Clippers Comeback down 17 against Miami + Shane Young Joins the Show

Clippers Talk with Adam Auslund after they comeback down 17 against the Heat and win 112-109. You'll hear from coach lue and Batum + Shane Young joins the show.

Episode Transcript

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Karen's Madness two on once again,he's Clippers Talk. I got calls on
Clippers Talk. Immediate reaction and analysisto today's game. That's what he's capable
of. Hosted by your pre andpost game voice of the LA Clippers,
Adam Ausler. The Clippers stay hotas they beat the Heat one twelve to

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one Ozho nine. It is theirsixth straight victory. Welcome into Clippers Talk.
I'm Adam Auslin. Eight six sixnine eight seven two five seventy eight
six six nine eight seven two fiveseventy is the phone number if you would
like to get on bear with me. Hello on staff here and I will
throw you on hold and screen yourcalls during the break. You can also

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get to me at follow Adam aon Twitter. Coming up a lot of
postgame audio from the head coach toRon lou but not just that for the
first time, coming on too,Clippers Talk. NBA calumnist for Forbes Sports
Shane Young will be here. Hedoes fantastic work he put together. I
want to say it was a sixtyfive page season preview. It was the

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definitive preview and I read every singlepage of it. It was that good.
But you can close the book onthe Clippers not being able to close
games. You remember last year wewent through this. They had some bumps
along the way to get into theWestern Conference Finals, where really it was

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before the All Star break and theystruggled to get things done at the end
and fourth quarters. Well, tonight, they somehow withstood twenty two points from
Kyle Lowry in absolute flamethrower in thefourth quarter after you only had three points
through the first three quarters and nineteenpoints from Bam Auto Baio in the first

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quarter, and they just win.They just find ways to win. Tonight
it was a three point victory.They held on. They made big plays
when they had to. They hittheir free throws down the stretch, Reggie
Jackson some critical ones at the line, and Paul George when they needed him
most in the fourth quarter. Hedidn't just come up big on offense where

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he had nine of its twenty seven. He had a steal on Kyle Lowry,
he drew an offensive foul, Hestood up Bam on a bio at
the rim. Second time he's donethis in the last week. Did the
same thing to Carl Anthony Towns.That's Paul George against two of the bigger
guys in the league somehow playing themstraight up. He's been incredible. Hashtag

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MBPG can't say it enough. Hehas made all the big plays for them.
That three pointer he hit off theoffensive rebound in the fourth quarter was
critical. But so many guys topraise after a victory like this, and
somebody who has struggled overall this seasonback with the Clippers has been Eric Bledsoe.
With his shot, at least hehelps establish that pace and tempo they're

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looking for, and that's been bigfor them. But tonight he found his
shot. Had twenty one points,most points he's had since he had twenty
two in their Game one loss tothe Golden State Warriors. But fourteen of
those twenty one points came in thesecond half, and there was balance.
Had seven of those in the thirdquarter, seven more early in the fourth

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quarter, and the Clippers needed eachin every one of those points. Their
offense was stalling out just a littlebit, and he was hitting his jump
shots just two of six from three, but he had a couple of long
jumpers. The confidence was there,and we saw Monday night he played really
well and I want to say itwas seven or six assists, and he

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was setting up Hartenstein, who hadanother fantastic ball game, but the playmaking
for Eric bledsoe Monday night. Thescoring from him tonight. Hartenstein also had
an impact, just two of four, but he had three offensive rebounds on
the second quarter alone where he wasjust going in among the trees as he
is one, but just flying inand shoving guys out of the way and

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finding ways to get rebounds. Finishedwith seven and eighteen minutes, had six
points total. Hartenstein has been agodsend for this team. But that's what
we used to say all last yearwith Nicholas Batoum Saint Nick and he had
two blocks, one on Tyler Herothe other in the fourth quarter on PJ.

