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Adam Oslay Again. Lou Williams want bucket away from fifteen thousand career points, holds at the far side wing but between his lights cross over on Jones get the screen to his left from Zubot's Williams the pump feet the jumper from twenty oh yeah. Lou Williams fifteen thousand career points for the underground Goat. Congrats the Sweet Lou Williams. He reaches fifteen thousand points for his career and the Clippers used the three to make it three straight. They defeat the San
Antonio Spurs by a final score one thirty four to one oh one. Welcome into clip Stock. I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up on the show. We'll have postgame audio from Sweet Lou Williams. You'll hear from the head coach t Lou. Another dominating performance by the Clippers has the worm turned. I don't know the exact expression for that or the origin of it, but I heard
it on Better Call Saul once, so that must mean something. One of the best shows on television right now, dare I say better than Breaking Bad? It's at least the best spinoff of all time. But we're starting to see the Clippers develop some real chemistry, continuity, and consistency out there. It's happening defensively. Holding San Antonio to just one hundred and one points,
that's impressive. What they did at the end of that game against the Atlanta Hawks to come back down twenty two, where they outscored them by thirty one points in the last sixteen minutes Monday night also impressive. Then before that they held the Charlotte Hornets to ninety eight point The Mavericks are just one oh five, granted in a loss because they couldn't hit shots, but the game before that, they held the Mavericks to just ninety nine. The defense looks to
be setting. In that first game out of the All Star Break, they won one thirty to one oh four over the Golden State Warriors. All of a sudden, the talent is living up to the hype. When it comes to this Clippers team defensively, because we knew they were capable of this. We've seen this many times over, but they just haven't been able to put it together for stretches at a time. And while I have a moment,
let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on a seventy sports this is LA Clippers basketball A five seventy KLAC Los Angeles seven KYSR HD to Los Angeles and iHeart radio station. The Clippers were dominant defensively as Kawai goes back to his old stomping grounds, and they stomped out the San Antonio Spurs. Kawai was unreal. Twenty five points, okay, just twenty five. Had twenty five last game, but he did so tonight on twelve buckets, twelve shots.
He made nine of them for his twenty five points. And he had three vicious throwdowns, nasty throw downs on Yaka Purtle, who I almost felt bad for, and Uker Big Zoo got him too. And Big Zoo has been playing to his size. He's making his case to getting back into the starting lineup. Had fourteen points, had eight boards, but went five or five from the field. Feed the beast. Find the beast in the middle.
It's big Zoo. You want to up your paint scoring, get it to vitsa zoo bots early and often reward the big man who plays well for you on the defensive end at all times. Marcus Morris also had another really good game from beyond the arc. Hit five of his seven three pointers, had twelve points in the first quarter, finished with twenty on seven of twelve from the field. The Clippers as a team, while they had been struggling, not in the second half against Atlanta, where they went eleven of twenty
one. I believe it was from three, but the two games before that they had been below their average or their percentage from the outside, which is the highest in the league at over forty one percent. When it comes to making three pointers. Tonight seventeen of thirty three from distance, that would be
fifty two percent. The ball movement was spectacular. They put up forty one points in that first quarter, most they put up in a first quarter this season so far, and they were up by eighteen, as many as eighteen early on in this game. It's not easy to get up by eighteen within the first twelve minutes, but the defense was suffocating. They did what they had to, and my key to the game was turnovers because San Antonio, no one's better in that area. They take care of the basketball while they're
just twentieth on offense twentieth on defense. They get by and they're in the playoff picture currently in the seventh spot in the West, by having more possessions than the opposition, by not getting careless with the basketball, so they averaged ten point eight turnovers per game. They had sixteen tonight against the Clippers. They got handy with them. The Clippers turned that into twenty eight points. And they've been getting more fast break points recently the last four games. I
believe they've gotten fifteen points in transition. Tonight just ten. But you have to understand they were up by as many as thirty five and Greg Popovich waved the white flag early in the fourth quarter, and then the Clippers backups came in and guess who's still hot. Luke Kennard just hit two threes like it was nothing. When two of three from distance. He only played twelve minutes but had six points. But sweet Lou Williams, congrats to the underground goat
