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

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

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

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

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are a bad man, Adam Auslin. Clippers lose by ten as they get

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outscored fourteen to four in overtime in
Denver to the Nuggets. Welcome into your

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postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin.
Coming up. We'll get a second half

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highlight, your post game box score. You'll hear from Coach Low and the

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players. But first back out to
Denver and back to your voice of the

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Clippers in Noah Eagle, No where
do you want to start? The slow

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start for this team? The six
point possession Denver had or the goal ten

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pick take your pick, Adam,
pick your poison. I'm phoning a friend.

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Let's let's start, I guess with
the slow start to this one,

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because we've seen it all season long, and they put themselves in a hole

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against such a quality club. Yeah
and listen, this is what happened the

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last time these two teams faced off
in this building. The Clippers just got

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boat raced to start the game and
never recovered in that one. To me,

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it was actually a positive sign the
way they did recover in this one.

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Down eighteen to start the game,
toront Lui had to use two timeouts

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within the first four minutes of the
game, which is just unheard of,

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and the Clippers did a good job
of continuing the battle, continuing to fight,

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keeping their spirits high. They ended
up forcing a sixteen turnovers in this

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game, and after four turnovers very
quickly, they only finished with thirteen themselves.

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So they took care of the basketball. They capitalize off of Denver turnovers,

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but they allowed twenty three second chance
points at them, and that's what

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feels like it burned them when it
was all said and done. Yeah,

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a big three point or late off
second chance points. Paul George almost hit

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the buzzer beater and the shot of
his life before it went into overtime.

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But the Clippers absolutely fell flat in
extra minutes in this one. I mean,

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look, I know that Denver's on
the second out of the back to

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back, but they didn't play big
minutes yesterday. Nicole Ki and the starters

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played about twenty three minutes and then
sat the whole second half. Essentially,

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you're definitely the whole fourth quarter.
And so yes, they're on the second

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out of the back to back,
but I'd argue that the Clippers are probably

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even more exhausted. Double overtime game
that took everything emotionally out of them,

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and then a rough light getting here
with some very inclement weather as we all

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know in La. That that took
I think a lot out of a lot

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of people who are not feeling let's
say one hundred percent right now. And

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for example, normally you would have
a shooting around when you have a full

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day off in between. The shoot
around was optional because guys were exhausted coming

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in, so I think they ran
out of gas. They took so much

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effort and energy just to get back
in the game to take a lead in

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the fourth quarter, but when it
came down to it in overtime, they

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just didn't have anything left in the
tank, I thought, even in a

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loss like this, of course,
some great performances Mason Plumbly in that fourth

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quarter was magnificent. Kawhi Leonard really
all throughout the second half, but he

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had twelve what's in the fourth quarter
was going shot for shot with Nikola Yok.

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Yeah, Mason Plumbley still as yet
to miss from the fields in a

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Clippers uniform. Two for two again
tonight, so he's still one hundred percent

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shooting from the floor. Kauai is
he looked like a superstar today. But

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I think that eventually Denver just said, fine, let someone else beat us.

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We're not going to let this guy
do it. And finally they made

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the adjustment. They got they got
Jamal Murray off of him, they got

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Cave Kentavious call Will Pope onto him, and they started doubling him and getting

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it either out of his hands or
fronting him to make sure he wasn't going

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to get it. And that's when
the offense sputtered a little bit for the

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Clippers. You know, I think
Toronto Luis is definitely still tinkering and trying

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to figure out what he has.
But now with nineteen games remaining in the

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season, it's go time and he
knows that. And so it's a hard

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balance. We've talked about it.
He said, it's a hard balance of

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trying to learn on the fly with
also trying to win these games and put

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yourself in good playoff positioning. But
this was this was a gut wrenching loss,

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as was the one on Friday.
And so now we get to see

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what this team is made up,
because you get to see after adversity hits

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what you look like. And I've
got my money on this team doing it

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the right way. They've got a
Minnesota team coming in that has disappointed themselves

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over the course of this season,
but they're fighting for that same playoff positioning,

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and so the Clippers know that on
Tuesday, they had to Golden State

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the following Thursday, back to back
at Sacramento on Friday, so good opportunities

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for LA to gain some ground before
they head to that final stretch of the

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schedule this season. Tuesday against Minnesota, back and down town Los Angeles tips

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off at seven. We'll have Clippers
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Noah Eagles, safe travels. Great
call is always my friend, Adam.

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You know, energy is certainly at
a premium right now, but it

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doesn't matter. I'm always going to
give you a heart. He can't wait,

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no doubt coming up. Second half
highlights Clippers fall in OT one thirty

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four to one, twenty four and
Denver to the Nuggets, and you're listening

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to the Los Angeles Clippers radio network. Another crushing one Clippers losing overtime in

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Denver one thirty four to one twenty
four. Not the Orange crush there.

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The Brook goes then for Nuggets,
take them down. Nikolokich finishes with a

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forty spot in a forty point triple
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Coming up, we'll dig more into
the box score. We'll also hear from

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coach lou and the players after a
disappointing loss where the Clippers were down by

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eighteen in the first quarter, they
battled back to take the lead in the

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fourth and it was a tie ball
game hand to overtime where they were outscored

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fourteen to four and just came out
absolutely flat in the last five minutes.

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Let's get into some of these second
half highlights though, because there were plenty.

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It was an unbelievable football game.
As we said Friday night against the

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Sacramento Kings. Problem his Clippers came
out on the wrong side of it.

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But Russell Westbrook in that third quarter, when the Clippers start off down eight

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in the second half, absolutely helped
him get back into it. Swing at

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George down the right alley, bounce
it inside Westbrook, Ripe blocks fifteen to

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shoot, backing down on Caldwell.
Pope plays it up and in with a

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left hand. He rocks the baby
to sleep as Denver calls the time out.

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Four thirty four to go on the
third and the Clippers are within five.

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Picks up his dribble fifteen feet out, leave it Westbrook straight away,

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five to shoot. Westbrook driving right
on Schnchar gets the rim, clips at

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in off the window. Russell Westbrook
with fourteen, Clippers down eighty five eighty

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yo, gets quickly into the front
court. Leonard driving middle on Chawn Char

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kick it Westbrooks swinging but two pump
fake one dribble back outside Westbrook a white

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bring three. Oh, he got
it. Russell Westbrook from the outside and

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the Clippers are back within five ninety
one eighty six with a minute fifty to

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play in the third Clippers we're trying
to battle back multiple times. They had

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it within four in that third quarter, and there was a six point possession

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after they impeded the shooter. It
was Russell Westbrook kind of encroaching into the

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landing space there of Michael Porter Junior. He hit the three, would go

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to the line for one more plus
they got the extra possession there. I

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think it was a Jamal Murray jumper
to give him a six point possession and

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went from a four point game to
a ten point game just like that.

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Clippers continue to battle, but they
were down ninety seven to eighty eight heading

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into the third quarter. Into the
fourth, I should say early fourth quarter

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Mason Plumley was outstanding for the Clippers, but late it was Kawhi Leonard just

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going back and forth making impossible shots
with Nicola Yokich Leonard right to left office

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screen. It was right from Gordon
Leonards rise on a right wing three bottom

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Kawhi Leonard a big hit from downtown
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five la within a duke base up
eighteen feet out to drive towards the middle

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of the paint, looking to get
to the dotted line. Four to fight

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from twelve in and out back in
again. Kawhi Leonard, cool hand,

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Kawai delivering. He's got thirty one
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being shaded by Yoki Juge helped back
down on Jamal Murray Leonard to the dotted

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line, fades away, gets it
to go Kawhi Leonard ka boom thirty three

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for the claw one seventeen one fifteen
LA one forty two play. Kawai had

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twelve of his thirty three points in
the fourth quarter. All these big buckets

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late. Mason Plumlilow would put them
up one eighteen to one seventeen with fifty

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eight point two seconds left, But
on the other end, it was Michael

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Porter Junior hitting a three pointer after
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Offensive boards were critical in this one. They may have decided the ball game

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and could certainly make that argument now. Paul George would sink two clutch free