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Tucker and then batted the ball awayat the end with just a couple
of seconds remaining on the inbound passby Miami. Nicholas Batoum has been one
of the backbones to this defensive effortwe've seen from them all season long.
And don't get me wrong on Miami. They put up one on nine,
but they got off to such ahot start in that fourth quarter where they

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had a forty spot. They cooledoff after that in fact, I got
to run the numbers during the break, but they're shooting completely fell off a
cliff. They finished just nine offorty one from the outside. It is
that feeling out process with the Clippers. They just figure you out and they
can strict their defense. And onthe other end, they got off to

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a slow start offensively, and thatzone was giving them trouble at times,
as it does for many teams.Because at the Miami Heat are really well
coached, they play hard, theyhave a great culture there. There's somewhat
of a mirror match going on betweenthese two teams in terms of identity and
establishing that culture, and Miami's hadit for a few years. The Clippers
have had it now for a coupleof years. But they were able to

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play a little bit faster to beatthe zone. And it was Luke Kennard
who at the end of the firstquarter hit a bucket to make it forty
to twenty five. Clippers down byfifteen, down by as many as seventeen,
they come back and win again.I mean they were down by twenty
in Minnesota. They win that gameby twenty. They were down by fifteenth

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to the Okay see thunder before thatthis is what they do. But Luke
Kennard at the end of the firstquarter had a jumper that he hit and
then got hot. Early in thesecond he had I want to say,
six more points quickly, and guyswere finding him in transition. They were
just pushing the ball with pace andthat allowed them to get the Miami Heat

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out of position defensively. It washuge. And that's a new wrinkle to
this Clippers team. They've been topfive and pace all year long. They
were one of the slowest teams lastyear, and I think that's Eric Bledsoe
and guys listening to the head coachand how they need to play and want
to play, especially right now withoutKawhi Leonard. But a brilliant performance by

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a few different guys I talked about. Nicholas Batouma Betsa. Zubos has had
double doubles and three of his lastfour games now ever since Paul George told
him, you got to be thatnasty guy on the inside and grab every
rebound. You can't let anyone elseget your boards. And he finished with
eighteen and eleven three offensive rebounds.He hit a couple of key buckets,

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some tip ins, some lives thathe caught, but also some Zoo al
cinder multiple baby hooks in this onefor seven of his makes. He's skilled.
There was one point where he gotblocked by Duncan Robinson in the fourth
quarter where I thought he should havethrown it down, and I'm not sure
if that's what Nicholas Batoum said tohim. After the next possession, he

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said something to him. But thatwas the only blemish really for Zoo all
night. Outside that outstanding Reggie Jacksondoesn't score in the first half, has
fifteen points in the third quarter alone. He had half the Clippers points.
They scored thirty in the third hehad fifteen of them. He would finish
with twenty two, so had sevenmore points. Most of them came at

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the free throw line in that fourthquarter. But Paul George is just so
steady for them when things were gettingrocky, when it was down to a
three point lead multiple times in thefourth it was Pete he making a play
on offense or on the defensive end. He has been at worst a top
three player in the NBA so farthis season. He's been playing at that

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level. He's been so good consideringhe does not have his running mate in
Kawhi Leonard. Doesn't even have MarcusMoors right now, who could be huge
for them when he returns. SirJebaca is getting his timing and rhythm back.
He was in the G League tonight. For them, Paul George has
been their leader on and off thecourt, and he's practicing what he preaches.

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He's doing everything the little things outthere, and when you're superstars,
do the little things, it inspireseverybody else to play harder. If he's
going to get on the floor fora loose ball, you got to.
If a guy like Paul George isdoing that, just those little things that
get you wins, you gotta dothe same thing. He had three steals,
which is about his average, hadfive assists, twenty seven points,

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four boars eleven or twenty five shootingagain, didn't have a super hot shooting
night, but hit timely shots.Nine of us twenty seven points came in
the fourth quarter. All right,first phone call, Tagus in Walnut.
You're on Clippers stop with Adam Aslin. Tagus, what's up, hey,
Adam? Should we just start spottingthe other teams? Like a fifteen point

