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Welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam oslin to eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Coming up here on the show. You'll hear from head coach Toronto lou You'll also hear from Marcus Morris coming up this segment post game and the rest of the players after they get what might be the biggest win of the year. Considering the Clippers were healthy, we didn't know who would be
back for this game. A lot of guys were questionable, but Nicholas Batoum was back in the starting lineup, and so were the two one three connection in Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, who was on minutes restriction, still played twenty seven, still had fifteen points, and the Clippers were able to do something only one other team has in the last month and a half. That
would be the Denver Nuggets. But this Utah Jazz team had won twenty of their last twenty one games and just beat the Clippers by eighteen Wednesday night. Different Clippers squad. It matters who you have out there on the court. People always say a win is a winner, a loss is a loss. Those are just lame Ben mallor sports cliches that he would go after because there's not a lot of truth to it. Who you beat, who you play
out there, who's actually wearing a uniform matters. And the Utah Jazz even had Mike Connolly back, a Clippers killer, so they were fully loaded. He played twenty five minutes, had sixteen points, had nine of them in the first quarter to match PG thirteen, who had nine of his fifteen in the first quarter. But the Clippers were playing some really good defense early on
and really holding the Jazz to a one hundred and twelve. Yeah, they had the huge fourth quarter because Donovan Mitchell went off, but overall they played some really good defense Donovan Mitchell just made some really tough shots late to keep them within striking distance when it looked like the Clippers who were up thirteen with just a few minutes left. I'll try to find out exactly how many minutes. But Marcus Morris hit two big time three pointers in the fourth. He
had ten of his seventeen off the bench in that fourth quarter. And what's interesting is the Clippers went ice cold from distance from three for about well a quarter and a half now about two quarters actually of gameplay time on the court from the six minute mark. In fact, I put this down on paper because I couldn't believe this since the Clippers are the best three point shooting team in the league. The Utah Jazz take a lot, they attempt forty two
of them, and they do make a lot. They hit thirty eight percent or so from distance, even a little bit over that. But at about the six minute mark of the second quarter, the Clippers went ice cold. They would miss their next eleven threes until Marcus Morris hit one with I want to say, about four minutes left in the fourth quarter, and then he hit another. He hit two three pointers within two minutes after the Clippers as
a team had missed eleven straight. I said it coming back from the break to Noah Eagle, but I was like, they were due and the very next possession. This is not a stroke of genius, maybe a broadcaster's jinks of anything. Maybe I was just playing the odds. They were due after going that long without making a three pointer, and it was Marcus Morris who stepped up at the four four three mark of the fourth and hit a huge
three to put the Clippers up by seven. He would hit another. Patrick Beverley would then hit one after a great pass from Paul George who used his pivot foot, turned back around and saw Pat Bev in the corner. You got to guard that guy. He's also shooting over forty percent from distance on
the season. He's been a forty percent three point shooter basically the last three years since he's been healthy with the Clippers, but from December on the last couple of years he turns out to be a top five three point shooter. And this season started in December, so I'm interested to see how things turn out for Pat Bev. He's been a marksman from the outside, so he hits two three pointers for them and the Clippers were up one O seven to
ninety five. In fact, they were up one O seven to ninety four, up thirteen or two and a half minutes left. But she knew the Utah Jazz were not going anywhere because Donovan Mitchell, if you watched the Bubble last season, he did some historics in that series where they were up three games to one against the Denver Nuggets, just like the Clippers, and the Nuggets came back on them, gave them confidence the next time they were down
three one. But he put up multiple fifty point games in that series. He and Jamal Murray, who coincidentally had a fifty point game tonight for Denver and they're winning Cleveland. He and Jamal Murray put on a show in that
series. And it's not like it's the first time we've seen that from Donovan Mitchell, because in his first ever playoff series against Okac and Paul George and Russell Westbrook, he was the best player on the court in that seven game series that the Utah Jazz would win in six his rookie season and people were starting to compare him to Dwyane Wade. Well, in the second half, he had twelve points in the third quarter, countered by Kawhi Leonard who had
