March 28, 2025 • 28 mins
Adam is here to offer analysis and take calls from Clipper Nation after the Clips take care of business and get a dominant win over the Brooklyn Nets on the road.
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At follow Adam a Adam Ousley. The Clippers win one
thirty two to one hundred in Brooklyn over the Nets,
and with that they secure their fourteenth straight winning season,
longest active winning streak in the Association of consecutive winning seasons.
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Welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm out a Mauslin. Clippers get
to forty two victories on the season, and they have
won ten of their last twelve and it easily could
have been twelve wins in a row eight seven, seven,
five to two, zero eleven fifty eight seven, seven, five
to two, zero eleven fifty is the phone number. Maybe
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you need to call in confess that you were out
on this team. You were out on Kawhi post All
Star Break, the first five or six games. Maybe you
need to admit to yourself, have a little confessional here
that you're back in with this Clippers team. That's your
believer again. I never really waivered. It just came down
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to is Kawhi gonna get back to looking like last
year's version of Kawhi Letard. Well, for eight straight games
now he's looked like him. This was game thirty of
the season for Kawhi Letard, just game thirty, and the
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Clippers are what eleven games over five hundred forty two
and thirty one seems good. They have a shot to
continue to rise up the standings. There's an outside shot
of them gaining the four spot. Still, they probably have
to go eight and won the last nine games. Maybe
get some help and you can go seven to two.
But Kawai had thirty one points on just fourteen shots.
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That is the Kawhi Leonard. I recognize what he's doing
right now. In March, first game of March, thirty three
points thirteen to twenty three shooting, second game twenty one
to nine of twenty shooting, third twenty on six of eighteen, fourth,
seventeen points on seven of nineteen shooting. But then twenty
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nine points, twenty five, twenty three, thirty three, twenty three,
twenty five, twenty seven, thirty one. On extreme efficiency, we're
talking a guy who's been shooting sixty percent from the
field his last this one two eight games, incredible three
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pointers are falling. He went five of six and knocked
down a thirty four footer at the end of the
second quarter. When the Clippers opened it up. He had
twenty five of his thirty one points in the first half.
Kawhi and the Clippers went on a twenty five to
six run to end the second quarter. If Kawhi is
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like this, you have a chance against anyone. He's been
playing heavy minutes. Didn't have to win this game, of course,
just twenty seven, but the two games prior forty one minutes,
forty minutes. What else do you need to see? Just
like we thought early in the season, with how good
their defense will if they have last year's version of Kawhi,
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why can't they make a run in the Western Conference.
I think OKC is elite. I feel like everybody else
has some flaws, noticeable flaws. This Clippers team is dangerous,
extremely dangerous right now, and it's because Kawhi is back
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and the defense. That's when I knew he was back.
The game against Atlanta where he had five steals on
their previous road trip and they would win once went
he one to ninety eight before they head back home,
and then they crushed the Charlotte Hornets in that game.
Showed me he's feeling good. He was locking up Dyson Daniels.
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And then today defensively, another great performance. He has been
playing Kawhi Leonard type defense over these last eight games,
where he's also shooting sixty sixty percent from the field.
He starts this one off getting a layup going to
his left, then has a dunk where he split two
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defenders in transition, physicality, more confidence in his knee. In
the second Kawhi is an and one on a layup,
a block on another young guy, and I think he
likes showing the young guys how it's done. Jalen Wilson
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a big swat on him as he just locked him
down defensively, he had nowhere to go. Then he hit
a jumper over Wilson on the right elbow, a Kawhi steele,
and a three pointer on the other end. He starts
bleeding from his left elbow. It bleeds. We can kill
it now. Maybe he's android, synthetic whatever. He goes out
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of the game for a little bit, then comes back
towards the end of the second quarter, swipes the ball
away from Keon Johnson, has a steal and slam on
d Low, a Kawhi three over d Low to get
to twenty two points before the half is over, and
then another thirty four foot three to give him twenty
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five points at the half. Unbelievable, complete domination from the claw.
He gets a steal to start the third another one done,
got the deflection, it went to Kawhi, but he got
a three off of that one. Clippers got up by
as many as forty one. You know what My only
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problem with his game was, you can say this still
start for the team, but Brooklyn started hot. I was like,
coach Lou, please pull the starters, please pull them. I
know a lot of these guys probably aren't playing on Sundays,
so you're giving them more minutes, more reps. I just
don't know what they were gonna learn against Brooklyn, but
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I get it. Kawhi. Eventually we hit another three pointer
to get to thirty one points. The Clippers got up
ninety seven to fifty seven. Then Kawhi came out for DJ.
They had at one point a seventy three to thirty
three scoring run on Brooklyn. They led by as many
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as forty one. Last time when they won by fifty nine.
