The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame reaction has just begun. 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 hope for LA Clippers basketball at now your host, You, sir, are a bad man, Adam Ausley. The Clippers went in Shytown one oh eight to one oh three over the Chicago Bulls. Welcome into your post game show coming up. You'll hear from the head coach and the players.
We'll get the second half highlights. But first back ass of your voice of the Clippers in Noah Eagle, Noah, only fitting that Kawhi Leonard puts on a Jordan like performance at back in Chicago. Oh yeah, he was awesome at thirty three points, five assists, five steals. Just ridiculous effort on both ends of the floor. But again, it was the defense that really stood out to me. Just found a way to impact the game at the highest level on the defensive end, which is what he's done from day one
since he got to San Antonio and embarked on this unbelievable NBA journey. That he's had. He is He's just that guy Pal simply, he is that guy Pal. He's just him. He is Himothy, whatever, himy, neutron, whatever you want to call him. That's what he does. Thirty three points, but he did it on twenty four shots, and whenever they needed something from him like that, that big three in the fourth quarter,
Clippers couldn't make it three all night. Step back puts them up three after they just led by one, and then you know, Chicago has chances late, steal, rip, all the little things, rebound, just everything the Clippers needed. He's there to provide it. And the Clippers win a game where they're twelve of forty four from the outside, they find another way to win. I thought Norman Pale at those twenty points in the first half and those two free throws late, we're used to Oh, he was awesome today.
Twenty seven points overall. You mentioned the twenty in the first half, four rebounds, four assists, three of seven from three, So he was with the one guy. Him and Kauai actually went a combined six or thirteen from three. So the rest of the team when it combined for thirty one, that's the difference. Right there. So those two guys had it rolling. You knew how to find. They combine for sixty points between the two of them. You add in PG and Aviza zoobots and they combined four ninety
of the one oh eight for the Clippers. It was just an overall team effort. Those four guys got it done, but everybody chipped in a little something that did get in there. Even Robert Covington in his eight minutes, provided some good energy, good spark on the defensive end, shot it with confidence when he did get his opportunities. I just liked what I saw overall, and I thought this was a well coached game by Toronto and his staff.
And it's funny because the Clippers did such a good job of erasing the deficits so quickly in the first half, you almost forget that they were down nineteen in this game and Chicago wasn't missing and the Clippers weren't making. But that's the grid of this team. And when they've got Kawai and PG now they are fifteen and seven on the year, they're hard to beat. When they've got those guys out there, and when they don't turn the basketball over
in a game, where they shot twenty six free throws. The Clippers ended up getting sixteen more shots up than the Chicago Bulls in this one. Yeah, it's just that's how you have to do it. If you're going to find a way to win in a game that you shoot just twenty seven percent from three, you have to find a way to dominate in the shot category and maybe more importantly, dominate the turnover category. Points off turnovers, total
turnovers. Chicago turned it over twenty times twenty four points off turnovers for the Clippers. The Clippers turn it over only eight times three in the second half, eleven points off turnovers for the Bulls. That's a thirteen point difference and a five point Clipper win. That's huge, big time clutch victory for the Clippers. Up next, they'll be in Milwaukee taking one couper Thursday night late starts off on the East Coast. That is the good stuff, good well
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to the Los Angeles Clippers radio MS seven sides. Yes, smell like the boat I used to so I did play the dot play old boats. Check me up right here, yo, yo, the sun don't shine forever. Clippers win in Chicago one o eight to one oh three over the Bulls. Business. Welcome back into your post game show. I'm Adam Oslin coming up
on a M five seventy LAS Sports. We'll have Clippers talk for you eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven two five seventy or tweet at me at follow Adam A. Clippers were down by four at a half, but they were down by nineteen in that second quarter, made a fast and furious run where they tied the game five minutes later, just to be down by four at fifty eight to fifty four twenty four
minutes into this one. But Kawhi Leonard, he had eleven points in the first half and started to get it going in the third letter top of the key, drives Meil cats in the paint and slams with the right hand. Kawhi Leonard has been mister third quarter six thirty five and go on the third Levine driving right. Had it stripped George scooped up the loose ball. No real numbers, so we'll get left to right anyway. Chelle's hit Leonard to
the rim, bakes it in with the right Kawhi with fifteen. George with another assist his sixth sixty seven sixty six pull up hop Kawhi Leonard that is smooth from the near side shot corner ties the game at sixty nine. Caruso gotta get it in. Caruso bounces Levine with a tough catch, ripped away, fluttered with a steel up ahead Leonard into the front Courtage fouled his fifth steel of the night and the claw may have just sealed it for La.
