The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just begot Cohi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range. This
is Clippers Locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead on
your home for LA Clippers basketball at now your host, You, sir,
are a bad man Adam Ousley. An exciting game, but some excruciating pain
for Clipper Nation as they lose by one with a score one seventy six to
one seventy five in favor of the Kings. Here from downtown Los Angeles.
Kings win in double overtime. Welcome into your postgame show. I'm outam Oslin
coming up. We'll get to your second half highlights. We'll also hear from
the head coach and the players after this one. But first back to your
voice of the Clippers in Noah Eagle. Noah. To say they had their
chances is an understatement. They had large leads of fourteen points with five minutes
left on the fourth quarter, nine points six points in both over time.
They just simply couldn't close it. Look, the Kings came into this game
second in the NBA in halftime combax when they trailed at halftime. The Kings
coming in had twelve wins coming back and winning the games. The only thing
that was ahead of them coming into this game was the Clippers, who have
thirteen wins when trailing at halftime this year, so now they're all even in
that category. After the Clippers led by four following two quarters, I mean,
this was just one of the most remarkable games I've ever seen. I've
never seen a scoring output like this. I've never seen a game in which
like neither defense could do anything essentially, And you're right, you could count,
however, many times that the Clippers had chances the big leads that they
coughed away. I think it goes back to the shot that they allowed from
a league monk at the end of regulations. That's the game right there.
You get one stop, you win the game. And it felt like that
a couple of times for this team. They couldn't secure the consistent stops,
and eventually the Kings, who deserve a lot of respect, are currently third
in the West for a reason because they've won games like this all year.
They had Siponas foul out pretty early in overtime. He only played thirty one
minutes. But Daron Fox, an All Star League monk, played like an
All Star, and even with Kawhi Leonard going for a Clippers career high of
forty four and playing some menacing defense when they needed him, he just ran
out of gas. And with Paul George being on that minute restriction he had,
he was the one who was guiding them in the fourth quarter in overtime,
just took over. After having just fourteen points in the first three quarters,
he had twenty in the third, in the fourth quarter in overtime combined,
so to put him on the bench, Russell Westbrook fouls out in double
ot. It was just a perfect storm for the Clippers who just couldn't push
over that line. And those are the These are just the tough ones to
swallow. Look, there's a lot of good that came out of this game.
There's a lot of good to take away from this game. I think
there's a lot of positive momentum for this team. But man, this is
gonna be a tough one to get over for anybody. And we're talking about
the teams that are three and four in the West or were coming into this
one. With the Clippers having a chance if they had one to get within
half a game of the Sacramento Kings for that three seed. They will see
them again coming up next week, but this one stings in a major way.
Now, Russell Westbrook in his debut, did e quit himself? Well?
He looked very good out there and seemingly blended in and I thought really
deferred in a great way where he was in control and taking care of the
basketball for the most part. You could tell there were a couple of times
where he said should I drive it or should I set somebody up? And
then he deferred to setting somebody up and it was probably the right choice.
I mean, he had fourteen assists in this game. Adam, We've seen
him have games where he's had twenty points, twenty assists and almost twenty rebounds.
I mean, that's the type of player when he's at his peak performance
that he can be. So seventeen fourteen times five rebounds, played thirty nine
minutes in his first game with the team and ends up fouling out in double
overtime. But he brought a spark. He brought a whole lot that this
team just didn't really have to this point of the season. Really, it's
the last couple of years of someone who can set the table. And you
said it before, I don't know the last time we saw Kawhi Leonard and
Paul George get that many catch of two threes and they absolutely made the most
of them when it combined fourteen of seventeen from three point terrets with the Clippers
actually set a franchise record and made threes tonight with twenty six of them.
Now, of course it was double overtime. The last time they had twenty
five that was in regulation, but still franchise record, made three franchise record
in points. They had thirty nine assists in this game. At him.
I mean, this is a team that barely averages twenty two. This is
exactly what you expect with Russell Westbrook and you hope that he can continue and
build off of this first performance because that's the other part of all of this.
The Kings didn't really make any moves at the deadline. They brought in
Kessler Edwards, who was a young player that maybe they could develop, but
he's not in the rotation. They didn't make any moves. This is a
team that's been together. The Clippers are still finding themselves and for them to
put up one hundred seventy five points is pre impressive. Clippers fall one seventy
six to one seventy five two the Sacramento Kings here from Crypto dot Com Arena.
No time to hang their head. There's just twenty games left in the
season, and the next one's coming up in Denver Sunday night against the reigning
MVP, who might have another one coming his way this season with Nikoliokich and
his stellar play. But the Clippers have Plumbly now. And let's not forget
those two play together for some years. They know each other very well.
I like it. The secret weapon in Mason plum Ly, plum Dog Millionaire
babingos his tricks, the plumb God. Clippers tipping off in Denver at seven
against the Nuggets on Sunday. We'll have your pregame show starting here at six.
No, you didn't have to work out today. I hope you didn't,
because you got one during the ball game. You know, I got
on the bike at him. You know how it is. You know the
vibes come on now. That's the only way you could say in shape for
a game like this. Apparently, great call is always my friend will talk
to you on Sunday, Adam, I'm really not sure if I can strain
my voice anymore. I'm going to anyway, can't wait at him covering up.
