Time for a postgame. Look, it's your La Clippers. This is Clippers Locker Room, brought to you by Cedars Sinai, the official health partner of the La Clippers, and by Patschonga, official travel casino of the LA Clippers. Breaking down today's action with the pre and post game voice. If you're LA Clippers, they're locking in every game every night, Adam Osland, the Clippers come through late, they win one thirty two to one twenty seven over
the Portland Trail Blazers. At home, they improve to twelve and ten on the season, they won their last four. Welcome into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up. We got your postgame box score. We'll have Clippers stock on AM five seventy LA Sports. But first back out to Carlo Jimenez at Crypto dot com arena. Carlo loved that interview there with Avitza Zubats afterwards and him saying it's a learning experience. You gotta put young teams
away or else you're gonna be in for a battle the whole night. And we saw that credit the Portland Trail some hot shooting, some bad defense at times by the Clippers, but the Clippers had to earn it late and they knocked down their free throws and did so they did, and at the end of the day they came away with a win. That's all you can really ask them to do is make sure they can get a victory. So it's fun to watch them turn that out, hang on late, work out some
of those opportunities that hopefully payoff down the road. At the end of the day, Adam, if you can come away with a win tomorrow, none of this matters, because you were able to win both of the back to back and the late game situation tonight did not affect tomorrow. So the Clippers. It's a strong win against let's face it, a Portland team that was
excellent from outside the arc. They had nineteen threes on forty attempts. Ten of those makes came in a single quarter, and yet the Clippers never panicked. The Clippers were never phased in a large part because of Kawhi Leonard. Kawhi Leonard with thirty four points and now over his last six games he's shooting sixty percent from the field and fifty five percent from the outside, and he
had some big ones late in the fourth quarter. Two Carlo. He was so good late in that fourth quarter, able to get to the rim, find his teammates the defensive play when the Clippers were down by one, to get a couple hands on the ball. Fine Terrence Man in transition, who would end up giving the Clippers the lead that they would hang on to for the rest of the ball game. That was huge. And Ambertey Simons, Yes, he comes away with thirty eight, but he did nothing easy late,
nothing easilate. And why because Kawhi Leonard once again plays defense down the line that no one in the NBA can duplicate. His ability to stay in front of guys to make things tough, to fight over screens. We saw it against the Warriors. We saw it against Denver with Jamal Murray. We're seeing it again tonight. Late in the game, Simon struggled because the claw put on the clamps for the Clippers. Kawhi played thirty eight minutes, Paul
George played forty one, hit some crucial free throws late. Clippers is a team twenty one of twenty two from the charity stripe. Gotta praise him there, even though you know the Portland Trail Blazers got up twenty six at the free throw line. They started to even out late as they were intentionally fouling the Clippers, and they made them when they had to Kawhi, Paul George and Norman Powell. So to your point of late game execution, this is
something they can remember moving forward. This is a teachable moment for coach lew and this team and how they have to play in tight games down the stretch one hundred percent, one hundred percent at them. They're inbounded the ball, they didn't turn it over, they made their free throws, they did all the right things, and there's an opportunity to come away with this with say, you know what, maybe we didn't play our best basketball, but we
got the win and that is what matters. A one thirty two twenty seven. It took the most points the Clippers have scored them all season at them, but they took down the Portland trail Blazers and finished with the victory. Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Portland Trail Blazers. Clippers will do it against the Sacramento Kings tomorrow night at Crypto, same tip time. Seven thirty Clippers count down your pregame shows starting at six thirty.
Carlo, I'll see you inside the arena tomorrow. My friend Greg call is always thank you, get some sleep, gets some rap. So three can in another twenty four let us go Clippers win. They make it four straight, one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Portland trail Blazers. And you're listening to your Clippers postgame locker room show right here on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network, loading Clippers, fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is
LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. So I could get with Leon Incs. You don't know we've been you. She's really fine. I see her all the time everywhere I go. I even in my dreams. I can Okay, Clippers must have won, cause I'm singing well skalot for your post game. Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Portland trail Blazers team they have beaten fourteen out of the last fifteen times. Now I want to say I'll confirm that
in a little bit here, welcome back into your Clippers postgame show. I'm at a Mouslin coming up on AM five to seventy LA Sports, we will have Clippers talk for you each sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. It wasn't pretty, but the Clippers got the dub nonetheless, and they were led by Kawhi Leonard, who just continues to stay on the heater. Thirty four points on just nineteen shots.
He goes eleven of nineteen from the field, that is fifty eight percent, shooting three of eight from distance. Clippers ended up shooting thirteen of thirty four from three. Portland though nineteen of forty had ten three pointers made in that third quarter. Clippers gave them too many open ones. They played with fire. They didn't get burned tonight. They play with their food. They lived to see another day, no food poisoning. They got the victory.
Anyways, you would have rather seen them dominate. So Kawhi didn't have to play thirty eight minutes, so Paul George didn't have to play forty one minutes. So Big Zoo wasn't at thirty three, so James Harden wasn't at thirty seven. But you'll take the victory. It's just unfortunate because the Clippers were up by fourteen early on. They had a chance to put them away early.
