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won fifteen to ninety one to the Golden State Warriors. Welcome into your post
game show. I'm Adam Oslin coming up your final box score. You'll hear
from the head coach in toront Low and the players after. We can only
be described as one of the most devastating, disappointing losses of the season.
No, it's just amazing that this team was up the way they were in
the first half, and somehow they have one of their coldest second halves really
of all time. They were four for thirty two before waving the white flag
in the fourth quarter. Yeah, I mean, it was just one of
those nights they couldn't knock down their open looks, and against this team who
even without Steph Curry, without Andrew Wiggins, like Jordan Pool's a great player
and has proven it now the last couple of years play Thompson is a Hall
of Famer and we know that. So I look at it and I just
say, okay, you got to know that coming in the team did.
They came out with the urgency, They got up by twelve early in the
third quarter, and it just they couldn't make their shots. Even if you
just take the three point shooting alone, and the Warriors didn't shoot the lights
up by any means fourteen of forty six, but they made five more threes.
That's fifteen points off of threes in a game that the Clippers lost by
twenty four. Sure, but you look at it and you say it was
probably would have been closer. It would have been different, the pace would
have been different. Shure the other thing, sixteen turnovers leading to twenty nine
Warriors points. The Clippers only turned the Warriors over twelve times, which is
not that much fewer. However, it led to twelve Clippers points. That's
a seventeen point difference right there. And to me, there's our game.
Three point shooting and turnovers once again to nag the Clippers in the butt,
essentially in this second half more than anything else against the Warriors. You know,
people ask me all the time, what's their identity this season? And
I have to say, consistently and consistent, and from the first half to
the second half in this one is just epitomizes how they played throughout this year,
no doubt about it, and look at them. Obviously, there's still
time in the season. There's seventeen games left, and I know that everybody's
getting impatient. But the good news is that because the Western Conference is so
bundled up and bunched up, there is time. And it goes back to
what I was talking about a lot pregame, where the Clippers are gonna have
a lot of practice time down the stretch of this season. They're gonna have
a lot of home games, and this is one of the hardest places to
win in the NBA. Don't get me wrong. Now, the Warriors are
twenty six and seven at home and seven and twenty three on the road.
It's just they haven't been able to win away from this arena. But they
barely lost in this building. So you can't fault the Clippers for doing essentially
what everybody else did. But it was the manner in which it happened.
Feels like the team needs to find an extra gear. They need some sort
of fire lit from underneath them right now. The only one who looked like
he was playing with that was Terrence Mann anytime he had minutes in this game,
and Mason Plumley, I should say to quit twelve points and twenty rebounds.
But Kawhi Leonard had himself a great second quarter, a really great end
of the first half overall, and then was fairly quiet in the second half.
He finished with twenty one points on eight of twelve shooting, Paul George
three of fifteen. They need more, They just need more. Out of
the two win three connection overall thirty two points combined when Jordan Pool scored thirty
four himself, just not gonna cut it against this team. Clippers get out
scored forty two to sixteen in the third quarter. They go on to lose
one fifteen to ninety one to the Golden State Warriors their next one. As
no Eagles said, no time to hang their head. They gotta get back
after it tomorrow in Sacramento against the Kings. As they put up about a
week ago, the second highest scoring game in NBA history, tip. Time
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After leading by eleven at the half, the Clippers lose by twenty four up
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ninety one in favor of the Dubs. As the Clippers had one of the
coldest and most miserable second halves that, quite frankly, I've ever seen before
they waved the white flag. They were four for thirty two from the field,
and they waved it with about seven minutes left in the fourth quarter and
they went four for thirty two coming out of the half after leading by eleven
at the half. It is confounding. It is tough to understand this one
Clipper nation to go that cold and they end up and it's not even a
true number of how bad it was because on the night they were nine for
forty three from the outside, that's twenty percent from three. They were at
thirty six percent from the field. But they got some garbage ones late that
we're inconsequential, we're not meaningful. Paul George three of fifteen and eleven points,
one of eight from the outside. Kauai. At one point he was
seven for seven. Couldn't be stopped into the second quarter and it things with
that three pointer, thought they had some momentum. He finished eight or twelve
with twenty one. Mason Plumley It's twenty boards had fourteen of them in the
first half, moment he had ever had in a half. Eric Gordon ruff
from the outside two of ten Between him, Paul George and Norman Powell,
those guys couldn't get anything to go as Powell was oh for seven from three
unbelievably poor shooting. Because Golden State was just fourteen to forty six from the
outside. They only shot forty two percent from the game. The Clippers defense
was really good in the first half. Well, you can't hit shots and
you can't set your defense. Well, you're gonna give lopside victories to the
opposition like this. Clippers lose one fifteen to ninety one to the Golden State
Warriors. They have lost four straight. To say their reeling is quite an
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twelve eight points. It's after having a great first half, faded in the
second half like many Clippers did in this one. Unreal. I feel bliss.
I don't know if this is a good or bad news at this point.
Clippers got a game tomorrow. I suppose you want to get the bad
taste out of your mouth and figure out a way to win in Sacramento.
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this one too. Clipper Nation, I don't know what to tell you.
