The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just begun. Kahi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range.
This is Clippers locker Roo, a recap of today's game and a look ahead
on your home for LA Clippers playoff basketball. And now your host, You,
sir, are a bad man, Adam Oslin. Clippers lose Game two
in Phoenix in this series is tied up at one a piece after the Suns
win once twenty three to one, O nine over your Los Angeles Clippers.
Welcome in to your post game show. I'm atam Oslin coming up. We'll
postgame audio from the head coach in the players and get into your final box
score. But first back out to Phoenix with your voice of the Clippers in
Noah Eagle, No, you talked about it. Clippers led by as many
as thirteen in that second quarter. To me, this game really turned those
last three minutes of the first half. Yeah, big time. Where the
Clippers had momentum in that second quarter, and again similar to what we saw
on Sunday where the Clippers gave up that momentum to finish the first half,
Phoenix brought what was a sixteen point Clipper lead down to five going into the
half, and you said, oh, oh, here they come, and
sure enough, they build it up to nine in the third quarter. But
the Clippers responded and they took that punch. They delivered a CounterPunch. I
saw a lot of similarities today where Clippers went up big in the second quarter,
Phoenix comes out, they make their run, they tie it at halftime,
and then from there they went up big, up by as many as
I think it was twelve or at one point in the third quarter, at
least double digits. In the third quarter, the Clippers bring it back to
within five going into the fourth, Phoenix extends to thirteen, and then the
Clippers again make another run, bring it to six with just under three minutes
remaining, or a little over three minutes remaining either way, with a couple
of minutes left, and then after that turnover, turnover, turnover, misshot
turnover. That's what you can't have if you battle. And Clippers gave themselves
chances, and all you need is a chance a couple bounces to go your
way. Things change in a hurry. And when you've got Kawhi Leonard,
especially with the way he's played these first two games of the series. You're
always gonna have a chance if you keep it close. But it just felt
like the Clippers shot themselves on the foot a little bit too much. They
ended up end up this game with fifteen turnovers. They didn't crash the glass
the same level they did in the first game, and so those margins shrunk
just enough. Phoenix shot the ball fifty nine percent from the floor forty two
from three. Clippers didn't shoot nearly well enough to even compete with that,
and eventually they ran out of time and just ran out of I would say
efficiency to get the job done on both ends. Yeah, and a game
where the Phoenix Sun score one hundred and twenty three and Devin Booker's going off
like that, even when they were playing good defense, it didn't seem to
matter. And the Clippers average one hundred and fourteen per game and only put
up one on nine. And you mentioned it, a lot of open shots
missed on the perimeter completely, you know, you make three or four of
those, which are more than I mean, that's exactly what the Clippers did
all season. They were the third best three point shooting team in the regular
season at thirty eight point one percent mentioned it throughout the game. They were
first in bench three point shooting at thirty eight point five. But we're talking
about Nick Mutoom, who during the regular season was thirty nine point one percent.
We're talking about Bones Highland, who during the regular season was thirty seven
point one percent, talking about Norman Powell, who during the regular season was
forty percent from three. So we're talking about three excellent, elite three point
shooters who want to combine Oz for eleven from three. I mean, even
if three or four of those go, it completely changes the complexion of this
game. So again, you always are disappointed when you lose a game in
the playoffs, no doubt about it. But it's funny because I think that
when we were talking to some of the people around here in Phoenix after Game
one, they felt like it was that sky is falling feeling. They didn't
actually believe this guy was falling, but it was that feeling of we're never
gonna win again, right that that playoff feeling. It doesn't feel like that
for the Clippers right now. It doesn't feel like they have completely taken themselves
out of the series. Part of that is that they won game one.
But the other part of that is for reasons like that, you hit three
or four more of those wide open three point looks, you're very much in
this game. You might be ahead in this game in the fourth quarter,
and now you're talking about a completely different complexion of what it looks like and
how it's played down the stretch, similar to how it was in game one.
So go back to the drawing board, you tweak a couple of things.
I don't think you overreact to this at all, and you got your
home court advantage. Moving back to La, see what you can do with
that, use it to your advantage, and see if you can get those
wins and come back here up three one for Game five next Tuesday, Clippers
fall once twenty three to one on nine in Phoenix to the Sun's in game
two. Game three coming up Tuesday night. As no Ego mentioned, tip
off is at seven thirty. We'll have Clippers countdown from Crypto dot com arena
starting at six thirty. No, my friend, great call is always can't
wait to see you on Tuesday. What what'd you just say? What you
did you used to say? Can't wait? Can't wait? Zacho call?
He was ready for coming up next here at your post game show, we'll
get into this final box score. Clipper's fall on Game two, but got
the split in Phoenix. They return home Thursday night. You're listening to the
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Devin Booker has thirty eight and he sinks the Clippers as they fall in
Game two of US best of seven first round series one twenty three to one
on nine in Phoenix to the Suns. Welcome back into your post game show.
I met, i'm oslin. Game three coming up back in downtown Los
Angeles Thursday night at Crypto dot com or you know. Tip time for that
one is at seven thirty. We'll have Clippers count Daniel pregames show starting at
six thirty. Clippers end up shooting just forty three percent from the field,
eleven of thirty from the outside. Suns were ten of twenty four. Took
five more three pointers then they took all of last game, and they would
end up hitting four more six in Game one. Ten in this game.
But we know the mid range mastery in the mid range mop that they have
and possess. It wasn't just Devin Booker who went fourteen to twenty two overall.
