WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.200 The game is over, Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:08.800 reaction has just begun. Kahi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range. 3 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:13.720 This is Clippers locker Roo, a recap of today's game and a look ahead 4 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:18.280 on your hope for La Clippers basketball. And now your host, You, 5 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:24.679 sir, are a bad man, Adam Ousley. The Clippers fallen game one 6 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:28.120 of this two game mini series and okay see by a final score of one 7 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:32.600 eight to ninety four. Welcome into your post game show coming up, he'll 8 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:35.439 hear from the head coach and the players. But first back to okay, 9 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:38.560 seeing back to your voice of the Clippers and Noah Eagle. No, it 10 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.200 just looks like, even going back to game one, this team has been 11 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:46.159 out of sync and out of sorts so far. But granted they've had different 12 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:49.840 lineups, they've had different rotations out there, they just haven't built up that 13 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:54.200 chemistry yet. Yeah, Adam, And that's the biggest key is just continuing 14 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:57.359 to work and get the guys on the floor together. I think that's that's 15 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:00.960 step one. Gotta get everybody on the floor first and feeling healthy without a 16 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.799 minute's restriction in the right spot and then you can really start to assess what 17 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:07.480 the team has. But we're four games into the season and I think it 18 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.840 needs it needs to start happening soon, and the hope is that everybody allows 19 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:15.799 for that to happen, the injuries allow for that to happen, and everything 20 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:18.560 in between that. But look, this is not the end of the world. 21 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:21.840 It's game four, and as I said during the broadcast, it honestly 22 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:25.239 might be a blessing in disguise that this happens right now and waked this team 23 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:29.480 up so that they can start getting there. Their everything else in order, 24 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:33.159 whatever you want to call in order make sure that they have every mindset in 25 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:37.159 the right place and everything else in between. So I actually think this could 26 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:38.640 be a good thing, but we're not going to know for sure until maybe 27 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.400 Thursday night when they come out and hopefully play with a purpose. This early 28 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:47.400 season adversity reminds me a little bit of the fifty one point loss to Dallas 29 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:49.519 to start the season a couple of years ago. It didn't define them. 30 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:53.239 They ended up going to the Western Conference Finals without Kawhi Leonard. Obviously, 31 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:57.159 there's so much time to turn this around. It is strange to see so 32 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:00.640 many players in shooting slumps at once. I thought, Luke Kennard played really 33 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:04.359 well out there, and you brought it up. I believe in the pregame 34 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.759 show. Cannard's defense has also been stellar to start off this season. Yeah, 35 00:02:07.759 --> 00:02:12.879 I think today was another shining example of both the aggression offensively that's been 36 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:15.680 an improvement, and certainly the defensive strides that he continues to take that started 37 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:19.319 last year. For me, I thought that he really took a major step 38 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:23.400 forward and he's only continued that by hopping again in the right direction. So 39 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:27.319 positive signs from him, I thought, some positive signs from a mere coffee. 40 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:30.039 You continue to battle after taking a tough fall. And how about Viza 41 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:34.560 zu bats with another monster game ten points, fourteen rebounds, and seven blocks, 42 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:37.879 a near triple double for a Vizza Zoo bats tonight. So there were 43 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:40.240 certainly certainly bright spots in this one. But he can't sugarcoat it. This 44 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:43.879 is a tough loss, and you need to get back on the saddle in 45 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:46.840 the right way on Thursday and play with a purpose from the opening tip, 46 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:51.039 and they'll have a chance to write the wrong against this same team in Okay. 47 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:53.400 See, it's a two game mini series against the Thunder, same tip 48 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:57.560 time at five pm. We'll have Clippers countdown for you is starting at four 49 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:00.120 no ego, great call. As always, we'll talk on Thursday, my 50 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:04.840 friend. You know what some people might think that the result change is the 51 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:07.560 way I do think. You can't wait at him? Come on, let's 52 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:09.360 go all right, coming up, we'll get to your final box score. 53 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:13.919 We got postgame audio from your head coaching the players as well. Clippers fall 54 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:15.560 in the game one of the two game any series one oh eight to ninety 55 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:27.319 four to the Thunder. You're listening to Los Angeles Clippers Radio that one and 56 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:30.439 he got it. Count it from distance the odds on favorite to hoist the 57 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:35.360 Larry O'Brien heavily can test it and it doesn't matter. On the home of 58 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:39.520 your LA Clippers when I had the red and black lumber second with the hat 59 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:44.439 to match Clippers listen, okay, see one oh eight to ninety four to 60 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:49.639 the Thunder. It dropped to two and two on the season. Welcome into 61 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:52.599 your post game show. I'm at'm oslin still to come. I'll have 62 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:55.439 Clippers talk for you on AM five seventy LA Sports. You'd like to get 63 00:03:55.439 --> 00:04:00.159 on early eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy eight nine eight 64 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:06.319 seven two five seventy help a host whose voice is failing him. So the 65 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:13.400 Clippers fall in game one of those two game miniseries in Oklahoma City, and 66 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:16.360 they struggled offensively once again, shooting just forty two percent from the field. 67 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:20.399 And that's someone inflated by them hitting some shots in the fourth quarter where they 68 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:25.879 went for their quarter high of twenty six points. It was the loan quarter 69 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.399 where they outscored the Oklahoma City Thunder. Clippers were led by Luke Kennard off 70 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.319 the bench with fifteen points in twenty nine minutes. My player to watch hit 71 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:38.160 three three pointers, had a couple of assists, was helping drive. What 72 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:44.879 was a comeback that came up short late? Clippers had it to within eleven 73 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.279 SGA came back the other way hit a big three pointer. He finished with 74 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:54.199 thirty three. Continues to burn his former team in the Clippers whenever they match 75 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:57.439 up. This was the first win of the season for the Oklahoma City Thunder 76 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:00.639 the rest of the Clippers, Norman Palace troubled again three of ten from the 77 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:05.560 field, Regie Jackson four of seventeen, John Wall played well twenty minutes, 78 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:09.800 had twelve points, four assists, but four turnovers. Four of nine from 79 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:13.920 the field. Vizza Zubots, you could say he's been very solid all season 80 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:19.040 long. And thirty five minutes, ten points, fourteen boards and seven blocks. 81 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:23.480 I want to check on that and see if it's a career high. 82 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:26.319 No one, zoo, it may have just tied one. No, new 83 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:30.920 career high seven blocks for a Vizza Zubots. Okay, he did tie his 84 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:35.240 career high. No no, no, no no. DeAndre Jordan had seven 85 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:40.240 blocks back in twenty fifteen. I Vizza Zubots is the first Clipper to have 86 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:45.319 seven block shots in a game since DeAndre Jordan on October thirty feet on Halloween 87 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:50.800 in twenty fifteen against the Sacramento Kings, Zubots stellar defense and the Clippers overall 88 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:56.199 held the Okay see Thunder to thirty eight percent from the outside four or thirty 89 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:59.000 from three. You would think with those numbers they would have pulled off the 90 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:03.399 victory. The difference in this game the Thunder ended up taking this is an 91 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:09.920 unbelievable number, twenty seven more shots than the Clippers. So even though they 92 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:14.120 had the lower field goal percentage. They got up more shots because the Clippers 93 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:18.600 turned it over eighteen times and the Thunder just five times. Coming up, 94 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:23.040 we'll have postgame audio from Coach Low and the players after the Clippers losing. 95 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:25.360 Okay, see in game one of this two game mini series, one of 96 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:28.439 eight to ninety four. I'm out of Moslin. You're listening to your post 97 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:32.279 game show here on the Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network. Rom Analysis Banissa none 98 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:36.399 them with some counters, but now I'm counting this Ramajan, will Maya Coulton. 