Time for a postgame. Look, it's your LA Clippers. This is Clippers Locker Road, brought to you by Cedars Sinai, the official health partner of the LA Clippers, and by Patchonga, 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, your LA Clippers got a decisive victory up north against the Blazers one sixteen to
one OHO three was your final Welcome into your postgame show. I'm then, I'm Oslin coming up. We will have Clippers Talk on the M five to seven E LA Sports if you want to get on early eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. But first back out to Moda Center with your radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Well, it wasn't a fast
start. The Clippers trailed after the first quarter, but it just felt like things really started to change in that second with James Harden starting to get it going, finding his offense Carlow and also finding Aviatza Zoo bos down low. Yeah, big big bounce back game for that pick roll at him the bread and butter the main motors of this offense. Zubot's finished with nine rebounds, fourteen points hardened, fourteen as cists, and nineteen points in this one.
They really got it going in the second quarter. And you see why this team is so dangerous at him, because when you have three Hall of famers, one guy gets hot in the second quarter, then it's Kawhi Leonard getting hot in the third, then it's Paul George getting hot in the fourth. It was a relay race of superstars for this Clippers team, and they ran away with it after that first quarter. Yeah, exactly. I like the
way they were able to move the baton around. There was Kawhi Leonard opening things up also in that third quarter, Paul George putting the Portland trail Blazers away laid I thought you talked with them postgame. Brandon Boston fit in very nicely, got more meaningful significant minutes out there, ended up with twenty three minutes, had nine points, and just kind of blended in with the offense. Wasn't doing too much, but also you know, was playing to his
strengths out there. You could say, I think that last part is exactly where the key is for Brandon Boston because we saw him get Snimican minutes earlier this season at him. But you're right, at times it would feel like
he was forcing the issue a little bit. I love to hear that he talks about his defense because I feel like Brandon Boston size at six seven, Adam, if you can bring another guy like that off the bench just for Spurts to play defensively, He's not gonna be a liability on that end because of that length. Two steals, two blocks today. He said it to us postgame. If he wants to get on the floor, he has to
be good at that end. He was great at that end for the Clippers and a big piece of this one to sixteen to one oh three win Clippers defense as a whole. I mean, I don't know what was said, but sixteen steals, seven blocks, they turn over the Blazers eighteen times and turn it into twenty six points. It was a nightmare on offense for Portland because the Clippers, should we say, wing stop is back a little bit, and that's what it felt like in this one. No one was getting
a bucket for Portland. Yeah, especially in that third quarter they tried to go at Kawhi and Aviatza Zubots or the Clippers defense would funnel him that way, and they just destroyed the Portland Trailblazers. Was steal after steal, Kawhi getting bucket after bucket in transition the and one he got with a little right handed flip shot as he was going underneath the stanchion. That was an incredible
play. That was something else. I mean, Adam, they showed the replay here at the end of the ball game, and I don't think quiet time to look at the rim. I mean, he simply just flipped it up. But his feel for the game is again what makes him so so dynamic, and his ability to look over his right shoulder just flipping up and
in using the square on the window. Kawhi Leonard Sometimes, Adam, he hits the most ridiculous shots in the world, and that corner three fading to his left early late in that first half was a ridiculous shot sometimes though, He's just got an amazing feel for the ball game, and that lamp right there, it was something that I don't think a lot of players in the NBA could do with that ease. But he continues to show why he is
one of the greatest players this game. Has seen twenty four points, four rebounds, two assists, four steals in this game on an efficient nine for sixteen. Leonard was legal tonight for the clips. Now we're just hoping that left wrist is okay, as he got a little bit twisted up. You made note of it, but it was Coach Lou talking with his buddy and Chauncey Billups post game describing the play Kawhi Leonard was seen with some ice on
the sidelines. Hopefully he's okay. We'll keep the audience abreast of that situation here in your postgame show. But your player to watch Carlo a mere coffee speaking to guys who can just kind of blend in when his number is called. When he's been in the starting lineup this season out of necessity, he has performed each and every ball game one hundred percent at him and he's averaging
over ten points in his previous ten starts. He comes in and once again has eleven consistent as always, A mere coffee, a great job to just be out there once again not really disrupt the flow of this offense. Understand that they've got four Hall of famers, but still be a piece when they need him. I thought, Adam he was great at starting fast breaks. Me how many times did we call a mere coffee's name? And he was out leading the pack in transition, felt like he really took advantage of those
Clippers steals and got in rhythm. And for the Clippers, this is a great win, and I think for it's a blueprint going forward. Can you stack it? Can you continue to do it like that? Tyler was asked about you know, what does this team need to do and he said, look, or he was asked pre game, how do you rEFInd your identity and he told the media, we don't need to rEFInd our identity. We
know who we are when we're at our best. When we went twenty six and five, we were a defensive minded team and that what sticks out to me in this one, Adhaim, they were defensive minded in this one and that I felt like, just help the rest of everything go smoother. Clippers, we get the victory. Won sixteen to one three in Portland where they will run it back on Friday night, same tip, time at seven, same pregame, showed time at six. Carlo him and as great call as
always. We'll talk to you on Friday, my friend, doctor you Friday. Adam, enjoy Thursday because we're gonna do it all again. Let's go try. Clippers looking to turn things around. Fourteen games left in the regular season, some nice process and a nice w tonight from the squad. They win by thirteen over the Blazers. Coming up next. Second half highlights 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. Clippers get back to their winning ways. They take down Portland as they win one sixteen to one oh three up north over the Portland Trail Blazers. Welcome back in This is your Clippers postgame locker room show. I'm Adam Monslin. Still to come on a m. Five to seventy