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throws to send it into ot and
actually, after a Bruce Brown missed three

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pointer, Paul George heaved a sixty
footer. It went, but it was

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just after the buzzer. It was
once twenty y'all heading into overtime and the

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Clippers would end up losing one thirty
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the reigning MVP and the Nuggets.
Coming up next, we will preview Tuesday's

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game and get into more of this
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not double this time, but they
lose by ten in Denver, and

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you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers
Predio Network. Clippers lose in overtime one

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thirty four to one twenty four to
Nikolo Kitchen his forty point triple double and

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the Denver Nuggets. Welcome back into
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Clippers ended up shooting a respectable forty nine

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percent from the field. They did
start to go colder from the outside,

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finish it just thirty three percent from
distance Denver at fifty one percent from the

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floor thirteen of thirty nine. That's
thirty three percent from three. Now Denver

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beat him up on the board something
fierce. They had fifty rebounds, the

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Clippers thirty eight, but the real
telling number was five more offensive rebounds,

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and I believe the number was twenty
one second chance points, including that big

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three pointer by Michael Porter Junior at
the end of the four quarter to put

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him up by two. Paul George
would send him into ot hitting a couple

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of big free throws. He finished
with twenty three on six of thirteen,

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shooting oh four from distance, though
win eleven of eleven from the line.

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Kawhi Leonard masterful performance once again,
twelve of nineteen after he started oh for

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four, so after that he was
twelve or fifteen. He would miss just

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three shots the rest of the way. Unreal. He had thirty three,

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but Yokich has forty and the Clippers
lose by ten in overtime where they just

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got blitzed. They just got ambushed. They just looked to run as steam.

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It was a seven oh run very
quickly, and turnovers would haunt them

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throughout this one, even though they
were better after the first quarter. They

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still had one late from Marcus Morris
that kind of put this one away,

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put Denver up by ten. Tough
on cliber Nation. They gotta get back

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after it Tuesday against the Timberwolves.
Every game down the stretch, when there's

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just nineteen remaining in the Western Conference, with how close things or things things

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are in the standings, every game's
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There's a new sheriff in town.
You won't be able to deny it.

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in my heart. This is the
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Now your host of Clippers Talk.
Here's Adam Osway Stop me if you've

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heard this one before. Clippers lose
in overtime, this time in Denver to

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the Nuggets, one thirty four to
one twenty four. Welcome in to Clippers

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Talk. I'm Adam oslind eight six
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sixty six nine eight seven two five
seventy's the phone number coming up. We'll

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have Chuck macklron from Clips and Tip. You'll hear from coach Lou. You'll

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hear from the players. I said
Friday night was tough. One of the

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toughest losses any team has ever had
happened to them. Considering you score one

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hundred and seventy five points and you
lose. This one feels worse in some

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ways because you wanted to see them
bounce back, but they came out flat

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to start the game, and then
they came out flat in overtime. And

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in between there there was some great
basketball. Kawhi Leonard was incredible down the

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stretch, going shot for shot with
Nikola Yokichlerini MVP Mason Plumley played his heart

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out, was unreal in the fourth
quarter, going against his former team.

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Bones Highland gave him some great minutes
in the first half, and the Clippers

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battled back down eighteen to somehow have
a lead in the fourth quarter, and

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they had multiple leads, but it
would head into overtime after their Achilles heel,

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at least in this ball game and
throughout some of the season, just

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pulled on them. An offensive rebound
leading to a three pointer for Michael Porter

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Jr. With about thirty seconds left. That was the play right there.

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You want to talk about the gold
ten, fine, the Clippers certainly didn't

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get the benefit of the whistle on
this one. But I don't adhere to

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the logic of well, the Clippers
would have won if you just add those

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two points on in regulation one twenty
two to one twenty. Look if they

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had gotten the gold ten and it
was one on Thomas Bryan on Eric Gordon

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earlier in the second half, that
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the game plays out, so it's
not that simple. There is a butterfly

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effect thing going on there. I
don't like to just dumb it down to

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well, just tack it on at
the end, and they should have won

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this ball game. There's other ways
they should have won and get an offensive

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rebounds with one of them, and
Cantavius called well. Pope was able to

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come down with one. With the
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with thirty one seconds left for Michael
Porter Junior to eventually hit a long three

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pointer off of a Jamal Murray assist. Clippers continued to battle as they did

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in an uphill battle, down by
eighteen in the first quarter. Paul George

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was fouled on the other end.
It was an if he call that if

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Denver still had their challenge, they
probably would have used it. And Paul

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George, if he doesn't get fouled
there, he had shook Contavious Caldwell Pope

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to the point where he would have
had an open shot along to ur he

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could have stepped back for three.
Now he did knock down two clutch free

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throws. He went eleven of eleven
from the line that tied it at one

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twenty. They got the miss with
Bruce Brown on the other end and Paul

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George, what do we have the
end of this zac because Noah Eagle had

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an amazing call and I almost fell
out of my chair because on first glance,

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it looked like Paul George just hit
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game. Unfortunately, it was closer
to what we saw from Joe l Embiide

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just yesterday against the Boston Celtics.
Here is the end of the regulation.

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Murray with ten seconds left, leave
it for Brown left wing with eight seconds

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left to Yo gets to the free
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yogets with it back to George outside
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It's too strong rebound. George puts
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court, fool put George puts it
in, but they call it off and

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they got the call right. The
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sounded. What could have been there? What could have been? I hope

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this season doesn't come down to that
mantra for this team. They still have

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nineteen games left to play, but
they have lost far too many of these

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close games. It hasn't just been
the last two and they've had a lot

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of self inflicted wounds, and it
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We've wanted to see that. It's
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that I've used it at nauseum.
I don't know what it is, because

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after getting Russell Westbrook and them starting
faster against Sacramento, I suppose I thought

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they would have had a little bit
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from the opening tip. Instead,
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They got down by as many as
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when you put yourself in those spots
where you always have to come back against

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quality competition, no less quality is
an understatement. Denver's the best team in

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the West. Even when you get
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ball game, you can run out
of gas because you had to expend too

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much energy just to fight to battle
back, and you come up lifeless in

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the fourth quarter in overtime, which
was the case tonight, where they just

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got well, they were da you
could say they're down seven nothing immediately.

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Couple of three balls, a couple
of broken defensive plays. Jamal Murray hit

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one, Michael Porter Junior hit one. The defense seemed to be out of

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source, guys weren't in position.
It was hard to watch quite frankly because

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of how well they played just to
get it into overtime and then to lose

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ot by ten. It just felt
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So now the Clippers, and I'll
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They've lost two in a row coming
out of the All Star Break. They've

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lost both games with Russell Westbrook,
and I'm not putting it on him by

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Amy's he had a great third quarter
that helped him get back into the ball

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game. I don't know if he
played again after that, but he had

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eleven points in the third, finished
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Okay, not huge there, but
five steals. Some of it was right

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place, right time, but he
played with great effort out there, hit

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a big three. And in a
game like this, there are a ton

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of things you can point to for
how they lost. And I've been saying

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that too much lately. But when
you're down four in the third and Denver

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comes up with a six point possession
off of Michael Porter Junior hitting a three

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in Russell Westbrook's face, who encrouched
on his landing space, I forget the

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exact terminology they want to use.
For this, but he impeded the landing

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space there. It's a dangerous play. At first it looked like Michael Porter

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Jr. Was severely hurt, but
then he kind of, you know,

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strugged it off real quick and made
it known that he was just faking it

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to exaggerate the contact and to hopefully
get the call. And he did,

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and they reviewed it and according to
the NBA, that's the right call.

