Parents man is pure once again. It's Clippers Talk. I got calls on Clippers Talk. Immediate reaction and analysis to today's game. That's what he's capable of. Hosted by your pre and post game voice of the La Clippers, Adam Osler. Night were back on. All the Clippers back with Paul George. They come back down twenty five and win over the Utah Jazz one twenty one to one fifteen. Welcome in to Clippers Stock. I'm Adam Oslin.
Eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is the phone number. Get to know it. When the Dodgers are on AM five seventy, we'll be right here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. Coming up here on the show. You'll hear from PG thirteen, the Man of the Hour, also the head coach in Tehron Lou. After Paul George orchestrates another twenty five point comeback here in downtown Los Angeles over the Utah
Jazz, We're having some deja vous. It's a repeat episode and I'm good with it. It wasn't a playoff game, no, but the Clippers down twenty five in the third quarter where their offense was struggling mightily, especially to start off the ballgame. They had just fourteen points in that first quarter. Paul George had more than that in the third quarter alone, in his first game back, had a twenty point third quarter, had twenty of the Clippers
thirty four points. They shaved it to twelve after being down by twenty five heading into the fourth, and then it was a lot of that Clippers depth we've been talking about all season long, that if they could just get a little healthier, it could really shine. What would it mean for Luke Kennard to be playing next to hopefully Kawhi Leonard again at some point, but Paul
George and hopefully Norman Powell at some point. The gravity of Paul George, the amount of attention that comes his way, leaves open shots for Luke Kennard, who had been struggling, was just seven of his last twenty four takes from the outside in the last five games. But remember what happened here postgame Friday night, after he struggled again against Philly and the Clippers got blown out and it looked like they were losing some of that comeback magic. Wherein two
of their last three games, including a game in Utah. Three games ago. They had been blown out and they just weren't able to have those big comebacks. Luke Kennard put in the work post game, and it wasn't just him putting up shots afterwards. It was Isaiah Hartenstein, his teammate who stayed with him, who was making the passes. It wasn't a ball boy.
Those two were out here putting in extra work at Crypto dot Com Arena and it paid off because Luke Nard likely hit the biggest shot of the ball game. The Clippers were down one fifteen to one fourteen with a minute twenty left and Cannard sticks a big time three pointer off a pass from PG thirteen, who finished with six assists. By the way, wasn't just the thirty four
points. Paul George is a two way player. When they needed him to step up, and Donovan Mitchell was trying to take over early in the fourth quarter and was getting to the basket at will, it was Paul George who took the challenge, who had three steals in the first quarter and had a couple more in the fourth. They only credited him with four steals in the ball game. He had a couple of knockaways, he had some tip passes, some deflections. You could say that when I look up the advanced analytics
later on NBA dot Com will prove true. And it was against Donovan Mitchell. They found a way to slow him down when he was trying to answer every Clippers run. And it seemed like all night that was happening from the Utah Jazz because they were scorching hot from the outside in the first three quarters. Whereafter they hit five three pointers in the first quarter alone, and the Clippers went oza five from the outside, they were twelve of twenty eight that's
forty three percent from distance. Through the first three quarters. They were relying on the three ball. They do that often, they're good at it, but they went away from it. In the fourth they only put up three and they went over. And meanwhile, the Clippers hit some big shots Roco Luke Kennard, Reggie Jackson, who I want to say is two for his last twenty one from the outside. Now it's something like that. Our superstar
