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Osler. Let's say it's better to be lucky than good, But the Clippers they were both and might have got a little luck of the irish in Boston against the Celtics were the Boston Celtics shot a stormtrooper's ask four of forty two from the outside in the Clippers win ninety one to eighty two in Boston over
the Celtics. Welcome in the Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslin to eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number or get to me at follow Adam A coming up on the show as we're taking you till the top of the hour. Why who can stop me? I'm running everything tonight. I'm the captain. Now what are they gonna do? Hold on, I'm getting the text with my boss. Shut your dumb it. Oh so we'll go. We'll take it
till eight. Clippers though, they come through late in a fashion they weren't able to just a few weeks ago when they lost that game. They were up by four on OKAC with thirty seconds left and they just couldn't put them away. Tonight they could, and they got off to a good start. But to see them come through against a Boston Celtics team that is well one for nine in one score games this season, it wouldn't end up that close. Clippers win by nine points, but I thought they played big and they
beat Boston at their own game late, playing big while playing small. By the way, a lot of small ball in this game for the Clippers, who just had to cut it out. This wasn't a must win game, but it wasn't need to have a game. Boston doesn't have Jason Tatum. They still had Jalen Brown, who was great. He dropped his thirty points. But Marcus Morris goes back into his old stopping crowns there in Boston and
has twenty three. Had a big first quarter, I want to say, had twelve, Yes, had twelve of his twenty three in the first quarter, had just two more in the second, but had seven big ones in the fourth and the one free throw. He did miss as he went five of six from the line. Ended up to be a blessing in disguise for
the Clippers. Don't believe me. Listen to No. Eagle nine games played and remember the Celtics one and nine this year in games decided by five points or least second free through a long reapound a man second chance, and the Clippers can train some more clock tennis. Shoot for Canard on the left wing, chap step and drive to his right straight away, picks up his dribble, feeds far side corner. Morris will try the three, missed it long
reapound a soup bots third chance. Now can Arts right away, leave it for Bledzo on the left wing. He'll try the three bull's eye. Eric Bledsoe sticks it from the outside and the Clippers lead eighty six seventy eight. Eric Bledsoe with ten of his seventeen points in the fourth quarter when the Clippers went ice cold, but that may have iced it. It put them back up eight. They were up five with two minutes left. It was Marcus
Morris at the free throw line who again finished with twenty three. Didn't hit a three pointer oh five from the outside, but he's a mid range master. And there were some people, even some people in Clipper Nation, that thought he was washed, that thought he was done, that thought he had too many miles on him, too much physicality with the type of game he has, and maybe he was an older thirty two. Hey, Marcus Morris right now in December playing his best basketball as a Clipper, some of the
best basketball he's ever played in his career. Because tonight what Notwithstanding he had been shooting forty five percent from the outside from three while getting seventeen per game. In December, he outdoes that with twenty three, yes, oh of five from three. But to beat that efficient from the outside, and I want to say, it's about nine games in December without Paul George for the
majority of them. No Kawhi Leonard. To beat the focal point on offense, to control things, to get tough buckets, to be that shot creator in the post, to be able to iso and put games away like he did. And he had a big turnaround fade away late in this one too. It's not easy to do. When you shift from being the third option or the fourth option to being the number one guy. Teams load up on
you Boston knew what was coming and they still couldn't stop him. Marcus Morris was in his bag, as the kids say, tonight in the mid range, just nasty stuff. But it wasn't just him. I tweeted this out earlier and I've been talking about this, but Terrence Mann and Luke Kennar are just having sixteen points against Brooklyn Monday night. That's just not good enough from
those two. And much has been made of their early seasons, but they have really picked it up, especially Luke Kennard over the last month and a half. Terrence Man as well. But to me, they're key to success coming into this season. One of the ways the Clippers could raise their ceiling stay in contention for a top five seed was having those two elevate their game
continue to grow. And they've been up and down. You could say there's been plenty up, plenty of upside with them, but sixteen points combined wasn't going to do it for the Clippers with so many guys out right now, And maybe it's unfair. They're two young players. They're asked to do a lot more right now, play big minutes. They both played thirty six.
Marcus Morris by the way, played thirty eight that minutes restriction be interesting to hear from coach Lupo's gave afterwards maybe a little Oaki doke some gamesmanship there. It sounded like he was gonna be our minis restriction. Just played twenty seven Monday night. Was supposed to get at just a few more, but ended up playing I want to say the entire fourth quarter. They needed him though.
