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Clippers falling Game five one twenty three
to ninety three. Here at cripper dot

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com arena to the Dallas Mavericks,
who now have a three to two series

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lead over your Los Angeles Clippers,
who are in a literal must win situation

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in Dallas in game six on Friday. Welcome into your post game show.

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I'm at a Oslin. This is
Clippers Locker Room. Coming up on the

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Patriot Am eleven fifty. We'll have
Clippers stock for you. Eight seven seven

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five to zero eleven fifty eight seven
seven five two zero eleven fifty is the

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phone number. Your radio voice of
the Clippers is back with us in Carlo

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Jimenez. So, Carlo, we've
been talking about it as this game was

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winding down. Basically from the seven
minute mark of the fourth quarter on.

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But the biggest difference in this one
is just in Game four, you get

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sixty six points on twenty three of
thirty six shooting from PG and James Harden

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tonight just twenty two points on six
of twenty five from the field. Nearly

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impossible to win a ball game in
a playoff series against a team of this

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caliber when your superstars just having off
nightlights to night no one hundred percent out,

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I mean, your stars have to
be stars. Ty Lu said that

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at practice two days ago. At
this point of the series, there's no

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new schematics, there's no wild cards, there's no plays that are going to

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surprise another team. I mean,
you've been seeing each other now for two

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straight weeks almost so for the Clippers, it just becomes a game of who's

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going to outplay the other team.
Man. The Clippers right now struggling to

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get production from their superstars. You
mentioned it combined six for twenty five,

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twenty two points, a third of
what they gave them in Dallas on the

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road, and it felt like Adam
at times in this game. The Clippers

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were looking towards their superstars, trying
to see guide us, right, where

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are we going? Offensively, what's
the plan on that end? And the

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Clippers couldn't really get it done.
I mean, credit to Paul George and

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James Harden, they've shouldered a lot
of the load this series. They have

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heavy legs underneath them, There's no
doubt about it. I'm sure there's a

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lot of mental wear and tear.
But if the Clippers want to close the

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book on Dallas and beat them for
the third time in the last five seasons,

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those two are going to have to
have special performances in the next two

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nights. Yeah, it's gonna have
to be similar to what they did in

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Game four in Dallas. And you
know, Paul George only taking six shots

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in the first half is what was
most alarming to me. He gets four

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more up in the third quarter,
three more up, but obviously was taken

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out of this ball game early in
the fourth quarter. You just have to

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go out firing. To me,
you gotta put them up because those are

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the guys you do live and die
by. Those are your stars. Either

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they're going to perform out there and
find a rhythm, or else you're just

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not gonna be able to pull through
against Luka Dancic and Kyrie Irving, who

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did have an off night, but
Luca thirty five points twenty six shots to

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get there, and I didn't think
overall Dallas played that great. That's what

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was a little bit alarming from this
one. We talked about it early on,

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but the Clippers didn't look crisp,
they didn't look sharp out there.

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There were a lot of self inflicted
wounds and miscues that got Dallas going and

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got this lopside of victory for the
Dallas Mavericks. It's an excellent point,

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Adham. You talk about being aggressive, When do we ever say Luca didn't

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get enough shots up in this game, he didn't shoot the ball enough.

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I mean, this is a team
for Dallas that continues to shoot the ball

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with their superstars no matter what happens, no matter the game situation. Those

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guys are always firing from outside,
from around the arc, and that's what

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you almost need from James Harden and
Paul George put up twenty shots a game.

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No one will ever complain, No
one will ever matter how many you've

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missed. It's how many you make
at the end of the day. I

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think you're right, those guys have
to be more aggressive in this game.

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You're right. When you look at
his box score and you take away the

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score, you'd say, all right, the Clippers outrebounded Dallas. Possession was

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tied. Clippers forced ten turnovers,
fifteen is too many for them. The

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Clippers minus ten points in the paint, but they outrebounded on the offensive glass.

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There's a lot of pluses that you'd
see in wins, but the score

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itself does not reflect that because of
the three point shooting and because of the

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lack of support from the superstars.
Yeah, nine of thirty five from the

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outside. And when this game really
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we identified it quickly. It was
Maxi Kliba nearly getting his offense unglued.

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He had been efficient, but he
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in this series. And he got
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to knock down in that second quarter, and that's when Dallas started to pull

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away and also offer a different weapon
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have to worry about out there.
The role players for Dallas, everyone not

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Kyrie and Luca Adam had shot twenty
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this series, and then you look
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Kleva too late from Jaden Hardy if
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more from Jerrick Jones Junior, and
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Credit Dallas. Their role players stepped
up today. They did in the

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absence of their superstars. You got
twelve from Lively, you got fifteen from

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Cleva. That's twenty seven off the
bench. Derek Jones Junior gave your twelve

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hit two threes, had three blocks
in this game. Their role players stepped

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up. Their role players won.
Then this game. The Clippers are going

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to need everyone on Friday, especially
their starters, but also their role players.

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I think Norman Palell once again just
one for six from three, Russell

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Westbrook two for eleven off the bench
in this one. Can you get more

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production from those guys in the next
game, That's gonna be the question.