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But he goes to the free throw
line, he hits that they get the

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ball back also and Jamal Murray hits
a two pointer and you go from being

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down four to down ten in one
possession. Tough to overcome. I set

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it on Twitter the four straight turnovers
they had when they had a fourteen point

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lead against the Kings on Friday night. I think that more than anything was

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there undoing tonight. Maybe it was
the six point possession, a dead where

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I think we'll get back up by
about fourteen in the third, And in

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fact they won the third quarter.
After the Clippers had to within four,

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had it to within five, multiple
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they were still down by nine going
into the fourth, after they were down

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by eight at a half. So
they lost the third quarter. Somehow it

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was tough after starting the third,
by the way, with a different lineup

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where they inserted Nicholas Batoum. I
love the move and it worked. It

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was wicked smart. They went small. They saw they had something with Nicholas,

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with Nick Batoum in the first half
against Jokich, they wanted to pair

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his minutes against him to start the
second half, and for the most part,

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it worked. At one point,
you know what, I don't even

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need to say that, because Nick
Batoum ended the game a plus ten in

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a game they lost by ten.
I was gonna say at one point he

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was a plus eleven in a game
they were down by ten. He ends

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up still a plus ten in a
game they lost by ten. And I'm,

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for the life of me having a
hard time understanding how he never got

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back into the ball game after they
took him out late in the third quarter.

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I was a little bit surprised by
that. I thought they'd go back

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to him. I know, Mason
Plumbly played really well, really well early

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in that fourth quarter. From late
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he was taking over the game.
To start the fourth quarter, he had

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an unbelievable rejection on Thomas Bryant.
He had a dunk in an inn one

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to start the fourth he had a
pass to it was Terrence Man for a

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huge throwdown. He was controlling the
ball game. I didn't think Nicholas Mattun

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was coming in for him. I
thought there was a chance maybe one of

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the guards he came in for.
Terrence Man started things off in the fourth

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quarter. He was taking out five
fifteen mark for Marcus Morris on the fourth.

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Morris has been struggling. I still
have faith in him, but he's

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been struggling, to say the least
over the last month now. Defensively,

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teams have been picking on him more. And he did hit a jumper at

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about a three minute mark. But
I know because I'm seeing all the incoming

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on Twitter, and I can't avoid
the elephant in the room when everyone is

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going after the Marcus Morris move.
I can't avoid it. I can defend

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it to a point, but I
can't totally avoid it because I thought Terrence

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Man or Nicholas Patum would have been
the guys to go with. I love

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that Eric Gordon was out there a
vet. I know he went over for

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four in the ball game, but
he's secure with the basketball for the most

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part, makes smart decisions. I
like seeing that next to Paul George and

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Kawhi Leonard. But this was a
game that I mean, how many of

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we said the Clippers got to get
one of these big wins against the top

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team at a call last night or
two nights ago Friday? When are the

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Clippers going to beat a team that's
ahead of them in the standings when they

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were in the four seat. We'll
update two in the standings coming up now.

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They have beaten Sacramento once. It
was early in the season, but

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Denver goes four no against him,
and to be fair, they haven't played

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Memphis yet. They got three games
against them, so a chance to prove

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themselves. Clippers is coming into this
one though third toughest schedule remaining. Nothing

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is guaranteed, and by that I
mean you can talk about the postseason,

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but are you talking about the playoffs
or the play in Because the Clippers are

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dangerously close to being in the play
in. Everybody is you slip up and

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go on a losing streak down the
stretch, You're gonna have a fight just

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to make the playoffs. So yeah, a little fired up tonight. These

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games matter, and that's a good
thing. That's certainly what the NBA wants.

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There have been just a slew of
great games coming out of the All

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Star Break, coming out of atrocious
showing by the league in the All Star

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Game, but I you know,
I can care much less about that than

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actual gabs dobbed the stretch that all
seemed to matter right now. There were

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a couple of game winners tonight.
Milwaukee had one with Drew Holiday, Trey

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Young had one with Atlanta. Dame
Dolla win Admiral with it had a David

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Robinson esque seventy one point game,
his career high. I have to qualify

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it with that because you never know
what Dame. You could thought maybe he's

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gone for that before. No,
I think it was sixty one. Unreal.

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But as much as these have been
great games the last two games with

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the Clippers taking much away with moral
victories, here you're trying to secure your

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spot in the West, to secure
home court in the first round, and

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it's going to be up in the
air the rest of the way it is.

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Every game is going to be a
dog fight. It's great, makes

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for great ball games. Clippers gotta
pull some of these out, though they

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lose an overtime tonight in Denver one
thirty four to one twenty four to the

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Nuggets. Before we break here,
we'll go to the phone call Javier and

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Lahabra Heights Javier Eric Clippers stop without
him? Awesome, Hey, what's up,

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Adam? Thank you for taking my
call again. I you took towards

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out of my mouth. You said
it earlier, so I don't know what

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to what did I say what you
said to me, because I remember remind

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you the lives five minutes you said, why was Beato not playing? Or

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I just don't see how he's here. Here's my question with Pat, Here's

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my question with the two. He
was good enough to start the second half

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to make that move to take out
plumbly, but then when he gets taken

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out of the end of the third
quarter after doing a good job, he

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never came back into the ball game
to my knowledge, I could be wrong

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about that, but I'm pretty sure. I'm looking at twenty one minutes at

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the end of the third quarter and
twenty one minutes in the final box score.

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That was just surprising to me,
especially because he had hit a couple

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of big threes. Obviously, He
was hot against Sacramento from the outside.

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It continued against Denver, and his
defense was phenomenal at times, even when

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guys scored on him. He was
right there. Yeah, and the audacity

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is to have Marcus Morris and Eric
Gordon claimed the last five minutes. I

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mean, I don't mind having Eric
Gordon out there at all, to have

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another ball handler out there that is
secure with the basketball. I like that

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move next to Paul George and Kwai
Letter to make life a little bit easier

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for them. But but then again, okay, I'll give you that,

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but let's say the last what thirty
five seconds when uh what's his name Murray

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shot that fifty footer and missed it. Nobody boxed out, you know,

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if you wouldn't have no, no, no, no, no, no

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no. It was a long rebound. It didn't end up right underneath the

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basket. It was a long rebound
that got tipped out. That's just oh,

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that's just a frantic thing. That's
that's almost that's just a fifty fifty

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ball. That's it's hard to say
that old guys in box out there.

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I mean, I told you this
a while back, and I know you

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said earlier about you're getting a twitter
about Marcus Morris. I told you it's

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a while back. I told you
this all year. I told you this

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in the trade Dan Lane, I
go, you know, and you said

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I'll be nice to him. I
told you, Adam, I don't think

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I ever said nice to anyone.
But you ain't gonna be nice to me

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either. I mean, it's just
I'm just lost the words. I mean,

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I just I'm just let me tell
you something that was with the wife.

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Earlier. I drove from Lahabra Heights
to Inglewood to take care of some

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business and we passed by the stadium
and oh my god, it looks nice.

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I mean, it started to shape
up. And I'm thinking to myself,

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Adam, this game is gonna look
so beautiful, and you're going think

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you the keys of the palace to
Tylo. Are you kidding me? That

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cannot happen? A look, I
still believe in coach Lou because of his

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track record of playing the right guys
and the best guys and the best five

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when it matters most. I still
think that's going to happen, and Marcus

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Morris can still step up and get
out of this funk. Maybe that's what

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he was counting on, a big
game experience. Marcus had seven three pointers

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in that game, seven against Dallas. They don't win without him. He's

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had huge games for the Clippers,
game winners over the Lakers, and this

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was a big game and he wanted
to go with the guy he trusted.

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So I get it. There's rationale
there. Clippers on fortunately fall though again

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in overtime, and it stings and
his brutal and I've been saying those things

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since Friday. This feels very similar. Friday was almost I called the black

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Mirror game because it was so surreal
to watch teams put up one hundred and

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seventy points. You almost get caught
up in that and aren't thinking as much

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about the win or the loss.
Tonight though, against Denver, with you

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expecting the Clippers to be even hunger
because they lost that game Friday. I

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know Clipper Nation was feeling the same
way. Gotta have it. Haven't beat

407
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.240
him. They've won six straight against
the Clippers, now nine of ten.

408
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:45.839
They beat a lot of teams.
It's not just the Clippers. They're number

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00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:48.160
one in the Western Conference and they
have the two time ruining MVP, who

410
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:56.279
may win his third and Kawai met
him there at the top of the mountain

411
00:31:56.359 --> 00:32:00.119
of best players in the game in
the fourth quarter where they went back and

412
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:05.680
fourth with tough shot after tough shot, and I thought they were gonna pull

413
00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:08.319
it out. Didn't happen. Clippers
losing o T one thirty four to one

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twenty four, one thirty four,
one twenty four to the Denver Nuggets.

