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a thirty three point turn around. Boy, what a difference hot shooting makes for so many people coming at coach lou because his first game back, they lost by two points to the best team in the league in Oklahoma City. Thunder. Say, well, this time the Clippers U didn't shoot twenty percent from the outside. They were sixteen of thirty. They went eight of eleven from three in the third quarter when James Harden went off and at one point hit three straight threes.

Then but Tom hit a three. Harden had sixteen points, sixteen of his team leading twenty nine in the third. We didn't even know if he would play. How can you question coach lou letting him continue to play last time out when he look this good the very next game. Apparently he felt good enough to play. James Harden, he looked amazing out there. They don't win the game without him. But the Clippers did start off slow. Felt like in that first quarter they couldn't get the car out of

the driveway. They just kept stalling. They started down eleven to two. The Knicks started off shooting eight of nine from the field. You had some bad turnovers by the Clippers, three in the first quarter leading to eight points. Guess what the rest of the game. They had just two turnovers the final three quarters. That's incredible. James Harden had two, he had six assists, Zubats had two. Norm Pal had won. That's it. Those three players accounted for five total turnovers.

The Clippers had thirteen offensive rebounds, leading to nineteen points. You take care of the basketball like that. And it started in the second quarter. After the Clippers trailed many as fourteen. It was thirty three to twenty twelve minutes in. Zubots started the second quarter. I asked law Murray this pregame, do you think coach lou will start him in the second quarter. He wasn't so sure about that. He did Zubots, Kawhi, Simmons, Bogie and DJ to start the second Heart picked up

his third foul early. Bogie found Zue early for a nice floater off a beautiful feed. Nick still were hanging around. They led forty to twenty six early in the second quarter. I should say the Clippers were hanging around because they were the team down fourteen. Zuo hits a floater, the Clippers guys to within ten. Nicks get up by twelve after a Bridge's lay up on Kawai, where it looked like Kawai was playing at half speed at that time. Oh, he got in a six gear eventually, no doubt about that.

The game really turned as Kawhi hit a jumper off a Zoo pass to him on the right elbow to make it forty four to thirty four, and then Norm started to get it going a little bit. Norm goes left for a bucket. It's an eight point game. Nick's turnover, Norman pawal again, floater, six point game, cat over, Zoo back to an eight point game, Norm three, five point game.

Then Michale Bridges misses and Kawhi finds Chris Dunn for a streaking layup going past Landry Sham and I think they thought there was a travel there, and the Clippers had it to within three. In the span of two minutes and fifty six seconds. They got it down to three. By the end of the first half, they would be trailing by just one at fifty five to fifty four. Now in the third quarter, it was back and forth.

At first, Kawhi tied it at fifty seven with a fade on a double team with Karl Anthony Towns and Josh Hart near the right block, right baseline fall away, Kawhi starting to feel it. Michale Bridge's answers with the layup, Nicks up by two, fifty nine to fifty seven. Towns three Clippers are down by five. Harden three two point game sign of things to come, Towns and one on Zoo spinning on him. Zoo look lost. That hasn't happened very often this season, but Zoo came right back with

a floater. I'd love seeing that Og would hit a three. But this is the turning point. With the Clippers down six at sixty eight to sixty two, Norm hits a three pointer of a great feed from Chris Dunn. Og misses a three, Zoo put back one point game off of his own miss. Done hits a three, and the Clippers take their first lead of the ball game at seventy to sixty eight as Done was left open on a near side corner three that would complete an eight

zero run. Eventually, they would take it to ten as James Harden got fouled going left hit both free throws. Clippers up seventy two to sixty eight, and then the end of the third quarter happened. Kawhi comes off the floor after hitting a big three to make it seventy six. All we had a plethora of ties in this ballgame. It's eighty one point eighty knicks. Harden plays great defense and has a block and the Knicks miss a three pointer after that, and then he hits a three on

Landrew Shammitt. Clippers go from down one to up two with eighty three to eighty one. Harden another three, eighty six eighty one, Shamit hits a three. Harden another three hook for Josh Hart, this time three straight threes from James. Harden hits eighty nine to eighty four. Knicks miss free throws, but Toom hits a three. It's ninety two to eighty four off a hardened pass brought in the defense attack the paint kicked it back out to Nico Saint Nick,

always good against the Knicks. Simmons then has a putback off of James Miss and it's a ten point lead. They go eight of eleven from three in the third quarter. James Harden has sixteen in the third. The Clippers are up ten heading into the fourth. After a sixteen to six run to end the third period, it's ninety four to eighty four. The Knicks, though, get an a one from Towns to start the fourth. At this point the lineup is Batoom, Kawhi, Simmons, Bogie and DJ Towns, though