LA Sports. We'll have Clippers talk for you. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy right now though. Second half highlights. Clippers led sixty to fifty at the half, and then Kawhi Leonard, who had just seven points to the first twenty four minutes. Really started cooking that third quarter. Leonard left elbow attacks the masline, fades, gets found and hits right wing. Leonard sets his feet,
squares his shoulders right so the ram lays it up. The foul to finish and a chance for one more. Here comes Leonard in company. Kawhi cuts the defense lefty left trickles through asking for a foul. Time out. Billups Simons to the back court. Leonard another steal, throws it off the window, finishes in the foul back to Murray, shovels Simons blinds by. Zubot swings it up like to buy Leonard another steal. Here comes the claw with
two blazers tail gating. He'll pack it with the right hand. Kawhi Leonard had seventeen points in the third quarter alone. The Clippers would extend their lead as they won the quarter by fourteen to ninety four to seventy heading into the fourth quarter. Only issue and we'll keep you abreast of the situation. But Kawhi Leonard got twisted up. It looked like his left wrist got a little bit torqued the wrong way. Kawhi Leonard was trying to work through it.
He was palming the basketball with it. Eventually headed to the bench. Paul George came in for him. Kawhi was seen gripping some ice. So looking for an update on that post game, but again the Clippers up by twenty four heading into the fourth quarter, and then PG thirteen, who used to wear number twenty four, would put the Blazers away. Tucker spins finds George
left wing three cutex Paul George from Downtown. George on the base side, tight ropes, gets by Walker and jams with two hands, Paul George turning it on late back to George left the logo with side to shoot, steps back a three down the hatch, Paul George with eleven in the fourth. PG thirteen would end up with twelve points in the fourth quarter and the Clippers would go on to win one sixteen to one h three over the Portland Trail
Blazers in a game where they led by as many as twenty seven. They'll see him again in Portland on Friday. More on that, and I'll update you on Kawhi Leonard and that left wrist coming up next. You're in your Clippers locker room show on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. LA Clippers basketball is on the two one three era continues. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers win in Portland won sixteen, so
one oh three over the Portland Trail Blazers. Welcome back in. I'm Adam Oslin. This is your Clippers locker room show. Paul George would finish with twenty seven, twelve of those coming in the fourth quarter on ten of eighteen, shooting four seven from the outside. Can run the numbers, but last eight games, Peg thirteen has been on one. Great to see. Kawhi Leonard had twenty four points in just twenty eight minutes, nine of sixteen,
shooting one of three from the outside, plus four steals. Speaking of four steals, Big Zoo had four steals by the end of the third quarter. It's a career high for him. He had fourteen and nine on seven of nine shooting. A lot of those buckets coming off of passes from James Harden, who was a plus twenty two. Had nineteen and fourteen assists at just three turnovers five to three pointers. Four of them came in that second quarter.
Off the bench. Danielle Tice with ten Ben Boston Junior with nine points. Clippers would only get twenty one points off the bench, but it would be enough. They led by as many as twenty seven. They would go on to win one sixteen to one oh three over the Portland Trail Blazers, who were led by Scoot Henderson six of fifteen shooting but eighteen points for Scoot. Portland's on well, a little bit of a rebuild with their franchise right
now. They're now nineteen and fifteen on the season. Clippers improved of forty three and twenty five. They remain in Portland. They run it back Friday night tiptime at seven pregame shows starting at six outside of Los Angeles. We were leaving you until then, but coming up next here on M five to seventy LA Sports, we got Clippers Talk. This has been LA Clippers basketball really good on a multitude of levels. Don't miss a moment. I'll cease
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were in attack mode. Adam Osley Clippers handling business in Portland with a one sixteen to one to zero three victory over the Blazers. Welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm in a Mosland eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy or get to me a f follow Adam a on X coming up here on the show. We got postgame audio from James Harden and coach Lou and I bring a good news right off the
top. Coach who already said in this postgame presser that Kawhi Leonard is good, Christ is subverted. Sounds like the left wrist injury whatever that was already on the mend. Hopefully it's good to go by Friday. They're running it right back against the Portland Trail Blazers, who I know. You could say, well, they're Adam, their bottom five team in the league this season. Yeah, you could say that. So like Atlanta. Was that dramatically
better than them? Okay, they are, but they were without Trey Young in that game on Sunday. They had no business beating the Clippers, especially being up by twenty nine at Krypto. This is the type of response I was looking for. It wasn't perfect. They were down by one heading into the second quarter. It was twenty eight to twenty seven. They started zero five from three. They would eventually catch fire and go what thirteen? So
they're NeXT's that twenty six from the outside. But the Blazer shot it well too. They answered a lot of those three pointers by the Clippers. They went fifteen of thirty four. They actually shot a higher percentage from the outside and made a couple more than the Clippers. But game was out of reach. Clippers were up by twenty seven. They poured it on in the second
half, but it was really the second quarter where things turned. And wouldn't you know, you know, I'm not trying to pat myself on the back. What the hell do I know? I know, James Nasmith, but I have been saying, get back to running the high pick and roll with James Harden. Vitza Zubas for a couple of weeks now, I have been pleading. I've been begging the Clippers to run their offense through James Harden in the way that they were, in the manner they were when they went twenty
six and five over a thirty one game stretch. To me, that's a big part of their identity. When you have James Harden, that's where it has to be. That's when he is the system, a system, whatever you want to say, and that's when it eats the Zoo bots is getting more involved. And when the Clippers were going on that spectacular run where they were the best team in the league for two months in December and January, that is how they initiated their offense. Coach Lou said it early on.