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More Clippers stock coming up next right
here on AMPI seventy LA sports. This

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00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:35.519
is too wild and crazy, guys
in Burbank. After the Clippers lose one

417
00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:45.559
thirty four to one twenty four in
Denver to the Nuggets. It's tough on

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cliber Nation. So it's Friday night. There's a lot of frustration and aggravation

419
00:32:51.799 --> 00:32:55.599
out there, and I'm seeing it
all over Twitter. The good news is

420
00:32:55.640 --> 00:33:00.799
still there's nineteen games left and we
have seen in Spurts, granted in losses,

421
00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:06.559
some fantastic play at times. Coming
back down at eighteen on Denver to

422
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:09.839
take the lead in the fourth is
not easy. What Kawhi Leonard's been doing,

423
00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:15.920
playing at an all time high for
himself in the regular season is impressive.

424
00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:21.920
Russell Westbrook has been good in both
games, not the reason they have

425
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:28.400
lost. They gotta get off to
better starts. They got to engage,

426
00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:32.519
lock in focus, stay there for
forty eight minutes. And that's been the

427
00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:38.880
problem all year, lack of consistency. Coach Low, I don't know how

428
00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:43.079
else, sir, how many ways
he can say, we got to start

429
00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:47.480
with the defensive mindset. It's not
getting through this team. I posted this

430
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:53.759
earlier today, but after they started
off the season a top five defense throughout

431
00:33:53.799 --> 00:34:00.519
the first couple of months, since
December first, they're twenty in defensive rating.

432
00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:07.680
They've fallen off a cliff there,
and there's reasons for that. And

433
00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:09.880
how many of those games had Kawai
and Paul George I can't tell you,

434
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:15.840
but they've had enough guys that if
they're buying in, they're talented enough and

435
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:22.960
they have the personnel to be a
good defensive team to be better than bottom

436
00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:28.679
ten. Yeah. Not having zoobots
tonight, just like Friday night, it's

437
00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:34.400
a killer, make no mistake.
That is a huge loss because then you

438
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:37.559
have zoobots on Yokis, who has
done a decent job. I know Yokis

439
00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.159
gets his no matter what, but
you got to make them work for it,

440
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:45.039
and you could also throw a plum
lee and botomb Adam that could have

441
00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:53.320
changed things. It doesn't matter though
they lost. They got nineteen games left

442
00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:58.880
to figure this thing out and build
some momentum heading into the playoffs, where

443
00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:02.199
all season long, it's seems like
this team has certainly had one eye on

444
00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:07.000
the playoffs. They're geared towards that
they get in the playoffs. They're healthiest

445
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.280
seven game series, they can beat
anyone, and I still believe that,

446
00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:16.559
especially because Kawhi Leonard is back and
then some. He's on one of the

447
00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:22.679
best runs of his career, maybe
the best regular season run he's ever been

448
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:27.639
on. Let me give you the
numbers as he was my player to watch.

449
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:30.400
I know that's cheating to go with
Kawai, but last time out he

450
00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:36.400
was two for seven against Denver when
they got blown out in Denver. Since

451
00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:39.159
January seventh, and this is only
going to go up now, he's shooting

452
00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:45.760
fifty three percent from the field,
forty eight percent from three, and ninety

453
00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:50.320
two percent from the free throw line. He is damn near at fifty fifty

454
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:58.159
ninety splits. That type of stuff
is remarkable coming off at ACL regardless of

455
00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:00.800
you're coming off in a cl I
told you this before. I think he's

456
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:05.199
the only player that has major injuries
and then comes back and gets better somehow.

457
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:08.280
It's it's wild to see. Okay, we're gonna hear from coach Lou

458
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:14.199
in just a moment. But first, Damien in LA, what's up?

459
00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:19.000
You're on Clipper stock with that,
I'm awsin triple A. Man, another

460
00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:22.719
tough loss, bro. Like you
said, it's stings a whole lot since

461
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:27.079
we usually go next level. Man, Let's get into the psychology of it

462
00:36:27.159 --> 00:36:31.519
a little bit. Let's try to
figure out why we start so slowly all

463
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:36.599
the time. I think, and
I'm not trying to put it on anybody,

464
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:44.679
but I know the coach Lou has
more of a feel approach to his

465
00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:50.679
coaching and sometimes but he also quotes
analytics. He also is very aware of

466
00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:54.400
them and filters that in his decision
making. Definitely, I think. I

467
00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:59.800
think the bigger point that I feel
is like you have a lot of guys

468
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:04.199
on there that are very marterial that
way, you know, they kind of

469
00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:07.480
work off of how they feel,
and maybe because of the talent that we

470
00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:10.800
have on this team, you know, and the fact that we can just

471
00:37:10.920 --> 00:37:15.400
turn it on and turn it off. That gets us into trouble, you

472
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:17.599
know, because I'm thinking that,
bro, if we don't start, you

473
00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:22.360
know, fifteen to two in the
first quarter, this isn't a game,

474
00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:29.079
you know. And we continuously let
guys play with us because we're resting on

475
00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:31.639
our greatness a little bit too much, you know, and I think it's

476
00:37:31.639 --> 00:37:36.000
biting us in the butt because we're
not realizing. I'll say this, I

477
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:40.920
think coming I think this season,
Damien, that at times they have felt

478
00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:46.079
like they were good enough and their
margin for error was wide enough that they

479
00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:51.000
could experiment and still win ball games. And that just hasn't been the case

480
00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:54.599
very often. Yeah. Yeah,
what I what I missed from the team

481
00:37:54.760 --> 00:38:00.199
is that they don't seem to have
that spearhead like you were talking about out

482
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:04.400
on defense from the jump, Like
we used to attack people and now we're

483
00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:07.639
a little bit more reactionary, which
is fine. You know, that's still

484
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:10.159
a great defense to be a reactionary
defense. But you know, and I

485
00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:13.599
don't want to say, like,
you know, it's Patrick Beverley that we

486
00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:16.559
missed or whatever, but when he
was here, we had attacks and we

487
00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:21.559
would attack people on defense. We
had a lot more full court press going.

488
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:24.079
There were times last night that are
Friday, that I thought we should

489
00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:28.119
be full court pressing. There were
times tonight where I thought, you know,

490
00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:30.880
maybe a full court press and a
little bit of change of pace on

491
00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:34.679
defense might help us out. And
we just don't seem to be getting that

492
00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:39.559
message. And I'm having a hard
time putting, you know, another finger

493
00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:45.320
on what it might be. Just
that the fact that maybe Coach Lou has

494
00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:49.199
given these guys a little bit too
much leash. Yeah, I don't know,

495
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:52.519
it's an interesting thought. I appreciate
it. Damien eight six six nine

496
00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:58.639
eight seventy eight six six ninety seven
two five seventy let's hear from coach Lou.

497
00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:01.480
After the Clippers lose one thirty one
twenty four and Denver in ot to

498
00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:07.480
the Nuggets, I thought just playing
small kind of helped us out offensively,

499
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:12.039
was able to spread Joker out a
little bit. And then I just thought

500
00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:15.320
just being the swishing picking rolls to
keep my out of that trigger, which

501
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:16.840
was good for us. And so
I thought Mason would have been better with

502
00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:21.079
that second unit because I thought Norman
and Bones needed a a roller in that

503
00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:23.920
second unit to run our plays and
run our sets, and so it worked

504
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:28.039
out pretty good, you know,
and so you know, unfortunately we didn't

505
00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:30.320
get the win. But I like
some things that we did. Concerned about

506
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:37.239
the rebound stretches with Mason Emily,
Yeah, I mean he did a good

507
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:38.800
job. I thought his hustle plays, I thought, you know, rolling,

508
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:42.440
getting getting to the rim. I
thought I did a lot of you

509
00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:44.679
know, really good things for us. And so, like I said,

510
00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:47.800
rebounding has always been a achilles heel
of ours. And like you saw on

511
00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:51.440
that last shot, you know,
were up one marriage used a half court

512
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:53.639
shot. You know, it hits
the rim and they get offensive rebounding,

513
00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:58.480
get a three point shot and go
up too. So just those little things

514
00:39:58.559 --> 00:40:00.000
like you know, but the biggest
thing for it's just the way we started.

