WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.399 --> 00:00:06.040 Welcome into Clipper Stock. Here's a new sheriff from town. You won't be 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.199 able to deny if we're going to go to the NBA Finals. I believe 3 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:12.439 it in my horror. This is the best team in the history of the 4 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:19.000 franchise. I am all about the Clipper Nation. This is Clippers Talk. 5 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:22.800 They're trying to win the whole thing. A postgame look. It's your La 6 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:27.839 Clippers recapping the game, the stars and looking ahead to what's next. To 7 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:32.840 hear episodes you've missed. Subscribe to Clippers Talk on iHeart Radio or wherever you 8 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:41.320 podcast. Now your host of Clippers Talk. Here's Adam Auslin. The Nuggets 9 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:46.560 a Pool's gold Clippers lost one fourteen o one oh four to the Denver Nuggets 10 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:49.920 and downtown Los Angeles. Welcome in your postgame show. This is Clipper Stock. 11 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.280 I'm Adam Auslin. If you'd like to get on eight six six ninety 12 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:57.159 seven two five seventy eight six sixty ninety eight seven two five seventy coming up 13 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:02.359 looking for postgame audio from the head coach and the players. After Clippers lose 14 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:04.680 two straight going back to Wednesday night against the Golden State Warriors, two straight 15 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:11.840 games without Paul George or Kawhi Leonard or Luke Kennard. And when the opposition 16 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:15.599 has their two best players, even without Michael Porter Junior tonight, you gotta 17 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:22.200 have a bad time. Jamal Murray had twenty one points. Yokis only had 18 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:25.760 nineteen, but that's all they needed because Clipper killer Aaron Gordon. I don't 19 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:30.200 know what it is, you know, I don't know about his rap game, 20 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:33.640 but he's a pretty good basketball player. Twenty nine points, twelve of 21 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.599 sixteen, shooting two of four from the outside. And he always shows up 22 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.840 big against the Clippers. They're just some of those guys. And it's not 23 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:45.079 that he's a bad player, but he's extraordinary. He is a star whenever 24 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.840 he goes up against the Clippers. He is what some people thought he was 25 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:52.760 gonna be coming out of Arizona, which was kind of a smaller version of 26 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:57.040 Blake Griffin. Maybe. Clippers though, lose by ten and in a game 27 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:00.920 where they missed fifteen free throws, okay, five of them by Moses Brown, 28 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:02.359 let's throw it out. He played five minutes. At the end of 29 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:07.359 the game. It was inconsequential time. Game was out of reach. Clippers 30 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:13.439 are down twenty, but it still missed ten free throws. John Wall still 31 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:21.199 struggling there, well below his career averages at the charity stripe. Now, 32 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.680 he was great at times. Tonight had his Clippers high of twenty three points 33 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:30.759 and twenty four minutes, and he missed an entire year of basketball last season. 34 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:34.439 It's still strange to me because I've seen him put in the work, 35 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:36.520 so it makes me think it's just mental. It's in his head. He's 36 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:38.639 talked about it. He said, I'm shooting free throws like Shack right now. 37 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:44.759 And while he's been a little bit better on the season, he's shooting 38 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:47.919 sixty percent from the free throw line. He is a career seventy seven percent 39 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:53.759 free throw shooter. He's much better than this. I think he'll return to 40 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:59.879 form shortly. It's going to happen. The downhill attacks there, the quick 41 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.360 this is there. Clippers had to within seven, i want to say, 42 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:07.960 four different times in the second half, and they couldn't break through. They 43 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:10.560 couldn't find a way to get it down to five, get it down to 44 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:15.439 three. Really put some pressure on the Denver Nuggets, who eventually pulled away 45 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:20.319 in the fourth quarter. In a similar fashion to the way the Golden State 46 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:25.479 Warriors did Wednesday night. Sometimes most of the time, talent eventually wins out. 47 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:30.800 I didn't think the Clippers got out worked or there was a problem with 48 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:35.439 