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Angeles one fifteen to one Ozho three to the Denver Nuggets. Welcome into your
postgame show. Coming up, we'll get your postgame box score. You'll hear
from coach lew and the players. But first back to your voice of the
Clippers. Noah Eagle. Just killer turnover after killer turnover down the stretch of
this one by the Clippers. Now, yeah, play it simple. One
turnover in the first half, eleven in the second half, and the results
in twenty one points for Denver, a team that came into this one towards
the bottom in points off turnovers at sixteen point three per game. They're bottom
five in the NBA. Look, this is another one the Clippers going to
look back and say that was a missed opportunity. That was a game that
could have been won, and it wasn't. Now we keep going back to
Boston Celtics, Dallas Mavericks from last year. At some point there's a turn
on and can the Clippers find that where they just start clicking on all so
owners, it felt like they had a Tuesday against Dallas. They had an
early today against Denver, but the defense never settled it enough for them to
build the lead. And then Jamal Murray, I think you gotta give him
credit. You've got to give Michael Porter Junior credit. But twenty two,
Aaron Gordon was seventeen. This is a Denver team, even without Yokich that
is so difficult to handle. And then you add in the two time MVP.
I mean, they're nearly impossible. So Clippers drop another one to them,
and Torontolu will mention it that this team owns the Clippers right now.
They're good learning experiences, I think, but at some point you've got to
make the necessary adjustments. And that's still what we're waiting for out of this
team. And Nuggets have won eight of their last nine games against the Clippers.
They just can't seem to slay this dragon. You mentioned Jamal Murray,
he has seven of his twenty four in that fourth and they only turn it
over twice and the Clippers didn't even get points off those turnovers. Meanwhile,
Clippers was seven turnovers on the fourth, leading it a thirteen Denver Nuggets points.
Yeah, there's your ball game right there. You know, you head
into the fourth quarter trailing after you led the entire game, and so then
you trail by five points. You say, okay, listen, this is
still very much right there for the taking. You just gotta play good basketball
in the final twelve minutes, and it was the opposite. The second half
score in this game is as telling as anything because in the first half the
Clippers has mentioned played well. They put up fifty eight points, but but
thirty four of them coming in the first quarter twenty four, and the second
twenty three, and the third twenty two, and the fourth Denver's defense locked
in. Denver puts up fifty eight points in the second half, compared to
just the forty five for the Clippers. There's your ball game, and it's
down the stretch with the turnovers with Denver taking advantage, just a little bit
of everything that could go wrong did go wrong for La And another one that
you're bummed to lose based on who wasn't there. Yeah, and it felt
like the Slippers are trying to win a shootout against the best offense in the
league that was able to outscore them and get a few more stops off those
turnovers by the Clippers. Now, on the positive side, Kawhi Leonard continues
to make strides coming off the ACL injury. That dunk he had in the
third quarter with special no doubt about it, and him and John Wall both
had poster dunks that are gonna be played over and over on top ten everywhere.
That one from Kawhi, like I said, you put it up with
the klipa dunk. You put it up with Derek Favors. I don't know
if you can Derrick Favorits was like a different level altogether. But Daniel Ties
Daniel Tys for sure. I think that DeAndre Ayton. Yeah, he's had
a couple of big ones with the Clippers, and that one was the first
this season where you're say, oh, it's still in there, and so
that was a good positive sign. Again, he's getting healthier by the game,
healthier by the day, and he's looking more and more like pre injury
Kawai. That's great. Now you've got to use that and you've got to
find ways to get wins. Because at five hundred at forty four games through
the season, five hundred on the year, this is about where they were
last year, and they're better than they were last year because they have the
personnel to prove it. So now it's about listen. You've got two more
games on this homestand then you've got a couple of road trips, somewhat back
to back. You've got three real road games before technically if you include the
Lakers, then you come back home for one against the San Antonio Spurs,
and then you go back on the road for that Grammy trip. That's six
games on the road against six teams that are going to be difficult. It
starts in Atlanta, Clippers already lost to the Hawks. Then it's a back
to back against Cleveland, a team that's gonna want it to get back against
the Clippers. And then after that you've got Chicago, who's we saw what
happened last year. The Clippers lost both and Maarjo Rosen went off in that
second game he at fifty. And then Milwaukee, who has the honis and
when you have Jannis, you're good. And then you go to New York
and you play the Knicks of the Nets and look, no Kevin Durant in
all likelihood in that game. And that's just lost to the Celtics yesterday.