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And then also just taking care of
the basketball. Fifteen turnovers for the Clippers,

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twenty one points off those turnovers for
Dallas. The Clippers have to treat

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the basketball more carefully in this one. They did not have a field goal

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for nearly eight minutes in this game, and it was because they were giving

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it away. Yeah, and their
best will be demanded out of them Friday

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night in Dallas in a must win
situation. As you said, the Clippers

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backs are officially against the wall.
It's a winner, go home ball game

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as they lose to Night Game five
one twenty three to ninety three. Here

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in downtown Los Angeles to the Dallas
Mavericks. Tip time Friday night from American

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Airlines Censor in Dallas is at six
thirty. We'll have your pregame show starting

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at five thirty. Carlo Amenez,
great call as always. We'll do it

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again Friday night, and hopefully it's
not the last time, Adam. We

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got another game. Let's go,
let's go. We'll dig into this box

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score a little bit more. Coming
up, we'll get your phone calls eight

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seven to seven, five two zero, eleven fifty as on the Patriot Am

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eleven to fifty. We'll have Clippers
Talk in just a bit as the Clippers

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fall in Game five. By thirty
in downtown Los Angeles, you'll listen to

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Back to more of the NBA playoffs on

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on the iHeartRadio app. Clippers fall
in decisive fashion in Game five. They

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lose one twenty three to ninety three
at home here at Crypto dot Com Arena

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to the Dallas Mavericks, who hold
a three to two series lead and a

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chance to close out your Los Angeles
Clippers on Friday in Game six, back

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in Dallas. Welcome back into your
Clippers' locker room show. I'm Adam Mosland.

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We will have Carlo jmenez on on
Clippers Talk tonight on the Patriot Am

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eleven fifty. Get on early eight
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as he's hanging out still so we can

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talk about some of this box score
as we just did the last segment.

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But the three point shooting, Carlo
nine of thirty five after you hit well

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twice as many threes as that in
their two victories in Game four and in

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Game one. I'm not saying they're
living and dying by the three, but

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it's been necessary for this team,
especially without Kawhi Leonards, just to generate

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some points, and they hit a
lot of tough three pointers in that game

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four, while missing a lot of
easy three point open looks. Tonight here

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in game five, Yeah, if
you looked at the two wins at him

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and you just looked at the box
shoor each the Clippers have to make eighteen

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threes to win. We know that's
not the case. I mean, you

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were within six in game three,
you struggled to shoot the three ball.

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Clippers were within they were led by
six in game two and they had their

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worst shooting game of the season.
So I think for this Clipper team,

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you have to find ways at him
to not rely on that three ball.

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The fun to get it going inside
that going d Vitcha Zubats early was excellent,

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getting out in transition. They finished
with twelve fast break points. They

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got to pound the paint for this
Clipper team, as Tylu says, get

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to the paint or die trying.
And I don't think the Clippers did enough

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of that. Outscored by ten in
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was the key. In game four, they had twenty points in the paint

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in the four quarter and this one
just forty six on the game. Well,

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and to me what's most surprising is
I Viza Zubats starts off four to

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four with eight points in the first
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of the ball game. I say
it all the time, but it's like

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they forget about zoos. Sometimes he
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you need easy points, that is
an avenue you can take out there.

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But it's been this way for years
now and Aviza Zubats not being aggressive enough.

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He's got to do his part as
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Clippers team in a series like this
without Kawhi Leonard for now three ball games,

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it just makes it really difficult on
yourself to just rely on jump shots

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and over the top jump shooting,
because if guys are having off nights like

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we saw with Paul George and James
Harden, it's hard and that floor gets

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shrunk in a hurry by the Dallas
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their plan. They want to pack
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Clippers take them int r in jumpers
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seen them do that all series long, and today it worked out. They

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ran the Clippers off the line and
they forced them to take tough mid range

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twos and James Harden didn't have the
floaters going early. Dormant palad a couple.

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But if you're the Clippers, physicality
has been an X factor in this

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series. The more physical team has
won the game, and today Dallas six

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blocks to the Clippers zero. They
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long. Yeah, and ever since
Game one when Jason Kidd called out his

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squad for not being as physical in
that opening contest. Here, they've met

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the challenge. They've met the Clippers
when it comes to physicality, and like

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you said, we're much tougher out
there tonight in this one. They win

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one twenty three to ninety three.
In Game five here at Crypto dot Com

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Arena, quick time out, we'll
come back. Still getting ready for Clippers

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Audio Network. Clippers lose one twenty
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in downtown Los Angeles to the Dallas
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two series lead. Clippers are in
a must win situation. They'll be in

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Dallas for Game six on Friday.
Welcome back into your Clippers postgame locker room

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show. I'm Madame OSLM. We
got Carlo Jmenez. He's gonna join us

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for Clippers Talk. Eight seven seven
five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven

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five two zero eleven fifty is the
phone number well. Also here from coach

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Lou post game. An early quote
from him is something we talked about as

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the game was unfolding. He said, quote, had some gambles that really

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cost us early in the game,
got them going. That's what got Maxi

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Kleeba going, and some open ones. A couple of gambles by Russell Westbrook

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defensively just can't happen. One from
Mason Plumley in that second quarter, and

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Dallas was able to outshoot the Clippers
offense, which was just inept in this