We run pick and roll sixty times, we probably get fifty five good shots because James Harden is that prolific. He's a pick and roll master, and Big Zoo looks to be the best version of himself when he's getting involved. Good to see that finally happen. After last game he took one shot. The last three games total, he attempted eleven shots. I was losing my
mind over this. It made no sense because for a team that struggles offensively sometimes and as a jump shooting team, will you have this other element to your offense if you choose to use him, he can get you easy buckets. Big Zoo can James Harden can find him for easy once. And it was happening over and over again in the second quarter. And James also hit four to three pointers in that second quarter. He had seventeen of his nineteen
points in the second quarter. He finished with fourteen assists to just three turnovers. You can say it was Portland fine, but that is what they can do, and that is how they can execute their offense, regardless of the opponent. That's how you bend the offense. You get the numbers back in your favor where you're playing four on three out there, get two on the basketball, find Big Zoo in the short roll. He can kick it out for wide open three pointers. Two and oh yeah. He had four steals
and two blocks. The Clippers had sixteen steals as a team and seven blocks. In that third quarter. There was a traffic jam whenever Portland tried to go towards the Vista Zubots and Kawhi Leonards. The Clippers had seven steals in the third quarter alone. It was those two guys just bogging down Portland's offense,
just shutting them down, creating easy buckets in transition. Kawhi going the other way, big dunk on a runout and and one layup, just a little right handed flip shot, a no look shot off the backboard as he was running under the stanchion as he was fouled. Circus shot from Kawhi converted the and one a mere coffee. Played very well and had eleven points and
also got multiple transition buckets defense leading to offense. But when those two guys are working together, that's what I noticed against the Denver Nuggets in that fourth quarter in the last time out when they played, when the Clippers won, they wrecked the pick and roll from Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic. When Kawhi, Leonard and Avisa zubats are that connected defensively, that's the Clippers can be scary on that end. They've been scary in a different way recently last eighteen
games coming into this one twenty sixth. Defensively tonight they hold Portland one hundred and three points and really Portland out scored him by eleven in that fourth quarter during inconsequential time with the Clippers backups in. But I thought some of their backups were prett damn good. Brandon Boston, he had a layup early, had a big dunk, had a jumper in the third. He just looks to be a little bit smoother out there. He's not forcing things as much.
He's not just looking for his own shot. Isoing. It did happen once and he gout blocked. Happened another time. He got a jumper late in the fourth quarter, and the Clippers were just basically running out the clock. But Brandon Boston finished with nine points. Top with Carlo Jimenez postgames said, you know what he can do defensively is what can keep him on the floor, what can get him minutes. He's got length, he put on some size, some muscle. Spoke about that. He had two blocks and
a steel himself. But look good in twenty three minutes. I thought Daniels heyes had ten, two three pointers, good to see, five boards as well, a couple of assists. Those two guys were good off the bench. And PJ. Tucker did have seven boards, zero points, didn't take a shot, but had a couple of steals was a plus one held his own. They got to get back to be a grittier team, a tougher team defensively, a team that takes pride in their defense. That's how they're
gonna get out of this funk they've been in. They had lost four or five hanging into this game, and they gotta get back to worrying high pick and roll. There's your identity, tough mind, defensive team, high pick and roll with James Harden. The offense flows out of that. That's what it is. That's how you get easier shots. That's why everybody eats. But you can't go a game where Visa Zoobots gets one shot. That's a recipe for disaster. Because I'm telling you, I think it's just human nature.