He did hit four to three pointers, a big one at the end
of the first half where the game really started to swing back in the Sun's
favor. They went on a big thirteen to two run in the final three
minutes of that second quarter and the game was tied up at fifty nine after
the Clippers led by as many as thirteen in the first half, but Devin
Booker two a fish in fourteen to twenty two thirty eight points. Chris Paul
hit some big buckets late. He had sixteen plus eight assists. Kevin Durant
had twenty five, ten of those came in the second quarter. DeAndre eight
and had ten in the second as well. He finished with fourteen and thirteen
and as for the Clippers, they were led by who else, Kawhi Leonard
finished with thirty one points and eleven of twenty shooting. Russell Westbrook bounced back
from a miserable performance just three of nineteen from the field, but made all
the plays down the stretch to get the Clippers to win in game one.
He finished nine of sixteen for his twenty eight points, five assists, three
turnovers. The Clippers, though overall, missed a lot of shots and a
lot of good looks from the outside, especially off of passes from Kawhi Leonard
when he was doubled and triple team to times. Just seventeen assists to fifteen
turnovers. That is not a very good ratio, and the Phoenix Suns had
just eleven turnovers in the ball game and shot almost sixty percent from the field
forty one percent from the outside. Clippers weren't good enough on either end,
scoring just one O nine. They average one hundred and fourteen points per game
defensively giving up one hundred and twenty three look Some of those shots were well
defended. It's not gonna matter at times against the Phoenix Suns. They are
tough shot makers, and Tory Craig also torched them with five made three pointers
after he had a really good game one with twenty two points. Finished with
seventeen but some timely threes I thought from Tory Craig Off the bench for the
Clippers, norn Pal just four of eleven twelve points, terrace Man just ten
points, bones Highlands struggled two of seven h four from the outside, had
six points, and Nicholas Patum with the starters, he's really struggled the first
two games of the series four all of his attempts were from three in his
nineteen minutes. They simply need more, too much on the shoulders of Kawhi
Leonard. I think on the offensive end and defensive ended times. Clippers will
regroup and bring it back to downtown Los Angeles. Thursday night tip off for
Game three, seven thirty three game show starting at six thirty. Coming up
next, we got postgame audio from the Clippers players and your head coach in
Toronto, lou after they fall once twenty three to one on nine in game
two to the Phoenix Suns. Series tied at one game apiece, and you're
listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network slart Patch. Kawhi Leonard goes for
thirty one, but Devin Booker were thirty eight on just twenty two shot attempts.
I mean uber efficient. Phoenix Suns shoot fifty nine percent from the field
and they win one twenty three to one oh nine in Game two in Phoenix
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follow Adam a Clippers just not good enough on either end. Couldn't get stops
when they needed too, couldn't hit shots when they needed to, especially those
big timely three pointers. They just weren't there for him. And this is
a team, Noah Eagles said it top three three point shooting team on the
season. They've been I think at worst top two the last three years.
They have the guys to knock them down. Nicholas Patum in a bit of
a funk right now, as is Norman Powell. Those two combine to go
oh for seven from the outside. Add in Bones Highland and you're oh for
eleven from those three guys. That just can't happen. That's a recipe for
disaster. And the Clippers having fifteen turnovers just seventeen assists. You're not getting
many assists when you're not hitting shots that would be their undoing. They lose
one twenty three to one O nine, they will bring it back to downtown
Los Angeles for Game three, Thursday night, tip off seven thirty. We'll
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the hot shooting Suns as Devin Booker has thirty eight on just twenty two shots,
and your Los Angeles Clippers fall in Game two one twenty three to one
oh nine, and this best of seven first round series is tied up at
a game of piece. Welcome into your postgame show. This is Clippers Talk.
I'm Adam Oslin coming up. Chuck Mockler from Clips and Dip will be
here. Plus you'll hear from the head coach in the players after this one,
and we'll get to your phone calls at eight seven seven five two zero
eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty. Who knows we might
have a special guests call in tonight. Clippers, though quite frankly not good
enough on either end. Credit the Suns. They got hot. This is
one of those nights where it's just really tough to stop a team that has
the talent advantage. Without Paul George currently for the Clippers, we knew it
was coming at some point, and all it took one game in for the
Phoenix Suns to really find their footing in Devin Booker to get scorching hot because
those thirty eight points. A lot of those shots well defended of his fourteen
makes, but doesn't matter. And you're gonna deal with a lot of that
frustration in this series against the Phoenix Suns team that is just loaded with tough
shot takers and makers. The mid range Mafia, it's what they call themselves.
Devin Booker was the Dawns and I are the Godfather. Kevin Durant all
ten of his makes, first twenty five points came in the mid range,
had five assists too. And the Clippers have to be better offensively. I
was talking about it with big shot Bob Flom post game. He thought it
was more about their defense. I'm saying it was pretty even because defensively,
there's only so much you can do against this Phoenix Suns team. When they're
hitting shots like that, you gotta score more points, though one O nine
likely isn't gonna cut it. Clippers average one hundred and fifteen points per game
on the season, and they've been better than that since they brought in Russell
Westbrook. So if you can't stop them, even when you put a hand
in the guy's face. You got to make them pay on the other end
and knock down shots. And the Clippers were just eleven or thirty from three.
They hit one more three pointer, they took one less. They shot
thirty seven percent from the outside compared to thirty three percent in Game one.
