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to one ten here at home at Crypto dot com arena to the New Orleans
Pelicans. Welcome into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin, coming up your
post game box scoring. You'll hear from the head coach in the players.
But first we head back over to your voice of the Clippers. Noah Eagle,
No, you brought it up when it was a twenty mark disparity in
terms of shots taken in this ball game, New New Orleans ends up with
twenty one more attempts thanks to offensive rebounds and Clippers having twenty turnovers themselves is
an unreal numbered overcomes. Yeah, shoot yourself in a foot in a lot
of ways. And again there were a lot of aspects of the Clippers actually
played pretty well in this game. Shout fifty two percent shot forty six percent
from three made fifteen of them at twenty nine assists on thirty nine made field
goals when seventeen of twenty one eighty one percent at the free throw line,
and they forced sixteen turnovers that led to twenty one points. So there are
a lot of areas that you still say, oh, you know what,
the Clippers played pretty well, and on most nights all those numbers I just
listed to you result in a W. But this was not one of those
nights. This was a night in which the defense for the Clippers just wasn't
anywhere near what their standard is that they set for themselves and what we've seen
of late from this team, because it just feels like they had been turning
that corner on the defensive end, especially earlier in this month and the five
game homestand they're playing some elite defense against the likes of the Toronto Raptors and
the New York Knicks and eventually the Golden State Warriors. Even though Steph Curry
had the huge night, nobody else really hurt them. It feels like they've
lost that a little bit. They did a great job the first game against
Oklahoma City and the second game allowing just one on one one oh five,
and those two against one of the best offenses in the NBA. The game
against Orlando, they had a couple of lapses, but overall still defensively they
were still right there. This was the first time in a little time where
it just didn't feel like the defense was up to par. And if your
defense isn't up to par in this league, with how great shooters, skill
players, wings guards, big men, all of them are the skill in
this NBA right now, if your defense isn't up to par, you're not
gonna win very many games. And I think this was a perfect example of
that. Everything else was set up for this team to win, and yet
still because of the lack of defensive intensity, because of twenty one more shot
attempts, because of a crazy shooting night from three, and because of the
offense and rebounds on the turnovers, the Clippers just can't find their way back
and trail from wire to wire. Pelicans end up shooting sixty two percent from
the outside. Brandon Ingram got going early, Trey Murphy did as well.
He never stopped. He went for a career high ten main three pointers,
had thirty two points where he averages thirteen on the season. But on the
positive side for the Clippers, as we're looking for some silver linings here,
some young guys got some run. Bones Highland at twenty three minutes and you
know, I know, he had five turnovers in this one as the Clippers
are turning the ball over left and right, but still seven assists in eighteen
points. And this is somebody who goes out there and he is not afraid
to put them off. So here's an interesting stat for you, Adam,
and Bones was a minus twelve today. In fact, there was only one
player on the Clippers who was a positive plus minus, who was Xavier Moon,
who played the final six forty six of the game, and he was
a plus one this year including Denver. When Bones Highland is a positive plus
minus, his teams were fourteen and one, and that includes Thursday. He
was at plus thirty two in twenty six minutes against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
He impacts winning when he's playing at a high level, and he was playing
at a high level for the most part. You mentioned the turnovers were concern,
and that's the area that he's gonna have to clean up. But the
defense wasn't there. Enough for the Clippers to get through it. But when
he's a positive, when he is a net positive, his teams are net
positives overall. So I think we've seen some really good things these last two
games from Bones and encouraging signs that he's going to continue to develop within this
core, within this culture, and even within these lineups for these final now
seven regular season games. The Clippers are down a few guys and we don't
know the status of Kawhi Leonard, who left this game with a facial contusion.
Will update you on that the rest of the night. Here in your
post game show is the Clippers fall one thirty one to one ten to the
New Orleans Pelicans here in downtown Los Angeles. Clippers. Next game coming up
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We gotch pregame shows starting at six thirty. No Eagle, great calls always.
We'll talk to you on Monday, Adam. You know it always stays
the same. Can't wait. Let's go post game box score coming up next.
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up shooting fifty two percent from the field, great fifteen thirty three from the
outside, fantastic forty six percent from distance. Problem was the Pelicans got up
twenty one more shots and they hit twenty one three's on twenty one of thirty
four shooting. That is, sixty two percent from the outside. Shot better
from three than from two. They were just fifty three percent from the field.
Clippers with twenty turnovers leading to twenty eight points for the Pelicans. Pelicans
had sixteen themselves just eleven hang into the fourth quarter. And some of the
numbers are a little bit skewed during inconsequential time, of course, but we'll
still give him till you try to sort through it. Brandon Ingram finished with
thirty two points. Trey Murphy with thirty two as well, career high ten
made three pointers for the Pelicans. Off the bench. Josh Richardson heard the
Clippers as well, three or six from the outside. He had thirteen points
as four year Los Angeles Clippers, who were outrebound on the offensive board.
