WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:04.440 The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame 2 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:09.880 reaction has just begot Kawhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range. This 3 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:14.000 is Clippers locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead on 4 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:18.879 your hope for LA Clippers basketball at now your host, You, sir, 5 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:24.719 are a bad man, Adam Osley, Clippers falling down, say on Los 6 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:28.600 Angeles one fifteen to one Ozho three to the Denver Nuggets. Welcome into your 7 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:32.439 postgame show. Coming up, we'll get your postgame box score. You'll hear 8 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:35.640 from coach lew and the players. But first back to your voice of the 9 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:41.359 Clippers. Noah Eagle. Just killer turnover after killer turnover down the stretch of 10 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:43.759 this one by the Clippers. Now, yeah, play it simple. One 11 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:47.920 turnover in the first half, eleven in the second half, and the results 12 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:53.320 in twenty one points for Denver, a team that came into this one towards 13 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:57.840 the bottom in points off turnovers at sixteen point three per game. They're bottom 14 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:00.479 five in the NBA. Look, this is another one the Clippers going to 15 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:04.280 look back and say that was a missed opportunity. That was a game that 16 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:07.640 could have been won, and it wasn't. Now we keep going back to 17 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:12.280 Boston Celtics, Dallas Mavericks from last year. At some point there's a turn 18 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:15.840 on and can the Clippers find that where they just start clicking on all so 19 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:19.519 owners, it felt like they had a Tuesday against Dallas. They had an 20 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.000 early today against Denver, but the defense never settled it enough for them to 21 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:25.719 build the lead. And then Jamal Murray, I think you gotta give him 22 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:27.640 credit. You've got to give Michael Porter Junior credit. But twenty two, 23 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.400 Aaron Gordon was seventeen. This is a Denver team, even without Yokich that 24 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:34.480 is so difficult to handle. And then you add in the two time MVP. 25 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.359 I mean, they're nearly impossible. So Clippers drop another one to them, 26 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.959 and Torontolu will mention it that this team owns the Clippers right now. 27 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:46.879 They're good learning experiences, I think, but at some point you've got to 28 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:49.760 make the necessary adjustments. And that's still what we're waiting for out of this 29 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:53.680 team. And Nuggets have won eight of their last nine games against the Clippers. 30 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:56.719 They just can't seem to slay this dragon. You mentioned Jamal Murray, 31 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:00.000 he has seven of his twenty four in that fourth and they only turn it 32 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:04.680 over twice and the Clippers didn't even get points off those turnovers. Meanwhile, 33 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:07.159 Clippers was seven turnovers on the fourth, leading it a thirteen Denver Nuggets points. 34 00:02:07.199 --> 00:02:09.759 Yeah, there's your ball game right there. You know, you head 35 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:15.680 into the fourth quarter trailing after you led the entire game, and so then 36 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:17.360 you trail by five points. You say, okay, listen, this is 37 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:21.719 still very much right there for the taking. You just gotta play good basketball 38 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:25.080 in the final twelve minutes, and it was the opposite. The second half 39 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:28.919 score in this game is as telling as anything because in the first half the 40 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:32.719 Clippers has mentioned played well. They put up fifty eight points, but but 41 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:37.680 thirty four of them coming in the first quarter twenty four, and the second 42 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:40.319 twenty three, and the third twenty two, and the fourth Denver's defense locked 43 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:46.000 in. Denver puts up fifty eight points in the second half, compared to 44 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.120 just the forty five for the Clippers. There's your ball game, and it's 45 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:52.800 down the stretch with the turnovers with Denver taking advantage, just a little bit 46 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:55.319 of everything that could go wrong did go wrong for La And another one that 47 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:59.639 you're bummed to lose based on who wasn't there. Yeah, and it felt 48 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:02.199 like the Slippers are trying to win a shootout against the best offense in the 49 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:07.479 league that was able to outscore them and get a few more stops off those 50 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:10.520 turnovers by the Clippers. Now, on the positive side, Kawhi Leonard continues 51 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:14.879 to make strides coming off the ACL injury. That dunk he had in the 52 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:17.439 third quarter with special no doubt about it, and him and John Wall both 53 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:21.919 had poster dunks that are gonna be played over and over on top ten everywhere. 54 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:24.439 That one from Kawhi, like I said, you put it up with 55 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:28.000 the klipa dunk. You put it up with Derek Favors. I don't know 56 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:30.400 if you can Derrick Favorits was like a different level altogether. But Daniel Ties 57 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:34.680 Daniel Tys for sure. I think that DeAndre Ayton. Yeah, he's had 58 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:37.520 a couple of big ones with the Clippers, and that one was the first 59 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:42.199 this season where you're say, oh, it's still in there, and so 60 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:45.879 that was a good positive sign. Again, he's getting healthier by the game, 61 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:49.039 healthier by the day, and he's looking more and more like pre injury 62 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:52.280 Kawai. That's great. Now you've got to use that and you've got to 63 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:54.960 find ways to get wins. Because at five hundred at forty four games through 64 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:59.039 the season, five hundred on the year, this is about where they were 65 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:01.439 last year, and they're better than they were last year because they have the 66 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:05.000 personnel to prove it. So now it's about listen. You've got two more 67 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:10.120 games on this homestand then you've got a couple of road trips, somewhat back 68 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:13.960 to back. You've got three real road games before technically if you include the 69 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.680 Lakers, then you come back home for one against the San Antonio Spurs, 70 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:19.240 and then you go back on the road for that Grammy trip. That's six 71 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:23.439 games on the road against six teams that are going to be difficult. It 72 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.319 starts in Atlanta, Clippers already lost to the Hawks. Then it's a back 73 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:29.519 to back against Cleveland, a team that's gonna want it to get back against 74 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:32.959 the Clippers. And then after that you've got Chicago, who's we saw what 75 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:38.879 happened last year. The Clippers lost both and Maarjo Rosen went off in that 76 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:44.000 second game he at fifty. And then Milwaukee, who has the honis and 77 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:47.319 when you have Jannis, you're good. And then you go to New York 78 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:50.480 and you play the Knicks of the Nets and look, no Kevin Durant in 79 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:54.839 all likelihood in that game. And that's just lost to the Celtics yesterday. 