But eleven is still not a big number. I said the Clippers needed to
hit sixteen to win this ball game. I believe they are thirteen and three
on the season. When they hit sixteen three pointers or more, they are
capable. They have had open looks. Guys aren't hitting. A couple of
guys, specifically Nick Batoum, who has been streaking up and down all season,
oh for four, Norman Powell, oh for three, Bones Highland,
oh for four. You can't get three guys to go oh for eleven from
distance and win a ball game against the Phoenix Suns when they score one hundred
and twenty three points. So there are gonna be stretchers. They're gonna be
games where you have to score with them. Where I'm not saying it has
to look like the game against the Sacramino Kings where it was one seventy six
to one seventy five. But there are going to be some high scoring affairs
in this series and some big numbers that the Phoenix Suns put up, and
the Clippers have to meet them. It's not easy without Paul George Russ gave
twenty eight points and helped out Kawhi Leonard, who at thirty one. Russell
was great nine of sixteen from the field, took three less shots, made
six more, hit a couple three pointers, had a huge block on Kevin
Durant. First quarter was setting the tone and the Clippers were up by thirteen,
and the third they looked to be in control. Now, thirteen isn't
a huge number in this league anymore, especially against the team as good as
the Phoenix Suns. But the Clippers had an opportunity to close out the half
in style, and they let the Suns off the mat a little bit being
up by thirteen, because in the last three minutes of the second quarter the
Suns went on a thirteen to two run. Clippers went cold, made one
field goal within those three minutes. It was Kawhi Leonard went you know.
But after leading by thirteen, they were tied of a fifty nine at the
half. That was a huge momentum swing in favor of the Suns, and
it got Devin Booker going, who hit a big three pointer with one second
left in that second quarter. He carried it over, rolled it over into
having a huge third where he went seven of eight. The only shot he
missed was blocked by Bones Highland. Devin Booker had eighteen of his eventual thirty
eight in the third quarter on seven of eight, shooting two of two from
the outside, two two from the free throw line. Clippers still though within
striking distance. They had it to within five, but they got outscored in
the fourth quarter thirty one to twenty two after entering it just down five,
and turnovers would kill them down the stretch. When it was a six point
game and the Clippers still had life at around the three minute mark, I
want to say, yeah, Russell Westbrook was at the line three thirteen mark,
one fifteen one on nine was the score. But then Chris Paul hit
a tough shot. I think it was in front of Bezza Zubas who played
it well. Didn't matter. Then Russell Westbrook had a turnover, DeAndre Aden
got an easy won RUSS another turnover, another CP three tough step back jumper
Clippers time out, and after that the game was pretty much over at one
twenty one to one oh nine, as the Clippers had a few more turnovers
misqs on offense, and they really waved the white flag at about the one
minute mark, took another time out with fifty eight seconds left, just got
out executed, and they didn't score in the final Let's see three thirteen of
the ball game. So you go through scoring slumps at the end of both
halves and Phoenix loaded up, and your margin for air is slim enough that
if you don't hang with the Phoenix Suns for stretches of a ball game,
but if you don't match them shot for shot, the score is gonna end
up looking a lot more lopsided, which you did. One twenty three one
o nine was the score when it was just a six point game with three
minutes left. Again, Clippers up by thirteen that second quarter. You gotta
close, you gotta stamp by double digits. Heading into the half. It
was fifty one to thirty nine with five minutes left in the third, and
the Suns would go on that big run and have it tied at fifty nine
at the half. I'm telling you right now. It wasn't so much on
the Clippers defensively. They contested a lot of those shots. It's not going
to matter, and that could be demoralizing at times and deflating when you play
your best defensively and the Sun still hit and Tory Craig again has a big
game with seventeen and five mate three pointers and a lot of timely, big
momentum shifting shots six of nine from the field, five of eight from distance
for his seventeen and he's out there talking. He did a little bit of
talking yesterday saying, yeah, they put a Viats' zoobots on me. I
figured I would get have a big game in Game one. He had another
big game. And even though the Sun's got just thirteen points off the bench,
it doesn't matter. They're top heavy. Everyone was in double figures with
their starters. Durant twenty five, Craig seventeen, DeAndre eight and fourteen had
ten of those on the second. He knocked down some jumpers too, Chris
Paul's sixteen, Devin Booker thirty eight. Craig, yes, is getting open
looks because they're loading up on everyone else, just like in Game one.
But kd CP three and Devin Booker took a lot of tough shots and made
a lot of them. CP three was eight of fourteen, Kevin Durant ten
of nineteen, and Devin Booker fourteen is twenty two and as a team,
the Phoenix Suns shot almost fifty nine percent from the field. They only hit
ten threes, but they took six less than the Clippers, who only hit
one more to eleven, and the Clippers still won the battle of the boards,
at least on the offensive reboundy or in the offensive rebounding department twelve to
seven, but the Suns ended up getting up five more shots outrebounded them overall
thirty five to thirty two. Clippers got to the free throw line of ton
they got fouls. They attempt at thirty one free throws. It's seventeen more
than Phoenix did and they knocked down twenty eight of them. That's ninety percent.
That's good. But you gotta start hitting your threes against this team.
That was my biggest key coming into this series. The Clippers have to win
the math problem, which is a hot shooting mid range team, a bunch
of guys that shoot around fifty percent in the mid range, which is elite.
That's what Kawai shoots two. So to beat that, to combat that,
to counter that, you gotta knock down three pointers. The Clippers thrive
in that area, but they haven't so far in this series, where they're
shooting about thirty five percent from the outside so far. Certain guys are due.