In the offensive board category twelve to two. They lost the rebounding battle overall
thirty three to twenty nine, but twelve to two. Ten more offensive rebounds
by the Pelicans. That just can't happen in this one. A lot of
that. Jonas Valancinis, of course, he had thirteen boards. There was
not a Clipper in double figures. Rebounding wise, they were led by Bold
Thailand. He had eighteen points in twenty three minutes, seven or twelve,
shooting three of eight from the outside. Kept fighting, kept pushing the pace
out there. They'd have five turnovers but seven assists. I love the energy
who brings Clippers, though didn't get much else. Robert Covington came in late
in the third quarter, played really well in his minutes sixteen minutes, eleven
points, went three of three from distance. Nicholas Batoum still looks to be
on the uptrend when it comes to his outside shooting, after going four of
six Thursday night. After struggling a little bit, he went four six from
distance tonight with thirteen points. But your starters Russell Westbrook just four of twelve
fourteen points. Eric Gordon did have fifteen five five shooting again a nice game,
three of three from the outside. Didn't play much in the second half.
This one got away from him. Beats the Zubos with thirteen and five.
Marcus Morris finished with just two points and twenty two minutes. Kawhi Leonard
four of sixteen for twelve points, left with a facial contusion in this one.
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Coming up, We'll get to your phone calls eight six six ninety eight seven
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number, or get to meet at follow Adam A coming up. Hoping at
postgame audio from coach Lou and the players after one of the most if not
the most disappointing loss of the season. Like the Pelicans obviously have talent even
without Zion Williamson. We knew that coming in. Brandon Ingram's a stud and
he proved it again thirty two points and thirteen assists to one turnover. I
saw this number his last two games. Brandon Ingram has twenty three assists to
one turnover. So not only is he scoring on you, he's finding the
open man every time, and there was a lot of open men for the
Pelicans in this one. The Clippers defense came out completely flat. No one
was taking the challenge of staying in front of their man for the most part.
And if you think the Clippers are the only team with the philosophy of
drive kicks swing, getting to the paint draws you defenders find the open man.
I got news for you. Teams do it all across the league.
The Pelicans did that tonight. That's how you get a number like this.
Sixty two percent is what they shot from three. They go twenty one to
thirty four from the outside and hit nine of their first eleven in the first
quarter, and the Clippers were down thirty seven to twenty six. Quick starters
outside of Kauai and even he really struggled with in this game, have not
been good the last two games. Remember Thursday night against Okay. See the
difference was Kauai with the bench with batomb with Plumbly with man with bones Thailand.
Tonight, the starters once again came out, got down by eight quickly,
didn't rotate well defensively on the parimeter especially. And you can say it's
just a hot shooting night all you want, but when professionals get wide open
shots, eventually even when you do have a hand in their face, and
I saw it, and the effort was there. Later it doesn't matter,
they're gonna knock them down because they found a rhythm, they found to flow
and these guys don't miss. And for a team that shoots thirty five percent
from the three point line to shoot sixty two percent tonight underscores my point.
You give up open shots early, they start making tough shots later. That's
what I saw out there. Brandon Ingram had fourteen points in the first quarter.
Trey Murphy started four or four from the outside and had twelve points in
the first quarter. You let him cook and get hot, it's gonna be
hard to stop. On the rest of the game. Trey Murphy went for
his career high ten main three pointers thirty two points. A lot of them
were open, and then even when they weren't and guys were trying to run
him off the line, he just looked right through them and dropped it down
the bucket. This Clippers defense has been up and down all season long,
but you take out the first seven games of the year when they came out
and they were playing lesser competition and Iviza Zubas was unbelievable. And I thought
they were gonna hang their hat on their defense and they were gonna get by
on that end because they started off the first seven games that way. But
she take out the first seven games, and now it's just seven games left
in the season. They're basically a bottom ten defense this year. That's where
they've been, even though it looked like they were making strides, even though
in five of the last seven games they hadn't given up more than one oh
five in five of those last seven, they give up one thirty one tonight,
and I just did not like the effort on that end, and the
lack of chemistry and organization defensively, or guys just weren't communicating well. It
just looked like the New Orleans Pelicans were slicing and dicing through the Clippers defense
and getting whatever shot they wanted, and they were hunting matchups. I saw
them go after Marcus Morris early on. Whenever there was a small out there.