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ballgame, even just going fourteen of
thirty nine from the outside just thirty six

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percent, but the Clippers nine of
thirty five from three makes all the difference

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in the world. But Maxi Cleeve
of those four to three pointers in the

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second quarter really opened things up for
them, had the Clippers scrambling defensively,

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and I think it was one of
the keys. And one of the storylines

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in this loss is the Clippers lose
by thirty in Game five outside of Los

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Angeles. We'll talk to you on
Friday in Game six, must win situation

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for the Clippers, tiptime at six
thirty pre game at five thirty outside of

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Los Angeles. We'll talk to you
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were in attack mode. Adam Osley. Well, sometimes during a long regular

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season, you identify certain games,
you circle certain games, you highlight them

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and say this is a must win
ball game. Game six in Dallas will

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literally be a must six or must
win ballgame four Los Angeles Clippers. They

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lose Game five one twenty three,
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games to two in this best of
seven first round series. Welcome into Clippers

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Talk. I'm Adam oslind eight seven
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the phone number coming up you'll hear from

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coach Lou. We'll get to your
phone calls, but first I want to

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get back over to your radio voice
of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez, as

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we continue to unpack a thirty point
loss by the Clippers, where I don't

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want to say they didn't show up, but I do want to say that

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they lacked a certain amount of focus
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Maybe they were tired legs. Maybe
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is starting to catch up with them, especially James Harden, with playing over

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forty minutes a game in the playoffs, but the turnovers, the mental errors

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out there defensively, where you look
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six points, but they're five to
twenty one from the outside, and the

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Clippers only scored forty six. They
gave up some easy buckets. It got

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Dallas's offense unglued, and then the
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tonight. From three. They didn't
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It looked more like we like what
we saw here in Game two of this

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series with Kawhi Leonard, where people
at that time were saying, well it

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maybe he messed up the flow.
Well, Kawhi Lennard was not out there

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tonight, and the Clippers still struggled
offensively to this degree while having too many

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lapses defensively, Carlo one hundred percent
out of them. I mean, in

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this one, the Clippers allowed Dallas
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half. It's just an absurd number
by the Mavericks. Of course, a

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couple of those shots late seven minutes
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I think for this Clippers team,
you gotta find a way when your offense

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isn't working and shots aren't falling,
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end, And that's where they struggled. They went without a field goal for

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ten minutes of game action in this
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struggled with. I mean, two
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they've scored under one hundred points.
Now three in this series that they've

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lost, they scored in a one
hundred. So Clipper's got to figure out

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a rhythm offensively. I don't know
where that comes from. Usually it's been

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from Kawhi Leonard, but the adjustment
without him has been drastic. Some of

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those runs in between quarters where this
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the first quarter they went five minutes, scoring just one point. Obviously

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at the free throw line they got
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two minutes and six seconds eight to
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charity stripe. Third quarter six and
a half minutes, a twenty to four

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run. Those four points, you
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then in the fourth quarter. As
things we're getting inconsequential as turning into garbage

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time and it was getting late early. You could say there was a twelve

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to one run in a six minute
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like tonight. It was on both
ends by this Clippers team. When they

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defended, they couldn't score. When
they scored, they couldn't defend. If

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it wasn't one thing, it was
another. And that's how you see a

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thirty point loss in a playoff game, in a really significant spot where you

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had control of the series, winning
Game four and having a chance to win

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two home games to take it to
take it to the next round. That's

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not the case. Now. They
need some more of that grit and guts

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we saw in Game four to extend
this series and bring it back here for

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Game seven. Carlof and credit this
team, Adam. They've been excellent this

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season. When the pressure is on, you think about nobody's come back down

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from twenty or more. They've been
one of the best road teams of this

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season, the best since December first. They've been one of the better teams

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when they drop by ten or more
points in the first quarter. No team

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has more wins down ten after the
first quarter than the Clippers. So this

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is a team that kind of needs
to feel the heat to really play their

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best basketball. And the heat's on
high right now, and so the question

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is can you do what you've been
doing all season long? And that's when

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you need to perform before. But
that's gonna be the question for the Clippers.

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Yeah, when their backs have been
against the wall, when they lost

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six straight early on James Harden comes
in, they lose five in a row,

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you know, they came out swinging
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and five run. So they have
performed in tough spots before, none tougher

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than when your seasons on the line. In Game six on Friday night,

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let's get to some phone calls.
Eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty

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eight seven seven five to zero eleven
fifty is the phone number after the Clippers

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lose one twenty three to ninety three
in Game five. Here at Crypto dot

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Com, Arena Hoabier and Lahabra Heights
start things off here on Clippers Talk.

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You got Adam Oslin, your radio
voice of the Clippers, and Carlojmenez on

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what's up Aavier? Hey, Carlo
by doing Adam so Bavier good good Good.