We keep talking about a sense of urgency. This team hasn't had any,
or they having spurts sporadic senses of urgency. First half was great, some
of the best defense they had played all season long. Kawhi Leonard was very
good Offensively, they weren't exactly hot from the outside were on that coming up,
but they still led by eleven after they had their third best mark of
points in the pain at thirty two twenty four minutes since to this one,
shots weren't falling from the outside where they were six to twenty one, but
they found other ways to score, and Kawhi was brilliant. At one point
he was seven for seven. He had fifteen points and a three pointer to
put them up at the half fifty six to forty five. I don't even
know if I should keep giving this number out. It's shocking. Ear must
for the kids. Vince Vaughan and old school style. I don't even want
to say it, but I have to. From the third quarter up until
the seven minute mark of the fourth, where the Clippers ended up pulling guys
and waving the white flag because yes, it was over, they shot four
for thirty two. That's in the span of seventeen minutes, crossing over from
the third into the first five minutes of the fourth. That's twelve percent.
And I believe they had to hit one three during that time. I don't
even know what to tell you. That is twenty seven straight miss threes from
the Rockets and the playoffs type stuff. The one thing that came to mind
was how cold they went in second halves in three straight games in the bubble
against the Denver Nuggets. I hate bringing it up. I do, but
it reminded me of that. And I'm trying to give you honest analysis,
and I'm looking for answers to this team. Said it all season long,
you ask me their identity consistently, inconsistent, and now they're just a game
over five hundred. Is that who they are? Bill Parcells would say,
so you are what your record says you are. I don't know. I
had just seen them go ten and two before the All Star Break in their
last twelve games with both Paul George and Kawhi Leonard. I had just seen
them get one of their best victories of the season in Phoenix, where Terrence
Man was in the starting lineup, had twenty six points, played brilliant defense.
Then the All Star break comes, they bring in Russell Westbrook, and
I'm not putting it all on him. It's not fair. He had a
great first half, didn't play much in the second half. Things got away
from him. First half was beautiful, some of the feeds he had to
Mason Plumley to Kawhi Leonard for a huge alley oop to Paul Wars underneath the
basket. How do they get away from playing like that? The only thing
I can think of is something else I've been telling you. You use the
regular season to try to build championship habits. They build and have built up
bad habits, and they haven't gone away because after just five turnovers in the
first half, they had seven in the third quarter alone. When you're not
hitting shots and you're not even getting as many up because you're squandering possessions and
giving them to Golden State because the turnovers, it just compounds things and that's
how you get a lopside is score forty two to sixteen in favor of Golden
State. In that third quarter, they outscored the Clippers by twenty six points
in twelve minutes. Clippers go from being up by eleven at the half to
having a thirty five point turnaround and losing by twenty four to a Golden State
team that didn't even have Andrew Wiggins or Steph Curry. They're grade at home,
there's no doubt, but that is just inexcusable. I don't know if
it's effort or just cold shooting, because they did miss a lot of open
threes at some point, though, hey, they were missing him in the
first half and they got to the basket they found other ways? Were they
even looking for those in the second half. I'm Mason Plumley had a career
first half fourteen boards, most he's ever had any half of its career.
You're up by eleven, But how many times have they played great basketball?
And then let go up twenty one against Milwaukee, up twenty one in Philly,
We're up twenty in Philly games. They should have won many of them,
too many of them, And now you have to be in desperation mode.
I said it after they lost to Minnesota in a game they were what's
the score? Oh yeah, up by twelve in They led by as many
as twelve in this one too early in the third before everything fell apart and
they unraveled against Minnesota. More understandable. It happened in the first quarter,
and they still were in it late tonight. Within seventeen minutes, the game
was over in the second half. Yeah, Golden State is the best third
quarter team. They are historic and third quarters they've been like that. It's
a championship pedigree. It's what they've been doing under Steve Kerr. Oh my
god, you can't get out scored forty two to sixteen. You can't go
that cold four of twenty two from the field, and the third one of
eight from three. In the third, Coach lu brought in different guys,
didn't matter, seem mental. They all knew there was a lid on the
basket. There was a lack of confidence out there. But this team,
now, we're not just talking about play in. We're talking about are they
going to make the playoffs? Are they going to make the postseason? Danger?
Danger zone. I don't even do the stupid top gun thing. They
are currently two games up on the Lakers, who are in the eleventh spot,
just outside the play in Clippers in the seventh spot and hanging on barely,
just by a threat that has been threaded and bristled out. It's there's
not much room for error at all. And I don't get it either.
I don't understand how you can keep experimenting at this point and trying different guys
to see what you like for the playoffs when it's not even guaranteed. I
gotta be honest, I'm surprised by that Eric Gordon was in the starting lineup.
They were missing Marcus Morris, which I know a lot of people said
Marcus was the problem. He wasn't playing tonight. It beats the Zubas.
Not playing certainly hurts them. But Eric Gordon was in there. Mason Plumley
was in there. Eric Gordon was six of sixteen, two of ten from
three. After two really good games to start off, his second time around
with the Clippers hasn't been good coming out of the All Star Break. I'm
just wondering, can you have a sense of urgency with so many moving pieces.
