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Osler. Well, the Clippers were walking in Memphis while the Grizzlies were running
up the score as they would win one thirty five to one o nine over
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Coming up, we do have postgame audio from the head coach Ron lu and
the players after a game where the Grizzlies led by as many as thirty four,
led by thirty heading into the fourth quarter. And for some reason,
I mean it's not just for some reason, they're very good, but the
Clippers have had a lot of trouble against this Memphis Grizzlies team lost the season
series four zero, and they lost the last three games of the series by
an average score of being beaten by eighteen. They can't stand in front front
of John Morant. Nobody can. But the other guys beat them up to
triple j Jaron Jackson Junior with twenty six points, Clark with eighteen points.
Desmond Baine didn't have a huge game with five points. But it's the ease
at which the Memphis Grizzlies are able to score in the paint. This has
been a trend. It was my blueprint for success. If the Clippers were
going to have any they had to keep Memphis away from the cylinder at least
from six feet or closer out, and they didn't do that. Points on
the paint Memphis ended up was seventy eight. They averaged fifty seven, the
the best paint scoring tea team in the league. They get you off balance
with their athleticism and their hustle. They outrebounded the Clippers fifty five to forty.
They had twenty one offensive rebounds. Believe that would tie a high by
an opponent so far this season against the Clippers, it's been a bugaboo for
them, So it tells you it's just a bad matchup going in Memphis strengths
are the Clippers weaknesses. But four games lost to this team and this one
wasn't even close tonight in their final meeting unless they see each other in the
playoffs. And the Clippers, we've talked about the E word a few times
this year, and it wasn't as noticeable as some of those other times.
I'm talking about effort, But there were some plays where the Clippers just did
not fight hard enough and it looked like they got bullied by a younger,
quicker, faster team that wanted it more. They got punked a little bit,
they got out worked out. Talented is one thing, but when you
get pushed around and there's that lack of physicality out there, as coach lu
likes to say, that can't happen. That's effort, that's showing up,
that's being locked in and being ready to play. And the Clippers are down
thirty eight to twenty seven after the first quarter. They gave up thirty eight
points in the first quarter, and it's the second straight game where they've given
up one hundred and twenty plus points to their opponent. Excuse me, one
hundred and thirty plus points to their opponent. The Milwaukee Bucks finished with one
thirty seven they put up on the Clippers on Sunday, so defensively, and
this just can't happen just because you're getting better offensively, and coach lu has
warned against this doesn't mean you can let up on the defensive end. Doesn't
mean you can just let things even out like that, Oh, we were
a worse offensive team. We're getting better in that area, so we can
let up defensively. No, the defense has to be there every night.
And while they're still missing their two superstars and new players are getting acclimated,
and Norman Powell was fantastic early on. He had ten points in the first
quarter, he had their first eight points, finished with sixteen and twenty three
minutes. If you're looking for silver linings, it's that none of the starters
played more than twenty four but that's because they were getting blown out and the
Clippers backups they feasted a little bit in inconsequential garbage time. Isaiah Hartenstein had
his season high nineteen points. Might be career, I'll check on that,
but even he at times was getting out hustled. Memphis is quick, and
they have guys with motors that don't stop no matter what the score is,
and they come at you in waves because they're deep. It's not just one
guy in John Morant who's incredible and his athleticism and explosiveness. It just shreds
your defense at the point of attack. When you can't stand in front of
that guy, it just throws you off balance everywhere else. It's so difficult
to play a team with somebody that can move like that, that can leap
like that, that can get up with ease. He's Alan Iverson plus prime,
Derek Rose and some Stefon Marbury in there. Just one of those unguardable
guards when they're at their peak, at the peak of their powers, at
their best, and he's still young and getting better. That's the scary part
with him. But Memphis has had the Clippers number and putting up on one
thirty five number on the Clippers, I mean, you're not going to be
able to slow down a team like this, or you're not gonna be able
to play and hang with a team like this if you're not more stout defensively.