515
00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:04.400
You know, you can't get down
fifteen sixteen points to a good team

516
00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:07.599
like this and then you gotta fighting
clawback. But overall, I liked our

517
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:08.920
grind, our grid. You know, I thought Rust did a good job

518
00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:13.119
tonight. Probably should have play him
little bit more. Well, we got

519
00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:15.480
we caught a good rhythm and a
good flow. Kind of took the lead,

520
00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:19.639
and so I kind of took what
stuck with our guys there was coach

521
00:40:19.639 --> 00:40:23.880
slew post games and probably should have
played Russ a little bit more. Maybe

522
00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:32.559
you played well. I just between
Nicholas patum starting the third quarter and playing

523
00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:37.679
well there against Yokich as he mentioned
they went small, they liked it,

524
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:42.400
and then not playing again in the
fourth. That was just surprising to me.

525
00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:46.280
But he's right, Mason plum Lely
was very good. I guess I'm

526
00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:51.199
coming from a perspective of can you
play him and plum Ly at the same

527
00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:53.079
time when you're getting beat on the
boards. I would assume so, because

528
00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:57.760
on offense, Nicholas Patoum can certainly
hang around the three point line. But

529
00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:01.800
I'm not coach and I trust him. Coach lou Clippers lose one thirty four

530
00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:10.119
to one twenty four in OT to
the Denver Nuggets, another aggravating one Clipper

531
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:14.239
Nation. Right now, people,
we're gonna be down tonight. We'll get

532
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:15.719
back to your phone calls coming up. We got more positives for you.

533
00:41:16.760 --> 00:41:22.320
I'm with you eight six six ninety
seven two five seventy eight six six ninety

534
00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:24.079
seven two five seventy. You're listening
to Clippers stock. You're on eight in

535
00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:42.440
five seventy ELI Sports over time here
on Clippers Talk as we take your past

536
00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:45.079
the top of the hour. Welcome
back in Clippers lose in Denver, one

537
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:50.159
thirty four to one twenty five in
ot, I'm atam oslin to eight six

538
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six nine eight seven two five seventy
eight six six nine eight seven two five

539
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seventy is the phone number coming up? Charles Mockler will still be here from

540
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clips in dipp But first, Ryan
and Burbank own Clipper stock. What's up,

541
00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:06.400
Adam? What's going on? Man? Always loved talking with you.

542
00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:13.760
But here's the thing, Man,
And I'm just I am. I'm Avid

543
00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:17.559
on Twitter with some of the you
know, some of the Clippers fanatics and

544
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:21.880
you know, being in some spaces
with some guys talking about the team,

545
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:25.400
and and and Adams. You brought
it up earlier, man, But Marcus

546
00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:34.519
Morris was a minus seventeen tonight six
points off, two of are, three

547
00:42:34.639 --> 00:42:39.679
of six or three of seven,
shooting, one assist, three rebounds in

548
00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:45.400
thirty three minutes. That's unacceptable.
It's unacceptable. You're you're telling me that

549
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:52.880
our starter got three rebounds, that's
it. And and and you're telling me

550
00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:55.679
what we're talking about this you're telling
me, Covington can't get in the game.

551
00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:02.320
Really, he can't play at all. He can't do that. I

552
00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:07.440
just I and Adam, here's the
thing I'm not. For the most part,

553
00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:10.079
I like Tyler. I think that
he's a very smart coach. For

554
00:43:10.119 --> 00:43:15.440
the most part, this kind of
reeks to me a little bit of like

555
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:20.280
I have. I have my veteran
guys. I want to see them shoot

556
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:24.159
out of their current slump. But
Adam, the West is so tight,

557
00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:31.480
they are running out of time.
The runway is getting much shorter, and

558
00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:35.400
you're just again, Adam, you're
just telling me again. You're telling me

559
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:42.519
from a coach's perspective, that you
cannot put anyone else in for those minutes.

560
00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:45.960
And here's the thing, parents Man
could play a little bit more minutes.

561
00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:51.519
That's who Marcus came in for five
mark of the fourth quarter for Man

562
00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:57.199
right, and again, what is
I just wanted to reiterate. He had

563
00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:01.920
six points with three reb and had
a brutal shot against Nicola Yokich that was

564
00:44:02.039 --> 00:44:05.559
very well defended. I'm not sure
why he put it up. I don't

565
00:44:05.599 --> 00:44:07.760
think it was at the very end
of the shot clock, but in the

566
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:12.519
far side corner from three yeah,
he had a he had a rough rough

567
00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:15.960
night, and he's had a rough
month and and Adam again. I just

568
00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:22.519
the problem is the microscope is so
high because you see the rest of these

569
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:27.480
pieces and you're going, yeah,
this could all work here. But again,

570
00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:32.360
when batumb is playing that well,
and he's and and he's he's finally

571
00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:37.280
finding his stroke from the three point
line, and he's got good defensive measurables,

572
00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:40.760
and he doesn't play again, it
just it doesn't make sense at him.

573
00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:44.239
It doesn't. Well, the part
that doesn't make sense to me is

574
00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:49.239
he was good enough to start the
second half. You put him in the

575
00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:52.840
starting lineup in front of Mason Plumley, who yes, came back in the

576
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:58.679
fourth quarter and was awesome. But
it's just strange to me that Batoum never

577
00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:04.000
gets back into the ball game after
he starts the third I just I was

578
00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:07.039
surprised by that. Well and again
too, Here's the thing. I was

579
00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:13.519
critical initially of the Westbrook signing because
I thought what we've seen was like,

580
00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:16.679
Hey, this isn't gonna work.
Westbrook has not been the problem at all.

581
00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:21.280
No, he's really very good the
last two games. No, No,

582
00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:24.360
he's injected a ton of energy he's
making for the most good passes.

583
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:28.719
He's actually his open shooting. I
mean you can see him. He's not

584
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:30.880
even wanting to really take those open
threes as much. He's like, I

585
00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:35.079
want to pass and addition, but
a couple of times he's made him I'm

586
00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:37.840
like, good man, that's good. That's great. That the fact matters.

587
00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:44.639
There's gotta be some combo that works
against these elite team because this is

588
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:47.440
Look, Denver, let's just be
honest at him. We know adding many

589
00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:52.039
Clippers fans and this this is the
worst matchup for us in terms of just

590
00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:55.719
the guys on the floor, Ryan, who is it a good matchup for

591
00:45:57.719 --> 00:46:02.079
just one of just what the actual
the Clippers can throw out there, and

592
00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:07.320
look, we miss Zue tonight.
But in terms of like what these centers,

593
00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:10.480
what these what are hype guys?
We don't have the hype guys that

594
00:46:10.599 --> 00:46:15.079
can really match up at all with
Yokich atlist with like the Lakers. You've

595
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:17.119
got Davis, you've got Lebron,
you've got some note I actually think the

596
00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:22.880
Lakers would scare Denver. I agree
with you there. Yeah. Well,

597
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:27.360
and I want to point out too, Adam too, the bench our depth

598
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:30.199
is our biggest strength on this team, because the bench really got us back

599
00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:35.280
into this game. And look,
Denver starters, I want to point out

600
00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:38.559
three of those guys playing close to
forty plus minutes tonight. I mean,

601
00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:43.599
that's a lot we're talking about.
These These are these starters are playing all

602
00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:46.480
these heavy minutes because their bench is
not that deep and they're not gonna be

603
00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:50.519
able to keep these guys leads.
So look, I agree with you.