I don't know. Right now, I gotta say it's not looking that
way. They're trying too many different guys too late into the season where they
already didn't have an identity and they can't find one. It was the offense
failing them early in the season. Now it's been the defense, But then
tonight it was also the offense in the second half after the defense was really
good in the first half. Some of this. At some point you gotta
say, maybe there's just not a good basketball team. Maybe they're a paper
tiger. I don't want to believe that the personnel is there. Kawhi Leonard
has been in God's ear mode and they keep losing games. His last twenty
one games now I want to say they're twenty two games they're twelve and ten.
How is that possible? With how good Kawai has been. Paul George
certainly hasn't been great coming out of the All Star Break. Last three games,
three or fifteen in this one. I'm scrambling to Clipper Nation trying to
find answers here. This team, it's not one person, it's not one
coach. It's they're imploding from all angles, collapsing in on themselves. Hey,
there's seventeen games left. Tuesday, I said there's eighteen games left to
get it right. At what point, though, are they going to turn
it around? They went through a six game losing streak this season. We
thought that was rock bottom. Four late in the season seems worse. Losing
the way they did tonight feels worse. But I'm not gonna make things worse
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one fifteen to ninety one to the Golden State Warriors to start things off,
son of a bitch Rex in La hobby here on the hob rides. Hear
me, I can hear you, Adam, hear me. Let it rap
at it later, rip Adam, but not too much, if you know
what I mean. And yeah, yeah, I know what you mean.
I know what you mean. I'm just saying that this boat is sinking.
I just if you can explain to me something here in the beginning of the
sea or the first game, you said, and I said it, this
is the best Clipper roster ever. And I'm looking at this team. I
mean, just think about it. Last year at this time they had a
better record and they didn't have Kawhi Leonard Paul George miss about what thirty something
games last year, didn't have Norman Powell. No, he played about thirty
of the games last year. Okay, okay, but didn't have Kawai Norman
Powell they gotten later on in the season. How could they have a better
record last year at this time? And now I just baffling you. Just
you explain that to me. I just don't get it. I'll tell you
why it looks like at times this team defensively, Remember last season without Kawai
all year, they were still top ten in defense eighth. This season they
were eleventh coming into this one. Let me tell you why that number isn't
what it's shows to be. I went back and I looked after the first
seven games of the season this year, where they were spectacular on the defensive
end, their offense wasn't there. They started the season three and four.
Remember they had lost four straight at one point early on, but their defense
was good and their offense was struggling, and they didn't have Kawhi after the
first couple of games, and he was playing limited minutes. I took those
seven games out and just looked since November first till well yesterday. But coming
into this one, the last fifty seven games, Clippers have been eighteenth defensively.
That can't happen with this roster. There is no reason, there is
no justification for them being that bad for that long. I know Zubots was
out tonight. I know he's missed about six games this season, and it's
always a big loss without him, But Kawai has played about forty Paul George
is almost at fifty Kawhi didn't play at all last season and they were eighth
Defensively. These guys aren't connected enough. They dip in and out of playing.
I don't know if it's hard. I don't know if it's effort or
if it's just execution out there and miscommunication. But it's not good enough defensively.
This team has no business being that bad. For that long, shots
should be able to come and go and their defense should hold up. But
when shots don't go for this team, typically they don't play well on the
other end either, and that is a sign as usually a very bad sign
when you let whether you make or miss shots affect your defense. No,
no, no, that's for sure. Another thing I was gonna ask you.
You know, I've been on Marcus Morris all year, and like I
just said, we can't blame if he didn't play today. But you know
what, I just with coach Lou You know what, I'm just thinking,
how came you to regrets coaching? And I about it? And you know
what, who's his assistant coaches? Adam? Because last year he had Chauncey
Billups and yet no, he didn't have Chauncey last year. Chauncy was already
the head coach of Portland. Okay, but he had in the acts correct,
he may have been gone. Atkinson also is player development guy that's not
necessarily your in game strategy guy. Dan Craig is still there as the DC
in multiples. Yeah, look, I'm not Look, Coach Lewis had a
tough season. I agree with that. I think the roster that we thought
was going to be deep, it just hasn't worked. The trade deadline looked
to get them pointing back in the right direction. It lasted a couple of
games. Then they bring in Russ. There's a new reshuffling, there's a
new reset. There's guys figuring out the roles once again. How they fit
in with this squad. I think it's just too many movies parts, you
know what I mean. But he has to Like you said, they're up
eleven and a half time. I mean, they should have won this game.
I mean there's a few games they should have won. But you know
what, like you said, tomorrow they're playing Sacrimento and they gotta win tomorrow
game and then win tomorrow would be five in a row. He said the
same thing. After Tuesday night. We said the same thing after Tuesday night.
We said the same thing going into Tuesday night after two brutal losses,
that they could have won either game and overtime. So you're right. I'm
not saying you're wrong, Javier. I'm just saying I don't know which team's
gonna show up game the game, quarter quarter half to have I don't know.
