January 20, 2025 • 39 mins
The Clippers are at home in the Dome as they take down the Lakers in the first-ever regular seson meeting inside Intuit Dome. Clippers radio voice Carlo Jimenez joins Adam to break down all the key performances and storylines, and preview a busy week of upcoming back-to-backs.
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
At follow Adam a adam Ousley. Clippers win Game one
of this season's edition in the Battle of Los Angeles
here and into it Dome for the first time, they
beat the Lakers one sixteen to one two in their
new setting, in their new home and really their first home.
I'm Oudam Oslin. Welcome into a special edition of Clippers Talk,
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taking you up until the bottom of next hour. Coming up,
we'll get to your phone calls eight sixty six nine
eight seven two, five seventy And if you're watching on
the YouTube side at Clippers Talk, we got you in
the chat. And if you're watching, well, spoiler alert was
already made because Carlo As is with us for the
next forty five minutes. Here, your radio voice of the Clippers.
(01:06):
We didn't get you enough tonight. I needed more.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I know. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Give me some more.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
This is my makeup.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oh, I'm not here to talk about that. Who was
your player to watch? By the way, I had to
Beata Zubash You did. Big Bro knows it too. He's bad.
Big Bro wanted Big Zoo. But I did I not
call him out first? I did?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Boy? Was he? That?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Are we still going back and forth after the last
game too? Between Norman Terrence man Beazzazoobas is one of
the main storylines coming out of this ball game with
how effective he was against Anthony Davis. You you've watched
the show. You know what people say. Sometimes people come
in here. There's this guy named Quintin. I think he said,
Viza Zubas just dumps the basketball. That's all he can do.
(01:50):
When he's one of the more skilled players big men
in the modern.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
NBA, the guy who leads the NBA and made hook shots.
Just junks the basketball. That's what and told me Quinton,
he's a watching more basketball.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Feel like you just called him a casual.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I mean, I mean, look at this, that's my guy.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Look at this. Well, he's also said he doesn't show
up against elite defenders, against other good bigs. I feel
like Anthony Davis qualifies.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh no, Adam, you're right, because there's no other good
bigs in the NBA. That's the only way that statement
makes sense. Yeah, no, I mean Anthony Davis qualifies. Let's
think about this everyone and eats the zoo. Butts has
two twenty point nineteen rebound games against Jaron Jackson Junior
and Anthony Davis. Okay, those are top five NBA bigs.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
He rests his case. Carlo's on the case, and now
he arrests it. Clippers win tonight big over the Lakers.
You know, in that second half, things did get a
little bit dicey for a second, just because the circumstances
when the other team knows Kawhi Leonard's not coming back
into this ball game and we have a chance to
make en roads before the third quarter is over, where
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the Clippers led by many as twenty six, but that
thirteen to two run by the Lakers and the confidence
they could probably draw from after the game last season
when they came back down twenty one to the fourth quarter,
it felt like it wasn't over till it was over.
And maybe that right wing three from James Harden finally
in the fourth quarter edit things.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, this Clipper team, I mean they allowed it to
get a little close down the stretch. But what's impressive is, Adam,
they never broke in this game. They were they bent,
they bent. It was eleven points multiple times in the
fourth quarter. Clippers never allowed it to get any closer,
and they played their brand of basketball. I think the
most impressive part about this, Adam, is the Clippers just
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enforced their will. I mean every single aspect of the game.
They dominated the rebounding board, they dominated the termover battle.
They were able to not allow the Lakers to have
this drastic difference at the free throw line. You talked
about it on your preview, but the Clippers. The Lakers
average about plus five from the free throw line every night.
(04:00):
I mean only plus five tonight. You'll take that if
you're this Clipper team. They checked every box in this game. Now,
Tomorrow night against Chicago, when James Harden plays forty, nor
one plays thirty sevens who plays thirty five? Is that
gonna be a tough game, especially when you have the
Celtics and the Wizards one day after that. After TYLERU Tyler,
there's been conversation around this lock about this coaching staff
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at him, and we might have to do some digging.
I thought, and half this coaching staff believes they banned
four games and five nights. I thought that wasn't a
thing anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I mean I tried to ban it. I didn't know
they were trying to as well. I tried to ban
five and sevens too. But that's happening now.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Also, there's a heated debate in the coach among the
coaching staff about the ability to play five five.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Wow, well this is intel. This is a scoop from
Carlo Jimenez.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I guess so.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I mean, I'm just trying to figure out too, to
be honest with you, I'm just trying. I did not
know you could play. I knew you could play five
and seven, right, because you play two games day off,
game day off, two games.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That makes sense four and five though.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And we have had situations once this season, once last
season where the Clippers had played two games and started
the second one less than twenty four hours after the
first one. We thought that was illegal.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, it turns out twenty two hours is the minimum
amount of time in between games. Yeah, so if they
played that game at twelve forty five.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
He couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I felt like Brian Seman gave us the misinformation there,
though I'm not trying to hate. Oh is Brian still here?
Oh no, he's not.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
He's not shoot.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
All right. Clippers win over the Lakers, big. Hear it
into a dome one sixteen to one oh two. You
talk about Kawhi Leonard being out of that game down
the stretch. We knew it coming into the ballgame. He'd
be at about twenty four minutes and the Clippers having
to make big shots late in the ball game some
of them, and a lot of them did come with
the Beatza Zubats back out there on the floor. But
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that little hook shot that he got over Jackson Hayes
when the double came late on the left block out
of the time out, that was a big moment. And
then he had the big defense on Anthony Davis on
that fallaway guess the rebound. I mean he was doing
it all. He wasn't just getting the stop. Then he's
closing out the possession, gaining the board.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
The comfortability that he shows when he has it in
the block. You mentioned that in one he was patient.
He knew the double team was coming. He was able
to use that double team to create contact and finish.
But at the same time, Adam the ball and we've
talked about this. Three assists to night for Big Zoo
Clippers are eleven and one this season when he is
four or more. I mean, he's also moving the basketball
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for this team. It was a very impressive showing from
a Vita Zoo bots and his ability to be able
to take over a game in which you didn't realize
he was taken over until he looked at the box score, right.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I mean, if you.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Watch this game, you're thinking, wow, Zu's having a good game,
but nobody it's like any twenty one to nineteen.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You know, he just dominated.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I felt like a lot of those rebounds too late
in the game offensive rebounds the Clippers do have. And
Mobamba was reading Twitter bit Mobamba when Zoo is getting
every by. Lauren Rosen postgame said, top five center, top
five center. I think that's a real conversation. This is
somebody who's six in the league and field goal percentage,
He's top five in offensive and defensive rebounding. He's averaging
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fifteen points and twelve rebounds. This is a player who
checks every box when you think about his ability to
be a top five player. He's top five in the
in the categories that would make you a great center
at him, and there needs to be real I know
we're pushing Norman bal for All Star and it's a
lot tougher at a big man spot to be an
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All Star because the league is so guard heavy and
guards often put up these ridiculous numbers. But it beats
the zoo bots. If he's not on an All NBA team,
I think there's there's a real conversation if he continues
to play like this. There needs to be a real
conversation because this is a guy top five in every
major category.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
He needs to be top five.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean, his defense has been criminally underrated for years.
All you have to do is look at rim protection
or defense within six feet of the what guys shoot there.
He's top five every season and I believe last year
did he end up number one in a rim protection.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
On guys who guarded over two hundred shots. There was
no better protector from the rim to five feet than
it eats a Zubos.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And it's something where that's what today's that's how you
can have a good defense. In today's NBA, you have
to have that anchor. You have to have that guy
who's good to being the backbone goo to being the
rim protector and protecting the mode, as we often say.