They didn't. If you heard of Eatza Zubot's postgame talking with Carlo Jimenez, that's a lesson for them against a younger team, missing three starters Jeremy Grant, no, Jondre Eighten. I mean they were down guys, important guys on this team, Malcolm Brogden, and it was starting to look like the Denver game again, which is scary. The Clippers just look content to
trade baskets. I didn't like that part of it. Now they came through, and you can make the argument that some of the late game execution by the Clippers will come in handy later on. Getting those reps in could be
meaningful in a game to come. They could have that reservoir of confidence to draw from because of the way they were able to knock down free throws, the layup by Paul George, the steal by Kawhi, the block by Viatza Zubots, some really stout clutch time played by the Clippers when they had to have it. I just didn't think it was gonna come down a clutch time Tonight, so Kawhiet thirty four. Paul George finishes with twenty beats the Zubots
with eighteen and six after he got a fourteen point first quarter. I don't understand why he becomes mister irrelevant on this team after getting off to hot starts. At times, they just forget about them. I don't get it. Beat the Beast. They couldn't stop them. They had nobody to stop them. And Moses Brown played fifteen minutes. We know him been with the Clippers
with two stints, including last season. I don't know why they just didn't let it beat the Zubat's feast, but they made it harder than it needed to be. You can say that for the Clippers tonight. Off the bench, Norman Palad sixteen, James Harden had twenty with the starters and a couple of back to back big three pointers in the second half. Seven sists to just three turnovers. Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the
Portland Trail Blazers. Coming up, we'll preview tomorrow night's contest against the Sacramento Kings. That's my concern. Kings put their game away earlier on ice against Brooklyn at home. Now they do have to travel. It's about a forty five minute flight. The Clippers will be hosting the Kings tomorrow, who will be looking for revenge after the Clippers beat them up last week in Sacktown.
More Clippers postgame show right here on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. Next, they want to bring a banner with them to the into It Dawn More LA Clippers basketball on the LA Clippers Audio Network was not easy, but a win nonetheless for your Los Angeles Clippers. They win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Portland trail Blazers at home. Clippers improved to twelve and ten. They've won four in a row. They are nine to three with
this new starting lineup with James Harden next to Terrence Man. Welcome back into your postgame show. I'm Adam Moslin. Clippers. Right back at it tomorrow night at Crypto hosting the Sacramento Kings. Mentioned it earlier, but the Kings would win tonight at home one thirty one to one eighteen over the Brooklyn Nets, who they put away earlier. Let me look at some of their stars and how many minutes they played. So Sabonis was at thirty four, d
Aaron Fox was at thirty three. Not quite what the Clippers had to be at with Kawhi at thirty eight and Paul George at forty. But the Clippers at least get to sleep in their own beds tonight. No travel for them, no excuses tomorrow. As Carl Ojamenez brought up on that home back to back against the Pelicans, and then Dallas had lost that game till the Pelicans didn't look good, looked fresh, had plenty of energy that next night to
hold Dallas to eighty eight points. I'm gonna need that type of effort now against Sacramento because if the Clippers played like they did tonight against Portland against the Kings tomorrow, let's give me a problem. Kings was too good. Can't play down to your competition like the Clippers did tonight, but they came through. Clippers win. They make it four in a row outside of Los Angeles. We'll talk to you tomorrow at six point thirty with the Clippers pregame show
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every episode. Subscribe to Clippers Talk on iHeartRadio or wherever you podcast on hemmy right now your host on your home for the Clippers, they were in attack mode. Adam Ostley, Oh, this is gonna challenge some sports cliches. Is a winn win, even on the front end of a back to back where Kawhi to play thirty nine minutes and Paul George forty one. Hmmm, Well, the Clippers won one thirty two till one twenty seven over the Portland
trail Blazers. They'll face the Sacramento Kings tomorrow. Welcome into Clipperstock. I'm Adam Oslin to eight sixty six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight sixty six ninety eight seven two five seventy is the phone number or get to meet at follow out of May on X coming up on the show. You're gonna hear from Kawhi Leonard post game. You'll also hear from the head coach in Toron
lou who's at the podium right now. Well, I'm seeing Uh. I'm disappointed in some ways because the Clippers played with fire and almost got burned by the Trail Blazers. And I mean it was close. This was almost disastrous. Just when I thought they couldn't have a worse loss than what happened against the Denver Nuggets or a week ago, they messed around and almost found out
Tonight again they played down to their level of competition. I don't like seeing that, especially when you get off to such a quick start, you're up big in the first quarter. Clippers, led by fourteen, went for a quarter high on the season of forty three points in the first But I didn't like what I was seeing. They were trading baskets. They gave up thirty two points in the first quarter. They made the Portland Trail Blazers comfortable.
Who liked the Denver Nuggets were missing three starters no Malcolm Brogdon, no Jeremy Grant, no DeAndre eight and it would have been a worse loss if it had happened, because Portland doesn't exactly have that championship pedigree. They didn't have Reggie Jackson, they didn't have DeAndre Jordan. They did have Anthony Simons, who's a flamethrower. I've been telling people this for years. When he gets going, it is tough to stop him. And some of the Clippers defense
was just futrid. Let's be honest. Some of the defense was just low effort, low IQ basketball stuff, like, hey, we know we're gonna end up winning this game. To their credit, I guess they knew. I guess they did know. They pulled it out, but it was close to disaster. Flirting with disaster was this game by the Clippers. And if you want to say a win's a win, I'm not interested in that stuff. You could say it if you believe in that. I believe in tired
legs and I believe in you're a championship team. You want to put teams away on the front end of a back to back on the first game of a three to four. Yeah, all three games are at home, but the Kings like to run a little bit. They got plenty of energy. They're gonna bring it tomorrow. You want to make the argument that, well, they're on the second hand of a back to back and they're the road team. Okay, like buy that. I don't know what that has to
do with the Clippers effort tonight. Let the Kings do whatever they want against the Brooklyn Nets, and they would win that game, and they would pull away in the third quarter and win in more convincing fashion than the Clippers, who had to go down to clutch time. I'm not saying you don't enjoy
the wins. I'm not saying there aren't positives to take away because what the Clippers had to go through late in this ballgame with late game execution and ramping up their defense all of a sudden and Kawhi getting that steal and getting it to Terrence Man for free throws and Visa Zubots with that big block and getting the ball back for the Clippers and then knocking down clutch free throws. Norman Powell, Kawhi, Paul George. That stuff can be meaningful moving forward.