99 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:40.600 Let's if I come down in this who say when my boomate taste like 100 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:46.079 too late for the ends? Welcome into Clipper Stock. Here's a new sheriff 101 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:48.720 in town. You won't be able to deny it. They're going to go 102 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:51.600 to the NBA Finals. I believe it in my heart. This is the 103 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:56.839 best team in the history of the franchise. I am all about the Clipper 104 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:01.639 Nations. This is Clippers talk. They're trying to win the whole thing. 105 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:06.920 A postgame look, it's your La Clippers recapping the game, the stars and 106 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:12.560 looking ahead to what's next. To hear episodes you've missed, Subscribe to Clippers 107 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:17.560 Talk on iHeart Radio or wherever you podcast. Now your host of Clippers Talk. 108 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:24.759 Here's Adam Oswin. I'm not gonna do whatever thinks I'm gonna do and 109 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:30.920 just flip out Clippers losing. Okay, see one OHO eight to ninety four 110 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:34.120 to the Thunder and Game one of this two game mini series. Welcome into 111 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:39.160 Clippers Stock. I'm Adam Oslin. Eight six six nine eight seven two five 112 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:44.439 seventy. Is the phone number eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy 113 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:48.959 if you would like to voice your concerns or send some positive vibes. Y'all 114 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:54.839 coming up. We'll have Chuck Mackler on from Clips and Dip. You'll hear 115 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:58.399 from the head coach post game. I just saw some audio up there somewhere 116 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:05.959 and the players after a disappointing loss and effort overall from the Clippers, who 117 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:11.480 looked completely out of source and at a sink and really have since Game one. 118 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:16.759 They beat the Lakers because their margin for error was wider because of who 119 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:22.439 was available to them, with Paul George and Kawhi Leonard out there. No 120 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:28.160 PG, no Kawhi Leonard more on that, No Marcus Morris and they end 121 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:37.200 up losing to SDA and the Thunder by fourteen points. Jay Gilds Alexander continues 122 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:41.840 to just be a Clipper killer since he was killing it for the Clippers as 123 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:46.159 a Clipper. He had thirty three points eleven or twenty two shooting and when 124 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:52.080 the Clippers made their run had it to within eleven. In the fourth quarter 125 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:56.879 after Luke Kennard really started to find himself and he thought, if they are 126 00:08:56.879 --> 00:08:58.960 going to come back, Luke Nard's going to be a part of it, 127 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.799 just like the thirty five point come back against Washington. But then SGA hit 128 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:05.720 a three pointer and instead of that eleven point lead, it was back up 129 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:09.600 to fourteen for o k See. Cannard would end up getting a technical. 130 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.720 I think frustration boiling over from some of those offensive fouls that were called on 131 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:18.840 a hymn Sunday night against the Phoenix Suns. You rarely see it from Lucanhard, 132 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:22.440 but he's a competitor. He was fired up. He was trying to 133 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:26.399 will him back. I thought it was a solid performance from John Wall. 134 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:30.600 You don't like to see four turnovers, but did what he could. Had 135 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:37.559 twelve points and a Visa Zoobots steady, consistent, reliable. Had ten and 136 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:41.600 fourteen and thirty five minutes and seven blocks, a career high. First time 137 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:46.679 a Clipper has had that many blocks in a game since October of twenty fifteen. 138 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:54.039 It was DeAndre Jordan against the Kings on Halloween. But the Clippers what 139 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.600 cost him? They have on right now. But they just don't look like 140 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:03.679 themselves. They don't look like they're playing with a purpose. They look out 141 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:07.720 of sorts, out of sinc out of rhythm. And it's a multitude of 142 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:13.120 guys. It's not just one. Now is more expected out of Norman Powell 143 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:18.080 because of his scoring prowess and who he's been really the last three or four 144 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:22.000 years, A guy getting nineteen per game. Yeah, and he's in a 145 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:28.720 deep funk. Something is not right. I don't know if it's physical, 146 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:33.120 mental, whatever it may be. But when he throws up an airball and 147 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:37.559 it's missing layups and goes three of ten and h five from distance, I 148 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:41.399 gotta think right now it may be in his head. He's pressing a little 149 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:50.200 bit. The good news is it's game four. I'm old enough to remember 150 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:52.960 the Clippers losing by fifty one. I think this was Game three of the 151 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:58.039 season a couple of years ago against the Dallas Mavericks. Did that define their 152 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:03.120 year? Was that representative of who the team was? No. They fought 153 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.200 and got to the Western Conference Finals without Kawhi Leonard for the first time in 154 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:13.360 franchise history. Not many remember that loss. This will be a race too. 155 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:18.840 I believe it's a little bit concerning, But most of that concern for 156 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:22.919 me is just the fact that Kawhi Leonard couldn't go tonight. The play on 157 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:28.600 the court, yeah, they didn't look right, but what came out pregame, 158 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.919 Yeah, sure, I'm a little bit concerned about it. Coach Lu 159 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:35.279 said, Kawhi Leonard felt some stiffness in his knee after shoot around and the 160 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.639 team decided to hold him out as a precaution. Leonard's going to back to 161 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:45.919 Los Angeles tomorrow, and Lu said, because he'll have more resources there to 162 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:50.600 keep his recovery going. And Coach Lu said, he's not concerned. Okay, 163 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:58.399 that assuages my fears a little bit. There, so does this. 164 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:03.440 This was from the Athletic and Law Murray. He put this out. The 165 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:05.879 last bit I just read was from Andrew Gryff for the La Times. Law 166 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:11.559 Murray said. League sources tell The Athletic that Kawhi Leonard wanted to play despite 167 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:16.720 me stiffness. Leonard was not going to be scheduled to play Thursday. The 168 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:22.440 staff decided just to hold him out as a precaution, precautionary measures. Better 169 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:26.399 to be safe right now, guys coming off an a cl injury. Yeah, 170 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:31.440 he's about sixteen months removed. But you really want to push things in 171 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:35.000 game four the regular season. Is that going to make a difference. Is 172 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:39.480 that going to get you momentum going into the playoffs in April? I don't 173 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:46.399 think so. So be overly cautious now, be as safe as possible, 174 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:50.679 Baby Kauai. As much as he wants to play, you gotta save players 175 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:58.879 from themselves. That's what you have to do. Always. Kawai as a 176 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:01.600 competitor, he wants to be out there, he always does. He's been 177 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.440 waiting to come back, and he's moved and this looked really good. And 178 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:09.440 the two games he played in Game one against the Lakers and then Sunday night 179 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:16.759 against the Phoenix Suns. So yeah, it's slight concern nie stiffness whatever that 180 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:20.919 means, but not overly concerned. I think they're just airing on the side 181 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:30.919 of caution. But the Clippers, speaking of airing, error's galore. They 182 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:37.879 just have so many miscues right now, Bizarre turnovers. Avitsa Zubos throwing up 183 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:41.200 the ball at the end of the second quarter when there's eight seconds left, 184 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:46.200 acting like there was point eight seconds left. I'm guessing that's how we read 185 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:50.279 it on the game clock in the half, and going for that seventy footer 186 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:56.360 which almost went in to his credit, That's just strange. Reggie Jackson's turnover 187 00:13:56.440 --> 00:14:00.519 in the third quarter. I know Reggie has some turnovers in there, and 188 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:05.440 he had three of them, but just throwing the ball away, giving the 189 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:13.000 ball away eighteen turnovers again to the opposition that had five in Oklahoma City. 190 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.279 You want to know why the Clippers lost this game to a team that shot 191 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:24.399 thirty eight percent and four of thirty from three in the Thunder, It's because 192 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:28.919 the Thunder got up twenty seven more shots than the Clippers. They could afford 193 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:33.440 to miss some when they were attempting that many more. Clippers shot a better 194 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:37.240 percentage forty two percent from the field, ten to thirty one from the outside. 