for getting into fifteen thousand points in his career. He does so in a Clippers uniform. He has played his best basketball as a Clipper. It's been a privilege to get to watch him because I've been involved with this organization since they made that move to bring him in from the Houston Rockets when they trade CP three and Lou Williams. Remember that first year in twenty seventeen. In twenty eighteen, he was the guy, the guy, and somehow that team
won forty two games they had no business doing. So. They traded Blake Griffin a couple of weeks before the trade deadline, who had missed a month from injury already, and somehow, and I say somehow, but I'm looking at sweet Lou Williams. He's the one. He carried them. He had one of the most impressive games I've ever seen in my life when he scored fifty up at Oracle Arena while taking on the Kevin Durant led Warriors. He had a twenty seven point third quarter in that game. The all time record
for most points scored in a quarter is thirty seven. He was just ten off of that. Coincidentally, Klay Thompson has that record, but sweet Lou Williams was a one man wrecking crew for that entire season. He had I want to say, five games of forty points or more and he kept them afloat and in the playoff picture till the final week. Back in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, he also led them in assists that year. It's been an underrated part of his game. He did it for two years straight with
the Clippers. He had some ridiculous performances in the playoffs against the Golden State Warriors the next year during that thirty one point miraculous comeback, biggest playoff comeback all time in Game two up at Oracle against the fully loaded Golden State Warriors with Shamon hitting that shot to win it, Lou Williams want to say, had thirty four. He was the catalyst getting them back into it. And
tonight he reaches fifteen thousand points scored for his career. He can't say enough about the underground goat, but he has won the six Man of the Year three different times. He is the all time leading scorer off the bench in NBA history. He passed Dell Curry for that mark for that honor, and he's just been a wonderful leader, a locker room type of guy, and
you're happy to see guys like this do well. And by the way, tonight, sixteen points in just seventeen minutes for Lou Williams, So he was doing damage and picking his spots, but they pulled him after he got to fifteen thousand points. Hopefully we'll hear from him coming up. Looking for postgame
audio from TLU as well and Kawhi Leonard Paul George. Still struggling overall with the shot, but I like the fact that he got into the mid range in the fourth quarter, just seventeen points win eight of eighteen, but mostly because he went o of six from three the MIDI was working for him. But right now, he aired a three ball in that fourth quarter. Actually, he's just been so off from the outside uncharacteristically. It's just a shooting
slump. I've talked with Indiana Pacers fans and Oksey thunder fans. They've seen this before where he'll go through this for a couple of weeks and then bounce back. Remember this is someone on the season who's still shooting just under fifty percent from the field and just under forty five percent from three. He's the only player averaging twenty plus points per game while hitting those two percentages. He's been special, he's been spectacular. He's been in the MVP conversation at times.
He's just been struggling since he came back from that foot injury. I don't know if that's what's been hindering him, if he's still laboring through it, if it's the fact that he's still adjusting his game. He's become more of a facilitator out there. Had four assists, just one turnover. You'd like to see that assisted to turn over ratio. He was really good with seven assists. And they're comeback against the Atlanta Hawks and he has found the
Vizza Zoo Bots in the paint over and over again. Remember last season, the first game against the Lakers, no PG, Kawhi Leonard leads them to a victory. But he had instant chemistry with a Visa Zoo bots. Paul George has some of that now too, And it's easy when you got a beast in the paint like that who you just feed and he throws it down each and every time. Now, But Kawhi Leonard had three monster dunks in this one, I thought Nicholas Batoum hit a couple of timely three pointers as
he usually does one and this was key. This was critical because the Clippers were up by eighteen midway through the third quarter. They let go of the rope a little bit. But they went on a seven oh run to end the first half and Nicholas Batoum hit a three pointer, Terrence Man had a nice reverse layup, Kawhi hit a jumper with a few seconds left in the first half, and they went on that seven oh run, and they were up by fourteen going into the third quarter and they would pour it on from
then. The Clippers win Game one of this two game miniseries versus the San Antonio Spurs. Before we break here, let's get you a phone call, uh, CJ, because you just called in As I said that, I'm gonna punch you up at CJ in Alhambra here on Clipper stock. I'm out of Boslin. CJ. What's up, hey, Adam? Well, I'm glad the phones are working today. Man. Has anyone ever picked up your call that fast before? And that's what I get for it? CJ?