That experience is something they can draw from. This is how we have to close in a tight ballgame where they're gonna play the foul game and we're gonna have to hit our shots, and they did. But all I'm saying is if they play defense like this tomorrow against Sacramento, they'll lose by twenty. They have to be better. And it just looked like a team to me
that once again knew they could out talent their way to a win. They did, But I thought that lesson was already learned against Denver last week when they lost to them, When they lost to Reggie Jackson and DeAndre Jordan. We heard from Viza Zubats with Carlo Jimenez postgame talk about, Hey, it's a good lesson for us young team. You give them life, they're gonna stay in the ball game. Is that a lesson they really needed to learn after what happened against Denver. I don't know. I mean, I said
it in my pregame notes on Clippers countdown keys of the game. If you don't play to your capabilities against Portland and let them hang around, it's going to be a battle and a dogfight, and you're gonna have to play heavy minutes. And hey, that's what happened. They had to play heavy minutes to get the victory. You'll always take the w they've made it four straight. They're twelve and ten. Things are trending in the right direction, nine
to three with this new starting lineup. All of it's great, But I want to see him win that game now tomorrow, no excuses, because if they're gonna come out and look flat or not have a lot of juice because they had to play heavy minutes tonight against Portland, that's on them. They didn't put a team away. They were up by fourteen on a team they scored forty three points on in the first quarter, a team that they let hit ten threes in the third and maybe two of them were contested. You
leave a team wide open that much, they're gonna knock them down. I don't care who you're playing. Anfrety Simons is lethal. He had thirty eight five of eleven from distance. I mean they shot nineteen of forty from three. You want to spend a positive hey, Clippers absorbed that still one. Portland was getting a ton of calls in the second quarter. The game was
jumped up. They took twelve free throw attempts on the second quarter after the Clippers led by eleven heading into it, and then the Clippers had no rhythm offensively themselves because they couldn't defend without fouling. There were some curious calls and they were hunting Norman Powell, some with Scoot Henderson, who went first career
high of nineteen. Clippers got away with it tonight. But did they win the battle but lose the war because they're gonna have tired legs against Sacramento tomorrow. I guess we'll find out. Hey, they win that game tomorrow and shut me the heck up, beautiful love it if they lose that game and they look Lethargicugh, this one's gonna hurt. It's gonna feel like maybe Portland did beat them because they wore them out enough to lose to Sacramento. Time
will tell. Those are just my initial thoughts after this one, including this one. How does Big Zoo after starting off the first quarter with fourteen points on seven of nine shooting, detonating at the rim, punishing the Blazers who had No. One, No. Eighton no Robert Williams, Yeah they had. Moses Brown played a few minutes, but nobody could stop Big Zoo. How does he not attempt to shot the next fourteen minutes he's on the floor.
I just don't understand it, and it keeps happening. It happened in the twenty two point comeback against Golden State. Granted the Clippers pull it off without him, but Big Zoo was five of five or six of six in that game, couldn't be stopped, and they just went away from him. Make it easier on yourself if it ain't broke, you know the rest, I feed the pig. That's something Doc Rivers would say. Until they can stop it, just keep running it through Zoo. I mean, he had
three dunks in the first four minutes. It was a joke. A man amongst boys. Why are you making it harder than it needs to be? I mean, Kawhi made it look easy, no doubt, James Harden played pretty well. But if if heats a zoobots, is seven for nine with fourteen points in the first quarter, comes back in the second, doesn't take a shot, doesn't get one till I don't know midway through the third quarter his next attempt before yeah, he had a dunk in the third after going
seven of nine with fourteen points in the first quarter. How do you go away from him? How do you make him mister irrelevant, just the invisible man out there. All of a sudden, he's too good. You have another element, another guy that you can run offense through at times. Give two, one, three a break, James Harden. Yes, he's dependent on him, but they're working well together and he's finding Zoo and then you just forget about it. You have amnesia. It's Memento guy Pierce. Am
I chasing him? Or is he chasing me? What is going on? You can't forget about Big Zoo. He's the biggest guy out there and they don't have anybody to stop him. Stop treating him like he's a rookie. I don't understand it. I really don't. I know there's a lot of star power on this team, but Zoo is one of their five most important players because of what he provides defensively. And guess what, he's better on defense when you feed him on offense. That's how it works with big men.
You want better activity on defense, feed him, get them touches only. Rudy Gobert has been better defensively within six feet of the rim this season of starting big men, and that's not uncommon for a Visa Zubats. He's always top five in that conversation going back yours now, he's always one of the best elite rim protectors there are, but he's got moves too, and you have this size mismatch. Give him the damn ball, Keishawn Johnson.
