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The game is over all George Money
in the pain, but the postgame reaction

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has just begot Gohi Leonard is so
smooth in the mid range. This is

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Clippers Locker Room, a recap of
today's game and a look ahead on your

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hope for LA Clippers basketball. And
now your host, you, sir,

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are a bad man, Adam Ousley. Clippers fall on their third straight game.

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They lose, this time one oho
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to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Welcome into
your post game show. Coming up,

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we'll get your post game box scorer, your final box scorer. You'll hear

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from Coach Low and the players.
But first we get back over to your

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voice of the Clippers in Noah Eagle. Just a brutal loss in this one,

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Noah, especially coming off the way
they battled in those last two games

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against top tier competition. Now they've
lost the tiebreaker to the Minnesota Timberwolves and

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they've dropped to the seventh spot in
the West after this loss tonight. Yeah,

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I mean, that's it's just you
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urgency has to come eventually. I
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It just doesn't feel like the urgency
is there yet, and there's eighteen games

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left in the season at them now, at the end of the day,

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they can rip off a bunch of
different wins, they can rip off a

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bunch of different streaks and all will
be fine. And that's the nature of

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the beast of the NBA is that
when you're not winning, it feels like

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you're never gonna win, and when
you're not losing, it feels like you're

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never gonna lose. But there's gotta
be a happy medium there, and right

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now it just feels like it is
on one end of the spectrum and not

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the other. The Clippers just can't
get out of their own way. And

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today twenty five turnovers leading to twenty
nine Minnesota points. That's that's just unacceptable

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for a team that not only wants
again the playoffs, but believes they can

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win a championship this year. That's
not gonna fly. Yeah, they put

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themselves in an uphill battle after that
first quarter, and you brought it up

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at the end of the first quarter. They let Minnesota start to feel good

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about themselves and a team that was
desperate for a win by the way,

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you know, a wounded animal is
a dangerous one. They also have some

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injuries, and they stepped up and
took advantage and took advantage of the opportunities,

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and the Clippers gave them no question. So you give Minnesota a hard

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they go a mile with it.
And six players in double figures for the

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Timberwolves tonight, for a team that
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one hundred eight points in this game. The Clippers had been averaging one hundred

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and thirty four in their previous four
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tonight, So the offense sputters out. Look. The worst part is that

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it doesn't get much easier after this. You go to Golden State, where

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they've been great at home. Then
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a team you just had an old
time thriller with. Then you get back

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home and you get Memphis, the
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Western Conference. Then Toronto, who's
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back there, the Nicks, who
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now, and then the Warriors again
once here at home. Not to mention

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Memphis twice on a two game miniseries
in Memphis You've got who else is on

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that trip, two game miniseries in
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as well. You've got Phoenix on
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So you've got teams that are all
playoff teams. You've got teams that are

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going to be difficult. So that's
a two game mini series in Memphis and

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a game in New Orleans. It's
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this team. The majority of their
schedule is against playoff caliber teams, including

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the Oklahoma City Thunder who they have
a two game mini series with here at

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home. And they lost that two
game mini series on the road to the

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beginning of the year, and that
was really when things started to spiral a

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little bit out of control. So
you know games that you look pat back

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on over the course of the season
that probably should have been wins, this

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one included, and you start to
add it up in your in your head

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and see, man, that is
just absolutely brutal for the Clippers to not

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find a way to get through and
knock stockpile those wins. And so this

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was another example of that they got
they gotta race a quickly, find a

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way to get past it and head
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and just find a confidence level that
right now they are lacking. It's gotta

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start Thursday in San Francisco against the
Golden State Warriors. Tip time for that

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one is at seven. We'll have
Clippers countdown your pregame shows starting at six.

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No Eagles safe travels up north.
I don't know if you find some

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gym boys up there, but the
call is always my friend. Yeah,

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well, we'll see how it goes. I'm sure that I'll be down to

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go full cheesy with it. Can't
wait, can't wait. Coming up,

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I'll get to your final box score. Clippers lose one o eight to one

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oh one here at home to the
Minnesota Timberwolves, and you're listening to the

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Los Angeles Clippers Radio. Hen he
got it. Count it from distance,

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the odds on favorite to hoist the
Larry o'bright heavily contest it and it doesn't

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matter. On the home of your
LA Clippers. The Clippers lose one O

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eight to one oh one. Here
from Crypto dot Com arena, it's Madam

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Oslin live with your post game show. Welcome back in coming up on a

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M five seventy LA Sports, we
will have Clippers stock for you. Eight

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six six nine eight seven two five
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five seventy is the phone number.
Clippers end up shooting just forty two percent

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from the field eleven or twenty eight
from the outside. That's thirty nine percent.

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That's not a terrible percentage, but
it's interesting that they only attempted twenty

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eight three pointers in this game.
Of course, you can say when you

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have twenty five turnovers, you're getting
less shots up, and Minnesota did get

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up even with their nineteen turnovers,
seven more shots than the Clippers, who

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were not able to overcome a big
deficit heading into the fourth quarter. They

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had it to within six multiple times. They had it to within four,

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but had some bad possessions down the
stretch. The turnovers also continued in crucial

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moments. Russell Westbrook had a couple
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overall just they couldn't find anybody with
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time. Kawhi Leonard went through a
shooting funk in this one. He finished

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with twenty three but on nineteen shots
seven of nineteen Paul George twenty five on

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ten of twenty one shooting off the
bench. Norman Powell did have ten of

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his thirteen points in the fourth quarter
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to start things off as they tried
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not enough defensively down the stretch.
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Timberwolves after timeouts. As Jay McDaniels
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huge three pointer in the fourth quarter. Anthony Edwards just eighteen, but Rudy

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Gobert sixteen, a couple of blocks, a big throwdown, had an and

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one in the fourth quarter, and
the Clippers would lose this one by seven.

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Tough one, Clipper Nation, I've
been saying that way too much lately.

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They fall one o eight to one
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to the Timberwolves. Coming up next, We're looking for postgame audio from the

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head coach and the players in whole
preview Thursday's game up in San Francisco against

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the Golden State Waters. This is
your Clippers postgame show here in the Los

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Angeles Clippers regular George and Leonard running. You're listening to La Clippers basketball it

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up to clip puts it down plus
the foul every game of all season long

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on their official holds Timbers for down
by thirteen. No comeback in this one

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as they lose one o eight to
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say it was the Minnesota Timberwolves who
did it, as the Clippers led by

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twelve early in the first corner just
to lose by seven. Final score Timberwolves

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one o eight of Los Angeles Clippers
one oh one. Clippers next game coming

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up Thursday. If this was a
lust win, necessary win, well,

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Thursday, they gotta have it against
the Golden State Warriors, who will likely

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still be without Steph Curry up north
in San Francisco. Tip time for that

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one is at seven, as they're
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back. They'll be in Sacramento on
Friday. It's a team who just put

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up one hundred and seventy six points
against them, and the Clippers lost double

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over tide of the second highest scoring
game of all time last Friday night.