How could you? Oh, we'll take a quick break here Clippers win by thirty three over the San Antonio Spurs. Coming up next, we'll have postgame audio farbot Esen Shari we'll be here. Yes, we'll talk about the trade deadline tomorrow at twelve pm Pacific time. What moves could the Clippers possibly make? Well's pretty good right now. I don't know if they need to make any major ones. They've won three in a row and they look dominant on
the defensive end. You're listening to Clipper Stock. I'm at a Mooslin and this is a five seventy l A Sports. This is the official home of your LA Clippers, SPACHA suppots dedades on the rim and the home of the Clippers. Clippers win Game one of this two game miniseries in San Antonio. They take down the Spurs by a final score of one thirty four to one
oh one. Welcome back into Clippers Stock. I'm at a Maslin. Coming up this very segment, you'll hear from the head coach tlu efforting audio from Sweet Lou Williams, who has sixteen points in seventeen minute and more importantly, reaches fifteen thousand points for his illustrious career. You can make the argument he is the best bench player, best player off the bench in NBA history. All right, let's go to Morris in Long Beach. I swear Morris.
If you do, we're gonna have issues. Morris, what's up yard Clippers stock without of Ozla? What's up? Yeah, a lot of bastwood has the isssues with me. Also check this out at him of your boy can art. Well when they talk about the trade tomorrow, trade day, daylight tomorrow, don't trade that food. That boy can shoot. And I said this some time ago when he wasn't even on the floor, that they're gonna
need that shot. He's gonna need that shot. And the other day I think he shot twenty times and made nineteen and I'm exaggerating, but this no, no, he shot eight times and made eight shots. He was eight for eight, went involved. But listen, listen, they're gonna need that
shot. And I like when I know they wanted night they I can't believe he's going one hundred and thirty four points against the San Antonio But the other day when it was struggling, I liked it when coach claud I think was the Atlanta game at twenty seven points, behind the coach, pulled the stars out, y'all sit out. He brought in tea man, and he brought in Canard. See Canard can shoot, Okay, he can. He can get his look. So even though he's not starting right now, Okay,
when they get with this trade deadline stuff, don't trade that floor. I don't know if you've got any influence at him, but don't let him trade him because they're gonna need that shot in the playoff from Tim talk later. I have zero influence, and that's a good thing. Trust in Lawrence Frank and Jerry West and this front office that just don't miss They've been doing it
for years now. They've been brilliant with all their signings. But I believe Luke Kennard isn't even able to be traded because he just signed that extension and it has to be six months after that, and it hasn't been that yet. It would have to be this upcoming summer. I'm not sure on that. I'll have to get Eric Pinks the Capologist online. CEJ. We're gonna try this again, but only because you've been calling in for years and you've
never said that before. Now, CJ, you know what happened last time. Well it's not to have it happen again, CJ. What's up your on clippers? Stop with adamaslin. I got a little excited and I apologize. Well, they did win by thirty three. Yeah, right, that's something you want to celebrate. But so going forward sixteen hours, two point six million, I guess we could work wast Are we doing something, Well that's pretty general. My guess is they do something. Whether how big or
small that is, we'll see. But they have been active. They have been bold and aggressive at the trade deadline in the past. However, if they don't, this team looks great now that Luke Kenard has come around. It's like they already just had a pickup. But so here's the silver lining I see with the Abaca injury doing Morris are a great and them together, Yes, sir, But I think Ibaka is better at the four, so
I don't I don't disagree with that at all, CJ. So I say we go for a five, but small, I mean, like, you know, a five off the bench, and I'm thinking, like mo Bamba. I know it's a stretch, but I say we go for him or Lendo's selling. I don't. I don't know if they'll be able to get Mo Bombo, but there are two guys that people are looking at to be bought out. One of them is in San Antonio with La Marcus Aldridge. The other has been talked about often right now, and that's Andre Drummond in
Cleveland, and both guys could help a team. I think Andre Drummond at this point is the better player, because I want to say La Marcus Aldridge just turned thirty six. Drummond is still just twenty seven years of age and he's been getting about seventeen and eleven. He's led the league and rebounding multiple
times. He's a big body in the paint. So if you're talking about what you just mentioned, there CJ having Surge next to of Visa Zoobots, which we haven't seen much at all so far this season, although t Lewis talked about tinkering with a big lineup like that, but just having Surge back