195 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:41.159 Unfortunately, that's about thirty two percent. That's what they've been shooting so 196 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:45.960 far from three. They're due for a heater. We know this team as 197 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:48.600 great three point shooters second half of last season, after a slow start, 198 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:52.759 they were the best three point shooting team again after the All Star break. 199 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:58.360 I expect them to be top three. This season hasn't played out that way 200 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:03.080 yet. Reggie Acton going one of six, Norman Powell going oh of five, 201 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:07.399 as I mentioned, even Luke Kennard just going three of seven. We 202 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:11.120 know what he's capable of. I'm not putting it on Luke. I'm just 203 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:15.720 saying he's someone who could go five of seven or six of seven or seven 204 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:22.639 of seven easily. They have guys that are just unbelievably in a bad funk 205 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:26.240 right now, and so many guys are slumping at once that makes it look 206 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:30.320 this bad. And okay, see gets their first win of the season. 207 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.360 I said it in the pregame. A team that's oo and three at home, 208 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:39.120 that's dangerous. They're still fighting and scrapping like it is the playoffs to 209 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:45.000 get that first victory, to feel good about themselves. SGA coming back today, 210 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:50.600 dangerous danger Rogers. We all knew it was coming. They couldn't stop 211 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:56.480 SGA anyways, and the thunder did put up twenty five free throws. That's 212 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:03.600 another area they killed the Clippers. Yeah, sixty rebounds to the Clippers having 213 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:10.120 forty seven and twenty one offensive rebounds from Oklahoma City, and I think it 214 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:14.720 was on the SGA made three pointer to bring it from eleven to fourteen and 215 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:22.919 the fourth where they had four different chances, extra possessions, extra opportunities, 216 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:29.279 and they finally got it to go because of all those offensive rebounds. La 217 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:33.919 Vita Zubats was drawn out to the three point line, so Smalls were in 218 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:37.399 there battling for the board. They couldn't get it. SGA hit that shot, 219 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:41.679 and I think looking back, that was the backbreaking dagger. That was 220 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:47.720 what hurt the Clippers most. They had some momentum. As bad as things 221 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:52.679 were, it's almost like when the Clippers get down by twenty, you get 222 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:56.759 their attention and they click in. I'm not saying it should be like that, 223 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:00.480 but we've seen it. They came back on twenty or more five times 224 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:07.279 last year. And there's always that hope with this team because of the firepower, 225 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:11.000 because of the guys who can get hot at a moment's notice. But 226 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:17.759 too many guys are ice cold, as Andre three thousand would say, ice 227 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:23.400 cold to the end degree. For this team to shoot thirty three percent from 228 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:30.440 three four games into the season, that's ice cold for them at league averages 229 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:33.680 around thirty six percent now from three. But for this team that can shoot 230 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:37.799 above forty percent from the outside as a whole, and I think how it 231 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.960 still has a good chance too on the year to be that cold to start 232 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:48.920 the season. Something's not right. Just too many guys not playing good basketball 233 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:55.720 at once. That's what we're seeing out there. But again, it's game 234 00:17:55.880 --> 00:18:00.160 four. They're gonna turn this around. I bring up fifty one point lost 235 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:03.920 to the Dallas Mavericks early a couple of seasons ago, in the twenty twenty 236 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:08.400 twenty one year, because well, most people don't remember it, and there's 237 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:14.519 a reason. It happened within the first two weeks of the season and it 238 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:18.640 didn't amount to Hill beams, It didn't amount to anything. By the end 239 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:22.759 of the year. No one picked up on that. Or remember remember that 240 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:26.319 time Clippers lost by fifty one and then made it to the Western Conference finals. 241 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:32.480 They didn't let that loss define them. Now they need to play better 242 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:37.599 and more sound basketball soon, because in the Western Conference, I've been watching 243 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:41.880 losses by other teams that I think are going to be in the hunt for 244 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:45.200 a top four seed in the West this early on in the season. So 245 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:49.440 I'm not gonna say it doesn't matter. I've watched Denver, I've watched Phoenix, 246 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:56.119 and I've watched the Golden State Warriors when they're not playing the Clippers. 247 00:18:56.160 --> 00:19:00.599 Maybe rooted against them here and there, because in the end, I think 248 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.519 those teams are going to be really close and clumped up for top four season 249 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:11.759 in the West. Is it going to show you the character of this team 250 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:14.640 and who they're going to be the rest of the year their identity. No, 251 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:19.079 I don't think that's what tonight is at all. If anything, Thursday 252 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:25.160 could show their character when they have a chance to completely redeem themselves in Okay 253 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:30.079 see still and beat this thunder team and I don't care who's available. I 254 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:33.839 mean I do, but you want everyone to be healthy. Of course, 255 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:41.240 I'm saying this team is too talented to lose by fourteen in Okac, to 256 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:44.559 be down the majority of the game, to get down early like this and 257 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:49.200 get punched in the mouth first again it happens Sunday night. It gets Phoenix 258 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:53.559 when you're down twelve. You would have thought they responded tonight, but it's 259 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:59.400 not easy when you're juggling different lineups and Norman Powell is in this deep of 260 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:03.440 a slump. I think he gets pointed in the right direction. Other guys 261 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:12.359 follow because he's an efficient twenty point a game score normally, normally norm and 262 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:21.119 has just looked outside the last game of the preseason like he's on this team 263 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:22.440 for the first time. And I know we only played five games with him 264 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:26.720 last year, but he played much better than this. And he's missing layups 265 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:32.599 and air bolowing a three pointer, probably overthinking some things A lot of Clippers 266 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:37.079 likely are. That's what leads to some of these just bizarre, out of 267 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:44.680 the ordinary, extraordinarily bad mistakes. That's what we've seen so far. I 268 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:48.440 don't expect it to continue. First call of the night, Javier and Lahabra 269 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:52.640 Heights, you're on Clippers stop without hm Auslin. I I don't think you 270 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:57.240 were taking my call the positive sight first thing. It's like you said, 271 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:03.680 it's only the fourth game. Now, the negative site. I know you 272 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:07.559 keep repeating that it's they're in a font like all the players, I mean 273 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:11.240 most, don't you put yeah? Most? Okay, now is that for 274 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:18.240 maybe Zoobach and maybe John Wall and maybe Luke Kenard. But I mean at 275 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:22.960 this point, I mean, they had what eighteen turnovers and Oklahoma had five. 276 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:26.599 It isn't a little bit of blame. I mean, I know so 277 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:30.720 many the fourth game, but on the coach on on coach Lou, I 278 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:34.119 mean, they don't come with they don't they don't bring an effort. I 279 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:38.720 mean Oklahoma is trying to tank, Adam, I mean not. You know, 280 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:41.640 they got the guys out there on the court are not trying to take 281 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:45.759 though. Sga was out there, and I think on the right team that 282 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:49.359 wins, you know, forty five games, he's an easy All Star. 283 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:53.039 He isn't gonna get the nod. He'll have the big numbers because I don't 284 00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:56.880 think they're gonna win that many. But Sga, you could say, is 285 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:03.000 the most talented player out there on the court tonight. Yeah, I mean 286 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:06.480 yeah, And like you said, it doesn't matter if Kawhi is not there, 287 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:11.440 Paul George or Morris, you got to put a better effort and Tyler's 288 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:15.960 got to get him ready. I mean, I just you know, Norman 289 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:18.319 Powell, I just I don't get it. I mean, he was a 290 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:22.480 stud the first couple of games you played last week the Clippers, and like 291 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:25.880 you said, maybe a time his head but he's lost. And the other 292 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:29.559 guy, Reggie Jackson, do you see it? But I mean I just 293 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:34.000 see him just just not being Reggie, Like he's just going to the motion. 