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But it starts with Golden State Thursday. Gotta focus on that one. They

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gotta find a way to get it. Pregame show will be at six on

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Thursday outside of Los Angeles. We
are leaving you until then. Coming up,

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we got Clippers Talk. Eight six
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Eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number as

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I'm live from Krypto dot Com arena
and watching Anthony Edwards putting up some jumpers

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late. Good side if you're Timberwolves
fan, that young man wants to be

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great at eighteen point six of eighteen
shooting, so he's working on the shot

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postgame. Clipper's got a lot to
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up on Clippers Talk on AMPI seven
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your home for them all. Clippers, Welcome into Clipperstock. Here's a new

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sheriff in town. You won't be
able to deny it. If you're gonna

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go to the NBA Finals. I
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the best team in the history of
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A postgame look, it's your La
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Talk. Here's Adam Oslin. Minnesota
was hungry like a wolf after losing three

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straight and the Clippers throughout twenty of
red meat in the form of twenty five

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turnovers as the Timberwolves would go on
to win one o eight to one oh

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one. Here at Crypto dot com
arena over to Los Angeles Clippers. Welcome

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in the Clippers Talk. I'm Outam
Oslin. Eight sixty six nine eight seven

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two five seventy eight six six nine
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up on the show, we'll Updike
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You'll hear from the head coach in
Toronto, lou and the players Clipper

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Nation. I cannot overstate how difficult
of a loss this is for the Clippers

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as a team that had lost three
in a row. Now sent them to

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losing three straight after they had played
their hearts out against Sacramento and lost in

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double ot on Friday night, and
then lost in overtime against Denver, and

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what would have been their best victory
of the season, they didn't get it,

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and they compound things by losing tonight
against a team that is near them

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in the standings. Will update you
on those in the Western Conference coming up,

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but Minnesota didn't have Carl Anthony Towns. Clippers got Big Zoo of Vitza

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Zoobots back in this one, and
it looked like they were in control.

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That first quarter had them up by
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there were some warning signs defensively.
After the Clippers came out and played a

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much better first quarter than they did
against the Kings, where they gave up

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forty points than they did against Denver. They gave up thirty five. They

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were up by twelve, they were
controlling things, they were in sync on

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the defensive end. It was five
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two to twenty after Terrence Man had
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Leonard with one thirteen left in the
first quarter, and this is where I

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believe the game swung back in Minnesota's
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they would knock down two three pointers
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from being up twelve to then just
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feeling good about themselves. They saw
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of times and from then on,
after scoring just twenty six points in the

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first quarter, they had thirty two
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the Clippers were down by two after
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like it could be their night to
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that has struggled this season, even
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own injury issues. They trade D'Angelo
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great game six of eighteen, but
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It's his fourth twenty plus point game, first those since January second,

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and he averaged eleven points in the
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this one where he burns the Clippers
late with a huge three pointer as the

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Clippers were in an uphill battle heading
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where they had nine turnovers nine of
their twenty five, they were down by

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eleven as they entered the fourth.
They put themselves in a miserable position that

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they were not able to overcome.
The closest they got was four, and

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that was very late in the fourth
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Westbrook hit a three pointer at one
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two seconds left. But before that, the backbreaking shot may have been this.

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Clippers are down six with three twenty
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had some momentum after Norman Powell,
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the fourth after and I know he'll
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had a play in the third quarter
where he was arguing a call in the

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far side corner, missed the shot, didn't get the foul, but the

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Clippers got the offensive rebound, and
Nicholas Batoum was looking for him back in

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that corner. He passed it over, but Norman Powell wasn't looking for it

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because he was arguing with the official. There's eighteen games left now, that

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stuff can't happen. This laid into
the season, especially when you're not playing

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well and you gotta value every possession, something the Clippers have not been doing.

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And two of their last three games
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They had it against Sacramento, but
in that game, well, they had

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ten minutes of overtime, going into
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were bad. Tonight they were worse. Unbelievably. Kawhi Leonard actually had a

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conversation on the court with Norman Powell
and those who have a history. They

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won a championship together in Toronto,
and the famous clip of Norm trying to

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get a fist bump from Kawai and
him not giving it to him and just

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pointing, hey, we got a
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a brutal play. He tried to
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had ten of his thirteen there and
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twenty one mark of the fourth,
but out of that time out, Jade

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McDaniels got a very good look at
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close to him, and he knocked
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on eight of twelve, shooting two
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won't put him up by nine.
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poor possessions. Paul George did what
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brought it to within seven. He
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five with a minute forty seven left, but then Kyle Anderson hit a floater

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to put them back up by seven. And in between that there was a

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tough miss by Russell Westbrook in a
possession that was completely devoid of ball movement,

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stagnant. I don't think anybody else
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rebound on the other end, brought
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minute left. Liked his matchup against
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tried to fade away from twelve feet
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of turnovers in this fourth quarter where
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and he got into transition, got
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to save the ball from going out
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Leonard who was there, but it
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then he found or he was looking
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made a tough pass to him,
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not putting it on one guy.
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an amazing first half in this one, where I want to say he had

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eight assists to two turnovers. Was
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but had some tough possessions down the
stretch as a few Clippers. And they

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lose this one, and they haven't
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Level of competition of course matters.
But tonight you thought, okay, get

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right game. They're back home,
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getting the beats to zoobots Back,
who look good overall. He had twelve

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and nine, was moving well.
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off of miss from Russ. This
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is one where you're close enough to
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to look back upon maybe the last
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Clippers in. Nothing's determined yet.
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But make no mistake, these games
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and where you can end up,
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more difficult for yourself to get through
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right now the Clippers just aren't playing
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Twenty five turnovers in two of the
last three games is pretty inexcusable. That

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will give you losses. And two
of those games where they had the twenty

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five turnovers against Sacramento and against the
Timberwolves night both at home, and the

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Clippers got off to a good start
tonight. It's baffling to see them implode

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like this. You want to say
it's the new guys and lack of familiarity

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and building up chemistry and rotations and
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to one another. I can buy
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of it though. It was just
sloppy basketball, unserious basketball, as the

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kids would say. And this team, it was a flaw early on this

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season that it looked to be fixed
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were of the best teams when it
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or they were given up sixteen turnovers
per game. But it's reared. It's

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ugly head again. The turnover issue
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eight to one oh one at home
to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Before you get

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to your phone calls, let's pause
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Clippers lose by seven in a game
they really needed because now they're dangerously

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close to being in the play in
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right now. It just makes Thursday's
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back, starting with the Golden State
Warriors Thursday than the Sacramento Kings on Friday.

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All right, let's start with Mike
in La. Mike, you're on

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Clippers stop without am oslind And you
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season results in the championship, I
think Taylu needs to go. I mean,

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as I'm a huge Taylu fan,
I hate saying this, but you

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know, the lack of seriousness about
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just not serious all season is I
mean, you have to put that on

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the coach. He you know,
they had such a great thing going into

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the All Star break. Then you
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you go away from what was working, and you know this is the

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result. I mean, it just
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wants to tinker, he wants to
do whatever, but you can only tinker

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so much. You had you you
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for the you know, a couple
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a couple few weeks before the All
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then you just go away from that. That just it doesn't make any sense.

