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LA Clippers, They're locking in every game, every night. Adam Osland, the Clippers went in Detroit as they come back down fourteen early to win by a final score of one thirty six to one twenty five over the Pistons. Welcome into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin, coming up on a M. Five to seventy LA Sports. We'll have Clippers stock for you if you'd like to get on early eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven two five seventy. But first back out to
Little Caesars Arena with your radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carlo. Another victory for the Clippers, a comeback in this case, down fourteen as I mentioned early on, but you really saw this team start to flex their mond muscles at the end of the second quarter and they were closing out quarters afterwards. Yeah, they were excellent at the end of the first half atam, excellent at the end of the third quarter, and finished strong in
this one. It was a great win for the Clippers. Maybe a little closer than they would have liked it, but hey, you got it done against the Detroit team that's been playing a lot better at basketball as of late. They've flung three of their last ten. So for the Clippers of good Win, you handled business and that's what you gotta do. Adham, stand on business. That's what the Clippers did tonight. Kawhi Leonard with thirty three
points. Business has been good for the claw over his last twenty seven games. Now, he's getting twenty six points on almost fifty eight percent shooting and fifty one percent shooting from three. The Clippers have only lost four games during this stretch where he has been untouchable and at one point hit three straight three pointers and with six of six from the outside in Detroit in this ball game here, Carlo, I mean, and the impressive part at him is it's
like none of these shots he's take. I hope we're describing this on the radio for you. They're not easy looks like he's not wide open the yep three. You don't hear me say when Kawhi Leonard shoots the ball wide open Kawhi Leonard because he's never there's always a defender in his face, and yet it never seems to matter. Tough shot after tough shot looked like layups for Kawhi Leonard all night long. Thirty three points, six freight from distance tied
US one under his season high of seven threes. I mean, he was excellent in this one. The Clippers were excellent, but I thought Leonard, while George and Harden were struggling for the first half, really kept the Clippers up in this game. Yeah, it was good to see Paul George really find his shot in that fourth quarter. He hit some timely ones, had ten of his eighteen and just twenty seven minutes coming back after missing Wednesday's game.
I thought, overall, a pretty darn good performance, especially seven assists, zero turnovers. Yeah, I mean, he was the thing about this Clipper team, Adam is all these players can affect the game in so many more ways than scoring the basketball. Thirty one assists the Clippers now ten to zero when they have thirty assists or more, but twelve steals in this one. George has three of those plus one of the clippers five blocks. Daniel
Tice was the team leader in that stat line with two. There was so many guys that make so much impact without scoring the basketball, which I think is huge for this Clipper team because they're not gonna have an off night where oh, well, we head to the postgame show we just say, yeah, the Clippers just didn't shoot it well, because the team is able to find ways to win when they're not having their top stars shoot the ball well. And you see it with George, the effort is still there defensively and
finding his teammates offensively. Mention. Now, the Clippers were down fourteen early on. This game really turned when Russell Westbrook was injected into the ballgame. And congrats to us who got to twenty five thousand points for his career. It's a testament to the type of player he has been. An all round player, but a fantastic score and he continues to stay in shape and stay on the grind and perform at an all time level now with the Clippers.
Yeah, I don't know what kind of water he drinks, but I want some please. That guy has energy four days. I mean he needed twenty three points to get to his mark, and I believe at him at halftime he was sitting at ten, so to get thirteen in the second half, nine assists, three rebounds on ten for thirteen. This might be Russell Westbrook's best performance off the bench this season when you think about the way he turned the tide for the Clippers in this one from down fourteen to up six at
half time. And it was a really big thanks to Russell Westbrook, who had a historic club. I mean, how many clubs is russ a part of Adham that have less than twenty five NBA players in them. I mean, you think about the history this guy has had in this league for years and years, decades and decades. When you compare future NBA stars and when they go on big runs, you know how you see Wilt Chamberlain's name next
to almost every record book. If it's gonna be start being the case with Russell Westbrook just because of the things he has done that almost no one else has been able to do in the NBA, no doubt, and was pivotal for the Clippers again helping turn this game around when they were down by fourteen. They go on to win one thirty six to one twenty five in Detroit over the Pistons. Clippers got a back to back to finish off this road trip. Sunday, they'll be in Miami. Tip off for that one's AD
three. We'll have your pregame show starting right back here at two. Carlo Jimenez, great call is always safe travels. We'll talk to you on Sunday. Talk to you Sunday, Adam two more and the Clippers are headed back home. Let's come home with some smiles, huh, no doubt. Clippers get the victory over the Pistons and we got second half highlights next right here on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. LA Clippers Basketball is on the two
one three Era continues. You're listening to the LA Clipper on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers way up at thirty two and fifteen now on the season and thirteen and eleven on the road, the best road team since December first. Welcome back into your postgame show. I'm at a moslind Clippers win one thirty six to one twenty five in Detroit over the Pistons. Coming up. We'll get to your final box score, but right now, second half highlights
was just a six point game of the half. Clippers led sixty five to fifty nine after a late surge in that second quarter thanks to three straight three pointers from Kawhi Leonard, and he kept it going in the third. Leonard right wing three flash. Kawhi Leonard's still hot after the half, Harden on the left wing pocket pass plumbly in the paint, kicks at Leonard another right wing three cut X Kawhi Leonard six ver six from downtown and he is lethal
Tonight steps through one a double teams fine to shoot. Clipper's gotta get busy with four. Leonard's gonna fade and fire buriots. He's unfazed, unbothered, and unstoppable. Lender's got twenty nine bulldozes the paint, fades and fires off the front of the rim and in thirty one for the claw. Kawhi Leonard with ten more points than the third after he had twenty one at the half. But before that third quarter was over, the Clippers went on a run.