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I was talking to Katie when it
called it, she said, Javier,

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save your rants for later. They
still out the game on Friday,

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so I'm gonna save my rant till
to that day comes. But like you

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said, Carlo, I mean,
you know day they throw on situations like

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this. So they got another game
on Friday. I mean, they're still

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alive. So the only thing I
do know is just like this is,

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like you said, Adam, just
a game five, important game, and

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I just I think you lose by
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lose by a couple of points,
you know here and there, but thirty

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points at home. I mean,
I just like you said, they're not

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prepared. Was it the players are
tired? Yeah, they're older team,

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we know that, But is it
coaching? I mean, I just you

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cannot lose by thirty when the game
that you don't have to win. But

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like you said, Adam, it
would have been nice to don't won the

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game. It was just one two
more another game at home, game seven,

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that would have been it. But
you cannot lose by thirty. I

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mean that's that's just that's I don't
know, that's it, guys. I'll

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just thought you guys on Friday.
All the good news is it doesn't count

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for two losses, even though they
lost by thirty. Adam, I don't

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think you can lose a series down
three, too, right, you gotta

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lose four games. So coach lou
didn't say that as well postgame. It

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takes four to win a series.
So and he knows. Look, things

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got away from them in that third
quarter. After being down ten at the

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half, they get down twenty.
They lose the third quarter thirty three to

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twenty three. And they had I
want to say, three turnovers in the

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first three minutes or four turnovers in
the first four minutes of that third quarter,

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and when you had to be at
your best, when you had to

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turn things back in your favor.
Already down double digits, the Clippers,

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if anything, uh just got worse
with some of those miscues out there,

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one hundred percent. I mean,
you look at what Dallas started that quarter

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and half equally as poorly than the
Clippers did. There. At one point,

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we had six total points and six
total turnovers between the two teams.

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The door was open and the Clippers
just unable to step through it. That's

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I think that's what's encouraging about this
game is this. I don't think there's

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anything in you know, I'm not
a coach, I'm not in the locker

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room. But when you look at
the box score, outside of Kleba knocking

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down threes, there's not much irregularity
on the Dallas side. Right. So

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for the Clippers, you got to
get a hand out to Maxical Liba and

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your stars got to be stars.
And in this game, your stars weren't

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stars, and maxically but killed you. Yeah. To me, that's where

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things got away from them. That
was their downfall that second quarter with Maxi

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Klee but getting wide open three pointers. Michael in Alhambra, you're on Clippers

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stop with out of Maslin and Carlo
Jimenez Hi, Michael oh in Alabama,

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Rode roll tied. I wish I
could save for go Clippers. Right now,

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I will say this, I'm like
our last caller. I'm gonna be

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a little bit more ramful, just
on a respectful note. I've been a

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PG supporter for god knows how long
I've been a supporter for him. He's

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been doing in Indiana, but right
now and the way he's been looking for

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the past couple of seasons, he's
just too inconsistent to really carry this team.

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And I know if Kawhia it's especially
difficult. But look, you're a

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superstar. You want superstar money,
you want the back contract, you gotta

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play like it every single game.
And I know that we give a lot

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of heck for James Harden, but
I mean at the same time, look,

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look, PG is broad there to
be that guy still and he has

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never accepted that role. So as
much as it kills me to say this,

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I'm going to just flat out say
I think we need to go ahead

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and just drop drop it, like, bring bring back Kawhi for sure,

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and Harden. Yes, I love
Hardon, but my gosh, oh me,

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oh my? Was has he been
inconsistent this season? Well, it's

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fair to say he's been an inconsistent
star in this league. He's a rhythm

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shooter. He goes through cold streaks, he goes through hot streaks. I

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would make the point that he led
them to the Western Conference Finals in twenty

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twenty one when Kawhi Leonard went down
at the end of Game four against the

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Utah Jazz. He has put the
team on his back at times, but

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James Harden was brought here to support
two one, three, and right now

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they're missing the two and PG thirteen
you can say in game three and now

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in Game five, just hasn't been
good enough overall, Carlo No no,

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I mean, outside of one good
half, it really his last three games

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for Paul George had been a little
bit of a struggle. Did have an

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amazing shot in Game four, no
doubt about it, but just seven points

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in that second half, seven points
to night seven points in Game three.

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So Paul George just has to be
aggressive. I mean, at the end

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of the day, he's got to
get twenty shots up. We talked about

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it with Tyler after Game one when
there were Game two when James Harden had

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shot eleven threes in Game one and
ten threes in Game two, and he

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said he wants Paul George and James
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He wants them to get up twenty
shots a game, and today just

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not aggressive enough from those two guys. It's a weird issue because they probably

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feel like they're adam the rhythm.
They gotta affect the games in other ways,

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but they need to score the basketball
for this team to be successful.

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Sixty six combined points in Game four. That's why you win the ballgame.

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We'll see if they are more aggressive
with their backs against the wall in game

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six. Yeah. I mean,
we know what a great playmaker James Harden

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is, we know what a great
defender Paul George is. But they have

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to have a score first mentality right
now. Without Kawhi Leonard, it starts

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there. Clippers lose tonight one twenty
three to ninety three in Game five here

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at Crypto dot com arena, we
will take a quick time out Carlo Jimenez.

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Thanks for joining me once again here
on Clippers Stop, my friend.

