WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:06.719 Parents badness. Once again. He's Clippers Talk. I got calls on Clippers 2 00:00:06.759 --> 00:00:12.480 Talk, immediate reaction and analysis to today's game. That's what he's capable of, 3 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:17.920 hosted by your pre and post game voice of the LA Clippers, Adam 4 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:29.239 Osler. Well, the Clippers were walking in Memphis while the Grizzlies were running 5 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:34.640 up the score as they would win one thirty five to one o nine over 6 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:38.520 your Los Angeles Clippers. Welcome in a Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslin to 7 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:42.479 eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven 8 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:45.439 two five seventy is the phone number if you'd like to get on tonight. 9 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:50.280 Coming up, we do have postgame audio from the head coach Ron lu and 10 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:54.399 the players after a game where the Grizzlies led by as many as thirty four, 11 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:58.880 led by thirty heading into the fourth quarter. And for some reason, 12 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:02.320 I mean it's not just for some reason, they're very good, but the 13 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:07.319 Clippers have had a lot of trouble against this Memphis Grizzlies team lost the season 14 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:12.560 series four zero, and they lost the last three games of the series by 15 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:19.280 an average score of being beaten by eighteen. They can't stand in front front 16 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:23.480 of John Morant. Nobody can. But the other guys beat them up to 17 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:29.640 triple j Jaron Jackson Junior with twenty six points, Clark with eighteen points. 18 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:34.439 Desmond Baine didn't have a huge game with five points. But it's the ease 19 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:40.000 at which the Memphis Grizzlies are able to score in the paint. This has 20 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.840 been a trend. It was my blueprint for success. If the Clippers were 21 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:49.239 going to have any they had to keep Memphis away from the cylinder at least 22 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:53.239 from six feet or closer out, and they didn't do that. Points on 23 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:57.200 the paint Memphis ended up was seventy eight. They averaged fifty seven, the 24 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.439 the best paint scoring tea team in the league. They get you off balance 25 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:09.319 with their athleticism and their hustle. They outrebounded the Clippers fifty five to forty. 26 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:15.960 They had twenty one offensive rebounds. Believe that would tie a high by 27 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:19.479 an opponent so far this season against the Clippers, it's been a bugaboo for 28 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:24.039 them, So it tells you it's just a bad matchup going in Memphis strengths 29 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:31.039 are the Clippers weaknesses. But four games lost to this team and this one 30 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:35.599 wasn't even close tonight in their final meeting unless they see each other in the 31 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:39.680 playoffs. And the Clippers, we've talked about the E word a few times 32 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:45.560 this year, and it wasn't as noticeable as some of those other times. 33 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:50.120 I'm talking about effort, But there were some plays where the Clippers just did 34 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:54.199 not fight hard enough and it looked like they got bullied by a younger, 35 00:02:54.439 --> 00:03:00.560 quicker, faster team that wanted it more. They got punked a little bit, 36 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:05.080 they got out worked out. Talented is one thing, but when you 37 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:07.360 get pushed around and there's that lack of physicality out there, as coach lu 38 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:12.960 likes to say, that can't happen. That's effort, that's showing up, 39 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.960 that's being locked in and being ready to play. And the Clippers are down 40 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:21.919 thirty eight to twenty seven after the first quarter. They gave up thirty eight 41 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:25.520 points in the first quarter, and it's the second straight game where they've given 42 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:30.680 up one hundred and twenty plus points to their opponent. Excuse me, one 43 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:35.159 hundred and thirty plus points to their opponent. The Milwaukee Bucks finished with one 44 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:40.599 thirty seven they put up on the Clippers on Sunday, so defensively, and 45 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:45.840 this just can't happen just because you're getting better offensively, and coach lu has 46 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:50.960 warned against this doesn't mean you can let up on the defensive end. Doesn't 47 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.639 mean you can just let things even out like that, Oh, we were 48 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:55.479 a worse offensive team. We're getting better in that area, so we can 49 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:59.599 let up defensively. No, the defense has to be there every night. 