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fall once again, this time one thirty three to one sixteen to the Indiana
Pacers here at Crypto dot Com Arena, where the Clippers got blown out in
another fourth quarter where they just looked goa went into the fourth quarter trailing by
just eight when they were down by sixteen less than two minutes into it.
Welcome into your Clippers postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin coming up on the Patriot
Am eleven fifty. We will have Clippers stock for you. Eight sixty six
make it eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five twos
year eleven fifty is the phone number. Right now. We are rejoined by
your radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Well we keep saying it,
Carlo, We hope this is rock bottom. We hope this is the
worst of it, but there's eleven games left in the season right now,
and it just looks like a Clippers team early on a fourth quarters that isn't
mentally tough enough to hang in there once they get down and fight back.
Yeah. I mean, you're on the second game of a back to back,
but so is Indiana, right, so both teams are playing with tired
legs. It felt like Adam the Clippers just struggled to start fast in all
three fattists of this Bowl game. The beginning of the game, Indiana goes
on the lead, then the Clippers climb back. They take an eight point
advantage. Indiana starts the second quarter strong. In the fourth quarter on an
eight to zero run, the Clippers starting quarters have been tough. I know
you're trying to preserve legs come playoff time, and know it feels like the
only thing set in stone right now when the Western Conference is playing New Orleans.
But the Clippers have to figure out a way to play a little bit
more consistency come before the end of this one. Again, You're not winning
an NBA championship in March. You have to play right. Comes to April,
and you hope this feel out period right now gives you an opportunity to
figure out what you need to do well, what you need to work on.
But when it feels like at them at times, the Clippers are kind
of hitting their head against the wall, making the same mistakes and new ones
are emerging at the same time. I'm not sure how you fix this,
but the Clippers have an opportunities next eleven games to figure it out before it's
too little, too late. Look, we know the guys care. We
saw early on in this ball game. I think this was late in the
first half or early third quarter Kawhi Leonard get into it with the Vitza Zubos
on a miscoverage defensively or Kawhi had to help out and get the block,
and he immediately said something to a Viza Zubos. These guys want to fix
this. Yep, there's obvious frustration out there. The problem is there's talking
about it and then there's doing it. And that is something coach lou has
stressed over the last week. And that sense of urgency simply has to kick
in. With eleven games left, where the Clippers are free falling down the
standings to the point where they can find themselves in the play in, which
would seem unfathomable if we go back just a month ago, given they were
in a position to possibly be the first Clippers team ever to have a number
one seed. That's not happening. A top three seed is really out of
reach at this point, and they're just trying to hold on to the four
spot where they're currently tied I believe with the Pelicans, who have the tiebreaker
over them. So this is concerning. This is def con one. We're
not gonna sugarcoat this, but we do know the message has been there from
coach Lou, and that is what's been interesting the last couple of weeks,
last couple of months. This Clippers team, for whatever reason, they're not
receiving it and it's not playing out on the court right now. Listen,
you talked about a pregame and it might come down as I think we see
a lineup change next couple of games at some point, like because ty Lou
understands he's you're talking talking about adjustments. This is a coach who made an
adjustment to win three to one down to Golden State in the finals, something
no other team has done. He understands it. Sometimes in the season you
have to make brass decisions. I think the question becomes for him, Adam,
do at one point if you know you're locked into the four or five
matchup, or do you want to show your hand? Do you want to
make that adjustment? Now feels like the Clippers kind of have to because the
pressure is coming. You look at the rest of the standings. Phoenix sits
at eight, you play them two more times, You play Sacramento once,
who sits back of you at six. The Clippers have to figure out a
way to turn this turn this around. The Rockets are surging right now.
They're probably not gonna catch the Clippers, but that could be a first round
matchup if the Clippers fall one more spot. At some point, the Clippers
have to make a brash decision. They have to to do something out of
the box. And I think that's coming right now because they got to iron
out some of these issues before April fourteenth comes. Yeah, I don't think
they have the luxury being able to hold stuff back till the first round playoff
series because they may not have one. They may be in a play in
situation, which will really be worst case scenario for a team that has looked
tired at times. You were expecting to get that week off as the playing
games are going on before the start of the first round. But things are
too close on the standings right now. Sacramento's right behind them, Dallas is
right behind them, The Phoenix Suns are right behind them. Every team in
the Western Conference outside the Golden State Warriors are playing better than the Clippers over
the last ten games. Clippers are four and six over the last ten.
Every other team outside the Golden State Warriors tied with them in that area also
four and six. Their last ten has been better than the Clippers. It's
really the wrong time for a tailspin like this, but we're hoping the wake
up call comes. That's all we can hope for right now, because this
Clippers team looks night and day different than what we saw a month ago and
certainly two months ago. Here, Carlo, Yeah, and I think I
really appreciate you pointing out the play where Leonard's pointing at Zubots, where Zubots
later in the game had a conversation with George, like there's care out there.