Well we zoomed ahead there, but yeah. Kawhi Leonard also very good down the stretch in the fourth quarter, had twelve points late there and the Clippers would hold on to win this one one oh eight to one oh three. Kawhi an unbelievable performance. Thirty three points on twenty four shots plus five assists
plus five steals a couple of blocks in this one as well. Also with the Clippers, they got twenty seven off the bench from Norman Powell, who had twenty of those twenty seven points in the first half, first player off the bench for them to have twenty points and a half since Monster trans Monstrez Harold did so in twenty twenty. Clippers have now won six of their last seven and sixth straight with the two one three connection Kawhi Leonard and Paul George
playing. Also, their longest streak of the season with those two together was during that five game winning streak. All Right, more postgame coming up, including the Clippers being in Milwaukee on Thursday taking on Janis and Dnan Koumpo in the Bucks. They don't get much easier. We'll preview that ball game right here on the Los Angeles Clippers Radio. That one. You're going, Oh, Paul George, LA Clippers Basketball. Continue Pis in his paints as he
carries the three on the home of your LA Clippers. Nothing can stop me. I'm all away up. Clippers win by five in Chicago. Final score one oh eight one oh three in favor of your Los Angeles Clippers, as Kawhi gives them thirty three and has a clutch steal late on Zach Levine to seal it. Welcome back into your post game show. I'm Adam Oslin Clippers have won six of their last seven now, the only loss coming when they were missing six guys on Sunday against Cleveland. Next up for them, they'll
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Subscribe to Clippers Talk on iHeart Radio or wherever you podcast. Now your host of Clippers Talk. Here's Adam Ousley Kawhi Leonard with an MJ like performance in the United Center and the Clippers win one oho eight to one oh three over the Bulls. Welcome into your postgame show. This is Clippers Talk. I'm outa Oslin eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number you can get to me
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a bit. The head coach Ron Lou the player's postgame plus William Updyke from Clips and Dip will join me. Big time victory for the Clippers, Just as you thought they might lose some of that momentum they had after losing on Sunday missing six key players to the Cleveland Cavaliers and stay, Kawhi Leonard ripped back that momentum and took the game away from Zach Lavine and the Chicago Bulls late with that steal, as he had twelve of his twenty three points in
the fourth quarter to finish with thirty three, five steals, five assists in two blocks. Just a virtuoso performance from one of the best players of his generation, any generation. He's a top seventy five player all time. But I asked you this after the victory over the Atlanta Hawks. Are we seeing the best version of Kawhi Leonard once again? Coming off a severe injury, Just like after the one in San Antonio, he comes back and wins a
championship in Toronto, plays better than ever during that playoff run. Then he was playing his best basketball during the twenty twenty one run by the Clippers to the Western Conference Finals before tearing the right acl comes back a year later and is playing you can at least argue some of his best basketball in the regular season that he ever has before. Because this was Kawai's eleventh straight game with at least twenty four points scored. That's the longest such streak in his career.
That is saying something I said it about a week and a half ago. You better throw this guy back in the top five conversation right now, because it's happening now. We're talking top three. With the way he's ended up playing this entire month of January. Could be Player of the Month, could come down between him and Lebron James. But the Clippers have won six of seven and they're starting to round into form with twenty eight games left to
go, and this is such a critical road trip. But as I've told you all season long, nothing is more important than the return of Kawhi Leonard to form to that elite level because they can't win a championship unless he's playing this high level basketball. And we saw it again him just willing them to
a victory. Clippers didn't have a great fourth quarter. They had some bad turnovers where Paul George was trying to get it to him and then eventually found him for a jam, and Kawai had four dunks, just like he did against San Antonio recently. He is getting up. If you put the side by side video before and after now the ACL tear, it looks like he's
jumping as high as ever. It is unbelievable to see him play this well this soon this season after missing twenty of the first twenty five games, And to anyone who still thinks the way they load managed him or not playing him on back to backs was the wrong move, how can you say that when the results are him back at that twenty twenty one level this soon. He's playing this well, has this must bounce athleticism, turning the corner on guys,
and the mid range looks better than ever. And I told you this also, the one thing you could get better at when you have lower leg injuries because you can't do much else, is refine you're shooting. And we're starting to see that a little bit because over the last eleven games now Kawhi's shooting over fifty five percent from the field over forty five percent from three,
scoring thirty per game. The efficiency is off the charts. This is special and it could turn out to be a special season because Kawhi learn has returned to form for this team. But the will to win that he has in him, that steal late and he had two of his five steals in the
fourth quarter, it's just that's what he does. He has the highest rear winning percentage in the history of the league in the regular season, started in San Antonio, then Toronto, and he's brought that mentality to the Clippers and gives them a chance to win it all because well, he's one of the best players in the league. And not many have a better playoff resume than Kawhi Leonard. Ever, not many players take their game to another notch like
he can ever in the history of the league. The stuff he does in the playoffs, the forty five spot he had against Dallas and a must win Game six on the road, is one of the greatest performances you'll ever see. And I'm ready for more of it, and he looks ready himself.