twelve of his own. But Donovan Mitchell had just six points in the first half, and he doubled that in the third quarter alone with twelve. And he had seventeen points in the fourth quarter and hit one of the toughest shots I've seen all season, outside of what Zach Lavine did against Terrence Man early in a first quarter at the end of the first quarter in that game in Chicago about a week ago. But he hit a shot, a three pointer to bring them, I want to say, within three again, with Marcus
Morris draped all over him, playing perfect defense. He had a hands in his face. It just didn't matter. That was with eighteen seconds left and it was one ten to one oh seven Clippers. Kawhi Leonard knocked down some big free throws, as did Patrick Beverly. I actually liked the fact that they had to face adversity late, not just from the Utah Jazz, but that looked like a clear, clear path foul, and for whatever reason,
the Clippers didn't get the call even though they reviewed it. Even though Pat Beverley was behind the defense, Donovan Mitchell was the furthest man down the court and Pat Bev was behind him, so I'm not sure why that wasn't a clear path foul. Two shots on the ball for the Clippers, but they prevail. Anyways, they overcame a lot in this game and beat what was the hottest team in the NBA that had twenty one games. Slay the Dragon
like it was sleeping beauty. And I hope people stopped sleeping on this Clippers team and start to give them a little bit more respect tonight because this was a nationally televised game. As Noah Ego pointed out, So Kawhi Leonard getting twenty nine in his return that puts him on notice. Back in the MVP conversation, I hope people are talking about Donovan Mitchell in the MVP conversation. It's not right. They're just going off of star power and what happened last
year. Luca Donchich's name is still there over those two guys. That doesn't make sense. They're still under five hundred the Dallas Mavericks, but the Clippers will take the win regardless. It's Clippers versus everyone. They're not worried about the national attention, but it was just good to see this team be whole for once, even though guys were on minutes restrictions. I felt like Nichols
Batoum contributed. He had a couple or at least one steal that he was credited for in the second half that turned into a really nice play I think to Lou Williams and then to Reggie Jackson got out in the open court for a bucket. But just seeing this team start to come together, played together, and it's not easy to do that when you have guys like PG thirteen and miss the last six straight games. Kawai had just missed a couple. Pat Bev had been in and out of the lineup after missing three weeks.
Nicholas Batuman missed the last two games, was in concussion protocol. And that those key players, along with Marcus Morris, they put together a really devastating lineup late, a small ball lineup that took Rudy Gobert off the court. Quinn Snyder and head coach Ron Lou who will hear from in a little bit, they were having a chess match. It was interesting. It was Queen's gambit out there, King's gambit in this case, and they were going back
and forth with different rotation moves. But the Clippers late were playing Pat Bev, Nicholas Battum Kawai PG, and Marcus Moose. That could be a new death lineup, a sign of things to come because those were all two wake us. Everybody there can get buckets on one end, can neither hit three pointers like Nicholas Batoum and Pat Bev, who also has been getting to the
rim. But then also you have two of the best isolation players in the game, and Marcus Morse who has a great versatile all around offensive game. I think he also hit a jumper in the fourth. Paul George, who had nine points on the first quarter, finished with fifteen, so he had six more points in the fourth. Two of them were on some really tough step back jumpers over Bob Danovich. All right, before we break here, we'll take a phone call Jose and Southgate. You're on Clipper stock after they
win one sixteen to one twelve over the Utah Jazz with Adam Oslin. What's up, Jose, what's up? Adam? Thank you again for the post game. And I heard him in the pregame talking about thirty minutes away from stable center tip off. That's how I knew after I was for sure going to call you because I knew you were excited just for this game. That guy I was, I was all jazzed up. Huh yeah, I know you did? I know you we down the big best. What do they
called? Oh yeah, the U saw jazz Man after I saw were the futty thing is left? Quite? Letting up play that bullyball with English and then Paul George shoot that ball out to Beverly and then quite with those two rebounds. That's what I called. I mean, what happened every what happened after that, I knew we were going to win. Let's go, Clippers, Thank you, Adam, Clippers. And I'm calling it right now because I probably won't be able to call it after we beat the Left on Sunday.