But the defensive breakdowns at the point of attack led to easy drives to
the basket and guys getting easy looks for the Memphis Grizzlies, who are look
they're great They've had the best record in the league since Thanksgiving. Nobody's been
playing better than them, nobody's been hotter than them. They're thirty eight and
eighteen. Now it's twenty and nine at home. But really they're better than
their record, and that's saying something. Because they lost some games early on.
They found themselves, they flipped the switch. They have this youthful exuberance
with this team. Guys play well together. There's that chemistry, the grit
and grind. Memphis Grizzlies, they're still there to an extent because they do
play hard, but they're also so talented and they have a lot of different
ways to beat you, and they just don't slow down. And the Memphis
Grizzlies would go on to win by twenty six, handing the Clippers their worst
loss since Game six of the Western Conference Finals last year against the Phoenix Suns
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We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back. We'll hear from
the head coach. We'll get to your phone calls. Jose Javier, I
know you guys are already online. I'm also at follow Adam Ay on Twitter.
Do you want to talk about the trade deadline coming up? Fine?
You have an idea for somebody the Clippers can bring in? Okay, do
you think they need that point guard? Who is it? Clippers fall one
thirty five to one O nine to jam Ran the Memphis Grizzlies. You're listening
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LA Clippers. Clippers have seventeen turnovers leading to twenty one points. They lose
in Memphis to the Grizzlies by twenty six. Final score Grizzlies one thirty five,
Clippers one on nine. It's just been a lopsided matchup recently between there's
two rivals. You could say, if you want to go back to twenty
twelve and twenty thirteen where they played each other in the first round and back
to back years. Clippers took the first one, Memphis took the second one.
But there are no guys left from either of those two teams or the
Memphis Grizzlies. I mean, they had a game, who was it two
years ago now, where they put up one hundred and forty eight points on
the Clippers at Staples Center, That's what it was called then in downtown Los
Angeles. The Clippers did not have an answer. Again, seventy eight points
in the paint for the Memphis Grizzlies. They just feasted. They just dismantled
the Clippers on defense, as did the Milwaukee Bucks. But that was a
game on Sunday where I could go Okay, a team goes fourteen of twenty
in the second half from three, there's not much you can do about that.
If a team gets really high from the outside, it's just tough to
guard. In this one, though, the Clippers defense fell apart at the
seams from the opening tip. They just weren't good enough. A few decent
performances. Norman Powell again, sixteen points on six of twelve shooting. He
looks great. Had those two blocks on Melton in the first half. I
want say it was the second quarter, but he didn't take a shot the
first two minutes of the third quarter, and I thought to myself, you
know, he's leaving them at the half with fourteen points. They come out
in the third quarter and I don't know if it was guys just not looking
for him or him not being aggressive enough, because when he's on a new
team, although it doesn't seem like that's the problem for him. He had
twenty eight points his first game against Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday. But he's your
leading score. He's your go to bucket getter. Really right now, I
know you just traded for him, But Norman Powell is that good. And
he had fourteen at the half and didn't take a shot the first two and
a half minute of the third quarter when the Clippers are already down by fifteen
and a half because they had some leakouts defensively and some bad plays at the
end of the second quarter. Got a start quarter strong and finished them strong.
They didn't either. Welcome back into Clippers Stock. I'm Adam Oslin.
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What's up? HBBI here it what's up? Atom? Real quick?
I want to start with this with twenty one office and rebounds by Memphis,
and like you said, seventy eight points in the paint. I mean that
you know it just by looking at them this year, I noticed that they're
not They're not physical enough, Adam, They're not physical enough. I mean,
you got but Tune, you got Morris, you got Zooboch, you
got idea. As I'll say this, Javier, the physicality way, at
times it comes and goes. We have noticed that. That's there's no way
you can argue otherwise. Yeah, I mean that's one thing. And then
number number two. I was thinking maybe because of the trade dayline coming up
in a couple of days. I mean, some of these some of the
slipper players are not They're not. They're not. They're showing no energy at
all. I mean, I don't know they're thinking back to their mind they're
going to be traded, but it it just doesn't. They're not. They're
not, they're not focused. You know, that's an interesting point that can
happen around the trade deadline. There were a bunch of games that ended up
being lopsided last night. There are a bunch of games tonight the same way
between teams that are somewhat near one another talent wise, and you're seeing blowouts
that can be a distraction. As they say, they're only human it it's
got to be in the back of your mind a little bit. But it
just can't be Against a team like the Memphis Grizzlies that plays really at the
same pace and with the same energy an effort for forty eight minutes. They
will make you pay if you slip up. And it happened in the first
quarter. Yeah, no, it did, it did. And the last
point here, I know you've got a few calls here, Lawrence Frank.