It speaks to the importance of this one. Clippers are lost two in a row, and that two man duo of Terrence Man and Luke Kennard. They feed off of one another. When one has it going, the other does as well. They've been starting. They play really well next to one another, and they combined for thirty four points. And I think the number is with so many guys out right now, if the Clippers are going to survive the gauntlet here in the month of January, they need those two to
combine for thirty a game, and I think it's possible. So they get thirty four tonight, maybe the only combine for twenty six, and next night there you have it thirty point average. But the Clippers, they just had to find a way because they got a gift with Boston's shooting woes four forty
two from three. I don't know if I've ever seen that before. This was Houston Rockets missing twenty seven straight three pointers in that game seven against the Golden State Warriors a couple of years ago in the Western Conference Finals, and I don't even know if overall they shot four for forty two. That's under ten percent. Boston's in the bottom half of the league. They shoot thirty four percent from three, but nine point five percent on forty two attempts.
We were all holding our collective Clipper Nation breath, thinking they're gonna progress to the meaning at some point some of these are gonna start to fall. It wasn't all great defense. There were some wide open shots and the Clippers were giving it to him because they stayed cold. Clipper Nation as PTSD from Josh Richardson and the great games he's had against them, whether with Dallas or with
the seventy six ers. When he had that eighteen point fourth quarter in Philadelphia a couple of years ago to beat the Clippers, it wasn't even Embid. It was Josh Richardson. He goes three of eleven h five from three, just six points outside Jalen Brown Robert Williams the third he had sixteen or fourteen, and they did destroy the Clippers on the glass. They had fifteen of
their twenty one offensive rebounds in the second half. Clippers had just nine total, but on that one possession multiple offensive rebounds leading to an Eric Bledsoe three point or putting them up eight with about two minutes left. That might have been the Dagger Clippers win by nine in Boston. Another big one coming up in Toronto, America's hat Friday. Let's go to Javier and Lahabra Heights start things off as you usually do. Why because you call in first, Javier
before the game's even over. What's up? Hey, what's up? Patam? Thank you for taking my call. Eric Bledsoe, I guess he showed me up just a little here today because how about that. Hey, it happens to the best of us. Javier. I'm sure I've been on cold take six spells before. Yeah, no, no, yeah, And the first first quarter or first half, I was like, no, here we go again. But yeah, you're right hit that uh that Dagger three.
When you hit that three, I go. Clippers have it. I think they have it, but yeah, they got to continue and you you I don't know it was you or Noah that brought the the point of man, yeah and Eric with a man and Canard that they if they both combined for thirty, that's that's at the sign they can win it. They they can help the Clippers winning a lot of games. And you're right, I didn't notice on that game on Brooklyn that they only had how many points both of
them eleven or fifteen? That six combined? Tonight both of them went for over sixteen individually they each had seventeen. No, yeah, that was that was big. I mean, you're right if they both play like that, uh, they get They went on a lot of games. So now we just got to win one more Adam in Toronto and be two games over five hundred to end the year. And that you know that that's you know,
that's a you know way to end the year. I'm in my opinion, so hopefully, you know, if they went on on Friday, thank you, Adam. I have a good New Year's and uh, well we'll talk to you, uh hopefully on New Year's Eve. Happy New Year. Javier appreciate the phone call that Luke Kennard Terrence man connection. Those two work in tandem. They were my players to watch. It's the first time I went from going from one guy to two. But it illustrates just how much they
need each other. There's a symbiotic venom Eddie Brock type relationship those two guys. They just work well together and it makes sense. They've been together now for over a year and they get They get along off the court as well. Clippers win in Boston ninety one to eighty two. That is your PSA first night, big victory. There are no must wins in December, but I will say this was a need to have it. Boston win four of forty two from three. Clippers hold them to eighty two points. They win
by nine. More Clippers stock coming up on postgame audio. We'll have doctor Chapon from the lib the Jam podcast and postgame audio from Coachluin. The players they'll listen, and the Clipper stock here on Ampus seventy on Sports. It's got the hottest chick in the game. Win my chain. That's right home. Not DNC, but Simon Nuts and them. Let us no one can do it up. I checked Channa like the Food Inspect up. My homie Strick told me do finish your breakfast. So that's what I'm gonna do.