Maybe let's go. You're gonna lose your voice? Is that a prediction already? You bring up those two offensive rebounds by Kawhi Leonard late. He had five points on the fourth All five came at the free throw line, and those two offensive rebounds you mentioned the bully ball bully in the sandbox, as Noah Eagle would say, they were huge they were critical. At least
one of them was on Rudy Gobert. He was in the vicinity. Terrence Man also early in the fourth quarter had a huge offensive rebound that he put back over Rudy Gobert. So after Rudy had that twenty and twenty three game Wednesday night, just eight and fifteen tonight, Clippers held him in check and they won the rebounding battle. Remember the Utah Jazz were a plus eleven on the boards in the second half Wednesday night. Tonight, the Clippers outrebounded them
forty five to thirty eight. They had eleven offensive rebounds to the Utah Jazz having six. And this squad is fully loaded again and hopefully it stays that way going into that matchup, and I hope KD is ready as well, and we get a real test again between quite possibly what could be a finals preview in the Clippers in Brooklyn. Nets. More on that, plus you will hear from the head coach Toronto Lou I know I promised Marcus Morris this
segment. We'll get to that too. Eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Clippers win one six teen to one twelve over the Utah Jazz, and you're listening to Clipper Stock with Adam Moslin here on AM five to seventy LA sports two point two seconds remaining. Beverley's gonna get bound baseline for sight, get it in, George, corner jumper on the way, O Paul George.
The boot shot goes. PG thirteen finds nothing but Ninelon from just inside the ark. He's got nine points and the Clippers go into the second quarter with a thirty one twenty three lead. Noah, you go on the call. PG thirteen hit that to end the first quarter. Had nine of his fifteen points in that verse. Welcome back, Paul George, Welcome back Kawaii, Leonard and Utah, Welcome back to the Elkhom. The Utah Jazz took a one sixteen to one twelve loss to your Los Angeles Clippers after they had
won twenty of twenty one. They had lost just one game since January seventh, and we're on I want to say, a nine game or ten game winning streak coming into this game, and had just beaten the Clippers by eighteen Wednesday Night but that wasn't the real Clippers. They didn't have their full squad. And when they do, and when the usual starters are there, all of a sudden, it makes the bench even better. And tonight the Clippers
bench outscored the Utah Jazz bench forty six to thirty. Sweet Low Williams had nineteen, Marcus Morris had seventeen. Those two have been working very well together recently. That has been a combination that has been brewing for a while. Now. I know you wanted to talk about a mere coffee there because I
mentioned the brewing. But he got in I think at the very end of the game and the last or the end of a quarter somewhere, because he played less than one minute, so they just listed as zero minutes there. Terrence man I mentioned that put back he had on his own offensive rebound that came in the fourth quarter. It was a big energy play. Those were the only two points he had, but they were big and the Clippers had just eleven turnovers after having eighteen Wednesday night. Was my key to the game.
Sometimes you bring the squad back together, guys are out of rhythm, the timing's off. No, no, no, no, these guys took care of the basketball. Kawhi Leonard had four assists, Sergebaka had four assists. Paul George led them with five assists. Did have that turnover late, but the Clippers would step up, they would hit their free throws. They hold on to win by four over the Utah Jazz with the final score one sixteen to one twelve. Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm at a maslin
Jeff in Tarzana. How are you? Yeah, I'm here, I Adam, what do you got? Jeffy happy? You know? It just goes to show you, Adam, never a doubt when you have your two best players. I've got a question for you, Adam. I don't know if you have the answer to it. What's the Clippers record when Paul George and Kawiet play? Because I was sharing another RADI a station saying well, it doesn't count for that other team in LA when Lebron or ad doesn't play.
