The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame reaction has just begune Kawhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range. This is Clippers Locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead on your home for LA Clippers Basketball. And now your host, You, sir, are a bad man. Adam Ousley. Clippers make it two in a row. They win once welve to ninety eight over the Mavericks in Dallas. Welcome into your post games show. I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up. We'll
get your second half highlight, your post game box score. You'll hear from the players in coach Lu. But while we have a moment less pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network, this is LA Clippers Basketball AM five seventy KLAC Los Angeles ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeart Radio Station. Back to Noah Ego from American Airlines Center. One of the best wins of the clip of the season so far by
the Clippers. Wouldn't you say, yeah, no doubt about it? And I think it's really the way that they did it that seals it for me that fourth quarter you go in tied seventy nine, Kawhi has to go to the bench to start that quarter, and yet you extend the lead, and then Kawhi comes in and basically steps on their throat thirty points, nine rebounds, eight assists. Again, I brought up the numbers of Kawhi versus the Mavericks with the Clippers uniform on, because it feels like it doesn't get talked
enough about. You know, I think we hear about Luca and everything that he does to the Clippers, and rightfully so. And that's why I brought up his numbers as well. Averaging thirty three eight point seven, eight point seven, forty nine thirty eight splits against the Clippers is unbelievable. He's incredible. But Kawhi Leonards averaging thirty one nine boards, fifty four percent shooting and now after today is a plus one eleven in twenty games against the Mavericks.
He has been dominant against this team and that continue today. I thought that he took the team home. They got him to the position that he needed to be, and that's exactly what this team's all about. Complementary. So you know what your superstars are going to do. You know that Kawai can go out there and do all the Kawai things, but what else can you do to put him in that position? Paul George did that early in the fourth quarter, comes up with big buckets, big distribution, big passes,
rebounds. Norman Powell's just massive, massive play in that fourth quarter. Just wasn't really getting stopped and so recognize, hey, I've got the advantage here. Finished the fourth with eleven points in the quarter on four of sixth shooting, got to the free throw on a couple of times, which was critical. The Clippers, by the way, in this game finish thirty of thirty one at the free throw line. It's the little things at him. And this is what they did so well two years ago when they got to the
conference finals. They shot the three ball incredibly well, which they did tonight at forty three percent, and they shot free throws at an all time rate, which they did today at ninety seven percent. On thirty one attempts, Dallas ends up missing eleven and that's really a big part of what made this game so different, and the second straight game the Clippers really took care of the basketball overall. Norman Powell with eleven of his nineteen points in the four
quarter. It just seems like when that final period comes around, he hits the throttle, he hits the accelerator, he gets the free throw line. Yeah, and that's where he's comfortable. It's what allows him to almost establish that rhythm and then from there he can really turn it into gear. And I think that what he's done so well these last couple of games, shoot the three ball. He missed his last three from downtown, but still goes
two to five. But when he gets the line and he's efficient from the free throw line, it opens everything else up for him because guys are now wary about fouling him on his drives to the basket. So he got that transition opportunity. He just attacked on a double team. We know that he's strong, we know that he's willing to get there, and he did, and then as a result, guys have to now think about cutting him off or they have to try to take a charge or do other things, maybe
back up and let him shoot it. So it opens things up for him. It opens things up for Kawai and Paula Georgian when the three of them are on the floor together. Forget it. What are you supposed to do? Leave Marcus Morris or Nick Patoum wide open, which they did and they paid for it. Seems like Wings plus Norm could be a new death lineup down the stretch for the Clip. I thought Paul George was really good in
the second half. I know we had a couple of turnovers in that third quarter, but he was more aggressive then and then hit big shots down the stretch. So yeah, those two turnovers were both travels, and I look at it because he ends up with five turnovers on the day, So five of the eleven Clipper turnovers were from Paul George, but two of those were travels. And you said the key word, he was being aggressive, which is why those turnovers came. And realistically those are bang bang calls. Those
easily could have been non turn non travel calls. They could have been foul calls. The one looked like he got tripped, the other one looked like he got pushed, and so easily could have gone the other way. So I'm not mad at it. I think that you'd rather have that than the other way around the ones that you can't handle. There's the one he had a past Norman Powell in the corner that he just wasn't in the same communication
with that's something that can't happen. And then a couple other ones just silly passes or dribble it here or there, things that you know you can avoid. So I think he knows that the three that he could avoid he would have avoid. But if you're being aggressive and you turn it over, that's a completely differ story because generally those are dead ball turnovers, very different than the live ball wants. Yeah, with all the fouls the Clippers got,
I'm surprised one of those wasn't called a foul. But then again, Paul Georgia getting too the basket hasn't always got the favor with the refs. Okay, one more for you, Kawhi Leonard with his thirty points. I'm just in all of his play the last couple of weeks now on both ends. I don't know if I ever expected him to be this close to where he was this soon, and he's right there once again, back at that twenty one level. He really is. He's playing at as high of a level
as anybody in the NBA is right now. I think Adam. I mean, it's hard to pick anybody else out who's consistently doing this. You know, Luca I, guess Is and yokich Is and the guys who are in the MVP discussion. But that's the level of play he's playing right now. He's playing at an MVP level over these last seven games. I mean,
it's been absurd. He's averaging thirty points a game over seven games. He had come in averaging six point three boards, grabbed nine of them today, had been coming in shooting fifty four percent from the floor, goes ten of eighteen to and shooting fifty percent from three goes three or four from downtown to day, including that one that felt like a dagger from straight away in the fourth quarter to extend it to ten. To the little things what he's doing,
all those winning plays. He's making all those winning plays that he did pre injury, and that's what made him so special obviously, the talent, the skill set. Defensively, he's a menace. Offensively, he has sharpened himself into one of the most dangerous weapons in the game. But it's the winning formula. It's those extra things that he does, grabs that offensive rebound, or takes the charge or pokes a ball away a fifty fifty ball.