50 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:04.280 And while they're still missing their two superstars and new players are getting acclimated, 51 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:09.560 and Norman Powell was fantastic early on. He had ten points in the first 52 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:13.400 quarter, he had their first eight points, finished with sixteen and twenty three 53 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.360 minutes. If you're looking for silver linings, it's that none of the starters 54 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:20.279 played more than twenty four but that's because they were getting blown out and the 55 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:28.120 Clippers backups they feasted a little bit in inconsequential garbage time. Isaiah Hartenstein had 56 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:31.639 his season high nineteen points. Might be career, I'll check on that, 57 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:41.519 but even he at times was getting out hustled. Memphis is quick, and 58 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:46.000 they have guys with motors that don't stop no matter what the score is, 59 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:50.439 and they come at you in waves because they're deep. It's not just one 60 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:59.160 guy in John Morant who's incredible and his athleticism and explosiveness. It just shreds 61 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:01.600 your defense at the point of attack. When you can't stand in front of 62 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:06.519 that guy, it just throws you off balance everywhere else. It's so difficult 63 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:12.439 to play a team with somebody that can move like that, that can leap 64 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:18.120 like that, that can get up with ease. He's Alan Iverson plus prime, 65 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:24.360 Derek Rose and some Stefon Marbury in there. Just one of those unguardable 66 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:27.519 guards when they're at their peak, at the peak of their powers, at 67 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:31.439 their best, and he's still young and getting better. That's the scary part 68 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:38.360 with him. But Memphis has had the Clippers number and putting up on one 69 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:42.800 thirty five number on the Clippers, I mean, you're not going to be 70 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:46.120 able to slow down a team like this, or you're not gonna be able 71 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.920 to play and hang with a team like this if you're not more stout defensively. 72 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:55.800 But the defensive breakdowns at the point of attack led to easy drives to 73 00:05:55.839 --> 00:06:00.199 the basket and guys getting easy looks for the Memphis Grizzlies, who are look 74 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:06.439 they're great They've had the best record in the league since Thanksgiving. Nobody's been 75 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:12.199 playing better than them, nobody's been hotter than them. They're thirty eight and 76 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:16.759 eighteen. Now it's twenty and nine at home. But really they're better than 77 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:21.000 their record, and that's saying something. Because they lost some games early on. 78 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:27.040 They found themselves, they flipped the switch. They have this youthful exuberance 79 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:30.000 with this team. Guys play well together. There's that chemistry, the grit 80 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:34.279 and grind. Memphis Grizzlies, they're still there to an extent because they do 81 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:41.199 play hard, but they're also so talented and they have a lot of different 82 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:45.360 ways to beat you, and they just don't slow down. And the Memphis 83 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:48.079 Grizzlies would go on to win by twenty six, handing the Clippers their worst 84 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:56.600 loss since Game six of the Western Conference Finals last year against the Phoenix Suns 85 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:00.600 eight six six nine eight seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. 86 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:03.279 We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back. We'll hear from 87 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:06.600 the head coach. We'll get to your phone calls. Jose Javier, I 88 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:11.920 know you guys are already online. I'm also at follow Adam Ay on Twitter. 