Plays the season high forty minutes. Clippers were not messing around early in that fourth quarter when they led by one heading into the fourth, and there were some big shots in the third by Kawhi two where he had ten of his thirty three, but also to end the third a three pointer from Terrence Man, who had a rough ball game overall shooting wise, and a three pointer
from Nicholas Patoum, who had a tough one. You win a game where you go twelve of forty four from the outside to a team that's twelve of twenty four from three, that's un heard of. Let me tell you how rare that is, because I retweeted it from Justin Rousseau, who is at Fly by Night on Twitter. The Clippers took forty four three point attempts to Night only made twenty eight percent of them. Chicago Bulls at fifty percent on
their three point takes. Teams were one in twenty seven all time prior to Tonight's game when they shot under thirty percent from three of at least forty takes from the outside, when their opponent ended up shooting fifty percent on threes. Now it's happened twice. The Clippers just did it. They were miserable from distance throughout pretty much the entire ball game. They had great looks, they
couldn't get them to go. Over the last twenty games outside of the game against Cleveland, which just seems like an outline or we gonna throw out considering who was unavailable, They've been shooting over forty percent from the outside over the last twenty games, best in the league, and they go with twelve forty four. Luke Kennard was oh for five. I don't know if he's ever gone over five from three in a game. They gave him good look after
good look in the first quarter, he couldn't get him to go. It was just baffling. Nick Batoum had a couple of kill shots he couldn't get to go late in the fourth. After hitting a big one in the fourth, he was two for nine, Paul George two for eight, Terence Mann one for three. But even in a game where I would say Paul George struggled overall with just sixteen points after having twelve of those in the first half, he scores just four points in the second half. Well, you got
backup. Now you got Norman Powell who can get it going and just can score it will in bunches. He had twenty points in the first half, first player off the bench for the Clippers to have a twenty point half or a twenty point first half off the bench since Montrez Herald did it back in twenty twenty. Norman Powell finishes with twenty seven and helped finish off the Bulls with two clutch free throws. Late. He was ten up ten from the
line and the Clippers took care of the basketball. They have just eight turnovers total. Paul George had a rough one five turnovers, seven assists, but five turnovers. Gotta be better that one to Kawai and the fourth quarters just inexcusable. It can't happen. It's just one of those head scratchers that Paul George usually gives you once a game. But it just can't. It's too easy of a pass to make. Just get it over the defender. He
threw it right to him. But he made up for it two possessions later with a nice pocket passed to Kauai for one of his fourth rowdowns and he got up threw it down with two hands. I'm just in awe watching the bunnies. The bounce that Kauai has, the explosiveness but they have eight turnovers to twenty for the Chicago Bulls, partly because of those five steals from Kawhi
Leonards. So in a game where the Clippers shoot under forty percent from the field, under thirty percent from the outside to a team that shot fifty percent from the field of fifty percent from three, you know what the difference is taking care of the basketball and therefore getting more possessions and more shots up. The Clippers ended up taking sixteen more shots than the Chicago Bulls, and there were money at the free throw line. They attempt at twenty six free throws,
they hit twenty two of them. The only guy that missed was a Visa Zubas, who had some really big moments in that second quarter where it looked like the Clippers defense just wasn't showing up. Gave up thirty two in the first were down of the first quarter, down by nineteen, and all of a sudden, they get Big Zoo involved and the defense gets better too, and he had a play where he had a block on one end and then ended up getting a tip in on the other. But the Clippers came
back to tie it down nineteen within a five minute stretch just absurd. You cut into a lead down nineteen in five minutes. That shows you the potential of this team when they need it, when they have to have it. But I'm telling you the terminator, Kawhi Leonard just said, come with me if you want to win. Because the Clippers weren't very good in that fourth quarter, but they were better than the Chicago They only gave up nineteen points.
I just love this type of victory because it was gritty and it showed Kawhi Leonard once again telling everyone who's not listening and Brian Winhorse and guys who are saying, oh, he doesn't look the same, No, no, no, he might be better than ever. I don't know how he does it coming off these serious injuries. But the machine you can rebuild him. He can't be stronger. It's Kawhi Leonard. That's just what he does, somehow, some way, just pulling them across the finish line late and they
win one Oho eight to one oh three. They're two and one on this six game road trip. They're going to Milwaukee on Thursday night. Let's start with Lenny in Inglewood. Oh, Lenny, what's up? Man? Sorry? Man, I'm with you. Hear me, I got you now, the good, the bad and the other. The good. Obviously, Kawhi is like you said, man, he he is proving the daughters and the naysayers who questioned the strategy of keeping him out, including you know some times,
including a lot of people e clip the nation. But wow, it says him about a guy who knows his body. He knows his capabilities, and he knows he knows his body, and he listens to the doctors and the experts too, like what concept? Why don't we go with that? Hope, we're just well. Back in my day, guys used to play like this. Why why don't we go with that instead? I agree? The bad obviously that fourth quarter and man didn't really have a game. But
book, man, the ugly is the elephant in your room. Here to remember that play called waiting for Godard, Well it's waiting for Kennard. And I'm man, what is going on? He hasn't put together three money consisting games all year money. He literally just came back after missing three weeks. He's played four games since he returned. I'm not that worried about it. And in one of those games he went three for three. He had a
bad game tonight. It's an outlier. Well, let's just hope, man, because like I said, we're not gonna go deep if if we don't have the We got the best deep ball shooter in the game. And if he doesn't show up come May and June, it's gonna be the it's gonna be a sad song because we need him when we go deep, and it's just not gonna happen. Pyle is phenomenal there every night, and uh, you know, we just uh we need canar man. He's got to be
consistent. Wasn't good against Cleveland either, just like Nard. I mean, well, you allow the game off of it, but I'm just saying overall, I mean, the dude hit twenty seven points on eleven shots. Ain't nobody else doing that in the NBA. I mean the only days Post was on the team with You're appreciate to the choir. I've been talking about Norman Powell since they got him. I thought he was the perfect fit next of these two guys. Nobody scored more points off the bench since early November than
Norman Powell. He's got a great chance to win six Man of the Year Award. I'm just saying I wouldn't overreact to Luke Kennard. You just missed three three weeks and came back the last four games. He's still over the last month and a half shooting forty seven percent from three. All right, all right, but we need him, man, we did like I said, we need him. We're not gonna go deep if the deep ball man don't show up. I agree. Here. Here's the good news, though.
