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lose big in Sacramento one o nine to ninety five to the Kings. Welcome
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Patriot Am eleven fifty. We'll have Clippers stock for you if you want to
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five to zero eleven fifty is the phone number. But first, let's get
back out to your radio voice of the Clippers and Carlo Jimenez it golden one
censer. Oh Carlo, you mentioned low energy from this Clippers team, but
it also felt like a low IQ basketball game where they just were not sound
enough really in any facet of the ball game against a Kings team that is
desperate for victories right now, and it really showed in this one, with
that fourth quarter, with late in that third quarter things unraveling on the Clippers.
They just did not play a well focused ballgame. No, And I
think, Adam, it really speaks to how taxing this road trip has been.
You think about the wins in Orlando and Philadelphia, grind it out come
back victories, and then having to starve off a Hornet team that couldn't miss
the hoop look as big as the ocean in Charlotte. The Clippers really felt
the fatigue in this one. I think that's what's what I come to understand
is they just didn't have that focus that we're used to time in and time
again. It felt like for the Clippers team, they had an opportunity it's
about a four point game at him with nine minutes to go in the third,
but they couldn't get it done down the stretch and Sacramento dominated the glass.
You talk about hustle stats ATAM, You talked about focus, right,
Clippers sixteen turnovers, gave up twenty offensive rebounds. There's not two more hustle
stats than those two, and they were not in the Clippers favor in this
one. Well, it's most concerning to me is James hard and Russell Westbrook
combined for nine of those sixteen turnovers. Your two playmakers, your four generals
out there. They weren't good enough on offense or on defense in this game.
No, no, it was not a good showing from the Clippers facilitators
and this one. But I think for the Clippers, you gotta find ways
to get back to the drumming board at him and figure out how to efficiently
run this offense because without Kawhi Leonard they looked a little lost today. It
just you can't your point guards can't have nine combined assists, like I mean,
it's not a winning formula. And in this one, they were a
little too loose with the basketball, a little too slappy down the stretch.
I thought they they shot the ball well, I mean percentage wise, felt
like they could have got more threes up. They defended the three well you
mentioned it pregame, but Sacramento three point shooting team and Clippers held them the
twenty eight percent. But it was the other stuff, the offensive rebounding that
demand demand defense. I mean, Dearon Fox finishes with twenty points and he
had to take twenty shots to get there. Yeah, but then you look
at the Monte Sebonez who had twenty rebounds. It's just the offensive rebounding is
what killed him in this one. Defense was good on the first go,
it was the second go that they struggled. Yeah, Sacramento got up sixteen
more shots than the Clippers in this game. That's a recipe for disaster.
Aside from the turnovers, and you mentioned all those offensive rebounds they ended up
getting. That's a big difference maker in a game like this, and the
Clippers just looked very disconnected. Of course, earlier today we found out that
Kawhi Leonard would be out with soreness in that right knee. He traveled back
to Los Angeles. Hopefully he's available on Thursday, when the Clippers have well
their biggest game of the season to date. You could say they're taken on
to defending champs in the Denver Nuggets. Back at Crypto after this four game
road trip with the Clippers did end up going three and one. Tip time
Clippers back at home hosting the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night is at seven.
We'll have your pregame show starting at six. Carlo Jimenez. Well, see
if this team can regroup and refocus here. Safe travels, great call.
As always, We'll see at the crypt on Thursday. Oh yeah, Adam,
prime time. Oops, let's go, let's go. Clippers fall tonight
one O nine to ninety five in Sacramento. I'll bring you good news though.
On the way back, we'll dig into this box score. Okay,
that's not the good news. It's an NBA out of town scoreboard update for
you here on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network loading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers
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the LA Clippers Audio Network. I got some good news and bad news.
The bad news the Clippers lost in Sacramento one O nine to ninety five to
the Kings. The good news the Dallas Mavericks lost by four just about an
hour and a half away in San Francisco to the Golden State Warriors. So
that means the Clippers remain two games up on the Mavericks. There are also
two games up on the Pelicans. Clippers in that four spot currently in the
West Dallas behind them in the five. Welcome back into your Clippers locker room
post game show. I'm Adam Oslin coming up on the Patriot Am eleven fifty.
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reach me at follow Adam A on X. Do I have to do?