I think that was the biggest winning franchise history. They
had one hundred and two to forty two scoring run
on them. Brooklyn's in a bad place. They're watching Duke
and Cooper flag right now, maybe a little bit distracted.
You gotta respect your opponent the Clippers did. They may
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have started slow, but boy, they hit the gas and
flip a switch the end of that second quarter with
that twenty five to six run. A lot of Kawhi theres.
He had nineteen points in the second quarter alone. It
beats the Zubots couldn't miss. Literally. He went nine of
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nine and had twenty one to twelve. Congratulations to Big
Zoo for getting to his fiftieth double double of the season.
He set this goal at the beginning of the year.
He's got it with nine games left. Congratulations to Zoo
Truthers two that always knew he could do this if
he just got a bigger opportunity, never a doubt. Zubots
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had ten points in the first quarter. He was really
keeping them close when Brooklyn was hitting everything for a second,
I mean, Zoo ad a bucket early, a push shot,
a floater, a spinning layup. In the second he had
a drive to the basket. I get took it from
the top of the key, so I'll take I'll take
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whatever the defense has given me. Had a bucket off
a great feed from James Harden rolling to the basket.
In the second. Zoo had a pastor Chris Dunn who
missed a reverse layup or it looked like he was
fouled in the second quarter and it was a beautiful
feed from Visa Zubas. But he had a block then
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in the third leading to a lefty hook for himself
to put him up ninety seven to fifty seven. As
I mentioned before, DJ came in for Kawhi. He had
a dunk in the third. A couple of them just
complete domination, outclassed the Brooklyn Nets completely. They had nothing
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for this Clippers team today. It's not that beating Brooklyn
by thirty two. Me and say the Clippers they're a
dominant team now, they're great, they're special. It's the totality
of work we have seen over the last two or
three weeks now their last twelve games where they have
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one ten of twelve, and then you factor in, Okay,
how should you play against a bad team like the
Brooklyn Nets? How should it look? It looked like that,
leading by as many as forty one, they obliterated them.
That's what it should like. Should look like an elite
team taking on a struggling franchise, that is, you know,
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starting a rebuild, looking forward to the summer in the draft.
That's how a game should look. Start things off with
Ryan in Santa Ana. Ryan, you're on clipperstock, you're on
the Patriot amlum fifty. What's up? Brian?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Hey Adam, how's it going?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I'm good?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Ryan?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
How you feeling?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
I feel pretty good? That was a really great win.
What do you say about Kwai? Kwai is unbelievable tonight
on both sides. He locked up that Welson kid and
he just like welcomed them to the NBA right now.
That was great to see. Yeah, Zoo needs to be
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in the in consederacy for Defensive Player of the Year.
Him and Chris don should be like.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You know what's interesting, Chris Dunn won't make it because
he hasn't played enough games. He won't get to enough
games in enough minutes in those games. If each of
zubots will and I think will make an all defensive team.
But he has been getting looks for Defensive Player of
the Year. I don't think he'll win it. It'll probably
be Evan Mobley, who will see on Sunday, even though
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Zoo bodied him the last game. I don't think he'll
win it, but he is being talked about. Yeah, it
could be Dyson. I just I'm not hating because the
team isn't great overall, but specifically their defense isn't great
with Atlanta, so sometimes I'm like, well, what is his
impact exactly? But I looked at all the on off
splits for him to see how big of an impact
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Ison Daniels does have when he's on the court, So
maybe there's something to that. But yeah, I agree with
you those two guys a visa Zubats should be in
the running for sure.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Uh yeah, well, at least he has to make all
defensive team like that's yeah, that's where he should be. Yeah,
it's crazy. I'm really it feels too good to be true.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
This is crazy.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Clippers look unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
You're waiting for the other shoot. You're waiting for the
other shoot to drop all Ryan, You're expecting something bad
to happen because the Clippers look too.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Good, Adams, Adam, Clippers be clipping. So I'm just waiting.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, let's just hope for the best. There's nine games left.
They're playing great basketball. Let's just hope they can keep
it rolling into the playoffs. Let's just hope, because that's
all we can do.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Selfishly, just one last thing. Selfishly, I think smartly, I
wish we could be in the sixth seed, just for
the long term. I'm not ducking smoke, but like, I
think that would work out in the long run if
we end up four or five.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
It is what it is.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
We got to take on Lakers and then Thunder and
but it's a true test to see how how great
this team is.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, I agree with you, and just peaking at the
right time. Is awesome to see you appreciate the phone
call ride. We'll take a quick time out here on
Clippers stock after they take down the Brooklyn Nets one
thirty two to one hundred in Brooklyn. Coming up next,
looking for postgame audio. We'll get back to your phone
calls as well. Eight seven seven five to two zero
eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty.
