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The game is over. Paul George
money in the pain, but the postgame

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reaction has just begne Cowhi Leonard is
so smooth in the mid range. This

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is Clippers Locker Room, a recap
of today's game and a look ahead on

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your hope for LA Clippers basketball.
And now your hosts, You, sir,

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are a bad man. Adam Ousley. Clippers Lizard brutal one up North

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won fifteen to ninety one to the
Golden State Warriors. Welcome into your post

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game show. I'm Adam Oslin coming
up your final box score. You'll hear

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from the head coach in toront Low
and the players after. We can only

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be described as one of the most
devastating, disappointing losses of the season.

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No, it's just amazing that this
team was up the way they were in

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the first half, and somehow they
have one of their coldest second halves really

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of all time. They were four
for thirty two before waving the white flag

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in the fourth quarter. Yeah,
I mean, it was just one of

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those nights they couldn't knock down their
open looks, and against this team who

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even without Steph Curry, without Andrew
Wiggins, like Jordan Pool's a great player

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and has proven it now the last
couple of years play Thompson is a Hall

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of Famer and we know that.
So I look at it and I just

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say, okay, you got to
know that coming in the team did.

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They came out with the urgency,
They got up by twelve early in the

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third quarter, and it just they
couldn't make their shots. Even if you

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just take the three point shooting alone, and the Warriors didn't shoot the lights

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up by any means fourteen of forty
six, but they made five more threes.

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That's fifteen points off of threes in
a game that the Clippers lost by

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twenty four. Sure, but you
look at it and you say it was

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probably would have been closer. It
would have been different, the pace would

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have been different. Shure the other
thing, sixteen turnovers leading to twenty nine

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Warriors points. The Clippers only turned
the Warriors over twelve times, which is

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not that much fewer. However,
it led to twelve Clippers points. That's

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a seventeen point difference right there.
And to me, there's our game.

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Three point shooting and turnovers once again
to nag the Clippers in the butt,

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essentially in this second half more than
anything else against the Warriors. You know,

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people ask me all the time,
what's their identity this season? And

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I have to say, consistently and
consistent, and from the first half to

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the second half in this one is
just epitomizes how they played throughout this year,

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no doubt about it, and look
at them. Obviously, there's still

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time in the season. There's seventeen
games left, and I know that everybody's

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getting impatient. But the good news
is that because the Western Conference is so

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bundled up and bunched up, there
is time. And it goes back to

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what I was talking about a lot
pregame, where the Clippers are gonna have

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a lot of practice time down the
stretch of this season. They're gonna have

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a lot of home games, and
this is one of the hardest places to

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win in the NBA. Don't get
me wrong. Now, the Warriors are

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twenty six and seven at home and
seven and twenty three on the road.

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It's just they haven't been able to
win away from this arena. But they

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barely lost in this building. So
you can't fault the Clippers for doing essentially

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what everybody else did. But it
was the manner in which it happened.

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Feels like the team needs to find
an extra gear. They need some sort

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of fire lit from underneath them right
now. The only one who looked like

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he was playing with that was Terrence
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and Mason Plumley, I should say
to quit twelve points and twenty rebounds.

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But Kawhi Leonard had himself a great
second quarter, a really great end

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of the first half overall, and
then was fairly quiet in the second half.

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He finished with twenty one points on
eight of twelve shooting, Paul George

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three of fifteen. They need more, They just need more. Out of

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the two win three connection overall thirty
two points combined when Jordan Pool scored thirty

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four himself, just not gonna cut
it against this team. Clippers get out

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scored forty two to sixteen in the
third quarter. They go on to lose

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one fifteen to ninety one to the
Golden State Warriors their next one. As

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no Eagles said, no time to
hang their head. They gotta get back

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after it tomorrow in Sacramento against the
Kings. As they put up about a

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week ago, the second highest scoring
game in NBA history, tip. Time

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for that one is at seven.
Love Clippers countdown for you starting at six.

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No my friends, safe, short
travels, great call. As always,

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we will talk to you to mom
Adam. I don't think it'll be

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jim boys, but you know the
mantra remains the same. Can't wait coming

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up next your final box score.
Clippers have lost four in a row coming

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out of the All Star break,
and they lose the night against the Golden

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State Warriors. And you're listening to
the Los Angeles Clippers or the other George

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and Leonard running. You're listening to
LA Clippers basketball it up top Clipper puts

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it down plus the foul every game
all season long on their official hold.

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After leading by eleven at the half, the Clippers lose by twenty four up

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north to the Golden State Warriors in
San Francisco. Final score one fifteen to

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ninety one in favor of the Dubs. As the Clippers had one of the

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coldest and most miserable second halves that, quite frankly, I've ever seen before

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they waved the white flag. They
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and they waved it with about seven
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they went four for thirty two coming
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at the half. It is confounding. It is tough to understand this one

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Clipper nation to go that cold and
they end up and it's not even a

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true number of how bad it was
because on the night they were nine for

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forty three from the outside, that's
twenty percent from three. They were at

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thirty six percent from the field.
But they got some garbage ones late that

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we're inconsequential, we're not meaningful.
Paul George three of fifteen and eleven points,

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one of eight from the outside.
Kauai. At one point he was

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seven for seven. Couldn't be stopped
into the second quarter and it things with

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that three pointer, thought they had
some momentum. He finished eight or twelve

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with twenty one. Mason Plumley It's
twenty boards had fourteen of them in the

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first half, moment he had ever
had in a half. Eric Gordon ruff

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from the outside two of ten Between
him, Paul George and Norman Powell,

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those guys couldn't get anything to go
as Powell was oh for seven from three

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unbelievably poor shooting. Because Golden State
was just fourteen to forty six from the

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outside. They only shot forty two
percent from the game. The Clippers defense

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was really good in the first half. Well, you can't hit shots and

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you can't set your defense. Well, you're gonna give lopside victories to the

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opposition like this. Clippers lose one
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Warriors. They have lost four straight. To say their reeling is quite an

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understatement right now, as they dropped
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currently in the play and tournament.
More post game coming up, Plus we'll

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have Clippers stock on AM five seventy
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seven two five seventy What happened to me?

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Or gets me at follow adam Ala
on Switter Clippers searching for answers.

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We'll see if we can come up
with any here on the postgame show,

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trying hard, not gonna be easy. This is inexplicable excuse or post game

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next year on the Los Angeles Clippers. Good album he Got It, count

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It from Distance, the odds on
favorite to hoist the Larry O'Brien heavily contest

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it and it doesn't matter on the
whole of your la Clippers. Clippers lose

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one fifteen to ninety one in a
game they led by eleven and a half

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over the Golden State Warriors. Just
a fall by twenty four. They've lost

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four in a row. They've yet
to win out of the All Star Break.

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They've yet to win a game with
Russell Westbrook, he was three or

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twelve eight points. It's after having
a great first half, faded in the

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second half like many Clippers did in
this one. Unreal. I feel bliss.

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I don't know if this is a
good or bad news at this point.