statistician Dennis Dagostino has that information for us. But clutch shots for a team that has the best or second best. Excuse me, Phoenix will give it to you. Clipper sent Kawai and PG thirteen all season might be different, but they still have the second best clutch rating in the NBA. Last five minutes of a game within five points, the Clippers offense comes alive. In
offense that in their last five games has been even worse. During this five game losing streak, the longest of the season, they were just twenty eighth offensively and they were shooting just thirty three percent from the outside. Tonight,
after starting zero five, they ends up fifteen of thirty six. But it was Paul George who put the team on his back, as superstars do, but in his first game back to have a performance like this With now just six games left the season, and I'm not gonna say the Clippers darkest hour, but longest losing streak of the year, and they looked to have hit
the wall. Guys look gassed. Guys who have had expanded roles because of the situation with injuries, like Reggie Jackson who still was just eight of twenty four, like Marcus Morris who only hit one shot and had a really rough ballgame. They had someone to lean on to pick them up. Finally, it was PG thirteen back and he had a twenty spot in the fourth quarter alone and hit three three pointers. Was the only one that hit a three
pointer in that quarter. Was five of seven in the quarter, had six more points, including some big free throws and a layup over Rudy gober Late. Not easy to do, but somehow the Clippers have no problem attacking that stifle tower. Whether it's PG thirteen or Terrence Man or Reggie Jackson, they show no fear against one of the best defensive centers we've seen in the modern era, and Paul George would hit a shot over him with under two minutes
left. Again, had six of his thirty four in the fourth quarter and helped will the Clippers to victory. But I felt like as the game went along, guys were assuming roles once again. They were sinking into their roles,
filling the rules perfectly and surrounding their superstar. It didn't start off pretty in either half down twenty five, though, I tweeted out Clippers down twenty five to the Utah Jazz again, eyes amozy emojis, I'm hip, I'm with it, And for some reason, whenever the Clippers get down like this as they have over the years, they play their best basketball. But against
Utah ooh, who are gonna be kicking their own? Took us, as BTV would be saying, because they went just seventeen of twenty nine from the free throw line. That's fifty eight percent, and they really came up short late. The Clippers just have their number, and maybe it's the psychological warfare of the game. And you come back on a team down twenty five in the playoffs and you have somebody comebacks, you have that reservoir of confidence to
draw upon. But I think part of it was also the Utah Jazz could feel it coming too, and when the Clippers finally got over the hump with that Luke Kennard three pointer, the Jazz went scoreless in the final minute of the ball game. The Clippers never looked back and Reggie Jackson, by the way two for his last eighteen from three, but would hit a big one after missing a couple of good looks. He hit one let's see at the five minute mark of the fourth quarter. This Clippers team just finds ways to
win no matter who is out there. But tonight you gotta welcome back Paul George with a performance like this, and Noah Eagles said a pregame it's not as surprising as he might think, because remember in his first season as a Clipper, he missed some games initially coming off his shoulder surgery, and then showed up and had one of the most efficient games in franchise history. Granted in a loss in New Orleans. I want to say. He had thirty
nine points on like fourteen shots. It was unbelievable. He just hit the ground running. He was in sync from basically the second quarter on. Didn't hit a shot in the first quarter. His timing and rhythm seemed to be a little bit off at the basket. Wasn't getting a good whistle. Nothing new there, I know. That was the running joke tonight. Uh yeah, Paul George is definitely back. He's still gonna get a call. The Clipper Nation was saying that online, responding into some of my tweets with that.