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I mean, how many teams are playing better than the
Clippers right now in the NBA? You can say, Okay,
see in Houston, Cleveland's five and five their last ten,
Boston's nine and won their last ten, you could say them. So,
Clippers are playing at an elite level. As we're getting
close to the playoffs, Kawhi is looking in peak form,
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prime form, peak of his powers form before we hit
the playoffs. Yeah, things are going well, but as Kawai
always says, just take it a game at a time,
don't look too far ahead. They're taking our Cleveland on Sunday,
we're on that coming up. I'm at Amazon and you're
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App Back to Clippers basketball. Clippers win over the Brooklyn
Nets and handle business, a professional approach and a one
thirty two to one hundred victory. It's exactly what you
wanted to see. They led by as many as forty
one and Kawhi had thirty one points off of fourteen shots,
ten of fourteen shooting, some explosive plays, some great defensive plays.
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He was five of six from three and hit one
from Steph Curryland at the end of the first half.
Great feed there too hard and going back to him
knowing that he was hot. James Harden had seventeen six
assists Clippers of one, ten and twelve. And I know
a lot of Lakers fans and outsiders will downplay this.
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I know how this goes hang the banner. So original,
just so original when people say that if you don't
understand that this is especially meaningful for this franchise, I
don't know how to convince you like you're not close
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enough to the situation to understand how far the Clippers
have come. Because when I say getting to fourteen straight
winning seasons after where this franchise had been is something
to celebrate, you got to understand they went from the
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worst owner in sports to I think the best. They
went from at one point being called the worst franchise
in sports. Paper bags on their heads. I think that
was the cover of Sports Illustrated, Like, this isn't nothing.
Fourteen straight winning seasons, It's okay to celebrate it. No,
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they haven't gotten the hardware over that time. They've had
some low points with not rising to meet the moment.
They've also had just some really bad luck with injuries
that have kept them from holding the LARRYO. B But
fourteen straight winning seasons longest active consecutive winning streak in
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the NBA and tied for the fourth most consecutive winning
seasons ever with the Blazers and the Celtics twice. I'm
not gonna push that aside. I'm not gonna say yeah,
but you can do that if you want. This is meaningful.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
It is.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I say it all the time. But in many ways
they became a new franchise when Balmber took over in
twenty fourteen. Something that happened before Balmber. You know, I
know some of these seasons are included there a couple
of them, but they had an owner for the most
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part who was actively working against against the best interests
of the franchise before Steve Bamer. So in your grass
Clipper Nation, you gonna be proud of that. It's okay,
it's all right. You know what, Laker fans are gonna say,
you win a championship. Lakers are gonna go who cares,
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she got one? They're always gonna move the goalposts. That's
how it's always gonna be. That doesn't mean you can't
be brought proud of stuff. They've come a long way,
this franchise, this organization to get to fourteen straight winning seasons,
all right. The most is, of course, the Spurs with
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twenty two straight. After that's the Jazz from eighty five
to two thousand and four, nineteen straight, Lakers sixteenth straight
from seventy six to ninety two, and then Blazers, Celtics,
Clippers all with fourteen straight winning seasons. I know, the Jazz.
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You know, some people will say well, they ran into
m J unfortunately. Still think they had some really low
moments where they probably weren't good enough, but they didn't
rust the occasion at times. Male man doesn't deliver on
Sunday Game one moment. But it's it's not something to
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just diminish. It is a run of success that is
important to acknowledge. The Clippers are in a much better place,
much better place than they were twenty.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Years ago, forty years ago, fifty years ago, much better
place this season currently having won ten of twelve.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Where everyone feels like, you know, Kawi looks like this.
Give us Denver, give us the Lakers. I would prefer
the Houston Rockets or Memphis Grizzlies, But I get it.
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You should have confidence in just about anybody, especially because
now you're seeing Kawhi Leonard leading that second unit to
start second quarters. They were really good in this one.
They went plus four, it could have easily been plus
ten in their minutes. I'm talking about Kawhi next to Bogie,
next to Ben Simmons, next to DJ, next to Batoom.
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That five man unit started the second quarter again, they
went plus four, easily could have been plus ten. But
they still gave up a couple of threes to Brooklyn,
but they're starting to build something there an area where
they have struggled all season long. Bleeding points without James
Harden on the court to start second quarters, not being
able to execute on the offensive end, and you're starting
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to some signs of life. I need to see a
lot more. This was still against Brooklyn, but the fourth
quarter with those guys last game against the Knicks was great,
and then the second quarter was very good. Today, give
me more. Clippers win one thirty two to one hundred
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in Brooklyn over the Nets. We'll take a quick time out.
