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Clippers fall one twenty one to one hundred here at Crypto dot com arena to
the Minnesota Timberwolves. Welcome into your postgame show. I'm at a Oslin coming
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by your radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Oh, Carlo.
We sold this game as a battle for first place in the Western Conference,
and at this point it just looks like the Timberwolves outclass the Clippers in this
ball game. They were the better squad, they were the bigger, stronger,
more physical team. As I said earlier, it showed out there.
Yeah, and look they were well rested. They hadn't played since the Clippers
last play on Saturday. They hadn't played since Friday, so I mean they
had a couple days off before playing this Clipper team today, and they came
out with that focus, with that rest, with that intensity from the get
go. I thought the Clippers did a good job staying with them. They've
led late in that second quarter. But Minnesota, Adam, like you said,
I think the size was too much of each Zubots just wasn't in shape,
didn't have enough rhythm in this one to close the deal and help the
Clippers late. And Daniel Tye gave him good minutes. But Rudy Gobert is
tough to stop, especially in the regular season. He's one of the best
regular season players in the NBA. Seventeen points today and ten rebounds. Bright
spotter of the Clippers. I like the way they guarded Anthony Edwards. He
struggled in this one, one for eleven from the three point line. Timberwolves
really didn't shoot the ball well at all from three in this one, but
it was the points in the paint, Adam. When you take away the
threes, for Minneso. I'm gonna try to do some really quick math.
Here here we go. Am I good at math? Am I good at
quick math? All from me here? When you take away the three,
so we go? I got I got I got it. The Timberwolves were
thirty six fifty one give inside the three point line they shot tonight. Seems
good, seems very good. Tough to win a ballgame when a team outscores
you in points in the paint sixty four to forty two. And Minnesota started
getting to the free throw line when the Clippers went small in the second half
to try to combat that run by the Minnesota Timberwolves. They were scrambling a
lot defensively, they were playing aggressively, they were playing hard. They just
were at a mismatch, a disadvantage in this one, and Minnesota seemed to
make them pay for it. Even Rudy Gobert had the free throw line did
some damage against them. But this is a team that we know. We
know how good the Minnesota Timberwolves are. We also know the Clippers are better
than they played tonight, and we talked about it during the broadcast in the
fourth quarter, but a Beata Zoo just doesn't quite look like himself. Really,
I shouldn't even say quite look like himself. He's not close to being
the guy we saw where through two and a half months next to James Harden,
he was playing the best basketball of his career. One hundred percent agree,
and that's why Tyler left him out late. I mean to get his
legs, to get some win, to find his way back. When Zubats
first got injured at him, we were thinking maybe after the All Star break
that might be best case scenario. He comes back early against Miami, but
one hundred percent is a far ways to go right now for a Viatza.
Zubats a positive for the Clippers, And something you gotta remember is Tyler is
gathering information like an algorithm like AI. He is understanding how this offense moves
for the Timberwolves, and I think the kyropractor is no eagle would call him.
Continues to see holes and see matchups that the Clippers can maybe take advantage
of in the playoffs. He knows, and I think this team knows that
you don't win the postseason in the regular season. Yes, you need to
be a top three seed. You've mentioned it so much. The Clippers right
now in a jockeying position. Really, the top four teams in the Western
Conference almost all neck and neck and even, but the Clippers continue to gather
ways that Minnesota beats him and then can think of ways to try to counter.
I'll be interesting to see those two matchups in March, Adam. We
know March is the gauntlet for the Clippers, I mean, and is where
the season gets the toughest. And to play on Minnesota team twice in the
stretch, yeah, that's gonna be hard. But what are the Clippers gathering
from this one that they take into that game? And look, some of
this is just inordinate poor shooting. Nice by the Clippers. You give Minnesota
credit, but Paul George is better than going five of sixteen from the field.
Even Kawhi Leonard shooting under fifty percent doesn't happen that off and off the
bench, Russell Westbrook's just three or eleven. Norman Powell is another guy who
has to get right. We could see it from the get go. I
think the first shot he took was a three pointer and it was well off
the mark. You never see that from Norman Powell. That's why we've been
campaigning for him to be in the three point Contest. So this is a
team in a bit of a transition right now before the All Star Break that
simply has to get right and get healthy, and we think they will,
but one more game to go. Wednesday night. They'll be in San Francisco
taken on the Golden State Warriors, who are playing much better basketball. Tiptime
will be at seven. We'll have your pregame show starting at six. Carlo
Jimenez, great call. As always, We'll talk to you on Wednesday.
Talk to you Wednesday, and I'm a great part about the NBA. You
play just two days later. Yes, sir, get this one out of
your system. Clippers fall tonight one twenty one to one hundred at home to
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seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Clippers ended up shooting
just over forty percent from the field forty and a half percent, to be
exact, just nine of twenty eight from the outside. Meanwhile, the Minnesota
Timberwolves at fifty four percent from the floor eleven of thirty four from distance.
These are the two top three point shooting teams in the league by percentage coming
into this game, and the Clippers were just five of fourteen in the first
half from three just four of fourteen in the second half from distance. Did
not shoot to their capabilities. They did only turn over thirteen times, but
ended up leading to seventeen points for the Minnesota Timberwolves, who were much better
on that end after a rough first half for them where they had six turnovers,
leading to twelve points for the Clippers fourteen overall for the Timberwolves, who
ended up getting up one more shot but they got to the free throw line
thirteen times in that third quarter. When they started to open things up,
the Clippers went small and they just could not defend without fouling out there.