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Clippers got a game tomorrow. I
suppose you want to get the bad

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taste out of your mouth and figure
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Feels like season on the brink.
There's seventeen games left and the King's right

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now are in the three spot in
the West and playing good ball and put

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up one seventy six on the Clippers
a week ago. We'll see how that

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goes. Tip time is at seven
Clippers countdown starting at six outside of Los

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Angeles. We are leaving you until
then. Coming up on a m five

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seventy LA Sports while Clippers Talk for
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seven two five seventy is the phone number

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side of Los Angeles. In about
twenty hours in LA, it's Clipper Stop

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next. This has been Clippers locker
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The conclusion to another game of exciting
LA Clippers basketball. Don't miss any

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of the action all season long on
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into Clipper Stock. There's a new
sheriff from town. You won't be able

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to deny it. You're going to
go to the NBA Finals. I believe

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it in my heart. This is
the best team in the history of the

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franchise. I am all about the
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They're trying to win the whole thing. A postgame look, it's your LA

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podcast now your host of Clippers Talk. Here's Adam Oslin Our pets heads A

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fall off, okay is calmed down? Yeah? We're trying. Clippers lose

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one fifteen to ninety one to the
Golden State Warriors. They've lost four straight,

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they haven't won with Russ and I
don't know if they've found their bottom

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yet, to be quite honest with
you, and that's scary. Welcome into

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Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslin to
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phone calls. Lines are lighting up. I wonder why. Plus we'll hear

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from Chuck Mackler of Clips and Dip
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this one too. Clipper Nation,
I don't know what to tell you.

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We keep talking about a sense of
urgency. This team hasn't had any,

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or they having spurts sporadic senses of
urgency. First half was great, some

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of the best defense they had played
all season long. Kawhi Leonard was very

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good Offensively, they weren't exactly hot
from the outside were on that coming up,

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but they still led by eleven after
they had their third best mark of

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points in the pain at thirty two
twenty four minutes since to this one,

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shots weren't falling from the outside where
they were six to twenty one, but

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they found other ways to score,
and Kawhi was brilliant. At one point

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he was seven for seven. He
had fifteen points and a three pointer to

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put them up at the half fifty
six to forty five. I don't even

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know if I should keep giving this
number out. It's shocking. Ear must

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for the kids. Vince Vaughan and
old school style. I don't even want

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to say it, but I have
to. From the third quarter up until

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the seven minute mark of the fourth, where the Clippers ended up pulling guys

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and waving the white flag because yes, it was over, they shot four

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for thirty two. That's in the
span of seventeen minutes, crossing over from

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the third into the first five minutes
of the fourth. That's twelve percent.

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And I believe they had to hit
one three during that time. I don't

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even know what to tell you.
That is twenty seven straight miss threes from

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the Rockets and the playoffs type stuff. The one thing that came to mind

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was how cold they went in second
halves in three straight games in the bubble

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against the Denver Nuggets. I hate
bringing it up. I do, but

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it reminded me of that. And
I'm trying to give you honest analysis,

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and I'm looking for answers to this
team. Said it all season long,

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you ask me their identity consistently,
inconsistent, and now they're just a game

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over five hundred. Is that who
they are? Bill Parcells would say,

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so you are what your record says
you are. I don't know. I

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had just seen them go ten and
two before the All Star Break in their

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last twelve games with both Paul George
and Kawhi Leonard. I had just seen

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them get one of their best victories
of the season in Phoenix, where Terrence

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Man was in the starting lineup,
had twenty six points, played brilliant defense.

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Then the All Star break comes,
they bring in Russell Westbrook, and

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I'm not putting it all on him. It's not fair. He had a

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great first half, didn't play much
in the second half. Things got away

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from him. First half was beautiful, some of the feeds he had to

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Mason Plumley to Kawhi Leonard for a
huge alley oop to Paul Wars underneath the

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basket. How do they get away
from playing like that? The only thing

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I can think of is something else
I've been telling you. You use the

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regular season to try to build championship
habits. They build and have built up

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bad habits, and they haven't gone
away because after just five turnovers in the

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first half, they had seven in
the third quarter alone. When you're not

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hitting shots and you're not even getting
as many up because you're squandering possessions and

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giving them to Golden State because the
turnovers, it just compounds things and that's

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how you get a lopside is score
forty two to sixteen in favor of Golden

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State. In that third quarter,
they outscored the Clippers by twenty six points

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in twelve minutes. Clippers go from
being up by eleven at the half to

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having a thirty five point turnaround and
losing by twenty four to a Golden State

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team that didn't even have Andrew Wiggins
or Steph Curry. They're grade at home,

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there's no doubt, but that is
just inexcusable. I don't know if

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it's effort or just cold shooting,
because they did miss a lot of open

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threes at some point, though,
hey, they were missing him in the

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first half and they got to the
basket they found other ways? Were they

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even looking for those in the second
half. I'm Mason Plumley had a career

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first half fourteen boards, most he's
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You're up by eleven, But how
many times have they played great basketball?

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And then let go up twenty one
against Milwaukee, up twenty one in Philly,

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We're up twenty in Philly games.
They should have won many of them,

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too many of them, And now
you have to be in desperation mode.

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I said it after they lost to
Minnesota in a game they were what's

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the score? Oh yeah, up
by twelve in They led by as many

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as twelve in this one too early
in the third before everything fell apart and

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they unraveled against Minnesota. More understandable. It happened in the first quarter,

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and they still were in it late
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was over in the second half.
Yeah, Golden State is the best third

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quarter team. They are historic and
third quarters they've been like that. It's

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a championship pedigree. It's what they've
been doing under Steve Kerr. Oh my

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god, you can't get out scored
forty two to sixteen. You can't go

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that cold four of twenty two from
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eight from three. In the third, Coach lu brought in different guys,

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didn't matter, seem mental. They
all knew there was a lid on the

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basket. There was a lack of
confidence out there. But this team,

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now, we're not just talking about
play in. We're talking about are they

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going to make the playoffs? Are
they going to make the postseason? Danger?

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Danger zone. I don't even do
the stupid top gun thing. They

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are currently two games up on the
Lakers, who are in the eleventh spot,

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just outside the play in Clippers in
the seventh spot and hanging on barely,

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just by a threat that has been
threaded and bristled out. It's there's

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not much room for error at all. And I don't get it either.

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I don't understand how you can keep
experimenting at this point and trying different guys

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to see what you like for the
playoffs when it's not even guaranteed. I

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gotta be honest, I'm surprised by
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They were missing Marcus Morris, which
I know a lot of people said

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Marcus was the problem. He wasn't
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Not playing certainly hurts them. But
Eric Gordon was in there. Mason Plumley

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was in there. Eric Gordon was
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three. After two really good games
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with the Clippers hasn't been good coming
out of the All Star Break. I'm

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just wondering, can you have a
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I don't know. Right now,
I gotta say it's not looking that

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way. They're trying too many different
guys too late into the season where they

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already didn't have an identity and they
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failing them early in the season.
Now it's been the defense, But then

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tonight it was also the offense in
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good in the first half. Some
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say, maybe there's just not a
good basketball team. Maybe they're a paper

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tiger. I don't want to believe
that the personnel is there. Kawhi Leonard

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has been in God's ear mode and
they keep losing games. His last twenty

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one games now I want to say
they're twenty two games they're twelve and ten.

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How is that possible? With how
good Kawai has been. Paul George

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certainly hasn't been great coming out of
the All Star Break. Last three games,

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three or fifteen in this one.
I'm scrambling to Clipper Nation trying to

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find answers here. This team,
it's not one person, it's not one

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coach. It's they're imploding from all
angles, collapsing in on themselves. Hey,

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there's seventeen games left. Tuesday,
I said there's eighteen games left to

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get it right. At what point, though, are they going to turn

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it around? They went through a
six game losing streak this season. We

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thought that was rock bottom. Four
late in the season seems worse. Losing

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the way they did tonight feels worse. But I'm not gonna make things worse

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station called down the thunderball. Now
you've got it. Sorry. Clippers lose

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one fifteen to ninety one to the
Golden State Warriors to start things off,

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son of a bitch Rex in La
hobby here on the hob rides. Hear

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me, I can hear you,
Adam, hear me. Let it rap

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at it later, rip Adam,
but not too much, if you know

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what I mean. And yeah,
yeah, I know what you mean.