89 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.480 Do you want to talk about the trade deadline coming up? Fine? 90 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:19.759 You have an idea for somebody the Clippers can bring in? Okay, do 91 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:25.879 you think they need that point guard? Who is it? Clippers fall one 92 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:30.759 thirty five to one O nine to jam Ran the Memphis Grizzlies. You're listening 93 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:36.879 to Clippers talk here on Amp five seventy LAS fours down, long time a 94 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:42.680 Hawks slam. You're listening to Los Angeles Clippers basketball. He goes all the 95 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:46.800 way the ram Us Sky scraping jams. This is the official home of your 96 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:58.240 LA Clippers. Clippers have seventeen turnovers leading to twenty one points. They lose 97 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:01.800 in Memphis to the Grizzlies by twenty six. Final score Grizzlies one thirty five, 98 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:09.279 Clippers one on nine. It's just been a lopsided matchup recently between there's 99 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:11.879 two rivals. You could say, if you want to go back to twenty 100 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:15.560 twelve and twenty thirteen where they played each other in the first round and back 101 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.920 to back years. Clippers took the first one, Memphis took the second one. 102 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:24.160 But there are no guys left from either of those two teams or the 103 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:26.160 Memphis Grizzlies. I mean, they had a game, who was it two 104 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:30.199 years ago now, where they put up one hundred and forty eight points on 105 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:33.360 the Clippers at Staples Center, That's what it was called then in downtown Los 106 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:39.440 Angeles. The Clippers did not have an answer. Again, seventy eight points 107 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:43.759 in the paint for the Memphis Grizzlies. They just feasted. They just dismantled 108 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:48.799 the Clippers on defense, as did the Milwaukee Bucks. But that was a 109 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:54.759 game on Sunday where I could go Okay, a team goes fourteen of twenty 110 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:58.679 in the second half from three, there's not much you can do about that. 111 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.759 If a team gets really high from the outside, it's just tough to 112 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:05.399 guard. In this one, though, the Clippers defense fell apart at the 113 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:11.000 seams from the opening tip. They just weren't good enough. A few decent 114 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:16.200 performances. Norman Powell again, sixteen points on six of twelve shooting. He 115 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:22.200 looks great. Had those two blocks on Melton in the first half. I 116 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:26.080 want say it was the second quarter, but he didn't take a shot the 117 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:30.639 first two minutes of the third quarter, and I thought to myself, you 118 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.120 know, he's leaving them at the half with fourteen points. They come out 119 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.039 in the third quarter and I don't know if it was guys just not looking 120 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.279 for him or him not being aggressive enough, because when he's on a new 121 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:41.799 team, although it doesn't seem like that's the problem for him. He had 122 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:48.879 twenty eight points his first game against Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday. But he's your 123 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:52.399 leading score. He's your go to bucket getter. Really right now, I 124 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.679 know you just traded for him, But Norman Powell is that good. And 125 00:09:56.759 --> 00:09:58.399 he had fourteen at the half and didn't take a shot the first two and 126 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:03.519 a half minute of the third quarter when the Clippers are already down by fifteen 127 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.799 and a half because they had some leakouts defensively and some bad plays at the 128 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:13.480 end of the second quarter. Got a start quarter strong and finished them strong. 129 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:16.039 They didn't either. Welcome back into Clippers Stock. I'm Adam Oslin. 130 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:20.480 Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven 131 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:26.279 two five seventy is the phone number Jaber lab Rights. Welcome into Clippers Stock. 132 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:31.039 What's up? HBBI here it what's up? Atom? Real quick? 133 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:35.840 I want to start with this with twenty one office and rebounds by Memphis, 134 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:39.639 and like you said, seventy eight points in the paint. I mean that 135 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:45.720 you know it just by looking at them this year, I noticed that they're 136 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.840 not They're not physical enough, Adam, They're not physical enough. I mean, 137 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:54.039 you got but Tune, you got Morris, you got Zooboch, you 138 00:10:54.159 --> 00:11:00.279 got idea. As I'll say this, Javier, the physicality way, at 139 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:03.919 times it comes and goes. We have noticed that. That's there's no way 140 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:09.360 you can argue otherwise. Yeah, I mean that's one thing. And then 141 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:13.440 number number two. I was thinking maybe because of the trade dayline coming up 142 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:16.799 in a couple of days. I mean, some of these some of the 143 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:20.399 slipper players are not They're not. They're not. They're showing no energy at 144 