That's what made him special, That's what took him to a different stratosphere and
made him into a top seventy five player of all time. So now it's about just being consistent, which he is over these seven games, getting on the court, making sure everybody's out there together, because if this team does truly get out for extended periods and gels, now we're talking about a whole different ball game for this group, and especially considering who they're coaching their coaching staff is hey, you mentioned that three point or agger he had in the
fourth quarter. It was off an offensive rebound, just like he had against Dallas and over Luca Donches that last time back in Los Angeles. I think it was Tim Hardaway Junior on him this time. But winning plays from a winning player who has the highest winning percentage in regular season NBA history and Kawhi Leonard. Clippers win on twelve to ninety eight in Dallas over the Mavericks.
They were returned back to downtown Los Angeles. They will technically be the road team Tuesday night in the Battle for Los Angeles seven pm tip time, against the Lakers. Well, have your pregame shows starting at six. Noah Eagle, great calls, safe travels. We'll see you back in well the crypt we'll call it that. Appreciate your Adam. You know I always look forward to downtown Los Angeles bumping for they can't wait out, come on, coming
up back. Second half highlights. Clippers complete the Texas two step, a couple of victories over San Antonio and Dallas. And you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers. Pucket like its pocket pockets, check it chet o two just lay down slow. Clippers hold the Dallas Mavericks to ninety eight points in Dallas. They win one twelve to ninety eight. Improved to twenty five and twenty four on the season. Welcome back into your postgame show. I'm atam Oslin
coming up on AM five seventy l A Sports. We'll have Clippers talk for you eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy But right now. Second half highlights. Clippers were down five at the half. It was fifty four forty nine in favor of the Mavericks. But Kawhi Leonard had twelve points in that first half. Kept it going
in the third quarter. George left to right off a screen to us right more it's George drives right whip at farside corner, swing it to Morris who bobbled it, got it back, drives middle back to Leonard farside corner. Three ball is perfect Kawhi. Leonard sticks it and the Clippers lead sixty three sixty hooks it no intercepted. He was looking for ten to what he taken away by George. Up ahead for Leonard and he hanged to the rim for
two. Leonard with a left hand banks at home time out Jason Kidd and Dallas. The Clippers have taken a five point lead. Leonard against Hardaway off the screen to his left, crossover on Donchet spins in the lan oh. Kawhi lays it in with a right hand. He loses Luca seventy two, seventy one, Leonard with nineteen. Kawhi, with nine of his eventual thirty points in that third quarter, was tied up at seventy nine heading into the fourth. Early on, as Kawhis was on the bench, Norman Powell had
it going. Dahl Covington stripped him up ahead to Pal one on two. Powd to the basket, bakes it in. Anyway, it was Covington on the strip, Pal on the finish, and the Clippers lead by six eighty five seventy nine. George left to right double team there labat inside Covington, swing at paw baseline drive, working on the contact, put it up, put it in, counting in a fel for Norman. Paul hands it off Pal on the outside, driving middle crossover left Pal and extra cross lays it
up and in with the right hand. Reggie Bullock got lost in the sauce. Largest lead of the day for the Clippers on an eleven four run. It's ninety to eighty three, dycking down double team comes, bounce it a tomb, swing it around the horn, Pal down the middle of the lane, up and under lights it in with the right hand on the left block. Clippers with their largest lead. It's ninety eight eighty nine as Powell has eleven and the fourth Norman Powell huge down the stretch once again, but to
close things out, it was back to the claw. Leonard shielding the basketball, driving to his right, long strides to the rim, banks it in with the right hand. Two strong Kowai Leonard twenty three for the claw ninety six eighty nine LA. Midway through the fourth, Leonard rips it away with five to shoot. Leonard's gonna have to make it happen straight away his three bulls up and down. Kawai cash one out three ninety three Leonard pump fake
drive baseline, gets underneath and laysing in with the right hand. Another thirty point game for Kawhi Leonard. Kawhi does it again. He's had thirty or more in four of his last six games, and the Clippers go on to win one twelve to ninety eight in Dallas over the Mavericks thanks to Kawai getting nine of his thirty in that fourth Paul George, also with some big shots, had six of his twenty one in the fourth quarter. Coming up next,
we'll preview Tuesday night's game Clippers and Lakers battle for Los Angeles. Should be a good one. Tip time at seven, Clippers countdown at six more postgame next right here on the Los Angeles Clippers ready and ms I'm sold rout them and scary unique skills at ninety Cats. What slipped up was Roxolreen, he'd been playing like a woolly because he trusts it up is in need a
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number. Big game in the battle for Los Angeles, as the Lakers have been playing better and the Clippers they just won two in a row for the first time since December twenty seventh, huge victory, holding Dallas is just ninety eight points on forty three percent shooting overall and the Clippers having only ten turnovers.
So the defense that had been struggling over the last fifteen games showed up and the offense took care of the basketball well enough and hit big shots late Kawhi Leonard in that fourth quarter in Norman pal and Paul George and how about Marcus Morris went to the line for three free throws as he was found on a three pointer, was knocking him down and also had a tip in from a hustle play after a miss at the rent. Like good defense overall in
Luca Dongers, who they held to nine to twenty one. By the way, and under his season average where you had only twenty nine points. How about that take that we've got twenty nine for you said thirty three. You can get Clippers win once twelve to ninety eight and Dallas again. Next game coming up back in Los Angeles against the Lakers. Clippers are technically the road game for that one. Tip time at seven, Clippers countdown at six outside
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They're trying to win the whole thing. A postgame, look, it's your LA Clippers recapping the game, the stock said, looking ahead to what's next. To hear episodes you've missed, subscribe to Clippers Talk on iHeart Radio or wherever you podcast now your host of Clippers Talk. Here's Adam Ousley. A big defensive performance in Big d by your Clippers as they hold the Dallas Mavericks to just ninety eight points. Luca dontchis under his average. He had twenty
nine to the thirty three averages. Clippers win one twelve to ninety eight. Welcome in to Clippers Talk. I'm atam oslin to eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy with you for about the next hour, walking you up to the NFC Divisional Round forty nine Ers and Dallas Cowbro Cowboys right here on AM five seventy LA Sports. Coming up on the show, you'll hear from Coach Lou he was just at
the podium. Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip will be here as well. We'll get to all of your phone calls. You can also tweet at me at follow Adam a on Twitter. One of the best victories of the season by the Clippers, one of their most complete victories of the year because they needed it desperately as there are just thirty three games left in the season.