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lead? So we can start thecomeback process earlier. Hey, every time
it happens, I think to myself, the Clippers got him right where they
want him every time they get downbig. And we've been saying this for
years, the comeback clips it's real. Yeah, I mean, it's just
is this unreal? It's just like, Okay, well, when to come
back in the start? But Ithink that comeback started in the second quarter

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with Hartenstein and Luke Nard. Ithink they'll back to back threes that he
had really got them going. AndHardenstein was great in that second quarter especially.
He's been great in second quarters allseason long. It makes sense because
that's normally when he has his largestamount of minute stint, but he takes
advantage of those minutes. He givesthem just an instant Joe, instant energy

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as soon as he gets out there. And that's so perfectly fitting with this
roster and what they need from himand what it means to be a Clipper
with the way he plays right.And I think in the second half,
like you mentioned, Reggie picked itup, zoo Buck picked it up,
and the only thing that zoo Bugdidn't do well was that one they play

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you reference where he should have finishedit. And there was another play after
that where I think Ledso fed himdeep in the post and he couldn't finish
the lay up. I think thosewere the two things that he should have
finished would have put the game away. But overall, he did play really
well, and I think the biggestplay of the game was our biggest coaching

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coach where that Tyler did was thathe I think with five or six minutes
left, I think after Lowry caughtfire, he took out Luke Knard and
put Bledso back in, and Ithink Lowry didn't score maybe one more three
pointer with the zoo bocks fell wherehe made that four point play. But
let let those defense. I knowhe's been struggling and taking a lot of

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heat for his offense, but hisdefense pretty much throughout the year has been
pretty on point. He's guarding,you know, he can switch just like
Patrick Beverley, and I think youcan see that his offense is coming around
a little bit. And I thinkthat biggest coaching by Tyler right there that
really saved the game in my opinion, from taking heat to taking out the

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heat. Thank you for the phonecall. I appreciate it. Tages we'll
talk to you on Saturday night,all right, yes, sure? Coming
up next here on Clippers Tuck afterthey win one twelve to one on nine
over the Miami Heat at Staples Censor. I think we have some postgame audio
from the head coach Ron Lou.I want to hear from him and credit

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him always from making the right adjustmentsand not taking Eric Bledsoe out of the
starting line up when a lot ofpeople were calling for that guy. Literally
calling here as well, because Bledsoeis starting to come around. This is
the last two games. Now,this is more than just signs of life.
He looks to be in rhythm,and he's a career thirty four percent

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shooter from the outside, so whenhe was shooting fifteen percent for a while.
While he's not a great shooter thirtyfour percent, it's below league average.
If he gets two there by theend of the year, that means
he's gonna have some hot streaks alongthe way too, because he's far below
where he normally is, so laveaverages come into play. His shot looked
much better. Clippers overall come throughlate down by seventeen, just another Clippers

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come back. This is Clippers talk. Eight six, six ninety eight seven
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the Clippers on the official home ofyour Los Angeles Clippers Henery who change with
the twins and come back, buttonight, don't call it a come back.
I've been in for Dan. I'mbacking my pim whatsoever, the PM
making the tea green. Damn likea month seen the Clippers come back down

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seventeen we leave by as many aseleven, win by three over the Miami
Heat late for the final score ofone twelve to one oh nine. Welcome
back into Clippers Talk. I'm outof Maslins eight six sixty nine, eight
seven two five seventy eight six sixtynine, eight seven two five seventies of
the phone number still to come.Shane Young at Young NBA is where you

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can follow him on Twitter. Hecovers the Clippers for Forbes their sports department.
Now, I've not screened this call, but I'm pretty sure it's the
same guy who just dropped a secondago. Is this Sean, Sean,
you're on Clippers Talk? Yeah,this is me Sean and Inglewood, my
guy, what's up? How aboutthem Clippers? Eh? Thank you,