We'll come back looking for postgame audio in quotes from
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Back to Clippers basketball. Clippers with a thirty two point
victory in Brooklyn over the Nets. Kawhi is thirty one
points light work. It was from the Clippers and Kawhi.
Thirty one points and twenty seven minutes off of fourteen
shots is ridiculous. Clippers also went twenty five to twenty
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eight at the free throw line. That was great to see.
They started off slow from three point land. They ended
up nineteen of thirty seven. Kind of a big deal
for a team that was struggling for a while from three.
Not so much of the moment. So last ten games
heading into this one, the Clippers had the second best
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offense in the fourth best defense, and the second best
net rating. That's only going to go up after winning
one thirty two to one hundred scary hours, quite possibly
because Kawhi looks amazing. He's had and law Murray pointed
this out on Blue Ski earlier. He's had eleven twenty
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point games in March, but twenty five points on the
first half in this one. A long three pointer to
end the first half from Kawhi. You don't see him
take those shots very often, but James Harden said, you're hot,
take it. He's five of six from three. It is
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remarkable to see, and I've been saying this year after
year Kawhi comes back from injury. It's a testament to
how hard of a worker he is. He comes back
from serious injuries. For the most part, he looks the same.
He eventually gets to that point where he looks the
same and he has you believe, and he's a top
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five player in the league still, and all you need
is his health, his good health, and you can make
a run and you can beat anybody. And right now,
this is like his January normally, and we're in March
because he just got to game thirty and that's typically
when he came things into gear. Look at January twenty
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twenty four. In January twenty twenty three offensive numbers from him,
that's when he turned the corner off the ACL and
that's when he really turned a corner. It even happened
in middle of December last year and they went on
that twenty six and five run and he put up
the all time efficiency record over thirty games of what
was it, fifty seven fifty two ninety splits. Yeah, well,
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he's shooting us sixty percent from the field to last
eight games. Kua, we'll take it to quick time out.
We'll come back. Still looking for postgame audio after the
Clippers went big in Brooklyn one thirty two to one hundred.
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Clippers blowout the Brooklyn Nets. I'm out of Mosland, Welcome
back in. It's Clipperstock here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty.
Quick one for you here. Final segment justin Russo just
put this up at fly by Night, saying hard to
say how much it means, since after all, it's a
small sample size, but the Clippers are second in offensive
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rating and third in defensive ratings since March fifth. Only
the Oklahoma City Thunder have a higher net rating than
the Clippers over that time. That's kind of something I
was telling you earlier coming into the game. It was
that LA Clippers had a seventy one point five true
shooting percentage tonight. It's their third best mark of the season.
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Their second best mark just came against Memphis last Friday
at into it. But then there's this post love this
from Russo. Kawhi Leonard had thirty one points on ten
to fourteen shooting tonight and according to tracking data, gave
up zero points defensively on zero for seven shooting against him,
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Leonard had four steals and two blocks. Your two way
superstar is back. Everybody doubting him? Oh boy, do I
have some receipts on Kawhi? Boy? Do I have some
bookmarks on Kauwhi. I'm gonna show you one on the
chat side, but it goes like this. It was from
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February sixth. I was responding to I think Jesse Beer,
who's a big Clippers fan on x who said Kawhi
is cooked man. He said this on February sixth. I'll
share the screen on the YouTube side. I responded to
that and said, the reports of Kauai's demise have always
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been greatly exaggerated. I'm not going there and saying that,
Yet it pays to not give up on Kawhi be
on the right side of history. He ramps up at
his own speed, at his own pace, and he looks
to be just about where he was at his best
last season. Now, with nine games remaining, three of those
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games we expect him to be out of because they
have three more back to backs, including the next two
games taking place in a back to back Sunday in
Cleveland Monday against the Orlando Magic. I don't expect Kawhi
Leonard to be playing on Sunday. I think he plays
the magic game. Why do I say that? Because coach
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lou in New York said a mirror is starting on Sunday,
so it sounded like they already have a plan which
game they're going for. Doesn't mean they're punting the game
on Sunday. Cleveland's been short guys too. Could be two
teams that are under manned. Could be an even match,
could be Big zubersus Jared Allen. He's gonna be fun.
Sunday tip off twelve thirty pm Pacific time. We'll have
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a pregame show starting eleven thirty am Pacific time before
we get out of here. I thank the Clippers organization
and congratulate them on fourteen straight winning, season's longest active
streak in the NBA. Big things for Ralph Laula, Brian Seeman,
Noah Igo, Carlo Jimenez, Daniel West our producer, back here
in the bank, the callers, the listeners, the chatters. We'll
talk to you guys soon. And how about Sunday eleven
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thirty pregame Clippers in Cleveland. Talk to you then.
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Let me guess it's about Kawhi. Here we are and.