80 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:58.120 But they proved that they're still real good even without them. And we know 81 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:00.120 that New York's playing some good basketball right now. Jalen Brunson probably going to 82 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:03.480 be an All Star for the Knicks. Even Wally Zerbiak would agree with that. 83 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:10.079 So to me, this is a critical stretch of proving what you are, 84 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:13.759 proving who you are, and this was one of those games Clippers don't 85 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:15.759 pass that test. But that's okay. There's still a lot of runway left, 86 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:19.639 still thirty eight games remaining. What can you do down the stretch? 87 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:24.319 Now? What can be your finisher to the season. How can you find 88 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:28.720 that next extra gear if you're the Clippers, And these next two road trips 89 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:30.879 coming up, I think are really going to show a lot. And it 90 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:34.839 also feels like Sunday's game against the Houston Rockets, there are no mus wins 91 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:39.439 currently. We still have so many games left to play, but the Clippers 92 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:43.319 have to get right and get back and get back pointed in the right direction, 93 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:46.920 and the Rockets are obviously one of the teams at the bottoms of the 94 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:50.199 standings. Clippers tip off against the Houston Rockets Sunday at twelve. We'll have 95 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:57.000 your Clippers pregame show. Clippers countdown at eleven am. No ego, great 96 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:00.079 call. Talk to you on Sunday. Can't wait, Let's see you, 97 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:04.279 but I'll talk to you. Oh damp of the movie, qualify that I'm 98 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:10.639 sorry. Clippers lose one fifteen to one oho three to the Denver Nuggets, 99 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:16.079 and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio Wow checks down a Clipper squipt 100 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:24.959 fully kicking Bob Oh Paul George LA Clippers Basketball continue ice in his pains as 101 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:30.720 he carries the three on the home of your LA Clippers. Clippers lose a 102 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:35.519 tough one to the Denver Nuggets, again, this time without Nikola Yokish. 103 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:40.959 They fall one fifteen to one oh three here at home in downtown Los Angeles. 104 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:44.800 I'm out of Oslin. Welcome back into your post game show coming up 105 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:46.920 on a M five seventy. You will have Clippers talk for you eight six 106 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:50.439 six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five 107 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:56.759 seventy is the phone number all right. Post game box score well, Clippers 108 00:06:56.879 --> 00:07:00.720 end up shooting a respectable forty six percent from the field, but just ten 109 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:03.160 of twenty nine from the outside. That's under thirty five percent. Meanwhile, 110 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:06.040 the Denver Nuggets, the best three point shooting team in the league. They 111 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:11.319 go fourteen of thirty three from distance. They shoot forty two percent and fifty 112 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:15.839 percent overall from the field. But Denver, after having at the half six 113 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:21.000 turnovers to one for the Clippers, they have just five turnovers in the second 114 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:26.720 half, and the Clippers have eleven, seven of those coming in the fourth 115 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:32.639 quarter, leading to thirteen points for the Denver Nuggets. Just a disparity that's 116 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:38.319 tough to overcome when it's that wide of a margin. During winning time and 117 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:42.199 the Clippers fall one fifteen to one oh three, they're leading score Kawhile Leonard 118 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:46.240 ten of twenty one had twenty four points, his best dunk coming off the 119 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:50.079 ACL injury. He caught a body inside, as did John Wall. He 120 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:54.680 finished with sixteen points on six of twelve shooting off the bench as well. 121 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.560 Norman Powell had eighteen for the Clippers on seven of fifteen and three of nine 122 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:03.000 from the outside, but the turnovers came in bunches late and the Denver Nuggets 123 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:07.720 made them pay. Jamal Murray had twenty four, Michael Porter Junior with twenty 124 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:13.720 two, Aaron Gordon was seventeen, and the Clippers lose by twelve here at 125 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:18.360 home. They've lost eight of their last nine matchups now against the Denver Nuggets. 126 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.720 Coming up next. Postgame audio from coach lou and the players and on 127 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:24.720 AM five seventy LA Sports eight six six to nine, eight seven two five 128 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:28.800 seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy. If you want to get 129 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:33.159 on early like Brian in Burbank to talk about it on AM five seventy and 130 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.480 just a bit, you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio. Now shot 131 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:48.519 a swish shot spending, George and Lennard running. You're listening to LA Clippers 132 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:52.759 Basketball. I'm Tom Clipper puts it down plus the foul every game all season 133 00:08:52.879 --> 00:09:00.200 long on their official home Clippers lose one, fifteen to one. Are you 134 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:03.679 here in downtown LA to the Denver Nuggets. Welcome back into your postgame show 135 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:09.320 on at a model. Clipper's next contest right back here on Sunday, they 136 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.000 take on the Houston Rockets, the top team in the West, two on 137 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.799 the bottom teams in the Western Conference. Tip time for that one is at 138 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:20.559 noon. We'll have Clippers countdown the pregame show starting at eleven AM. Outside 139 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:26.240 of Los Angeles when you have Clipper Stock coming up for on AMP five seventy 140 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:28.240 LA Sports, We're leaving you outside of Los Angeles, but coming up the 141 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.159 next on AM five seventy l A Sports eight six six nine eight seven two 142 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:37.679 five seventy eight six six, nine eight seven two five seventy is the full 143 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:41.759 number. Outside of LA. We're back with you starting at eleven am on 144 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:46.919 Sunday when the Clippers take on the Rockets in LA. It's Clipper Stock next 145 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.159 the hands in air. We to shade great with that anyway, even if 146 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:54.240 I left the days, say to win them. This has been Clippers locker 147 00:09:54.360 --> 00:10:00.440 room. Oh full side for Paul George. The conclusion to another game of 148 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:05.519 exciting LA Clippers basketball. Don't miss annie of the action all season long on 149 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:13.080 your home for the Al Clippers. Welcome into Clippers Talk. There's a new 150 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:16.080 sheriff from town. You won't be able to deny it. You're going to 151 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:18.360 go to the NBA Finals. I believe in my heart this is the best 152 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:22.720 team in the history of the franchise. I am all about the Clipper Nation. 