at the four, there's something to that. But yeah, they would need another big especially because obviously Fiondo Cavin Gelly, he was just recently traded to Sacramento eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine, eight seven two five seventy. Let's hear from the man who pushes all the right buttons. He's been doing it all season long. When you talk about accountability and adjustments. That is head coach Toronto Lou. Here he was postgame
after the Clippers win one thirty four to one oh one. Here's t Lou speaking with the media. Hey, coach, congrats on the wind. It seemed tonight like the team was playing at a slightly quicker pace to get the ball up the floor and get into their sets quicker. Do you feel like that helped lead to part of the reason why you guys have such a great
offensive night overall? Yeah, I think we playing the face and the half court, you know, I think it's a good like you said, different floor early getting to our darts or double trits, doubles the floor up that allows us to get involved to the second side of the floor as well. So walking out to the good job of doing that, I'm getting good job and play with pace and the half court as well, typing down hill and
get into the bank and you know, just build these good happits. Do you think that that pace is also brought about by getting the defensive stops to energize the team to do it, Yes, sir, going on they're getting stops, did not really in transition, I'll really helped us out generation and easy baskets on which we've been talking about all season, trying to get it up early, get easy baskets, and we did that. But we also
are executing O half court as well. Thank you. Thanks go to Andrew greg It's I congrat some even so clear the last a week or so about how the start on defense and the defensive mindset for you guys. What did it say to you to have you guys turn over this team which doesn't turn the ball over? How to do it sixteen times? Just active disrupted. We would bought physic challenge in the game, you know on the offensive end for us when we have in eight times, it's good as well. You
can talk about it before the game. But just being to the bodies of being happy, Paul Patty Mills got free a little bit too much better for me, but you know, we try to have a consciously have the Worrison. I want to flow at all times. But overall pretty pleased about physicality and go to Miriam hey, Ti. In terms of that, I mean, Kawi had five steals tonight and he was super aggressive in that way.
How important is that for him to kind of be out there and kind of set the tone and try to contribute very very important garden best player to water rolls and lots of Kaua took the challenge, and we never he starts the games for us because he's for everybody else to fall. So you know, we need that every single night, and I'll be good until mayor any tack.
Congrats on the wind. I don't know when it was exactly, but I feel like over the last two or three weeks you guys would just put an extra look emphasis at least maybe in my view of just going to the basket and attacking the rim with more aggression resulted in more free through the last couple of games. I guess when did you see that start? And I guess how how has that sort of change what you guys are doing offensively if at all? Well, we've been walking on all years. You've been talking
about what I've been talking about it. Our team has been talking about as well. But we want to go with course. You know, we don't think the calls. We can't complaining. He's got to spokeular chest and you know, get to the basket. We don't have it. Thank then we got to make the right past, you know, for the right shots. And I think see the results definitely on with markets Morrish. You know Kawiet
pt driving the ball, they're helping kicking it out to markets shots. You mentioned that you've been harpening about it all year, but is that Have you seen a sort of shift and focused on that at all or yeah, I have, I've sent the shift the focus on him, you know, and get them to the paint, attacking the round and them, Gradick said, using way they need the charge of them as of link to just really attacking the basket and putting pressure on the officials, putting pressure on the defense,
and putting pressure on the name as well. Thanks time, Thanks go to law any time. Uh lou Will got the fifteen thousand point milestone. And I just wanted to know from you, like when he came into the league, you were a player in Atlanta and like he's from that area. I just wanted to know, like what you remember about him coming into the league and what he's meant to this team, both going and off the floor, and what it meant to get that milestone for him to day much question you
want to answer, Well, what do you want to do? One out of the top. Yeah, we'll go one at a time. So, first off, just the milestone in the day. What does he mean to this team? You know, especially considering you've asked him to be a scorer for this team. He hits fifteen thousand, great milestone, you know, especially four thousands just come off the bench for most of his career and we score fifteen thousand points. I mean, that's that's that's a tremendous achievement.
