May 2, 2025 • 51 mins
The Beard, St. Nick, the Klaw, Big Zu, The Wall… Everyone came to play as the Clippers kept the season alive with a win in front of Clipper Nation at Intuit Dome. Adam’s got a full game recap, and the postgame thoughts of the Clipper Nation ahead of Game 7.
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You know I branded Kobatoombs Saint Nick after a big
victory back in twenty twenty against the Denver Nuggets, and
he just helped them again. Saint Nick saves the day,
starts the second half, and the Clippers win one eleven
a one oh five in Game six and a must
win game here and into a dome to force a
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Game seven back in Denver on Saturday, tip off at
four thirty pregame show at three point thirty. Welcome into
Clippers stock. I'm out of Maslin. We got you here
for the next hour eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy eight six six nine, eight seven two
five seventy. Niko Batoum is the difference maker. I said
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early in the regular season for everybody crying about, oh,
they never got their power forward the Clippers never brought
that guy in. He's hiding in plain sight. If you
need a power forward in a certain matchup, and I
specifically said against Denver, in case of emergency, break glass
and go to Niko Batoum. That's it. That's the move
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they did it. Finally, this wasn't about him going for
twenty points or anything like that. It's about the connectivity
on the offensive side. That beautiful extra feed with a
bounce pass to DJ and the near side corner for
a big three point in the second half. And then
on defense he can switch on to Nikola Jokic and
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Jamal Murray. You got a guy that can guard both
of them adequately in Niko Batoum's That's what he does.
That's why we've been crying about it. Maybe took one
game longer than I thought it was going to, but
coach lou eventually got to that point where he said,
we gotta play him when we gotta play him heavy minutes.
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He ends up with thirty four minutes in this ball game.
The Clippers come through. They out execute Denver when they
had to, They got stops when they had to. A
Vita Zubots. This was one of the best defensive games,
maybe the best of his career, giving the stakes incredible.
Jokis were just five points in the second half, Jamal
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Murray just nine points in the second half. He had
just nine points after the first quarter. This Clippers team
got back to basics, got back to doing what they
do best. After a game where they gave up one
hundred and thirty, they give up just one oh five.
The defense showed up. The sense of urgency was there.
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James Harden answered the bell after all the talk after
games four and five. He showed up and had twenty
one of his twenty eight points in the first half,
and the Clippers were only up by one. Denver wasn't missing.
Harden was matching them offensively. Harden was getting downhill relentlessly.
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The Clippers started one of ten from three. At one point,
I want to say they were two of fourteen or
two of fifteen. But they didn't settle. They got into
the paint. They only had fifty points in the paint.
Denver had fifty six, but the Clippers did get up
thirty nine three pointers. But they were so good at
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finishing when they got inside the three point arc. In
the first half, it held up their offense. As much
as they were missing, they were finishing beautifully. I mean
Norman Powell that two handed dunk in transition the second
half got into a dome Outher seats. He was fabulous
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and we'll talk more about him after a ten second
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Norman Powell twenty four points on just fifteen shots after
I believe he had twelve points in Game five. They
didn't bench him for Nico. They ended up benching Chris Dunn.
Not because he was so miserable out there. He was
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one of four zero three from the outside. I think
it was more about the size difference and Aaron Gordon
going at him early on, and that has been really
the X factor in this series. I think Aaron Gordon's
play for the Denver Nuggets. He's still finished with nineteen,
but the the way he has punished the Clippers on
the boards and of course with a pretty key in
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historic offensive rebound leading to a putback dunk to win
here and into a Dooeman game four. What he has
been able to do with his hustle plays while scoring
the basketball, He's been incredible. You've needed to counter that
for some time. They finally did it to an acceptable
degree tonight by unleashing Niko Batoum, the power forward was
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on this team. Internally, I told you all season long,
I felt like they were hiding Nico, putting him in
bubble wrap, not playing him heavy minutes for a moment
like this. Better late than ever. I hope it wasn't
too late. I believe he'll be starting Game seven, and
they got one for all the marbles you win that
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you're taking on. Okay, see on Monday. Kawhi Leonard, I
don't want to say a quiet twenty seven. He was
eleven or twenty two from the field. He struggled from
three two of eight, but he had ten boards. He
led them in that area again, boardman gets paid five assists.
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He had moments where he really gave them a lift.
All around, very good game from Kawhi Leonard. Not Game two,
but an all around very good game from Kawhi. A
must win situation, so you get Norm, Kawhi and James
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Harden all going for twenty four or more. Zubats only
had ten points, but his defense was out of this world.
He had two blocks on one possession down the stretch
against Niko Jokic. I can't say enough about the job
he's done in this series. And Denver wanted this game.
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I know it's not groundbreaking. They desperately wanted this game
because after they won Game five to go up three
games to two, what was all the questions coming their way?
It was about from that Denver media, what happened last
year losing that game six on the road by forty
five to the Minnesota Timberwolves and then eventually losing that
game seven back at home. They played with a level
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of desperation late in this ballgame. The Clippers did leave
too many wide open threes for my liking. In the
fourth quarter, Christian Brown, he hit a couple. Denver made
a push, but the Clippers did respond when they had to.
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It was a five point game. Late, Christian Brown hit
a couple of free throws. Clippers turned it over all
of the time out. Jokics picked it up, but he
then missed a layup. Ball goes flying around. Eventually it's
picked up by Kawhi Leonard, who smartly. Well, he might
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have been able to go at Jamal Murray. Transition slowed
it down, paid them intentionally foul, and the Clippers ran
through the tape. It was uncomfortable at times. Maybe the
biggest shot of the ballgame was the Norman pal three
pointer off some great ball movement to make it one
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ten to one on one late Norm was talking to
the crowd. I don't know if he said, this is
our house. He was hyped. It was good to see
he had a great game. And so you go Niko
Patum for Chris Dunn to start the second half and
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Don didn't play afterwards, last twenty four minutes of the
ball game, I believe. So you're not putting him in
for Norm to lose anything offensively, and really you're not
losing anything defensively. And while he's not a great rebounder,
he is taller, he's a bigger body. He makes similar
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winning plays. I love seeing the move. It had to
be done. It was time. Maybe it was overdue to
some of you guys, but it happened and it worked.
And now you wonder if coach lou was playing the
long game. We shall see because Jamal Murray and Jokic
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were gassed. In the second half, they combined for just fourteen.
The Clippers got out and ran, and I think it
was intentional, not just because of the turnovers that were
going on, but they wanted Jokic to run. They pushed
it with pace. This looked like Clippers basketball. This looked
like we had what we had seen all season long,
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with how good they were creating turnovers and being opportunistic
with fast breakpoints. They ended up with just eleven of them.
They were also fouled at times, and those didn't count.
Towards fast break points. They were going up. They forced
the issue when they couldn't hit threes, they got downhill
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and got whatever they wanted. James Harden led that drive
downhill attack. Loved seeing it. The Clippers knew they had
to have it, and they played with the level of
desperation we were missing the last couple of games. Urgency was there.
I'm sure being back into a dome obviously helped in
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this one first must win game. Ever, here Clippers want
to know in those situations, now a little bit of history.
I knew Denver was going to make a run late.
The Clippers held on. They executed well a lot of positives,
a lot of things to take away from this ballgame
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and be hopeful about a Game seven on the road.
The pressure shifts to Denver. Both teams will be dealing
with it. Game seven's are walkie. Expect a lot of misses.
Expect a lot of fifty to fifty balls. Who wants
it more? Reps usually swallow with the whistle, but the
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big adjustment game Niko Buttomb started the second half, expect
him to start Game seven. We'll take a quick time out,
We'll come back. More. Clippers tuck after they win a
must win Game six. Hear it into a dome one
eleven to one oh five over the Denver Nuggets. I'm
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Clippers win one eleven and one oh five and I
must win game six here at the Dome. The Dome
is home. Just got some thoughts off air from doctor
Schapp who was in the building tonight from the Lob
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you get some special bonuses like that bonus basketball Clippers
are able to win and push elimination back another live
to die or live to play another day. Hopefully now
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with a little bit of momentum and a huge adjustment,
they can find a way to win in seven. In
Denver tip off Saturday at four thirty. We'll have your
pregame show back here at three point thirty. I am
really proud of this group and the way they came
out tonight, and especially James Harden because guys, he was
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my player to watch and everybody was waiting to see
if he could bounce back and perform in a game
like this after what we saw the last two games.
This is why I say it's not like Denver played
him much differently tonight than they did the last two games.
It's just if you're a star, you gotta play through that.
You gotta find a way to win. Anyways, that's what
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he did. He's good enough to get twenty eight no
matter what the defense is. He showed it tonight. But
he was instrumental in so many ways, his passing, his diming.