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It's inexplicable. I understand your frustration
right now because experimenting with nineteen games

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left now, eighteen games left,
it just seems like a dangerous game.

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Part of it is necessary because you
have four new players now after the trade

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deadline. But you mentioned they had
two really good bit wins, and that

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Phoenix one was one of the best
of the season. Terrence Man may have

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had his best regular season game ever
in that one. I thought he was

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the best player on the floor with
his twenty six. He thought you had

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momentum going into the All Star break. Terrence Man ends up playing twenty two

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minutes in this one. Nicholas Beatum
just twenty Your newest Clipper, Russell Westbrook

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at twenty seven, Marcus Moore's at
twenty one minutes, Kawai and PG heavy

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minutes. Kawai a thirty eight once
again didn't have his best tonight. But

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you can't expect him to play like
Superman every night either. Nights like this

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we're gonna happen. Somebody else has
to perform. The deepest team in the

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NBA coming into this season, they
got a fin and energy elsewhere. They

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gotta find buckets elsewhere. And really
this has come down to them being so

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much worse on defense than I ever
would have imagined, especially with the start

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they got off to this year.
And I appreciate the phone called Mike.

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There were a top five defense through
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Do you know where they're ranked defensively
since the start of the new year

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the last two months now twenty seven? How can that happen? Now?

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They're second in offense over that time. And I know they've had some injuries

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and missing Big Zoo the last two
games was huge, but they had them

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tonight and they couldn't get stopped when
they needed to. This is a brutal

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loss, a crippling loss. Hopefully
not a fatal loss for the Clippers.

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They still have eighteen games left.
But I told you the other night,

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after disappointpointments against the Kings in doublet
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when you could have picked up two
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where you're up by fourteen with under
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be won. They lost it four
different times, nine point lead after that,

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six point lead, six point leads, and overtime. When you start

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giving away games like that, you
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You can't have one loss turn into
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have happened now over this three game
losing street for the Clippers. Eight six

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six nine eight seven two five seventy
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seventy is the phone number coming back. We'll get to your phone calls.

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We're looking for postgame audio from coach
Slew as well Clippers losing this one one

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o eight to one oh one to
the Minnesota Timberwolves in a game they desperately

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needed, and they need to play
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Don't care who's on the court.
To get to the playoffs, you gotta

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start playing better basketball because right now
they're headed towards the play in, not

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the position they want to be in. Who's the team they played in the

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play in last year, Minnesota.
They beat them again tonight and they win

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the season series, meaning they have
the tiebreaker against the Clippers. So yeah,

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if I'm a little bit fired up
tonight, there's a few reasons why

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the predation will offer positives. Of
course, as always here too eighteen games

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left. There's still time, but
the runway is getting short. Listening to

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the Clipper stock, you're on AM
five seventy l A Sports and he got

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it. Count it from distance.
The odds on favorite to hoist the Larry

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O'Brien heavily contested, and it doesn't
matter on the home of your LA Clippers

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numbers. Lose one o eight to
one oh one and as close as you

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can get to a must win in
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welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm
ata Moslin to eight sixty six nine

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eight seven two five seventy eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy is

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the phone number? Have the Clippers
tried too many changes recently? Is it

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just unrealistic to make this thing work
and to have enough guy's Jael who are

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playing big roles when they just brought
him in. I don't know. It's

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not looking good right now. Look, they played amazing basketball at times against

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Sacramento, at times against Denver,
but they were still losses. Tonight,

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I'd say they had about ten or
fifteen minutes of good basketball, not good

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enough against any team in this league, but a team that was hungry like

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the Timberwolves, that is now just
a game back of the Clippers. Clippers

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are in the sixth spot in the
West, they are in a precarious position.

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Dallas bumps down to seven. They're
in the play in currently a half

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game back of the Clippers. But
what makes this loss even worse is because

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Minnesota wins the season series against the
Clippers, and that's the first tiebreaker.

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You hope that doesn't come back to
haunt him. Clippers will see Golden State,

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who's right in front of them,
because while they have one less win,

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they have one less loss, they're
in the five spot. They'll see

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him Thursday night in San Francisco,
Eddie. In Whittier, Eddie, you're

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on Clippers stop without Amasa? What's
up? Hey? What's up? Bad

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him? I agree? I think
the team just has too much depth and

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guys just don't know their role right
now. You know, I think there's

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been too much change as of late. And one thing I've noticed too is

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Norman Powell was really you know,
scoring high the last couple of games when

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we were winning, and he hasn't
been putting up those numbers out of late

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either. So, you know,
I think it's just too much going on.

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Just the team's too deep and people
just don't know their role. You

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wonder if there's too many moving parts
right now and too many guys have to

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be integrated during the most important part
of the regular season. That is my

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concern. Norm Powell. No,
it's a good point, Eddie. I

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appreciate the phone call and you bring
it up Norm Powell. Before the break,

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he didn't play against Phoenix, Remember, but Eric Gordon had a really

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good game. Who currently is doing
a Q and A with Noah Eagle here

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a post game on the court.
So is he was finding his sea legs

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with the Clippers, so to speak, is Bones Highland and Mason Plumley were

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finding the roles. And I'm not
worried about Mason Plumley. You know,

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he's a guy who can just plug
and play because of the position, because

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how needed he is. He is
your backup center. There's no doubt about

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it. There's no question about pecking
order or who's gonna get minutes behind.

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It beats the zoobos now, but
how many minutes are going to Norman Powell?

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He played twenty four to night,
he was four or fourteen. He

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did most of his damage on the
fourth quarter, which he's done all season

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long, where he's been shooting I
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But thirteen points to night, just
nine against Denver. The two games before

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that twenty four twenty four and then
sixteen before that twenty four, fourteen,

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twenty four, twenty six, twenty
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He was starring in his role on
his way to winning six minut of

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the Year or at least being in
The conversation at top three has to be

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you wonder how guys adjust to seeing
new players coming in that are taking up

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some of their minutes because we thought, okay, they consolidated some of the

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talent in the back court. Well
then they bring us in. That changes

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everything. Terrence Man was the starter, now he's not. They had just

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won ten of their last fourteen and
eight of two at one point before the

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All Star break. Now they've lost
three in a row out of it.

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I'm not putting it on one player. It's not and I'm not putting it

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just on the coach. It's not. Some of it is understandable. Some

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of it though, these turnovers.
Maybe we were wrong to think that they

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could turn things around in that area
because we talked about building good championship habits.

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They built some bad ones and they're
still lingering. And the turnovers they've

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been there, the offensive rebounds they
give up. There was a big one

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in the fourth quarter against tonight.
It happened against Denver as well. That's

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stuff that started off this season is
coming back to haunt them right now.

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Jeff leaving the game, Jeff,
you're on Clippers stop without imsl say Adam

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up. Yeah, just a couple
thoughts. I think Morris needs to slide

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to the back of the bench,
and they need to put Man back in

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the starting lineup along with Russell and
and then take bones Highland and put him

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into the second unit. And that's
just my thought. There's ardor I'm sorry,

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Covington into the second unit along with
bones Hiland. So that's just my

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thought. But do you think it's
realistic though, that Marcus Moore's all of

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a sudden is going to just stop
playing when he's been a starter for this

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team for two and a half three
years. He doesn't he doesn't get rebounds,

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he doesn't play the defense, and
he hasn't been hit a three point

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shot at all, and we need
to mix it up. So I can't.

