WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:04.879 The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:09.439 reaction has just begun. Kawhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range. 3 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:14.359 This is Clippers locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead 4 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:18.920 on your hope for LA Clippers basketball. And now your host, You, 5 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:25.519 sir, are a bad man. Adam Oslin Clippers with their fifth straight loss. 6 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:29.120 They lose one twenty eight to one fifteen in Minnesota to the Timberwolves. 7 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:32.079 Welcome into your posts game show coming up. You'll hear from the head coach 8 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:34.840 and the players, and we'll get to your post game box score. But 9 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:39.119 first back out to Minnesota into your voice of the Clippers in Noah Eagle, 10 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:43.159 Noah, no Kauai, no Nicholas Batoum, no PG in this one. 11 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:47.200 But the story remained the same regardless. Their defense just once again was not 12 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:50.200 there. Yeah, no Kawai, no PG, no Batom, no defense. 13 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:53.640 I mean, look, I'm looking at this box score right now. 14 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:57.479 I'm looking at the plus minus category, which I know is can be flawed 15 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:02.960 and isn't always exactly what you expect to see. But Norn Powell and nearly 16 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:06.200 twenty five minutes was a plus five and a game that the Clippers lost by 17 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:10.359 thirteen. A mere Coffee who played nineteen minutes. Now, he did play 18 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:14.280 down the stretch and the Clippers outscored the Timberwolves in the fourth quarter of this 19 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:15.680 game and down the stretch and garbage time, so to speak. But he 20 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.319 was a plus fifteen. Moses Brown, who I thought was very good tonight, 21 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:23.920 twenty seven minutes, he was a plus thirteen fourteen points and eleven rebounds 22 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:27.079 as well. John Wall was even. Robert Covington played twenty four and a 23 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:30.680 half minutes and was a plus seven. So those guys were playing when this 24 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.480 game was still in the balance, and they all were very positive, and 25 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.480 they all were putting fourth in effort. I just think that there are lessons 26 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:42.480 to be learned. I think that this is midway through the season. This 27 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:45.599 is when you want to learn them. And what do we talk about all 28 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:48.000 the time? Boston Celtics last year were twenty one and twenty one, while 29 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:49.799 the Clippers were twenty one and twenty. Right now, the Boston Celtics, 30 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:55.079 who won fifty one and thirty one and got to the NBA Championship and were 31 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:59.760 two games away from winning it, I mean, there's so much rope left, 32 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:04.640 there's so much longer of this leash left, there's so much runway left 33 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.439 of this season. I understand why people feel like it's time to panic. 34 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:10.919 It's not time to panic quite yet. It's time to be strategic. It's 35 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:15.000 time for this team to lock in. But these wake up calls are important, 36 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:19.039 and I think that these two games to cap off what was a really 37 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:23.520 Honestly, I understand that people were frustrated with some of the losses. The 38 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:29.759 Philly loss was frustrating, no doubt about it. The Miami loss most recently, 39 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:32.479 but the Indiana loss and the Boston losses they were frustrating, but they 40 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:36.599 were the Clippers had moments where you said, oh, they're playing really well. 41 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:38.639 These last two games, they haven't really had those moments as much. 42 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:42.840 There were a couple stretches here tonight that you said, Okay, you know, 43 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:46.319 they had it decent, not bad, starting to get it together a 44 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:50.240 little bit. Couldn't sustain it. So I look at this five game homestand 45 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:53.960 I've said it with the utmost importance. It is paramount that this team sets 46 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:58.520 the right tone, and I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt. I 47 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:00.840 think everybody should because we know what they're capable of when push comes to shove 48 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:06.879 and it's postseason mode and Kawhi Leonards and postseason mode and Paul George's and postseason 49 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:09.800 mode and Toron Lewis in postseason mode. We're not there yet, and that's 50 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:13.800 okay. We're not going to be there for quite some time. So you've 51 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:15.199 got to give it time, let it percolate a little bit, let this 52 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:19.360 team figure it out, work through their own issues. But it's gonna have 53 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:22.439 to happen somewhat sooner rather than later, as we're gonna head into the second 54 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:25.919 half of the season now starting Sunday, Yeah, very important homestand coming up 55 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:30.960 to say the least, starting Sunday night back in downtown Los Angeles. Tip 56 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:35.479 time for Clippers and Hawks is at six. We'll have Clippers countdown your pregame 57 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:39.240 show starting at five. No Ego, great call as always tonight say if 58 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:44.520 travels, We'll see you back in downtown La Sunday. Adam, you know 59 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:47.199 that it never ever changes, and it never ever will. That's just the 60 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:52.800 way it can wait. Coming up next, we'll get to your post game 61 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:55.960 box score Clippers lose eight one fifteen in Minnesota to the Timberwolves, and you're 62 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.360 listening to the Los Angeles Clippers radio. That was good day. If I 63 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:11.280 quit your beam, I still got my sadies full. WHOA, I'm really 64 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:17.639 Clippers, followed by thirteen in Minnesota. Final score Timberwolves once twenty eight. 65 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:23.279 You're in Los Angeles Clippers one fifteen. It is their fifth straight loss, 66 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:26.959 longest losing streak of the season. Welcome back into your post game show. 67 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:30.240 I'm atam Maslin coming up on a M five seventy. We'll have Clippers stock 68 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:34.199 for you eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty ninety 69 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:38.240 eight seven two five seventy. You can also tweet at me I follow Adam 70 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:42.800 A Clippers end up shooting, I'm more respectable forty four percent from the field, 71 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:46.199 go nine of twenty five from the outside when they had just three of 72 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:50.079 those three pointers in the first half. Really struggled there, but missed nine 73 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:55.759 free throws eighteen of twenty seven from the charity stripe That could have made a 74 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:59.959 difference in getting a little bit of momentum on their side, but self inflicted 75 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.839 wounds once again from this squad. Clippers were down too many players already. 76 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:09.639 Just your margin for air becomes so small. You just have to play a 77 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:14.000 near perfect game, especially on a night where Rudy Gobert has twenty five and 78 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:17.759 twenty one in three blocks, one of, if not his best games so 79 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:23.000 far in a Minnesota Timberwolves jersey. As for the Clippers, they were led 80 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:26.800 by Norman Powell. He finished nine of fourteen with twenty one points, had 81 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:30.639 twelve of those in the first quarter, didn't score another bucket till late in 82 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:35.000 the third, though Clippers continued to fight down the stretch. You gotta give 83 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:40.079 those guys that he Moses Brown, John wall a mere coffee. Those guys 84 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:43.439 played really well in the fourth quarter. We're trying to be scrappy, We're 85 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:46.439 trying to do whatever they could, but Clippers just couldn't make end roads and 86 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:50.399 couldn't really break it to within single digits. They had it to within thirteen 87 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:54.920 at one point late in the third quarter, but then an eight oh run 88 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:59.839 to end that third quarter had Minnesota back up by twenty one entering the fourth, 89 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.000 and they win one twenty eight to one. Fifteen. Coming up next. 90 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.879 Looking for postgame audio from the head coach and the players. Clippers coming 91 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:10.839 back home Sunday. They're taking on the Atlanta Hawks in downtown Los Angeles. 