294 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:40.279 I mean, he has some ridiculous back turn over just careless. I 295 00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:42.240 mean, is he not happy? I mean, I just doesn't seem like 296 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:47.240 he's he's there, I don't. I mean, is it because it cut 297 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:49.519 his minutes? I mean it has to be because he was not like this 298 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:55.079 last year and he let me correct you there, he was exactly like this 299 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:59.279 to start the season last year. Do you remember what happened? Brandon Boston 300 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:02.319 joked around with him and said, you got a sweet talk in romance the 301 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:06.039 basket and Reggie had a critical shot at the end of a game. God 302 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:08.640 was it against Okaysey. But it helped them get the win and he got 303 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:14.839 his mojo back. He started off miserably last season. Actually, so this 304 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:18.359 is not totally out of the ordinary with Reggie Jackson to start off a year 305 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:25.640 okay, alrighty, So I mean, like like Noah Eagles said, it 306 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:29.200 gotta start quick. So Thursday. We'll see how he goes on Thursday. 307 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:32.200 But they gotta come ready to play, and they become ready to play, 308 00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:34.839 he should win one Thursday, Thank you, Adam. Thursday. All right. 309 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:37.880 I' here. I appreciate the phone call, and I agree with you. 310 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:41.839 Thursday is a big game all of a sudden, a big early season 311 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:47.240 measuring stick. Not because of the opponent, because most nights the Clippers are 312 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:52.920 playing against themselves, meaning they're the more talented team, and self inflicted wounds, 313 00:23:53.480 --> 00:23:59.480 careless turnovers are going to lead to them beating themselves, not necessarily the 314 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:03.000 opposition. That's what happened tonight. We'll take a quick time out eight six 315 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:07.799 six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two five 316 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:11.680 seventies the phone number. Clippers lose game one of a two game mini series. 317 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:15.599 And okay, see one oh eight to ninety four. I got some 318 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:18.880 phone calls the screen. We just got another one. If I'm putting you 319 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:22.519 on hold, do just that. I'll be with you in a moment. 320 00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:26.519 More Clippers stock coming up, Chuck, Mackler will be here. We'll have 321 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:37.640 Coach low audio two here on M five seventy l A Sports. I said 322 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:41.519 it him to him, to him, hip him, how you don't stop. 323 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:45.960 We'll bring it out by a bunch of the Bugadi band band number Fanny 324 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:48.880 got it. Count it from distance. The odds on favorite to hoist the 325 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:53.079 Larry o'bride heavily can test it and it doesn't matter on the whole of your 326 00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:59.799 LA Clippers, I champ build water. You've got the cavocand of fun. 327 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:03.359 You've got the bad, the cannon food beat. Even if I ride a 328 00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:07.799 black to Jaiski. Somebody bad, bad day, harassing me. Clippers lose 329 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:11.359 one O eight to ninety four in ok s to the Thunder. Welcome back 330 00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:15.559 into Clippers Talk. I'm at a Moslin still searching for some Coach lou postgame 331 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:21.160 audio. This was game one of a two game miniseries in Oklahoma City eight 332 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:23.960 six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two 333 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:27.119 five seventy And before you get back to your phone calls, let's pause ten 334 00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:33.319 seconds for station and dentification. Here on AM five seventy LA Sports, this 335 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:37.759 is La Clippers Basketball AM five, seventy KLAC Los Angeles, ninety eight seven 336 00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:44.759 KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeart Radio station. If you heard my diet 337 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:49.960 tribe, my opening segment, my a block, My central point is it's 338 00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:53.880 game four and they're missing three starters. And not just three starters, no 339 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:56.599 Kauhai, No Paul George and Marcus Morris, who has been off to a 340 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:03.680 really hot start. And this team is kind of scrambling to find themselves with 341 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:11.519 some new pieces like John Wall and they just look out of sorts. It's 342 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.920 gonna take time, but they could bounce back Thursday and win by twenty. 343 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:18.279 Would anyone be surprised by that? No, we've seen it before. They 344 00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:22.359 lost by fifty one to start off a year, a couple of seasons ago, 345 00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:26.039 and they went to the Western Conference finals. All right, let's go 346 00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:30.039 to Greg in Newport. What's up Greg? All right, Adam, so 347 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:33.640 let me see where I want to start. Man. First of all, 348 00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:37.599 I wont Adam. I didn't see the game tonight. I apologize, bro, 349 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:40.359 but I got in my truck. You listened to it, though, 350 00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:44.839 right, Yeah, they're good and you did see it. Noah painted that 351 00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:49.240 picture. Man, I was just surprised that we lost, but it don't 352 00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:56.400 it don't surprise me at the same time because you said Peg Kauai and Marquis 353 00:26:56.480 --> 00:27:02.079 Mars didn't play. But what I want to say is this, Adam. 354 00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:06.640 Now, a lot of sources out there are saying the Clippers are one of 355 00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:10.799 the teams, if not the team that they're predicting to, you know, 356 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:15.759 win the championship this year. Man, Listen, I hope the players are 357 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:19.799 not, you know, buying into the heights because even though you might have 358 00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:25.839 outlets and and other sources saying that you like the Clippers too, you know, 359 00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:30.599 to win the championship this year or represent the Western Conference, Man, 360 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:33.200 you still gotta go out there and you gotta play. Bro And I was 361 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:37.799 at the game Sunday night, and I didn't like the lineup that we came 362 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:41.640 out with on the floor, the starting lineup. I don't know. I 363 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:45.000 think it's something wrong with Reggie because like well, he does have a growing 364 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:49.319 injury. So to people talking about Reggie and what could be wrong physically, 365 00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:53.359 he may not be right yet, right, That's that's what I was gonna 366 00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:59.119 say. He doesn't look the same right now. But you know, I'm 367 00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:02.519 not panicking, Adam. Like you said, this is Game four, and 368 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:04.759 I've been telling all my boys with the all Laker fans, so I know 369 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:07.720 I'm gonna have to hear it tomorrow, but I've been telling them, look, 370 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:12.559 we got some new pieces. They aren't the ones that talk. They 371 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:17.119 got their own issues. But well, listen, man, I've been telling 372 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:22.319 all my boys twenty games. I think that the Clippers will hit stride around 373 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:26.359 twenty. And I just bought tickets for Sunday's game against the Pelicans. Here 374 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:30.599 we go. So I'm hoping, Adams that Zion plays in that game, 375 00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:36.960 and I'm hoping that we're gonna have our full artillery of players on Sunday. 376 00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:41.000 I like that too, Greg. Thank you for the phone call from say 377 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:47.680 Hi in section one eleven. Let's go to Lenny in Inglewood. Lenny, 378 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:49.279 you're on Clippers stop with Adam Oslin. What's up? Lenny? First call 379 00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:55.640 this year? Once happening, Adam. Look, man, I've been watching 380 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:59.559 basketball a long time, fifty some years. You know, get away my 381 00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:04.359 age. Hey, you don't gotta give you okay, you know you're doing 382 00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:07.400 you're doing a bang up job with you You at him. I mean, 383 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:14.519 you can car any charts. But I'll tell you, man, there's there 384 00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:18.519 is a sense that I don't see the urgency. Man, I don't see 385 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:22.960 the urgency. Uh you know you look at with selfish how the Struggles came 386 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:27.039 out this year. And I was really disappointed in their in their finals, 387 00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:32.200 uh performers last year because I thought I thought they were topped to bottom. 