604
00:46:50.639 --> 00:46:54.320
We got nineteen games left. The
Clippers can still make a run at this

605
00:46:54.440 --> 00:46:59.440
thing. But is these lineups,
Adam. We gotta find a way to

606
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:04.199
not minus seventeen in the game.
We can lose by ten, like,

607
00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:07.159
that's just it can't happen. I
mean it's fair, but it's also you

608
00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:10.960
know, the plus minus. I
often like to use it when it works

609
00:47:12.039 --> 00:47:16.519
for me, and then I like
to discount it when it doesn't because it's

610
00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:20.320
tough in a one game sample size. It's got to match the eye test

611
00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:22.920
to me as well. I mean, Paul George was a minus eighteen,

612
00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:27.039
but I still want him out there
in the game, and he sunk two

613
00:47:27.119 --> 00:47:30.159
clutch free throws and put it in
overtime and almost hit one of the craziest

614
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:35.440
game winners you'll ever see. No, and look Paul George, he's actually

615
00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:39.760
been fantastic aside from the turnovers against
the King's game. I love his clutch

616
00:47:39.800 --> 00:47:44.960
FreeFly and he had a bad turnover
in the fourth quarter of this one off

617
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:47.920
the steel by Eric Gordon. He
tried to get it back to him.

618
00:47:49.159 --> 00:47:53.280
It was I'm not saying it was
crippling, but those ones they have to

619
00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:58.400
stop, like, you have to
take more care of the basketball than the

620
00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:01.199
Clippers have, because that is how
you lose games in the playoffs, giving

621
00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:05.119
up extra possessions, And that's how
they lost that game against the sacrament Or

622
00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:07.440
Kings. Without those four straight turnovers, they win. And Paul George had

623
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:12.920
two of them, and they were
live ball turnovers. And look at him.

624
00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:15.039
Let's just be honest. Wasn't the
entire I mean, at least some

625
00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:21.000
of the point of getting a veteran
point guard so that Paul George wouldn't necessarily

626
00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:24.159
have the ball in his hands in
those situations, Well, the ball ended

627
00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:28.360
up in his hands on kind of
that broken place steel. It had to

628
00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:30.800
be in his hands. He didn't
have to give it up. He was

629
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:35.039
trying to press the break and get
them in transition going the other way.

630
00:48:35.159 --> 00:48:37.360
But he and Eric Gordon weren't on
the same page. But you're right,

631
00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:42.559
no, and and look, I
agree with you. I'm fine with Eric

632
00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:45.480
Gordon being out there because he's a
veteran. He handles the ball well.

633
00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:49.119
But again, when it comes to
some of these lineups and the way that

634
00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:52.039
we're playing teams, I love the
adjustment that lou made when he put when

635
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:55.559
he put the two men, I'm
like, yeah, the same solid defender

636
00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:00.840
and a Sallid shooter. But again, when we when it's run time and

637
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:05.599
we need to stop, we need
a rebound or we need a shot that

638
00:49:05.679 --> 00:49:07.679
we know, it's like I mean, look, look the last two games,

639
00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:12.360
they couldn't get a stopper aboard when
they needed to. That play to

640
00:49:12.760 --> 00:49:15.920
Malik Monk, there were eight seconds
left, there was a timeout called by

641
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:20.079
Sacramento. And I've heard a lot
of people say, well, why are

642
00:49:20.199 --> 00:49:22.320
Russ and Norn Powell out there on
the court when you had a timeout?

643
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:27.039
Why not put out your best five
defenders there get one stop, win the

644
00:49:27.079 --> 00:49:30.280
ball game or and I mentioned a
post game. It's not an easy decision.

645
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:32.880
I know everybody thinks it is to
just foul and send them into the

646
00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:37.360
free throw line because a guy could
put up a shot then, and if

647
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:39.239
he hits it like Michael Porter Junior
did and he's going to the line for

648
00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:43.880
four, you can lose the game
instead of them just tying it or going

649
00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:45.559
to the line for an and one
on three pointer, which would be a

650
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:50.000
four point play. It's not easy, but I get what you're saying.

651
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:52.679
I want to belabor it too much, though, Ryan, We we gotta

652
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:55.159
keep moving. We gotta keep moving, my friend, I trust coach Lou

653
00:49:55.440 --> 00:50:00.480
like Lawrence Frank recently said to put
the best five guys out there when it

654
00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:02.920
matters most of the playoffs, because
I've seen him do it before with the

655
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:07.360
Clippers and with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
So let's let's hope for the best.

656
00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:10.920
And I love you, man,
and I love the optimism, and I'm

657
00:50:12.280 --> 00:50:15.280
suring for us to hopefully make a
run here in these last nineteen games.

658
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:17.800
So we'll see. I'm with you, my friend. One more art in

659
00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:23.760
la art. You're on clipperstock.
Oh yeah, Adam, I want an

660
00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:31.239
unknown. I'm missed some kultroso calm
down. And yeah, we we had

661
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:36.519
some technical issues. We'll have it
for you on Tuesday. Okay, good

662
00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:44.039
goods to know that, don't Oh, he's great. Press on the North

663
00:50:44.199 --> 00:50:47.599
and the point the point of the
Point of Sist that's had a version called

664
00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:53.440
jump too went on with Van Halen
and uh, who's the other band?

665
00:50:53.519 --> 00:50:59.920
Sorry? H who's it? Who's
the band? So the point of Sist

666
00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:02.880
this got you, got you,
got you because he loves the music during

667
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:12.880
the jump ball. Yeah, I'm
in hops of pain. Us Russell injured

668
00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:20.719
in the fourth quarter because North said
that he fell to the floor. I

669
00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:23.480
don't know that. And coach Luke
came out post game and said he could

670
00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:28.079
have played him more or he should
have played him more. I'm paraphrasing.

671
00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:30.519
I'm not sure the exact quote,
but I don't think it was an injury

672
00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:36.320
issue. Uh. He played twenty
five minutes at seventeen and five steals.

673
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:39.280
Absolutely was one of the engines to
help get them back into this one.

674
00:51:39.559 --> 00:51:42.920
So was Norn Palett time, who
I haven't talked about enough. I know

675
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.280
he only had nine points and he
missed a layup ar it looked like he

676
00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:49.199
was tripped and ended up being a
five point swing because there was a three

677
00:51:49.239 --> 00:51:52.239
point or made on the other end
by the Denver Nuggets. That hurt him.

678
00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:54.440
But I liked his energy bones Highland
in the first half. His energy

679
00:51:54.559 --> 00:51:59.760
was infectious and he was going up
against his former team in Denver. I

680
00:51:59.840 --> 00:52:01.400
just want to get a couple of
other guys names in there tonight, because

681
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:06.519
there were a lot of good performances
even in a loss, as well as

682
00:52:06.599 --> 00:52:13.880
Nathan. He was great. Yeah, no criticized Nike, but two.

683
00:52:14.039 --> 00:52:16.719
But the loss of Sacramento the night
they were down by one and he shout

684
00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:21.679
at three, Oh, doesn't it
strike you as on you and Hill.

685
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:25.519
I didn't think they were down one
on that one. I have double check

686
00:52:25.639 --> 00:52:30.039
on that. I don't believe that
was the case. I appreciate the phone

687
00:52:30.039 --> 00:52:31.599
called though, Art, Okay,
gotta get out of this break, or

688
00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:36.519
get to a break and get Chuck
Mockler in here. Clippers loose one thirty

689
00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:42.159
four to one twenty four and ot
in Denver. Second straight loss in overtime.

690
00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:47.480
In Sacramento it was double overtime.
These Clippers have lost four in the

691
00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:51.880
last six. Now, it looked
like they had a lot of momentum.