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I'm not arguing with you. I
understand where you're coming from. He's

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had just one of the toughest runs
of his career the last couple of months

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and has not excelled in really any
area that he typically does. His shooting

406
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would be one. He's been a
good floor spacer next to Kawai and Paul

407
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George, but it's not happening right
now in this game. Marcus Morris has

408
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two points in twenty one minutes oh
three from the outside and had two really

409
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head scratching turnovers where he got locked
up in a trap on the far side

410
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corner and then another time he traveled. And he has just he has looked

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slow at times and so I got
this for your post game and I appreciate

412
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the phone call. Eddie ty Lee
was asked about Marcus Morris possibly having tired

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legs, and he said, quote, it could be. I got to

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do a better job of keeping him
involved, maybe getting him the ball in

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the midpost. He's not shooting well
right now, but I thought he got

416
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some deflections tonight. I don't think
Marcus Morris is going anywhere. The solution

417
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may just be for him to get
out of this funk. I don't know.

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Let's head out to Stefan and Highland
par stefand you're on Clippers stop without

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aim Assle. How you doing?
Adam? First of all, just want

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to say him a big fan the
Clips and Dips podcast. Keep up the

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good work. When are we going
to start holding Paul George accountable for the

422
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mindless turnovers he causes in almost every
game? I know there weren't a lot

423
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tonight. But Man against the King, well, he had one where he

424
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was looking for Terrence Man and they
were in close proximity in the fourth quarter.

425
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Yeah. Now, the other what
happened was it didn't end up earning

426
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that because on the other side the
t Wolves gave it right back. There

427
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was one there. But look,
you don't need to tell him that.

428
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I think he knows. I think
we know. This is who Paul George

429
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is as a playmaker. He's gonna
have some turnovers like this. But you

430
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got a ride or die with Paul
George and Kawhi Leonard. Those are your

431
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guys. There's nothing more you can
really do about that. I just think

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if this doesn't end up in the
finals appearance, I think we need to

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trade Paul George. I think enough
is enough and experiment hasn't worked. I

434
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know we'll get there when we get
there, But I just think Paul George

435
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is just not helping his case to
stay on this team. That's all I

436
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:15.720
have to say. All right,
Sephan appreciate the phone call Romeo in La

437
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:22.079
Puenza Romeo Young Clippers stopped without Amoslin. Hello, what's going on? Hell?

438
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:24.240
Romeo? Are you doing? What
do you think the game tonight.

439
00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:30.960
I think it was ridiculous. I
agree with one of the callers about Marcus

440
00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:35.960
Morris. I'm tired of watching them
play. It's ridiculous, it's terrible,

441
00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:38.359
and we needn't get Roco in there, simple as that. I'm tired of

442
00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:43.359
seeing him not playing at all.
Look, I've gotten calls like this all

443
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season. I appreciate Romeo that.
I don't think it's happening. I don't

444
00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:52.200
know why it would all of a
sudden, why they would go away from

445
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:58.720
Marcus completely. Why are Robert Covington
would be injected back in the story line,

446
00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:02.240
I mean just into the game.
He's been getting dnps for I don't

447
00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:08.920
know how long since the start of
the season. We got to ask for

448
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:14.559
things that are realistic, too,
But I get the frustration. I'm not

449
00:34:14.679 --> 00:34:19.119
sure why Rocco has been out of
the rotation for so long either. I'm

450
00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:22.760
not sure why Marcus at times gets
thirty minutes and somebody like Terrence Man gets

451
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:25.440
less. I don't know. I
don't I'm not a coach. I don't

452
00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:30.400
have those answers. But clearly coach
Lou believes in him, He's comfortable with

453
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him, he thinks he'll pull this
tail spinning. Look, he's got a

454
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career full of data that says he's
better than the player he's been recently,

455
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but it has looked like and I
was hoping the All Star break was in

456
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a curate for him, he's had
tired legs. He just hasn't been able

457
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to stay in front of guys.
He hasn't had the same lift on his

458
00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:59.199
shooting. Something's going on, Edgar
and Inglewood, you're on Clippers style without

459
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hm Awesome here, Hey, Adam, I just I don't think I've ever

460
00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:13.760
seen a team year after year just
totally disrespect the process of a regular season.

461
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:17.199
And the reason I say that,
there's a couple of reasons when it

462
00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:22.639
comes to rotations. Okay, bone
Tiling clearly is not in the rotation.

463
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:25.760
Okay, he's gotten the DMP in
every game except for one, and that

464
00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:30.199
was against his former team. So
tarbarone Lou. With eighteen games left in

465
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:35.440
the season, the Clippers are literally
fighting for their playoff lives. Throws them

466
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:37.840
a bone. Let's go ahead,
you know, get your revenge game against

467
00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:42.480
your you know, your former team, you know who cares you know about

468
00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:45.960
trying to find a rotation that we're
gonna head into with the playoffs. Okay,

469
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:50.679
that just shows you how unserious from
this coaches and this franchise right now.

470
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:53.440
Okay, every single year is the
same thing. It's between the load

471
00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:57.519
managing and I know they haven't done
that lately, thank god. You know,

472
00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:00.320
every single year is the same thing
between the load man they're playing around

473
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.280
with. Let me let me ask
you this. Let me ask you this.

474
00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:08.159
Do you not agree it's worked with
the way they brought Kawhi Letter along

475
00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:12.800
to get him back to this point
where he is one hundred percent Kawhi Letter

476
00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:16.639
once again? Okay, I mean
do you not find that remarkable that Kawhi

477
00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:22.159
is back to peak form? Okay, yeah, he's he's an All Star,

478
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:24.800
he's one of the top five player, but he was coming off in

479
00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:30.280
ACL and for him to get back
this soon, you have to say the

480
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:35.960
way that they did the recovery process
worked. Okay, you know who it

481
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:39.079
worked for. You know who's like
the load managing thing worked for like early

482
00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:44.159
two thousand Spurs because they were able
to just mess around in the regular season,

483
00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:47.440
not take it. So you're not
going to acknowledge that Kawhi Leonard is

484
00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:52.320
playing at this high a level and
the load management management could have something to

485
00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:54.800
do with it. You're just gonna
blow past that point. No, no,

486
00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:58.320
no, we won't blow past it. But what's the goal though?

487
00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:00.239
Every year? Though? Well,
what does the team? So the fans

488
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:06.559
every year at him? It's deepest
roster in the league, championship favorite championship

489
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:09.880
contender. Have they done that?
So you can't really say no, because

490
00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:13.880
the playoffs haven't started yet, so
you can't say they failed. It's something

491
00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:16.000
they haven't got an opportunity for yet
this season, so I know. But

492
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they also still haven't shown the ability
to just flip a switch, which is

493
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which by the way, they just
don't take the regular season seriously. And

494
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this is just my opinion, you
know why, Eddie, How did you

495
00:37:29.199 --> 00:37:32.320
feel in the twenty twenty one playoffs
before Kawhi went down? Did you feel

496
00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:36.079
like when they took Phoenix to six? Also, did you feel like,

497
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:37.079
hey, if they had Kawai,
they would have won the whole thing?