It gets them back above five hundred at twenty five and twenty four. The defense showed up, which had been ranked just twenty eighth in their last fifteen games after throughout most of the season they were top five, and their offense showed up in the fourth with a thirty three spot thanks to Kawhi Leonard. He had nine in the fourth. Norman Powell had eleven of his nineteen in the fourth quarter, and Paul George stayed within the flow of the game,
only took four shots in the first half. I was critical of him on Twitter. I know he picked up two early fouls, but he's got to be more aggressive than that. And then you saw it in the third quarter. He came out had a quick seven points to match his seven point total in the first half, and then in the fourth quarter was still in rhythm
enough to knock down some big shots. I want to say he was of three in the fourth, including a tough jumper over Spencer Dinwiddie and the Clippers and that defense that has been much maligned by me and Clipper Nation over the last three weeks, now played some of their best on that end all year. Long loved the rotations by coach Flew down the stretch where they went four wings, wingstop plus Norman Powell and when he saw Reggie Jackson was being picked
on by Spencer Dinwiddie took him out of the ball game. But Marcus Morris back in, who struggled overall but got fouled on a three, knocked down some free throws as the Clippers did. He actually missed their only free throw of the ball game. They were thirty to thirty one. He was four or five, but getting to the charity stripe after foul on that three was huge, and then he missed one on the inside, got his own tip in nice hustle play. He was a plus twenty in his defense was very
sound overall against Luca Donsich. Again, you hold Luca to nine to twenty one from the field and just twenty nine points. That's a win. And it was that'd saw you win by fourteen points over the Mavericks. They only scored nineteen in the fourth quarter. It was a defensive battle early on Clippers in the first one it by two, but scored only twenty two points in the first quarter. But there was a different energy about them. I thought
their energy and effort was much better. To the point there was some friendly fire going on where guys were knocking the ball away from each other while going for rebounds. It was almost comical at times if it wasn't given Dallas extra opportunities out there, but the Clippers getting to the charity stripe, continuing to attack down the stretch. And that's what Norman Powell is so good at when you need easy shots, and that has been a struggle for the Clippers over
the years Layton ball games. When things slowed down, it's more of a half court offense. Who's just going to go to the basket with reckless abandon and either get a lay up or get to the free throw line. Norman Powell can be that for them. He knows how to hit the accelerator, so push down on the throttle and get some easy buckets for this team. And he's been spectacular in fourth quarters in particular this year. Powell, now I want to say in fourth quarters is over fifty percent from the field,
over forty percent from the outside. He's been doing his best work when it's required. Not just the twenty two points he had against the Portland Trailblazers and that big comeback they add, He's been consistently very efficient and a big part of some Clippers victories like this one by playing well during winning time. And he just has an added element rim pressure the Clippers. You know, they're heavy in the mid range with Kawai and Paul George Late, same with Marcus
Morris. They can shoot threes from the outside, but you still gotta get to the That's what Norman Powell provides. And I just want to say this. If you're watching Kawhi Leonard Hope for the last three weeks or so and you don't think he's already returned to looking like a top five player in the game, because he does it on both ends, I don't know what you've
been watching. Kauai is starting to get very close to where he was, and maybe we won't know until the playoffs because he always hits another gear then, but he's looked very close to twenty twenty one level. Kawai his last ten games twenty seven per game, six boars, four assists, two steals on fifty two forty six ninety three shooting splits. In four of his last six games, he's gone for thirty or more. He's been unbelievable, putting
Luca dontchich in the spin cycle. And that's the difference Kawhi. He's playing defense on the other end, some of these guys Luca Yoki just gotten better there. They don't give you the same effort there. While Kawhi is an all world defender while getting inefficient thirty points, that three point are he hitting the fourth, He gets the offensive rebound, does the little things both your
superstars do. Two way guys that scrap gets a tough offensive rebound, just like he did last time out against Dallas, pulled it out to the three point line and stuck a three. And he's been shooting over fifty percent from three his last six games now, just absurd percentages. Nobody's been better though the last couple of games than Norman Powell. His last three games, he's
thirteen of eighteen from three. He started this one after hitting his first two thirteen of sixteen, but his last three games thirteen of eighteen from distance. That is seventy two percent shooting. This is what I expected from him, just ridiculous efficiency playing next to He's never been on a team this good. I think he has said as much that this team can be more talented than the Toronto team that won the championship because they got Kauai and Paul George.
But with that attention going their way to the two one three connection, when they're back out there on the court, norm should thrive and he has been the last two months. Basically since November, he's been getting seventeen per game, but an efficient seventeen eighteen per game on I want to say, fifty three percent shooting and forty six percent three point shooting. That is tough. That's six minute of the year worthy stuff, especially because he plays the critical
minutes down the stretch. That's what's been happening. So with thirty three games left, you hope this is the start of an extended winning streak for the Clippers. Not going to be easy. They're taking on a Lakers team that is playing better, a lot better even without Anthony Davis. They've had a winning record since he went back out and they just got a victory over the Memphis Grizzlies just came back on them late. Not going to be an easy
game Tuesday at all. Even though the Clippers have been dominating that series. I want to say they've won eight straight and something like thirty one of the last thirty five matchups. It's been pretty one sided. But the Lakers certainly looked better than they did earlier in the season where the Clippers had coming into this one regrets defensively. As I mentioned earlier, last fifteen games, they were twenty eighth on defense. Now during that stretch they were better offensively than
they had been throughout most of the season when they were nineteenth. But you can't let your defense fall off a cliff like that, especially because kawais play in a lot of games recently. I want to say he's played seventeen to their last twenty two ball games now, just missing those back to backs. So you can't waste these ridiculously efficient and superstar like performances from Kauai where he's been playing like an MVP recently. Again, got to take advantage of it.