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I know what you mean. I'm
just saying that this boat is sinking.

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I just if you can explain to
me something here in the beginning of the

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sea or the first game, you
said, and I said it, this

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is the best Clipper roster ever.
And I'm looking at this team. I

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mean, just think about it.
Last year at this time they had a

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better record and they didn't have Kawhi
Leonard Paul George miss about what thirty something

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games last year, didn't have Norman
Powell. No, he played about thirty

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of the games last year. Okay, okay, but didn't have Kawai Norman

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Powell they gotten later on in the
season. How could they have a better

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record last year at this time?
And now I just baffling you. Just

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you explain that to me. I
just don't get it. I'll tell you

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why it looks like at times this
team defensively, Remember last season without Kawai

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all year, they were still top
ten in defense eighth. This season they

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were eleventh coming into this one.
Let me tell you why that number isn't

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what it's shows to be. I
went back and I looked after the first

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seven games of the season this year, where they were spectacular on the defensive

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end, their offense wasn't there.
They started the season three and four.

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Remember they had lost four straight at
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was good and their offense was struggling, and they didn't have Kawhi after the

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first couple of games, and he
was playing limited minutes. I took those

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seven games out and just looked since
November first till well yesterday. But coming

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into this one, the last fifty
seven games, Clippers have been eighteenth defensively.

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That can't happen with this roster.
There is no reason, there is

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no justification for them being that bad
for that long. I know Zubots was

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out tonight. I know he's missed
about six games this season, and it's

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always a big loss without him,
But Kawai has played about forty Paul George

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is almost at fifty Kawhi didn't play
at all last season and they were eighth

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Defensively. These guys aren't connected enough. They dip in and out of playing.

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I don't know if it's hard.
I don't know if it's effort or

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if it's just execution out there and
miscommunication. But it's not good enough defensively.

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This team has no business being that
bad. For that long, shots

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should be able to come and go
and their defense should hold up. But

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when shots don't go for this team, typically they don't play well on the

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other end either, and that is
a sign as usually a very bad sign

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when you let whether you make or
miss shots affect your defense. No,

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no, no, that's for sure. Another thing I was gonna ask you.

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You know, I've been on Marcus
Morris all year, and like I

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just said, we can't blame if
he didn't play today. But you know

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what, I just with coach Lou
You know what, I'm just thinking,

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how came you to regrets coaching?
And I about it? And you know

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what, who's his assistant coaches?
Adam? Because last year he had Chauncey

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Billups and yet no, he didn't
have Chauncey last year. Chauncy was already

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the head coach of Portland. Okay, but he had in the acts correct,

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he may have been gone. Atkinson
also is player development guy that's not

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necessarily your in game strategy guy.
Dan Craig is still there as the DC

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in multiples. Yeah, look,
I'm not Look, Coach Lewis had a

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tough season. I agree with that. I think the roster that we thought

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was going to be deep, it
just hasn't worked. The trade deadline looked

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to get them pointing back in the
right direction. It lasted a couple of

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games. Then they bring in Russ. There's a new reshuffling, there's a

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new reset. There's guys figuring out
the roles once again. How they fit

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in with this squad. I think
it's just too many movies parts, you

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know what I mean. But he
has to Like you said, they're up

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eleven and a half time. I
mean, they should have won this game.

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I mean there's a few games they
should have won. But you know

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what, like you said, tomorrow
they're playing Sacrimento and they gotta win tomorrow

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game and then win tomorrow would be
five in a row. He said the

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same thing. After Tuesday night.
We said the same thing after Tuesday night.

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We said the same thing going into
Tuesday night after two brutal losses,

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that they could have won either game
and overtime. So you're right. I'm

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not saying you're wrong, Javier.
I'm just saying I don't know which team's

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gonna show up game the game,
quarter quarter half to have I don't know.

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Do I think the talent is there, Yes, but you gotta put

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it together and have some chemistry.
And I don't know if they've given themselves

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a great chance to build up enough
chemistry with enough time left, with seventeen

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games, while they're still tinkering and
experimenting and seeing who works with, some

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of that has to happen. There
are four new players. I'm not sure

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how much Bones Highland needs to play. I think when Russell Westbrook came into

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the picture, we thought, Okay, he's not gonna play much. He

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played against Denver, he played against
Golden State some tonight. But Eric Gordon

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was in the starting lineup. Wasn't
Terrence Man, wasn't Norman Powell. I

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Roco got some garbage minutes late.
I know people have been talking about him

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all season. I can't answer for
why he hasn't played. It is perplexing.

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Mike in La you're on Clippers stock
without hm awesome. You know,

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Adam, there was a time in
the history of this organization when the owner

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just walked the team for another team. I'm talking about the nineteen seventy eight

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Bawston felt this buffalo brave swap.
For those not familiar with really ancient Well,

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I'm not interested in talking about the
Clippers former owner. Well, oh

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this was before, this was a
few hours before. But I'm saying,

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if I'm advising the bomber, I'm
telling them, you may want to see

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if you could do the same thing
again. Just let me tell you that's

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not a solution in the modern era. Give me something else, because that's

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not happening. Will The other thing
I think is I wonder if Kai Lewis

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started to bove this season, started
to believe his own height a little too

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much, where you know, he's
the tinkering guy. He knows that he's

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going to make the adjustments and figure
everything out, and as a result,

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he started just you'm playing these rotations
that you know, we we you know,

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a ten game sample size to figure
out that four guards and Marcus Morris

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are going to get feet on the
boards. I'll say this, A lot

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of people have first guessed some of
the moves this season that sometimes he has

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gone away from eventually, but they
went for so long, and we're curious.

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I have been a little bit baffled
with some of the moves. Well,

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the three guard lineups, Reggie playing
thirty minutes while Terrence Man's getting dnps,

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stuff like that, and then Terrence
Man ends up getting the starting lineup

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for what twelve fourteen games. They
play really well, and it's like,

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how was he not even playing early
in the season. This is somebody who

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can do everything. He has so
many ways to help you on the court.

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I didn't understand it. I don't
know. I've given him the benefit

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of the doubt that he's going to
figure things out because that's what he has

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always done and still can. Tonight, though searching for answers. We'll come

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back. We'll get some more of
your phone calls. I don't have a

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line open eight six six ninety seven
two five seven. He's just kidding,

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by man, you can't say no
call in call my cell phone whatever.