692
00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:54.639
They had one ten of fourteen heading
into the All Star break, they bring

693
00:52:54.719 --> 00:52:59.480
in Russell Westbrook. He's played well, but they haven't had the wins to

694
00:52:59.519 --> 00:53:04.880
show for it. Against good competition. Yes, but if they're gonna be

695
00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:07.840
in the same picture and talked about
as a contender as well, you have

696
00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:12.280
to beat other great teams, and
the Clippers haven't done a good enough job

697
00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:15.079
of that all season long. They
believe, I believe they only have eleven

698
00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:19.440
twelve wins at the most against teams
above five hundred, and that's one of

699
00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:22.599
the worst marks in the West.
Lord Clippers stock next with Charles Macklin from

700
00:53:22.599 --> 00:53:34.719
Clips and Dip right here on seventy
Sports. Clippers lose one thirty four to

701
00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:38.000
one twenty four in overtime in Denver, and I just went to Zupprter film

702
00:53:39.079 --> 00:53:43.719
through the long rebound the Denver Nuggets
got that eventually ended up in the hands

703
00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:46.039
of Michael Porter Junior for the three
to put them up too for Paul George

704
00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:51.800
hit two free throws a tied to
go in overtime. Cantabious Caldwell Pope made

705
00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:54.719
a health of the play. Mason
Plumley was there. It was a long

706
00:53:54.800 --> 00:54:01.440
rebound off of half court shot by
Jamal Murray. I don't know how KCP

707
00:54:01.679 --> 00:54:07.400
got that ball, but if you've
called Aaron Gordon a Clippers killer in the

708
00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:12.519
past, oh, KCP might have
made the play of the game. Welcome

709
00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:15.880
back in. I'm Adam Oslin's tough
one. I know Clipper Nation their next

710
00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:20.400
game coming up on Tuesday back home
against the Minnesota Timberwolves. More on that,

711
00:54:20.480 --> 00:54:23.960
but first let's get out to Chuck
Mockler from Clips and Dip Pod does

712
00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:30.199
it with myself and will Updyke Chuck. Where would you say this game was

713
00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:32.360
lost? Because it's one thing to
say, Okay, you can lose a

714
00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:36.639
game in the first quarter, and
I do agree with that, but they

715
00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:40.639
were up to they had a lead, and they weren't able to close things

716
00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:44.960
out and up to is not a
big lead, but they battled all the

717
00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:49.320
way back and had their chances.
Did you see it just being that offensive

718
00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:53.039
rebound that I just mentioned, Well, I think that offensive rebound while it

719
00:54:53.119 --> 00:55:00.360
definitely didn't help, you know,
it's you want to go to golten what's

720
00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:02.960
your theory on goaltend? Because for
me, that happened in like the nine

721
00:55:04.039 --> 00:55:07.320
minute mark of the fourth To say
you can just tack on two points at

722
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:08.920
the end and say, well,
the Clippers would have won one twenty two

723
00:55:09.039 --> 00:55:12.920
one twenty. I think that's a
little thing. I think that's a little

724
00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:17.039
flimsy of an argument, because the
point total affects how teams play down the

725
00:55:17.079 --> 00:55:21.360
stretch and what plays they run.
One play affects the next. So if

726
00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:23.239
they did get those two points,
then we don't know how Denver would have

727
00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:28.719
responded, right, It's a butterfly
effect with the goaltend. I don't think

728
00:55:28.760 --> 00:55:31.119
you can just you know you're right, add those two points and then play

729
00:55:31.239 --> 00:55:35.800
the game exactly like it was.
The climber's end up winning. I think

730
00:55:35.840 --> 00:55:39.679
there's a big issue right now with
the power forward position and the defense you're

731
00:55:39.679 --> 00:55:45.880
getting from that position when Marcus Morris
is on the court. It's been tough

732
00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:47.679
the last couple of games. Obviously, you know, against the team like

733
00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:52.280
the Kings of a couple of nights
ago, would you have Jared Pox difficult?

734
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:55.519
And then would you have a team
like Denver It's even harder. So

735
00:55:55.880 --> 00:56:00.519
I think there's some rotation issues,
tear it's made and did not getting enough

736
00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:05.119
time and clutch minute, not getting
any real minutes in overtime. I know

737
00:56:05.199 --> 00:56:07.480
he was in there, but it
felt like he just put a bit after

738
00:56:07.559 --> 00:56:09.760
the game was kind of out of
reach. So there's got to be something,

739
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:13.599
you know, kind of reevaluate,
I think with Marcus Morris's But it's

740
00:56:13.639 --> 00:56:16.719
when it comes to closing for this
team right now. And I could see

741
00:56:16.800 --> 00:56:20.840
Terrence Man in a position like that
for a board like that, all of

742
00:56:21.599 --> 00:56:28.360
Patrick Beverly, who taught all smaller
players how to pick up clutch rebounds latent

743
00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:32.280
games, especially to keep a team
away from getting one. But I mean,

744
00:56:32.360 --> 00:56:37.719
do we think that's that's going to
change. I get the frustration.

745
00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:40.960
I've gotten multiple calls on it tonight, and I was a little bit.

746
00:56:42.760 --> 00:56:46.320
The reason I find it more curious
in this situation where Marcus Morris ends up

747
00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:52.760
playing thirty three minutes is because Nick
Batoum started the second half. There was

748
00:56:52.880 --> 00:56:57.760
enough faith to start him. It
worked. It always works with Batoum.

749
00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:00.400
He's never a negative. He was
a plus ten in a game they lost

750
00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:06.039
by ten, but he never played
again to my knowledge, after he went

751
00:57:06.079 --> 00:57:07.800
out at the end of the third
quarter for Plumbly. Now, I get

752
00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:12.679
you keep Plumbly in because he was
playing great in the fourth but could bread.

753
00:57:12.840 --> 00:57:16.079
But toom find a spot in the
last twelve minutes somehow next to him.

754
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:20.760
I don't. I don't know.
I hope he can. I mean,

755
00:57:20.840 --> 00:57:23.440
I think at this point the two
answers to why would two was it

756
00:57:23.519 --> 00:57:27.719
are some kind of soft that it's
restriction, you know, where they're just

757
00:57:27.840 --> 00:57:31.079
kind of keeping his as healthy as
the game before the playoffs. That might

758
00:57:31.119 --> 00:57:35.119
be a thing. He only played
in eight minutes against Phoenix at that game

759
00:57:35.199 --> 00:57:38.000
before the All Star break. Yeah, that's interesting, I mean because other

760
00:57:38.079 --> 00:57:44.280
than that, the choice under than
health is that he's just not in the

761
00:57:44.360 --> 00:57:47.239
closing rotation, which I don't think
Clippers said would really want to here right

762
00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:52.280
now, right given how we've seen
this team before games recently. So typically

763
00:57:52.360 --> 00:57:55.960
he always is this is somebody who
has closed out postseason games with them like

764
00:57:57.960 --> 00:58:00.719
it's he is one of the guys
that you'se a lot next to Paul George

765
00:58:00.719 --> 00:58:04.559
and Kawhi Leonard when you're talking about
death lineups and who you want to see

766
00:58:04.599 --> 00:58:07.519
out there, Normally it starts with
those three. I totally agree. But

767
00:58:07.719 --> 00:58:14.440
we've we've hit him a seemingly very
hard reset with twenty one games left,

768
00:58:14.559 --> 00:58:17.000
is when they decided to kind of
hit the reset button and figure these things

769
00:58:17.039 --> 00:58:22.280
out. I thought it was good
how Tayloo managed Russ's minutes tonight. I

770
00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:24.760
thought that was good. You know, he wasn't in the closing lineup.

771
00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:29.079
I don't think anyone thought he really
should have been, so you know,

772
00:58:29.159 --> 00:58:31.400
you like to see that. But
there's still now we have another kind of

773
00:58:31.480 --> 00:58:36.920
lineup stickler going on, which is
these Morris minutes and sub minutes distribution with

774
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:40.360
the tube and Terra's man. So
we have a lot to figure out in

775
00:58:40.519 --> 00:58:45.519
nineteen games. I think. I
think we've talked about it on the Pond

776
00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:47.719
before. It feels kind of like
where a game one again. It felt

777
00:58:47.719 --> 00:58:51.440
like that at the trade deadline,
and then it feels like that a couple

778
00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:53.920
of games after the trade deadline.
So I mean, time is money right

779
00:58:53.960 --> 00:59:00.679
now for the Clippers. You mentioned
Russell Westbrook, and I thought they manage

780
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:04.480
his minutes well, and I thought
he was part of this comeback. In

781
00:59:04.559 --> 00:59:07.079
the third quarter he had eleven of
a seventeen points. He hit a big

782
00:59:07.159 --> 00:59:10.800
three pointer. He has too,
I think the surprise of a lot of

783
00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:15.920
people, he's been very good in
both games so far. In no way

784
00:59:15.119 --> 00:59:19.639
was he the reason he lost either
the Clippers lost either of these last two

785
00:59:19.679 --> 00:59:22.920
games. Yeah, that third quarter
was great tonight. I don't know if

786
00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:27.280
I would go out on the limits
say he's been very good. His decision

787
00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:31.000
making has been great. I think
we've seen the good and bad from Russ.