But there was a level of attack from him in
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aggression to get to the hoop like we hadn't seen
the last two games, and maybe you know, at times
when he did do it, he wasn't getting calls o't.
I don't think you got a great whistle in this
game either. That's okay, play through it. He went five
for five at the charity stripe, but this was something
where he drove down the lane. I think the second
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possession for the Clippers didn't get a call, ball went
out on Denver. Kawhi was short on a three. After
the Clippers got it back. On that possession, you could
just see the intent was there. Then eventually he got
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a bucket in transition over Jokic early in the first quarter.
This Clippers team led early. Unfortunately, Denver would push things
and have a lead heading into the second. After one
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it was twenty eight to twenty five, and a lot
of that was just Clippers couldn't hit anything. One of
ten from three to start with great looks, wide open looks.
Nico missed a no dip three late in the first quarter.
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The Clippers started eleven for thirteen inside of the three
point line the first quarter, but we're just one of
ten from three. Harden had six points on the first
quarter of four points. Kawhi had six, Norm had six,
and they're only down three heading in to the first
while missing some really good looks to start the second.
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Kawhi but toom Bogie DJ Harden. But I should probably
say Nico came in for Done at the five to
twenty mark at the first quarter, and the rest is history.
He was the first guy at the bench in Game five.
As predicted I said, he's getting closer to starting. He
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eventually starts the second half. But back to the second quarter,
Clippers are going small, and I really liked the urgency
from coach Lou with Kawhi minutes early on. He took
him out late in the first and then brought him
back in at the one twenty five mark. Had a
right elbow jumper after the Clippers were down by six,
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make it down by seven. I think you could just
see the way Coach Lou was toddling rotations, very very crisp,
very sharp rotations, sense of urgency, valuing every possession. I
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think that has an overall effect with the team too,
to remind you of, hey, this is it, win or
go home. But that second quarter they start small. Kawhi
but toom Bogie, DJ and Harden. Harden got to the
line early. Then there was an offensive foul on DJ.
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Bogie had a great tip in, by the way, on
a Kauhi miss from three. Now it's twenty eight to
twenty nine. Clippers take the lead back. Clippers got a
shot clock violation early in the second quarter. They had
a couple of them in this game. One after a
time out in the second half tells you how locked
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in they were defensively. Clippers now are still one of
twelve from three early in the second quarter, up by one.
It was brutal, but they stayed attacking. They didn't just
settle it was a three or get something at the
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rim and look for those who are like just don't
take them. You need them at some point. They don't
win this game without them. You do need them. Nolman
Powell came in for DJ at the nine to seventeen
mark of the second I thought DJ was really good
with his minutes end of the first into the second quarter.
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His defense on Jamal Murray after he had twelve in
the first quarter. That was the guy who really was
carrying over that forty three point performance in Game five
and stayed hot, got too many easy ones, got too
easy looks to start the game. Didn't like seeing that
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made me think, oh, he's gonna get comfortable. But at
the end of the first quarter, DJ blocked him on
a three pointer. I am telling you that was a great,
great tone setter for how he was going to be
playing him defensively. That threw Jamal Murray off right then
because he only had nine points to last three quarters.
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It was first DJ and then Nico, but two months Jamaal.
But the great thing about is they want to run
that switch or they want to get the switch Jamal
or Jokic. Nico's comfortable guarding both of them. He's not perfect,
He's gonna lose some battles, but he can guard both
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of them. Talk about guarding one through five. That's who
Nico is and doing it against their two best players.
He can guard their two best players. Clippers eventually after
the Denver Nuggets, and this was the difference in the
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second quarter because Denver still stayed hot. But the problem
was they had eight turnovers in that second quarter. They
had five turnovers during a stretch of six possessions in
the second quarter, and the Clippers took care of the basketball.
Harden had a great after their fifth turnover and sixth
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possessions over on Jokic to get to the rim. That's
what I'm talking about. That's the aggressive James Harden. That
was a bad man right there. Maybe Jokic looked silly defensively,
of course, Denver, they weren't going anywhere. Even when the
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Clippers being up forty three to thirty five, Jokic got
some easy buckets when they were just throwing single coverage
against him in the first half and specifically in that
second quarter. I was okay with that, though I think
it wore him out to some degree. I think it's
the same thing they used to do to Doncic. Honestly,
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because Jokish ended up with fifteen points in that second quarter.
There was a lot of single coverage, but he still
had to work for it. While he got some easy buckets,
I still think overall they were taxing enough. He got
a bucket over Kawhi to make it forty three thirty nine,
Clippers up by four, Harden hits a big three pointer
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forty six thirty nine time out. Zuke came back in
after the Clippers went small, and I think at one point. Yeah,
they ended up. So the Clippers are down heading in
to the second quarter by three by the time of
Eats the Zu Bots comes back into the ballgame meeting.
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The Clippers went small for a significant amount of time
with Zuke coming back into the five fourteen mark. They
almost went seven minutes small with Jokis out there some
of the time, and the Clippers are now up by
seven at forty six to thirty nine. By the time
Big Zoo re enters the game. They went plus ten
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in those small ball minutes. Coach Louke cooked. It worked.
In fact, after that Russ hit a big three pointer,
Jokic got a floater, zu gets a hook shot on Jokic.
They're going back and forth. Now it's fifty three fifty
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after a Jokic layup. Jokic then gets a put back
after a Murray miss thanks to Batoum. It was a
great contest, and you could tell Murray was a little
bit uncomfortable. You go from dj to now, but Toom
guarding you with that length. But it was a one
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point game at the end of the first half. Clippers
were miserable from three Harden at twenty one points in
the first half Kawhi at thirteen, but they're only up
by one at fifty eight to fifty seven because Murray
has twelve and Jokic had twenty points in the first half.
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I'll get to the third quarter coming up, but I
do want to get to a phone call. Let's go
to Sean in Inglewood. Sean, you on Clipper stop without
a Masam.
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Nico, Nko, Niko. You know, it's funny that you talked
about that seven minute stretch when they went small. They
may have meant small, but Nico played big. He makes
me think of the that guy in the comic book
Fantastic four that the arms keeps stretching forever.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I mean, he fantastic.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I'm telling you that's a good man for him. But
he was just like there were times that Jamal Murray
just wouldn't even shoot the ball. They had. They posted
Jamal on the up on Nico, and he looked up
and he did. He gave up the ball and if
that was done, he would have shot it. And I'm
just telling you, Nico was everywhere. Zoo played some of
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the best defense I've ever seen him play, too, So
I mean, hats off to a lot of guys, and
then it looks like Norman Powell found his second gear,
you know. So I think that Norman's gonna be really, really,
you know, on fire for Saturday. So I'm just excited
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about them, I do. I mean beginning to notice. I mean,
let's say Norman.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Norman's been up and down in this series, Sean. We've
seen him have good games. In the next game, he
has a bad game, so it's.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Oh yeah, but he's been trending up, you know, so
I think maybe he finally whatever it was, he finally
got around that. So I really think we have a
really good chance. But Jim Jackson said it best, and
you said it too. They gotta keep pushing the ball,
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keep pushing the tempo and you know, not getting to
a half court star.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I agree with you. You gotta get some easy buckets.
That's what they've done all season. They've been opportunitystic with
getting transition points. They need to continue that and also
make Jokic tire out because he's played so many minutes.
Make him have to run some and I think that's
what part of the deal was. When they went small
to start that second quarter, even when Jokic came back
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they stayed with it. They went plus ten with that
small ball. It worked. Sean appreciate the phone call in
the third quarter. We saw Niko Batouma out there, we
knew we was starting, Chris Dunn was out. It's okay.
Chris Dunn has absolutely been huge for them at times
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in this series. This whole idea of like, well, Chris
Dunn was the problem. See, that's not true. As doctor
Schapp said, he might have been the second best player
for them in Game two. He was huge for them
in Game two when they got that win. Obviously the
main guy was Kawhi in that game. But Chris Dunn,
he has been a part of this. He has had
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his fingerprints on this. It's just an adjustment now for
later in this series. And it makes a lot of sense.
Of course, immediately, the Denver Nuggets a getting easy layup
as there was nobody rotating on the back side with
Christian Brown out there getting downhill. But Jokis picked up
his third foul Norman Powell after that. Then, but Toom
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hits a three pointer in the third sixty one to
fifty nine, Clippers Brown misses a three. Is Kawhi a
nice close out on the other end, Norm floater. Clippers
up by four. Norm was doing work in this fourth quarter.
Aaron Gordon misses a three, Kawhi hits one of his
two to three pointers over Michael Porter Junior. Clippers up
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by seven. M PJ though responds with a three over
Pal time out. It's sixty six to sixty two. Kawhi took.
