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tonight, where the Clippers lose one oh four to ninety nine. It was
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lot of frustration tonight coming off the big win the Clippers had against the Los
Angeles Lakers, and we wondered if that could propel them forward, if that
could be the turning point for this season, if something could have been born
out of that game like it was last year against the Atlanta Hawks, And
so far the answer is now. Sorry. The Clippers are just consistently inconsistent,
and that's the truth. And part of it is injuries, and part
of it is the schedule. This was the fifth game and seven nights,
and Sacramento was waiting for them. They had a couple days off after beating
them at Staples Center on Wednesday, and Terrence Davis had time to recharge.
After having twenty three points against the Clippers Wednesday night, he goes for twenty
eight. His career high is thirty one. But this is someone and this
happens periodically to your team, and you always remember those those guys that aren't
necessarily stars, but role players that always show up against you and seem to
take you down. And Terrence Davis is an official Clippers killer at this point.
I don't know how else to put it, because he's played two of
the best games of his career against the Clippers. They both happened in back
to back games in the same week, and by my count, Terrence Davis
is twelve or fifty seven from three against everybody else in the league this year,
twelve or fifty seven from three. Guess every other team the Kings have
played, who now improved to ten and fourteen on the year. Against the
Clippers, he has shot eleven for twenty from distance. It's it's hard to
uh, it's hard to understand and how somebody could get that hot other than
well, he's shooting twenty five percent of the year. And the Clippers play
drop coverage against guys like that. They let you take those shots. They
give you open shots. Because typically you're playing the law of averages, it's
gonna go in your favor. It hasn't with Terrence Davis. He has taken
it personal. He was talking junk to the Clippers on their bench in this
game. But tip your cap and you cannot take anyone lightly in this league,
including a team that fired their head coach just about a week and a
half ago, that has aspirations of making the playoffs or at least the play
in tournament this year. Remember Sacramento Kings, they have the longest run of
not making the playoffs. It's been since two thousand and six when Kevin Martin
was there. When they took on the Spurs in the first round. They
had Bonzi Wells. He bawled out in that series, by the way,
I can tell him from Sacramento. But it's all about the Clippers, and
this is a tough loss coming off what happened last night to play that well
against the Lakers, against their big three, and really Paul George, who
didn't even score in the fourth quarter, turned into facilitator Paul George and had
four assists. I want to say, in that fourth quarter last night that
turned into big shots from Luke Kennard or Hartenstein and Paul George. While having
ten assists tonight, the turnovers returned. He had five of them. Three
came in the fourth quarter. The Clippers had a sequence or sequences where they
had three straight turnovers at one point they could not get out of their own
way, and Paul George was involved in all of those plays and they were
just careless passes that that just can't be made. You have to make the
simple pass, take what the defense is giving you and for whatever Rea and
he has had issues especially so far this year after growing in that playmaking airy
last year. Paul George has not looked as comfortable right now. Remember he
had the day off against Sacramento Wednesday night, thought he was recharged, look
good overall. Last night, the Clippers lost their focus as fatigue started to
set in. I think Noah Eagle brought this up post game, and you
see it. At the free throw line. They go eighteen of twenty seven.
They're top five and free throw shooting, they shoot just over eighty percent
on the season. They shoot sixty six percent tonight. They were critical ones.
Marcus Morris, who was fouled on a three pointer, would hit all
three in the fourth quarter, then uncharacteristically missed two free throws a couple of
minutes later. How does that happen? It's just mental fatigue as well as
the physical fatigue. I think you just lose focus and the Clippers have to
stay locked in because if they think they're a flip the switch type of team
right now, their record says otherwise. And you cannot take a team lightly,
even one that you had beat up in their town fifteen straight times.
Apparently that's the truth of the matter. That's what the Clippers are dealing with.
A lot of players who have been up and down all season long,
including Paul George Now who started off the season ridiculously hot, was top five
and pretty much everybody's MVP polls, but over the last nine games now shooting
just thirty six percent from the field, shooting twenty four percent from distance.
