Inside Reacts To Phoenix's Big Three Coming Up Big To Even The Series | NBA on TNT

Now, in the game you just watched, we come back alive to Phoenix in the Valley of the Sun with the Clippers taking the first game and give me that man, this guy blocking us and Devin Booker, did he have a gentleman? He is a great man. he also shot, yes, Kevin Durant knocking down the little midrange, but Kawhi Leonard bets you won't dunk. I tell you what we have to get money with a man of credit, he started to double Kawhi and in the second half and that was the difference. on him dominating the game in the first half like he did, the Clippers had a double-digit lead at the time and Leonard was going from the baseline for the dunk, but then Phoenix put together a run and erased that double-digit deficit, No chance to stop that, oh no. opportunity to stop this 11-2 run to end the half game tied at 59 and go into the third quarter, that's the same thing, this is a first round matchup sneaking in behind the zubots and then just a little exchange here between the former teammates Russell Westbrook and Kevin.

Durant as they head to their meetings Durant, oh God, he sure does, doesn't he? Chucks, yes, it does. Phoenix with an eight-point lead, but the Clippers return in transition and Westbrook, ahead of the group, shoots that thing, young man, which I don't have to tell you twice 38 and nine assists for Booker on the night. I'll tell you what I'm saying, man, that guy, look at this guy, this eight-point game you're putting up, what if they got it? They have to stop losing. On that pick and roll I heard Stan Van Gundy talk about it over and over again, yeah, same thing with the Golden State Warriors, they're doing it to Aaron Fox, exact same defense, how about Chris Paul at the end of this game?

Some rebounds tonight ended with 16 and eight eight of four from time to time 38 by the book, that's impressive, go with 25 from Durant and 17 from Tory Craig, um, because again, only 13 points from the Phoenix bench really depend on those starters to do it is Monty Williams and they did it tonight to the tune of 123 to 109. Shaq, that game was huge. Phoenix was down double digits in the first half and the Clippers outscored them for, I would say, 20 of the first 24 minutes of that game, yeah, and then they stepped up, they realized what it was taking, listen, they played a big book in the first game 26, this game 38, teammates are 58.8 percent, they play well, everyone played well, uh, DeAndre Hayden stayed up, you know, they got the crowd involved in the game Little Clippers fall but They couldn't get it back so they did what they were supposed to win this game at home but seriously it's not over, it's definitely going to be an interesting

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, well, I think I think. The Clippers' depth is going to be very important in the future because you saw that we were talking about a halftime. Kawai was controlling the game he had. I had it written, he had like 16, 18 points and 16 in the first half, but if you notice they doubled it every time in the second half, which means that if they are going to take him out of the game, those guys are going to make open shots, so for me, obviously, Booker was fantastic. KD played well, but I thought about money, money. money, the training, the adjustment he made was the difference in the game, uh, speaking of training, how about Tyronn Lue?

Post game thoughts, they really took over you know, we tried to Blitz, we tried to shoot, we did a lot of different things and like I said, I played really well you know and I'm proud of our guys because we weren't satisfied with just

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in and winning a game and I thought they counted me out and we gave everything we missed on some shots, you know, I had a couple of key turnovers, but Other than that, I thought, you know, we came in with the mentality that we wanted to win this game and, so, that's all you can really ask for, so we did some things that we had to be able to clean, you know, upon entering. next game and you know we'll be ready, but like I said, you know they were losing 1-0 at home and then the stars came to play tonight, they had a great game, you see that first game, they only made eight from midrange. shots they made 21 tonight when you made 11 in the first half when you see that, I mean, that's the shot that a lot of teams like to give up, you all challenge that shot well, but you make them like, yeah, you see it as What do you get out of that?

Well, I think you have to keep mixing coverages, you know, not let them get comfortable, and you know, in the first half I thought we did a good job with our bigs were up and then Aiden, you know he got going, did like four or five of them and then you know we backed off, we didn't book and Katie and CP hit the ground running so we just mixed up our coverage trying to keep them all. balanced I thought our Zone was pretty good for us at times, but you know, we just have to keep trying to keep them all balanced as best as possible.

I agree with everything he said. I agree with the part about we could hear that we couldn't. Listen to the whole thing, I hope you all can do it at home, maybe it was kind of cool, that's cool, but I'm sure it was eye-opening and probably not as eye-opening as this Kenny thing. I have no idea what he said, but you can. You can just put a point on this game from where you're sitting, yeah, you know, I think Chuck said the adjustment, but

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in the adjustments I think Kawhi Leonard still forces the action a little bit different than other superstars because he's able to handle basketball. from different areas of the court to be able to take him in front, he could put you in a post, so if you're going to double all over the court, he can create some chaos even without scoring and give guys easier shots instead of open but open. open dunks and layups.

I'm excited to see this game. Return to Los Angeles to see how the Clippers don't respond. How the Suns keep the momentum because they were all there. I think if this was a home game for the Clippers, this could have been it. a wind clip, but based on the way the game was going, yes, but to me, Devin Booker wasn't going to let them lose, he was completely unbelievable, I mean, CP3 played very well in his stretch, but to me this It was all about Devin. Booker, I mean, when they were down 10 12 and he started to pull away, I mean it was very impressive, it was a great stretch at the end of the first half to get rid of that double-digit lead, by the way, Kawhi in the first game . had 38 points, 25 of them in the second half tonight Devin Booker goes for 38 how many in the second half hey, hey, and now we'll take a break and when we get back to the second game in Cleveland, yeah, the Knicks and the Cavs have undersized power. forward hit the opponents chest oh, I didn't say I wouldn't step on anyone, you didn't step, one of you just went down and he didn't, I didn't stop him, although it was also first of all, that was some bloody vintage, that was something vintage you can't stop I mean I'll stop at people I should back off fight and you can't be stopped I stepped on everything he says no hey I just said that's the difference. between taking a step and those things there is a difference what makes contact with the chest I think there is a song there yes, there is a difference, I can promise you that