This isn't an apathetic team that doesn't want to figure it out. I
think for a while they were hanging on to the confidence of knowing they could
turn it on. But clearly they feel the pressure, they feel the heat.
They understand that they've been a sub five hundred team the last twenty two
games. So for the Clippers, how can you turn it around? You
did it when you lost six in a row. This is worse maybe than
that six in row. I mean, you haven't lost six in a row.
But the Clippers don't look like the same team they were the standard that
they set. Can you iron out some of these kings? Can you?
Can you figure out ways to do what ty Lou is asking for? And
how does he get that message across to them? Like Ty said, Adham,
they're practicing more. I mean they're coming back from road trips, they're
having practices, they're having walked throughs, they're watching a lot of film.
Ty said, they're watching more film. Clearly that's not getting to their head.
So what out of the box way are you gonna get the message across
us? I am intrigued these final eleven games because you've got to imagine,
Adam, something is going to change with how this team is operating, right
now, No, I think you're right. Desperate times call for desperate measures,
and coach Lou said a few losses ago after the Atlanta game that he
may have to do something different. That was over a week ago. Now
if guys aren't responding to this form of coaching, so I'm with you.
I think we're going to see some more drastic changes down the stretch, which
you would not expect. With eleven games left, some lineup shuffling possibly,
whether it's the starting lineup, bench rotations. I don't know at this point
as we were scrambling here to find answers with what's going on with this Clippers
team. We'll talk about it moving forward. We do have Clippers stock coming
up on the Patriot AM eleven fifty eight seven seven five to two zero eleven
fifty eight seven seven five to two zero eleven fifty is the phone number.
Maybe something in their favor unexpectedly. It's counterintuitive, but maybe this team going
out for the next four on the road can help them band together here Carlo
and find themselves twenty two and twelve at home, twenty two and fourteen on
the road. Don't love that home record right now. Clippers fault tonight one
thirty three to one sixteen to the Indiana Pacers. Carlo, we'll talk to
you on Wednesday with the Clippers in Philadelphia, taken on the seventy six Ers.
Tiptime is at four thirty. We'll have pregame at three thirty. Save
travels, great calts tonight as well. Thank you, Adam. Can't win
a championship now, Clippers got ten games to figure it out. Let's go.
Clippers trying to look for answers. We'll see if we have any.
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eleven fifty. Just another listless start to a fourth quarter, which is really
where this game fell apart. There were some moments the end of the third
two where the Clippers had it closer, a little bit of momentum, and
they gave them some shots to Pascal Siakam. But you get down sixteen at
are minus eight in the first minute and forty six seconds of the fourth quarter,
that's game. It can't happen. You can't allow them to double the
lead in less than two minutes to start off the fourth. And look,
I thought there were some issues there. We'll talk about it on the Patriot
AMLM fifty with Clippers talk. But I was surprised to see three non shooters
on the floor and no Kawhi and no Paul George to start that fourth quarter
zoobots, Russ and PJ. Tucker basically through not shooters. Right now,
well, we have a moment. Let's pause ten seconds for station identification here
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sixteen to an Indiana Pacers team that shot seventeen of twenty eight from three,
and it was better in that throughout most of the game. Actually, that's
sixty one percent. They have been shooting thirty five percent from three their last
ten games. Tyrese Haliburton over his last fifteen was at twenty two percent from
the outside. He goes six of nine from three. Clippers finding new ways
to lose. But I'd say this has been a trend too. Teams have
been shooting much better against them over the last month or so. Clippers are
ten and twelve since the Grammy road trip. When everything seems to be turning
on its head. And this team is finding a new rock bottom each week
in every ball game. It seems like unless they're taken on the Portland trail
Blazers, and that good will they built up there is gone. Right now.
You lose this back to back at home, you're now in the five
spot in the West. You don't have home court in the first round.
You're flirting with disaster of falling all the way into the plan. Unbelievable.
Welcome back into your postgame locker room show. I'm out of Moslin. After
the Clippers let go of it early in the fourth quarter, just didn't seem
mentally tough enough to withstand being down eight, then they're down sixteen, when
they're down by as many as twenty three, the game's over. The same
thing happened yesterday in the fourth quarter the game they were down five in they
were down by nineteen about three minutes later. The Clippers are just imploding at
the moment in free falling. We'll talk about it next on the Patriot AM
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Adam Oslin. Welcome in to the Patriot AM eleven fifty. When the Dodgers
are on AM five to seventy. This is where we will be. Eight
seven seven five to two zero eleven fifty. Eight seven seven, five to
two zero eleven fifty is the phone number after the Clippers collapse in another fourth
quarter where they just were doa complete implosion. Seen it far too many times
over the last two months. They are now in the five spot in the
West. The Pelicans had the tiebreaker on them, and the Clippers are flirting
with disaster of falling into the plan. I hope Morris is online, who
just yesterday was saying, Hey, you guys are acting like we're a playing
team or something like that. Well, you might get your wish or be
careful what you wish for. It may happen. That's how dire things are
right now for the Clippers. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic. I'm not
trying to hype this up for ratings. I love this team, I love
Clipper Nation. I want them to succeed, and it is hard to watch
what we've been seeing over the last couple of months. You go from winning
twenty six of thirty one ball games to now being ten and twelve in their
last twenty two post. It's a Grammy broad trip where they I guess it
peaked, went six and one. What happened? I keep asking this question.