It I just he's playing too good a basketball last twelve games with the new starting lineup of Viza Zubats is thriving. You could easily win this game and pull away just by running offense through him and instead defensively. Too many lapses, too many three pointers given up. You could say I'm being overly harsh
and to win. Why because they got a game coming up tomorrow. Because against most teams, you can't get away with the stuff the Clippers did tonight because you got to build good habits and not play down to your competition. We're talking about a team with championship expectations that needs to be the standard. Right, So is it okay to say you want some style points against a team that's at the bottom of the Western Conference in the Portland Trailblazers missing three
starters. I think, so win above all else, pull it out and find a way to get the victory. I understand that, but make it easier on yourself on the front end of a back to back, so where you don't have tired legs going up against a team that wants to run up and down and is not going to forget that you just beat them. Sacramento is gonna be out for blood tomorrow. Sabonis, who of Viatzu Zubac's dominated up in Sacktown. He's not gonna forget that. I've seen him have get
back games against the Clippers in Big Zoo. I don't know. I just there's some frustrations tonight because the Clippers were asking to be beat at times and they almost were. Credit them for pulling it out. They were great when they had to be. I just didn't expect them to be in a game late, that's all. I didn't expect it to be a game late where they were gonna have to be in this free throw contest. But that may be a sign. That may be a good sign of late game execution and
something they can take away from it. Where you know me in that situation before, remember that game against the Portland Trailblazers. Maybe when they're in a tight game against Sacramento or team coming up like New York or Golden State and they have to pull out a ball game in the last five minutes within five points. They're gonna have more confidence because of the way they were able to rally tonight and play their best when their best was required. We will see
Lenny and Corona start things off here and clip stop. Lenny, dear God, you're on. I don't think you're taking my call. Bed. I was pumped up the other day when I was talking to you, A great game, But tonight, you know we're not. They're not supposed to be in the gaming. We're supposed to blow them out. We got to depend the three, I mean, and here we go. Here's the thing, Lenny. They're six best in opponent three point percentage on the season, so
they have been very good there. They weren't tonight, especially in that third quarter. No, No, I think those nine of those ten. Yeah, like you said, they just didn't defend it. And you took the words out of my mouth about Zoo. I said the other day, I saw those step that Zoo had. He showed it a little bit of a a little bit of cockiness, and I love that, you know. I just he's tough and tonight I was wondering in the fourth quarter why it is
hard not going to zoo. Why are they not getting too easy too? You got to get to easy too. But they're shooting the ball well, and they shot over fifty percent. We won the game of the line. We shot twenty one to twenty two at the line that was it was impressive, but our defense was was weak. I saw some tired legs in the fourth quarter. I think we need to get in some I think we meet might need to get some some other players in the game. Tomorrow night.
We're gonna have to. Yeah, I agree, they're gonna have to dig deep into the rotation because they just went nine guys deep and one of them only played five minutes in Kobe Brown's right. But yeah, they're gonna test their depth tomorrow. Sacramento will do that. Lenny, what did rough have fifty to thirteen minutes? Twelve minutes? Some I got. He didn't play like sixteen and that was even with playing him next to James Harden, which I don't like. And those minutes don't work. They were I know,
from the end of the third quarter into the beginning of the fourth. When Sacramento got up, they were a minus two with those two guys on the floor. It just even against Portland. Yeah, I believe so. I'll find it from Justin Rousseau officially later, but that's that's what I calculated as if it can't work against Portland, it can't work. That's gonna work. It can't work, right, they're forcing it, they're trying to figure out a way to make it work with those two on the floor, but it's
just fundamentally flawed. That's when that's when Zoo gets left out. You got to go to the big man. I mean, when you're playing above the wind and he can do that, nobody can stop him. You got to go to the big man. You got to you know, I just don't understand what that. I think. I got to put that on Lou. Who's gonna tell him the time? I just get the big guy in the
game. He's important, he's huge. I don't know if it's the players, if it's coach Lou, if it's everybody, because there have been so many times where Vitza Subas doesn't get a close out games even when he's playing well. The game in Denver that they lost down the stretch, they went small they never went back to a Visa Zubots. Now credit coach lou and that win over Denver against jokicch he did play him in crunch time and it worked, and it seems to usually work with him. I don't understand it.
Man. Let's say, I just hope tomorrow night. Tomorrow night's the whole thing to mean. If we win tomorrow night and I just know the rest of the NBA knows who's playing, we're playing good ball. We went nine nut of twelve, nine thirteen something like that. Yeah, nine three of the line three or in the last twelve now since the news starting lineup, beautiful, That's that's that's beautiful. I've been watching them clickers since I don't know when, I mean since I'd go to San Diego and watch him.
I've been around a long time. I'm a little man. I've a you know. I used to go watch you know, Ram Vodkowski and I watched tomorrow night, I'm gonna see the son of the of the guy that we used usually watch him on at Portland our Venus. Yeah, I used to watch the big boy, watch the old Man. But he was getting a little old dead, but still it was fun to watch. We never saw the best of our Vitas Sabonis in the his knees were already worn down. I think he tor you know the game, my friend, You know
the game, and I'd like to listen to you talk. Man. You're really knowledgeable about the Clippers and nobody, nobody else knows more. I appreciate it. I thank you for gritten me talk and tomorrow night. So tomorrow night we do something. You know all right? I like your style too, Lenny, come on tomorrow night. Okay, postgame, appreciate it. Adam, have a good night, are you too? Jose and Downey Jose, you're on Clipper stop with auta Masam before we take a break here.