But he stayed with it and late hits that big bucket over Rudy Gobert. But the step back threes and the tough twos he hit in that third quarter, that's what really makes him. What I like to say at times is a six nine Steph Curry. He's got a handle at that height that makes him special. He's got wiggle and can get around guys at that size that makes him special. And believe me, Paul George, when you see
him in person, he's even bigger. But this was a big time performance that can hopefully give the Clippers a little bit of momentum heading into the play in tournament because that's where they're headed. They're going to be in that eight spot. It's almost mathematically impossible for them to be anywhere else. At this point, I want to say the magic number is down to two. With the Lakers also losing earlier tonight badly in Dallas. Clippers come back down twenty
five. It's the fifth time this season they've come back down twenty or more. It's the fourth time they've come back down twenty four or more, and that hasn't happened in the last twenty five years at least. We don't know how far we can go back into the NBA records to find numbers like this. It's that unheard of. But you've been watching this with Clippers basketball going
back to twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. And there are some guys that deserve credit that are no longer here, like Pat Bev who was a culture changer and it's doing the same thing in Minnesota now and Lou Williams and Montrese Harold. But the front office continues to refine the roster, find high character guys, Guys that want to be here, want to win here, want to
do something special in bringing this franchise their first ever championship. Guys who bet on themselves like Isaiah Hartenstein, who could have been in Golden State's training camp. He wanted to be here with the Clippers. He beat out another center to get the final spot on the roster, and here he was in a twenty five point comeback, being the goat float or the float goat, whatever
you want to call him. With that ridiculous floater he has off of passes from PG thirteen, another weapon at the center position where it's just automatic from
ten feet out. And he had eight of his fourteen points in the fourth and the Clippers, as good as Paul George was in that third quarter, they came together as a team, played one of their best quarters of the season, outscored the Utah Jazz by eighteen and the fourth it was a thirty nine to twenty one discrepancy, and you're Los Angeles Clippers do it again down
twenty five against Utah. This is Clippers stock. I'm at a Moslin at eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is the phone number coming back. We got postgame audio from PG thirteen. What a return. Didn't miss a beat. Thirty four points in thirty minutes. They are survivors. It is unheard of what these Clippers have been able to do all season long. They stayed afloat until they got PG thirteen
back. Hopefully more of the calvary is just around the corner. We're talking about Norman Powell and Kawhi Leonard. Of course, maybe we have updates from the players or the head coach post game. We'll get to all that. Here are Clipper stock. I'm Adam Oslin and you're listening to the Patriot AM eleven fifteen over by now, but it will sting in my hands. This
is LA Clippers basketball quarter three for the time he got it. This is the official home of your LA Clippers definition of ball, in which white folks. But now the Clippers come back down twenty five against the Utah Jazz. This is not a replay of Game six last year in the second round, but it's got to feel like that for the Utah Jazz. Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm out of maslin eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty
eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is the phone number. Yes, we are on the Patriot AM eleven fifty tonight when the Dodgers are on AM five seventy programming. Nope, we'll be here with you on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. This is spooky, eerie numerology like stuff. If you're into it either way, I'm gonna give it to you. So when the Clippers were down twenty five in this one, the score was seventy six to fifty
one you with eight oh seven left in the third quarter. When the Clippers were down twenty five in Game six to Utah last season, the score was seventy five to fifty. It's unbelievable how the Clippers are able to do this, but I do think there's a connection there. Teams can feel it. When the Clippers take that momentum, they start gripping. They know, oh no, it's gonna happen to us next, or it's gonna happen to us again. In the case of the Utah Jazz and the Clippers went small for
a bit. And by the way, this was the first time Robert Covington was playing next to Paul George, and those two worked well. Roco was great. He had a big three pointer as well. He was everywhere defensively, getting to a couple of offensive rebounds two. But one of the best plays I've seen all seasons from Paul George. And I mean in the NBA, not just with the Clippers. Sure, I'm biased, I've seen more of these games, but I watched everything. I'm a nerd like that.
I'm watching NBA TV. I'm watching the game earlier on TNT, but tonight in the fourth quarter, and I think it was Reggie Jackson or it was Terrence Man who also helped fuel this twenty five point comeback, just like he did for the Clippers in the playoffs against Utah. A lob and arrant pass
was thrown towards Paul George. He couldn't get to it for the dunk, but he had the wherewithal and use that right arm, that elbow where he's coming back after three and a half months to grab it, to almost go into that hammer mode and pass it over to Isaiah Hartenstein as he saved it going out of bounds. Instead, it turned into a beautiful assist for Hartenstein
at the basket in the fourth quarter. It was an unbelievable save and Ed Reid like safety almost interception as he had no business getting to that basketball and had no shot at the dunk, but he still turned it into a positive play. But the way he hounded Donovan Mitchell late in the game, who had it going, who looked like he was gonna take over and close things out in the fourth quarter, and then Paul George said enough is enough.