But big men, when they don't get involved offensively, they can sleepwalk a little bit defensively. Big Zoo's pretty good staying focused regardless. But it's just the way it works. If they don't feel like they're involved with the offense, they're not gonna protect the house the same way. On the other
end, that's the old Shack line. You want the dog to protect the house, you gotta feed them and I just think Viza Zoobots, with the plethora of moves he's been showing off of this season, deserves touches, deserves to see the basketball if he's doing his part, he's finishing around the rim. Spam it. Keep going to it because they don't get enough easy shots. They don't get enough points in the paint. That is how it can
change again. When they were at their best, when their offense was ranked number one in the league, Afiza Zubox was getting something like thirteen and ten at night for a month and a half. That's it. You don't have to make things so difficult on yourself, which just Iso plays jumpers. You've got to have more balance to your offense. Clippers ended up with fifty points in the paint, twelve second chance points, eighteen fast break points. It's
a great number and just twelve turnovers. Also important. They won the possession battle by five. They got up five more shots than the Portland Trailblazers. Kawhi finished with twenty four, Paul George with twenty seven. Every starter was in double figures. No Terrence Man, no Norm Powell. Amer Coffee. Every time he gets an opportunity to start, he made the most of it. He's averaging just over ten points per game as a starter this season.
Hard hat guy just stays ready, gets his opportunity performs. Let's hear from Mark and Huntington Beach to start things off tonight here on Clipper Stock after they win one sixteen to one to oh three up in Portland against the Blazers. Mark, what's up? Hey, Yeah, finally we look like the team that we all know they can be. And uh, well, they can't just do it against Portland, Mark, we know that. Oh yeah, yeah, But if we play that same talent, I'm with you, use
Zubac more often. I mean, it's dumb that you know Harden has that skill to do it with him and Entice and everyone else, But you know why they weren't using him to get him? Like you said, I'm with you there on the he gets his juices flow, and he gets more excited when he makes a basket, and then that makes him more excited to block a basket. So I'm all with you on that. The other thing I want to know, Norman Powell, have you heard anything? Does it look
like an I thought it was a sore ankle? Is it maybe gonna play Friday or are they just gonna see if they can win without him again on Friday. Don't have an update, but obviously they shouldn't need him. They have the talent advantage over this Portland team. Even if they just had one
of their big three available, they still would have the talent advantage. Portland young squad trying to figure it out, didn't even know if Anthony Simons was going to play tonight, and he had one hot streak late, I think in the second quarter, but outside of that they kept him in check.
Scoot Henderson had eighteen but on fifteen shots, so you know, regardless, there's just no excuse they have to be Portland on Friday if you don't want to end up in the five spot, which means you don't have home court advantage in the first round. These are games you have to win. Another question that on the home spot thing. If you take fourth, you get home field advantage, But then whoever you play in the second round, if they had if they finished higher than you, you lose the home field thing.
Or if they or is it if they are below you that you play them, then you still have home court, right, Yeah, if they're a higher seed, they're gonna have home court advantage over you. If you ended up playing Denver in the second round, they would have home court over the Clippers. If the Lakers or the Warriors or somebody upset that team, then home court would go back to you. Okay, all right, well you have a good night. I'm glad to see us back on the winning
streak, even if it is Portland, let's take it. You know, I can't remember who we play on Sunday, but isn't it Sunday? We have a next game Sunday they have Philadelphia. Their next game, though, is Friday is still in Portland, Mark, I appreciate the phone call. A little two game mini series in Portland, same tip time at seven on Friday, same pregame show starting at six. We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back. We'll hear from James Harden, We'll hear from coach
Lou. We'll get back to your phone calls. Eight sixty six, ninety seven, seventy. I'm gonna follow out of May on X Clippers win one sixteen to one oh three over the Portland trail Blazers. And you're listening to Clippers talk here on the M five to seventy Light Sports. May I promised him my mom and then I blessed with some grandkids. LA Clippers basketball is on the two one three era continues. You're listening to the LA Clippers on
the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers would outscore the Blazers by fourteen in the third quarter and they will put this one away early. Led by as many as twenty seven over the Blazers. They go on to win one sixteen to one oh three. They remain in Portland. The run it back on Friday. Welcome back in New Clippers talk. I'm out a Moslin coming up. We got coach Lou Audio for you. But before that, I want you to hear from James Harden, who had nineteen and fourteen, went five of
nine from three to five of his six makes were from distance. He was my player to watch. Uh. He looked good. He was in control of the offense. He was the playmaker. Fourteen assists and I'll tell you that the Clippers had twenty nine assists on forty five mate shots, much better on both ENSINNI Here was James Harden post game on Ballet Sports speaking with Christina
Pink James a commanding, much needed win for this group. But what did you like about the focus and the way you guys played, like detail things that we've been stressing this last few weeks. We kind of put him in a play to night. We still got some things to work on, but just want a swag game for us, like get our rhythm back, our swag game, our our identity back, big time rhythm for you in that second quarter? How are you able to take over being aggressive? Get into
the basket sooner shown is available against to the paint. I'm great to play for somebody else. I think that's gonna be key for the last for fifteen games and they've wanted to the post season, so it was nineteen but also fourteen assists for you tonight this group is nineteen and three in games where you have double DIGITUSS, How would you describe what you're facilitating does for this group?