498
00:37:39.159 --> 00:37:43.239
Well? I don't do like the
what ifs though, like we were doing

499
00:37:43.320 --> 00:37:46.280
you're doing it already. What do
you mean you're doing it from a negative

500
00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:52.360
side? Tell me that process didn't
work Kawhi ended up getting hurt. That's

501
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:59.440
what they lost. It's unfortunate.
There's not much else you can do about

502
00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:04.239
that other then bring him back and
hope he's the same player. And that's

503
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:07.239
who he seems to be again.
And I still think he can take things

504
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:09.159
up another another notch in the playoffs, because he always does. Eddie.

505
00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:15.239
I appreciate the phone call. Let's
go to Shay, who's outside the arena?

506
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:20.239
Show you there, Shay drops all
right, Well, take you quick

507
00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:22.199
time out. We'll come back.
We'll get more to more of your phone

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00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:24.719
calls. Eight six, six nine
eight seven two five seventy eight six six

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ninety seven two five seventy. We'll
see how this season ends before we give

510
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it a grade, before we judge
it completely. Things look die right now.

511
00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:39.880
Sure. I'm old enough though to
remember a time during the twenty twenty

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one season where the Clippers weren't able
to win close games late. Everybody was

513
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:49.760
freaking out about their clutch time rating. And then by the time the playoffs

514
00:38:49.800 --> 00:38:52.800
came around, they were great in
those moments when they needed to win,

515
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.800
when they needed to figure it out. Down two oho and back to back

516
00:38:55.880 --> 00:39:00.920
series, they were able to win
Kawai was brilliant and I fully believe they're

517
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:05.800
at least getting to the finals if
he doesn't go down. More clipper Stock

518
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:09.199
next year and amp by seventy l
A Sports George and Lennard running. You're

519
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:15.280
listening to LA Clippers basketball up Clip
puts it down plus the foul every game

520
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:22.119
all season long on their official home
on Clipper Stock. They lose one o

521
00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:24.920
eight to one oh one to the
minutes of the Timberwolves. They have lost

522
00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:30.159
three straight. They are in the
sixth spot. Half came out of being

523
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:34.320
on the plane in that seventh spot
currently held by the Dallas Mavericks. Welcome

524
00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:37.639
back in. I'm out of Masland
eight six six nine eight seven two five

525
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seventy. We'll try to get in
all your calls still to come. We'll

526
00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:45.360
have Will Updike on from Clips and
Dip. All right, let's go Al

527
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:50.360
Yune in Lancaster. Al Yun,
you're on clipper Stock without of Maslin.

528
00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:52.960
What's up? Yeah? Him?
So, thank you? That's your mark

529
00:39:53.000 --> 00:40:00.440
calls. Yeah. I have a
just question, uh why eight the NBA

530
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:10.480
doesn't allowed to trade the coach to
go I'm serious. We lose a lot

531
00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:19.079
again to cause the coaching What specifically
did you see tonight listen to him no

532
00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:24.159
more. I don't know, because
we have a lot we deep. We

533
00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:30.639
don't have to just be deep and
not you would deplaire we have well.

534
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:35.320
I appreciate the phone call. Ali
Yun. Coach lew was asked about the

535
00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:39.559
toughest challenge right now with this team, and he said, having too many

536
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:45.280
good players, which is a compliment
to his roster, of course, but

537
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:50.199
it's not easy to find minutes for
everyone. It's damn near impossible to do.

538
00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:54.000
And to build up chemistry and to
find the right lineups and the guys

539
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:58.239
who play best next to one another. It was always going to take some

540
00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:00.239
time. Did I think they'd lose
three straight in the manner they have now

541
00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:06.800
coming out of the All Star break. Now, let's go to Marvin in

542
00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:08.639
downtown Los Angeles. Marvin, what's
up? You're in Clipper stop for that?

543
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:14.400
I'm awesome, Hey, Adam,
Yeah, what the Clippers need right

544
00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:16.679
now? They're like in a hitting
slump, but they needed to breakthrough games.

545
00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:21.639
That's that's what they need because all
the games been closed. They're being

546
00:41:21.719 --> 00:41:24.159
competitive because it's not either waves.
They just correct the mistakes. Of the

547
00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:29.800
turnovers and the communication. I mean, they'll be all right, and they

548
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:32.159
also need to pick up the pace. I know. I like Russell Westbrook

549
00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:36.800
keeps contributing, passing the ball,
hitting his teammates involved, but he needs

550
00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:39.719
to be more aggressive. He needs
to get into the pain, slash throw

551
00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:45.079
the floaters. We don't need him
to shoot threes or outside because that's what

552
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:49.199
we have Kauai, That's what we
have Pa George, Norman Powell and also

553
00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:52.960
Gordon. But when he gets into
the pain and then he passes, it

554
00:41:53.239 --> 00:41:58.079
becomes predictable. It's like a quarterback
passing of all all the times without having

555
00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:00.679
a running backs. So he needs
to pay off Holly can score in the

556
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:06.320
pen. How he slash throw the
floaters, so therefore it doesn't become predictable,

557
00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:08.800
and then it gives the liberty to
then cast the Barnes from the stock.

558
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:12.960
Thank you all right. I appreciate
the phone call. I thought Russ

559
00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:15.679
had a great first half and a
tough second half and a tough stretch down

560
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:21.159
the end of the fourth quarter where
he was being very aggressive. It's got

561
00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:27.079
to be controlled. Though. He
knows that he's been very good so far

562
00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:32.239
as a Clipper Overall for this team, he has helped them. But down

563
00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:37.719
the stretch tonight a couple of turnovers
and obviously that fade away over Mike Conley

564
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:40.639
Junior where the Clippers didn't get into
a set, didn't run their offense at

565
00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:46.039
all. That was a little bit
of an eyebrow raiser. All right,

566
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let's go to Holly leaving the game. Holly, what's up here on Clipper

567
00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:53.800
stock without amostin? Hey, Adam, I just wanted to say, yes,

568
00:42:53.920 --> 00:43:00.599
I agree with you on PG and
Kwai being the ones we die on,

569
00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:05.000
but I don't know how you can
disagree with that they're brought in here,

570
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:09.199
Yeah, for that reason together.
The other caller was saying PG has

571
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to go. I disagree with that, okay, but I do think Westbrook

572
00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:22.239
adds energy and I love it.
But I also think he needs to change

573
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:29.519
the starting lineup. Put tea man
in and uh have the second lineup with

574
00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:36.039
Covington getting involved. I mean,
you got he can play defense, he

575
00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:40.480
can move the ball. I mean
the ball just seems the ball movement is

576
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:45.480
dead. They don't move the ball
fast. Morris is just well. They

577
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:51.760
had four assists on their thirty five
makes. They were moving the ball at

578
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:54.480
times. That was the only way
they were scoring in this one, through

579
00:43:54.760 --> 00:44:01.079
extra passes, through making the right
play. The problem was they were also