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At follow Adam a Adam Ousley. The Clippers win one
thirty two to one hundred in Brooklyn over the Nets,
and with that they secure their fourteenth straight winning season,
longest active winning streak in the Association of consecutive winning seasons.
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Welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm out a Mauslin. Clippers get
to forty two victories on the season, and they have
won ten of their last twelve and it easily could
have been twelve wins in a row eight seven, seven,
five to two, zero eleven fifty eight seven, seven, five
to two, zero eleven fifty is the phone number. Maybe
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you need to call in confess that you were out
on this team. You were out on Kawhi post All
Star Break, the first five or six games. Maybe you
need to admit to yourself, have a little confessional here
that you're back in with this Clippers team. That's your
believer again. I never really waivered. It just came down
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to is Kawhi gonna get back to looking like last
year's version of Kawhi Letard. Well, for eight straight games
now he's looked like him. This was game thirty of
the season for Kawhi Letard, just game thirty, and the
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Clippers are what eleven games over five hundred forty two
and thirty one seems good. They have a shot to
continue to rise up the standings. There's an outside shot
of them gaining the four spot. Still, they probably have
to go eight and won the last nine games. Maybe
get some help and you can go seven to two.
But Kawai had thirty one points on just fourteen shots.
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That is the Kawhi Leonard. I recognize what he's doing
right now. In March, first game of March, thirty three
points thirteen to twenty three shooting, second game twenty one
to nine of twenty shooting, third twenty on six of eighteen, fourth,
seventeen points on seven of nineteen shooting. But then twenty
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nine points, twenty five, twenty three, thirty three, twenty three,
twenty five, twenty seven, thirty one. On extreme efficiency, we're
talking a guy who's been shooting sixty percent from the
field his last this one two eight games, incredible three
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pointers are falling. He went five of six and knocked
down a thirty four footer at the end of the
second quarter. When the Clippers opened it up. He had
twenty five of his thirty one points in the first half.
Kawhi and the Clippers went on a twenty five to
six run to end the second quarter. If Kawhi is
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like this, you have a chance against anyone. He's been
playing heavy minutes. Didn't have to win this game, of course,
just twenty seven, but the two games prior forty one minutes,
forty minutes. What else do you need to see? Just
like we thought early in the season, with how good
their defense will if they have last year's version of Kawhi,
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why can't they make a run in the Western Conference.
I think OKC is elite. I feel like everybody else
has some flaws, noticeable flaws. This Clippers team is dangerous,
extremely dangerous right now, and it's because Kawhi is back
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and the defense. That's when I knew he was back.
The game against Atlanta where he had five steals on
their previous road trip and they would win once went
he one to ninety eight before they head back home,
and then they crushed the Charlotte Hornets in that game.
Showed me he's feeling good. He was locking up Dyson Daniels.
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And then today defensively, another great performance. He has been
playing Kawhi Leonard type defense over these last eight games,
where he's also shooting sixty sixty percent from the field.
He starts this one off getting a layup going to
his left, then has a dunk where he split two
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defenders in transition, physicality, more confidence in his knee. In
the second Kawhi is an and one on a layup,
a block on another young guy, and I think he
likes showing the young guys how it's done. Jalen Wilson
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a big swat on him as he just locked him
down defensively, he had nowhere to go. Then he hit
a jumper over Wilson on the right elbow, a Kawhi steele,
and a three pointer on the other end. He starts
bleeding from his left elbow. It bleeds. We can kill
it now. Maybe he's android, synthetic whatever. He goes out
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of the game for a little bit, then comes back
towards the end of the second quarter, swipes the ball
away from Keon Johnson, has a steal and slam on
d Low, a Kawhi three over d Low to get
to twenty two points before the half is over, and
then another thirty four foot three to give him twenty
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five points at the half. Unbelievable, complete domination from the claw.
He gets a steal to start the third another one done,
got the deflection, it went to Kawhi, but he got
a three off of that one. Clippers got up by
as many as forty one. You know what My only
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problem with his game was, you can say this still
start for the team, but Brooklyn started hot. I was like,
coach Lou, please pull the starters, please pull them. I
know a lot of these guys probably aren't playing on Sundays,
so you're giving them more minutes, more reps. I just
don't know what they were gonna learn against Brooklyn, but
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I get it. Kawhi. Eventually we hit another three pointer
to get to thirty one points. The Clippers got up
ninety seven to fifty seven. Then Kawhi came out for DJ.
They had at one point a seventy three to thirty
three scoring run on Brooklyn. They led by as many
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as forty one. Last time when they won by fifty nine.
I think that was the biggest winning franchise history. They
had one hundred and two to forty two scoring run
on them. Brooklyn's in a bad place. They're watching Duke
and Cooper flag right now, maybe a little bit distracted.