And it wasn't just Kawhi Leonard, but the King of the fourth thought he would get things started earlier. In this one, norm Sripple's right hand on the left edge steps back a left wing three, yes, sir. With point nine on the clock, Clippers have their first double digit lead. Half court heat from Thompson is wide right and the Clippers take a eleven point
advantage into the break one a one ninety. Clippers up by eleven, as Carlos said there in the fourth quarter, but the Detroit Pistons were not going away, so two point three came back out there on the court and Paul George, after missing the game on Wednesday dealing with that hip issue, was the closer for the Clippers tonight. Clippers of the ball left, double extended, George pulls up from fifteen yo. Yeah, PG knocks it in George
at the top. He's up the triple perfect George erneath the ram right handed leap muscles through. George in the front court, bounced past Westbrook on the edge of history, takes the baseline back out George left wing open for threes. Splash, PG diling from long distance. Paul George with ten points on the fourth quarter. You heard that call though from Carlo talking about Russell Westbrook and before this game was over a little career milestone for Russ and by a
little, I mean a lot. Cunningham's been ry jumpers off the back round. Here comes Westbrook. He's on his way to the ram. The layup. There's history for Russell Westbrook, twenty five thousand career points. He becomes the twenty fifth player in NBA history to do so. Russell Westbrook finished with twenty three points off the bench on ten of thirteen shooting, and the Clippers would finish off the Detroit Pistons. They win one, twenty five, make
it one thirty six to one. Twenty five in Detroit is a led by as many as twenty after being down by fourteen, a thirty four point turnaround. Clippers just continue to keep the good vibes going. They are now four and one on this Grammy road trip with two games left. It's a back to back starting in Miami on Sunday. More on that coming up, plus your final box score right here on your Clippers Locker Room Show. I'm at
a Maslin and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. LA Clippers Basketball is on the two one three Era Continues. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers were down fourteen, they led by as many as twenty. They go on to win one thirty six to one twenty five in Detroit over the Pistons. Welcome back in I'm at a
Moslin. This is your Clippers postgame locker room show. Coming up next on AM five to seventy LAS Sports. We'll have Clippers Talk eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number you can also get to me. I follow Adam a on Twitter. After the Clippers end up shooting sixty percent from the field. After a slow start, there were just two of seven from three in the first
quarter. They end up fourteen to twenty nine. That's almost fifty percent from distance. Detroit Pistons shot it really well, not just from distance either from the field. They weren't fifty one percent. They went seventeen to forty from distance. Boyan boy Danovitch started four to four from three. I want to say this Pistons team. Look, I know Boyan could be in trade rumors. They have the worst record in the league, but they knocked down some
tough looks Clippers offensively. Yeah, they have to be better, but this is what happens on long road trips. This is what happens when you have this much talent. Sometimes you play down to your opposition. But I think also Detroit, tip your cap to him. They played well outside of those
seventeen turnovers where the Clippers converted that into twenty five points. Once again, the Clippers getting into the paint like Pollock fifty eight points in the paint, Pistons just forty two, Clippers, fifteen second chance points same for the Pistons. Clippers sixteen fast break points, the Pistons just eight, leading your Los Angeles Clippers per usual. Kawhi Leonard had thirty three on twelve of seventeen, shooting six of eight from distance after he started six of six from three,
deadly accurate as he has been the last twenty seven games. Mason Plumbley a player to watch, twelve and nine, five of seven shooting. I thought off the bench, Russell Westbrook was fantastic and turned this gamer for the Clippers
when they were down early in that first quarter double digits. He ends up with twenty three, ten of thirteen shooting, was making his layups plus had oh I don't know, nine assists is just two turnovers in a game where James Harden had just six assists, still just one turnover, but was one of ten from the field. Didn't have it going. Paul George picked up the slack and the starting lineup with his seven assists and then Russ off the bench with nine PG. Thirteen was back. He had eight He scored or
hit eight of his sixteen shots. I should say eighteen points is what he ended up with plus those seven assists to zero turnovers. Love seeing that from Paul George. Also off the bench, Norman Palell, king of the fourth, hit a huge momentum shot to end the third quarter. He finished with fifteen points, six for eleven from the field, three of six from distance. Clippers win one thirty six to one twenty five. Outside of Los Angeles.
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coach, Interhron lou Is. The Clippers improved to thirty two and fifteen on the season, as Kawhi Leonard had thirty three points and of fishing thirty three on twelve of seventeen shooting and right now, this Clippers team has won twenty nine of their last thirty seven games, twenty four of their last twenty nine since December, and fifteen of their last eighteen on real best stretch of regular season Clippers basketball in the history of the franchise. Sure, you didn't like
to see him getting down by fourteen early on. They came out lacks of days ago. But then Russell Westbrook after the ball game and does what he does best, bring energy. And oh, by the way, I put a tweet out just yesterday talking about his struggles in January at the rim, missing too many bunnies, when after the first two and a half months of the season he was shooting sixty percent within five feet of the rim, but
in January he was just at fifty three percent. And when he misses going that fast, that's a live ball turnover for a team that doesn't have great transition defense. Well, in the first game of February for US ten to thirteen from the field, twenty three points, was making a ton of layups plus a couple of three pointers, and oh yeah, reaches twenty five thousand
points for his career. Congratulations to Russell Westbrook not just a rebounder, not just a great playmaker, a great all round player, Top seventy five player of all time, and became just the twenty fifth player in NBA history to reach twenty five thousand points and does so in a win for this Clippers team
where at one point there was a thirty four point turnaround. Down fourteen early, up twenty late, and they win by eleven in Detroit, as Kawhi Leonard had thirty three points and Paul George had ten of his eighteen in the fourth hit some really pivotal shots. First it was Norn Pale knocking down a three pointer to put the Clippers up eleven heading into the fourth quarter. Then
he knocked down a three pointer to start the fourth quarter. There was a mirror steal in dunk, a Russ layup Rust to Tice for a dunk, a lob to Russ from James Harden for a dunk. But the Pistons were going away. They had a hot shooting stroke boy On Bogdanovitch started four or four from the outside. He ended up for a guy who averages twenty one a game, had twenty six nine of thirteen shooting six to nine from distance. Ib you with twenty eight. I thought they played pretty well overall.