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:22.000 all. I mean, I don't know they're thinking back to their mind they're 145 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:26.320 going to be traded, but it it just doesn't. They're not. They're 146 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:30.679 not, they're not focused. You know, that's an interesting point that can 147 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:33.679 happen around the trade deadline. There were a bunch of games that ended up 148 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:37.879 being lopsided last night. There are a bunch of games tonight the same way 149 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:43.720 between teams that are somewhat near one another talent wise, and you're seeing blowouts 150 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:48.639 that can be a distraction. As they say, they're only human it it's 151 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:52.720 got to be in the back of your mind a little bit. But it 152 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:56.440 just can't be Against a team like the Memphis Grizzlies that plays really at the 153 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:01.000 same pace and with the same energy an effort for forty eight minutes. They 154 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:03.840 will make you pay if you slip up. And it happened in the first 155 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:09.080 quarter. Yeah, no, it did, it did. And the last 156 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.720 point here, I know you've got a few calls here, Lawrence Frank. 157 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:15.159 I know he's not done. I mean, you know you're feel bad, 158 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:18.320 but I know, just a good chance Hesbaka is. I mean, he 159 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:20.440 didn't play for a reason, so there's a good chance he's gonna be traded. 160 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:26.200 But you did ask a question about gaming players since the beginning. I 161 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:28.919 told you, Adam, you gotta go after Ben Simmons. I mean that 162 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:31.879 that that that I mean, it's just what's let's trade for Ben Simmons. 163 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:35.240 He makes thirty five million. Who are you giving up? Okay, okay, 164 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.159 will you get you give up Ibaka? You give up Morris? You 165 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:43.440 gotta you gotta get something up. Adam you give up Ibaka, you give 166 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:46.120 up Morris, and then you're gonna be like, what six million dollars short? 167 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:48.320 You give up? I mean you have to do. You're gonna have 168 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:52.440 to give up man. You're not gonna give a Canard. I mean er, 169 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:54.799 you gotta, like you said earlier, you gotta, you gotta, 170 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:58.759 you know, say some some some shooters. But give up man, and 171 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.679 then you're gonna be like a million are short? And then you give him 172 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:05.279 one of these I don't scrub, or some of these other players, or 173 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:09.120 what's the guy the guy that's hurt but Pressley or he's making a million dollars 174 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:13.799 right, what's his name? Yes, he's making a million dollars. You 175 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:18.919 make that trade, but that equals Ben Simmons, I believe is making thirty 176 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:20.960 three million dollars a year. Is that greact for this year? I believe 177 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:26.720 so. But in that trade, I'm not sure they get a player back 178 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.399 of the cowiber they're looking for. I'm not sure they do. Marcus Morris 179 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:35.840 is an older player serge of Bakas on an expiring deal. I think the 180 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:41.039 Philadelphia seventy six ers and Darryl Morriy are holding out for more because they don't 181 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:45.519 know more. They don't have to move him right now. He's under contract 182 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:50.759 for three more years after this year. Ben Simmons, I'm just being realistic, 183 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:54.559 Hobb here, think. Yeah, the only thing I can think of 184 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:56.399 maybe got mean, I don't know if you game too much, but maybe 185 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:03.000 you give him Brandon Boughton two. That would be a tough pedel to swallow. 186 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:07.200 But believe me, Adam, Ben Simmons will play defense, he will 187 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:11.200 rebound, and he does not turn the ball over. Adam, you got 188 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:16.080 to give something. This guy's a twenty with Ben Simmons, twenty five, 189 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:20.720 twenty six years old. He's yawning. Yeah, I hear you, Javier, 190 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:24.360 interesting thoughts there, Ben Simmons. Yeah, twenty five years of age, 191 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:30.840 and he's a very good player. I like him. He obviously has 192 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:37.399 his limitations. Is willingness or unwillingness to shoot in a playoff game. What 193 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:41.480 happened