And the Clippers have an elite one. So he's already
been great in this area. He has been an established
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elite rint protector going back five plus years. Now with
this Clippers team, you can check the data on that
and you can check just how important it is to
have one of those guys. But now he's being featured more. Yeah,
he's a bigger part of the offense. People are starting
to see the skill set, the well rounded game he
has in the offensive end. It is far from just
dunks out there of eats the zoobots. Maybe tonight in
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a game against Anthony Davis where he apps aslutely crushed
his competition at that position, maybe this will give him
a little bit more recognition.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Can you imagine?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Can you believe, Adam that when they signed Zoo to
that three year, fifty six million dollars deal, some people
said it was an overpay.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You can that even I mean, I mean, I can't even.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Comprehend with the way he's playing that that could be
a legitimate thing.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
People could say.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
He's already outperforming the extension that hasn't kicked in.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
The guy's unbelievable. He's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
And I think you brought up a great point talking
about having that back line of defense, because how many times,
I mean, even when I was researching the Lakers, something
Dorian Phinty Smith said about getting excited to join the
Lakers is you have a guy like Anthony Davis where
you can gamble more on the outside. We've we've heard
that from from people who play with Wemby and San
Antonio that I could I could reach, I could.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Play up all the time.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
And it allows guys like Derek Jones Junior, and Chris
Dunn and Kawhi Leonard to excel at such an elite
level on the defensive end because they know we have help.
And if you want to just think about, well, what
does it look like when you don't have help. Norman
Pale got three lamps when Jackson Hayes was in the game,
I mean, he got to the rim with no resistance.
When you do not have that rim protector out there,
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it completely changes.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
The way you have to play defense.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
And the Clippers have that room protector in a Viatz
zubots four blocks today for the big man.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It's one of the reasons the Lakers struggles so much
on that end. Now you can say, well, Anthony Davis
is their rim protector, and he can be at times,
but teams try to pull him away from the basket
because he's so athletic and has that switchability. Sometimes he's
on guards. He's pulled out to the perimeter multiple times
in this game. Basically anytime they weren't doubling Kawhi Leonard
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the Lakers, that meant Anthony Davis was on him instead.
So Kawhi is pulling him out to the mid range,
pulling him out to the perimeter. He can't protect the
rim when he's out there. That is the strategy teams
have been using against the Lakers since they lost to
Veil McGee, since they lost Dwhite Howard, since they lost Marcassohl.
They haven't been able to replace those guys. And you
see the value in somebody like that. With the Vitza
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zoobots out there today for the Clippers and Jackson Hayes
just not being that guy that's not one of his
strengths protecting the rim. You mentioned it Norm Pale going
right at him, but somebody else said in here, god,
if Zoo could just shoot well. First of all, we
don't know he can't. We know this though. Last season
from five to nine feet out he led the league
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in field goal percentage. He was better there than Nikola Jokic.
So the float game, the push shot game, the little
runners from a vitza zubots, I mean, those are very
skilled shots where you have to have touch.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It is I mean his ability at him. We interviewed
him in Charlotte. I never forget ask him about So
you get to that right hand and he cut me
off and he goes, yeah, that's money he got me.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
They're not going to me right hand hook shot. That's
the first shot he learned.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
And he has been absolutely effective and automatic for this
Clipper team when he gets to the right hand hook shot.
His ability to be a threat in the entire paint,
I think is where you see that be effective. I
mean he's shooting right handed float from the dotted hash
and that is money every single time he gets to
that area. You talked about him being a great defender,
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but I also want to bring up how it's kind
of a symbiotic relationship because the Clippers. You mentioned how
eight is always switching on to the double team, and
the Clippers don't really have to double with Zoo because
they have such good on ball defenders, right, Chris Dunn
and Derek Jones Junior fight over screens, So you don't
see Zubots in that same precarious situation where he's out
on the guard. I mean, how often have we seen
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that this season? Not much, if at all, have we
seen of Eats Zubots isolated on a guard. And when
we have, we saw it today. I thought he's done.
He's done a pretty good job one on one on
the outside. For this Clipper team, it just continues to shine.
You have to give all the credit in the world
to one Lawrence Frank for find saying, hey, that other
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team in LA has a big man.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
They're just gonna give to us. Yeah, we'll take them.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
We'll think so how much credits and magic?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Well, give a little credit to magic thinking magic. And
then also the Clippers staff are just developing of Eats
Zoubots into the absolute monster that he is right now
for the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Just so so so good.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
You get twenty one to nineteen from your big man,
I adam it. It makes you think, like when you
compare I know DeAndre Jordan had this long, illustrious career,
but when you compare those guys, two amazing bigs for
the Clippers in the last twenty years to center their defense,
and it eats to Zubots is slowly inching towards the
level of legendary status that DeAndre had with the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Oh wait a moment, let's pause ten seconds for station identification.
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Speaker 2 (13:47):
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Speaker 1 (13:56):
Clippers take down the Lakers and their first matchup add
into it one sixteen to one OHO two. Patch yourself
on the back, Clipper Nation, You showed up. You were
loud tonight. We all felt like it was seventy thirty
Clippers fans to Lakers fans in a Lakers city with
their history. That was impressive. The movement is working. The
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Into It Dome is working. Yeah, everything that Steve Balmer
has had the vision for is happening right now. I
was a little bit shocked that there weren't more Lakers
fans in the building tonight, but I was pleasantly surprised
as well.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I mean, shout out the Clippers for building a twenty
six point lead. You really never heard them if they
weren't the building till late in that came. It was
fun at them, It was really really fun. Adam, I
do have to leave you for ten minutes, but I
will be back before the end.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Of the show.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Okay, there's the tease.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I promise I will be back.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
We'll take a quick time out. We'll get to your
phone calls eight sixty six ninety eight seven two five
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you till the bottom of the hour. As the Clippers
win one's sixteen one o two over the Lakers. Hey,
does anybody have what the biggest point disparity? What the
biggest point differential is over three games?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Because the Clippers just went plus one oh two over
their last three ball games, what's the record for that.
I'm out of Boslin and you're listening to AF five
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Clippers win Round one against the Lakers. In the twenty
twenty four twenty twenty five season, they reached the midway
point in style. They're seven games above five hundred after
they take down the Lake Show one sixteen to one
oh two. Here it into a dome in their first
game ever played here in the Clippers new arena, and
really their first. Clippers are twenty four and seventeen. Lakers
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dropped to twenty two and eighteen. We'll update you on
the standings coming up here. But I know Clipper Nation
is excited after this one, and there's excitement growing because
of how good Kawhi Leonard has looked so far, and
he has. I didn't expect him to look this good
this quickly. I did preface his return coming back from
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this injury versus the acl in telling everyone it's just swelling,
there's no structural damage. So they get the swelling down.
He should be able to move the same way he
did last season. So Kawhi starts off the game on Lebron,
who he guarded multiple possessions. I don't know what the
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matchup data said, but he was isoled on Lebron good six, seven,
eight times, and he created a steal right away as
the Lakers are going for a pocket pass, but he
missed the three on the right wing. Then Kawhi did
lose Lebron at the six to forty mark, who hit
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a three pointer. He hit some tough ones too. The
Lakers started off fast from three. I want to say
they were four to eight. Then Kawhi is a fade
away over a d at the five minute mark. At
the first second quarter, Kawhi drops Austin Reeves and hit
a fade away on the far side. Then at the
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four to thirty mark, had a one handed scoop layup
with the right hand off an inbounds pass from James
Harden and then a spinning layup that was tough on
the left block, went around his defender. I think it
was Gabe Benson on him too small, and Kawhi definitely
made him look small on that play. So those were
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his eleven points in the first half, but he has
eight more than the third and they really used up
all the Kawhi powers in the minutes that he was
given tonight. Before he was leaving the game, you knew
who was gonna be out around twenty four minutes. Coach
Lou told his pregame that his minutes haven't been extended yet.
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But the layup he caught between the pass he caught
from James Harden for the layup between multiple defenders right
underneath the basket, and that pass caught the Lakers by
surprise that James Harden was able to make that. But
that was a really beautiful exchange between Uno Doves and
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James Harden. Of course he can do that all day.