I thought it was a bad three pointer out of
the timeout, but then Jokis gets blocked by Zoo. Kawhi
would miss a layup in transition but was fouled on
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the play. Clippers go up sixty eight to sixty two.
Christian Brown hit some big shots. A three pointer at
the end of the shot clock here, but then they
called it a two pointer, so I believe it was
sixty eight to sixty four. Originally a three foot was
on the line. He would hit some threes later in
this game. More on that coming up. Norm then took
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a rush three I felt like on the left wing
and transition, but you could also say they were trying
to get some quick points. Murray jumpers back to a
two point game in the third. Then Zoo gets stripped
by MPG on a double team, but Michael Porter Junior
missed a scoop layup, then on the other side an
easy one. That happens when you have tired legs start
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missing some easy bunnies. Harden then misses a layup in transition,
but they got it back and Norm went at Murray
for a layup. Clippers back up by four. Harden then
had a beautiful strip on Nikola Jokic to a Kawhi
push shot over Christian Brown. Clippers up by six. Big
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Zoo the defense on Jokic. He had a block on
Joki trying to go across the lane, and that was
the play where Kawhi got it to Norman Powell for
that two handed dunk. Clippers now opening things up. They're
up by eight at seventy four to sixty six timeout Denver,
and out of that timeout the Clippers got a shot
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clock violation lock down defense. I think the ball ended
up in the hands of Russ and the grenade exploded.
Kawhi then misses a fade away on the other end,
and I don't know if this was the basketball gods
finally giving the Clippers a break, but the ball bounced
around awkwardly and ended up back in the hands of
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Kawhi somehow for a big right handed dunk. After that,
Clippers are up by ten. Murray miss over Nico. The
defense was there hard and then a tough layup going left,
crossing the lane. Clippers are up by twelve. Norm then
clamped believe it or not Aaron Gordon and caused a
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turnover on the other end. Insane defense by Norman Powell.
There Kawhi pass inside as I thought, this was a
great feed from Kawhi to Zoo on what looked like
in al yup. They said foul on the floor. Russ
intentionally fouled him and ends up being a side out.
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Nico then misses from three, but there's a tip out
by Zoo. It was beautiful to Norman Powell who drove
and got the layup. Eighty sixty six. This is a
Clippers twelve zero run and their last five may during
that run. We're all at the rim loved seeing it.
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Christian Brown would hit a three pointer to stop the run.
Clippers still up by eleven. DJ in the short role
attacked for a bucket that was aggressive. They gave him
the space they were in drop he attacked. It's eighty
two sixty nine, so Now the Clippers last six straight
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buckets are at the rim. As Kawhi came out at
the four to seventeen mark of the third, Shrewd moved
from Coach Lou said, okay, we're up. We're up by thirteen.
I can take him out. Kawhi stayed out, got him
some valuable rest because you knew he'd be starting that
fourth quarter. Clippers then have it at eighty two to
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seventy one, and Norm hits a three ball in the
right corner put him back up by fourteen. Again, that
was their largest lead at this point. Gordon has an
up and under and it's eighty five seventy three. Then
the DJ three in the right corner off a great
quick bounce pass from Niko Batoum to give the Clippers
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their new largest lead at fifteen. Christian Brown three pointer
to answer that, hardened to zoo for a floater. Clippers
back up fourteen. Jokish big three, wide open look. Didn't
love seeing that. Hard misses a three pointer, but DJ
block Murray from behind to end the third. Derek Jones
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Junior again suffocating defense on Jamal Murray. Clippers lead ninety
to seventy nine after three they went plus ten in
that third quarter. Denver hit four threes in the third.
Clippers hit four threes though, and that twelve zero run
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they had maybe the difference in the ballgame overall, or
the biggest stretch for the Clippers, who went sixty two
percent from the field, by the way in that third.
To start the fourth, Kawhi bogey Norm DJ Harden, they're
going small. They did have a couple of turnovers. As
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Harden was looking for DJ, Russ went the other way
but missed the dunk inexplicably ere you know, it does
happen with Russ sometimes, but Peyton Watson was there for
the put back, so it's a nine point game. Kawhi
then stayed aggressive and hit a tough mid range shot
at the free throw line. Clippers back up by eleven
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MPJ and one with a foul on DJ on the
left block. It was kind of a tough call, but
he would miss the free throw, Clippers up by nine.
DJ then missed a double clutch layup on the other end.
I thought he made it harder than it needed to be,
but there was some good defense there. Murray then missed
to pull up on the right elbow over Derek Jones Jr.
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Harden missed on the right side, but then got the
ball back for a putback on the left side. It
was a great effort play follow your shot kids. James
Harden crossed the lane after the miss. It was like
a game of twenty one. Tippet missed it on the
right side, put it up on the left side. Clippers
back up by eleven. Then DJ has a steal on
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a pass to rush underneath. It was a great defensive play.
Kawhi to Dj on the other end. Three ball ninety
seven to eighty three is the score. Murray layup Kawhi
mid range, mid post, far side jumper. Fourteen point game
again Murray three over Bogie. If it wasn't Dj Abratom,
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he wasn't scoring much in the second half, only had
nine points in the second half. Kawhi then got blocked
in a layup by Watson who was waiting for him.
Bogee fouled Jamal in transition. I actually thought it was
a good foul. They were about to get an easy bucket.
Jokichen Brown come back into the ballgame at the eight
thirty six mark, but Toom then comes back in for
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Norm next to Bogie Harden and Kawhi. Russ missed a
three out of an out of bounds play. It was
last touched by Denver. Then as we guys were fighting
for the basketball and Harden hits a three on the
other side. Clippers are now up one two to eighty eight.
Timeout Denver. Out of the timeout, Murray turnover as Nico
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deflected it. What stellar defense Bogu would miss a three
On the other end, Watson was short with a jumper
on the left elbow the other way for Denver. Then
Harden lost it, Kawhi picked it up, missed a three long.
There was an outlet Russ to Watson, who missed and easy.
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The ball bounced around. Russ eventually got it for an
easy basket to make it one two to ninety. Just
a chaotic sequence. Bogee, big time three, big game Bogie
put the Clippers up by fifteen. Murray missus a jumper Peyton,
Watson rebound and put back. Kawhi missus over Jokic. I
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didn't hate the shot though. It was a tough shot,
short corner, near side, well contested, but it told me
Kawhi was staying aggressive out there. Russ layup though in
his eleven point game time out out of the timeout, Harden, Powell,
DJ Kawhi, and batuomer out there, but two misses a
three on an open look generated from James Harden. Jamal
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looked a little bit hurting and grim is seeing bringing
the ball up the floor after the rebound Jokic floater
one oh five ninety six nine point game Coach lou
then looked at the bench and said, Zoo, get up.
He saw that floater from Jokic center urgency. Zoo, get ready,
You're coming back in. He came in at the four
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to twelve mark for DJ Norm then attacks, gets fouled,
puts the Clippers back up by eleven. After hitting both
free throws. Remember they missed ten free throws last game.
Jokic has a miss, Aaron Gordon then goes up for it.
Not this time a Vitza Zubots gets the miss on
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Jokic and then is Aaron Gordon is going up for
the putback, Zuo blocks him. That was maybe the defensive
play up the season to this point. Aaron Gordon has
been getting those shots in and Zoo recovered after getting
Jokic to miss to block Aaron Gordon, Harden would miss
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a bank Shaw on the other end. Jokis then to
Aaron Gordon for a three instan an eight point game.
Uh oh. Norm then gets blocked by Aaron Gordon. Mury
Jamal Murray run out on a Russ pass, a nice
lead pass, and it's a six point game at one
seven to one oh one, about three minutes left Denver.
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Now you can just see they're smelling blood. They're close
enough where they could make a run and run their
way right into the second round against Okac. They can
see the finish line. They looked hungry. Out of the
time out, Hard misses a floater, Jokish to Russ, who
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smokes a layup, but Tom gets the rebound. Eventually, it
was bouncing all over the place. Harden, though may have
tipped it to him. Jokish I think thought he had
it in. Harden was behind him and may have gotten
the tip to Nico, Buttoom on the scramble for that basketball,
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then Norms stuck a great three off an extra pass
off of beautiful exquisite ball movement one ten to one
oh one. Remember it was down to six before that
time out by the Clippers. Huge, huge shot from Norman
pal who was puffing his chest out looking at the crowd.