Gotta get rolling now maybe they are, we'll see. January is huge for this team. They got a tough road trip coming up on the East coast that they're taking on Cleveland and Milwaukee, so a lot to prove. Still, they're in the sixth spot outside the playing again and I think a half game back of the five spot in the West. And the one thing that has been there saving Grace and a lot of teams in the West is how bunched up it is. Still. Yeah, a couple of teams have
separated themselves at the top. Memphis got really hot, had one eleven in a row before losing to the Lakers. Denver has been hot. They're at the top of the West. But outside of that there's room to maneuver. A top four seed is still well within reach, and I think that's crucial for the Clippers. You don't want to start off the playoffs on the road. You don't want to make it any more difficult on yourselves than it has
to be. Some really impressive performance of the performance as though, because Paul George having the turnaround he did in the second half, being more aggressive and then finding his looks, finding his offense with Kauai out there in the fourth quarter and making some tough ones. It's how it has to be. He's got to be just as aggressive. He can't only defer. Yes, the
playmaking, playmaking P PlayStation P that's a big part of his game. But you know, he's one of the better scores in this league and one of the more efficient ones outside of the Splash Brothers and Stephen Clay. Over the last five six years, nobody has shot a higher percentage at a higher volume from three than Paul George. It's like the long lost Splash brother he is.
And he only took three three pointers, hit one of them, but you still want to see him get closer to twenty shots than ten always because Kauhi right now he doesn't need many shots to get his thirty points. He only attempted eighteen. So with that level of absurd uber efficient play, there's shots to go around, and that keeps everybody else in rhythm. I thought there were also just some pivotal defensive players from Robert Covington. Rocco had two
rear view contest type steals on Luca Doncich was hounding him. He played twenty one minutes. Luca might have got by him, but Rocco, with the long arms, was able to post the basketball away. There was a Paul George Steele leading to a Kawhi Leonard layup. I believe in the third quarter that was big for this team. I mentioned that Kauai fourth quarter three pointer, huge clutch shot, but a lot of winning plays for the Clippers to
gain some distance and win that fourth quarter by fourteen points. And this was a team that, mind you had multiple stretches of five minutes without a field goal twice in this game. Over five minutes. You want to talk about a game of swings. Early on the first quarter, it was the Clippers watching Dallas go on a sixteen to two runs just to respond with a sixteen oh run of their own, where Dallas went scoreless for five minutes till the
very end of the first quarter. Clippers were up twenty two to twenty after one, and then the Clippers in the second quarter go over five minutes without a field goal, down by five and a half quick starting the third quarter, and you can see getting Paul George more involved was a point of emphasis. He had an early bucket in the third kind of got more involved in
the offense. Just has to stay in rhythm. This is a big development with coach lew and I think what he said last game, we're on Friday night, Paul George tied a career high with twelve assists and just zero turnovers. Had a five unfortunately in this one to just four assist. But he brought up the point that even if he's not taking shots, if the ball is in his hands, he's staying in rhythm, he's in the flow of
the offense, he's staying involved. So then when you do need a big shot in the fourth quarter, like in this game, like against San Antonio two, he's not ice cold out there. His game is still warmed up and he can make them for you. And that's you know, basketball one on one when when a lot of guys are touching the basketball and you're moving the basketball around, it keeps them not just engaged, but in rhythm.
Paul GEORGEO is a superstar. Some of that's on him. He's got to take it upon himself that when he has a slow first half like he did, he's got to bounce back. And he did. In Dallas, Clippers win one twelve to ninety eight over the Mavericks. They went two in a row for the first time in almost a month. Let's go to our first call here, Mitch Mitch in New Jersey. You're on Clippers stop without aim awsin Mitchy not paying attention. I can tell because I can hear him in
the background there Morris and long Beach always on it. Morris, what's up? That was the mav any one on the road. You know the tip of Beata MAVs in the playoffs. You know they had to get down. That's that's that was the tip waking. You could take it a meet when the be the niggas, you can come out and see that's that's that's that's. That's okay Morris with the jingle there, the soft parodies not bad. A recap and a preview of their next game. All on one. Clippers
win one, twelve to ninety eight. Make it two in a row. Complete the Texas two step holding Dallas is ninety eight though that's impressive. The defense, I'm telling you, uh, they were getting sliced and dice. It was an informercial. It was ugly over the last three weeks. Inexplicably they needed a game like this, and Noah Eagle brought this up in the pregame. Do not underestimate them getting a practice in yesterday. That helps. Also, you see a familiar foe in the Dallas Mavericks. You can bring
out the best in you. More Clippers Stock coming up next as we lead you up the NFC Divisional round. Cowboy in San Francisco, taken on the forty nine ers eight six, six, ninety seven, two, five, seventy. Back to your phone calls next here on Clipper Stock on them by seven shows other reference bit time he's close seasons, I'm ahead of the time, I top of thrown down hard, tip of shine, I got the tippen. She's telling me this and telling me that you say once you da
mean with you, I never go back now. I got as I want to teach. I'm gonna show you that way. You from Norma met Clippers in Dallas once weelve to ninety eight. Yeah, ninety eight, says held Dallas to ninety eight, a team they know very well. Got a good victory over them recently back in downtown Los Angeles where they held him to one hundred and one points. And then early in the season. I want to see that game was ninety eight as well. Let's see if I can find
it here. Oh, I don't talk about this one. They lost it by two. Hell Dallas one hundred and three points, so they have come to play against this top five offense. Somebody though, who is playing at such a high level this soon already? I didn't think he'd be here already, not like this. I'm talking about Kawhi Leonard and welcome back into Clippers talk, and welcome back to the Kawhi Leonard show where he could be the best player in the league by the time the playoffs come around, which is
where he was back in twenty twenty one. Nobody was playing better than him. So for everyone out there that has complained, and I understand the frustration to a point, but all the why isn't Kawhi Leonard playings nine? Where's Kawai? Why isn't he I'm playing on these back to backs coming off an ACL tear. I don't know. It. Sure seems like the plan has worked, that the rest they have given him has worked, because he's already playing at this high of a level. Had four dunks against the Spurs here
at night. Looks explosive, is efficient, is great defensively. I'm not going to disrupt the process that they've been on with Kawhi Leonard with bringing him back slowly when the results are this Chris in La Chris, you're on Clipper stock without amazin. What's up? Hey, Adam, how are you man? Thanks for taking my call. I'm great. You know, there's a lot of things that jumped out at me in this game today that was just
vintage classic Clipper basketball. You know, twenty we only took twenty eight three pointers today, which is huge. Right when we start to shoot thirty five forty three pointers a game, you know, it ends up being too many, not one well, not when they're shooting it well, but it's a dull double edged short at him. When we've shot thirty five to forty three is again, we typically shoot under forty percent. We you know, the key to this numbers on that. We just check the numbers on that.
