I feel like the Clippers that builds up a lot of bad habits, like
how to fall apart and implode completely in a fourth quarter. I do it
again against Philly, goes from a five point game to being down twenty and
coach Lou pulling the Big three Kawhi never even getting back out there in the
fourth at the six minute mark, Clippers lose to the Sixers one twenty one
to one. Seven at home. Welcome back into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam
Mosland and joining me on the show his will Updyke from Clips and Dip.
I guess you got the Rihanna Ti song tonight because uh, well, do
we lose rights don't I don't know. I don't know what's going on there.
Fair use policy, will, I'm just gonna leave it to you.
The floor is yours. You know. There are some rules because we're on
the radio here, But outside of that, you can bring out the flamethrower.
You can say what you want about this team and be brutally honest,
and I may or may not have a rebuttal to anything you say. All
right, I mean, where to really start? This team is just absolutely
gutless. I want to say that you know, we talked earlier about through
this stretch of really uninspired play, is it that this team thinks that they
can flip the switch, or is it that they're completely apathetic? And what
I saw in this was that they were completely apathetic. They were even in
flip the switch mode, coming back from a deficit with in a two possession
game, able to take over a game against a team missing their best player,
missing an MVP caliber player, and just completely unable to do it,
and put to the point where the game was so out of hand our best
player didn't even touch the floor in the fourth quarter because ky Lu had seen
enough, and I think, frankly, we've all seen enough. The team
had more had almost three times as many turnovers as made field goals in the
fourth quarter. I just don't know that there's nothing to be said that we
haven't already said. They don't show up for things, they're not consistently locked
in, they don't come out with energy, and I don't care how difficult
a brunch game is. I don't care about any of that. We've been
saying the same things, and I think it's pretty apparent right now that this
team has been this team they've been this version of the team that they've been
since the All Star break, for as long as they were the team that
we all thought could win a championship when they went on a nine game win
streak, when they went six and one on a Grammy road trip. So
what is this team really? What is this team really? It falls I
guess somewhere in between the two, But I would say that it's a team
that's slightly above five hundred. And I don't know what to do. I
don't know how you can be fine as a professional losing like this all the
time on your home floor. I just don't know. Like when I say
gutless, I mean there's just absolutely zero prize. I don't understand. I
mean, like, would it has been better? Would we have turned it
around if Kawhi was out there on the floor, Things do look a lot
better. He's not a vocal leader, but he leads by example. But
at the same time, like the rest of you guys, you don't have
enough in the tank. You don't care enough. It's too laxa daisical for
you to bring in a performance for your home fans. I just I don't
get it. And and you know, I do want time stamp all of
this with like this is still regular season stuff. We are an insane Kawhi
Leonard playoff performance from this team being drug to another one Western Conference final,
which from the rate of play we've seen so far, would be completely undeserved.
But I don't know what to look forward for in this team in the
regular season. I think the best hope or the one shining light that we
have is that you roll the dice in the playoffs and we get a fully
healthy team. And maybe they are underneath all this the layers of garbage.
There's a flower bed or something worthwhile when this team gets to the playoffs.
Damn, let me ask you this, well, is this team? Look,
you have to have a certain level of confidence. To be a professional
at the highest level. You have to have belief in yourself. Are they
I don't know, irrationally overconfident? Is that where they are? Because that
leads to that flip the switch mentality. But they look to me far too
often like a team that I don't know plays like they had won the last
couple of championships, knows they have it when they need it, and they
just lean on that. But obviously it wasn't enough to overcome being down seventeen
early in this ball game. Look, I gotta say, what I'm seen
out there is a complete apathy. It just it really looks like there is
not like there is not a pride or urgency, even when it's a game
they you know, they need to win, even it's like a game when
you absolutely should put away the seventy six ers has not beaten an opponent.
They had not had a lead of twenty or more points since Joel Embiid had
been out. So you're not only getting beat by a shorthanded team, you're
getting historically beat even with their context, like even within their context. So
you know, like if they believe that there's somehow this team that can flips
the switch or has shown enough, I gotta be honest with you, that
to me is a worse than the apathy. That to me is worse than
not caring, because that is a level of delusional like maybe you should be
fifty one fifties, Like maybe you shouldn't be playing at all, you shouldn't
be showing up to work because you're just you've completely lost the handle. Well,
it definitely seems unfounded to have that type of confidence right now with what
we've seen for two months straight from this Clippers ball club. He is will
Updyke of Clips and Dip. There was a live earlier with him and check
Mockler. I jumped in for a second during a break here. Well,
I guess we'll talk to you on Tuesday, my friend, and hoping the
Clippers turn things around and win a game tomorrow against the Pacers. Thanks for
doing it, Let's do it, Let's do it. Thanks for having me.
Let's go clips, Let's let's try. Final segment coming up next.
Clippers lose big to the Philadelphia seventy six ers at home.