You gotta respect your opponent the Clippers did. They may
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have started slow, but boy, they hit the gas and
flip a switch the end of that second quarter with
that twenty five to six run. A lot of Kawhi theres.
He had nineteen points in the second quarter alone. It
beats the Zubots couldn't miss. Literally. He went nine of
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nine and had twenty one to twelve. Congratulations to Big
Zoo for getting to his fiftieth double double of the season.
He set this goal at the beginning of the year.
He's got it with nine games left. Congratulations to Zoo
Truthers two that always knew he could do this if
he just got a bigger opportunity, never a doubt. Zubots
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had ten points in the first quarter. He was really
keeping them close when Brooklyn was hitting everything for a second,
I mean, Zoo ad a bucket early, a push shot,
a floater, a spinning layup. In the second he had
a drive to the basket. I get took it from
the top of the key, so I'll take I'll take
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whatever the defense has given me. Had a bucket off
a great feed from James Harden rolling to the basket.
In the second. Zoo had a pastor Chris Dunn who
missed a reverse layup or it looked like he was
fouled in the second quarter and it was a beautiful
feed from Visa Zubas. But he had a block then
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in the third leading to a lefty hook for himself
to put him up ninety seven to fifty seven. As
I mentioned before, DJ came in for Kawhi. He had
a dunk in the third. A couple of them just
complete domination, outclassed the Brooklyn Nets completely. They had nothing
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for this Clippers team today. It's not that beating Brooklyn
by thirty two. Me and say the Clippers they're a
dominant team now, they're great, they're special. It's the totality
of work we have seen over the last two or
three weeks now their last twelve games where they have
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one ten of twelve, and then you factor in, Okay,
how should you play against a bad team like the
Brooklyn Nets? How should it look? It looked like that,
leading by as many as forty one, they obliterated them.
That's what it should like. Should look like an elite
team taking on a struggling franchise, that is, you know,
(10:31):
starting a rebuild, looking forward to the summer in the draft.
That's how a game should look. Start things off with
Ryan in Santa Ana. Ryan, you're on clipperstock, you're on
the Patriot amlum fifty. What's up? Brian?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Hey Adam, how's it going?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I'm good?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Ryan?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
How you feeling?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
I feel pretty good? That was a really great win.
What do you say about Kwai? Kwai is unbelievable tonight
on both sides. He locked up that Welson kid and
he just like welcomed them to the NBA right now.
That was great to see. Yeah, Zoo needs to be
(11:15):
in the in consederacy for Defensive Player of the Year.
Him and Chris don should be like.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You know what's interesting, Chris Dunn won't make it because
he hasn't played enough games. He won't get to enough
games in enough minutes in those games. If each of
zubots will and I think will make an all defensive team.
But he has been getting looks for Defensive Player of
the Year. I don't think he'll win it. It'll probably
be Evan Mobley, who will see on Sunday, even though
(11:42):
Zoo bodied him the last game. I don't think he'll
win it, but he is being talked about. Yeah, it
could be Dyson. I just I'm not hating because the
team isn't great overall, but specifically their defense isn't great
with Atlanta, so sometimes I'm like, well, what is his
impact exactly? But I looked at all the on off
splits for him to see how big of an impact
(12:03):
Ison Daniels does have when he's on the court, So
maybe there's something to that. But yeah, I agree with
you those two guys a visa Zubats should be in
the running for sure.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Uh yeah, well, at least he has to make all
defensive team like that's yeah, that's where he should be. Yeah,
it's crazy. I'm really it feels too good to be true.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
This is crazy.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Clippers look unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
You're waiting for the other shoot. You're waiting for the
other shoot to drop all Ryan, You're expecting something bad
to happen because the Clippers look too.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Good, Adams, Adam, Clippers be clipping. So I'm just waiting.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, let's just hope for the best. There's nine games left.
They're playing great basketball. Let's just hope they can keep
it rolling into the playoffs. Let's just hope, because that's
all we can do.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Selfishly, just one last thing. Selfishly, I think smartly, I
wish we could be in the sixth seed, just for
the long term. I'm not ducking smoke, but like, I
think that would work out in the long run if
we end up four or five.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
It is what it is.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
We got to take on Lakers and then Thunder and
but it's a true test to see how how great
this team is.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, I agree with you, and just peaking at the
right time. Is awesome to see you appreciate the phone
call ride. We'll take a quick time out here on
Clippers stock after they take down the Brooklyn Nets one
thirty two to one hundred in Brooklyn. Coming up next,
looking for postgame audio. We'll get back to your phone
calls as well. Eight seven seven five to two zero
eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty.