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We'll talk to you in Dallas for
Game six on Friday, Yes, sir,

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coming up next. More of your
phone calls eight seven seven five two

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zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five
to zero eleven fifty as the Clippers run

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in a must win situation down three
games to two in this best of seven

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first round series against the Mavericks.
And listen too the Patriot AM eleven fifty,

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the Mavericks and the Clippers. This
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you go on the iHeartRadio app Big Once

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twenty three ninety three to the Dallas
Mavericks. I'm Adam Oslin, welcome back

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into Clippers Talk. It was cool
to have your radio voice of the Clippers.

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Carlo Jimenez joined me for that first
segment. Eight seven seven five to

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zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five
to zero eleven fifty is the phone number.

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Let's go to Nate in Patterson.
Nate, what's up? And he'd

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gone to this Clippers team lost a
game where I just didn't think the Dallas

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Mavericks even executed that well. And
that's what's disheartening tonight. I don't think

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the Dallas Mavericks by any means we're
at their best. Luca still went to

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eight from three, he had thirty
five. He had a step back over

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each a zoobots for a couple of
them. But it was a game where

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if the Clippers just come out with
the right mindset and just don't look so

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disorganized on the defensive end, especially
in the first half. But laboring the

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point, but those maxi Kliba threes
to me were as consequential as anything.

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It just didn't look like they had
they were in the right mental headspace in

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a game five like this, in
a situation where you win Game four,

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and I don't know if there was
an emotional letdown coming off of that,

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but my goodness, the game plan. I'm not putting it on that.

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I'm putting it on guys being out
of position defensively and Paul George taking six

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shots in the first half. I
don't care if you only have seven points

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in the first half. The issue
to me is only putting up six shots,

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put up ten, go out shoot
and go out firing. You have

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to well, we have a moment. Let's pause ten seconds for station identification.

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Here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. This is LA Clippers Basketball AM

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eleven fifty k EV Los Angeles and
iHeartRadio station. James Harden takes twelve shots

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total, Paul George thirteen. They
combined to hit six After those two each

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had thirty three points in Game four. The role players, I thought Terrence

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Man was really good. He inter
beats the Zubats were really good in the

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first half, but the game got
away from him. I was perplexed by

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the fact that to start the third
quarter they seemed intent on getting a mere

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coffee going. He had three shots
in the first three minutes of the third.

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Like, if we can just get
a mere Coffee going, he can

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be a source of offense. He
can help supply or supplement some of the

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lack of scoring out there. A
mere Coffee has fifteen points total in this

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series. He was one of six. He had was say three or four

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shots that rattled in and out.
He was frustrated. Norman Powell one of

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six from three. I like the
fact that he eventually just started to go

404
00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:48.359
to the basket. Missed a couple
of three pointers early crossed up a Dallas

405
00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:55.039
Maverick probably got too excited, launched
one, missed badly, and his shot

406
00:28:55.119 --> 00:28:57.720
kind of looked off from there.
It still didn't deter him from getting downhill

407
00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:03.920
and attacking. But five or twelve, fourteen points. No one scored more

408
00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:07.200
than fifteen points on the ballgame for
the Clippers. Can't win like that against

409
00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:17.519
Dallas. So again, I thought
had their C plus game at best.

410
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:26.400
But the Clippers were just woefull out
there, pitiful performance in a huge game.

411
00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:32.599
I think we have to be honest
about that. I'm not saying it

412
00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:37.000
was for a lack of effort,
just the execution wasn't there, not good

413
00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:41.000
enough even without Kawhi Leonard. I
mean, Luka Doncers is hurting right now.

414
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:49.119
You can tell apparently he's had an
illness, but that sprain left knee,

415
00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:55.119
make it, I believe right knee. It's noticeable. And I just

416
00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:57.920
don't know if the game plan discipline
was there to attack him to get it

417
00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:03.880
him. But things tend to fall
apart when you're two stars have shooting nights

418
00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:12.480
like this where they don't even want
to put up shots. That's that's what

419
00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:19.200
gets to me a little bit.
That's what's unacceptable. You have to take

420
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:26.599
more than thirteen shots if you're Paul
George in a game without Kawhi Leonard period,

421
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:30.440
and he's had two stinkers. Game
three, score just seven points.

422
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:34.880
He was in foul trouble in that
one, not tonight. So all around,

423
00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:41.759
just brutal, brutal performance from your
Los Angeles Clippers and their seasons on

424
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:45.720
the line. In game six,
we'll talk about that. We'll get back

425
00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:48.480
to your phone calls. Eight seven
seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven

426
00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:52.119
seven five to two zero eleven fifty
is the phone number we'll also hear from

427
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:57.680
coach lou coming up next here on
clipperstock on the Patriot AMLM fifty fat to

428
00:30:57.759 --> 00:31:04.160
more of the NBA on the LA
Clippers Audio Network. Clippers Mavericks continues now

429
00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:08.519
stream us anywhere you go on the
iHeartRadio app. It was once twenty three

430
00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:17.920
to ninety three at home to the
Dallas Mavericks in Game five. They lose

431
00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:22.799
by thirty during a must win situation. Game six is coming up Friday in

432
00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:26.240
Dallas, Tip time six thirty.
We'll have your pregame show starting at five

433
00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:33.759
point thirty. You know, people, well not people. Rough stands have

434
00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:37.319
gone after me a lot this season. Whenever I criticized Russ the same way