last year against the Atlanta Hawks, what's happened since then? But the 194 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:46.519 talent is there, and he is a playmaker, and maybe he helps unlock 195 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:52.759 some of the offense. But I'm not sure the Clippers are making a move 196 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:58.080 that drastic. If they're making one at all. But Lawrence Frank and that 197 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:01.919 front office, they're always working. Jose and South Skate, you're on Clippers 198 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:05.360 Stock and animals. You're on with Clipper Stock, on Clipper's Tale without amass 199 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.240 and what's up? H'se say? It's my turn? It's your turn? 200 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:18.200 Let me all right? Said, let me stop thinking my wounds man, 201 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:22.039 and prior seasons back to the back giving a one thirty, I would have 202 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.360 been like, we need two all stars. We need them. Guess what 203 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:28.399 we have them. They're just not available, all right? That being says. 204 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.320 See, I'm always start struck when I'm talking to you. I want, 205 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:33.399 I know, I want to talking about Luca nark into a three point 206 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:37.440 contest. What's up? That's good, But I'm at them. I just 207 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:39.559 want the Memphis grizz least and Minnesota term. But what's to kue up the 208 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:43.679 same energy? Like Lenny said, against the Bucks, we have more and 209 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.399 moral wins than any other team. So I'm hoping it's getting the playoffs. 210 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:50.600 Man. You know, try loose starts running these plays. Our boys show 211 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:54.360 that heart that they have when they're down my thirty to keep it close in 212 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:58.200 the close game in the playoffs. So that's what's keeping me afloat. Besides 213 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:00.279 that, Adam, this point guard talk, oh I have of course, 214 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:03.399 if you, Adam, you think we talked to Portland trying to get Damian 215 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:06.799 Letter C. C. McCollum, but they were just asking for too much 216 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:10.799 that we just said, which was a good trade for Norman Powell and Robert 217 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:15.159 Cummington. Hey, I'll tell you this much. I like Norman Powell more 218 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:19.440 than CJ. McCollum, who I love. But Powell plays defense, yes, 219 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:23.159 yes, and and I and I think and I think that the Blazers 220 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:26.519 they live like they're in the whole restarting mode. So they wanted the yes. 221 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:30.200 J. McColl him off with everybody else. They got off with the 222 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.639 trade too with the Pelicans. And we're like, nah, we're good, 223 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:36.279 you nah, We're we're good. What take Norman, you know, Jerry 224 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:40.200 Buss, Lauren Frank, you know. Now we'll be good with Norman Powell, 225 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:42.360 Robert Cummington. And then that's tray for Ben Simmons. I don't like 226 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:48.320 it, Tart bringing that talk to Steve Bomber. You mean that we're gonna 227 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:51.440 give up four player for a bid? Now we're not. We're good, 228 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:53.080 right, here. I just don't want the playoffs starts. You know my 229 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:57.039 Clippers are in there. I didn't want to call in the loss. I 230 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:00.200 finally called last time because I have nothing nice to say. But besides that 231 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:07.319 being said, let's go Clippers. Jose and Southgate. There, you're listening 232 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:08.599 to Clippers talk. I'm out of Maslin. While we have a moment, 233 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:12.599 Let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on Amp five seventy l A 234 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:18.480 Sports. This is LA Clippers Basketball. AM five seventy KLAC Los Angeles, 235 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:25.000 ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeart radio station. We'll take 236 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:27.440 a quick break, we'll come back. You'll hear from the head coach and 237 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:33.400 srong Lou after the Clippers lose one thirty five to one oh nine in Memphis 238 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:37.440 to the Grizzlies eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six 239 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:41.599 nine eight seven two five seventies. The phone number. I'm out of Maslin 240 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:52.160 and you're listening to Clippers stock. You're on Amp five seventy YELLI Sports HAWKSAM. 