Do I think the talent is there, Yes, but you gotta put
it together and have some chemistry. And I don't know if they've given themselves
a great chance to build up enough chemistry with enough time left, with seventeen
games, while they're still tinkering and experimenting and seeing who works with, some
of that has to happen. There are four new players. I'm not sure
how much Bones Highland needs to play. I think when Russell Westbrook came into
the picture, we thought, Okay, he's not gonna play much. He
played against Denver, he played against Golden State some tonight. But Eric Gordon
was in the starting lineup. Wasn't Terrence Man, wasn't Norman Powell. I
Roco got some garbage minutes late. I know people have been talking about him
all season. I can't answer for why he hasn't played. It is perplexing.
Mike in La you're on Clippers stock without hm awesome. You know,
Adam, there was a time in the history of this organization when the owner
just walked the team for another team. I'm talking about the nineteen seventy eight
Bawston felt this buffalo brave swap. For those not familiar with really ancient Well,
I'm not interested in talking about the Clippers former owner. Well, oh
this was before, this was a few hours before. But I'm saying,
if I'm advising the bomber, I'm telling them, you may want to see
if you could do the same thing again. Just let me tell you that's
not a solution in the modern era. Give me something else, because that's
not happening. Will The other thing I think is I wonder if Kai Lewis
started to bove this season, started to believe his own height a little too
much, where you know, he's the tinkering guy. He knows that he's
going to make the adjustments and figure everything out, and as a result,
he started just you'm playing these rotations that you know, we we you know,
a ten game sample size to figure out that four guards and Marcus Morris
are going to get feet on the boards. I'll say this, A lot
of people have first guessed some of the moves this season that sometimes he has
gone away from eventually, but they went for so long, and we're curious.
I have been a little bit baffled with some of the moves. Well,
the three guard lineups, Reggie playing thirty minutes while Terrence Man's getting dnps,
stuff like that, and then Terrence Man ends up getting the starting lineup
for what twelve fourteen games. They play really well, and it's like,
how was he not even playing early in the season. This is somebody who
can do everything. He has so many ways to help you on the court.
I didn't understand it. I don't know. I've given him the benefit
of the doubt that he's going to figure things out because that's what he has
always done and still can. Tonight, though searching for answers. We'll come
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fifteen to ninety one to the Golden State Warriors, and it wasn't even that
close. Actually, game got away from them from start of the second half,
led by twelve, and Golden State went on h twenty one to four
run the Clippers before they waved the white flag. We're four for thirty two
in the second half. And they waved the white flag with seven minutes left
in the second because they were down in the fourth, because they were down
twenty one seven minute mark of the fourth You're down twenty one, and they
waved the white flag after going four for thirty two. They're on the back
to back. It makes sense. I have no problem doing that. It
was over. They weren't coming back those magical comebacks at or Cole Arena like
we played in the pre game Clippers rewe down thirty one. Ain't walking through
that door. Sadly, all right, welcome back in the Clipper stock.
I'm at'm ouslin eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy. I'll still find some positives. James and
Saint George, Utah, what's up? This phone line is not a positive?
James, take me ok, speaker, bluetooth. What effort is my?
God? I know you want to hear it later on the podcast properly,
so you want to sound good too, James, I hear it.
God help me drop. Let's go to Morrison Englewood. There's someone who's gonna
bring some positives. Morris, what's up? Well, I'm gonna tell you
something right now. Adam. I know this sound like a broken record,
and I know you've heard this. Have you ever heard the cliche a make
misleague. I have, I've used it. I'm not using it tonight.
If you're go ahead and put it, come on at him, put it.
I mean, we've never seen nothing like this, These boys less ice.
Oh, she says, they're gonna never be this gold again, and
you're gonna get some calls. So I'm going we'll fire the coach. Take
out, let me change something. You can't let him go right now.
You can fire them at the end of the year. Okay, what do
you people are gonna do? Change things over night? They're gonna figure it
out. Okay, they showed they can't play. They just can't play forty
eight minutes. But they're gonna figure it out at him, all right,
and then and then never gonna be this cold again, all right, behave
yourself. Well, it would be difficult when you're shooting him hawth or something.
That's That's where it looked like. I saw an a t t walk
by. As another mystery went up. There was a tonton. Do you
know what I'm not? I thought this felt bad on the outside. Uh,
let's go Bradley and san Dimas Y're on Clipper stop without him? Oslin,
Hey, Adam, you hear me? I got you, Bradley,
your phone sounds great, Thanks for playing along, Yeah, no problem.
Yeah. So I think something that I've been thinking about lately, and it
kind of harkens back to a lot of the early season struggles, not even
really like from Game one, but before that, when the team just decided,
like, you know, we don't need to back up center and we
kind of saw what that did early on. Is it possible that that twenty
twenty one run kind of I know where you're going with this. Them playing
small then may not work as well. Now. Yeah, I don't want
to say like the team was like fools gold, because I think the team
was really good, but where those the perfect matchups to play small ball?