153 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:28.480 This is Clippers Talk. They're trying to win the whole thing. A 154 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:33.840 postgame look, it's your La Clippers recapping the game, the stars and looking 155 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:39.279 ahead to what's next. To hear episodes you've missed. Subscribe to Clippers Talk 156 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:45.039 on iHeart Radio or wherever you podcast. Now your host of Clippers Talk. 157 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:52.639 Here's Adam Oslin. Well stop me if you've heard this one before. Clippers 158 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:58.720 fall to the Denver Nuggets, this time without Niklaki. They lose one fifteen, 159 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:03.240 so one three. Here in downtown Los Angeles. Welcome in to Clippers 160 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:07.039 Talk. I'm at a Moslin. We are live with you for about the 161 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:11.320 next forty minutes. Here eight six six ninet eight seven two five seventy eight 162 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:16.159 six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number coming up. 163 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:18.720 We'll get to your phone calls. You'll hear from Coach Low and the players. 164 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:22.200 As the Clippers now have lost eight of their last nine games to the 165 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:28.279 Nuggets can't slay the Dragon, But to lose to a team tonight that doesn't 166 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:35.440 have Nikla Yokich, the back to back raining MVP, that's hard to swallow. 167 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:39.799 Clippers had the best player on the floor and Kawhi Leonard, and they 168 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:48.080 lose this game by twelve anyways, and they had their opportunities, and they 169 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:54.320 played sound offensive basketball for the most part until the fourth quarter came around. 170 00:11:56.120 --> 00:12:00.440 Clippers let it to half by one, let after the first quarter by two, 171 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.080 but it just felt like they were trying to get into a shootout and 172 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:07.600 beat Denver at their own game, which was unlikely to happen. Denver Nuggets 173 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:13.559 have the best offense in the NBA, bottom five defense, but best offense 174 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:16.600 in the NBA. The Clippers tried to hang with them, and after putting 175 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:18.399 up thirty four points in the first quarter is no eagle point out earlier, 176 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:22.720 Clippers just twenty four points in the second, twenty three and the third twenty 177 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:30.000 two. In the fourth quarter as the turnovers piled up, Clippers had just 178 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:33.159 one turnover in the first half. We knew that wasn't sustainable, of course, 179 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:37.039 and ending up with twelve turnovers in the ball games, not a bad 180 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:41.000 number till you dig into exactly where they came and what kind of turnovers they 181 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:48.320 were. And in the third quarter they had four, but in the fourth 182 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:56.320 they had seven turnovers, leading the thirteen points and just some head scratching. 183 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:03.120 Once out of a time out, john Wall throws a bad pass looking for 184 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:07.440 Norman Powell ends up with an an one as john Wall would foul on the 185 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:13.919 other end, and Denver converted the old fashioned three point play. Then Nicholas 186 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:18.360 Patoum has a steal, but he loses it right back and Gordon hits a 187 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:26.000 three pointer. Kawhi Leonard uncharacteristically had a couple of turnovers, including a travel 188 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:33.080 after he missed a layup in traffic in the fourth quarter, and john Wall 189 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:37.759 stepped on the baseline on an out of bounce play coming out of a time 190 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:43.360 out. These are just careless, self inflicted wounds that cannot happen, but 191 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:48.440 they have happened all season long, and while coming into this game, last 192 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:52.960 six games they had averaged less than twelve turnovers per game, and they hit 193 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:58.840 twelve in this one. When you're not playing great basketball all around, you 194 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:05.440 can't get away with these type of mistakes. They're gonna kill you eventually, 195 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:11.960 backbreaking turnovers to a team that doesn't need any extra possessions out there. In 196 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:16.480 the Denver Nuggets, they're too good, they're too lethal. They're the best 197 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.080 three point shooting team in the league. And they went fourteen to thirty three 198 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:26.440 from three and hit big ones when they needed them. Against the Clippers, 199 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:31.399 they were four of seven in the fourth quarter and all four hit from a 200 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:37.000 different guy, So they were spreading the basketball around and the Clippers just ten 201 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:41.240 of twenty nine from the outside. They still shot forty six percent from the 202 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:46.080 field, but those turnovers took away possessions and they only scored one hundred and 203 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:52.039 three points and rarely got to the free throw line. And I don't think 204 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:58.159 we're quite aggressive enough, just eleven of fourteen and they only attempted two in 205 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:03.200 the fourth alone. It was Kawhi Leonard who got him there. Meanwhile, 206 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.039 Denver they put up thirteen in the fourth quarter. Now, some of that 207 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:11.639 Clippers were obviously falling at the end of the game and it got a little 208 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:16.759 bit away from them. But this was a game without Nikola Yokich, and 209 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:20.559 I know the Clippers didn't have Paul George or Luke Nard. But this was 210 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:24.559 a great opportunity for them to get a victory against the Denver Nuggets, and 211 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:28.159 had they, we would have said, well, no, Yokich. It's 212 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:33.960 hard to take a lot out of this outside of a muchneed w which really 213 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:41.799 has to be at the forefront of everything right now. At times early in 214 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:43.720 the season you could say, Okay, we had good process, we lost 215 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:48.639 the ball game. Right now, they need wins. They still have to 216 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:52.720 make the playoffs. They don't want to be in the play in tournament again. 