And and because the reality is mid range game when we attack the paint, when we get in and we limit the live ball overs, which we did today. We only had eleven turnovers, had very few live ball turnovers. It's one thing to throw the ball out of bounds, it's another to throw it to the other team and they get a transition basket. I am very very bullish on where this team is now. I know a lot of fans are saying, oh, we're only one game over five hundreds, but you
know what it's been. We're only a couple of games out of the four spots, two and a half games now of the three seed. I like where we are. I like where we're going. I love the fact, you know, when when you've got guys out, like you know with ug Hart out and John Wall out and others, it's next man up mentality. O Thouse Covington gave us some great minutes today and Lubach again is just playing phenomenal. Another little anecdotal point today two Adam is you've got a team like
Dallas, which is a winning record, which the Clippers have struggled. It struggled against teams with winning records this year. And uh, and we won that game again today. I liked the momentum. I like taking a ninth in a row from the Lakers Tuesday night and then beating the Spurs on Thursday to make four game, four game winning streak before we go back out on the road for eight games in a row out on the road. I think the Clippers are in a good position. I'm not hey, I'm just I'm
tickled pink as a team. I've been a season ticket holder a long time. Three rows off the floor, go to every game, and I've got to tell you a team like Dallas that has decent wing defenders, like a Reggie Bullock, like a Tim Hardaway Junior. To see our wing players being Kauai Teach and others to continue to dominate the wing players of the Maps just
speaks Molly, so Chris to that point. Kawhi Leonard versus the Dallas Mavericks since joining the Clippers, he's getting thirty one a game on fifty five percent shooting with a fourteen and six win loss record. So for all the Luca Dontees talk, which got to such a ridiculous point, Steve Smith on NBA TV said that Dallas beat the Clippers in the playoffs, which didn't happen. That's how much almost the Luca Dontae propaganda. That's how high it was.
And Luca is amazing, He's one of the greatest players I've ever seen, but it was taken so far that they forget how Oh yeah, the Clippers won that series and Kawhi Leonard was still the better player, especially in the twenty twenty one series. That Game six he had with forty five points. Dallas was Adam. Dallas was up three winning that series, and Kawai said, you know what, I'll put you on my back. Well, they
were up two oho and up nineteen in game three. Chris up nineteen in Game three and Kawhi Leonard let him back and then had the forty five point game in game six. Chris, I forget which thousand or fifty thousand fans the most fans in American Airlines stadium history in Dallas, and he went for the forty and then turn around. I will take personal blames for Don Chick's forty plus performance in game one in that series because I was the one jawn
jacking with them from the stands. If you go back and you watch the highlights, you know, if it wasn't for you, Chris, Luca would never be good. If it wasn't for you, Luca would never be good. He owes all your all his talents to you. Yeah, go go, go Clippers. We're gonna win ninth of the row against the Lakers on Tuesday night, and we're gonna beat this first Thursday. That'll be four in a row. That'll put us at three games over five hundred, and we'll
be on our way. And worry, the Clippers will be there in the end at the end of this year, will be right there banging with the Nuggets from the Western Conference Finals. And I love our chances over the Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals to go to the finals. Thank you for the phone call, Chris. I try to find a timely spot to jump out there, but I love the confidence and the positivity there. I'm with them. It's a big victory, but they got to keep it going. It'd
be great if they could turn it into a four game winning streak. Lenny in Inglewood, Lenny, you're on Clippers style. What's up? Listen? Man? That really was a damn good game. Man, What is the deal? So this is this is this is gonna be permanent. Now. What PGS is playing is playing a point and what happens the man he's been playing point a ton. I mean he's been doing this when Reggie was in the starting lineup too. Or he'd play off the ball and the ball would
be in Paul George's hands or Kawai's hands a ton. And it's not some huge new revelation. I think they just want to go back to it more and it I like the idea of keeping the ball in his hands. Now, he's got to take care of it. And he had a couple of turnovers in that third quarter, called for a couple of travels. May have been hacked on at least one of those. They weren't getting a friendly whistle. But Paul George has been known for some erratic passes here and there where
he has won a game. Usually that is just an absolute head scratcher. He's got to take care of the basketball, There's no doubt. But keeping the ball in his hands, it keeps that shooting form warm, if you know what I mean. Yeah, And you know when you got a guy like Pole come off the bench and give me those kind of points, you can take a little more. You can. You can take a little off of PG in turns of scorn until he gets that rhythm down at them at
that point guard a spot. So hey, how about these numbers from from Norman Palis since you brought it up, Lenny, his last three games now he's averaging twenty five on sixty three percent shooting and sixty eight percent shooting from distance as he's thirteen of his last Night team from three. No, he's phenomenal. I just I can't say enough about Paul. I mean, like I said, I used to see him when he was on Toronto and he used to kill us. And I used to be like, oh God,
this can I wish he was and like the same thing. Like you, I used said the same thing. And he's come here and other than the rock the rocky start to begin this year, he's been off the chart, man, he's been off the chain. It's just you just love. There's nobody in the NBA like him, man who'd come on, who come off the bench and get that hot and be that efficient. He reminds me almost like a Donovan Mitchell, because that's the kind of point you can put up.