Some of that was on the Clippers, but they weren't going away. And then Paul George had a really big shot when it was just a seven point game. Daniel tye Is steal to Russ who got it to Norm for the reverse layup, a PG three, then put them up by fourteen. Then a steal to Kawhi for a dunk his only points on the fourth. Clippers
were up sixteen. They still weren't going away. I think they got it down to ten or twelve, and then finally a Plumbley layup, a PG layup, and then that Russ layup to get to twenty five thousand career points, and the Clippers would go on to win by eleven in Detroit over the
Pistons. They'll close things out on this seven game road trip where they're now four and one, with a back to back Sunday in Miami and then Saturday, I mean Sunday in Miami, no game tomorrow, and then Monday in early one in the atl take on the Hawks eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy is the phone number I want to get something that's been on my mind for some time now.
Been a little bit irked, peeved, vexed, annoyed, mostly with the national media because Kawhi Leonard, a top seventy five player of all time who's having his best regular season ever, for whatever reason, has not been included in the MVP conversation. I don't know how that's possible when you have a team that's rising up the Western Conference and now just a game and a half back of the number one overall seed in the Minnesota Timberwolves, number one seed
in the West. I should say I think the Celtics, even after last night, still have the best record in the NBA. But here's the numbers from Kawhi over the last twenty seven games he has played, and he has only missed four. He's averaging twenty six points while shooting fifty seven point seven percent from the field and fifty point seven percent from three while being double teamed often. The Clippers have lost just four games over this stretch. He's doing
all that offensively while giving you elite defense. The on off numbers with Kawhi Leonard on the floor are insane. Defensively, the Clippers are about ten points better per one hundred possessions defensively when he's out there, They're a completely different team defensively without him. He's been that good on both ends, and it's being slept on it is. How do I know? You look at odds makers on the most popular betting sides, let me know if Kawhi Leonard is
even on there. When it comes to futures in MVP voting, He's not top five, He's not top ten on some sites. That is wild. Again, a top seventy five player ever, having his best regular season ever, has only missed four games and isn't in the MVP discussion. How is that possible? The national media is more than just dropping the ball. This is egregious. This is just being DERELICTI of your duties, Like have you watched the Clippers? Have you watched what Kawhi Leonard's doing. This isn't about
games missed in the past. It is about voting for the twenty twenty three twenty twenty four MVP. That's all that should be taken into account, and therefore Kawhi Leonard has to be in the discussion or else. Nobody should be because he's been playing not like a top five player, a top two player before MBID went down. Hopefully he comes back. Okay, off the tornmniscus.
It was him and Kawhi by far affecting the game, impacting the game, putting up the big numbers, getting wins for their squads over everyone else. Yeah, Jokic is in there. Giannis is in there. Although I mean a coach gets let go and there are bottom ten defense, I don't know how high he should be in there. You want to talk about Luka Dancic his Gotti numbers. Okay, they're a playing team. That's where they
stand right now. I'll put Sga at the top. He's been that good for a team that has been a top two seed throughout most of the season in the West. Kevin Durant, he has the numbers. They are also on the verge of being a playing team. They've been hotter recently, but they got off to a very slow start. They just started to turn the corner. What are we doing here? It's Kawhi Leonard. The only knock on him has been availability. He has missed four games. That's it.
He is well within being in that range, you have to play at least sixty five games to be considered he's there. Maybe that changes at some point, but until it does, you better start talking about him now. The good news is Kawhi doesn't give a damn about the MVP, at least the regular season one. That's what makes this even more impressive to me. We already know that he has another level to get to in the playoffs, and
he's been this good. He's a playoff riser. He is not just one of the best players of his generation in a seven game series, he is one of the top ten best playoff performers easily in NBA history, and has the hard ware to prove it and some amazing carry jobs like that Game seven for Toronto with the game winning Plinko chip bucket fading away over Joe l Embid.
But can I stick up for him? Can clip a Nation asked to make a little bit of noise nationally from the media, the people who all said it wasn't gonna work with James Harden and the Clippers should blow it up and coach lou should leave the team. Stephen A said that can they pull a pretty drastic, fast and furious U turn and now say, hey, you're wrong, we were wrong. That's okay, but make the apology as loud as the disrespect was, as the kids say, you got a lot
of airtime and a lot of wind in your jaws. As my friend Petro Spapadekus would say, getting real excited when the Clippers lost five straight with James Harden, well, they've had the best record in the NBA since then, are you acting like it or are you just moving the goalposts and saying, oh, you got shows in the playoffs? Now? So the regular season
mattered when they were losing five straight. Now that they've won all these games that I just rattled off the record for you, you're going to the postseason with it. That's disingenuine us. It's not arguing in good faith. It's weak. And Kawhi Leonard has been the driving force for this. Yes, James Harden has been Big two, but the gaudy numbers from Kawhi efficiency wise, we're talking about an all time stretch here in the history of the NBA.
