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That really hurt them.

the game progressed. I thought they were able to take advantage of the eagerness of Dallas on the other end, get downhill, get to the rim and finish of the line. The Clippers only missed one free throw tonight, Adam sixteen for seventeen. Remember this was a team that struggled to shoot free throws to start the year, and we all kind of looked at each other like, this is a this is a top ten free throw shooting team last year.

throw line. As you mentioned early on, Carlo Clippers undefeated when he gets up ten free throws. Norman how with twenty nine points and a lot of big timely buckets from Norm, But how about a mere coffee in that third quarter when the Clippers were going on that ten to zero run. A mirror was special tonight in the second half he was.

for this Clipper team. The Clippers last year at times had they played so slow because they had so many great isolation scores, but sometimes they didn't get those leak out opportunities. Tyler says, Look, we want to play faster, and what playing faster means is if if we rebound, run and if somebody's opened on a swing, find them a mere coffee. As this team is trying to play faster, has been the greatest beneficiary of them playing faster over

twenty five percent of his points this year. Adam aren't in fast break opportunities. He's been able to get in front of the pack. One of the best in one finishers in the NBA. Last year he was top five and continues to show he can finish through contact and press this stuff from mere coffee. Like you said, I thought he gave them the punch to jump start that run there in the.

Carlo Jimenez. Hit him up chat, come on Adam's family, let him know you appreciate Carlow. He even mentioned the mush today post game.

AM five to seventy LA Sports trying to accommodate everyone. Now, let's talk about this Clippers ball club taking a fifty to forty nine lead into the first half just by the skin of their teeth getting by after they made a little bit of a run at the end of that second quarter, and then in the third quarter Norman Powell was getting.

probably his minutes limit. That's basically what Lob Murray guests on the pregame show here Earlier. Our Law also said that Kawhi Leonard, according to coach Lou no swelling, no setback going on. He talked to him pregame. Kawhi flying with the team, had his first five on five full contact practice, no swelling, no setback going on. Great news. Big Zoo thirty three minutes, ten of thirteen, twenty one

and fifteen and five assists. The Clippers are undefeated when he gets four more assists in a ball game so far this season. James Harden big shots late twenty four points, six of fourteen, a huge three over Klay Thompson in the fourth quarter. Six turnovers, yes, but the Clippers only had thirteen as a team. Norman Powell twenty nine on ten of nineteen, shooting four of eight from distance, five of five from the free throw line. The Clippers went

sixteen of seventeen to the charity stripe. The Dallas Mavericks twenty of twenty eight. They left a few freebies, left a few on the doorstep there. Dallas ends up shooting just thirty nine and a half percent from the field,

seven of thirty from distance. The Clippers fifty two percent from the floor fourteen of thirty three from three, that is forty two percent, and they got sixteen points off the bench from a mere coffee a mere seven of ten from the field two to four from three was key at the end of that third quarter when the Clippers went on that ten to zero run and finally gained some real separation in this ballgame. And it all happened right after Chris Dunn got ejected for pushing Gordman

in the throat as they were getting into it. Gortman got a tech as well, and they exchanged free throws, but Chris Dunn got the boot. Little fire under this Clippers team. Interested to hear some postgame audio, We'll have that for you from coach Lou and the players. After the Clippers win Game one of a two game mini series in Dallas one eighteen to ninety five over a Luka, Doncic and Kyrie less Luka, Doncic less, Luca less and Kyrie less Dallas Mavericks team. They win by twenty three.

Tip off Saturday five thirty pregame show four thirty outside of Los Angeles. We are leaving you until then coming up next Here on a five seventy LA Sports, we got Clippers.

I mean, the Chargers one for her tonight. The Clippers won for her tonight. She's wearing a Clippers hat and her last night producing Clippers Talk, producing this Clippers broadcast after another big victory. Clippers are sixteen and twelve, sixteen and twelve, twenty eight games in, they're sixty to twelve and they haven't had Kawhi Leonard for one game yet. How impressive is that, Clipper Nation? How proud are you

of this team? How many times have I come on and said, damn it, I'm just proud of this team. I can't help but be effusive with my praise for this Clipper squad. They're so fun to root for. They grind. It feels like twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen.