Next, we'll try to get you some of those second half highlights and
was one of the wildest games, not just the season, in NBA history,
scoring game ever, Adam, there it is in the modern era.
But the Clippers fall by one in doublet to the Kings, one seventy six
to one seventy five was your final score. And you're listening to the Los
Angeles Clippers radio network in double overtime, the Clippers fall by one to the
Sacramento Kings here in downtown Los Angeles with a final score of Sacramento one seventy
six the Los Angeles Clippers one seventy five, second highest scoring game in the
history of the league. Welcome into your postgame show or back in. I'm
Adam Oslin coming up. We're looking for postgame audio from the head coach and
the players after this one. But let's get to those second half highlights.
There were plenty of them in a high scoring game like this that started off
of the first half where the Clippers led eighty to seventy six Kawhi Leonard.
He had seventeen in the first half. He would outdo that in the third
quarter alone. So the Clippers get to stop to start this third quarter in
moving from left to right with Westbrook, George Clubly Leonard and Morris George crossover,
drive middle into the paint. Blab it outside, swing it Leonard on
the right wing. We'll try the three and connects Westbrook with his seventh assist
of the night. Makes it eighty three seventy six. Barnes outside Westbrook extra,
feed Leonard on right wing. Three, He's got another Kawhi Leonard with
twenty three eighty six seventy eight eight assists for Russell, Westbrook, Westbrook left
Green, leave it Leonard straight away three, he can't miss. Kawai ka
boom twenty six and ten assists now for Westbrook ninety two eighty three. La
Leonard's gonna have to make it happen. Step back straight away three over barns
Oh Kawai cash is in its twenty nine for the claw and the Clippers lead
ninety five eighty eight. Kawhi Leonard had twenty one in the third quarter alone,
tying a career high for most points in a quarter from him, and
the Clippers led one seventeen to one ten heading into the fourth where then Paul
George started cooking. George now with met two on a crossover back and forth
down the right alley to the rim, off the window, gets the bucket
in the foul Pg. Thirteen with a whooping harm and he had a little
something to say to Natalie's Sago after the fact. Paul George had sixteen in
the fourth quarter, but the Clippers gave up a nine point lead with under
three minutes left at two forty and Malik Monk would hit a three pointer to
tie the game to send it into ot Kawhi Leonard had a look at a
seventy footer that hit off the front of the rim, so we headed into
overtime. In ot Clippers got off to a quick start. They led by
six with three oh four left in overtime, but they would give up that
lead as well and it was a tie game at one sixty four, all
heading into double overtime, and deja vu happened again up six with now a
minute fifty seven left in doublet and the Clippers couldn't get enough stops, couldn't
execute well enough on offense, and they would eventually fall to Malik Monk and
his forty five points in an unreal performance, one seventy six to one seventy
five to the King's in double ot here in downtown Los Angeles. Coming up
next on your postgame show, we'll preview Sunday night's game and looking for postgame
audio from Coach Low and the players after eight historic night here at Crypto dot
com Arena, but unfortunately it ends in a loss for the Clippers. They
lose one seventy six to one seventy five. I did not stutter day what
a score, What an unbelievable game. Tough one though, Clipper Nation.
Coming up on AMP five seventy LA Sports, we'll have Clippers stock for you
at eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy is the phone number. More postgame next here on Los
Angeles Clippers Radio Network. Clippers losing double ot so the Sacramento Kings in downtown
Los Angeles by a brace yourself score of one seventy six to one seventy five,
second highest scoring game in the history of the NBA, but the Clippers
lose it by one. You're looking at this final box score if you're asking
for how teams could score that much, Well, they both were near sixty
percent from the field and shot ridiculous numbers from the outside. The Clippers set
a franchise record, hitting twenty six three pointers on fifty eight percent shooting,
and the Kings they went eighteen to forty one. That's forty four percent from
distance, and Malik Monk went six of twelve, none bigger than the one
he hit at the end of regulation to send it into overtime. He went
for forty five back in a place he knows well here at Crypto dot Com
Arena was a Laker last season and was able to outduel Kawhi Leonard and his
forty four, just one shy of his career high of forty five. Paul
George gave the Clippers thirty four. Norman Powell off the bench had twenty four.
Nicholas Patum got off the snide from three. He went five of ten
had nineteen points, but Clippers had twenty five turnovers, leading to forty two
points for the Sacramento Kings. I've never seen a number like that in my
life and hopefully never do again. Clippers next game coming up on Sunday,
they don't get any easier. They'll be in Denver taking on Nikola Yokich and
the Nuggets. Tip off for that one is at seven. We'll have Clippers
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the Clippers were on the wrong side of a historic night, as you just
witnessed the second highest scoring game in the history of the NBA, but the
Clippers fall to the Kings in double overtime one seventy six to one seventy five.
Welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm Atam Honslin eight six six nine eight seven
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We're looking for postgame audio from the head coach in tehron Low and from the
players after this one, and William Updyke from Clips and Dip will be here
as well. It was the debut for Russell Westbrook, and I thought overall
he played pretty darnwell, played big minutes, was at thirty nine, had
fourteen assists, did have seven turnovers, but hit a key layup at the
end of the fourth quarter to put him up by three, only for them
to see Malik Monk, who had forty five, hit a three pointer on
the other end with about eight seconds left in the ballgame. Clippers did not
to foul play the foul game. Put him at the free throw line,
don't let him get a three pointer up in a game where guys were this
hot from the outside. I was a little bit surprised by that, but
I get it. A lot of coaches play it that way, and you
don't want to foul a guy as he's going up and with the quick,
quick release he has. That's a tough call, but that would send him
into ot After Kawhi Leonard almost sunk a sixty five footer that would have been
the shot of the year, and what was the game of the year,
especially if you're a Sacramento Kings fan, if you're a Clippers fan, this
one stinks. Not many moral victories left when there's only twenty games remaining in
the season, and this was one against the team right in front of them
in the standings in the Western Conference, where if the Clippers had won,
they would have just been a half game backup Sacramento for the three spot.
I'll update you when the standings coming up, as these two teams do play
again next week in Sacktown. But it was a game lost by the turnovers
where Sacramento ended up getting up thirteen more shots than the Clippers because the Clippers
had just an abysmal twenty five turnovers, leading to forty two points for the
Kings and had them in a key spot in the fourth quarter when they were
completely in control. There were many ways this game was lost, but nothing
stands out more than this. It started with the Clippers being up one forty
five to one thirty one with four twenty five left in regulation Europe fourteen.
Paul George's sunk a free throw. You gotta handle your business, but unfortunately
they had back to back to back to back turnover. It was unreal to
watch them unravel to that extent, but we've seen it at times this season.
It started with a Russell Westbrook turnover, then PG had two of them.
Then it was I believe Norman Powell getting called for an offensive foul on
an inbounds play. It couldn't even get the ball in before they gave it
back to Sacramento. That stuff can't happen, not at this point of the
season. I know you're implementing some new guys, but this team has championship
aspirations and for them to collapse to that level to give up a fourteen point
lead with four to twenty five left in the fourth They were still up nine
though with two forty left in the fourth quarter. Then they were up six
with three or four left, and OT up six with one fifty seven left
in double OT. It was like they were trying trying to outdo themselves with
collapse after calamity and collapse. It was just an abysmal performance at the wrong
time. Trap within a game where the Clippers went for a franchise high and
points scored in three pointers made. But when they had to execute, and
really when the games slowed down as they were playing at such a fast pace
as we were opposed to seeing all season long, it was like they couldn't
find their half court offense. They couldn't get the ball up the court.
They didn't handle the traps and the double teams well from Sacramento to say the
least. And they gave this one away multiple times. And that's an understatement.
Brutal loss doesn't mean the season's over, doesn't mean they can't come back
from this, doesn't mean they didn't have good performances like Kauai being one shy
of his career high of forty five points. He had forty four. He
had a third quarter to remember, tied his points high, his career points
high for most points scored in a quarter with twenty one on eight of eight
shooting, and hit five threes in the third alone, and had a shot
and double overtime that he was short on with a jumper in the mid range
that if he had got it to go, would have been a new career
high for him with forty six and the Clippers would have had a great chance
to go on to win this one. But for whatever reason, in this
wild, bizarre, twilight zone type of game where you're just wondering, how
is this even happening, David goes to the dentist. Is this real life?
Because second high scoring game in NBA history, highest scoring game having back
in nineteen eighty three when the Detroit Pistons beat the Denver Nuggets one hundred and
eighty six one hundred and eight were in triple overtime, just double ot here.
If they got to three overtimes, they definitely were going to break that
record. But the Clippers lose by one, with a final score of one
seventy six to one. Seventy five. It's just comical to even look at.
And you can certainly go after both teams defensively and say, oh,
the NBA doesn't play defense anymore. Well, I just gave you that number
from nineteen eighty three, an era that is looked back upon fondly, that
has the all time scoring record. And I will say this, the degree
of difficulty on some of those shots by Malik Monk just unconscious stuff. I
don't know what you do. Kawhi tried. He was getting around screens,
he was taking deep shots, and Daron Fox was getting into the paint.
And Kawhi even had a couple of blocks against him in ot spectacular plays or
Daron Fox was in transition. I don't know if I've ever seen this before.
Kauai was the only man back to defend it and did it was well
telling for a two time Defensive Player of the Year. It's what he does.
But I don't know if I've ever seen that happen to dear and Fox
who typically just sidesteps, euro steps around a guy, or just floats it
over the top, and he couldn't against Kauai. This will be a game
to be remembered you ain't gonna forget this one. It stings, It hurts
because of the standings, because of the implications, But this is one we're
gonna be thinking about for a long time for a lot of different reasons.
Ultimately, the Clippers lose it. Offensively, they looked incredible the amount of
easy looks that Kawai and Paul George got. I feel like they got more
catch and shoot open threes than they had all season long. And it was
Russ dishing a lot of those passes to them, but everyone out there seemed
to be re energized. The ball was moving, it was hopping. They
had twenty assists in the first half to twenty five made field goals, as
assisting on eight percent of your makes. They end up with thirty nine assists.
