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Speaker 1: Post game at follow Adam a Adam Mosley. Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: plays both games of a back to back for the
Speaker 1: first time in over a year, and the Clippers sweep
Speaker 1: the back to back here at into a Dome over
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks as they win tonight one thirty five
Speaker 1: to one oh four. Welcome into Clippers stock. I'm Ada
Speaker 1: Moslin coming up. We'll get your phone calls eight sixty
Speaker 1: six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six
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Speaker 1: guys for another forty minutes here. The Clippers have four
Speaker 1: games left in the regular season. They've won four straight.
Speaker 1: They've won fourteen of seventeen. They have won eleven of
Speaker 1: their last twelve. Hear it into a Dome. They are
Speaker 1: primed for a deep playoff run, but there's still work
Speaker 1: to be done that involves getting out of the play in,
Speaker 1: starting on Tuesday night against San Antonio, another must win game,
Speaker 1: but they all are right now. And for the Clippers
Speaker 1: to win in this fashion that they have been just
Speaker 1: handling business left and right, beating bad teams to this extent,
Speaker 1: winning by thirty one, it's just really impressive and speaks
Speaker 1: to the professionalism of this team and the laser focused
Speaker 1: they have down the stretch, knowing what the stakes are
Speaker 1: in their mind. Seems like the playoffs have already started.
Speaker 1: They're getting up for these games. They're playing their best basketball.
Speaker 1: That first quarter was one of the best opening quarters
Speaker 1: I had seen from them this season. Remember, Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: was back tonight in this game, and ad is a problem.
Speaker 1: Don't forget that he had twenty seven. He had thirteen
Speaker 1: free throws. Yea, the Dallas Mavericks had thirty eight. That
Speaker 1: is an opponent season high. By the way, how nobody
Speaker 1: missed two in a row in the fourth quarter with
Speaker 1: all those free throws for them, I'll never understand. It
Speaker 1: could have been free chicken for everyone here. But Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis ended up with twenty seven and nine. Did have
Speaker 1: six turnovers. But I loved the way the Clippers came out,
Speaker 1: and to me, it was Kawhi when he is active
Speaker 1: defensively early, everybody falls in line. He got a hand
Speaker 1: on the basketball with Derek Lively with it, but the
Speaker 1: ball went out on the Clippers anyways, but it happened
Speaker 1: within the first couple minutes. I said, Okay, Kawhi is
Speaker 1: locked in. Is everyone else gonna follow suit? Zuke gets
Speaker 1: a bucket from James Harden and gets another. That would
Speaker 1: be a theme in this ballgame, as he went eleven
Speaker 1: for eleven, but Kawhi actually started somewhat slow offensively. He
Speaker 1: missed a layup going out Anthony Davis and then missed
Speaker 1: the tip in, so he goes zero for two there,
Speaker 1: but after a hard and three put him up eleven
Speaker 1: to eight early in the first quarter. Then a timeout
Speaker 1: was called. Then it's Kawhi left. He layup thirteen nine
Speaker 1: Clippers bullies PJ and then Anthony Davis came to help out.
Speaker 1: Didn't matter, right handed flip shot fifteen to nine. Harden
Speaker 1: full court passed to Kawhi for a dunk seventeen to nine.
Speaker 1: Kawhi would miss a runout for a dunk later in
Speaker 1: the second half after he had a steal by the way,
Speaker 1: but they go on a twelve zero run after a
Speaker 1: Norman pal three pointer as Spencer didn't we got called
Speaker 1: for a carry by the way, which you don't see
Speaker 1: very often the Clippers, though Kawhi throws a noop to
Speaker 1: a Visa Zubos in the first quarter. They're up twenty
Speaker 1: seven to thirteen. They're just so dialed in on both ends.