After the Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Blazers on the front end of a back to back, Hoose, what's up, hey, Adam? How are you doing? Uh? Yeah, man, I got to grow one hundred percent, and that of the caller would just right before me. I mean, they got to make things easy on themselves. You know, you want to feel good about a win, but this is not the way that I expected him to win, especially when you take a
big lead right in the beginning. And then I mean, you're you're one hundred one thousand percent correct about Zoobok Why they go away from him at times? You know, And I was thinking it right before you were saying it, And and it is truth. If you want to to play great defense, because he's already pretty solid, but you want to play great defense,
you gotta feed him. You gotta give him worth his wild man. And in that third quarter to end the third quarter, kind of to begin the fourth quarter as well, when they when they were trying to take a six point lead again, they were doing it inside the paint. Paul. They set up a play for Paul George right right at the free throw line. He knocks one down. Kawhi comes and does it again. They take a
six point lead, and then they take uncalled for threes. I know, when the three is going in, it's nice, it's great, you know, it gets me excited too. But if something's working, it's working, you don't have They have no size, like you gotta go inside, You gotta go inside. How is the biggest guy on the floor getting left out? How is the most obvious path to an easy victory tonight being forgotten? And they started off the game with the plan to get beats the Zubas involved,
and then just completely went away from it. It's bafflinging, it is. It is, especially and you can tell he's really working with Harden and you know they got him on the pick and rolls. They both are working with him, you can tell. But it's just, you know, if you want to see that displayue, you gotta give him the ball. And even then, this is one of those games, maybe not even just a pick and roll you got you got to give him the ball inside he's gonna
move whoever's with him down there. He's too big. And the other thing too, is kind of like what you said, if you wanted to play well on defense, you gotta get him going offense. But when they stopped giving him the ball, he was getting beat by Anthony, by Simons when he had to go guard the pick and roll. And you know, if he's not being effective on the other side on the offense so side, you know his production is gonna go down. I mean, look, I'm not
trying to be harsh. Tonight. They did win, but they're down one to the Blazers with two minutes left in the fourth core. It shouldn't be that difficult, but they made it. They made it that hard on themselves that it was self inflicted wounds by the game plan at times, and just by a team that I don't know. I don't know if it's confidence or arrogance to just believe that, hey, we're gonna outscore this Portland Trail Blazers team. We're better, we'll eventually pull it off. And I appreciate the
phone call, Jose. They did credit them, but they better win tomorrow night against Sacramento now because they had to play heavy minutes with their starters. Paul George forty one minutes, Kawhi thirty nine, Big Zoo, thirty three Hard and thirty seven coming up next. You're gonna hear from Kawhi Leonard post game and coach Lou Clippers win by five over the Portland Trail Blazers. They
run it back at home against the Sacramento Kings tomorrow. I'm Ata Moslin and you're listening to a five to seventy LA Sports loading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers a little naughty, naughty, but they win one thirty two. It's a one to forty seven over the Portland trail Blazers on the front end of a home back to back. They're taking on
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World Series in six games, I guess I am. I guess I'm holding them to their own words of how they were going to handle these games, because I remember on podcast P before the season started, Paul George talking about back to backs and locking in and being focused on that first game, putting teams away. So you can get some rest for the next team. That's how you manage this tough, treacherous schedule where they have twenty five instances of
three games and four nights. I'm just holding them to their own words, that's all. Now they win tomorrow, I'll shut up. They beat Sacramento and Paul George plays thirty five plus minutes again when they look great. Cool, But eventually this stuff adds up. You can't be playing guys this heavy minutes all the time and being chasing wins because they have to. After losing six in a row, there's still just two games over five hundred. Now
they've righted the ship. They're nine to three with the new starting lineup, the starting lineup that I said they should have been playing back when the rumors started in July about getting James Harden. Of course, you have to bring Russell Westbrook off the bench. You can't play him and James Harden next to one another. It didn't work again tonight. If it doesn't work against Portland, this Portland team missing three starters, I don't see it working. But
what do I know. I'm just a doctor, Okay, I'm not at all. Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Portland show Blazers. I need a doctor, give my head examined before we hear from coach Loup posts game, somebody who does make all the right adjustments, the chiropractor, Tajus and Walnut. You're on clipper Stock without Ausselin hay Adam. A happy birthday to the young go like you always say, No Ego, him and I always share. He share the same birthday. Let's go.
Let's go. Happy birthday, YG. No, what are you doing, Burbank, You're supposed to be a crypto. I'll be there tomorrow night. No. My wife got me tickets for you know, for my birthday. And we were there and it was cool, and I'm like, you know, it was the first quarter. You know this is how it's gonna be. We're gonna be up twenty fourth quarter. I saw some of the young guys and I was hoping Brandon, Boston and all them would get a run, but you know, it didn't work out that way. I don't want
to get too much analysis to this game. I feel like it is just the one off. But just luckily they won and we'll see what happens tomorrow, but they gotta I don't know. I just felt like they knew that they could get a basket anytime, and they felt like the law of averages would work out where they would miss a three. But it wasn't happening if you were in the arena. Every time they shot three, it just felt like they were gonna make it, And probably because they were wide open and
and they got so much confidence in Simons and Shane Sharp. Those are scorers. You can't play with fire. That third quarter, that third quarter Tages, there were sixteen threes made combined, ten by the Blazers, six by the Clippers. That tied an NBA high for teams combining for three pointers made in a quarter this season. The Clippers also having twenty eight points in the paint in the first quarter also tied an NBA high by any team and a
quarter this season with points in the paint at twenty eight. So there were some statistical anomalies or achievements, you could say, But ultimately I didn't like it. I didn't like seeing ten threes being made by Portland when almost all of them were wide open, and the Clippers were just giving them to a team of professional basketball players and guys who obviously have a track record like Anthonty Simons, who of course is gonna knock him down. Yeah, agreed,
man. And another point is, like you said, in that first quarter, Zoo had a going uh Ian Terry's man. He was getting some baskets in the pain and it just felt like, you know, maybe were playing smart basketball. And then I don't know what happens, Zoo gets lost in the second quarter or I don't know what happens. I would like to also see him kind of call out the guys and just kind of command it and feel his guy like kind of like Shaq used to do, and just demand
the ball. And you know how Shaky's to say, if you feed the big dog, think dog would play, you know well or whatever something wrong with protect? If you want him to protect the house, you got to feed the dog. Yeah. And yeah, it's not in Zoo's nature kind of to do that, but I wouldn't mind seeing that, especially when she dominated that first quarter like that. But let's see what happens tomorrow at him uh, I think they'll be a lot better. Thanks Ed, all right,
Tay, just appreciate the phone call Big Zoo. His last ten game games. Now is getting fourteen and ten in a block and a half per ball game in just twenty seven minutes. That is impressive. He's been as disappointed in his performance as I was the first ten games of the season over the last twelve. Now with this new starting lineup zubats in his up and down play, it's evened out. He has been mister consistent, mister reliable
again. Reward him for that. Let's hear from Coach Lou postgame Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Portland Trail Blazers. Here was Coach Lou. Yeah, you know, coach, you know when you see your top four guys and they're all able to get over five assists, what type of flow does that that give your offense when they're sharing the ball the
way that they were today. Yeah, a good flow. I mean, if we're playing the right way, like I said, attacking the basket, making the right play, that's how you get your rhythm, that's how you get more shots, you know, by you know, making the right play. And so I thought we did that for the most part tonight, and I got to go back and watch it, but you know, The biggest thing is defensively, we couldn't get stops. You know, they scored every
way we tried his own. We try to buckets, we try to fire like and they just you know, Chauncey's like done a hell of a job. Just you know, no matter who's on the floor, they're gonna play hard and compete, no matter how many points they get down, they're gonna fight back. And you know, it's I know, it's gonna be a tough game for us. You know, you got five guys on a team that are alive, they can all do something. It's tough, you know. And so, like I said, Chauncey's done a heck of a job
just making sure his team is prepared and ready to play every night. And you know, Simon is a tough cover, you know, so with him and Sharp out there leading the charge and you know, creating for their team, I mean it was very tough for us to get stops tonight. Yeah, no doubt, especially in that third quarter. Clippers gave up thirty four
points, but they got stops down the stretch when they had to. Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Portland Trail Blazers, and maybe we should give more credit to Chauncey Billups and the hot shooting from the Blazers. I just felt like, well, the Clippers were leaving them open in that third quarter, especially when they led by fourteen in the first and
they let them get back into it at the free throw line. And you give a team confidence like that, well, they're gonna feel good about themselves and say, oh, we can get our best win of the season against this Clippers team tonight, the team that has dominated us for years now. Clippers had won thirteen to fourteen against Portland coming into this one. Now it's fourteen to the last fifteen contests. Unreal. More Clippers stock coming up next.