I'm guessing that's a franchise high. I'm trying to compile and find all
this stuff because it's a historic night. There's gonna be a lot of firsts.
But the twenty five turnovers did them in and maybe the pace that they
tried to play Sacramento at with which the Kings are much more comfortable in.
They've been doing it all season. They've been doing it for a couple of
seasons, they got sped up and eventually sped out with too many of those
turnovers, trying to play at a tempo they weren't quite ready for yet.
I say that, and they still or a three pointer away from the league
monk hitting. And they in this ball game so many ways they could have
won it, so many players that were right there, and the Clippers didn't
get it done Tonight. They got to bounce back on Sunday, huge game
in Denver. You can't let this hang over your head. You can't turn
one loss into two, and it's not going to be easy. You're taking
on the Nuggets. They'll be on a back to back two like the Kings
were tonight. But remember Noah Eagle had the number. Kings actually score more
on the second night of a back to back. They average one hundred and
twenty three points. That's about to go up some after they put up one
hundred and seventy six. But they had fifteen turnovers in this fast paced game,
and that's not a bad number considering how many possessions were out there.
It's really not twenty five, though that's excessive from the Clippers. Some of
it certainly seemed to be just needing to get that familiar out there with new
players. Russ I think had a couple of his turnovers looking for Mason Plumbly.
One hit him right in the chest. He just wasn't ready for it.
That stuff can be cleaned up. But again sense of urgency. It's
time to start winning, stringing big victories together as you get closer to the
playoffs. They know that. So coming up Sunday against nikolaokis the back to
back MVP. It's gonna be a good one tonight, a historic one where
it ends in a loss for the Clippers. As Malik monk Out duels Kauai.
He has forty five to Leonards forty four, and the Kings were a
play better. They win one seventy six to one seventy five and double overtime
here in downtown Los Angeles over the Clippers and Russell Westbrook's debut. More Clippers
talk coming up next. We'll get to your phone calls eight six six ninety
eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy will
also hear from the head coach as well. This is Clipper Stock on AM
five seventy LA Sports, the home of your La Clippers. Drey just later
run I said that Clippers lose one seventy six to one seventy five here and
down town Los Angeles. Was at the score, you know, I said
it right, got a double check. Pitch yourself if you're a Kings fan.
I guess in double OT they take down the Clippers by one in an
extraordinary night of basketball in offense and shooting high degree of difficulty shots and knocking
them down. But it came down to the turnovers in the end, and
the Clippers had twenty five and the King's just fifteen. Clippers had their chances.
I mentioned it up by fourteen, up by nine, and the fourth
quarter, which is three minutes remaining up by six. In OT, up
by six and double OT with under two minutes left, Nicholas Batoum had a
shot and double overtime from distance. Thought it was gonna go. Thought we
were gonna be praising Saint Nick tonight. And he did have a good ball
game, five of ten from distance, most three pointers he's hitting the game
in about a month and a half since the game in Charlotte where he did
in his former team there Paul George had a shot at the end of the
first overtime, tough one tried to step through a double team put it up.
Kawhi Leonard almost had the tip in. Looked to be a little bit
after the buzzer though even if it did go so, it's just and a
game like this, what's aggravating is what needles you is the amount of opportunities
you had to win and you found a few ways to lose instead. And
it's a historic game, second highest scoring game in the history of the NBA,
but you're on the wrong side of it. Clippers can't let this define
their season. This can't be what we're thinking about come the off season.
That's not what Clipper Nation is looking for. You want to wash this one.
As much as there were some good things, and I know Coach lou
and the players, they're gonna look at the tape. They're gonna learn from
it. Defensively, they weren't good enough were to matter. Most offensively,
they certainly weren't with turnovers coming in bunches and key moments. All right,
start things off here tonight. Let's go with Javier and lahabber heights. Javier,
what's up? You're on Clippers stop without AMOSSLD. What's up, Adam?
Thank you for taking mccomby the first caller you said it. It was
a tough loss. It has like four chances. It's one of the toughest
losses any team has really taken an NBA history. If you able to look
at it that way, you score one hundred and seventy five points and lose.
Yeah, that's brutal. Yeah, no, it's brutal. And Russell
Westbrook, you know he helped him out. It was a smart daring Hey,
Russ, this is a huge silver lining because this was a big pickup.