435
00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.160
I would criticize anyone else when he
has a bad game or when they have

436
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:44.480
a bad game for some reason.
Russ is untouchable and you can't talk about

437
00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:52.359
him. He is six for his
last thirty five shots, six for thirty

438
00:31:52.359 --> 00:32:00.400
five. It's incomprehensible. Since Game
two, he's had seven fouls, six

439
00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:08.039
turnovers, and six made shots while
shooting seventeen percent from the field. I

440
00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:14.519
thought we might see bones Island.
I thought we might see him. I

441
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:19.680
know we did once the game was
over. But if Russ isn't given the

442
00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:23.079
effort defensively, And this is why
I always say everybody wants to talk about

443
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:30.319
energy. I'm here for the execution. That's what's most important. And I

444
00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:34.240
thought when he came in that second
quarter stint with him and Mason Plumley,

445
00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:40.200
well they got all scored thirty one
to twenty two. Defensively, Russ Gambling

446
00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:46.680
tried to go for maybe a highlight
steal in jam. I understand he's home.

447
00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:50.559
He wants to get the crowd into
it. He's been getting into it

448
00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:55.119
with the Dallas Mavericks crowd, got
caught up emotionally in this series, got

449
00:32:55.119 --> 00:33:02.440
ejected from Game three. He's completely
playing outside of himself. The bad John

450
00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:08.440
Berry took at the end of the
first quarter, you end up taking three

451
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:19.759
three pointers oh three, probably missed
four layups. I don't know. I

452
00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:23.359
don't know how you make up for
that. If he's gonna be this important

453
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:30.160
of a player on this team and
he's playing this poorly, that can torpedo

454
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:37.160
you. I love Russ. I
was really hopeful in the second half that

455
00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:43.559
he could be the guy to be
a spark. It never happened. I

456
00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:46.720
don't know what's gonna happen in Game
six. If he's gonna be on a

457
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:51.480
much shorter leash to coach lose credit. He only played fifteen minutes, but

458
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:57.079
it's all hands on deck, and
you have a guy that over the last

459
00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:04.160
four games now has just been unbelievably
willful with this shooting percentage six for his

460
00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:08.599
last thirty five from the field.
Someone on Twitter got to me and said,

461
00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:10.880
well, you want to take Russe
out, Well, then I guess

462
00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:15.039
you got to take Paul George and
James Harden now too, because they're shooting

463
00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:17.639
poorly. Let me explain the difference. You have to live and die with

464
00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:22.079
those guys. They're either going to
turn it around or you're going to lose.

465
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:28.000
I don't think you have to live
and die with Russell Westbrook. He's

466
00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:32.920
a backup coming off the bench.
That's the role he's in, all right.

467
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:37.800
Let's hear from coach lou postgame after
the Clippers lose one twenty three to

468
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:43.760
ninety three. Here in game five, coaches, tonight's game an example of

469
00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:46.840
anything that could go wrong did go
wrong for you and your team. Yeah,

470
00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:51.119
we just didn't play well, get
all around, defensively, offensively,

471
00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:54.719
we just didn't play a good game, you know, And so's okay,

472
00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:57.480
you know, turn a page.
Like I said, you still got to

473
00:34:57.480 --> 00:35:00.559
win four games, and we know
we can win on their floor. We've

474
00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:04.000
shown that the past two playoff series. We was down three to the first

475
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:06.599
time we played them. So you
know, we didn't play our best game

476
00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:08.679
and we understand that. I think
we all understand that collectively, and so

477
00:35:08.760 --> 00:35:13.400
we'll be better for Game six ty. On that note, what do you

478
00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:16.000
think attributed to all those things aren't
going your well, I don't know,

479
00:35:16.599 --> 00:35:21.760
you know, not making shots,
not defending, had some gambles that really

480
00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:23.800
cost us early in the game.
They kind of got them going. It

481
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:27.199
was a two point game here and
there, and you know, we had

482
00:35:27.239 --> 00:35:30.480
three gambles gave up eight points,
you know, so that kind of got

483
00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:34.639
them going, especially with Maxi cleeveand
making those two threes on some gambles.

484
00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:37.480
But like I said, overall,
we just you know, we wasn't good

485
00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:40.639
on both sides of the basketball and
we just had a bad game. And

486
00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:45.480
give them credit, they played well
as well. How much did their defense

487
00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:49.599
concentrate on James and PG kind of
take them out what they were doing a

488
00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:51.840
lot, you know, they've been
doing it for the series. You know,

489
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:54.079
so we understand the space that we
need to get to. We understand

490
00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:57.800
how we need to play. I
thought we got into our stuff a little

491
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:00.840
too slow at times, and then
we just didn't attack the right way,

492
00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:04.480
you know, So we gotta be
better for Game six, in which we

493
00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:07.679
will be ty Sometimes it's a make
or miss league. You missed twenty six

494
00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:13.480
to three pointers? Is that an
off night? Were they doing something defensively

495
00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:15.320
to you, guys? I mean
we didn't shoot the ball well, Well,

496
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:17.800
we didn't play well either, so
it kind of goes hand in hand.