388 00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:36.680 Better team than Gold the state, and uh, this year they're coming out 389 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:42.960 and they're smashing everything. You could put a wheelchair team out there and sets 390 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:48.200 would still have hard files. All right. They don't care. They're on 391 00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:55.039 a mission. They're on one accord. And I don't see it with the 392 00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:57.559 Clippers. Man, if I was bomber man, I mean he's been. 393 00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:00.759 I mean, I guess when you got that kind of you know, cash, 394 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:06.119 you can be laid back or whatever. But I'd be threatening trades and 395 00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:10.480 firing. I would not. Everybody got their money this year, man, 396 00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:15.599 everybody got upgraded, everybody got their paid and it's just I don't see it. 397 00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:22.400 Man. Let me let me let me just say three words. I'll 398 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:25.240 let you. I'll let you get your point in. Let me let me 399 00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:27.559 just rebuttal a little bit here, a little back and forth. Never hurt 400 00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:37.440 nobody on Clippers stock. Three words, it's a contraction. Is that counters 401 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:41.279 too? It's game four? It's game four. Do you remember when they 402 00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:48.279 lost by fifty one to the Dallas Mavericks two years ago? No, because 403 00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:51.440 they went to the Western Conference Finals and did you call in that nine and 404 00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:53.000 you're like, oh, we gotta fire people, we gotta we gotta trade 405 00:30:53.039 --> 00:31:00.000 guys. Well, let I said, that's pretty point. No, no, 406 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:03.559 no, no, you're right. But look, man, when the 407 00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:08.839 Golden State one of those years from the first game, man, it would 408 00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:17.000 dominate. I mean, I just haven't seen I've seen yet championship teams come 409 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:19.599 out and get smoked on ring night before. I don't know if that means 410 00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:22.680 that much. Yeah, they need to lock in, they need to be 411 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:29.599 more focused, they need to refined or relocate that identity. But there's also 412 00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:33.200 kind of a fine line between trying too hard and not trying hard enough. 413 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:37.480 You try too hard, you're making mistakes. You're not trying hard enough, 414 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:42.960 you're making mistakes. I think a lot of it isn't about effort, it's 415 00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:47.119 execution. But there were some bad effort place tonight don't get me wrong, 416 00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:52.240 there were some bad, just careless turnovers. Linney, all right, I 417 00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:55.519 am what you're saying. Adam. I am what you're saying. And I 418 00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:57.559 hope they turned around, man. But if they don't get this thing, 419 00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:01.759 you know, straightened out in the next so I would say, by the 420 00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:07.400 time they hit ten eleven games, it's fool's goal and that's I'm gonna leave 421 00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:09.160 it at that. But right now, all right, I'll be waiting for 422 00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:13.119 your call if that happens later. I appreciate you, man. Good to 423 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:16.039 hear from you. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the 424 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:20.880 phone number, Rick in Long Beach. You're on Clippers stop without aim astin. 425 00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:24.160 Hi, Rick, thank you for having me on. Look, I 426 00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:29.720 kind of chime in with the rest of the callers. It's not about execution, 427 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:32.359 is great. This is the fact that they're not coming out angry. 428 00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:37.319 They're not coming out what would it look like if they came out angry. 429 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:39.400 They're not coming out with an attitude. Look, you got John Moland. 430 00:32:39.640 --> 00:32:43.799 You have John Moran sitting up here, and everybody knows what this kid is 431 00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:46.920 and what he's doing. You got game Leonard. The other day and when 432 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:52.039 Dame Leonard is hot, you know what he's about. The Clippers need the 433 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.720 Clippers need to come out with an attitude. They need to dominate, and 434 00:32:55.839 --> 00:33:00.960 they need to set a tone we don't have. Rick, Let me let 435 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:05.920 me ask you this. Let me ask you this because Bobby Night once had 436 00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:09.960 a famous press conference where he didn't swear, but they asked him about game 437 00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:15.559 face and attitude and he started making all these faces because he was mocking the 438 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:17.640 question, because what does that mean? What does it look like to play 439 00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:21.799 angry? What are you looking for? Does someone have to be read in 440 00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:23.519 the face for you to accept it? Or is it just a maker? 441 00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:28.160 Miss league? And if they're making shots, you have to be like Gray 442 00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:32.680 Raymond is an enforcer and he goes after and he sets the tone for his 443 00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:37.319 team. And you know what you're gonna give when you play the Warriors? 444 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:39.079 Well, hold on, hold on, Rick, I hear your point. 445 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:44.160 Okay, see shot thirty eight percent from the field to night they went four 446 00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:49.640 of thirty from three. It was offense? Was their offense? Really? 447 00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:52.640 The problem? Was the Clippers defense that bad? Because they held a team 448 00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:58.160 under forty percent. Now, granted they didn't crash the boards. Well enough, 449 00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:01.839 I've give you the doing this thing. They're they're doing the same thing 450 00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:06.400 that they did last year. And that that that that game you're talking about 451 00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:09.199 where Dallas jumped on him and stuff. I remember that game, and I 452 00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:14.519 think Ty took all those main players and took them out the team and put 453 00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:19.360 the second guys in there. I think I remember that game the next game 454 00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:22.719 after that, because he's trying to tell them somebody needs to put a foot 455 00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:25.679 up there behind and tell them, look, this guy is building a multi 456 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:30.960 billion dollars stadium for you guys, and you guys have to play up to 457 00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:34.920 what we expect from you guys, and you're not doing it. And it's 458 00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:37.480 time for you guys to set the tongue. If you got other players out 459 00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:40.000 here, you got these young guys out here, and they don't get a 460 00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:45.480 dog gone about all the history about all the other payers. Are you a 461 00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:50.519 mind reader? Do you know what they care about and what they don't yees, 462 00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:53.039 yeah, I've been around a long time, dude, I've been around 463 00:34:53.079 --> 00:35:00.159 a long time. You can read minds with players and their temperament. The 464 00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:04.519 Celtics are coming out hot. They have an attitude. They seeing what happened 465 00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:07.480 to them last year. And they're coming out and they want to win, 466 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:13.599 and the Clippers know that everybody's looking for expectations, they're looking for and I 467 00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:15.519 don't know what's wrong with these other players, and Wine end up playing and 468 00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:21.199 said, I know that they're trying to treat treat uh Kawhi like a glass, 469 00:35:21.719 --> 00:35:23.559 you know, and let the guy play. Let's see how he plays, 470 00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:27.760 and then if he's not playing well, then take him out. Rick, 471 00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.119 What if it's not that he's not playing well. What if it's he 472 00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:37.039 exacerbates an injury because he's coming off in acl tear that so you want to 473 00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:39.639 risk it in game four of the regular season. That would be my point, 474 00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:44.800 Rick. I appreciate the phone call call back on Thursday. I hope 475 00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:49.519 your call when they win too, whether it's Thursday or in the near future. 476 00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:54.519 I just look. If coach Lou says it, they need to come 477 00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:58.800 out and be more aggressive. Yeah, I agree with it. I'm not 478 00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:02.719 saying you're totally wrong, but to say the guys don't care, sometimes you 479 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:07.400 care too much and that's what leads to turnovers and too many unselfish plays. 480 00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:12.559 That was part of their criticism coming out of Sunday's game. The Clippers were 481 00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:20.599 overpassing. Guys need to take their shots too. They're turning down great shots 482 00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:28.639 and passing into good or lesser shots, and right now the offense it's just 483 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:31.360 a mess. You could say that because of all the turnovers, they don't 484 00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:35.599 look right. I agree with you. There. We'll take a quick time 485 00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:37.559 out. We'll get to more of your phone calls. Eight six six ninety 486 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:42.079 eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. 487 00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:46.599 I don't get the logic though, of when I say you want to test 488 00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:52.639 Kawai's knee in game four, when he said there was stiffness earlier today at 489 00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:59.599 shoot around, Really because this game's gonna define the season, I don't think 490 00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:05.440 so, because he's only played in two regular season games. Since you can't 491 00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:09.639 replicate that in practice in preseason, nothing's the same as the regular season. 