He had three steals in the first quarter. This man had as much pent up energy as I had ever seen. His lateral movement. Remember this wasn't a lower body extremity type of injury, and sometimes it gives you a chance to have those fresh legs, and Paul George had the juice the way he was moving. There were a couple of contested shots on Mike Conley, who,
to his credit, Clippers killer made him anyways over PG thirteen. But this is someone who was showing off that he still is one of the most elite defenders in the league, who finished third and Defensive Player of the Year voting just a couple of years ago, the same year he finished third in MVP voting. That's how good Paul George is, don't get it twisted.
And by the way, he was coming off this season his best playoff runt ever last year with the Clippers, where he took them to the Western Conference Finals for the first time in franchise history. After Kawhi Leonard went down.
We don't know when Kawhi could return, if it's going to be this season, but this Clippers team has learned how to play without him to some extent, and has learned how to rally around Paul George, and they looked to be back to that in the second half eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty Morris and long Beach. He owed me a phone call he had those tickets a couple of weeks ago.
Morris, what's up Y're on Clippers stock with Adam Moslin to Adam limit Day something my daughter said to me, because my wife and the Adam, those tickets were very expensive tickets. They were expensive tickets at him. My wife told me. My daughter told me, she said, Daddy, I didn't know God made people at all, you know, but they had a wonderful time. Just thank you very much, Adam, one hundred times over. Thank you very very much. I mean, but it's just unbelievable. My
kid was so happy, my wife was happy. But let me talk to you about the nice game. Let me tell you what showed up tonight. The defensive intensity. See, the Clippers have always been a defensive team in the NBA. In the NBA, if you can't get no stops in the fourth quarter, let it go that. If you can't stop he's a world class athlete. They shoot from half court and jumping over everybody, and they're asking you to defend something like that. Good luck. But if you can't
get any stops, you can't win. In the NBA. The Clippers got some stops tonight. You had to be impressed with these guys. The steals, the reflections. You know, Canard. Canard is jumping up and down. You know that, don't you. Canard is jumping up because when he gets the ball, now, oh thank you, he can pick his nose and shoot, Whereas before when he didn't have George, he kind of have to rush the shot. He couldn't get his feet set. But he's got
Paul George down. And I'm gonna tell you Kawhie is coming back. But they got to get through the first round of the playing. They got to get through that right there, and he's coming back this year. Everybody. I knew the Clippers wasn't gonna waste this year. I knew they had something up this leap and they're showing it and again the double A thank you for him take his man. This season was off the hook. I mean they were off the hook. Thank you Morris. I mean you're earned up and
you're one of the regulars here on Clipper's Talk. But come one eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is the phone number and Clipper Nation. By the way, give yourself a pat on the back. It was so loud in here, and it's been a
while since I heard it this loud. Actually called this play Staples Center because that was the last time I heard it this loud so before what last December on Christmas when they renamed it. You guys helped fuel this comeback as well. I thought Terrence Man was special. He had a big tip in on a Reggie Jackson miss lay up. There was some great defense by Rudy Gobert, but team Man was there to tip it in. He went at Gobert
for another one went right at him. Zero fear of the stifle Tower, one of the best shot blockers in the league, who had a big one on a Viza Zuo Butts in the game, by the way, and Big Zoo didn't have his best finished two or four from the field, had eight points, six boards, and seventeen minutes. But Hartenstein had himself a game,
and coach Low is always willing to ride the hot hand. But to see Paul George come back and play almost thirty one minutes and be that efficient ten of twenty six of nine from the outside after, I want to say he started oh three. The Clippers were all five from three to start off the game in the first quarter, and they still end up forty two. As the game goes long, they just tend to figure things out and play their best basketball. Down the stretch and to Morris and Long Beaches point.