So I was making the comparison. What the Clipper record is when both of those players play or only one of them plays. I got that for you, Jeff, I do have that for you. How dare you question me
like that? They're sixteen question. Okay, fair enough, they're sixteen and three now on the season, when PG and Kawuhi are in the lineup, when they have this starting five that they had tonight with Nicholas Batoum and Sergeobaka and Patrick beverfully next to the two one three connection, they're now eleven and two on the season. But that's sixteen and three. That puts them on pace during a normal right eighty two game season to win sixty eight games.
It's a ridiculous winning percentage. Okay, yeah. The other thing. The other thing is, you know, you notice what kind of slow they have, and they probably have more assists when Paul and Kawai played. But here's here's the thing. None of these teams, no matter how good they are, are gonna win when you have one of year starters out. You know, even you get a team like Brooklyn, which the Clippers playoff Sunday night, they're not gonna They're not going to be a championship team if they don't
have those three guys running, which they have. Do you not agree with that? No, That's why they call it a players league, and you have to have superstars to have a chance to win. You have to have at least a couple of them. Well, here's what I think. I think the Clippers are one guy short, and I think it'd be very smart to go after Andrew Drummond, big thirst. Thank you for the phone call, Jeff and Tarzana. I don't know he's making a big chunk of money.
It would take a lot to get him, and I don't know if you'd have his rights where he'd be a restricted free agent after this season or not. He is a great rebounder. But I like the big men they have with Sergiobaca and with a Vizza Zoobots. I like the contrasting styles of those two players have because Sturge can take you out from the three point line. He got it on Rudy Gobert early on the third quarter, I believe, no, it could have been a third quarter, maybe midway through the
second quarter, early second quarter. He took Rudy Gobert out to the three point line and hit a three on him attempt at five. But the point is he's a threat there and Rudy has to stay with him, which opens up the paint for everyone else. So that's just so valuable to have a stretch five like that, who can also go out there block shots. He can guard it on the perimeter a little bit. And Sergibaka's excuse me,
Vizza Zubots has just been a beast. He didn't have a great game scoring wise, only took two shots, was over two, had three points. He was the only one that had gotten to the free throw line in the first half. I believe the Clippers attempted two free throws in the first half. They were both by Vizza Zubots, so they finished taking twenty free throws in the second half of an interesting cold game to say the least. Okay,
I lied, We'll take a quick break here. Well I'm back, you'll hear from coach Tlu Clippers win one sixteen to one twelve over the Utah Jazz. Well, it ain't no fun if you don't have all the Clippers playing. It's at least a lot more fun. Love to see what the bench had done the last week or so, and they had put together some strong victories, including beating the Miami Heat. But now against a team like the Utah Jazz with all that firepower, with all that defense, the Clippers
needed everyone. They're old slogan. It takes everything kind of does. They hold on to win by four more clipper Stock next eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy eight six six, nine eight seven two five seventy This is clipper Stock, you'reina in five seventy la sports take the path that he tried to get it to him, but instead it's taken away by two. Top ahead. Williams Kids Projectson streaking to the Rabbits for the right handed
land and Clippers lead by seven on the defense to offense. See I knew that play happened. Nick Matoum had the steal and they got in transition quick there and the Clippers overcome one of their coldest streaks from the outside. We're from the six forty three mark of the second quarter till the six eleven mark of the fourth quarter. They didn't hit a three. They missed eleven straight,
but they came up with four timely ones late. Marcus Morris had two, Pat Bev had two, Clippers hold on to defeat the Utah Jazz on the final score of one sixteen to one twelve. Welcome back into Clipperstock. Kawhi Leonard finished with twenty nine points. He also tried to yam one on Rudy Gobert where they called an offensive foul on him. It was curious. I didn't think there was much there. I thought that was part of his follow through on the dunk attempt, but the Clippers overcame that too. He
did have a really nice hook shot over him in the first half. Lou Williams also, this is something that we've seen going back to really last year in the bubble. There was a different amount of intensity on the court defensively from Sweet Lou Williams since last season the end of last season, and he had a swipe and score, as Noah Eagle would say, in the first quarter. Finished with nineteen points. Ninth straight game now he's been in double
figures. That's a big time development. Was really struggling early in the season. If you have an apology for Sweet loew Williams, eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. But I do want to hear from the head coach to Ron Lew. Another masterful performance by him and the coaching staff to get guys back in sync right away. As the Clippers were healthy again with their usual starting five, they win by four over the
Utah Jazz. Here was t Lou postgame? First off, was that the longest forty seconds you've ever experienced as a head coach? Else? Uh, Secondly, you've talked a lot, obviously, I'm not gonna rehash it about playing the pick and rolls two on two and you want to just drive people on the float range. How do you feel the team to deny because Utah took forty four shots in the paint but only thirteen in the restricted area.