I have to do? I have to Yes, I do. It's my
job. I got to dig into this final box score. The Clippers ended
up with sixteen turnovers turned into fifteen points for the Kings. The Clippers were
playing a little bit better actually with their transition defense on some of the turnovers
earlier in this ball game before things got out of hand, had sixteen turnovers,
still the overall number far too many. Sacramento had just ten turned into
nine points for the Clippers, as they had zero fast break points, which
is a little bit surprising. The Kings was seven of them. The numbers
that stick out to me. Sacramento had forty six points in the paint,
the Clippers had just thirty. After averaging fifty over their last three ball games
and playing better in that area with more force on the interior. The Kings
also getting up sixteen more shots ninety two to seventy six shot attempts in favor
of Sacramento. And that's gonna happen when you have eleven more offensive rebounds and
six less turnovers than the Clippers. Really, how they came up with that
number. Clippers only shot forty one percent from the field. They were eleven
or twenty seven from the outside. They probably should have shot a few more
three pointers. They shot forty one percent from three. They shot out just
about the same from two in this ballgame, butros attempted twenty two for twenty
seven Sacramento nineteen for twenty five. When free throws really saved the Clippers against
Charlotte, where they got up thirty plus free throws. On Sunday against the
Hornets, Look, I knew this could be an issue going into this game,
even with Kawhi Leonard against a very motivated Sacramento Kings team that is trying
to stay afloat in the play in So I guess there's more good news here
because the Clippers lost to the Kings. The Lakers did not gain a game
on the Kings. They're still in that nine to ten spot if you care
about your Hallway rival, and it seems like most people, at least on
x do as I tweeted that earlier. The only good thing about tonight losing
to the Sacramento Kings is it hurt the Lakers, But the Clippers got bigger
issues and bigger things to focus on, including a much better squad back home.
They'll see the Denver Nuggets at Crypto on Thursday. Tiptime is a seven
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It was a tie ball game after one and the Clippers were down just
five and a half, but a thirty five to nineteen third quarter in favor
of the Kings, outscoring the Clippers by sixteen in that period would be their
undoing. They lose big in Sacramento one O nine and ninety five, as
they had sixteen turnovers, the Kings got up sixteen more shots than them.
Clippers looked tired physically mentally with the lack of focus out there with some of
those turnovers. They got to regroup and refocus and get ready for the Denver
Nuggets. Tip time on Thursday. Clippers and Nuggets back at Crypto for your
Los Angeles Clippers. After going three and run three and one on this road
trip, I'd say you sign up for that. I know tonight's lopside defeat
is deflating, but three and one a successful road trip. They've rided the
ship to some extent, but they need a victory over the Denver Nuggets on
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I heard some cow bells, I heard some light the beam chants,
and I saw the Clippers not getting back on defense, not converting on offense,
and a game that just unraveled in that third quarter and got away from
them quick. They would eventually lose in Sacramento to the Kings one, nine
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When the Dodgers are on a five to seventy LA Sports. This is where
we will be coming up on the show. Well, Big will updikeon from
Clips and Dip, looking forward to that rant. After this loss by the
Clippers, after they learned earlier today they would be without Kawhi Leonard tonight,
which is concerning. It always is when Kawhi misses a ballgame, but especially
when he's out with right knee soreness. It is his right knee where he
had the reconstructive surgery on the aco where he had the torn meniscus where he
had the tendonopathy, reportedly in San Antonio. Hopefully he's okay. I want
to believe that it could be related to him just being overly fatigued. And
they have a five and seven coming up, starting against the Denver Nuggets on
Thursday night. Obviously, this team goes as far as Kawhi Leonard takes them.
They're three and four now without him this season. Now, the good
news is he's only missed seven games. The bad news is without at times,
they've looked like a completely different ball club. Now. I know some
of that is because who you're missing, but when you still have James Harden,
when you still have Paul George, when you still have Russ coming off
the bench, you got to stay at the ship a little bit. You
got to get by. And they're under five hundred without Kawhi Leonard now,
Ultimately, if they don't have them, they're not winning anyways. And they
have done enough to tread water and put themselves in a position where they're thirteen
and thirteen their last twenty six games post Grammy road trip, and they're in
the four spot by two games over the Dallas Mavericks, who lost in San
Francisco, just a few miles down the road from the Clippers being in Sacramento.
Tonight, they lost to the Golden State Warriors by four. Good news
because up to games on Dallas actually means you're up three games because the Clippers
have the tiebreaker over them. We'll get into that matchup a little bit more
later in the show, as it's looking more and more likely Pelicans could still
see the Clippers in the first round. But I just did not like the
lack of focus by this Clippers team. You could see it early on in
that first quarter. Well, the Kings couldn't score either. The Clippers just
couldn't take care of the basketball. Five turnovers in the first twelve minutes.