My second biggest point, our biggest key, biggest X factor in the
series. Norman Powell thought he needed to average an effish in twenty. Well,
through two games, he's only scored twenty six points after being on a
heater ending the season. The last three games of the regular season, he
scored twenty seven against the Lakers, twenty three against Portland, and twenty nine
against Phoenix and their backups. And so far in this series he's four for
eleven and five for ten. Now, neither of those numbers to me are
enough shot attempts. He's also just one for seven from the outside, and
he was struggling from deep. Even though he was getting to the basket at
the ends of the regular season, he still wasn't knocking down three pointers where
he was won for his last thirteen, So he may just be cold there.
He can heat up in a hurry, I believe, but it's gonna
have to be an hurry. As in Thursday night, Norm comes off the
bench and gets hot for a quarter and it completely changes a ball game.
Clippers were down five hitting into the fourth. They were down just six or
three minutes left. The game was well within reach, but turnovers and miss
shots and miss q's out there would doom them. And those open threes when
Kawhi Leonard is passing out of double teams and triple teams, which you know
are coming, especially without Paul George right now, you gotta knock those shots
down. The role players have to be better. Westbrook was shooting wise after
three for nineteen performance nine of sixteen twenty eight points. But there's got to
be consistency from somebody off the bench right now, and they're searching. But
I think if Norman Pale doesn't have a good series, I don't see a
path for the Clippers to win this series. That's how critical he is to
this team. Said it all season long. I think he can be the
third most important player. I mean, he averaged the most points off the
bench in the NBA this season as just over seventeen even with two stints on
the injured list for a significant amount of time. Otherwise he'd likely be the
sixth man of the year. He's had a great season, but he hasn't
even gotten the seventeen and one of these games yet, and I think without
Paul George, he needs to have a couple of Norm Powell games where he
goes off for twenty five or thirty. He could do it. Right now,
he's not even putting enough enough shots to get there, and he's not
finding the three ball. He's not finding his range from the outside. That's
concerning. Same with Nicholas Batoum. While he shot thirty nine percent of the
season, it has been feast or famine and right now looking for manna from
heaven in the playoffs because he is one for seven from the outside in the
first two games. I think he hit his first three attempt at end Game
one and then missed the next few. You gotta get more than just three
points in two games from Nicholas Batoum so far. I know he's out there
mostly for defensive purposes and switchability and versatility, but this is basically what's required
of this Clippers team to beat Phoenix. They're not just going up against a
good team in the first round. They're going up against a team that has
some of the highest top end talent in the league, and most people are
picking to come out of the West. If you're gonna pull off the upset,
a few guys are gonna have to play above their heads defensively. I
like the effort again tonight, but they're gonna be nights like this where it
doesn't matter and your offense is going to have to win you a game,
and they haven't been good enough on that end through two games. Really,
they won game one. Sons were missing some shots, they got the jump
on him, a lot of offensive rebounds. There was a game they were
up sixteen, there was a twenty five point turnaround. They were down by
nine in the second half. They pulled her off late with Russell Westbrook and
his heroics. But tonight they didn't close down six or three minutes left.
They don't score in the last three minutes in thirteen seconds starting things off tonight,
Let's go to Damien in La Damien. You're on Clippers staff without amazin
triple Hey, thank you for taking my call. Brother. You know I
would say tough loss, but this was kind of in the DNA. For
me, I expected that, you know, we might have a difficult time,
but I will tell you this, I am extremely encouraged, and I'll
tell you why I want to spend a little time talking about the Suns.
We know about the Clippers. You did a great job speaking about the Clippers
just now, But I don't expect that the Suns can play much better than
what you've seen, Adams. And you don't think Kevin Durant can go better,
you can get hotter from the field than just ten of nineteen for twenty
five points, because I do. I really, I really think that he
can. The question is are we going to let him do that? Because
the Flippers team do have an invested interest in in hampering the guy. And
this has been two games now, Adam, so we can't say that it's
an anomaly, that it's a fluke that these guys are not keyed in on
Kevin Durant and they don't understand what it is that he's doing. We know
how to descend him, We know how to descend this squad. Well,
he's shooting from the field in the series so far. I wouldn't go too
far in the direction of like, he's shooting under forty percent and they know
how to defend him. He he just isn't taking a lot of shots.
But but this is what I mean by this is that when you talk about
defending a superstar, it's not about stopping him. It's about containing him and
getting him to take the shots that you want to take. And I've noticed
that he's not taking a lot of shots that he wants to take. We're
not necessarily letting him always get to his spots on the floor. Adam,
they're doing They're doing a solid job, I would say, But ten of
his makes still came in the mid range. He's just a tough shot maker,
you know, the pro I'm not. I'm not saying that we're gonna
stop him. I don't want us to stop him, you know what I'm
saying. I want to give him some fall confidence. And what's going on.
What I'm saying is is that I don't really think that the rest of
the team can play much better. I don't think that Booker is gonna have
another thirty eight forty point game. I really don't think that that's gonna happen.
I think you're fooling yourself then I don't think you know who Devin Booker
is because this is light work for him. He can do this easily.
I believe in the NBA Finals he had two forty point games against the Milwaukee
Bucks in the NBA Finals. Know who he is, Adam, I know
who he is. Well, it's a part of the team that we haven't
seen. We haven't seen everything defensively from this team yet, and they have
another gear to hit defensively. We let this one get away. They can't
play the Sun can't play much better. That's my point, and we should
be encouraged by that. All right. I appreciate the phone called Damien.
Look, they got the split, and that's great. They had to have
the split to have a chance to win this series. You gotta win a
game in Phoenix, and they got game one. But I'm telling you,
I think you're underestimating this Phoenix Suns team. In the firepower they have.
Devin Booker can get thirty eight again, KD can go above twenty five points.