They struggled in that area tonight. They didn't have a player get to twenty
points. Kawhi Leonard eighteen didn't play in the fourth quarter. Paul George eighteen
on five of sixteen shooting. James Harden was seventeen points with the starters.
Russell Westbrook with eleven off the bench, but just three of eleven shooting a
mere coffee. They'd do his part. He had ten on four or five
shooting. Some of those buckets came during inconsequential time, you could say.
But it was Karl Anthony Towns who got off to the hot start. He
had fourteen in the first half. He had twenty four points in the game.
Anthony Edwards was held in check till late in this one as the Minnesota
Timberwolves started to pour it on. Finished with twenty three points as he had
only six in the first half. Clippers fall by twenty one. While we
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Clippers were just completely outclass tonight at the hands of the Timberwolves, a team
with a ton of size with the best defense in the NBA. They have
been from the first week till now. Clippers had an off shooting to night.
You credit Minnesota some. You also say, yes, some of this
performances on the Clippers. But we'll talk about it all. We'll get into
it coming up on the show. We'll get your phone calls. We'll hear
from coach Lou, We'll hear from the players. We'll also hear from Chuck
Mockler. I believe it's his turn tonight. Yeah, I believe because the
Clippers lost. It wouldn't be will updeck and the Clippers lost a game by
twenty one. Were they led at the half by four after being in that
uphill battle throughout the majority of the first half. Clippers were down four after
the first quarter, and really the only guy to show up early was Kawhi
Leonard. We'll say the Clippers were won for their first six from the field.
They only made seven field goals in that first quarter. Kawhi had five
of them. He had eleven points. Clippers were down twenty eight to twenty
four after one, but near the end of the second quarter is where the
Clippers started to make their push. They went small. They went on a
ten to zero run with Harden Man, Kawhi Russ and PG to end a
half. So the big four plus Terrence Man and they ended up going to
plus four with that lineup, and they were up four to half. They
knocked down a couple of three pointers. There was some sloppy mistakes by the
Timberwolves. To end that second quarter, the Clippers took advantage. It was
a three point from Paul George, then a steal from James Harden to Russ,
back out to James Harden who knocked down a three to end the first
half. At the busser, Clippers had the momentum, and then somewhere in
the fifteen minutes in the locker room, they gave it away because they came
out and got blitzed a quick eight to oh run to start the third quarter
by the Minnesota Timberwolves. Didn't like seeing that felt like a first quarter type
Clippers performance. Early in that third it was Anthony Edwards who started get it
going. After having just six points in the first half, he had a
quick four. The first four points for the Minnesota Timberwolves got to the free
throw line. That would be a theme in the third quarter, where after
attempting just six free throws in the first half, the Timberwolves got up thirteen
in the third quarter alone. It wasn't because ah the officials, the refs,
the Clippers were on the wrong end of a poorly officiated game. No,
they just couldn't defend without fouling, partially because they went small. Aviata
Zubots got into foul trouble and Mason Plumley was pretty much ineffective in the first
half. He has to play better. I know. He's also coming back
from what we thought could have been a season ending knee injury. There's some
timing there, there's a rhythm, and he hasn't caught it yet. Aviatza
Zubots, meanwhile, was this his third game back off of the right calf
injury that he suffered or at least reaggravated right before tip off in Minnesota in
a much closer contest just about three weeks ago. This was Big Zoo's make
it fourth game back from the injury. Joined them on the road trip,
played against Miami, but he hasn't played more than twenty three minutes. He
got to twenty three minutes tonight. I think that was his minutes limit in
garbage time in the fourth quarter where he got his only two buckets. But
he just doesn't look right. And he said it after the first game in
Miami when he was back, that the game was moving too fast for him.
It's amazing that a professional athlete it's that difficult at this level. A
guy who rarely misses any time missed about two and a half three weeks and
looked lost out there and said the game was just going too fast. And
I think it still is. But I was glad to see him get that
extra run late, and I think it was because carlojmen Haz brought it up.
Coach Lou wanted to see him reach his minutes limit and just try to
catch a rhythm. He did have a couple of inconsequential buckets in the fourth
quarter, a couple of good defensive possessions. But my point is against this
Timberwolves team, I think it's pretty clear at this point you can go small
in spurts like they did end of the third quarter, but if you go
with it for an extended amount of time, it's gonna wear guys out and
their offense is going to suffer and Eventually, when they're trying to be scrappy
and trying to be aggressive to match the physicality and size of the Timberwolves,
it leads to a lot of fouls. I don't fault the effort, but
there was a mismatch and Minnesota slowly wore them down to the point where they
outscored the Clippers in that third quarter forty to nineteen, and again got to
the free throw line thirteen times, more than double the amount they were there
in the first half. Because the Clippers just couldn't defend without failing. They
need a Viata Zubas to be one hundred percent in this matchup. They need
him to be right. They need Mason plumb Lee to play better, and
they might end up going to PJ. Tucker the next time around in Martin
against Minnesota, who they still play two more times. So it was a
letdown. We thought, oh, too heavyweight, it's gonna come down to
the final shot. No, Minnesota outworked them. They were more physical,
they were the bigger, stronger team. They had extended time off, and
the Clippers, outside of that spurt to end the third quarter, really just
didn't play their game, and they had some guys with some inordinate or uncharacteristically
bad off shooting nights. Paul George can't go five for sixteen against this team
to get to his eighteen points. I thought Kawhi was pretty good overall.