This is an extended shooting slump, and he's a great shooter. So when
your usage rating goes up to the level it has because there's no Kawhi Leonard
out there, you can explain it away to a point. But I also
think that hot streak has to be coming, that law of averages has to
go back in his favor. For eventually, it's gonna happen to Terrence Davis
at some point too. It's gonna go the other way for him, just
like it did for Jonah's Valanciunas, who hit seven three pointers and started seven
of seven against the Clippers earlier this week. It's been that type of week
for them. Even coach lou post game after the Clippers came back the next
night, talked about how Valanciunas didn't hit a three point or his very next
game against the Clippers he hit seven. He starts seven of seven. How
many guys have even started seven of seven? Ever, I gotta check on
a Steph Cory number for this. I know some of them were wide open,
but my goodness, a seven footer dropping threes like that. It's just
guys coming, not out of nowhere. He's a very good player. He's
been killing it the whole season long. But the Pelicans are struggling. And
like I said, he didn't hit one the next night, and now it's
Terrence Davis. It's just going human torch aim on against the Clippers and getting
hot, and maybe at some point you say, Okay, it's not bad
luck. It's a pattern, a bad defense or bad strategy. And teams
have been shooting much better against the Clippers from three the last couple of weeks,
as their defense that was ranked second a couple of weeks ago, or
a week and a half ago, probably not even that long ago, but
they've been given up points lately. Sacramento score just one oh four. But
this was a game where the Clippers had multiple chances to take control and they
just never could. The turnovers were part of the problem. They went seven
minutes without scoring or without kidding a field goal in the second quarter. They
went seven minutes and twenty nine seconds in that second quarter where they produced just
six points to end a half and they were still down just five. And
you worry with the team with this much talent that was in the Western Conference
Final last year and had to get there without Kawhi Leonard. At some point,
wonder is there a hangover? Do they think that it's gonna be that
easy all the time? They're twelve and twelve. I'm looking for answers.
This team, after playing their most focused game last night, unraveled eighteen turnovers,
six of them in the fourth quarter. Kawa and Paul George, the
other member of the two one three connection, had three of them, and
they were just inexcusable. Can't happen? Clippers lose one oh four to ninety
nine to the Sacramento Kings. Will take a quick break. We'll come back.
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can't do anything about the schedule. We know that that was late out months
ago. It's unforgiving, but there are ways to try to overcome it.
And I thought coach Lou made a great move in the second half and there
was some sense of urgency when he started. Terrence Man love that move.
They got downtown immediately. In the third quarter, they came out flat once
again, but it wasn't on Man. It wasn't on that move. They
eventually started a battle and to the third quarter though Buddy Healed, there's the
technical on the three second call after there was a technical earlier on Marcus Moore's
Buddy Heel goes to the free throw line, hits it, and then hits
a three pointer. Buddy Healed, who is a Clipper's legend in some ways
by how bad he's been against them, having off shooting nights. He's done
them so many favors, but they did him one there because after he hit
that free throw, he was in rhythm. He hit a three point and
all of a sudden, instead of just being down two heading into the fourth
quarter, I believe the Clippers were down six. They lose by five in
Sacramento for the first time since twenty thirteen. More Clippers stock Next, we'll
postgame audio. You're listening to a five seventy scores, but you know where
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stretch. This is the official home of the Los Angeles Clippers. Sit down,
sit down, sit down, sit down. I'm sure some people in
Sacktown, we'll say, get humbled to the Clippers after they lose in Sacramento
for the first time since twenty thirteen, first time in their last sixteen contest.
They had lost the King's fifteen straight to the Clippers. With all kinds
of different rosters and different players over the years, we've seen the roster turnover
go back a decade now, it's been substantial, and the Clippers lose tonight
in Sacramento one o four to ninety nine. Now I'm not doing skies.