I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that, Oh they just took
Phoenix's best shot tonight. Now this could happen again in Game three because the
problem is you're talking about another gear. Defensively, the Clippers played good defense
and they still scored one hundred and twenty three points. They only hit ten
three pointers to do it. They only attempted fourteen free throws. The Suns
are very much capable of putting together back to back performances like this. You're
gonna have to match them at time, shot for shot. You gotta be
better offensively because they're tough to slow down when they're hot, which happens a
lot when you have two guys that can eat get you a clean easy forty.
And Kevin Durant or Devin Booker wasn't Kevin Durant tonight he had twenty five,
but Devin Booker has thirty eight on twenty two shots. Next game,
it could be the other way around. That's what makes them difficult. You
gotta pick your poison a little bit and hopefully get lucky and they have an
off night. Clippers fault once twenty three to one O nine in Phoenix in
game two coming up next, back to your phone calls eight seven seven five
two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty. I said
this when they brought in Kevin Durant. The Suns are a super team when
you have four players that good. When you have a team that went to
the NBA Finals two years ago, you bring in a star like Kevin Durant.
They can reach heights and have stretches that not many teams can match offensively
were their shot making is just other worldly and on a different level. You
hope that they go through a few slumps and you're able to weather the storm.
There's gonna be games like this though. How many from the Phoenix Suns,
Well, hopefully not four Clippers fall thoughte Tonight They're coming back home to
Crypto dot Com Arena Thursday night, tip off at seven thirty. We'll have
Clippers count down at six thirty. More Clipper stock coming up next. Suns
win one twenty three to one on nine over your Los Angeles Clippers in Game
two in this best of seven first round series is tied up at a game
apiece, with Game three coming back to Los Angeles Thursday night. Welcome back
into Clipper Stock. I'm out, I'm oslin to eight seven seventy five two
zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty. If you think
what Devin Booker tonight did is an outlier. Him going for thirty eight on
twenty two shots. I got news for you. He had back to back
forty point games against Milwaukee in the NBA Finals, and he was doing that
without Kawhi Leonard or excuse me, without Kevin Durant on the floor, which
gives you more open looks when the attention goes his way. This is what
made them so scary when they brought in KD. They already had a guy
who could kill you no matter what the defense does, and now you can't
load up as much against him because they got KD. And if you do,
Durant might be the guy that had thirty eight tonight instead of Devin Booker.
Choose wisely. The Clippers. Look, they played decent defense the majority
of the time and it's not going to matter, so you better score points
on the other end and knock down three pointers. They can win that math
problem because they are the better three points shooting team overall. They have been
body of work three seasons of doing this, but just this year better team.
Devin Booker is a streaky shooter from the outside. He's a career thirty
five percent three point shooter, which is kind of shocking considering how perfect his
form is. It looks Ray Allen esque, and he still is just a
thirty five percent. I'm guessing a lot of those, though, are off
the bounce, tougher three pointers than just spot up stuff eight seven, seven,
five two zero eleven fifty tay just a walnut. What's up? You're
on clipper stop without amazin. Hey, Adam, I agree with most of
what you said, but defensively, you know, in that second quarter,
I thought that we had a really good chance to push that lead, you
know, to maybe fifteen twenty, but I thought that Mason Plumley was playing
a little too soft on it. And then eight and kept making like four
or five shots in a row, and they were pretty open, and I
thought that we were kind of soft on that area. They were giving him
up to eight, and they were giving him up to eight, and you
have to choose and pick your poison. Aiden and Craig are going to get
open shots. I agree with that. I just think it was way too
open where I thought there should have been a little bit more resistance. But
I know what, they're trying to pick their poison, so I got that
in the fourth quarter. I thought that, I don't know if it was
his own defense, but Booker, when every time we were closing out,
our closeouts were horrible. We were just like there are two or three times
where Powell just ran a Booker and all he did was just dribble right around
him and going for ev ten fifteen footer. The closeouts had to be much
better where they just stay in front of him and then make them take at
least a contested shot. Booker and that fourth quarter had so many wide open
shots. So to me, that fourth quarter the closeouts and that defense needs
to be cleaned up. That's that. And then offensively, I agree with
you. We when Kawi is getting a double or triple teamed, we got
to hit the open three's the role players. Otherwise we're not going to be
able to win. I would I would well, I'd like to see maybe
in some to change it up a little bit. I would like to see
when Kawai kicks it out of the double team, maybe some people can roll
like we didn't see any of that. Tearnce me on cut to the baskets
were missing those as well, so I don't know what they gotta do because
every time he's getting double triple team that we're shooting a far three, And
I'm okay with that sometimes, but sometimes we gotta mix it up, especially
when Aimee's not in the game. We should be attacking. And I know
Bimbo is there, but if he's getting double triple team, we gotta get
some better rotations in there. And maybe when Bimbo's in there, it's a
good time to play more small ball. Bring in Covington, let him play
center. If but Toomb's not hitting it threes, I would like to see
a little bit mixed up. But overall, I'm encouraged. I'm not I'm
not discouraged by the loss, and I think we can still take these next
few games at home. Yeah, I think there's a decent chance that for
them to win this series, they might have to win the next two games
at home. They might You mentioned Byambo there. I thought he had a
really good defensive game. He guarded Kawai Will at times. He had three
blocks, Terrence Man did get one at the rim at the end of the
third quarter, and I thought played some great defense on CP three to start
the second He was just wrecking Chris Paul as he did in Game one.