Typically is of course, eight of seventeen for his eighteen points, and had
his moments like the back to back dunks, one with the left hand,
one with the right hand, and both of those came as they were gathering
some momentum to end that second quarter. He had a ridiculous offensive rebound at
one point leading to a James Harden jumper, and and one on McDaniel's coming
out of a timeout in the third quarter that was crucial to keep them within
range. But then they went small with the Vitza Zubats getting his fourth foul
and being on a minister restriction, and they got punished. That's how you
end up with a twenty one point loss. I didn't even play in the
fourth quarter. Glad he didn't, because they weren't coming back in this game,
not against this defense. They lived up to be in the number one
rated defensive team in the NBA tonight. They're that good. The Clippers had
their moments on offense where I thought, Okay, they're hunting Mike Conley Jr.
That's the right move. He gives great effort. He's a solid defender
for his size, he's just undersized. They started things off with James Harden.
They tried to play through him against him. Then Paul George Kawhi didn't
get as many opportunities, I believe, but that's what you have to do
and knock down mid range jumpers because they're not giving up much at the basket.
Gobart was spectacular the stifle tower at the basket tonight. There was one
play where he had two blocks, first on Man, then another one on
Avitza Zubots. It was just incredible. He is a generational rim protector.
Gonna be in the Hall of Fame, he's that good. And now he
has a better defensive team around him than he had in Utah, where he
mostly held up that defensive rating by himself. Now you got Jade McDaniels,
Anthony Edwards, a very good defender who again was kept in check, bottled
up in the first half, just six points. Some of his damage in
the fourth quarter when the game was getting away from the Clippers. But you
get a night like that from him where he starts three of nine and you
don't take advantage of it. In that third quarter, he ended up getting
twelve points, just like he did in the third quarter. Of Minnesota came
alive then too, So the Clippers probably should have been up by more than
four in the first half to absorb the expected run that the Minnesota Timberwolves are
going to make in that third quarter. But when you have to go small
that often, I think it starts to wear you down. I mentioned them
going plus four to end and a half going small, but then they were
minus five in the third before Daniel Tice came back into the game, who's
also just six' eight. He plays much bigger than that. But and
then in the fourth quarter they went minus four very quickly going small, trying
to get back into it. I guess when you're down by seventeen heading into
the fourth and while last time out of Minnesota they made their big push and
almost pulled it off, losing by just four, going small, tonight,
that wasn't gonna happen. Minnesota. They were impressive. You gotta tip your
cap to them. They were a much better squad and they beat up the
Clippers on the interior, scoring sixty four points in the paint to the Clippers
forty two eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Let's start things off with Jeoffrey and East Hollywood, hopefully not King Jeffrey.
Jeffrey even better, Jeffrey, what's up here on Clippers stop without Amasen?
Hey, Adam, it's you know. I was at the game today,
man, and jeesus, dude, it was. It was tough the
first things. First, man, the fans, dude, like, I
don't know what we need, you know, whether it's the new arena or
they need to get more into it, man, And no pun intended,
but you know they need to get more into it, dude. And some
of it was because the Clippers weren't giving them enough. There weren't a lot
of high energy plays. You know, No I understand that, but you
know, and I tweeted at you this man. There was a lot of
Wools fans and a lot of Lakers fans in the house. And when you
got Kawhi Leonard, who's been playing to that, you know, he'm playing
his butt off for this for this team. Yeah, at the free throw
line and you're not chancing MVP for the dude and it's only me and a
few other people in the whole arena. That's a problem. Well, I'll
see that tonight. There may have been some Wolves fans it's a transplant city,
but for the most part, recently, like against Detroit on Saturday,
there were a lot more chants. They were much louder chants recently for Kawhi
for vyp for sure. For sure, it's just you know, being at
the game and just seeing this product. Man, it was it was tough
one, you know, one last thing before I let you go at him.
We need another big whether it's just you know, personally, I want
Blake, and I know a lot of Clipper fans are gonna be it's gonna
fit to fifty. Honestly, when it comes to a Blake topic, you
know, I just think one for the vibes obviously. Two, I just
think, you know, he will bring that presence of you know, like
I feel like he's hungry. I don't know, even if it's just a
twelfth man spot off the bench man, I just think, you know,
just having that one body. PJ Tucker, obviously he's not gonna be you.
Today was the perfect chance to get him into the game with how bad
they were struggling. If we're not gonna put him into the game today,
it's not gonna happen. I would would I wouldn't say that, Jeffrey.
I think it's gonna happen sooner than later. I don't know about Wednesday against
the Golden State Warriors, just because they're a smaller team, but I would
expect to see him at some point, especially in marsh when you got seventeen
games. Coach Lou said he's gonna get his opportunity. I believe that I
do. I hope you're right, even though again for the vibes, I
want Blake Griffon on this team, bro fact, I understand even have a
chance to win the Chip. I feel like it's just the perfect Indrella story
man moving into the new arena with hopefully with the new banner and Blake Griffin
being a part of that team. I just feel like it's it all kind
of lines up, ironically. I I really do feel that way. And
last thing before I let you go this time for real great fan of yours,
what you do with the podcast with the guys I've been listening to them
since loged on cliffs and you know, I really do like what you guys
do. And uh yeah, man, I can't wait to see you guys
at the end of a dome and I'll be there as a half season ticket
all of the start. So I'll let you go now, man, Jeffrey,
I appreciate the phone call, appreciate the love and your passion for Blake
Griffin. Look if physically he's capable, of course he's hungry, it's just
about can't you move out there? What does he look like? And right
now they don't have an open roster spot, so it's a little bit more
complex. Then just bring him in, see what he has. We'll see
Clippers win. Excuse me, Clippers lose one twenty one to one hundred.