Thanks? Everybody, joblot easier and I got to consistently do it be more aggressive and aggressive not to obviously score, but let's get guys involved. So that's a balance before both of those. All right, great, when did I James harden there? The Clippers are a better ball club when he's more aggressive against seventeen points in that second quarter, let me double check on that. You know I a stickler for accuracy. I'm gonna make sure I
got that right. James Harden in the first quarter five points. By the time he gets to half, he has seventeen, So twelve points in the second quarter, seventeen points at the half, had just two more. Clippers would put this one away early, as they should against a Portland Trailblazers team. That's why I call it a taking care of business type of victory. But Kawhi Leonard did have seventeen points in the third quarter. He exploded,
and then Paul George put the cherry on top. He had twelve points in the fourth PG thirteen I bring you good news here finish with twenty seven. That led all scores ten of eighteen from the field, four to seven from three. Again closed out the Blazers. But now over his last ten games, Paul George has been averaging twenty four points, about fifty two percent shooting and uh forty four percent shooting from three. It looks like he's out of
this shooting funk that he was in. Maybe he's feeling better feeling healthier, the left knee, the left growing whatever it was. Maybe he was just had a rhythm, but this is what they need. Paul George getting at least twenty four per ball game huge for this team as there's just fourteen regular season games left till the playoffs. Morris and long beats, what's up you're on? Clippers? Stop with out of Maslin Hi Morse, Hey, it's going on. Check this out. Looking at the game on Friday is not
gonna be as easy as the game we played tonight. I expect him to win. Expect them to win all the game, and then the game on Sunday, I expect him to take that game, you know, and beat us out right now, now you you always feel everybody's stundard. We don't have to send the police after you. You know, you're absolutely right. When they run that pick and roll, that is their number one play because that opens up everything. Everybody gets to move it right, and that boy
got a skill set. I'm talking about heart. He is like a quarterback in the NFL. Put it right on a dime, and they really have got to take advantage of that. Now. The best shot of the night is a lot of good shots. The one shot that I liked, I like when Tys hit that three, because that's that's something in the weaponsry. You know, I've talked to you about this long time ago. When you got a five that can shoot a three like they got down to Denver.
Hey, that's a play, that's the play. You can take advantage of that. So you know, tonight was an important game for everybody to get back on tsks. But none of these games, man, are easy in the NBA. But we lost early to the Grizzlies. The people were tripping. Okay, we lost the Atlantic, but these the lot of the chop teams have the same kind of thing. We're not the only ones that go through this stuff. And I'm telling you right now, I'm telling you right
now, if we can stay in the fourth, we got it. We can't drop down in the fifth. We can't drop down the fifth, and we'll never have the home court advantage. If we stand in the fourth. That's gonna give us some spirit, that's gonna give us some hope. And we're gonna ride Kawhi. We're gonna go as far as Kawhi Lennard, we'll take us. And that's just the way it go. Okay, I'll see behavior. So all right, Morris, I appreciate the phone call. I
agree with you. They need that four seed. They also need OKAC to hold on to the number one seed in the West, because that would mean Denver and Minnesota would have to play each other in the second round. Should the Clippers get past the first round, faced off against SGA and the OKC Thunder, It's not a great matchup, but I think it's preferred over having to take on the defending champs in the ten per Nuggets. So root for OKC right now. Obviously, root for the Clippers, root for the New
Orleans Pelicans to lose ball games, rut for the Kings to win. I think that would be a better matchup for the Clippers in the first round. Currently, they are a game up on the five seed held by the New Orleans Pelicans. They are three games up on Sacramento. New Orleans is two games up on the Kings, but the Pelicans do have a tougher schedule here.
Clippers, though, get a victory tonight right that they needed. And you heard something from James Harden postgames saying we got to get our swag back, and this kind of victory can do that get your identity back, Remember who you are, Remember how skilled, how talented you are, because they haven't always been taking care of business against lesser teams. So you can scoff at this victory. You can say it's Portland Clippers just lost to Atlanta in
a game. They were down by twenty nine at home on Sunday. They needed this one tonight in this manner. Mike in La you're on Clipper south of that, am Awson. Hey, I just want to, I guess, emphasize what you were just talking about. Now. These are must win games. I mean we the Clippers have not you know, even guaranteed themselves
the top six feed yet and we have the tide breaker again nobody. You know, you look at the schedule in April, you have you know, Denver, Phoenix, you know a couple of times, I think Sacramento. You know that's not you know, not easy. Uh. You know this stretch of games now really for the rest of March, are games that they really should win and they need to win, and we cannot have any more of the you know, Atlantic does. We'll put it that way. Yeah,
I agree with you. They can't afford any more bad losses, and a bad loss right now for a team contending for a championship that is trying to stay afloat and keep and hold on to that four spot in the West, is losing to any team under five hundred. It just can't happen. It's inexcusable right now, Hopefully they got them out of their system. Hopefully Sunday was the wake up call Mike, and this Clippers team is now pointed
back in the right direction where they're building better habits. Something happened in that fourth quarter that I thought was interesting because post game on Sunday, coach Lou was talking about this squad and basically took accountability and pointed the figer out himself and said, maybe I need to do something different, Maybe it's me. I need to change my approach, something to that effect. And the fourth quarter, after they had a couple sloppy turnovers early, even though they were
