ESPN reacts to Kawhi Leonard scores 36 to help Clippers top Hawks 149-144, finish road trip 6-1

ESPN reacts to Kawhi Leonard scores 36 to help Clippers top Hawks 149-144, finish road trip 6-1

Welcome into hawks live fueled by Georgia Natural Gas Hawks fans your take away from this one should be that the Clippers are pretty dang good 149 to 144 your final LA on the back end of a backto back puts up dang near 150 points they shot the ball incredibly well Brian

Oliver and Trevor skills are going to be here to recap every last bit of it for you and let’s begin there right like this is a wagon of a team they will be a wagon for just about anybody that will get in their way going forward Bob rman

Mention at the end of the post game they’ve won 26 of 31 for a reason be I mean this is a squad I mean you and I both talked about that you don’t want to have any type of you want to give the Hawks the the do but this Clipper team

They have a squad I mean on a back to back for them to come out and put this effort that they did and the way they shot the lights out of it I mean I don’t know if there is much more that the Hawks could have done because again when

You look at the Arsenal of talent that that they have offensively defensively The Bigs the role players I mean I got to stretch and say I don’t know if that the Hawks have played a better team up until now because they flat out have a squad you’d be hard pressed to find a

Better performance I don’t know what they look like at the end of the day against the Denver Nuggets and other other folks out there out west OKC included but this was one of the best performances that we’ve seen from a team in this building from the opposition

Side of things but let’s begin with the lights out shooting that you mentioned Ford ke to game 20 of 31 from three D and here’s the thing we talked about I mean this is the best shooting three-point team in the league I mean they shoot 40% collectively tra tonight

They shot 60% and it wasn’t one of those situations where the Hawks were not closing out they basically did a great job of being able to just flat out knock down shots there’s always this thing that Shooters shoot to get hot Shooters shoot to stay hot this is a team that

Basically shot the lights out of it because I thought that the Hawks came out with the right mentality they came out and did what they had to do I mean what you’re talking about this team flat out just shot the hell out of the balll tonight oh no doubt about that you’re

Sometimes stuck by the wayside and oh by the way I short Cham with 21 for 35 but that is also to say that the Hawks shot 20 of 39 from three again the score is indicative of how well both of these teams played offensively but sometimes the better team ends up winding up

Winning this thing but I not aggressive because I do want to show love to DeAndre Hunter he’s the topic for Toyota Let’s Go Places on a minute restriction only gets 19 minutes in but scores 27 points in that effort and I saw his effort coming off the bench I mean he he

Hit the ground running because again when you look at how Dre entered the game I love the fact that he was aggressive put the ball on the deck was knocking down threes he was aggressive crashing the boards I thought that he gave the Hawks that sense of energy that

They needed from the bench because when you look at his stat sign the 27 seven rebounds efficient t for 12 three threes and only 19 minutes I mean again when you look at what he was able to give you the the biggest thing is can he maintain

It can he stay healthy because the Hogs definitely missed him but again you got what you needed from him because again he came out it was hard playing he was he did all the things he needed to it was just for not because of this Clipper team put him just a monumentous effort

Well to your point you’re wanting him for the long run and so you may wonder what could have been if he had been in to kind of close that game out but you are playing the long game if you’re the hwks hoping that he’s there for the

Remainder of the Season Above All Else let’s take a look at just the immediate future as far as your expin the upcoming schedule goes the road trip begins out in Boston a two game trip to there in Philly before you welcome the Houston Rockets back here at home followed by

The Chicago buer coverage as always begins with a little hawks live about a half hour ahead of tip off as we continue here on hawks live we’ll talk a little quick Bruno but yeah we should have show some love to Bruno to break two of his seven emphatic points on the

Evening Hawks here at home to conclude a six game home stand Trevor scales and Brian Oliver here with the on the hawk walk after the effort and to shift the focus and show love to the opposition is tough to do sometimes but when it’s kawh Leonard going off for 36 essentially

Just taking over the game when he absolutely needed to I have to acquest but here’s the thing is that when when healthy at one point Ka lard was a top three player Le no doubt and so when you look at just we always talk about him

Being one of the better twoo players and and I thought that he allowed the game to come to him and you look at he only gave us a cool 36 and five dimes but then look at his numbers 13 for 20 5 for8 and I felt like when the Clippers

Really needed to be able to go and get a bucket especially when the Hawks were making their run they have so many different weapons that a guy like Kawai at his strength and his size the Hawks did not have anybody that could stay in in front of it and match his physicality

His athleticism and his shot making ability because here’s one of the things when you look at him the mid-range game the athleticism but his ability to knock down to three it’s hard for not just the Hawks but then players in the league when you have that guy that’s able to

Play on the backto back like he did that just shows again how good this Clipper team is but you get again you got to tip your hat to this Hawks team because I felt like they competed from the beginning to the very end oh you could

See as much with sadique Bay the late buckets the efforts of full press defense the effort was there there’s no question about that specifically pretending to Trey young as well who turns out just another casual 25 and 12 night on his end well and here’s the

Thing too t scales when you look at what Trey was able to do I mean against this team you needed balance and what Trey was able to do is that you saw the hustle you saw him be able to come up with big buckets I thought in a timely

Fashion he knew when to to lob at the basket he was commanding a lot of attention on all night long again 25 and 12 8 for 14 only got 14 shots up because the Clippers put so much attention at him he didn’t really have a lot of

Threes because again all night long they kept putting long athletic guys on him trying to chase him off the three but I still thought that he did an amazing job of being able to balance getting his and keeping the Hawks close throughout the entire game you mentioned the idea of

The the length of the Defenders that they were that that team is full of that body type it feels like it’s every single wing Defender that you would draw up in a lab if you could but anangu sliding into the starting rle tonight for Clint Cabella who’s out with that

Left abductor strain from him as far as the offensive threat around the rim but Ana kongu has put in the work he was perfect from behind the arc gave the Hawks what they needed and again I love the fact that he has strung together a lot of consistent games of double digit

Uh points and double digit uh rebounds that dude putting the ball on the floor something special that big man can move and when he gets up just get out the way word to the wise this but you tip your cap to the effort put forth by your

Atlanta Hawks in the fiveo loss it’s here from Quin Snyder on it it’s your Georgia Natural Gas postgame press conference um tonight just seemed that the guys continue to be competitive down the stretch just what does it say about the competitive nature that these guys have yeah I think particularly they

Started really really hot um and you know we in there even early in the game which I thought was important and kind of grounded our way back into it and then as you said I just think you know we compete like that we’re going to

Be in games and good things are going to happen what did you see from DeAndre who had a big game Off the Bench I know he’s limited still but shot it great and looked lucky his old self yeah I mean it’s good to have him um even if it’s

Not as much as we’d like right now um the most important thing is he’s back playing and as I’ve said you know before the game we can you know ease him back if if that’s the right word you know just um he didn’t look like he was easing

Anything tonight which is which is really important he’s not saving himself and I just think when he’s aggressive offensively early um shooting the ball it opens a lot of other things up for him and he’s able to attack the rim and you know he hit a few really important

Mid-range jump shots as well which he can do so um a lot of good things that he did tonight and I haven’t talked about his defense yet which is always really consistent and particularly against the team like like the Clippers that you know have so many big wings to

Have him out there was was important coach you challenged a couple calls tonight um most of the time it works out in our favor but it seems like you look to your players to trust them what are you looking for in those moments when you make those for spee foree speech

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ESPN reacts to Kawhi Leonard scores 36 to help Clippers top Hawks 149-144, finish road trip 6-1