Speaker 1: Everything's working, and they led after one after a James
Speaker 1: Harden layup to end the first quarter thirty three to
Speaker 1: twenty one. You get up by twelve in the first
Speaker 1: twelve minutes, you're in good shape. Just such a near
Speaker 1: flawless opening quarter for the Clippers. I felt like considering
Speaker 1: Ad was cooking to start, Anthony Davis was getting some
Speaker 1: buckets for them. They have their leader back, they're getting
Speaker 1: to the free throw line, and the Clippers are still
Speaker 1: up twelve heading into the second quarter. In the second
Speaker 1: we get the Bogee Simmons DJ but toom with Kawhi
Speaker 1: leading them line up. Clippers got up thirty seven to
Speaker 1: twenty four after a Bogie threw a lob to Derek
Speaker 1: Jones Junior, wouldn't be the last one of those. But
Speaker 1: then Kawhi started to cook again. A fade away over
Speaker 1: Caleb Martin thirty nine to twenty six, Clippers, A Kawhi three,
Speaker 1: forty two to twenty nine. A Kawhi layup.
Speaker 3: I.
Speaker 1: It is incredible to see the scoring appetite that Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard has right now. Now he's playing with such force,
Speaker 1: getting into the paint, getting to his spots, and there's
Speaker 1: nothing you can do to stop him. But he is
Speaker 1: looking to score early and often in a way he
Speaker 1: just wasn't earlier in the season. Kawai steal Kawhi three,
Speaker 1: forty five to thirty three. Kawhi fade away on PJ
Speaker 1: forty seven to thirty five. Kawai, who it beats the Zubats,
Speaker 1: Now he's gotta pass it. Two lefty hook shot forty
Speaker 1: nine to thirty seven. Kawhi is controlling the game and
Speaker 1: getting everybody involved too. Like it's one thing to score
Speaker 1: and just look for your own, but then when those
Speaker 1: doubles start coming, you gotta find the open man. Kawhi
Speaker 1: ended up with ten of his eighteen points of the
Speaker 1: half in that second quarter. Eight points in the first
Speaker 1: quarter ten points in the second quarter balance scoring from him.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I expected him to be this
Speaker 1: good in his first back to back. I would say,
Speaker 1: if anything, he looked sharper and maybe that's part of
Speaker 1: the reason he wanted to play and has one to
Speaker 1: play in these back to backs for a while. But
Speaker 1: you gotta handle it with caution because he knows he'll
Speaker 1: still be in rhythm from the night before, He'll still
Speaker 1: have his timing out there. He didn't look tired whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Now he only had to play twenty four minutes last
Speaker 1: night and only twenty five tonight, But Kawhi looked remarkable.
Speaker 1: Just you're in awe watching this guy and just seeing
Speaker 1: shades of Jordan and MJ special players say the least.
Speaker 1: But when he's healthy in looking like this, Yeah, now
Speaker 1: he looks like a top five player in the league. Again,
Speaker 1: that's what we were waiting for. Right Kawhi has hit
Speaker 1: the gas. Kawhi found that extra gear. He is right
Speaker 1: back to where he was last season. And I thought
Speaker 1: that was the best version, scoring wise of Kawhi. I
Speaker 1: know that's crazy to say. Some people are gonna say,
Speaker 1: what about the twenty nineteen row with the Toronto Raptors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was maising, but it's not like he hasn't kept
Speaker 1: working on his and getting more refined. Twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: he was even more efficient before he went down to
Speaker 1: acl in the playoffs. I fully believe if he doesn't
Speaker 1: go down the Clippers winning the championship, then has a
Speaker 1: year off, comes back and on his way leading into
Speaker 1: the playoffs against Phoenix in twenty twenty three, I thought again, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is the best version of Kawhi. Look how efficient
Speaker 1: he is. He just keeps getting better. It's incredible because
Speaker 1: you would think these injuries would set him back so much,
Speaker 1: and he hasn't even been able to train the same
Speaker 1: way coming off the latest knee flare up from last season,
Speaker 1: He's had to ramp down on the training. He's had
Speaker 1: to just figure it out in game to get his
Speaker 1: time back there. So it took more games for him
Speaker 1: to get into the flow that he was in last season.