I know he's not done. I mean, you know you're feel bad,
but I know, just a good chance Hesbaka is. I mean, he
didn't play for a reason, so there's a good chance he's gonna be traded.
But you did ask a question about gaming players since the beginning. I
told you, Adam, you gotta go after Ben Simmons. I mean that
that that that I mean, it's just what's let's trade for Ben Simmons.
He makes thirty five million. Who are you giving up? Okay, okay,
will you get you give up Ibaka? You give up Morris? You
gotta you gotta get something up. Adam you give up Ibaka, you give
up Morris, and then you're gonna be like, what six million dollars short?
You give up? I mean you have to do. You're gonna have
to give up man. You're not gonna give a Canard. I mean er,
you gotta, like you said earlier, you gotta, you gotta,
you know, say some some some shooters. But give up man, and
then you're gonna be like a million are short? And then you give him
one of these I don't scrub, or some of these other players, or
what's the guy the guy that's hurt but Pressley or he's making a million dollars
right, what's his name? Yes, he's making a million dollars. You
make that trade, but that equals Ben Simmons, I believe is making thirty
three million dollars a year. Is that greact for this year? I believe
so. But in that trade, I'm not sure they get a player back
of the cowiber they're looking for. I'm not sure they do. Marcus Morris
is an older player serge of Bakas on an expiring deal. I think the
Philadelphia seventy six ers and Darryl Morriy are holding out for more because they don't
know more. They don't have to move him right now. He's under contract
for three more years after this year. Ben Simmons, I'm just being realistic,
Hobb here, think. Yeah, the only thing I can think of
maybe got mean, I don't know if you game too much, but maybe
you give him Brandon Boughton two. That would be a tough pedel to swallow.
But believe me, Adam, Ben Simmons will play defense, he will
rebound, and he does not turn the ball over. Adam, you got
to give something. This guy's a twenty with Ben Simmons, twenty five,
twenty six years old. He's yawning. Yeah, I hear you, Javier,
interesting thoughts there, Ben Simmons. Yeah, twenty five years of age,
and he's a very good player. I like him. He obviously has
his limitations. Is willingness or unwillingness to shoot in a playoff game. What
happened last year against the Atlanta Hawks, what's happened since then? But the
talent is there, and he is a playmaker, and maybe he helps unlock
some of the offense. But I'm not sure the Clippers are making a move
that drastic. If they're making one at all. But Lawrence Frank and that
front office, they're always working. Jose and South Skate, you're on Clippers
Stock and animals. You're on with Clipper Stock, on Clipper's Tale without amass
and what's up? H'se say? It's my turn? It's your turn?
Let me all right? Said, let me stop thinking my wounds man,
and prior seasons back to the back giving a one thirty, I would have
been like, we need two all stars. We need them. Guess what
we have them. They're just not available, all right? That being says.
See, I'm always start struck when I'm talking to you. I want,
I know, I want to talking about Luca nark into a three point
contest. What's up? That's good, But I'm at them. I just
want the Memphis grizz least and Minnesota term. But what's to kue up the
same energy? Like Lenny said, against the Bucks, we have more and
moral wins than any other team. So I'm hoping it's getting the playoffs.
Man. You know, try loose starts running these plays. Our boys show
that heart that they have when they're down my thirty to keep it close in
the close game in the playoffs. So that's what's keeping me afloat. Besides
that, Adam, this point guard talk, oh I have of course,
if you, Adam, you think we talked to Portland trying to get Damian
Letter C. C. McCollum, but they were just asking for too much
that we just said, which was a good trade for Norman Powell and Robert
Cummington. Hey, I'll tell you this much. I like Norman Powell more
than CJ. McCollum, who I love. But Powell plays defense, yes,
yes, and and I and I think and I think that the Blazers
they live like they're in the whole restarting mode. So they wanted the yes.
