1 00:00:02,439 --> 00:00:05,799 I feel like the Clippers that builds up a lot of bad habits, like 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:11,359 how to fall apart and implode completely in a fourth quarter. I do it 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:17,399 again against Philly, goes from a five point game to being down twenty and 4 00:00:17,519 --> 00:00:22,359 coach Lou pulling the Big three Kawhi never even getting back out there in the 5 00:00:22,399 --> 00:00:27,000 fourth at the six minute mark, Clippers lose to the Sixers one twenty one 6 00:00:27,079 --> 00:00:31,600 to one. Seven at home. Welcome back into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam 7 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:38,399 Mosland and joining me on the show his will Updyke from Clips and Dip. 8 00:00:39,399 --> 00:00:43,960 I guess you got the Rihanna Ti song tonight because uh, well, do 9 00:00:44,079 --> 00:00:47,119 we lose rights don't I don't know. I don't know what's going on there. 10 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,159 Fair use policy, will, I'm just gonna leave it to you. 11 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,840 The floor is yours. You know. There are some rules because we're on 12 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,719 the radio here, But outside of that, you can bring out the flamethrower. 13 00:00:59,719 --> 00:01:03,399 You can say what you want about this team and be brutally honest, 14 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:10,319 and I may or may not have a rebuttal to anything you say. All 15 00:01:10,439 --> 00:01:14,680 right, I mean, where to really start? This team is just absolutely 16 00:01:14,879 --> 00:01:19,959 gutless. I want to say that you know, we talked earlier about through 17 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:26,760 this stretch of really uninspired play, is it that this team thinks that they 18 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:30,280 can flip the switch, or is it that they're completely apathetic? And what 19 00:01:30,359 --> 00:01:34,719 I saw in this was that they were completely apathetic. They were even in 20 00:01:34,799 --> 00:01:41,280 flip the switch mode, coming back from a deficit with in a two possession 21 00:01:41,359 --> 00:01:47,000 game, able to take over a game against a team missing their best player, 22 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:52,159 missing an MVP caliber player, and just completely unable to do it, 23 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:56,799 and put to the point where the game was so out of hand our best 24 00:01:56,799 --> 00:02:00,359 player didn't even touch the floor in the fourth quarter because ky Lu had seen 25 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:05,079 enough, and I think, frankly, we've all seen enough. The team 26 00:02:05,959 --> 00:02:10,080 had more had almost three times as many turnovers as made field goals in the 27 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:15,560 fourth quarter. I just don't know that there's nothing to be said that we 28 00:02:15,719 --> 00:02:21,080 haven't already said. They don't show up for things, they're not consistently locked 29 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,719 in, they don't come out with energy, and I don't care how difficult 30 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,280 a brunch game is. I don't care about any of that. We've been 31 00:02:29,319 --> 00:02:32,159 saying the same things, and I think it's pretty apparent right now that this 32 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:38,599 team has been this team they've been this version of the team that they've been 33 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:43,520 since the All Star break, for as long as they were the team that 34 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,080 we all thought could win a championship when they went on a nine game win 35 00:02:46,159 --> 00:02:50,439 streak, when they went six and one on a Grammy road trip. So 36 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:54,520 what is this team really? What is this team really? It falls I 37 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:59,199 guess somewhere in between the two, But I would say that it's a team 38 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:05,439 that's slightly above five hundred. And I don't know what to do. I 39 00:03:05,479 --> 00:03:10,159 don't know how you can be fine as a professional losing like this all the 40 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:15,960 time on your home floor. I just don't know. Like when I say 41 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:21,319 gutless, I mean there's just absolutely zero prize. I don't understand. I 42 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,759 mean, like, would it has been better? Would we have turned it 43 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,560 around if Kawhi was out there on the floor, Things do look a lot 44 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,240 better. He's not a vocal leader, but he leads by example. But 45 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:35,759 at the same time, like the rest of you guys, you don't have 46 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,080 enough in the tank. You don't care enough. It's too laxa daisical for 47 00:03:39,159 --> 00:03:46,240 you to bring in a performance for your home fans. I just I don't 48 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:49,439 get it. And and you know, I do want time stamp all of 49 00:03:49,439 --> 00:03:53,439 this with like this is still regular season stuff. We are an insane Kawhi 50 00:03:53,520 --> 00:04:00,400 Leonard playoff performance from this team being drug to another one Western Conference final, 51 00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:05,199 which from the rate of play we've seen so far, would be completely undeserved. 52 00:04:05,879 --> 00:04:11,439 But I don't know what to look forward for in this team in the 53 00:04:11,479 --> 00:04:15,000 regular season. I think the best hope or the one shining light that we 54 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:19,120 have is that you roll the dice in the playoffs and we get a fully 55 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:26,480 healthy team. And maybe they are underneath all this the layers of garbage. 56 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:32,000 There's a flower bed or something worthwhile when this team gets to the playoffs. 57 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:39,399 Damn, let me ask you this, well, is this team? Look, 58 00:04:39,439 --> 00:04:43,120 you have to have a certain level of confidence. To be a professional 59 00:04:43,199 --> 00:04:47,720 at the highest level. You have to have belief in yourself. Are they 60 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:54,120 I don't know, irrationally overconfident? Is that where they are? Because that 61 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:58,920 leads to that flip the switch mentality. But they look to me far too 62 00:04:58,959 --> 00:05:01,279 often like a team that I don't know plays like they had won the last 63 00:05:01,319 --> 00:05:06,000 couple of championships, knows they have it when they need it, and they 64 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:12,279 just lean on that. But obviously it wasn't enough to overcome being down seventeen 65 00:05:12,399 --> 00:05:15,600 early in this ball game. Look, I gotta say, what I'm seen 66 00:05:15,639 --> 00:05:20,639 out there is a complete apathy. It just it really looks like there is 67 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:25,800 not like there is not a pride or urgency, even when it's a game 68 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:30,399 they you know, they need to win, even it's like a game when 69 00:05:30,399 --> 00:05:35,199 you absolutely should put away the seventy six ers has not beaten an opponent. 70 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:40,120 They had not had a lead of twenty or more points since Joel Embiid had 71 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:45,439 been out. So you're not only getting beat by a shorthanded team, you're 72 00:05:45,439 --> 00:05:49,639 getting historically beat even with their context, like even within their context. So 73 00:05:50,319 --> 00:05:55,800 you know, like if they believe that there's somehow this team that can flips 74 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:59,120 the switch or has shown enough, I gotta be honest with you, that 75 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,639 to me is a worse than the apathy. That to me is worse than 76 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:06,360 not caring, because that is a level of delusional like maybe you should be 77 00:06:06,399 --> 00:06:11,279 fifty one fifties, Like maybe you shouldn't be playing at all, you shouldn't 78 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:15,839 be showing up to work because you're just you've completely lost the handle. Well, 79 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,560 it definitely seems unfounded to have that type of confidence right now with what 80 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:25,439 we've seen for two months straight from this Clippers ball club. He is will 81 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:30,199 Updyke of Clips and Dip. There was a live earlier with him and check 82 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,279 Mockler. I jumped in for a second during a break here. Well, 83 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,360 I guess we'll talk to you on Tuesday, my friend, and hoping the 84 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:41,480 Clippers turn things around and win a game tomorrow against the Pacers. Thanks for 85 00:06:41,519 --> 00:06:44,319 doing it, Let's do it, Let's do it. Thanks for having me. 86 00:06:44,439 --> 00:06:46,879 Let's go clips, Let's let's try. Final segment coming up next. 87 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,720 Clippers lose big to the Philadelphia seventy six ers at home.