They shot seven of nineteen from the field. Kings weren't much better. They
had three turnovers. They were nine of twenty one from the field. They
were knotted up at twenty four after the first twelve minutes. But here's the
issue. It felt like to me the Clippers were trying to play at the
King's pace and beat them at their own game, and that was not going
to app happened tonight. I think that accounts for a lot of these turnovers.
We're looking for coach Blue audio post game, but I said it in
the third quarter. It just looked like the Clippers were too sped up for
their own good. You know, you would think against a team like the
Sacramento Kings their thirteenth in pace, the Clippers are twenty fourth in pace on
the season, there would be a good matchup for Russell Westbrook. Instead,
he looked completely out of control at times and was just amplifying the bad miscues
on offense by this Clippers team. Missing dunks, layups can get back the
other way. Those are basically live ball turnovers, and there were some of
those two games Harden was bad five turnovers. He and Russ combined for nine
of their sixteen turnovers. Harden was one for seven. Doesn't look right still.
I don't know if it's the finger, the shoulder, but one of
seven, one of five from the outside, eight assists of five turnovers.
That's very on James Harden, like Russ, can have games like that.
He's very erratic with his play. I know he finished with twenty points when
a lot of that came during inconsequential time. I thought it was a really,
really tough game from Russ. In the third quarter, and it did
not help the Clippers gain any sort of composure when they were down by just
four early in the third, when they were still in the ball game.
It was a five point game in the half, They're right there, but
turnovers would come in bunches. It was fifty five fifty nine after a Vitza
Zubats got a hook shot to go hell at the eight minute mark, it
was still a four point game. At sixty one to fifty seven. The
floodgates opened after Harrison Barnes hit back to back three pointers. Clippers called a
full time out. Norman Palell tried to be a stabilizing force, my player
to watch. He was the best player on the floor for the Clippers tonight.
Knocked down a three pointer out of that timeout, and then a bonus
bucket. Dearon Fox got to the free throw line kick and Murray a three,
then a dunk off a bad turnover by Norm Powell. But that third
quarter, Uh, things just snowballed on the Clippers. You could say,
didn't want to swear it was turnovers. First that one by Norm Russ had
a layup, then cutting it down to fourteen, but then didn't get back
on defense, get a step back three, cutting it to fifteen. Then
had a really bad turnover, just out of control, flying down the right
side of the lane looking for Paul George threw it to the opposition. PG
would have a tough a but he had a tough ballgame. That was Murray
with an and one to respond, keiking Murray. You knew you'd have the
green light. They don't have Herder, they don't have Malik Monks, so
it's not like it was just the Clippers. Yes, of course, missing
Kawhi is much bigger than missing those two guys. But the Zakamar Kings are
down a few guys themselves. Then Russell turnover on an offensive foul. Clippers
are down twenty one after an alex Land dunk to end that third quarter,
when it was a four point game with eight minutes left in the third.
They got out rebounded by nine in the third quarter. They went two of
nine from three. They had six turnovers in the third quarter. But that's
how it happens. That's how a game gets away from you. It can
happen quickly in this league with the level of hot shooting and three pointers that
are taken Zakramento Kings top five and three pointers attempted, and they ended up
getting up forty two to three pointers. They only made twelve, but they
had forty six points on the paint compared to thirty for the Clippers, who
had been averaging fifty. The aggressiveness wasn't there. The collective chemistry and looking
like a cohesive unit wasn't there. Paul George wasn't aggressive enough. There's no
Kawhi Leonard. You can't take just twelve shots. I know part of that
is because he didn't even get back in in the fourth quarter rightfully, so
the game was over. They were waving the white flag. Late saw Bones
Highland actually have a really nice lay up. Brandon Boston Junior had a couple
of nice shots, but inconsequential didn't mean anything. When your floor generals combined
for nine of your sixteen turnovers, yeah you're probably getting cooked that night.
Well done, the Charles Barkley would say, extra crispy, not gonna happen.
The turnovers, the miscues offensively leading to easy shots for the Sacramento Kings,
and then just not a good enough effort on the glass. Outside of
Big Zoo, I thought he was battling, but guys weren't helping him.