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thank you for letting me win thosetickets. Tonight was a wonderful game.
I tried to look for you tosay hello, but hey, I told
you you were going to a goodone, did I not? Oh?
Yeah, you sure did. Yousure did. And our boy Ready Jackson
pulled it out for it and PaulGeorge had a good night and it was
a lot of fun tonight. I'mtelling you, what was the atmosphere like

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late there, Sean as I hopeto get back soon because it was a
nail biter down the stretch. Imean that steal by Kyle Lowry. Luckily
Duncan Robinson, they caught him onthe right nights. He's been in a
bit of a funk, but heand Tyler Hero really struggled from distance.
He had some open ones there,but you were hanging on a little bit
late. There was a closet onenipp and talk. You took the words

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out of my mouth. I wasabout to say nail fighter, but I
was telling everybody sitting around me thatthe first half or the first quarter,
I said that shooting percentage did notstay like that, and it was gonna
come down and the Clippers are gonnawin the game. I thought they blew
them out, but you know,they made a few mistakes in the fourth
quarter, but they covered it andcame back. But the atmosphere was crazy.

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Everybody was into it. And theClippers do have a lot of loyal
fans me included, Yes, sirSean loyal to Clippers talk as well.
Well, we'll talk again on Saturday, I presume, hopefully after the clippers
seventh straight victory. Yeah, I'llbe at the game Sunday to see the
Bulls because I'm from Chicago. BobbyRoot and put a Clipper. That's right,

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they got their first. I wantto say is at the first back
to back of the season coming up. That was Sean and Inglewood become a
regular like Sean here on Clipper's Talk, and I want to hear from the
head coach Toronto lou after the Clipperswin one twelve to one on nine over
the Miami Heat. Here was coachlou post game, and this is coming
from Valley Sports. Break out ofthe slump. We'll not shooting slump.

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But I mean, I know he'sdone everything for you guys, but what
is that? You know? Nickalso talked about being able to score with
PG going to the bench in thethird quarter. Board what did you guys
kind of find with PG on thaton that bench, you're able to increase
the lead. I think he wasable to get stops, you know,
get out and transition a little bit. Like I said, I thought Bled
tours the pace. Luke makes someshots in that second quarter, but in

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that third quarter, you know,PG was a little tired. We gotta
get him out early, and thatgroup we had on the floor kind of
increased to leave, so again itbought him more time. And like I
said, I was just a total, total team win. Like we did
a lot of great things. Ithought Spold did a good job of just
keeping with me. I'll balanced thezone man, zone zone, zone man,
and so we couldn't really been alot of atls and he kind of

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kept us all balanced offensively, andthen I heard our team offensively because we
were just trying to run something new. We put it in against his own
and the first half it was reallythe first quarter kind of got us behind
the eight ball, and after thatwe went back to our normal Zonne offense
and it kind of helps. Sothat was on me, you know,
on that first quarter, quarter anda half or just you know, not
sticking to what we know right nowany time. Not gonna say anything about

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how many gray hairs, Uh yougot after a game like this? None?
I mean, I'm starting to getgray hairs alright? Got him?
Man? Uh, You've had somany lineups where you've closed with one or
two of Kennard Terrence men. Uh, you went with I know you said
before you coached by field, yougo with your line us by field,

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Like, what was you feeling asfar as closing with your starting lineup for
once this time? Just kind ofgo with whatever's working. And our team
knows that they wouldn't have sacrifice toanything to win, and we just kind
of win for tonight and then we'llget ready for the next game when next
game comes. And you know,Bled had to go on tonight. You
know, Big Zoo had a fewaround the rim that we could have kind

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of you know, pulled away andkind of finished the game that you know,
he wanted back, you know,he was kind of you know mad
at the step at the end.We had I think up seven, up
nine, he had like three layup for dunks, so we didn't get
a chance to finish. So thatwas the right offensive play. That made
a good defensive play. But Ithought our starts did a great job.
I thought Buttso was really aggressive,made his open shots, he attacked down