Following radio tonight, there's still twelve and twelve and a lot of teams are
beat up and not playing great, especially in the Western Conference. The East
actually has a better head to head record currently against the West. So what
if they've maybe loaded up against Okase in the Houston Rockets. They'll dig too
deep into that stat But the Clippers did fight. They were down by fourteen
with seven minutes left in the fourth quarter. They had it two, within
three with just under four minutes left, They had it to within three with
two fifty seven left after a visa Zoobots had a tip shot. But Terrence
Davis another three pointer. Insane. It really makes you want to pull your
hair out. Good for him. I hope he lights up the rest of
the league. That's what I want to see. Terrence Davis needs to be
destroying all teams and not just the Clippers, because otherwise it just looks a
little weird, a little wonky, a little bit fluky. But credit to
him. These guys are pros. This is what they do. You leave
them open. A lot of these guys they shoot ninety five percent in the
gym. They don't miss anything. Clippers, though they had an inbounds pass
late they're down by five. Reggie Jackson had just it looked too intentionally missed
a free throw after he had nan one opportunity at one oh one to ninety
six. He missed it off the back iron. There was a battle for
the board. Initially there was a foul on Marcus Morris. They overturned it.
Clippers got a break, they had an inbounds pass and Terrence man right
idea just didn't have the execution through it towards the rim Alla Phoenix Suns style
in Game two. Yeah, it was brought up earlier. I can't stop
thinking about it either now. But it hit the front of the rim as
he was trying to lob it to Paul George, who if it was a
little bit lower, maybe he has an easy lay up an alley oop.
Wasn't meant to be. Clippers continued to fight. Marcus Morris hit another three
pointer. They're down three one on two to ninety nine, but they had
a foul. Buddy healed and uh yeah, he wasn't gonna miss. He's
about ninety percent free throw shooter. Clippers lose late in Sacramento in a game
where they turned it over eighteen times, and while they battled on the boards,
you could say they were only outrebounded and by four. Their ultra big
lineup that they started the game off with was Sir Jebaca and a Visa zoobots
next to Marcus Morris and Reggie Jackson and Paul George wasn't as effective. They
got off to a quick start shooting wise. They started six of ten from
the outside, but then they would shoot just twenty nine percent from distance the
rest of the w even with some hot shooting with some big three pointers where
they would hit four in that fourth quarter. So as you can see,
they went through some giant dips and it was that seven minute stretch where they
did not hit a field goal in that second quarter, in a second quarter
where they went four of twenty two one of ten from three. It's amazing
how well they started offensively, getting twenty nine points in that first quarter.
And Noah Eagle and I were joking about, let's see who plays defense firsts
in this one. First to play defense wins. I guess it was Sacramento.
But a lot of these were just missed shots by the Clippers and settling
for shots. At one point during that seven minute stretch where they went without
a field goal, they took five straight three pointers that were missed. Kevin
in la hey ye Adam, how are you doing, buddy? What's up?
Kevin? Hey Man? I just man, I feel your frustration.
I feel it. I mean, eighteen turnovers, as you pointed out,
but I expected this. I mean those young teams, so, I mean,
the back backs just haven't been that great for the Clippers this this this
year so far. No, you know, it's it's said, you know,
I still think at this point it's a thing of where the chickens are
coming home the roots for the Clippers this this season, because when you think
about it, over the last five six year progression that the team have been
going through in terms of you know, getting through the playoff, you know,
stead of getting from the first round to the second round finally got to
the championship. You know, Uh, three big major cards of that progression
are not with the team anymore, you know, Uz William Montreals, Harold
and Pat Back who are all doing great things for other teams now. All
three of those guys, Kevin Uh outside of Patrick Beverley two of the three
were not there when they got to the Western Commerce Finals last year, So
well, right, I say, I thought that was just a bad trade
on from from the point out. You know, I still think that,
but Lawrence Frank gets too much of a pass. I thought that was a
very bad tree. That means because the Clippers needed scoring during the playoffs and
they need been scoring now and they just don't have it. They just don't
really have that bench scoring like they really need right now, consistent been scoring.