But they proved that they're still real good even without them. And we know
that New York's playing some good basketball right now. Jalen Brunson probably going to
be an All Star for the Knicks. Even Wally Zerbiak would agree with that.
So to me, this is a critical stretch of proving what you are,
proving who you are, and this was one of those games Clippers don't
pass that test. But that's okay. There's still a lot of runway left,
still thirty eight games remaining. What can you do down the stretch?
Now? What can be your finisher to the season. How can you find
that next extra gear if you're the Clippers, And these next two road trips
coming up, I think are really going to show a lot. And it
also feels like Sunday's game against the Houston Rockets, there are no mus wins
currently. We still have so many games left to play, but the Clippers
have to get right and get back and get back pointed in the right direction,
and the Rockets are obviously one of the teams at the bottoms of the
standings. Clippers tip off against the Houston Rockets Sunday at twelve. We'll have
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seventy is the phone number all right. Post game box score well, Clippers
end up shooting a respectable forty six percent from the field, but just ten
of twenty nine from the outside. That's under thirty five percent. Meanwhile,
the Denver Nuggets, the best three point shooting team in the league. They
go fourteen of thirty three from distance. They shoot forty two percent and fifty
percent overall from the field. But Denver, after having at the half six
turnovers to one for the Clippers, they have just five turnovers in the second
half, and the Clippers have eleven, seven of those coming in the fourth
quarter, leading to thirteen points for the Denver Nuggets. Just a disparity that's
tough to overcome when it's that wide of a margin. During winning time and
the Clippers fall one fifteen to one oh three, they're leading score Kawhile Leonard
ten of twenty one had twenty four points, his best dunk coming off the
ACL injury. He caught a body inside, as did John Wall. He
finished with sixteen points on six of twelve shooting off the bench as well.
Norman Powell had eighteen for the Clippers on seven of fifteen and three of nine
from the outside, but the turnovers came in bunches late and the Denver Nuggets
made them pay. Jamal Murray had twenty four, Michael Porter Junior with twenty
two, Aaron Gordon was seventeen, and the Clippers lose by twelve here at
home. They've lost eight of their last nine matchups now against the Denver Nuggets.
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Here's Adam Oslin. Well stop me if you've heard this one before. Clippers
fall to the Denver Nuggets, this time without Niklaki. They lose one fifteen,
so one three. Here in downtown Los Angeles. Welcome in to Clippers
Talk. I'm at a Moslin. We are live with you for about the
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We'll get to your phone calls. You'll hear from Coach Low and the players.
As the Clippers now have lost eight of their last nine games to the
Nuggets can't slay the Dragon, But to lose to a team tonight that doesn't
have Nikla Yokich, the back to back raining MVP, that's hard to swallow.
Clippers had the best player on the floor and Kawhi Leonard, and they
lose this game by twelve anyways, and they had their opportunities, and they
played sound offensive basketball for the most part until the fourth quarter came around.
Clippers let it to half by one, let after the first quarter by two,
but it just felt like they were trying to get into a shootout and
beat Denver at their own game, which was unlikely to happen. Denver Nuggets
have the best offense in the NBA, bottom five defense, but best offense
in the NBA. The Clippers tried to hang with them, and after putting
up thirty four points in the first quarter is no eagle point out earlier,
Clippers just twenty four points in the second, twenty three and the third twenty
two. In the fourth quarter as the turnovers piled up, Clippers had just
one turnover in the first half. We knew that wasn't sustainable, of course,
and ending up with twelve turnovers in the ball games, not a bad
number till you dig into exactly where they came and what kind of turnovers they
were. And in the third quarter they had four, but in the fourth
they had seven turnovers, leading the thirteen points and just some head scratching.