92 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:14.480 More on that as well as you're listening to your postgame show here on the 93 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:31.120 Los Angeles Clippers right young at one Clippers losing Minnesota one twenty eight to one 94 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:36.120 fifteen to the Timberwolves. Welcome back into your post game show. Clippers next 95 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:41.879 contest, well, they start a home standoff Sunday night against the Atlanta Hawks. 96 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:46.120 Tip time for that one is at six pm. I love your pregame 97 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:49.519 show starting at five. Coming up next on AM five seventy LA Sports, 98 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:54.240 we have Clippers Talk eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six 99 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:58.680 six ninety seven two five seventy is the phone number. And I don't do 100 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:01.639 this very often, but if you at a call regarding strategy, philosophy, 101 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:06.240 shaking up this team in some way, fire up the trade machine. I'll 102 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:11.839 try to be somewhat open to it. It's gotta be on the realistic side. 103 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:16.079 But we can do that tonight if you want, because Clippers have certainly 104 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:20.480 bottom out a little bit here and we're midway through the season and it's their 105 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:26.360 longest losing streak of the year back. It's been brutal. Tonight was a 106 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:31.000 continuation basically of last night, and we're without stars, of course, but 107 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:36.519 for the most part, just weren't competitive out there and defensively at defensive ratings. 108 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:44.240 Falling off a cliff quickly. Clippers lose by thirteen final score one twenty 109 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:47.199 eight, one fifteen in favor of the Timberwolves again. Clippers coming back home 110 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:51.639 taking on the Atlanta Hawks Sunday night outside of Los Angeles. We are leaving 111 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:55.879 you until then at five, but coming up next year on a five seventy 112 00:07:55.959 --> 00:08:05.600 l A S four City is Clipper style. Skin girl kid granted, Welcome 113 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.160 into Clipperstalk. There's a new sheriff in town. You won't be able to 114 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.920 deny it. We're going to go to the NBA Finals. I believe it 115 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:16.680 in my heart. This is the best team in the history of the franchise. 116 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:22.040 I am all about the Clipper Nation. This is Clippers talk. They're 117 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:26.240 trying to win the whole thing. A postgame look, it's your La Clippers, 118 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:31.519 recapping the game, the stars and looking ahead to what's next. To 119 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:35.480 hear episodes you've missed, Subscribe to Clippers Talk on iHeart Radio or wherever you 120 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:45.159 podcast. Now your host of Clippers Talk, Here's Adam Oslin and the hits 121 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:50.360 just keep on coming. And we're still waiting for the Clippers to hit back. 122 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:54.600 After they've lost five in a row, their longest losing streak of the 123 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.799 season. They lose one twenty eight to one fifteen in Minnesota to the Timberwolves. 124 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:01.120 Welcoming to Upper Stock. I'm out of Oslin to eight six six nine 125 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:05.440 eight seven two five seventy eight six six, nine eight seven two five seventy 126 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:07.720 is the phone number. You can also get to me at follow out of 127 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.080 May on Twitter. Coming up later in the show, we will have postgame 128 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:15.480 audio from Coach Low who's at the podium right now, and you'll hear from 129 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:20.080 Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip Fame. You know, we were hoping for 130 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:26.559 a bounce back performance from this team. That was a lot of the theme 131 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:31.120 thread throughout the pregame show. Clippers got to bounce back. Can't turn this 132 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:35.080 into a five game slide. They're in Minnesota. We knew an hour before 133 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:37.600 the game they weren't gonna have Paul George, they weren't going to have Kawhi 134 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:43.360 Leonard, we knew earlier in the day, no Nicholas Batoum. But we've 135 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:50.080 talked about their depth all season long, preseason during the summer, of how 136 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:54.600 it could carry them at times, and it has, but it just looks 137 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:58.080 like they're running out of gas. They don't have enough right now. They've 138 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:01.720 had to do too much, They've had to carry too much of the scoring 139 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:07.159 load, and now the defense is falling apart. And that's what concerns me 140 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:13.960 most because this team was getting by early in the season while having a bottom 141 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:18.159 three offense like they've been pretty much all year long because of their defense, 142 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:24.080 and they're getting shredded now. They were twenty eight defensively in their last seven 143 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:28.039 games coming into this one, where they had lost five of seven. Now 144 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:30.240 they have lost six of eight. And they just gave up one hundred and 145 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:37.279 twenty eight points to the Minnesota Timberwolves, an average offense at best. And 146 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:41.840 there was one quarter where the Clippers didn't give up thirty or more. It 147 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:46.000 was the fourth during inconsequential garbage time, and they still gave up twenty eight. 148 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:52.720 And I'm trying to pinpoint what it is, and I'm looking at the 149 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:58.080 reason I thought that their defense was holding up and playing at a top five 150 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:03.399 level for so long, and I think a lot of that was due to 151 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:07.559 the stellar play of their defensive anchor. In a Vizza Zoo Bots. He 152 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:11.919 doesn't look right. He hasn't looked right since. I think it was the 153 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:16.960 growing injury a few weeks back where he finally missed a game Mister Reliable the 154 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:24.919 iron Man, and I said pregame, watched Zoe Bots because he hadn't had 155 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:30.080 more than seven boards in his last three games. Tonight he had two and 156 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:33.000 got thoroughly dominated by Rudy Gobert when he was out there in just twenty one 157 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:39.080 minutes. Because he just was ineffective. Moses Brown played with more energy, 158 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:46.159 and I don't think it's an effort issue with Vizza Zoo Bots and that he 159 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.720 can't or doesn't want to play hard. It might just be that he's held 160 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:58.600 back still by this lingering injury and it could stem from there, these defensive 161 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:01.919 woes. Some of it could just be human nature. Once you start playing 162 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:05.600 better offensively like they did on that road trip, you slip on the other 163 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:11.240 end. Can't happen for a team that's trying to build championship habits to get 164 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:18.879 to a championship. But we've seen that stuff in the past. But I'm 165 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:22.559 zeroing in right now on Big Zoo and I'm not blaming him or saying it's 166 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.720 his fault. He just doesn't look right. He was at a position multiple 167 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:31.559 times I was watching him early on in that first quarter, gave up some 168 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:35.679 easy ones, picked up a tough foul, and the Clippers were in foul 169 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:39.879 trouble early. I think Minnesota had ten free throws on the first quarter. 170 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:43.159 Clippers didn't like it. They got into it with the refs. Three technicals 171 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.639 were called. It was Marcus and Terrence Man in the first half and then 172 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:52.440 John Wall in the third quarter. So frustration boiling over as things are just 173 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:58.600 unraveling right now and the Clippers can't have any semblance of consistency, and yeah, 174 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:05.200 this is a discouraging loss and really a carryover of what happened yesterday. 175 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:11.559 They're just not playing Denver. And they were better offensively, no doubt. 