They went at Bones, Highland two, Russell Westbrook. They were getting
the switches. Clippers didn't do a good enough job fighting through them, and
guys were getting burned. There were ton of blue eyes the Clippers offense was
probably good enough if you can cut down the turnovers, like they shot the
ball well when they got shots up. Problem with the problem is they only
took seventy five shots. The Pelicans took ninety six, twenty one more shot
attempts. They used to ten more offensive rebounds. They won that category twelve
to two. And the Clippers had swenty turnovers Pelicans sixteen, but five of
them came late. Of course, seven of the Clippers came in the fourth
quarter, two during inconsequential garbage time. Is this one was over early in
the fourth And now we're waiting for a status update on Kawhi. Leonard left
with a facial contusion. May have been a play where it looked like he
got hit in the face by brandon Ingram Just eyeball test tell me that we'll
see trying to find let's see I check Andrew Greif's Twitter account right now,
trying to find an update on Kauai. We'll do what we can here.
But this was a brutal loss for the Clippers because you're hanging on by a
thread right now in the five seed currently standings wise, and you can easily
get bounced into the play in tournament. They got the Bulls Monday night,
then they got two in Memphis, and I'm here to tell you there are
some teams, not just the Pelicans, that are surging currently, and the
team across the Hall is one of them. They've won seven of their last
ten. They play the Bulls first tomorrow. Clippers will catch the Bulls on
the second night of a back to back. But Clippers just haven't been good
enough defensively all season. They've been inconsistent on that end. It continues in
this game. They couldn't get stops when they needed to, and even when
they were knocking down shots. It doesn't matter if you're just trading buckets.
I mean, there was a play where Richardson end of the third quarter is
fading away from Bones Highland, who great a great defensive effort, had a
hand in his face. Doesn't matter Richardson. Josh Richardson was already hot,
knocked it down to end the third and I thought Bones played well, played
hard. I don't put it on him. I don't put it on any
one guy. Collectively, they aren't good enough defensively, not playing championship level
defense. They don't have championship level insistency. They don't have an identity.
What's their identity? Being consistently inconsistent. I've been telling you for three months.
I don't know where else to put it. They're up and down on
offense, They're up and down on defense. Post All Star Break, now
I want to say they're six and eight. I'll check on that for you
eight six, six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six, nine
eight seven two five seventy. Mike chimes in on Twitter at Mike Underscore h
nineteen ninety. Let's tune in, y'all. Adams dropping some cold hard truth
on the Clippers lack of defense tonight. I feel like I've been doing this
throughout a lot of the season. If you follow me at follow Adam Ay,
I'm telling you they're defensive rating. I'll check it right now, because
it's been hovering around twelve. It's not true. That's not indica of who
they've been defensively. Yeah, they were eleventh. I don't know if this
is counting tonight's game yet. On the season, they're eleventh defensively. You
take out the first seven games, they're close to being bottom ten. That
eleven defensive rating is fraudulent. I'm sorry if I got to speak the cold
heart truth tonight after a loss like this. They aren't close to top ten
defensively. They aren't the team they were defensively back in October. All I
have to do here is go back to November first, plug in the parameters
and check what their defensive rating has been since then. Sixteen and I don't
think that's counting for tonight's game. So who is this Clippers team with all
the players turn the roster turnover, and the different players post All Star Break?
What's the style of play? Tell me, because I've seen a team
that's been up and down for a while now, and they just don't look
like they've had a fully crystallized identity all season long. Some of it's out
of your hands when you got injuries and your two superstars. Unfortunately, I've
been snake bit with injuries, and we're hoping for the best now from Kauai,
as we're hoping for a speedy recovery from Paul George. But a lot
of defense's effort. Noah Eagle brought it up the late great Willis read Now
said it. You know it's ninety percent effort, But you gotta communicate too,
And even if you're playing fast and trying to stay in front of your
man, if you over committed times to a move he makes, you're also
playing bad defense if you're getting shook that way. So sometimes the energy and
effort was there, execution was not. A whole lot went wrong for the
Clippers tonight, and hopefully Kawhi Leonards okay, because they get a game Monday
night. It's huge against the Bulls, who again are playing better. To
start things off here on Clippers Talk, let's go to Ben in Glendale.
Ben, what's up, Hey, Adam, thanks for taking my call.
I was at the game tonight. That was just a real rough one to
have to watch. I agree with everything you said. Defensively, it's just
I with PG out, we have so little room for error. We've got
to be playing almost perfectly from here on out with how tight the standings are,
and it was just really hard to watch. I just I don't know.
I don't know what the answer is. I don't know if it's coaching.
You know, at some point we've got to look at how these guys
are coached, especially especially defensively. But I gotta talk about the elphant and
in the rum. You know, like Marcus Morris, he does not.