Once out of a time out, john Wall throws a bad pass looking for
Norman Powell ends up with an an one as john Wall would foul on the
other end, and Denver converted the old fashioned three point play. Then Nicholas
Patoum has a steal, but he loses it right back and Gordon hits a
three pointer. Kawhi Leonard uncharacteristically had a couple of turnovers, including a travel
after he missed a layup in traffic in the fourth quarter, and john Wall
stepped on the baseline on an out of bounce play coming out of a time
out. These are just careless, self inflicted wounds that cannot happen, but
they have happened all season long, and while coming into this game, last
six games they had averaged less than twelve turnovers per game, and they hit
twelve in this one. When you're not playing great basketball all around, you
can't get away with these type of mistakes. They're gonna kill you eventually,
backbreaking turnovers to a team that doesn't need any extra possessions out there. In
the Denver Nuggets, they're too good, they're too lethal. They're the best
three point shooting team in the league. And they went fourteen to thirty three
from three and hit big ones when they needed them. Against the Clippers,
they were four of seven in the fourth quarter and all four hit from a
different guy, So they were spreading the basketball around and the Clippers just ten
of twenty nine from the outside. They still shot forty six percent from the
field, but those turnovers took away possessions and they only scored one hundred and
three points and rarely got to the free throw line. And I don't think
we're quite aggressive enough, just eleven of fourteen and they only attempted two in
the fourth alone. It was Kawhi Leonard who got him there. Meanwhile,
Denver they put up thirteen in the fourth quarter. Now, some of that
Clippers were obviously falling at the end of the game and it got a little
bit away from them. But this was a game without Nikola Yokich, and
I know the Clippers didn't have Paul George or Luke Nard. But this was
a great opportunity for them to get a victory against the Denver Nuggets, and
had they, we would have said, well, no, Yokich. It's
hard to take a lot out of this outside of a muchneed w which really
has to be at the forefront of everything right now. At times early in
the season you could say, Okay, we had good process, we lost
the ball game. Right now, they need wins. They still have to
make the playoffs. They don't want to be in the play in tournament again.
We saw what happened last year. Quite frankly, that would be pretty
disappointing for a team that got Kawhi Leonard back this season and a team that
is much more loaded with talent than it was last year to end up in
the play it God forbid. Outside of it altogether, Clippers have some issues
right now. It's not just Denver who they've lost eight of nine two They've
lost seven of their last eight games. They can't seem to get out of
this hole. We thought Tuesday night was progress, this was a setback.
They faced the Houston Rockets on Sunday. That looks about as close as you
can get to a must win game when you still have thirty eight left.
You go from playing the best team in the Western Conference in Denver, it's
a team at the bottom of the West, and the Clippers need victories,
they need to stack them up in better habits. And John Wall had a
couple of those turnovers in the fourth quarter, as did Kawhi Leonard. And
I know I'm gonna get some calls on this, but some people were wondering
about the lineups late and Terrence Man not getting in sooner in the fourth quarter.
I don't know we'll hear from coach lu post game about that, But
I thought the Clippers had enough talent on the floor to certainly beat a team
without Nikel Yogis to night, and they couldn't figure out a way to get
it done, and their defense never really clicked in. It looked like what
happened in the first quarter with them. They thought it was sustainable they could
just keep out scoring the Denver Nuggets. That wasn't gonna happen even without Yogish.
They still have all those three point shooters out there. They still have
talented guys like Jamal Murray, who had seven of his twenty four in the
fourth dabeas Caldwell Pope, who's shooting eight from the outside on the year.
This team is tough. We got coach lu Audio four. You're coming up,
by the way, but let's go to Lenny in Inglewood first up tonight
here on Clippers Talk. Lenny, what's up? I let yeah, hey,
listen, I don't even know where to start, man, but I'm
glad that you're coming in with with with the cold dost water because to be
honest, man, I don't see where we really have a vocal leader.
I mean Pat Beverly used to play that role to kind of frame things,
and when they're on the court and organization, it just we don't look like
we're together, man, And I mean that that's the first problem right there.