It's starting to lead to a lot of speculation with this team. I
see it everywhere on Twitter, I hear it on phone calls. I've thrown
out the theory that the reason they're so inconsistent with their effort is because for
so long they had gotten away with it. They could be down big,
they'd come back, they'd flip a switch, they'd turn it on. So
it developed a bad habit of being off for possessions, for quarters, for
games where they just don't bring it consistently enough, not for forty eight minutes
at least. There's one theory. Some people have attached themselves to it.
Their greatest strength, their resilient nature, more twenty point comebacks than any other
team, has now led to their biggest weakness because they think they can pick
and choose when they want to try hard and adhere to coaching. I don't
know what else coach lou was supposed to do. Now I'll have a slight
criticism. Maybe it's not a slight one, but the message is clear,
take care of the basketball, rebound, get back on defense, and stop
giving up so many open, wide, open easy layups. When it comes
to transition points, it continues to happen. A lot of people told me
Russ is coming back, that'll fix all this. I said, Uh,
the issues are a little bit bigger than just one player at this point.
Love what Russ brought tonight. No one guy's gonna save this team. It's
whack them with the amount of problems you're seeing out there. You fix one
another starts, you get a stop. You can't score, you score,
you can't get a stop. They only had ten turnovers tonight. I'll give
them that. They shot fifty four percent from the field. There was six
of twenty from the outside. Twenty is a very low number of takes from
three for them, and that's shooting thirty percent. You want to know what
the Indiana Pacers shot. This is disgusting. Ear must for the kids.
Seventeen of twenty eight from three. That is sixty one percent from three.
They shot better from three than from two. It's near impossible to win a
game with a team that hot, I said, going into the fourth quarter,
it's somewhat impressive they're only down eight. But here's where the game got
away. From them and has been maybe going back to what happened against the
Lakers up twenty one in the fourth quarter and let going or letting go of
the rope, I should say that that may have been the first instance of
this. But for whatever reason, the Clippers are breaking and falling apart to
start fourth quarters. They go from down eight more than manageable with twelve minutes
left to down sixteen a minute forty six into the fourth. But I will
say this, I didn't understand that lineup. I don't understand how you start
the fourth without both Kawhi and Paul George and with three non shooters on the
floor. It was a Visa Zubats next to PJ. Tucker, next to
Russell Westbrook, next to James hard and Norm Powell, more non shooters than
guys who can get it to go. The floor spacing was miserable. We
watched us turned down a three, came out a great option not his game.
For PJ. Tucker to then take a three in the near side corner
in their first possession of the fourth that would go over the backboard and basically
be a turnover, not a live ball one. But yeah, Bruss would
miss one. Then the Clippers go scoreless. They're down sixteen. Indiana doubles
the lead in a minute forty six. I go back to the Lakers game
because that was a lineup I didn't understand to start that fourth quarter. You're
up twenty one and they got blitzed and we're minus twelve in less than three
minutes in that fourth quarter. And I just have seen this trend yesterday.
It happened just yesterday to a team from Philly without Joe lmbid. The Clippers
are in the game down five, and they end up losing the fourth quarter
by nine points. And it really wasn't even that close. Let's see.
Oh, they ended up losing the fourth quarter by nine points tonight and it
really wasn't even that close. Philly went up on them as the Clippers went
three minutes scoreless. By twenty after Clippers were down by just five. What
are they doing to start fourth quarters? What's baffling is they have one of
the best clutch time records in the league this season. When the game is
within five in the last five minutes, they can't even get it to within
five. They're getting blown out to start the fourth They're getting slacked within two
minutes. Yes, you can lose a game that fast in today's NBA.
I remember I had Sean and Inglewood say like, well, just try this
lineup a little bit. What how could it hurt? Well? They went
big, I guess, with Beatsa Zubats and PJ. Tucker, another non
shooter and Russell Westbrook and they got ambushed and the game was over. They
put in the Powell Rangers lineup, it was too late. Kawhi came in
earlier than usual, about the nine minute mark of the fourth. Paul George
came in after the first time out. I'm not sure why he wasn't starting
the fourth quarter. I don't understand that. So yeah, there's a blame
everywhere with this much going wrong. And as I mentioned, people are starting
to wonder, Okay, are they too old? Maybe? But I see
him ramp up and play with more energy sometimes when they're down in a fourth
quarter, meaning what they have more in the tank later in a ball game.
