1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:06,519 Last time that has fine chains on my neck. It was no smit on 2 00:00:06,599 --> 00:00:10,759 my rep last time. The little tough one send a set and the st 3 00:00:10,919 --> 00:00:15,439 quartermeil no sweat. They lose to Night in the Spike giving everything to has 4 00:00:15,679 --> 00:00:18,760 They just were missing their two superstars and they lose by five to the Phoenix 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:24,239 Suns one twenty nine to one twenty four. You cannot halt the effort. 6 00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:30,280 Execution lacking at times, but it's also understandable you're running different lineups out there. 7 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,600 Marcus Morris played for the first time in a month. Rocco played a 8 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,679 little bit. They had a different starting lineup with Norm Powell in it, 9 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:42,719 who went for his playoff career high of forty two. He eclipsed his previous 10 00:00:42,799 --> 00:00:46,320 high of twenty nine. Goes for forty two, answered the call. Russ 11 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:53,200 had thirty bones, highlight of playoff career high of twenty. These guys they 12 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,799 just kept coming. They didn't give up. They didn't give in, no 13 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,280 matter how the odds were stacked against them without Kawhi Leonard, and they just 14 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,799 found out about that earlier today as shoot around, and they performed to this 15 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,879 level. I'm proud of this group. I get it. Clipper Nation. 16 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:14,480 You want the victory tough one tonight, but the Clippers fought. They lose 17 00:01:14,519 --> 00:01:19,159 one twenty nine to one twenty four an underman, shorthanded group they scrapped, 18 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:25,319 and they lose by five to a Phoenix Suns team with an extreme talent advantage 19 00:01:25,359 --> 00:01:27,239 tonight. In this one, all you heard the music, you know what 20 00:01:27,239 --> 00:01:32,879 it means. We got Will Updike on from Clips and Dip podcast does the 21 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:36,799 pod with myself and Charles Mockler. I think they were doing Alive later tonight, 22 00:01:36,879 --> 00:01:38,760 or maybe not because they were at the game. We took a picture 23 00:01:38,799 --> 00:01:41,920 with Noah Eagle who was on in the first segment and did Clippers stock. 24 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,760 If you missed that, it will be podcasted. Will, where do you 25 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,040 want to start tonight? How did Clippers lose this game? Because I know 26 00:01:49,079 --> 00:01:52,359 a lot of people are pointing to this number forty six in the box score. 27 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:57,200 I mean, like that's a huge part of it. I mean, 28 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:01,840 you gotta hand it to Devin Booker, who was I mean absolutely incredible in 29 00:02:01,879 --> 00:02:06,840 this one. Yeah, some some there were some blunders. I mean the 30 00:02:06,879 --> 00:02:09,159 one that keeps haunting me, I guess is that the kind of lazy but 31 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:15,400 tumb inbounds that resulted in the Devin Booker three. Look, this is one 32 00:02:15,439 --> 00:02:19,919 of those games where you know, we had to kind of throw everything at 33 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,560 the wall, and it's unfortunate that we didn't come away with the win. 34 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:28,599 I think like that would have been one of the sweetest Clippers postseason wins we've 35 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:34,159 seen in a minute, maybe since that Game six versus Utah. But this, 36 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:38,280 I mean, I gotta be honest. I know there's no such thing 37 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,240 as a moral victory in the playoffs, but this was something else. Man. 38 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,639 There were so many times when it felt like this team could have rolled 39 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:50,439 over and he really could not have fused them at any point. You know, 40 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,520 we went with a five guard lineup in this one, all of Garden 41 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:58,199 in full effect, and you know, the team, the team, you 42 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,199 know, they were able to keep it within about three possessions once you know, 43 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,319 Phoenix really pulled the head there in that third quarter. They could not 44 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,879 get over the hump. We go five guards. Everyone that everyone around me 45 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:12,840 in the press boxes scratching their heads saying, okay, well, how the 46 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,919 heck is this gonna work out? The Suns even end up bringing DeAndre Ayden 47 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,680 back in. They cut this five guard lineup ends up taking the game to 48 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:23,199 three points. This was absolutely incredible stuff. And yes, the free throw 49 00:03:23,599 --> 00:03:28,000 like the free throw disparity is insane, you know how I feel about that 50 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,759 stuff. It's one of those things that you just you can't control that. 51 00:03:30,879 --> 00:03:34,120 You can't control that at all. Yes, there was a terrible mistakes foul. 52 00:03:34,319 --> 00:03:36,759 Yes, I mean there were there were so many things. But I 53 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:42,159 think I think this Clippers team fourteen Phoenix is Big four if you can even 54 00:03:42,159 --> 00:03:46,199 still call it that at that point. To all play forty minutes, I 55 00:03:46,199 --> 00:03:51,439 guess with the accession of DeAndre ayten uh and to just barely beat this Clippers 56 00:03:51,479 --> 