As great as Kawhi is, Kauai is going to basically get his and
you know, if you want to come along for the ride and be down
with him. He's cool with dad, but he just he's just he's not
gonna be that guy to get people together at the after free throw line car
and really get them focus. We lack leadership, man. This was a
this this is what's called establishing identity of culture. You don't lose to a
team in the NBA by forty then back home and mine is their best player
MVP and dropped a game to them by twelve lenny. To that point,
coach Lew said after that game last week, or they were down by forty
three to the Nuggets, that we'll see what we're made of when we catch
them back home next Friday. I think what we're seeing is a team that's
consistently inconsistent. For some reasons that are understandable with all the different lineups and
guys being hurt and injured and banged up and in and out, and for
others that are more perplexing that I don't have the answer for that are harder
to pinpoint. We're just they're inconsistent possession to possession at times, and it's
difficult because the talent is there, the roster is there, and I thought
tonight they had enough to get a victory against the Denver team, for sure.
You know what an NBA thing, goes Man. Talent is one thing,
but you gotta have chemistry. You gotta have the one person that rallies
these guys around, you know, and we've seen it at times in Spurs
they rallied to come back on Detroit down fourteen with three minutes left and but
two him got the guys in the huddle and got him together. And I
do think he's the heart and soul guy. Now. We saw it against
the Cleveland Cavaliers here where they came back down thirteen late. We saw them
dominate Boston by twenty at home and look completely locked in in what felt like
a playoff like atmosphere leading into it and during the ballgame, and then it
just falls by the wayside the very next or a couple of games later.
Let me say this last piece, Man, I just don't know if we
can really win it all with our two best all start and they can't ever
play back to back. They're not playing together, they're not getting in rhythm,
they're not They just looked disjointed out there. I mean the way the
Denver was hitting the open man. But letty, I'm bringing up games where
they clearly don't where they have where they show that they have all the firepower
they need. They work in tandem, they play great together, and for
the most part, I think they've been on something like a sixty one win
pace when those two play as Clippers. They've been good, yeah, getting
them out there at the same time, that's been an issue, There's no
doubt about that. But they fall in and out of playing great basketball and
then lacks of daisical basketball and careless basketball, and that is discouraging. It
is because everybody the NBA is saying the same damn thing. This is this
turnover one of the most disappointing teams in recent memory, Like we just can't
put it together as pride. You don't lose to a team by forty two
on the roll, come back calling and missing a best player and you dropped
the game by twelve. You just don't do that in the NBA, Man,
just don't. So I don't know, but something's got to happen.
There's gonna be some so to shake up or something. I just don't see
it happening with this presently constructed. All right, Letty, I appreciate the
phone call they're cutting out a little bit there. Eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Would
I be surprised that a team with championship expectations that just lost seven to eight
games and just lost to Denver without Nikoliokich had to shake up. No,
I wouldn't, but I thought we already saw some of that with Terrence Man
in the starting lineup. But he doesn't get in until later in the fourth
quarter than I think a lot of people wanted. I believe John Wall ended
up playing the last nineteen minutes of the ball game. Coach lu It sounds
like he has an affinity for having a more traditional playmaking point guard out there.
We didn't really see wings stop tonight after what happened against the Dallas Mavericks,
which looks successful. But you know what, I trust in coach Lou
and we'll hear from him coming up. We'll get back to your phone calls.
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phone number. Obviously, Clippers not at full strength. No Paul George,
no Luke Kennard, which is big for this team, but no Nikola Yokis
on the other side. As Lenny was talking about, this was supposed to
be and I certainly built it as a redemption revenge type of opportunity for the
Clippers, and they didn't take advantage of it. Afterward, Denver did to
them, dismantling them last week, leading by as many as forty three.
The game was in garbage time by the second quarter. It was over.
Clippers really weren't ready. You didn't show up. I thought they were much
more prepared early on offensively, but maybe they got too comfortable and they thought
they were gonna be able to knock down shots all night at that clip they
did in the first quarter when they put up thirty four points not to beat.
At some point you got to find a way to slow Denver down,
because trying to beat them at their own game is problematic. Where there's some
positive, Yes, Kawhi Leonard with a huge throwdown in that third quarter,
bigg as he's had coming off the ACL injury. We were wondering when it
was gonna happen. It did. It was one of his best I posted
some pictures of it at follow adamme aside from the video that just make it
look so darn impressive. He looked good twenty four points on ten of twenty
one shooting, did miss three wide open three pointers, but he's been shooting
much better from their overall. But those seven turnovers in the fourth quarter killers.