492 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:17.440 I'm gonna handle it with kid gloves right now and hope that he's just fine. 493 00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:22.360 And Coach Lou said that he's not concerned about it. We'll see. 494 00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:24.039 We're still looking for that audio. Get back to your phone calls, and 495 00:37:24.119 --> 00:37:29.800 Chef Mackler will join me next here on Clippers Talk, who have five seventy 496 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:37.800 sports. Yeah a Milligan, hear a Milligan? There Sicilian hair, every 497 00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:44.440 gar wing to run it. You're listening to La Clippers basketball. Clipper puts 498 00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:49.119 it down plus the foul every game all season long on their official home. 499 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:54.000 Last time that I was fine, chains on my neck. It was no 500 00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:59.840 smut on my BRep. Last time that I send the set and the set 501 00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:04.880 quartermail, no sweatst time. I'm the Street's voice out West. Let's day 502 00:38:05.039 --> 00:38:09.000 sell make progress. Time you get the money in respect and the bowing. 503 00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:16.239 Come next time Clippers lose in OKAC. Last time I checked, it was 504 00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:21.519 just game four, one oh eight to ninety four in game one of this 505 00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:25.760 two game mini series. They'll run it back Thursday. This is Clipper's talk. 506 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:31.880 I'm outa Oslin. You know, fans are passionate about this team. 507 00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:37.960 They voiced their displeasure tonight some of them. Others still see the positives and 508 00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:42.920 are optimistic and have taken my point that it's only game four and the fifty 509 00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:45.599 one point lost a couple of years ago didn't amount to much. They were 510 00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:51.719 making the Western Conference Finals with the out Kawhi Leonards somehow joining us though right 511 00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:57.039 now is the other half. They're the other third of the Eclipse and Dip 512 00:38:57.119 --> 00:39:00.440 pod. We had William Updike on post game the last couple of nights. 513 00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:07.239 Tonight it's Chuck Mockler, Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip, formerly of Lockdown 514 00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:12.360 Clippers. Chuck, what's good? Some things are good right now? I 515 00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:15.320 think I can constantly say that there's some good things right now. I'm trying 516 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:20.800 to remind myself that is the fourth game, but the vibes seem less than 517 00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:25.360 a maculate. I would say, Okay, tell me your biggest concern after 518 00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:30.559 Game four and they're lost by fourteen to the Okase Thunder. What is it 519 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:38.960 right now? It feels like a tie between backup center and the fact that 520 00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:44.519 Kauai. You know, he played the short and kind of preseason. It's 521 00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:46.400 coming off the bench with the minutes restriction. That's all good, but that 522 00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:52.519 still seems like too much right now for him physically, which I think is 523 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:57.280 probably my biggest concern, and that's fair. I brought that up in the 524 00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:01.400 first segment that my biggest concer on his outside of this game, because the 525 00:40:01.480 --> 00:40:07.159 Clippers future success is all married to Kawhi Leonard and that right knee coming off 526 00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:10.199 the ACL injury. So my point is, and there was a color last 527 00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:13.920 segment saying, we'll give it a shot and see how he feels when he's 528 00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:16.559 out there. To me, if he felt anything and shoot around, I'm 529 00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:21.000 not playing him in game four. There's no reason to do that. To 530 00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:23.360 press things at all this early in the season. It doesn't make sense. 531 00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:29.320 Yeah, that's and the report seemed like the team held him out, so 532 00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:30.960 it seemed like he wanted to play, and Law Murray was tweeting about it, 533 00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:36.719 the great athletic writer for the Clippers. Obviously, any athlete wants to 534 00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:38.800 play every time. I'm you know, if he would have gone out there 535 00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:44.360 and things would have not gone well, the backlash compared to him not playing 536 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:46.920 would be infinitely worse for this team. And you're right, it is. 537 00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:51.800 It's the long game. You know. We need him down the stretch. 538 00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:53.840 If we keep dropping some games like this, we're gonna need him a little 539 00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:58.199 bit before the stretch to make sure we're not five or six seat or something 540 00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:00.119 like that. But you gotta be careful with the best player on the team. 541 00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:02.960 I don't think that's too crazy. I hope people can kind of understand 542 00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:07.639 that now, the guy who I think should be the best player right now 543 00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:12.320 hasn't played like it. And this is a little bit strange to me, 544 00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:15.840 especially on a nightlight tonight, where I saw a little bit of progress, 545 00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:20.000 some glimpses, some good flashes of play on Sunday against the Phoenix Suns where 546 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:22.320 he was more efficient and went to the basket. But I'm talking about Norman 547 00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:29.280 Powell. The funk he's been in has been just unreal. I'm not gonna 548 00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:32.360 go mons Stars took his basketball powers or anything like that. That's not the 549 00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:36.920 case. He can snap out of this in an instant. But he went 550 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:39.199 oh five from three tonight. He airballed won. I think it's just a 551 00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:44.320 lot of confidence right now early in the season, somewhat like we saw with 552 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:47.840 Reggie Jackson to start off last year before Brandon Boston gave him that pep talk 553 00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:52.559 about romance in the rim and the basket. You remember that. Yes, 554 00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:58.440 I think Norm meads that right now. He has more turnovers than made threes 555 00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:01.360 by quite a bit. He's made one three point and he's had quite a 556 00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:05.239 few turnovers. So I don't know what's going on with Norm. I think 557 00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:08.679 we saw kind of glimpses or maybe shades us in the preseason. There's the 558 00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:13.840 games where he was just chucking up shots and he talked about before the season 559 00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:15.840 kind of wanting to be an All Star and things like that, And I 560 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:21.199 mean, this rotation is very deep, and I think that plays into how 561 00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:24.480 some guys are gonna play, Like Terence Man isn't getting any minutes even with 562 00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:29.360 Kauai, you know out and things like that, Like he gets the twenty 563 00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:31.000 five, but other than that, he's not getting any playing time. So 564 00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:36.199 I'm wondering if Norm's kind of feeling that pressure at all to prove that he 565 00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:38.239 belongs, which I don't think he has to do. We all know that 566 00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:43.039 he's very good and is probably the third best player on this team. But 567 00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:45.639 he's just forcing things right now. And you can tell if you look at 568 00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:50.880 his box score or if you prefer the eye test. Yeah, I think 569 00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:57.199 that's a good point that maybe multiple guys are feeling the pressure because there's only 570 00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:00.800 so many minutes out there. It's like that game Hungry Hungry Hippos with those 571 00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:05.320 marbles, and you gotta make good returns early in the season. So you're 572 00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:08.880 awarded minutes and solid rotation minutes by the coaching staff, and maybe that's what 573 00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:15.239 it is. The competition has been so fierce between all these guys that they're 574 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:19.079 overthinking things a little bit that it is in their head, just a little 575 00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:22.280 bit. Reggie hasn't looked great yet either, and he has the growing issue 576 00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:25.400 going on. Terrence Mann hasn't looked great yet. He's played limited minutes at 577 00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:29.760 times. He's played under ten minutes in two games so far. So a 578 00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:31.440 lot of guys are dealing with this, and I'm trying to put a finger 579 00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:36.400 on why so many are out of sync and out of sort at the same 580 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:39.719 time. And maybe that's it, Maybe that's all it is. But I 581 00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:43.880 think they're going to figure this out, and it could come as soon as 582 00:43:44.079 --> 00:43:46.719 Thursday. Somebody who has played really well and actually got teed up. And 583 00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:52.840 I saw your tweet clips and dip earlier, Charles, that was pretty funny 584 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:58.559 with Luke Nnard, seeing him mouth off like that to what extent we don't 585 00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:02.280 know, but seeing him that irked and angry, and I think it stems 586 00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:06.400 back from what happened Sunday with a couple of offensive fouls that went against him. 587 00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:10.199 He was just frustrated with officiating overall. But he's played well on both 588 00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:15.559 sides of the basketball. You could say, yeah, Luca Nard has been 589 00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:20.360 I mean, to start this season, it feels like it's between him and 590 00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:24.079 maybe Zoo as our best players. He's been great on the defensive end for 591 00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:28.760 what he's supposed to do. He's shooting at an unbelievable clip, well believable 592 00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:32.880 clip if you watched him play basketball, but no, we've also seen he's 593 00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:37.760 been in the short role quite a bit for the Clippers when he's been on 594 00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:40.000 