I would think if they're old, as we have seen at times in
the middle of a fourth quarter, once they're down big, ah, they
turn it on, going a twenty one to ohero run against Brooklyn. So
I don't know if I buy that. People are wondering do they care?
I don't know what everybody feels. I saw Kawhi Leonard getting into it with
the Viza Zoobots after a play. I think it was early in the third
quarter where Kawhi had to cover for Big Zoo, blocked the shot and then
immediately had words with the Viza Zobots for being out of position. Apparently seems
like they care enough. They're bickering out there. He got into it Paul
George too. Is that holding guys accountable enough? I don't know. Seem
like they cared earlier in the season. They just stopped now does that make
sense to you? Is there schedule too tough? In March? Seventeen games
in thirty one days? Did they give everything in the Grammy road trip and
emptied the tank? And they're just too old? They're just too tired,
a little bit gassed. Coach who was admitted to some of that. But
you can't give into that fatigue mentally, you can't. And I don't know,
I've seen enough energy out there. But now there's seven and seven in
March, three games left to go. Do they have too many bad habits?
Yeah, I think so. They haven't just built up bad habits over
this season. They've built it up in the two and three era, and
they're really coming back to bite them. Kawhi Leonard said even when they were
winning that they were relying too much on talent and not enough on execution.
Now the talent looks tired, maybe old, and they can't fall back on
that foundation of having that great execution to carry them. Some have brought up
are there too many agendas going on? Guys wanting minutes? Bones, PJ?
Tucker being sent home? PJ? Basically, how do I put this
airing grievances in order to get more minutes to the media. That's what happened.
How else can I put it? That's literally what happened. He complained
to the media early on the season. He complained after he was already sent
home and disciplined, and he's gotten back into the rotation because of it.
He's been decent here and there. But I don't know if that's great rewarding
the guy for that, or a good example to young guys like Bones Highland
who got his opportunity. Harden was out a couple of games, was great
against Chicago and then Harden came back and it just seemed like Bones was checked
out. I don't know why the body language wasn't there. I know we've
gotten to a point where we're judging facial expressions and the way guys carry themselves
on the court and shrugging their shoulders. But hey, you lose six of
nine, you're ten and twelve when you're trying to win a championship post Grammy
road trip, that's where it leads other guys they got contracts up. Is
that part of it human nature? It could be some guys pressing, some
guys not can't get on the same page, can't be in sync, can't
win ball games. Let's start things off tonight with Mike in la here on
Clipperstock on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. So Mike, hey, and you
know, at a certain point you got to say that when you have a
team that is the oldest team in the league, possibly also the smallest team
in the league. I have said this before, Mike, I said this
a few months ago. You just you can I know, you can be
slow, you can be small. I don't know if you could have a
roster construction with both and win in this league and they are both well they
are both and you know, it was just a matter of time until it
caught up. Basically, I think, you know, I mean, you
see, it's not like you know, I mean, you know, could
the players played better? And I mean Kawhi and Paul George are playing more
than they've ever played in the season, you know for us, Hey,
some speculator, maybe the little measurement before, if that's what was going,
maybe they need it, maybe they're playing so much. But I don't buy
that either, because Paul George has been on a heater the last three weeks.
Kawhi has still been good. Like they're not connecting with everybody else,
they're not playing together as a cohesive unit, but individually they don't look that
tired to me. Paul George has been playing much better over the last twelve
thirteen games now than he was for about a month and a half, and
they're losing. That's true. So it is, Yeah, throw a dart.
I don't know what it is with the team, right you know,
we're trying to figure it out. Mike. I appreciate the phone call,
my friend. Let's do again on Wednesday, Let's take a quick time out,
we'll come back. We'll have I think Chuck Mockler is on tonight Clippers
loss, so he comes on with their losses because it's a really bad loss.
And then sometimes it's will Maybe we'll have them both on. I don't
know. Clippers lose one thirty three to one sixteen. Strength in numbers.
You gotta stick together, I'm hoping. And this could be the optimist in
me, the glass half fool guy, which is so me. But maybe
a road trip is the best thing for him. Guys in the fox hole
together, I don't know. It wasn't the Grammy trip. That's what he
got next next four on the road. More Clippers stock coming up right here
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rockstar, not so much at the moment. Clippers. They lose tonight second
nut of a back to back, one thirty three to one sixteen to the
Indiana Pacers. They were also on a back to back, by the way,
and actually had less time to prepare. I know, their younger team.
I don't care. That's not an excuse for this. The Clippers were
in the game down three and a half, down eight, hanging into the
fourth quarter, and then we're just could put kab Louie done collapsing again,
not rising to the occasion at all. Coming up, we'll have Chuck and
will Updyke on. Plus we'll hear from coach lou postgame. It's that type
of night. Need both of these guys. But first, Javier in the
Lobra heights, Javier, what's up here? On Clipper stoff with that amazend
what's up item? Thank you for taking my call again. You know what,
that line up in the fourth quarter with Russ, Tuckber and Zubak,
that was ridiculous. You don't put that line up in the beginning of the
fourth quarter. I mean that that that's just my mind boggling. I agree.