580
00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:05.000
playing too much hot potato to the
point they got out of control and had

581
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a lot of turnovers. Well that, I mean, he assist the mad

582
00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:15.559
shots. That's a good number.
But I still think they need to get

583
00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:21.719
Cummington in the game. He's a
better defensive player than I know. You

584
00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:24.679
love Morris, and you know Morris
was good like two months ago, but

585
00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:31.920
he's in a slump right now.
I think I think the guys better playing

586
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:37.280
the best right now. Well,
I think what you're gonna get Morris to

587
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:42.960
wake up by not starting him,
putting him put him in the second lineup,

588
00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:46.079
or not put him in the second
line line up. Let him get

589
00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:50.400
his rest, let him get his
legs. Maybe that new baby is causing

590
00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:55.239
him not to have good sleep that
night. But the guy is not playing

591
00:44:55.840 --> 00:45:00.679
the way he should, and it
just is so ear ritating to see him

592
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:07.199
not play defense. He's hesitant on
shooting the ball. It's like, I

593
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:10.719
think I could go out there and
shoot the ball better than him right now,

594
00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:15.760
And that's pretty sad. Let's let's
not. You know, these guys

595
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:20.360
are professional. I get it,
Holly. I'm not gonna go there.

596
00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:23.559
Though he hasn't looked the same recently, but we expect him to snap out

597
00:45:23.559 --> 00:45:29.159
of it. I appreciate the phone
call, Holly. Let's go to Lenny.

598
00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:32.239
Lenny in Inglewood, Lenny, what's
up here on Clippers stock withou?

599
00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:37.920
Him? Oustin? Lenny's gone?
Morris in Long Beach, Morris, I

600
00:45:38.039 --> 00:45:43.599
know you got some positivity, I
Adam, you need to calm down.

601
00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:46.320
Look at it. Everything that happened
to the Clippers. Happily everybody in the

602
00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:50.360
NBA. Everybody got these kind of
games. I like this, lady.

603
00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:52.159
They calls about what Westbrook the way
to the game. You know, he

604
00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:55.840
gives us some minuty apparently not for
forty eight minutes, but they got a

605
00:45:55.880 --> 00:45:59.639
different lip to him. They got
a different lip to him. The guys

606
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of top seventy five player. I
think they're gonna figure it out. I

607
00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:07.440
really do. But what surprises me
about the Clippers because they've been a defensive

608
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:12.280
team. When you say Clippers,
what they known for defense? Right man?

609
00:46:12.920 --> 00:46:15.440
They can score now, which which
is an issue for a lot of

610
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:20.079
team. But it don't seem like
they got that same that same lockdown kind

611
00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:22.280
of spirit that used to have nothing. It's not even close, Morris,

612
00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:28.079
It's not even close. For three
months throughout most of the season, they

613
00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:32.800
are a bottom ten defense. That
is shocking, is it not? Then

614
00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:36.679
the Clippers, their defense ain't the
same, Adam, I mean, I'm

615
00:46:36.719 --> 00:46:38.519
not. I love the team,
I love the excitement and far more entertainment.

616
00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:40.400
But you know the name of the
game is, you know, can

617
00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:44.719
you stop them guys? Everybody in
the league is superstar, right, everybody

618
00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:47.360
super athlete. Can you stop these
guys? And the Clippers used to be

619
00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:51.280
able to do that. I mean, anybody shutting down in beating, anybody

620
00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:53.199
shouting down the joker. But as
a team, they were a good defensive

621
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:58.639
team. But right what's what's mind
boggling is they have the players, they

622
00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:02.440
have the guys to play defense,
but they're getting sliced and diced through right

623
00:47:02.519 --> 00:47:07.119
now by teams and they can't get
stop something. They had one stop,

624
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:13.000
but they caused the twenty four second
violation of the fourth on Minnesota, and

625
00:47:13.079 --> 00:47:15.400
I thought that was going to be
a turning point for them. It wasn't.

626
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:19.599
Minnesota continued to get into the teeth
of the defense. Well, they

627
00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:22.400
got to figure it out, because
like everybody knows, they got they got

628
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:24.639
them. These the guys they'll figure
it out. Well, then, I'm

629
00:47:24.679 --> 00:47:30.159
not sure behind three everybody in any
NBA right now, when any team that

630
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:32.880
loses right now, it's the big
Laws. Any team that wins right now

631
00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:36.599
is that they wins. So I'm
not ready to throw these guys under the

632
00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:38.960
bus right now. And again,
I like with Westbrook complinient to the team

633
00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:43.039
Adams, so behave these else I'll
see you nexttent. All right, Morris,

634
00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:46.360
Look, it's not any team Denver
is going to be the one seed.

635
00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:50.480
Next team closest to them is five
and a half games back Memphis.

636
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:53.880
They're pretty secure in the two seat. It's possible Sacramento can catch them.

637
00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:57.800
But there are teams who are cut
above right now, and the Clippers aren't

638
00:47:57.800 --> 00:48:01.480
one of them. Rob in La, Robbie yourng Clipper, stop with him,

639
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:07.920
assen any thanks for taking my call. Okay, Robbie, what do

640
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:14.960
you got? I just want to
understand. I thought Eric Gordon was our

641
00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:19.480
you know, big get at the
trade deadline, and it doesn't seem like

642
00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:23.599
he's getting enough minutes, particularly when
we're so bad on deft. He is

643
00:48:24.239 --> 00:48:30.679
team man needs to get into the
rotation a lot of them. Terrence Mann

644
00:48:30.719 --> 00:48:34.119
played twenty two minutes, Eric Gordon
just seven in this one. So last

645
00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:37.400
couple of games, Eric Gordon hasn't
played as much, although he played the

646
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:42.000
fourth quarter. You played critical minutes
against the Nuggets the other night, and

647
00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:45.679
I liked him out there because I
think he's secured with the basketball. He

648
00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:50.079
is a savvy vet, he's a
stabilizer. But yeah, I didn't get

649
00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:52.559
a lot of run in this one. I think the big pickup is the

650
00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:55.119
guy who's now in the starting lineup. I think you have to say it's

651
00:48:55.199 --> 00:49:00.079
Russell Westbrook, right, I mean
seems that way, but you would think

652
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:06.800
that before Rush showed up they had
a plan for Wardens. Then you're just

653
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:08.840
not seeing it. I don't know
how they're going to be able to figure

654
00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:12.800
this out. I think they have
the right guy to do so in coach

655
00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:16.800
lou But they haven't found the wins
yet with the four guys they brought in,

656
00:49:19.519 --> 00:49:22.239
or at least they haven't got a
win since bringing in Russell Westbrook with

657
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:25.840
those other three guys at the trade
deadline, and it's just three losses in

658
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:30.079
a row. It's tough. You
slide right down the standings. I appreciate

659
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:32.960
the phone call Robbie coming up.
We will have Will Updike on from Clips

660
00:49:34.119 --> 00:49:37.599
and Dip. Take a quick time
out here eight six six nine eight seven

661
00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:40.239
two seventy eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventies. The Clippers are

662
00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:50.559
reeling and have to get into desperation
mode and have that fuel them the rest

663
00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:53.679
of the way. You want a
good tune up for the playoffs, how

664
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:58.679
about having to win games just to
get in. That's pretty much the point

665
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:02.400
they're at now. You're listening to
Clipper stock. You're on AM five seventy

666
00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:07.360
a sports hendy got it counted from
distance. The odds on favorite to hoist

667
00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:13.000
the Larry o'bride heavily contested in a
dozen't matter on the whole of your LA

668
00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:20.000
Clippers. After twenty six sevens the
first corner, Minnesota outscored the Clippers e

669
00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:27.280
two to sixty eight. The rest
of the way and the Clippers defense non

670
00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:30.239
existence. Now over the last seven
games, they're giving up fifty two percent

671
00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:35.880
shooting and forty two percent from the
outside. In their last eight games.