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hill, pushed the pace, andlike I said, the only guy I
know it's gonna finish the game isPaul George, you know. And uh,
outside of that, we just gottayou know, mix and match until
we've found a bit combinations in thegame. And our guys and our and
our team they're great with that.You know, they wouldn't a sacrifice just
to win. There was Coach loupost game taking responsibility for what happened in

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the first quarter with the Clipper fordown by his million a seventeen, down
by fifteen after one at forty totwenty five. But after the Miami Heat
and Coach Luke came back around andmade all the key adjustments afterwards. After
the Miami Heat, went seventeen oftwenty five from the field in that first
quarter sixty eight percent shooting. Lastthree quarters they go twenty six of seventy

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two. That's just thirty six percent. That Clippers defense set in and after
hitting three of their first eight takesfrom the outside thirty eight percent, they
would hit just six of their nextthirty three three pointers eighteen percent. Clippers
defense, it's been coming on strongas the game goes along. We saw
it against tonight and they win theirsixth straight. Coming up next, Shay

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Young. We'll join us here onClippers Talk. We'll get back to your
phone calls. Eight six six ninetyeight seven two five seventy. Oh,
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it? Please? You're going backto more LA Clippers Basketball Act defense.
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oh nine over the Miami Heat atStaples Center. Welcome back into Clippers Talk.
I'm at a mass into eight sixsix nine eight seven two five seventy
eight six six nine eight seven twofive seventy. It is the Clippers sixth
straight win, not one, nottwo. Hey, they were playing Miami.
I had to do it, lowhanging fruit. I know coming up.

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We'll get back to your phone calls. But joining the show right now
is a man who covers the Clippersand has been doing it well for a
long time. It covers them forthe Forbes Sports Department, and like I
said, he put together a sixtyfive page season preview. I read every
single word on there because I lovehis work. It is Shane Young,

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our friend Shane Young at Young NBAon Twitter, where there was a moment
at one point where Shane was rightabout something and I was wrong. So
Shane, this is for you.I'm stupid, you're smart, I was
wrong, you were right. You'rethe best. I'm the worst. You're

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very good looking. I'm not attractive. All right, We good, Shane.
We're totally good at him. Man, say you did not need to
go that deep into I guess agenerous introduction, but I appreciate you man
always. Thanks for doing this tonight. So I get this question a lot
because the Clippers once again had todig themselves out of a hole. They

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did that with the record earlier thisseason. They do that in games down
twenty down, fifteen down, seventeentonight. What is it about this group?
It just seems like they find themselvesonce they're down, No, once
they get punched in the face,and then they luckily do land the final
blow. Yeah, it's it's kindof hilarious that this has become the trademark

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of the team, that it's becometheir identity. And really, you look
at last year and you know,other than the resiliency, I don't know
what you could say their identity was, but whether it was just that,
you know, drive, pick,swing, generate open three type of offense.
But it seems like Tylu isn't andstill this this kind of I don't

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know the identities of the ward.I keep going back to that they are
just built for getting better over thecourse of a forty eight minute game,
and maybe that is the players thatare adapting and realizing a you know,
we're down thirteen, we're down fifteen, down nineteen, like we gotta get
it together. Or whether it's thecoaching staff that's like you you know,

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making a usments on the fly.I kind of think it's a mixture of
both, as it always is,but there's something about the coaching staff man
that really seems to get the playersto buy in, not just throughout a
season. You hear that all thetime, like, you know, we
need to get you know, bloodso to to buy in, and we
need to get ready to buy in. Whatever the case is, I think
it's throughout the course of a gamethey have something in their motivational tactics that

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whether it's it's play designs, whetherit's just you know, motivational talk,
I mean that they seem to likethe spark. Shane Young is our guest
here after the Clippers win one twelveto one on nine at Staples Center over
the Miami Heat. You mentioned EricBledsoe buying in and his last two games.
It's his best two games stretch.He had a really good game one

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was good for at least the firsthalf of Game two. But and some
of it's of course understandable, Yes, he's back with his old team,
the Clippers, but things done changedand he has to get acclimated and more
familiar with these guys and his roleout there. But it looks like he's
starting to get more comfortable. Whathave you seen from Eric Bleds to the
last couple of games? Now?Yeah, see, you know, I
think there's a couple of games that, you know, before these last two

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that he was just Now I wouldn'tsay settling for threes because with him,
I don't know if it's more sosettling but just taking with the defense is
going to allow, but just youknow, taking too many of them.
I think whenever I think his burly, you know frame, he's able to
get downhill at will get get downhillno matter who's in front of him.