I'm still thinking of that Detroit game obviously on Saturday, I'm trying to go
back to a better time. Clippers lose by twenty one tonight to the Minnesota
Timberwolves. And it's just rare to say the Clippers have lost a game lately.
It's like that they had won thirty two of forty one heading into this
one. We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back here at Crypto
dot Com arena. The fans always win. It's still a great environment regardless.
Clipper Nation was talking to some people postgame. They still had a good
time. It was a disappointing lost to a very good Minnesota Timberwolves team on
a night where you could have taken back first place. But it's gonna be
like this the rest of the season. When you look at the top four
and I'll uphit you on the NBA standings coming up, it's just gonna be
musical chairs, somebody always getting bumped out. More Clippers Talk. Next,
you're on a five to seven LA Sports. The LA Clippers continue their hunt
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Talk for the first time eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy
eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number as I
get the double double later on tonight. You know what I mean, That's
all I meant by that. Let's just say big brother Jake Warner, who
will be on in a little bit here, not too happy with me aus
he was breaking down the equipment. Just your meat of cut in all of
a sudden with Carlo, pay him overtime. I'll slip him much twenty I
ain't gotta pay this guy. You got paid in Vegas, Vegas, Baby
Vegas. You walking on us. Clippers lose by twenty one. Carlo Jimenez
is hanging out, so I'm like, hey, what are you doing?
You want to come back on the show eight six six nine, eight seven
two five seventy. We're gonna hear from the head coach in just a little
bit, Carlo. You need a little postgame Q and A with Daniel Tice.
Was he in good spirits? What was some of the subject matter with
DT? Yeah, he was, he wasn't good spirits. We talked about
his World Cup win. He got a gold medal, first ever for Germany
this summer. We talked about, hey, he wants to travel to Hawaii
because the first time living on the East Coast Okay or the West Coast,
I should say, makes sense? Why not? But he was good.
He said, you know, the Clippers struggle a little bit as a late
he said, time change, long road trip. I think, Adam,
the Clippers are still feeling it from that seven game road trip. I mean,
that's not gonna wear off in just a weekend. And you saw it
today with the focus. But he was in good spirits. I don't think
there's any reason to panic if you're the Clippers. I don't think there's any
reason to hurry. It might make some major changes. Detice as always happy
to be here, and we're happy to have them, happy to have him
opening the helping the Clippers out. All right, your first call here on
Clippers Talk Mike in La. You're on Clippers Stop with Adam Austlin and your
radio voice of the Clippers and Carlo Jimenez after they fall once twenty one to
one hundred here at home to the Timberwolves. What's up, Mike, Mike,
So, first of all, Carlo, welcome to Clipper Nation. Relatedly,
thank you, thank you. Awesome job, awesome job so far.
We are so happy to have you. You're too kind. On a more
on a more somber note. You know, this was just disheartening tonight because
you look at this trend about the Clippers losing to teams with size, and
a night like tonight just makes me question whether we can win it all this
year. I mean, we would come get up against one of these teams
in the playoffs. I don't know, curious, is too your guys thoughts
on that as to you know, potentially how that would translate the seven game
series, and I mean what we can do. Obviously, we can't really
make any roster moves at this point. So I mean, oh, he's
just had a color talk about Blake Griffin. Mike, Mike, the season
is not over. They lost one game in February. They're thirty two and
ten in their last forty two games. Come on, now, it's not
It's not the end of the world. We'll be okay. We'll be okay.
We gotta trust ty Lou. I appreciate that. You know you were
only gonna get down in the duffs here. Thank you for the phone call,
Mike. I'll just say this, Yes, they have lost to some
teams with size, they also happen to be really good teams. It's not
just you know, a bottom dweller in the league that happens to be a
mismatch for the Clippers. These are very top end squads, like the Timberwolves
tonight, like the Cleveland Cavaliers. They didn't have a Vitza Zubats for that
game, and they're still working through Zubots coming back with Maybe he was on
a twenty three minute restriction tonight and he hit that and then was pulled in
the fourth quarter, and coach Lou, as you mentioned earlier, Carlo was
trying to get him at least to that mark to build up reps out there.
I mean when we talked the coach Lou pregame, he almost laughed when
he said the minute when he said there's gonna be a minute's restriction on Vita
Zubots because it was so short. Emphasis on the word short. I mean,
he did not play a lot in this game. I think they tried
to save his minutes in case it was close. Late it wasn't. They
were like, we're not going to not play him, you might as well
get the cardio in in Big Zoo. He did cardio like big brother Jake
Warner did yesterday. Eighteen miles. The LA Marathon is shaking right now.
What about me? I did ten on a treadmill. Man, what do
you want? That's not eighteen? Think bros? After me right now.