176 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:15.639 You couldn't be much worse than they were yesterday against the Nuggets. A lot 177 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:18.360 of averages would tell you that they were going to shoot it a little bit 178 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:20.440 better. They end up at forty four percent from the field, okay, 179 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:24.919 nine to twenty five from the outside. They were much worse in the first 180 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:31.039 half. But this team right now is searching for something, a spark, 181 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:39.000 a rhythm, continuity always and it just seems to evade them. I would 182 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.360 have guessed yesterday if you asked me, one of the two one three connection 183 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:52.360 duo would have played, but they couldn't go. When Kawhi Leonard playing eighteen 184 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:58.399 minutes yesterday, we thought there may be some hope. But you can't push 185 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:03.039 a guy coming off an ACL tear. It makes sense to me, and 186 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:09.360 another guy who has a hamstring issue that can flare up and those are really 187 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:15.639 difficult to manage, and he's had him for a while. They're airing on 188 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:20.240 the side of caution. But we have reached the midway point and it's starting 189 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.639 to get to that point where you say, when are they going to start 190 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.720 pushing things a little bit out there? This Clippers team, When are they 191 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:35.879 going to find some consistency in a sustainable winning streak where they rip off ten 192 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:45.600 of twelve or eight of ten, Because teams that win championships typically do, 193 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:50.960 and I know it starts with the injuries and there's not much you can do 194 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:54.600 about that. But we're heading into the second half of the season starting Sunday 195 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:58.879 night, and it's a big five game homestand after they just lost six of 196 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:03.200 eight, got demolished yesterday by the Denver Nuggets. And for the most part, 197 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:07.279 from the end of the second quarter where I think this game was really 198 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.200 lost, where Minnesota went on a fifteen to five run and they were leading 199 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:15.279 by fourteen after which is a four point game with five minutes left in the 200 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:18.720 second going into the half, I think that's where things pretty much ended. 201 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:22.200 They got it by nineteen early in the third quarter, Clippers made a run, 202 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:24.840 and then they got back up by twenty one after an eight run to 203 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:30.000 end the third quarter. So not closing quarters. Well, you're sensing that 204 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:37.639 pattern. That's a problem too. But this team, consistency is the operative 205 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:43.320 word. It's they're lacking it. They're consistently inconsistent, and it's understandable because 206 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:48.080 of all the different lineups. I'm just saying, at some point they have 207 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.759 to find it. They have to find a flow, they have to find 208 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:58.720 an identity. Seeing it in spurts and in quarters and in a few games 209 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:03.480 here in there, that stuff's encouraging, but the second half of the season, 210 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:08.480 you want to see it during complete games, during consecutive games, during 211 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:15.240 weeks a month of it. So that's where I'm coming from. Tonight, 212 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:22.440 after the worst loss in a couple of years last night to Denver, tonight, 213 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:26.159 you can you can throw it out a little bit because they just didn't 214 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:30.440 have the bodies and they're on a back to back and I did see this 215 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:36.799 from Lucas hand from two one three hoops. But the Clippers they played their 216 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:40.799 eighth game in eight different cities and fifteen nights. That takes its toll, 217 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:47.919 too. But tonight they had their moments. I thought there was a good 218 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:49.919 performance by John Wall, especially in the first half, end of the first 219 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:53.480 quarter into the second quarter. Norman Pell had those twelve points on the first 220 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:56.759 quarter, but he doesn't score again, so I think about the three minute 221 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:03.599 mark of the third Terrence Man had a little bit of an offensive burst to 222 00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:07.039 start the third quarter, a lay up, a steal, and then a 223 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:11.200 layup. Rocco had a little stretch two. I thought he played well, 224 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:15.759 look good, hit a three pointer after not hitting one yesterday. He had 225 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:21.319 three steals, one on Gobert one on Kyla Anderson where he took it coast 226 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:26.279 to coast. If you're looking for positives, I'm just I'm trying here. 227 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:32.279 I'm trying to offer something up because I know right now Clipper nation is down 228 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:36.839 bad. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety 229 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:41.799 eight seven two five seventy is the phone number Clippers get to the halfway point 230 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:47.400 at twenty one in twenty I'm gonna go. Guess what I just said. 231 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:49.799 Here's the number. You're not gonna like. I'm sure how positive this is 232 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:59.599 the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen Lou Williams led Clippers at the halfway point, they 233 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:06.440 were twenty four and seventeen. These Clippers far more talented. Granted, Kwais 234 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:08.799 played just seventeen games. I think he and Paul George together played about fourteen. 235 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.319 This seems twenty one twenty work to be done. Yes, the Boston 236 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:22.680 Celtics started last season twenty one, twenty twenty one, twenty one. It 237 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:27.920 can be done. You can turn it around quickly. I think this homestand 238 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:33.160 is where it needs to start. And more bad news that right calf injury 239 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:37.759 from Luke Kenard that kept him out in the second half. It's been lingering 240 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:42.240 apparently. You can see it with the shooting percentages too. More Clippers stopped 241 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:48.079 coming up next looking for more positives in your phone calls at eight six six 242 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:52.559 ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy 243 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:57.720 day five seventy ol sports. You know what it was when he signed up. 244 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:08.519 You gotta run it up. Clippers dropped their fifth straight game. They 245 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:12.440 lose one twenty eight to one fifteen in Minnesota to the Timberwolves. They've lost 246 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:18.000 six of eight. Now, I told your pre game you know Minnesota had 247 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:22.440 beating some good teams recently Portland and oh, I don't know, the Denver 248 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:26.000 Nuggets. They beat them up too. Whose The Clippers just lost you yesterday 249 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:27.640 and there were only two and a half games back at the Clippers in that 250 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:30.960 eleventh spot. What does that tell you? Now they're a game and a 251 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:36.279 half back. The Clippers are a game and a half out of being out 252 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:44.039 of the play it so understand That's where I'm coming from tonight. There just 253 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:49.279 has to be a sense of urgency moving forward and then finding some type of 254 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:56.119 winning streak here. I didn't look next five at home, the timing could 255 00:19:56.119 --> 00:20:02.240 line up. They certainly had the talent to put it all together. Getting 256 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:04.279 all that talent on the floor at the same time and point in the right 257 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:11.640 direction has been difficult, yes, but we know this team has a ton 258 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:15.599 of heart and toughness. They have proven it time and time again when their 259 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:21.039 backs were against the wall. I think they're up to the challenge, but 260 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:25.519 it starts Sunday night against the Atlanta Hawks, who are a mess right now 261 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:30.359 and are losing to a team that is just two and a half games back 262 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:37.279 of the Clippers in the Los Angeles Lakers now. So yeah, times are 263 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:45.480 hard, but I believe from the ownership down in this Clippers franchise, this 264 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:49.480 organization, the way they've set things up with Kawai and Paul George, when 265 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:55.039 they've been out there, they've somewhat been on like a sixty one win pace. 266 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:59.759 When they can get those guys together, we'll see. I hope they're 267 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:03.200 bad back Sunday night. Welcome back in the Clippers talk. I'm Adam Oslin 268 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:07.599 eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven 269 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:12.240 two five seventy or you can tweet at me at follow Adam A. Let's 270 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:18.920 start with Harold and North Hollywood. Harold, what's up? Let me ask 271 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:22.440 you a question, Adam. Yeah, who's looking up? Are you there? 