J. McColl him off with everybody else. They got off with the
trade too with the Pelicans. And we're like, nah, we're good,
you nah, We're we're good. What take Norman, you know, Jerry
Buss, Lauren Frank, you know. Now we'll be good with Norman Powell,
Robert Cummington. And then that's tray for Ben Simmons. I don't like
it, Tart bringing that talk to Steve Bomber. You mean that we're gonna
give up four player for a bid? Now we're not. We're good,
right, here. I just don't want the playoffs starts. You know my
Clippers are in there. I didn't want to call in the loss. I
finally called last time because I have nothing nice to say. But besides that
being said, let's go Clippers. Jose and Southgate. There, you're listening
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eight seven two five seventy is the phone number after the Clippers lose by twenty
six, their largest loss since Game six of the Western Conference Finals last year
against the Phoenix Suns. Who was the Memphis Grizzlies one thirty five your LA
Clippers one oh nine for whatever reason, and I keep saying that, and
there are many reasons, but the Memphis Grizzlies have their number. They have
the Clippers number right now. They have the league's number as well. But
Clippers lose the season series four games to none before we hear from coach lou
Let's get to Lenny in Inglewood and Lenny, you're on Clippers stock without in
moston what's up? Suggestions of the trade. But I had to develop.
But I seems talking about it the ovodka and you know, going for Simmons,
and maybe it's not Simmons, but I like the fact that you know,
we ex Cliper nation. Man. Realize, like I said at last
call, bro, we we we gotta we gotta go for it, man,
we we we gotta, we gotta we gotta we can't be two sentimental.
We can't be two sentimental. And to be honest, if we gotta
give a man, man's a good, good kid. But we got we
got players. We got players that can do what he does. And to
be honest, you know, Kevin Powell coming in and Norman. I know
people over use the word bucket, but that dude is yeah, yeah,
I really don't like when people just throw it Aron casually. It's like we
throwing the war around. Great, but Kevin Powell is a bucket. Hey
put some respect on his name. Lenny, it's Norman. I'm sorry,
but you know, I think Steve Vomer is sitting here and like everybody else
knows that when the Rams go Rams, when that that super Bowl on Sunday,
you know he's gonna be the only major sports franchise was gonna have been
in the finals. And it just can't go down no more, right can't
we? So we we you know, I'm even up for him if we
can get a nice piece for uh for PG maybe Dame. I do not
want Damian Lillard over Paul George. No, no, you think Damian Lillard
is carrying a team like Paul George did last year in the playoffs without Kawhi
Leonard. Do you think Damian Lillard makes an impact on the defensive end?
Why do you think think the Portland Trail Blazers, And this is why I
say I'm glad they got Norman Powell over CJ McCollum. Why do you think
they've been so bad defensively? Even with all that offense? It doesn't matter
when you have two guys at the guards position that are playing ola defense and
Dame Lillard and CJ McCollum. You can't have two guys in your team like
that and ever be a great defensive team because even if you have good bigs
backing them up, it doesn't matter if guys are going right past your guards.
And that's what's been happening for years in Portland and they're just figuring it
out. Lenny, you're still there. Oh, Lenny, we lost him.
That's too much logic and rationale for me on that one. I guess
I appreciate the comments, but no, Paul George is a better player than
Dame Lillard. You want to talk about one play to win that series against
Paul George And OKC, I'm looking to body a work. Paul George has
taken a team in the East as the number one option to the Eastern Conference
Finals, and he's taking a team in the West as the number one option
last year when Kawhi went down after Game four against the Utah Jazz to the
Western Conference Finals. All right, we'll take a quick break. I lied.
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We'll have Clippers countdown for you starting at four thirty. But I want
to hear from the head coach. After the Clippers dropped to twenty seven and
twenty nine on the season, after losing by twenty six to John Morant and
the Memphis Grizzlies. Here was Coach Lue postgame, just wasn't physical enough.