And it kind of gave the team the whole wrong idea of their basketball philosophy
since then, as it gave them some fools gold. Now it wasn't fools
gold against Dallas against Utah, and they had to run some small ball against
Phoenix when Zoo went down too. I have wondered this. I've also kind
of speculated whether or not the league is caught up to some of that playing
five out. But the truth is, I mean I can count the amount
of times that they've truly gone to wing stop this season, which we thought
was going to be the identity and the versatility that they have on this team
would make sense that it would be about on one hand, about you know,
a few a few times oh year they've really tried it and an unleashed
wing stop. Roco has not been playing after he had a good January where
he started to get some minutes all of a sudden, and guess what,
he caught a rhythm. He shot thirty nine percent from the outside. When
people were saying, well, so he's not even shooting that well early in
the season, It's like, yeah, if you play one or true minutes
a week, it's not gonna happen. I that part of me. I
can't understand it for the life of me as well, James or excuse me,
y yeah, Bradley, Yeah, yeah, I just you know,
throughout the season, especially when we're seeing those three guard lineups, you know
they'd go small, and it's like the expectation was the offense will open up.
But you know the thing about especially twenty twenty one, is you had
probably the only week defender out there was Reggie right, because you know,
Muke has his problems, but in those playoffs, you know, he was
he was flying. Muke was great in those playoffs. He did a lot
of the dirty work even when shots weren't fallowing. And he hit seven threes
against Dallas in Game seven, But even when shots weren't falling, he was
doing the little thing. Yeah he was. He was battling Gobert down in
the post and Mega talking series him and the tomb and uh, you know,
but now right when you have Reggie and Luke and norm out, they're
granted, two of those guys aren't here anymore, but you know they played
a lot. They played a lot in the first sixty games. A lot.
Yeah, yeah, And so I guess my main point here is,
I just, you know, uh, it's hard for me to get excited
about these last seventeen games. This team is really really flawed. You know,
If they're going to put out that effort every night, I'm gonna match
that effort the rest of the season. But I guess my main point is,
uh, I just kind of think that it's hard to put blame on
one party in the organization when completely the whole thing is really kind of a
disaster completely when you have something falling apart to this degree, it's never just
one thing. It's not that simple. And Bradley, I mean, good
job, good effort tonight. Man, you got to call back tomorrow.
I appreciated my friend. I don't know, I don't know if I'm gonna
watch tomorrow, man, but yeah, keep the faith, keep it.
I mean, look, would it not be the most Clippers thing to win
their first championship while playing this bad and having a low seed, Like,
would they not make it harder on themselves? That would seem to track to
me, I couldn't agree with that maybe a week ago, but I just
think I think we're at that point a lot, a lot. Actually yeah,
I think it might just be time to to not look toward but you
know, really really kind of let it go. But you know, I
think give us. We're still fans. But all right, thanks Sadam,
Thanks for the time. Appreciate you, Bradley. Uh, let's go to
Sean and Inglewood. Sean, you're on Clippers Stipe without aim Aslinky. Good
to talk to you. Thanks for getting back to the phone in time.
Yeah, I feel like you jumped over a chair. Oh No, the
school, Jim Over, I just want to talk to you about the entire
You said the team doesn't have an identity, and the am I wrong?
What's their identity? I've said it's consistently inconsistent. That's an identity you don't
want. I'm not arguing with you, Adam No, I'm just saying they
haven't had an identity since Montress, Harold Lou Williams the year before they got
Kawai and Paul hold On. Hold On, they definitely had an identity in
the twenty twenty one playoffs, and it was being a switchable, versatile team
that could guard one through five. Okay, I'll give you that, Okay,
but currently the identity and the impact of Russell everything's not Russell's fault that
became aboard, but you actually put Gordon Highland, parents Man and also Power
in a situation of flux, not aware of where they sit in you can
actually shine. Let me get back to you hold On, because you touched
upon something interesting. It's not that it's Russ's fault, but bringing in any
player this laid into the season that's going to be playing thirty minutes and starting
is difficult to implement an integrate. Right, Yeah, you're taking my slow
because what happened is that I wanted him here, but I didn't want him
to start right away and just disrupt everything. And so the by products of
his disruption you can see it in their body energy and their language on the
court. And then they're forcing them shots that they felt more comfortable taking when
they had more time and they knew that they were going to get minutes.
You can see it all, and it's a it's a kind of a flux
that you a dynamic that is the whole team's experience it and clus to fact
to make the perfect storm even worse. The first game they played together that
they really should have won and they had the league tay Lou can't call a
play when it's eight seconds of five seconds on the closs and get a decent
shot. All right, are you talking about the King's game. I'm talking
about the King's game. They were up three. They didn't foul, Monk,
you're up three, like foul? Well, but no, I'm pretty
sure, Sean. Let me finish. Look, I love you, but
we're not gonna do that. Sean. This is what happened. It sounds
like that was the plan, and the players didn't execute it. I'm not
putting that on coach Lou. If guys don't foul, they are professionals,
they know they're up three. You foul, agatta to you win the free
battle, you win the game. John, am I wrong? You're right
about that. I don't know if he'd called it or not, but they
didn't call the right player on offense either. Every time they get they don't
even get a hyperstenic or this shot when their second less on the clock,
they call the time out and guess what you see a four stump shot.
It's just ridiculous. Okay, be a better coach, Tylo. I'm saying,
you know, so what all would happened? That momentum of those first
two overtime losses also had a big effect on the entire team. I can
see it. I agree with you. I agree with you. I think
let me see if you pick up on this shown because on that last road
trip where at one point, I think that was during the sixth game losing
streak, when they were on the road and they blew that game to Philly
where they were up by twenty and they were playing great, and they look
great, and for whatever reason they gave it away. There was something there
that I think is lingering because you remember, and I'm trying to put this
together and make sure I have this right. But the Clippers almost and this
was the next time around on a road trip. This was that last one
and it wasn't the six game losing streak, but there were warning signs.