Take you back to the zoo with the fastboard to Joos in the necklace. Let me tell you, Joos when I do to protect this shoot at you act us like movie directors. LA Clippers Basketball continue safe time, shot down the stretch. This is the official home of the Lost Angeles Clippers. Clippers win ninety one eighty two in Boston over the Celtics. Ocome back into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslin still to come here on the show. We're taking up till the top of the hour. Doctor Schaff from the Lob the Jam
podcast. So a couple of little Sir Robert Williams. My goodness, Clippers win by nine. Though we'll also postgame audio from coach Lou coming up maybe in this very segment. I mentioned this going out of our show Monday Night. But there's something special when the Clippers go into Boston. Now, I want to say last year it wasn't aspect they lost that triple overtime game,
bad call against Lou Williams. But in twenty nineteen, after they reconfigured the team once again, to get themselves into a position to make a run at the two one three connection in Land Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. They had moved to Bias Harris at the trade deadline. Unexpectedly. We thought he was gonna end up getting paid by the Clippers. Instead, he's making over thirty million a year with Philly. Ended up being the right move. You fill
that with contracts from Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. But he had just hit a game winner and that night he gets traded, and that has been the kiss of death in the past. Same thing happened to Blake Griffin that a game winner against the Pelicans gets moved. But all of that has led to a Clippers team that win healthy, can compete for a championship. But I bring up Boston because in twenty nineteen, their first game, first or second
game after that trade, they're in Boston. They have the new guys, they have Landry sham It, and they come back down twenty eight and they formed a new identity. It wasn't we're heading into the lottery and tanking and
not caring about the playoffs anymore because we traded to Bias Harris. It was We're gonna fight no matter who is out there, and things crystallized for them, and they ended up taking the Golden State Warriors with Kevin Durant to six games and had the biggest playoff comeback in NBA history down thirty one in Game
two. That game in Boston got things started, and I wonder if tonight can be another catalyst for this Clippers team winning the way they did with who they had out there, with Marcus Morris, Terrence Man, Luke Nard, Eric Bledsonovitza Zubos, the same starting lineup as Monday Night, but guys like Winslow coming off the bench, Savior Moon his second game as a Clipper,
a Mere Coffee continues to play with. Coffee hit two big three pointers, but the one in the second half was had to have it to stop a run Boston was on a twelve to run. He hit that. He had the strip on Langford that saved a layup in the fourth quarter. Then Man had kind of a takeover moment. Connard hit a three ball. They were playing small with Justice Winslow at the five, and the Clippers just find ways
to win. Kean Johnson also had four points eight minutes so I wonder if they're building something here just like they did a couple of years ago, or at least rediscovering that identity that they've established for the last couple of years, Because I gotta be honest, when they lost to San Antonio after the OKC loss, that shouldn't have happened up four with thirty seconds left. You just
have to win that game. There were free throws, miss late SGA does hit the game winning three pointer when they didn't spawned the next night back home against San Antonio and got run off the floor and probably played their worst game of the season. Coming off that loss to Okay. See, I had some concern that there were cracks in the foundation of who this Clippers team has been, that they weren't rallying around the fact that they had to be next
man up mentality, had to have the stay ready Clipper mindset. But games like tonight kind of reaffirm, Yeah, they're that team and Marcus Morris is still that guy, and I think I have the feeling that he just really embraces and thrives when he's the number one option. He wants more on his plate. He's been waiting for these opportunities and when you get them, you got to take advantage. He did tonight had seven of his twenty three and
the fourth quarter. Let's go to Harold and North Hollywood. Harold, this ain't Bruins talk on Clippers stop without of Maslin. How are you happy or you know, Adam, I hope the Bruins they post for maybe January. Yeah, they got a great team. I agree with you. They've brought back pretty much everyone. Yeah, you know, I want to give me I know I haven't talking in a while, and I'm giving an update on Kawhi Leonard. Is he going to play it all these years? We don't
know, and I don't think Kawhi Leonard doesn't know at this point. It's how his body reacts. But I will say there are some encouraging signs and listen to this, Harold, because at Media Day, Kawhi Leonard was asked why did he not wait till this upcoming off season when he could have signed for more money, And what he said was he wanted to have money secure because he wants to play now. Because if you're coming off a knee injury
like that, it could be a little bit dicey. There's more risk obviously if you're playing right now. So he wants to get out there. And the only other report we had is that he was doing box jumping in November, so about four months after the knee injury. That's also encouraging. That's explosive movement. And we also heard from Jerry West who said he is been encouraged with what are you seen from Kawhi Leonard out there? He says he's
the hardest worker he's ever seen. That's what Jerry West said. So Kawhi is on a mission. He's on a war path to get back this season. But we'll see. The body has to be in line with the mind. What happened to what happened to Tatum tonight? Tatum was out in the NBA's health and safety protocols, so picked up another problem with him with the NBA, between the injuries the players and the protocol, the product on the on the court. You know, I'd like to get into its stuff.