Even when he misses, guys usually load up and his gravity pulls the defense his way and other guys get slashing lanes or open shots because of it. But I don't know if he's ever gone over five from three before. This is a it's a throwaway, I'm telling you, all right, because man, the shots of the to be there doing what he's doing. Could George George doing what he's doing attacking the rim. The shots are gonna be
there, deep moll Man, he gotta step up, bruh. He had three shots in the first couple of minutes, good looks and just couldn't make them. But it's just it's one game. He shouldn't from three the last month and a half taking them right at least he's taking them. You're right, okay, all right, man, let's do it all right. Let I'm with you. I appreciate the phone call Clippers when one o eight to one oh three in Chicago over the Bulls, double Bulls. Kawhi Leonard has
thirty three points in the win. You know I mentioned this on Twitter. I was wondering what's gonna happen, first, Zach Lavine wakes up or the Clippers three point shooting does Zach had nine of his eighteen in the third quarter, but then got fouled on a three point or late and only made one of the three free rose. The Clippers survived shooting twenty seven percent from the outside. It's unbelievable. But it's Kawhi Leonard's that defense, those hands,
He's getting a swiping score or swiping slam. It seems like every single game now the defense is back to it's all there, and that's what gives them the potential to win a championship. So if you can play this bad offensively and still win a ball game against a good ball club that was that hot, that tells you the potential of this Clippers team as well. More Clippers Dock coming up next right here on the up by seventy OLiS force get me
on the court and I'm troubled. Last week messed around and got a trip in double freaking brothers everywhere like in jay, I can't believe today. Good day, Sorry forgot smaller. Everybody can't go downtown Diamond District junors like Yo's I got kilburn n about smoking. Children's on the boat, just smoked listening in the music at the Buyer Rowans children Boat. Clippers come back down nineteen, win by five. GWI Leonard has thirty three and they take down the
bowls one o eight to one oh three. I mentioned that quick turnaround down nineteen. They had it tied up five minutes later in the second quarter. In the third quarter, that zach Levine stretch where he started to catch fire and had nine points in the third the Clippers went from being down seven so then up three two minutes later. So they had these quick offensive explosions within a game where they were down multiple times, down big by nineteen. Good
to see it. Welcome back into Clipper stock. I'm out of Maslin eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go to Rex in La Rex here on Clippers stop. Hey Adam, Wow, what a win. I am sorry about the bluetooth earlier and I had to quote Kendrick Lamar take it off. Anyway, I wanted to just comment on how insane we are we have been in the past. I think now it's going back five years or so. I
don't know what is with this team, the resilience. Never see this to amaze me. I want just to like, if you have a reason why we have just been so resilient even before Kwai and PG. We're actually afraid we're going to fall off with them. According to my knowledge, I think that we were afraid we were going to be a little too cocky or whatnot. But that did not happen, and we stayed resilient even after the lou William Montras Herald era. And I think Terence Man was a good bridge between
those eras, keeping him over because he embodies some of that resiliency. Typically in a big comeback, he's a catalyst and you know his mentor being Patrick Beverly, he would help rally the squad. But yeah, exactly, I was gonna say, I feel like Terrence Man started interrupted. I feel like Terrence Men is definitely I would just say, like Patrick Beverly is exactly like
you said, his student. He gave him over everything he had and now turns Man's using I would say he's better Patrick Beverly if correct me if I'm wrong, But he does a lot of things Beverly does. Plus I would like to say more now because he's just well, he's a better scorer. Certainly, he's better at getting into the basket, getting in transition, being a slasher like that, and helping other guys get involved. I've really liked
what I've seen from him in the starting lineup outside of his shooting. You know, he just had a rough ball game overall. He Lukeannard and Nicholas Batoum, but Terrence Man still hit a big three pointer in that third quarter. They needed one and he hit it, and Nicholas Batoum hit a big three point at the end of the third, and then he had a big one in the fourth and it gave them I want to say, yeah, an eight point lead was six eight left. Clippers were up ninety nine to
ninety one. After that, Saint Nick three pointer off and assist from who else Kawhi Leonard just knowing how to balance wouldn't take over, went to get other guys involved. But after that, Demarrow wrote, DeMar de rozen started to get things going. He had a big dunk, went to the free throw one, only made one of two, but then hit a jumper and he would end up with a big turnover. Late. I want to say it was Norman Powell on him as he went to the floor, and he
might have pulled the chair on him. He might have pulled the old you know, Dennis Rodman on Karl Malone like him like move where DEMARDA Rosen was looking to back him down and eventually there was too much space there and he slipped and turned the basketball over. So the Clippers had to withstand runs from the Chicago Bulls as well to pull this one out. And I mentioned those
clutch free throws from Norman Powell late that was huge. But anything else here, Rex, Yeah, I mean I just want to say, let's go Clippers, and I would like to call back in the future. Rex. This is your first phone call on Clipper stock. Yes, Sir Adam, don't make it the last. My friend, you'd be killing my vibes. To quote Kendrick Lamar on the way out, appreciate it. Thanks for the phone call. All right, let's go to Ali Une in Lancaster. Ali,
you and I hope I pronounced your first name right there? Ali? And what's up? Yeah? Hi, how you doing? Thank you to taking my call? What's up? What did you think of the ball game? Yeah? It was a good not good game. The win is win. That's how you always say, right, Yeah, I think it matters how you play and who you beat and all that. And it's impressive to me that the Clippers could shoot this poorly. The Bulls could be that hot and they still find a way to win. They took care of the basketball
and that was the difference in this one. Along with Kawhi Leonard, Yeah, I would say this. I was lucky, but scup play against Middlewaukee. If you go Lessen forty Norway, it would compete them. You know. Yeah, I'm with you on that. Milwaukee is going to be a tough challenge. Joanness and Denni Kompo is still playing at an MVP level. But I don't expect the Clippers to shoot this poorly from three. I mean
this is certainly Yeah, what's that? I said? Not back to back weekend now, not in back to back games, And Luke Kennard and I appreciate the phone call. Al Yun going over five. That just tells you he's due. Nicholas Beatum going two of nine, he's due. The team going twelve of forty four. They're much better than this, and I think they will be. But winning six of seven now and their last six games with Kawai and Paul George out there, this team has turned a corner.