You know, Big Zoo was out there contesting shots. You get a crack
back if he has to leave his man because you got burned by your man
going to the basket and Zoo has to try to block that, well,
then you got to support him and box out his guy. It's been an
issue all year. Big Zoo finished with ten and eleven, but just five
or fourteen shooting. They did at least try to feature him a little bit
more deserved it, but just a nasty flow to the ballgame. I predict
Coach Lou might say that a very disconnected Clippers team a clunky looking offense,
and again I think it was them trying to play too much at the King's
pace instead of imposing their will. Kings are very comfortable playing faster. They
play a little bit slower than they did last year, but they're still miles
different in that area than the Clippers, who are bottom ten and pace.
Clippers lose one to nine to ninety five in Sacramento to the Kings, but
hey, it hurt the Lakers and more importantly, the Dallas Mavericks lose in
San Francisco, to the Golden State Warriors, Morrison Long Beach. You're on
clippers stock without a muscle, you know, Adam, no loss is a
good loss. But as the many respects, not too bad here. Kawhi
got a sword kneed. Every game is the playoff game. Now look at
Dallas in the Pelicans. There's not going to be any easy first round.
He was going to face Zion I saw a team the other day shut him
down. Or we're gonna face the Luca Doncis. I don't know if we
got a defense see him. But anyway, I'm glad that Cohi said out
this game. We didn't lose any any any of you know, only lost
two games. Well in the two games, the only two games they hit
him. That's pretty good with only seven games left. So I'm feeling pretty
good about this that I know. You guys some people got a call up
one whine, but I'm really proud of the guys that they won't stayed out
of four. They're on the road, jet Lag. You caught up with
him, and these guys they namen years caught up with him. So they
did they did the best. They just got beat that's all it is.
So you made yourself, Adam, if you look at it in totality,
this road trip, and you have told people. If you had told people
going into it, hey they're going three and one, you'd sign up for
that. In Philly, Orlando, Charlotte, then in Sacramento, a couple
of playoff teams in there. Philadelphia hasn't exactly been playing like one. They
are one at least a play in team without Joe El Embiid. But that
was a good win. In Orlando, I thought was a really good win.
I gainst that team that was down and desperate. Charlotte, you just
have to win that game. And I knew tonight would be tough. Zachramento
played with more of a sense of urgency, and they played together. Clippers
didn't. I know, you're missing Kawhi, but that's not an excuse,
not a good enough one when you have Paul George and James Harden still out
there. I was asking a podcast recently on Clips and Dip, and we'll
have Chuck Mockler or actually will have Will Updyke on tonight even though it was
Clippers loss. So Chuck's gonna come in here there, Will's gonna come in
here flying and upset, which I look forward to. But Chuck asked me,
what's your biggest concern with this Clippers team right now? Seven games left?
To me, it's James Harden. He hasn't looked right. He hasn't
looked right for a month. He ended up shooting forty percent from the field
in March, thirty two percent from the side. Guys, it's not just
his playmaking. They need his aggressiveness. They need his scoring. He's been
dealing with the shoulder issue, now a finger. He goes one for seven
tonight after taking just three shots against Charlotte. Yeah, it's a red flag.
They need him healthy and spry and rejuminated for the playoffs badly. And
they need a victory against the Denver Nuggets on Thursday. You know why because
it helps their own cause. Denver is currently at the top of the Western
Conference. That means if you're lucky enough to get out of that four or
five matchup in the second round, as long as Denver wins that first round
series, you're playing the defending champs. You gotta send them to second or
third in the Western Conference. Beating them will help do that. So it's
not just about proving to yourself that you can beat the Denver Nuggets. They
beat them the last time for the first time in a couple of years.
You need to beat them to keep them from being the number one seed,
as Denver would win earlier. I still think they're without Jamal Murray right now.
Yes, but Nikola Jokic would win them the ball game at home one
ten to one oh five over the San AA Todio Spurs in a game where
Jokicic had forty two, sixteen and six assists. Nice tune up to get
ready for the Clippers. I guess let's pause ten seconds for station identification.
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eleven fifty Paul and Rancho Ku Paul, what's up here on Clipperstock withou Amazen?
Well, Adam, you've done another great job, covering almost every little
thing, all the big things. What I miss, what I'm miss I
know I miss him tiny little bit of tiny little bit. When I heard
ty lu too, he was given James Harden a little bit too much credit.