effort. They just don't have the guys right now to take on one of 49 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:38.599 the top teams in the West and take them down. It's gonna take special 50 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:43.479 performances, and overall they just didn't have them. Terrence Man had thirteen of 51 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:47.080 his sixteen points in the first half. I thought he was awesome. And 52 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:51.719 that's a great game for Man, and he's been really good in his last 53 00:03:51.759 --> 00:04:02.159 four games now he is averaging twelve points on sixty five percent shooting. He's 54 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:06.840 been good. That's plenty from him. But you get just six points from 55 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:11.599 Rovitza Zoo Bots, just nine from Reggie Jackson, my player to watch tonight, 56 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:16.560 on just eight shots taken off the bench, Nicholas Batoum. You know, 57 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:19.399 he's not typically there for his scoring unless he wants to go seven h 58 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:24.399 seven from beyond the arc, which we have seen. It's crazy. He 59 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:28.199 had zero and the Clippers couldn't get out of their own way in the first 60 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:31.240 half because of the turnovers, eleven of them, many of them live ball 61 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:39.199 turnovers leading to eighteen fast break points or transition points from the Denver Nuggets. 62 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:44.160 They turned those eleven turnovers into eighteen points. That's an absurd number. The 63 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:48.120 defense failed the Clippers because if you shoot fifty four percent from the field, 64 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:55.759 and that was actually fifty four point four percent, that was their season high 65 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:00.519 for field goal percentage in a ball game, you should in that game. 66 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:09.800 Clippers didn't because the turnovers and because of their defense and missing shots of the 67 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:15.720 charity stripe. They don't have much of a margin for air right now. 68 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:21.240 With the guys that are out, they have to play near perfect basketball against 69 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:28.319 a team like the Denver Nuggets to beat them. They showed glimpses. I 70 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:31.839 thought they fought, like I said, the effort was there, but they're 71 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:35.279 just a little bit out match and teams have been pulling away from them in 72 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:41.680 second halves because of it. You can just see the talent disparity right now 73 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:46.160 without Kawai and Paul George, and I admire the effort from these guys. 74 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:50.480 I thought Roco was really good. He had twelve points in twenty minutes. 75 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:56.680 Believe he was one of seven against the Warriors Wednesday night, so he found 76 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:59.519 his shot a little bit. He was good at the free throw line six 77 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.720 of seven. But Norman Pale didn't have a big game, and he's had 78 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:06.319 a lot of them recently in the last couple of weeks. We've talked about 79 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:12.079 this on the Clips and Dip pot a lot. But you gotta get two 80 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:16.519 of the three guys in John Wall, Norman Powell, and Reggie Jackson to 81 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:21.879 have big games, at least two of them to have a shot right now. 82 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:27.920 And John Wall had twenty three, but pal just eleven, Reggie Jackson 83 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:31.480 just nine points. If they could have had a little bit more contribution from 84 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:38.360 one of the other guys outside a wall. But look this Clippers team again, 85 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.759 they shot a great percentage from the field. They just didn't get men 86 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:47.839 shots up because of the turnovers, offensive rebounds by the Denver Nuggets get into 87 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:53.879 the charity stripe and not handling their business there. You only shoot twenty two 88 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:57.240 threes, you hit eleven of them, You shot fifty percent from the outside, 89 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:02.079 but they only attempted twenty two of them. So their offense was good. 90 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:04.439 When they can get out of their own way, when they weren't turning 91 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:09.399 the basketball over, you get to the free throw line for thirty four attempts. 92 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:13.920 That's great. That means you're attacking gott to convert them. Though. 