272 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:26.119 Adam? I'm here, I'm here for you. Harold, I'm right 273 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:29.319 here. I'm sorry. Look, thank you for taking my call, and 274 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:32.720 have a happy New year. Sam, you're looking up? I mean the 275 00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:36.720 Clippers aside, they got plenty of problems. Who knows if they'll ever have 276 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:40.000 their team on the floor at the same time, and Steve, Steve Bahmer 277 00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:41.519 is not a dumb guy. He's looking back into the investment he has at 278 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:45.359 Leonard and he's definitely got getting his money's worth. But what I wanted to 279 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:49.880 talk about who's looking on for the fans interest? They go to these games 280 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:52.960 and the players don't even show up to play, Harold and they're playing to 281 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:57.960 Carol's crap. I understand, I understand the gripe. You've called in before 282 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:02.599 with this. We've talked about it this time. Maybe I did. I 283 00:22:02.599 --> 00:22:04.839 don't remember. Yeah, I'm getting up there in age, but you're all 284 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:08.200 right, and we should talk about it. Go ahead, now, I 285 00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:12.079 understand the frustration with that. It's not just what the Clippers though. It's 286 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:18.240 happening throughout the league in the NBA where you see superstars play less and less. 287 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:19.599 But let me let me ask you this. Let me ask you this 288 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:26.240 question. Do you think the NBA season is too long? I think it 289 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:30.359 is because okay, okay, okay. So if you think it's too long, 290 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:34.119 do you think that's lost on the players, Like if everybody else thinks 291 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:37.880 it's too long, it's eighty two games. I think the players are picking 292 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:41.920 up on that too, because they know they're always being judged and their legacies 293 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.599 are being judged on what they do in the playoffs. And it's a rings 294 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:49.880 culture now. And Jordan was six to Ozho and Lebron is four and six, 295 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:52.519 so he can never reach them. All that matters is whether or not 296 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:57.599 you win in the end. So look, it's unfortunate, but there's there's 297 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:00.680 two sides as a double edged or when you think about it that way. 298 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:04.319 The owners are not going to give up the money. Of course, they're 299 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:08.119 not ever gonna lose games like that. They're not going to give up players 300 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:14.279 are gonna make They're gonna lose money too because they're playing less games. They 301 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:17.599 would now whether or not. There's an argument to be made that there would 302 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:21.440 be more eyeballs on games when there's less of them because they're magnified. Now 303 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:23.359 we can make that another day. We're going too far down this tangent. 304 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:27.599 I appreciate the phone call, though, Harold eight six six ninety seven two 305 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:32.640 five seventy. Quickly, let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on 306 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:37.839 A five seventy l A Sports. This is LA Clippers Basketball, A five 307 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:44.079 seventy KLAC Los Angeles nine eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeart radio 308 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:47.960 station, Lanny and Inglewood. You're on Clippers stop without amazin? What's up? 309 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:56.839 Lenny? Lenny? You are on my friend just screen you'll Lenny? 310 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:02.480 How could you? Damien? And Los Angeles Damien? What's up? Hey, 311 00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:07.119 Adam? How you doing? Man, mister reliable? Well, you 312 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:08.599 know, hey, you can always stand on me. I'm a drummer, 313 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:15.440 brother. I've gotten to be there, the rhythm, the percussionist. Hey, 314 00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:18.640 yes, sir, Well you know it's funny man, if you do 315 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:23.799 want to talk about something like that, you know I can understand, especially 316 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:29.480 from the standpoint of you know, hey, games eight cities, the different 317 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:32.839 time zones because I travel a lot. I'm a you know, touring musician, 318 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:34.559 and I know what that's like. You know, I had a tour 319 00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:41.839 where we literally would show up to town, do the sound check, you 320 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:47.440 know, go get something to eat, check into the hotel, go back 321 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:51.279 to the venue to play. You know what I'm saying. We're there till 322 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:56.000 like three am. We go back, you know, you get to sleep 323 00:24:56.160 --> 00:25:00.160 until like you know, seven o'clock in the morning, and then we're out. 324 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:02.920 And we did that like eight or nine times in a row. Takes 325 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:06.680 its toll, adds up, right, it does add up a little bit. 326 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:10.119 But you know what, Adam, we never missed a beat on stage, 327 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:14.200 though I know you didn't. You're the heartbeat as the drummer. There's 328 00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:18.640 you know, and and there's something to be said for being a professional entertainer, 329 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:22.880 and so you know, to your first fallers, you know, just 330 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:29.000 get it. Yeah, yeah, I understand that too. I was heartened 331 00:25:29.079 --> 00:25:32.720 by the effort from the Clippers guys who were out there late that we're diving 332 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:36.559 on the floor and going after rebounds like Moses Brown, Norman Pal, John 333 00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:40.920 Wall and Mirror Coffee. Those guys battled and they were down by twenty, 334 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:44.880 so I will give them a ton of credit out there. Yeah, I 335 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:48.720 like seeing Roco out there, you know. I think you're right about Zo. 336 00:25:49.079 --> 00:25:52.640 I think, you know, I just want to see these guys get 337 00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:55.680 right, you know. And so if they need to go ahead and start 338 00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:57.519 the young guys, let's just go ahead and do that. I would I 339 00:25:57.559 --> 00:26:02.880 would understand, and I think Nation would probably understand and be a little bit 340 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:06.720 more tolerant of the process. You know. I hate to call it that, 341 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:08.440 but you know, for lack of a better phrase, but you know, 342 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:11.559 just what for what the what the guys are going through right now, 343 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:15.599 But they need to be concerned with the product that they're putting out there on 344 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:18.119 the floor. And I just want to see them, you know, attack. 345 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:21.839 If you're a wounded dog, you need to attack, don't wait for 346 00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:23.200 somebody to bring the fight to you. I don't know what you think. 347 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:26.839 Yeah, but if you're a three legged dog, you're a disadvantage. They're 348 00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:32.480 they're worn down right now. There. There is something to that because the 349 00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:38.880 backups look the bench tonight, a lot of those guys don't play normally. 350 00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:45.759 So the second string guys we're injected into the starting lineup where you have Terrence 351 00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:49.640 Man and Luke Kennard in there, and Reggie Jackson, by the way, 352 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:53.160 had a rough night. He's looked beat up for a while. Now continues 353 00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:56.799 to play, but start at oh of eight. Uh finished one of nine 354 00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:02.599 with two points. But I think the toll of the season because they've missed 355 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:07.200 the two guys with the highest usage rating in Kauai and Paul George running the 356 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:11.000 show so much and they make things easier on everybody else that now it's affecting 357 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:15.799 the legs on the rest of the team and the role players, and asking 358 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:18.000 role players to have to step up night in and night out and play like 359 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:22.599 stars is not a recipe for success. You can see it here and there. 