It's not very good. It's just it's just everybody's playing, but nobody's playing. I mean, it's just like when is this going to get and they're going to continue the player? Are they going to come to a halt sooner or later. It's all these guys on protocol. I think they're trying to plow through it. They're trying to find a way, Harold, to get all eighty two games in this season, and that's the goal right now. But we'll see. They'll adjust as the world does to this new variant,
this new virul So we'll find out. But I think the quality of play, considering who's been out there, has been more than solid. There have been some great games this season. I thought tonight's game was exciting, came down to the very end. We've seen the Clippers come back multiple times. But also I find it interesting. I really mean this to see who has the most death. We're not just talking now, you know, the tenth or eleventh guy off the bench. We're talking bringing up guys from out of
nowhere from the G League and seeing what they have. So it really tests your death the NBA right now, with everything going on, let's go to Morris in Long Beach. Morris calling in on a night where Marcus Morris just burned his former team in the Boston Celtics. Morris, what's up? Oh boy, didn't he I'm gonna tell you some Adam is not a good thing to steal, and the police a little for you to go. You stole my thunders, absolutely correct. Now we're gonna find out how deep these professional
basketball teams are. And I'm gonna tell you something in Los Angeles Strippers, the guys they played tonight up against the Ballston Celtics. If you started the season and had those names and there, you would have started laughing and you would have got well, they're coming in last place. But I said this before, they're a playoff team, and that coaches they got right. Now,
this guy is showing some millions. This guy's showing some billions because he ain't got much talent, but yet he's competing even better than the team across the city with Yeah, they're having problems, to everybody's having problems, but we're doing this without know all stars on the floor, right, So shout out to the coach because now it's getting down to how sharp you are, how prepared you are. You know, it's the type business. And in
terms of talent on the floor, I don't care who's shooting. It is pretty to see a three point shot going or a slam dunk. I'm glad we still got it going on. But I'm taking my hat off to this team, Adam. I know y'all think the glasses have Helois's half up for me. They're doing real good and their playoff team. We just got to figure out what's gonna be their seat, all right, Morris, I appreciate the phone call. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. I
am bullish on this Clippers squad. But it's the schedule that's what's always concerned me going into this year. It's not them, it's five instances of five games and seven nights and having to navigate that along with everything else, and the guys who are out right now, it is a lot to ask. If anyone can do it, it's coach lou. No one can push the
right buttons better. No one can mix and match and put together makeshift lineups and figure it out on the fly better than him and his players that respond to him. All Right, we'll take a quick break here on Clippers Talk. After they go into Boston and win ninety one to eighty two over the Celtics. Clipper's next game coming up in Toronto, that'll be on Friday, coming up here, on the show that we're gonna have Doctor chap On from the Lob the Jam podcast. And Yes, the game and the skill level
is so high right now. I almost compare it to the UFC. You could watch an MMA fight sometimes it turns into a war and you don't even know the names of the guys fighting, but it doesn't matter. You just get into it because the sport is just so exciting. Same thing in the NBA. You may not always know the names of these guys right now, but guys have stepped up. They can show they can play at this level. Athleticism, the skill, the three point shooting, the degree of difficulty
with shots has never been higher. Clippers win ninety one to eighty two in Boston. This is Clipper stock. I'm inta Oslin more coming up next year. On MPI seventies Tima Hawks, Sam, you're listening to Los Angeles Clippers basketball. He goes all the way to the ram Us sky scraping jams. This is the official home of your LA Clippers. Don't I don't know how clean it was, but it is a fresh win. Clippers first and a few nights they win ninety one to eighty two over the Boston Celtics in Boston,
Welcome back into Clipper Stock. I'm autam oslin to eight six six and nine eight seven two seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventies the phone number or get to me at follow Adam A coming up. We're gonna hear from coach Lou post game. I got it for you. But first, Sean and Inglewood, welcome to Clipper Stock. Hi Shan Shock, Yeah you're on. Put the pots and pans down, my friend, a life, this is real life. You're on. Okay, Adam, Now you