I pointed out during the ball game, I couldn't believe they were going
with three non shooters to start the fourth quarter against the team with shooters everywhere.
That was matchup hunting and picking the Clippers apart, and I mean they
just got out of score thirty two to twenty seven, and the third you
have to get back into it. Yes, you need stops, and if
that's the logic, well more defenders in there. But you also have to
continue to score and find that balance. And I just I didn't understand that
one. I mean, I kind of another thing to I disagree with Carlo
or Cliper announcer. They said the Clippers do care. How did they care
if they allow one hundred and thirty three points? I mean, I mean
one hundred and thirty three points and did the same thing yesterday. Well,
the Pacers are historic with the amount of points they scored per game and shot
sixty one percent from three tonight, so I can see how it would happen.
But I mean I would have hoped the Clippers scored more than one sixteen
if that's the case. Yeah, I mean, at this point, honestly,
Adam, I don't think the players are listening. I mean a couple
of things I brought up during the year contract like you said, and I
brought it up too. Paul George wants an extension, Hardy wants to get
paid. I mean it's just everything just a snowball. I mean it just
and I told you about Tyler lou Man. He just way overrated, but
you guys like him. And last thing is you're going to get a car
right now, Adam from Morris and Long Beach. He's in the ever Team's
fine, we're good. We're gonna get to them one season. You just
watched. I mean, I don't know, I don't know why you got
to get the guys called. But anyway, thank you, Adam, Thank
you Adam, Miss Cleo over here, Javier and Larbra He's right. Morris
always wrong about one thing in Inglewood. Now, Morris, you're on Clippers,
stop without im ausn't ingle what hey, Adam, I'm gonna tell you
what's going on with the Clippers right now. It's very obviously everybody. When
you get to the fourth quarter, Kawhi gotta be on the floor. It's
straight up. You got to go to the start the first fourth quarter,
the first four minutes of the fourth quarter. You got to play that like's
the last four minutes. Well, well, Morris, what happened? Because
he's never done that in the two and three era, He's always played the
entire third quarter, and he comes back in around the seven minute mark of
the fourth. Why why did it change now because we're losing right now?
Well, but but what but why if it worked before for so along,
why are they losing now because other teams have favored us out? Man,
these guys are professionals. That guy got to start the fourth quarter. The
face of the team is playing defense. We're not doing that right now.
He's got to start the fourth quarter. Look, Morris, I brought this
up yesterday, but you know that I said, maybe that's a change you
make, But I don't think that's solving everything with this team at all.
Even when he got back in the Pacers extended their lead. I think you
talk about the team, Let's talk about the Let's talk about the Clippers.
Let's talk about the clipp Let's talk about the Clippers patients. Well, the
Clippers were playing the patients tonight and they were up against fire straight up.
And you're right when they started the fourth quarter, when they started that,
well, with that lineup, with the defensive lineup, you're right, And
you know you're right about this. They were looking for matchups and they took
advantage of them. They being the faces but if the Clippers start Kawhi in
the fourth quarter, I'm sorry, man, he got to go over forty
minutes a game now, I mean the playoffs of all, but he started
for us. The playoffs have already started for us. He is. Everything
is gonna be alright, you better believe it. But we're gonna have to
start Kawie in the fourth quarter. At them, Morris, you keep shifting
the excuses from one day to the next for this team. I think we
need to have a higher standard for the Clippers. That's what I'm saying.
We're making. We make an observation. Well, I hope they're gonna be
all right, and I hope you're right. But before it was you know
they're gonna get the number one seed, then it's hey, they're still not
in the play in, so celebrate that. Well, Morris, guess what.
They are dangerously close to being in the play in. So where do
you shift the argument? Now they're gonna win. I don't care what none
of these people are saying. I know what this team can do. I've
seen these guys doing their best. Now they're going through it right now,
you guys gonna bail ship with them to get tough. Let's finish out there,
but we're gonna talk about what's actually happening and not just say everything's fine
right now. Kawhi got to start the fourth quarter and we gotta go win
with a defensive mindset as the same they've been told worse. I love you,
but they've been told that for months that they needed to start with more
physicality and defensive mindset, and the message is not being received. I appreciate
the phone call. Speaking of the message, let's hear from the messenger in
coach lou postgame after the Clippers lose one thirty three to one sixteenth. I
think this could get spicy. Didn't have one? Do you guys have one?
Or as a done somewhere? Who said? Who? You said?
Well? Now, James Hawden mentioning that you guys didn't have an identity?