Remember the game in Atlanta to start off the road trip. They won it,
but they were holding on late after having a big lead and they almost
gave it away. Then they don't play guys against Cleveland, they lose that
game by twenty three. Then against Chicago they almost did the same thing and
fumbled the game away at the ends just to hold on. They have had
issues closing games, even in wins. This is why I never say a
wins a win. You can see warning signs, you can see flaws there.
And guess what happened on that trip when they played a better team in
Milwaukee and they led by twenty one, they did give it away. They
did complete the collapse that time because they were taking on a better opponent,
but the signs were there in two games beforehand. Are you with me?
I'm with you. Again, they come down to identity. As you were
saying, and I was saying, and I think the one thing they need
to do ternce Man definitely needs to start because he gets the energy going.
And then as you were saying, the piggyback on your point, they have
guts to get their clothing team together, and clothes okay than what they were
doing. I'm just glad you watched and called in tonight. Sean, are
you gonna calling them all? I have no idea. I'm telling you,
I'm good. I'm frustrated. I get it, brother, you get three
Hall of Famers on this team and you can't call a five second place is
to get a shot of I'm getting very frustrated, all right, Sean.
I hope you keep the faith as well. Ali Yun and Lancaster ali Yun,
I get that right, Yes exactly, Hi Adam, Hi ali Yune,
what's up? But I want to stay in man. You don't think,
uh, what book would be better? Coming from the bench. When
I was asked on the clips and dip pod if they get Russell Westbrook,
what would be the best position for him, I thought it was going to
be off the bench and for a couple of different reasons. They have had
trouble keeping up energy, and I thought at the end of first quarters into
second quarters and throughout the year they've had issues in second quarters, that would
be a good bridge point for Russ playing early in that second quarter with Paul
George because typically they would stagger the minutes where kah I wouldn't come back into
the second quarter until about the five or six minute mark. So you'd get
a lot of PG and Russ there, and those two obviously have chemistry.
They've worked together in okayc And then I thought this same thing could happen and
the thirds going into fourth quarters. But they want a point guard. They
wanted the starting point guard. They campaign for him. They got to figure
it out. He's in the starting lineup and it hasn't look There have been
beautiful moments from this team where the offense looks better than ever against Sacramento at
times, against Denver at times in the first half. At times tonight,
Russell Westbrook just throwing dimes, getting into the paint, passing up three pointers,
getting into the paint and then giving Mason Plumly an easy one. He
did it multiple times, got him to the foul line that way too,
found Kawhi Leonard for a lob, found Paul George underneath the basket. They
weren't getting these easy baskets early on this season with that's why you bring him
in there, to make the game easier for those guys. The flip side
of it is you're trying to figure things out with them and it leads to
a lot of turnovers because coming into this game, in the seventy eight minutes
that Russ, Kawai, and Paul George had been on the floor together coming
into this game, so in just three contests, yes, but there's only
seventeen left, they had turned the ball over thirty five times in seventy eight
minutes, so almost almost a turnover every two minutes. It was that bad
because two of the last three games coming into this one day and twenty five
turnovers. So they gotta smooth things out. If those three are going to
play together on the floor and Russ is going to be a starter, it
can't be feast or famine. They have to be more consistent. What do
you think, Elliott, Yeah, you're right, you're right, But also
I think I don't know if this team is not too big for Tyls.
What do you think? Say it again? The Cliffers team, they're very
lordy. I don't know if it's too much. The Cleveland Cavaliers with Lebron
James weren't too much for him. So no, I don't think that's the
case. But I appreciate the phone call you and we'll talk to you tomorrow.
We'll take a quick time out eight six six ninety seven two five seventy
eight six sixty ninety eight seven two five seventy looking for coach lou postgame audio.
We'll also have on Charles Mapa from Eclipse and dip Pod Spicy Tonight here
at Clipper's talk, it was gonna be up eleven at a half. I
don't know how they can go that cold from the outside and for some of
it not to be mental when you're missing shots like that. I think guys
were gripping in the second half. But if Paul George is gonna go one
fray from the outside, Westbrook goes over five, How's over seven and Eric
Gordon's two for ten, I don't know. Maybe that does tell the story.
Maybe this is that simple maker miss League. There you go, Morrise
or Clipper stock decks here an five seventy l a sports hen he got it.
Count it from distance. The odds on favorite to hoist the Larry o'bride
heavily contest it, and it doesn't matter. On the home of your LA.
Clippers lose one fifteen ninety one up North in SF in a game where
they had eleven point lead at the half. Kawhi Leonard hit a three pointer
before the end of the first half and they lose this one. As welcome
back into Clipper Stock, I'm autam oslin eight sixty six ninety seven two five
seventy eight six sixty ninety seven two five seventy. Clippers have lost four in
a row. They continue to hemorrhich right now, and I don't know what
the answer is, hence why we like taking phone calls sometimes on Clippers Stalk.
Look, I I do think I said this early on this season.