360 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:26.799 In a few games, it'll happen. Somebody will pop. If each 361 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:30.000 of zubots has thirty one and twenty nine, Norman pal has a twenty two 362 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:33.240 point fourth quarter, Luke Kenard has a twenty plus point game, hits five 363 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:38.440 three pointers. But you're not going to consistently get that from role players and 364 00:27:38.519 --> 00:27:45.039 contributors. That's why they are in those roles. So it's just I think 365 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:48.480 a war of attrition a little bit with this Clippers team, right Now you 366 00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:51.480 mentioned the cities and all the travel they've been through, but they've also been 367 00:27:51.559 --> 00:27:56.200 doing it for a lot of this time without their two main guys, and 368 00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:00.640 that's a problem. Not a lot you can do about it. Unfortunately, 369 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:06.000 the Clippers two on three connection has been injury frone. Gotta be honest about 370 00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:10.319 that. Mick, Mike the Clip and thousand Oaks make what's up? You're 371 00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:14.319 on? Clippers, stop with Adam Oszin. Just chill, chill, chill. 372 00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:18.200 We're gonna be there right at the end. That's all we need to 373 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:22.880 do. Just keep staying right where we're at. We just had five days 374 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:29.720 of ring. We never have rain. Clippers gonna be there. Everyone just 375 00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:33.200 relaxed. We got two of the greatest players that are out there right now. 376 00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:36.920 It's like Shack Shack. He's always take it off during the regular turn 377 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:41.279 it on during the playoffs. That's what Kawai does. This is wait. 378 00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:42.880 We got a coach and knows what he's doing. He knows how to handle 379 00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:48.640 this. You know, we got some great bench. We're gonna be there. 380 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:53.400 Mick. I appreciate the optimism, but look, they've lost five in 381 00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:57.279 a row, so staying where they're at isn't the solution either. Something does 382 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:02.640 five in a row. Just before before they lost five, they won five 383 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.680 five. Well, you don't want to end up a five hundred team. 384 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:11.359 Nah, they'll they'll be in there, they'll be they'll be up past that. 385 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:18.160 I mean they I'm with you as as long as they're healthy, you 386 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.759 know, the top team. It's more than that. It's more than that. 387 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:25.880 They're much closer to being the eleventh team right now, Mick, I 388 00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:29.599 appreciate the phone call than they are being the number one seed the Clippers. 389 00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:33.880 That separation as games go on and the bigger sample size happens, is happening 390 00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:37.640 in the Western Conference. Clippers are now six games back of the number one 391 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:41.759 overall seed. A week ago, it might have been two and a half 392 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:47.279 games. They are closer, just a game and a half up of the 393 00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:52.359 eleventh seat. So I'm not trying to be an alarmist. Those are just 394 00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:56.839 the numbers. That's where it is right now, That's where they stack up. 395 00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:00.200 Gotta be honest about it, Arthur. In Los Angeles, you're on 396 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:07.599 Clipper stock with Thatt Amassin. Hey, Hey, Arthur, what's up? 397 00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:12.599 Not too much? I don't know, I'm not I can understand Harold from 398 00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:19.799 North Hollywood script frustration, but we've seen a lot of basketball in our lives 399 00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:23.680 too, so I don't want to mention that. Tim. I remember when 400 00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:32.599 the Clippers were in San Diego and as a little boy, and I'm just 401 00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:34.839 sure I hope they don't lose too many games. Will they'd be completely out 402 00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:41.720 of the playoff picture. So are you putting this in perspective? Was saying 403 00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:48.079 the Clippers being a contender right now is still so much different than where this 404 00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:53.200 team has been the majority of the of the years of this franchise. Yeah, 405 00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:59.319 I got you, and that's true. But the championship expectations are here 406 00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:02.519 as well. And this is year four of the two on three connection with 407 00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:11.039 Kawai and Paul George. And how many games are they from missing from being 408 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.480 out completely out of the playoffs? Thank you said about last night about only 409 00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:18.240 two and a half or three games or something. It was two and a 410 00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:21.680 half last night. But now they lost to the team that was in the 411 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:23.279 eleven spot, so it's one and a half. They are a game and 412 00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:26.480 a half up on the eleven seed that is outside of the play it. 413 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:30.720 Arthur, I appreciate the phone call my friend. Hope to hear from you 414 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:36.400 again, maybe Sunday night, a little bit better of a phone. After 415 00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:40.400 the Clippers take on the Atlanta Hawks, let's hear from the head coach Toronto 416 00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:44.759 Loo post game some words of wisdom. I always, you know, take 417 00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:52.000 solace in his strategy and knowing that he is a playoff mad scientist and finds 418 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:59.559 ways to get this team victories when things look at their worst, when they're 419 00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:04.079 in their Marcus to our coach Lou has pushed all the right buttons and made 420 00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:07.519 the right moves down oh two and back to back series. Everybody counting them 421 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:10.119 out. Clippers won both of them and the second one. They want it 422 00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:14.480 without Kawhi Leonard in the last couple of games. So here was Coach lu 423 00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:17.079 post game after the Clippers fall fifth straight loss. They lose a Minnesota one 424 00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:22.640 twenty eight to one fifteen. Pretty feel this game was lost tonight. We 425 00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:25.359 on they had I think ten points in transition, you know, in the 426 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:30.359 first half. But I just thought it was the ability to get into the 427 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:31.559 paint. You know, I really heard us. We was closing out all 428 00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:36.640 night. Guys are driving by us and that's allowed Rudy get offensive rebounds and 429 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:38.839 dunks because we couldn't control the ball and keep the ball in front of us. 430 00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:43.160 So we had a tough night tonight. Guting the point of a point 431 00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:45.119 of attack. You know, I really hurt us cause they got into paint 432 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:52.319 a lot. Is there a level of frustration for the way that the games 433 00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.920 have been played the last few I mean, I wouldn't. I wouldn't say 434 00:32:55.960 --> 00:32:58.720 that. I mean, you know, it's tough, like I said, 435 00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:01.599 when you shortheaded the way we were tonight. You know, I thought our 436 00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:07.240 guys competed in scrapped and we were just you know, overmatched at times. 437 00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:09.039 And so you know that happens. But you know, all you can do 438 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:12.519 is just ask the guys got and compete and play hard. And I thought 439 00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.480 they did that, you know, And so it was a tough game for 440 00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:16.799 us, like I said, But just you know, we just gotta continue 441 00:33:16.799 --> 00:33:21.119 to keep getting better defensively. You know, we can't keep allowing teams to 442 00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:22.440 have a hundred points at the end of the third quarter, you know, 443 00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:27.200 so we gotta be better with that. But you know, I can't father 444 00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:30.000 with trying to play the right way, you know, offensively and just defensively. 