Then Kawhi hit a mid range over Reeves, then a
floater over a double team to put him up eighty
one to sixty two, and then a fade away his
final bucket over Dorian Finney Smith, who, if you remember,
was with the Dallas Mavericks in that first round series
against the Clippers back in twenty twenty one, and Kawhi
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torched him in the game. He had forty five in
the must win situation in Dallas in Game six, So
Kawhi hits that fade away over DFS, it's eighty three
to sixty two by the time he goes out of
the ballgame and hits his minute limit. It's eighty eight
to sixty four. The Clippers are up by twenty four.
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Kawhi's out of the ballgame. I took a deep breath,
but I also said to myself, I've seen this Lakers
team come back down twenty one against the Clippers. Just
last season. That happened, and it was nasty, and it
was the worst loss to me of the two to
one three era in the regular season, because a twenty
one point turnaround in a fourth quarter is an old timer.
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And I knew they'd have some confidence still, the Lakers
in this game that they could come back because it's
known to both teams Kawhi's out for the rest of
the game. We got the memo too. The Clippers were
transparent about this. They weren't gonna try to fool anybody.
They said pregame, he's at the same minutes restriction, which
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against Brooklyn it was twenty four. We expected twenty four.
And the Lakers started to make a run near the
end of that third quarter after the Clippers got up
by as many as twenty six. After in a mere
coffee jumper that was at the three forty mark. It
was ninety to sixty four Clippers. They go on a
thirteen to two run on them. Lebron floater got to
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twenty Dalton to Hayes for a dunk Dalton three pointer,
and it's ninety two to seventy seven heading into the
fourth quarter, and I really felt like this was too
close for comfort, especially as the Lakers kept coming. They
got it down to eleven multiple times in the fourth,
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but the Clippers were resilient and poised because some of
the big shots they were able to hit, and a
lot of that was with the Visa Zubats back in.
As soon as he re entered the game. I think
it was a thirteen point Clippers lead. At ninety six
to eighty three, Norm missed a three porter that was
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a little bit forced off a pass from KPJ. Lebron
misses a layup and put back, and a Visa Zubats
comes in and Lebron misses a fade away and Zu
gets the rebound. Zubots immediately made an impact when he
came back in. Now ninety six to eighty five, eleven
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point lead. Multiple times had happened. There's a time out called,
and this is one of the biggest plays of the
game and was telling to me in a big picture
sense of how the Clippers feel about Avista Zubas because
you know me, I get frustrated nowadays. Everybody want to
talk about they got something to say, but it comes
out when they move the lips, just a bunch of
gibberish and they forget about Zoo. I can't take it.
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And in a game like this where Kawhi is off
the floor and it beats Zubos is playing that, well,
you have to get him the basketball. And out of
that time out, Big Zoo got nan one on Jackson
Hayes who could not handle him, so that eleven point
lead goes back up to fourteen. At ninety nine to
eighty five, huge play for the Clippers. Then Zoo gets
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the stop and the board on Anthony Davis, who couldn't
hit the tough fallaway over him. Zu gets a jump
ball with dfs that he lost somehow, but Davis misses
another fall away over it beats a Zoobots. Then Zoo
gets no respect from the officials when he got hit
in the head underneath, and I thought this was going
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to be troublesome for the Clippers. He can't get the
foul call, but the Lakers are coming the other way
with numbers, and Norman Powell gets the steal and finds
James Harden for a right wing three to put him
up one, two to eighty five. They're up seventeen, and
I I think that was the eventual kill shot. When
you look back at this game, that was at the
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six ' ten mark, still six minutes left, but you're
up seventeen. That should give you enough room for error,
enough cushion out there. I think it did. But if
eats the Zubas tonight, one of the stories and for
all the people that have been telling me for years
and beats the Zubas, isn't that good? Some of you
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all said Kay Jones was gonna start over him this season.
He just dominated Anthony Davis, he dominated Triple J and
Zach Edy recently. I don't know what more you need
to see to know that I eats a Zubas. Yes
is in the discussion top five center Mobamba was cheerleading
form in the locker room afterwards. I mean, I've been
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telling you how important A eatsa Zubas was. No, I
never said he is as important as Kawhi but his defense.
They aren't nearly this good a top two defense in
the league without him. And I've known that he's been
this good on the offensive end and just hasn't gotten
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the opportunity. I told you back in twenty twenty one.
He's a long lost Causall brother. He is skilled on offense.
He can do a lot of that Marcus al stuff.
He can finish with both hands. I'm proud of Big
Zoo tonight. I'm proud of this Clippers team, not just
holding on but running through and finishing through the tape. Late. Yes,
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Carl Tart did get na beatsu zubash Jersey. To my knowledge,
that's how good Big Zoo has been this season. Clippers
win one sixteen to one oh two over the Lakers.
Quick time out will come back. I'm looking for postgame
quotes from coach Lou and the players after the Clippers
improved his seven games above five hundred. Get a win
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against a team in the Western Conference, get a win
against a t team right behind them, and oh yeah,
that team happened to be the Los Angeles Lakers. Cherry
on top, and oh yeah, it was the first Battle
of Los Angeles. Here it into a dome. You knew
what would have happened if the Lakers one tonight in
the first game, here it into a dome between these
two teams. Lakers fans Tyler would have called in, we
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owed you at into a dome. We own the dome,
That's what they would have said. Clippers weren't having it.
I'm out a Mosland and you're listening to a five
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Speaker 1 (25:45):
Clippers beat the Lakers. Hear it into a dome. I
was about to say, they beat the Lakers again, but
different setting, different venue, a much more beautiful atmosphere for
a win over the Lakers. I would say, here at
into it home final score one sixteen to one two.
They have won thirty eight of the last forty eight
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games against the Los Angeles Lakers, going back to the
twenty twelve twenty thirteen season. No, I didn't make that up.
Check it for yourself. That's real. So's this post game.
As Carlo Amenez rejoins the show, Anthony Davis had this
to say about of East Zoobots quote, He's worked on
his post game, that jump hook. He's always been a
(26:29):
good screener, good roller, lob thread, offensive rebounder, good rim protector.
He's developed his post game where they're throwing it to
him and he's finishing with his right hook. He's added
that to his arsenal game. Recognize his game here, Carlo yep,
come on now, Lebron James showing James Harden some love
(26:49):
postgame quote. Simply just a great player who loves to
play the game, plays at his own pace, has won
every stop that he's been at. Okay, see, I played
against him and he was super young. Went off to Houston.
We know what he did there, went to Philly and
played some great ball, and here playing great ball. He's
just a guy who's a selfless guy. Go out there
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and just plays the game. He's been able to reinvent himself.
At what point he was giving guys fifty point triple doubles,
sixty point triple doubles. He just plays the game the
right way. Lebron James post game there talking about James Harden.
Really cool to see. My only concern. Oh and I
talked about this yesterday with Joban. A loss like this
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for the Lakers to their crosstown rival could create a
little bit more sense of urgency in the Lakers organization
to go out and make a move now, because they
realize they just don't stack up, not just against the Clippers,
but they're not an elite team in the Western Conference.
They know kawhai'son a man restriction. They know this Clippers
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team has only had him for five games so far,
and they're still ahead of them in the state. They're
just a cut above where the Lakers are at. I
expect them to make a move sometime in the next
couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
I don't think I'd be surprised. We know the Lakers
organization at him. If there's anybody that's active around the
trade deadline, it's always them. I'm really interested in those
Daniel Gafford sweech stakes if those rumors are true that
Dallas is shopping Gafford.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
For a wing defender.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Definitely see somebody like Finny Smith maybe getting offered up.