241 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:56.400 You're listening to Los Angeles Clippers basketball. He goes all the way to 242 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:03.480 the ram sky scraping jam. This is the official home of your LA Clippers, 243 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:18.279 and we're backs Clipper stock. I'm ata Moslin. Eight six six nine 244 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:22.839 eight seven two five seventy is the phone number after the Clippers lose by twenty 245 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:27.440 six, their largest loss since Game six of the Western Conference Finals last year 246 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:33.359 against the Phoenix Suns. Who was the Memphis Grizzlies one thirty five your LA 247 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:37.960 Clippers one oh nine for whatever reason, and I keep saying that, and 248 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:44.000 there are many reasons, but the Memphis Grizzlies have their number. They have 249 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:48.240 the Clippers number right now. They have the league's number as well. But 250 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:53.000 Clippers lose the season series four games to none before we hear from coach lou 251 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:57.960 Let's get to Lenny in Inglewood and Lenny, you're on Clippers stock without in 252 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:11.720 moston what's up? Suggestions of the trade. But I had to develop. 253 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:15.200 But I seems talking about it the ovodka and you know, going for Simmons, 254 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:19.119 and maybe it's not Simmons, but I like the fact that you know, 255 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:22.880 we ex Cliper nation. Man. Realize, like I said at last 256 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:26.960 call, bro, we we we gotta we gotta go for it, man, 257 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:30.200 we we we gotta, we gotta we gotta we can't be two sentimental. 258 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:34.200 We can't be two sentimental. And to be honest, if we gotta 259 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:38.480 give a man, man's a good, good kid. But we got we 260 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:41.119 got players. We got players that can do what he does. And to 261 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:48.960 be honest, you know, Kevin Powell coming in and Norman. I know 262 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:53.200 people over use the word bucket, but that dude is yeah, yeah, 263 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:56.880 I really don't like when people just throw it Aron casually. It's like we 264 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:02.680 throwing the war around. Great, but Kevin Powell is a bucket. Hey 265 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:07.599 put some respect on his name. Lenny, it's Norman. I'm sorry, 266 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:15.960 but you know, I think Steve Vomer is sitting here and like everybody else 267 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:22.640 knows that when the Rams go Rams, when that that super Bowl on Sunday, 268 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:29.720 you know he's gonna be the only major sports franchise was gonna have been 269 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:33.359 in the finals. And it just can't go down no more, right can't 270 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:38.039 we? So we we you know, I'm even up for him if we 271 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:44.200 can get a nice piece for uh for PG maybe Dame. I do not 272 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:49.920 want Damian Lillard over Paul George. No, no, you think Damian Lillard 273 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:55.759 is carrying a team like Paul George did last year in the playoffs without Kawhi 274 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:59.519 Leonard. Do you think Damian Lillard makes an impact on the defensive end? 275 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:00.759 Why do you think think the Portland Trail Blazers, And this is why I 276 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:06.160 say I'm glad they got Norman Powell over CJ McCollum. Why do you think 277 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.680 they've been so bad defensively? Even with all that offense? It doesn't matter 278 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:15.440 when you have two guys at the guards position that are playing ola defense and 279 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:18.599 Dame Lillard and CJ McCollum. You can't have two guys in your team like 280 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:22.279 that and ever be a great defensive team because even if you have good bigs 281 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:26.480 backing them up, it doesn't matter if guys are going right past your guards. 282 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:30.880 And that's what's been happening for years in Portland and they're just figuring it 283 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:36.839 out. Lenny, you're still there. Oh, Lenny, we lost him. 284 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:41.039 That's too much logic and rationale for me on that one. I guess 285 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:45.400 I appreciate the comments, but no, Paul George is a better player than 286 00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:51.279 Dame Lillard. You want to talk about one play to win that series against 287 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:56.680 Paul George And OKC, I'm looking to body a work. Paul George has 288 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:00.720 taken a team in the East as the number one option to the Eastern Conference 289 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:04.839 Finals, and he's taking a team in the West as the number one option 290 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:10.000 last year when Kawhi went down after Game four