445 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:32.000 I just thought, you know, it was it was a tough matchup 446 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:36.960 for us tonight at the halfway point of the season. You know, I 447 00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:40.000 knew it in the past weeks. Did you bring things down by ten games 448 00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:44.160 at a time? Is there something you know from a coaching mindset that when 449 00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:47.559 you get to the halfway point of the season you wanta have had full strength? 450 00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:52.000 You guys will need full strength for four games? Like how what is 451 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:54.079 it prevented you from being able to do? You know? And it is 452 00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:59.000 the fact that we're at the halfway at the point alarming it anyway, where 453 00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:00.480 do you feel like there's a lot of time and left? Not a lot 454 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:04.240 of time left? You know, I think, you know, a lot 455 00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:07.440 of people talk about continuity and stuff like that, but yeah, we've been 456 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:09.320 together for you know, three years, so the continuity is there. It's 457 00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:13.039 just the the plans not there. And so we just got to get healthy 458 00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:15.360 and you know, just figure it out from there. But you know, 459 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:17.840 I have no doubt once you know, once we get healthy and I understand 460 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:21.559 our rotations and how we need to play, we're gonna be fine. But 461 00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:23.679 you know, it's just been a tough year for us. Getting everybody healthy 462 00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:28.159 and playing at the same time. You know, so it is what it 463 00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:30.039 is. Were not the only team experience in that, you know, it's 464 00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:34.519 league wide. But I was worried about our team and we just gotta, 465 00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:37.000 you know, just try to get healthy and you know, string as many 466 00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:38.199 games together as we can. You know, what our whole what our whole 467 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:43.880 roster, and so that hasn't been a lot this year, and so you 468 00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:46.639 know, there's nothing you can really do about it. You know, that's 469 00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:51.880 a great point he makes. People talk about continuity, But the core of 470 00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:55.760 this team has been together for three years now. The time on the court 471 00:34:55.840 --> 00:35:02.280 together at times has been sporadic. It's been up and down with just seeing 472 00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:08.559 the same lineups and rotations together. But over three years they've built up something. 473 00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:12.960 They're not starting from scratch or anything like that. That's why you see 474 00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:17.079 a victory over the Boston Celtics where they beat them by twenty all of a 475 00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:22.039 sudden, like it just clicks in for this team because they've been around each 476 00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:27.000 other for a while, they have played a significant amount of games. There 477 00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:30.079 are some new pieces, but overall, the core, the nucleus of this 478 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:35.719 team remains, so something to be encouraged about there from coach Lu no doubt. 479 00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:38.400 Clippers though they've lost five straight. They lose one twenty eight to one 480 00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:43.960 fifteen Minnesota to the Timberwolves. Coming up next, we'll get back to your 481 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:50.039 phone calls. Lenny, it's back on Morris Jose hold on for me, 482 00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:52.320 Coming up next. Charles Mochler, though from Clips and Dip, will be 483 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:57.480 here eight six six nine eight seven two seventy eight six six to nine eight 484 00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:01.519 seven two five seventies the phone number here on AMPI seventy LA Sports. It 485 00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:07.760 on see I'm kat smoking on cheese and you know me. I two threes 486 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:16.440 and ache last times on my neck. Clippers losers of six of their last 487 00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:22.360 eight towns. They fall one twenty eight to one fifteen to the Timberwolves in 488 00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:28.039 Minnesota. Listen to Clippers Talk. I'm atam Oslin here on AM five seventy 489 00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:32.400 LA Sports eight six six ninety seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven 490 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:36.079 two five seventy of the phone number. We're getting back to your calls in 491 00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:39.840 just a bit here, but first we are joined by another member of the 492 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:45.039 Clips and Dip Pod Clips and Double Dip tonight here on Clippers Talk as Charles 493 00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:47.960 Mockler is with us. Charles, let me pose this question to you because 494 00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:52.159 this is kind of where I started tonight, and this is maybe the most 495 00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:57.440 concerning thing to me because throughout this season, really no matter who has been 496 00:36:57.480 --> 00:37:01.480 available for the Clippers, you know, their defense has been there, and 497 00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:05.960 I know strength of schedule plays a role, but this is a middle of 498 00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:08.400 the pack offense they faced tonight in the Minnesota Timberwolves, a team they held 499 00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:12.760 to eighty eight points. I know they had Kauai, they had Paul George 500 00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:16.800 for that one, but they still played up to competition when maybe they were 501 00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:22.199 at a talent disadvantage on the defensive end, and that's not happening right now. 502 00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:24.559 They were twenty eight defensively in their last seven games coming into this one, 503 00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:28.559 and they give up one hundred and twenty eight points. And the only 504 00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:30.679 one thing I can point to is it just looks like a Visa Zoo boss 505 00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:36.079 doesn't have the same level of intensity out there when you're talking about having that 506 00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:38.719 energy on the defensive end. Maybe he's just a little bit worn down and 507 00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:42.280 he's still coming off that injury. I don't know, what do you think. 508 00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:49.599 I think that's a good idea. You know, I think Zoo part 509 00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:52.440 of me wonders if he's kind of tired of the one who's been having to 510 00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:54.679 be this pillar for so long. Right, Like all of last season it 511 00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:58.840 was Zoo being a large part of why the defense was still I think it 512 00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.199 was still top ten even last year without Paul George for most of the season, 513 00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:06.800 without Kawai for all of it. I just think guys are tired. 514 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:10.840 You know this, A team like the Clippers is currently constructed, can't rely 515 00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:16.880 on the role guys this much for the second year in a row without something 516 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:21.920 breaking, be it something mentally where maybe Zoo is thinking, I've put him 517 00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:24.960 so much work and I just physically can't anymore with the people that are around 518 00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:29.639 him, when you know Paul George and Kauai and Nick Batum are out, 519 00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:31.559 and part of it is, you know, Morris and Reggie in terms of 520 00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:35.719 starters, have been kind of rough all the defensive end this year, and 521 00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:40.360 that compounds everything when your two stars are out. But it's just been brutal. 522 00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:44.679 I think you tweeted this out during the game. The Clippers defense has 523 00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:49.000 been something like twenty eight in the last seven games or so. And it 524 00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:52.079 makes it really hard to get things started on the other end too, So 525 00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:54.480 I think part of it is Zoo, But I honestly don't blame Zoo a 526 00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:58.280 whole bunch. He's been He's been working really hard, and guys have just 527 00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:04.599 been out and lame him. I'm just seeing this drastic drop off and because 528 00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:07.320 he was so good and anchoring it and I think cleaning up a lot of 529 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:12.039 mistakes and that's not able to happen right now. Maybe because he's just not 530 00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:15.239 moving the same way that that's what I'm pointing to is the biggest reason. 531 00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:21.760 Yeah, he wasn't moving super well. We've seen the explosiveness kind of go 532 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:23.760 down. I think the first fifteen games or so, it felt like he 533 00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:28.599 was putting someone on a poster every other game on the offensive end, and 534 00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:31.400 we just haven't seen that ferocity, so he might be flowing down. I 535 00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:36.079 think that's a very good column something to watch out for kind of going forward. 