We'll get back to your phone calls and Chuck Mockler from CND will join me. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy I'm out of Ozzland and this is a five seventy LA Sports loading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Last time check chis Flippers Wine one twenty seven over the Portland Trailblazers at Crypto dot
com arena. I'm Adam Oslin. Welcome back into Clippers Tuck eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. We'll get back to your calls the very next segment. We'll also here from Kawhi Leonard postgame. But first for a little clips and double dip, let's bring in Chuck Mackler
from CND pod so Chuck two themes tonight. Clippers to me looked like they were playing down to their competition again, and they also weren't choosing the path of least resistance to win a ballgame, which was just Hey, I don't know feet of eatsa Zubats who had fourteen points on seven of nine shooting in
the first quarter. Do you feel the same way? Or am I being overly harsh and I should give more credits to Portland because I mean, they did have good victories over the Cavaliers and Pacers on the road recently, but they were missing three starters and if the Clippers lose this game, to me, this would have been worse than what happened against Denver. Oh yeah, this this the would have got away from us. It would have been a
total nightmare. On our on our pod the other day, Will and I were just talking about how the taste, the bad taste of that loss was kind of out of our mouths so happy that there wasn't a new one to replace it tonight. But I think you're definitely right about the first part. This was another instance of another team really playing harder and refusing to let anything
about the Clippers intimidate them. The Clippers were slow on the defensive end to open this one, which gave the Blazers hope, which also coincided with an absurd shooting night from them as well. I did see you kind of go a little crazy about Zoo on Twitter, which was funny to see. But Susan playing so well, Yeah, I think it makes sense to feed him when the offense is getting slow, and that means were hard to initiate the
pick and roll more when he's out there. We should. It felt like the Clippers needed to kind of spam that a little bit more in this game to get things going. All I'm asking for is you have this clear advantage because Portland doesn't have DeAndre and they don't have Robert Williams. They have Moses Brown, Clippers should be familiar with him. If that's their best option to stopping of Vitza Zubots. You gotta give him the rock. You got to
make him feel comfortable like he's a star. Sometimes, when you have a mismatch like that they did in the first quarter, the game plan was there. That's what's perplexing to me. They just went away from it after it worked. Yeah, I think part of that, I don't really know. It was a little confusing it sometimes. The other part that I mean, at least helps was the fact that Kawhi Leonard was there tonight. He did it really in all three levels, which maybe that played a part in it.
But I definitely got to help more than hurt. And if we had to trade that for maybe more as you buckets, I think we'd all take that situation right there. Kawhi was phenomenal again tonight, ends up with thirty four points, an easy thirty four on just nineteen shots and a couple of big ones in the fourth quarter, a layup, a jumper, knockdown, clutch free throws. All that talk about Kawhi's He's still the same guy. He was for that three month stretch last season, which first of all,
holding him to that standard. I mean, that's some of the most absurd shooting splits you'll ever see in the history of the NBA. You can't do that. But ability wise, to me, it's all still there, and that is the most important thing right now for this team, that Kawhi Leonard is still a number one option on a championship level team. Is that what you're seeing? Yeah, the number one option on both ends by far.
I was on I think this very show when we kind of talked about these early rumblings of this concern quote unquote over Kawhi, and we basically said, well, let's not be surprised when the Clippers turn a corner and that also coincides with Kawhi Leonard, you know, getting out of that funk or whatever people thought it was. We've seen him the last two nights. We've seen it during this eleven game stretch, excuse me, this twelve game stretch.
Kawhi is still very much Kawhi. I thought James Harden had a nice ballgame. Those threes he hit in the third quarter were necessary since Portland wasn't missing. They started five to five from the outside and ended up going I think ten of sixteen or something like that from distance in the third. But Harden also has been closer to taking double digit shots, you know, more consistently
now over the last couple of weeks. And while people have said, well, you know, the russ stands and God bless them whatever, they're talking about Russell Westbrook sacrificing with his minutes, but I think you can make the argument that James Harden has been sacrificing with shot attempts and has never complained once when he has taken single digit shot attempts so far with this Clippers team. And he was seven to fourteen, twenty points, seven assists, three turnovers.
