year where
Speaker 4: that no longer was the case according to the critics,
Speaker 4: where they didn't have enough. Well, Lawrence Frank came out
Speaker 4: and put together a roster that was going to have
Speaker 4: a defensive identity thanks to Chris Dunn, dj Niko batoumb
Speaker 4: being back, Jeff Van Gundhi in the fold. They were
Speaker 4: going to commit to being great on the defensive end,
Speaker 4: and James Harden pointed out they even got me playing
Speaker 4: some defense here, and he has, Like, you can't be
Speaker 4: the second best defense in the league if the guy
Speaker 4: who plays the most minutes for your team is never
Speaker 4: playing defense, it doesn't work that way. He has done
Speaker 4: enough on that end. But offensively, of course, him being
Speaker 4: that floor raiser and having a system to play through
Speaker 4: has made the Clippers a problem for teams. You know
Speaker 4: they're going to get stops on you. You know they're
Speaker 4: going to struggle at times. When they didn't have Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 4: They did, they were around nineteenth twentieth, but they were
Speaker 4: good enough. They were competent enough on the offensive end,
Speaker 4: and a lot of that is due to James Harden
Speaker 4: Nolmaran Powell, especially earlier in the season of Eats a zoobots.
Speaker 4: But I mean, Harden is the system for a reason.
Speaker 4: It's all flowing through him. Like this is an incredible
Speaker 4: season from a thirty five year old who has the
Speaker 4: usage rating of a twenty five year old. That's why
Speaker 4: he was an All Star. He should be third team
Speaker 4: All NBA. I think if Eats Zubats has a case
Speaker 4: for being third team. He also has a case for
Speaker 4: Defensive Player of the Year. Making an All defensive team,
Speaker 4: most improved player, all those things are on the table,
Speaker 4: but still two games to go. I don't want to
Speaker 4: reminisce too much about this season. There is work to
Speaker 4: be done in Sacramento Golden Won Center. They got a
Speaker 4: home court there too. And the Clippers cannot look past
Speaker 4: this Kings team, who if they play the same guys
Speaker 4: they've played against Denver tonight, they have enough talent to
Speaker 4: beat you. They do. And the Clippers have been on
Speaker 4: this five game homestand the road hasn't always been as
Speaker 4: kind to them this season, but they've been much better
Speaker 4: as of late. Well, they need to continue to play
Speaker 4: great on the road because that is a game that
Speaker 4: cannot turn into a trap game. Treat it the exact
Speaker 4: same way, must win. Coach Luke came into the locker
Speaker 4: room yesterday at halftime after San Antonio was trailing by
Speaker 4: just two against the Clippers and said, we have a
Speaker 4: chance to do something special. Come on, let's go. And
Speaker 4: they came out own that third quarter, played much better defense,
Speaker 4: created seven turnovers with the Spurs, and they got back
Speaker 4: to basics. Playing good defense. The defense leads to offense.
Speaker 4: They know what they gotta do on Friday night, execute,
Speaker 4: get it done. That four seed, that carrot that is dangling,
Speaker 4: it is waiting to be had. Clippers got to go
Speaker 4: for it. Why because we've seen the difference here it
Speaker 4: into a dome, if you got home court in a
Speaker 4: seven game series in the first round, something incomprehensible to
Speaker 4: many in Clipper Nation coming into this season. Nobody would
Speaker 4: have thought that was possible. But with what we've seen
Speaker 4: with this home court advantage here and into a dome,
Speaker 4: that would mean everything to get home court in the
Speaker 4: first round of the Western Conference playoffs. Clippers win won
Speaker 4: thirty four to one to seventeen over the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 4: They've won six straight sixteen of nineteen, and they head
Speaker 4: to Sacramento, head to Norcale for their final two tip
Speaker 4: off against the Kings Friday night at seven. Pregame show
Speaker 4: at six. Before we get out of here, I do
Speaker 4: want to thank the Clippers organization. Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman,
Speaker 4: Noah Eagle. We saw tonight. Check out the pregame show.
Speaker 4: We chatted it up with Noah Eagle, Caylojmenez on the call,
Speaker 4: Big Brother, Jake Warner, head engineer, Daniel west Our producer
Speaker 4: back in the bank. I'm at a maslin. You know.
Speaker 4: We'll be back on the YouTube side tomorrow. I'll talk
Speaker 4: to you then.
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