just take me last. I don't know what to no, no, no, no, no, You're not last. And then you steal my thunder. You know, I was going to talk about the schedule. Okay, So at least, as I said, five just six losses can be attributed to this ridiculous schedule that the Clipplers have, that nobody else really has a sub Portland, who cares about Portland? And seconds, Secondly, I just
want to say that they had a tiny bit of rest. You can see the difference in them because they were getting to their rotations better defensively, and even though Boston missed a lot of threes. Getting to their rotation made them missile out of threes shot at the point some of those were I'm telling you though, when I go back and look how many open threes they have with
the NBA stats, they must have missed twenty. It was unreal. This was and uncharacteristically out of this world outlier type of shooting night for the Boston Celtics. It might be the worst in team history and franchise history for the Celtics. And that's going back aways, of course, but it's not about Boston tonight. First of all, Marcus Morris, you are a soldier and you had twenty three points, ten rebounds. He needs to have a lead
twelve shots tonight. And I also, even though he played very certainly, i'd like move as he sped down the court with the ball and had everybody
converge to him. That's what we need a point guard to do. And I want to just compliment lest So too, because think about it, we're not getting we were never getting the production we're getting, and Bledsoe out of Patrick Beverley, who I love, he's my neighbor, is my neighbor in Chicago, but still we weren't getting the production out of Patrick Beverley that we're getting out of Bledsow. So everybody pol whining about Bledsoe. Okay, so
listen, stay positive, super Nation. We will be in the playoffs. I still stay. We wanted the top three teams in the West. I don't want to hear about four or five or anything like that. Everybody healthy. We would have took it last year, but everybody was healthy. That's what I gotta say, Thank you, Sean. I see another team in Los Angeles took it on the Chintz to night and lost late to the Memphis
Grizzlies, who keep winning. But you're right regarding Eric Bledsoe. He's been more than just solid now and those ten points, they don't win the game without him. Tonight ten points in the fourth quarter. He almost had half their points. They only had twenty two points in the period. He had ten of them. But that three pointer he hit was clutch and right now
from three, and I was wondering if this would happen. At the beginning of the season, and through the first eleven games he was shooting about twelve percent from the outside. Didn't look to be happening the way I had projected. But now on this Clippers team, with this ball movement. Check this out Eric Bledsoe in December, in almost fifteen games, he is shooting forty percent from three. He's a thirty four percent career shooter from the outside,
and with the Clippers right now, he might have a career year. Now. He got off to such a slow start, it's gonna be tough. He's shooting just thirty two percent on the season, but he's been great in December, and I think there's a connection there with the Clippers overall shooting much better from the outside, and Marcus Moore shot from three in the month.
But Eric Bledsoe last four games nineteen against sac eighteen against Denver, fifteen against Brooklyn, seventeen against the Boston Celtics tonight and might have hit the biggest shot. Now he did, I'm wanna say he did? Oh, Marcus Morris turned around Fayway. Okay, you know what we're knit picking here. A lot of different heroes for the Clippers tonight, but let's hear from their leader in Coach Loup post game after they win ninety one to eighty two in Boston.
Here on Clippers start rhythm, I think that's what hurt him the most when you used to play in a certain style of basketball and then the team goes zone. But we did a good job of going zone and then after the first two passes going man to try to keep him out balance. And like I said, I guy did a good job of just playing hard, competing or we talked about before the game and and then kind of going from there. But I thought all of our guys really locked into what we're trying
to do. Defensively. They hurt us on the offensive rebounds, you know, but that's because we playing zone a lot. You know, balls are flying all over the legs and things like that. But you know, for the most part, I thought we did a good job. Marcus and Eric's worked in a last seventeen months or a lot ten minutes. At a certain point in that run, do you just start saying one of those guys, he's gonna happened over YouTube or is that just an organic procect of that?