But the backup big spot, and we've talked about this
a thousand times, is probably one of the most coveted
positions in the NBA. There are not a lot of
teams who have two good big men. Would not be
surprised if we see the Lakers make a run at Gafford.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, I would hope Mark Cuban would not make a
trade like that with the Los Angeles. Lakers could say
their history, but they give it the right player. Kawhi
Leonard post game on reaching fourteen thousand points in his career,
one of the more interesting careers. Fifty years from now,
people are gonna look back and be like, it's are
to assess just where he stacks up in NBA history
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because of the injuries derailing so many great moments and
season four seasons for Kawhi. But I always say, I
don't know if there's ten players better in NBA history
that I take over him in a seven game series
when the stakes are at their highest than Kawhi.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yeah there are.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I don't think Adam more than two other players who've
won finals MVP with two different teams. Do you want
to talk about? And one of them we just watched,
So you want to talk about somebody who is just
at another level? And I think what I hope people
remember and I hope we get to see this season
is playoff Kawhi, Because there are levels to Kawhi Leonard
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and when he made that run in Toronto, I mean
his backpack was so big, putting that team on his
back late it was impressive.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Like climate everst I mean.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Seriously, the way he carried them down the stretch, it
felt like and it feels like when he gets that
mid range, Kawhi Leverard, similar to Thanos, is just inevitable.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I mean, he's happening and you're gonna watch it happen,
and that's it.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
So I hope and I keep my fingers crossed and
I say my prayers and I light my candles that
we see Kawhi Leonard in a one more playoff run
this season with the Clippers and an opportunity to really
show and remind the world. Similar to after that twenty
nineteen finals where people were saying, is he the best
player in the NBA? I mean that was the conversation
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that he can still be.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
At that level.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Kawhi Leonard had this to say postgame on reaching fourteen
thousand points in his career, quote, I'm not looking at
that as a milestone. I'm more of a team guy
and get the win, be the last team standing. But
thank God for being able to get that opportunity. Most
people don't. I take every opportunity and blessing and don't
take it for granted. Pretty cool comment there from Kawhi.
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This is somebody that's been through so much. Here he
is on how he feels. Quote, I'm happy with the progress.
I'm coming out the games feeling great. Still got work
to do, and we're gonna keep taking each step.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
How when you think about the Clippers right now, I mean,
how much of it is a luxury atom that we
can There's just no need to rush this like at all.
They're winning games with playing twenty four minutes to night right,
I mean, we're not looking I think if maybe things
go the other way tonight. You're wondering, man, maybe if
you structure Kawhi's minutes a little different, they come out
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with the win.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
But they've won four in a row. They're four and
one of the games he's played. There's just no reason.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
I think it's just such an added luxury for this
team that you know, when they're going back and the
medical staff is talking about it, no one on the
coaching side is saying, look, we need this guy back now,
because they're winning games now and I think having those
two things in tandem really creates a scenario where Kawhi Leonard,
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as he's talked about, is on his own timeline when
it's coming to this, and the Clippers have done a
fantastic job. Credit for prioritizing his minutes, for burning timeouts
when it's time to pull him out of the game.
I mean, they have made this such a Kawhi centered experience.
And they're winning games, which I mean those two things.
(32:13):
One player's playing preseason minutes, the other guys are playing
minutes at.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
The forty game mark, and they're winning games.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, it hasn't disrupted the flow what they've had going
at all. He only adds to their strengths. He strength
strengthens strengths and weaknesses. He's a very special and unique
type of superstar. Quick time out. We'll come back, close
things out with Carla Jimenez here and into a dome.
After the Clippers take down the Lakers for the first
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time this season, for the first time in a game
here add into a dome. There was a showdown in
a battle for Los Angeles and your La Clippers win
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Speaker 1 (33:12):
Clippers win. Ope, the Lakers won sixteen to one oh two.
Hear at into a dome. Some will say best victory
of the season considering the opponent. Kawhi Leonard in Game
five goes for a season high of four assists but
nineteen points and help the Clippers get up by twenty six.
And in the same way that the Clippers have this
(33:33):
luxury right now of not trying to force things with Kawhi,
you know, they can end up winning a ballgame where
he doesn't play for what the last eighteen minutes against
a team like the Los Angeles Lakers that they're still
twenty two and eighteen, they are four games above five hundred.
This is not some you know, twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen
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Lakers team when they were winning twenty five games per season.
This is a team that at times has looked like
one of the better teams in the West, and the
Clippers dismantled them playing a Clippers brand of basketball.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
The Clippers just their ability to play to their strengths
tonight to be able to make sure that they could
dominate every single aspect of this game. And then also, Adam,
just never give up the lead. I mean at all tonight.
The Lakers led by two early in that first quarter
(34:29):
on Lebron three. I believe they made it five to two,
and that.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Was literally it.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
I mean, the Clippers dominated today and it just shows
that like this is a team, Adam, it does not
need to score one hundred and twenty points to win.
And I don't even know they are top six in
the NBA when it comes to scoring one hundred points
and their record. They are twenty two now and nine
(34:56):
on the season, six in the NBA in winning percentage
when they score one hundred and more.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I know I'm gonna say it. We might have to
bring back Lawler's law. We might have to.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I mean some people in the chat have been asking for.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I mean, at this point, guys, if you're twenty three
and nine and you score if it gets the first,
I think we should bring it back. I think if
you're the best even the NBA, when you score hundred points,
think the Cavaliers will ever give that up.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
But but I'm just saying homage to the great Ralph Lawler. Yes,
Sir Lawler's Law still in effect here in twenty twenty five,
of course. So the Clippers are at the midway point
the season, Carlos, And if I had told you that
even with an offensive rating of twenty second, they would
be twenty four and seventeen, maybe your follow up question
(35:40):
would be what are they on the defensive line? And
their second only to the OKC thunder second in defense,
and they've had Kawhi Leonard for five games.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
I mean, Adam pulled the tape.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
But I said on one of these preseason Clipper Talk
episodes that I won in Hawaii, maybe I felt like
the Clippers mimicked Minnesota the way they built this team.
And when you think about the Tim Bowls last year,
they were seventeenth offensively first, defensively Clippers second, I mean
a little bit of a difference. But I look, Kawhi
(36:12):
Leonard has not played yet, so we have not seen
this team at their complete powers. And I think, as
we saw in that second and third quarter at him,
when Kawhi Leonard's on the floor, the offense is humming
because sometimes it's just Kawhi Leonard and that's enough. They
don't need anybody else. So I think for this Clipper team,
that offensive rating is going to hike. But back to
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their original question about them being twenty second offensively, there's
a Clipper team that they would probably tell you, look,
our standards are a little higher than twenty second. But
with the focus they have brought defensively throughout the season,
I mean, is it is fun to watch this group
because defense travels for them and their ability to just
(36:53):
shut another team down. The old adage rings true defense
wins championships. It does, it does in today's NBA, and
the Clippers have a top five defense.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
And when's the Battle of Los Angeles where the Clippers
create a little bit more distance between them and the Lakers.
They're now a game and a half up on them.
Clippers still in the five spot, and they are a
game and a half back of the Denver Nuggets who
are in the four spot. But currently because of conference record,
the Denver Nuggets will have the tiebreaker against the Clippers.
They're sixteen and eleven against the West. The Clippers sixteen
(37:29):
and sixteen, but they've won four in a row. They
have a real shot to be a top four seed
at the midway point of the season, right there within
striking distance. Well like if you had told me they'd
be five with only five games from Kawhi Leonard, I
would have said, get out of here. The Elaine vennice push.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
What were you talking about? We're saying, well, six seed
I think is a.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Reasonable I thought that was I thought that was like
top end. Yeah, that's a goal for the best case scenario.
They have a real possibility to four seed. They were
real possibility and they could. I mean they were only
adam the difference from this point last year's three games.
They're twenty seven and fourteen at the midway point last year. Wow,
it is And you think about those first four games
they lost, yeared into it them all probably winnable contest
(38:15):
now if Kawhi and it's a big if, but it
looks good right now. If Kawhi Leonard can be the
Kawhi Leonard of last year for the sixty six games
that he was Kawhi Leonard. No one wants to see
this Clipper team in a first round series.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Quick absolutely, no one, quickly before we get out of here,
Jose and Southgate. If he's still there, Jose, you know
what to do. Let's choll Cliffers. Let's go Clippers. They
win one sixteen to one oh two in their first
ever matchup against the Lakers, hearing their new home ad
into it before we get out of here. I do
want to think here Los Angeles Clippers organization, Steve Balmer
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for creating this atmosphere and this home court advantage. Of course,
the great Ralph Lawler, Brian's Seamen, Noah Ego, Carlo Jimenez
on the call, big brother Jake Warner, our head engineer
here and into it dumb. We have our guy, Daniel
West back in Burbank, our producer. Thanks to the chatters,
Thanks to the listeners. Until tomorrow. Right back here at
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At follow Adam a adam Ousley. Clippers win Game one
of this season's edition in the Battle of Los Angeles
here and into it Dome for the first time, they
beat the Lakers one sixteen to one two in their
new setting, in their new home and really their first home.