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Jokish then spins on Zoo, who blocks him twice. Gordon misses,
Russ missues a three, but then Aaron Gordon gets a
put back. Norm lost the ball being aggressive going to
the rim. Russ's layup and but Toom blocks it, but
there's a foul on Harden. With fifty eight point five
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seconds left, Christian Brown hits both free throws, five point
game one ten to one oh five. Clippers use their
last time out as James Harden was trapped as he
got the ball into the front court hardened turnover. Out
of the timeout. Jokis eventually picked it up, but he
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missed a layup and the ball bounced around to Kawhi,
who wisely probably could have had an opportunity for a
lamp in transition. Jamal Murray was back there, but instead
he brought it out and ran the clock. They intentionally
foul him. They had a foul to give out of
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the inbounds play. They foul Kawhi again. He goes one
to two, but the Clippers go on to win one
eleven to one oh five and force a Game seven
back at Ball Arena in Denver on Saturday. Tip off
at four point thirty. Pre game at three point thirty.
We'll take a quick time out. We'll come back more
of your phone calls. I'm out of Maslin and you're
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Coach Lou revealed the ace up his sleeve. It was
Nico Batoum as he ends up playing thirty four minutes
in this ball game starts the second half. Was switching
onto Jokis, was switching on to Jamal Murray, elite defense,
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a great connector on the other end, clutch shots, clutch boards.
Saint Nick was in the building and helped save the
Clippers to extend the season as they win Game six.
I must win game here and into a dome one
eleven to one oh five over the Denver Nuggets. Game
seven is Saturday. I'm at a Moslin Welcome back into
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Clippers Talk. Let's go to Clipper Chris, who called in
on Empire seventy Early Sports. Chris, what's up? Keep it
about thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Well, they did it. You know, they get to Game seven, and.
Speaker 6 (41:01):
Yeah, I just hope it will be the same result
as that game seventy one and against Memphis back in
twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Game seven on the road, they did win in Memphis
back in twenty twelve. You're right, Chris, that's a great call.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Yeah, yeah, I remember just like this.
Speaker 6 (41:24):
Yeah, I remember Memphis couldn't make any shots at the
beginning of that game and Clippers got a double digit
lead and Memphis just could never overcome it throughout the
whole whole game.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
That is a good memory on your part. A Game
seven on the road. You know, I might have to
use that for my Clippers rewind for Game seven on Saturday.
We got your pregame show at three thirty, tip off
at four thirty. Chris, I appreciate the phone call Mike
in La Mike, you're on Clippers so oft without a mauzzle.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Say how awesome that defense down the stretch was Zoo
and Nico just I mean, without without that defense, We're
going home. That was clutch defense. You know the blocks,
I mean, you know at the end, you know that
last you know, Yo get shot. I mean, you know,
Zoo stopped that. That was all Zoo and you know
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the yeah, that's right, you did stop at points. Yes, no,
And then you know the you know Russell Westbrook, you know,
attempting you know, dunk or layup or whatever it was
that Nico just swatted out of there. I mean that
was that was defense with a capital D. That was awesome.
I got to give U, you know, amendous amount of
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credit to coach Lou for you know, shaking things up
in the second half and you know, putting Nico in
the you know, quote unquot starters role. Uh. And you
know I could it done without some of.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Thirty seconds? Mike, what do you got?
Speaker 5 (43:05):
Sorry?
Speaker 3 (43:05):
I guess I God have done with some of the
uh you know, you know left down that lad have
done for the you know, come back to it right
towards the end. But all in all, great win.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Looking forward to Game sevens love it, Mike, Appreciate you
always being a faithful listener here on Clippers Stock, my friends.
Let's do it again for Game seven, win or loss.
Hopefully we'll win. We gotta take a quick time out.
Game seven is Saturday in Denver Ball Arena. Tip off
at four thirty or pregame show at three thirty. The
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Clippers forced it with a one to eleven to one
oh five victory. Tonight, hear it into its home and
Coach Fleu finally his hand was forced to unlock the
secret weapon that would be Nico buttoom I'm out of Maslin.
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With their backs against the wall and with being fueled
by the crowd at the wall here and into a dome.
The Clippers come out swinging and win a must win
Game six, one eleven and one oh five. Hear it
into a dome, I'm out of oslind As we get
set for Game seven on Saturday in Denver Ball Arena,
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tip off at four point thirty. Your pregame show starting
at three point thirty. What a victory, What a response
with so many people counting this team out, saying they
look dead in the water? D O way do they
have it? Do they have a sense of urgency? I
talked to a few people pregame that felt like, I
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don't know, Clippers could get run out of the building.
This is scary. Well, we knew coming into this one.
They were a minus twenty three in the first five games,
in the first five minutes total in this series. They
were much better to start off this ball game. Finally,
they came out with a sense of urgency in the
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first quarter, and I gotta say it was a great
team effort. Early on. They were moving the basketball and
while they were missing three pointers, I didn't mind the offense.
For instance, you guys who want to hate on Chris
Dunn in this one, he got the Clippers their first bucket,
Show him some love. Then Zoo got a bucket, then
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Norman Powell, James Harden. They're up eight to four. Let's
see where they were five minutes into this ball game.
They led by one at ten to nine five minutes in.
That had been the problem for this team starting games slowly.
This time, they were plus one the first five minutes.
You can't keep playing from behind against this Denver Nuggets team.
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Tonight they didn't. Makes all the different is everything for
this ball club? Was really happy with the response. I
thought they would win this game. I didn't know in
what manner this looked like Clippers basketball. To me, this
looked like the Clippers defense we had seen all season long.
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And offensively, Norman Powell, who people saying, oh, you can't
play next to Kawhi. He had twenty four on fifteen shots.
Kawhi still got his twenty seven eleven of twenty two.
James Hardin ten of twenty twenty eight points, twenty one
of which came in the first half. It was a
balanced attack. You had at least a big three in
this one. Although I'll throw Big Zoo in there's a
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big four because this defense was so damn good. I'm
gonna leave Big Zoo out like that. Nikola Jokic's postgame said,
this is the best series of the first round. Quote.
If you like basketball, like a real fan, not a
fake fan of basketball, these are the games you should watch.
Coach lew said that James Harden, who played the final
thirty six minutes tonight, the final thirty six minutes, what
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a warrior. They only missed I think eighty five seconds
of this ballgame. James Harden, He's been doing it all
season long, by the way, incredible though, played the final
thirty six minutes to night forty seven minutes. Overall. He
was pretty gassed down the stretch, Coach Lou said, as
you would expect to, which he said, that's why he
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took quote a couple of timeouts to try to save
him for the end. I thought it was a master
for performance from coach Lou with the timeouts and rotations.
By the way, he also called a Visa Zubots a
monster on the defensive end tonight for his work against
Niko Jokic. He's not lying, Coach lu said, also quote,
it's about being a team, whatever it takes to win.
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Just want to say thank you to them, Chris Dunn
and Ben Simmons for staying engaged despite not playing in
the second half second straight game. Ben Simmons hasn't played
in the same and half after you had a rough
first half in Game five, but he's been good at
times in this series. They have won a lot of
his minutes against Jokic. This was the first game where
Chris Dunn didn't play in the second half. They got
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buy in. They got guys who are willing to do
what it takes. Hey, it may not always be your night.
Those minutes might not be there for you. That's okay.
Stay ready been a model for a long time. James
Harden postgame about playing big minutes, quote, got to half
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to half to It is what it is. It's part
of it. Whatever the team needs, if it's forty seven,
forty eight minutes over time, whatever, I'm gonna do it.
Niko Batomb said postgame, it's game seven, it's zero zero,
it's do or die for the team. Go out there
and fight. That's it. Are you a hype yet for Saturday?
Kawhi Leonard postgame said quote, I'm enjoying every game I've
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been on the sidelines of the last couple years in
the playoffs, so I don't take it for granted. I
just try to cherish every moment and thank God that
I'm able to play. We all think in God, the
Kawhi Leonard's able to play just a steady force in
this ball game. He didn't have, you know, a quarter,
a crazy explosion quarter in this game.
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But.
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His presence was felt. That's why I say it kind
of felt like an under the radar twenty seven, ten
and five. But it was steady, it was reliable, it
was dependable. Kawhi Leonard in this game. Very solid performance,
and he might have more left in him for Game seven.
We're hoping he played just thirty nine minutes. Norm Powell
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played thirty nine, Zubas just thirty three, Nico thirty four,
Bogie twenty third straight gamer. I thought he was overall impactful.
DJ just eighteen. We'll see if they're just running eight
guys or seven in game seven. If Nico starts over
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Chris Dunn, that's the adjustment I was waiting for. Finally happened.
It's try to tell y'all, this was theas and the
whole all season long. When things get dire, that's the
guy that coach Lou's gonna look to. Hey, if we're
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going out, we're going out swinging with Nico. Clippers force
a Game seven after a one to eleven, one to
oh five victory here in game six, it into it
Clipper Nation. Patch yourself on the back. You guys showed
up in a big way tonight. You help fuel this
victory before we get out of here. I do want
to thank the Clippers organization. Ralph Lawler, Brian Seaman, Noah Eagle,
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in the bank, big brother Jake or not here, but
Dee Bart stepped up in a big way. He's five
and zero, by the way, when he's our engineer here
at the Dome, a good luck charm, you could say.