But that's with his body posture and the way I can see some of that, Yeah, his gate and his explosives, his explosiveness, it's like he accelerates to you man, and he drawls, he draws the file. And there was one movement where he put on Bullock when he switched, he crossed him up in the lane and just kept it in his his right hand extended like he was serving up a pizza and it was just it was just beautiful man, extra cheese. Yeah, that reverse layup he had in the
fourth with the and one, and that's what I like. He comes in the fourth quarter shot out of a cannon for some reason. He has just been so good and supplying so much energy and they need it in fourth quarters. On an older team, you need somebody that plays with that speed. So one last question, so where does because they got a nice little so what does fit in when he gets back. He's taking minutes probably away from Reggie Jackson. That's how I see it. The guards who have been a
cut above all season. It's it's Norm, Terrence, Luke, Kennard. I gotta go with those three over Reggie and over John Wall when they're all healthy. Those are tough decisions to make, but they have to be with only thirty three games left. Yeah, Okay, all right, man,
Well I hope, I hope they get on roll here. Man. But this, this game against the Lakers on two days gonna be real couch because the Lakers look Lakers have started to look good now too, so this is really gonna be a ballot LA And then they're both at the same point with it. They can they can roll it out, or they can fall back. So let's let's hope the Clippers, you know, to keep it going. But this is a really, really impressive win on the roll man,
So I'm happy for everybody. Thanks for the phone call, Anny, a little too happy there. Yeah, the loser of that game could be sent in the wrong direction. It feels like a crucial game, uh, you know, as we enter about thirty percent of the season left, getting close to that and the trade deadline coming up on February ninth, the All Star break, all of it. Okay, let's hear from coach lou post game.
Clippers win in Dallas, hold them to ninety eight, they score one twelve pull away in the fourth quarter as they outscored Dallas thirty three to nineteen. Here was Coach Slew speaking with the media. You know, we we doing the right things on our double team as far as our spacing, you know, win the drive closeouts, took advantage of some matchups, you know, so we got one on one. We we got a good one on one player, so we The assist didn't show it might only have a nineteen
assist, but I thought we did a good job. First quarter, we did a great job. Second quarter not so good. I thought the third and fourth quarter we did a good job. We just making the right play, getting to the pain, making the right pass, were taking our shot ourselves, and we missed eleven shots at the room tonight, you know,
which is good. We want to keep attacking. But I thought all around we did a good job, and especially in the defense on a defensive vent in the second half, how did you still he did on look up?
I did a good job. I thought we did a really good job, you know, brand O'Connor and Dan Craig just mixing it up and just you know, showing the blitz firing, faked the fire and get back guarding one on one, you know, so just just keep him all balanced as best as we can because he's a great player, and it's hard to, you know, show the show a great player the same thing over and over because they're gonna pick you apart. And so I thought branding it in DC did
a good job with just mixing it up. See a telling you seven two points and a half time Friday night, they had seventy nine points through three quarters. Sight talked about the defensive improvement poll was I guess that practice straight
where your defensive talking points, actually those guys execued it. One was getting into the ball and picking rolls, you know, being more physical, gett into the ball when they hear the call, and not leaving Zoo on the island by itself because you have so much space when the screen hits you the guards going down the hill one on one verse zoo and that's not a good place to put him in, especially with speed rollers that can catch lobs.
You know, we gotta try to get that physicality where were getting into the ball, hitting our man before the screen hits up. So that was that was a big point of emphasis yesterday, and I thought our guys did a good job to carry over was really good and especially in that second half yours are guys really trying to find them man something for this group because and so inter missed with the availability and just the life of existency. What's that hight
test to tell you about the last two games. And physically just scared of the team, the direction you guys around. Yeah, I just think you know, when we're whole, I think you know, we're a tough team and we just gotta get some games that we can continue to keep building off of. Get rotations right, you know who plays well with who, get everyone off a minute restriction, and so those are gonna be the important things
going forward. But I like where we're at. I like our spirit, and you know, when this team is healthy, we're a tough team to handle. And so hopefully get Luke back soon and continue to keep building and they'll keep building the right habits on both sides of the basketball. But when our two main guys are playing, you know we're a different team. Those coach flu postgame, Clippers win one twelve to ninety eight over the Dallas Mavericks.
Coming up next here on Clippers Talk, we're gonna do some clips in double death with Charles Moechler. He'll join us. We'll get back to your phone calls also eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy Mitch be aware, get to me on Twitter at follow Adam ay as we walk you up to Niners and then boys. Right here on Amp five seventy, l sports the phone from the game. She was staying them like good thing you decided to last time that's fun. Chains
on my neck, it was no smile on my BRep. Last time that the Clippers make it two in a row as they win one twelve to ninety eight in Dallas over the Mavericks. Welcome back into Clippers Talk as we walk you up to the NFC Divisional round. Maybe some foreshadowing here a team from California beating a team in Dallas. We'll see forty nine ers and Cowboys coming up here on a five seventy LA Sports. We'll get back to your phone calls in just a bit, but first out to Chuck Mockler from Clips and
Dip Fame with myself and William Updyke. Chuck, where would you rank a victory like this on the season for the Clippers. I mean, this might be the best win of the season. I know that everyone really liked the Celtics win, but you know, we were going against the team that wasn't fully healthy on of a Clipper either, but and certains of the process and terms of you know, the difference a night and day from what the defense looked like against the Mavericks as opposed to the Spurs. I think he got
to be pretty excited. This might be the best win of the season, and you know, holding Luca over season average always feel good. I mean, the Spurs, a bottom three offense, put up all those points, score over one twenty Dallas a top five offense, and the Clippers end up holding them to ninety eight a great defensive performance. I know they're very familiar with this team, and some of these games get taken into more of a
playoff like environment because they battled so much over the years. But Kawhi looks to be rounding into playoff form. He looks so good the last couple of weeks. She's just dominant out there on both ends, getting big shots. He's looking close to identical to where he was before the ACL tear. Wouldn't you say, Yeah, he's been ramping up, you know, at Kawhi
speed. He plays at Kawhi speed, and he kind of recovers at Kawhi speed, so where you kind of just realized, Oh, all of a sudden, we're here at top tier Kawhi right, that's been move against Luca was absolutely insane. The sequence where I think, you know, Paul George intercepted that path and about the fast break was probably one of the most you know, fun or encouraging sequences of the year for the Clippers. So I
think Kawhi Leonard is pretty close to playoff Kawhi. We just you know, indeed, Paul George to ramp up a little bit maybe with some of these field goals helps earlier in the game or middle of the game, to really kind of be that that one B for this team. But right now, the whole team was on Kauai's back and he is more than happy to carry us. More from Chuck Mackler in just a moment, but let's pause ten
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and iHeart radio station Charles. One of the developments we've seen over the last couple of weeks rowco getting more minutes in wingstop plus No or wingstop plus Norman Reggie, which started off that fourth quarter, and while it didn't work in the first half against San Antonio, it was good in the second half, and it was good early in the fourth where they were a plus eight before
Kawhi Leonard checked back in. Yeah, I mean, I think there was a trend too, because before Luke got hurt, we all talked about how Luke plus four wings was a good idea. It just seems like playing four wings idea in general. Robert Covington, you know, it took us over half a season to see these things happen, which is a little frustrating.
