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Osler Balance Hunis. I'm trying to
have some fun with what happens tonight.

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Joanna's Balance Hunis went first career high
of thirty nine points and the Clippers lose

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one twenty three to one oh four
to the New Orleans Pelicans at Staples centerre

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Welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam
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number if you would like to get
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Clipper Nation like therapy tonight. But
remember there's still eleven and ten and there

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are still sixty one games left this
season to be played. So while things

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look dire, while the sky may
be falling in your mind right now for

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the Clippers, with them not being
able to figure things out on offense or

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on defense, and in between quarters
during quarters, they just can't have any

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consistency right now. It's not indeed
that bad. They can quickly turn this

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around. But yeah, there are
some solutions. I'll give those. Plus

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we do have some postgame audio from
somebody who actually has the solutions. Head

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coached Toronto lou and the players who
right now are in a funk, and

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the Clippers losing this game after losing
the way they did yesterday to the Golden

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State Warriors, who do have the
best defense in the league, and the

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Clippers only put up nine points in
that game, and we thought, okay,

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offensively, they have to wake up. They have the second best defense

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in the league. They just have
to figure it out. Offensively, well,

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they did early on, they started
five of five, and then they

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would slump offensively and defensively. They
gave up thirty seven points in the first

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quarter and we're down by as many
as nineteen. If it's not one thing,

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it's another. It has just been
brutal. They can't get their offense

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and their defense on the same page. I say even between halves, because

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the Clippers were much better offensively in
the first half and they were in the

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second half where they were slightly better
defensively, you could say, but they

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still give up one hundred and twenty
three points to the Pelicans and Jonis Valentiunis

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started seven of seven from three.
He I don't even know how. He

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only took one more the rest of
the game. It didn't come till the

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fourth quarter, but he almost had
his career high at the half it was

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thirty four. He had twenty nine
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thirty nine points, fifteen boards,
seven offensive rebounds. He had half of

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their fourteen offensive rebounds, so the
Clippers having just four, and the Pelicans

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attempted twenty two more shots than the
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you look at the percentages. The
Clippers shoot fifty two percent almost from the

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field, thirty nine percent from three, but they still had fifteen turnovers and

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they got beat up on the boards. Pelicans had forty seven total, the

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Clippers just thirty five. Pelicans had
extra, an extra and extra opportunities and

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possessions out there, and they took
advantage of them. And that is one

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of the strengths of their team.
But it was to an extreme against the

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Clippers, who once again didn't get
out in transition, didn't convert when they

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did, only had six fast break
points. The Pelicans had twenty two,

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and even in that first half when
the Clippers only had five turnovers, while

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they came out in the third quarter
and had seven and couldn't get out of

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their own way, and that Garrett
Temple three pointer to end the third might

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have been their undoing. Clippers had
it too. Within nine. Paul George

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was surging, as was Reggie Jackson. They looked to be coming on in

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the third quarter, and all of
a sudden they were still down by twelve

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or twelve minutes left, and the
Pelicans would after getting the Clippers worth in

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eight and the fourth, they would
pour it on. Valanciunis would hit some

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more easy ones and he just dominated
them to a degree he hasn't dominated anyone.

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You can say. In his NBA
career career night thirty nine points,

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we knew he was a Clippers killer, but seven of seven from three he

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might not even do that at practiced
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And some of those were well defended, yes, some were wide open,

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but after he got it going,
it didn't matter. That's what happens

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with professionals. You let them get
into a rhythm. It doesn't matter if

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you've a hand in their face,
and the Clippers perimeter defense was poor as

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good as they have been all season
long, giving up fourteen three pointers to

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the Pelicans, who went fourteen of
thirty five, and it was really better

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than that for the majority of the
game Defensively, it was shocking to see

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the Clippers play this poorly after a
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They just can't get both facets.
Are all facets of the game on

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the same page at the same time. If it's not one thing, it's

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another, and there's gotta be some
frustration there. I believe they'll figure it

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out. They have the guys to
do so, but right now, this

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is a Clippers team that is struggling
to find an identity on offense. Consistently

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one hundred and four points, it's
okay, it's not great, even with

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the physicality that's being allowed this season. And like I said, they gave

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away too many possessions. They only
got up seventy two shots compared to the

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Pelicans ninety four, So there are
a lot of issues right now. And

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Noah Ego brought up a good point
postgame. They didn't have Marcus Morris tonight

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and they didn't have Nicholas Batoum,
who covers up for a lot of mistakes,

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who does a little bit of everything
that helps this team. That's what

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makes him a winner. It's usually
not just the box score you look at,

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unless it's just the plus minus numbers
that show you how much he helps

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them. And they have been without
him for about a week now and the

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NBA's health and safety protocols and we
still don't know when he could be returning.