hit and then give a little kiss the crowd. I said, it looked like the kiss of death from Sonya and moral Combat with her original fatality. I forget it did that one, but you know it turned you into a skeleton. The Dallas Mavericks, they were thin tonight. You could say skeleton crew for them without their two superstars. But that was a huge shot and a huge momentum swing. Was just Chris Dunn being ejected in this ballgame because he shoved Gortman in the neck. Gort Man in the neck,

and that's an injection. That is an accurate call. I don't love it. You know, twenty five years ago he's probably still playing in the ballgame. But these are the rules now. You have to abide by them. It's not like Gortman got off scot free. He got a technical. They exchanged free throws. But it was a big turning point of the game. It was reviewed for what felt

like hours. I think it was about a ten minute review in that third quarter, and the Clippers were just starting to get it going after they led by one at the half at fifty to forty nine. But Chris Dunn, he was a plus eleven out there. We thought, Wow, this is a big loss, and it's happening at an inopportune time. Is this going to affect the Clippers? Is this going to stunt the momentum. It happened at the

five thirty two mark of the third quarter. It's seventy sixty five, Clippers up by five, starting to get some separation. Gortman and James Hardwin exchange free throws, so now it's seventy one sixty six on the flagrant, on the technical. Then James Harden gets found, goes to the free throw line. PJ. Washington his two Clippers still up five five minutes left.

Then Big Zoo started to detonate. Big Zoo destroyed not only the second year Man and Derek Lively, but also Daniel Gafford, It didn't matter who you put in front of him. Right after Dunn gets ejected, Zoo is a huge throwdown. Then a mere coffee hits a three kpj jumper, Clippers up eleven, A mere jumper off an offensive rebound by batoom eighty two to sixty nine. Clippers, but two a three pointer, they're up sixteen. Bomba put back, they're

up eighty seven to seventy three. But Dinwiddie, what do you make the last nine points of the third quarter for the Dallas Mavericks or something like that. He kept getting to the free throw line. They couldn't stop him. And we're coming back from commercial break and basically just telegraphing what's gonna happen here myself and Carlo Jimenez, because we're like, okay, big Zoo's going. They just can't stop Spencer, And it played out just like that.

jumper is in. Still no answer from the Clippers for Spencer Dinwity.

seven of nine at the free throw line. But the big three for the Clippers Big Zoo with twenty one, James Harden with twenty four, I mean Norman Palell with twenty nine. They combined for seventy four of the one hundred and eighteen points scored by the Clippers. Efficiently Zoo ten of thirteen hard and six of fourteen, but ten of ten at the free throw line, so we had twenty four points on just fourteen shots. Norman pal ten

of nineteen for his twenty nine points. And then you get a great performance a Mere Coffee in that third quarter when they went on a ten zero run, when they started to give themselves a little bit of room between them and the Dallas Mavericks, who was at the three fifty nine mark, where Mere Coffee hit a three pointer to I think the Batoomb three at the one to fifty five mark. There's your ten to zero run before Dallas would score again, and the Clippers are up

by sixteen. They win by twenty three at one eighteen to ninety five as Zoo, as you heard there, continue to dominate in the fourth quarter and Derek Jones Junior hit the kill shot, that big three pointer, blew a kiss to the crowd. It was a fun watch in the second half after a pretty frustrating first half where I didn't feel like the Clippers urgency and aggression was where it needed to be. The competitive nature was where it needed to be, especially because they weren't getting the

ball to Vita Zubats enough. Guys, I'm out here crying on X what else is new? Katy's shaking her head, you like, Yep, that's Adam. That's Adam. That's what he does. I'm out here, like screaming to the heavens for Vitza Zubas to get the damn ball. There's a lot of all cap messages I was putting out there, no cap about it during my game thread. I'll show you one of them if you're live at Clippers Talk. But I was so frustrated. I said, Zoo was out there rebounding,

playing d yet can't get the ball on offense. He had six points early in the first quarter, comes back in the second quarter. He's not touching the ball. It looks like they're freezing them out and the Clippers are down. They were down by I want to say, eight to ten points in that second quarter. Like what was happening there. They trailed by as many as eight in the first half. So eight points and it's like Zoo's back in. He just had a quick six. He looked good. They couldn't

stop him in the first quarter. In his first seven minutes, he had six points. He comes back in and doesn't touch the basketball. They're not even looking. But they're struggling on offense. At the half, they were shooting forty one percent from the field, six of nineteen from the outside. I don't know, seems like this guy that beats Zubos is doing well. Doesn't seem like Derek Lively can stop him. Looks like the playoff series against Dallas where he averaged