217 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:56.679 We saw what happened last year. Quite frankly, that would be pretty 218 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.639 disappointing for a team that got Kawhi Leonard back this season and a team that 219 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:03.919 is much more loaded with talent than it was last year to end up in 220 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:11.480 the play it God forbid. Outside of it altogether, Clippers have some issues 221 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:17.840 right now. It's not just Denver who they've lost eight of nine two They've 222 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:22.159 lost seven of their last eight games. They can't seem to get out of 223 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:26.480 this hole. We thought Tuesday night was progress, this was a setback. 224 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:33.360 They faced the Houston Rockets on Sunday. That looks about as close as you 225 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:34.840 can get to a must win game when you still have thirty eight left. 226 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:40.000 You go from playing the best team in the Western Conference in Denver, it's 227 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:44.000 a team at the bottom of the West, and the Clippers need victories, 228 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:52.120 they need to stack them up in better habits. And John Wall had a 229 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:56.200 couple of those turnovers in the fourth quarter, as did Kawhi Leonard. And 230 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:57.639 I know I'm gonna get some calls on this, but some people were wondering 231 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:03.919 about the lineups late and Terrence Man not getting in sooner in the fourth quarter. 232 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:08.279 I don't know we'll hear from coach lu post game about that, But 233 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:14.200 I thought the Clippers had enough talent on the floor to certainly beat a team 234 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:17.759 without Nikel Yogis to night, and they couldn't figure out a way to get 235 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:22.920 it done, and their defense never really clicked in. It looked like what 236 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:26.039 happened in the first quarter with them. They thought it was sustainable they could 237 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:32.480 just keep out scoring the Denver Nuggets. That wasn't gonna happen even without Yogish. 238 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:34.319 They still have all those three point shooters out there. They still have 239 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:38.240 talented guys like Jamal Murray, who had seven of his twenty four in the 240 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:45.599 fourth dabeas Caldwell Pope, who's shooting eight from the outside on the year. 241 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:51.920 This team is tough. We got coach lu Audio four. You're coming up, 242 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:55.279 by the way, but let's go to Lenny in Inglewood first up tonight 243 00:17:55.359 --> 00:18:03.079 here on Clippers Talk. Lenny, what's up? I let yeah, hey, 244 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:06.759 listen, I don't even know where to start, man, but I'm 245 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:14.720 glad that you're coming in with with with the cold dost water because to be 246 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:18.680 honest, man, I don't see where we really have a vocal leader. 247 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:25.559 I mean Pat Beverly used to play that role to kind of frame things, 248 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:30.160 and when they're on the court and organization, it just we don't look like 249 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:33.759 we're together, man, And I mean that that's the first problem right there. 250 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:37.799 As great as Kawhi is, Kauai is going to basically get his and 251 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:40.119 you know, if you want to come along for the ride and be down 252 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:42.799 with him. He's cool with dad, but he just he's just he's not 253 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:47.559 gonna be that guy to get people together at the after free throw line car 254 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:52.359 and really get them focus. We lack leadership, man. This was a 255 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:56.839 this this is what's called establishing identity of culture. You don't lose to a 256 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:02.559 team in the NBA by forty then back home and mine is their best player 257 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:07.240 MVP and dropped a game to them by twelve lenny. To that point, 258 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:11.319 coach Lew said after that game last week, or they were down by forty 259 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:15.000 three to the Nuggets, that we'll see what we're made of when we catch 260 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.960 them back home next Friday. I think what we're seeing is a team that's 261 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:25.880 consistently inconsistent. For some reasons that are understandable with all the different lineups and 262 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:29.599 guys being hurt and injured and banged up and in and out, and for 263 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:33.279 others that are more perplexing that I don't have the answer for that are harder 264 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:40.799 to pinpoint. We're just they're inconsistent possession to possession at times, and it's 265 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:45.559 difficult because the talent is there, the roster is there, and I thought 266 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.599 tonight they had enough to get a victory against the Denver team, for sure. 267 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:52.440 You know what an NBA thing, goes Man. Talent is one thing, 268 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:56.839 but you gotta have chemistry. You gotta have the one person that rallies 269 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:02.680 these guys around, you know, and we've seen it at times in Spurs 270 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:06.200 they rallied to come back on Detroit down fourteen with three minutes left and but 271 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:07.920 two him got the guys in the huddle and got him together. And I 272 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:11.359 do think he's the heart and soul guy. Now. We saw it against 273 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.759 the Cleveland Cavaliers here where they came back down thirteen late. We saw them 274 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:23.319 dominate Boston by twenty at home and look completely locked in in what felt like 275 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:29.000 a playoff like atmosphere leading into it and during the ballgame, and then it 276 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:32.640 just falls by the wayside the very next or a couple of games later. 