93 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.720 Let's start things off here with Sam in Hollywood. Sam, you're on Clippers 94 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:23.480 stock without Amasa. What's up? Pay Adam? Thanks for taking my call 95 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:27.839 and love your show. Great job. I've been a huge fan of the 96 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:31.800 Clippers since nineteen ninety nine. I love what Steve Bomber's doing, and I 97 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:36.120 love this team. I just really have to wonder listening to all the statistics 98 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:43.000 that you're throwing out. Sounds like the Clippers had a good game and we'd 99 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:45.639 come up short again. And I just see this happened a lot with this 100 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:47.560 team. I gotta ask, I don't know. I don't know about having 101 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:51.040 a good game, Sam, when you have eleven turnovers in the first half. 102 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:54.959 They had their moments, and offensively, I think they were good enough, 103 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.480 but they didn't convert shots of the free throw line. I mean, 104 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.199 you look at you look okay, So you had two guys on Denver have 105 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:07.680 twenty points there the MVP only had nineteen, and I mean it wasn't like 106 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.480 those numbers don't sound like we should have been blown out. Like we were. 107 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:15.519 I just my question is to you, and then I'll hang up to 108 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.680 listen to your answer. Is what is our offensive set? What do we 109 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.560 what offense do we run? Because I've been watching this. What offense did 110 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:28.240 Denver run tonight? What's that? What offenseive Denver run tonight? Oh? 111 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:33.120 Dude, I mean you watch these guys. They're slashing constantly down to the 112 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:35.360 This is even in the door in the bubble. They were doing this when 113 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:39.200 we took them on in the playoffs. They were splashing back, cutting to 114 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.600 the to the hoop. We do not even Golden State was doing that to 115 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:48.519 us over and over. The Clipper shot fifty four percent from the field. 116 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:52.080 If if that's no offense, I don't know what to tell you. They 117 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:56.320 shot fifty four percent from the field and fifty percent from the outside if they've 118 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:01.759 made their free throws, we're talking about a different game. Okay, you 119 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:05.000 can't say they're not attacking when they attempt thirty four free throw Sam, But 120 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:09.720 what is the offense we rout? What do you want to talk about the 121 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:11.600 Princeton offense or the triangle offense? How are you? How do you how 122 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:16.000 would you like to define it? I would say it's more of a motion 123 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:22.320 amba offense. I'm not exactly Don McClane, but they are adjusting without Kawai 124 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:26.720 and Paul George and Luke Kennard. You realize they're missing their two big guys 125 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:31.080 tonight, right, Sam, one one hundred percent, And I totally understand 126 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:35.799 that. It's just like even when you watch, like you know us in 127 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:41.000 the playoffs, there just seems to be no offensive set when the shots aren't 128 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:46.200 falling, and it's just isoball get yours. I think some people sometimes misinterpret 129 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:48.440 that though. When shots don't fall, they say, oh, it's because 130 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:52.639 they're not moving the basketball. But when those isolation shot goes, they're spectacular. 131 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:56.320 Look at that great individual play. It's like you can't have it both 132 00:09:56.360 --> 00:10:01.840 ways. Like sometimes it is just a or miss league. And the Clippers 133 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:05.279 made their shots when they actually got them up tonight. I don't think that 134 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:09.159 was necessarily the issue. Defensively, they gave up one hundred and fourteen points. 135 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:13.720 That's more of the problem. Okay, Well, I appreciate taking my 136 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:18.559 call and thanks for everything, all right, Sam, I appreciate it. 137 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:22.519 Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two 138 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.559 five seventy. I just you want to judge this team right now without Kawai 139 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:31.279 and Paul George going up against the Denver Nuggets team. They were down ten 140 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:33.799 going into the fourth quarter. Yeah, the Nuggets started to run away with 141 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:41.279 it there, But I don't know what you're expecting when you've had so many 142 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:46.000 different lineups and rotations and starting lineups with this Clippers team early in the season. 