would miss the free throw. Nicks were missing some free throws all of a sudden. Now Kawhi hits a three pointer in og Ananobi's face. He might have been fouled, didn't get the call, doesn't matter. Shammitt misses a three, they call a flopping foul on right and Kawhi hits the technical. That's a big deal sometimes just getting to the free throw line and knocking one down and Kawhi kind of faded away on the technical free throw. A little bit can let you catch your rhythm. Towns would

make it a ten point game. Kawhi mid range on og It's one hundred and eighty eight. Clippers. Kawhi fouled by Shammitt, goes to the line, puts them up one o two to eighty eight. Now the Clippers are up fourteen after trailing by as many as fourteen back in the second quarter. Early fourth, they're up fourteen at one oh two to eight twenty eight point turnaround. Kawhi has scored eight straight points for them. Sham at three, Kawhi middy and get the gets the fallaway over bridges like

just an insane shot. He has scored ten straight for the Clippers. They lead one oh four to ninety one, and this thing's starting to get out of hand. DJ hits a three towns turnover. DJ gets fouled, thought he was hurt for a second, got up, and the Clippers got up by nineteen. All they needed was a big Zoo throwdown late to put him up one fourteen to ninety seven. Just a little bit of breathing room, but Og hit a three Kawhi had a big throw down

the other way. Clippers are up one sixteen to one hundred. I thought it was over, but with about a minute and a half left, the nick did get it to within eight. Clippers responded immediately. Norman Palell three dagger and then Zoo dunked on Og bodied him. Game over. Clippers win one twenty six to one thirteen, from down fourteen to winning by thirteen. Norman Powell this was his best game since returning from the hamstring injury and really returning

from the knee injury as well. Seven of twelve a key eight points in the second quarter, finished with nineteen but four or five from three. He hadn't hit two threes in a game since he came back. This was game four for him. He hit four in this one and that big three, the silencer to put the game away when it was eight point lead within a minute and a half. It's a little bit dicey boom. Madison Square Garden clears out, Clippers leave with the victory. We'll

come back. We'll get to your phone calls. Age sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Clippers win one twenty six to one thirteen at MSG over the Knicks. They're heading to Brooklyn next on Friday. I'm out of Mousland and this is Clippers sock here on AM five to seven LA Sports.

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say this three massive stats in this game. Twenty five assists five turnovers, as you pointed out, only two in the from the second from the first quarter on. But guess what Kawhi Leonard forty one minutes and if you haven't seen him start to turn it up, you better start watching. Look at what he did against Cleveland cooked, Look what he did against OKC cooked. Look what he did tonight looked we're starting to seek wide Leonard groove

right into playoff. Kawhi, He's now played twenty eight, twenty nine games. Remember, no offseason for him. He had knee surgery, so he's starting to feel his oats. Three straight double doubles we go. Unfortunately, I disagree with quote Carlo and excuse me, Harden and Kawhi are the stars. Stars show up, the others win championships. Zubac, Ben Simmons, those guys, Chris Dunn's defense, Derek Jones junior event. We are right fricking there, man, And I don't mean to use bad any sort of

bad language at him. This is as fired up as I've been about a Clippers team been about four or five years. You go backwards. We haven't had a squad disconnected at this late in the season in quite some time. The sky's the limit. And oh, by the way, hats off to the front office for making that move to go and say, hey, we're gonna put a bunch of gritty, tough guys to together. Compliment them with James, compliment them with Kawhi, and say, hey, Zubach, hey, Palell, increase your

stats from last year. And that'll fulfill what we got from Paul George. And that's what's happened. Pal's up ten points a game, Zubo's up five points a game. There's fifteen George average twenty two. If you want to add in some of the other guys. Harden's points are up four points between the three of them. They've made up

for George. And I'm going to tell you right now, nobody wants to play us in the first round of the playoffs, now that we're in the sixth hole, and I firmly believe seven and three, six and four is very attainable. For these last ten games, forty seven to forty eight wins get you into the top six, and I'm telling you nobody wants to play us at all. Adam, I've got to tell you, the ball movement has been unbelievable.

Norman being out at first really hurt us, but if you look at it, it gave Bogie an opportunity to get comfortable. Although he didn't play a lot tonight, but it wasn't his turn tonight. Each night there's another that stand steps up each night. The other of these nine out of the last eleven games have been phenomenal. Let's not forget Cleveland and Okay, so you have the two best teams in the league and the next with than the third hole in the East. Ye, so we are

right there. I'm eager to see how we play against Brooklyn, that back to back against Cleveland. Then we're back home next Wednesday with New Orleans and then back to back with Dallas. And those are winnable games. All of them are winnable games in my opinion. And I got to tell you, Adam, and I'm sorry to dominate the whole conversation, but you know I always get fired up when I'm on the phone. Here Zubach fifty double doubles, fifty forty nine,