All the talk, all the chatter this week, and what I loved
about his game was, for the most part, he played within himself,
was in control, was not taking on the high end challenge of going one
on five or one on three when he has those one man generating fast breaks
that he's prone to because of his speed. He would slow things down,
kick it out to open shooters. He found Norman Powell for a couple of
those. In the first half he'd collapsed the defense and fine, guys,
I just like the level of control he played with out there, and it
was more high i Q basketball than just energizer bunny up and down aggressive play,
there was more heavy play. I thought he tried to set a couple
of ball screens for guys. That something people are looking for from him,
and I do think him as a clipper in this environment is a very good
thing. Don't tell me a change of scenery isn't meaningful, or that guy's
playing next to one another that actually like each other isn't meaningful. It is
guys play from one another. He's back with Paul George and a team that
has embraced him, and everybody out there seemed to have their game elevated and
their energy up in this one, certainly on the offensive side. With the
amount of ball movement. It was contagious. But I really thought it started
with Russ. He found plumbly for an easy one that turned into an and
one early on, and he hit a huge three and ot and had a
lay up. I put him up three, only for Monk to hit that
three point in a tide at the end of regulation. I'm sorry, how
have you? But you made a good point. You sent me down that
road. What's up? Yeah? And you know the frustrating thing about this
game is like you said, they had a couple of times they could close
the game, and you know the players. You know this, Like you
said, they score one hundred and seventy five points. So at this point,
who's to blame? And honestly, ty Lou Adam with six minutes left,
they had four turnovers in a row, and he did not call a
timeout because that's one thing at him. That's one I believe he did after
the fourth one. No no, no, no, no, after the
fourth one. I mean, I mean, even Kauai I saways guest,
he was like, guys, calm down, let's calm down. I mean,
and Kawai didn't have one of those turnovers, and that I was part
of the issue. Yeah, but he took a team. I calmed down,
guys, give me the ball. But no turnover, turnover. Okay,
So that's number one. Number two, what kind of play is Tylu?
Every time because of the time I had him, they hardly ever scored.
That's number two. Number three. Terrence Man eighteen minutes Adam eighteen minutes.
I'll give you the last one. I thought that was curious, and
I think he only played about a minute after the fourth quarter in both overtimes,
and it came at the very end as Russell Westbrook ended up fouling out.
I thought that was a little bit curious when you needed some sort of
defense and they were picking on Norman Powell some and they were trying to go
after Russell Westbrook, who I thought played okay defense for the most part.
He certainly played hard to pick up six fouls. But yeah, I did
think, okay, is Terrence get Man gonna get a little bit more run
here? But I also get the other side of it. Norman Powell has
been a killer latent games for this team all season long. It's tough to
bring him out. Then, I mean, then, okay, nast thing.
I mean they you you bring somebody else, You take somebody else out,
Adam, I don't know who you take out. I'm not saying to
take normal power out. I'm not saying that. But you take somebody out,
well, I mean you gotta have a solution then, I mean who
you know what didn't Adam didn't Adam at that point in you take Russell Westbrook
out of the game, then I mean, you're not gonna take a whiet
You're not gonna take Paul George you're not gonna take over and pow. So
Westbrook, here's the last thing, Adam second second overtime plumbly two straight turnovers.
Yeah, why is he playing in the second overtime? If some bonus
is not playing, that's the that's the that when you put in Terrence Man
and you play, you know, with Terrence Man in the lineup, I
mean, why do you have plumb me so bodies is not playing? He
had back to back turnovers, and he came in after guys got in a
foul trouble and because Paul George was on a minute restriction. Although he played
forty one, he didn't play all overtime, So that hurt him in a
big way because he had the ball in his hands and he was hot.
He had twenty points from the fourth quarter and then and into the first OT.
I mean you said it earlier at them. When you're fast break,
it's fast break. It's not coaching. It's fast break. Everybody just going
up, up and down the core. You scort when the game slows down,
it's about coaching and didn't execute. So who's whose fault is a Well,
look at those four turn those four straight turnovers. I mean these guys
are pros, like that's that stuff just can't happen. That's but that's not
on coaching to me, that's on Paul. George has to get it up
the court and they can't have an offensive felon and in bounced play. I
don't think the guys need to be coached not to do that. They know
not to do that. I mean here, I mean, I mean,
I'm just giving you a point, Adam. I mean, hey, it's
a frustrating that. I get it. Man, I get it. You
don't you don't, you don't. You don't blame the player. The score
one hundred and seventy five points at this point, you just playing the coach
and says, you know what, you had four chances to god this game
and you couldn't do it. Tylo, you couldn't do it, Tylo.
All right, Javier, I appreciate the phone call. I don't think it
was any one player or the coach. It was a lot going wrong.
To have that many collapses when you had leads and couldn't hold on to them.
It's a multitude of issues. All right. Let's go to Lenny in
Inglewood. Lenny, what's up here on Clipperstock Lenny Online two. I believe.
Hey, Adam, you know I'm glad you this Sugarhope distance because at
the end of the day, we haven't beat the top year teams. Are
we lost Philly? Philly handled the box handles. You don't think that Suns
they just have Okay, So I don't want to hear that they had CP
three Devin book out there. Sounds was a good win. But I'm talking
about full strength everybody on the board. I mean, Adam, we haven't.
We haven't. No, Adam, you can't. You can't talk about
the Sons win without Kevin Durant. We know what's coming. You can't.
We have a lot of pity for a team that's going into super team mode
because they brought in Kevin Durant and didn't have them that night. And you're
gonna say that's not a quality winning if it takes you from a very good
team to a great team, or a team that was in the finals two
years ago to being a super team. I still think it qualifies as a
very good win against Phoenix in Phoenix, yeah, and clip and Cliper Nation.
It's a good win, okay, But I'm talking about on both coasts.