You guys have had one? Where is it? Well? Can we start
with this? Identity is with you shut the door first? Don take you
shut that door, please, sir? So identity? You know, for
us, it's gotta be toughness, which means physicality. Mentally, have physical
toughness. A high powered offense. We can score a lot of different ways.
And we got to have a defensive mindset. And so right now,
do we have an identity? I think, yeah, we're soft. That
could be an identity if you want to call it that. Like we got
to be tougher mentally and physically, But we do have an identity. When
we were twenty six and five, we had a great identity, you know.
So you can't pick and choose when you want to lead. You can't
pick and choose when you want to have identity. You can't pick and choose
when you want to do things the right way. And so just do the
right things every night and everything else to fall in fall in order. And
so I guess we do have an identity. We got to get back to
that, you know, because we've had it. You know. But when
you lose games, it's easy to go the other way, and we're not
going to do that. And I'm not gonna let our team do that.
And you know, I'm tough minded, and so I've been through everything and
so of these guys, and so the only way we're gonna get out of
is playing hard for forty eight minutes, doing things right every single night,
every single possession, not two out of five, not two out of six,
not every time. Just do the right thing and you would be able
to get out of this rut, you know. And so, yeah,
we have an identity, but right now our identity has been shaken because we're
not winning. You know, we're not doing things the right way consistently.
And so when you don't do that, you're gonna lose. You know,
you're gonna lose games games you should probably win or you think you should win,
and you're not gonna play as good as you think you should play.
And so I thought the first quarter, I thought we were great. I
thought we really did some good things on both sides of basketball. And then
can we sustain it? Can we do it for forty eight minutes and not
just one quarter or two quarters or two and a half quarters. Can you
sustain it every night? And that's gonna be our mindset. James also mentioned
that this is the first time in his career has been part of a team
that this late new season, there really isn't an identity, is I mean
building off that is it's the first time you've seen this late in the season.
A group of players have said there is no identity to your team.
Yeah, I don't know what they're talking about. I just answered the question
for you. But does it frustrate you when you hear the guys say that?
They don't frustrate me. I mean it's frustrating to watch too, as
much as they talk about to play, and it's it's frustrating to watch at
times, like I said, And we're better than that, and we've shown
that, and so you know, we just got to We just gotta do
our jobs one through fifteen and the coaches, we all just got to do
our jobs. Do your job well we asked you to do and once you
don't do that that we can adjust. Or when you do that it doesn't
it doesn't work. We can adjust, you know. And so we definitely
have an identity. But I'm tired of hearing that word. So just start
keep talking away with the players. I have an identity, and I know
what the identity of our team is. Coach, you know you've been talking
about forty years. Well, that was strong. I liked hearing that from
Coach Lou. I believe in him. He's the right guy. He's turned
this around. If they're going to I think he's a leader to do it.
He came out straight up and said, our identity right now is soft.
How can you argue with that? Morris A long beach. Englewood might,
but we're not gonna sugarcoat it here. That's what the Clippers are playing.
That's why they're in this position where you have players saying they don't have
an identity and a coach saying they do. So guys are on the same
page and they're splintering. I really do think an upcoming road trip with everybody
together could be just what they need. Doesn't mean it's for sure turning anything
around. You gotta do the work, do your job, as coach lu
said, But maybe he's coming at the right time. I don't know.
I'm desperate for anything right now too, with this team. Ryan and Santa
Anna. Ryan, you're on Clippers Talk without a maslin as we're desperately searching
for answers here, Ryan, what's up? Hey, Idam, how's it
going? Yeah? This is uh. We got punched in the face and
uh yeah, it started off like from the very beginning of the game.
I don't know the guy, but he was guardian James Harden. I don't
remember that guy's name, but if from the gate they like were pressuring us,
pressuring us, and we responded very softly. And then I don't know
the first quarter they were up thirty four to twenty nine. I don't think
the first quarter was their problem, Okay, but to start off the game
like they Yes, we started off very well, but we didn't. We
don't keep it up because we started off the game thirty four to twenty nine.
You're right, but later on they're pressuring us. They're going full court
press on the Clippers, and our response later on was just to let them
walk up the court and uh, take off time off the clock, like
there's no there's desperation from us to like try to really get back into it.
It was going on the whole the whole night, honestly, and then
like the fourth quarter lineup to start off the lineup, I don't understand what
that was like. That was a really bad lineup and it wasn't like the
only shooter that was out there was Harden and Norman. Then it was all
like Tucker Zoo, I believe, and hey, I've been preaching preacher till
the choir. I said that off top tonight. I said it when it
happened honestly. Yeah, our identity right now is soft, Like I don't,
I don't. Everybody punks us, Adam, everybody's funking us. Philly
punked us, Indiana punked us, and our last home game before the Hawks
punks us too. So it's like, we gotta we gotta get a backbone
and start like getting us together. I agree, Ryan, they're breaking right
now. Teams are breaking the Clippers, will That is what we're seeing.