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I feel like that there's no realdefender unless you're talking about like a Ben
Simmons type guy that's just so hugethat's able to you know, deter him
from getting into the lane. Hey, they call him mini Lebron for a
reason, maybe even some mini Zionnow after his last year with the Pelicans,
Yeah, hey, maybe it's that. I mean, no, I
think I think in New Orleans hejust decided that he wasn't all into their

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offensive style and why drive to thepaint if they're not even winning at a
good rate anyways. I mean,yeah, at least with the Clippers,
he knows that once he breaks thatfirst line defense, once he gets into
like fourteen thirteenth feet territory, peopleare going to rotate over to him,
and that's either going to be IsaiahHartensteinn if he's the Dubos right there for

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a dump off, or you know, a shooter that's you know, that
relocating to the wing. I thinkhe has a really good connection with with
like that bench unit when he doeshave minutes alongside Luke and Terence and them.
I really do like what I've seenfrom Blood. So it seems like
we just got done listening to tylutalk about how you know the bloed has

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been kind of quiet on the floorand just kind of keeps to himself.
But then PG gets up there andsays that when you actually get him off
to the side and stuff, he'she's a lot more vocal and h he's
a leader throughout the game, especiallyfor their defense. So I think it
all comes down to it. I'mlike more reps with the team more reps

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in these games. I mean,the dude played forty minutes tonight. I
mean, he's a workhorse. Soit seems like the more time that he's
going to be with the team,the better the results are going to be.
There are still going to be somestinkers, because if you're not a
good shooting guard, you're gonna havenights where you where you irritate the fan
base, and the fan base WinCEyou off the team because you can't make

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an open shot. But everything elseI think should should culminate into being this
positive impact player. Is Shane Youngagain. Follow him on Twitter at Young
NBA Shane. We've been at theforefront of the PG can be a sixth
nine Steph Curry at times. We'vebeen talking about this for a while.
A great minds they can alike,come on, I guess me you and

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Justin right Rousseau. Okay, Well, Paul George just three of nine from
the outside. At least he didget up nine and it sounded like he
was a little bit gassed also ata point in this game, but not
too much where he didn't give thoseeffort plays late and those hustle plays aside
from the nine points he had inthe fourth quarter. But I said earlier,

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you know, he is playing likea top three player right now in
the league. Where would you slothim? Did you do? You agree
with that assessment? And I knowI'm biased. You know, it's so
it's so ridiculously hard to even likeline out all the players and say,
hey, this guy's won this.Guys two discuss three. But to me,
like like unequivocally the most impressive playersconsidering their workload and considering what they're

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doing on both ends. This isgonna sound crazy because Stephes is not known
as a good defender, but hekind of is. I think Steph,
k D and PG have been havebeen the guys that have stuck out the
most to me. Whether you wantto say that's the top three players right
now, it's whatever. But Ithink those three, especially for Kadie not
having Kyrie, they're hardened going throughthe struggles that he's going through, you

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know, offensively, not getting thefalcols, PG carrying the workload. He
is those three guys for sure.So I definitely agree with that assessment.
And I don't know about you whenit comes to pg uh in terms of
how you view his defense, especiallythis year, because he has so much
that he has to backpack. WithKawhi off the floor and Nico as the
only other, you know, realimpact wing out there, I guess you

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can count Terrence in there as well. But with pg's defense, I'm so
ridiculously impressed with his attentativeness and hisaggression. I mean, tonight goes up
straight up with damn Autobio with whattwo minutes left in the games. Incredible.