I'm not gonna win any ball games. When you're trailing by five heading
into the fourth and then have seven turnovers against a team that has the best
offense in the league. You can't get out of your own way. You're
making life more difficult on both ends. Offensively, you're losing possessions when you're
trying to catch up. Defensively, you're gonna be out of position at times.
One ball turnovers, well, we have a moment less pause ten seconds
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Angeles and iHeart radio station. I am tonight forgetting that. All right,
now, let's go to Wallace. Apply del Ray Wallace, you're on Clippers
stop without amazin. Well, thanks, adam me. It's always I appreciate
you. You know, I'll tell you I'm really not worried about the team
so much, but you know, watching the game, because I leaving the
game, I'm worried about the fan experience. You look at the game,
uh yeah, and I sit behind the visitors. DeAndre Jordan's clowning around.
Team doesn't seem like they're showing up. And DeAndre Jordan's the Clippers anymore.
I know he's on he's on Denver. But generally the it I feel like
the NBA is not giving us a product. When the Clippers had Danny Manny
when through down on that dunk, he thought, oh man, this fan
experience is so weak. It's so weak. When everybody was up out of
there seat, well, I was out on my seat and I was enjoying
it. Okay, So the cohesive miss coming together with the team because just
no never know who's going to be healthy. This was the Ees. Then
the game even started a half hour earlier, so I got tickets knowing I'm
gonna see the team play. When they had Danny Manning and these guys,
you knew Jordan was gonna be there, win or lose. It was almost
a better fan experience when the Clippers. So you're making a broader point about
stars not playing as much in the modern NBA? Is that what I'm picking
up here? If that's how what you're picking up? Yes, yes,
I am. Obviously it's happening around the league. It's not just with the
Clippers. Well you know, you know, Adam, if you're not gonna
share one point with you. If you look at betting, betting is a
huge thing. A lot of these nbas are no lines, no line because
you don't have this reliable products. So it's really problematic for the NBA.
It's okay for me. I brought my grandson, I had a great time.
It's a fantastic experience. So what's what's the concern. It's okay for
me, it's a fantastic experience. I'm worried about me and how I'm feeling
watching the game, and I enjoyed it tonight even with this Clippers lost because
you saw some of the best athletes on earth do their thing and it's insane
and you're absolutely right about that. But it just gotta be better. All
right. I appreciate the phone call, Wallace. All Right, let's hear
from the head coach to Ron lou kind of a tangent there, talking a
bigger picture with the NBA. Clippers lose one fifteen to one oh three to
the Denver Nuggets. They've lost to him eight of the last nine games.
Clippers is a team have lost seven of eight after losing six and ago.
They win on Tuesday night against Dallas. They lose tonight and weren't able to
build off of that momentum against a team without Nikola Yokich. And here was
coach flu postgame speaking with the media. Yeah, why was the offensive was
such a struggle after halftime? Like you said, we had eleven turnovers in
that second half for nineteen points. And we talked about getting back in transition
against his team because they really push it, and you know, without Joker
in the game, they really played faster. So you know, we can't
have eleven turnovers for nineteen points. That was one. And then just a
discipline of you know, playing faster in a half court, Like I thought,
we walked around, we walked to our spots, got in the offense
late, you know, and so like I said, it's hard to score
when you when you're doing that. And then I thought the zone hurd us
a little bit as well. In that second half. You made the early
seld to put John in, and John wound up finishing the game. What
were you looking for as far as him finishing the rest of the game and
just trying to figure out what they were doing defensively, just you know,
get us in our stuff faster. I thought, we need a little bit
more pace. I try to get out of the score in transition, especially
when it was playing trying to play that zone. And I thought John did
a good job or just you know, attacking the basket it making some plays
like I said. And then defensively, I thought, you know, we
did a good, pretty good job in at first in that first half,
just trying to be physical. I think Gordon had zero offensive rebounds when he
had twenty, when he had twenty in the last two games, and so
the things we focused on, I thought we did a decent job at but
I thought they're paced and their cuts. You know, heard us in that
first half tight Terence played thirty three minutes, but didn't feel like his usual
impactful selfing. Yeah, I do you see from him out there? I
thought it's a little hesitant. I think just knowing what to run and and
and the pace we wanted him to play at. But you know, us
to be expecting young players switching positions and so just tonight with a learning experience,
you know, I thought he did a good job defensively, you know,
trying to disrupt, you know, with with Jamal and with Bones and
so, you know, just something we gotta get used to. You know.