They get down earlier in the fourth quarter and it looks like they're just quitting.
They're just saying, here we go again. I don't believe that's the
case, and some of that was just a bad lineup, but it can't
keep happening. We'll take a quick time out. I appreciate the phone call,
Ryan. We'll come back. We'll have Chuck in Will on to that
night. Yeah, you might kill Bill Song. Clippers lose one thirty three
to one sixteen, we'll have the entire brain trust. I don't know if
I could say that, but the core three from Clips and dip on next
to try to reason through this, figure out what's going on with the Clippers.
I'm Mena Oslin. You're listening to the Patriot AM eleven fifty. LA
Clippers basketball is on the two one three era continues. You're listening to the
LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers have lost six of nine.
They lose one thirty three to one sixteen on the second or the back
end, I mean back to back at home this time to the Indiana Pacers
who broke them early on in the fourth quarter. Welcome back in. I'm
out of Mosland. We got the music, So I think that means it's
basically turning into a complete episode of clips and dip. We can only have
one on no, I've ah yeah, all right, it's Chuck's night.
Anyways, Chuck or as yours my friends, if you want to complain about
the Clippers, talk about what's going on, the fact we couldn't get Will
on too. At the same time, whatever you uh, steer this Clipper
ship right now. God forget I'm jo I'm just tired man, right like
I think tonight, none of it ever felt real, if that makes sense
when the Clippers were kind of playing well, because when the Clippers are doing
one thing well, they're never doing all things well right now specifically or not
even right now and the last you know, half of the games they've played
this season, it seems so I'm just tired. I kind of feel like
we're floating in the middle of the water waiting for this to just be over,
or maybe that's what I'm getting from the players a little bit again,
just just defensively, Like people talked about how last time we played the place
as we put up one fifty, Well they put up like one forty five
and didn't have most of their team healthy. So to think that this Clippers
team is going to be able to get to championship level defense is really hard
for me to believe in right now. And yeah, I hope we see
something different on Wednesday. Right we have a chance to avenge that bad loss
for the seventy six ers, so that would be nice, But there's a
really long way to go to get if it's even possible, anywhere close to
a team ability and mindset wise that looks ready to challenge for a second round
appearance in the playoffs. Especially how I feel right now, Yeah, it's
well put. We're seeing a mixed message from the players and the coaching staff.
We're hearing no identity from two players now. First it was Paul George,
Now it's James Harden. Coach Lou disagrees with that. I don't know.
Are we looking at some schism between the players and the head coach.
I don't want to believe that, But the message continually is not being received
out there and they are not doing what he is asking. I don't understand
it, and they can't even agree on if they have an identity at the
moment. It's just it's bizarre. Are I think the skin them? I
think is kind of what you just said, right. He's asking them to
do certain things and they're not doing it. We don't know why they're not
doing it. And the things he's asking them are not seemingly out of the
questions of things you would ask very good basketball players who want to win a
championship. Get back in transition, defense, stop shot watching. You know
know who the low man is. Let's play with purpose and intent like he's
not, you know, asking them to set screens for Zoo so he can
take a step back three like these are normal things to ask for. These
are intangible to ask for a team. The only guy on Cole on the
team who any of us probably believe can actually flip a switch because he's the
only one who's done it, is Kawhi Leonard, and maybe everyone else thinks
they can flip a switch too, or something like that. But the schism
is the head coach is asking them to do things and they're not doing that,
and I don't understand why. That's what's frustrating. I don't understand why.
I think a lot of us are past the point of being mad and
more so just baffled or apathetically dumbfounded at why these guys just can't try harder.
I don't like to not A lot of things are able to be reduced
down to one side tried harder than the other side. But if you watch
the Slippers team, they are not trying. They're not giving their full effort
team, and that is confusing. I've heard before from people say in the
regular season, you can have a winning record by the end of the year
just by playing harder each and every night, and I feel like we saw
that with teams in the past, with some of the Doc Rivers teams,
the twenty seventeen to twenty eighteen team, the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen team,
and the team without Kawhi the entire year from two years ago, and Paul
George was just thirty one games. Because those teams all played really hard for
the majority of the time. And you could say it's too old. You
could say it's the March schedule. You could speculate whether or not they care
or not right now. You could say it's too many bad habits, too
many maybe agendas, personal agendas, all the above. There is so much
wrong with what's happening with this team. I don't know where to start anymore.
It's just brutal. But I could start with this. They're twenty ninth
defensively now since the Grammy road trip after tonight. They were twenty six heading
into tonight. Tonight was so bad when especially when the dam broke in the
fourth quarter, they dropped multiple spots. That's over twenty five percent of the
season where you are twenty ninth defensively, Chuck. They came into this year
saying we want to be a Time five defense. The identity that they said
they were going to have was going to be a tough defensive team that can
spread the floor. I none of that is coming to fruition right now.