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We have postgame audio coming up,
hopefully we get some clarity on that.

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Clippers fall one twenty three to one
oh four two the Pelicans. We'll

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take a quick time out here on
Clippers Talk. We'll come back. We'll

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get to your phone calls. Eight
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eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number seven for

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seven. Jonas Valanciunis started from three. He was better than Steph Curry was

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yesterday. It's like his shooting goes
was still out there on the court.

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Joanna's valanch Junists had never hit more
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Of course, that came against the
Clippers about a week and a half ago,

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so ninety out does that has thirty
nine points, a career high.

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Clippers lose by nineteen to the Pelicans. More Clippers stock coming up next year.

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On Amp five seventy LA Sports LA
Clippers Basketball continued, Safe time shut

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Down the Stretch. This is the
official home of the Los Angeles Clippers.

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Clippers lose one twenty three to one, all four at Staples Cents here to

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the New Orleans Pelicans and Joanna's Valance. Unists went for a career high thirty

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nine points at fifteen boards, seven
offensive rebounds, and started seven four seven

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from three. Clippers now after winning
seven straight games, losers of six of

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their last nine, don't say nice, it's not. They're struggling. They're

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in the struggle. Currently. Paul
George still had twenty seven a fish and

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twenty seven on ten of twenty shooting, but seven more turnovers after he had

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eight of their twenty five yesterday.
You'd say, well, they cleaned it

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up to a degree. They only
had fifteen, but seven of those came

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in the third quarter and thwarted their
own runts. And Paul George having almost

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half of their turnovers, He's in
a bit of a struggle. Himself personally,

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just with the double teams, the
triple teams, the way he's being

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guarded right now, and the Clippers
and those careless turnovers I'll turning into points

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for the opposition. The Pelicans had
fourteen points off those fifteen turnovers. Welcome

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back into Clippers stock. I'm ata
moslin to eight sixty six nine eight seven

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two five seventy before we get to
Coach lou postgame. Tye and Santa Barbara,

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you're on Clippers Talk. You know, this is kind of me piggybacking

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off when I call it last time. You know, PG started off the

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season great. This past week or
two, he's just been deferring, forcing

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passes, overthinking, and the team's
following that league. You know, when

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he's urgent throughout the whole game and
doesn't ease up even you know, for

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one play, the team follows,
and when he plays bad, the team

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also follows. And that's kind of
what we're seeing. You know. He

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he gets his numbers, and he
always will because that's the kind of talent

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he is. But he's in this
mental kind of slump, which he's always

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gone through his whole career, and
he he's got it just staggressive, Ti,

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I don't want to play armchair psychiatrists
and just guess he's in some mental

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slump right now. I mean,
we could just talk about what's actually happening

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out there on the court. I
don't know if it has anything to do

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with that. No, I'm just
saying he just needs to be aggressive,

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like him deferring and path you know, he just needs to be aggressive,

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and I think focus more on scoring
throughout the game. You know, the

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team follows that lead. Well,
Ty, would you say this, There's

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a lot on his plate offensively as
a playmaker right now, especially even without

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Kawhi Leonard. Say what you want
about Kawhi and him being the number one

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scoring option all the time, but
we've seen the last couple of years since

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he became a Clipper, he got
so much better. He improved so much

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as a playmaker with his assists,
and when the ball's running through him and

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Paul George, it takes a lot
of that responsibility off of George. Now

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it's all on him and we can
say, Okay, they did it in

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the playoff. They were able to
get by and they got to the Western

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Conference finals without Kawhi Leonard. But
There's something different about going through an e

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two game season, a grind like
this, where you have back to backs

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where you play five games and seven
nights. That's different than the playoffs,

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where you just have to get up
every other day at worst for that one

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game. It's hard to sustain the
same level of energy and focus, I

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think, and that may be an
issue here too, Ty. I get

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it, you know. It's just
he's an elite player and he has it

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in him. And I wouldn't be
saying this if I didn't know me.

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I'm with you. I'm with you, Ti. Thank you for the phone

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call. Hopefully we'll talk to you
again Wednesday night. Actually, you know

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what, We're gonna take a quick
time out before we hear from the head

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coach, Toron Lewis. I'm just
throwing Katie for a loop about a million

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times over and tonight in this one, we'll take a quick time out.

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Clippers lose one twenty three to one
O four to the New Orleans Pelicans at

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Staples Center. They've lost six of
their last nine games, and yes,

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Paul George has had fifteen turnovers over
their last two games. Something has to

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change, obviously offensively for this team
to just be more in sync offensively.