He has no business playing twenty two minutes out there. Like I'm glad that
Roco got the minute. I'm glad that he's playing well. He's taken advantage
of it and hopefully we can see more of him. Yeah, I hear
you. I appreciate the phone call. Ben Marcus struggled again. He was
my player to watch. He's been in a deep, deep shooting funk.
I talked about it pregame. He's under forty percent from the field, about
thirty percent from three In this one, he was hesitant, just took three
shots. There were times he was deferring to Russell Westbrook out of the three
point line when he had an open look. Understandably, his confidence could be
very low at the moment because he just hasn't had it defensively. I gotta
tell you what I observed out there. He was getting picked on at times.
They were going at him. CJ. Mccollumb got the switch isolated,
took him to his island, went by him for a layup. I'm not
trying to be harsh or overly critical. That's just what happened. It's a
fact. I want Marcus to succeed two. I think he's gonna pull out
of this slump. But there's seven games left. There's not a lot of
time. Robert Covington, when he's gotten minutes, has performed problems. He
didn't come until late in the third quarter. Guy went three or three from
distance, had eleven points, was on the floor on the hardwood, creating
a turnover, grabbing a steel down by twenty with a couple of minutes left.
I love that effort. I love that energy from Rocco. I wouldn't
mind seeing him play more either. But I've been saying it all season long.
I don't. I don't have a great answer for you. I don't
the article from Tomarrazarli I read it. I think there's definitely some truth to
it with some of the advanced numbers. Check it out. He works for
clutch Points. He went around asking why is Marcus playing this much and Roco
not playing so much? I found it interesting, but I know our night
like tonight, not a lot of people want to hear it. They don't
want to hear advanced numbers or how Marcus fits better with the starters, and
that has been the theory, but the starters aren't playing well the last two
games outside of Kauai and Kawai didn't have a good game tonight. And I've
told you for a while, you can't expect a guy to stay at fifty
fifteen ninety forever. What happens when he doesn't All those flaws that he was
masking up with his great, otherworldly like performances the last three months, they
get expose real quick when he has a bad night he did. The hope
is that he's just okay with the facial contusion, because that's your guy.
That's the guy that can lead him out of this. That's someone who has
looked like a top three player in twenty twenty three. Clippers fault tonight one
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feed off the energy of the crowd. They try to create it for themselves
sometimes. And Russell Westbrook, there's a love affair with him in cliper Nation
already. He makes a big play and he had some struggled overall. He
tries to get the crowd pumped up immediately. He got a great and one
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six ninety seven two five seventy or I'm at follow Adam a. The Clippers
have had a lack of conviction on the defensive end all season. Guys have
not taken up the challenge enough of staying in front of their man so they
don't get you in rotation, leading to open three pointers like we saw tonight
from the Pelicans. But the starters tonight they have to set the tone.
They set the tone about the same setting we had the music thereat. They
were silent defensively. We needed to needed them to be loud to have a
great performance, and instead it was a quiet early start in a game that's
not a matinee contest. I would have thought this was your typical twelve thirty
one o'clock tip with the way the Clippers came out lifeless on both ends,
but specifically defensively. You get beat up that much in the first quarter where
you're down thirteen early on and a team is nine of eleven from three and
you already have four turnovers, and nobody really has it going outside of a
B to Zoobots, who I wish they would feature more, utilize more offensively.
It works when they do it, they don't do it enough. He
had eight points in the first quarter. And finished with just thirteen guys six
of seven shooting. He went five for five Tuesday night against the Okase Thunder.
If a guy who's shooting near seventy percent from the field is having a
good night, feed the beast. He gets you easy buckets. He has
moves, and Russell Westbrook and him have a really good connection. They showed
it again tonight. He knows how to get a big man involved. They
go away from it far too often, it feels like. But defensively and
I know sometimes when you struggle offensively, you can't get stops on the other
end. Defensively, though, is what really hurt him tonight. Just focus
effort and for a team that needs to build up chemistry on that end and
show up their defense heading into the playoffs or the play in or the offseason.
I'm gonna be honest with you. Nothing's guaranteed. I've told you this
many times. You go on a losing streak. With the way the West
has been set up in the standings, and the teams that are climbing and
fighting over one another and beating each other up, and a bunch of records
that are so close to each other, you go on a losing Streak Town
in the season, you'll be out of the postseason entirely. That would be
just unfathomable. Fathomable of a thought to have coming into this season that the
Clippers could fall out of the postseason completely, not even make the play in,
But it has to be brought up. They're currently two and a half
games up on the tenth seed in the Okase thunder who has the tiebreaker over
that? Really the only team the Clippers have the tiebreaker over right now the
Golden State Warriors and the Lakers, who they've beating three times already. That
game on April fifth, though I posted about it yesterday, I've been trying
to tell people, Hey, the Lakers playing really good ball. They made
some really good moves. They're coming. They don't have Lebron, but they
have an identity, they know how they want to play. They could have
Lebron back soon all of a sudden. Lakers seven three to the last ten
ball games, beating good teams without Lebron. That game on April five,
Clippers Lakers could determine who's in the playoff or who's in the play in.