They outscored the Utah Jazz forty five to twenty one in the last twelve minutes. In forty seconds and end of the game on a seven oh run Clippers win one twenty one to one fifteen. You know what, let's hear from PG thirteen post game on the NBA on TNC, and that is officially baptizing Paul George back into the Clipper lineup. Are you sure you missed three months? Man? I gotta shout out to get ready grow Connor West, Uh chash Shot both, Uh, Dante Jones, Uh Sammy Rodney. I gotta
shout out those guys for getting me ready to play. They battled, they tested me in practices, and it prepared me for tonight. Paul, you have come back from all sorts of devastating injuries throughout your career. Tyler told us before tonight's game that you had every excuse in the book to call this a season. What was it that made the decision for you that you wanted to return? I mean, first and foremost, I couldn't do this without
God. You know, He's strengthened me, He healed my body. But you know, just having an idol like Kobe Bryant, who you know he plays and stuff like this, and I always hold myself to a high standard. And you know, at the end of the day, when I finished, I want to look at my career say I gave everything I had. I wanted to help my guys. I didn't want to leave him out here hanging for the rest of the season. I felt good, So you know it was only right to come back, bod Beggie Jackson sang m v P
Paul. For the fourth time this season, your squad has come from twenty four or more points down to win a game. Game First, what is it about your team that allows you to dig that hole? And what is it about this team that allows you to get out of those holes? I mean, we just we we always know what it is when we come out and we play flat, we're we're scholar. What it is the world poor team. We don't execute well, we don't finish well, we don't shoot
the ball well, we don't defend well. It just comes down to effort and energy, and uh, you can always pick that. You know, you look at every game that we go down big, it's because the other teams playing harder than this. But when we turn it on and you know we we we finally get into the game, we give ourselves a chance and us the reason why, you know, we we always think we can win a game. Do you think you'll be able to get away with that in
the playoffs? No, we have though we had a history of the playoffs up doing so, but not where we're at now. You know we're potentially a seventh AGC. We're gonna be on the road. Uh. We we already had a disadvantage to start the series if we get into the playoffs, So we gotta nip that in the bud and become a playoff team early. Want to let everybody know you let everybody in on the secret of what you
told me at half time. I should I saw him in a half time in the back and he say hopefully that he sees me after the end of the game. I should have promised that I'll see you at the end of the game. But it's good to see you, Jack, Paul, welcome back. Appreciate it, Thank you. League's better with him back on the floor. He was a starter. I don't know what you guys heard.
I heard should there was PG thirteen post game after the Clippers come back, they out twenty five, they win one twenty one and one fifteen over the Utah Jazz. We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back. We'll get to your phone calls eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty because when the Dodgers are on M five to seventy l A Sports, we're here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty looking for
more post game audio from the head coach in Toronto. Lou I metam Oslin and this is Clippers. Stoff the Patriot and put it on the triple. Babe. I'm nothing, but I see a lot of teams. I know how to anna look. Let the kind of look make you put This is La Clippers basketball quarter three for the time he got it. This is the official home of your La Clippers. Flints is to Clipper on the victory come back victor over the Jazz. No longer stable centers kurfto dot Com Arena,
but the comebacks remain the same. Down twenty five with a score of seventy six to fifty one with eight minutes left, in the third quarter. Somehow, some way, the Clippers do it again for the fifth time this season. When they were down by twenty or more, they find a way to win. It's started against the Minnesota Timberwolves back on November fifth. This was a forty point turnaround. They went from down twenty to winning by twenty over
the Timberwolves, who they may see in the first round. Well in the play in in the first play in game, should they win that they become the seventh seat. Then it was January eleventh against Denver down twenty five. In January twenty first in Philly, down twenty four, and then well, I'll come back for the Ages in the Nation's Capital, second biggest comeback in
NBA history where they were down twenty five. Make it thirty five to the Washington Wizards in DC, and they found a way as Luke Kennard, I think I had seven points in the final nine seconds, his own Reggie Miller type of moment. Welcome back in the Clippers stock. I'm ata Moslin to eight seven seventy five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seventy five two zero eleven