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I mean, how many teams are playing better than the
Clippers right now in the NBA? You can say, Okay,
see in Houston, Cleveland's five and five their last ten,
Boston's nine and won their last ten, you could say them. So,
Clippers are playing at an elite level. As we're getting
close to the playoffs, Kawhi is looking in peak form,
(14:06):
prime form, peak of his powers form before we hit
the playoffs. Yeah, things are going well, but as Kawai
always says, just take it a game at a time,
don't look too far ahead. They're taking our Cleveland on Sunday,
we're on that coming up. I'm at Amazon and you're
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App Back to Clippers basketball. Clippers win over the Brooklyn
Nets and handle business, a professional approach and a one
thirty two to one hundred victory. It's exactly what you
wanted to see. They led by as many as forty
one and Kawhi had thirty one points off of fourteen shots,
ten of fourteen shooting, some explosive plays, some great defensive plays.
(15:16):
He was five of six from three and hit one
from Steph Curryland at the end of the first half.
Great feed there too hard and going back to him
knowing that he was hot. James Harden had seventeen six
assists Clippers of one, ten and twelve. And I know
a lot of Lakers fans and outsiders will downplay this.
(15:39):
I know how this goes hang the banner. So original,
just so original when people say that if you don't
understand that this is especially meaningful for this franchise, I
don't know how to convince you like you're not close
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enough to the situation to understand how far the Clippers
have come. Because when I say getting to fourteen straight
winning seasons after where this franchise had been is something
to celebrate, you got to understand they went from the
(16:23):
worst owner in sports to I think the best. They
went from at one point being called the worst franchise
in sports. Paper bags on their heads. I think that
was the cover of Sports Illustrated, Like, this isn't nothing.
Fourteen straight winning seasons, It's okay to celebrate it. No,
(16:43):
they haven't gotten the hardware over that time. They've had
some low points with not rising to meet the moment.
They've also had just some really bad luck with injuries
that have kept them from holding the LARRYO. B But
fourteen straight winning seasons longest active consecutive winning streak in
(17:08):
the NBA and tied for the fourth most consecutive winning
seasons ever with the Blazers and the Celtics twice. I'm
not gonna push that aside. I'm not gonna say yeah,
but you can do that if you want. This is meaningful.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
It is.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I say it all the time. But in many ways
they became a new franchise when Balmber took over in
twenty fourteen. Something that happened before Balmber. You know, I
know some of these seasons are included there a couple
of them, but they had an owner for the most
(17:53):
part who was actively working against against the best interests
of the franchise before Steve Bamer. So in your grass
Clipper Nation, you gonna be proud of that. It's okay,
it's all right. You know what, Laker fans are gonna say,
you win a championship. Lakers are gonna go who cares,
(18:15):
she got one? They're always gonna move the goalposts. That's
how it's always gonna be. That doesn't mean you can't
be brought proud of stuff. They've come a long way,
this franchise, this organization to get to fourteen straight winning seasons,
all right. The most is, of course, the Spurs with
(18:39):
twenty two straight. After that's the Jazz from eighty five
to two thousand and four, nineteen straight, Lakers sixteenth straight
from seventy six to ninety two, and then Blazers, Celtics,
Clippers all with fourteen straight winning seasons. I know, the Jazz.
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You know, some people will say well, they ran into
m J unfortunately. Still think they had some really low
moments where they probably weren't good enough, but they didn't
rust the occasion at times. Male man doesn't deliver on
Sunday Game one moment. But it's it's not something to
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just diminish. It is a run of success that is
important to acknowledge. The Clippers are in a much better place,
much better place than they were twenty.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Years ago, forty years ago, fifty years ago, much better
place this season currently having won ten of twelve.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Where everyone feels like, you know, Kawi looks like this.
Give us Denver, give us the Lakers. I would prefer
the Houston Rockets or Memphis Grizzlies, But I get it.
(20:14):
You should have confidence in just about anybody, especially because
now you're seeing Kawhi Leonard leading that second unit to
start second quarters. They were really good in this one.
They went plus four, it could have easily been plus
ten in their minutes. I'm talking about Kawhi next to Bogie,
next to Ben Simmons, next to DJ, next to Batoom.
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That five man unit started the second quarter again, they
went plus four, easily could have been plus ten. But
they still gave up a couple of threes to Brooklyn,
but they're starting to build something there an area where
they have struggled all season long. Bleeding points without James
Harden on the court to start second quarters, not being
able to execute on the offensive end, and you're starting
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to some signs of life. I need to see a
lot more. This was still against Brooklyn, but the fourth
quarter with those guys last game against the Knicks was great,
and then the second quarter was very good. Today, give
me more. Clippers win one thirty two to one hundred
(21:22):
in Brooklyn over the Nets. We'll take a quick time out.