143 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:50.159 I thought the effort was great. The execution was lacking at times, 144 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:56.080 but mostly at the free throw line, and second chance points were heavily in 145 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:01.360 favor of the Denver Nuggets with their ten offensive rebounds. So the team is 146 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:03.919 banged up. They're trying to figure it out on the fly. And if 147 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:07.360 you want to know the offense, that they run drive, kick swing, 148 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:13.080 that's the philosophy. They do enough of it in this game, probably not. 149 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.559 They weren't close to perfect, but they shot fifty four percent from the 150 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:22.559 field. That's a great number. That's their highest field goal percentage on the 151 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:26.240 season. And they lose by ten points of the Denver Nuggets. I'm I'm 152 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:31.720 looking at the defense and the turnovers and the misfree throws more than I'm worried 153 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.600 about the Clippers getting good looks on a night where they shoot fifty percent from 154 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:39.960 the three point line and fifty four percent from the field. That's just me 155 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.120 though, eight six nine eight seven two five seventy coming back. We're looking 156 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:50.159 for well top level analysis, as in coach Lou the Master, the chiropractor, 157 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:54.480 as Noay Eagle calls them, the guy making the adjustments, trying to 158 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:56.440 figure things out and try to put guys in a position to be successful. 159 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:03.440 Right now, when the Clippers are under man shorthanded, they lose one fourteen 160 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:09.039 to one oh four to the Denver Nuggets in downtown Los Angeles, I'm Adams 161 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.559 on this is Clippers stock. You're on a M five seventy on sports, 162 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:28.440 dirty sided, dirty hang, y'all real. I've been watching the prayer LA 163 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:33.679 Clippers basketball to Clipper puts it down plus the foul every game all season long 164 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:41.720 on their official home. I mean you are mind taking crazy pills. Okay, 165 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:46.159 maybe Clippers lose one fourteen to one on four to the Denver Nuggets in 166 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:52.200 downtown Los Angeles eight six six ninety seven two five seventy eight six six ninety 167 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:56.360 seven to two five seventy is the phone number. All opinions are welcome, 168 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:01.039 but I'm not just gonna sit here and be like, yeah, yeah, 169 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:05.759 you're right. Yeah. The offense terrible. Look down they shot fifty four 170 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:09.799 percent from the field, their highest percentage of the season. You get to 171 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:16.279 the free throw line for thirty four attempts. If we take out the misses 172 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:20.919 by Moses Brown, they missed ten shots at the charity stripe. Be better 173 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.919 there, be better with the offensive rebounds, yes, and defensive rebounds two 174 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:28.879 given up ten to the Denver Nuggets. But they don't have Paul George, 175 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:33.960 they don't have Kauai. It's gonna be difficult to beat top level competition right 176 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:37.120 now without them. But I liked what I saw overall. I don't think 177 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:41.919 this team quit. And they ended up losing by ten in a game. 178 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.840 Yeah, they were down by close to twenty in that fourth quarter. But 179 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:54.279 right now they're just getting out talented, not out worked. But Denver had 180 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:58.320 their guys. They had Jamal Murray, they had Jokich, and they had 181 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:03.799 Aaron Core. Just a thorn in the Clippers side. Unbelievable. Twenty nine 182 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:07.480 points not unbelievable. I don't want to disrespect him. He's a good player, 183 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:13.159 but twelve or sixteen shooting twenty nine points. He just seems to always 184 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:16.679 hurt the Clippers. One of those guys, Joseph and Irvine. You're on 185 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:24.559 Clippers stock without him, OSM, what's up? Hello, Joseph? You 186 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:28.159 drive through? What's up? Yeah? Sorry about that. I'm a taco 187 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.200 stand. Oh hook, I'll take a couple of carnaside of the street tacos 188 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:37.759 if you got him hold the stor what about those? I'll take anything Joseph 189 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:41.519 throwing my way. I'll take a w from the Clippers too, Yeah, 190 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:46.320 that would be nice. They're taking in Elson I. They lose by ten, 191 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:50.639 so yeah, my thoughts on it are you know, we're talking about 192 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:54.240 like the lack of threes being put up. It's hard to hit, you 193 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:58.440 know, threes from open looks when your two best players aren't on the field. 