But end of the game Chris Paul hit a couple of tough jumpers hand in
his face. Doesn't matter. You mentioned the fourth quarter there with Devin Booker
and then them not playing good enough defense on him. Then okay, but
he only had seven of his thirty eight in the fourth. He had eighteen
points on the third quarter. Can they play better defense? Yes? Is
it not gonna matter sometimes? Yes? The Phoenix Suns are that good when
they are on they are extremely difficult to stop. And this was just Game
ten with them Kevin Durant. But you see the potential there, and I
think the Clippers overall drew the right team. If you look at the first
round and what the Kings are doing to the Golden State Warriors, just running
them ragged, that matchup was not favorable for the Clippers. The Phoenix Suns
at least play at their pace. They're a slower, more methodical, older
team. They're the only team that really has less built up chemistry and is
probably the less athletic team than the Clippers, who also have a much better
bench. They have a lot of advantages in this series, and that's a
big reason why it's tied at a game of peace, so I'm not overly
concerned. I'm just telling you, like what the Phoenix Suns did tonight,
they can reproduce this. This isn't some otherworldly shooting night where you say,
Okay, it happened once in the series, but now they got it out
of their system. No, they can do it again. So the Clippers
have to be better on offense. I think they will be Thursday night.
Let's hear from Coach lou post game after the Clippers fall in Game two one
twenty three to one on nine in Phoenix, Booker Booker k D and CP
through. We really did a good job with just controlling the game. And
like I said that in that second half and fourth quarter, like they really
took over. You know, we try to blitz, we try to fire.
We did a lot of different things, and like I said, they
played great, you know, and I'm just proud of our guys because we
wasn't satisfied. We're just coming in and winning one game, and I thought
our got scrapped and we gave everything. We had missed some shots, you
know, had a couple of key turnovers, but other than that, I
thought you know, we came in with the mindset that we wanted to win
this game, and so that's all you can really ask for. And so
we we did that. Some things we got to be able to clean up,
you know, going into the next game, and you know we'll be
ready. But like I said, you know, they were down one oh
at home and their stars came to play to Night. They had a great
game. You see that game one, they only made eight mid range shots.
They made twenty one to Night when you made eleven in the first half.
When you see that, like, I mean, that's that's the shot
that a lot of teams like to give up. Y'all challenge that shot,
well, but they make them. Like when you see that, like,
what do you what do you kind of take away from that? Well,
I think you just gotta continue to keep mixing coverages up, you know,
not let them get comfortable. And you know, in the first half,
I thought we did a good job with our bigs being up and then Aiden,
you know, he kind of got going. He made like four or
five of'em, and then you know we backed up then Booking Katie and CP
got going. So just mixing up our coveragees, try to keep them all
balanced. I thought our zone was was pretty good for us at times,
but just you know, just gotta keep trying to keep them all balanced as
best as possible. Coach, yesterday you talked about how important it is to
keep the guys keep their confidence up. How do you do that after a
game like today? Our confidence is great. Our confidence is great. Like
you said, we come in play in a hostile environment. We won one,
lost one, and like I said, we was in a game.
I'll watching like the last six minutes of the game, So I mean,
we're very confident. Some things we can clean up and do better, and
we'll be ready to go. There was Coach Lupo's game. Clippers lose Game
two in Phoenix to the Suns one twenty three to one on nine. I'm
not worried about them being rattled after this. There are a lot of positives
to take away from this ball game. I mean, Russell Westbrook missed a
dunk in a game where he played really well, was much more efficient on
offense. He missed a dunk in the second half. Kadi gets fout on
the other end. It was kind of one of those nights were shots they
typically make, including that dunker and three pointers didn't go. But the three
point shooting is a little bit concerning so far in this series, just because
they haven't hit forty percent yet and they started this game off hot. I
believe there were six for thirteen in the first quarter, so they were I
think five for their last seventeen from the outside. They got to catch a
heater and some of it is just ball movement, but they got open looks.
Eric Gordon four they're eleven. Russ hit two, Kawai had three,
they got a couple from Team Man. Terrence Man had a really nice performance.
I'd say overall, do they need more scoring? Yes, I've got
coming into this series. Just to match the firepower of the Phoenix Suns,
You're gonna have to have a few guys, and Terrence Man be one of
them. Maybe have a breakout series. Norm Powell's another guy just to help
out Kauhi, and I tweeted this out earlier. One of my concerns as
the series goes along is because you get these two really good performances from Kawhi
and games won in games two, but you'll worry about him getting worn down
as the series goes along because he has to do so much. You know.
He led them with seven assists too. He had three steals. He
ripped Kevin Durant on one in the first half and went the other way for
a dunk. It was just an insane play. And I still think Kawhi
Leonard is the best player in this series. He just got He has to
get some help. The supporting cast has to be there for him because with
all he's asked to do. When he guarded Kevin Durant, loott in the
more in the second half, which I think is why he started to slow
down. He only had nine of his twenty five in the second half.
Kawhi's on him there. Well, he may not have the legs to close
out games as well, or he might not be as a fish. And
he was still eleven or twenty in ball games when you're expending any energy on
the defensive end. So it's just something a monitor moving forward here eight seven
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we will hear from Russell Westbrook. But right now, let's get out to
Chuck Mockler from Clips and Dip pod does it with myself and will Updyke.