Yeah, I mean, I gotta look at it, but I thought our defense was pretty good, you know, until the heroics of Donovan Mitchell down the stretch, you know, and you got going up thinking that third quarter were started making some shots. But you know, I thought Pat Beverley and you know in PG, you know we did a decent job when that first
half and second half you got going. That's what great players do. So overall, you know, the fifth death thought we were pretty good, you know, Alexai, it's to the last LEXI forty seconds or whatever it was, you know, the games, but you know we'll winning for it, thank you, sir. Next up, lot that that small lineup when they first got on the floor for that fourth quarter of the team hadn't made any threes in the second half, and then Marcus broke the seal with those back
to back threes. Is is that would you consider that a bed rock to that lineup working if you're going to close games out small? Yeah, I mean I think you know, it helps us defensively as well, you know, on being able to switch one through five with that unit on the floor then also opens up the floor for our drivers like PG and Kawhi to get downhill and then we got space in all the all the way around, so
it's usually better force the defensive because we could switch one through five. I mean, it made some tough shots, you know, they scored a few, but you know, overall, I think going forward, when we understand what we're trying to do defensively out of that unit, we're gonna get better and better. But the offensive, like I said, with Twin making two of those threes and then they put go Beer on the path their path made two threes, I'm gonna really open up the game for us. Thanks.
We'll go next to oh it Ty, what did you think of how Kawai and PG looked in their first game back and how big was Kawai's rebounds in that finalment in the offensive glass rusty, you know, probably were they were. They were pretty rusty hailing the basketball time and you know, and that's that's that's always gonna happen, you know, when you sit out. And but you know, I love the way to competed, you know a public.
Their compartitive spirit was great. But overall, just as far as the floor game, I thought it was just a little rusty, as far as the speed of the game, making plays involve him on a little good but that's gonna come back for sure. Was it hard for you to keep five minutes down? He played a thirty eight tonight? Well, kawa wasn't on
a restriction. So the other guys you've seen him play a lot of those are the guys there was only restriction and just kind of hard, you know, jugging those guys in and now maybe sure you you meet the minute the minute of restrictions. So we did it and I was able still come out with a win. Thank you. Thanks, We'll go to fire by eight.