I'm Oudam Oslin. Welcome into a special edition of Clippers Talk,
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next forty five minutes. Here, your radio voice of the Clippers.
(01:06):
We didn't get you enough tonight. I needed more.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I know. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Give me some more.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
This is my makeup.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oh, I'm not here to talk about that. Who was
your player to watch? By the way, I had to
Beata Zubash You did. Big Bro knows it too. He's bad.
Big Bro wanted Big Zoo. But I did I not
call him out first? I did?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Boy? Was he? That?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Are we still going back and forth after the last
game too? Between Norman Terrence man Beazzazoobas is one of
the main storylines coming out of this ball game with
how effective he was against Anthony Davis. You you've watched
the show. You know what people say. Sometimes people come
in here. There's this guy named Quintin. I think he said,
Viza Zubas just dumps the basketball. That's all he can do.
(01:50):
When he's one of the more skilled players big men
in the modern.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
NBA, the guy who leads the NBA and made hook shots.
Just junks the basketball. That's what and told me Quinton,
he's a watching more basketball.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Feel like you just called him a casual.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I mean, I mean, look at this, that's my guy.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Look at this. Well, he's also said he doesn't show
up against elite defenders, against other good bigs. I feel
like Anthony Davis qualifies.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Oh no, Adam, you're right, because there's no other good
bigs in the NBA. That's the only way that statement
makes sense. Yeah, no, I mean Anthony Davis qualifies. Let's
think about this everyone and eats the zoo. Butts has
two twenty point nineteen rebound games against Jaron Jackson Junior
and Anthony Davis. Okay, those are top five NBA bigs.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
He rests his case. Carlo's on the case, and now
he arrests it. Clippers win tonight big over the Lakers.
You know, in that second half, things did get a
little bit dicey for a second, just because the circumstances
when the other team knows Kawhi Leonard's not coming back
into this ball game and we have a chance to
make en roads before the third quarter is over, where
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the Clippers led by many as twenty six, but that
thirteen to two run by the Lakers and the confidence
they could probably draw from after the game last season
when they came back down twenty one to the fourth quarter,
it felt like it wasn't over till it was over.
And maybe that right wing three from James Harden finally
in the fourth quarter edit things.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, this Clipper team, I mean they allowed it to
get a little close down the stretch. But what's impressive is, Adam,
they never broke in this game. They were they bent,
they bent. It was eleven points multiple times in the
fourth quarter. Clippers never allowed it to get any closer,
and they played their brand of basketball. I think the
most impressive part about this, Adam, is the Clippers just
(03:39):
enforced their will. I mean every single aspect of the game.
They dominated the rebounding board, they dominated the termover battle.
They were able to not allow the Lakers to have
this drastic difference at the free throw line. You talked
about it on your preview, but the Clippers. The Lakers
average about plus five from the free throw line every night.
(04:00):
I mean only plus five tonight. You'll take that if
you're this Clipper team. They checked every box in this game. Now,
Tomorrow night against Chicago, when James Harden plays forty, nor
one plays thirty sevens who plays thirty five? Is that
gonna be a tough game, especially when you have the
Celtics and the Wizards one day after that. After TYLERU Tyler,
there's been conversation around this lock about this coaching staff
(04:21):
at him, and we might have to do some digging.
I thought, and half this coaching staff believes they banned
four games and five nights. I thought that wasn't a
thing anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I mean I tried to ban it. I didn't know
they were trying to as well. I tried to ban
five and sevens too. But that's happening now.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Also, there's a heated debate in the coach among the
coaching staff about the ability to play five five.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Wow, well this is intel. This is a scoop from
Carlo Jimenez.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I guess so.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I mean, I'm just trying to figure out too, to
be honest with you, I'm just trying. I did not
know you could play. I knew you could play five
and seven, right, because you play two games day off,
game day off, two games.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That makes sense four and five though.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And we have had situations once this season, once last
season where the Clippers had played two games and started
the second one less than twenty four hours after the
first one. We thought that was illegal.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, it turns out twenty two hours is the minimum
amount of time in between games. Yeah, so if they
played that game at twelve forty five.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
He couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I felt like Brian Seman gave us the misinformation there,
though I'm not trying to hate. Oh is Brian still here?
Oh no, he's not.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
He's not shoot.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
All right. Clippers win over the Lakers, big. Hear it
into a dome one sixteen to one oh two. You
talk about Kawhi Leonard being out of that game down
the stretch. We knew it coming into the ballgame. He'd
be at about twenty four minutes and the Clippers having
to make big shots late in the ball game some
of them, and a lot of them did come with
the Beatza Zubats back out there on the floor. But
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that little hook shot that he got over Jackson Hayes
when the double came late on the left block out
of the time out, that was a big moment. And
then he had the big defense on Anthony Davis on
that fallaway guess the rebound. I mean he was doing
it all. He wasn't just getting the stop. Then he's
closing out the possession, gaining the board.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
The comfortability that he shows when he has it in
the block. You mentioned that in one he was patient.
He knew the double team was coming. He was able
to use that double team to create contact and finish.
But at the same time, Adam the ball and we've
talked about this. Three assists to night for Big Zoo
Clippers are eleven and one this season when he is
four or more. I mean, he's also moving the basketball
(06:32):
for this team. It was a very impressive showing from
a Vita Zoo bots and his ability to be able
to take over a game in which you didn't realize
he was taken over until he looked at the box score, right.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I mean, if you.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Watch this game, you're thinking, wow, Zu's having a good game,
but nobody it's like any twenty one to nineteen.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You know, he just dominated.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I felt like a lot of those rebounds too late
in the game offensive rebounds the Clippers do have. And
Mobamba was reading Twitter bit Mobamba when Zoo is getting
every by. Lauren Rosen postgame said, top five center, top
five center. I think that's a real conversation. This is
somebody who's six in the league and field goal percentage,
He's top five in offensive and defensive rebounding. He's averaging
(07:13):
fifteen points and twelve rebounds. This is a player who
checks every box when you think about his ability to
be a top five player. He's top five in the
in the categories that would make you a great center
at him, and there needs to be real I know
we're pushing Norman bal for All Star and it's a
lot tougher at a big man spot to be an
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All Star because the league is so guard heavy and
guards often put up these ridiculous numbers. But it beats
the zoo bots. If he's not on an All NBA team,
I think there's there's a real conversation if he continues
to play like this. There needs to be a real
conversation because this is a guy top five in every
major category.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
He needs to be top five.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean, his defense has been criminally underrated for years.
All you have to do is look at rim protection
or defense within six feet of the what guys shoot there.
He's top five every season and I believe last year
did he end up number one in a rim protection.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
On guys who guarded over two hundred shots. There was
no better protector from the rim to five feet than
it eats a Zubos.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And it's something where that's what today's that's how you
can have a good defense. In today's NBA, you have
to have that anchor. You have to have that guy
who's good to being the backbone goo to being the
rim protector and protecting the mode, as we often say.