I think now. The road trip is still treacherous. The road trip is dark and full of terror. We brought that up last time. And they still have three games left and their toughest test will come Thursday in Milwaukee. Obviously, but I like the Clippers chances with the way they've been playing, and especially because Kauai. I'm not gonna say he's peaking, but he's on a run. He's on a special stretch. I can say, the best scoring stretch of his career, eleven straight games of twenty four or more.
First time he's ever done that. All Right, let's go to Let's we got a quill in Carson, A quill what's up. You're on Clippers stock without Amassin. What's going on? Adam glad to be back on the show. I haven't talked to you in a while. Well, let's not do that again, man. I just have something on my mind and I had to call and share it with you. I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm I'm a die hard Clipper fan, been down with the Clippers a long
time. But this was the first time that we had our Superstars league, and I begin to cringe. And the reason why I was cringe because what I've noticed is a trend. Every time we have both of our superstars played at the exact same time, we never play hard until recent this stretch of six or seven games. Now they're finding their stride and now playing hard at a high level. But in the beginning, every time they both will play, it will be a soft game, and it makes me cringe. Adam,
Well, I'll say this. I think there's a sense of urgency that wasn't there earlier in the season, or even just three weeks ago, because they put themselves in a position. They're four games above five hundred, and you can start to see the finish line and you can start to see where you stack up in the West, how close you are to being the three seat. They know they got to get wins, So I think there's something
to that, A Quill, What you're talking about here? Yes, Yes, I love our squad, I love our chances, and I'm gonna go back to my wish list. I wish I wish your five self way to go back and get star boy A Quill. Yes, they don't have Paul George and Kauai. Thing that. It doesn't make any sense. That level of time travel doesn't work. I know, I know, I know, Hey, Quill, let me know ahn SGA wins a playoff series, just let me know. Let me know. I love SGA, But let me
know when he wins a playoff series as a number one option. What are we talking about. I know he's having a great year. I know he's having a great year. But you know a thing he's changed in a seven game series. I know, I know, I know. But I love that guy, man, I love that guy'll do I love Paul Georgia Kawai. Though I love the chance the Clippers have of winning it all. What about our backup center that's in New York now Isaiah Harten sign yeap, how
do we let him go? They couldn't afford him. He got eight million per year. They could only pay him six at the mid level exception. Oh man, hey, I hate that guy. Leave them too, Adam. I'm not gonna hate on anybody getting their money. He earned it. He hasn't been playing much though. We'll see what happens with him at the
trade deadline. I wouldn't be shocked if he ended up somewhere else. I know a lot of Clipper Nation they'd love to see him back in a uniform, backing up of eats the zoo Bots once again, because he was such a spark off the bench. He was so good for this team, playing hard all the time. But yeah, a different level of energy from the Clippers. And there's also just better rotations right now. I think overall they've
been tightening things up there. They've only been playing nine nine man rotations lately. We'll see if that changes in the future, because guys are still out. No Marcus Morris, no John Wall. Not easy to figure out stuff like that. Okay, let's go to Jose and Downey before we break here. Jose, what's up are you doing man, great wind, great wind. I gotta say, I love seeing them close it out on the defensive side, not letting the Bulls get a shot off in the last possession.
They had plutch defense down the stretch. They had to lock them up. I mean, Chicago only shoots. They only score one hundred and three points, I should say, and it's because of all the turnovers they gave away so many possessions. They were shooting the ball really efficiently when they got them up, but they had twenty turnovers, right and then after the first half
where they just could the Clippers couldn't buy it three. I was happy to see them step in, drive the lane, get those files, get themselves in the game, and then limit their three point shots in the second half. But taking the right three point shots when they had to, well, I'll say this, the three point shots I thought they took in the first half, or the right shots too. There was good process. If you're getting wide open threes and you're a forty percent shooter, you gotta let it
fly. I'm sorry. Eventually the odds are gonna come back in your favor. That is a part of the Clippers offense. Drive kick, swing, find an open man for a three pointer. They just weren't falling. They got a couple of big ones in the second half to go. In fact, they ended up I want to say, they only hit three three pointers in the first half, so they ended up hitting nine in the second half. But yeah, they took a lot of them. They did. But
if you're getting those good looks, you gotta take those shots. Yeah, that's true, that's true. That's what that's what design is. But I just sometimes I dread those threes when they're just not falling. But oh yeah, we all don't like them when they're not falling, but when they are,
the Clippers offense is a machine who can stop this team. So you know, it's a quick question before you have to hang up, what do you think they do in the trade deadline with maybe Marcus Morris and uh Covington especially hearing out there that Ibaka might be available, or Harkenstein even willing to maybe let them go for a second round. I'll touch on that on the way back after the break. Thanks for helping me with the t's there,
I'll say in downy, appreciate you. Eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six, six ninety eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Clippers win one oho eight to one oh three over the Bulls in Chicago. They're two and one so far in the six game road trip. They've won six of seven, six straight with Kawhi and Paul George out there, and gets twenty seven off the bench from Norman Powell. I beats the zoo bots was a four set times. Get him involved, get him some
easy buckets. They're always better off for it. Dump it off in a big zoo. He can go to work on the block. He with six of seven, with fourteen and twelve and three blocks more Clippers stop coming up next while William Updyke on from Clips and Dip right here on the Los Angeles Clipper Tray on Network. Champagne in the cup song, just the cut song, Pain, what's the more? Can I set? The truth of five?