You know, he means so much to this team, you know, coming off the bench to give us an office and punch that you need. Tomari was great. He's been great for his team before him and got and that's when he got to generating. So we don't want a sixth man multiple times without being able to score in basketball and playing what he does. And let's say it's a pleasure and I have a lot of team and I'll just wanted to just recall with you being in Atlanta and him come into the league.
Just if you remember when he came into the league. You know, yeah, a lot faster, but we know it's a sixteen year but faster athletic. You know, he really could jump, really can get to really once on the floor, you know, really shifting, you know as a as a young player coming in, especially out of high school. You know, he sent him those guys have played fasts all the time, but he really had a shifting. This to his game stop start, he had a lot
to his game. But he like covession, you know. And then I think when he found his nitch just coming in out the dancing and scoring the basketball the way he does. I mean he took off back. There was head coach Telu muffled microphones there in San Antonio. But the Clippers win by thirty three with the final score one thirty four to one oh one over the Spurs. Coming back. We'll get to your phone calls eight six, six, nine, eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven two
five seventy over their last seven games now since the All Star Break. Since coming out of the break, Clippers has been giving up just one oh seven per game. That includes the one thirty five points scored by the New Orleans Pelicans given up one oh seven. That's top five during their last seven games, or that puts them in the top five defensively over that period of time. Clippers defense starting to round into form. They hold the Spurs is just
one hundred and one points. We'll also have far about essence Shari coming up as well. You're listening to Clippers talk. I'm out of Boslin and this is a five seventy LA Sports. So why Leonard is a destroyer of worlds? Right now on the official home of your LA Clippers, Sweet Leew Williams gets to fifteen k felt like the Clippers won by that many. They win by thirty three points over the San Antonio Spurs. They run it back tomorrow
against the same same Greg Popovich led Spurs team. Before we get back to your phone calls, I've been efforting this audio Sweet Loew Williams post game on Fox Sports Prime Ticket after he gets a fifteen thousand points scored for his career. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number As I delay a little bit, Oh we got it right here. Here was Sweet Loew Williams post game on
Fox Sports Prime Ticket with Brian Semen and Mike for Tello. Semen, Mike for Tello, it is great to have you with us. Congratulations on the win. Tell me what has changed for you guys over the last ten days or so since that loss in New Orleans. Mentality? You know, we can't be a team to ease into games. We have to be an aggressive team. We ought to be a punch first team and instead of easing into these things, and you know, I think a young guys gave us a
boost. That last game gave us a lot of confidence. You know, with games like that, teams tend to build around that. So we would able to be able to build off of that tonight and just continue to grow. Blue of the guy's understanding how important this stretch is now. There's so many teams clustered up together in the Western Conference with wins that to me, it seems like it's so important to put a string together. Absolutely, we
noticed is our last game on the road for the next eighteen days. That's in the back of our minds. We understand that we got a great home stretch coming up with some good teams coming in, but we feel really confident playing on our home flow, so we understand how important this last trip is. I don't know if you are aware of this or not. You scored your fifteen thousandth career point. Take me back to your career. I mean, that's a huge milestone, especially with all the games you've had coming off
the bench. It's a blessing for where my career has gone. You know, everybody has dreams of being a superstar guy in this league, and we all feel like we can we can do things. So for me to have fifteen thousand points off the bench, I'm incredibly unnered. I'm sure I'm in great company north of fifteen thousand, and I just feel blessed to still be here and able to continue my career. A little one more thing for first,
congratulations on reaching that plateau. We have a couple of guys who hopefully will be rejoining the team. How much of a problem to work people back into a rotation when they come back. It shouldn't be a problem. You know, those are two of us starting guys, and you know we're pros and at the end of the day, we have a we have a huge goal ahead of us. We're trying to win an NBA championship. So every hopefully everything goes stimley steamlessly and we just continue to go. Lou, congratulations