We'll come back looking for postgame audio in quotes from
coach Lou and the players. I'm at a Maslind and
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Back to Clippers basketball. Clippers with a thirty two point
victory in Brooklyn over the Nets. Kawhi is thirty one
points light work. It was from the Clippers and Kawhi.
Thirty one points and twenty seven minutes off of fourteen
shots is ridiculous. Clippers also went twenty five to twenty
(22:15):
eight at the free throw line. That was great to see.
They started off slow from three point land. They ended
up nineteen of thirty seven. Kind of a big deal
for a team that was struggling for a while from three.
Not so much of the moment. So last ten games
heading into this one, the Clippers had the second best
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offense in the fourth best defense, and the second best
net rating. That's only going to go up after winning
one thirty two to one hundred scary hours, quite possibly
because Kawhi looks amazing. He's had and law Murray pointed
this out on Blue Ski earlier. He's had eleven twenty
(23:01):
point games in March, but twenty five points on the
first half in this one. A long three pointer to
end the first half from Kawhi. You don't see him
take those shots very often, but James Harden said, you're hot,
take it. He's five of six from three. It is
(23:23):
remarkable to see, and I've been saying this year after
year Kawhi comes back from injury. It's a testament to
how hard of a worker he is. He comes back
from serious injuries. For the most part, he looks the same.
He eventually gets to that point where he looks the
same and he has you believe, and he's a top
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five player in the league still, and all you need
is his health, his good health, and you can make
a run and you can beat anybody. And right now,
this is like his January normally, and we're in March
because he just got to game thirty and that's typically
when he came things into gear. Look at January twenty
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twenty four. In January twenty twenty three offensive numbers from him,
that's when he turned the corner off the ACL and
that's when he really turned a corner. It even happened
in middle of December last year and they went on
that twenty six and five run and he put up
the all time efficiency record over thirty games of what
was it, fifty seven fifty two ninety splits. Yeah, well,
(24:28):
he's shooting us sixty percent from the field to last
eight games. Kua, we'll take it to quick time out.
We'll come back. Still looking for postgame audio after the
Clippers went big in Brooklyn one thirty two to one hundred.
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Clippers blowout the Brooklyn Nets. I'm out of Mosland, Welcome
back in. It's Clipperstock here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty.
Quick one for you here. Final segment justin Russo just
put this up at fly by Night, saying hard to
say how much it means, since after all, it's a
small sample size, but the Clippers are second in offensive
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rating and third in defensive ratings since March fifth. Only
the Oklahoma City Thunder have a higher net rating than
the Clippers over that time. That's kind of something I
was telling you earlier coming into the game. It was
that LA Clippers had a seventy one point five true
shooting percentage tonight. It's their third best mark of the season.
(25:48):
Their second best mark just came against Memphis last Friday
at into it. But then there's this post love this
from Russo. Kawhi Leonard had thirty one points on ten
to fourteen shooting tonight and according to tracking data, gave
up zero points defensively on zero for seven shooting against him,
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Leonard had four steals and two blocks. Your two way
superstar is back. Everybody doubting him? Oh boy, do I
have some receipts on Kawhi? Boy? Do I have some
bookmarks on Kauwhi. I'm gonna show you one on the
chat side, but it goes like this. It was from
(26:31):
February sixth. I was responding to I think Jesse Beer,
who's a big Clippers fan on x who said Kawhi
is cooked man. He said this on February sixth. I'll
share the screen on the YouTube side. I responded to
that and said, the reports of Kauai's demise have always
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been greatly exaggerated. I'm not going there and saying that,
Yet it pays to not give up on Kawhi be
on the right side of history. He ramps up at
his own speed, at his own pace, and he looks
to be just about where he was at his best
last season. Now, with nine games remaining, three of those
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games we expect him to be out of because they
have three more back to backs, including the next two
games taking place in a back to back Sunday in
Cleveland Monday against the Orlando Magic. I don't expect Kawhi
Leonard to be playing on Sunday. I think he plays
the magic game. Why do I say that? Because coach
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lou in New York said a mirror is starting on Sunday,
so it sounded like they already have a plan which
game they're going for. Doesn't mean they're punting the game
on Sunday. Cleveland's been short guys too. Could be two
teams that are under manned. Could be an even match,
could be Big zubersus Jared Allen. He's gonna be fun.
Sunday tip off twelve thirty pm Pacific time. We'll have
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a pregame show starting eleven thirty am Pacific time before
we get out of here. I thank the Clippers organization
and congratulate them on fourteen straight winning, season's longest active
streak in the NBA. Big things for Ralph Laula, Brian Seeman,
Noah Igo, Carlo Jimenez, Daniel West our producer, back here
in the bank, the callers, the listeners, the chatters. We'll
talk to you guys soon. And how about Sunday eleven
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thirty pregame Clippers in Cleveland. Talk to you then.
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