I believe they were doing some live streaming earlier and we got a podcast coming
out on the off day tomorrow. Chuck, where was this game lost for
you? I mean, I hate to say this, but it was lost
in the role players? Right. You look at Nico and Bones and Norm
they don't make a single three. I don't know how many games the Clippers
win with those guys don't make a single three. So I think you gotta
take your hat to Phoenix. They got what they needed to get you know,
they're big three went off, plus Tory Craig, he did his thing,
and that's what they needed. The mid range mass won this game,
and we just got to help the role players, you know, shoot better
in front of a raucous home crowd. And I'm on Thursday. Yeah,
And one of the warning signs to me is just that the Clippers only score
one hundred and nine points. They're not hitting three pointers so far to high
rate in this series they need to be. They're not getting big performances from
Norman Powell or Terrence Man or Nicholas Batoum standout performances from guys. When you're
down, Paul George, you just have to have it from at least one
guy. Russ was good with twenty eight, but Phoenix, this isn't abnormal.
They can hit these shots, they can make these shots, and they
can put up one hundred and twenty three points. There's gonna be games where
you have to hang with them offensively, and they just haven't shown that they
have enough scoring punch so far. Really to me, in the first two
games, well, it's been tough, right, you know, Terrence went
three for three, right for what he attempted. It was literally perfect,
but I think Ty had had a bit of walking rotations in this one.
I didn't like a lot of the decisions that Eric Gordon made from deep but
I mean, if you if you take a step back, because you know
I'm both of us. Obviously we watched every Cliffer's possession with the eyes of
a hawk. We split two games away, which is exactly what you're supposed
to do through the road team. We we kind of have the advantage coming
back in front of his home crowd at Crypto on Thursday, but I think
they're going to get it worked out. I don't think there's another night where
we get this poor results from our role playing guys. It does hurt to
waste such an efficient Westbrook night. I think a lot of us and I
was skeptical of the rest trade when it happened, but since then, I'm
I've been converted to being a believer. But there might be a regression coming
up. He's had two I mean, he had one wildly efficient games and
we lost, and he had a very inefficient night game one and we won.
So there are some question Marshall the Clippers as to what really drives a
win, I guess from the playoffs, but I also think the sum are
still kind of throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. So we
got to help the intensities high when we come when we come back to LA
because I would love to see the Funs having a battle back from the double
point, double digit deficit in the first quarter. Yeah, the crowd can
definitely carry them and help some of that outside shooting. I think just the
roar of the crowd in downtown Los Angeles. I don't know what the splits
are home and away. Obviously they haven't been a great home team this season,
but I do think Clipper Nation is going to show up in a big
way. Now. You mentioned they're throwing stuff at the wall, and we
did see coach Lugo extremely small in the fourth quarter with Norma russ Man bones
in Kauai. Do you think he was just trying anything and considering they weren't
getting stops even with more defenders out there, he was just trying to load
up on the offensive side and hoping they can go on and run. Well,
I was just saying this, so Will and I are actually live on
YouTube right now. I'm taking a quick break from it. But we were
just talking about this. So when you're when you're a wing heavy team to
start the season like the Clippers, right you would assume that Marcus Morris,
I don't care what people think about him and Robert Covington again, I don't
care if people think about him as a player that they're going to get some
time on the playoffs. We have now, through a series of some decisions,
removed two of those wings from the playoffs, which is killing the Clippers
I think right now. So I think I never want to see the Clippers
going out small again. It was a nightmare. I know the postgame Tyler
said it was good defensively, but he's also been a patrol with the media,
which I do respect. I think some fans should maybe respect at too.
But this is what happens when you make changes too late, like we
saw with the batoum starting for Marcus Morris when that maybe should have happened with
more than six or seven games left in the regular season, and then with
not playing Robert Covington at all, where you just even if putting Robert Cummington
in would still be throwing something at the wall to see what sticks. But
I hope whatever pieces Tyler throws up the wall next game, if he has
to are bigger than the small ball five. If you put out tonight,
well, I gotta be honest. I predicted that Rocco would play at some
point in the first two games, and it hasn't happened yet. And it's
a little bit more surprising because Nicholas Batoum is one for seven so far from
three. Like, I'm surprised he hasn't gone to Roco or didn't tonight,
considering the amount of guys that were struggling from the outside and trying that.
But you know, maybe I shouldn't be it. He hasn't played much this
season. Do you point that out many times? We'll see what happens as
we move along here. But Kawhi Leonard finishes with thirty one. He was
still efficient eleven or twenty from the field, three or five from the outside.
I'm a little bit concerned because we've seen a history of this. It
happens throughout playoff runs where a guy can get worn down as a series goes
along because so much has asked of them without Paul George, and if another
guy is inconsistently helping out in tonight. It was r Us with his twenty
eight points, but they still needed more shooting out there, especially when Kawhi
is being doubled and he's finding the open man. And he did have seven
assists. He was very good passing wise. I want to say he had
five of those in the first half. But I'm a little bit concerned that
Kauai as the series goes along, there's just so much on his plate that
I wonder if the efficiency is still going to be there, because it has
to be. Really, they have to have Kawai shoot fifty percent from the
field to hang with the Phoenix Suns. I think you're right, but I
think one thing we can take solison is that Kawhi went about his rehab exactly
like he wanted to, and the results have been there so far, and
we just kind of have to put a little bit of hope, which if
you're a Clippers fan, you hopefully have a little bit of that leftover that
he can still be efficient up until we get PG back, hopefully for either
Game seven or the next round. But I think what's interesting too is you
look at those minutes totals for the Suns and the team I mean Kd's averaging
more minutes in Kawhi. I think same with Devin Booker, Like we're pushing
this team. This Sun team is doing everything they can through these two games
to not be down zero two, and they only split them. Right,
So at some point the bench guys are going to step up and at some
point, yes, Kawhi's EF efficiency might dip a bit, but it's not
going to dip into you know, horrifying territory. You'll let me have that
one. So we just got to write it out. We absolutely need to
win game three in La relief with the pressure, although no doubt he is
Charles Mockler of Clips and Dip. You guys got the stream going right now
at Clippers Podcast on YouTube with Will up Deck. Yes, we're on it
right now. All right, get back to work. I appreciate you,
Charles, thanks for doing this time. We'll go clips. Let's go clips.