See? You know, I mean, you know, like I said, Marcus gotta be our closure down the stretch, and he did a good job with that, getting to the free through a line of a couple of times, making a couple of shots, you know, driving to the basket, and then when he got tired, we just put blood in the middle pick and row and he was able to create some shots as well. So,
like I said, total team win. You know, I thought we did some good things, you know, defensively even though they had offensive rebounds, and just keeping him out balance, you know, you know, just trying to keep him out of rhythm. And I thought we did a good job
with that. Tell you uh, when you look at Luke making more threes and an entire team and the fact that he just wasn't as aggressive, you know, with with the games around that hip issue, like how were you able to you know, get him in more favorable spots to make an impact tonight. I just thought the guys did a good job of finding him. Still, he had a few where he could have you know, we call it, you know, honey, when he could have came out and transitioned
behind the basketball that we didn't do. But you know, I thought the guys did a good job of looking for him, and you know, he knocked down some shots, you know. So like I said, it's a total team effort. I thought we did some good things. You know it's
tough to score right now. We know that, but you know, with our defense and if we keep competing defensively, then you know, with being ball games and you know, ready to win him at the end, just following up because last year, you know, he had an adjustment period of trying to uh get the you know, play the kind of defensive you won see out of him. I know that when he was in Dallas for Game
six, he made a steal off of Jaalen Brunson. Now I know that left an impression when you how is he continue to develop and as a as a defender this season just being in the right spots, you know, I think competing you know, guarding a basketball and like tonight, you know he had two buck shots, which might be a career high. But just like I said, you know, when you're shorthanded like we are, and you
just gotta just keep finding ways to try to try to win games. And you know, we talked about, you know, we'd be able to win ugly at times, and you know tonight was ugly win for us. But you know when it ugly is pretty, you know, so you know we'll take this win. It's a big win for us to get us off the skid, and you know, hopefully we can build off this one. There was coach Loupoe's game after the Clippers just find a way to win in Boston
ninety one to eighty two. Mitch in New Jersey before we break here, Mitch, what's up here on Clipper Stock? Happy Needy, how's it going? Happy New Year? Missed you and yours. Thanks. I'm waiting for my tests because I went by and we both had our shots and everything. Yeah, I guess, I guess the Athlings get ahead of the line. But you know, I like to see the young players. But I'm missing scrub. I guess he was wanted to know he's in health and safety protocols.
Yeah, so it was brand Brandon Boston as well on this one. He missed the game in Boston after having his best game against Boston, which twenty seven back. And when it was called Staples Center and Crowbell, it seemed like Cousin seems to getting getting worse than before it gets better. Stay went in a row. I was gonna say, oh, bless it,
bless so I love this blessed. When they traded it in, I didn't want I didn't like I didn't like that tray blesso when Gordon for Chris Paul, I didn't like it then, I mean I still don't like it. And one most thing, excuse my mind. You know, I just had us in a hectic day. But I'm glad that day hopefully get back. I went oh with them. Three name guys, I'm gluing quiet. I think Abaca if you look at it, Mars and Patuham fitting miss more games
and Tom Brady his whole career. I didn't look it up. I'm just destined. Well, why isn't a base play? He seemed to missed so many games one twenty time more, bitch. I appreciate the phone call. Guys are hurt. It happens. And you mentioned Eric Bloods. I believe you meant Eric Gordon being involved in that trade for CP three. And you're the first Clippers fan I've ever heard say you didn't like that trade. But hey, that's fine. Clippers win tonight ninety one to eighty two in Boston
over the Celtics. Coming up next, we'll have doctor chap On from the Law of the jam accent not quite as strong as Mitches there. It's a beautiful thing is you're in the accent. I'm just just having trouble deciphering some of it because I'm just a primate. Clippers win by nine over the Boston Celtics. More Clippers Stock. NeXT's Doctor Shapill be here, sorts, candy paint, Cadillac quille check I'm not my Cadillac kull wide hold on to like
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of Ralph Waller who does three for it and that's his phrase. But it is the good doctor Doctor schap Here joining us tonight on Clippers Talk after their victorious for the first time in the last couple of games. Doctor shap how are you. I'm good. I'm good. I'm glad to be joining you after a because it's been joining after a couple of bad losses last year times over. So this was really a really refreshing win from the Clippers today.
For sure. I'm doing good. Am I crazy to bring up what happened in twenty nineteen in Boston when they came back down twenty eight Landry Shama hit those big three pointers in the fourth quarter and say, there's just something about the luck of the Clippers when they go to Boston and take down the Celtics where they can form, you know, a little bit of some good vibes that they can carry over because it did happen a couple of years ago.