Coach, congrats on the win. Thank you. At one point I heard Lou Williams say on the mic dubbed portion of ESPN that he did not want to lose to the same team twice, and they really it just seemed like they were extra motivated. Is that something that you've seen in this weird season where you're playing teams back to back like this, where guys are extra
motivated when they faced the team two times in a row. Yeah, I mean, then you know, the best team at a NBA right now, you know, record wise, So you know, we knew that they won twenty one or twenty one, twenty two coming in tonight, and we understood that, we knew that we got you know, got our guys back, and that we wanted to win this game. And the guys went out and do the hell of a job. Clippers improved to eleven and five at home at Staples Center, and I make it twelve and five. They beat the
Lakers there. Game one. Clippers win tonight over the Utah Jazz one sixteen to one. Twelve. I don't even think they played their best because they are the best three point shooting team by percentage this season and they go just ten of thirty. But when they needed them late, they got them to drop. Marcus Morris and Pat bev Those were the two that hit four threes in that fourth quarter. Clippers led by fifteen with two and a half minutes
left in the second, and the Utah Jazz chipped away. It was just an eight point lead for the Clippers going into the half, and we thought, oh, this looked like the Brooklyn Nets game where they made that run going into the half and then came out and had the huge third quarter. Clippers face the adversity, they fought and they beat a fully healthy Jazz team even though PG thirteen was on a minute restriction, just played twenty seven,
fifteen points. This team isn't close to reaching its ceiling yet and that's scary. And if you don't know, now you know Clipper Nation coming up next. More Clippers talk here on a five to seventy LA Sports Mounts pass on the near side office screens Williams left wight three is a little bit long rebound Terrence Ban up across the trees. Oh, we put it in for Gobert. Terrence Man all effort at Hart inside. If that's not a Pat Bev
late fourth quarter winning type of play, I don't know what is. But Terrence Man has been following his leader and Patrick Beverley and the way he plays, and that was a big one. His only points in the ballgame came off that offensive rebound on Rudy Gobert. Clippers win one sixteen to one twelve over the Utah Jazz. Marcus Morris finished with seventeen points, went three or
five from distance. And I just looked this up, and I know it's below his average right now on the season, which is bad about forty seven percent from three. But in fourth quarters this year, he's shooting forty three percent when shots are at their toughest, when defenses are giving maximum effort. He's shooting forty three percent from three in fourth quarters and hit two clutch shots with in two minutes of each each shot from the six minute mark to four
thirty something like that in the fourth quarter. Here was Marcus Morris though post game on Fox Sports Prime Ticket. Hey, thanks Brian U. I think this was the longest forty second to end a game. But you felt like this was gonna be a heavyweight bout. You guys get everybody back. This is a team that was rolling coming into this game. What kind of statement did you guys make taking care of you taw tonight that's a good team over there. Uh. You know, they've won twenty out of twenty one.
We had the best record of NBA, and you know we mists on they get a win on our home court. They got his two games ago, and you know we four hard, and you know that that was a long forty second but you know we came out with a win and we're happy about it. Well, you guys also went a long stretch in the second half without knocking down a three pointer, and then in the fourth quarter you hit two big ones, timely three. How did you that lift your team when
they needed it the most? Uh, you know, just just just trying to find my way in there. You know, Kay and MTGS do on a great job of penetrating U and they can't guard them gods. So you know, just trying to stretch the floor and you know, and knock down my open shots. I know you said over and over again you're a hooper, but coming into this game, you were shooting fifty percent from three. You go three or five from long range tonight, So how do you explain
the career year you're having From beyond the art? I dedicated to my sons man, you know, I'm just I'm just out here playing. I'm having fun. Uh. You know, we got a great group of guys, great coaching staff, and you know, I'm just knocking it down, man, and you know I'm just trying to do whatever it take to help my team win. Well, it doesn't get any easier for you. You guys get a date with Brooklyn on Sunday. What are you looking forward to in
that matchup? No, those are my guys over there, but we own one. That's all I can say. All right, thank you, Marcus Trying. There was Christina Pink on Fox Sports Prime Ticket hanging with mister Hooper. Marcus Morris there, he had seventeen off the bench. It wasn't easy, it wasn't necessarily pretty at the end, but forty seconds of hell turned into a heavenly victory for the Clippers. They take down the Utah Jazz, and right now there's just two and a half games back of the Jazz.
Clippers in that three seed. They are a half game back of the Lakers for the two seed in the Western Conference. You heard that at the end, Marcus Morris says, they owe him one. When talking about the Brooklyn Nets. It was one of the best games of the season in Brooklyn a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully KD is healthy. Hopefully the Clippers come away from this one healthy and everybody's ready to go again. Tip time for that
game is at five pm Sunday at Staples. We'll have Clippers campdown starting at four. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Bryan Semen, Ralph Lawler, big brother, Jake Warner or head engineer Staples Center, and back here in the bank, Zach Attack, Zach l Caldy, all the good music. I told him. Put out that playlist like Ronnie Fascio trying to bite a real chairman on the board. But still it's that good. The highlights two until Sunday with
your Clippers countdown shows starting at four pm. I'm at a Moslin. We'll talk to you then and