It's it's a new style we we're getting used to playing with as well.
And so nothing against him, man, just thinks we gotta work on
keep showing for him and keep getting better at Is there a balance overall?
Talked about him scoring wise, playmaking, that's something you guys expect to come
into this game without Yoka? Say it again? Was the overall balance of
their offense something you expected without Yoki? Yeah, we knew it would go
through you know, Jamal and through Bones. You know, you know,
Jamal does a good job with his pace, you know, picking and choosing
his spots, winning get his teammates involved, and you know, he's a
really good player, you know, So we knew that it would go through
him, you know, would Joker being out, and he did a good
job and just you know, hold it down game. Clippers lose one fifteen
to one. H three brought up the turnovers early on. Yeah, I
wonder if there's a connection here. Eleven turnovers in the second half, and
let's see, the Denver Nuggets had nineteen points off of turnovers in the second
half, and they had nineteen points in the second half on fast break points.
So they made things just far too easy for a team that doesn't need
any help offensively, and especially in that fourth quarter with seven turnovers. And
coach we also brought up something Noah did during the broadcast. Clippers couldn't bust
the zone. They couldn't break the zone. That's den Rose thrown out there.
So without Yokich, they're throwing on a zone and they've done that seth
of me anyways, but and they're also playing faster. Clippers knew it was
coming, but they couldn't stop it, and they certainly couldn't get enough stops
and couldn't execute their offense at a high enough level late in the ball game.
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Really we're done in by turnovers again. Seven in the fourth quarter, just
twelve in the ball game. If you went into this and said they're gonna
end up with twelve, you'd be happy. But then you see they only
have one turnover in the first half, and at one point it came early,
and I think they went to the last twenty three minutes, so all
but one minute without a turnover to end the first half. Now they still
only led by one, and that was a warning sign they weren't playing good
enough defense. They put up fifty eight points in the first half, and
they led fifty eight fifty seven. They were given up too many open perimeter
shots to the Denver Nuggets, who will knock them down. Best three point
shooting team in the league. We knew it coming in. Clippers had the
best perimeter defense. If you go off a three point opponent field goal percentage
at about thirty four percent. But something had to give, and the Denver
Nuggets gave him buckets from the outside fourteen of thirty three and actually shot above
their average at forty two percent from three, and it came from different guys.
In that fourth quarter, and they were just the more sound team even
without their leader and Nikoliokis in the two time MVP. I mean, the
Clippers had the best guy on the floor in Kawhi. Leonard finished with twenty
four, but he had a couple of those turnovers. In the fourth,
uncharacteristically had a layup, didn't get it to go, and eventually traveled.
It was strange how out of sync the Clippers got in a hurry on offense
and then defensively. They just were never focused in well enough tonight, not
against a team like the Denver Nuggets. Even without Yokich, they still got
firepower clearly eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two,
five seventy tags and Walnut tagus what's up? Hey at a disappointed lost a
few things one then others were one and two without Yo Kitchen, there there
is no reason with our roster that we should have that we were only up
one at halftime. We should be able. Granted that they're the best three
point shooting team, but that's with Yo Kis. Without Yo Kisch, our
wings are good enough to to have built like at least a fifteen twenty point
leader at halftime, especially given what happened a week ago. Did you see
what I saw? I felt like the Clippers fell into a trap of thinking
they could just outscore them tonight in trade basket. It's and eventually come away
with a victory. Because they did that in the first quarter, and then
they just stuck with that. Their defense never really showed up, and it
burned them. Yeah, and I don't know, it's just it's hard.
I mean, what's our record against kids with winning records? Is here?