I don't know if you can find a better stretch of a guy for twenty seven games straight shooting almost sixty percent from the field, and fifty percent from three. Let me know, I know MJ wasn't doing it because he wasn't shooting that good or that good of a three point shooter to do so different game back then, I understand Steph Curry Kevin Durant maybe the only other two guys to touch these heights in a regular season efficiency wise. But then
you take into account the defense. Kawhi Leonard's all world there. He's the gold standard wing of his era, and he's still doing it all at thirty two when they beat Denver after losing eighth straight to them. Going back years, the way he disrupted the pick and roll with Jokic and Jamal Murray was special. I've never seen anyone else do it like that. He and Big Zoo, who they're still missing right now, just wrecked it. The best
pick and roll combo in the league. And while that was Kawhi that he guards Steph Curry lay in the ball game can't even get a shot off on him. He's guarding everyone's best player when it matters most. Should defense not be taken into account If you want to say, well, he's only scoring twenty six points during this stretch of shooting fifty eight percent from the field and fifty one percent from three, if I get it right, in twenty seven
games, so he's always scoring twenty six points. Yeah, well, in ten of these games he hasn't even had to play in the fourth quarter. That's what happens when you dominate teams and blow them out. And I believe the Clippers have the most games this season of a team leading by twenty or more. Don't faul him for that. That's how you load manage. You destroy teams, You dismantle them, you pick them apart. And the Clippers
did so again in the second half after only leading by six. But they wouldn't have even been up by six if Kawhi doesn't have three straight three pointers in that second quarter where they closed out the half strong, and then he has ten more points after ever in twenty one at the half in the third, I only needed two from him in the fourth. Got a little bit too close for comfort, but they handle business okay. So just lost in Detroit. If you want to come at me and say, well, we
need some more style points, it's a seven game road trip. This is game one of another three and four. It's not that easy. There's another team out there containing twelve of the or fifteen now of the four hundred and fifty best players in the world. Boy on Bogdanovic. If they want to trade him, they're gonna get a lot for him. Kay Cunningham played well, Ivy. Yeah, they're the worst team in the league. They lost
twenty eighth straight. That's an all time dubious historical record, tying the Philadelphia seventy six ers when they were in trust the process mode. But on any given night, did you not watch what happened to the Boston Celtics losing to a Lakers team without Lebron and AD. It's hard to win in this league. I want more style points too. But they did lead by twenty after being down fourteen? Did you ever feel like they were going to lose the
game even when they were down fourteen? I put out a hashtag comeback clips. It was the first quarter modern NBA. I mean, that's like a five point lead. It's nothing. Clippers win big one thirty six to one twenty five after leading by twenty in Detroit. While we have a moment, let's pause ten seconds for station and edification. Here on a five seventy LS Sports this is La Clippers Basketball AM five seventy KLAC Los Angeles, ninety eight
seven kys R HD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio station. Let's start things off with Javier and Lehabra heights. Xavier, your on Clipper stop without Amazon? What's up bad? I'm think you were taking my call again. Before I get into it with Kauhi, I'll start with Paul George. He was with eight out of sixteen and you did mention earlier. I saw the stats. Yet zero's turnovers. That's what we need from put George, you know,
be efficient and I turn the ball over. Next thing. Kawhi Adam would he shoot twelve out of seventeen by do the map, that's what's seventy percent? I mean he makes six out of eighty three pointers. I mean those are be Smode numbers. He's looking crew defenders right now, Javier, he doesn't even see them. They're just translucent. It's amazing, Guys, these weren't easy shots. These weren't open looks. Guys that are handed in his face doesn't matter, no. Yeah. And then to top that, all
of he has zero turnovers in thirty what thirty two minutes? Zero turnovers. I mean that's I'm telling you. Those are be smote numbers right there. I mean, yeah, you can have somebody scored fifty fifty points. That doesn't mean they're efficient. And you mentioned earlier, I mean he's only averaging whatever he is, what twenty seven to twenty eight, But he's been efficient.
I mean that's what you want, so you know. And also you're talking about him, I guess national media not gain consideration for the MVP. And I think you brought it up is because his injured history, you know, like you say, should you know that those are years before? But this year he's doing what miss four games? But that's why I think that's
why they're not mentioning him. But at the end of the day, if the Clippers do finish on the number one seed, if he do finish the get the number one seed, I guarantee you at him, he's gonna get some votes and he should win the MVP. And all I'm saying is I'm gonna get ahead of it now. I'm not gonna wait. I don't need to see much more to know he should be in the conversation. That's my point, Like, why do we need to wait until game seventy. Other
guys are getting talked about for MVP. Why isn' kawhi Yeah, I know, no it is. I mean you could think you brought it up so hopefully people could you pay attention and like I said, work there profensial. You know, we see it. Maybe don't the games start laying they don't see him, but they're gonna they're gonna notice him. Just watch after like you said, they don't have to wait that, you know, game number
seventy. But he'll get some votes. So that's it. Thank you for taking them accn We'll talk to you on Sunday and let's go get the heat. Thank you, Thank you AVI here. I just I don't like the he'll get some votes. I know that's not how hobby or meant it, but I feel like a lot of people right now. Yeah, he'll get he'll get some consideration eventually if he stays healthy. It's like, no,
it's happening now. Enjoy and appreciate what a guy is doing now over a thirty game stretch in all time stretch for one of the best players in the NBA when he's been healthy, a top seventy five player ever and He's been healthy this season, so give him love. Why are there ten guys in front of him as I'm looking at MVP odds on different different betting sites. That is ridiculous. How sway? All right, let's take a quick time out here. I'm gonna get off my high horse or bully pulpit or whatever.
