BUT I GET IT NOW. >> ERNIE JOHNSON, SHAQUILLE O'NEAL, KENNY THE JET SMITH. CHARLES BARKLEY. MAN, DO WE HAVE SOME HIGHLIGHTS TO DIVE INTO IN THESE TWO GAMES TONIGHT. THE CLIPPERS WITHOUT KAWHI LEONARD WITH THE SPRAINED RIGHT KNEE. AND BOY, UTAH CAME OUT HITTING EVERYTHING. BOGY FOR THREE. >> I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE HARD FOR THEM TO CONTINUE THAT SHOOTING BUT LIKE YOU SAID THEY REALLY SHOT THE BALL VERY WELL IN THE FIRST HALF. >> THEY SHOT IT GREAT, AND THEY WEREN'T REALLY UP. >> YEAH, IT WAS 37-36 AFTER ONE. >> 29-34. YEAH. THEY WERE NEVER ABLE TO SEPARATE THEMSELVES WITH ALL THOSE THREE. THEY BROKE AN NBA RECORD. >> TELL YOU WHAT, THE PLAYER OF THE GAME WAS REGGIE JACKSON, MAN. >> KENNARD THERE. AND THEN -- >> WHEN THEY WERE BLEEDING, REGGIE JACKSON, HE KEPT THEM TOGETHER. >> YOU'RE RIGHT, KENNY, THEY SHOT ALL THESE THREES AND WERE ONLY UP FIVE AT HALFTIME. >> YEAH, THAT'S WHEN I WAS LIKE THEY MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE. >> DONOVAN MITCHELL. >> WHAT'S THE SAYING, CHUCK? LIVE BY THE JUMP SHOT? >> DIE BY THE JUMP SHOT. >> I DON'T THINK THEY DIED BY IT. >> OH, THEY DIED BY IT. >> 65-60 AT THE HALF. P.G. >> WHEN HE GETS TO THE RIM, ERNIE, THAT OPENS UP. >> 37 POINTS, THE MOST HE'S HAD IN A PLAYOFF GAME SINCE HE WAS A PACER. BUT MARCUS -- YOU MENTIONED REGGIE JACKSON. MARCUS MORRIS CAME UP HUGE, TOO. BIG-TIME, ERNIE. >> I THINK A DIFFERENCE IS WHEN THE JAZZ STARTED MAKING THAT COMEBACK, REGGIE JACKSON SCORED THREE OR FOUR BASKETS IN A ROW. >> HE TRAVELED THERE BUT HE GOT AWAY WITH IT. >> BECAUSE THAT'S DOWN TO A THREE-POINT GAME AT THIS POINT. >> INGLES ON THE DEFENSIVE END. GETS IT TO GO. ROCKS IT. AND THEN DONOVAN MITCHELL. HOW TOUGH IS THIS? AND ONE. >> NICE SHOT. >> AND THE KID, THE LITTLE KID, NUMBER 14, HIT A COUPLE BIG SHOTS TOO. >> TERANCE MANN. >> THIS IS STRONG, ERNIE. >> GOBERT. >> HE WAS A MAN. AS IN TERANCE. >> WHAT DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR? >> WELL PLAYED, JET. AND LOOK AT THIS BY PAUL. >> YOU CAN'T DO IT. THEY HADN'T SCORED IN A FEW MINUTES. YOU CAN'T FOUL IN THAT SITUATION. >> IT WINDS UP 119-111. 37, 16, AND 5 FOR PAUL GEORGE. REGGIE JACKSON WITH 21. MARCUS MORRIS 25 ON 10 OF 16 SHOOTING. AND 3 OF 4 FROM DEEP. TERANCE MANN HAD 13. AND THE CLIPPERS LEAD THE SERIES THREE GAMES TO TWO. A WIN AWAY FROM THEIR FIRST WESTERN CONFERENCE FINAL. UTAH THE NUMBER 1 SEED. A LOSS AWAY FROM ELIMINATION. HERE'S QUIN SNYDER. >> WE HAD TROUBLE IN TRANSITION DEFENSE IN THE FIRST HALF. NOT THAT OUR HALF-COURT WAS GREAT. BUT YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT WE MADE SHOTS IN THE FIRST HALF. I DIDN'T THINK WE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THAT FACT BECAUSE WE GAVE UP SOME EASY BASKETS. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY IN THE SECOND HALF THERE WAS DIFFERENT THINGS ON TOO MANY POSSESSIONS WHERE WE TRIED TO EXECUTE SOMETHING, WE DIDN'T DO IT ON THE LEVEL THAT WE NEED TO. I THINK THOSE BREAKDOWNS ULT ULTIMATELY EVEN IF THEY'RE IN ROTATIONS, THEY WERE GOING TO BE AT CERTAIN POINTS, PARTICULARLY IF WE'RE TRYING TO GIVE HELP ON P.G. WHEN HE'S GOING. BUT THOSE THINGS, WE'VE JUST GOT TO BE BETTER IN THOSE AREAS. IT'S KIND OF -- IT GOES UP THE CHAIN OF THE POSSESSION. WHERE THEY BEGIN TO GET AN ADVANTAGE AND WE'RE BEHIND. >> HOW SURPRISING WHEN YOU LOOK AT -- >> WHO'S THAT, JENGA OR REAL BRICKS? >> LIFE-SIZE JENGA. >> SO HOW SURPRISING IS IT FOR A TEAM TO LOSE ITS BEST PLAYER, GO ON THE ROAD, AND WIN A CAN GAME LIKE THIS TO TAKE THE LEAD IN THE SERIES? KENNY? >> I WOULDN'T SAY IT'S A FEAT THAT'S NOT ACCOMPLISHABLE, BUT I WOULD SAY IT WAS VERY IMPRESSIVE IN THIS REGARD. BECAUSE AS WELL AS THEY PLAYED OFFENSIVELY I THOUGHT IN THE SECOND HALF DEFENSIVELY THEY PLAYED JUST AS WELL. THE SCHEMES THAT TYRONN LUE THREW AT DONOVAN MITCHELL AND CHANGED UP IN THE SECOND HALF, WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT COACHES NOT BEING ABLE TO CHANGE UP IN THE SECOND HALF. I THOUGHT HE DID A GOOD JOB OF THAT. AND REGGIE JACKSON -- AND CHANGING UP THE MOMENTUM, I JUST THOUGHT TO CHANGE THE PACE OF THE GAME AS WELL AS HE DID SCORE, HE CHANGED THE PACE OF THE GAME AND MADE IT A LITTLE BIT AWKWARD FOR THOSE GUYS ON UTAH TO GET BACK INTO THE RHYTHM OF THE SHOT. >> AND ERNIE, IN ALL SPORTS WHEN A PLAYER GOES DOWN, IT'S A NEXT MAN UP PHILOSOPHY. BUT THE NEXT MAN HAS TO STEP UP. AND MR. MORRIS STEPPED UP TONIGHT AND REGGIE JACKSON STEPPED UP TONIGHT. AND AGAIN, THE PRESSURE WASN'T ON THE CLIPPERS. THE PRESSURE WAS ON UTAH. THEY GOT A WIN. WE JUST COME AND PLAY AND IF YOU GET? GUYS TO STEP UP LIKE THEY DID, 25 AND 37 -- >> YEAH, WHEN YOU KEEP IT CLOSE -- MORE PRESSURE. IT WAS CLOSE. >> LISTEN, TONIGHT I THOUGHT THE CLIPPERS GOT A FREE SWING AT IT. BECAUSE THEY WERE EXPECTED TO LOSE. NOW GAME 6 IS WHEN THE -- WE'RE GOING TO SEE -- >> IN THEIR GYM. >> IN THEIR GYM WHAT THEY'RE MADE OF. THIS TO ME -- WHEN YOU'RE LIKE OKAY, NOBODY'S EXPECTED TO LOSE, I THOUGHT IT FREED THEM UP. PAUL PLAYED TERRIFIC. MORRISON, JACKSON. BUT TO ME I TOLD KENNY, THEY GET A FREE SWING AT IT TONIGHT, NOBODY EXPECTS THEM TO WIN. NOW THE PRESSURE RAMPS UP ON THEM EVEN MORE THE NEXT GAME BECAUSE THEY KNOW RIGHT NOW AND TY LUE KNOWS THIS. THEIR GAME 6 IS GAME 7. BECAUSE IF THEY GO BACK TO UTAH THEY'RE NOT GOING TO WIN AGAIN. SO EVEN THOUGH THEY GOT A FREE SWING AT IT TONIGHT, GAME 6 THE WHOLE THING FLIPS AROUND. THEY'RE GOING TO BE LIKE HEY, GUYS, THIS IS OUR GAME 7, WE BETTER GET THIS THING OVER TONIGHT BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANT TO GO BACK TO UTAH AGAIN. >> NOT ONLY THAT, ERNIE, IT'S GOING TO BE UNWANTED PRESSURE BECAUSE YOU HEARD THE LADY, OH, IF YOU WIN THIS GAME THE FIRST TIME THE FRANCHISE GOES TO THE WESTERN CONFERENCE FINAL -- >> YOU MEAN REBECCA HARLOW? >> YEAH, REBECCA HARLOW. >> THE LADY. >> THAT STUFF YOU DON'T NEED RIGHT NOW. HELLO, MISS REBECCA. >> 113 -- >> THE LITTLE GUY NUMBER 14 AND THE LADY -- >> BEAUTIFUL LADY -- >> FINAL SCORE. >> IT'S LATE