We'll see Lenny in Inglewood. Lenny are on Clippers side without Inmasin. Let
me just tell you this. I've been hearing chatter about Tyron Lou and I
can only imagine the frustration that he feels. And anybody who tries to blame
this this season on Tyrone Lew I don't know nothing about basketball. Because to
put a guy who has that that sort of ability in terms of coaching and
he's wonted, he's proving it on a team where he can't doesn't know who
he has available to him, it's it's too much. It's just too much
that these guys don't they're not showing up. I mean, I still,
to be honest, I still don't understand the Russell Westbrook pick up. I
don't get it. But you know this team. Did you liked it when
it happened, Lenny, Nope? I didn't. You know, you know,
good word, I didn't say. I like that said. I thought
that we had chemistry and I thought anything that that took away from Terrence Man
was a negative. Okay, the Stars wanted him, and coach Lee wonted
Russell Westbrook. Yeah, I know, and yeah, but it happened at
all because we're six and eightens. We had him, and we're we're on
a roll prior to that, so not knocketting Us Russell Westbrook, you know,
but you know he would do well. You got his guaranteed money.
I'm just saying that for an owner like Steve Baumer, who and I made
sure everybody got their money this year, there should be no reason the dude
shouldn't be playing with all of the focus and the and the ferocity of a
team that has something to prove and they have it. And you know,
I don't. I don't know what's gonna happen, and it would be it
would be a track, should said track, but it would be an interesting
into the season. If we lose to the Lakers without Lebron, that would
just be something else. But I don't. I don't, like you said,
auld doesn't pass nothing anymore. So it's disappointed, man, It's really
disappointed because I don't see I definitely don't. I just don't see it.
Man. I think that there's there's gonna be some there's got to be a
shakeup. There's gotta be some sort of shakeup because you can't take two aging
all stars like Kawai and PG into the future. And we haven't it hasn't
worked to this point so far, and they're not getting younger, and you
know, like I said, it's gonna be interesting. See, I don't
know, all right, Letty, I appreciate the phone call. Hey,
there's seven games left. This team's good enough talent wise to go six and
one, to go five and two, to put themselves in a very good
position in the playoff and not the play in. They're still good enough.
As long as Kauai is able to return from the facial contusion. We don't
know. Maybe we'll see masks Kawai again. I'm hoping he's okay. But
they have enough talent even without Paul George. The guys playing up to their
skill level, not consistently had moments certain players have, but sense of urgency,
you know, it's almost tired at this point to even bring that up
or beyond that critical mass and def Con one. There's seven games left in
the season and they got two coming up against Memphis. They got a game
against the Lakers. As I mentioned, Chicago's playing much better. They'll see
them Monday night Phoenix Suns, the last game of the season. We'll see
how consequential that is. Who could be playing in that ball game. So
it's not easy. But this team has put it together and has over the
years played their best when their backs were against the wall. That's what makes
a night very disappointed though. So it wasn't a back to back, This
wasn't an early afternoon game. They had a day off and it looked like
they'd be able to ride some of that momentum they had with one of the
best second halfs of the season against the Thunder Thursday night into this one.
No d OA. They didn't have it down eight oh quick. This Clippers
team has had a propensity to get off the slow starts. The problem is
they used to always come back on teams always. There's been less of those
recently this season. That was their gritty identity, never out of a ball
game. More times teams have come back on them this season. That's concerning.
All right, Let's hear from their leader in coach Loup post game they
lose one thirty one to one ten to the New Orleans Pelicans. Here was
Coach Lou post game on Ballet Sports. Coach, is there any update on
Kauai after he left the game in the third quarter? No update? Defensively,
D'Angelo was able, or Brandan Ingram was able to kind of get to
his spots. Trey Murphy was had a career night from deep adjustment. Did
you have to see defensively that you didn't that I wanted to see that I
didn't. Yeah, I don't know what that means. But from a standpoint,
and just I thought to start the game, they were faster than us.
They got out in transition, they created mismatches in transition because the way
they pushed it, we weren't able to get back and get matched. And
like I said, Ingram came out and got to a spots early in the
game. Then we tried to double team in fire, which opened up Murphy
to get threes, and so you just kind of picked your poison. But
I thought they really came out to attack us tonight, and they did that.