I just want people to appreciate what they're seeing right now because it's not gonna happen very often in NBA history, may never happen again in a Clippers uniform. This is all time stuff. What Kawhi Leonard's doing? Clippers win in Detroit one thirty six, one twenty five. Back to your phone calls next year on Clippers Talk on seventy LA Sports. LA Clippers Basketball is on the two one three Era continues. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the
LA Clippers Audio network. I'm coming for the neck of the national media. I guess I'm at it. The Clippers have won twenty nine of the last thirty seven games. Maybe start thinking about putting Kawhi Leonard in the MVP conversation. I know he doesn't care. He just wants to Larry o B. We could still make some positive noise for him on his behalf and Clipper Nation. I know loves watching what he's been able to do, the mid range
mastery, but the three point marksman he's become. He's the only guy I've seen have significant injuries and come back and just look better than ever. It goes back to the last three months before he tore the meniscus last season, when he was putting up fifty three forty seven eighty nine splits. Last twenty seven games, Kawhi is at fifty eight percent from the field and fifty one percent from three have lost just four of those games. It's incredible. Welcome
back into Clipperstock. I'm at a Mosland eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Also incredible, Russell Westbrook getting to twenty five thousand career points in this game with a layup late, and here he was postgame on Ballet Sports speaking with Christina pink. I don't know if everybody at home can see this, but someone's got the game ball in their hand. Twenty five thousand career points for you. Your teammates were excited, But
Russ, what does that say about the career you've had Oh. I mean, first and foremost, it's like to give thanks to government for allowing me to be able to just play the game I love and be grateful for that. And it's a blessing. Man. I don't take any day, any night for granted. Grateful to better play a game of basketball and better use my platform and be able to share an impact and aspire other people. Man. And I'm super grateful to be a kit continue playing and gay for tonight's
home. What does it mean all the love that your teammates gave you when you headed over to the bench. I mean, it's amazing, man. It's a fun group. We got a good group of guys that we all hang out, we all have fun. Oliver us from hometown and and just see all the love and support here from the coaches, from my teammates. I'm truly truly grateful for that. Still doing it big in year sixteen. Thank you so much, Rick, thank you, Thank you. NOA Jordan's guy. Hi, Wifey, Hello, Mom, Dad, Ray, Love
y'all. Appreciate y'all. He's a family man off the court, a bad man on it. Russell Westbrook their post game after he crosses twenty five thousand career points with a milestone, just the twenty fifth player in NBA history to accomplish such a feat. Eric in Hollywood, Eric, you're on Clipper Stop without a MAUSM. What's up? You? Clear your throat? Eric Keith in La You're on Clipper Stop without a mauson. Hello there, hi keys, What did you think of the ball game? Oh? Oh you recognized
with me? Adam? How you doing? I got you? I got you. You were my favorite call in the last month, you know. And I meant that like I didn't get a chance to call you regarding the Celtics victory and all that. But we have been waiting, as you know, I got to say it, Bro, been waiting since the mid eighties. Bro. In a way, I lost my point, Adam, because you made such a salient point, Bro. And but again, true Clipper fans are kind of used to the aterism because you know, it's we're in
the shadow of another great team. And I really mean that, not you know, but it's true, not a great team right now. But hey, they got a big victory last night. Well I'm a bee sweet at him, you know what I'm saying. Wait, I mean but nonetheless, what the Clippers are doing this year. It's phenomenal. And I'll just say a couple of things, man, you know, but number one, my Clippers are something else when they're and they are playing d Remember I fell in
love with the Clippers because of a Norman Norman Nixon. There's another Norman brother. We got another storm in Norman. Do you hear me, brother, Adam Man, I'm telling you Norman Powell is just I'm gonna say this if I don't say anything else. I think it's on the table. I don't think I'm gonna of course, we'll tighten down the nuts and bolts after the All Star break, but Clipper Nation, I think it's on the table this year. I yield the mic, I layd my blade. What do you
say, Adam Keith, you're not lying. It has to be when you have this level of talent like they've never had before. People are starting to bring up is this is the best Clippers team ever? Of course it is talent wise, whether or not they were able to pull it off and meet that talent with Larry O'Brian trophy, who knows, you gotta have a lot of luck seeing the team win a Championship recently because Kevin Durant's foot was a little bit too big and on the line. There's some stuff that's out of
your control. But the things that the Clippers can't affect, they've been so much better at this season. This regular season. They said they were gonna attack it with more of a sense of urgency, they were gonna take it more seriously. But then you just have to have some good luck with injuries, and they've still had. Paul George missed five games, Kawhi missed two of beats. The Zoobots has missed a few now, but they've had enough
good fortune with Kawhi and Paul George being able to play. They played the first twenty three games together. That has been the difference, along with the pickup of James Harden, who just amplifies what they do and makes life easier for them so that they can perfor form at the highest level where they can do everything they need to on both ends of the floor because they have more energy when you don't have to handle the rock. That's a taxing task,
and James Harden and Russell Westbrook take that off their plate. Let's go to Morrise Long Beach. Morris here on Clippers sock with Amlson, pleaseer beat the Detroit Piston in ay go to Miami? What a note? Got some glass? Probably just broke some china somewhere. Morris in Long Beach breaking the tunes is always mentioning the jerzzy youre on Clipper sock? What's that, Mitch only?
I agree? Yeah, he definitely should be. How about just getting the conversation at least I'm not even just saying he has to win the MVP. He's not even being talked about. He's not even there. Are there are ten guys betting sites are putting ahead of Kawhi Leonard Well, some of them are gonna play less than sixty five And does that take them out of consideration? Yeah, And it looks like Joe El Embiid's gonna be out because of that. But and that's unfortunate. I love Mbid, He's one of
my favorite non Clippers. Uh he's going through an injury bug right now with the meniscus. So yeah, there will be guys who fall out. But my point is when you're this good over a thirty game span almost half of the season, you probably should get a little bit more attention when your team is flying up the standings and you're putting up god tier basketball numbers like Kawhi
Leonard has been. That's what I'm saying, match, and we're only and we're only one and a half games out of the first seat, and I like to play a bench, especially coffee. I don't see any of you who just starts trained. Anybody what good the way we are? All right, miss, appreciate the phone call. We'll talk to you on Sunday. Tags and Walnut Tage just here on clippers. Off with that, I'm asa hey a permission to lose yourself with this Kawhi MVP talk because we talked about
this a few days ago. But because they're in Detroit, you better lose yourself. Yeah, uh no. Shout out to Russ for that twenty five thousand mark. You know, sometimes we see the good and bad in him, but I mean with him. But what we don't always bring up is that I don't think they're a better value contract out there than what we signed Russ for in his sacrifice. So I think it's just four million year or correct. I love what Russ brings off the bench in this role, especially
in games like today where the Clippers came out with they were sleepwalking. They were sleeping a little bit like the media on Kawhi Leonard when it comes to MVP talk and Russ comes in and you better keep up or it's gonna be a mess out there. He forces you to have to play faster and to have to play together or else you're gonna have about fifteen turnovers in five minutes. So he gets their attention. And when a guy's playing and moving like
that, you know that's your teammate. You're gonna feel like you're not carrying your weight if you're not giving it your all and playing as hard as Russ. And I love that intangible about him. Yeah, I agree at him and two other points really quickly. One, I remember I listened to you on dime Grubber and you guys were talking about PG. You know, is catch and shoe PG versus creating PG A creator PG, and like what's better?