up twenty five, he called time out right away. There have been other times where he'll just let them figure it out. Then again, when no one stopped the ball and Portland got an easy one, a guy going coast to coast, nobody picked him up. Another time out. They were up by twenty two. The game was over, but Coachlely wasn't having it. I wonder if that's that thing that's different right now from him and his philosophy, because you know he comes from and we were talking about this with Carlo
Jimenez pregame. He comes from the Phil Jackson coaching tree. What what did Phil Jackson do? He would let guys play through a lot of that stuff. He thought, you know, we worked on this in practice. They need to figure it out out now on the floor in a game with live
bullets. That's one way he would coach. And Coach Lou does that sometimes too, But tonight when they were making careless mistakes, he said enough, even though the game was over, he looked like a guy who was chasing perfection and wasn't gonna settle for them, just getting lacks of daysical sleep lock sleep walking their way through the end of the ball game, and the Clippers eventually would win one sixteen to one oh three over the Blazers. We'll take
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Los Angeles ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio station. So to preface this, there was an interesting play in the third quarter that people are hitting me up about and it is a head scratcher. It was James Harden driving down the left side the lane, giving the ball up in the far side corn to Kawhi Leonard for three a wide open three except for one thing. James Harden closed out on him and put two hands up. This
was strange. Uh, he's wearing a Clippers jersey. We've enjoyed him as a Clipper. I don't know why he's coming over to contest Kawhi Leonard's shot off a pass he just made. I think Coach Little is gonna touch on that. Plus give us an injury update on Kawhi Leonard. Here was coach of PUS game, Here was Jack Carlow. So you got guys contesting, Uh, three points. I didn't even see it during the game. Guys, Yeah, it is Kawhi good. He sold flex in his hands.
He's good. You mentioned the defense and everything. I mean you guys also stayed out of transition defensive week, taking care of basketball goal. What went into you know, the extra tension on both ends, both taking care of it and when y'all had that stretch and knitting that in the buve and make
sure that we didn't become a problem. Yeah, just understanding what we're playing for, what's at stake, and then you know, having a good practice yesterday, a great film session, just you know, talking to the guys and understand what we got to do if we want to be successful this year. And so I'm just locking in. We have fifteen games left, continue to build good habits and then go from there. And so tonight I thought it was a step in the right direction and just continue to keep building prem
here. What helped you be so locked in? Was it just guy's garden and keeping the ball out in the pain or just something something besides that, to just compete with multiple efforts, Like what did you see? Yeah? I mean, just like I said, our blitch was really good. I thought. I attention to details far as rebounding the basketball. We did a good job of turning hitting bodies, and sometimes it came up with them anyway, but we did the right thing, you know, so you can live
with those results when you're actually doing what you're supposed to do. And so I thought we had a I made a conscious ever, just making sure we paid attention to detail. Didn't have any you know, too many game play mistakes and I gotta go back and watch it, but overall, I thought we did a decent job. There was coach Loupos's game after the Clippers would win one sixteen to one oh three. If you heard him on Sunday. He stressed the fact that you guys speaking to the media are worried about the
wins and the losses. I'm more worried about how we're playing and the process. You can live with some of the losses when you play the right way. I think he was getting at that a little bit tonight. Even when Portland was getting some boards on them, the Clippers were doing the right things and they did out rebound them forty two to thirty eight. So that's how you build and get pointed back in the right direction. Like he said, coming up next, we'll have if you want to pick up his phone.
I don't know, maybe it's me Lebron to tweet. We'll have a lot of Murray on. I mean, we'll Lefdyke. That was Lotmurray asking the question. He's in Portland. We might have him on pregame though Friday likely we'll updak next from clips and day after the Clippers win one sixteen to one oh three in Portland. S LA Sports LA Clippers Basketball is on the two one three Era continues. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers
Audio Network. Your LA Clippers are victorious in game one of a two game mini series up north against the Portland Trail Blazers. They win tonight, one sixteen to one oh three. I, Madame Moslin, this is Clippers talk. We got a little clips and double dip for you. Though. Here you hear the music, it's will Updyk joining because the Clippers won. And he eventually picked up his phone, Well, how are we doing. I'm
doing good, doing good. Uh. You know a lot of a lot of people on the line when the Clippers are are pulling out these these crucial, crucial victories against the stout Portland Trailblazer Hey, I don't like the sarcas. You know they just lost to the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday. Was it
not a decisive victory by this Slippers team tonight? It was definitely a decisive victory as well it should be. And I you know, I don't mean to get down on the team if this is just it's one of those unfortunate matchups where it's kind of darned if you do, darned if you don't. A win is expected against a shorthanded Portland Blazers team, and a loss would
be merely unfathomable. But that being said, there was still some stuff to like in this one continued twenty point plus games from the two to three connection. I thought an inspired James Harden performance despite some of the turnovers. Still with fourteen assists, you know there was a lot to like this. When and Paul George continues his this five game streak of twenty plus points, He's shooting over fifty percent from three over this stretch, he is looking to be