536 00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:38.960 Yeah, to your point, I'm looking at blocks per game, and 537 00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:45.159 Okay, he starts off the month of October. Granted it's only I think 538 00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:51.280 seven games at three blocks per game drops to one point three, but that's 539 00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:54.320 still a very good number and a sustainable number for him in the month of 540 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:59.840 November. Now it's at point eight in December and point five in three games 541 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:05.960 so far in the new year in twenty twenty three. So I just think 542 00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:09.480 there's something to it. He just hasn't looked quite right and they need him 543 00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:15.320 badly. And for everyone who has been against the Beats, the Zubas for 544 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:17.800 some reason or another, there is a group of Clippers fans that aren't big 545 00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:22.599 fans of him. Well, now you're seeing what happens when he's not there, 546 00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:27.519 patrolling the pain and not able to play to the best of his abilities. 547 00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:30.960 But hopefully they can turn that around soon. I did think they're you 548 00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:35.719 know, overall, it's tough to find a lot of positives after the last 549 00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:39.480 two games, but they did fight down the stretch. I thought Moses Brown 550 00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:44.519 and he takes a lot of heat too, But in twenty seven minutes fourteen 551 00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:47.320 eleven, you can say it was inconsequential, but the effort was there. 552 00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:52.320 There was a group on the floor, literally on the floor and going after 553 00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:55.880 rebounds in a game they're down by sixteen eighteen twenty three points at one point 554 00:40:57.400 --> 00:41:00.559 where they were still fighting and battling and meaningful. That's a team that hasn't 555 00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:05.920 quit. Yeah, I mean, Terence Moses was great. I've been a 556 00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:09.159 critic of Moses over on our podcast, but tonight he was. You know, 557 00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:14.079 this was peaque Moses Brown right, like he got the social media promo 558 00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:16.199 for the clips. He had ten offensive rebounds. Some of those might have 559 00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:21.000 been his misses, but who knows, but he was phenomenal. Terrence Man 560 00:41:21.639 --> 00:41:25.280 one of the I mean, maybe the only starter who really looked like he 561 00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:29.679 was giving it one hundred ten percent, I guess, but even he only 562 00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:32.320 ended up with ten points. Norman john Wall were great tonight too. I 563 00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:37.400 thought Tyler actually kind of took john Wall and Norm Powell out a little bit 564 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:40.559 early. I think it was six minutes left. I know we were down 565 00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:45.199 seventeen, and I'm not saying that we would have won the game if Norman 566 00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:49.079 john Wall stayed in, but it's two guys who I mean, that's just 567 00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:52.639 one of their better combined games of the year, if not the best combined 568 00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:54.519 game of the year. So there were four guys or so that they really 569 00:41:54.599 --> 00:41:58.760 tried hard tonight and really looked like it. And yeah, I mean Moses 570 00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:01.239 shout out Moses Brown. I'm bummed that we wasted this Moses Brown performance. 571 00:42:01.559 --> 00:42:05.840 Maybe he just got the news that Luke Kennard, you know, strained that 572 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:07.039 right calf once again, and all of a sudden, it's like, oh, 573 00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:10.639 we better save some of our guards because here we go again with some 574 00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:14.800 of these injuries. And hopefully it's not bad because last time he was out 575 00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:19.679 for about three weeks, and an injury like that is something worth monitoring. 576 00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:22.519 Of course, in that area of the body, everybody starts to think about 577 00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:24.519 the achilles and things like that. And I thought he was okay. He 578 00:42:24.599 --> 00:42:28.599 didn't take a three point in the first half, but he had an early 579 00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:31.360 jumper, was looking for the mid range and eventually hit a three pointer and 580 00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:36.800 had eleven points. But hoping he can come back sooner than later. Roco 581 00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:40.719 though, maybe the biggest thing from the last two games is just seeing Robert 582 00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:45.039 Covington back out there, regardless of the score, just seeing Rocco as a 583 00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:49.280 sight for sore eyes. And I thought he looked even better tonight than he 584 00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:53.719 did yesterday. Yeah, it's gonna be rough with him to get consisted performances 585 00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:58.719 when you get these kind of random dnps and stuff like that. But you 586 00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:02.559 know, you look at the game against the Nuggets, Robert Covington plus one 587 00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:07.599 in twenty three minutes, a game the Clippers loss by a whole hell of 588 00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:12.679 a lot. So he was fantastic tonight. You know, twelve points, 589 00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:15.000 six boards. This was kind of peak Robert Covington. I think he wasn't 590 00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:21.280 really accurate from the three point line, but he was so effective bothering the 591 00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:24.000 Timberwolves when he could. And again, it just goes to show you give 592 00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:29.440 Robert Covington consistent run and good things happen usually on both ends of the floor. 593 00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:31.800 And when we're missing three wings in this game, I thought he maybe 594 00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:36.119 should have played little bit more. But hopefully he plays more when we're fully 595 00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:39.679 healthy or whatever the Clippers version of fully healthy is going forward. And I 596 00:43:39.719 --> 00:43:44.280 don't think we can overstate not just the loss of Kawai and Paul George, 597 00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:46.800 but not having Nick Batum out there. Someone called yesterday and said, you 598 00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:51.000 know who's the heart and soul of this team, the guy that's going to 599 00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:54.679 get them re energized out there and somebody you can feed off of. It 600 00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:59.440 used to be Patrick Beverley. I would say, now that guy is Nicholas 601 00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:02.800 Patum. He has all the intangibles and not having him as a huge blow. 602 00:44:05.239 --> 00:44:07.280 Yeah, he sets the tone. He does things like he'll just he'll 603 00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:09.760 do something I kill us, deflect the path and then clap it up or 604 00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:14.119 something like that. Maybe the Clippers don't even get possession off of that, 605 00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:19.760 but he really does kind of get this mindset kind of permeating through the whole 606 00:44:19.840 --> 00:44:23.199 rest of the team with just how he does the little things on the defensive 607 00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:28.320 end. Another guy who Roco, if he was getting consistent play, I 608 00:44:28.440 --> 00:44:30.840 think would be similar to patun like that. But but man, no, 609 00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:36.800 Nick Patum continues to be kind of low key, the second or third most 610 00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:39.679 important Clipper when it comes to kind of vibes if we want the team to 611 00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:44.559 lock in and reset. So, where are you at at the midway point? 