277 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:37.720 Let me say this last piece, Man, I just don't know if we 278 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:41.960 can really win it all with our two best all start and they can't ever 279 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:45.799 play back to back. They're not playing together, they're not getting in rhythm, 280 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:51.640 they're not They just looked disjointed out there. I mean the way the 281 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:55.960 Denver was hitting the open man. But letty, I'm bringing up games where 282 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:00.720 they clearly don't where they have where they show that they have all the firepower 283 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:07.079 they need. They work in tandem, they play great together, and for 284 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:10.160 the most part, I think they've been on something like a sixty one win 285 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:15.240 pace when those two play as Clippers. They've been good, yeah, getting 286 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:17.839 them out there at the same time, that's been an issue, There's no 287 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:22.920 doubt about that. But they fall in and out of playing great basketball and 288 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:30.720 then lacks of daisical basketball and careless basketball, and that is discouraging. It 289 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:34.000 is because everybody the NBA is saying the same damn thing. This is this 290 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:41.200 turnover one of the most disappointing teams in recent memory, Like we just can't 291 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:47.480 put it together as pride. You don't lose to a team by forty two 292 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:51.319 on the roll, come back calling and missing a best player and you dropped 293 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:53.960 the game by twelve. You just don't do that in the NBA, Man, 294 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:59.240 just don't. So I don't know, but something's got to happen. 295 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:02.319 There's gonna be some so to shake up or something. I just don't see 296 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:07.160 it happening with this presently constructed. All right, Letty, I appreciate the 297 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:11.200 phone call they're cutting out a little bit there. Eight six six nine eight 298 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.000 seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Would 299 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:19.599 I be surprised that a team with championship expectations that just lost seven to eight 300 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:23.160 games and just lost to Denver without Nikoliokich had to shake up. No, 301 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:27.000 I wouldn't, but I thought we already saw some of that with Terrence Man 302 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:32.319 in the starting lineup. But he doesn't get in until later in the fourth 303 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:34.880 quarter than I think a lot of people wanted. I believe John Wall ended 304 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:40.319 up playing the last nineteen minutes of the ball game. Coach lu It sounds 305 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:44.720 like he has an affinity for having a more traditional playmaking point guard out there. 306 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:49.160 We didn't really see wings stop tonight after what happened against the Dallas Mavericks, 307 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:52.880 which looks successful. But you know what, I trust in coach Lou 308 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:56.079 and we'll hear from him coming up. We'll get back to your phone calls. 309 00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:59.839 Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight 310 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:03.000 two five seventy is the phone number, or you can tweet at me at 311 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:07.599 follow Adam A Clippers lose one fifteen to one oh three to the Denver Nuggets 312 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:12.559 here in downtown Los Angeles and you're listening to Am five seven spots. Can't 313 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:23.920 really oh, Paul George La Clippers basketball continue. I s in his pains 314 00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:45.960 as he carried the three on the home of your LA Clippers. Clippers lose 315 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:52.640 to the Denver Nuggets one fifteen to one oh three. I'm out of Oslin 316 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:56.519 live from downtown Los Angeles. You're listening to Clippers Talk. Eight six six 317 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:02.200 ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven seventy is the 318 00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:06.440 phone number. Obviously, Clippers not at full strength. No Paul George, 319 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:10.440 no Luke Kennard, which is big for this team, but no Nikola Yokis 320 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:15.119 on the other side. As Lenny was talking about, this was supposed to 321 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:19.200 be and I certainly built it as a redemption revenge type of opportunity for the 322 00:24:19.240 --> 00:24:23.200 Clippers, and they didn't take advantage of it. Afterward, Denver did to 323 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:26.559 them, dismantling them last week, leading by as many as forty three. 324 00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:32.759 The game was in garbage time by the second quarter. It was over. 325 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:37.519 Clippers really weren't ready. You didn't show up. I thought they were much 326 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:41.759 more prepared early on offensively, but maybe they got too comfortable and they thought 327 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:45.039 they were gonna be able to knock down shots all night at that clip they 328 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:48.400 did in the first quarter when they put up thirty four points not to beat. 329 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:52.000 At some point you got to find a way to slow Denver down, 330 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:57.839 because trying to beat them at their own game is problematic. Where there's some 331 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:03.440 positive, Yes, Kawhi Leonard with a huge throwdown in that third quarter, 332 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:07.400 bigg as he's had coming off the ACL injury. We were wondering when it 333 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:11.480 was gonna happen. It did. It was one of his best I posted 334 00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:15.920 some pictures of it at follow adamme aside from the video that just make it 335 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:22.599 look so darn impressive. He looked good twenty four points on ten of twenty 336 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:26.240 one shooting, did miss three wide open three pointers, but he's been shooting 337 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:33.759 much better from their overall. But those seven turnovers in the fourth quarter killers. 338 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:38.200 I'm not gonna win any ball games. When you're trailing by five heading 339 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:45.240 into the fourth and then have seven turnovers against a team that has the best 340 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:49.680 offense in the league. You can't get out of your own way. You're 341 00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:56.000 making life more difficult on both ends. Offensively, you're losing possessions when you're 342 00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:59.680 trying to catch up. Defensively, you're gonna be out of position at times. 343 00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:03.160 One ball turnovers, well, we have a moment less pause ten seconds 344 00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:07.680 for station identification here on the M five seventy l A Sports. This is 345 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:14.599 LA Clippers Basketball A five seventy KLAC Los Angeles, seven KYSR HD to Los 346 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:19.240 Angeles and iHeart radio station. I am tonight forgetting that. All right, 347 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:22.319 now, let's go to Wallace. Apply del Ray Wallace, you're on Clippers 348 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:26.359 stop without amazin. Well, thanks, adam me. It's always I appreciate 349 00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:30.880 you. You know, I'll tell you I'm really not worried about the team 350 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:33.480 so much, but you know, watching the game, because I leaving the 351 00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:37.519 game, I'm worried about the fan experience. You look at the game, 352 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:42.720 uh yeah, and I sit behind the visitors. DeAndre Jordan's clowning around. 