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I'm less alured about worried about that
side because oh this was an outlier tonight

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giving up one hundred and twenty three
points the Pelicans. More Clipper stock coming

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up next here on AMPI seventy on
Sports Lake Clippers Basketball continue six time shot

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down the stretch. This is the
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You've got to come up with very
late next time to eat. Clippers lose

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the Valanciunis and the Pelicans by a
final score of one twenty three to one

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oh four at Staples Center. Second
time in a week and a half they've

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lost to this team. Clippers dropped
to eleven and ten on the season,

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and they've lost six of their last
nine games after winning seventh straight. Welcome

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to your phone calls. But first, as promise, I do want to

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hear from the head coach Toronto lou
After the Clippers lose by nineteen to the

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Pelicans. After that game was for
an outlier for his career, for his

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shooting. But I guess beyond that, what trends maybe have you concerned right

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now offensively or building over the last
couple of weeks. Just you know,

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I think making a simple play,
making the right play. You know,

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first half it was still down fifteen
a half time, but we only have

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five turn over so it hasn't been
indicative of how we've been playing. You

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know, we take care of the
basketball. We usually score, but we

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just couldn't stop them tonight. And
you know, like I said, we

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we would due for a bad deepnessive
game. But you know, Valentine has

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made uh seven threes. They you
know, they got everything they wanted,

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sixty eight points in the pain,
shot forty percent from three, twenty twenty

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two pass break points. So we
just couldn't stop them. We couldn't really

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get any rhythm offensively. I thought
the guys tried to do the right thing

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offensive with the movement and making the
actually pass. But it's hard, like

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you said, you gotta take the
ball to balance every single player to try

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to get down and get something to
score. And a half court every single

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time, so I gotta look at
it. But I thought a guy's offensive

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they had a right intent or just
trying to move the basketball and play the

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right way. And just you know, we couldn't. We couldn't stop them

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tonight. Hey, coach, uh
eighteen second chance points for New Orleans.

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You guys really couldn't keep him off
the glass, couldn't do anything. I

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mean, what did you see as
far as I guess boxing out or anything

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like that. You know, we
played big, you know, they got

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offensive rebounds. We played small,
they got offensive rebounds. So just you

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know, the you know, we
talked about it, come into the game,

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just down Cheans on the glass and
you know Jones crashing, you know,

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so we had to be better with
that. But I mean we just

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all around just you know, defensively, we couldn't we couldn't get stops.

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I thought that pace was you know, there was fast for us, and

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they ran they stuff with pace and
and we just couldn't keep up. And

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like I said, Ingram, you
know, we're down che It was cool,

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cool it off and Ingram got going
and so they just had a clicking

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tonight. Like I said, they
played good. They played well. And

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we just couldn't get any stops.
Last year, they were really good on

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second night of back to backs,
haven't able to get a win. Obviously,

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you've seen this scenes twice in these
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So is there is there anything you
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is it just we've got playing back
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We need everybody's that some There was
coach Low post game after the Clippers

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lose one twenty three to one oh
four to the New Orleans Pelicans. Yes,

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tip your cap to the Pelicans,
who may have only had five wins

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coming into tonight, but one was
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the Utah Jazz. One was against
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now in the Eastern Conference. They
have been playing better. But and some

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would say, well, this is
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Sho was one for his last eleven
from three before tonight. Going back a

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couple of games and he goes seven
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he only get up one more three
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like that, But thirty nine points
a career high Brandon Ingram was also uber

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e fishing out there. He was
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Brandon Boston's doppelganger and Brandon Boston would
get into the game. Played a doubleheader

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today in the G League. He
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Center, actually and game the Agua
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and he could have gone for fifty. They took him out late because

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the lopsided its score. So looking
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happened in this Clippers game. They
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four. We'll take a quick break, we'll come back. We'll get to

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your phone calls eight six six nine
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nine eight seven two five seventy.
They got a couple of theories coming out

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for why the Clippers have been so
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season. But they are just twenty
one games in sixty one left to play.

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More Clippers stock next year. On
the UMPI seventy Yellow spors New make

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then shoot I'm talking to you.
Was in the six foot throwing the West

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side man something LA Clippers basketball continue
safe time shot down the stretch. This

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is the official home of the Los
Angeles Clippers on the West side and make

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your famous. It's most coz you
got a better flowing for the edit their

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pok Clippers lose one twenty three to
one oh four to the Pelicans. No

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way to edit that. Clippers drop
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Their next game is coming up Wednesday
at Staples Center. They're sixteenth game so

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far at Staples, so fifteen of
their twenty one games already have been at

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Staples. That has been a favorable
homestand at least in theory, the schedule

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has laid out favorably for them.
Clippers aren't taking advantage of it though right

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now, and it's hard to pinpoint
exactly why they're struggling in so many different

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ways and they can't get on the
same page offensively and defensively. Yesterday it

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was about the offense only scoring ninety
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four points still on the low side. That is basically would be twenty fourth

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in the league right now. But
they give up one hundred and twenty three