Let's hear from Shelley and Riverside Shelley second time here on Clippers Talk. You
got Adam Oslin and Carlo Jimenez post game. That's a treat. What's up,
Shelley, Hey there, Hey there, it is a treat. And
Carlo, I have to tell you I follow them on social media and I
just appreciate the behind the scenes. You know, it's kind of cool that
you do that. It's really cool. So don't stop, thank you.
I will keep it up. Yeah, all right, so real quick,
I just wanted to say I'm not concerned at all about this loss. It
is heartbreaking. You know, it's a long season. You gotta stack wins.
You understand that there will be losses. You just want your wins to
outnumber the losses, which are do like with no shame. You know,
it's hard because as Clipper fans like, we want to puff out our chests
and boast about the Clippers, and sometimes that's hard where we are. But
I mean, you just got to look at the big picture. And I
just have two last points. Number One, I do think PJ. Tucker
is important, and I think that we're going to head in that direction.
I think I think it was either you, Adam, or it could the
guys. Somebody was talking about how James Harden said like he's got to get
in the rotation, and I think that was basically the nod for like,
look, Ty, you know, get it together. Let's make that happen.
But my last point before I go, what are we talking about?
Blake Griffin? I remember that I have been a Clipper fan for like ever,
like really, and I mean he was always great and all that,
but I never was like, yeah, this is like Michael Jordan to me.
I just never understood people that are just crazy to that point. And
we're just it's twenty twenty four, you know, we're not bringing Blake Griffin
so that fans can be happy. We're trying to win a championship. What
are we talking about? Like, Becket's under my skin, it always has.
He's great. Let's retire his jersey, Lob City. I mean,
he put us on the map in anyways, But oh my god, what
are we talking about not shit, have a good night. I understand Shelley,
there's something to that. Look, they don't have an open roster spot
right now, so Shelley spin facts. It depends on a lot of things,
including Blake Griffin's current health. He hasn't been on a team all season
long. Typically there's a reason for that. We'll see what happens. I
know there's a love affair still with Blake Griffin, who helped put this team
on the map during the Lob City days. But Carlo, you want to
that. I mean, I love the PJ. Tucker point because we got
to look at who TYLERU is. Right. This is somebody who said publicly,
look, I don't run my good out of timeout plays until post All
Star break when we're a good team. I keep my cards close to the
chest. I gotta imagine at him. Tlud didn't keep PJ. Tucker around
just to have him sit on the bench and be a cheerleader for this team.
There is another wrinkle that he sees with this offense and defensively with PJ.
Tucker that he can throw out late in the season, maybe in a
playoff series, and teams are gonna not know how to react. It's all
about matchups when it comes down to the playoffs, that's what matters. It's
why you see some guys play twenty minutes in one series and then zero minutes
the next series. It's who you're playing against and how you match up.
I think PJ. Tucker could pee a key piece of this team down stretch.
I'm a PJ. Tucker fan. I always have been. I understand
he's older now, he had his opportunities this season, but coach Lou did
say recently after the trade deadline, with him still on the roster, he'll
get his chance. He'll get an opportunity. So I don't think this is
somebody who is just a break glass in case of emergency type of player.
When you have seventeen games coming up in March, I expect Coach lu to
go deep into his bench, and that includes PJ. Tucker, especially in
matchups like this and against a team like the Pelicans. If you're talking about
size, Norm Powell may have put it best he said right after the trade
deadline that you know PJ. Tucker is an a forcer. Ye, he
can wreck guys in a playoff series, even in just a few minutes.
Here and there we're not talking about thirty five minutes. We're talking maybe just
ten minutes where you put him on Jokic or Zion or just being that disruptor
type of player. That's somebody who PJ. Tucker has been for a long
time, and we saw enough to see that. I think his lateral quickness
is still there. I think defensively, a lot of what he has provided
over the years is still contained and something that he can offer this team one
hundred percent agree. I mean, PJ. Tucker is the definition of a
defensive pass. That's what he does. He's gonna get under your skin.
He's gonna be physical and wait the Clippers with his he can play without worrying
about fouls. I mean, he can play without worrying about picking up back
to back fouls, without worrying about being too aggressive on the defensive end.
I think there is a role. I see your role for him, and
I just can't wait till Tyler rolls it out and everybody who was saying there's
no spot for PJ. Tucker is gonna be backpedaling on the words. Yeah,
I'm not giving up. He's still got a ton of strength left.
Even at the age of thirty eight. This is somebody who can bully some
guys and get them off their spots. Let's hear from before we break.
Raman and Santa Clarita, you're on Clipper stock. You got Adam Oslin and
Carlo Jimenez and a party going on in the background. Roman, what's up?
Hey, how's it going? Hey? It's good to have you both
here. I haven't haven't been on here with Carlos Semenez, So welcome to
Clipper Nation. I'm new to Clipper Nation myself. I'm a Laker fan,
but you guys have been hold on Carlo. He's our favorite Laker fan.
Trust me, listen to this guy. I know, I don't know.
He made your recoil for a second. I felt the same thing the first
time he called in. See Eric and then say you're a Laker fan.
But all right, this season, I've been following this season, I've been
following, and you guys, you know, you guys look great today.
I'm you know, I see that as they have some tired legs, there
is some adjustments that need to make. But you know that that Minnesota team
is no joke, you know. I hopefully they don't match up with them
in the first round. But I think Zubac getting his legs and getting PJ.