He's gonna get fifty and more. The guy really should be most improved player. I know everybody wants to give a fifty double doubles for Zubac.

that is amazing. And what it is is he's thirty five years old and plays every game and plays thirty five plus minutes a game. Yep, thirty five plus minutes a game. It's unbelievable at him. I hope I'm not as I'm not too bullish on this. But we're an analytics team. We're an analytics organization. And when you look at the analytics, boy oh boy, they scream off the

page that we are right there. We have an identity where a defensive minded team that now all of a sudden, oh, the offense is starting to click.

four out of seven. This team's going to make a run in the playoffs, Adam. Nobody wants to playoffs, and there's nobody better in the playoffs x's and o's in the NBA than Tyron Lou How many times has Tyrone new team's come back down three to one? I think he did it against the Warriors with Cleveland, He did it with the Clippers, did it with the Clippers twice against Das in Utah, right or maybe not Utah, but did with.

a good look at. For those hating on coach Lou for that, if you don't do stuff like that, well, I don't know if you get the game you got today from Norm Powell. He showed the belief in him sticking with his guy. It paid off today. Best Norm Powell's looks since he returned bargov from Maryland. What's that bargov?

I like that lineup, man, that bench lineup. I think it was Bogey been but toom dij and Derek Jones and then and Harden went went Ham and then Kawhi came in with that same lineup and exploded in the fourth. Just the impressive win, man. I love the composure they kept. And yeah, how about Kawhi, Dude, here.

Against Cleveland his best game of the season. Has thirty three on just nineteen shots against Memphis, has twenty three points on just twelve shots, has twenty five on his twenty shots, ten of twenty two or four from the outside against Okac against some great defense, and then tonight has twenty seven on eighteen field goal at Stamps with a couple of three point owners, ten boards, seven assists.

He's had double doubles last three games. I think it's really the last six games from Kawhi that I've seen a different version of him. And by different, I mean he looks just like last year's version of Kawhi. And that's all I needed to see.

third from James Harden. Norman Palell has his best game since he returned, with an efficient nineteen points on twelve shots, four or five from the outside. Clippers win one twenty six to one thirteen. More Clippers stock coming up next here on M five seventy LA Sports.

To be honest with you, that's the main key, you know, if you want to win the championship, like for example, at the the Rockets when James Harden was with Chris Paul. You know, Chris Paul step it up, but he got injured and you know they were right there against the Warriors. And then also what else you know, and Toronto with Kawhi Kawhi Leonard, you know he's pep it up. Who will step it up? Yeah, I'll come step it up.

You know, Marco Saul step it up. And you know there's a lot of people so you know, so far, I think James Harden, you know, and Kawhi and hopefully someone else like Bogie. You know, we're right there.

see that? We'll find out. They still got a day day off tomorrow though, And James Harden just he hates missing any time. What are performance twenty nine and thirty seven minutes? Kawhi with twenty seven and forty one minutes. Clippers win one twenty six to one thirteen over the Knicks. We'll take a time out, we'll come back. We got a couple of closing calls up next, Jose and Downey, and then Clay Vaughan from Michigan is on hold, looking

forward to that. I'm out of Masland and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network in AMPI seventy LA sports.

just got to keep being scrapping. They got to keep playing hard and hopefully it turns out. This is the most excited I've been about them in a long time. So they got to keep that urgency. And like you said, that big four.

and he is there. Is sometimes where he has lapses on those passes when we really need him, like in the fourth quarter against Okay see. But they were there and that's all that matters. I know they were missing a couple players, but they were there and just built on it because today was a big sign of we take it important and we want to make the difference, and that's why they're on the court.

They assume just because we got a whole bunch of good players, everybody's great. You gotta understand, even great men have to learn how to play amongst each other. And now that we got everybody that's healthy out there, fans looking good, who were getting strong, now we getting strong now. And we got that eye of the tiger because we out there, well, we in the sixth spot right now.

All we got to do is maintain that spot. And if we keep playing one thing I will say on some real business and on one thing I will say, when you have the Clippers when they come down to come down to court and they have a wide open court that have everybody set up, well, we're not seeing enough player of rotation. When our players start rotating, like other teams, they'll rotate, but it's I don't know if it's like because we are customer playing isolation. This is

a lot of ISO ball. We'll bring it down the court and nobody is moving, and then it gets to the.

that's good. But when you're doing a play at the play at the play, I start seeing other teams read we don't want to pass it, and they and they when we fall into a slump where you know, they start playing hero ball, putting enough shots because they look up at the at the clock and they put up I feel like that's what happened. And when we were playing okay season, like I was, so, I was like, man, I saw Powell open in the corner and then I was surprised to Kawhi turned or get the turnaround jumper

on the little egghead dude. I can't remember his name. I'll keep forgetting. I forget his name because I don't like the dude.

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