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Eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy eight six six, nine,

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eight, seven, two, five
seventies the phone number or get to me

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at follow Adam a Clipper Nation basketball
hell tonight in the second half and it

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froze over with their cold shooting.
They lose one fifteen to ninety one after

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leading by eleven and a half.
It lost four in a row. You

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gotta figure it out. I think
they have the guys that do so still,

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but I also might be crazy.
More Clippers stock next year. On

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the amp by seventy George and Lennard
running. You're listening to La Clippers basketball,

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but I'm tough. Clipper puts it
down plus the foul every game all

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season long on their official home stepcon
negative one. Tonight, Clippers lose one

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fifteen to ninety one to the Golden
State Warriors, and it wasn't even that

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close. Actually, game got away
from them from start of the second half,

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led by twelve, and Golden State
went on h twenty one to four

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run the Clippers before they waved the
white flag. We're four for thirty two

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in the second half. And they
waved the white flag with seven minutes left

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in the second because they were down
in the fourth, because they were down

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twenty one seven minute mark of the
fourth You're down twenty one, and they

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waved the white flag after going four
for thirty two. They're on the back

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to back. It makes sense.
I have no problem doing that. It

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was over. They weren't coming back
those magical comebacks at or Cole Arena like

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we played in the pre game Clippers
rewe down thirty one. Ain't walking through

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that door. Sadly, all right, welcome back in the Clipper stock.

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I'm at'm ouslin eight six six nine
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nine eight seven two five seventy.
I'll still find some positives. James and

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Saint George, Utah, what's up? This phone line is not a positive?

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James, take me ok, speaker, bluetooth. What effort is my?

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God? I know you want to
hear it later on the podcast properly,

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so you want to sound good too, James, I hear it.

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God help me drop. Let's go
to Morrison Englewood. There's someone who's gonna

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bring some positives. Morris, what's
up? Well, I'm gonna tell you

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something right now. Adam. I
know this sound like a broken record,

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and I know you've heard this.
Have you ever heard the cliche a make

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misleague. I have, I've used
it. I'm not using it tonight.

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If you're go ahead and put it, come on at him, put it.

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I mean, we've never seen nothing
like this, These boys less ice.

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Oh, she says, they're gonna
never be this gold again, and

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you're gonna get some calls. So
I'm going we'll fire the coach. Take

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out, let me change something.
You can't let him go right now.

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You can fire them at the end
of the year. Okay, what do

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you people are gonna do? Change
things over night? They're gonna figure it

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out. Okay, they showed they
can't play. They just can't play forty

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00:32:57.559 --> 00:33:00.240
eight minutes. But they're gonna figure
it out at him, all right,

406
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:02.039
and then and then never gonna be
this cold again, all right, behave

407
00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:07.119
yourself. Well, it would be
difficult when you're shooting him hawth or something.

408
00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.799
That's That's where it looked like.
I saw an a t t walk

409
00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:16.920
by. As another mystery went up. There was a tonton. Do you

410
00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:25.640
know what I'm not? I thought
this felt bad on the outside. Uh,

411
00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:31.400
let's go Bradley and san Dimas Y're
on Clipper stop without him? Oslin,

412
00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:36.799
Hey, Adam, you hear me? I got you, Bradley,

413
00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:40.319
your phone sounds great, Thanks for
playing along, Yeah, no problem.

414
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:45.480
Yeah. So I think something that
I've been thinking about lately, and it

415
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.759
kind of harkens back to a lot
of the early season struggles, not even

416
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:52.200
really like from Game one, but
before that, when the team just decided,

417
00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:54.480
like, you know, we don't
need to back up center and we

418
00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:58.519
kind of saw what that did early
on. Is it possible that that twenty

419
00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:05.079
twenty one run kind of I know
where you're going with this. Them playing

420
00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:08.880
small then may not work as well. Now. Yeah, I don't want

421
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:13.559
to say like the team was like
fools gold, because I think the team

422
00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:16.400
was really good, but where those
the perfect matchups to play small ball?

423
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:21.760
And it kind of gave the team
the whole wrong idea of their basketball philosophy

424
00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:24.920
since then, as it gave them
some fools gold. Now it wasn't fools

425
00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:30.599
gold against Dallas against Utah, and
they had to run some small ball against

426
00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:37.679
Phoenix when Zoo went down too.
I have wondered this. I've also kind

427
00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:40.039
of speculated whether or not the league
is caught up to some of that playing

428
00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:45.239
five out. But the truth is, I mean I can count the amount

429
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:50.960
of times that they've truly gone to
wing stop this season, which we thought

430
00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:53.199
was going to be the identity and
the versatility that they have on this team

431
00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:58.440
would make sense that it would be
about on one hand, about you know,

432
00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:01.920
a few a few times oh year
they've really tried it and an unleashed

433
00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:07.360
wing stop. Roco has not been
playing after he had a good January where

434
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:09.960
he started to get some minutes all
of a sudden, and guess what,

435
00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:13.679
he caught a rhythm. He shot
thirty nine percent from the outside. When

436
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:15.840
people were saying, well, so
he's not even shooting that well early in

437
00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:17.719
the season, It's like, yeah, if you play one or true minutes

438
00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:22.679
a week, it's not gonna happen. I that part of me. I

439
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:25.639
can't understand it for the life of
me as well, James or excuse me,

440
00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:31.400
y yeah, Bradley, Yeah,
yeah, I just you know,

441
00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:35.199
throughout the season, especially when we're
seeing those three guard lineups, you know

442
00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:39.559
they'd go small, and it's like
the expectation was the offense will open up.

443
00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:43.920
But you know the thing about especially
twenty twenty one, is you had

444
00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:46.400
probably the only week defender out there
was Reggie right, because you know,

445
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:50.239
Muke has his problems, but in
those playoffs, you know, he was

446
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:52.960
he was flying. Muke was great
in those playoffs. He did a lot

447
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.159
of the dirty work even when shots
weren't fallowing. And he hit seven threes

448
00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:59.079
against Dallas in Game seven, But
even when shots weren't falling, he was

449
00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:02.639
doing the little thing. Yeah he
was. He was battling Gobert down in

450
00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:07.199
the post and Mega talking series him
and the tomb and uh, you know,

451
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:12.440
but now right when you have Reggie
and Luke and norm out, they're

452
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:15.239
granted, two of those guys aren't
here anymore, but you know they played

453
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:19.440
a lot. They played a lot
in the first sixty games. A lot.

454
00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:22.280
Yeah, yeah, And so I
guess my main point here is,

455
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:27.559
I just, you know, uh, it's hard for me to get excited

456
00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:31.000
about these last seventeen games. This
team is really really flawed. You know,

457
00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:34.920
If they're going to put out that
effort every night, I'm gonna match

458
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:37.000
that effort the rest of the season. But I guess my main point is,

459
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:42.239
uh, I just kind of think
that it's hard to put blame on

460
00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:45.519
one party in the organization when completely
the whole thing is really kind of a

461
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:53.039
disaster completely when you have something falling
apart to this degree, it's never just

462
00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:58.239
one thing. It's not that simple. And Bradley, I mean, good

463
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:00.440
job, good effort tonight. Man, you got to call back tomorrow.

464
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:04.119
I appreciated my friend. I don't
know, I don't know if I'm gonna

465
00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:07.760
watch tomorrow, man, but yeah, keep the faith, keep it.

466
00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:13.760
I mean, look, would it
not be the most Clippers thing to win

467
00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:16.480
their first championship while playing this bad
and having a low seed, Like,

468
00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:21.960
would they not make it harder on
themselves? That would seem to track to

469
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:27.960
me, I couldn't agree with that
maybe a week ago, but I just

470
00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:32.400
think I think we're at that point
a lot, a lot. Actually yeah,

471
00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:37.599
I think it might just be time
to to not look toward but you

472
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:40.119
know, really really kind of let
it go. But you know, I

473
00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:44.000
think give us. We're still fans. But all right, thanks Sadam,

474
00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:46.400
Thanks for the time. Appreciate you, Bradley. Uh, let's go to

475
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:53.400
Sean and Inglewood. Sean, you're
on Clippers Stipe without aim Aslinky. Good

476
00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:55.639
to talk to you. Thanks for
getting back to the phone in time.