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points after coming into tonight, still
the second best defense that held Golden State

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to one oh five yesterday, even
with twenty five turnovers, to see them

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falter and fall apart defensively like this
on a night they seemingly had it going

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early offensively, it started five of
five. But if it's not one thing,

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it's another. And I'm just wondering
what this inconsistency on offense, especially

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because you know, coming into this
season without Kawhi Leonard and let's remember that

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they still don't have their best player
in Kawhi Leonard. Most teams, yes,

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what struggle. It's twenty one games
in. Clippers are still a game

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over five hundred and they're still in
the thicket things in the Western Conference and

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the standings because a lot of teams
right now aren't playing consistent basketball. Some

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of it could be the Wilson basketball, the physicality out there, guys adjusting,

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but also guys being injured and guys
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it hasn't just been Kawhi Leonard.
We knew that coming into the season,

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but then Marcus Morris and Nicholas Batoum
guys. You can just ill afford to

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lose Nicholas Batoum. You can argue
at times he's the second most valuable player

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after Paul George on this team right
now, and they haven't had him enough.

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And when they had that turnaround after
starting one and four and they won

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seventh straight, Nicholas Batoum was a
big part of laying that foundation for them

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being this defensive team that they've been
and maybe, as coach Lew said postgame,

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you know they were just due for
a bad defensive game. The levy

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finally broke, and it makes sense. The timing is brutal because you're playing

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a team that only had five wins
coming into tonight and you wanted to respond

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after losing to the Golden State Warriors, and it looked like a good position,

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a good opportunity to do so.
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healthy and building that continuity out there. And they have a new starter.

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They have had a couple really,
but Eric Bledsoe out there in the starting

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lineup for them this season. There
was always going to be an adjustment,

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and he's been somewhat up and down. I'd say mostly up because even when

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he doesn't shoot well defensively, he's
been very good for them. But between

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Marcus Morris and Nicholas Patum and a
mere coffee. They've had different guys there

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playing the four and the Clippers.
I think we're looking for more consistency on

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offense from some other young guys,
whether it was Terrence Mann picking up where

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he left off in the playoffs and
just being more consistent as a scorer,

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and we haven't seen that so far
this season. And he's a young player

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still and you have to remember that, but Luke Annard as well. When

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you're going into every game and saying, we know what Paul George is going

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to do. He's averaging twenty seven
a game on the season. He's their

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number one option offensively. But if
you don't know who's going to be number

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two every night, I think that
can lead to some inconsistency. When it's

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been Reggie, when he's been good, when he has scored twenty or more,

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they're eight and one, just got
to nineteen tonight. But when he's

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had off nights, who else is
going to step up? Is it a

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bunch of guys And I'm speculating here, but looking at one another going okay,

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is it gonna be you tonight?
Is it gonna be me that pecking

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order sometimes and knowing your roles out
there when they're more clearly defined later on

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in the season, that can be
huge for this team. And I still

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feel like there's just too many guys
that have been up and down with their

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offense, and maybe, and we
talked about this after the last show,

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but they've been too unselfish, and
coach lew said before this game, they're

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a little bit indecisive out there,
and they're not playing with enough purpose and

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focus. And even though the effort
is there, the execution has not been.

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And it does have to change quickly
here because the schedule isn't going away.

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It is that elephant in the room, that daunting giant, that opponent

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that is kind of just lurking in
the background all season long. Because you

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can make the argument they do have
the toughest schedule in the NBA, and

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they're in the midst of another five
games and seven nights and they're starting off

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this stretch oh and two Sacramento on
Wednesday, as Noah Eagles said, that's

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starting to look like a pretty big
contest and show me something type game from

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the Clippers that could help, you
know, start to mold that identity if

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they can get a big victory there, if they can put it together for

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four quarters on both ends of the
court. Just hasn't been enough of that

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so far this season, and I
think that accounts for the inconsistency we've been

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seeing in this eleven and ten up
and down Clippers team and record right now.

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So they loose to night By nineteen
to the Pelicans. Next game,

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as I said, is against Sacramento
Wednesday night at Staples Center, same tip

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time, seven thirty. We'll have
Clippers countdown for you starting at six thirty.

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Clippers got the good right roster,
they got the guys to do this,

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and they have the right head coach
in Tron lou And it just feels

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like they're down OZ two in a
series again and he's going to make some

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adjustments and they're going to figure this
out all right before we get out of

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here. I do want to thank
the clip was organization, Noah Eagle,

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Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawler, big
brother, Jake Warner Or head engineer at

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Staples Center, Katie Newton the fabulous
job once again. Hearon Burbank until six

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thirty with their Clippers Countdown show on
Wednesday at home against Sacramento. I'm Adam

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Oslin. Let's talk to them.
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