But you're totally right about Norm Powell. He's been on a heat or two, and I think you put in any one of our guards that can kind of get downhill, even just a little bit, next to these wings, it's gonna be productive. I one thing I also liked about the lineups today. You look at the three point shot distribution, no one took more of
the five. I think it was all kind of evenly chunked out, which I really like, and I think is a side that the Sippers are playing well within those you know, more wig heavy lineups, just in terms of ball distribution and not getting too stagged it with what we're doing offensively. One of the things I've known is the last couple of games, we talked about how zoobots had just looked more tired, more lethargic out there, But the
last couple of games. He's had more pop and I know he picked up some fouls, some tough ones when you got to guard Luca Donchach is going to happen. But it looks like he's just more active, getting closer to where he was maybe earlier in the season. Yeah, I'm wondering if he's just a little bit, you know, getting a little bit healthier and things like that. I can't remember who said it on the broadcast or all the postgame might have been no Eagle, but that extra practice yesterday I think helped
a lot too. I think Zoo is one of those guys. Remember how much basketball Trends used to play in the offseason. Yeah, and now Zo kind of gets this chance to do euro Basket before this season. I think Zoo is one of those guys who just has to play a bunch of basketball
to kind of get back to the health, if that makes sense. He did look a lot more spry of that he has, and you know, maybe eventually he filled a better two because winning does here everything, so I'm sure whatever maybe small things were perhaps the lenoyance for some of these guys at Zoo especially, are now a little easier to just brush off. After getting you know, a solid with over the map. There were some big shots
hit to end quarters for the Clippers. Two three pointers at the end of the second quarter by Reggie Jackson, who has had his moments the last couple of games, really good fourth quarter to start things off against the San Antonio
Spurs. Nicholas Patum though, hit a big three pointer I thought to end the third quarter, and he and Roco just handsey out there, and when they were driving guys and kind of funneling guys to one another, when Luca dontach was trying to drive past one of them, there was either a rearview contest or one of those guys waiting for him. That's what we've been waiting for with wingstop playing those two guys at the same time. Yes, but
Nick Pote was in so good all season. I know, offensively, maybe it's not you know, the most you know, popping got your eyes box scores, but he does everything else phenomenally well for the Clippers. He's still probably our third most important player. I feel like that fluctuates every other week or so. But Rocco and Batoum are going to be a nightmare. And the half court for teams during the playoffs, which this is what it's all
about, the process. Ken's a little frustrated and how slow the process has been. But we're starting to see now, you know what we're going to see in the playoffs, which is really really locked down half court defense from you know, these two guys who are also going to be playing next to Quiet Pp and you mentioned, you know, it's not eye popping box scores as you see from Nicholas Batoum. You had a couple of blocks, but you look at the plus minus led them in that category was a plus twenty
three. A guy who was tied for second there with Marcus Morris was Norman Powell. When you bring up third best player on the team, Norman Poe is certainly the third best score and has really played like that. Just look from November on. He has been so efficient out there, the way he attacks the basket also in fourth quarters and is able to get to the free
store line that's needed on this team. That is an element and a factor they just haven't had as much as as much of with this two on three connection era where they haven't gotten as many easy shots and fourth quarters, and that's what Norm Pale seems to provide. Yeah, he has been on a heater. He had a brutal start to the season, and you know, his Clipper tenure was so weird too, right, he had five games when
he got hurt them. You know, we just didn't really see it work out that well, had a rough offseason, and that was doing exactly what he did in Toronto and he was kind of a fringe All Star and someone who you know, started too many games and win sixth Man of the Year. But was in that conversation, So he's doing the exactly what the Clippers need to do. Right now, it feels like everyone knows what their jobs
specifically are supposed to be. I remember during the Doc era there was some times where guys weren't entirely sure of their roles, and other than Terence Man currently because he has to kind of you do everything at a moment's notice. It feels like norm knows what he's supposed to do, which has come in and get late bucket and pressure the rim. And what was great about Nord
today is he wasn't hunting for fouls. He was getting the foul called, but he was going with more intense to actually score as opposed to just get the whistle, which I think a rest notice and b it just looks like he's a lot more effective what he's doing that. Yeah, like that and one he had in the fourth quarter on that little reverse type of layup. It was going to make the shot first and if you get the foul, good. But the Clippers have been getting into it and I've been getting a
tough whistle recently from the officials. You can't get you can't get caught up in that too much. Okay, Tuesday night in downtown Los Angeles. I know both teams are in you know, interesting spots. It feels like critical points of the season for both the Clippers and the Lakers. The Lakers, to many people's dismay here listening, they have been playing much better basketball.