I thought, at all five positions, we just wasn't physical enough, giving
up giving up twenty one offensive rebounds. Like we talked about rebounding and basketball
and transition points and they had twenty two on here, which means probably they
had thirty four thirty five points in transition. You know, we talked about
that coming into the game, but just just from watching them serve and just
wasn't physical enough, you know, from start to finish at all prop positions.
So we gotta be better with that. Is there? Do you feel
like that has been a consistence trend throughout those four and match ups this season
as this team, yeah, I mean tougher, tougher, more physical,
and you know you could see it, and so we have to uh do
it better job. We don't want that jacket on us, you know,
and I know we can do it. But for some reason, this team,
you know, they're definitely more physical, and they played more physical than
we do. You know, all four times we met up at half time
like, you know, give up yet seventy and you're trying to figure out
a way to disestablishment control me take some control, Like what what do you
feel like you could do? And where did it break down? It?
I thought a third quarter, you know, early on we got some stops,
We got a couple open threes that we didn't make that we couldn't cut
the lead, got some stops, gotta turn over that they made a three,
you know, so just the whole night we're just you know, playing
up here and we have to stop doing that, which we talked about.
But you know, I thought in the third quarter, we tried to come
out and try to establish something, got some stops early on, we just
couldn't score, had some good looks and you know that happens, but the
problem is just starting the game the way we did and just not having that
physicality, you know, having five turnovers I think the first six minutes of
the game, giving up seven offensive rebounds the first time out, and so
you can't win games like that, especially on the road against a good team.
We have to be better than that. Andrew, go ahead with Norman
doing he started obviously offensive. It was so hot that the record when you're
taking two shots. Once you think about the way the offense wasn't really getting
to him for shots and that the report. Yeah, I thought we Andrew,
we missed a lot of advanced passes, you know, to get him
up the floor and pay him attack early, even in the first half,
like when we got stopped, we didn't get the ball up ahead to try
to take advantage of that. And then they bust him a little bit and
then Jall was showing. But you know, I just thought and that that's
me got to do a better job of just controlling the game and getting into
the high guy. And we got to recognize that as well. But I
just thought we made a game a little too hard today when we had you
know, we could like I said were scoring easy, Norman had it going
a little bit, and just the things we did to hurt ourselves, like
the offensive rebounds and the turnovers, which we got to be better at.
There was Coach Lou post game after the Clippers lost one thirty five to one
o nine in Memphis to the Grizzlies. So I wasn't completely off base off
the top of the show saying the physicality wasn't there, the toughness wasn't there.
Coach Low saying the same thing. And I'm just a dumb, casual
novice over here, but you could tell the eye test in this one and
the box score twenty one offensive rebounds for the Memphis Grizzlies. Jaren Jackson Junior
had five at the half. That was his career high for offensive rebounds.
He finished with eight. Clippers lose by twenty six in Memphis. They'll have
to regroup and get ready for Thursday against look at again. Another guy always
difficult to deal with, and nobody's had to deal with them more than the
Clippers now. They've overcome his stellar play twice the last two first rounds the
last two seasons. But Luca don Chich and the Dallas Mavericks, new coach,
from new players, They're going to be out for blood. They're on
the revenge tour also against the Clippers, and nobody's feeling sorry for the Clippers
because they're without Paul George and Kawhi Leonard right now, nobody cares. They're
out there trying to climb up the Western Conference standings, and the Clippers have
to find a way on this trip where they're playing Dallas twice, where they
got the Warriors coming up and the Phoenix Suns. They just have to find
a way to get victories because we talked about how difficult this trip and this
stretch of games was going to be and it could make or break their season
or whether or not they have a chance at least to get out of being
one of the seventh through ten seeds in the West, which means you're in
the play in tournament. Dig It a tweet here from Joe Hensel who says
Grizzly is just playing too well and overwhelmed. The Clippers regroup against Dallas,
you know, perfectly put there. They were overwhelmed completely. They got ambushed
in Memphis, Clippers los by twenty six. Before we get out of here.
I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seamen,
Ralph Lawlor, big brother Jake Warner, and producer Katie Newton. Until
Thursday with the Clippers taken on the Dallas Mavericks in Dallas pregame four thirty,
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