612 00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:47.280 I'm not going to ask you for a grade, but maybe just how 613 00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:52.000 concerned are you with where they're at after their longest losing streets so far the 614 00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:54.760 season. They've lost five in a row, they've lost six of eight, 615 00:44:55.119 --> 00:45:01.559 and they're twenty one and twenty halfway through the season. I mean, it's 616 00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:06.280 it's hard not to be a little bit worried, right. I think we're 617 00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:10.559 a half game away from the nine seed right now, which no one wants 618 00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:14.920 to be in the plan at all. I'm disappointed we haven't seen more of 619 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:16.960 Kaway and Paul George together. That's not a knock on either of those guys. 620 00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:21.960 It's just something that we kind of have to consistently deal with as Clippers 621 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:25.000 fans. But you know, there's been some good for sure, Norm had 622 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:30.320 a nice little run there. This last game from John Wall was good zoo. 623 00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:32.519 You know, other than these past couple of games, has looked better 624 00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:37.440 than last season. But man, at this point, I'm hoping for health 625 00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:40.320 and we only have you know, forty one more games to show that this 626 00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:44.519 team can be a contender. We've gotten, you know, the game against 627 00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:47.199 the Celtics was a snapshot of how good this Clippers team can be, but 628 00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:51.400 we've really only seen one game of it. We've seen shifts here and there 629 00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:54.800 in some losing efforts which have been encouraging. But until we see it really 630 00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:59.599 put together, and until we kind of put some distance between us and the 631 00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:04.039 play in teams, it's hard to not be a little bit, you know, 632 00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:07.840 worried as a Clippers fan. I think it's fair with the position they 633 00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:12.480 sit in right now at a game and a half up on the eleventh seat, 634 00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:15.840 which is the Minnesota Timberwolves. Clippers lose one twenty eight to one fifteen 635 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:21.199 in Minnesota. Charles Mockler is his name? Does it for the Clips and 636 00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:24.800 Dip podcast with myself and William Updyke. Charles, I'm guessing maybe we'll be 637 00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:28.639 doing something this weekend or Monday or I don't know when, but it's gonna 638 00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:30.440 happen soon. We'll have the tripod back in order. Thanks for doing this 639 00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:35.639 tonight though a little Clips and Double Dip here on Clippers Talk. Absolutely. 640 00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:38.159 Here's then coming on for a win next time, Yes, sir, coming 641 00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:43.039 up next Phone calls eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six 642 00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:45.800 six ninety eight seven two five seventy. We'll get to you. I promise 643 00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:52.159 we'll close things out here at Clippers Stalk on Amp five seventy always only nobody 644 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:54.960 know me. Oh well, it's hard to complain from this five star, 645 00:46:55.199 --> 00:47:05.760 right Tel. I'm always the da video. Clippers lose one eight one fifteen 646 00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:09.960 to the Simmerwolves in Minnesota, longest losing streak of the season now up to 647 00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:14.960 five games. They're looking to turn that around with a five game homestands starting 648 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:19.800 Sunday night back in downtown Los Angeles. I guess the Atlanta Hawks tip time 649 00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:22.440 for that one is at six. Let's go to Morris and Long Beach Morris 650 00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:27.880 here on, Clippers stop without Austin. Hey, my brother, the curse 651 00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:30.360 word was thrown out there. Yes, the curse word talking about trade. 652 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:34.920 These are my suggestions. If we can't trade for the Joker or at a 653 00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:37.840 Combo or Luca Dodges, maybe Joel Lumbiad or Kevin Durant, let's go for 654 00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:42.119 a trade. But if we can't get one of those guys, let's just 655 00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:45.760 stick with what we got to the first round. All right, things don't 656 00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:49.920 go well in the first round, arguably we'll bready to do some terms of 657 00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:52.760 trades. But we're married right now. Like you said, everybody's going through 658 00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:55.079 this stuff is ugly. You've got a bad taste in the mouth. But 659 00:47:55.199 --> 00:47:59.079 I got freeped in these guys. They're kind of deep. It's a long 660 00:47:59.400 --> 00:48:01.800 season, so you know, I don't have no excuse thiss one. We 661 00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:05.679 had all of them guys last night and got whooped so, but it's like 662 00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:07.840 that in the NBA. So I know we're putting all of our ducks, 663 00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:10.840 all of our age in the basket of the playoffs, and I don't know 664 00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:14.280 if that's a good thing because that puts us from the road in every series. 665 00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:15.840 But I've got faith in these days that I'm not ready to give up 666 00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:19.039 on it yet. I know I'm crazy, but maybe I just am. 667 00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.400 I've talked to you, lady, No. I think you're right to have 668 00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:25.000 faith because body will work with coach Low and what he's been able to do 669 00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:30.840 over the years. He's a strategist, he is somebody that typically is a 670 00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:37.679 step ahead. If that doesn't happen this season, then maybe I changed my 671 00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:39.320 mind on that. If they don't look the same in the playoffs, if 672 00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:44.840 he isn't making all the right moves. But so far as a head coach, 673 00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:49.400 I think he has always maximized his talent. Cleveland, coming back down 674 00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:53.679 three one, Clippers taken Phoenix to six games in the Western Conference Finals without 675 00:48:53.760 --> 00:49:00.480 Kawhi Leonard and those other Calves teams. I know they had Brown, but 676 00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:04.239 not much else when Kyrie Irving left, and they still made it to the 677 00:49:04.360 --> 00:49:09.000 NBA Finals. With him as the head coach, I think he does enough 678 00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:14.239 to optimize lineups when it matters most. Jose and Southgate close things out tonight 679 00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:17.119 here on Clippers Stalk. Hey, I don't know, I understand what you're 680 00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:21.599 saying about Zooberg, but I also understand that out of everybody, he's the 681 00:49:21.639 --> 00:49:23.400 only one who doesn't really have a backup. I know we have Brown, 682 00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:28.880 but I was going to say that, and then hearing Morris, that's why 683 00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:31.039 I feel we can't get a yo kid or MBI. We're married, Let's 684 00:49:31.079 --> 00:49:34.199 do this. You know, he could call us crazy, but I'm a 685 00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:37.039 Clipper fan. And that being said at him, it looks like our boys 686 00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:38.960 will be some home cooking. We're coming home on Sunday and me my boy 687 00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:45.119 going to the game. Let's go clear up pars all right, bring that 688 00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:50.119 energy, bring that noise Sunday night and down to Los Angeles. Jose good 689 00:49:50.159 --> 00:49:53.239 way to close out the show. And it's a great point. They haven't 690 00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:59.079 had a true backup center. Moses Brown is a young player in this league 691 00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:01.440 without a ton of it experience, and I have appreciated his effort when he's 692 00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:06.239 been out there on the court, and tonight certainly in twenty seven minutes, 693 00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:09.559 fourteen and eleven. But one of the talking points all season long has been 694 00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:14.679 when you lose Isaiah Hartenstein and you don't replace him with anyone and they try 695 00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:16.559 to go small and it hasn't been working. In Rocco hasn't even been playing 696 00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:21.840 that much. Is that the move that this team makes, we'll see. 697 00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:24.480 I don't think it has to be anything drastic, If they make anything at 698 00:50:24.519 --> 00:50:31.559 all, I'm not talking about Yokis or Denna Kopo, just trying to point 699 00:50:31.599 --> 00:50:35.880 out that they could shore up some of their weaknesses with the move. It 700 00:50:36.039 --> 00:50:38.159 could happen. It wouldn't shock me with this front office, because you just 701 00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:43.199 never know when they work in stealth like they do. Clippers lose one twenty 702 00:50:43.239 --> 00:50:47.360 eight to one fifteen to the Timberwolves. Their next game, they start a 703 00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:53.480 home campaign Sunday night against the Atlanta Hawks. Tip time at six and Downtown 704 00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:59.480 LA. We'll have Clippers Count and your pregame show then at five before we 705 00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:01.159 get out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Noah 706 00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:06.559 Eagle, Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawlor, Big Brother, Jake Warner, Producer, 707 00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:12.880 Katie Newton, callers, the listeners check out Clippers Talk. I think 708 00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:21.199 it might even be on Spotify and iTunes now so soon. If it is, 709 00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:23.559 I'll post the link, but get to me at follow Adam, You'll 710 00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:28.519 see it there for sure. If that's the case. Until Sunday at five 711 00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:30.480 with their pregame show, Clippers Taken on the Hawks, I'm Adams and we'll 712 00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:51.159 talk to you then. This has been Clippers Talk, a postgame conversation about 713 00:51:51.239 --> 00:51:54.599 your LA Clippers with Adam Oslay. 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