What's the balance? And to me, it's kind of simple. When James Harden's off the floor, that's when I want to see him doing it. But when Harden's on the floor, I think the best Clipper offense is catch and shoot PG. Do you agree with that? Yeah, I think I would, because everything has to be a quick decision. When there's that much talent on the floor or else, it just turns into a lot of isole ball like we first saw when they got these guys together, and they'll
be out of position and there won't be much rhythm or timing. So I think you're right. It's a very good point to just and on the season, Paul George now is shooting forty four percent on catch and shoot three pointers, so it's down. He wasn't about forty eight percent. Obviously, dealing with a groin injury, the efficiency hasn't been as perfect or as close to perfect as we would like, but he's playing through it right now. I
like that He'll take that foot, Paul George. Eric in Hollywood, Let's do it again, Eric, what's up here on clipperstock with that Almasen? WHOA? Sorry about that? Mad, I'm such a knucklehead. You're hearing you. I love what you're talking about, Kawhi, but I just got to give it to you straight. As a basketball fan, I love what the Clippers are doing. I love what Tyrone's doing, when Lou's doing with
the Westbrook and Harden having them buy in. Those two guys, man, I've been like doing trying to do their own thing, but now they're kind of fitting in the beaches of the puzzle. Kawhi is just balling then and steaming a man. That's a show, dude, what happened, Brover? Here's my problem with guys like that. They do it for the attention They win on the front end by getting all that attention out of saying stuff like he did when he called for Kawhi Leonard to retire after last season. So
I'm gonna make sure they get the attention on the back end too. When that take is as freezing cold as Alaska in the new season of True Tech, which is pretty mediocre too, That's where I'm coming from. Oh, you want to take advantage with that hot take, you want to seek all that attention. Okay, Well, when it doesn't turn out, I'm gonna make sure you look like a damn fool. Bro He already looks like a
fool man. He's got no credibility. He had a KD story where he said his boys pulled him such and such, and KD denied the whole thing. I really don't like Steven Ang. I mean, good for him. He's making money by just glowing hard and people are listening to him, and hey, good for him. Eric. What do you think about the game? What did you think about the game? O? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's playing it. But shows like this that know about basketball and
know about what Kawai's really doing, great, Hey Kawai. They don't want to talk about him. Hey, so lot Man, his game will do the talking. I just care about him hoisting that trophy at the end of the year. That's all I care about. And one last thing, Man, and I appreciate the time you're giving me, is man. I just
don't trust Harding Man. I just hope he stays on board, man, because he looked just like this last year with the seventy sixers, and something switched and he changed one hundred and eighty degrees And just how did he change one hundred and eighty degrees? How did he change one hundred and eighty degrees? He was playing like this last year with the fixers, playing like this, don't he got snub for the All Star and all of a sudden, that's what Eric, Eric, would it surprise you if I told you.
If you look at first half and second half splits from James Harden last season, they're almost identical. I know. Doc Rivers came out and said, oh, it completely changed afterwards. I love Doc and what he did for the Clippers, but it just doesn't line up with the numbers, and it doesn't line up with a guy who had two forty point games against the Boston Celtics. Well, you know what, then I'll eat my work. Then.
I did not back it up with that. And yes, I was tainted a little bit with Doc what Doc said, because I mean I love Doc. I do. I think he's a great coach. There's a couple of things that he's done, but I love the way he knows basketball and the way he talks. So I believed him when he said what he said. But hey, man, I'll roll with you. Man, I'm in. I'm in. I'll roll with you. I got you. I'll take it back. Eric. I appreciate you, my friend. Let's do it
again on Sunday. All right, absolutely, Man, have a great show, great talk. Keep doing your thing. Man, I love this. I love this show very much. All right, thank you, Eric, I appreciate you. I'm not trying to belabor the point. I just can't believe it's gotten to this degree where Kawhi is playing at this level and there's just gross negligence going on by the national media. It's not just hot take artists, it's former players who maybe have turned into them and Kendrick Perkins.
I don't know if Richard Jefferson has talked about it much. I'm guessing JJ Reddick has since he seems to be on top of modern bath and giving guys their flowers when they're due, and that's all I want to see for Kawhi. Leonard just put them in the conversation. Doesn't mean he has to be number one, but he can't be number ten. He can't be out of the discussion and discourse regarding all the MVP talk right now. That's just unacceptable in my opinion. Now to what Eric said, does Kawhi care know?
Wouldkawhi even know whether he's being talked about or not? No, And that's what we love about him. But we can still point to these positives and just how good he is playing and make sure others understand what they're watching right now, because this is an all time performance in a regular season by one of the greatest players of all time. And yes, it's all going to come down to the playoffs with this team, and that's how they'll ultimately be
judged. But you can still enjoy the journey and the little things along the way. And these aren't little things. What he's doing, these shooting splits, this effectiveness, this efficiency is it is something we may never see again over stretch of games this long. That's what Kawhi has been up to. All right, quick time out, come back back to your phone calls eight six six ninety seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five to
seventy and will updyke from clips and dip. He's been on the warpath with me. He's been preaching the good word extra extra read all about it. Kawhi Leonard shooting fifty eight percent from the field, fifty one percent from three last twenty seven games, Clippers winning in Detroit one thirty six to one twenty seven. I'm Ata Moslin and you're listening to Clippers socke. You're on the INFI seventy LA sports LA Clippers basketball is odd the two one three era continues.