497
00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:21.519
You know, we didn't do the
right things. We didn't play the

498
00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:24.400
right style of basketball like we did
in Dallas, and so we understand that

499
00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:29.519
and we just got to be better. Hey, ty guys obviously over here,

500
00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:32.599
guys obviously have to have a very
short memory after this game. What's

501
00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:37.039
your message to them tonight to ensure
that that happens going into Game six?

502
00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:42.440
I don't have a message, Tye. A hardened was so good in this

503
00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:46.280
series up till tonight. What do
you talk tonight up to? Being human?

504
00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:50.280
You know, he's allowed to have
a bad game. You know,

505
00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:52.960
we did shoot the ball well.
They try to get up and pressure them

506
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:55.400
a little bit, which we didn't
handle like we have in the first four

507
00:36:55.440 --> 00:37:00.280
games, and so he just you
know, he can play bad. You

508
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:04.400
know, it's possible, you know, So he didn't play well. You

509
00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:07.239
know, so I got to do
a better job getting in better situations and

510
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:12.440
then get ready for Game six,
which I know he'll be better over the

511
00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:15.199
course of the game. Obviously,
the misshots. You've said before, when

512
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:17.960
guys miss shots, you need them
to stay locked and not get frustrated,

513
00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:22.119
not drop the hedge because the defense
will allow you to eventually come back.

514
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:24.679
Seemed like that really wasn't the case. The defense got worse his game went

515
00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:29.440
on, Like what did you observe
from that perspective and how can that be

516
00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:32.639
better? Just wasn't connected at times, you know, we wasn't connected on

517
00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:36.239
the defensive end, and even to
start the game, like I said,

518
00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:38.519
we have some gambles that cost us, but we just wasn't connected defensively,

519
00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:40.840
and so you know, we got
to be better in that reguard, especially

520
00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:44.880
against you know, a dynamic offensive
team like this, and we got to

521
00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:50.440
be better. TD. What do
you see with Russ and his struggles offensively?

522
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:54.000
You know, us not be able
to get stops and let him get

523
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:59.039
out in transition and attack early in
transition, you know, really hurts us.

524
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:01.920
And so, you know, but
he's been good. Just keep attacking

525
00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:05.840
the basket, keep making the right
play, and I got to do a

526
00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:07.960
better job of getting in better situations. But if we're not getting stops when

527
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:09.800
he's on the floor, then it's
hard for him to be who he is.

528
00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:15.119
See, just just to follow up, I know, obviously you lost

529
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:17.599
the game, and then there's the
points and everything, but Luke and Kyrie,

530
00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:22.880
especially Kyrie not being able to get
going from the three point line specifically,

531
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:28.280
Like, is there some level of
just an accomplishment from the game plan

532
00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:30.599
perspective just being able to limit them. Yeah, I think, you know,

533
00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:34.280
getting back and just try to keep
Kyrie out of transition. You know,

534
00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:37.440
I think our half court defense against
him has been pretty good, you

535
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.760
know, so you know, the
way he's been playing, you know,

536
00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:45.280
he's been playing lights out. So
we was looking for one of these games

537
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:46.480
to happen, but we didn't,
you know, like I said, Cleveland

538
00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:51.199
having fifteen points off the bench,
five for seven from three, and then

539
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:52.440
we knew, you know, at
some point Luke was gonna have a you

540
00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:55.400
know, a Luca game, you
know. So, like I said,

541
00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:59.280
we're not gonna hang our heads.
You know, you got to win four

542
00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:02.519
games. We go to Dallas game
six on Friday, and we'll be ready

543
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:10.239
to go. Ti Cuman. You
mentioned every game in the playoffs thereas obviously

544
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:15.000
it's on chapter. Is there any
carry over, any emotional letdown from a

545
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.440
win like the other night? No, every game is different, you know,

546
00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:20.920
in the playoffs matter if you win
by one of you win by fifty,

547
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:24.280
it's a win. And so you
know, no letdowns. I mean,

548
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:27.440
you know, we know we can
play better. We didn't play well

549
00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:29.840
at all, you know, and
so some things we got to correct.

550
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.440
And then getting ready for Friday,
Toy, how do you mentally get them

551
00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:37.480
over a night like this going into
Friday, like mentally to get over this

552
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:40.840
hurdle, this type of long mentally
knowing that we lose game six, our

553
00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:45.519
season's over. So if you're a
competitor and you know what the playoffs are

554
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:52.440
all about, then you'd be ready
to go on Friday. Coach Lou post

555
00:39:52.440 --> 00:40:00.480
game there brought up something we have
been harping on stressing the importance of because

556
00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:04.119
it's when the game started to get
away from them. Maxi Kleiba gets in

557
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:07.719
the game at the nine to forty
two mark of the second quarter. It's

558
00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:15.920
twenty nine, twenty seven. The
Clippers are down by two. Russ gambles

559
00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:22.679
Maxi three, another Maxi three as
I believe it was Mason Plumley gambling,

560
00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:25.639
another Maxi three, as I believe
it was Russell Westbrook gambling again, and

561
00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:30.960
they're down forty one to thirty three, and they eventually get down by ten

562
00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:40.719
in the first half. And that
type of game plan that those type of

563
00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:45.239
miscues assignment wise, that's on the
players, like you can just play them

564
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:51.079
straight up, stay on your man, stop trying to go for steals.