194 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.919 So I wasn't really two sup because the ball movement and the attention that 195 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:07.720 Kawai and Paul George put in the game is just something that's not going to 196 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:11.000 be there when they're not there, and nor the amount of open looks. 197 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:15.919 I guess the thing that I'm getting, you know, most worried about is 198 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:20.480 with Kawhi Leonards. You know the health. To me, it was a 199 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:24.799 when, not an if. And I'm moving so much closer to if. 200 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.960 And I don't know, Adam, I need a therapist right now outside of 201 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:33.480 the tacaree. I'm at give me some hope that we will see him in 202 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:39.960 full stride. Just give me something, Adam. Oh, I'm with you, 203 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.320 Joseph. Look, I think they're being overly cautious. Here's the hope. 204 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:50.240 They're being extremely overly cautious because he's coming back from an ACL injury, 205 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:54.039 and therefore he injures his right ankle. He turns that and it's on the 206 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:58.120 right side, and you don't want to push him through that because what if 207 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:03.279 he overcompens's and hurst the knee. It's there's a lot of moving parts, 208 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:10.440 obviously, and I think they're just airing on the side of safety. It's 209 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:14.159 early in the season. They haven't reached the twenty five percent through yet this 210 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:19.200 season mark. And that's my guests. They're putting him in bubble rap and 211 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:25.240 waiting for the playoffs. Now he's gonna have to come back and they're gonna 212 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:30.240 have to jail and build chemistry. But I don't know how much translates from 213 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:40.279 Game twenty tonight into March and April. I don't know how much of that 214 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:44.200 is going to translate. What happens tonight carries over to that. I think 215 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:49.240 what happens post All Star break can I saw the Boston Celtics being five hundred 216 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:53.919 last year forty games into the season, and they turn things around real quick 217 00:16:55.039 --> 00:17:00.120 and made a run to the finals. So with Kawhi Leonard's injury history, 218 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:06.279 I just think you have to be careful, and with his history of what 219 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:08.599 he can do in the playoffs when he's healthy, you gotta be careful. 220 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:15.720 He is a guy that can flip the switch. We've seen it. But 221 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:22.119 coach Lou did say regarding Kawai and Paul George earlier pregame, he doesn't expect 222 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:27.319 them to be out and paraphrasing a lengthy amount of time. But there's no 223 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:30.480 timetable either on either their returns, and we need to know they're out Sunday, 224 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:34.119 and we know Luke Annard is still out too. That's a big loss 225 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:40.480 right now, it really is. And if you want to compare injuries, 226 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:45.240 is Smith of the Denver Nuggets also had a right calf strain. He missed 227 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.880 about a month, and Luke's been out for I want to say a good 228 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:56.200 week and a half now to two weeks right calf strain, different player, 229 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:00.839 different body. But just a little interesting side note there because Ish Smith played 230 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:03.720 in this game tonight. All right, we'll take a quick time out. 231 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.759 Clippers lose one, fourteen to one on four to the Denver Nuggets. I'll 232 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:11.640 bring you good news in the Western Conference standings. I'll bring you good news. 233 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:19.960 I tried there with Kawai. I'm not overly concerned yet, lo I 234 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:26.759 just the s because the Kawai comment you flip the switch young more Clippers stock 235 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:30.440 next eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight 236 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:33.200 seven two five seventy with the phone number. It los one fourteen to one 237 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:38.440 on four. So the Denver Nuggets. I'm taking on the India Pacers, 238 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:42.359 who are playing a lot better than people projected coming into this season. On 239 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:45.279 Sunday, we'll