And the Clippers have an elite one. So he's already
been great in this area. He has been an established
(08:36):
elite rint protector going back five plus years. Now with
this Clippers team, you can check the data on that
and you can check just how important it is to
have one of those guys. But now he's being featured more. Yeah,
he's a bigger part of the offense. People are starting
to see the skill set, the well rounded game he
has in the offensive end. It is far from just
dunks out there of eats the zoobots. Maybe tonight in
(08:57):
a game against Anthony Davis where he apps aslutely crushed
his competition at that position, maybe this will give him
a little bit more recognition.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Can you imagine?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Can you believe, Adam that when they signed Zoo to
that three year, fifty six million dollars deal, some people
said it was an overpay.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You can that even I mean, I mean, I can't even.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Comprehend with the way he's playing that that could be
a legitimate thing.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
People could say.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
He's already outperforming the extension that hasn't kicked in.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
The guy's unbelievable. He's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
And I think you brought up a great point talking
about having that back line of defense, because how many times,
I mean, even when I was researching the Lakers, something
Dorian Phinty Smith said about getting excited to join the
Lakers is you have a guy like Anthony Davis where
you can gamble more on the outside. We've we've heard
that from from people who play with Wemby and San
Antonio that I could I could reach, I could.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Play up all the time.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
And it allows guys like Derek Jones Junior, and Chris
Dunn and Kawhi Leonard to excel at such an elite
level on the defensive end because they know we have help.
And if you want to just think about, well, what
does it look like when you don't have help. Norman
Pale got three lamps when Jackson Hayes was in the game,
I mean, he got to the rim with no resistance.
When you do not have that rim protector out there,
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it completely changes.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
The way you have to play defense.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
And the Clippers have that room protector in a Viatz
zubots four blocks today for the big man.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It's one of the reasons the Lakers struggles so much
on that end. Now you can say, well, Anthony Davis
is their rim protector, and he can be at times,
but teams try to pull him away from the basket
because he's so athletic and has that switchability. Sometimes he's
on guards. He's pulled out to the perimeter multiple times
in this game. Basically anytime they weren't doubling Kawhi Leonard
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the Lakers, that meant Anthony Davis was on him instead.
So Kawhi is pulling him out to the mid range,
pulling him out to the perimeter. He can't protect the
rim when he's out there. That is the strategy teams
have been using against the Lakers since they lost to
Veil McGee, since they lost Dwhite Howard, since they lost Marcassohl.
They haven't been able to replace those guys. And you
see the value in somebody like that. With the Vitza
(11:05):
zoobots out there today for the Clippers and Jackson Hayes
just not being that guy that's not one of his
strengths protecting the rim. You mentioned it Norm Pale going
right at him, but somebody else said in here, god,
if Zoo could just shoot well. First of all, we
don't know he can't. We know this though. Last season
from five to nine feet out he led the league
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in field goal percentage. He was better there than Nikola Jokic.
So the float game, the push shot game, the little
runners from a vitza zubots, I mean, those are very
skilled shots where you have to have touch.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
It is I mean his ability at him. We interviewed
him in Charlotte. I never forget ask him about So
you get to that right hand and he cut me
off and he goes, yeah, that's money he got me.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
They're not going to me right hand hook shot. That's
the first shot he learned.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
And he has been absolutely effective and automatic for this
Clipper team when he gets to the right hand hook shot.
His ability to be a threat in the entire paint,
I think is where you see that be effective. I
mean he's shooting right handed float from the dotted hash
and that is money every single time he gets to
that area. You talked about him being a great defender,
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but I also want to bring up how it's kind
of a symbiotic relationship because the Clippers. You mentioned how
eight is always switching on to the double team, and
the Clippers don't really have to double with Zoo because
they have such good on ball defenders, right, Chris Dunn
and Derek Jones Junior fight over screens, So you don't
see Zubots in that same precarious situation where he's out
on the guard. I mean, how often have we seen
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that this season? Not much, if at all, have we
seen of Eats Zubots isolated on a guard. And when
we have, we saw it today. I thought he's done.
He's done a pretty good job one on one on
the outside. For this Clipper team, it just continues to shine.
You have to give all the credit in the world
to one Lawrence Frank for find saying, hey, that other
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team in LA has a big man.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
They're just gonna give to us. Yeah, we'll take them.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
We'll think so how much credits and magic?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Well, give a little credit to magic thinking magic. And
then also the Clippers staff are just developing of Eats
Zoubots into the absolute monster that he is right now
for the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Just so so so good.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
You get twenty one to nineteen from your big man,
I adam it. It makes you think, like when you
compare I know DeAndre Jordan had this long, illustrious career,
but when you compare those guys, two amazing bigs for
the Clippers in the last twenty years to center their defense,
and it eats to Zubots is slowly inching towards the
level of legendary status that DeAndre had with the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
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Clippers take down the Lakers and their first matchup add
into it one sixteen to one OHO two. Patch yourself
on the back, Clipper Nation, You showed up. You were
loud tonight. We all felt like it was seventy thirty
Clippers fans to Lakers fans in a Lakers city with
their history. That was impressive. The movement is working. The
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Into It Dome is working. Yeah, everything that Steve Balmer
has had the vision for is happening right now. I
was a little bit shocked that there weren't more Lakers
fans in the building tonight, but I was pleasantly surprised
as well.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I mean, shout out the Clippers for building a twenty
six point lead. You really never heard them if they
weren't the building till late in that came. It was
fun at them, It was really really fun. Adam, I
do have to leave you for ten minutes, but I
will be back before the end.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Of the show.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Okay, there's the tease.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I promise I will be back.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
We'll take a quick time out. We'll get to your
phone calls eight sixty six ninety eight seven two five
seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy with
you till the bottom of the hour. As the Clippers
win one's sixteen one o two over the Lakers. Hey,
does anybody have what the biggest point disparity? What the
biggest point differential is over three games?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Now?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Because the Clippers just went plus one oh two over
their last three ball games, what's the record for that.
I'm out of Boslin and you're listening to AF five
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Clippers win Round one against the Lakers. In the twenty
twenty four twenty twenty five season, they reached the midway
point in style. They're seven games above five hundred after
they take down the Lake Show one sixteen to one
oh two. Here it into a dome in their first
game ever played here in the Clippers new arena, and
really their first. Clippers are twenty four and seventeen. Lakers
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dropped to twenty two and eighteen. We'll update you on
the standings coming up here. But I know Clipper Nation
is excited after this one, and there's excitement growing because
of how good Kawhi Leonard has looked so far, and
he has. I didn't expect him to look this good
this quickly. I did preface his return coming back from
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this injury versus the acl in telling everyone it's just swelling,
there's no structural damage. So they get the swelling down.
He should be able to move the same way he
did last season. So Kawhi starts off the game on Lebron,
who he guarded multiple possessions. I don't know what the
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matchup data said, but he was isoled on Lebron good six, seven,
eight times, and he created a steal right away as
the Lakers are going for a pocket pass, but he
missed the three on the right wing. Then Kawhi did
lose Lebron at the six to forty mark, who hit
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a three pointer. He hit some tough ones too. The
Lakers started off fast from three. I want to say
they were four to eight. Then Kawhi is a fade
away over a d at the five minute mark. At
the first second quarter, Kawhi drops Austin Reeves and hit
a fade away on the far side. Then at the
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four to thirty mark, had a one handed scoop layup
with the right hand off an inbounds pass from James
Harden and then a spinning layup that was tough on
the left block, went around his defender. I think it
was Gabe Benson on him too small, and Kawhi definitely
made him look small on that play. So those were
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his eleven points in the first half, but he has
eight more than the third and they really used up
all the Kawhi powers in the minutes that he was
given tonight. Before he was leaving the game, you knew
who was gonna be out around twenty four minutes. Coach
Lou told his pregame that his minutes haven't been extended yet.
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But the layup he caught between the pass he caught
from James Harden for the layup between multiple defenders right
underneath the basket, and that pass caught the Lakers by
surprise that James Harden was able to make that. But
that was a really beautiful exchange between Uno Doves and
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James Harden. Of course he can do that all day.
Then Kawhi hit a mid range over Reeves, then a
floater over a double team to put him up eighty
one to sixty two, and then a fade away his
final bucket over Dorian Finney Smith, who, if you remember,
was with the Dallas Mavericks in that first round series
against the Clippers back in twenty twenty one, and Kawhi
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torched him in the game. He had forty five in
the must win situation in Dallas in Game six, So
Kawhi hits that fade away over DFS, it's eighty three
to sixty two by the time he goes out of
the ballgame and hits his minute limit. It's eighty eight
to sixty four. The Clippers are up by twenty four.