And then on the Offensylviania. You know, twenty turnovers for twenty eight
points, there's too many, especially for a fast team like this. You
can't get them a live all turnovers and expected to get back and get get
match in transition. So I was a tough game for us tonight. You
know, they played well. Hats off to him and coach obviously quite struggle
to nine four for sixteen and not with no PG more four. Moving with
these last eight or nine games left, how do you guys gonna be able
to generate points? If Kawai struggles like what he did tonight, it's gonna
happen. You know, it's as part of the game. I think,
just continue to get to our next actions. Don't like we get staggered at
the times, like I said, trying to look for Kauai and when he
doesn't have it going. We gotta continue to run our offense. And we've
been doing a pretty good job but that since January first. But tonight was
one of those night. I mean, we shot fifty two percent and forty
five from three, but it still didn't look good. It was a it
was a nasty flow to the game. And so that happens. So back
to the drawing board and like I said, stains that we can clean up,
you know, taking care of the basketball. I think, you know,
getting back in transition defensively and understanding what we're doing, you know,
defensively and Snaps is a tough night when both of them are off and you
know, you kind of play against a team is pretty good and you struggle
tyed. Do you see any parallels between the slower start from the starters tonight
and Nick until Cloma City on Thursday, this revamped starting line up. Yeah,
I mean it's it's it's been tough, you know, I think starting
the starting games, it's it's tough to dig yourself a hole and try to
I'm out every single night, and so we gotta be better, like you
said, starting games and having that mindset like we did in the last okay
see game, you know, just after that first you know, six seven
minutes of just having a physicality on the defensive end, I think hitting bodies,
I think offensively, learning how we want to attack, getting too the
paint, making the right play, And tonight we just didn't have a lot
of juice and a lot of pop. So nothing to get the scarage about.
We just gotta be a little better to what did what did you see
until that? Uh, the second unit the way it's constructed now it's gotten
in, Like, what did you see with them compared to the last game.
No, I think just the pace. I think, you know,
bones struggle a little bit the first time he came in, you know,
the missed a couple of shots, had a couple turnovers early. But I
liked that unit and what they give us TV and Niko bones and and you
know, Mace and then Russ comes back to that group. I think it
makes us faster. We got a good pace share the basketball, and so
we can create different things. I think defend be too, and so tonight
we just to have it, you know, either side. And so it's
nice like that. So now we got to move on and get ready for
Monday. There was coach Slew after the Clippers one thirty one to one ten
loss here at home to the New Orleans Pelicans. Part of the problem is
you get down early with your starters, who are supposed to set that tone
defensively, who are supposed to have a defensive mindset. The amount of times
they've come out in games and played with that and have done that for forty
eight minutes. Look, I can't think of any of this season. The
Boston game comes to mind. You look at that game Tuesday night against Okay.
See the first five minutes they were fantastic. They were up eighteen to
four. It's because they were swarming defensively. Guys were talking covering for each
other and bringing the physicality Coach was are asking for it. You can only
do so much there. Guys got to execute. But then the problem is
you get down and you have to put in players that are good offensively,
but maybe the defense isn't there Forte, So there's a trade off there.
Bones Thiland obviously not know is a great defender. They need him though,
they need his pace, they need his shooting, is relentless attacking of the
basket. Russ He's an okay defender at times. He can at times lock
a guy up too, but they need what he brings on offense. So
you get down and you're trying to get back into it with offensive minded guys
that aren't great defenders. Well, the clumpers are down by his many's twenty
five in this one. I don't know any other way to put it.
It happens, but there's seven games loot and either they're gonna figure things out
right now and all these games are playoff games down the stretch. Basically,
are they be in trouble and you're go on a losing street to end the
season, you can end up out of the postseason right now in the West,
So yeah, big game Monday night. Clippers bulls in that one.
And defensively, the Clippers have to show up defense. Last three games only
give up one hundred and two points forty three percent shooting twenty seven percent from
the outside. They were much better, I said, at five of the
last seven games before this one they had given up one oh five or less.
No excuse for coming out this flat tonight, but it happened. Clippers
take the loss, and they dropped to the five spot as Phoenix won earlier
in the West. Coming up back to your phone calls. Eight six six
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Third time they've done it. They went nine of eleven in the first
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their official home Clippers lose one thirty one to one ten to the New Orleans
Pelicans. Here from Crypto dot Com arena. I'm Adam Oslin, and this
is Clippers Talk. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. Eight
sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Pelicans had
thirty seven points in the first quarter. Clippers couldn't hold them under thirty every
quarter they had at least thirty one. Finished the fourth quarter with thirty two.