I mean yeah, And Luke Kennard has been much better the last three
games now where he's had nineteen nineteen and then twelve tonight and went to the
basket a couple of times. He only hit two three pointers, so he
split his field goals with two pointers and three pointers when four of ten from
the field for those twelve points. But Terrence man averaging under ten points per
game. I think they need more from him, and I think coach lew
was trying to jump start the offense and team man individually by starting him in
the second half, and that's a good move. And maybe who knows what
we'll see in the starting lineup lineup upcoming and a lot of this does depend
on Nicholas Batoum and when he's back and he's getting closer. That was coach
lu said pregame when we saw on social media Nicholas batun posted himself shooting in
the gym. Look to be at the practice facility. That's good news.
They need him desperately. He's really the second most important player on this team
behind Paul George, obviously accounting for the fact that Kawhi Leonards is not available
right now. And you bring up some interesting points there, Kevin, that
going to the Western Conference finals and that could be tough on your legs.
But the schedule now isn't doing them any favors whatsoever. And I don't think
the Clippers are doing themselves favors with the style of play. They're making it
too hard on themselves by not passing the basketball enough, by not playing team
ball and swinging around the perimeter like they did for most of last season,
like they just did last night, drive kick, swing, get open looks.
I know they went thirteen to thirty four overall from three, but that
was frontloaded from the first quarter where they started five of six and they ended
with some big shots, but it was too little too late again against Sacramento,
same thing that happened Wednesday night, and that was the young guys trying
to get them back into it. But there are too many players playing in
consistent basketball individually and as a team. You're seeing it pan out that way,
and I think there's something to that. They're just not playing together well
enough right now. They're not doing the things that got them to the Western
Conference Finals without Kawhi Leonard last year. Aside from the injuries, they can
still be better than this. Aside from the schedule, they're still better than
this, but they're not playing like it right now. Let's go to Josh
and Woodland Hills, Josh, Young Clippers, stop with that. I'm awsin,
Yeah, Adam. I had the honor of sitting behind the basket in
two thousand and two when the Kings played the Lakers Game five, in Game
seven, Game seven, where they We're done a lot of the ball and
over time. Hey, I'm not here to revisit that, Josh. It's
tough enough night, but I will tell you I get I've given up on
my Kings. I have a nine one six area code, but I gave
up on them maybe like three years ago when when I kept on saying no,
my friends, that they would make the playoffs every year and they never
do. But I have to say this, this lost tonight has nothing to
do with what the Clippers have in terms of the personnel or who wasn't on
the floor. All it has to do is just the emotional impact of being
the Lakers at home. I mean, I know it wasn't a home game,
but it was. They were at Staples Center or Crypto whatever that's they're
calling it now, and then going off the hour flight to Sacramento and it's
the back to back. I mean, that's that's literally the only reason why
they lost to the Sacramento Kings. Who are we, you know, one
of the worst teams in the league. H And also you have to take
into account that Alvin Gentry is a really good coach, and I do miss
Luke Walton. I think he's he's a good coach as well. But there's
really there's not much the Clippers could have done. Reggie Jackson got paid in
the off season, and that's why you're not seeing the results that you saw
last year. I don't think is that Josh's that's just lazy. Reggie Jackson
isn't dogging it out there because he got paid. He didn't get some five
year max contract. He got a fair deal considering what he was playing on,
especially last year, and the Clippers do rely on him a lot.