on the win, Congratulations on fifteen thousand. Thanks for joining us. All right, thank you. There was Lou Williams post game on Fox Sports Prime Ticket. He now has fifteen thousand career points. He's just one of thirteen active players to reach that milestone, and he's the only player since the seventy seventy one season, when starters first were tracked to have fifteen thousand career points with less than four hundred games starting eight six, six ninety seven two five
seventy before farboard Essence. Shari joins me here on Clippers Talk Jose in south Gate. Jose, what's up? You're on Clipper stock with Autamuslin. Let's go at up? I mean, let's go on. Don't don't fake me out like that, Loo, come on now, Adam Man Man Man Man. Okay, as a long time to my friends, did I checked out last game? I half time see when we're down, Yes, but then tune in to day third quarter? Were up about how much? And then hearing sweet Lou go about how much? Okay, this. I just love
how lou knew he was always on score. He passes the button, but tune bass it back to him like nah, go ahead of score man. But then he passed back and then ended up he ended up getting it. Let's go Clippers, Jose, thank you for the phone call. You know what before we break stupid board up? That's me, Jeff and Tarzana. Jeff, what's up? You're on Clipper stock? Do you think the game was as posted as the score now? Sir? You know what I think? I think Papovitch I feel bad for him. The guy is a great
coach. He just doesn't have the players anymore. This guy, this guy is shown time and again what kind of coach he is, and I feel kind of bad. I mean, I'm glad that the Clippers won and everything, but I would like to see Popovitch in San Antonio get in the playoffs again rather than some of those other teams. This is kind of game where you think how good the Clippers could really be, Adam, and if they can beat San Antonio again tomorrow? Do you know that now there are only
two games behind. Phoenix lost tonight to Orlando. Yeah, they're only a game behind the Suns currently two games. I'm seeing one game. Did you update the standings after this one? Because I just did it? Okay, okay, I'm looking at they were four games at the start behind Utah and Phoenix. Was you know what, You're totally right, You're totally right. Yeah. How many times I gotta tell you don't have a question. I'm kidding, oh much? In a while, munch in a while, you
got, I know it was two games before. I do think the Clippers should make a trade. But let me tell you how good would this team be if they could have Andrew Drummond? Because the Laker brass is talking about I mean reading all reports the Lakers are getting. I would hate to see Andrew Drummond go to the Lakers. Yeah, Andre too, wouldn't want to see him there. No, I I understand. He's a big that can really maybe swing a series or a team can get a lag up by having
someone like that. He's that good, and the Lakers could get back to having that fortress underneath the basket like they had last season with Dwight Howard and JaVale McGee. So hopefully some team are giving thirty million dollars a year, am I correct, Uh, it's something like that. It's a lot. I'm what the Clippers have to do with out running their team to get him. Well, he might just get bought out, so then it's up to him and where he wants to go. Okay, that sounds like the most
likely scenario right now. Okay, they're not going to be able to trade him Cleveland. Does it seem to you that Kiromari has played this last game in Toronto or Tampa Bay now that they're playing. Yes, they were talking about him basically in the past tense of being a raptor tonight after they absolutely crushed them with Kauai, who won a championship with him. Well, I can tell you he does make thirty million per year. That would be a
tough one. But there's other teams that are vying for him. The heat are hot on his trail. The Philadelphia seventy six ers and Adrian Warzarowski did say earlier today, don't count out out the Los Angeles Lakers for trying to make a move for Kyle Lowry. I would hate to see that happen. In other words, we have Jerry West, but we have to beat the Lakers. To the punch. I'm not worried about Utah, but I'm really
worried about the Lakers, who they could possibly get it at him. And if they get Andre Drummond or they get Kyle Lari, they could turn the league upside down again. Well, Jeff, we'll find out in about sixteen hours from now. But you gotta trust in this Clippers front office that was able to pull off the impossible before and take Kawhi Leonard away from being a