Tucker back in that rotation with me and Adam have talked about numerous times
PJ. Tucker can dominate for a ten minute span and give you some give
you some legs, give you some body. I think, you know,
Tice getting him more than five minutes in a game, I think that would
be you know, beneficial. But you know, especially if Plumbley's having an
off game. But I think we got to go somewhere other than Kawhi Leonard
leading the pack and then once he's off the floor, that's it, you
know what I mean. We got to get some scoring going. You know
PG thirteen, you can't can't be you know, just become non existent out
there. I think you know, this game, they did look a little
tired, and they did look a little off beat. But getting Zoo back
and getting getting his legs er, I think is important. And I think
you know, like you said that seven games fan is is and you know
it just doesn't go away. This is a this is an older veteran team,
so so I think you know they're gonna come back strong against Golden Golden
State, and you know, we'll see what happens. But you know,
I agree, No, Blake Griffin, that's that's that's a silly concept.
I like Miller coming up that I've seen him in the G League and that
that dude can ball, So I think he's good coming off the bench with
some energy. You know, Go Clippers. You know I'm hoping for you
guys this year, So go Clippers. Hey Laker fans saying go Clippers on
Clippers talk, I'm here for it. They're coming to the light side.
I love it. I love it. Paul George, by the way,
just five of sixteen from the field. I don't care how good your defense
is. That is still an off night from him. He is much better
than that. I am thankful he at least got up sixteen shots and continued
to go at Rudy Gobert in the paint. It's not like this Clippers team
wasn't still aggressive. They seem to know in that game plan, Hey,
you're gonna lose battles going against Rudy Gobert, but you just have to stick
with it and hopefully over time, with a couple more meetings against this squad,
you get him in foul trouble. You find some cracks in this defense
that is that good. They're the number one defense for a reason. They
are, and they have length. McDaniels is an excellent on ball defender.
You picked up somebody like Monte Morris who can guard one on one. Alexander
Walker is lengthy, he can get in passing lanes. I mean, they
did a great job today of forcing turnovers thirteen for the Clippers, who played
their best quarter in the second when they didn't turn the ball over, outscoring
the Timberwolves twenty nine to twenty one. That seems to be the key for
this team. Adam just got to take care of the basketball. Hang on
to the rock, protect it like at your child. When you're going up
against a team that is likely to win the rebounding battle against you, you
have to win the turnover battle. And that was something the Clippers did do
the first meeting where they were in that game late because of it. The
possessions were still there for them because even though they got beat up on the
boards, they only had I think six or seven less turnovers in Minnesota in
that ballgame. A quick time out. Chuck Mockler's coming back on Carlo.
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Network. Clippers fall one twenty one to one hundred at home to the Minnesota
Timberwolves. Welcome back in. This is Clippers Stock. I'm out of Maslin.
Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number right
now. We are joined here with the little clips and double dip on Clippers
Talk because we got big Chuck Mockler on Chuck. Where was this game lost
by the Clippers? Oh man, I mean I probably won two minutes into
the second quarter or something like that, or the third quarter. Excuse me,
no, this this is such I mean, you know this is an
Understandably, it's tough to watch this team, you know, kind of get
pushed around by a bigger team, right, Tyler talked about in the post
game presser. You know, the guys need to execute better, uh,
in the offense with a big team like the Timberwolves. In the execution.
You know, it wasn't up to stuff tonight, obviously, but this this
is a great Timberwolves team. This team, you know, this this one
especially, it was like, okay, it's it's a little more real,
I guess than that I initially thought from them. But I don't know where
this this game was lost. I don't think there was a guy, you
know, that they could have traded for that makes this this game will win
or anything like that. But you know, you gotta hope PG shoots better
than thirty one percent. You gotta hope Zoo goes betther than forty percent.
Terrence was a little rough tonight. Norm wasn't right, like I don't know.
It may have been the physicality, but the execution also wasn't there.
To me, it's still about getting better internally. If Ittzu Zubats has to
get right. Mason Plumbley still doesn't look right to me, he just has
not been good enough and didn't play in the second half. They went to
Daniel Tys instead to no avail this Clippers team and ended up losing by twenty
one. But as you mentioned, that third quarter is where things got away
from them. A forty to nineteen win in the third quarter by the Timberwolves,
that's just too much to overcome against a team with this good of a
defense, that plays like it. You can see it out there. They
are fantastic on that end. That is their identity. They're basically a bottom
ten offense. And it did not matter at all tonight holding the Clippers to
one hundred and putting up one hundred and twenty one on them. But you
know, I'm still wondering if at some point we see PJ. Tucker out
there. We've had a few calls on it tonight. I'm not saying it's
the cure all. I'm just wondering if that size issue can be remedied at
all by better play from the Clippers. And also somebody who just hasn't had
an opportunity in a while, and Coach lou said he's gonna give it to
him at some point. Yeah, this was a game. You know,
you see the kind of what the backup center play was tonight. I mean,
all of the centers. It was a little rough tonight, but you
know, Mason only played nine minutes, but it was it looked a little
rough. Tye came in for a very limited stint and couldn't get anything going
either. So you would think, you know, if the Coopers are going
to commit to going small, which didn't really work tonight unfortunately. I mean
maybe, yeah, like you try and especially against the bigger team like the
Timbrels, you maybe give Chucker some run because he's gonna need it, right
this is d n P Thirty six or something like that, and if he's
gonna play, it kind of has to happen soon. He's the second oldest
guy in the league. You can't just really pop off the bench and then
be asked to play super physical minutes if it gets to that point. But
once an interstriction for Zoo gets lifted, Tyleru talked about that being a pain.