477
00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:02.039
Yeah, I feel like you jumped
over a chair. Oh No, the

478
00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:07.639
school, Jim Over, I just
want to talk to you about the entire

479
00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:14.119
You said the team doesn't have an
identity, and the am I wrong?

480
00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:16.840
What's their identity? I've said it's
consistently inconsistent. That's an identity you don't

481
00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:22.199
want. I'm not arguing with you, Adam No, I'm just saying they

482
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:28.480
haven't had an identity since Montress,
Harold Lou Williams the year before they got

483
00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:36.360
Kawai and Paul hold On. Hold
On, they definitely had an identity in

484
00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:39.800
the twenty twenty one playoffs, and
it was being a switchable, versatile team

485
00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:45.960
that could guard one through five.
Okay, I'll give you that, Okay,

486
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:52.719
but currently the identity and the impact
of Russell everything's not Russell's fault that

487
00:38:52.840 --> 00:39:05.519
became aboard, but you actually put
Gordon Highland, parents Man and also Power

488
00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:10.800
in a situation of flux, not
aware of where they sit in you can

489
00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:15.639
actually shine. Let me get back
to you hold On, because you touched

490
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:20.559
upon something interesting. It's not that
it's Russ's fault, but bringing in any

491
00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:23.960
player this laid into the season that's
going to be playing thirty minutes and starting

492
00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:30.559
is difficult to implement an integrate.
Right, Yeah, you're taking my slow

493
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:35.280
because what happened is that I wanted
him here, but I didn't want him

494
00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:40.079
to start right away and just disrupt
everything. And so the by products of

495
00:39:40.159 --> 00:39:45.079
his disruption you can see it in
their body energy and their language on the

496
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:50.840
court. And then they're forcing them
shots that they felt more comfortable taking when

497
00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:53.159
they had more time and they knew
that they were going to get minutes.

498
00:39:53.679 --> 00:39:58.559
You can see it all, and
it's a it's a kind of a flux

499
00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:05.239
that you a dynamic that is the
whole team's experience it and clus to fact

500
00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:09.440
to make the perfect storm even worse. The first game they played together that

501
00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:15.320
they really should have won and they
had the league tay Lou can't call a

502
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:19.440
play when it's eight seconds of five
seconds on the closs and get a decent

503
00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:23.199
shot. All right, are you
talking about the King's game. I'm talking

504
00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:29.719
about the King's game. They were
up three. They didn't foul, Monk,

505
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:36.000
you're up three, like foul?
Well, but no, I'm pretty

506
00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:42.440
sure, Sean. Let me finish. Look, I love you, but

507
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:46.440
we're not gonna do that. Sean. This is what happened. It sounds

508
00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:51.559
like that was the plan, and
the players didn't execute it. I'm not

509
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:55.239
putting that on coach Lou. If
guys don't foul, they are professionals,

510
00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:59.880
they know they're up three. You
foul, agatta to you win the free

511
00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:07.480
battle, you win the game.
John, am I wrong? You're right

512
00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:09.719
about that. I don't know if
he'd called it or not, but they

513
00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:14.840
didn't call the right player on offense
either. Every time they get they don't

514
00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:17.440
even get a hyperstenic or this shot
when their second less on the clock,

515
00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:22.400
they call the time out and guess
what you see a four stump shot.

516
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:27.800
It's just ridiculous. Okay, be
a better coach, Tylo. I'm saying,

517
00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:31.400
you know, so what all would
happened? That momentum of those first

518
00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:37.199
two overtime losses also had a big
effect on the entire team. I can

519
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:40.719
see it. I agree with you. I agree with you. I think

520
00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:45.760
let me see if you pick up
on this shown because on that last road

521
00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:50.639
trip where at one point, I
think that was during the sixth game losing

522
00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:53.880
streak, when they were on the
road and they blew that game to Philly

523
00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:59.119
where they were up by twenty and
they were playing great, and they look

524
00:41:59.199 --> 00:42:05.559
great, and for whatever reason they
gave it away. There was something there

525
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:09.159
that I think is lingering because you
remember, and I'm trying to put this

526
00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:17.280
together and make sure I have this
right. But the Clippers almost and this

527
00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:21.519
was the next time around on a
road trip. This was that last one

528
00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:25.760
and it wasn't the six game losing
streak, but there were warning signs.

529
00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:30.519
Remember the game in Atlanta to start
off the road trip. They won it,

530
00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:36.679
but they were holding on late after
having a big lead and they almost

531
00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:40.480
gave it away. Then they don't
play guys against Cleveland, they lose that

532
00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:45.719
game by twenty three. Then against
Chicago they almost did the same thing and

533
00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:51.719
fumbled the game away at the ends
just to hold on. They have had

534
00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:54.920
issues closing games, even in wins. This is why I never say a

535
00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:59.840
wins a win. You can see
warning signs, you can see flaws there.

536
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:04.480
And guess what happened on that trip
when they played a better team in

537
00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:07.800
Milwaukee and they led by twenty one, they did give it away. They

538
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:12.440
did complete the collapse that time because
they were taking on a better opponent,

539
00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:15.840
but the signs were there in two
games beforehand. Are you with me?

540
00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:20.320
I'm with you. Again, they
come down to identity. As you were

541
00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:23.239
saying, and I was saying,
and I think the one thing they need

542
00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:28.719
to do ternce Man definitely needs to
start because he gets the energy going.

543
00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:32.239
And then as you were saying,
the piggyback on your point, they have

544
00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:37.599
guts to get their clothing team together, and clothes okay than what they were

545
00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:42.000
doing. I'm just glad you watched
and called in tonight. Sean, are

546
00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:45.000
you gonna calling them all? I
have no idea. I'm telling you,

547
00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:50.559
I'm good. I'm frustrated. I
get it, brother, you get three

548
00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:54.400
Hall of Famers on this team and
you can't call a five second place is

549
00:43:54.480 --> 00:43:59.400
to get a shot of I'm getting
very frustrated, all right, Sean.

550
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:04.599
I hope you keep the faith as
well. Ali Yun and Lancaster ali Yun,

551
00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:08.400
I get that right, Yes exactly, Hi Adam, Hi ali Yune,

552
00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:15.400
what's up? But I want to
stay in man. You don't think,

553
00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:21.000
uh, what book would be better? Coming from the bench. When

554
00:44:21.039 --> 00:44:24.079
I was asked on the clips and
dip pod if they get Russell Westbrook,

555
00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:28.119
what would be the best position for
him, I thought it was going to

556
00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:31.679
be off the bench and for a
couple of different reasons. They have had

557
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:37.719
trouble keeping up energy, and I
thought at the end of first quarters into

558
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:42.480
second quarters and throughout the year they've
had issues in second quarters, that would

559
00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:45.199
be a good bridge point for Russ
playing early in that second quarter with Paul

560
00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:49.639
George because typically they would stagger the
minutes where kah I wouldn't come back into

561
00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:52.920
the second quarter until about the five
or six minute mark. So you'd get

562
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:55.440
a lot of PG and Russ there, and those two obviously have chemistry.