353 00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:48.480 Team doesn't seem like they're showing up. And DeAndre Jordan's the Clippers anymore. 354 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:52.720 I know he's on he's on Denver. But generally the it I feel like 355 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:57.359 the NBA is not giving us a product. When the Clippers had Danny Manny 356 00:26:57.640 --> 00:27:02.119 when through down on that dunk, he thought, oh man, this fan 357 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:04.519 experience is so weak. It's so weak. When everybody was up out of 358 00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:08.759 there seat, well, I was out on my seat and I was enjoying 359 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:15.000 it. Okay, So the cohesive miss coming together with the team because just 360 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:18.039 no never know who's going to be healthy. This was the Ees. Then 361 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:22.640 the game even started a half hour earlier, so I got tickets knowing I'm 362 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.839 gonna see the team play. When they had Danny Manning and these guys, 363 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:30.240 you knew Jordan was gonna be there, win or lose. It was almost 364 00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:33.480 a better fan experience when the Clippers. So you're making a broader point about 365 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:37.920 stars not playing as much in the modern NBA? Is that what I'm picking 366 00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:42.400 up here? If that's how what you're picking up? Yes, yes, 367 00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:47.279 I am. Obviously it's happening around the league. It's not just with the 368 00:27:47.319 --> 00:27:51.359 Clippers. Well you know, you know, Adam, if you're not gonna 369 00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:53.240 share one point with you. If you look at betting, betting is a 370 00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:59.079 huge thing. A lot of these nbas are no lines, no line because 371 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:03.200 you don't have this reliable products. So it's really problematic for the NBA. 372 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:06.039 It's okay for me. I brought my grandson, I had a great time. 373 00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:10.799 It's a fantastic experience. So what's what's the concern. It's okay for 374 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:14.839 me, it's a fantastic experience. I'm worried about me and how I'm feeling 375 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:18.440 watching the game, and I enjoyed it tonight even with this Clippers lost because 376 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:22.680 you saw some of the best athletes on earth do their thing and it's insane 377 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:27.279 and you're absolutely right about that. But it just gotta be better. All 378 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:32.200 right. I appreciate the phone call, Wallace. All Right, let's hear 379 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:36.880 from the head coach to Ron lou kind of a tangent there, talking a 380 00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:42.079 bigger picture with the NBA. Clippers lose one fifteen to one oh three to 381 00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:45.160 the Denver Nuggets. They've lost to him eight of the last nine games. 382 00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:48.720 Clippers is a team have lost seven of eight after losing six and ago. 383 00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:53.240 They win on Tuesday night against Dallas. They lose tonight and weren't able to 384 00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:57.279 build off of that momentum against a team without Nikola Yokich. And here was 385 00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:00.960 coach flu postgame speaking with the media. Yeah, why was the offensive was 386 00:29:02.200 --> 00:29:07.240 such a struggle after halftime? Like you said, we had eleven turnovers in 387 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:11.279 that second half for nineteen points. And we talked about getting back in transition 388 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:14.960 against his team because they really push it, and you know, without Joker 389 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:18.680 in the game, they really played faster. So you know, we can't 390 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:22.319 have eleven turnovers for nineteen points. That was one. And then just a 391 00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:25.160 discipline of you know, playing faster in a half court, Like I thought, 392 00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:27.319 we walked around, we walked to our spots, got in the offense 393 00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:30.880 late, you know, and so like I said, it's hard to score 394 00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:33.039 when you when you're doing that. And then I thought the zone hurd us 395 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:37.119 a little bit as well. In that second half. You made the early 396 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:40.880 seld to put John in, and John wound up finishing the game. What 397 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:44.759 were you looking for as far as him finishing the rest of the game and 398 00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:48.640 just trying to figure out what they were doing defensively, just you know, 399 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:52.000 get us in our stuff faster. I thought, we need a little bit 400 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:55.359 more pace. I try to get out of the score in transition, especially 401 00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:56.960 when it was playing trying to play that zone. And I thought John did 402 00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:00.240 a good job or just you know, attacking the basket it making some plays 403 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:04.200 like I said. And then defensively, I thought, you know, we 404 00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:07.839 did a good, pretty good job in at first in that first half, 405 00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:11.240 just trying to be physical. I think Gordon had zero offensive rebounds when he 406 00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:15.599 had twenty, when he had twenty in the last two games, and so 407 00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:18.880 the things we focused on, I thought we did a decent job at but 408 00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:21.000 I thought they're paced and their cuts. You know, heard us in that 409 00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:23.960 first half tight Terence played thirty three minutes, but didn't feel like his usual 410 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:26.599 impactful selfing. Yeah, I do you see from him out there? I 411 00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:30.680 thought it's a little hesitant. I think just knowing what to run and and 412 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:34.519 and the pace we wanted him to play at. But you know, us 413 00:30:34.559 --> 00:30:40.279 to be expecting young players switching positions and so just tonight with a learning experience, 414 00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:42.519 you know, I thought he did a good job defensively, you know, 415 00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:47.759 trying to disrupt, you know, with with Jamal and with Bones and 416 00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:49.440 so, you know, just something we gotta get used to. You know. 417 00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:52.240 It's it's a new style we we're getting used to playing with as well. 418 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.200 And so nothing against him, man, just thinks we gotta work on 419 00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:00.279 keep showing for him and keep getting better at Is there a balance overall? 