On one hand, I think the game may have caught up with some of
the five out lineups because more teams are doing it, something that the Clippers
were a step ahead on in the twenty one playoffs. But we also just
haven't seen them tried enough. It's strange. I thought all season long,
how is Roco playing this little? What is happening? Nicolas Batoum not getting
as many minutes as Marcus Morris, Terrence Man not playing enough, getting dnps
that stuff. They lost a lot of games when they had one of the
easiest schedules in the NBA to open things up. So it is a little
bit perplexing even for me as we try to reach Chuck Mockler. But that
ain't happening. Let's go to James and Saint George. Oh, this is
a good call out him. I'm sure the phone will be great now.
James, what's up? Yeah, the phone's James Water. Dear God,
on a night like tonight, did I mention our petids are falling off?
It's just like that. Clippers lose one fifteen to ninety one of the Golden
State Warriors. Look, there's seventeen games left. If coach lew is the
guy I think he is, he's going to figure it out. If he's
the same guy he was two seasons ago in in twenty sixteen for the Cleveland
Cavaliers, making the tough decisions. This is someone who wasn't afraid of bench
lebron James before. If you can do that, you can take away anyone's
minutes who's not performing, because I don't see at this point how they can't
go with the guys who are playing the best. You have to There's seventeen
games left. There's nothing else that can be done. At this point.
You have to win to get into the tournament. You guys might have to
win this game to the play in. They are just in that deep of
a hole right now. Yeah, and the West is too tight, so
trying out new lineups. And I'm still looking for postgame audio from coach Low
and even a quote here and there, and Drew grayfe hook it up only
times. Well, I'm orry, where are you at? Not seeing any
If there was time for a player's meeting would be now. But we do
have some audio I wants you to hear that we played in the pregame show.
And this is from Paul George on with JJ Reddick, a former Clipper.
This was on the Old Man in the three podcast. It's an amazing
interview. It's an hour long. And I don't know if this is encouraging
or making you hopeful and sanguin and optimistic, or if this is the flaw
of this team. I'm not sure, but I want you to hear it
either way. Here was pg I want jj Reddick. Where would you sort
of assess where the Clippers are right now relative to the rest of the best
teams in the NBA. I think, honestly, I think our record,
you know, you know, you look at some teams and it's like,
all right, their record doesn't indicate how good of a team they are,
And I think that that's the case for us. Like we're a team that,
like, all right, you put us in a seven game series with
how well t Lou coaches and his adjustments, Like, we're a team that's
going to come out in a seven game series when we're healthy, you know
what I mean, Like, well, we'll make the adjustments. We got
the personnel, we got the players that play and perform on a big stages,
Like we got proven winners on our side. I like where we're at,
like our chances, like we just you know, I've missed fifteen games,
Kwie, missed about fifteen to twenty games, Like we just haven't had
the luck of being healthy for a full season and to be able to play
with you know, a full roster. Our whole season, and I think
that's just where our record is indicating that, Like we haven't had much practice
time, we haven't had much on the court time, given with so many
guys in out of the lineup, like we're in now here we are again
adding Russell to the lineup. Eric Maze bones like there's three games in,
they're still figuring out our system. Like I think it's just that's just what
it comes down to for us. We just don't have We just haven't had
the luck of putting in good hours and good you know, game in,
good practice days, being fully at our best, and when we get down
to the stretch, like like I said, seven games, we're going to
be a tough out. That last part there, well, I know you
have to have confidence, and at this point you have no other other option
than to believe you're a flip the switch team, because they certainly haven't been
consistent all season long. The talent may be there, but I wonder if
they relied on that mindset too much. Just get us to the playoffs,
Just get us in a seven game series, we'll figure it out. That
and they've let the regular season go by the wayside. They've had one and
a half eyes on the playoffs all season long. I don't know, but
I did find that interesting. You gotta believe in yourself, you gotta believe
in the team. And that was granted before they lost to Minnesota Tuesday night,
and obviously before they lost tonight. But when does the urgency kick in?
When do you say we actually have to start playing basketball. We had
a caller earlier say they just can't do it forty eight minutes. Guess what.
That's where an NBA game is. At some point they do against quality
competition, you will lose. They lost two overtimes in the last four games
too good teams, games they could have easily won. And I just hope
that mindset isn't what it's seeped in to the point where the regular season doesn't
matter enough. We're here for the playoffs because I don't know, if you
can just turn it on. Golden State might be able to. They have
a built in identity. They've been great, they have four championships, they
won it last season. They might be able to play around. I don't
know if they Clippers can afford to do that and then say, yeah,
we'll be the sixth seed or the seventh seed and figure it out. There
has been one team in the modern era that has won that is not a
top three seed. I told you this earlier on the season. It matters.
The only team that did it was the ninety five Houston Rockets. They
were a sixth seed. They also, though, had won it the season
before, so you could say, okay, they were champions. The famebody
was gonna pull that off. It was clutch City outside that. History does
not favor the Clippers in the position they're in. We'll come back, We'll
see if we get somebody on from clips to day. I don't know,
Chuck's phone just skipped it across the lake or something. Eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy Clipper
Nation sweets keep coming in out follow out of May. I get it.