He and Marcus Morris, and oh my goodness, I think I just remember
this stat. No Ego brought this up in the pregame the Clippers. If
this is true, this is nuts. And I know whatever Noah said was
true, I could be misquoting him, but he said that since they brought
in Marcus Morris, when he goes for twenty or more, the Clippers are
undefeated, and Marcus Morris had twenty one tonight and they lost, So a
lot of streaks coming to an end. It's been that type of up and
down start to the season. But I thought Reggie played well. He had
eighteen points, but four turnovers and they seem to be coming in bunches at
the wrong time. Clippers just being sloppy with the basketball. So Josh,
I will let you continue here, but I just can't get what with the
Reggie Jackson isn't playing as hard. Reggie cares as much as Eddie one,
and I have to say, no, Eagle. You know, he's hilarious.
He has great stats. But how many of those games that Marcus Morris
started and scored or I don't know, I don't know if he started them,
but that he scored over twenty was Kawhi Leonard in the lineup as well.
So I mean this whole thing that he scored twenty one and this is
the first time. Listen, when you go seven for nineteen for the field,
I don't know. I'm back to Reggie Jackson. That's just not going
to cut it. Four turnover is not gonna cut it. It has to
do with legs. It has to do with legs, Josh, I don't
disagree that that's a big part of what's going on right now. But my
point is they are still better than this. It's not just legs. When
you're missing free throws like they did, where Marcus Morris had just hit three
straight and then misses two critical ones, that's a mental fatigue thing too,
that's losing focus. They're better than that. But Adam, in observing the
Clippers this season, Terrence Man did really well when there wasn't a Marcus Morris
in front of them, And so there's literally this is an issue. It
is. It's an issue because I don't see any correlation. Marcus Morris isn't
the guy in front of him, he's not the guy in the backcourt.
But I don't know what that means, Josh, Josh. I appreciate the
he's not getting more time than Man. He's not the one taken away minutes
for Man. He's not playing in the back court. And he just returned
and Terrence Man still wasn't playing very well when Marcus Morris was out for a
couple of weeks. So I get it. There's some logic to it.
I'm trying to follow the thread there. We're all looking for answers right now,
all right, and we'll take a quick break. We'll come back.
We'll hear from the man who does have them, and head coach Toronto,
I'll tell the truth. Hein't afraid of it. It's one of the reasons
guys love playing for him. Clippers lose to the King's in Sacramento for the
first time since March of twenty thirteen, with the final score of one o
four to ninety nine. Their next game is coming up in Portland Monday night.
We'll talk about that as well, we'll get back to your phone calls
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This is the official home of the Los Angeles Clippers. I get those
stops every time we not around. I get those closelops every time Clippers lose
one all four to ninety nine in Sacramento. They had one fifteen straight in
Sacramento, going back to our call arena, the power balanced days, but
it was sleep Train Arena the last time they had lost, back in twenty
thirteen. Welcome into Clippers stock. I'm out of Auslin. Clippers twelve and
twelve on the season. Now Sacramento improves to ten and fourteen. Clippers.
Next game coming up Monday night in Portland against a struggling Trailblazers team. Both
teams are going to be in desperation mode, just like what we saw last
night with the Clippers and Lakers. And the Clippers got up for that game.
And yeah, tired legs are always a factor. It matters. The
Clippers have already had five games and seven nights twice. The Lakers will see
that once all season long. There are seven teams that won't see it at
all. And actually the other team that has to play five instances of five
games and seven nights that would be the Portland Troil Bleasures. So maybe an
even playing field coming up monthday night. But let's hear from coach lou post
game after the Clippers lose by five and Sacramento on Fox's face, like you
said, towards the end of that first quarter into the second quarter, they
only had twenty one points in that second quarter, but then we couldn't score
only having sixteen. Well, we talked about it coming into the game.
Is the same thing last game. You know, he's gonna push to basketball.
We gotta get back show him crowds. You know, we can't show
him any gaps. He's too fast, you know, and the first had
we didn't do a good job are really containing and guarding him. And then
like I said, you know, Terry Davis comes in, he makes six
threes, you know, and kind of you know, make some make some
big some big shots, some momentum killers. He made and yeah, but
we couldn't keep up with their pace, and I thought they got downhill tonight.