I don't know. Yeah, it's ironic because there's a quote from a certain Celtic after that game talking about the last lack of team chemistry and not having any effort and was Marcus Morris senior so and he was a Celtic then, So Marcus Morris being at the forefront of this really gutty effort from the Clippers and him scoring to continuing his heart stretch offensively since he came back from his initial hiatus when he took that few those few games off, we're incorporating his
knees. Uh. It's really it's really awesome seeing how the team is kind of banded together. This is this is a really talent deprived team right now. They're rarely going to have the best player on the floor, even during this crazy COVID era, and sometimes they're not going to have the two best players on the floor. And Jaylen Brown, you know, was the best player on the floor from a talent standpoint today. But Terrence Man and a mere coffee did a great job with him. He went one for thirteen from
three and the Celtics as a whole. You know, it's it's not just Terrence Davis that's been going crazy on the Clippers. You know, Clippers have had a string of role players player oh my god, career or night, Yeah, Lou Dort, Dejon, Tay Murray, you know, even Austin Rivers. A lot of these guys who shoot under thirty five percent for the year hitting three plus threes against the Clippers and hitting over fifty percent and those single games, so we've been getting hit. So getting a four from forty
two from the field was really nice, really nice. Luck of the draw today for a team that shot that badly at home, and if the Clippers were able to get it out today, I'm sorry, Boston. It was coming to someone after what's happened to the Clippers this season. It had to be you. It's Doctor chaff follow him at the Lab, the Jam Pod. We've had Rich Homie Flamm, big Shot Bob Flam, We've had Lucas hand on obviously for a while, but this season we got Doctor Chaff on
as well. So Doctor, let's talk about Marcus Morris and this resurgence we have seen since the first really six games he played this season month of December. I don't know what the calculation is after tonight going oh five from three but was shooting forty five percent from distance, But to me, it's more important to see that level of efficiency when you're the guy because so many people are out. You talked about everyone's dealing with this right now, and they
are. But the Clippers, uniquely, they haven't had their best player all season long. It's not like Kawhi Leonard has been in and out. He's not here right now obviously with the ACL so when they get hit with injuries, it's already built in. They're missing their number one guy already, but Marcus Morris, he's played like one recently. Yeah, and it was really important to start well. The Celtics have been starting well and a few of
their games. I think Brian Steman mentioned it on the telecast today. So for Marcus to start, I believe there was six for seven or so in that first quarter. Really carry that load early on and keep the Clippers, you know, ahead, was really helpful. You know, honestly, the best thing in half court sets, when you know, if initial pick and roll doesn't work or luke off the ball doesn't work, it really is dumping it down to Marcus. I mean, his points per possession out of the
post has been fantastic this year. And you know, whereas before we didn't want move to be featured as much on the elbow in the post because we had Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, now it's really a pretty great option to dump it down to him in the post. You know. Granted, later the game he had Horford and he came off to the three point line. I don't know exactly what he was doing there, but we got bailed out with those free throws. But he's been great since he's come back. He's
hit seven plus field goals. I want to say, in at least, you know, six or seven games since he's returned from that initial hiatus with his knees, which is a great amount of consistency from him. It's something that we haven't seen from him as a Clipper. He's just been the guy. I was worried that New York Marcus wasn't there anymore, primarily because of his health and getting older. But he's been alive and well and he's been
carrying the team. Doctor Chap, I'm gonna give you a number, and you tell me if this is accurate or realistic or attainable from these two players, Terrence Mann and Luke Kennard. To me, for the Clippers to be able to survive in January for however long Paul George is out and who knows who else still know. Reggie Jackson tonight hopefully is available on Friday. But to me, they got to average thirty points combined. Tonight they had thirty
four. Last game they only had sixteen. Is that it all realistic? Yeah, you know, thirty points considering the amount of you know, the average between them, both of them about twenty two points a game as it is, and between the opportunities that they'll get. You know, I think thirty points is attainable. You know, if it's on a scale at one to ten, how attainable is it to get that consistently? You know, I think it a good six or seven or eight or so, and I
think that's pretty good. You can expect one of them to be on and the other one to be off. You know, they gave us thirty four today. I think expecting an average than the average out at about thirty. I think that's doable because they'll be up and down a bit. You know, Luke and Terrence are both guys who often I falter a kind of as good as a team around them. I love Terrence's decision making. Recently he's been more to the point about taking his threes and then that causes people to
guard him a little bit. More is his attack of clothes. That's have been good. You know, he was seven for eleven today, he's been He's flipped the switch a little bit since starting. I think he's been playing better and more aggressive. Art had been just on fire this month before the hip injury, and today was very reassuring him seeing you know, the basket kind of open up a bit and hitting all those threes. I think he
was five per ten, really good. I think it's really nice for Canard in general to get to about ten threes a game, especially even with how few bodies we have around. That was a huge goal for Paul George for a long time to get to ten threes a game, and for Knard being a shooter with this team. You know, I think even when defense is hone in on him, if he can get to around eight or nine or ten threes, it'll help the team because he's a he's a dead eye.