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Kawhi's out of the ballgame. I took a deep breath,
but I also said to myself, I've seen this Lakers
team come back down twenty one against the Clippers. Just
last season. That happened, and it was nasty, and it
was the worst loss to me of the two to
one three era in the regular season, because a twenty
one point turnaround in a fourth quarter is an old timer.
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And I knew they'd have some confidence still, the Lakers
in this game that they could come back because it's
known to both teams Kawhi's out for the rest of
the game. We got the memo too. The Clippers were
transparent about this. They weren't gonna try to fool anybody.
They said pregame, he's at the same minutes restriction, which
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against Brooklyn it was twenty four. We expected twenty four.
And the Lakers started to make a run near the
end of that third quarter after the Clippers got up
by as many as twenty six. After in a mere
coffee jumper that was at the three forty mark. It
was ninety to sixty four Clippers. They go on a
thirteen to two run on them. Lebron floater got to
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twenty Dalton to Hayes for a dunk Dalton three pointer,
and it's ninety two to seventy seven heading into the
fourth quarter, and I really felt like this was too
close for comfort, especially as the Lakers kept coming. They
got it down to eleven multiple times in the fourth,
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but the Clippers were resilient and poised because some of
the big shots they were able to hit, and a
lot of that was with the Visa Zubats back in.
As soon as he re entered the game. I think
it was a thirteen point Clippers lead. At ninety six
to eighty three, Norm missed a three porter that was
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a little bit forced off a pass from KPJ. Lebron
misses a layup and put back, and a Visa Zubats
comes in and Lebron misses a fade away and Zu
gets the rebound. Zubots immediately made an impact when he
came back in. Now ninety six to eighty five, eleven
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point lead. Multiple times had happened. There's a time out called,
and this is one of the biggest plays of the
game and was telling to me in a big picture
sense of how the Clippers feel about Avista Zubas because
you know me, I get frustrated nowadays. Everybody want to
talk about they got something to say, but it comes
out when they move the lips, just a bunch of
gibberish and they forget about Zoo. I can't take it.
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And in a game like this where Kawhi is off
the floor and it beats Zubos is playing that, well,
you have to get him the basketball. And out of
that time out, Big Zoo got nan one on Jackson
Hayes who could not handle him, so that eleven point
lead goes back up to fourteen. At ninety nine to
eighty five, huge play for the Clippers. Then Zoo gets
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the stop and the board on Anthony Davis, who couldn't
hit the tough fallaway over him. Zu gets a jump
ball with dfs that he lost somehow, but Davis misses
another fall away over it beats a Zoobots. Then Zoo
gets no respect from the officials when he got hit
in the head underneath, and I thought this was going
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to be troublesome for the Clippers. He can't get the
foul call, but the Lakers are coming the other way
with numbers, and Norman Powell gets the steal and finds
James Harden for a right wing three to put him
up one, two to eighty five. They're up seventeen, and
I I think that was the eventual kill shot. When
you look back at this game, that was at the
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six ' ten mark, still six minutes left, but you're
up seventeen. That should give you enough room for error,
enough cushion out there. I think it did. But if
eats the Zubas tonight, one of the stories and for
all the people that have been telling me for years
and beats the Zubas, isn't that good? Some of you
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all said Kay Jones was gonna start over him this season.
He just dominated Anthony Davis, he dominated Triple J and
Zach Edy recently. I don't know what more you need
to see to know that I eats a Zubas. Yes
is in the discussion top five center Mobamba was cheerleading
form in the locker room afterwards. I mean, I've been
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telling you how important A eatsa Zubas was. No, I
never said he is as important as Kawhi but his defense.
They aren't nearly this good a top two defense in
the league without him. And I've known that he's been
this good on the offensive end and just hasn't gotten
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the opportunity. I told you back in twenty twenty one.
He's a long lost Causall brother. He is skilled on offense.
He can do a lot of that Marcus al stuff.
He can finish with both hands. I'm proud of Big
Zoo tonight. I'm proud of this Clippers team, not just
holding on but running through and finishing through the tape. Late. Yes,
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Carl Tart did get na beatsu zubash Jersey. To my knowledge,
that's how good Big Zoo has been this season. Clippers
win one sixteen to one oh two over the Lakers.
Quick time out will come back. I'm looking for postgame
quotes from coach Lou and the players after the Clippers
improved his seven games above five hundred. Get a win
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against a team in the Western Conference, get a win
against a t team right behind them, and oh yeah,
that team happened to be the Los Angeles Lakers. Cherry
on top, and oh yeah, it was the first Battle
of Los Angeles. Here it into a dome. You knew
what would have happened if the Lakers one tonight in
the first game, here it into a dome between these
two teams. Lakers fans Tyler would have called in, we
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owed you at into a dome. We own the dome,
That's what they would have said. Clippers weren't having it.
I'm out a Mosland and you're listening to a five
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Speaker 1 (25:45):
Clippers beat the Lakers. Hear it into a dome. I
was about to say, they beat the Lakers again, but
different setting, different venue, a much more beautiful atmosphere for
a win over the Lakers. I would say, here at
into it home final score one sixteen to one two.
They have won thirty eight of the last forty eight
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games against the Los Angeles Lakers, going back to the
twenty twelve twenty thirteen season. No, I didn't make that up.
Check it for yourself. That's real. So's this post game.
As Carlo Amenez rejoins the show, Anthony Davis had this
to say about of East Zoobots quote, He's worked on
his post game, that jump hook. He's always been a
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good screener, good roller, lob thread, offensive rebounder, good rim protector.
He's developed his post game where they're throwing it to
him and he's finishing with his right hook. He's added
that to his arsenal game. Recognize his game here, Carlo yep,
come on now, Lebron James showing James Harden some love
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postgame quote. Simply just a great player who loves to
play the game, plays at his own pace, has won
every stop that he's been at. Okay, see, I played
against him and he was super young. Went off to Houston.
We know what he did there, went to Philly and
played some great ball, and here playing great ball. He's
just a guy who's a selfless guy. Go out there
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and just plays the game. He's been able to reinvent himself.
At what point he was giving guys fifty point triple doubles,
sixty point triple doubles. He just plays the game the
right way. Lebron James post game there talking about James Harden.
Really cool to see. My only concern. Oh and I
talked about this yesterday with Joban. A loss like this
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for the Lakers to their crosstown rival could create a
little bit more sense of urgency in the Lakers organization
to go out and make a move now, because they
realize they just don't stack up, not just against the Clippers,
but they're not an elite team in the Western Conference.
They know kawhai'son a man restriction. They know this Clippers
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team has only had him for five games so far,
and they're still ahead of them in the state. They're
just a cut above where the Lakers are at. I
expect them to make a move sometime in the next
couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
I don't think I'd be surprised. We know the Lakers
organization at him. If there's anybody that's active around the
trade deadline, it's always them. I'm really interested in those
Daniel Gafford sweech stakes if those rumors are true that
Dallas is shopping Gafford.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
For a wing defender.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Definitely see somebody like Finny Smith maybe getting offered up.