You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network, Clippers were down fourteen. It's turn things around. They led by twenty. They win by eleven in Detroit over the Pistons one thirty six to one twenty five. I'm Madam Oslin. Welcome back into Clippers talk. Coming up, you'll hear from the head coach. But first joining us is Will Updyke from Clips and Dip after another Clippers victory, because he only comes on after wins,
after Big W's Will did you want more style points? Take it well? Did you want more style points from the Clippers in this game? Or did you see what you needed to see that they had that ability to once again, just like against the Wizards, figure it out, pour it on and play well enough when their best was required. Yeah. I mean, look, it looks very much like the last game, towards the end of a road trip. Seems like legs were a little tired. I mean, how
slow is this thing to start? Like twenty to six run in favor of the Pistons. It looked like the end of the road, Like you know, they're getting towards the end of a road trip. But I think in that second half you see them break off those runs, you know, a little twelve nothing run that's followed up by another nine nothing run a little bit
later after it was broken. Like, I think that this team still looks dominant in these stretches, and I think that that's sort of the most important thing, right, Like, they're not gonna blow the doors off every team. The Pistons were at home, they fought, They fought incredibly hard in that one. But yeah, I think I think it's more of the same, Like it just very much feels like not any game is being taken lightly like this, this was still we still had Kawhi in the fourth quarter.
He was still trying to win this game until they had a comfortable enough lead, which you know, this is one of the more he's played in the fourth quarter during this road trip. Yeah, Kawhi learned with two of his thirty three in the fourth. I just posted on x that follow out of May some of the latest these were MVP odds coming into today. Is just one website, not gonna give him the credit, not gonna sign him because
I may get in trouble for that. But there are seven guys ahead of him, and the odds of Kawhi winning MVP are at plus ten thousand meeting. If you bet one hundred, you would win ten thousand. So we're talking about Han Solo navigating through the asteroid field here, like just ridiculously far off odds. And I don't know, I'm I'm still irked about it. Will I just I can't believe a player of his ilk is not getting more love and respect with where the Clippers are right now too. I yeah,
I'm just not getting it. I don't know if it's because the Clippers have hit that point in their window where like this is just this is like expected now, you know what I mean. I think it was like a bit of a turnaround or a surprise to some people after the you know, the terrible start of the games hard An era. But I feel like maybe there's there's a bit of an old toy, like it's not the shiny new thing Syndram anymore. With the Clippers and the media, it kind of feels like
this is what they were supposed to do. And I still think that that is both overlooking how great just like the level of talent overall across the league is right now, how competitive this West is, and just how special Kawhi Leonard has been despite all that, I don't care if it's expected, I don't care. You know, if this team has consistently you know, if you want to say, let down some of the larger media with you know this what this team has made their postseasons. But this is the most serious
the two and three era has taken the regular season. And it's not just seriousness, Like I don't think they were not trying hard or anything before, but that availability that they've had and with that time, I mean, how they've how great they've both been. But Kawhi Leonard has just been on another level. And I don't see I mean, like, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm just not seeing anybody doing it on both ends of the floor
at the same level right now this season. I'm not seeing it. The only guy who I think could make that argument on both ends of the floor would be Honest. But the Bucks are a bottom ten defense and had their coach fired basically over it. What are we talking about. He's plus eight hundred, Kawhi is plus ten thousand. He's tied with Anthony Edwards. The rest of the guys with better odds than him are Jalen Brunson, who has
a cheerleader on TNT and Charles Barkley talking about him every night. Great player. I'm fine with him being in the conversation, but not over Kawhi Jason Tatum. Okay, Clippers just blew out the Celtics. Now the Celtics have lost to the Lakers, and he doesn't have the numbers, but he does have a team with the best record in the league. I'm okay with that. Giannis, No, I'm sorry, like your coach was fired and you've been a bottom ten defense. Luka Dancis. Are they eighth or ninth?
Right now? Will? How far down are the Mavericks and the standings? I mean, come on, Shake gills Is Alexander I'm okay with SGA. You're too far for me to say exactly from way up here. Nikola Jokic, I'm fine with I'll give you like three of those guys, but that means Kawhi Leonard should be top five, not eighth. Top five, and
it is not five folks exactly. All right, Let's move on to somebody that got twenty five thousand points in his career now in Russell Westbrook, who I thought played one of his best games this season off the bench for the Clippers and was so vital, especially in that turnaround where they Lookedda to start
off the game in Detroit. Then Russ got in there and he did what he did best, and that's push pace, or did what he does best, push pace, play with tempo speed, and everybody else kind of followed him. Yeah. Absolutely, And tonight the finishing was there, which is is kind of the big thing, right It's he still has that. I know we were talking a little bit about this, but he still has that athleticism, Like the way he still gets up at this point in his career
is wild. It's just a matter of if he has the touch around the basket obviously incredibly efficient tonight, and that like when he has his offense going, it allows him to be more of a facilitator, like nine is siss only two turnovers tonight. I think those things obviously go hand in hand. But the bench overall really great performance. Fourteen points from very efficient a mere coffee and fifteen from Powell, which is, you know, I think he's
good for twenty on any given night, but still extremely efficient. When you're getting that sort of bench production, I mean, you would have thought in a vacuum that the Clipper are walking away with a win pretty handedly in Detroit. But uh, you know, some some struggles from some of the starting
lineup tonight. It's a good point the bench got them pointed back in the right direction for the starting lineup two outside of Kawhi eventually come around a little bit, with Paul George having ten of his eighteen in that fourth quarter. You mentioned Norman Powell, the King of the fourth on the season. Now, he is shooting fifty eight percent from the field in fourth quarters and fifty four percent from three, and he booken the end of the third into the