There's five teams. Uh, there's there's three teams that are above us
we haven't beaten yet, and the teams on on the East coast we haven't
beaten yet. Okay, I'll give you that, but they haven't played Memphis
yet either, so they haven't had an opportunity to. Yeah, and I'm
a good thing. Memphis seems like it's backsliding right now, but you know,
we'll see. With his laugh, all I'm saying is that I just
think that this. I think we're a good team. But like Hawaii said
it, we're not. We're not saying yet because of the thing it chanceship
change. Yet we're just not what I mean. You don't you don't not
gonna argue with that they aren't we but I mean, like, we're not
even like you don't. I just I've never seen a team that wants it
bad to break down and turn the ball over like that, with those kind
of leads. Man. I just I just haven't seen that. I just
said. And I don't know what to say. I really don't know what
to say. I don't know where the breakdown is. I don't know if
it's on the players. I don't know if it's on the coaching, but
it's this. This ain't it. This doesn't make any sense now, Yeah,
Ron is the first game with Russ. I mean, yeah, give
a little bit of time. Yeah, this is a good thing. But
the same time we're squeezing out. I mean it is. It is gonna
affect Man's minutes undestand Tylu got to get him acclimated quickly because the playoffs are
coming and we gotta we gotta, we gotta push on our chips into the
middle of the table. But the guy just went we just spoke before.
I just understand why Roko is totally out of the lot, out of the
rotations. I mean, what did he say something? Did he crack a
bad joke us? I mean I can't that. I don't know either,
Lenny. All I heard was earlier today. I believe coach Lu did say
he is the player that has sacrificed the most for this team this season.
And obviously that's the truth because he hasn't played much and even in a game
without a visa Zoo bots, I thought we might see him more. Didn't
happen. All right, Well, you know, we gotta an extremely tough
game against Denver. I know Vegas is probably gonna have us, you know,
the underdog one. It's big, but what I big? But you
know we got we gotta be the top year team at full strength when the
other teams at full strength, or you know, we're gonna go onto the
playoffs and it's gonna be a it's gonna be you know, we're gonna play
some really good, inspiring ball, but we're gonna walk away, but once
again the moral banner victory. And you know, I guess this Clipper Nation
is cool with that. That's what it is. But I was I wanted
more. I want more this year, man. I think everybody wants more
this year. And they gotta figure this out. Man. They got about
two weeks. Lenny, I appreciate the full call. You're right, they
do have to figure it out. Time is of the essence. There's twenty
games left and Clipper Nation is hungry and it's a championship or bus type season.
That's how I see it. This is year four of the two one
three connection with Kawai and Paul George, so yeah, sense of urgency has
to be there. Peter and huntson Beach, what's up here on Clipper stop
without am aslin listen. I just wanted to say, I really dig your
honesty. I think you call it the way it is. I was listening
to Javier and I agree with him. What I don't understand, and I'll
make my point brief. I don't understand thy Lou's substitution patterns. I know
he wanted to give Russ his minutes, but at the expense of who Terence
Mann, who is arguably, aside from Kauai, arguably been the best player
on the team this year, and to take the minutes from him, I
myself, I would rather see Paul George get rid of, you know,
get the ball taken out of his hands, or sat on the bench in
the fourth quarter. I know that might not be popular, but I still
don't understand they haven't. We haven't really seen Bones either. I know he's
new and Roco is he was a defensive presence, could have helped out tonight.
I think this is squarely on thy Lou. I know you'll disagree,
but I respect your opinion. Love your brother, all right. I appreciate
the phone called Peter. Look, you can point a lot of fingers and
look at a few different areas. I just can't say it's one guy or
the head coach. I think that's oversimplification of what happened tonight in a wild
one. To say the least those turnovers, that's on the players. Four
straight turnovers, turnovers like that. I don't see how you can watch that
and say, oh, that's on coach Lou you should have taught a better
No, these guys are pros at the highest level. In a superstar and
an All Star and Paul George who at his pocket pick by Darren Fox for
an easy one. It just seemed like they lost focus once they got up
by a significant margin late, multiple time times, and it kept happening again
and again, and they gotta stay locked in. And it's something we've talked
about all season. All this team goes in and out of playing really good
basketball, and there was some amazing basketball play tonight, and you really saw
it all the ups and downs of this team. I guess on display Clippers
lose one seventy six to one seventy five in double overtime to the Sacramento Kings.
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Sports Clippers take a punch to the gut, lose a heartbreakers one seventy six
to one seventy five in double overtimes to the Sacramento Kings, who gained ground
on them in the Western Conference standings. Welcome back in the Clipper stock.
I'm Metam Moslin, coming up back to your phone calls at eight six six
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But first, will Updyke from the clips and dip pod. Will where
was this game lost in your mind? I think in some of the failures
to get stopped late, and I think that that comes from a rotation thing.
Obviously, you know, no Zubos in this one. That hurt us.
But the lack of Terrence man minutes I think was really really puzziti scary
to Eric Gordon first, who hadn't touched the floor, and I can't even
remember how long before he came in there. And overtime it a lot of
it. I gotta be honest with baffling to me. I know that Tyler
is trying to work things out with the new guys. I I just don't
know that some of those rotations were it. Terrence Man ended up playing just
thirty four seconds in both overtimes, and we've gotten a lot of calls on
it, and I can understand why people had won him out there in a
game that's that high scoring and you seem to have no problem on that end.