Laker. Kawhi goes back to San Antonio. The team he averages the most points against at twenty six per game has twenty five, but on just twelve shot attempts, Clippers win by thirty three. Coming up next, we I far bought essence, Sharion. You're listening to Clipper stock. I'm at a Maslin and this is a five seventy LA Sports wrong one. This is the official home of your LA Clippers. Spiza Supbots death dates on the rim and
go home. But the Clippers. The sis I was on this said, congratulations, shine works off the shoe got the lations of sweet loew Williams. He gets a fifteen thousand points for his career, has sixteen in seventeen minutes tonight and the Clippers win by thirty three over the San Antonio Spurs. Welcome back in New Clippers Talk, I'm at m Oslin to eight sixty six nine
eight seven two five seventy. Eight sixty sixty nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number final segment here, But we're gonna make it a good one because we got my friend Farboad Essence Sharion at Farbod underscore e. He is the insider that broke the news before anyone else that James Harden was going to the Brooklyn Nets. He beat Woes, he beat Shams, he beat the guy from USC, he beat h I don't know some of those baseball
guys, John Hayman. Sometimes they crossed over, you know, Sham's does it once in a while. He had the breaking story about the Ducks game being pushed back or them getting that an automatic win because VCU went into a coronavirus protocols. Far abought. Thank you for coming on tonight especially, But we're talking about sweet Lou Williams a lot here because he gets the fifteen thousand
points. Just encapsulate what he's meant to the game, but also what he's meant to this Clippers team, where he's played the best basketball of his career in the Clippers uniform. I mean it's it's I think people forget when they think about Lou, Like how many game winners he's hit for the franchise in two years, I mean against the Bucks, against the Nets, against the
Wizards, like, he's done a lot. And I think he's whether or not fans think they should trade him or whatever, like he's earned the right to play out his contract, especially with how low he decided to he signed for the team. In terms of what he means to the NBA, I mean, I think it just shows kind of an It's very hard to get that many points off the bench, And there's a reason why guys like Emmanuel quickly say he's their favorite player. He's your favorite player's favorite player. He's
the underground goat for a reason. Far about s and shar Is joining me here on Clipper stock after they win one thirty four to one on one over the San Antonio Spurs. Far aboard, When Kawhi plays the Spurs, it is it just any other game, because it looks like I mean, he brought the pogo sticks for this one. He was getting up like he was still twenty five years of age playing for the Spurs. Yeah, they asked,
They asked Tie if it if it's any other game to Kauai. They tried to get like a little candid answer for him, and Tay said, it is just like any other game. But it's always very interesting to me because like any player you talked to will always say, oh, just another game, just another one out of eighty two. But like a lot of times you can tell that's clearly not the case. But with Kawai, it's kind of hard to tell in general, because every game does look like the
same game for him. I'm still laughing about the question to our friend Tom Arazarali from Clutch Points asked him after he hit that three pointer in Tony Snell's face on Monday night, his former teammate in high school, asking him if he has bragging rights in Kawad said no, No, if anyone's gonna downplay it, it's gonna be Kawhi Leonard. But that's just who he is and
we love him for it. And he's still just twenty nine years of age and playing the best basketball of his career right now in the regular season with your Los Angeles Clippers, somebody who has been struggling though far. But I'm interested to get your thoughts on why you think Paul George and his shot just haven't been there consistently. He's been shooting about forty percent from the field, about thirty percent from three in his last six or seven games. Now,
I think he's just I mean, he's a streaky guy. Like we've already seen it in the bubble, Like once he's in his own head, he's in his own head. He's he's admitted it, and I think he was. He was shooting so well at the start of the season it was kind of ludicrous, and now there's just the regression. The only thing, unfortunately, is like he seems to be the type of guy that when he goes, oh for four, he's gonna he's gonna go over six. He doesn't.
It's one. It's one or another with him. He's either making a ton or missing a ton. Some of them are good looks too, and they're just not going in. But fortunately, like you know, Lou picked up the slack today for him, or you know, Marcus Morris picked up the slack for him. So it's just one of those things where I think he's gotta I think he's got to overcome mentally certain times when he gets cold. I think he puts a lot of pressure on himself to do well.