against the Utah Jazz to the 291 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:12.720 Western Conference Finals. All right, we'll take a quick break. I lied. 292 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:19.640 After this, you'll hear from Coach Low Clippers fall one thirty five to 293 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:25.359 one on nine in Memphis to the Grizzlies eight six six nine eight seven two 294 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:30.519 five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy all opinions. Welcome, 295 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:37.720 But I may retort, after all, and you're listening to Clipper stock 296 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:45.480 without am Moslin here on a M five seventy LA sports. Yeah, I 297 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:52.000 say beat all miss Rod Nation Plan Chammahawks Slam. You're listening to Los Angeles 298 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:56.400 Clippers basketball. He goes all the way to the ram Us Sky scraping Jams. 299 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:07.519 This is the official home of your LA Clipper Clippers littlest one thirty five 300 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:11.119 to one on nine and Memphis to the Grizzlies. Welcome back into Clippers Stock. 301 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:14.599 I'm atams one to eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy 302 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:18.519 eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy is the phone number or get 303 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:23.079 to me at follow Adam A Clippers next game coming up Thursday in Dallas for 304 00:23:23.319 --> 00:23:29.079 two taking on Luca Dons. It's tip time on Thursday is at five thirty. 305 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:32.079 We'll have Clippers countdown for you starting at four thirty. But I want 306 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:34.000 to hear from the head coach. After the Clippers dropped to twenty seven and 307 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:38.440 twenty nine on the season, after losing by twenty six to John Morant and 308 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:42.440 the Memphis Grizzlies. Here was Coach Lue postgame, just wasn't physical enough. 309 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:48.000 I thought, at all five positions, we just wasn't physical enough, giving 310 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:51.559 up giving up twenty one offensive rebounds. Like we talked about rebounding and basketball 311 00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:55.480 and transition points and they had twenty two on here, which means probably they 312 00:23:55.559 --> 00:23:57.480 had thirty four thirty five points in transition. You know, we talked about 313 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:02.480 that coming into the game, but just just from watching them serve and just 314 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:04.839 wasn't physical enough, you know, from start to finish at all prop positions. 315 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:08.799 So we gotta be better with that. Is there? Do you feel 316 00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:12.599 like that has been a consistence trend throughout those four and match ups this season 317 00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:17.440 as this team, yeah, I mean tougher, tougher, more physical, 318 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:21.920 and you know you could see it, and so we have to uh do 319 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:23.400 it better job. We don't want that jacket on us, you know, 320 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:26.240 and I know we can do it. But for some reason, this team, 321 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:30.480 you know, they're definitely more physical, and they played more physical than 322 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:33.799 we do. You know, all four times we met up at half time 323 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:38.799 like, you know, give up yet seventy and you're trying to figure out 324 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:42.319 a way to disestablishment control me take some control, Like what what do you 325 00:24:42.359 --> 00:24:45.000 feel like you could do? And where did it break down? It? 326 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:48.400 I thought a third quarter, you know, early on we got some stops, 327 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:49.680 We got a couple open threes that we didn't make that we couldn't cut 328 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:53.079 the lead, got some stops, gotta turn over that they made a three, 329 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:56.359 you know, so just the whole night we're just you know, playing 330 00:24:56.440 --> 00:25:00.359 up here and we have to stop doing that, which we talked about. 331 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:03.079 But you know, I thought in the third quarter, we tried to come 332 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:04.519 out and try to establish something, got some stops early on, we just 333 00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:10.000 couldn't score, had some good looks and you know that happens, but the 334 00:25:10.359 --> 00:25:12.240 problem is just starting the game the way we did and just not having that 335 00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:15.960 physicality, you know, having five turnovers I think the first six minutes of 336 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.160 the game, giving up seven offensive rebounds the first time out, and so 337 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:22.680 you can't win games like that, especially on the road against a good team. 338 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:30.680 We have to be better than that. Andrew, go ahead with Norman 339 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:33.880 doing he started obviously