A lot to like there. Yeah, it's good to see him being more aggressive and feeling more uncomfortable in the moment that big Folk flint play he hit earlier in the season, you know, I think really helps you know, games like tonight, you know where you want him to be more aggressive, and he can remember that he is still one of, you know, the alphas on this team and we need him to be good or at least aggressive throughout the game, but especially late. So yeah, it was it
was good to see. He made three threes the whole game, and two of them were in that third quarter, So yeah, very big there from James. Didn't like the Norm technical late in a game that close, but yeah, he did play some important minutes at times Portland was hunting him out on the defensive end, but ended up six of nine two or four from the outside sixteen points. He's shooting over around forty five percent from three now
on the season. I don't know if we could have asked for much more from Norm, which has been him actually getting off to a quick start so this year, which flies in the face of what he's done throughout most of his career. Yeah, the normcore lineup was great for those of you unfamiliar with it, that is Norm Powell with James Harden, Paul George Kuileonard and Avita Zubats. But yes, his start to the season has been much needed,
especially when you look at the Clippers record and things like that. But Norm did get a little singled out on defense in that lineup. But I just kind of mentioned there, so that'll be something to monitor the closer we get to the playoffs. Some things that be slow down more in the half court. But we've needed every single one of these main threes that Norm this year. So I think he had twelve in that one quarter or something like
that. But he's been great off the bench. We've talked about how, you know, he talks about how he wants to be an All Star and stuff. We would all settle for Norm being six Man of the Year. I think we'd all be okay with that. So let's hope this streak from him continues. Who do you think gets extended minutes or some run off the bench unexpectedly, maybe tomorrow in this home back to back, someone who didn't play much tonight or somebody who just didn't play at all. Yeah, looking
at the minute. Someone just tweeted the to US minister a little rough on this one. Yep, not what we expected to see. I think it's probably gonna be a mirror. And maybe Brandon Boston. He's coming back. He had a great game of the league the other night. He postterized someone, which is awesome to see coming off the injury he had. So I think I'm probably one of those two. I'm not sure if PJ. Tucker's minutes are in the cards yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's Brandon
Boston Junior to Mere Coffee. Okay, I like that. There's his player pick C and D listeners. He is Chuck Mockler, a little clips and double dip tonight here on Clippers Talk. So, Chuck, I guess Will's coming on tomorrow unless the Clippers lose, because I thought it was in your contract to come on when they lose and in Will's when they win. But he didn't come on tonight for whatever reason, even though they did win. It's all convoluted mess. But we make it work either way. And I
think what a YouTube on Wednesday? Possibly, Yeah, something like that. It's the holiday season. Thanks, a little chaotic, but we'll have something for people out there. For sure. I'm getting healthy, baby. The comeback is on. Let's go, let's go heavy minutes for me this week, all right, Thanks Chuck, Yeah, thank you, quick time out here. Our clipperstock will come back. We'll get to your phone calls eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two
five seventy. Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Blazers. Clippers we'll see Sacramento at Crypto tomorrow night. You're listening to AM five to seventy LA Sports loading Clippers, fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers were hot with the shot scored a season high one thirty two, gave up one twenty seven, but still five point win over the Portland
Trail Blazers. Taxing ballgame though on the starters play some heavy minutes and I could come into play tomorrow when they're taking on the Sacramento Kings. But the Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Blazers. Marvin in downtown Los Angeles, you're on Clipper stoff without a maze. Hi, Marvin, Hey, I don't I love your passion, but you're being the David I say of Clippers talk. Maybe both of you should have a show right
after Fred and Rodney. But nonetheless, I was at the Clipper game and it wasn't that the Clippers were lostargic. They looked like they were facing themselves, more like trying to conserve energy and keep the game close. Keep in mind that they wanted. They wanted to keep the game the game, all right, so they'd rather not blow out the Portland Trail Blazers. They just wanted to keep it close. Marvin. Well, keep in mind of the
Portland players playoff bound was the Sacramento and the Golden State Warriors. No Portland. That's the point. Mortland wanted to be free. Go ahead, Marvin, you don't think it would be a good idea to put away a team like the Portland Trailblazers early when you got the case coming tomorrow, Absolutely, one hundred percent, so that that way they can go ahead and bring in the reserves. And that's usually the case, but in this case it was
not. It hasn't been the case enough, Marvin. I gotta be honest with you. It hasn't been the case enough. And that's that's concerning a little bit. They played down to competition, and now tomorrow they're going to have to play up to their competition. And hey, they win against Sacramento tomorrow, it's all good. But I'm just looking at Paul George playing forty one minutes, Kawhi Leonard playing thirty nine minutes, James Harden playing thirty seven
minutes. That's not exactly what you want to see on the front end of a back to back. Yeah, but it's not. Yeah, but in this case, it's not about the minutes. It's about how they're using those minutes, all those quality team minutes where they're conserving themselves so they can remain injury free versus winning the game. I mean, what game is more significant to win? That would be Sacramento, that would be Golden State. Now
the Denver games when they lost that was an operation. Well, it's the likelihood of them facing Reggie Jackson and deanmi Jordan alone in the playoffs not very likely. Well, that's true. But having that game underneath you already where you got burned by a team missing three starters, and to see the Portland Trail Blazers with a one point lead with two minutes left tonight missing three starters,
it's a little bit alarming. I would have thought, because of what happened against Denver, the Clippers would have played like their hair was on fire like they did early in the first quarter, up by fourteen, and put this team away. That's my only point, Marvin. Now, as a fan, I will I like to say, being at the game. I'm glad it was in the blowout. I'm glad that he kept the clothes and
they grind it out and they won the game. So as a fan, I'm glad it wasn't in the blowout because I like to see an entertaining game. Mumbo left all right, I understand that perspective. Appreciate the phone call, Uh, Roman in Santa Clarita. Roman, you're on Clipper stop with that of Austin. Hey, how you doing, Adam? Haven't been been on in a while. Again, lifetime Lakers fan, Go Lakers, hang
that banner. But you know, like I said, I've been watching your Clippers all season, and the turnaround they've had in the last twelve games has been great, been great to follow. Again, I you know, I agree with you on a lot of points that you're making on this Uh. In this game with Big Zoo, I do I do believe that they could have had an easy win if they went to him more and again, not just going to him to score, but going into him and if it's not
there, then he dishes out. He makes shots easier for other players. Kawhi, Paul George, you know, and even even Terrence Man I mean, you know, like some of them, like I know, I know, they're getting there points, Paul George getting his points, getting his minutes, But on the defensive side, like you said, it wasn't there.