Clippers really just never had their defense set up, and we're getting exposed
on that end too many times. Guys are getting beat off the dribble,
leading to a lot of open threes. It's not one guy, they just
weren't connected, not exactly five guys on a string out there. Tonight one
of the worst defensive performances of the season, when it looked like they were
starting to turn a corner there. But we've seen this stuff come and go,
and that's why I talk about the consistency of this team in the lack
there of Cameron. In La Cameron, You're on Clipper Stipe without Amassol.
What's up, hey, Adam thank you for taking my car. I've been
going a game since I was twelve, almost twenty years. It's the first
time I'm calling in. But I just, you know, felt compelled to
call tonight just listening to everything you were saying. You're always great, just
driving on from the games, but I just really was frustrated tonight with the
number one the effort, and you know, I think the just a pattern
of resting players throughout the year. I get it early on really being cautious
about bringing our you know, our guys back, but I don't think that
you know, was handled well. And the inconsistency and a lot of what
we're seeing now I think are you know, effects from just the way the
rotations and the extra extra precautions kind of were handled. And and that's just
kind of why the Clippers, I believe, are in the position that they're
in. I mean, they could have a little bit more wiggle room.
I get at the West is totally tight, but you know, really not
getting that chemistry, not knowing who's gonna play every night, the guys just
don't seem cohesive. Ty Lewis, you know, doesn't know what he's gonna
do. He has that pink card that he has to rely on that.
You know, he says he doesn't know what you know each night, what
he's got. So I just think the way that they handled it, you
know, once January hit a little bit before the All Star break, I
was hold been to see things red up, missed back to backs. But
outside of that, he's been playing a ton in twenty twenty three, and
I can't criticize the way they've handled Kawhi Leonard with how good he's been out
there. The guy's been to him near fifty fifty ninety for three months,
he's been on another level. Whatever, he's been great, he's been great.
I'm saying the cohesiveness with the other guys, they seem like they don't
know what to do when they're out there with him because he's not him.
He's keeping them alive. It's just I think the other guys are having difficulty,
you know, sitting in the rotations when he's out there. Sometimes they
kind of just defer to him a little bit too much and he has to
take over. But nothing, no, not against him at all. I'm
saying the way the team has handled it has affected the other guys, not
the guys who've been sitting out, they've been great when they played well.
I just think the lack of chemistries due to that. Typically guys have fitting
very well around Kauai. I mean, he was in Toronto for one season
and it just worked. It hasn't been a long learning curve. And you
know, when he and Paul George are out there, I want to say
they're winning percentages around seven hundred. When they've been healthy, they've been great.
There haven't been that many continuity chemistry issues. When they are healthy,
they seem to figure it out pretty quickly. You would love to see them
out there on the court more. They've been unlucky with injuries. There's no
doubt about it. And I appreciate the phone call, Cameron. Let's go
to Mark in Santa Barbara. Mark, you're on Clippers stop without Amassin Dah
Mark gone. You know. And I'm not trying to be overly critical tonight
on a game like this where the Clippers lose it by twenty one and certainly
don't have their best effort on the defensive end. And I'm not trying to
make some long reaching conclusions about this team over one game, because this is
stuff I've been telling you about all season long, and I can't avoid it
when it continues to happen. And the reason if it's sounding more negative is
because there's seven games left. They're in a precarious position, and standings wise,
every game is so critical. This was a big loss tonight, and
the way they lost is how they've lost a lot of games this season.
And I'm just not gonna sit here and tell you otherwise that everything's fine when
it's not with this Clippers team, because then if they don't get to the
problems land by the end of the season, you know, I'm not gonna
sit there and be like, I don't know what happened. I don't know,
I don't know. No, I tried to chronicle this along the way.
Can this team flip a switch? Do they have the talent to win
at all? Of course they do win healthy, if they can stay healthy,
if they can put the guys in the best position to succeed. But
that last caller talking about continuity, well it's not on Russ. But they
brought in a guy who's playing thirty minutes a night with twenty one games left.
Any guy who all of a sudden is in your starting lineup with twenty
one games left, that becomes that critical to the team. There's gonna be
a learning curve, and I think for the most part, Russ has played
well as a Clipper. But I understand I'm getting a lot of all.
They up ended their roster. They had a good thing going before the All
Star break, like they were ten and four the last fourteen games or whatever
it was. I've looked back at some of those games and there were some
of the same problems that they have now. Not closing well enough, not
consistently bringing the same defensive mindset for forty eight minutes. You just don't know
what you're getting quarter to quarter, possession to possession with this team. It's
been baffling at times because they do have so many vets, because they have
guys that have been there to see a possession like we saw at the end
of the game with Kauai and Marcus Morris and that miscommunication on Tuesday night perplexing.