Speaker 1: But he's there now because last season. Again, comes back
Speaker 1: from the meniscus after the Phoenix series twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: and has the most efficient stretch in NBA history over
Speaker 1: a thirty game sample size, where he shot fifty seven
Speaker 1: to fifty two ninety splits. That was the best offensive
Speaker 1: version I've ever seen of him. And now go look
Speaker 1: at his last ten to fifteen games. He's right there again.
Speaker 1: It's just it's incredible. Clippers at the half, after getting
Speaker 1: those ten points from Kawhi in the second quarter, lead
Speaker 1: sixty one to fifty two. I thought there was a
Speaker 1: little bit of a missed opportunity while Harden got a
Speaker 1: floater to go, a couple of them to go at
Speaker 1: the end of the second quarter. It felt like with
Speaker 1: Kawhi off the floor near the end of the second
Speaker 1: the Clippers let things get a little bit too close.
Speaker 1: Nazi Marshall made it fifty seven to forty, and they're
Speaker 1: only up by nine at the half. But then you
Speaker 1: come out and just feature Zoo. I'm sure coach Lou
Speaker 1: had the halftime box score in his hand and maybe said, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see here. Aviza zubots is five for five. They
Speaker 1: can't stop him, they can't do anything with him. Maybe
Speaker 1: we should get him the basketball. And he gets a
Speaker 1: tough layup on Derek Lively coming out of the half
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. Then Norm was able to get
Speaker 1: an easy one in transition, driving the lane for a
Speaker 1: scoop layup, another Zoo layup, sixty seven fifty two. Okay,
Speaker 1: now they're gonna open it up. A Zoo push shot,
Speaker 1: and then Kawhi the steel on Anthony Davis, but missed
Speaker 1: the dunk. On the other end, Dallas was trying to
Speaker 1: hank tough. They scored five straight. It's a nine point
Speaker 1: game again. James Harden floater and he had it going.
Speaker 1: James Harden been much more efficient ass of late ten
Speaker 1: of nineteen twenty nine points, fourteen assists, two turnovers. You're
Speaker 1: seeing it. It's the Kawhi effect. Bogie too, another guy
Speaker 1: taking him off ball, saving his legs. But Kawhi, it's Kawhi.
Speaker 1: He's having to do work, not nearly as hard as
Speaker 1: he had to earlier in the season. James Harden, I'll
Speaker 1: put it like that. Zuke gets an a one in
Speaker 1: the third. Now he's nine for nine. MAV's still trying
Speaker 1: to hang around Lay. Thompson hits a three pointer. Kawhi
Speaker 1: was a little bit late on that close that I believe.
Speaker 1: Then Kawhi is a steal on ad as he was
Speaker 1: trying to handle it or hand the ball over two
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson. Clippers are up by twelve, Norm Jumper up
Speaker 1: by fourteen, and by the time Kawhi hits a three
Speaker 1: pointer to make it eighty four to sixty nine, He's
Speaker 1: got twenty five points in twenty two minutes. Hard and
Speaker 1: layup eighty six to sixty nine. Then Kawhi plays some
Speaker 1: incredible defense on PJ. Washington, who was trying to bully him.
Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen. Dunn ends up ripping it away
Speaker 1: and then found Kawhi running the floor for a two
Speaker 1: handed dunk. They said Chris Dunn was out of bounds
Speaker 1: initially with his right foot. They reviewed it. Now there
Speaker 1: was some space there between his white shoe and the
Speaker 1: white base line. The dunk counts for Kawhi, so you
Speaker 1: can add on where was he at By the end
Speaker 1: of the third quarter. I believe the Clippers were up
Speaker 1: yes one oh five to eighty two, and now Kawhi
Speaker 1: is at twenty seven points. Nine more points in the
Speaker 1: third James Harden though in that third quarter he was
Speaker 1: doing some work too. He had ten points in the
Speaker 1: third quarter. It's just all systems go. Everything is working,
Speaker 1: They're coming together at just the right time. We've said
Speaker 1: this before. But the hope is obviously from everyone. Kawhi
Speaker 1: can just stay healthy. That's it. All I need is
Speaker 1: a healthy Kawhi in a seven game series, and you
Speaker 1: can beat anyone. That's what this is about. The Clippers
Speaker 1: would open things up in the fourth quarter. I was
Speaker 1: surprised Kawhi was still out there. They're up by twenty three.