Our picking rolls all in their picking rolls all day long. So we
can make a Terrence because Terrence stayed us because you mentioned the other nights,
like we hadn't the shooting pretty well and you want to can trust going under
uh Burns there and then he plays even better at night. Yeah, I
mean he just had a good game, you know, two good games.
And he's a good player. Well, he's a good player in Toronto,
you know, very aggressive. We know he can score the basketball, not
know he can shoot the ball, you know, shoot the ball the way
he did tonight. But you know, you know, you know he's a
good player. And tonight he hurt us, you know, like I said,
six for them from three some contested something not contested. But you know,
he played well, and you know it kind of gave him that momentum.
You know, we did a good job on Buddy I taking him out
of the game, and then of course Terrence stepped up and played well.
You get these games where you want to sit your cap like everyone's out there
are pros and anyone can have these nights. But when it happens, like
repeatedly he mentioned on this earlier in the week. I mean, what do
you kind of do to kind of thing bad that nothing that? What do
you it's the end of avent to five and seven? Do you guys the
Tireland do you allow that to be actor or your other things that are happening
that you're just thinking we shouldn't be doing. It happen the prevous be a
circumstance those things we shouldn't be doing for sure, And you know on the
schedule hasn't been to our favor early on. Well we know that, we
understand that, but just some of the mental mistakes. We gotta do it
better job of cleaning up, you know, five and seven and I think
it'd be six and nine in Portland again, you know, so I think
we have four of those already this season. So I mean, you know,
it is what it is. You know, like I said, I
thought a guy's battle. They competed, you know, they just have more
in the tank. They execute a little better than we did. And then
in the first half I just thought offensive we we had some missed opportunities,
you know, when guys were open the same place we made last night.
We didn't make tonight, and so he got to keep showing these guys and
you know, continue to keep working on it and making a right play.
But I thought in that first half we didn't do a good job of making
making a right play. There was Coach lou post game after the Clippers losing
Sacramento by five, talked about the mental mistakes there and the thing I love
about him. He was asked and I think that was law Murray from the
athletic I don't think. I'm pretty sure that was him. He comes on
all the time, we love him about what do you do about that?
And he said nothing? And to me, it speaks to playing the law
of averages. You have your defensive principles, there are certain guys that you
have to live with taking those shots, and once in a while they kill
you. It's just happened to the Clippers inordinate amount of times recently. But
it makes me think back too early in that series against Dallas last year where
the Clippers were down two games to none and Bronson and Dorian Finney, Smith
and Tim Hardaway Junior and Josh Richardson, these guys were shooting something like sixty
percent from three. It was insane. It wasn't even Luca don Chich who
was killing him. It was the others, the guys that you leave open
because you're trying to guard Luca. And eventually the law of averages came back
in the Clippers favor and they wonted seven games, and hopefully, and we're
only twenty five percent of the way through the season, the same thing happens.
This isn't a new way they've been playing defense all of a sudden,
they haven't had some of the players they would like to have. And Nicholas
Batum hopefully he's able to go on Monday. Hopefully he's healthy and ready.
But Dan Craig and their defense, they were I want to finish say they
finished eighth last year and they were really better than that when they were fully
loaded, when they had everybody. Obviously, we know they don't have Kawhi
Leonard right now, but they have other ways to try and get by and
overcome and combat at this brutal schedule. But as coach lu said, six
games and nine nights coming up Monday night when they're in Portland. More postgame
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is the official home of the Los Angeles Clippers. So my player to watch
tonight was Terrence Man. You played well, got the start in the second
half, but Terrence Davis with four three pointers in the first four minutes of
that third quarter, and he was the difference with a game high of twenty
eight. Clippers losing Sacramento one oh four to ninety nine to the Kings for
the first time on the road in Sacramento since twenty thirteen. Welcome back in
two, Clippers Stock. I'm at A Oslin eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven two five seventy. Clippers offense
obviously in a funk, their bottom five right now offensively, and they just
had another game where they did not get above the century mark. Now,
offenses are down across the league, but we're talking about a team that was
third in offensive rating. Last year, Kawhi Leonard was there for most of
it. I think missed about eighteen games during the regular season. That's a
huge difference. Nicholas Batoum was an iron man. He didn't miss many beats
of zubots. Actually the iron man, he didn't miss literally any and Big
Zoo has been good. And he had a double double with twelve and eleven
and four of six shooting from the field and had a huge throwdown on Bagley
put him in a body bag, like an amazing play. But it happened
with seven twenty nine left in the second quarter, and from then until the
thirty second mark of the second the Clippers did not hit a field goal.