talk about that too here on Clippers stock on him five seventy 240 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:49.599 Light Sports with the Euro steps that a sneak good deal in named Big a 241 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:55.559 Switch. George and Lenner running. You're listening to LA Clippers basketball up to 242 00:18:55.839 --> 00:19:00.839 clip puts it down plus the foul every game all season long and their official 243 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:15.119 home about me. Clippers lose one four seed to one oh four to the 244 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:19.200 Denver Nuggets. We'll come back in their Clippers stock. I'm at a moslem 245 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:22.559 eight six six to ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight 246 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:27.240 seven two five seventy is the phone number I told you i'd pull up these 247 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:32.960 Western Conference s innings. Yeah, the Clippers dropped from six to eight tonight. 248 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:37.519 They're eleven and nine and they're two games back of the number one seed 249 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:42.480 in the Phoenix Suns. That's twelve and six right now. Not enough games 250 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:47.200 for teams to separate themselves in the West, the NBA, really, but 251 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:52.000 teams just haven't ran away with things so far because there've been injuries across the 252 00:19:52.039 --> 00:20:00.000 board. It's not just the Clippers dealing with it. Pretty much everybody has. 253 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.240 Top guys are out with Phoenix. They've been without CP three. Nikola 254 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:07.480 Yokich, she missed I think four games. Jamal Murray the same. There's 255 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:11.599 still twelve and seven, though everybody has been a little bit beat up. 256 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:15.440 And not playing to their potential. Here's only need to know though. The 257 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:18.440 Clippers. Yeah, they're two games back of the number one seed. The 258 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:22.680 downside is they're a half game back of being the ten seed, and they're 259 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:26.599 a full game back of being out of the plane right now. But you 260 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.279 know who's not even in the plan The defending champs, the Golden State Warriors, 261 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:36.240 who are a game back of the Clippers at ten and ten. So 262 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:40.359 there's a lot to be decided. It's far too early to get too deep 263 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:45.559 into this, but the overall central point would be nobody's pulling away from the 264 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:51.119 pack here in the Western Conference, and you get hot and make a run 265 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:56.079 and rip off five, six, seventh straight, and all of a sudden 266 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:59.000 you're the number one seed in the West and got a little bit of cushion. 267 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:03.960 We'll see who can do it first. Sacramento Kings were the hottest team. 268 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:08.160 They lost two in a row. Morris in Long Beach, Morris, 269 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:11.960 what's up? You're on? Clippers talk without aim Awsome? Heinle what at 270 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:15.119 a movie? Adams? I don't want to share something with you. Man. 271 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:18.880 You don't stole all of my thunder stole all of it. Police looking 272 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:22.000 for you, you know, between the first seed and the tenth seed. 273 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:26.480 Yeah, you've never seen nothing like this. If you're talking about three games 274 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:32.400 separates the first seed and the tenth seed, that's incredible. If the playoffs 275 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:34.240 was just take place right now. If they say the playoffs rolled right now, 276 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:38.599 the second season, the money season, George would be out there and 277 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:42.759 so will Kawhi Leonard. But this is not the money season. Let me 278 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:45.319 just jump in there for a second. Morris, I'll let you go. 279 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:49.480 But I think you're right. I think that's a fantastic point. I think 280 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:56.359 these are injuries you keep guys out of in the regular season early in the 281 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:00.000 regular season to be overly cautious. And if we were talking about the playoffs, 282 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:04.359 I'd be more optimistic that they'd be playing right now. Oh yeah, 283 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:07.720 something that you said this way had pulled the thinking for you. Could you 284 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:11.480 don't stole my thunder. Nobody is running away with it in the West. 285 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:15.799 You know why you're talking about injuries. I see his talent, Adam. 286 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:18.680 All these teams got a bad dude on their team. Okay, you're right, 287 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:22.279 people have heard a little bit, but they got a lot of talent. 