565
00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:57.559
Because Maxi Kliba was just getting Wide
Open three after Wide Open three, and

566
00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:02.000
we wondered what role player could really
swing this series. I think it's fair

567
00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:08.000
to say right now it's Maxi Kleba. Clippers lose Game five one twenty three

568
00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:14.440
to ninety three. Here at Crypto
dot Com Arena coming up all preview.

569
00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:19.639
Game six will close things out with
big Brother Jake Warner. I'm Gonta Maslin

570
00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:24.000
live from Crypto dot Com Arena.
After the Clippers drop this once tonight they're

571
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:30.679
down three games to two. It's
a must win Game six coming up Friday

572
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:34.679
in Dallas. As coach LUs said, if you're a competitor, what more

573
00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:38.079
do you know? You gotta get
up with that game or Clippers stuck.

574
00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:45.320
Here on the Patriot amblen fifteen streaming
Clippers basketball the first round of the NBA

575
00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:51.199
Playoffs continue. Sack to more NBA
playoff basketball right here on the La Clippers

576
00:41:51.239 --> 00:41:54.840
Audio Network was rolling back to Dallas
for Game six, must win situation.

577
00:41:55.239 --> 00:41:59.920
They are down three games to two
after they lose by thirty in Game five

578
00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:04.159
here at Crypto dot Com Arena.
Heard from coach Lou in our last segment

579
00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:07.480
here on Clipper Stock on the Patriot
AM eleven fifty, talk about, rightfully

580
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:13.440
so, how they weren't good on
either side of the basketball offensively defensively.

581
00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:17.639
I don't know how you have this
much of a letdown coming back home after

582
00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:28.000
a wild, a gritty, a
resilient Game four victory where yeah, they

583
00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:30.920
let go of the rope some they
were up thirty one, but they made

584
00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:36.760
all the big shots down the stretch
to pull it out. Anyways, a

585
00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:39.920
team that they were up thirty one
on in Dallas in Game four, just

586
00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:45.760
beat them by thirty back their place. How does that happen? And now

587
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:51.679
the season's on the line, Well, it starts with your stars just not

588
00:42:51.800 --> 00:42:57.920
showing up. I hear what coach
Lou's saying about James Harden. This was

589
00:42:57.960 --> 00:43:05.800
his first bad game of this He
had been averaging twenty six on extreme efficiency.

590
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:10.000
Coming into this game. He had
been their best player easily. I

591
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:17.840
think their second best player in this
series has been a Beata Zubats. You

592
00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:23.719
wouldn't know it, or you'd at
least expect it to be Paul George.

593
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:31.800
But in between the Game four brilliance
and a great half, he had seven

594
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:37.960
points in Game three and fifteen points
tonight in thirty two minutes where he took

595
00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:44.760
just thirteen shots beats. The Zubats
has been consistent. When they get him

596
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:50.840
the basketball, good things happen.
The problem is getting there and guys realizing

597
00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:53.760
they should play through him more.
I was just on during the break,

598
00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:58.400
I've been jumping in back and forth
on clips and Dip. There's a live

599
00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:02.679
going on which Monckler will Updyke and
Joseph raah Ward, and I said,

600
00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:06.000
you know, one of the failures. I think of the two one three

601
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:14.639
era has been not getting a beatsa
zubots involved enough. I say it all

602
00:44:14.679 --> 00:44:19.199
the time, but there is another
path to victory. He is a very

603
00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:22.039
skilled player, and it almost looks
like sometimes he just gets iced out.

604
00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:30.159
They just completely forget about him.
And it's not just sometimes, it's the

605
00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:36.920
majority of the time. He's too
good to not be more of a focal

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point offensively with everything he does for
you defensively, a top three room protector

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in this league pretty much since he
got here when he was playing with the

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Lakers. Two. We'll see what
happens in Game six. Tubber's guys show

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some heart, some great, some
toughness, because it's not just this season

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being on the line, but the
two win three era. Before we get

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out of here, I do want
to bring bring in Big Brother Jake Warner

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Big Bro the Fake Philosopher Big Brother
Jake Podcast on the Podcast one network.

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Sir, you better have something good
tonight when it comes to life. Never

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outline your life and pen always outline
it in pencil. All right, Coach

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Lou, he's gonna be switching things
up. Maybe we'll see PJ. Tucker

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more in game six. Maybe Bones
Highland, who knows. There's nothing set

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in stone right now with rotations with
this team. After this performance, nothing

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is Thank you Big broer head engineer. Thanks to Big Bro. Thanks to

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the Clippers organization, Ralph Lalla,
Bryan Seeman, know it you go,

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Carlo and Menz on the call.
The callers and listeners will talk to you.

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At five thirty on Friday. Clippers
in Dallas and he must win Game

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six situation. White was doing his
thing. All they want to do is

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win in La way. I thought
they gave everything they had. I'm proud

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of This has been Clippers Talk,
the official post gamery action of the La

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Clippers. God bless Paul George.
Are you not? It's a change.

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Don't miss an episode all season law
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Well the show I got you on
the iHeart Radio. You guys are

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great. Thank you for joining us
for another exciting broadcast of LA Clippers basketball