fifty is the phone number you're listening to? Clippers talk here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty when the Dodgers are on a M five seventy LA Sports, we will be here every time. Know that story of the night. Though. Paul George, he has thirty four six three pointers after the first quarter, looked to be back in rhythm. The thing I like, just two turnovers At times this season he's had an issue in that area. Not Tonight
had six assists. Two of them came in the fourth quarter, a big one to Isaiah Hartenstein where somehow he turned and eront pass was supposed to be a lib into a pass to Hartenstein for a bucket, and then would find Luke Kennard for the biggest shot of the game, a three pointer to put the Clippers up by two, and they would finish the game on a seven oh run where the Utah Jazz look to be shook. I'm gonna call it
as I see it. We've seen the Clippers in situations like this before in the Lob City where they weren't able to close up by seven forty five seconds left game five, and okay, see, I'm sorry to bring it up, but Utah using a timeout when they didn't have one late and Scott Foster taking some time to realize Yeah, they in fact didn't have one technical foul. Clippers going to the free throw line, Reggie Jackson would hit it. That is a rarity. I know, you guys talking about cweb Rashid Wallace
has done it before. Two It happens once in a while. In fact, Reggie Jackson did it last season and then redeemed himself as he did in this game. Started off cold, would hit big shots late, Clippers come back down twenty five, They win one twenty one to one fifteen over the Jazz. When we return here on Clippers Stock, we'll tell you about the upcoming road trip. Still looking for postgame audio from the head coach, tehront
Lou. But what a big time night here for the Clippers after losing five straight, getting back Paul George and now can they build off this momentum as they head into the play in tournament because that's where they're gonna be. Gonna be in that eighth seed and taken on either Minnesota or the Denver Nuggets.
There are no good options there. But I don't know if you want to go up against the reigning MVP, who may go back to back this year Nicola yok Carl Anthony Towns and Pat bab and what he's been able to do in Minnesota. That's no joke either. They're playing some of the best basketball in the league right now. More Clippers stock next, all right here on the Patriot aml A sello. Don't know how you do, so let us sell that will make me want to shoots. This is LA Clippers Basketball Quarter
three for the time he got it. This is the official home of your La Clippers. I got my glob bone but didn't get out. They got a call from good Day to see Paul George back up the court and Clippers you know arena. We'll go back in the Clippers suck. I've had a Moslin looking at the stat for you. Here come from Clippers pr and the Elias Sports Euros. Paul George's thirty four points to night most ever by a
player who has missed their team's previous forty plus games within one season. I mean even when MJ came back after the first retirement, he only had nineteen for Chicago. Not just saying okay, okay, we're still waiting on more of the reserves of the Cavalry to show up for the Clippers. We're hoping we'll get good news from Norman Powell, who I did see dribbling around during timeouts and Kawhi Leonard eventually, which is six games left here in the regular
season before the play in tournament for the Clippers. But what a comeback, What a moment in this twenty twenty two season, and what a performance from your superstar and Paul George, who did not miss a beat he has thirty four, twenty of them came in that third quarter. And the Clippers do it again to the Utah Jazz. And they had been thinking about that twenty
five point come back from the playoffs last year. Quinn Snyder said that pregame great head coach that had been on their mind all summer long, and it happens to them again tonight. This is a team that just led the Clippers by as many as forty one a week ago in Utah, and tonight the Clippers do it again. Unreal, surreal, unbelievable, whatever you want to use to describe these Clippers comebacks. Who've been spoiled a little bit. Clipper
Nation, this is not normal. Embrace it, Enjoy it. Appreciate it and appreciate Paul George coming back, and something he said postgame struck me talking about Kobe Bryant. His favorite player growing up, favorite team was the Clippers. Favorite player was Kobe Bryant and the warrior he was with Battling through injuries, getting his dislocated finger snapped back into place by Gary Vedi during a game.
Not many were as tough as him mentally physically, and Paul George wants to make sure he's following in the footsteps of one of his heroes and leaving everything out there. And he returned from that UCLA injury after three and a half months, pass all the tests. Tonight, Tonight with blind Colors, Clippers come back down twenty five. They win one fifteen over the Utah Jazz.
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