sixteen and eleven. Maybe that would be a recipe for success or an easier path to victory. Just get Zoo the damn ball. How many times I gotta say this, I'm gonna make that stupid parody the Dre song Forgot About Drey Forgot about Zoo, The new Snoop Dogg album's pretty mediocre. I gotta say, I gotta say a little disappointing,

even though dre produced it. Maybe he did, I don't know, Maybe it was Warren g It's all right, but get get the ball too, Beats the Zoo boss, please please, when you can't get a bucket, when you have just fifty points in the first half, maybe look to Zoo a little bit. Now. The third quarter comes and guess what happens right from the onset, right out the gate, they get it to Zubats. He has a bucket, was fouled.

They didn't call it. That was something else going on in this ball game where it seemed like Dallas was getting a pretty friendly whistle out there. I understand a mere coffee's frustration. But he has four points right away. He has six points. Actually, I don't know. The first two minutes of the third quarter. Some coach looked at the tape, coach Lou probably Hid or Jeff Van Gundy, and they said, guys, there is an easier way to win this game. Let's get Zubats going here. Please get

him the basketball. And he comes out and has, yeah, six points early in the third quarter. That's all I wanted to see by the end of the third quarter, he's got fourteen points in the game. So he had eight points Morny had in the entire first half. In the third quarter, why just because they gave him the opportunity and they went through him a little bit more feature him get Zoo the damn ball. Oh, you guys know,

it frustrates me. That's why I had to put my hat on my beanie, just pull my hair out watching Zoo getting freezed out of the office. Gonza said, Zoo doesn't get many calls generally for some reason. Well, I don't know why that would be. I mean, I agree

with you, he doesn't get a great whistle. But he's too good of a player and too crucial for this Clippers team without Kawhi Leonard still to not get the basketball, especially when he's playing well and has a matchup advantage, and Lively wants no part of him and Gafford wants no part of them. It was doing all the great things defensively in that second quarter and is not get getting rewarded on the other end. So we'll take a

time out, we'll come back. I want to hear from coach Lou post game after the Clippers win one eighteen to ninety five, and see if maybe he shares some of my frustrations here with the Beats' zoobos not getting the basketball even in a win where the Clippers won by twenty three, just feels like, I don't know, they could have been up by more than one in the first half. Yes, I'm nitpicking, but I'm proud of the way this team played in the second half. They ride

the wrongs. They overcame losing Chris Dunn to an ejection. In fact, a little fire under the team. Chris Dunn gets chippy. This is what he does. He did get twenty five minutes in though he played his most minutes in a first half so far this season. He was at eighteen. That was good to see. So it's not like they didn't get decent use out of him. He had the highest plus minus when he left the game. He was plus eleven. Clippers win one, eighteen to ninety five in game one of a two game mini series

in Dallas. More Clippers talk coming up. Next, we'll hear from coach lou And you're listening to a five seventy LA sports. Y'all know me.

We're still looking for coach lou postgame audio. We had Lot Murray on pregame and I do want to reiterate something he said because it's extremely important. It was the first question I asked him, but I'm guessing it was the first question Coach Luke got at the pregame presser. How'd Kawi look coming out of practicing five on five full contact, no swelling, no setback, traveling, with the team and so far, so good. Let's stay there. Hopefully he

can continue to progress and head in that direction. Ganza Tuck says in the chat. Yeah, we didn't get so much from the bench outside of a mirror, but Derek Jones Junior felt like he never left, which is a good sign, even though at one point he left the game, went to the tunnel. I don't know if he was working on the stationary bike to stay warm, but he had his hamstring and a rap and we thought it might be a rap for his night. We were worried about that. I said, smh. He just came back from

the hamstring injury. He was ahead of schedule. I didn't think he'd be playing on this road trip at all. But he's back against his former team and what does he do. Hit the biggest shot of the night, put him up by fifteen and put this game away. It was the end of the night for the Dallas Mavericks. Rock said it's going to be different guys on different nights, but still amazed with the season of mirrors having Yeah, the bench, different guys are gonna have to step up.