But the backup big spot, and we've talked about this
a thousand times, is probably one of the most coveted
positions in the NBA. There are not a lot of
teams who have two good big men. Would not be
surprised if we see the Lakers make a run at Gafford.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, I would hope Mark Cuban would not make a
trade like that with the Los Angeles. Lakers could say
their history, but they give it the right player. Kawhi
Leonard post game on reaching fourteen thousand points in his career,
one of the more interesting careers. Fifty years from now,
people are gonna look back and be like, it's are
to assess just where he stacks up in NBA history
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because of the injuries derailing so many great moments and
season four seasons for Kawhi. But I always say, I
don't know if there's ten players better in NBA history
that I take over him in a seven game series
when the stakes are at their highest than Kawhi.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yeah there are.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I don't think Adam more than two other players who've
won finals MVP with two different teams. Do you want
to talk about? And one of them we just watched,
So you want to talk about somebody who is just
at another level? And I think what I hope people
remember and I hope we get to see this season
is playoff Kawhi, Because there are levels to Kawhi Leonard
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and when he made that run in Toronto, I mean
his backpack was so big, putting that team on his
back late it was impressive.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Like climate everst I mean.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Seriously, the way he carried them down the stretch, it
felt like and it feels like when he gets that
mid range, Kawhi Leverard, similar to Thanos, is just inevitable.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I mean, he's happening and you're gonna watch it happen,
and that's it.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
So I hope and I keep my fingers crossed and
I say my prayers and I light my candles that
we see Kawhi Leonard in a one more playoff run
this season with the Clippers and an opportunity to really
show and remind the world. Similar to after that twenty
nineteen finals where people were saying, is he the best
player in the NBA? I mean that was the conversation
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that he can still be.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
At that level.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Kawhi Leonard had this to say postgame on reaching fourteen
thousand points in his career, quote, I'm not looking at
that as a milestone. I'm more of a team guy
and get the win, be the last team standing. But
thank God for being able to get that opportunity. Most
people don't. I take every opportunity and blessing and don't
take it for granted. Pretty cool comment there from Kawhi.
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This is somebody that's been through so much. Here he
is on how he feels. Quote, I'm happy with the progress.
I'm coming out the games feeling great. Still got work
to do, and we're gonna keep taking each step.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
How when you think about the Clippers right now, I mean,
how much of it is a luxury atom that we
can There's just no need to rush this like at all.
They're winning games with playing twenty four minutes to night right,
I mean, we're not looking I think if maybe things
go the other way tonight. You're wondering, man, maybe if
you structure Kawhi's minutes a little different, they come out
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with the win.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
But they've won four in a row. They're four and
one of the games he's played. There's just no reason.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
I think it's just such an added luxury for this
team that you know, when they're going back and the
medical staff is talking about it, no one on the
coaching side is saying, look, we need this guy back now,
because they're winning games now and I think having those
two things in tandem really creates a scenario where Kawhi Leonard,
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as he's talked about, is on his own timeline when
it's coming to this, and the Clippers have done a
fantastic job. Credit for prioritizing his minutes, for burning timeouts
when it's time to pull him out of the game.
I mean, they have made this such a Kawhi centered experience.
And they're winning games, which I mean those two things.
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One player's playing preseason minutes, the other guys are playing
minutes at.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
The forty game mark, and they're winning games.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, it hasn't disrupted the flow what they've had going
at all. He only adds to their strengths. He strength
strengthens strengths and weaknesses. He's a very special and unique
type of superstar. Quick time out. We'll come back, close
things out with Carla Jimenez here and into a dome.
After the Clippers take down the Lakers for the first
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time this season, for the first time in a game
here add into a dome. There was a showdown in
a battle for Los Angeles and your La Clippers win
by fourteen, led by as many as twenty six. You're
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Speaker 1 (33:12):
Clippers win. Ope, the Lakers won sixteen to one oh two.
Hear at into a dome. Some will say best victory
of the season considering the opponent. Kawhi Leonard in Game
five goes for a season high of four assists but
nineteen points and help the Clippers get up by twenty six.
And in the same way that the Clippers have this
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luxury right now of not trying to force things with Kawhi,
you know, they can end up winning a ballgame where
he doesn't play for what the last eighteen minutes against
a team like the Los Angeles Lakers that they're still
twenty two and eighteen, they are four games above five hundred.
This is not some you know, twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen
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Lakers team when they were winning twenty five games per season.
This is a team that at times has looked like
one of the better teams in the West, and the
Clippers dismantled them playing a Clippers brand of basketball.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
The Clippers just their ability to play to their strengths
tonight to be able to make sure that they could
dominate every single aspect of this game. And then also, Adam,
just never give up the lead. I mean at all tonight.
The Lakers led by two early in that first quarter
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on Lebron three. I believe they made it five to two,
and that.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Was literally it.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
I mean, the Clippers dominated today and it just shows
that like this is a team, Adam, it does not
need to score one hundred and twenty points to win.
And I don't even know they are top six in
the NBA when it comes to scoring one hundred points
and their record. They are twenty two now and nine
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on the season, six in the NBA in winning percentage
when they score one hundred and more.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I know I'm gonna say it. We might have to
bring back Lawler's law. We might have to.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I mean some people in the chat have been asking for.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I mean, at this point, guys, if you're twenty three
and nine and you score if it gets the first,
I think we should bring it back. I think if
you're the best even the NBA, when you score hundred points,
think the Cavaliers will ever give that up.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
But but I'm just saying homage to the great Ralph Lawler. Yes,
Sir Lawler's Law still in effect here in twenty twenty five,
of course. So the Clippers are at the midway point
the season, Carlos, And if I had told you that
even with an offensive rating of twenty second, they would
be twenty four and seventeen, maybe your follow up question
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would be what are they on the defensive line? And
their second only to the OKC thunder second in defense,
and they've had Kawhi Leonard for five games.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
I mean, Adam pulled the tape.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
But I said on one of these preseason Clipper Talk
episodes that I won in Hawaii, maybe I felt like
the Clippers mimicked Minnesota the way they built this team.
And when you think about the Tim Bowls last year,
they were seventeenth offensively first, defensively Clippers second, I mean
a little bit of a difference. But I look, Kawhi
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Leonard has not played yet, so we have not seen
this team at their complete powers. And I think, as
we saw in that second and third quarter at him,
when Kawhi Leonard's on the floor, the offense is humming
because sometimes it's just Kawhi Leonard and that's enough. They
don't need anybody else. So I think for this Clipper team,
that offensive rating is going to hike. But back to
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their original question about them being twenty second offensively, there's
a Clipper team that they would probably tell you, look,
our standards are a little higher than twenty second. But
with the focus they have brought defensively throughout the season,
I mean, is it is fun to watch this group
because defense travels for them and their ability to just
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shut another team down. The old adage rings true defense
wins championships. It does, it does in today's NBA, and
the Clippers have a top five defense.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
And when's the Battle of Los Angeles where the Clippers
create a little bit more distance between them and the Lakers.
They're now a game and a half up on them.
Clippers still in the five spot, and they are a
game and a half back of the Denver Nuggets who
are in the four spot. But currently because of conference record,
the Denver Nuggets will have the tiebreaker against the Clippers.
They're sixteen and eleven against the West. The Clippers sixteen
(37:29):
and sixteen, but they've won four in a row. They
have a real shot to be a top four seed
at the midway point of the season, right there within
striking distance. Well like if you had told me they'd
be five with only five games from Kawhi Leonard, I
would have said, get out of here. The Elaine vennice push.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
What were you talking about? We're saying, well, six seed
I think is a.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Reasonable I thought that was I thought that was like
top end. Yeah, that's a goal for the best case scenario.
They have a real possibility to four seed. They were
real possibility and they could. I mean they were only
adam the difference from this point last year's three games.
They're twenty seven and fourteen at the midway point last year. Wow,
it is And you think about those first four games
they lost, yeared into it them all probably winnable contest
(38:15):
now if Kawhi and it's a big if, but it
looks good right now. If Kawhi Leonard can be the
Kawhi Leonard of last year for the sixty six games
that he was Kawhi Leonard. No one wants to see
this Clipper team in a first round series.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Quick absolutely, no one, quickly before we get out of here,
Jose and Southgate. If he's still there, Jose, you know
what to do. Let's choll Cliffers. Let's go Clippers. They
win one sixteen to one oh two in their first
ever matchup against the Lakers, hearing their new home ad
into it before we get out of here. I do
want to think here Los Angeles Clippers organization, Steve Balmer
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for creating this atmosphere and this home court advantage. Of course,
the great Ralph Lawler, Brian's Seamen, Noah Ego, Carlo Jimenez
on the call, big brother Jake Warner, our head engineer
here and into it dumb. We have our guy, Daniel
West back in Burbank, our producer. Thanks to the chatters,
Thanks to the listeners. Until tomorrow. Right back here at
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six point thirty with the pregame show Clippers singing on
the Chicago Bulls. I'm out of Maas and we'll talk
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