re entering his rhythm and hopefully hitting a late season peak. Last ten games, he's getting twenty four points on fifth, twenty two percent from the field and forty four percent from three. Seems good. I like the word you said, though, they're inspired. Inspired play from James Harden when he started cooking that second quarter four to three pointers were made, but also the way
he was audishing and diamond and looking for big Zoo. Thank God, sorry, I needed to see him get up almost ten shots in this ball game after he got just one attempt against the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday. They forgot about Zoo nowadays ever been one to talk about. He got something to say, but nothing comes out with They forgot about Zoo sometimes I don't understand it, and I feel like that's when the game really turned that high pick and
roll finally with James Harden and Visa Zubots. Am I wrong, Will, No, You're not wrong at all. And the thing is, it's like it really unlocks the both of them. Like we know how beneficial James Harden has been in a Viza Zoo for Viza Zoobots, especially offensively. But let's not deny the inverse of that. I mean, it helps Harden's game as a facilitator. It makes things easier for him. He gets more in the flow of the offense, and I think that that helped his personal scoring because
he's got the juice he's going. So it's it's one of those mutually beneficial things that just have to get back to good to see it in this game. You know, like I said on the Cliffton Dip podcast last time we all chatted, was this is an easier stretch of the schedule. This is a time where it's you know, you can kind of get back to your good habits. You know, you can kind of flick some of the wounds
that you know you've accumulated over this long season. When We're in kind of this hard part where every time there's a there's a bit of a hard foul, or every time someone's on the ground, you're worried that they might not be getting up. This is a great opportunity for this team to round back into form, and you know, if we see more of what we saw tonight, then I'm going to be very very happy with with with where this
team is at. It was definitely a level of concern when Kawhi Leonard was shaking that left wrist and just trying to work through it there, but post game coach Lou said he's good, so hopefully he's good enough to go on Friday. Although they're still taking on Portland. I don't care who's available. You just have to win that game because the Clippers have the depth, and
they showed it off tonight. A mere Coffee was out there. No Terrence Man, no Norman Powell, A mere Coffee in the starting lineup, and when he looks for his offense. I just love the way he just kind of facilitates his way, or Vanessa is his way into fitting in with this team. When he's in the starting lineup, he just performs. He steps up a mere Coffee. You know, he's starting to come out of the funk that he's been in over the last couple of weeks a couple of weeks
too well. Oh, absolutely absolutely, And you know, when but Toom was on the team, we know that he was a big fan of nurturing Musa Diabat. But I would be very surprised if the mere Coffee wasn't taking some notes too, because he's he's sort of formed himself in the mold of a similar blue guy, albeit a couple of inches shorter. But he yeah, he absolutely he is the embodiment of sort of the stay ready Clippers, what this team has been. I mean really even preceding the two and three
era, he is right there. The three point shot wasn't completely going for him tonight, but hey, he knocks down one more and that's a completely different conversation. He looked great tonight. Somebody who didn't look too good that I feel like we got to talk about who your man skeleton, key Bones Highland. He is not looking too hot after a great performance in Chicago.
He got pulled early in that second quarter, I think for Brandon Boston when the Clippers started to go on a run with PG and Harden out there with Big Zoo. I don't know what it is. The last two games. It's strange, uninspiring play from Bones Highland after how good he was against the Chicago Bulls. I don't I don't know. He just doesn't seem to be
fully there the last two games. The energy, the spark, he was over four, he had a turnover, you know, zero two ass But yeah, Bones Island, I don't know what it is right now, but he doesn't look right. The thing that was sort of disheartening to me, And again not to pile on him. He's a young guy. He's in face with a pretty difficult challenge there filling in while Harden was out, But even in those minutes at the end of the game, I know they're colloquially
called garbage time. I just didn't like how disengaged he looked. Because I understand, if the game is in the bag, you don't have to play like it's the playoffs. But I would like to see a little effort out there and him just looking completely disengaged, especially on the defensive end. It's
one of those things that he just has to tighten up. He just has to tighten up because you look at the team right now, especially you know with Norm being in the bench and then obviously Karen's out tonight, which is
a bit of an anomaly. But you just you look at the depth of this team outside if you're starting five and things start to get a little carry and if he's one of the guys that you can't rely on, I mean, this rotation shortens to I mean, hopefully if Norm is there, you got I mean, optimistically, if Russ is back, eight guys total.
Yeah, I look, I don't want to speculate too much or be a body language expert, but it just seemed like since Harden was back the last two games and Bones was back to coming off the bench, he hasn't looked right, I don't know, the same focus hasn't been there. Disengaged also an appropriate word. But now let's talk about your guy, PJ. Tucker.
What did you think of his performance to night? Here? Will he was certainly there, no, I mean, look, racking up seven boards, he bractice seven boards and that assist you know, didn't turn the ball over, didn't take a shot, which is something that like, look, I mean, you've talked Toboddie. I know that you are believe that that PJ. Tucker can have value in a playoff rotation. I'm not gonna say I'm completely off of it, but you know, offensively, it's it's not
great. I mean, you're looking at You're essentially looking at a four on five and I he's gotta he's got to take the shots. And like luckily tonight against the opponent, it wasn't something that was really gonna hurt of I did like I did like his high effort feel to in the I believe it was in the third to kind of secure this Clippers lead. But yeah, I you gotta take shots. I just don't. I don't know what else to say. This is the this is the NBA in twenty twenty four.