the court, which is really fun to see. We know he can obviously 595 00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:44.880 from distance. When he gets those turnaround jumpers out of the short role kind 596 00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:46.360 of at the free throw line, you're like, okay, yeah, I 597 00:44:46.599 --> 00:44:49.800 mean I'm not mad at him. Take that if it's open and things like 598 00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:53.119 that. So Luke is doing all he can right now and the Clippers very 599 00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:57.400 much needed and I think it's something to kind of look forward to. I 600 00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:00.920 know a lot of Clippers fans, myself included, are a bit downside for 601 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.599 this loss, but seeing what we've seen with how Ties figured out even more 602 00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:10.079 to kind of unlock Luke's gravity and usefulness on the court should give us something 603 00:45:10.119 --> 00:45:14.519 to be excited about when everyone's healthy again, which I don't know. It 604 00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:16.519 might be Sunday, might be the day after, I'm not really sure. 605 00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:22.239 John Wall has also brought a lot of excitement, explosive play, and if 606 00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:27.559 you're not Joseph, you're loving it. But john Wall played twenty minutes, 607 00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:30.559 had twelve points for assists. Inside joke, oh Man, that don't work. 608 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:36.320 John Wallas looked great and I don't know where their offense would be without 609 00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:38.920 him. He's been their third best player, at least on offense. I 610 00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:43.800 get you could say I Viza zubots has been the third best player overall in 611 00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:47.599 these four games since john Wall has missed one two. But john Wall has 612 00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:52.280 looked every bit of what he was in those forty games from the Rockets and 613 00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:55.239 then some going back to his Wizards years. It just feels like, you 614 00:45:55.360 --> 00:46:00.440 know, he's kind of refinding who he's been as a layer and doing exactly 615 00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:05.800 what the Clippers need from him. Yeah, I mean, he's he's getting 616 00:46:05.800 --> 00:46:07.960 in the line. He went three for four verse the thunder, which is 617 00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:12.599 actually pretty good considering how poorly he's been shooting from the line. If it 618 00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:15.079 weren't for the turnovers, this would have been a phenomenal John Wall game. 619 00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:21.320 And I think he's been off for quite a bit and so I think these 620 00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:23.039 are just kind of some growing pains are gonna get He's also thrown into a 621 00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:28.039 scenario where I don't think John Wall assumed that he would be playing in games, 622 00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.760 you know, right off to start the season, without Kawhi dg or 623 00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:35.639 Kawai coming off the bench, you know, with John Wall right now. 624 00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:40.079 But there's a serious case to be made if Reggie is hurt, which Tyler 625 00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:43.320 says he is. He's not on the injury report, but he has a 626 00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:49.480 nagging, growing injury, that Wall might need to be the starting point guard 627 00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:54.039 until we can get things figured out, whatever the Clippers version of things being 628 00:46:54.119 --> 00:46:59.039 figured out is. But I think there's a legitimate, a legitimate case to 629 00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:00.679 be made, even even more so after these first couple of games, that 630 00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:05.280 John Walls should get a nod for the starting spot. Another positive, a 631 00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:08.159 guy who's not losing his starting spot off eats a Zoobots mentioned him. But 632 00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:14.159 he's been so consistent, but even better in some areas, and maybe it's 633 00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:20.679 just more opportunities because it even feels like, or it's looked like even when 634 00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:24.639 they are healthy, relatively healthy, with Paul George and Kawhi Leonard out there 635 00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:30.719 on the court, Zoobots is getting involved more offensively and that's a really good 636 00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:34.119 sign for this team because the Shack once said, you know, if you 637 00:47:34.199 --> 00:47:36.639 want the dog to protect the house, you got to feed him. And 638 00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:42.079 he had seven blocks his career high tonight. Yeah, he's averaging I think 639 00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:45.280 something like three or four per game. You have five last games than one 640 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:51.519 but the King, So shout out to Zoo for kind of doing what he's 641 00:47:51.519 --> 00:47:54.039 always done for the Clipper's team, which is just be kind of a rock 642 00:47:54.159 --> 00:47:58.639 of consistency overall. He did drop a pass tonight, which is frustrating. 643 00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:01.880 You know that just something going to happen with Zoobaka, I guess. But 644 00:48:02.239 --> 00:48:07.760 he's grabbing boards. He was the only guy in double digits for boards in 645 00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:10.400 this game against the Thunder And yeah, we saw last year when you lean 646 00:48:10.519 --> 00:48:14.719 on Zoo to kind of start the game, it gets there into a rhythm. 647 00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:20.960 He's a good finisher around the rim usually, but yeah, man, 648 00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:22.760 it's it's it's just kind of I'm looking at the box score right now, 649 00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:27.920 and it's just like it's just kind of tough to see, you know. 650 00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:30.280 I don't want to say this was wasted. Well it was because we lost 651 00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:34.199 the thunder, but it was a great Zoo game aside from the random three 652 00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.039 point attempt towards the end of the first I think that was but no credit 653 00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:40.840 to Zoo. Again, he's one of its, not the longest tenured clippers, 654 00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:45.920 so he very much knows assistant and is familiar and it's nice to be 655 00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:47.559 Tylie leaning on him a bit. And we're going to see that a whole 656 00:48:47.599 --> 00:48:52.000 lot more again, depending on certain people's playing time. The Visa Zoo bots 657 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:58.800 again ten and fourteen and thirty five minutes, so if there were any changes 658 00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:02.400 made for Thirdsday Night's contest, when they run it right back against okayc and 659 00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:07.920 can completely redeem themselves and you almost want to see this team again after a 660 00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:12.239 performance like tonight, you want to cleanse the palette, get this bad taste 661 00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:15.760 out of your mouth. Do you think it's possible. Brandon Boston came in 662 00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:19.239 and immediately went three for three. I thought there was a chance he'd come 663 00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:22.599 in earlier just to provide some scoring punch. We talked about him a lot 664 00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:27.119 this offseason on clips and Dip and when he could be called upon, and 665 00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:30.000 right now, with so many guys out, it could happen. But who 666 00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:35.480 do you think just soaks up a few more minutes? Maybe Thursday? Man, 667 00:49:35.559 --> 00:49:37.239 I mean, so you mentioned how many shots he got up. Brandon 668 00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:43.000 Boston went three for four in two and a half minutes tonight versus the Thunder. 669 00:49:43.320 --> 00:49:47.880 The Clippers had eighty three field goal attempts to the Thunders one hund ten. 670 00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:52.480 On the year so far, we are dead lasting field goal attempts at 671 00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:57.079 eighty one. If someone's going to come in and you need to take shots, 672 00:49:57.119 --> 00:50:00.039 Brandon Boston Junior is the first person a lot of Clippers fans. I 673 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:07.480 guess you maybe take some minutes from Terrence man because but Tom seems to be 674 00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:12.840 a bit on some kind of minutes diction. He played eighteen tonight, Covington 675 00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:15.800 played twenty. He was great ten four and two, three blocks also, 676 00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:21.559 but again only twenty minutes. So I guess I'm looking at Terrence to give 677 00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:22.960 a couple of minutes maybe to Brandon Boston Junior. Fat were to happen, 678 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:28.639 I don't know, Yeah, Coach Lew has some decisions to make obviously, 679 00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:32.960 just looking for that energy and just looking for a little bit of a scoring 680 00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:37.920 punch and that spark. They haven't found it yet. Things just haven't clicked 681 00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:39.800 in offensively. I really feel like if Norn Powell could get it going, 682 00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:45.679 other guys would fall into place with their shooting and you'd see a very different 683 00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:50.599 performance Thursday. He is Chuck Mockler of Clips and Dip fame, along with 684 00:50:50.719 --> 00:50:53.800 myself and William Updyke. Chuck, thanks for doing this. We'll post this 685 00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:58.079 on Clips and Dip do a little bit of a crossover here today. What 686 00:50:58.159 --> 00:51:01.000 do we call it? Clips and double dip? Absolutely, it's the clips 687 00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:04.119 and double dipp. It's great, all right, my friend. Well, 688 00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:07.199 maybe we'll do it again Thursday, speaking of the double dip, but hopefully 689 00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:10.280 a different result for the Clippers. Then, Yes, one hundred percent would 690 00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:15.159 love to talk about a Clippers one on here coming up next here on Clippers 691 00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:19.639 Talk. We'll get back to your phone calls eight six six ninety eight seven 692 00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:22.119 two five seventy. Oh. I know someone on hold who's bringing some positivity 693 00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:27.639 next and I got some quotes from coach Lou. I can this for you 694 00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:31.559 let's fine too, Everything's perfectly fine. We're all right here. How are 695 00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:38.280 you more? Clipper stock next on AMPI seventy l a sports beauty, but 696 00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:44.280 don't make it look easy. Don't make it look good. He got it. 697 00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:49.119 Count it from distance the odds on favorite to hoist the Larry o'bright heavily 698 00:51:49.239 --> 00:51:52.920 can test it and it doesn't matter. On the Home of Your LA Clippers 699 00:51:55.320 --> 00:52:12.039 min a plot like booting, Everybody's like, I'm there mounting in welcome back 700 00:52:12.039 --> 00:52:15.800 in the Clippers stock on then I'm oslins here on AM five seventy LA Sports. 