I'll have to take him with us at Denver. I'll
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for the next hour eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy eight six six nine, eight seven two
five seventy. Niko Batoum is the difference maker. I said
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early in the regular season for everybody crying about, oh,
they never got their power forward the Clippers never brought
that guy in. He's hiding in plain sight. If you
need a power forward in a certain matchup, and I
specifically said against Denver, in case of emergency, break glass
and go to Niko Batoum. That's it. That's the move
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they did it. Finally, this wasn't about him going for
twenty points or anything like that. It's about the connectivity
on the offensive side. That beautiful extra feed with a
bounce pass to DJ and the near side corner for
a big three point in the second half. And then
on defense he can switch on to Nikola Jokic and
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Jamal Murray. You got a guy that can guard both
of them adequately in Niko Batoum's That's what he does.
That's why we've been crying about it. Maybe took one
game longer than I thought it was going to, but
coach lou eventually got to that point where he said,
we gotta play him when we gotta play him heavy minutes.
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He ends up with thirty four minutes in this ball game.
The Clippers come through. They out execute Denver when they
had to, They got stops when they had to. A
Vita Zubots. This was one of the best defensive games,
maybe the best of his career, giving the stakes incredible.
Jokis were just five points in the second half, Jamal
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Murray just nine points in the second half. He had
just nine points after the first quarter. This Clippers team
got back to basics, got back to doing what they
do best. After a game where they gave up one
hundred and thirty, they give up just one oh five.
The defense showed up. The sense of urgency was there.
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James Harden answered the bell after all the talk after
games four and five. He showed up and had twenty
one of his twenty eight points in the first half,
and the Clippers were only up by one. Denver wasn't missing.
Harden was matching them offensively. Harden was getting downhill relentlessly.
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The Clippers started one of ten from three. At one point,
I want to say they were two of fourteen or
two of fifteen. But they didn't settle. They got into
the paint. They only had fifty points in the paint.
Denver had fifty six, but the Clippers did get up
thirty nine three pointers. But they were so good at
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finishing when they got inside the three point arc. In
the first half, it held up their offense. As much
as they were missing, they were finishing beautifully. I mean
Norman Powell that two handed dunk in transition the second
half got into a dome Outher seats. He was fabulous
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Norman Powell twenty four points on just fifteen shots after
I believe he had twelve points in Game five. They
didn't bench him for Nico. They ended up benching Chris Dunn.
Not because he was so miserable out there. He was
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one of four zero three from the outside. I think
it was more about the size difference and Aaron Gordon
going at him early on, and that has been really
the X factor in this series. I think Aaron Gordon's
play for the Denver Nuggets. He's still finished with nineteen,
but the the way he has punished the Clippers on
the boards and of course with a pretty key in
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historic offensive rebound leading to a putback dunk to win
here and into a Dooeman game four. What he has
been able to do with his hustle plays while scoring
the basketball, He's been incredible. You've needed to counter that
for some time. They finally did it to an acceptable
degree tonight by unleashing Niko Batoum, the power forward was
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on this team. Internally, I told you all season long,
I felt like they were hiding Nico, putting him in
bubble wrap, not playing him heavy minutes for a moment
like this. Better late than ever. I hope it wasn't
too late. I believe he'll be starting Game seven, and
they got one for all the marbles you win that
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you're taking on. Okay, see on Monday. Kawhi Leonard, I
don't want to say a quiet twenty seven. He was
eleven or twenty two from the field. He struggled from
three two of eight, but he had ten boards. He
led them in that area again, boardman gets paid five assists.
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He had moments where he really gave them a lift.
All around, very good game from Kawhi Leonard. Not Game two,
but an all around very good game from Kawhi. A
must win situation, so you get Norm, Kawhi and James
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Harden all going for twenty four or more. Zubats only
had ten points, but his defense was out of this world.
He had two blocks on one possession down the stretch
against Niko Jokic. I can't say enough about the job
he's done in this series. And Denver wanted this game.
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I know it's not groundbreaking. They desperately wanted this game
because after they won Game five to go up three
games to two, what was all the questions coming their way?
It was about from that Denver media, what happened last
year losing that game six on the road by forty
five to the Minnesota Timberwolves and then eventually losing that
game seven back at home. They played with a level
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of desperation late in this ballgame. The Clippers did leave
too many wide open threes for my liking. In the
fourth quarter, Christian Brown, he hit a couple. Denver made
a push, but the Clippers did respond when they had to.
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It was a five point game. Late, Christian Brown hit
a couple of free throws. Clippers turned it over all
of the time out. Jokics picked it up, but he
then missed a layup. Ball goes flying around. Eventually it's
picked up by Kawhi Leonard, who smartly. Well, he might
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have been able to go at Jamal Murray. Transition slowed
it down, paid them intentionally foul, and the Clippers ran
through the tape. It was uncomfortable at times. Maybe the
biggest shot of the ballgame was the Norman pal three
pointer off some great ball movement to make it one
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ten to one on one late Norm was talking to
the crowd. I don't know if he said, this is
our house. He was hyped. It was good to see
he had a great game. And so you go Niko
Patum for Chris Dunn to start the second half and
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Don didn't play afterwards, last twenty four minutes of the
ball game, I believe. So you're not putting him in
for Norm to lose anything offensively, and really you're not
losing anything defensively. And while he's not a great rebounder,
he is taller, he's a bigger body. He makes similar
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winning plays. I love seeing the move. It had to
be done. It was time. Maybe it was overdue to
some of you guys, but it happened and it worked.
And now you wonder if coach lou was playing the
long game. We shall see because Jamal Murray and Jokic
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were gassed. In the second half, they combined for just fourteen.
The Clippers got out and ran, and I think it
was intentional, not just because of the turnovers that were
going on, but they wanted Jokic to run. They pushed
it with pace. This looked like Clippers basketball. This looked
like we had what we had seen all season long,
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with how good they were creating turnovers and being opportunistic
with fast breakpoints. They ended up with just eleven of them.
They were also fouled at times, and those didn't count.
Towards fast break points. They were going up. They forced
the issue when they couldn't hit threes, they got downhill
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and got whatever they wanted. James Harden led that drive
downhill attack. Loved seeing it. The Clippers knew they had
to have it, and they played with the level of
desperation we were missing the last couple of games. Urgency was there.
I'm sure being back into a dome obviously helped in
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this one first must win game. Ever, here Clippers want
to know in those situations, now a little bit of history.
I knew Denver was going to make a run late.
The Clippers held on. They executed well a lot of positives,
a lot of things to take away from this ballgame
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and be hopeful about a Game seven on the road.
The pressure shifts to Denver. Both teams will be dealing
with it. Game seven's are walkie. Expect a lot of misses.
Expect a lot of fifty to fifty balls. Who wants
it more? Reps usually swallow with the whistle, but the
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big adjustment game Niko Buttomb started the second half, expect
him to start Game seven. We'll take a quick time out,
We'll come back. More. Clippers tuck after they win a
must win Game six. Hear it into a dome one
eleven to one oh five over the Denver Nuggets. I'm
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Clippers win one eleven and one oh five and I
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Denver tip off Saturday at four thirty. We'll have your
pregame show back here at three point thirty. I am
really proud of this group and the way they came
out tonight, and especially James Harden because guys, he was
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my player to watch and everybody was waiting to see
if he could bounce back and perform in a game
like this after what we saw the last two games.
This is why I say it's not like Denver played
him much differently tonight than they did the last two games.
It's just if you're a star, you gotta play through that.
You gotta find a way to win. Anyways, that's what
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he did. He's good enough to get twenty eight no
matter what the defense is. He showed it tonight. But
he was instrumental in so many ways, his passing, his diming.
But there was a level of attack from him in
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aggression to get to the hoop like we hadn't seen
the last two games, and maybe you know, at times
when he did do it, he wasn't getting calls o't.
I don't think you got a great whistle in this
game either. That's okay, play through it. He went five
for five at the charity stripe, but this was something
where he drove down the lane. I think the second
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possession for the Clippers didn't get a call, ball went
out on Denver. Kawhi was short on a three. After
the Clippers got it back. On that possession, you could
just see the intent was there. Then eventually he got
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a bucket in transition over Jokic early in the first quarter.
This Clippers team led early. Unfortunately, Denver would push things
and have a lead heading into the second. After one
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it was twenty eight to twenty five, and a lot
of that was just Clippers couldn't hit anything. One of
ten from three to start with great looks, wide open looks.
Nico missed a no dip three late in the first quarter.