788
00:59:31.159 --> 00:59:34.119
Right, We've seen him blow a
couple of layups at the rib.

789
00:59:34.159 --> 00:59:37.039
We've seen some soft turnovers, but
we've also seen him jump start in the

790
00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:42.280
transition game and make the right reads. I think in that third quarter,

791
00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:45.320
as you mentioned, you know,
they kind of gave him this mid range

792
00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:46.360
shot. He just took a couple
of steps in and hit a floater,

793
00:59:46.480 --> 00:59:50.880
And that's exactly what you want to
see from Russ if you're a Clippers fan.

794
00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:55.760
So it's been pretty solid for these
first two games. But I mean,

795
00:59:55.960 --> 00:59:59.760
he's evidently going to have a starting
role in the playoffs, it seems

796
00:59:59.800 --> 01:00:02.920
like. So just just more things
from the clips to get figured out.

797
01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:08.800
I guess the one thing that you
can always depend on what this team since

798
01:00:08.920 --> 01:00:15.679
the start of the new year especially
is Kawhi Leonard and just his otherworldly basketball

799
01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:22.280
savvy and brilliance to go back and
forth like he did late with Nikolayokich.

800
01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:29.000
That was art that was a thing
of beauty. Put it in the getty.

801
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:34.039
I was so impressed. Once again. I don't I don't know why

802
01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:36.920
I keep being impressed. I guess
it's just because of the injury and to

803
01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:40.679
see someone who looks better than ever
coming off in ACL I that may be

804
01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:45.280
historic. I don't know. I
can't remember a case. But it almost

805
01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:49.719
makes it all the much more frustrating
when you're losing games with these performances by

806
01:00:49.800 --> 01:00:53.239
Kauai. You know, Yeah,
we saw this last year with PG in

807
01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:57.079
the year before that when Kwai was
out. Would there it be these games

808
01:00:58.039 --> 01:01:01.119
where your superstar plays exactly like you
need him to play, and he's been

809
01:01:01.320 --> 01:01:06.880
so good at his job lately.
He's been at the elite of elite,

810
01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:12.280
you know, level wise right now, and it just hurts to squander these

811
01:01:12.360 --> 01:01:15.559
kind of performances. Paul George came
on late too, which was nice,

812
01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:21.679
but no, I mean it's just
another one of we should have won this

813
01:01:21.800 --> 01:01:24.000
one. You know that that overtime
period was brutal. Le we score two

814
01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:30.360
points or something like that, just
not just not everyone else's night. But

815
01:01:30.519 --> 01:01:35.079
thankfully, you know, Kawai showed
up. Yeah, and I don't want

816
01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:38.079
this to turn into it would could
have should a season when you have Kauai

817
01:01:38.360 --> 01:01:44.519
at the peak of his powers like
this, and Paul George overall playing well

818
01:01:44.679 --> 01:01:46.400
enough, playing like an All Star. He was an All Star, and

819
01:01:46.519 --> 01:01:52.679
he's had huge games and huge moments
like the recipe for success is certainly there

820
01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:59.440
with this team, but seating matters
so much, and right now as I

821
01:01:59.519 --> 01:02:01.119
look it up, after they've now
lost two in a row coming out of

822
01:02:01.119 --> 01:02:07.719
the All Star break and two just
you know, absolute gut punches are like

823
01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:12.599
an elbow to the gut. Whatever
Kawai gave Yokich that he tried to exaggerate

824
01:02:12.679 --> 01:02:15.039
there at the end and then realize
he wasn't getting the call and jumped right

825
01:02:15.159 --> 01:02:22.400
up to see Kawash show that emotion
too, like cobad Man, what do

826
01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:27.039
you do it? But the Clippers, the Clickers, right now their game

827
01:02:27.159 --> 01:02:30.199
up will being out of the seventh
spot currently held by the Golden State wars

828
01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:36.079
these games, you know, it's
a double edged sword because as exciting as

829
01:02:36.159 --> 01:02:38.000
they're going to be down the stretch, they are also so meaningful. And

830
01:02:38.159 --> 01:02:43.800
when you lose ones like this and
Friday Night, you can just slide down

831
01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:51.920
the standings like David Vassey, I
don't know if you saw that what Park

832
01:02:52.039 --> 01:02:54.480
was? That was it Miller Park? Yeah. With the Brewers, it's

833
01:02:54.760 --> 01:03:00.719
it's just crushing to lose some of
these games in this fashion and the implications

834
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:04.039
of what happens afterwards. But on
the other hand, it makes Tuesday's game

835
01:03:04.079 --> 01:03:07.280
a huge deal too. Yeah.
Right, it's all gonna be interesting.

836
01:03:07.400 --> 01:03:09.840
At this point, you'd almost you
know, I know, Clippers fans are

837
01:03:09.840 --> 01:03:14.199
talking about trying to avoid the Phoenix
Denver, you know, back to back

838
01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:15.679
series, which would be great.
One of the ways you could maybe do

839
01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:20.559
that is playing the Kigs in the
first round, which I know doesn't sound

840
01:03:20.639 --> 01:03:25.360
fun, but it seems easier than
playing Phoenix and then Denver. So we

841
01:03:25.440 --> 01:03:29.199
don't. This team kind of cares
about seating late. We all remember the

842
01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:32.320
Daniel Oturu game against the Thunder and
things like that, so it's I don't

843
01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:37.039
there's so many things that can happen
over these next tight teams. Is Charles

844
01:03:37.119 --> 01:03:40.960
Mackler from Clips and Dip does the
podcast with myself and William Updyke, and

845
01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:45.960
we're gonna have a tripod coming up
for you tomorrow night. Oh, it's

846
01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:49.800
gonna be tough one. All right, Charles, thanks for doing this tonight

847
01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:52.719
after the Clippers lose by ten and
ot to Denver, my friend. Yeah,

848
01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:58.280
here's to a fun one next time. All right. Before we get

849
01:03:58.320 --> 01:04:03.000
out of here, I do remind
you Tuesday night Clippers back Home taken on

850
01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:11.239
the Minnesota Timberwolves. You can just
see these glimpses of greatness, as the

851
01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:15.159
song says here by photo ops at
the end of every show, it's there

852
01:04:15.519 --> 01:04:19.920
ingredients. They just haven't been able
to put it all together for their masterpiece

853
01:04:20.039 --> 01:04:25.280
yet. The hope is it's still
yet to come, and they peek at

854
01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:29.360
just the right time. And the
time is now, with nineteen games left,

855
01:04:29.599 --> 01:04:32.360
Tuesday Night's game, where they're hosting
Minnesota, tip time is at seven.

856
01:04:32.559 --> 01:04:35.000
We'll have Clippers countdown starting at six. Before we get out of here.

857
01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:39.039
I do want to thank the Clippers
organization, Noah Eagle, Brian's Seaman,

858
01:04:39.119 --> 01:04:43.079
Ralph Lawler, big brother, Jake
Warner, ahead engineer, producer,

859
01:04:43.199 --> 01:04:45.480
Zacho Quality doing good work. And
for Katie Newton tonight, who we hope

860
01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:50.679
feels better. The callers, the
listeners, the tweeters appreciate all of you

861
01:04:51.320 --> 01:04:55.559
till Tuesday with the pregame show starting
at six. I'm Autam Moslin. Let's

862
01:04:55.559 --> 01:05:09.880
talk to you then. This has
been Clippers Talk, a postgame conversation about

863
01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:14.360
your LA Clippers with Adam Oslay.
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01:05:14.440 --> 01:05:18.280
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865
01:05:18.360 --> 01:05:23.800
tape. This team has those championship
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866
01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:28.559
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867
01:05:28.679 --> 01:05:30.079
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