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I mean I joked on Twitter thathe got that from Roy Hibbert.
They spent six or seven years togetherin Indian Netflix. It's like, it's
just it's remarkable that he knows notto foul in that situation as well.
Yeah, the play against Carl AnthonyTowns where he drew an offensive foul after
it looked like he was foul andhad the ball ripped away from him in

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Minnesota, and then earlier tonight alsowith Tyler Hero getting a piece of him
on a baseline fade away. Theydon't call. He still hits it.
He's been playing through all types ofcontact and not getting calls, and it
just doesn't matter. He's gonna comeup with big plays late and do those
little things that's just so rare tosee from a superstar somebody else I wanted
to talk to you about. ButNicholas Batum, since you brought up Steph

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Curry, you know, he wantedto be in this role with the Clippers
where he was the Draymond Green typewhere he did those little things, and
he had some some big things donein this game with some big blocks.
Batumbo was out there, nick blockTom whatever you want to call him.
But momentum changing defensive plays as well. Is it fair to say that defensively

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with them being this good early inthe season, a lot of that is
Nicholas Batum being the backbone of theirdefense right now? Absolutely it is.
I'm actually writing a piece on Patumthat's gonna drop tomorrow. Yeah, I
was wanting to drop it tonight,but you don't have the content. Grind
is if they're if they're on aback to back, you want to wait
until the that's over with. Uh. Think to God, I thank God

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that he actually had a really solidgame that I did not ruin that.
But but in short, I dothink that that he is one A to
Pg's one bat And really, Imean, bloods can be thrown in this
mix too, because at this pointof attack defense, you know, he's
not the biggest guy on the floorin terms of height. But but that's
beside the point. Yeah, butbut well, with PGI and Nico really

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just just saving the team. Wheneveryou don't have Surge, you don't have
Marcus Morris, two positive impact defendersas well. So it's great to see
that. I do think the tombwe might I would caution fans to not
expect this level all year. Imean, the dude is getting up there
in age. PG said a fewminutes ago that that Nico does have a

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lot of miles on him despite notbeing like late into his thirties. He's
still early thirties, but exactly likea lot of miles throughout his Olympic career
as well, not just this year. So I think, you know,
I was looking at a number youknow that really that really stood out to
me. You know, you see, you see the blocks, you see

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the steals with Niko, you seethe good week side rotations. He knows
where to be, but the opponentsturnover percentage when he's on the floor is
like seven percentage percentage points higher thanwhen he's off the floor. So I
know that's a fancy way of sayinghe causes a lot of turnovers, and
I think that that is something.It doesn't necessarily have to be a steal

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that's recorded for him. It couldbe, you know, he could be
in the right place at the righttime and cause a turnover that's picked up
by PG or someone else. Imean, I think that I think that
he is just causing a lot ofhavoc on the defensive end, and that
that's really not his physicality. Tome, that is his IQ from being
around for twelve thirteen plus years beingin Portland, that system that they had

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pretty good defenses when he was there. So I do like what I'm seeing
from Niko on that end. Shane. I can keep you on all night,
man, but I know it's lateon the East Coast. However,
you must come on again, please, And everybody must read his columns for
Forbes at Young NBA's where you findhim on Twitter. Phenomenal work, Shane.
I'm sorry we didn't do this earlier. Maybe I was too bitter because

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I was wrong. Who knows,but that our faults, man. But
I'll tell you what when when I'mthere and in a few weeks, we'll
meet up and we'll do it.Wow, sounds good, my friend.
I'll meet you in section one toeleven or wherever it is at Staples Center.
I will be there back there aswell. But thanks for doing this
tonight. Okay, thanks you everygood one man coming up next here on

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Clipper Stock. We'll get back toyour phone calls, Jose, We'll get
to you eight six six nine,eight seven two five seventy eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy afterthe Clippers win one twelve to one on
nine over the Miami Heat. They'resixth straight victory. How do they do
it? Down? Seventeen unbelievable.More Clipper Stock next year on NAM five

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seventy l A sports, I ain'tpainted play up. We buy a whole
day to see most of my homeis to day. Back to more LA
Clippers Basketball Act Defense the Clippers onthe official home of your Los Angeles Clippers.