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The Clippers started eleven for thirteen inside of the three
point line the first quarter, but we're just one of
ten from three. Harden had six points on the first
quarter of four points. Kawhi had six, Norm had six,
and they're only down three heading in to the first
while missing some really good looks to start the second.
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Kawhi but toom Bogie DJ Harden. But I should probably
say Nico came in for Done at the five to
twenty mark at the first quarter, and the rest is history.
He was the first guy at the bench in Game five.
As predicted I said, he's getting closer to starting. He
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eventually starts the second half. But back to the second quarter,
Clippers are going small, and I really liked the urgency
from coach Lou with Kawhi minutes early on. He took
him out late in the first and then brought him
back in at the one twenty five mark. Had a
right elbow jumper after the Clippers were down by six,
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make it down by seven. I think you could just
see the way Coach Lou was toddling rotations, very very crisp,
very sharp rotations, sense of urgency, valuing every possession. I
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think that has an overall effect with the team too,
to remind you of, hey, this is it, win or
go home. But that second quarter they start small. Kawhi
but toom Bogie, DJ and Harden. Harden got to the
line early. Then there was an offensive foul on DJ.
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Bogie had a great tip in, by the way, on
a Kauhi miss from three. Now it's twenty eight to
twenty nine. Clippers take the lead back. Clippers got a
shot clock violation early in the second quarter. They had
a couple of them in this game. One after a
time out in the second half tells you how locked
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in they were defensively. Clippers now are still one of
twelve from three early in the second quarter, up by one.
It was brutal, but they stayed attacking. They didn't just
settle it was a three or get something at the
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rim and look for those who are like just don't
take them. You need them at some point. They don't
win this game without them. You do need them. Nolman
Powell came in for DJ at the nine to seventeen
mark of the second I thought DJ was really good
with his minutes end of the first into the second quarter.
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His defense on Jamal Murray after he had twelve in
the first quarter. That was the guy who really was
carrying over that forty three point performance in Game five
and stayed hot, got too many easy ones, got too
easy looks to start the game. Didn't like seeing that
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made me think, oh, he's gonna get comfortable. But at
the end of the first quarter, DJ blocked him on
a three pointer. I am telling you that was a great,
great tone setter for how he was going to be
playing him defensively. That threw Jamal Murray off right then
because he only had nine points to last three quarters.
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It was first DJ and then Nico, but two months Jamaal.
But the great thing about is they want to run
that switch or they want to get the switch Jamal
or Jokic. Nico's comfortable guarding both of them. He's not perfect,
He's gonna lose some battles, but he can guard both
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of them. Talk about guarding one through five. That's who
Nico is and doing it against their two best players.
He can guard their two best players. Clippers eventually after
the Denver Nuggets, and this was the difference in the
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second quarter because Denver still stayed hot. But the problem
was they had eight turnovers in that second quarter. They
had five turnovers during a stretch of six possessions in
the second quarter, and the Clippers took care of the basketball.
Harden had a great after their fifth turnover and sixth
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possessions over on Jokic to get to the rim. That's
what I'm talking about. That's the aggressive James Harden. That
was a bad man right there. Maybe Jokic looked silly defensively,
of course, Denver, they weren't going anywhere. Even when the
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Clippers being up forty three to thirty five, Jokic got
some easy buckets when they were just throwing single coverage
against him in the first half and specifically in that
second quarter. I was okay with that, though I think
it wore him out to some degree. I think it's
the same thing they used to do to Doncic. Honestly,
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because Jokish ended up with fifteen points in that second quarter.
There was a lot of single coverage, but he still
had to work for it. While he got some easy buckets,
I still think overall they were taxing enough. He got
a bucket over Kawhi to make it forty three thirty nine,
Clippers up by four, Harden hits a big three pointer
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forty six thirty nine time out. Zuke came back in
after the Clippers went small, and I think at one point. Yeah,
they ended up. So the Clippers are down heading in
to the second quarter by three by the time of
Eats the Zu Bots comes back into the ballgame meeting.
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The Clippers went small for a significant amount of time
with Zuke coming back into the five fourteen mark. They
almost went seven minutes small with Jokis out there some
of the time, and the Clippers are now up by
seven at forty six to thirty nine. By the time
Big Zoo re enters the game. They went plus ten
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in those small ball minutes. Coach Louke cooked. It worked.
In fact, after that Russ hit a big three pointer,
Jokic got a floater, zu gets a hook shot on Jokic.
They're going back and forth. Now it's fifty three fifty
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after a Jokic layup. Jokic then gets a put back
after a Murray miss thanks to Batoum. It was a
great contest, and you could tell Murray was a little
bit uncomfortable. You go from dj to now, but Toom
guarding you with that length. But it was a one
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point game at the end of the first half. Clippers
were miserable from three Harden at twenty one points in
the first half Kawhi at thirteen, but they're only up
by one at fifty eight to fifty seven because Murray
has twelve and Jokic had twenty points in the first half.
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I'll get to the third quarter coming up, but I
do want to get to a phone call. Let's go
to Sean in Inglewood. Sean, you on Clipper stop without
a Masam.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Nico, Nko, Niko. You know, it's funny that you talked
about that seven minute stretch when they went small. They
may have meant small, but Nico played big. He makes
me think of the that guy in the comic book
Fantastic four that the arms keeps stretching forever.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I mean, he fantastic.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I'm telling you that's a good man for him. But
he was just like there were times that Jamal Murray
just wouldn't even shoot the ball. They had. They posted
Jamal on the up on Nico, and he looked up
and he did. He gave up the ball and if
that was done, he would have shot it. And I'm
just telling you, Nico was everywhere. Zoo played some of
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the best defense I've ever seen him play, too, So
I mean, hats off to a lot of guys, and
then it looks like Norman Powell found his second gear,
you know. So I think that Norman's gonna be really, really,
you know, on fire for Saturday. So I'm just excited
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about them, I do. I mean beginning to notice. I mean,
let's say Norman.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Norman's been up and down in this series, Sean. We've
seen him have good games. In the next game, he
has a bad game, so it's.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Oh yeah, but he's been trending up, you know, so
I think maybe he finally whatever it was, he finally
got around that. So I really think we have a
really good chance. But Jim Jackson said it best, and
you said it too. They gotta keep pushing the ball,
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keep pushing the tempo and you know, not getting to
a half court star.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I agree with you. You gotta get some easy buckets.
That's what they've done all season. They've been opportunitystic with
getting transition points. They need to continue that and also
make Jokic tire out because he's played so many minutes.
Make him have to run some and I think that's
what part of the deal was. When they went small
to start that second quarter, even when Jokic came back
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they stayed with it. They went plus ten with that
small ball. It worked. Sean appreciate the phone call in
the third quarter. We saw Niko Batouma out there, we
knew we was starting, Chris Dunn was out. It's okay.
Chris Dunn has absolutely been huge for them at times
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in this series. This whole idea of like, well, Chris
Dunn was the problem. See, that's not true. As doctor
Schapp said, he might have been the second best player
for them in Game two. He was huge for them
in Game two when they got that win. Obviously the
main guy was Kawhi in that game. But Chris Dunn,
he has been a part of this. He has had
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his fingerprints on this. It's just an adjustment now for
later in this series. And it makes a lot of sense.
Of course, immediately, the Denver Nuggets a getting easy layup
as there was nobody rotating on the back side with
Christian Brown out there getting downhill. But Jokis picked up
his third foul Norman Powell after that. Then, but Toom
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hits a three pointer in the third sixty one to
fifty nine, Clippers Brown misses a three. Is Kawhi a
nice close out on the other end, Norm floater. Clippers
up by four. Norm was doing work in this fourth quarter.
Aaron Gordon misses a three, Kawhi hits one of his
two to three pointers over Michael Porter Junior. Clippers up
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by seven. M PJ though responds with a three over
Pal time out. It's sixty six to sixty two. Kawhi took.
I thought it was a bad three pointer out of
the timeout, but then Jokis gets blocked by Zoo. Kawhi
would miss a layup in transition but was fouled on
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the play. Clippers go up sixty eight to sixty two.
Christian Brown hit some big shots. A three pointer at
the end of the shot clock here, but then they
called it a two pointer, so I believe it was
sixty eight to sixty four. Originally a three foot was
on the line. He would hit some threes later in
this game. More on that coming up. Norm then took
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a rush three I felt like on the left wing
and transition, but you could also say they were trying
to get some quick points. Murray jumpers back to a
two point game in the third. Then Zoo gets stripped
by MPG on a double team, but Michael Porter Junior
missed a scoop layup, then on the other side an
easy one. That happens when you have tired legs start
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missing some easy bunnies. Harden then misses a layup in transition,
but they got it back and Norm went at Murray
for a layup. Clippers back up by four. Harden then
had a beautiful strip on Nikola Jokic to a Kawhi
push shot over Christian Brown. Clippers up by six. Big
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Zoo the defense on Jokic. He had a block on
Joki trying to go across the lane, and that was
the play where Kawhi got it to Norman Powell for
that two handed dunk. Clippers now opening things up. They're
up by eight at seventy four to sixty six timeout Denver,
and out of that timeout the Clippers got a shot
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clock violation lock down defense. I think the ball ended
up in the hands of Russ and the grenade exploded.