Was doing this, but you did not have nothing left it. Last time that I has five chains on my neck, it was no smat on my BRep. Last time that I take send us set and the squartermeil no sweat. Last time I'm the Street's voice out West. That's Clippers and the twenty nine and five as they win one o eight to one oh three in Chicago over the Bulls. Welcome back in this is clippers Stock. I'm out
of Moslin. We'll get back to your phone calls and just a bid at eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy. But joining the show now is William up Dyke from Clips and did does the pod with myself and Chuck Mockler. Will Kawhi. Leonard is all the way back last time that I checked. I don't know what else we're waiting for, like outside of that extra gear he has in the playoffs, which we obviously can't see right now, it's all there, Oh
absolutely. I mean the we talked about a while back, how the three point shooting was returning, seemed like his legs were back under him, and this one he get four dunks. I mean, it's just yeah, he's back. He's fully back. Everybody pokes the bear. He's woken up now and I can't wait to see that extra gear. Yeah, that extra gear is going to be special, but there is still work to be done before
then. With the way things stack up in the West. But this was one of those games where you know, the Clippers were that bad shooting wise, outside of Kawai Norman Powell, they still find a way to win because they created so many turnovers with steals. And you know, Paul George didn't have his best ball game and he had sixteen points, but it took him sixteen shots to get there. I do think he hit a couple of key
ones early in that fourth quarter when Kawhi Leonard was on the bench. He crossed over a crusoe a couple of times and put him to the floor, made him touch earth there and also hit a big jumper. But Norman Powell and that surge off the bench, he's become so reliable and consistent. We're not talking about a hot streak anymore. This is just who he is. He's been doing this since early November now, Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean when your guy who's like the sixth man up, I mean he can
waltzon to thirty points. He had ten free throw attempts, like it's just I mean, it's just easy for him, which is great to see. I mean, it just bolsters all of those lines, It bolsters any lineup that he's in, especially when Kawhi and Paul George are both have to rest. Like he can tread water or even carve out a leave. Yeah, Norman Powell at twenty seven points on eleven shots. Twenty seven on eleven shots.
He had twenty points in the first goal percentage. It's an unreal He also had a couple of those fifteen steals the Clippers ended up with in this one. But as I was going out to the break, you know, Big Zoo in twenty eight minutes with fourteen and twelve, and the last couple of games with the two on three connection out there, they've looked for him more. And I thought when he got involved offensively and was more active in that second quarter, all of a sudden they got better defensively. He was
a force there. He had that big block and then hip in on the other end. But he's six of seven from the field, Like they have somebody they can exploit there with the way he can punish guys on offense. And I just love seeing it finally more consistently the last three games next to Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, he's been so good. Yeah, I'm glad you bring up Big Zoo because he was like a key to me in that
second quarter comeback where they finally started to turn it around. They went to him and it started, like I believe, it was a seven and oh run, And as good as Kawhi and Norm Powell had been, they couldn't
get anything else going offensively. I mean, like the three point shooting terrible, but to have that in your back pocket where you're big man cannot only defend at an elite level, but there are times when you can lean on him in certain matchups a little bit offensively, and that definitely like that. That to me, like was the spark that like got everything kind of going.
And I also just feel like there's a vibe when big how's it going, Like when Big Zoo is in that double double territory when he's getting to eat on the offensive vent. It picked everything up, and I do feel like it's another one of those things that's sort of contagious for this team. Yeah, he had six of his fourteen points in that second quarter where things
started to turn down nineteen for the Clippers. Of course they've been there before, but a lot of this season has been Okay, they're down big, they make a comeback, but then they come up short in the fourth quarter, not in this one because Kawhi Leonard and his clutch play late. But I did just get a call on this. I'm gonna pass this question off to you because I did ask Chuck this the other night too, a caller asking what moves do you think could come with the Clippers. I just want
to know what camp you're in right now? Will with should they stand pat and see what they have here with this squad that we thought on paper was a championship team, this roster they put together coming into this year. Do they still need a traditional point guard? Do they need that backup big more? How do you see it right now? With the trade deadline just about
a little of our week away? Wow? I mean my thing is I thought we should stand pat and now with the way that Kawhi Leonard is playing, I just feel like you should take the biggest swing that you can. Like that makes sense too, right. I'm not saying that we'll necessarily get Fred van Vleied or something like that, but I mean in a game like this, you know, Luke Kennard has regressed a little bit since that he
came back from that injury who was out since was six Marcus Morris. You know not with the team right now, we're still able to get things done. So what it does kind of get the wheel spin in on are you able to make another move? I think consolidating, consolidating a guard makes makes a lot of sense. I'm not in the camp of like, I don't want to give up an asset for a backup center. I just don't think that it's I don't think that it's necessary in terms of playoff matchups other than
someone who can just eat up a few fouls. How do you see the game Thursday night playing out? This is the toughest game I think of this road trip in Milwaukee against the honest and Dennick COOPO. But the Clippers are playing so well right now. How do you feel about the matchup? Man? The Bucks have had our number, our number, They've had a lot of people's numbers, though they got a rolla decks on them. Look, I like where the team's at right now. I think that you know,
we will rebound from this terrible three point shooting performance. And yeah, I mean I think they I think they got a chance. I feel certainly much more confident than I did a couple of weeks ago. But yeah, the Bucks is a hard matchup. Uh yeah on the road. I don't know. I think that the Bucks still might come out on top, but I'm hoping for a hell of a fight. I at least guarantee the Clippers are
not going twelve or forty four from three. Again, it could be bad, but twelve or forty four is just an extremely bad night from beyond the arc. Luconard going oh five, that's not gonna happen. Not what the looks that they got. All right, Well, I appreciate you coming on tonight. I believe we'll have a tripod coming tomorrow with a fat, meaty preview of that game in Milwaukee on Thursday with the Clips and Dip crew with yourself and Charles Mockler as well. We'll appreciate it tonight, my friend,
Oh why dare coming up? Next final segment you'll hear from Coach Low and Kawhi Island, and plus we'll get back to your phone calls. Clippers win one o eight to one oh three in Chicago over the Bulls. And you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network here on AMP five seventy o list cups. Watch Bear with clubbling up on dubs. It'll be going by the bar Ussel. Just get smoked cheap, believe me talk slick tickets and next
slip quick Slickers wiel Street happen. Next Clippers will be in Brooklyn coming up on this road trip. Next game, though, is in Milwaukee. They win tonight Chicago one O eight to one h three over the Bulls thanks to Kawai's brilliance. He had multiple blocks in this game that led to layups on the other end, one in the first quarter that led to a Paul George lay up, another in the second that led to a Norman Powell layup.