Speaker 1: He's played twenty three minutes. It's his first back to back.
Speaker 1: Got bowed by Anthony Davis to start the fourth hit
Speaker 1: a couple of free throws, but toom hits a three.
Speaker 1: It's one ten to eighty four. Ben Simmons gonna pushot
Speaker 1: over Derek Lively for good measure one twelve to eighty four.
Speaker 1: And then the Derek Jones junior reverse layup in traffic
Speaker 1: that was tough. After he had the reverse oop off
Speaker 1: a hardened pass in the third quarter, the reverse jam
Speaker 1: where he got up and remember early on in the
Speaker 1: game he went to the locker room. I was concerned
Speaker 1: Derek Liveley kind of unintentionally took out his legs. He
Speaker 1: was down for a second. He played the next possession,
Speaker 1: but after a time out he went to the locker room.
Speaker 1: I'm going on no, not DJ. We had another scare
Speaker 1: with Norn Powell get in need a Charlie horse maybe,
Speaker 1: but saw him on the stationary bike at the very
Speaker 1: end of this game. Even though obviously Clippers got to
Speaker 1: bring in the backups, the reserves, they called in the
Speaker 1: cavalry because they led by as many as thirty two.
Speaker 1: They win one thirty five to one oh four over
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks. Here It into it Home. They sweep
Speaker 1: this two game mini series. Coming up. We'll get to
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Speaker 1: Clippers win one thirty five to one oh four over
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks. Here It into a Dome. Welcome back
Speaker 1: in to Clippers Stock. I'm outa Moslin. Yes, all they
Speaker 1: do is win. Right now, they have won fourteen of
Speaker 1: their last seventeen, four in a row. With four games
Speaker 1: left in the regular season, They're back here at the
Speaker 1: Dome in a couple of days. Tuesday night against the
Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs. Kawhi Leonard plays his first full back
Speaker 1: to back. Available on the front end of it, available
Speaker 1: on the back end of it. He's been saying he's
Speaker 1: available for a while. They let him play this back
Speaker 1: to back and he looked spectacular. Twenty nine on nineteen shots.
Speaker 1: He goes twelve of nineteen from the field sick boards.
Speaker 1: His rebounding is really underrated and especially needed for this
Speaker 1: Clippers team, as they outrebound Dallas again forty five to
Speaker 1: forty one, three assists, he leads them to the plus minus.
Speaker 1: He's a plus twenty seven. Kawhi is just He's Kawhi.
Speaker 1: He's right back to where he was last season when
Speaker 1: I thought it was the best version of him. It's
Speaker 1: still there. Remember remember Toby, there was no structural damage.
Speaker 1: It was swelling, a flare up that kept him out
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. He did have to go under the
Speaker 1: knife again for whatever you want to call it cleanup.
Speaker 1: I don't know. All I know is this. A healthy
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard is one of the greatest basketball players in
Speaker 1: the history of this game. And a healthy Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: can lead you to a championship. And everyone's starting to
Speaker 1: recognize now national media wise that this Clippers team is
Speaker 1: that dangerous. Credit Steve Balmer. You're putting the right people
Speaker 1: in charge. Lawrence Frank cooked this offseason and during the season,
Speaker 1: bringing in Vogue Don Bogdanovich, who has been shooting fifty
Speaker 1: from three over his last twenty games, and he was once,
Speaker 1: you know, one of two from three tonight. That was
Speaker 1: a great move. A lot of people had first questioned it,
Speaker 1: how about now, but this team treading water and then
Speaker 1: some without Kawhi to give him enough time to hopefully
Speaker 1: be peaking right before the playoffs start and hopefully not
Speaker 1: a play in but a playoff series for the Clippers.