Kawhi then misses a fade away on the other end,
and I don't know if this was the basketball gods
finally giving the Clippers a break, but the ball bounced
around awkwardly and ended up back in the hands of
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Kawhi somehow for a big right handed dunk. After that,
Clippers are up by ten. Murray miss over Nico. The
defense was there hard and then a tough layup going left,
crossing the lane. Clippers are up by twelve. Norm then
clamped believe it or not Aaron Gordon and caused a
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turnover on the other end. Insane defense by Norman Powell.
There Kawhi pass inside as I thought, this was a
great feed from Kawhi to Zoo on what looked like
in al yup. They said foul on the floor. Russ
intentionally fouled him and ends up being a side out.
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Nico then misses from three, but there's a tip out
by Zoo. It was beautiful to Norman Powell who drove
and got the layup. Eighty sixty six. This is a
Clippers twelve zero run and their last five may during
that run. We're all at the rim loved seeing it.
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Christian Brown would hit a three pointer to stop the run.
Clippers still up by eleven. DJ in the short role
attacked for a bucket that was aggressive. They gave him
the space they were in drop he attacked. It's eighty
two sixty nine, so Now the Clippers last six straight
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buckets are at the rim. As Kawhi came out at
the four to seventeen mark of the third, Shrewd moved
from Coach Lou said, okay, we're up. We're up by thirteen.
I can take him out. Kawhi stayed out, got him
some valuable rest because you knew he'd be starting that
fourth quarter. Clippers then have it at eighty two to
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seventy one, and Norm hits a three ball in the
right corner put him back up by fourteen. Again, that
was their largest lead at this point. Gordon has an
up and under and it's eighty five seventy three. Then
the DJ three in the right corner off a great
quick bounce pass from Niko Batoum to give the Clippers
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their new largest lead at fifteen. Christian Brown three pointer
to answer that, hardened to zoo for a floater. Clippers
back up fourteen. Jokish big three, wide open look. Didn't
love seeing that. Hard misses a three pointer, but DJ
block Murray from behind to end the third. Derek Jones
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Junior again suffocating defense on Jamal Murray. Clippers lead ninety
to seventy nine after three they went plus ten in
that third quarter. Denver hit four threes in the third.
Clippers hit four threes though, and that twelve zero run
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they had maybe the difference in the ballgame overall, or
the biggest stretch for the Clippers, who went sixty two
percent from the field, by the way in that third.
To start the fourth, Kawhi bogey Norm DJ Harden, they're
going small. They did have a couple of turnovers. As
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Harden was looking for DJ, Russ went the other way
but missed the dunk inexplicably ere you know, it does
happen with Russ sometimes, but Peyton Watson was there for
the put back, so it's a nine point game. Kawhi
then stayed aggressive and hit a tough mid range shot
at the free throw line. Clippers back up by eleven
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MPJ and one with a foul on DJ on the
left block. It was kind of a tough call, but
he would miss the free throw, Clippers up by nine.
DJ then missed a double clutch layup on the other end.
I thought he made it harder than it needed to be,
but there was some good defense there. Murray then missed
to pull up on the right elbow over Derek Jones Jr.
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Harden missed on the right side, but then got the
ball back for a putback on the left side. It
was a great effort play follow your shot kids. James
Harden crossed the lane after the miss. It was like
a game of twenty one. Tippet missed it on the
right side, put it up on the left side. Clippers
back up by eleven. Then DJ has a steal on
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a pass to rush underneath. It was a great defensive play.
Kawhi to Dj on the other end. Three ball ninety
seven to eighty three is the score. Murray layup Kawhi
mid range, mid post, far side jumper. Fourteen point game
again Murray three over Bogie. If it wasn't Dj Abratom,
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he wasn't scoring much in the second half, only had
nine points in the second half. Kawhi then got blocked
in a layup by Watson who was waiting for him.
Bogee fouled Jamal in transition. I actually thought it was
a good foul. They were about to get an easy bucket.
Jokichen Brown come back into the ballgame at the eight
thirty six mark, but Toom then comes back in for
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Norm next to Bogie Harden and Kawhi. Russ missed a
three out of an out of bounds play. It was
last touched by Denver. Then as we guys were fighting
for the basketball and Harden hits a three on the
other side. Clippers are now up one two to eighty eight.
Timeout Denver. Out of the timeout, Murray turnover as Nico
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deflected it. What stellar defense Bogu would miss a three
On the other end, Watson was short with a jumper
on the left elbow the other way for Denver. Then
Harden lost it, Kawhi picked it up, missed a three long.
There was an outlet Russ to Watson, who missed and easy.
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The ball bounced around. Russ eventually got it for an
easy basket to make it one two to ninety. Just
a chaotic sequence. Bogee, big time three, big game Bogie
put the Clippers up by fifteen. Murray missus a jumper Peyton,
Watson rebound and put back. Kawhi missus over Jokic. I
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didn't hate the shot though. It was a tough shot,
short corner, near side, well contested, but it told me
Kawhi was staying aggressive out there. Russ layup though in
his eleven point game time out out of the timeout, Harden, Powell,
DJ Kawhi, and batuomer out there, but two misses a
three on an open look generated from James Harden. Jamal
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looked a little bit hurting and grim is seeing bringing
the ball up the floor after the rebound Jokic floater
one oh five ninety six nine point game Coach lou
then looked at the bench and said, Zoo, get up.
He saw that floater from Jokic center urgency. Zoo, get ready,
You're coming back in. He came in at the four
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to twelve mark for DJ Norm then attacks, gets fouled,
puts the Clippers back up by eleven. After hitting both
free throws. Remember they missed ten free throws last game.
Jokic has a miss, Aaron Gordon then goes up for it.
Not this time a Vitza Zubots gets the miss on
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Jokic and then is Aaron Gordon is going up for
the putback, Zuo blocks him. That was maybe the defensive
play up the season to this point. Aaron Gordon has
been getting those shots in and Zoo recovered after getting
Jokic to miss to block Aaron Gordon, Harden would miss
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a bank Shaw on the other end. Jokis then to
Aaron Gordon for a three instan an eight point game.
Uh oh. Norm then gets blocked by Aaron Gordon. Mury
Jamal Murray run out on a Russ pass, a nice
lead pass, and it's a six point game at one
seven to one oh one, about three minutes left Denver.
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Now you can just see they're smelling blood. They're close
enough where they could make a run and run their
way right into the second round against Okac. They can
see the finish line. They looked hungry. Out of the
time out, Hard misses a floater, Jokish to Russ, who
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smokes a layup, but Tom gets the rebound. Eventually, it
was bouncing all over the place. Harden, though may have
tipped it to him. Jokish I think thought he had
it in. Harden was behind him and may have gotten
the tip to Nico, Buttoom on the scramble for that basketball,
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then Norms stuck a great three off an extra pass
off of beautiful exquisite ball movement one ten to one
oh one. Remember it was down to six before that
time out by the Clippers. Huge, huge shot from Norman
pal who was puffing his chest out looking at the crowd.
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Jokish then spins on Zoo, who blocks him twice. Gordon misses,
Russ missues a three, but then Aaron Gordon gets a
put back. Norm lost the ball being aggressive going to
the rim. Russ's layup and but Toom blocks it, but
there's a foul on Harden. With fifty eight point five
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seconds left, Christian Brown hits both free throws, five point
game one ten to one oh five. Clippers use their
last time out as James Harden was trapped as he
got the ball into the front court hardened turnover. Out
of the timeout. Jokis eventually picked it up, but he
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missed a layup and the ball bounced around to Kawhi,
who wisely probably could have had an opportunity for a
lamp in transition. Jamal Murray was back there, but instead
he brought it out and ran the clock. They intentionally
foul him. They had a foul to give out of
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the inbounds play. They foul Kawhi again. He goes one
to two, but the Clippers go on to win one
eleven to one oh five and force a Game seven
back at Ball Arena in Denver on Saturday. Tip off
at four point thirty. Pre game at three point thirty.
We'll take a quick time out. We'll come back more
of your phone calls. I'm out of Maslin and you're
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listening to Clippers Talk live from Into It Home on
AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Back to first round action between the LA Clippers and
Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
This is the LA Clippers of audio Network.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Coach Lou revealed the ace up his sleeve. It was
Nico Batoum as he ends up playing thirty four minutes
in this ball game starts the second half. Was switching
onto Jokis, was switching on to Jamal Murray, elite defense,
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a great connector on the other end, clutch shots, clutch boards.