That was a big victory they got over the Memphis Grizzlies, and even without Anthony Davis, you know, they've been engaged in playing with a lot of hustle. I'd say, out there playing hard each and every night. This is gonna be a big match up Tuesday night, I think, yeah. I mean the Clippers we've won one eight in a row over the Lakers, which it's really hard to beat a team nine times in a row. So
we'll see what happened. But I do think, you know, is you know, maybe tapped as people might be on this game for the Clippers. They always kind of cut get up for the Lakers, for better or for worse. When we play the Lakers, this two one, three or a team always gets up and these games are always very stressful from you know, the Reggie gallop last second three to stop at ad best too. Like it's gonna be a tightly contested game. I think the Clippers are playing a little.
I just love what happened today against the Maps to really kind of lift the Clippers spirits up going to the Tuesday. But it's gonna be close when some people wanted to be I think yeah. And this was also such a good win because Dallas won revenge after the last time against the Clippers, and these teams always get up for one another, so pretty good tune up before they take on the Lakers Tuesday night. Of course, we'll have a preview,
a Clips in Dip preview tomorrow, follow us at Clippers Pod. He is Charles Mockler from Clips and Dips Some Clips and Double dip here on Clippers Talk today. Charles, thanks for doing this. We'll talk to you tomorrow. My friend, absolutely sounds good. Thank you. Adam coming up next, back to your phone calls eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy Have the Clippers flipped a switch?
We'll find out I remember, gonna find out a lot about this team in the next couple of weeks. But Tuesday night against the Lakers. It is taught to beat a team nine times in a row. I'd like to think of it as law of independent trials, like the roulette table. Stop looking at what the last number was or if it was red or black. It's an independent trial each and every time. But the Clippers have gotten up
for these battles, no doubt. Coming up next more Clippers stock as we walk you up to the NFC Divisional Round forty nine Ers and Cowboys right here on AM five seventy ELI Sports, I go from six to twenty three. Let comlo bron serving up of pay, serving up pick well linkim is because they scared a rat turn down the That's how this happened in Kansas City yesterday what's y'all performing? Clippers performing well in Dallas and in Texas they win once
twelve to ninety eight, complete the Texas two steps. Welcome back into Clippers talk. I'm Adam Oslin eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy before we get to the NFC Divisional round coming up here in just minutes, let's get to Mitch in New Jersey. Mitch, we're coming back out to you. Mitch. What's up, Adam? I even thinks Kim I call me that, Jim D. Go ahead, you keep it in shape. You keep working out for me, because
I can't do it anymore. I'd follow out of May. I'm working out for me and me only. I'm too vain. What's up, Mitchy? Glad to have the defense and in the right direction, like the winning, getting healthy, especially you took care of vot. I think he's gonna be a top three, top three or four an MVP race or maybe it quite keeps playing like this, maybe he can get in the race and maybe Silvil Award. I don't think he would have played enough games. I don't think
they'd be able to give it to him, but you never know. He wants the finals MVP match. That's what he's looking forward to. If he brings a ring and we get a first parade, that should weigh heavily. And what about him, I'm even talked with the Lakers, But what about the Clippers. I would take Can Reddish for a second round pick. He kind of reminds me of you could play Cam Reddish for a second pick. Yeah, that rumor has been out there. Well, they got a lot
of second round picks. I like Cam Reddish. He's been under utilized in his career overall, but a heck of a town. Well he's being in a doghouse. Yeah, well Tom Thibodeaux's old school. That's what happens, Smitch. I appreciate the phone call, my friend. Let's go to allay yun, Alla yun. Where are you calling from here on Clipper stock? Yeah, I'm calling from Los Angeles. How are you? Yeah, Lancaster, California. Yeah, I'm good. What do you think of the ball
game? Clippers winning by fourteen in Dallas? Yeah, I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised. I thought maybe they'll get They're gonna be beat by. They're gonna beat Dallas maybe by two or three. That was it was a very good game. Yeah, so I'm calling it A guy in the game from Tuesday against the Lakers. Yeah, I hear a lot of Collins say you will be a very close game. But I don't think so. I don't think so. I think he think Clippers is gonna blow them out.
Yeah, yeah, I think so. I wouldn't mind that all un shape the confidence. We'll see, it's gonna be big for both teams. Lakers still got a game to go later tonight against the Portland Trailblazers. Earlier, though, Pelicans lost in Miami, So the Clippers are just two games back of being the four seed. Something worth monitoring. Ali, And thank you for the phone call here on Clippers Talk. Let's go to tagus and we'll nut to close things out tonight. He just what's up? Back to back?
Yeah, Adam? Back to back? Yeah? Was that a Magic Johnson throwback? There he was, and I knew you wouldn't know it too. One of my favorites, my favorite player. Yeah, I know, not just because he gave a Zuba, but on great game. You know what's underrated besides Kwai as dominant in his efficiency from the offensive, in his defenses, the way he's been reading the double teams us he's not He's not like created, he's like turnover creating turnovers. You take care of the ball.
One of my peppi's with the Clipper's offense was sometimes this year they keep passing the ball around the perimeter, and I would like to see them when he's double team for more cuts to the basket of tourist. Mills good at that, but he's not in there late in the fourth, which is what Norman Powell provides a quite often, is if he doesn't have the open three, he takes it to the rack. So I like that. I want to see a little bit more of that. But quite has been amazing.
Norm Powell has been amazing, and they got to keep that up to make that push. I was gonna ask you two days one or a king, where are we ranking offensive rebounding? Oh, I'd have to check on that. I'll try to get it for you. Oh you know what, I got it right here. An offensive rebounding percentage are basically middle of the pack sixteenth. I think we got to get that a little bit higher if we're gonna make that push, and don't be surprised if we make a play for
a big man. If you got one more quick, Okay, you don't. I appreciate days. We'll talk to you on Tuesday after the Lakers game. Tip time for that one is that seven. We'll have Clippers countdown starting at six before we get out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Noah Ego, Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawler, big brother, Jake Warner, our producer Katie Newton, that callers the listeners today on Clippers Talk after they win in Dallas one twelve to ninety eight over the Mavericks.
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