288 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:25.000 Every team in the West's short of Houston. And I'm gonna tell you 289 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:29.440 something. My boy is John Wall. When John Wall gets batman and robbing 290 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:32.400 back on the team and he's not throwing the ball to win, it's one 291 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:34.799 quarter. You're not gonna be able to run with the Clippers. Let me 292 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:37.720 let you go talk to you later. Thank you, Morris. It's a 293 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:42.599 fair point. Teams beating each other up. No dominant team in the Western 294 00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:48.440 Conference right now, and we'll see who emerges from this from the rubble. 295 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:55.160 But I think every team's looking at the standings the same way, saying, 296 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:59.079 you know what, we get on a role here, It could be us 297 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:00.839 a top recet at the end of the season. I mean, the New 298 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:06.680 Orleans Pelicans are the three seed right now. Portland was at the top of 299 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:10.240 the pack, so was Utah. Now Portland and five, Utah six. 300 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:15.559 It's just musical chairs. It's a rotation right now. If teams jumping in 301 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:19.680 and out of being a top seed in the West every night is changing, 302 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:23.920 it's a fluid situation. You could say, Clippers lose by ten to the 303 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:27.519 Denver Nuggets, one fourteen to one oh four, coming back where previous Sunday's 304 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:33.279 game they're taken on the Indiana Pacers, and uh, they're in the four 305 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:37.839 seed right now in the East. I don't think anyone predicted that they're at 306 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:45.960 eleven and seven Haliburton Turner. They got some ballers over there playing great team 307 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:48.640 ball too. We'll talk about it coming up next. Sharon clipper Stock on 308 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:59.480 Amp five seventy ol Sports, trying to gain trusting them, they're running your 309 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:06.000 listening La Clippers basketball. Clipper puts it down plus the foul every game all 310 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:12.279 season long on their official home Clippers lose one fourteen to one oh four to 311 00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:17.160 the Nuggets. Not to be labor the point, but I think it's a 312 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:21.200 large part of the narrative tonight. And the Clippers shot sixty two percent in 313 00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:26.799 the first half and they were down twelve, but the turnovers, miss free 314 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:33.720 throws, offensive rebounds they gave up. Denver won the second chance point battle 315 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:41.440 twenty one two four. That's a tough number to overcome, so's this one. 316 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:44.960 They ended up taking twenty one more shots in the Clippers. Clippers just 317 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:48.200 have to be a little bit more sound, tightened things up on both ends. 318 00:24:49.079 --> 00:24:53.240 They're gonna try to do so against the Pacers on Sunday. Not gonna 319 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:59.200 be easy. His Pacers team is coming in fourth in the Eastern Conference, 320 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:04.039 coming in hot, and they do it with kind of guys by committee. 321 00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:10.799 I mean Buddy Healed, Miles Turner, Matherine he was my rookie coming out 322 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:18.720 Haliburton getting nineteen. They have five guys averaging ten or more. Not gonna 323 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:25.079 be easy. Tip time is that one Clippers will be without their superstars once 324 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:29.559 again. We'll have your pregame shows starting at twelve before we get out of 325 00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:32.680 here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Know what ego Brian 326 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:37.880 Seaman, Ralph Lawler, Dennis Agustino or a statistician big brother Jake Warner or 327 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:45.480 head engineer in downtown Los Angeles, Zach o'cality producer Katie Newton. Sorry for 328 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:51.799 yelling at one time. It's what's not you? It's me Until Sunday with 329 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:55.240 your pregame shows starting at nude. I'm Adam Osden. We'll talk to you 330 00:25:55.359 --> 00:26:06.640 then. This has been Clippers Talk, a postgame conversation about your LA Clippers 331 00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:10.799 with Adam Oslay. If you like the show, subscribe to Clippers Talk on 332 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:15.160 the iHeart radio app or wherever you podcast. They have the best page. 333 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:18.960 This team has those championship ingredients. They have some of that DNA. You 334 00:26:19.079 --> 00:26:23.400 can see it. This is Clippers Basketball. Join us next time on the 335 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:26.640 LA Clippers Audio Network.