Are they only better than the Pistons. Is that who's thirtieth pulled up right
here. They're also thirteenth offensively during that time, which really isn't good enough
when you're twenty ninth defensively. It's Utah. It's utah over their last twenty
one games, their thirtieth, but over the Clippers last twenty two games,
where they're ten to twelve post Gamy road trip, they are twenty ninth.
Right above them is the Lakers. They're twenty eighth, but they're actually finding
ways to win games because their second offensively over that span, Like, you
can win still being that bad defensively if you're really playing great on offense,
and the Clippers are just out middle of the pack with this talent. Yeah,
it's a combination of I think Robert Flamm had a tweet of something like
the Clippers I have a deadly combination of old slow, a little small,
and not enough shooting, which right now we're seeing the downsides. We're seeing
that play out. Right. This team was what twenty six and tie or
what twenty six and five had an incredible run. I don't know what that
team. I don't know how that happened based on how things have gone since
the Grammy roach if it makes no sense that that happened, if you like
had a time machine, I don't know, but they have to find something.
They tried to small ball lineup tonight and offensively it was great, but
you know, defensively it it seeds rebounds, it it seeds points. So,
Charles, what was the lineup to start the fourth quarter? Often?
I'm pretty it wasn't it. It was PJ or hold On, it was.
It was uh Russ Hardened, norm A Mere, PJ, whej Zoo,
three non shooters out there, Like, how can we say they don't
have enough shooting? I mean, I'm speculated. Even back when they lost
six games in a row, I remember bringing up specifically, I don't know
if you can win being slow and small, which the Clippers were. It
could be one, but I don't know if you could be two. I
said that way back then. But then in thirty one games, I mean
we're talking actually over fifty games where they were the number one three point shooting
team in the league, how can we say they don't have the shooting.
They may not have had to start the fourth quarter, but they over half
the season they were number one and three point shooting. I don't. I
mean, it's it's a personnel issue, right. The shooting was great because
our four shooters were five or whatever it is. It's just not deep.
That's that's what I think Ales and the Clippers right now too. Right,
if you have to, if you have lineups, to even have a lineup
with three non shooters is hard in the modern NBA. But that's you know,
that's the way the trade had to. Yeah, there's so many issues.
The open threes thing, I do believe is going to turn around.
That should turn around. That's been crazy. Right, Well, this is
a nice tease for I don't know if we're doing a live or YouTube or
whatever tomorrow. Tomorrow for sure. Yeah, but we'll have you guys covered
at Clippers podcast on YouTube. Myself Chuck and Will Updyke, Charles, thanks
for doing this tonight, a little double dip on Clippers stuff, my friend,
Hey, thanks for having me. Let's go clip coming up next,
we'll close things out. Big brother Jake Warners here, he's got some positivity
for us. Clippers loose and I won thirty three to one sixteen at Crypto
to the Indiana Pacers. And you're listening to the Patriot Am eleven fifty.
They want to bring a banner with them to the into it dull more LA
Clippers Basketball on the LA Clippers Audio Network. The Clippers have eleven games left
in the regular season to figure this out. Starting on the road in Philly
on Wednesday, could start with just one, one win, one moment.
Sometimes it is that simple to find your spirit, to find your identity.
Sorry, Coach Lou, I don't like saying anymore. Either your personality,
your philosophy, whatever it's going to be, it's going to have to start
on this road trip before we get out of here. Ryan in Burbank,
you're on Clipper stock without a maasin all right, Adam, Adam, I
heard you. I heard you talk. Can you were you were laughing to
keep from crying. I feel like that's every Clipper fan right now. It
is it is. It is baffling. How did this team go twenty six
and five? How was this happening? Like what? There's no way that
this team is this bad. It's just not possible for how well did they
played in this Are they trulling? Nots Adam, that what's happened? They're
just they're truly this new thing. Don't worry, guys, we got I'm
so it makes no sense. I know. The maniacal laughter is all I
have left straight jokering it. Who knows if I call one Jake before we
get out of here, straighten me out. It's Big Brother Jake Warner,
the fakeful, awsome Big Brother Jake podcast and the podcast one network. With
some optimism. Please, absolutely overthinking is the biggest waste of human energy.
Trust yourself and make a decision and gain more experience. There's no such thing
as perfect. You cannot think your way into perfection. Just take action.
Take action. Now's the time. Be decisive. God. There were so
many turned down easy looks at the rim for tougher looks. It was like
they were being too unselfish tonight. I appreciate Jake, Appreciate you brother always
man. Before we get out of here, big thanks for Big Brother Jake
Warner, Clippers Organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, no Ego, Carlo
Jimenez on the call, our producer Katie Newton back in the bank, Chuck
Mothlam for coming on until Wednesday. A three point thirty worth the pregame show
Clippers in Philly taking on the six Ers. I'm at a massa. We'll
talk to you that Why was doing his thing and all they want to do
is win. In La, I win. I thought they gave everything they
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