It's far abroad, Essen Shari joining me here on Clippers Talk. He does it for SI now and the Bleacher Report? Did I get that right? Far abroad? Where else can they find you? They evil letter for wrestling, I know, but uh no, I actually no, that was for esports too. Let me try to wrestle away some inside information from you, because you're plugged in. You've broken some of the biggest NBA news of the
last six months. What are you hearing right now? What do you think is going on behind closed doors with this Los Angeles Clippers front office that works in stealth where nobody seems to have that inside input from them? Well, I mean, the thing about Clippers front offices is like they don't leak anything, right, but the other people that they're going after, their agents,
their people do so like that's where you hear from. So when it's something big, like you know, getting rid of Tobias or Blake for you know, Kawai pg whoever. You're never going to hear about that. But then when it's something like Marcus Morris or Reggie Jackson or Surgeon Baka, Like we heard about that all last season, that they wanted Marcus Morrison, Reggie Jackson. That's why we called you know, that mixed game, his audition game,
and then they ended up getting him. So I know for a fact, you know, there's certain people in the Thunder that you know they think George Hill is getting. I think he's getting the most a lot of attention from the Clippers. It'll be interesting to see if they go after him. It would have to be for some kind of expiring contracts and second round picks. I'm not sure how much George Hill really moves the needle, but he's
the lowest hanging fruit for him. It seems pretty clear that like they're going after point guards and they're inquiring about every point guard there is, but it's George Hill, a Lonzo Ball, Ricky Rubio, whoever. But it all comes down to what they're willing to give up, and George Hill they have to give up the least four and that's kind of why it's the lowest hanging
fruit. You gotta give to get because we had a call on this earlier from Jeff and Tarzana, who's very afraid that the Lakers are going to pick up Audrey Drummond. But we heard earlier from Adrian war Zarowski that the Clippers could also be interested in his services. Have you heard the same. I mean that was like brand new, because like for two weeks now, even when I did that TV bit for KTLA, before anyone said Lakers were interested in drumming, that was that was something I put out on TV. So
I think, I mean, he's been heavily favored of the Lakers. They would be like a weird coup if if he went to the Clippers. And it would also be kind of weird if he did go to the Clippers, because then it could signal something underlying that they're going to get rid of a big man. Maybe, if anything, I think maybe they were inquiring about him in case they had to move a big man for a bigger piece,
like a bigger point guard or a Victor Oladipo. But I mean, he was very heavily favored to go to the Lakers, and honestly, they can offer him a better spot because he'll start immediately, And I don't know why you would why you would want to do like a pseudo start pseudo you know, backup with any other team if you could get that clear start with the championship contender. So how much do you think changes tomorrow with this Clippers roster?
Are we talking big moves, small moves, moves on the margins. That's what a lot of people have said. Sam Amock wrote about that before. Because this Clippers team looks great now. They just have to optimize lineups and guys just have to play to their potential, which I think they will. That is the tough part to predict because Jerry West. Jerry West can be, you know, very ruthless in that regard, so ruthless in the regard of like you can trade to Bias or Blake overnight and no one will
even know. Because that Blake trade really was out of nowhere. I've talked to people about it and no one saw that coming. There was one sweet five minutes before it was official from Woach, then five minutes later was done. No one had that. I mean, Blake didn't even know. So if they choose to do something extreme, I don't think anyone, any one of us are gonna be able to predict it. I think the smart money would be maybe just some kind of fine tuning just because the personnel is there.
They're just not executing certain things that well. But if I had to guess, whatever they could do to get Alonzo or Ricky Rubio without giving up too much, and if they do have to give up too much, they might just get a George Hill and then have another empty spot for a buyout. I don't think they're gonna I don't think they're gonna dismantle too much. I mean, for as much as they're underperforming, they're still like a game out of the second seed. Yeah, they're a game back of the Phoenix
Suns right now. Yeah. So it's the thing. The thing that's always interesting about the Clippers, and I've said it before, it's like they can beat anyone, but they can also get beat by anyone. So that's the part they have to try to figure out a way to minimize that variance that allows that. He is far bought s and Shari follow him on Twitter at far Bought Underscore E. He does it for SI now and the Bleacher Report. Far Bought I appreciate you coming on tonight. I'm assuming you're gonna be
up all night, so enjoy that. I recommend five day today. I will probably pass out far doing the Lord's work. I'm gonna tell you. I was so confident because I went to bed at like four a and yesterday. I was so confident I was gonna wake up at like twelve today and then like everything was going to be done. And then I woke up at eleven and nothing could happened. I was like, Okay, then I gets no more rumors swirling. We're gonna make you wait, just more interesting exactly,
team emerging as likely front runner. Oh my goodness. All right, far bar, we'll talk to you soon, and thanks again. Bro. Clippers win by thirty three over the San Antonio Spurs. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Semen, Ralph Lawler. Back here in Burbank, I don't know. I think Eric Sclaru is as yeah, the Duke of sports. He was giving me some encouragement earlier. So thanks Eric. We made it. We
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