672
00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:39.880
Two opponents and the turnovers came a
plenty. They had twenty five tonight.

673
00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:44.199
They had twenty five against Sacramento.
In between that just thirteen against Denver.

674
00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:46.519
But before those three games, they
would turn the ball over just ten times,

675
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:52.599
and their last eleven. Before the
last three. It's confounding. Clippers

676
00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:55.000
lose one o eight to one oh
one. Here in downtown Los Angeles,

677
00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:59.960
the Crypto dot Com Arena to the
Minnesota Timberwolves. Welcome back into Clipper stock.

678
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:02.559
I'm outam Auslin. All right,
we got Will Updike on Will,

679
00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:07.119
where would you like to start?
I like asking this question because I know

680
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:10.360
you might have a different perspective than
me, But where was this game lost

681
00:51:10.440 --> 00:51:17.000
in your mind? Just like,
just like the lack of intense to me

682
00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:22.000
on the defensive end, combined with
just so many mental mistakes, which has

683
00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:27.480
just been a thing we've seen repeat
over and over again across these last three

684
00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:31.679
games. I think just like the
most emblematic one for me was that third

685
00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:37.000
quarter turnover where Norm Powell didn't get
the foul call. He's at he's he's

686
00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:40.159
arguing with the ref meanwhile, but
Tum's trying to kick it out to him

687
00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:45.679
to the corner for an open three. Another turnover, just a terrible thing,

688
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:47.039
and that I mean that was just
one of twenty five, as he

689
00:51:47.159 --> 00:51:52.159
stated. But like it's just I
don't know where this team is at right

690
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:54.800
now. I gotta tell you,
can you hear this? Got some ice

691
00:51:54.920 --> 00:51:59.639
in there. I got a whiskey
port up thicker than Marcus Morris's hit band.

692
00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:05.440
It's the Tuesday hurt up on a
Tuesday after a Clifford's loss, or

693
00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:08.360
trying to turn down to fall asleep
tonight, whatever it may be. I've

694
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:12.960
gotten a ton of calls on Marcus
Morris, I've gotten a ton of tweets

695
00:52:13.079 --> 00:52:17.079
my way, and I completely understand
all of it. And he played twenty

696
00:52:17.159 --> 00:52:21.760
one minutes and just has not looked
like himself. And he was guilty of

697
00:52:21.800 --> 00:52:24.159
a couple of really bad turnovers,
but all three from the field, and

698
00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:28.039
he had two good looks where they
tried to get him going in the first

699
00:52:28.119 --> 00:52:31.320
quarter wide open shots, couldn't knock
them down. What do you think happens

700
00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:37.320
next with Marcus? I mean,
he only took three field goal attempts in

701
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:42.480
this game, so I do feel
like that is worth noting. But yeah,

702
00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:45.679
I don't know, But his best
attribute is his offense. If he

703
00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:51.400
doesn't have that going, it's I
just don't know. Three shots, No,

704
00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:55.320
I hear you. Look. The
thing is is I'm just so confounded.

705
00:52:55.440 --> 00:53:01.440
I thought this break would be worse
on Red. I don't know what

706
00:53:01.559 --> 00:53:07.239
we do. I mean, we
have like coming up with the season on

707
00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:12.039
the line, and you know,
the troubling thing is we're hearing from coach

708
00:53:12.159 --> 00:53:15.639
Luit he's going to give him a
couple of games to stuff out, not

709
00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:21.920
market specifically, but rop Okay,
I don't know if Will is pouring more

710
00:53:22.039 --> 00:53:24.559
whiskey into his glass and that's what
that noise is, or if I'm just

711
00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:29.440
hearing it and hearing things, which
is nothing new for me. But okay,

712
00:53:29.480 --> 00:53:31.719
our producer Katie says she's hearing that
too. Will, can you still

713
00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:36.320
hear us? Is there something you
could readjust there with your phone? Maybe

714
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:39.000
because I was getting a lot of
static in between knowledge you were trying to

715
00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:46.519
drop Will. We're gonna try to
reconnect with Will updike. Here we mentioned

716
00:53:46.599 --> 00:53:52.440
Marcus Morris. I just the thing
is, when a guy's getting older,

717
00:53:52.559 --> 00:53:58.280
you start to wonder is it a
slump or our skills starting to diminish?

718
00:53:58.880 --> 00:54:02.679
Because it happens. Sometimes it happens
quickly, and I hope that's not the

719
00:54:02.760 --> 00:54:07.079
case with Marcus, and I still
believe in him. But he has been

720
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:12.760
struggling in ways I just have never
seen throughout his career. He may not

721
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:15.320
be healthy. I don't know.
He's a tough guy. Maybe he's trying

722
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:20.280
to tough it out. Do we
have willing Updyke, I'm back, I'm

723
00:54:20.360 --> 00:54:27.360
back. How about now continue as
you were saying about Marcus Man, I

724
00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:32.639
just don't know something just how quick
like this decline has come. I mean,

725
00:54:34.239 --> 00:54:37.320
quinted, he hasn't been where he's
been at in previous seasons all year

726
00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:39.480
long. I'll definitely come to that. Hey, the first couple of months

727
00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:43.440
we were like, that's right,
guys, Eddie, Marcus haters out there,

728
00:54:43.719 --> 00:54:47.119
he's making shots, he's shutting them
up. He looked okay, Yeah,

729
00:54:47.480 --> 00:54:50.599
yeah, he looked okay. And
I just feel like, I mean,

730
00:54:50.679 --> 00:54:53.480
maybe it's just because it's been on
a more amplified spotlight as the team

731
00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:59.199
is losing, But he looks like
the decline, like the it's just so

732
00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:02.079
severe. You look like you said, you just gotta wonder if he's playing

733
00:55:02.159 --> 00:55:07.599
through something. But you know,
even if that's the case and he's you

734
00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:10.440
know, well enough to play,
I just I just think there has to

735
00:55:10.480 --> 00:55:14.920
be a shift in that minute's distribution. Whether he starts or not doesn't really

736
00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:17.360
matter. But it seems like,
you know, we talked about this before,

737
00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:21.679
like maybe he just needs those shorter
stretches where he can be a little

738
00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:24.920
bit more effective without having to have
the stamina to play, you know,

739
00:55:25.239 --> 00:55:30.920
twenty plus minutes. Let me ask
you about the closing lineup in this one,