Speaker 1: Credit James Harden. It beats Zubos, Norman Powell holding it down.
Speaker 1: Just so many guys on this team, the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: everybody gets to this point where right now it feels
Speaker 1: like some masterful planning from this Clippers team with Kawhi
Speaker 1: and everything, how they've treated the situation like he is
Speaker 1: exactly where you want him to be at this time
Speaker 1: of the season, and that ultimately is going to decide
Speaker 1: the clippers fate. If you got a healthy Kawhi and
Speaker 1: no just a healthy Kawhi, but a Kawhi Leonard that
Speaker 1: is in rhythm like this. Yes, nobody wants to see
Speaker 1: this Clippers team in a seven game series. Coach lu
Speaker 1: said postgame after Kawi's first back to back set of
Speaker 1: the season, quote, he performed good twenty nine on twelve
Speaker 1: nineteen shooting. I would say in twenty five minutes, yes,
Speaker 1: Coach Lou, he performed good. He performed well out there,
Speaker 1: he cooked. Let's go to Mike in La. Mike, quickly,
Speaker 1: you got thirty seconds here on Clippers stock.
Speaker 4: What's up, hey, Adam. You know, for all the people
Speaker 4: who said before the season that we're going to finish
Speaker 4: thirteenth in the West and whatever, I am loving with.
Speaker 4: This is just awesome and you're absolutely right, Kawhi is
Speaker 4: looking phenomenal. I just hope that you know, zoo and
Speaker 4: hard and get some real consideration for some All NBA,
Speaker 4: you know, awards for you know, third team All NBA
Speaker 4: or something at the end of the season, because yeah,
Speaker 4: they deserve it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this Clippers team, they have a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that should be up for awards. I appreciate the phone call, Mike.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to give them their flowers now because they
Speaker 1: put themselves in a situation where they win their last
Speaker 1: four games, they'll be out of the play in into
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and they will have hopefully the best offensive
Speaker 1: version of Kawhi Leonard we have seen. And that's that's
Speaker 1: what you need. You need stars. You need superstars in
Speaker 1: this league to perform at the highest level, and we
Speaker 1: have all the faith in Kawhi Leonard to be able
Speaker 1: to do that. Alan and Silverlake. Alan, you're on Clipper
Speaker 1: stop without.
Speaker 5: A Mazzle, Adam. This is what championship teams look like.
Speaker 5: You have a dominant center, you have a superstar playing well,
Speaker 5: you have a smothering defense, you have shooters coming off
Speaker 5: the bench. It's just it is very exciting, you know.
Speaker 5: And the only thing I didn't like today tonight, and
Speaker 5: you said something about it, is I do not know
Speaker 5: why Kawhi started that fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I'll tell you why they started the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Allen, And I'm pretty positive about this. Coach
Speaker 1: Lou wanted him to get more reps next to this
Speaker 1: lineup that they've been using to start second and fourth
Speaker 1: quarters over the last couple of weeks that has been good.
Speaker 1: He wants to see more data from it with him
Speaker 1: next to Bogie, buttoom DJ and Ben Simmons. That seems
Speaker 1: to be the set second unit lineup lineup led by
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard. And I think that's all that was.
Speaker 5: I thought the same thing. But you know, you just
Speaker 5: when you see norm get need like that and you
Speaker 5: just think it's you know, even so, it's just it's
Speaker 5: always a gammible every second on an NBA court, you
Speaker 5: just that's fair.
Speaker 1: But you know, just look, look, I mean I tweeted it.
Speaker 1: I was like, they're up twenty three Cohi? Is it
Speaker 1: twenty three minutes on his first second out of a
Speaker 1: back to back in over a year. That's maybe just
Speaker 1: no one to fold him here, and we're good. We're good. Uh,
Speaker 1: But I get like they do need reps. They do.
Speaker 1: Like the reason they're playing so well right now is
Speaker 1: because they have been getting those consistent reps. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of hard to argue with it in some ways.