So you know, Eric Bledsoe I thought maybe made the biggest shot of the game that three point or to put him on eight with about a couple of minutes left. He had ten of his seventeen points in the fourth quarter. And he's been the guy that Clipper Nation is kind of zeroed in on so far this season as a scapegoat at times. But I gotta say he is shot almost forty percent from now. He has I think shot forty percent from
three in December and we're talking like fifteen games. Because he plays almost every single game for the Clippers, and so nowI hits a big one and this is just not the level of production offensively they would have gotten from Patrick Beverley, who we all love. But this is why you had to have Eric
Bledso in a season without Kawhi Leonard. We already knew that. Yeah, you know, Bludso is now creeping around that thirty one and a half percent for the season, which is near his thirty three and a half or so career three point percentage that he is, you know, going back the right way to the mean. And I think you have a point there, you know, I don't. I think Patrick Beverly on a totally healthy Clipper team, it's hard to say that he can't be of substantial value just because of
all the liddle things he does and the defense he does. But when you have no bodies out there and you need to just get a bucket or run a play, Bledsoe is gonna have a ton of mid range opportunities, which you know sometimes you're gonna have to live with. He's gonna have some, you know, pharais to the basket. He's chaos on defense, and that
can really spur a transition game. I understand people having a kind of a complicated relationship with Eric, but I think he's shown right now with Reggie off the floor particularly and the ball being in his hands, that he's shown a lot of utility to really keep this team afloat, and particularly when you're not
dumping it down to PG and then Bledsoe cramps the spacing. He's always been a guy that needs the ball in his hands and needs kind of the offense to kind of run around him a little bit, and needs to make his moves with the big man and get towards the basket and kind of create for others. And he's been doing that today. That three pointer was the bigges shot of the game, and pretty much, you know, I didn't win the game for them, but really gave them a little bit of breathing room.
And I think bl it's been great. He's been even more imperative to be on this floor. Almost all the time. Was just the lack of ball handling out there. I like Xavier Moon, but you can kind of feel his size a little bit out there. It sucks to say, but he's a guy that has definitely has ball handling skills, but it's just a kind of a smaller guy. Bledsoe, you know, uses his body and loves physicality a lot. You can see him bounce off of guys all the
time. So I think that's like a big advantage of blood and I think Clipper friends are kind of appreciating a lot of what Bloedsoe can do, kind of in a vacuum when he's not surrounded by people who need the ball over him. Yeah, and he's looked when they do get healthy with that second unit, him being the lead ball handler there. He's just in a flow now and that's really encouraging to see. Quickly shap before I let you go a doctor chap with us here from the lab, the jam the pod Keian
Johnson. Who's your comp for him? What can he turn into? Because he's just so unbelievably raw, it's hard, you know. I think people comparing him, let's see. I think people comparing him to like a Tony Allen type or a defense first type guard who can give you maybe a little bit on offense, an intangible type of guy who can pick up, you know, a good perimeter guy on defense, make some cuts towards the basket,
give you some rebounds, give you some energy. Transition guy. Remember Tony Allen, before he blew out his knee, was kind of an underrated scorer, and then he blowed his knee became a real defense first kind of guy. You know. I think he's kind of of that mold of these defense first kind of guys. You know, even even Patrick Beverly, Dylon Brooks, like these kind of guys that are known for their defense and do
intangibles. On the other end, if Kean can can get a steady jumper, and as steady three point jumper, we know he likes to hit the mid range. His handle is a little bit off when it comes to in NBA games, but he's been doing some nice reps offensively in the G League. I think that Clipper fans, and that's a big reason why I'm optimistic that Kean, because those kind of guys can play with anybody. You don't
need to worry about him needing touches on offense. You don't need to worry about him getting upset that he's not, you know, running pick and rolls
or being posted on the elbow or things like that. If Kean can be a guy that brings a lot of that defense first, and he's already said it on the air that he wants to be a defense guy and he can be that's the guys he can also hit shouts from the corner and do things like that, then gosh, that's that's a hell of the guy to have and can really make things easier for guys like Kawhi Leonard and Paul George when they're not trying to defend that top guy all the time, you know more.
Harkless did a lot of that good stuff for the Clippers early on in that first season where he was defending the primary guy, so Kawai and Paul George didn't have to Niko Patum. There's a lot of that now. If Kean can become that kind of guy that can also bring that nice transition game, I think a mere Coffee on our own team is somebody that Kean can kind of look to model his game after being a defender first three point shooter,
willing to push the ball in transition. I think that defense first type of guy with nice glory of transition and intangible plays is a sort of guy Kean can maybe become if he keeps working at it and Tony Allen comparison is interesting. I wonder if he could also knock out Oj Mayo over our card game. Okay, I'm kidding, that was just hearsay. We don't know if that's true. He is Doctor Chaff from philab The Jam the Pod, Doctor Chaff, I'm up against it. Thanks for doing this tonight. We'll
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