740
00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:36.320
because I've gotten some calls on this
too. It was Russ norm Pg

741
00:55:36.639 --> 00:55:40.400
Kauai and it beats a Zoobos.
Is that what you wanted to see out

742
00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:47.599
there? I just think that that
presents so many problems from a spacing perspective

743
00:55:47.719 --> 00:55:52.960
for for Kawai and Paul George,
and I feel like both of them were

744
00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:58.400
a little bit flummixed. Kauai even
with some uncharacteristic turnovers. No, that

745
00:55:58.760 --> 00:56:01.760
like that, That's not what I'm
looking to see when you bring up the

746
00:56:01.800 --> 00:56:06.320
space, is it? Because Okay, we got Russ out there with Zoo,

747
00:56:06.480 --> 00:56:13.719
so we got two non shooters on
the court at once. Because what's

748
00:56:13.719 --> 00:56:16.519
that those guys are both starting lineup
now? I know, I think that's

749
00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:21.920
an issue too, But like the
thing is, is like the way to

750
00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:25.840
make that the most aspective is to
use Russ and in Zoo and like a

751
00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:29.360
pick and roll, and like what
then, what are you doing with Kawai

752
00:56:29.480 --> 00:56:32.400
and Paul George. It's just it's
I just don't really I just don't really

753
00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:36.199
see the fit. And once again, this was not a loss on Russ.

754
00:56:36.360 --> 00:56:38.960
He had a couple of bad turnovers
in really bad minutes. I don't

755
00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:43.719
know that he's the guy that should
be closing games. Maybe they can find

756
00:56:43.760 --> 00:56:47.239
a work like a lineup to figure
it out. I just it just comes

757
00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:51.320
back to the same thing. It's
the same conversation when you're having in January,

758
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:54.360
Like it just seems like this team, anytime they make a little bit

759
00:56:54.400 --> 00:56:59.159
of progress, they're taking two steps
back and we're now just at the exact

760
00:56:59.239 --> 00:57:01.559
same spot. Like I you know, we it seemed like we had found

761
00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:06.159
some lineups, some things that we're
working, and you know, we've just

762
00:57:06.239 --> 00:57:07.719
moved away from it. And I
know that there's gonna be some growing pain

763
00:57:08.039 --> 00:57:13.360
with new guys in the lineup,
not just for us obviously, but it's

764
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:16.599
I don't know, man, the
just the chuck and I always give the

765
00:57:16.639 --> 00:57:21.480
analogy of the runway, and the
runway is so short right now. I

766
00:57:21.599 --> 00:57:23.559
just don't know that this plane is
really going to be able to take off.

767
00:57:23.599 --> 00:57:28.079
And I don't know if the Clippers
are banking on maybe sticking to the

768
00:57:28.159 --> 00:57:30.239
sixth seed and you still get that
three six matchup, you still avoid,

769
00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:36.239
you know, you still stay out
of Denver's bracket. But they're keetering.

770
00:57:36.559 --> 00:57:37.760
Yeah, I mean they're already there
right now, but I mean they are

771
00:57:37.880 --> 00:57:43.440
keetering on ending the season in the
plan, and I just don't know how

772
00:57:43.480 --> 00:57:46.559
that could at all be sustainable for
this team with the combined age and just

773
00:57:46.719 --> 00:57:51.079
what you have to go through if
you end up in one of those spots.

774
00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:53.760
We knew it wasn't going to be
easy to implement new guys, but

775
00:57:54.480 --> 00:58:00.320
before the All Star break, they
played so well against Phoenix, and that

776
00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:04.119
was a game without normal Pale and
Eric Gordon really stepped up and Terrence Mann

777
00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:07.719
was so good in the starting lineup. It's just, you know, we

778
00:58:07.800 --> 00:58:10.800
talk about identity, and we mentioned
this on the podcast the other day and

779
00:58:10.840 --> 00:58:14.840
I said, it's alarming that they
still don't have one this late into the

780
00:58:14.920 --> 00:58:17.599
season. Some of it you understand
because they're implementing new guys, but that

781
00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:21.519
identity has been a moving target for
them. I don't know what it is.

782
00:58:21.679 --> 00:58:25.119
Because they started off the year as
good defensive team, and offense comes

783
00:58:25.159 --> 00:58:29.159
and goes, but they hang their
hat on their defense. Their defense.

784
00:58:29.280 --> 00:58:34.199
Now since January first, they're twenty
seven. I don't know how it could

785
00:58:34.239 --> 00:58:37.119
ever be that bad. I mean, I know Zoo has been out recently,

786
00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:39.039
and I know he hadn't looked the
same as he did early in the

787
00:58:39.119 --> 00:58:43.559
season. But they have enough talent
out there. Just having Kawai and Paul

788
00:58:43.639 --> 00:58:46.960
George on the court, which they
have had more so in twenty twenty three,

789
00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:51.920
you think would be enough to help
on that end and just not be

790
00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:54.079
bottom ten, maybe just middle of
the pack. I don't know what's going

791
00:58:54.159 --> 00:59:00.679
on there. Yeah, and I
mean, honestly, I just twenty sevens

792
00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:04.599
ranked defense. I just this team
is not getting very far. Zoo was

793
00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:07.679
solid at night, almost had a
double double best plus minus net rating on

794
00:59:08.440 --> 00:59:13.079
the team, but yeah, he
you know, he's not at that peak

795
00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:16.880
that we saw him hit earlier in
the seaft Clippers lose one o eight to

796
00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:22.400
one oh one. Here in downtown
Los Angeles to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Their

797
00:59:22.440 --> 00:59:25.559
next game coming up on Thursday,
and even bigger contests. Now we'll be

798
00:59:25.639 --> 00:59:30.360
even more magnified after this loss.
They're taking on the Golden State Warriors.

799
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:35.159
Will Updike is from Clips and Dipp
does the podcast with myself and Charles Mockler.

800
00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:37.800
We got a tripod coming tomorrow.
Talk to you then, Will,

801
00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:44.079
thanks for doing this to night on
Clippers Stalk. He just he hung up

802
00:59:44.119 --> 00:59:46.440
on me, like like he just
went back to the whiskey heart. I

803
00:59:47.079 --> 00:59:52.039
can't believe I may have done the
same. Okay, before we get out

804
00:59:52.079 --> 00:59:57.320
of here, I do want to
think the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle,

805
00:59:58.039 --> 01:00:02.079
Brian Stemon, Ralph Waller, Big
Brother Jake Horner or head engineer out here

806
01:00:02.199 --> 01:00:07.920
Crypto dot Com arena, Big Brother
Jake Podcast. Check it out, the

807
01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:14.199
callers, the listeners, the tweeters, love you all. I still believe

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Clipper Nation they're gonna figure this out, and they got the right guy for

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the job and coach Luder to do
so. Time will tell gotta start Thursday,

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though. Tip time again at seven. Wall of Clippers counten or pregame

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show at six. I'm out of
Oslin. We will talk to you then.

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This has been Clippers Talk, a
postgame conversation about your LA Clippers with

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Adam moslaf. If you like the
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They have some of that DNA.
We can see it. This is

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Clippers Basketball. Join us next time
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