Speaker 5: Look, it's it's very exciting if it all. You know,
Speaker 5: if Zoom makes his shots, he doesn't make them every night,
Speaker 5: and and I agree, if they're in a seven game series,
Speaker 5: you know you're worried about the plan because it's you know,
Speaker 5: one team can get.
Speaker 1: Inspired if who makes a shot night, but.
Speaker 5: Zoo, honestly, I mean, I know he makes. This just
Speaker 5: seems like he has yet every night's great with him,
Speaker 5: but there's some nights that just seem like, you know,
Speaker 5: they're the I guess I'm dissatisfied with anything except one
Speaker 5: hundred percent shooting from him, I guess, is all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think that's a little bit unfair. Okay,
Speaker 1: go eleven of eleven from the field, but he's one
Speaker 1: of the most efficient players in the league. He's at
Speaker 1: sixty two percent from the field. I don't think worried
Speaker 1: about Zoo if he's making his shots or no. I
Speaker 1: was like, if he getting shots is the only question.
Speaker 5: That's true. And you know, if he did have to
Speaker 5: pick apart one other thing, it still seems like they
Speaker 5: haven't perfected the entry pass into him.
Speaker 1: Well, it's because they double so much now as part
Speaker 1: of the problem. Like they were doubling when Kay Jones
Speaker 1: was on him in the second half. They would throw
Speaker 1: a double each in every time. But I appreciate the
Speaker 1: phone call Allen because of each Zoo bots is like
Speaker 1: that now. But yeah, Visa Zubats, by every metric, is
Speaker 1: one of the most efficient players in the league. I
Speaker 1: never worry about it Visa Zubas making shots. I worry
Speaker 1: about him getting enough. And tonight in this game, he
Speaker 1: only got eleven, but he made all eleven. He made
Speaker 1: the most of his opportunities. Aria and San Diego, Ario,
Speaker 1: you're on Clipper staff without a muscle.
Speaker 3: Say what's up, Adam. I'm just really happy as a
Speaker 3: fan to just, you know, see, like we had a
Speaker 3: big lead in this game against the mass and I'm
Speaker 3: just happy to see that they finally just didn't blow
Speaker 3: the lead, because what's been happening a lot this season
Speaker 3: is that we've blown lots of twenty point leagues to
Speaker 3: like the Pacers or a lot of other teams. So
Speaker 3: I'm just really happy to see that they kept the
Speaker 3: league and just played great. And it's just good to
Speaker 3: see Kawhi just playing like his eventure, the vintage Claw.
Speaker 3: I mean, in his last couple of games, he's just
Speaker 3: been great offensively and defensively. I mean he's getting to
Speaker 3: his spots and like at the beginning, at like when
Speaker 3: he came back, he was really only just shooting three.
Speaker 3: Then I like that now he's just getting to his
Speaker 3: spots and it's just helping this team. And with all
Speaker 3: the playoff seatings going around, it's Minnesota winning, Memphis winning
Speaker 3: Golden State.
Speaker 1: I here are you making some great points. I appreciate
Speaker 1: the phone call. I got to take a quick time
Speaker 1: out here, but yeah, the Clippers have blown some big
Speaker 1: leads this season. Uh you mentioned the Pacers game, the
Speaker 1: Sun's game up by twenty three. Lately, though, they are
Speaker 1: slamming the door and that is really good to see.