You know. I's been watching the game as you are. I guess
he's slowed down a little bit. I don't know if it's because the age
or the season, or like you said, maybe he's injured. But I
do notice time in and time out when they do double team him. It's
coming the double team and he just really slow to react, and it results
in the turnover in a fast break, and the momentum shifts, so,
you know, and then when he drives or was tell my wife, when
he drives to the basket, I don't know. Maybe three years ago he
he'd make those and now he just for whatever reason, I like the guy,
he's just not converting. He's not producing in that respect. Yeah,
I'm not even talking about his outside shooting. And then it seems to affect
the other team. They make just bad decisions, you know. So I
just want to mention to you. I don't want to say this, but
I did sign up a sponsor a new sponsor for the Clippers, there'll be
Panera bread because their clippers, unfortunately are soft as they're fresh baked bread,
and the Clippers do love those turnovers. Paul, you set me up,
your son of a bitch. You know what, it's fair. Coach Lou
called him soft recently. Now they responded after that, and they won three
or four. And you could attribute some of this to just being the last
game of the road trip. They may have had to foot out the door.
They got the news about Kawhi Leonard earlier today. It's human nature and
also some tired legs out there. I put out the door was fatigued.
But the other teams don't. You want me to pull up other teams and
their schedule and schedule losses for them. I can do it. I mean,
everybody follows their team closest and they think it only happens to them.
Go look at top teams and what their record is on the second night of
a back to back or at the end of a road trip, ort the
end of five games in seven days. It's not pretty. Fatigue is a
real thing, and I'm not trying to make an excuse for them. But
when I see sixteen turnovers and the variety that they were having in this game.
It looks like mental fatigue to me. James Hard just had a game
with ten assists to zero turnovers. He has a three to one assist to
turnover ratio on the season. He had five turnovers in this game to just
eight assists. So it's uncharacteristic. You could at least say, Paul,
how about okay? Well you would have to agree, though, shaved except
for the Magic game, the sixer game they won by the kind of they
won, but it was barely a win. You know, if you're going
to be a championship team, can you really be playing like this on a
consistent basis, not just losing but ugly blown out losses. It's getting to
be habitual. I would think I'm watching every game unless I'm wrong. It's
kind of scary. If they think they're gonna win a championship, Well,
I'm wondering how much of it, and it is the goal, and it's
a fair point, I'm wondering how much of it is a residual effect of
having seventeen games and thirty one days in March. I think the team is
gassed. Sadly, they're the oldest team in the league, and they have
the toughest schedule in the league by a wide margin. Go look at how
many teams have played seventeen games in a month this season. You might find
one other team that's had it. I don't even know if that's true.
And they got a five and seven coming up starting Thursday against the Denver Nugget.
So seven games remaining and five of them are coming within seven days.
Seven days. Yeah, it's scary. It's like the ring. It's it's
bad, it's tough. I My hope is this team will be more rejuvenated
by the fact that if you're not in the play in and they shouldn't be
at this point, you get five to six days off before the first round
starts. That could be their saving grace. And by the way, Paul
George has looked more spry as of late. He had an insane March where
he averaged twenty four on fifty three percent shooting from the field forty seven percent
from the outside. Kawhi Leonard was just moving great. This knee soreness is
concerning, but I just saw him blow by Miles Bridges, one of the
more athletic players in the league on Sunday for a two handed dunk. They
both were starting to look better. James Harden, I don't know if it's
fatigue, injuries, a shooting slump, I don't know, but he's got
a snap out of this. Maybe he needs the game off or two.
Do they have the ability to afford that right now? With how close things
are in the standings, you don't want to start the first round in Dallas
in New Orleans either. You want to at least have home court be starting
at Crypto now. I know the Clippers got down two with home court advantage
in twenty to twenty one against Dallas, but it's a different team on both
sides, both sides. I scoff a little bit at people trying to compare
this Clippers team to that Clippers team, or this Dallas team to that Dallas
team, or just the Dallas team the Clippers saw early on this season.
They had a big makeover. They've been the hottest team in the league really
since the trade deadline. I think they were twenty and six heading into this
ballgame. They lost tonight in San Francisco to the Golden State Warriors, and
they've been a top ten defense over that span. That's what's concerning to me.
Everybody kept looking at oh on the season, they're a bottom ten defense.
Okay, is that representative of who they are now? No, so
throw it out. They added Daniel Gafford and PJ. Washington, and they
have Derek Lively, the good rookie. They have a bunch of guys in
the front court that are athletic and compliment Luca, Dontris and Kyrie Irving really
well. As those guys have really gelled. Finally, they have the second
best clutch rating. That's scary, this whole idea of well, the Pelicans,
you know, they've had our number in the regular season and we've beaten
Dallas twice in the playoff. It's a different team. Luca's older, he's
been to a Western Conference final since then. This is by far the best
supporting cast he has had around him. He has Kyrie Irving. If you
want to bank on Kyrie continuing to struggle in the playoffs, be my guest.