420 00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.359 Talked about him scoring wise, playmaking, that's something you guys expect to come 421 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:07.240 into this game without Yoka? Say it again? Was the overall balance of 422 00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:10.680 their offense something you expected without Yoki? Yeah, we knew it would go 423 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:14.200 through you know, Jamal and through Bones. You know, you know, 424 00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:17.200 Jamal does a good job with his pace, you know, picking and choosing 425 00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:21.200 his spots, winning get his teammates involved, and you know, he's a 426 00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:23.039 really good player, you know, So we knew that it would go through 427 00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:26.680 him, you know, would Joker being out, and he did a good 428 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:32.480 job and just you know, hold it down game. Clippers lose one fifteen 429 00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:36.720 to one. H three brought up the turnovers early on. Yeah, I 430 00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:40.039 wonder if there's a connection here. Eleven turnovers in the second half, and 431 00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:44.720 let's see, the Denver Nuggets had nineteen points off of turnovers in the second 432 00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:48.880 half, and they had nineteen points in the second half on fast break points. 433 00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:52.160 So they made things just far too easy for a team that doesn't need 434 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:57.240 any help offensively, and especially in that fourth quarter with seven turnovers. And 435 00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:01.640 coach we also brought up something Noah did during the broadcast. Clippers couldn't bust 436 00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:05.839 the zone. They couldn't break the zone. That's den Rose thrown out there. 437 00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:08.880 So without Yokich, they're throwing on a zone and they've done that seth 438 00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:15.039 of me anyways, but and they're also playing faster. Clippers knew it was 439 00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:19.200 coming, but they couldn't stop it, and they certainly couldn't get enough stops 440 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:22.680 and couldn't execute their offense at a high enough level late in the ball game. 441 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:27.039 Coming up next, back to your phone calls eight sixty six ninety seven 442 00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:30.599 two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy looking for post game 443 00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:36.480 player audio as well as you're listening to clipperstock you're on AM five seven LA 444 00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:40.920 Sports. Now, look at this madness. The magnick keeps attracting me. 445 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:45.960 Me. I try to run to see him. Not that fast. I 446 00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:53.039 think the first personally finished last last it was blocked by George this La Clippers 447 00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:58.440 basketball. He is a one man ricket crawl and defensive man on the home 448 00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:02.559 of your LA Clippers. If Man is the father of the Sun, is 449 00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:07.119 the sent to the Earth in the middle of the universe, then why is 450 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:12.839 this first coming? Six times rehearse Clippers fall one fifteen to one oh three 451 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:15.960 to the Denver Nuggets here in downtown La. Welcome back into Clippers Tuck Live. 452 00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:20.359 I'm at amslan to eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight 453 00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:24.920 six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number, Clippers. 454 00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:30.000 Really we're done in by turnovers again. Seven in the fourth quarter, just 455 00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:34.160 twelve in the ball game. If you went into this and said they're gonna 456 00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:37.599 end up with twelve, you'd be happy. But then you see they only 457 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:40.039 have one turnover in the first half, and at one point it came early, 458 00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:45.680 and I think they went to the last twenty three minutes, so all 459 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:49.680 but one minute without a turnover to end the first half. Now they still 460 00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:53.119 only led by one, and that was a warning sign they weren't playing good 461 00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:59.839 enough defense. They put up fifty eight points in the first half, and 462 00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:05.960 they led fifty eight fifty seven. They were given up too many open perimeter 463 00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:09.239 shots to the Denver Nuggets, who will knock them down. Best three point 464 00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:14.000 shooting team in the league. We knew it coming in. Clippers had the 465 00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:16.559 best perimeter defense. If you go off a three point opponent field goal percentage 466 00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:23.199 at about thirty four percent. But something had to give, and the Denver 467 00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:28.639 Nuggets gave him buckets from the outside fourteen of thirty three and actually shot above 468 00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:31.719 their average at forty two percent from three, and it came from different guys. 469 00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:38.400 In that fourth quarter, and they were just the more sound team even 470 00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:44.719 without their leader and Nikoliokis in the two time MVP. I mean, the 471 00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:47.840 Clippers had the best guy on the floor in Kawhi. Leonard finished with twenty 472 00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:52.199 four, but he had a couple of those turnovers. In the fourth, 473 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:57.960 uncharacteristically had a layup, didn't get it to go, and eventually traveled. 474 00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:06.159 It was strange how out of sync the Clippers got in a hurry on offense 475 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:12.800 and then defensively. They just were never focused in well enough tonight, not 476 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:15.199 against a team like the Denver Nuggets. Even without Yokich, they still got 477 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:20.039 firepower clearly eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two, 478 00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:27.079 five seventy tags and Walnut tagus what's up? Hey at a disappointed lost a 479 00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:30.840 few things one then others were one and two without Yo Kitchen, there there 480 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:36.519 is no reason with our roster that we should have that we were only up 481 00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:39.679 one at halftime. We should be able. Granted that they're the best three 482 00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:45.159 point shooting team, but that's with Yo Kis. Without Yo Kisch, our 483 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:50.920 wings are good enough to to have built like at least a fifteen twenty point 484 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:53.679 leader at halftime, especially given what happened a week ago. Did you see 485 00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:57.519 what I saw? I felt like the Clippers fell into a trap of thinking 486 00:35:57.599 --> 00:36:00.360 they could just outscore them tonight in trade basket. It's and eventually come away 487 00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:04.119 with a victory. Because they did that in the first quarter, and then 488 00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:07.760 they just stuck with that. Their defense never really showed up, and it 489 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:13.559 burned them. Yeah, and I don't know, it's just it's hard. 490 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:16.519 I mean, what's our record against kids with winning records? Is here? 491 00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:22.159 Oh, it's not great. I want to say it's seven or eight games 492 00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:27.199 below five hundred. There's something like, I believe seven. I want to 493 00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:30.159 say seven and fifteen or something like that, or seven and seventeen, somewhere 494 00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:35.039 in that range. Now, how many of those games that they have Kawaii 495 