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Another fabulous victory for you Los AngelesClippers. They win one twelve to
one on nine over the Miami Heat. Somehow they overcome a twenty two point
fourth quarter from Kyle Lowry. Tipof the cap. What a performance by
him after having just three points throughthe first three quarters. Beam Atabaio finishes

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with thirty had nineteen in the firstquarter. The Clippers just play that constricting
defense and they are suffocating late ingames. Welcome back into the Clipper Stock.
I'm aut Amslins eight six six nineeight seven two five seventy is the
phone number I know. Despite thosetwo guys going off, they played fabulous
defense. Jose and Southgate. Jose, you're on Clipper Stock on the radio.

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Okay, here we go. Youknow the rules, Yes, sir
Man, I would have the gameof the day. I would have the
game against Okay. See so Isaw everyone bless you off. But today
he came on. Can I justget a go Clipps go along with a
red Gigi here clutch free throws,Reggie Jackson. Somebody had the safety glass
a load in the stand, sodid I. It was a team effort

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today. Man. The cherry onchalk was that battoon still at the end.
If Man would have dunked it,the whole house would have win down
at him. Let's go clip Brothers. Section one sent the team baby,
let go Jose and Southgate. There. I just found some postgame audio.
I want you to hear it becauseit's from Nicholas Patum here. He was
post game as postgame press around ValleySports. It's another game there. Defensively,

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I d just started to anticipate alittle bit the play. No Kai,
it was the guy on fire forthem, so kind of figure that
the play was for him. Theyput Tyler and Hero and Rubbin set on
top. So I did the decoil. I mean, I don't know how
I figured out that they got theopen floor for larvae. So justticipate a
lot of play. I think didit a couple of times, so just

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sweat it. Get us still.Wait, there were three point setting left,
and you guys have your time outdefensively talk about the situation, like
what were you guys looking for?And we're y'all planning on fouling, Like
what was the conversation? Huh yeah, I mean just switched on everything and
we got a small lineup, so, I mean, the two won't kill
us, so we got to unitethem and find a way to don't make

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them shoot at three so and denythem and they gat the ball, turl
mat twelve found and get a stopAnd it's not really easy to file.
That happen just three seconds on theclock, So just find a way to
make a play matters stop and wedid it. Is there something that happens
in the first five minutes where youkind of like are learning about a team
or how is it that you guysare always just kind of getting down and

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the coming back. We can't avoidthat. There's a game to be down
fifteen and let the team score fortypoints every time, and that's kind of
annoying. I get actually, SoI gotta find a way to get better,
to have better start and stop beingin the bastuation before we work up
and and get back. It's workingso far, but you won't happen every
time. So I'm gonna find away to get better starts and keep believing.

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Is it that it's a bad startfor you? Like are you just
trying to learn that the team you'replaying against? Like what I mean,
what had a go? We hada good start last game, So depending
where you gotta avoid the top ofstock a line never's Nicholas, but two
you had six points, but threeblocks emphatic block six boards and the play

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to seal it at the end.That's what we was talking about initially there.
Clippers win one twelve to one onnine over the Miami Heat. They
improved a seven and four after beingone and four. That means they've won
sixth straight. They'll try to makeit seven. Saturday night back at Staples
Center, they're taken on the MinnesotaDetemberwolves for the third time already. You're
good to see Patrick Beverly back thereas well at Staples. Where do I

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go from here? Oh? Yeah, I thank people before we get out
of here. I do want tothank the Clippers organization first, Noah Eagle,
Bryan Seaman, Ralph Lawlor, thecallers, the listeners until Saturday at
six thirty with your pregame show,Madam, and we'll talk to you this

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see this guy. This has beenClippers Talk after the challenge, your first
post game opportunity to talk LA Clipperswithout a Mossley. It's what we've always
seen from him. Tune in nextgame for all the action on the official
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