I felt like Mobamba struggled at times, although he had a big block, but he missed a dunk. He had some tough moments out there. Still finished the plus eight everybody was a positive and the plus minus, but they won by twenty three. Not that big of a deal. Kevin Porter Junior struggled at times mightily. At times was losing the basketball. One time he lost the basketball as he was dancing too much, and then got it back

and hoisted a jumper and got it to go. And that's kind of the KPJ experience and a micro cosm, that's just that's where it is. Up and down roller coaster ride with Kevin Porter Junior said, or Jason C said great win Zoo and emr ah Chef's kiss Ray said. Norm didn't get his normal whistle in the first half, so I loved his adjustment to just focus on finishing no matter what. Great layups, got comfortable, then made threes to seal it. I agree with you. Norm hit a

ton of timely shots. Norm absolutely kept the Clippers within striking distance when they were down early and it could have gotten out of hand. I mean the Clippers, guys. The Clippers were down by six after the first quarter. It was thirty to twenty four. They didn't look good at all. They came out sleepwalking a little bit. I was frustrated. I didn't like the lack of urgency, lack of intensity out there. It didn't look like a team

that was ready for Dallas. It looked like a team that knew Dallas was without Luca and Kyrie and felt like they were just gonna be able to sleepwalk their way into a win. See walk that was not gonna happened. Norman Powell did enough to keep them hanging around. Only had two points in the first quarter, but had ten in the second quarter. Norm was huge and they stole the lead right before the end of the first half.

The Clippers did Derek Jones Jr. Hit a three pointer that was another big three after having a big throwdown at the end of the first half that was it. James Harden had just hit a three to two. So they end the first half on an eight three or yeah, eight three run. They're down forty six to forty two at the one to twenty six mark, and they end the first half up fifty to forty nine on an eight three run. Big buckets there.

for a second, but Spencer Dinwhitody in transition. Eah, it wasn't perfect, but the second half was what you wanted to see. The second half looked like Clippers basketball and looked like how it should against a team without their top two players. Norm had a big three to put him up one oh seven to ninety two. Marshall answered with a three. NAUSEI Marshall, I was concerned about him tonight. He ended up with you know, big night, just nine points. PJ.

Washington still had four. They were led by twenty two with Klay Thompson, who had a couple of streaky little runs in there. It was him and Spencer. Didn't wey their two best players tonight. We don't know the status of Kyrie and Luca for Saturday. But again big shots by the Clippers when you had to have him, and that three pointer to put him up by fifteen, which just about four minutes remaining. I want to say that shot from Derek Jones Junior back in his old stomping grounds,

that had to feel good. Guys, he's a badass, He's a dog. I wonder does he get back this soon from the hamstring injury where he was way ahead of schedule if it's not for playing Dallas and wanting to be on this road trip. He hit that three at the four to seventeen mark. That was game. That was it, a fifteen to four to seventeen left game. Norm got another quick layup in a floater off a nice feed from Visa Zubots, but that was the shot he ended

his former team. He also had a defensive play against PJ. Washington. I want to say this was in the first half where he ripped them the ball went out of bounds. The Clippers ended up with thirteen turnovers. Dallas only had thirteen as well. James Harden had four of his six in the first half, some of them were I don't blame the process or the intent. It just wasn't a crisp enough pass, but he was aggressive. At least you can live with some of those aggressive turnovers at least

instead the lack of daisical sloppy, careless turnovers. Six is still too many, don't get me wrong, but he only had two of those in the second half. At least the Clippers stopped turning the basketball over really after the first quarter. I want to say they had four or five turnovers in the first quarter alone. They ended up with four, but they only had one in the second. That was one of the reasons it didn't get extended out that Dallas Mavericks. He never got to double digits.

So Clippers are victorious one eighteen to ninety five. We'll come back still looking for post game audio from coach Lou and the players. I'm out of Mosland. You are listening and watching Clippers talk on the YouTube side, but listen to our an AM five seventy LA Sports.

matter who was on the floor. And I thought that was a good professional win for us.

fuse and maybe chippy out there. I like it. It's Patrick Beverley esque. He's got that dog in him. They need that. This is a guy who was almost out of the league and he's had to fight, sometimes literally in NBA games to claim his position in the league. Teams like his toughness factor. I think it's important. And when you play his style of basketball, by the way, with how he is, with the level of physicality he plays with and what a pest he is on the defensive end,

it gets under guy's skin. It frustrates them. That's why usually he doesn't start it, somebody else does. But he will finish it, and he will stand on business and he's not to be trifled with. He's not to be messed without. There, Cap said. Harden's numbers in the last few weeks outside of the Wolves, gast and Denver Rusty must be pretty impressive. Here's what I can tell you

about the float game with James Harden. Right now, from less than five feet, he's only shooting forty six point six percent from the field that used to be over sixty percent in his prime from five to nine feet out right. Now that's really the float game. He is shooting thirty seven percent on the season. That's also way down. If I go back to his MVP season, Let's see what he was shooting in that area. Actually, he was shooting thirty four percent. That's kind of wild to me.