00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:37.320 and Paul George, I couldn't really tell you. I haven't gone through all 496 00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:42.480 that data. I obviously tonight you don't have Paul George. But no Nicola 497 00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:47.039 Yokis with the Denver Nuggets. Okay, yeah, But and you know one 498 00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:53.280 pattern, especially against the Nuggets, we always seem to get dominated on the 499 00:36:53.360 --> 00:37:00.880 offensive rebounding and we make Aaron Gordon look like shack And it's pattern over and 500 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:07.039 over it We happened on the road against Boston and so on. So that's 501 00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:09.400 one of the issues that I have. The other a couple of issues when 502 00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:16.119 Terrence Man came into the game late. I I was a little surprised that 503 00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:21.559 he came in for Viza Zoo Bots instead of John Wall, and they went 504 00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:25.480 small there and Denver did get a key offensive rebound. I think it ended 505 00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:29.599 in a foul with Michael Porter Jr. And the Clippers couldn't say it unfoul 506 00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:34.400 trouble the fourth either, right, and I guessed that to two quick points 507 00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:39.639 one in the fourth quarter. John Wall had a great game overall. He's 508 00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:45.440 been struggling the turnovers killing us. His turnover resultant three point play kind of 509 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:50.519 killed us. But I kind of trust I would like to see Reggie and 510 00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:54.920 maybe Tye will do it a little later, bringing Reggie more often, and 511 00:37:55.039 --> 00:38:05.960 I can envision maybe Luke Nard Powell coming in before a Wall. But here's 512 00:38:05.960 --> 00:38:13.000 the last point. I don't see the Clippers making the offense the other team's 513 00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:16.440 best players work. And brought this up last time. I didn't see like 514 00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:21.960 we go after Murray like we should have been. Murray was so comfortable on 515 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:24.480 the offensive end we didn't make him uncomfortable on a defensive end. We could 516 00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:29.440 have had switches and Murray had to. He should have been guarding quite a 517 00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:34.400 lot more or Norman Powell because he can drive to the basket and moving forward. 518 00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:37.239 I would like to see it, hopefully see that if we play them 519 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:42.679 again, there's no reason why we can't bring Yokich up top Paul George Kawai. 520 00:38:42.920 --> 00:38:45.719 They should be, you know, on the high peak and roll. 521 00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:47.519 Have Yokich on him, and Powell should be doing it too, because he's 522 00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:51.760 one of our best drivers. That's the only way to beat the leade teams 523 00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:55.159 is making Yokish work Murray work on the defensive end. I agree with you. 524 00:38:55.400 --> 00:39:00.920 I thought they tried at times to get Aaron off of Kauai, who 525 00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:06.199 I think is probably one of the better defenders in the league guarding Kawhi Leonard 526 00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:09.079 because he has the size and the quickness, one of the few guys to 527 00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:14.079 really stay with him. And I appreciate the phone call Tagius, and I 528 00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:20.199 am seeing the Clippers splits this season and I could have been wrong about that. 529 00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:22.800 They may have to correct this because I think the Clippers they're fifteen and 530 00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:29.480 eight against teams over five hundred seven and fourteen against teams below five hundred. 531 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:35.760 So I don't know what you think is more concerning then, but I'll try 532 00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:38.199 to double source this one because I thought I saw it the other way, 533 00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:40.760 but I could be wrong about that. Now they're taking on the Houston Rockets. 534 00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:44.119 So they go from taking on the top team in the West and the 535 00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:45.760 Denver Nuggets, to the bottom team in the West, bottom team in the 536 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:49.880 league, worst record in the league, the ten and thirty two Houston Rockets 537 00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:54.360 on Sunday. You can't overlook anybody. More on that coming up next here 538 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:58.679 on Clippers Talk after they fall one fifteen to one OHO three two of the 539 00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:01.239 Denver Nuggets. Here and down Sound, Los Angeles. I'm Adam Oslin, 540 00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:15.400 and this is a five seventy yellow Sports Oh Paul George LA Clippers Basketball continue 541 00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:21.480 in his pains as he carries the three on the home of your LA Clippers. 542 00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:27.960 Well, the good Kawhi Leonard twenty plus and six of his last eight 543 00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:31.000 games, averaging twenty three points over that time, and had a huge throwdown, 544 00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:37.000 got up looks strong in the third quarter of the bad Clipper Lewis. 545 00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:40.559 They've lost seven of eight, eight of nine to the Denver Nuggets. Now 546 00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:49.719 they fall one fifteen to one oh three and can't confirm the guys at clip 547 00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:55.920 cast Chris Wild I think hooked it up he and Henry Dittman that that Clippers 548 00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:00.719 record against teams above five or it is right. They're fifteen and eight, 549 00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:09.239 seven and fourteen against teams willow five hundred. So exercise some demons. They're 550 00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:16.199 taking on the Houston Rockets Sunday afternoon. There's exercising some demons with the start 551 00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:22.239 time as well. Tip time is at nude Well have your pregame show starting 552 00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:30.400 at eleven am. We don't like to have some skies falling panic talk here 553 00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:34.920 because there are no must win games right now. That's not the playoffs. 554 00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:39.519 But if any game should be one that the Clippers can handle and get right 555 00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:45.880 and possibly run away with, you think it would be against the Houston Rockets. 556 00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:52.599 They can't think like that. They got to play their best regardless, 557 00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:59.000 and really most of the time it feels like they're playing themselves, not DJ 558 00:41:59.199 --> 00:42:04.280 Kali's style, But they're so talented that it's really up to them and the 559 00:42:04.360 --> 00:42:07.480 type of team they're gonna be that day or that night, weren't good enough 560 00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:12.840 against Denver. It's Houston on Sunday. Before we get out of here, 561 00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:16.360 I do you want to thank the Clippers organization? No it ego, Brian 562 00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:22.079 Steman, Ralph Lawlor, big brother, Jake Warner, head engineer, here 563 00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:24.800 and everywhere here in downtown Los Angeles. Producer Katie Newton back into bank. 564 00:42:24.880 --> 00:42:37.000 I'm Adam Oslin. Talked to you at eleven am on Sunday Fastness Side Cass 565 00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:45.119 show. 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