Just all world defense while giving you an efficient thirty three and the last eleven games. Now it's twenty nine points while shooting over fifty five percent from the field and over forty five percent from three as he goes three of six from distance, and may have hit the biggest shot of the ball game, a three pointer when they were up by one. I want to say it was late in the fourth quarter. I'm gonna get the exact time for you,
because it merits that it warrants that. Yeah, Kawhi Leonard. It's one oh one, one hundred with three minutes left, and the Bulls made their pushes. I mean he had a steal to Martin Rose and two that was big and got fouled going the other way. But that three pointer to make it one oh four, one hunch or did you give them just a little bit a breathing room? Huge for this Clippers team. If there was a big play down the stretch, it was mostly just Kawhi Leonard making it.
But two free throws also when they were only up by one by Norman Powell, who ended up ten for ten from the free throw line. Clippers win by five in Chicago. Let's hear from coach Lou before you get back to your phone calls post game. Just a critical, gritty type of ball game where the Clippers didn't shoot it well, they just found ways to pull it out though are down nineteen in the second quarter. Shooting really wasn't there all night. Defense, I thought Zu did a good job, and then you
know it's tough with a picking pop five. You know, a guy us on the run, on the move can come off, you know, down screens and shoot threes. And then we went small, and I thought a small unit really did a good job of getting us back in the game. Norman Powell, I thought Roco was great. I thought Ni go He didn't shoot the ball well, but defensively he was really good, and so defensively
it got us back in the game. He was able to get out in transition, get a couple of easy ones, and it kind of got us
going. He got a normal He's done this so many times. I'll score entire teams, bench units, and he had such a big second quarter getting to the free throw line, beating his band repeated league, how much of an advantage is that when you know that who girls of how games starts, you got a guy who can not just outscore the entire teams to be able to get hot quickly, Like yeah, I mean he's instant offense, you know, like Vinnie Johnson, you know, just just come in the game.
He can get it going quick, and he can get to the free throw line, he can make threes, he can tack down, he'll get to the basket, and so he was huge for us tonight. I think he's scoring with that small unit really helped us to get back in that game and to be down I think four at halftime. That was huge after being
down nineteen. So his play was really good, like I said today off the bench, and it has been for a while when when Reggie was struggling shooting the ball like he was, what would made you want to stick with And it was kind of clus because I know he can make big shots down the stretch. And then I just thought we needed a ball him to initiate
the offense. I thought he did a good job picking PG up full court, you know, and trying to wear him down, and so I just thought we needed a traditional point guard in the game to just kind of initiate and get us into our stuff. And like I said, Kawhi got some really good shots down the stretch and he didn't make, but then he made the big three and then the big two. But we got him to her spots, got him the ball, and pgs some shots too that he normally
makes. And so I just felt that just orchestrating the offense, really getting us into our sets, and whether we make the shot or not, just getting good possession every time. And I thought we did that for the most part, outside like two possessions in that fourth quarter. So some things we gotta continue to keep working on. But it was a big win for us. You know, like the fourth quarter against Atlanta, it wasn't pretty.