There is a lot of aggravated people out there. Someone said, I can
cannot wait for us to reboot this with the Superstars. We are a giant
jigsaw puzzle with no work, none of the right pieces. I don't know,
but the picture is not getting anymore clear. What they should do.
I still believe. I still think they got the right, guys. Clearly
they gotta put together and it's got to start tomorrow. We'll Clipperstock next year.
By seventy sports George and Lennard running. You're listening to La Clippers basketball,
but I'm tough. Clip puts it down plus the foul every game all
season long. On their official home Climbers lose one, fifteen and ninety one
up north to the Golden State Warriors. I met him Oslin. We're trying
to have a sense of urgency to night here at Cliberstock, kicking doing the
best of wee care here, kick of reason through. What's happening with this
Clippers team out of the All Star break? They had one ten of fourteen.
Coming into the All Star break, they had one ten of their last
twelve with Kawai and Paul George. During that time, they looked to have
been turning a corner, and now it's all falling apart at the seams.
I gotta be honest with you, that's what's happening. It looks like a
team that has forgotten how to win right now. They lose both over times.
They lose to Minnesota in a game they were up by twelve, they
were up by twelve to start the third quarter or early in the third quarter
against Golden State and couldn't hit a shot. I don't know if they were
just pressing at some point, if the season is weighing on them with all
the different moving parts and guys don't know their roles, I can only speculate.
I don't know, but the product, which is so good at times,
just they can't seem to find any consistency out there, and you gotta
have it in this league. Let's go to Alan norwalk Al, what's up?
You're on clipper side without Amazin? Yeah, how's it going? It's
all good. Al, what's up? I was just, you know,
just taking a look at the numbers. You. I can't help but feel
bad for Westbrook. I don't think it's fair, of course, to blame
him for this losing streak, and we haven't been as I mentioned. Yeah,
I don't think it's about Russ. I think it's about bringing in a
player, and bringing in a starter at the point guard position this late into
the season. That may be the problem. It's just somebody that has the
ball in their hands and a high usage like that so much you're up,
you're up. Ending your your offense and your play and you're trying to do
too much with too little time to figure it out. Yeah, I think
the results. It's just tough for him to come in and they go on
a losing streak and he's has, you know, these turnovers and mysteries.
I think the noise is just going to continue to grow and it's it's kind
of just bad luck. You can't help but feel bad for the guy.
Yeah, I get it, and I feel bad for some of the other
guys that we're finding their rhythm and then realized, oh, we're gonna reshuffle
things. Here we go because Norm Powell, I don't know what's going on.
One for nine from the field, two points oh of seven from the
outside, just thirteen against Minnesota, just nine against Denver. This was someone
who was scoring in bunches in six of the last eight games before the last
three where he has struggled. I just gave you the numbers. He was
getting twenty or more and on his way to looking like the six Man of
the year. Shooting has been absurd on the season. He's at forty two
percent from the outside, but he has had a month were he just shot
forty eight percent from three in January. He still shot forty percent on a
bad month in February. I don't get it, Mike and Brow. You're
on Clippers South without I am awsome? Yeah, how you doing, Adam?
I hate to be the bear of bad news, but I just read
where Norm Powell is wearing a sling in the locker room. Well, that's
a little bit of an explanation. Yeah, there's something going on with his
arm. Anyway. My take is, I just feel like Father Time is
caught up with this team. I just think they're out of gas. Does
Kawhi Leonard look out of gas? He's playing some of the best basketball of
his career and he's your best player. Does father Time caught him? Because
it doesn't look like it. But he can't do it all at him?
He can't do it all. Oh he can't. But you said this team
and he is the most important player on the team. I'm talking about the
other players. Paul George is not playing like like he like he should.
Norm Powell hasn't played well, just like you've just mentioned. I don't know
what's going on with Marcus Morris. That's another mystery. That's fair. He's
been rough the last two months. Shooting has fallen off, defense has fallen
off, everything. He hasn't looked like the same player he's been at all.
Yeah, you know, and he's out tonight with an injury, and
maybe that's some of the explanation that could be it. I hate to bring
up the team across the hall, but I just happened to watch him last
night, and without hate what you're going to interesting? Yeah, without without
Lebron James and uh Davis, they came out with energy. And granted they
beat a Oklahoma team without Shay Giljis, but you know, they came out
with energy. They won the game. Hey, the Clippers came out with
energy too. Where'd it go in the second half. I don't know.
I don't know. I think they got out coached, To tell you the
truth, I think I think Curr's a much better coach. And you know,
and like I said, I think that that one game where they went
into double overtime really took a toll on this team as far as gas and
and and just energy and everything. And now with man, it's just you
know, he's probably thinking, what do I got to do? All right?
Yeah, I hear you. You make some ceiling points, y'all.
Clippers lose one fifteen to ninety one. I'll offer you this on the way
out. Coach Lewis said he's confident still. When things aren't going well,
you have to be tough enough to push through a quote. We just got
to stay the course. Got to be mentally tough, mentally strong. Can't
give in, just gotta be tougher. Starts tomorrow in Sacramento. Tip time
is at seven, while Clippers count down in six. Before we get out
of here. Do you want to thank the Clippers organization? Noah Eagle,
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