00:03:55,639 team shorthanded underman, not a lot of time together on the floor, and 57 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:00,159 to the Clippers will only come up shore by five points to possession. I 58 00:04:00,199 --> 00:04:04,560 mean, I think the Clippers did something really spectacular here. And I think 59 00:04:04,599 --> 00:04:09,840 if you're a Clippers fan while the lost things, especially seeing how beatable the 60 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:14,080 Phoenix Suns team is, it does sting a little bit. You gotta hold 61 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:16,399 your head high after a performance like this. Man, this was something else. 62 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:20,800 This was special to me. Yeah, I think it stings most because 63 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:27,319 this was a game, had they had won you'd remember forever. But we'll 64 00:04:27,319 --> 00:04:30,759 probably get buried in the history books just because they didn't come up with the 65 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,680 w even though the effort and the will and the heart they showed tonight was 66 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:40,160 spectacular. It was an all timer from a Clippers group in the playoffs if 67 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,759 they had won this game. So your point, this is one of the 68 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,560 best Clippers postseason wins. Ever, that's what we'd be talking about tonight. 69 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,680 Ever, I mean the way the odds swung earlier today, once the news 70 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:57,000 came out that Kawhi Leonard was going to be out, everybody seemed to think 71 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,920 that it was over, that the Phoenix Suns were going to roll the clip 72 00:05:00,079 --> 00:05:03,160 first tonight. That's not what happened at all. They pushed them to the 73 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:08,560 break, They made them earn it. Everything was earned by the Phoenix Suns, 74 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:11,079 unless you want to point to some of the free throws, but everything 75 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,680 else was earned by them. I'm proud of this team. I'm so proud 76 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,800 of this team. And you know what, like while in the greater conversation, 77 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,759 sure this game gets lost to the history books. I tell you three 78 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:27,399 guys who who they will remember this playoff game for a long time and that's 79 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,680 Norman Powell, Russell Westbrook and Bones Highland, and I just I could not 80 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:35,000 be happier. I could not have asked for anything more from from any single 81 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:40,279 one of those guys. Yes, there were some some some less than sellar 82 00:05:40,319 --> 00:05:45,040 decisions by Russ at times, but overall an incredible game. Bones Highland most 83 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:50,120 playoff minutes, most playoff points in his career, and Norman Powell man unreal. 84 00:05:50,439 --> 00:05:53,879 We needed him to step it up. I talked about him having a 85 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,600 big game in this one. When once the series returned home. I had 86 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,839 assumed that Kawhi Leonard would still be there, but man, he showed up 87 00:06:00,879 --> 00:06:04,680 in the hugest of ways, and he was absolutely indispensable for the Clippers. 88 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:10,079 I mean, like, yeah, it is it does thing to lose this 89 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,879 one, but like say, just gay absolutely everything, and for them to 90 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:19,000 be hanging tee to teem with this team that you know has been penciled in 91 00:06:19,399 --> 00:06:24,319 as contenders by a lot of people, I mean that to me is something 92 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,639 that's really really special. And these are the kind of moments that like, 93 00:06:27,959 --> 00:06:30,360 yes, I do still realize that this was a loss, but like these 94 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:34,399 are the moments that have galvanized Clipper nation right this These are the kind of 95 00:06:34,439 --> 00:06:41,680 things that have galvanized this fanily. When absolutely every single thing that could possibly 96 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:46,120 go wrong goes wrong, and you're still right there, You're still you still 97 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,680 have a seat at the table, You're still at the doorsteps of this thing 98 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:53,240 that you're chasing. It's I mean, I gotta be honest, there's nothing 99 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,759 like being a Clippers fan. And I feel like this game was kind of, 100 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,920 despite of being a loss, was just kind of the encasolation of that 101 00:07:00,079 --> 00:07:02,639 friends we've made along the way. Damn it. That was that type of 102 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:09,600 game. And you know, to your point, if this Clippers team came 103 00:07:09,639 --> 00:07:14,360 out doa and lost by twenty, I wouldn't have even blamed them with the 104 00:07:14,439 --> 00:07:18,079 news that came out today, there could have been that emotional letdown. It 105 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:23,160 didn't happen. It tells you the character of this team, and I think 106 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,759 a lot of people question whether or not they still had that in them at 107 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:30,480 their core, whether or not they could still fight like this after what we 108 00:07:30,519 --> 00:07:32,920 have seen the last couple of seasons compared to this year. It's there, 109 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:38,839 It's there. This Clippers team is still that resilient bunch that will not give 110 00:07:38,839 --> 00:07:42,560 in no matter who was out there. So there are a lot of good 111 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,519 things to take away from it. I mean, Norn Powell has an argument 112 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,240 for best player on the court tonight and tonight when Devin Booker has forty five 113 00:07:48,319 --> 00:07:53,680 points, that's how good he was. Norn Powel's seven or twelve from the 114 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:58,160 outside, all right, I think he doubled his point total of the first 115 00:07:58,199 --> 00:08:01,279 two games of the series. Where did he have twenty four? So not 116 00:08:01,399 --> 00:08:07,000 quite but still an incredible performance from Norman Pale. And then Bones Highland. 