Saint Nick was in the building and helped save the
Clippers to extend the season as they win Game six.
I must win game here and into a dome one
eleven to one oh five over the Denver Nuggets. Game
seven is Saturday. I'm at a Moslin Welcome back into
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Clippers Talk. Let's go to Clipper Chris, who called in
on Empire seventy Early Sports. Chris, what's up? Keep it
about thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Well, they did it. You know, they get to Game seven, and.
Speaker 6 (41:01):
Yeah, I just hope it will be the same result
as that game seventy one and against Memphis back in
twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Game seven on the road, they did win in Memphis
back in twenty twelve. You're right, Chris, that's a great call.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Yeah, yeah, I remember just like this.
Speaker 6 (41:24):
Yeah, I remember Memphis couldn't make any shots at the
beginning of that game and Clippers got a double digit
lead and Memphis just could never overcome it throughout the
whole whole game.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
That is a good memory on your part. A Game
seven on the road. You know, I might have to
use that for my Clippers rewind for Game seven on Saturday.
We got your pregame show at three thirty, tip off
at four thirty. Chris, I appreciate the phone call Mike
in La Mike, you're on Clippers so oft without a mauzzle.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Say how awesome that defense down the stretch was Zoo
and Nico just I mean, without without that defense, We're
going home. That was clutch defense. You know the blocks,
I mean, you know at the end, you know that
last you know, Yo get shot. I mean, you know,
Zoo stopped that. That was all Zoo and you know
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the yeah, that's right, you did stop at points. Yes, no,
And then you know the you know Russell Westbrook, you know,
attempting you know, dunk or layup or whatever it was
that Nico just swatted out of there. I mean that
was that was defense with a capital D. That was awesome.
I got to give U, you know, amendous amount of
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credit to coach Lou for you know, shaking things up
in the second half and you know, putting Nico in
the you know, quote unquot starters role. Uh. And you
know I could it done without some of.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Thirty seconds? Mike, what do you got?
Speaker 5 (43:05):
Sorry?
Speaker 3 (43:05):
I guess I God have done with some of the
uh you know, you know left down that lad have
done for the you know, come back to it right
towards the end. But all in all, great win.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Looking forward to Game sevens love it, Mike, Appreciate you
always being a faithful listener here on Clippers Stock, my friends.
Let's do it again for Game seven, win or loss.
Hopefully we'll win. We gotta take a quick time out.
Game seven is Saturday in Denver Ball Arena. Tip off
at four thirty or pregame show at three thirty. The
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Clippers forced it with a one to eleven to one
oh five victory. Tonight, hear it into its home and
Coach Fleu finally his hand was forced to unlock the
secret weapon that would be Nico buttoom I'm out of Maslin.
Final segment coming up. You're listening to the Los Angeles
Clippers Audio Network at a five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
Back to first round acts between the LA Clippers and
Denver Nuggets. This is the LA Clippers Audio Network.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
With their backs against the wall and with being fueled
by the crowd at the wall here and into a dome.
The Clippers come out swinging and win a must win
Game six, one eleven and one oh five. Hear it
into a dome, I'm out of oslind As we get
set for Game seven on Saturday in Denver Ball Arena,
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tip off at four point thirty. Your pregame show starting
at three point thirty. What a victory, What a response
with so many people counting this team out, saying they
look dead in the water? D O way do they
have it? Do they have a sense of urgency? I
talked to a few people pregame that felt like, I
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don't know, Clippers could get run out of the building.
This is scary. Well, we knew coming into this one.
They were a minus twenty three in the first five games,
in the first five minutes total in this series. They
were much better to start off this ball game. Finally,
they came out with a sense of urgency in the
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first quarter, and I gotta say it was a great
team effort. Early on. They were moving the basketball and
while they were missing three pointers, I didn't mind the offense.
For instance, you guys who want to hate on Chris
Dunn in this one, he got the Clippers their first bucket,
Show him some love. Then Zoo got a bucket, then
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Norman Powell, James Harden. They're up eight to four. Let's
see where they were five minutes into this ball game.
They led by one at ten to nine five minutes in.
That had been the problem for this team starting games slowly.
This time, they were plus one the first five minutes.
You can't keep playing from behind against this Denver Nuggets team.
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Tonight they didn't. Makes all the different is everything for
this ball club? Was really happy with the response. I
thought they would win this game. I didn't know in
what manner this looked like Clippers basketball. To me, this
looked like the Clippers defense we had seen all season long.
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And offensively, Norman Powell, who people saying, oh, you can't
play next to Kawhi. He had twenty four on fifteen shots.
Kawhi still got his twenty seven eleven of twenty two.
James Hardin ten of twenty twenty eight points, twenty one
of which came in the first half. It was a
balanced attack. You had at least a big three in
this one. Although I'll throw Big Zoo in there's a
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big four because this defense was so damn good. I'm
gonna leave Big Zoo out like that. Nikola Jokic's postgame said,
this is the best series of the first round. Quote.
If you like basketball, like a real fan, not a
fake fan of basketball, these are the games you should watch.
Coach lew said that James Harden, who played the final
thirty six minutes tonight, the final thirty six minutes, what
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a warrior. They only missed I think eighty five seconds
of this ballgame. James Harden, He's been doing it all
season long, by the way, incredible though, played the final
thirty six minutes to night forty seven minutes. Overall. He
was pretty gassed down the stretch, Coach Lou said, as
you would expect to, which he said, that's why he
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took quote a couple of timeouts to try to save
him for the end. I thought it was a master
for performance from coach Lou with the timeouts and rotations.
By the way, he also called a Visa Zubots a
monster on the defensive end tonight for his work against
Niko Jokic. He's not lying, Coach lu said, also quote,
it's about being a team, whatever it takes to win.
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Just want to say thank you to them, Chris Dunn
and Ben Simmons for staying engaged despite not playing in
the second half second straight game. Ben Simmons hasn't played
in the same and half after you had a rough
first half in Game five, but he's been good at
times in this series. They have won a lot of
his minutes against Jokic. This was the first game where
Chris Dunn didn't play in the second half. They got
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buy in. They got guys who are willing to do
what it takes. Hey, it may not always be your night.
Those minutes might not be there for you. That's okay.
Stay ready been a model for a long time. James
Harden postgame about playing big minutes, quote, got to half
(48:35):
to half to It is what it is. It's part
of it. Whatever the team needs, if it's forty seven,
forty eight minutes over time, whatever, I'm gonna do it.
Niko Batomb said postgame, it's game seven, it's zero zero,
it's do or die for the team. Go out there
and fight. That's it. Are you a hype yet for Saturday?
Kawhi Leonard postgame said quote, I'm enjoying every game I've
(48:58):
been on the sidelines of the last couple years in
the playoffs, so I don't take it for granted. I
just try to cherish every moment and thank God that
I'm able to play. We all think in God, the
Kawhi Leonard's able to play just a steady force in
this ball game. He didn't have, you know, a quarter,
a crazy explosion quarter in this game.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
But.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
His presence was felt. That's why I say it kind
of felt like an under the radar twenty seven, ten
and five. But it was steady, it was reliable, it
was dependable. Kawhi Leonard in this game. Very solid performance,
and he might have more left in him for Game seven.
We're hoping he played just thirty nine minutes. Norm Powell
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played thirty nine, Zubas just thirty three, Nico thirty four,
Bogie twenty third straight gamer. I thought he was overall impactful.
DJ just eighteen. We'll see if they're just running eight
guys or seven in game seven. If Nico starts over
(50:07):
Chris Dunn, that's the adjustment I was waiting for. Finally happened.
It's try to tell y'all, this was theas and the
whole all season long. When things get dire, that's the
guy that coach Lou's gonna look to. Hey, if we're
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going out, we're going out swinging with Nico. Clippers force
a Game seven after a one to eleven, one to
oh five victory here in game six, it into it
Clipper Nation. Patch yourself on the back. You guys showed
up in a big way tonight. You help fuel this
victory before we get out of here. I do want
to thank the Clippers organization. Ralph Lawler, Brian Seaman, Noah Eagle,
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Carlo Jimenez on the call, Daniel West our producer back
in the bank, big brother Jake or not here, but
Dee Bart stepped up in a big way. He's five
and zero, by the way, when he's our engineer here
at the Dome, a good luck charm, you could say.
I'll have to take him with us at Denver. I'll
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talk to you guys soon, little Clippers stock up dark
later we'll see I'm out of Moslin at worst. Talk
to you three point thirty pregame Game seven in Denver.
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