fourth with three pointers that I thought were huge momentum plays. But it's not out of the ordinary with this guy, Norman Powell. That's what he does. Yeah, I mean, he's he's that, I don't know, he's the he's can be the closer. He's the perfect off the bench guy. I love where he's at in the rotation right now. Would have love to see some more. I'm curious to see some more when James comes back in. If we stagger Russ back out and us go a little bit larger,
just have Powell. Uh and James in the backcourt, just for a little bit of size given some matchups when they're running the bench backcourt. But uh yeah, man love norm I love him in every lineup. Incredibly efficient. He was my Wait, who chose him as player of the game? You choose? Did you choose me his player of the series over the end of this road trip? That's right, baby, pushing your attend to here. I love it. Hey, you brought it up. I haven't even said
that yet. Come on, if it's Powell Ganda, I won it well. Afdyke is our guest here on Clipperstock for a little cliffs and double dip on M five seventy LA sports. Okay, so you mentioned the bench, but I thought Mason Plumber he was pretty good in this game too, a former Piston just played there one year, but he had twelve and nine. I know his play has been up and down. He has. He is
someone coming back from a significant knee injury. But he and Daniel Tice, I'm not gonna say they've been spectacular picking up the slack for Big Zoo, but they have done what's been asked of them overall. They have played to their abilities. And giving you enough beef near the moat, near the rim to help this Clippers team. Yeah, absolutely, And I think you mentioned up and down play, which is fair. I think that they've performed admirably
given the size of the gap of what they were expected to fill. And we've seen it kind of across the board, right, I mean, James Harden's rebounding has come in hand some of even his post defense at times. But back to like Tys and Plumbly both, I look, things get a
little bit different if Big Zoo isn't good to go for the playoffs. But I think for the time being, this is one of the better or deeper sort of rotations at the five, which, you know, given some of your Western Conference matchups, could prove to be pretty valuable even you know, even in more limited minutes as Big Zoo returns. But yeah, Mason Plumbley, I mean offensively love him what he you know, he's still a rim
deterrent. And yeah, I mean for a guy who's coming back from injury and immediately back into the starting lineup, I think he looked pretty good overall. But I agree there's been inconsistencies from both of them. I think some of them. I think it's still a work in progress as to where they fit. But I gotta say yeah, back to my point, I just think that this is one of the deepest one of Visa Zuobus returns. Gotta
be the deepest rotation as the five in the West. Yeah, and you're gonna need it if you go up against Nikola Jokics and the Denver Nuggets, and you likely will have to to get out of the West. Clippers win in Detroit one over the Pistons. He is will Updyke from Clips and Dip big will Big victory for the Clippers. Once again, Thanks for doing this tonight here on Clippers Stock. Love it. Love getting a win in the MotorCity. Let's go fuit Coming up next, Well, previous Sundays a game
in Miami. You'll hear from coach Lou and Katie Newton's casual corner thinks she already did some prep earlier with some questions she was asking me. I'm Adam Oslin. This is Clippers Stock. You're on five to seventy LA Sports. LA Clippers Basketball is on the two one three era continues. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network tightly flow le Okay Daniel Tys eighteen minutes, five points, a couple of nice finishes around the ram,
two blocks though contesting everything to me is his best asset trait. He was a plus eleven Clippers bench big for them tonight they come back down fourteen. They win one thirty six to one twenty five in Detroit to the Pistons. Their next game coming up in Miami on Sunday, tip off a three pregame at two. Here was Coach Lulo post game after the Clippers win by eleven in Motown. So I was the first parentel. He talked four game about
all the sacifics and mad to see a player like him making it. Did that both on the box score as well as on the court with the with the actual games. For like, how's he continue to evolve on this year's seat. Just his energy off the bench, you know, and so we're
not starting games, well we don't have that energy. You know, he brings it every single game and he's he saved at least you know, five or six just with his energy, playing hard, you know, competing, getting out in transition, making easy plays and just you know it just says
a lot about the work he's put in in his career. You know, I think one of three people with twenty five thousand points, ten thousand rebounds, ten thousand assists, you know, and so just a tribute to him and his hard work and the style of play it and he brings it every single night. You know. That's what you love about Russ No matter what, you can always count that energy, net juice every single night. Coach
lu their post game, it's a ballet sports for the audio. Russell Westbrook a historic game for him as he becomes just the twenty fifth player in NBA history to score twenty five thousand points plus. He had nine or sis, just two turnovers, twenty three points off the bench, maybe his best performance. I don't know if they win this one without him, because he was that driving force to turn things around early in the first quarter with the Clippers
down fourteen. All right, before we get out of here, let's get to Katie Newton's casual corner. What's up, Katie? Well, not allowed to ask my one question. Yeah, there's a reason for that. I still think it's not a basketball question. It's not it's about FCC rules. But Okay, we just took that. It is not safe for me. Hey, hey, hey, listen, listen, hey listen. All right, so Westbrook, yay, he did over. I was sure realize it
like that. Well, I had originally put two hundred and fifty thousand accidently out zero, and I was like, so you're not as impressed because you thought it was two hundred and fifty thousand points, and now I'm trying to get to the point. Gosh, good for you Russia. Anyway, what's who's scored the most and what is the most scored If you don't know, it's okay, another Lebron, James je who's about to hit forty thousand career
points, who came into the league. It's like scoring wasn't his biggest attribute. It was his passing. But yeah, Longevities, he was a bit all the drug. Not anymore. He's thirty nine. He's a grown ass man. Thank you, Katie. Glad we could get that in celebrate Lebron. Here on Clipper's Talk. Who's the highest scoring Clipper ever? Oh that's not a bad question. All right, we'll save it for next time. Yeah, Clippers went in Detroit by eleven. They'll be in Miami on Sunday.
Is it still Randy Smith? I'm trying to think, is it CP three? Is it Blake? Probably know this. I mean give two and three a little more time, they'll figure it out. Sunday Tip time three
pregame at two. Before we get out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seeman, Ralph Lawler, Carlo Jimenez on the call, big brother, Jake Warner, our head engineer, Kay You Newton, our producer back in the bank, the callers, the listeners get to meet at follow Adam a on X and I will talk to you Sunday at two. Jason Show, So why was doing his thing? All they want to do is win? I thought they gave everything they had.
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