117 00:08:07,079 --> 00:08:11,519 You mentioned coming of age, and credit to tylu for continuing to go to 118 00:08:11,639 --> 00:08:16,079 him. He wasn't great the first two games scoring wise, but he still 119 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,240 was contributing and competing out there. His defense was good, he was a 120 00:08:20,319 --> 00:08:24,240 positive on the court. They made some of the runs with him even without 121 00:08:24,279 --> 00:08:28,120 his scoring. And then it finally came around. In that fourth quarter Bones 122 00:08:28,199 --> 00:08:31,080 Highland had nine points and that could carry over. That's a guy who was 123 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:35,679 looking for a confidence, looking for a heater to finally catch it. I 124 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,320 don't know. I'm excited to see him on Saturday and that three man, 125 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,159 that three in the fourth quarter that was in and out for Bones Highland. 126 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:48,799 Oh my gosh, we were watching the replay. In the physics of how 127 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,759 that did not go in just they it still eludes me. It reminded me 128 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,279 of Robert Horry had a shot. This was like the only Big three he 129 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:03,879 ever missed. He was in two thousand and three against the San Antonio Spurs 130 00:09:03,919 --> 00:09:07,120 with the Lakers, a series they would eventually lose. I don't know which 131 00:09:07,159 --> 00:09:09,840 game it was, but it just rattled in and out, spun around, 132 00:09:09,919 --> 00:09:13,519 did everything but drop, And afterwards he said, I did everything right, 133 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,519 it just didn't go. Now, obviously that's not the case. If you 134 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,919 do everything right, it will go. But it was tantalizing and the top 135 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,759 would have come off Crypto dot com arena if that shot hit dropped from Bones 136 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:31,720 Highland. There is something special and exciting about this young player who's really just 137 00:09:31,759 --> 00:09:37,399 scratching the surface of his potential. But Coach Low going small late. I 138 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:41,960 know there's a tradeoff there. You're losing and you're giving up offensive rebounds, 139 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:46,039 but damn it, it worked. Overall. You're giving up defense a little 140 00:09:46,039 --> 00:09:48,480 bit for scoring in a game where they weren't defending that well anyways, or 141 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:54,559 weren't allowed to because they couldn't defend without fouling obviously, well, and I 142 00:09:54,639 --> 00:09:58,159 think that that was I mean, I think that that was exactly tylus calculation 143 00:09:58,279 --> 00:10:00,720 right. Like like I said, when the Sun started pull away there in 144 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,960 that third quarter, we just could not We could not get the game closer 145 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,480 than like that than like three possessions like the Sun's just we we couldn't do 146 00:10:07,519 --> 00:10:11,720 it. And I mean, just all the credit in the world, so 147 00:10:11,759 --> 00:10:16,600 that the Tyler's call on that, you know, we've been I personally have 148 00:10:16,639 --> 00:10:20,559 been very critical. If the guard had you lineup this was more than worth 149 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,080 the price of admission. This like this was, this was incredible to watch. 150 00:10:24,919 --> 00:10:30,120 It was. It was as well fought a basketball game by an underband 151 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,440 team as I've seen in a long time. Yeah, you're right, hold 152 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,679 your head high, Clipper Nation. After this one. They lost, but 153 00:10:37,879 --> 00:10:41,639 the spirit was not broken, and they have a belief that I think they 154 00:10:41,639 --> 00:10:43,759 can win that they think they can win Game four, and I think so 155 00:10:43,799 --> 00:10:48,480 too. No matter who was available for that ball game, Like I said, 156 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:54,320 just like the what they were up against was just insurmountable and trit to 157 00:10:54,360 --> 00:11:00,960 be within five points is unreal. Everything was against them. Out man not 158 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:07,279 out guns the Old Prodigy album. Will I appreciate you coming on tonight, 159 00:11:07,399 --> 00:11:09,200 my friend and doing a little Clips and double dip here on Clippers Talk. 160 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:15,159 Always a pleasure, and we will have a new episode of Clips and Dip 161 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,919 y'all wherever you listen to podcast and over on YouTube, that's at Clippers Podcast 162 00:11:20,799 --> 00:11:24,919 right on. Coming up next final thoughts. Still looking for postgame audio from 163 00:11:24,919 --> 00:11:30,320 Coach Lou Clippers lose by five one twenty nine one twenty four was the final 164 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:33,639 in favor of the Suns here in game three. Clippers are back in about 165 00:11:33,639 --> 00:11:37,559 thirty six hours twelve thirty tip on Saturday for Game four, and this is 166 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:41,600 Clippers Talk here on the patrio. Damn one fifty