We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back. We'll close things
out with your phone calls and you'll hear from Russell Westbrook. After the Clippers
lose one twenty three to one oh nine in Phoenix to the Sun's Game three
coming up on Thursday, huge swing game, pivotal critical game three. I
mean, it's usually safe for a game five, but no, Clippers got
to find a way to come out and recapture the momentum after losing this one
in Phoenix, and they did make the Sun's work for it. You're down
just six with three minutes left after it looked like the Suns could have ran
away with it. Clippers were there, but they couldn't cross the finish on
tonight, mar clipperstock here on the Patriot Emily in fifty next, Clippers lose
one twenty three to one on nine in game two in Phoenix to the Suns.
I Matt, I'm oslin. This is Clippers talk, all right.
Before we hear from Russell Westbrook, let's go to Morris in Long Beach for
some positivity on the way out tonight, Morris, what's up now? I'm
gonna tell you the God's Adam looking. We gotta split. We gotta split
in sinning. There's no way Phoenish. Don't let anybody go down here and
beat him. The first two games, don good game. The Clippers got
what they wanted. They wanted us, They got to split. They got
one inside building a house piece by piece. We've got this out of behavior,
so I'll talk to you lady. Look, the split is great.
Of course you would sign up for that because the only way they were gonna
win the series is if they got to split. They had to have it.
But if you had one tonight in a game you're up by thirteen in
the series is close to being over. Now. A team can obviously come
back down zero two. We've seen the Clippers do it. But there would
be so much pressure on the Phoenix Suns if the Clippers had won both games
in Phoenix and this was a winnable game tonight. Devin Booker though, thirty
eight points on just twenty two shots. Yeah, he played forty five minutes.
He's twenty seven. He can play heavy minutes. Maybe we'll see some
fatigue with Kevin Durant. He's been playing forty five in both games so far.
CP three. No doubt he's thirty seven, but he still played his
best in the fourth quarter near the end of his thirty eight minutes, hitting
tough shots. This is a very top heavy Phoenix Suns team that can beat
you with just a few guys going off sometimes because they're that efficient. Jose
and Southgate. Jose, what's up? You're on Clipper South the Subada Lawler.
I thought we're gonna break the lot of Night, but we were not
good enough to Night, particularly to end the first half. I feel like
everyone except for Quiet start their halftime like at the two minute marks. But
like I said, we weren't good enough, but just not to Night.
I know they're not as I know they're not fully healthy cough cough, but
neither are we. And yet we both games. We had a league,
kept the league, but we lost it and we split. Still, I
haven't had that team man game still. I haven't had that power game.
But two of them looks like he needs some home cooking. But all the
boys are gonna get it. They're coming back home Clipper Nations. I've been
going to my game as the whole my whole life. I know how we
are now that I'm thinking about it, this might be the last time I've
been a home team at Staples. Anyways, we need to be out there.
I heard that I'm clisting this our lives, so I'm about to go
over there. Claps go Clippers, all right. I appreciate the phone call,
Jose. Role players typically play better at home. So there's a lot
going in the Clippers favor back home to the safe haven in front of their
fans, cliber Nation, you got to show up in a big way on
Thursday Night. They need you. They feed off the crowd, especially with
Russell Westbrook there there's already a love affair between him and clipber Nation, and
the way he roars and just lets out those primal screams, as Brian Semen
would say, he gets the crowd into it. Here was Russell Westbrook though,
post game after they lost to Night in Game two. You know,
we know it's gonna be a tough serious and you know they came back and
took a business tonight. But I thought, we give ourself a chance.
We came out the right mindset, throw the game, tough jumpers, shut
the bar really well from the field. So what all that we said,
We still give ourself a chance. Uh, you know the way rust they've
they've taken twenty shots at the rim in two games and one hundred and five
mid rangers at that time. Is that Can you guys live with that shot
diet that they're taking? Sorry, what are you say? Can you live
with that? Like? Is that something you guys are happy to They're gonna
take those. They're a good mid range shooting team. I think historically for
them, it just making sure we contesting them. I think a lot of
them tonight we're wide open. I don't know. We didn't get a chance
to contest them. So they're shooting us fine, but we've got to make
sure we contest in NBA and make sure we're in the vision to make those
a little more tougher than normal firs. What allowed you to get in two
better offensive rhythm today than the previous game. Just take up my time getting
what I want. Nine of sixteen for twenty eight points. He believes they
can be better at contesting those shots with the Phoenix Suns. They're gonna have
to be because if you're only scoring one on nine, they're giving up one
twenty three. That is a problem. I think. Thursday night, though,
the Clippers put on a much better performance in front of their home fans.
It's gonna be fun. Seven thirty Tip time from Crypto dot com.
Are you yeah? We'll have your pregame show starting at six thirty. No
Eagle was sick. Can't wait. Speaking of I do want to thank the
Clippers organization, no it ego, Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawlor, big Brother,
Jake Warner, Katie Newton was out. We had Zach l quality,
Zach attack our producer holding it down here in the bank. Big thanks to
the callers, the listeners. No thanks for Fred Rogan. I thought he
was gonna call in the Dean. He's gonna hear about this and the next
time I come on Rogan and Rode And you don't already know that until Thursday.
With the pregame show starting at six thirty for Game three, I'm outa
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