And by the way, Terrence Man has been much better on the offensive
end, So what about trying to get a few stops and not having as
many flaws on defense that the Kings were trying to pick on over and over
again. It's a great success, apparently when you score one hundred and seventy
six points. So I understand that. I also get how Norman Pale has
been really good late in games all season long. But if people are saying
that, okay, take out Russell Westbrook then and eventually he did foul out,
I can understand that argument. What was your overall assessment though, of
Russell Westbrook in his first game as a Clipper? Offensively? I mean,
he does some really great things. He can generate some looks for people,
he can get down hill. I mean, you know, his struggles finishing
around the basket are gonna be a problem. Those are fast breaks like just
waiting to happen. The turnovers weren't great, and honestly, like this isn't
his fault, you know, he I just don't think that he was the
right choice to go with to have two guards in there down late. I
know Paul George is on a man's restriction, so you know, there were
some there were some instances where Tylow had his hand kind of forced. So
I do understand it. Like I said, overall, I just think some
of those were some puzzling decisions. I think that this was this was again
it was lost in some executions. I mean that some of those turnovers were
absolutely brutal and over time, but like not being able to get a stop
against a good against the good offense, I mean just trading buckets. I
don't think it's the best thing. But but Russell Westborod did help the offense
overall. But it's you know, it's it's sort of an up and down
thing. It's it's kind of similar, uh as we had with Reggie,
but you know with the with the more athletic garden that it's you know,
a better password to be sure. Yeah, I just uh that that late
game execution was was just not very good and he just has to wonder really
right, like for a team that has struggled in that area, is shaking
off the line and the starters to this degree with now twenty game laps,
is that the right move for success? Uh? You know it was brought
up in the pre game pressor Tylou and that season team where basically they shipped
out after team. Uh. And I can't remember. Was that the year
they lost to the Warriors in five or the was that the year they ended
up getting swept. I think that was the year that Lebron in Game one
and they ended up getting swept. Anyways, they lost that in overtime.
Yeah, and maybe that turns out different effect game one is different. Who
knows. But I'm saying like, it's just a lot of gambles to make.
And I you know, I'm not even saying that that's just the Russell
Westbrook thing. I thought, you know, oh well he offensively, Uh,
he definitely did do some things up for other guys for sure, But
yeah, I don't know. And like having Norm Powell out there also not
a guy who's gonna get you a stop and he's barely touching the ball.
It's just like I said, it's just kind of baffling in some of those
kind of calls. Yeah, I will say this though, I thought one
of the most indicative signs of an impact from Russell Westbrook was the fact that
Paul George and Kawhi Leonard had juiced throughout this game. They were attacking,
they were playing downhill, they were moving the ball. Kawai hat a couple
of spectacular passes, one of them here where he was spinning and I think
threw it over to Norman Powell or Nicholas Batoum in the nearside corner for a
three pointer. But I hadn't seen that level of energy from them consistently throughout
a game, especially when where they played heavy minutes like they ended up doing
tonight. And I thought, Okay, maybe it's the Russell Westbrook effect here
where he's taking some of the offensive burden of having to set the table off
their plate and it's working. They seemed to have a little bit more pep
in their step to have a little bit more pop. As coach Leu would
say, would you agree with that? I would agree with that one hundred
percent. And I do love the way that he was getting the offense into
motion sooner in the shot clock. That was That's probably the best point of
the night. I forgot to bring that up. Will. That was the
most stark contrast of seeing this Clippers team all season being bottom ten in pace
and really in the two one three era playing like that to all of a
sudden, flying up and down the court and creating multiple possessions and getting shots
off when then the first five to at least ten seconds of the shot clock,
all right, Yeah, And I do think that that could be key
to you know, reserving some stamina for both Kauai and Paul George. You
know, it just this was two years ago the best half court offense in
the in the NBA, so I also don't want to discredit that, but
it was it was nice to see, I agree, getting into sets faster.
I think it's something you can definitely help with. And you know,
there were a couple of journals that weren't necessarily his fault. There was one
of Mason fummily I think in first or second quarter in that second ship,
which I think is normally with a little bit more time on court together,
is something that Mason is able to put away. So you know, there
were some things that weren't fully his fault. I also just liked the way
that he was really I mean, he was fully committed to setting up his
teammates, wasn't really taking a lot of shots. It wasn't like the revenge
tour. Uh, you know that that I had kind of doom prophesized about.
So yeah, I think that there there was a lot of good,
to be sure, and this law, I want to be perfectly clear,
like this isn't on him. I'm not blaming the loss for this law.