563
00:44:55.480 --> 00:45:00.960
They've worked together in okayc And then
I thought this same thing could happen and

564
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:05.039
the thirds going into fourth quarters.
But they want a point guard. They

565
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:07.679
wanted the starting point guard. They
campaign for him. They got to figure

566
00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:13.760
it out. He's in the starting
lineup and it hasn't look There have been

567
00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:20.039
beautiful moments from this team where the
offense looks better than ever against Sacramento at

568
00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:22.599
times, against Denver at times in
the first half. At times tonight,

569
00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:28.199
Russell Westbrook just throwing dimes, getting
into the paint, passing up three pointers,

570
00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:30.760
getting into the paint and then giving
Mason Plumly an easy one. He

571
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:35.360
did it multiple times, got him
to the foul line that way too,

572
00:45:35.559 --> 00:45:38.280
found Kawhi Leonard for a lob,
found Paul George underneath the basket. They

573
00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:45.039
weren't getting these easy baskets early on
this season with that's why you bring him

574
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:47.119
in there, to make the game
easier for those guys. The flip side

575
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:52.920
of it is you're trying to figure
things out with them and it leads to

576
00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:57.559
a lot of turnovers because coming into
this game, in the seventy eight minutes

577
00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:01.920
that Russ, Kawai, and Paul
George had been on the floor together coming

578
00:46:01.960 --> 00:46:06.199
into this game, so in just
three contests, yes, but there's only

579
00:46:06.280 --> 00:46:09.719
seventeen left, they had turned the
ball over thirty five times in seventy eight

580
00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:20.760
minutes, so almost almost a turnover
every two minutes. It was that bad

581
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:22.840
because two of the last three games
coming into this one day and twenty five

582
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:28.400
turnovers. So they gotta smooth things
out. If those three are going to

583
00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:30.639
play together on the floor and Russ
is going to be a starter, it

584
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:37.079
can't be feast or famine. They
have to be more consistent. What do

585
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:40.719
you think, Elliott, Yeah,
you're right, you're right, But also

586
00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:47.000
I think I don't know if this
team is not too big for Tyls.

587
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:53.079
What do you think? Say it
again? The Cliffers team, they're very

588
00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:59.480
lordy. I don't know if it's
too much. The Cleveland Cavaliers with Lebron

589
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:02.519
James weren't too much for him.
So no, I don't think that's the

590
00:47:02.519 --> 00:47:06.000
case. But I appreciate the phone
call you and we'll talk to you tomorrow.

591
00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:08.119
We'll take a quick time out eight
six six ninety seven two five seventy

592
00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:13.199
eight six sixty ninety eight seven two
five seventy looking for coach lou postgame audio.

593
00:47:14.079 --> 00:47:21.360
We'll also have on Charles Mapa from
Eclipse and dip Pod Spicy Tonight here

594
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:28.920
at Clipper's talk, it was gonna
be up eleven at a half. I

595
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:30.800
don't know how they can go that
cold from the outside and for some of

596
00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:35.760
it not to be mental when you're
missing shots like that. I think guys

597
00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:42.760
were gripping in the second half.
But if Paul George is gonna go one

598
00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:50.760
fray from the outside, Westbrook goes
over five, How's over seven and Eric

599
00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:55.360
Gordon's two for ten, I don't
know. Maybe that does tell the story.

600
00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:59.760
Maybe this is that simple maker miss
League. There you go, Morrise

601
00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:02.880
or Clipper stock decks here an five
seventy l a sports hen he got it.

602
00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:07.239
Count it from distance. The odds
on favorite to hoist the Larry o'bride

603
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:10.840
heavily contest it, and it doesn't
matter. On the home of your LA.

604
00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:21.719
Clippers lose one fifteen ninety one up
North in SF in a game where

605
00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:23.519
they had eleven point lead at the
half. Kawhi Leonard hit a three pointer

606
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:30.400
before the end of the first half
and they lose this one. As welcome

607
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:37.360
back into Clipper Stock, I'm autam
oslin eight sixty six ninety seven two five

608
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:40.679
seventy eight six sixty ninety seven two
five seventy. Clippers have lost four in

609
00:48:40.719 --> 00:48:46.719
a row. They continue to hemorrhich
right now, and I don't know what

610
00:48:46.800 --> 00:48:52.639
the answer is, hence why we
like taking phone calls sometimes on Clippers Stalk.

611
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.800
Look, I I do think I
said this early on this season.

612
00:48:58.039 --> 00:49:00.960
On one hand, I think the
game may have caught up with some of

613
00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:05.920
the five out lineups because more teams
are doing it, something that the Clippers

614
00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:10.960
were a step ahead on in the
twenty one playoffs. But we also just

615
00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:20.639
haven't seen them tried enough. It's
strange. I thought all season long,

616
00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:28.320
how is Roco playing this little?
What is happening? Nicolas Batoum not getting

617
00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:32.880
as many minutes as Marcus Morris,
Terrence Man not playing enough, getting dnps

618
00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:37.880
that stuff. They lost a lot
of games when they had one of the

619
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:45.079
easiest schedules in the NBA to open
things up. So it is a little

620
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:50.400
bit perplexing even for me as we
try to reach Chuck Mockler. But that

621
00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:53.119
ain't happening. Let's go to James
and Saint George. Oh, this is

622
00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:55.119
a good call out him. I'm
sure the phone will be great now.

623
00:49:55.519 --> 00:50:09.760
James, what's up? Yeah,
the phone's James Water. Dear God,

624
00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:15.920
on a night like tonight, did
I mention our petids are falling off?

625
00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:22.920
It's just like that. Clippers lose
one fifteen to ninety one of the Golden

626
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:27.519
State Warriors. Look, there's seventeen
games left. If coach lew is the

627
00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:30.360
guy I think he is, he's
going to figure it out. If he's

628
00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:35.559
the same guy he was two seasons
ago in in twenty sixteen for the Cleveland

629
00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:38.760
Cavaliers, making the tough decisions.
This is someone who wasn't afraid of bench

630
00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:44.719
lebron James before. If you can
do that, you can take away anyone's

631
00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:50.079
minutes who's not performing, because I
don't see at this point how they can't

632
00:50:50.119 --> 00:50:53.199
go with the guys who are playing
the best. You have to There's seventeen

633
00:50:53.239 --> 00:50:58.960
games left. There's nothing else that
can be done. At this point.

634
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:02.960
You have to win to get into
the tournament. You guys might have to

635
00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:08.599
win this game to the play in. They are just in that deep of

636
00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:14.880
a hole right now. Yeah,
and the West is too tight, so

637
00:51:16.119 --> 00:51:21.719
trying out new lineups. And I'm
still looking for postgame audio from coach Low

638
00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:24.280
and even a quote here and there, and Drew grayfe hook it up only

639
00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:29.960
times. Well, I'm orry,
where are you at? Not seeing any

640
00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:34.840
If there was time for a player's
meeting would be now. But we do

641
00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:37.400
have some audio I wants you to
hear that we played in the pregame show.

642
00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:45.079
And this is from Paul George on
with JJ Reddick, a former Clipper.

