Kawhi Leonard “playing like MVP,” why Clippers are legit NBA title contenders | Hoops Tonight

Kawhi Leonard “playing like MVP,” why Clippers are legit NBA title contenders | Hoops Tonight

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So you guys don’t miss any of our content over the course of this season all right let’s talk some basketball moving on to the Clippers I said the other day I wanted to wait until I saw a few more High leverage games before I put them into my

Contenders list they had a lot of quality wins in there right like they just recently went down to New Orleans and beat the out out of the Pelicans who have been redot they did have this one signature win back on December 6th a little over a month ago

They beat the Denver Nuggets in uh in Los Angeles but then kawhai was out for the OKC loss and then he was out for the Boston loss and last night felt like a good opportunity for them to crush the Lakers and send a message and for the

Record like I mentioned earlier I think the Lakers are a little bit of a bad matchup for the clippers because they’re a pullup jump shooting team and the Lakers have length to contest and then also when they close with zubot they just can run their pick and roll the

LeBron ad pick and roll and they can get great shots out of it which is a consistent theme we’ve seen over the course of the season right uh but since November 17th make no mistake Clippers are 19- six second best record in basketball over that span second to Boston sixth in offense 11th

In defense ninth in rebounding kawai’s been playing like an MVP like I said 60% from the field in his previous 14 games all three of Harden kawhai and Paul George are shooting well over 40% from three uh James Harden has been super efficient Norman Powell has been giving them really consistent production Off

The Bench he got a decent look at the end of the game to potentially tie it uh zubot has been really good he gave ad a bunch of issues again last night with his physicality that’s a consistent problem that ad’s had is like this why he struggles with joic too is like those

Big body centers that are really like like push and pull on you and and try to knock you off your center of gravity like he had a big offensive rebound over Anthony Davis late in this game he had a big hook shot late that that cut it to

One point where he tried to block him and he just leaned into him and reached out in round and and and put it up an in they they the thing with the the thing with this Clippers team and they they kind of remind me of Minnesota in this

Sense they’re not as imposing physically but they do have the ability to really contain on the perimeter at the end of games and again that that’s where the zubac uh Lebron drop coverage late game pick and roll thing was something that they could go to and then obviously the

Lakers have the ability just to throw the ball to Anthony Davis in the post too late in the game but like other teams that like to run a lot of like like perimeter initiator ball handler types the Clippers just match up really well with them and then similar to

Minnesota and we saw this in the Dallas Mavericks game which we’re going to talk about when they stick their perimeter Defenders on you and they really lock in you can go really stagnant and have a lot of issues except for differently from Minnesota on the other end of the

Floor the Clippers after really struggling on offense to start this the after the trade they’ve been cooking on offense since they’ve been second best offense in the league over the last month so like when you combine when you combine that Elite halfcourt two-way potential I the biggest concern for me

Still Remains just overall size on the interior can you play zubats in particular matchups when you go small do you have enough aggregate size to hang physically we’ve seen them struggle in that instance in some moments this season they do have a couple more chances on the horizon for Signature

Wins the 14th they play the Timberwolves down in Minnesota and then on the 16th they play the Oklahoma City Thunder in Los Angeles and then they have the Lakers again on the 23rd so here in the next couple of weeks I think we’re going to learn a lot about the Clippers and

Some more High leverage matchups um I’ve decided like because I feel like I I’m I’m holding them to an unfair standard I am going to add them to my list of contenders I have too much confidence in kawhai as a playoff player obviously health is a concern but

They’re playing at too high of a level to ignore anymore it’s just a matter of where I’m going to put them on that list and I want to wait until after those two games on the 14th and the 16th when they play Minnesota and OKC I want to see

Those two games and kind of see how they shake out and then we’ll pick where we’re going to put them on that Contender tier we’ll do some sort of like Contender update list uh when I get back from Park City

Jason Timpf reacts to Kawhi Leonard, James Harden, and the Los Angeles Clippers’ loss to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. Jason discusses the recent stretch of good basketball from the Clips, and how they are starting to find their groove with the addition of James Harden.

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