Speaker 1: And those are the type of positive habits from a
Speaker 1: team that has been building those good habits and patterns
Speaker 1: and traits over the last couple of weeks now, and
Speaker 1: it's like, what we got to understand is Kawhi has
Speaker 1: only played well around thirty games this season. Okay, well
Speaker 1: about half of those now have been the real version
Speaker 1: of Kawhi off of minutes restriction, basically since the start
Speaker 1: of March. So when you're judging this team and you're
Speaker 1: looking at their record or you're looking at the numbers,
Speaker 1: they've only been whole for about fifteen games with Kawhi
Speaker 1: at the peak of his powers again no longer on
Speaker 1: a minutes restriction, and so you have to add that
Speaker 1: context in, like, this is what they were counting on happening,
Speaker 1: and we have reached that point with four games left
Speaker 1: in the regular season. They're absolutely peaking and showing who
Speaker 1: they can be now healthy with Kawhi Leonard back and
Speaker 1: working out those kinks in the offense and working out
Speaker 1: defensive responsibilities out there. Now this team is jelled. Now
Speaker 1: they've gotten enough time with this Kawhi to make it
Speaker 1: all work. Clippers win one thirty five to one oh
Speaker 1: four over the Dallas Mavericks. Quick time out. I'm at
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Speaker 1: Clippers with thirty one assists on fifty four main shots
Speaker 1: and a season high eighty points in the paint as
Speaker 1: they win one thirty five to one oh four over
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks and Kawhi plays both games of the
Speaker 1: back to back. Here at into a Dome passes this
Speaker 1: test with flying colors. It looks like twenty nine points
Speaker 1: on twelve of nineteen shooting in twenty five minutes for
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard, Welcome back in Slipperstock. I'm at a Moslin
Speaker 1: with you for about another ten minutes. Here eight sixty
Speaker 1: six ninety seven two five seventy eight ninety seven two
Speaker 1: five seventy. Here was James Harden on the Clippers this
Speaker 1: year versus last year. Postgame, he said, quote, it's just different.
Speaker 1: It's just different, different team. We got guys that know
Speaker 1: their role and know what they're supposed to be doing
Speaker 1: consistently on a night tonight basis from the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season. It's just a different team. The follow up
Speaker 1: was what makes it different? Quote personnel? You guys know,
Speaker 1: you know the players we had last year. Well, then,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's another addition by subtraction type
Speaker 1: of comment. I don't know if that's directed at anyone
Speaker 1: Russ or Paul George. But you guys know, you know
Speaker 1: the players we had last year. It's just a statement
Speaker 1: of fact. I think obviously it's a different team. So
Speaker 1: I'm not going to read too much into it till
Speaker 1: I hear it and we can review it tomorrow on
Speaker 1: Clippers Talk. We'll have an episode for you guys of
Speaker 1: course we'll play all the postgame audio and maybe I
Speaker 1: need to hear the tone there from James Harden. But
Speaker 1: it's been an edition by subtraction. How can you argue?
Speaker 1: How can you argue with that? With the year Enormous had,
Speaker 1: with the year of eats the Zubos's had, this just
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. If Paul George is still here with the Clippers,
Speaker 1: He's still an all time Clipper.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: It's been unfortunate how bad things have been for the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy six ers this season. But for the Clippers,
Speaker 1: the plan came together, build a defensive identity and then
Speaker 1: have James Harden's system get them by till Kawhi comes
Speaker 1: back offensively. It's worked. Clippers win one thirty five to
Speaker 1: one oh four over Dallas, quick time out. We'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll close things out here and into it. As the
Speaker 1: Clippers have won fourteen of seventeen. I'll see if some
Speaker 1: of the advanced metrics have updated on NBA dot Com
Speaker 1: to see where we're at during that time. Now I'm
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Speaker 1: Clippers win one thirty five to one oh four over
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks. Hear it into it Dome. Last four games,
Speaker 1: opponents have shot under thirty percent from three against the Clippers.
Speaker 1: They almost hold another opponent under one hundred. They've done
Speaker 1: it twenty times so far this season. So I was
Speaker 1: just running the numbers. The Clippers have won fourteen of
Speaker 1: their last seventeen games, so I wanted to see where
Speaker 1: they were an offensive rating and defensive rating during that time.
Speaker 1: Over the last seventeen games, second best offense in the
Speaker 1: league to the Boston Celtics. The other teams around them, Houston,
Speaker 1: they've been playing great Minnesota. Okay, see it makes sense.