643
00:51:46.239 --> 00:51:51.239
This was on the Old Man in
the three podcast. It's an amazing

644
00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:58.760
interview. It's an hour long.
And I don't know if this is encouraging

645
00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:05.320
or making you hopeful and sanguin and
optimistic, or if this is the flaw

646
00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:08.000
of this team. I'm not sure, but I want you to hear it

647
00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:13.079
either way. Here was pg I
want jj Reddick. Where would you sort

648
00:52:13.119 --> 00:52:19.360
of assess where the Clippers are right
now relative to the rest of the best

649
00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:27.440
teams in the NBA. I think, honestly, I think our record,

650
00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:30.760
you know, you know, you
look at some teams and it's like,

651
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:32.400
all right, their record doesn't indicate
how good of a team they are,

652
00:52:34.760 --> 00:52:38.960
And I think that that's the case
for us. Like we're a team that,

653
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:44.079
like, all right, you put
us in a seven game series with

654
00:52:44.239 --> 00:52:47.559
how well t Lou coaches and his
adjustments, Like, we're a team that's

655
00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:52.239
going to come out in a seven
game series when we're healthy, you know

656
00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:54.440
what I mean, Like, well, we'll make the adjustments. We got

657
00:52:54.440 --> 00:53:00.679
the personnel, we got the players
that play and perform on a big stages,

658
00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:07.599
Like we got proven winners on our
side. I like where we're at,

659
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:12.480
like our chances, like we just
you know, I've missed fifteen games,

660
00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:16.880
Kwie, missed about fifteen to twenty
games, Like we just haven't had

661
00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:22.679
the luck of being healthy for a
full season and to be able to play

662
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:29.440
with you know, a full roster. Our whole season, and I think

663
00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:32.159
that's just where our record is indicating
that, Like we haven't had much practice

664
00:53:32.159 --> 00:53:37.159
time, we haven't had much on
the court time, given with so many

665
00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:40.320
guys in out of the lineup,
like we're in now here we are again

666
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:46.400
adding Russell to the lineup. Eric
Maze bones like there's three games in,

667
00:53:46.599 --> 00:53:52.960
they're still figuring out our system.
Like I think it's just that's just what

668
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:54.920
it comes down to for us.
We just don't have We just haven't had

669
00:53:54.960 --> 00:54:00.159
the luck of putting in good hours
and good you know, game in,

670
00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:06.760
good practice days, being fully at
our best, and when we get down

671
00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:09.440
to the stretch, like like I
said, seven games, we're going to

672
00:54:09.480 --> 00:54:15.800
be a tough out. That last
part there, well, I know you

673
00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:20.320
have to have confidence, and at
this point you have no other other option

674
00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:23.199
than to believe you're a flip the
switch team, because they certainly haven't been

675
00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:30.360
consistent all season long. The talent
may be there, but I wonder if

676
00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:34.679
they relied on that mindset too much. Just get us to the playoffs,

677
00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:37.159
Just get us in a seven game
series, we'll figure it out. That

678
00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:43.719
and they've let the regular season go
by the wayside. They've had one and

679
00:54:43.800 --> 00:54:49.639
a half eyes on the playoffs all
season long. I don't know, but

680
00:54:49.920 --> 00:54:54.480
I did find that interesting. You
gotta believe in yourself, you gotta believe

681
00:54:54.519 --> 00:54:59.559
in the team. And that was
granted before they lost to Minnesota Tuesday night,

682
00:54:59.559 --> 00:55:05.440
and obviously before they lost tonight.
But when does the urgency kick in?

683
00:55:05.880 --> 00:55:08.599
When do you say we actually have
to start playing basketball. We had

684
00:55:08.599 --> 00:55:12.719
a caller earlier say they just can't
do it forty eight minutes. Guess what.

685
00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:17.480
That's where an NBA game is.
At some point they do against quality

686
00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:27.440
competition, you will lose. They
lost two overtimes in the last four games

687
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:36.519
too good teams, games they could
have easily won. And I just hope

688
00:55:36.559 --> 00:55:40.320
that mindset isn't what it's seeped in
to the point where the regular season doesn't

689
00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:44.079
matter enough. We're here for the
playoffs because I don't know, if you

690
00:55:44.079 --> 00:55:46.599
can just turn it on. Golden
State might be able to. They have

691
00:55:46.679 --> 00:55:52.159
a built in identity. They've been
great, they have four championships, they

692
00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:59.639
won it last season. They might
be able to play around. I don't

693
00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:02.559
know if they Clippers can afford to
do that and then say, yeah,

694
00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:07.800
we'll be the sixth seed or the
seventh seed and figure it out. There

695
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:13.440
has been one team in the modern
era that has won that is not a

696
00:56:13.480 --> 00:56:15.639
top three seed. I told you
this earlier on the season. It matters.

697
00:56:16.440 --> 00:56:20.960
The only team that did it was
the ninety five Houston Rockets. They

698
00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:23.960
were a sixth seed. They also, though, had won it the season

699
00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:27.880
before, so you could say,
okay, they were champions. The famebody

700
00:56:27.960 --> 00:56:32.199
was gonna pull that off. It
was clutch City outside that. History does

701
00:56:32.239 --> 00:56:36.960
not favor the Clippers in the position
they're in. We'll come back, We'll

702
00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:38.159
see if we get somebody on from
clips to day. I don't know,

703
00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:45.079
Chuck's phone just skipped it across the
lake or something. Eight six six nine

704
00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:51.760
eight seven two five seventy eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy Clipper

705
00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:57.039
Nation sweets keep coming in out follow
out of May. I get it.

706
00:56:57.480 --> 00:57:01.360
There is a lot of aggravated people
out there. Someone said, I can

707
00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:08.840
cannot wait for us to reboot this
with the Superstars. We are a giant

708
00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:16.199
jigsaw puzzle with no work, none
of the right pieces. I don't know,

709
00:57:17.519 --> 00:57:21.000
but the picture is not getting anymore
clear. What they should do.

710
00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:28.400
I still believe. I still think
they got the right, guys. Clearly

711
00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:35.719
they gotta put together and it's got
to start tomorrow. We'll Clipperstock next year.

712
00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:39.920
By seventy sports George and Lennard running. You're listening to La Clippers basketball,

713
00:57:40.239 --> 00:57:44.920
but I'm tough. Clip puts it
down plus the foul every game all

714
00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:49.360
season long. On their official home
Climbers lose one, fifteen and ninety one

715
00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:54.119
up north to the Golden State Warriors. I met him Oslin. We're trying

716
00:57:54.159 --> 00:57:58.320
to have a sense of urgency to
night here at Cliberstock, kicking doing the

717
00:57:58.320 --> 00:58:01.280
best of wee care here, kick
of reason through. What's happening with this

718
00:58:01.320 --> 00:58:07.159
Clippers team out of the All Star
break? They had one ten of fourteen.

719
00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:09.039
Coming into the All Star break,
they had one ten of their last

720
00:58:09.039 --> 00:58:15.000
twelve with Kawai and Paul George.
During that time, they looked to have

721
00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:21.440
been turning a corner, and now
it's all falling apart at the seams.

722
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:27.480
I gotta be honest with you,
that's what's happening. It looks like a

723
00:58:27.519 --> 00:58:32.000
team that has forgotten how to win
right now. They lose both over times.

724
00:58:32.800 --> 00:58:37.119
They lose to Minnesota in a game
they were up by twelve, they

725
00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:40.400
were up by twelve to start the
third quarter or early in the third quarter

726
00:58:40.440 --> 00:58:46.519
against Golden State and couldn't hit a
shot. I don't know if they were

727
00:58:46.599 --> 00:58:53.280
just pressing at some point, if
the season is weighing on them with all

728
00:58:53.280 --> 00:58:59.920
the different moving parts and guys don't
know their roles, I can only speculate.

729
00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:06.920
I don't know, but the product, which is so good at times,

730
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:13.239
just they can't seem to find any
consistency out there, and you gotta

731
00:59:13.320 --> 00:59:20.039
have it in this league. Let's
go to Alan norwalk Al, what's up?