You don't let a young team getting the shootout with a young team that has a bunch of shooters and expect to, you know, expect to come out on top of these they're young legs, you know, and they're all shooters on that Portland team. And that's what I mean, that's what Chauncey Billups is doing with him. He wants them to be shooters and he wants them to get back in the game like that. I think they played kind of
into Chouncey Billups' game plan after that first quarter going up that high. And I mean, Kawhi gets his points, Kawhi gets his rebounds, he gets his you know, he dishes the ball when he needs to. James Harden again, I think he needs to take more shots, just like you said. And Paul George, I don't know, I don't know, Like watching Paul George over the last few years, it seems like this year his his shot is just not the same. And I like to see more from him.
I mean, I don't know what you think on those at high volume. That's pretty damn good. Yeah, yeah, And that's what I'm saying. It's like if we're dishing to Zoo, if you're giving the ball into big into Zubac and there's not a and there's not a shot for him, that's an easy dish out outside to like Paul George or or Man or you know, even Kawhi, you know, like uh, and then and then we look at it like too. We don't know what toron Leu was thinking
and saying. Maybe he was conserving Zubach for tomorrow's game against Sabonis because you're I mean, you and I are both expecting Sabonas to come out on fire and try to try to get like a revenge game. I mean, Zoos still had to play thirty three minutes tonight. I don't know if that's concern.
Yeah, and it's he plays and his thirty three minutes are an effective thirty three minutes, with the exception of why if something's you know, it's not broken in there, the pick and rolls working hard and dishing to him inside whoever whoever else needs a dish to him. Inside until they stop it. You're right, I don't think we go away from that because you've seen what happened today. I mean, they were going to him. Kawhi was
getting his shots. That lead in the first quarter. They could have maintained or doubled that lead by the second quarter. Yeah, but it's like the foot off the gas pedal. You know, I know it, Roman, I appreciate the phone call. Look, I'm not as sounding alarm bells.
Of course, I'm nitpicking some here. You know why, because they're trying to win a championship, and when you have the toughest schedule in the NBA, the only way to make it easier on yourself is by handling business against a lesser team with six wins on the front end of a back to back, when you got a much tougher team coming in the next day. That's all. I don't know if it should take thirty four from Kawhi to beat the Portland Trailblazers. I didn't expect to see him late in this ball game.
But let's hear from Kawhi postgame on Ballet Sports with Christina Pink. Kawhia defense hard to come by early in this one, But you guys found it here in the final minutes, coming up with critical stops. What did it take to get it done? Just flying around now, letting them get open shots, using our length on the court and getting some deflections. Why you
followed up a forty one point performance with thirty four tonight? Just describe the ribbon rhythm that you've been able to get in over the last couple of games. It's been great, a good team effort. I'm happy that we're winning these basketball games. You know, That's all I can ask for it. Let's get ready for tomorrow. We talk about the team effort, but it's really been over the last twelve or so, it seems like collectively, you
guys are starting to come together. What have you seen just seeing us, you know, kind of find a rhythm together, building on a chemistry and you know, we just need to keep playing our game together and keep figuring it out. All right, Thanks, Kawhi. Look, I'm not trying to be harsh, but if you have four stars like this, if you're counting Russell Westbrook in there too, with Paul, George, Kawhi, Leonard and James Hard and finish off a team like the Portland Trail Blazers that's missing
three starters and put them away and it was there for the taking. Now the Clippers come back and win tomorrow again, and they take down the Sacramento Kings, and they beat the Golden State Warriors, and they go four and zher on this four game Homestand hey, they knew all along that they had it in them to do so minutes be damned. Paul George playing forty one
tonight, Oh well, and there has been president. They played heavy minutes against the Pelicans, lost that game, then came back the very next night and had all the energy in the world to shut down Luka, Doncic and Kyrie Irving the very next game and hold the Mount Dallas Mavericks to eighty eight. All right, before we get out of here, I'm still little Katie Newton Katie's casual NBA corner where she asked me casual NBA questions. Oh, she's going the notebook, She's going to read this one, Okay, I
mean I write down all sorts of questions. Today I wrote down three. But has Zoo in a game ever shot and more importantly made a three pointer? He has I believe he's one for one in his career from three, and it happened in twenty twenty one. In the twenty twenty one season, he knocked down a three pointer in one of the last games of the year. Then they took him out so he could maintain that. He played all eighty two games, and I think he's one for one for his career from
three, one from distance. I'm trying to double check that. That is a very detailed answer. I was expecting like, oh, yeah, one game, that one time or no, never, But Zoo's got range. Don't you dare ever question him? Okay, oh no, He's one of my favorites. I think he is my favorite now the whole time. He's one for twelve, oh from three. But we'll just save between now and
then that he made. But that one he hit in the twenty twenty one season before they took him out of the ball game so they could say he was the iron Man and played every game. It was impressive. We love Big Zoo. Give him all the praise, give him all the flowers. Good question, Katie, Appreciate you. Katy Newton, our producer. Tonight, Clippers win over the Portland Trailblazers. Final score one thirty two to one twenty seven. They got sacked down. Coming in tomorrow night. Pregame at
six thirty, tip off at seven thirty. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Ralph Law, O'Brian Seaman, Noah Ego, Carlo Hemenez on the call, big brother, Jake Warner, our head engineer, Katie Newton, our producer, the callers, the listeners. I'm medam awesome. We'll talk to you tomorrow night. At six thirty, the White was doing his thing. All they want to do is win in La. I thought they gave everything they had. I'm of them.
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