The twenty seventeen to twenty eighteen year. The year after that, though, twenty eighteen twenty nineteen, he was shooting fifty percent. So I don't know. It's a shot that even evaded him at times in his prime, Like the touch is just a little bit off. That's actually encouraging to me that during the twenty seventeen to twenty eighteen season it was even lower. That was definitely prime James Harden. So maybe

it's nothing to do with that. It's just that's the situation where he's missing some easy looks and he's got a zero in his scope a little bit. That's all six Abs said. Before Chris got tripped, they were already being physical, so it just kind of or boiled over. King Charles said he kept throwing his body into dun and he was getting tired of that. S Okay, Jeremy Mormon said Doun shoved him and then got tripped, so I think Dunn thought it was intentional. There you go.

I understand. I appreciate you guys bringing some clarity. That's what I love about the Adams family and the chat here at Clippers Talk on YouTube. You're helping me through it, sorting this one out. Believe we got one more time out here. We'll take that. We'll come back all of for some player quotes coming out of this big victory. Clippers win by twenty three. They're sixteen and twelve. Kawhi Leonard is with them but has yet to play a

basketball game. They're running it back in Dallas on Saturday. More on that matchup, and we'll see if we got an update on Luka Dancic and Kyrie Irving and what their injury status is as well. I'm out of Mozland and this is Clippers Talk here on M five seventy LA Sports.

against the Clippers. He has been the bad guy, the enemy and these bouts over the years. Nobody has had a deal with more Luka Doncic eruptions than your Los Angeles Clippers. But I'm gonna guess he's back Saturday. I am. I'm just gonna accept he's back, and if he's not, they gotta take advantage once again. They must find a way to get another victory and keep stacking them up. This is Clipper stock. I'm adam Moslims where they were listening on a five seventy LA Sports or at Clipperstock

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Some of you guys in here talking about how happy Kawhi Leonard looked to be with the team, to be traveling with the team, Ganza Talk said that it's true. You can see it. Some of them rewatching Kawhi Leonard highlights from last season. Let's reflect, he had a thirty game stretch where he had the most dominant efficiency run in NBA history for thirty games. Kawhi Leonard was about at fifty seven fifty ninety splits for thirty games straight.

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should look up. So a career milestone. Kawhi Leonard went over and got the basketball at the end of the game to give it to Avitza Zubats after he went for five thousand points in his career. Did you guys notice that? Did you see that? That's leadership? Guys love him and this team fits Kawhi Leonard perfectly, hand in glove. It's gonna have to be a big one. It is just the right constructed roster to surround Kawhi with a ton of defenders one who was back tonight, Derek Jones Junior,

one who got ejected, and Chris Dunn. Can you imagine when those two are on the floor next to Kawhi Leonard and Visa Zubats. What's gonna happen? What is gonna happen? Some people think I'm really this lazy, and they're already guessing the three keywords. Kawhi is back. Like I knew. Of course that's where your brain is going to go. But I'm it's gonna be a moving target. You're not gonna be able to figure this out until I give away the third one. I mean, maybe you can figure

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a different look from James. All right. Before we get out of here, after the Clippers would win one eighteen to ninety five in Dallas over the Mavericks, we gotta say goodbye to our producer over the last four years, Katie Newton. Katie, you have to have a sign off here. You have to let people know where they can find you. Katie is a radio talent, as you have known.

been with us for three years. So send her some love and hopefully bring some business her away. Thank you, Katie, Thanks for all you've done for the show. I appreciate you just for putting up with me. It's not easy. Daniel's already tired of me. Daniel West our new producer over here, Hattie getting things done tonight. Thank you for the highlight packages, Daniel. I hope you're excited for this voyage. Damn, You've been very fun to work with so far.

on this show. I'm out of ozon. We'll talk to you on Saturday.