They didn't run away with it up one heading into the fourth and they led by eight, and then Chicago battled back to have it to within one. But the Clippers did enough. They made those plays when they needed to. So those are type of victories you're gonna remember where and maybe the Atlanta game even had an effect on this one. It just happened on Saturday. Okay, you're on the road, you're in the lines. Then things aren't going your way. The crowd is back into it. Demarduo's and starting to heat
up now and Kawhi calms him down. He hits a big three pointer. The Clippers get some steals, they hit free throws down the stretch because they've been there and done that. Poisonder noise. That's big for this team. You'll hear from Kawuhi coming up here. But first, Morrison, Lombach, Morris, what's up in the National Basketball Association? What do they call the guy that has more steals than fouls? Kawhi Leonard they call him. They call him the claw baby. They call him the Claw, and I guarantee
it. I haven't done no research on this. I love fact checking, but I don't have no access to this kind of inflammation. I don't think the guys ever suited up in the NBA and had more steals than he had fouls at him. I ain't trying to be no company man on this one. But when I heard Noel talking about that, when I said, what I mean, come on, man, and then to show you how how
it is probably is true. It's probably true. The man had five steals tonight, I said, you might not want to ask him that question. More so after the man already had five steals. He really had no five fouls to night had five steals in one game? Gee wiz? I mean, come on, man, so the team is ready at didn't have one foul. You didn't have five steals to zero fouls. Okay, you ain't got the fact Chicket, you ain't got the fact check. We got evidence
tonight on that. We got Adam. Listen, these guys are on the road. They got some intensity to him when they get back in town after they win two more games. On this though, you're not gonna be all the fourteen tickets. They're gonna be the highest ticket in the NBA. At him, get me in the building. I will stand up. I will sweep the house for you. Okay, but just get them mushers. Tell me leave me alone and I'll just stand up, and you gotta get me
in that building. At him, come on, man, these guys are rolling now. And you know a lot of people were kind of freaked out, right, but Kawhi is not playing. Kawhi is not playing well. Something you said a few weeks ago. Ain't nobody running away with the West. Now we've got two teams that's doing pretty good and the Clippers that can be darn good for the three spot. I mean, that's impressive considering where
we were the first ten games of the year. At him, give me in them and I got to see the claud Okay, I'll stand up. You ain't got to give me on the floor because you don't think you're gonna be able to fog you tickets. Man, when they come back after this road game, they're not the same team then left. When they come back,
they won't be the same team that left. The team that left, we would have some doubts about the team that's coming back or we ain't got no doubts, ain't nobody got no doubts, no more and no negativity. And you know the brother calling burning abou kawai kawai. But about Canard going oh for five, no problem. That means he went three for eight the last two games. Is that right? Uh, it's somewhere in that range. I'm not worried about Luke Kennard one bit one game where he went oh
for five, it's not gonna happen. Telling you if he goes over for five to eight, that means he's gonna have when them games where he's gonna shoot lights out, because that's just how this business is. But Adam hit me in there, man, I will stand up. I'll sweep the fourth for you guys, because when they get back to Los Angeles after this road trip, because they're about to make a statement, don't let him beat Milwaukee.
And then I'm not worried about Brooklyn. Detroit beat Brooklyn. That's gonna be a big game against Milwaukee. Right, But they got himself bad to combo is the chiropractor got self from him and no trade nobody. We got the team that you got, right, now we're gonna win with him or we're gonna lose with him. We'll wait for the off season, Okay, Adam, give me that building. Man, I'll talk to you later, Morris, not about begging. I think I've done it before when he went
through this and we got him in. It'll happen at some point, Morris, I promise. But they're still on the road for another week. Jose and Southgate before we hear from Kauai. Jose, what's up, dumb? Oh man, I gotta emphasize that second part there, but whatever. Oh look, Adam, you know usually me, do you save me for last? I'm a hot take, But today I want to listen to you. But at the same time, I can't because we just want tonight and to
be honest, Thank you are Heart Radio. Thank you Ralph Lawler. You know what I'm gonna say, Adam. We're on this, like said, when we come back, practics are out of this. We're out of this, all right, Adam. Let's go Clippers. I'mn't sure what he said there at the end, but I liked it somehow. All Right, Clippers win by five thanks to the man with the five longest fingers. Kawhi Leonard. Is that princess broad I forget long fingers and four fingers, three fingers
like an introl Kawhi Leonard with five steals? How about that? And they win by five? And here he was post game with Jamie Maggio. Yeah, because Christina pink was in the championship game. Are night finish yer? Close game? Definitely towards the end. Take me through those last few minutes and how you guys we're able to close this out? Getting stops down in limited him the one shot, getting that rebound, coming down with pace and making shots. I'm not sure who got that steal at the end? Was
it you were Nico? I grabbed the ball, but out of like Zach Lavinia's hands, but Nico end up getting a loose ball. You finished with a game high thirty three points. But the team collectively had a very slow start shooting the ball, some wide open looks that just we're not going How do you guys shoot yourself out of a slow start like that? Just keep a talking to pain, trying to get to the free ball line and knowing that we're getting good looks and keep shooting the wide open shots. So you
guys have no one six of the last seven games. Are you closer to where this team needs to be or wants to be? Uh? No, we know we had a slow start. Assault we got a lot of catching up to do, but we're making the right starts all right, quite thank you. I love Kawai, the never satisfied chasing perfection. He always said, no, we can get better. We can get better, We can be much better, can be more consistent. But they're seven and three their
last ten games. They've won six of seven, and all six of those victories coming with the two one three connection out there. Clippers in the fourth spot currently in the West, a game and a half back of the Sacramento Kings, who are in the three spot. They still play them two more times. Those are gonna be huge games. But just like that, the Golden State Warriors in the five spot, in one game back of the Clippers. They've started to pick things up. They've won three in a row.
That's the longest losing or winning streak in the West right now. Three not so much teams have beat each other up. Coming up there on Thursday, the Clippers are taking on the two seed in the East, the thirty four and seventeen Milwaukee Bucks and Janison Dina Kompo, the Greek Freak should be a good one. Tip times seven PM. We'll have Clippers countown for you at six on Thursday. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Semen, Ralph Waller, s
Big Brothers, Jake Warner, Ahead engineer, producer, Katie Newton. Here in the bank, the callers, the listeners until Thursday night, starting at six with their pregame show. I'm Adam Oslin. We will talk to you Sunday. All those churches are us. Join and you could be great. This has been Clippers Talk, a postgame conversation about your LA Clippers with Adam Oslay. If you like the show, subscribe to Clippers Talk on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you podcast. They have the best tap. This team
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