Would never have expected that, but they bounced back from that. Today
they suffer a tough one. They gotta bounce back again on Monday. This
team has been resilient in the two one three era. You have to say
that. You gotta admit that when the Chips are down, they seem to
be at their best. We're hoping for more of that to come. Eight
six six Night seven two five seventy will take a quick time out here.
Clippers lose one thirty one to one to the New Orleans Pelicans here at Crypto
dot com arena. I'm out of Oslin listening to the Clippers stock here on
five seventy sports. Who was blocked by George La Clippers basketball? He is
a one man record the defensive end on the home of your La. Clippers
has got to find defensive flow if they lose one thirty one to one ten
here at home to the Pelicans. They just had it over the last week.
They were playing much better. The practices help them. The communication the
five guys on a string that we saw somehow went by the wayside tonight to
the Pelicans as they give up twenty one main three pointers that ties a franchise
record for New Orleans and they win this ball game by twenty one points.
Let's go to before we get out of here, we got Greg and Newport
Beach, Greg Yaren Cliver, stop with that. I'm awesome, Greg,
what's good? Come on, Greg, come on, Greg? Do me
like this? Man. I just check with the producer. She said you
were there and ready. You know what, Greg? Hey, what's up?
Man? Adam? Listen? Listen, broday you hear me? I
can hear you. They parted you up now? All right? All right,
I'm not on my phone. It's somebody else's phone. But anyway,
man, listen. I was at the game to night. Man, I
don't know what's going on. Bro. It's like, like you said,
we were playing good for the last couple of weeks. We hit that spot
against Okay see on Tuesday night. Then we bounced back and looked day behind
on Thursday night. Then we talk about tonight and Luis looked, you know,
all discombobulated. Does this is not exemplified Clippers basketball the twenty two twenty
three season though. Up and down. That's where it's been all year.
It is, Adam, But you know what, man, to me tonight,
it seemed like why in the first half was just trying to do too
much, man, and he just didn't have it tonight. Man, in
the first half, he couldn't buy a shot. He's dribbling too much.
Had the ball in his head too much and the defense was given up all
the three. Greg, I think Kawhi knew if he doesn't get it going,
they're losing this game. He's got to find a heater or they're losing
this game. And it was understandable for him to have a down game after
going thirteen or fifteen Thursday fifteen. Man, my man missed two shots only
it's crazy night. Man, Hey, Chicago, that's gonna be a tough
game on Monday. Man, that's not no gimme no. I've seen Zach
Lavine put up forty five in this building before against the Clippers. It's gonna
be a good one. I appreciate the phone call. Hope to see you
here, Greg, Mike and Breya Mike hearing Clippers stope without I'm Awsolin.
How you doing that, Adam? I'm Mike, very very discouraging night.
Again. I just watched ty Lou and he just looks defleted, defeated,
you know, I mean he's deflated and defeated. I heard both that.
Yeah, like the coach, Lou bounces back. I'm not worried about it.
It's a bad loss. Coach was gonna have a game plan set for
Monday night, So you think there's anything to these rumors about him leaving,
Mike. I saw who the rumor was from on Twitter. It wasn't Chris
Haynes, it wasn't Adrian Ward Snarowski, it wasn't one of the big hitters,
it wasn't Sham Sharania. I'm not thinking about that. I'm not putting
much into that. There's seven games left. We're talking about Monday night.
But I appreciate the phone called Mike. I will say this, Look,
I gotta tell you the truth. Clipper Nation and seeing that Marcus Morris Senior
had to disable his Instagram comments, I don't like that. I know he's
been taken incoming, but you guys are better than that. You're above that.
I know he hasn't played well. Help a guy get out of a
slump by cheering him on so he can get his confidence back. But I
don't like seeing that he had to disable his Instagram comments because I'm guessing it's
just a cess pool of negativity right there, right now there, So Clipper
Nation try to be above it. Someone who's always above it, big brother
Jake Warner. Positive moments with the fake philosopher. Philosophers are segment, Big
Bro aw we doing. We're good over here. Despite what happened tonight.
I gotta keep everybody focused, Okay, please do all right. Well,
every story has an end, but in life, every ending is just a
new beginning. Okay, Well this game ended tonight, new beginning Monday night.
See you already see where I'm going to wash rents and not repeat,
not exactly. Tomorrow is a new day. Monday night is a new day.
And we've seen this Clippers team time and time again play their best basketball.
When their backstor against the wall, they come out swinging. That's what
we're hoping to see against the Chicago Bulls on Monday. Thank you, Big
Bro. Wise words as always anytime, anytime, Clibernation appreciates you. Tip
time Monday Night is at seven thirty. We'll have Clippers count down four.
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