offensive. It was so hot that the record when you're 340 00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:37.559 taking two shots. Once you think about the way the offense wasn't really getting 341 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:41.000 to him for shots and that the report. Yeah, I thought we Andrew, 342 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:42.359 we missed a lot of advanced passes, you know, to get him 343 00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:45.039 up the floor and pay him attack early, even in the first half, 344 00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:48.400 like when we got stopped, we didn't get the ball up ahead to try 345 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:52.319 to take advantage of that. And then they bust him a little bit and 346 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:56.039 then Jall was showing. But you know, I just thought and that that's 347 00:25:56.119 --> 00:25:57.960 me got to do a better job of just controlling the game and getting into 348 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:03.319 the high guy. And we got to recognize that as well. But I 349 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:04.960 just thought we made a game a little too hard today when we had you 350 00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:07.559 know, we could like I said were scoring easy, Norman had it going 351 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:12.160 a little bit, and just the things we did to hurt ourselves, like 352 00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:15.960 the offensive rebounds and the turnovers, which we got to be better at. 353 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:22.559 There was Coach Lou post game after the Clippers lost one thirty five to one 354 00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:26.839 o nine in Memphis to the Grizzlies. So I wasn't completely off base off 355 00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:32.000 the top of the show saying the physicality wasn't there, the toughness wasn't there. 356 00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:36.359 Coach Low saying the same thing. And I'm just a dumb, casual 357 00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:40.640 novice over here, but you could tell the eye test in this one and 358 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:45.079 the box score twenty one offensive rebounds for the Memphis Grizzlies. Jaren Jackson Junior 359 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:51.079 had five at the half. That was his career high for offensive rebounds. 360 00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:55.880 He finished with eight. Clippers lose by twenty six in Memphis. They'll have 361 00:26:55.960 --> 00:27:03.839 to regroup and get ready for Thursday against look at again. Another guy always 362 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:07.119 difficult to deal with, and nobody's had to deal with them more than the 363 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:11.359 Clippers now. They've overcome his stellar play twice the last two first rounds the 364 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:15.960 last two seasons. But Luca don Chich and the Dallas Mavericks, new coach, 365 00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:18.680 from new players, They're going to be out for blood. They're on 366 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:23.240 the revenge tour also against the Clippers, and nobody's feeling sorry for the Clippers 367 00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:29.079 because they're without Paul George and Kawhi Leonard right now, nobody cares. They're 368 00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:33.440 out there trying to climb up the Western Conference standings, and the Clippers have 369 00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:36.799 to find a way on this trip where they're playing Dallas twice, where they 370 00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:41.559 got the Warriors coming up and the Phoenix Suns. They just have to find 371 00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:45.400 a way to get victories because we talked about how difficult this trip and this 372 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:49.039 stretch of games was going to be and it could make or break their season 373 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:53.279 or whether or not they have a chance at least to get out of being 374 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:59.160 one of the seventh through ten seeds in the West, which means you're in 375 00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:04.039 the play in tournament. Dig It a tweet here from Joe Hensel who says 376 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:08.079 Grizzly is just playing too well and overwhelmed. The Clippers regroup against Dallas, 377 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:14.079 you know, perfectly put there. They were overwhelmed completely. They got ambushed 378 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:18.440 in Memphis, Clippers los by twenty six. Before we get out of here. 379 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:22.000 I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seamen, 380 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:30.119 Ralph Lawlor, big brother Jake Warner, and producer Katie Newton. Until 381 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:37.200 Thursday with the Clippers taken on the Dallas Mavericks in Dallas pregame four thirty, 382 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:41.759 tip off five thirty. I'm Outam Austin. I'll talk to you down. 383 00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:52.519 This has been Clippers Talk. They accepted the challenge, your first post game 384 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.920 opportunity to talk LA Clippers without a Mossley. It's what we've always seen from 385 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:00.720 him. Tune in next game for all the action on the official home of 386 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:07.680 your LA Clippers. 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