Speaker 1: There's your top five offenses over this stretch last seventeen games. Defensively,
Speaker 1: Clippers also second best in the defensive rating department, only
Speaker 1: behind Oklahoma City, the best defense in the league, and
Speaker 1: they are a problem on that end. Tagus and Walnut,
Speaker 1: you got thirty seconds before we get out of here. Dajus,
Speaker 1: what's up, Adam?
Speaker 6: I told you after the Pelicans game, I'm the only
Speaker 6: one who put it out there. I said, I wouldn't
Speaker 6: be surprised if Kawhi played back to back.
Speaker 4: Damn.
Speaker 1: Tagus was right. Tag just said he wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if Kawhi played the back to back. I said, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised either, but we also both agreed it
Speaker 1: would be unlikely. But I'm gonna give it to you, Tajus.
Speaker 1: That was a good call.
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, you know I put it out there. Maybe
Speaker 6: when we in the playoffs, I'll put something out there,
Speaker 6: maybe about hanging in the banner. But let's see. Other
Speaker 6: than that, I think that, you know, I'm waiting for
Speaker 6: that Kawhi and Norm to play together, like where Kawhi
Speaker 6: and Norm had that breakout game. We're still waiting on that.
Speaker 6: Hopefully we get that before the end of the year.
Speaker 1: And the game in New York was pretty strong between
Speaker 1: Kawhi and Norm. But I get what you're.
Speaker 5: Saying, Yeah, we need more of those.
Speaker 6: And you know what was funny is like a few weeks,
Speaker 6: like two or three weeks ago, when we were the
Speaker 6: nationally televised game and san Van Gundy, you know, aka
Speaker 6: Master of Panic, said that Kawhi was a liability on
Speaker 6: defense and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, was a liability on defense A couple.
Speaker 6: Of weeks ago, yes, yes, three weeks ago about he
Speaker 6: said he was a liability on defense. He said it
Speaker 6: a few times and I was surprised, and I'm like,
Speaker 6: he's just got back give him some time. And right
Speaker 6: now he's looking like a you know, he can make
Speaker 6: the All NBA defensive teams the way he's playing. So
Speaker 6: oh yeah, I wanted to put out there you just
Speaker 6: say that for sure.
Speaker 1: I appreciate one last thing.
Speaker 6: Hurry and no, that's it, Adam.
Speaker 1: Got you appreciate the phone call. Yeah, Kawai has been
Speaker 1: playing at an all NBA level recently defensively, and I
Speaker 1: would say it's been about the last ten games. That
Speaker 1: last game of the road trip where they were in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: that was the turning point to me from him defensively
Speaker 1: on Dyson Daniels. He showed some really good defense. He
Speaker 1: had five steals in that game and he was moving
Speaker 1: different out there. Ever since then, Kawhi has looked I'm
Speaker 1: not saying defensive player of the Year. Kawhi on defense,
Speaker 1: but all NBA level of defender out there, I would
Speaker 1: definitely give him that. And he had three steals tonight
Speaker 1: against the Dallas Mavericks. He plays both games with the
Speaker 1: back to back, and he looked better and stronger in
Speaker 1: this one than last night's game. Last night he goes
Speaker 1: eight of seventeen and twenty four minutes for twenty points.
Speaker 1: Tonight he goes twelve nineteen in twenty five minutes for
Speaker 1: twenty nine points. I'll tell you very good signs here
Speaker 1: from Kawhi Leonard Now. I was always just pray that
Speaker 1: he wakes up the right knee feels good and we
Speaker 1: move with two days off, have we taking on San
Speaker 1: Antonio back here on another back to back, the final
Speaker 1: one of the season. They're seventeenth back to back San
Speaker 1: Antonio Tuesday here and into a dumb Rockets on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Before we get out of here, I do want to
Speaker 1: thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seman, know what ego,
Speaker 1: Carlo Jimenez, big Brother, Jake Warner special, thanks to him
Speaker 1: twenty five years in the business today and business is
Speaker 1: good with Big Bro back in Burbank, Daniel West Big
Speaker 1: thanks to our producer there, the callers, the listeners, the chatters.
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