701 00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:22.880 After the Clippers lose by fourteen in Oklahoma City to the Thunder, they 702 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:25.599 take them on again on Thursday. It's a two game mini series. These 703 00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:30.440 started last season. Get used to them, and it will be a good 704 00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:34.320 test for the Clippers to see how they respond after a loss like this. 705 00:52:34.840 --> 00:52:37.760 We'll get to your phone calls in just a moment, but I do want 706 00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:40.039 to read a couple of quotes from Tomara Zarli, who pulled them from head 707 00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:45.920 coach Ron Loup post game. He was talking about boxing out and rebounding in 708 00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:52.079 turnovers. Quote, you don't mind the turnovers where we're being aggressive, but 709 00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:55.079 we just can't have the casual turnovers and the non thinking turnovers. We gotta 710 00:52:55.119 --> 00:53:00.119 be better with that. On Reggie Jackson and the groin injury, coach Lew 711 00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:04.920 said, quote, I think more than he's leading on, but Reggie wants 712 00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:07.199 to play. I didn't fault his effort how he's trying to play. He 713 00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:12.480 struggled shooting the basketball, but I thought he tried to do the right thing. 714 00:53:13.480 --> 00:53:15.880 And then overall, to sum up the loss, he said quote, 715 00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:19.039 I didn't fault our effort. I thought we did some good things, but 716 00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:22.599 we just got to continue to keep getting better. When you're shorthanded like that, 717 00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:25.440 the small things mean a lot when you're missing Kawai, PG and Marcus 718 00:53:27.119 --> 00:53:30.199 and all the small things line up. Don't play Katie, don't you dare 719 00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:32.679 play it? I like some Lakeaway two, but not that song. All 720 00:53:32.760 --> 00:53:37.920 right, let's go to Tags and Walnut Tags. You're on Clippers, stop 721 00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:44.239 with him? Awesome? Heyah. Regarding Kawai's fifness is me, I'm not 722 00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:49.440 concerned. I tore my aspl playing ball, and once I came back, 723 00:53:50.519 --> 00:53:52.480 I did get fiffness, and sometimes he gets some ten to night is and 724 00:53:53.079 --> 00:53:58.320 I think as he gets more games under his belt to me, because Lukeaman 725 00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:01.239 have to get reacclimated to all the twists and the falls, which you can't 726 00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:08.000 replicate rehab. So I get the precautionary things that they're doing and holding him 727 00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:13.039 out, so there's nothing to worry about it. He'll be fine, all 728 00:54:13.159 --> 00:54:15.880 right, nice adotal evidence there to you. Just anything else on the game 729 00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:22.960 tonight? Yeah, offensively the last few games. What's happening? And they're 730 00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:25.519 getting to this hole. They're taking a long time to get in their sets, 731 00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:29.159 and when they get in their sets, it seems like they're passing the 732 00:54:29.239 --> 00:54:31.760 ball and the ball is just getting passed around at the three point line, 733 00:54:31.760 --> 00:54:35.679 and they're not making a lot of progress, like getting the ball closer to 734 00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:38.840 the basket. And then when they do the kind of just driving it in 735 00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:45.440 and into traffic, and either they're throwing up a contested layup or they're trying 736 00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:47.239 to addition to zoo buck and the ball is getting knocked away or stolen. 737 00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:51.880 And I think they would be better service sometimes just to take the pace of 738 00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:54.719 quiet book and just take the little mitterring jumper eight or ten foot or the 739 00:54:54.800 --> 00:55:00.719 easy shot and kind of build a rhythm especially for Norman Powell. He thinks 740 00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:02.760 something he's stressing me a little bit too much because y'all know how good he 741 00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:07.199 is, but kind of making a little easier on themselves. Don't keep forcing 742 00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:13.360 it and just remember what Tylu always says. He says, paint first and 743 00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:16.320 spray, so get inside and then get the wide open threes, but not 744 00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:22.639 the contested threes, and just get those easy mittering shots. Yeah, he 745 00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:24.960 also says get to the paint or die try And I appreciate the phone call 746 00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:30.840 stressing the importance of that philosophy. Tyler did say this about Norman Powell, 747 00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:35.239 thought he tried to do the right things. Quote, it's part of the 748 00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:37.559 game. He works too hard, push too much work in not to be 749 00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:42.599 able to come out of shooting slumps. He'll be okay. And that's the 750 00:55:42.679 --> 00:55:45.480 truth. And I'm not going to put it all on him or say as 751 00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:49.639 Norman Powell goes, the Clippers go, But I do think it's important for 752 00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:54.159 him to get it going because the caliber player he is, and he's just 753 00:55:54.760 --> 00:56:00.599 unexpectedly in a four game slump. But he's got to keep firing. He's 754 00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:05.360 got to think the next one is going in Kobe said before. You know, 755 00:56:05.400 --> 00:56:10.639 I'd rather go two of twenty five than three of ten or something in 756 00:56:10.639 --> 00:56:15.480 a row of ten, because that means I stopped shooting with the guys that 757 00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:19.760 are out right now. We don't know the status of PG Marcus. We 758 00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:23.719 know Kawhai is not going to be there Thursday, but Norman Powell has to 759 00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:29.800 put up shots, regardless of how long it takes for him to get out 760 00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:34.119 of this funk. I don't know if ten shots is enough tonight, if 761 00:56:34.159 --> 00:56:37.960 Reggie Jackson can put up seventeen with the growing injury going on, I'd love 762 00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:42.199 to see Norman Powell get to fifteen at least. But I think it's a 763 00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:45.480 confidence thing right now. Understandably, you're in a scoring slump, you're in 764 00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:49.360 a shooting slump, and that's what you bring to this team. But when 765 00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:52.960 you're talking about getting to the basket, that's Norman Powell and he's missing layups 766 00:56:54.519 --> 00:56:59.559 that will be rectified. Morrison long Beach, you're on Clippers talk without Amslin, 767 00:57:00.119 --> 00:57:02.119 I don't. I'm gonna show you to tell you what I've seen the 768 00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:07.239 Clippers now. They're looking for their identity. Now. Back in the day, 769 00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:12.360 the Clippers were defensive teams scrappers, good defense, good energy on defense, 770 00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:15.239 lights out, three point shooting, and that's the kind of team we 771 00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:20.880 have. But this year seems like the three point shots escaped us and they're 772 00:57:20.920 --> 00:57:23.760 having a difficult time trying to find their rhythm. But I think, Adam, 773 00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:27.119 another thing is they're under a lot of pressure. You know, we're 774 00:57:27.199 --> 00:57:30.920 getting a lot of press reports that the Clippers is supposed to win it whatnot. 775 00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:36.079 But this is also a good opportunity to show that depth right now. 776 00:57:36.199 --> 00:57:38.440 I know we lost three of our studs, but we got depth and we 777 00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:42.159 should, you know, this opportunity to show it. But I think the 778 00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:45.960 guys are trying to figure out their roles, get their identities together, and 779 00:57:46.199 --> 00:57:49.679 it's gonna take a while. These other teams, you know, I've been 780 00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:52.119 together for a while, although Indiana's they're pretty good with a new bunch. 781 00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:55.119 But I'm not worried right now because something you said. I'm gonna hang my 782 00:57:55.159 --> 00:58:00.320 hat on this. Nobody's ever won an NBA championship at the four. Okay, 783 00:58:00.360 --> 00:58:05.280 out of all right, Morris, I appreciate it. Yeah, I 784 00:58:05.440 --> 00:58:12.719 think when so much is uncertain and rolls aren't yet fully defined, with some 785 00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:19.519 of the new players and guys fighting for minutes. That's what you're looking at 786 00:58:19.880 --> 00:58:23.360 with them being out of rhythm and out of sink. If it was the 787 00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:29.239 midway point of the season, I think more guys would know what is expected 788 00:58:29.360 --> 00:58:34.360 of them and it would be an easier transition without your main guys right now. 789 00:58:35.280 --> 00:58:37.119 But they're trying to figure it out a little bit on the fly. 790 00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:43.480 Build a plane while they're flying. That's stupid cliche. Clippers lives one oh 791 00:58:43.599 --> 00:58:47.599 eight to ninety four in ok C to the Thunder. They will run it 792 00:58:47.679 --> 00:58:51.880 back and do it all over again Thursday. Tip time for that one is 793 00:58:51.920 --> 00:58:54.239 at five pm. We'll have Clippers countdown for you starting at four before we 794 00:58:54.280 --> 00:58:58.480 get out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah 795 00:58:58.559 --> 00:59:04.199 Eagle, Brian Seamen, Row Flawler, big Brother, Jake Warner, back 796 00:59:04.239 --> 00:59:07.480 here in the bank, Katie Newton, our producer, the callers, the 797 00:59:07.519 --> 00:59:13.760 listeners. It's okay, disagree. We all want the same thing from the 798 00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:20.000 squad. I believe they'll get there. I'm not gonna say trust the process. 799 00:59:20.559 --> 00:59:24.119 I'm not gonna do it, but it just may take more time than 800 00:59:24.199 --> 00:59:32.480 you know. Four games Church until Thursday, from OKAC. I'm out of 801 00:59:32.519 --> 00:59:57.840 Moslin. I'll talk to you then. 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