Three free throws but not a field goal. They would score just six points
in the last seven and a half minutes of the second quarter. We just
heard from coach lou last segment talk about the mental mistakes and they left points
out there. They didn't play well in the second quarter. They didn't execute
and after getting off to that quick start five of six from three twenty nine
points in the first quarter, well, they let up towards the end of
it. Daron Fox started playing downhill the game was tied going into the second,
but that slump and the Clippers going seven minutes without a field goal,
we have I don't know if we've seen seven minutes so far this season,
but we've seen a slew of games where they go four minutes or five minutes
without scoring, and it's a little bit perplexing to see them struggle this much
to this degree offensively so far this season, even with some of the guys
who have been out. Even with that, Paul George got off to such
a hot start the first couple of weeks and just hasn't been able to maintain
that. And obviously we've been talking about the schedule. I just don't want
to make excuses to the point of saying, Okay, there's nothing they can
do, there's no hope. There's plenty of hope. Marcus Morris is back
second straight night. He's had twenty one points, and Nicholas Batouma is on
his way. And even though the big man lineup didn't work tonight and Sir
Jibaka struggled after having nine points on three made threes last night, I thought
against the Lakers, we saw the Clippers say, Okay, we know who
we are this is how we played in the playoffs, and we're going to
take this game as seriously as possible because we need a victory. And their
backs were somewhat against the wall and they felt like it was a must win
and they had it. And maybe that's just a tough mentality to have throughout
an eighty two game season. I've talked about this, but it's different in
the playoffs getting up for that one game when you see a schedule this daunting,
and when you just don't have the legs because they aren't there because they've
been zapped by the schedule. There's only so much you can do. But
as I've said, I've said before, they have young guys in Man and
Kennard and Avitsa Zobots who, especially with the two guards, that are capable
of more than they've given the Clippers so far this season scoring wise. Since
we're talking about them and what's happened offensively, and it is a little bit
alarming, but the turnovers, obviously, you know, you have to put
yourself in a position where you're getting good shots, and it starts with taking
care of the basketball, and that's also been an issue. But they have
to get back to their principles, drive, kick, swing, and things
will fall into place from there. But I do want to say a lot
of this, and I don't want to put this on one guy, but
we've seen it now for a year and ten twelve games. Nicholas Beatum does
so much to help this team. He can cover for so many of these
mistakes. He's another coach out there on the floor for them, and the
Cavalry looks to be on the way. We'll see. Hopefully he's available Monday
night when the Clippers are desperate for a victory against the Portland Trailblazers, as
desperate as you can be this early in the season. We're talking twenty five
percent of the way through. They still got fifty five more games left to
play. Let's not overreact too much, but you want to start having a
sense of urgency because it's not going to get much easier. Their January schedule.
Yeah, I don't even look at that yet. One game at a
time, Ben Malors sports cliches, all right, before we get out of
here. After the Clippers lose one oh four to ninety nine in Sacramento for
the first time I was twenty thirteen, I do want to thank Clippers organization,
Noah Eagle, Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawler. Back here in the bank,
Colin. Ye see easy good to hang with Colin is always plus you
know it actually makes me sound good. Appreciate your calling. Until Monday night
with the pregame show starting at six Clippers in Portland. I'm out of oslind
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