I do think that there was some lineup in vocational issues late that you know,
it needed a stop, and I just don't think that the right personnel
was on the floor to achieve that goal. I thought there were a couple
of plays where you could almost see the wheels turning and instead of it being
Russ being Russ, he slowed down. He was war methodical, and he
made the right basketball play and it was noticeable there was there was a concerted
effort there from him. Yeah, and there were, uh, there were
sometimes early where I thought maybe he was kind of rushing things a little bit,
And then I agree, he definitely did settle into things. He was
slowing down, he was looking to get to see his teammates. So you
know, there was some good There was some good stuff there. Look,
I think that the offense is probably going to be less than a less of
a struggle. But this team has to get back on track defensively. And
the Kings are a good offense. I give them that course, Uh,
but you know it we allot one seventy six. I mean, what is
Denver gonna put up on? You know, I'm just I am. I
am a little dubious of the Clippers defense right now. And you know,
the Westbrook edition. God bless his heart, it doesn't help. It doesn't
It doesn't help anything on that end of the floor. And he was kind
of sleeping on that to ended up time an. It's funny. Coming into
the season, I was much less worried about the defense than the offense.
But recently the offense has been fantastic and the defense coming into this game since
January first, in the New Year twenty second, and this obviously is not
going to help your defense a racing tonight. I'm curious to see what they
dropped there. All right, Well, I appreciate it, man, I
know we're going to have a clipse and well, this is double dip.
We got a tripod coming up on Monday with myself, you and Chuck Mockler.
But thanks for doing this night here on Clippers Talk. Well absolutely,
thanks for having me. A heartbreaker of a lap, but such a weird
game that I feel like no one should be getting two down on anything just
yet. Yeah, this was like the black Mirror game. I don't know
what just happened. All right, Well, appreciate it. Coming up.
We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back. We'll get back to
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All right, cliber Nations, you've been asking about it. I wasn't
terrorists man playing more. Coach Lewis asked about a post game on him just
playing eighteen minutes. He said, quote, he was good. He should
have played more. He said not having Man on the floor was as much
as a learning experience for him as well. So I really love that he
said that before this season. He takes accountability when he feels like he has
a misstep coaching wise, a lot of guys would just be stun be like,
well, I didn't do it because of this reason. I'm thinking of
bet Hellen or somebody like that. Sorry, Ben, I'm bad, But
yeah, it's It's one of those things that I think makes him pretty likable
and relatable. He will own it when stuff like this happens and appears to
have tonight before we get out of here quickly, rapid fire Ray in Torrance,
You're on Clippers stock. Wow. Wow, wow, Adam. That
was probably the most exciting and most frustrating regular season game of my life with
the Clippers. The last threey five years, I've been going so disappointing but
so exciting. I had my son with me, we had a great time,
but losing that game with frustrating you. I won't go in the whole
thing with Tyler other than you know, besides the whole rotation issue, it
was the whole managing of the second half timeouts. Why he's calling timeouts earlier
in the in the half kind of puzzling, and then he didn't have any
at the end, so that's why he waited for, you know, turnovers
before calling one. If you did it halfway through, would have stopped that.
And then we didn't have a time out at the end where you covered
a three point line. Let the guys driving score. Why the wine was
covering line? Did had time to tell his guys, don't let that happen.
It was so frustrating, and they went to overtime. They lost the
whole thing and double over time. So there was a time out before the
lake Monk hit that three pointer, so I don't know, show him up
well at the at the very end on the last play that into the fourth
quarter. Okay, Well, there was a king's time out with eight point
one seconds left, so they more than had enough time. Okay, then
I guess at that time, talented guys, let the guys score. Do
not let the three point play be called or shot and they let it shut
the shot and he drove and kicked it out. If they don't want to
take a two point, it's hard to make them take a two pointer outside
of fouling. Intentionally fouling and put put him at the line. Let him
just let him, let him score, don't kick it out. Let They're
not going to do that. They are going for the three pointer there apparently,
so just saying you're gonna let him score when they set up a play
around the perimeter, that's what they were going for. So the only really
other option is to play the foul game, all right, Appreciate the phone
call the rapper fire. Yeah, here we go, Uh Damien in La
Damian Youreon clipper stock, Hey, Adam oh Man. Tough lost, tough
loss. Thanks for having me on. It was great to be there because
I was a part of history. I won't get into all the stuff that
you guys are getting into. I'll just say, you know, Tyler's learning
too, and we need to give him a pass on that. He's got
a big fast ahead of him, you know, trying to figure out how
he's gonna find out all these minutes for all these guys, and I think
he's doing a pretty good job. We put up one hundred and seventy five
points tonight. We figure out the little little things will be great. But
as far as Russ, I think it's gonna work. At him, I
think it's gonna work. I was really pleasantly, you know, surprised and
pleased by what I saw Rust being Russ. It looks good to me.
How do you feel about it? I thought at times he wasn't being Russ.
He was being more choose and picky with win to attack, how to
attack. I thought there was more strategy to his game and getting guys involved.
I thought it was a great first game for Russell Westbrook in Los Angeles
Clippers uniform. Unfortunately, it comes to the loss. I appreciate the phone
called Damien, and that's it. I know what Jose was gonna say.
Let's go Clippers. Clippers fall double o two, one seventy six to one
seventy five to the Sacramento Kings. Tough one because, as I mentioned,
the implications in the standings and then we'll tell you how this affected things.
Drop the Clippers to the five spot. They're now a half game back of
Phoenix. They're in the fourth spot, two and a half games back of
Sacramento, still in that three spot. I'll see him again next week.
Clippers next game coming up on Sunday. Have we taken on the Denver Nuggets?
Tip Off is at seven while Clippers countdown and six before we get out
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