732
00:59:20.039 --> 00:59:23.960
You're on clipper side without Amazin?
Yeah, how's it going? It's

733
00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:29.039
all good. Al, what's up? I was just, you know,

734
00:59:29.119 --> 00:59:32.079
just taking a look at the numbers. You. I can't help but feel

735
00:59:32.119 --> 00:59:37.559
bad for Westbrook. I don't think
it's fair, of course, to blame

736
00:59:37.639 --> 00:59:40.840
him for this losing streak, and
we haven't been as I mentioned. Yeah,

737
00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:45.039
I don't think it's about Russ.
I think it's about bringing in a

738
00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:49.639
player, and bringing in a starter
at the point guard position this late into

739
00:59:49.679 --> 00:59:52.480
the season. That may be the
problem. It's just somebody that has the

740
00:59:52.519 --> 00:59:55.320
ball in their hands and a high
usage like that so much you're up,

741
00:59:55.840 --> 01:00:00.519
you're up. Ending your your offense
and your play and you're trying to do

742
01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:07.199
too much with too little time to
figure it out. Yeah, I think

743
01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:12.079
the results. It's just tough for
him to come in and they go on

744
01:00:12.119 --> 01:00:16.280
a losing streak and he's has,
you know, these turnovers and mysteries.

745
01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:21.880
I think the noise is just going
to continue to grow and it's it's kind

746
01:00:21.880 --> 01:00:23.360
of just bad luck. You can't
help but feel bad for the guy.

747
01:00:25.239 --> 01:00:30.880
Yeah, I get it, and
I feel bad for some of the other

748
01:00:30.920 --> 01:00:34.800
guys that we're finding their rhythm and
then realized, oh, we're gonna reshuffle

749
01:00:34.840 --> 01:00:39.119
things. Here we go because Norm
Powell, I don't know what's going on.

750
01:00:39.119 --> 01:00:43.719
One for nine from the field,
two points oh of seven from the

751
01:00:43.760 --> 01:00:49.719
outside, just thirteen against Minnesota,
just nine against Denver. This was someone

752
01:00:50.679 --> 01:00:57.360
who was scoring in bunches in six
of the last eight games before the last

753
01:00:57.360 --> 01:01:00.320
three where he has struggled. I
just gave you the numbers. He was

754
01:01:00.320 --> 01:01:04.800
getting twenty or more and on his
way to looking like the six Man of

755
01:01:04.800 --> 01:01:12.199
the year. Shooting has been absurd
on the season. He's at forty two

756
01:01:12.239 --> 01:01:17.119
percent from the outside, but he
has had a month were he just shot

757
01:01:17.199 --> 01:01:24.159
forty eight percent from three in January. He still shot forty percent on a

758
01:01:24.159 --> 01:01:30.639
bad month in February. I don't
get it, Mike and Brow. You're

759
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:35.239
on Clippers South without I am awsome? Yeah, how you doing, Adam?

760
01:01:35.320 --> 01:01:38.159
I hate to be the bear of
bad news, but I just read

761
01:01:38.239 --> 01:01:45.440
where Norm Powell is wearing a sling
in the locker room. Well, that's

762
01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:50.639
a little bit of an explanation.
Yeah, there's something going on with his

763
01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:58.880
arm. Anyway. My take is, I just feel like Father Time is

764
01:01:58.920 --> 01:02:02.840
caught up with this team. I
just think they're out of gas. Does

765
01:02:02.920 --> 01:02:07.639
Kawhi Leonard look out of gas?
He's playing some of the best basketball of

766
01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:12.440
his career and he's your best player. Does father Time caught him? Because

767
01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:15.320
it doesn't look like it. But
he can't do it all at him?

768
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:16.960
He can't do it all. Oh
he can't. But you said this team

769
01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:22.280
and he is the most important player
on the team. I'm talking about the

770
01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:28.039
other players. Paul George is not
playing like like he like he should.

771
01:02:29.159 --> 01:02:34.960
Norm Powell hasn't played well, just
like you've just mentioned. I don't know

772
01:02:35.039 --> 01:02:44.519
what's going on with Marcus Morris.
That's another mystery. That's fair. He's

773
01:02:44.559 --> 01:02:47.519
been rough the last two months.
Shooting has fallen off, defense has fallen

774
01:02:47.519 --> 01:02:51.679
off, everything. He hasn't looked
like the same player he's been at all.

775
01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:53.719
Yeah, you know, and he's
out tonight with an injury, and

776
01:02:53.760 --> 01:03:00.559
maybe that's some of the explanation that
could be it. I hate to bring

777
01:03:00.639 --> 01:03:04.760
up the team across the hall,
but I just happened to watch him last

778
01:03:04.880 --> 01:03:10.360
night, and without hate what you're
going to interesting? Yeah, without without

779
01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:20.119
Lebron James and uh Davis, they
came out with energy. And granted they

780
01:03:20.159 --> 01:03:27.639
beat a Oklahoma team without Shay Giljis, but you know, they came out

781
01:03:27.679 --> 01:03:30.320
with energy. They won the game. Hey, the Clippers came out with

782
01:03:30.440 --> 01:03:31.960
energy too. Where'd it go in
the second half. I don't know.

783
01:03:34.119 --> 01:03:36.599
I don't know. I think they
got out coached, To tell you the

784
01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:39.679
truth, I think I think Curr's
a much better coach. And you know,

785
01:03:39.880 --> 01:03:44.519
and like I said, I think
that that one game where they went

786
01:03:44.559 --> 01:03:50.800
into double overtime really took a toll
on this team as far as gas and

787
01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:54.800
and and just energy and everything.
And now with man, it's just you

788
01:03:54.840 --> 01:03:59.280
know, he's probably thinking, what
do I got to do? All right?

789
01:03:59.360 --> 01:04:02.920
Yeah, I hear you. You
make some ceiling points, y'all.

790
01:04:04.119 --> 01:04:08.960
Clippers lose one fifteen to ninety one. I'll offer you this on the way

791
01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:15.199
out. Coach Lewis said he's confident
still. When things aren't going well,

792
01:04:16.360 --> 01:04:19.360
you have to be tough enough to
push through a quote. We just got

793
01:04:19.360 --> 01:04:23.960
to stay the course. Got to
be mentally tough, mentally strong. Can't

794
01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:30.480
give in, just gotta be tougher. Starts tomorrow in Sacramento. Tip time

795
01:04:30.559 --> 01:04:32.800
is at seven, while Clippers count
down in six. Before we get out

796
01:04:32.800 --> 01:04:35.119
of here. Do you want to
thank the Clippers organization? Noah Eagle,

797
01:04:35.480 --> 01:04:40.440
Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawlor, big
Brother, Jake Warner, Katy Newton or

798
01:04:40.480 --> 01:04:45.159
producer here into bank, the callers, the listeners, the tweeters. I'm

799
01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:48.840
asking you to keep the faith.
Seventeen games left. He talk to you

800
01:04:48.880 --> 01:04:55.920
tomorrow at six. This has been
Clippers talked. A postgame conversation about your

801
01:04:56.079 --> 01:05:00.719
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802
01:05:00.719 --> 01:05:04.400
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803
01:05:04.519 --> 01:05:09.599
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They have some of that DNA.

804
01:05:10.159 --> 01:05:14.480
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805
01:05:14.599 --> 01:05:15.880
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