Oh, it's not great. I want to say it's seven or eight games
below five hundred. There's something like, I believe seven. I want to
say seven and fifteen or something like that, or seven and seventeen, somewhere
in that range. Now, how many of those games that they have Kawaii
and Paul George, I couldn't really tell you. I haven't gone through all
that data. I obviously tonight you don't have Paul George. But no Nicola
Yokis with the Denver Nuggets. Okay, yeah, But and you know one
pattern, especially against the Nuggets, we always seem to get dominated on the
offensive rebounding and we make Aaron Gordon look like shack And it's pattern over and
over it We happened on the road against Boston and so on. So that's
one of the issues that I have. The other a couple of issues when
Terrence Man came into the game late. I I was a little surprised that
he came in for Viza Zoo Bots instead of John Wall, and they went
small there and Denver did get a key offensive rebound. I think it ended
in a foul with Michael Porter Jr. And the Clippers couldn't say it unfoul
trouble the fourth either, right, and I guessed that to two quick points
one in the fourth quarter. John Wall had a great game overall. He's
been struggling the turnovers killing us. His turnover resultant three point play kind of
killed us. But I kind of trust I would like to see Reggie and
maybe Tye will do it a little later, bringing Reggie more often, and
I can envision maybe Luke Nard Powell coming in before a Wall. But here's
the last point. I don't see the Clippers making the offense the other team's
best players work. And brought this up last time. I didn't see like
we go after Murray like we should have been. Murray was so comfortable on
the offensive end we didn't make him uncomfortable on a defensive end. We could
have had switches and Murray had to. He should have been guarding quite a
lot more or Norman Powell because he can drive to the basket and moving forward.
I would like to see it, hopefully see that if we play them
again, there's no reason why we can't bring Yokich up top Paul George Kawai.
They should be, you know, on the high peak and roll.
Have Yokich on him, and Powell should be doing it too, because he's
one of our best drivers. That's the only way to beat the leade teams
is making Yokish work Murray work on the defensive end. I agree with you.
I thought they tried at times to get Aaron off of Kauai, who
I think is probably one of the better defenders in the league guarding Kawhi Leonard
because he has the size and the quickness, one of the few guys to
really stay with him. And I appreciate the phone call Tagius, and I
am seeing the Clippers splits this season and I could have been wrong about that.
They may have to correct this because I think the Clippers they're fifteen and
eight against teams over five hundred seven and fourteen against teams below five hundred.
So I don't know what you think is more concerning then, but I'll try
to double source this one because I thought I saw it the other way,
but I could be wrong about that. Now they're taking on the Houston Rockets.
So they go from taking on the top team in the West and the
Denver Nuggets, to the bottom team in the West, bottom team in the
league, worst record in the league, the ten and thirty two Houston Rockets
on Sunday. You can't overlook anybody. More on that coming up next here
on Clippers Talk after they fall one fifteen to one OHO three two of the
Denver Nuggets. Here and down Sound, Los Angeles. I'm Adam Oslin,
and this is a five seventy yellow Sports Oh Paul George LA Clippers Basketball continue
in his pains as he carries the three on the home of your LA Clippers.
Well, the good Kawhi Leonard twenty plus and six of his last eight
games, averaging twenty three points over that time, and had a huge throwdown,
got up looks strong in the third quarter of the bad Clipper Lewis.
They've lost seven of eight, eight of nine to the Denver Nuggets. Now
they fall one fifteen to one oh three and can't confirm the guys at clip
cast Chris Wild I think hooked it up he and Henry Dittman that that Clippers
record against teams above five or it is right. They're fifteen and eight,
seven and fourteen against teams willow five hundred. So exercise some demons. They're
taking on the Houston Rockets Sunday afternoon. There's exercising some demons with the start
time as well. Tip time is at nude Well have your pregame show starting
at eleven am. We don't like to have some skies falling panic talk here
because there are no must win games right now. That's not the playoffs.
But if any game should be one that the Clippers can handle and get right
and possibly run away with, you think it would be against the Houston Rockets.
They can't think like that. They got to play their best regardless,
and really most of the time it feels like they're playing themselves, not DJ
Kali's style, But they're so talented that it's really up to them and the
type of team they're gonna be that day or that night, weren't good enough
against Denver. It's Houston on Sunday. Before we get out of here,
I do you want to thank the Clippers organization? No it ego, Brian
Steman, Ralph Lawlor, big brother, Jake Warner, head engineer, here
and everywhere here in downtown Los Angeles. Producer Katie Newton back into bank.
I'm Adam Oslin. Talked to you at eleven am on Sunday Fastness Side Cass
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