You know, he's kind of trying to play these six minutes stamp that'll
make things look a little bit better, But yeah, I don't know,
tough go Tonight size wise, I thought it was a bit of the Russ
roller coaster. Tonight gave him some really good minutes in the first half,
but struggled in that third quarter. The miss Donk a couple of miss layups
where he was just going at Rudy Gobert with reckless abandon. I appreciate the
effort, but the execution wasn't always there and ended up with a three pointer.
I think Walker had one on the other end, or maybe it was
Kyle and Anderson. A lot of guys just did not perform to their capabilities,
but Norm Powell not being right in a game like this where I think
he had twenty four last time in Minnesota, and Aviatza Zubats still not looking
right timing wise, maybe it was just a recipe for disaster, because this
Timberwolves team is too good and you have to have everyone really be at their
best, and the Clippers got a couple of guys who are banged up right
now and just don't look right. Yeah, Norm, you know, I
don't know. I kind of excuse Norm a little bit. If you saw
what happened on Saturday. It's kind of a little surprising he was playing today
he didn't look all the way there. Yeah, Russ, in the beginning,
it worked great, right. I think his first two touches he gotn
and one and then got another foul. But then the ball started finding its
way to him behind the three point line. Kind of a little bit by
design, it seemed, you know, the Clippers went small and they let
a really big team kind of just play free safety, which we've seen the
Heat do right when Russ is out there sometimes, so that backfired, but
I also kind of got it. We haven't really mentioned Harden. He had
kind of a tough game. He had a tough what was it second quarter
on Saturday, but the shooting percentage wasn't there from him, but felt a
little iso heavy sometimes, which is, you know, credit to the Wolves
defense for being able to disrupt that. But if there is gonna be that
much ice of ball, you do hope he shoots better than thirty eight percent.
Yeah, a lot of guys again struggled in this ball game, and
overall, collect the Minnesota Timberwolves were just the much better team. They look
to be more connected, they know who they were a little bit more out
there. That identity isn't grained now. It is crystallized with them. I
mean they've been the number one offense going back to I think the first week
of the NBA season and it just hasn't stopped. Still felt like there were
some positives there from Kawhi Leonard going at Ja McDaniels. Some he looked a
little bit more comfortable against the length of Jaden McDaniels than the last time around,
who is a phenomenal defender. Yeah. I mean the two dugs by
Kawhi to and that first quarter were pretty incredible. First of the left and
then the right things were great, and then the end of the half was
great too. But yeah, no, the battle between McDaniel's and Kawhi was
really incredible to see. You saw McDaniel strip Terrence Maan at one point,
just he was being a little careless with the ball. So yeah, Kawhi
did look a little more comfortable against the length on some of the other guys,
so maybe they can follow see next time. But yeah, I mean
that's all we could really hope work. I think we play them two more
times. One of them is a Bucks Timberwolves back to back or something like
that. But I think we get the Timberwolves. Yeah, I know,
I think we get the Timberwolves first in that one, So there's two more
chances, and let's hope they you know, show up, show up a
little bigger next time. So how important do you peg that game Wednesday night
up in Golden State against a team that has won five in a row,
that is playing much better, that maybe has found themselves, especially with that
victory over the Phoenix Suns, with the Steph Curry game winner last game before
the All Star Break? How big do you think that is, Chuck,
I you know you don't want to go Yeah, I'd like to win a
Pacific Division game before the All Star Break. That would feel good. Yeah,
exactly, especially with kind of how they played tonight. So you want
to go in to the All Star Break as healthy as possible and playing as
well as possible, somewhere between those two things. And if they get a
you know, a solid win, I guess, like you said, a
Warrior's team that's been playing a little bit better, I would feel pretty good
about it. Let's just get out of this thing and the guys can relax
for a while before next month's schedule starts. Clippers Faull Tonight one twenty one
to one hundred to the Minnesota Deceimberwolves here at Crypto dot Com Arena. He
is Chuck Mackler of Clips in Dip Fame. Chuck, we'll talk tomorrow on
the YouTube, my friend. Thanks for doing this tonight. Yep, sound
good. Thanks for having me. Coming up next, we will close things
out here on Clippers Talk. We'll have big brother Jake Warner on for some
positivity. Of course, Clippers lose by twenty one at home. Here's some
positivity home. I'm not stepping on Jake's toes. They've still won thirty two
of their last forty two games, twenty seven of the last thirty four since
December first, seventeen of their last twenty three. How about that. Take
that for data. More Clippers Talk next year only have five seventy LA Sports.
The LA Clippers continue their hunt for a Lario bit. They still want
to get that Larryo beat. Don't miss a moment all season long. This
is the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers lose one twenty one to one hundred
here at Crypto dot Com Arena to the Minnesota Timberwolves, and with that it
was a battle for first place. They dropped down to third in the Western
Conference standings. They were a game and a half back of the Timberwolves,
just a half game back of the second seed, currently held by the Oklahoma
City Thunder. I did get some help tonight Denver lost to Milwaukee. I'm
Adam Oslin. You're listening to Clippers talk. Let's hear from Jose in Downey.