There's not a guy that can be out there on the floor for twenty plus minutes and not take a shot. I'm sorry, Like Dennis Rodman would have to take shots in today's game. You can't be out there doing nothing. You can't do what he and Ben Wallace used to do. You become a liability. Guys hunt you out too much or they just don't guard you at all. And it's fair to say they're playing four on five at times on
offense when Pj's just hiding in the corner and not taking a shot. He's been better in that area recently, but twenty five minutes didn't get one up in this game. I did like his effort on the boards. I did like what I saw defensively. For the most part, I still believe he can be a situational defensive specialist in a playoff series against the right opponent.
But we'll see what happens moving forward with the offense, because it is something to be desired, and we're not asking a ton just he has to take the shot that he's taken the last fifteen years that corner three. Not many have been better than him. You know who was happy to take the shot
tonight, Daniel tight Man one from three tonight. If he is somehow finding his three point strug late in this season, that is going to be an interesting wrinkle to watch for especially given the, like I said, the shakiness of what this depth could look like in an actual playoff rotation, putting Chuck and those shooting splits he had for his career on Daniel Tyson a body bag tonight going two of two from the outside. Just how are you going to
stop this guy? Last one for you here, though, Chuck, do you just want to see the exact same type of ballgame from the Clippers on Friday? What are you looking for as we move down the stretch here? What fourteen games left? I think now in the regular season? What is good process? In your mind? It's will? This is will get the name right. I was just thinking about Chuck. I'm sorry, I just
bodied him and now I'm bodying myself Chuck on the brain. Yeah, I want to see more of the same in this one, A comfortable lead. I liked that, you know, say what you will about the opponent, you still have to beat the teams in front of you. And I like the energy. I like the way the team did get locked in. Still
a bit of a slow start initially, but they overcame it. I just want to see more of that energy, more of that connectedness, and more of getting back to Like I know this team says that they don't have an identity, but it just it doesn't steel like that's true, given you know, the nine game stretch that we saw, given the sample size that we
saw going into the All Star break. I just think they need to get get back to basics, and I think a big part of that is keeping hard and engaged, and I think along with that is keeping Zoo involved offensively. It just opens things up for everybody. It gets everybody easier shots. James Harden said that the biggest, the biggest thing that he can do is stay aggressive in keeping his teammates engaged, not necessarily always looking to score for
himself, but getting into those double digit assist numbers. We know how good the Clippers can be when he's there, and he's there to make everything easier for everybody else. So let's do that. Let's let's generate good shots, Let's get some easy looks, and let's let's stack up a couple of wins while we have a little bit of breathing room right now in the schedule.
Once again, not to bag on any of our illustrious opponents over this next couple game stretch, Well said, he is Chuck Updyke, I mean Bill Mockler, I mean Will Updyke of clips and dip pod. Well, we got a YouTube I think coming up maybe alive this weekend or something, who knows, but thanks for coming on tonight and doing a little clips and double dip here on Clippers Talk my friend. Absolutely always a pleasure and as our co host Charles Mockler always says, let's go clips, let's go clippers.
Before we get out of here, we got our producer and Katie Newton and her segment, which is just a rating spike each and every time. It is Katie's casual NBA corner where she gets to ask me anything pretty uh pretty high level questions about the NBA and other stuff too, just not oh yeah, I love it, Katie. You know, if you're gonna be rude's just giving you a hard time. What what's up? What do you want to know? You don't have a question to do. You're stolen. I
know what this is. No, come on, be tap dancing. What do you got? What's the question? First off, I want to say thanks for grabbing the pizza from Uh No one cares it was delicious, don't. I actually don't have a question. All my questions I wrote down I asked something about pizza. Then it makes sense she's looking through her clippers notebook. I mean, yeah, all my questions are like from old games.
You know, all right, I got a question, okay me, were you impressed by this Clippers victory tonight or is it just ho home because they were taken on Portland. I mean, you've watched games for three years. Of the last couple of games, I'm impressed that they won. Now that is the way to end the show. A little backhanded compliment from Katie Newton saying that she's impressed that the Clippers won after they had lost four or five coming into this one. So maybe it's fine, it's appropriate, Katie,
appreciate your help. Clippers win one sixteen to one oh three in Portland over the Trailblazers where they will stay and run it back on Friday night, tip off at seven, pregame at six. Before we get out of here. I also want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, Noah Ego, Carlo Jimenez on the call, Big Brother, Jake Warner, the callers, the listeners will Updyke for eventually picking up his phone till Friday
at six with the pregame show Clippers still in Portland. I met a Maslin. Wean't talk to you then, ma, Why was doing his thing? All they want to do is win in La. I win. I thought they gave everything they had. This has been Clippers Talk, the official postgame reaction of the LA Clippers. God bless Paul George. Are you it changed? Don't miss an episode all season law. Go to wherever you podcast and subscribe today. Go up the show. I got you on the iHeart Radio.
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