Jose what's up? How you doing? Adam? You know what,
I don't know if it's been the last two times that I've gone to the
game, the Pelicans and then now this game. It was a little disheartening.
Got beat up tonight, got beat up in the Pelicans Repelicans game as
well. The length is really getting to them. I would have wished they
would have done something to help out Paul George. I think playing center sometimes
and then playing that power forward spot. You know, he gets beat up
on the defensive side. He tries to play as great as he can on
the defensive side, and then he doesn't show up on the offensive side.
But I mean they're just getting pushed around these last two games with Man.
I love to see Man out there. He has a lot of energy,
but I mean, last couple of games, he struggled on the offense twenty
five minutes today at two points. It's just it's a little disheartening to see
last week's game against the Pelicans, this game for first place. I would
have really liked to see one of those wins at least. Again, I
don't know if I'm still just annoyed because I was there both games. You
know, it's not your fault. It is not your fault. Okay,
they're taking out really good teams, and unfortunately they were on the wrong end
of a couple of these ones. Jose, Yeah, I mean, but
I mean, I do hope. I mean, I really do think Paul
Jege can stick it out for us playing that small ball center and then also
playing that power forward spot. But I mean, I think the other guys
around him have to pick up a little bit on the scoring side if he's
gonna be putting all that effort on the defense, you know, but I
would love to see them drive more and get back to to that free throw
line. They're really settling for shots, especially against these longer teams. Some
some screens, double screens. I didn't see a lot of single order even
double screens today to try to get free open some shots. If you're gonna
take those shots, you know. Yeah, I appreciate the phone call,
Jose. It was a struggle against the number one defense in the NBA.
They did attempt twenty six free throws to just nineteen for the Minnesota Timberwolves,
so they got there. I didn't think they settled too much. They look
to be intent on getting to the basket and putting pressure on the rim against
Rudy Gobert, which is what you have to do. You cannot be afraid
he's gonna get some locks. But you have to continue on with Let's hear
from coach lou post game here on Clippers talk after they lose one twenty one
to one hundred to the t Wolves, just to kind of talk about the
side of the Cleveland game, this game, I know, in both of
these games because Minnesota, you guys have had good spurts, maybe not so
much this one. But what have you found to be successful against, uh,
the size you guys have gone against with Cleveland and Minnesota specifically going small.
Mean today they hurt on the rebound name yeah today they did. Yeah,
So last time you guys played in Minnesota, you found small to be
there. I mean he has better for us, you know at times,
just trying to space Rudy out, get him out of paint. You know,
he's been Defensive Player of the Year one hundred times for a reason,
you know, and so he's a problem down low. So just trying to
draw him away from the basket, trying to play him in rotations like we
did, you know, late in that second half. So that's probably that's
probably key. Try what did you see from the center rotation tonight? Obviously
I know you haven't always gone to all three of them, but today you
did go all three and also tried small ball. Just what did you see
from those three? I mean it was like zoo, like I said,
on a mint restriction and then you know, Mason DT didn't really get a
fair chance. So not really a huge assessment for tonight, but you know,
just I'm trying to eat up those minutes you know with zoom be on
a mentor restriction and just you know, trying to find you know, which
big plays well. So A really didn't get a fair chance tonight. You
mentioned before about offensively they weren't moving the ball side to side, getting Minnesota
in rotation. Can you can you look at a game like tonight as hopefully
maybe a wake up call to the guys about doing those sorts of things.
Yeah, I hope. So, you know, we've been talking about it,
and you know, we just got we just got to do it more
often, you know, more consistent. You know, I think we have
some good one on one players, but at the end of the day,
like just got to be more consistent, you know, getting to the second
and third actions like we have done, you know. And so tonight was
just a tough game for us. Cliver's fall once Ony one to one hundred.
There was Coach lou post game, he said going small was the solution,
and it did give them that run at the end of the second quarter,
or gave them that run at the end of the fourth quarter in Minnesota.
This Clippers team, though, they have to get better production at the
center position. You heard Joey Lynn ask him. You know, this was
one of the few times, or maybe the first time this season that they
had put all three big men out there at some point of the ballgame.
They were looking for anything, They were trying their best to create some energy,
but none of the big men were good enough against a team that is
extraordinarily tough upfront on that front line. Before we get out of here,
some positivity. Big Brother Jake Warner Big Jake Podcast on the Podcast one network.
He's a fake philosopher and he's gonna grace us with a I need something
positive coming out of this game. We gotta be assertive, man, because
you know we went through a lot today. Okay, so some of you
think it's all about looking the part and not being it. I prefer being
the part and not looking it. Okay, be about that life. Don't
speak about it, be about it. Prove it with actions always. Clippers
have to do that on Wednesday against a very good currently they're on a hot
streak Golden State Warriors team. Tiptime is at seven. We got your pregame
show starting at six. Before we get out of here. I do want
to thank Big Brother Jake Warner for holding it down as always as our head
engineer here at Crypto dot Com arena and keep me in check. Katie Newton
back in the bank. The callers, the listeners, Ralph Lawler, Brian
Seman, No what Ego, Carlo Jimenez on the call in on Clippers Talk
tonight. We'll talk to you at six on Wednesday for the final game before
the All Star Break. I'm out a Moslin hoping for a Clippers big bounce
back on Wednesday, a dub on a day of the week that starts with
a dub. Oh eat that dub. Jameis Winston. We'll talk to you
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