I'm not gonna do that. You look at some of the numbers since
he left Lebron when he was the number one option at times they haven't looked
great. Well, guess what he's next to a Lebron again. He's got
Luca. He's not the number one option. Him is the number two.
We've seen win a championship, We've seen hit one of the most clutch shots
and memorable shots in NBA history. So I don't know where people are coming
up with this stuff that we want Dallas. Yeah, you could lose to
Dallas or the Pelicans if the Clippers don't bring it, if they don't play
right. I'm just saying it's a toss up. I go back and forth.
Right now, I'm thinking the Pelicans will be a better matchup than the
Dallas Mavericks. But Clippers have seven games left. There's room to maneuver,
but they can't get into a top three seed. It's really only the possibility
of sliding down the standings for them, and that should create more importance an
urgency in these last seven games, starting Thursday against the Denver Nuggets. Huge
matchup, not just because if you can beat them, they're gonna be feeling
really good about yourself, but also you can knock them off of being the
number one seed in the West. So if you do get out of the
first round, you don't got to see him in the second round. Try
to stave that off as long as possible. Mark Huynton Beach, you're on
a clipper stock with that a maaslin. Hi, Mark, Hey, can
you hear me? Okay? I got you, Mark? What's up?
Well? You know, people got to realize them. We won three out
of four on the road. The one we lost we didn't have Kawhi.
We didn't even score one hundred points. Again, it's that half classes full
versus that half glasses empty. So you know, three out of four,
that's a seven fifty percentage. You know, it's it's unfortunate Kawhi couldn't play.
But for all of this worth Yeah, we had some players that could
have stepped up and didn't. That would have been nice. But hey,
end of a road trip and I can see where they might be tired of
unpacking and packing and everything. But all in all, I think it was
a good road trip. Just too bad we didn't have Kawhi to finish it
up and do a four to zero. But you know we got a three
and one, and I'm happy with that. Here's some more glass half full
for you here, Mark, they have one more road game. That's it.
In Phoenix on April ninth, So we have a better road road record
that we do well. Now you're going last half empty on me. Look,
for most of the season, they were a great home team basically until
the last five games at home where they lost all five. So I don't
know what happened there. I think it's just odds of March stuff, and
the Clippers were playing a ton of games. They weren't playing well, obviously,
and they took their foot off the gas. And they're an older team.
But you want to get back home. You want to develop that home
court advantage again. Starts against the Denver Nuggets. Huge game on Thursday night
at Crypto, Biggest game in the season to date. I'll update you on
Jamal Murray and his status because he's been out the last couple of games for
the Denver Nuggets. But right now they're at the top of the West,
barely up by about half a game. Minnesota and OKC they're right behind Denver.
Beat Denver put them in the two three. You put them in the
two three against Minnesota, and that means they could take them on the second
round. I don't want to look too far ahead, but you want to
worn down Denver Nuggets team in the Western Conference finals. That's the optimum path.
Clipper's got a ton of work to do before then. They gotta get
out of the first round. They are vulnerable when you're taking on I said
this two months ago. I didn't think there was as much separation in terms
of talent from the top four teams in the bottom four teams, or at
least seeding one through four versus five, six, seven, eight, nine
to ten in the West. There may be separation record wise, but I
think talent wise, there's not as much difference. In the first round in
the Western Conference is gonna be a bloodbath for everybody. Enjoy it. It
me be a rob zombie movie. We'll take a quick time out, we'll
come back. Well, we'll opetike on from clips and dip. After the
Clippers lose one O nine to ninety five and Sacermento to the Kings, I'm
at a Moslims. You're listening to clipperstock here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty.
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LA Clippers basketball on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers lose of the Kings
without their king and Kawhi Leonard sister King found out earlier today Kawhi Leonard would
be out tonight due to right knee soreness that surgically repaired right knee hopefully nothing
serious. Welcome back into clipperstock. I'm at a maslin. This is the
Patriot Am eleven fifty after the Clippers fall one O nine to ninety five up
in sack Town. Join the show right now is big Will Updyke from Clips
and dip uh Will. How are you feeling after this one? The type
of loss the Clippers just suffered in a road trip where they went three to
one, but you wanted to get the sweep and get greedy Here I understand
this one. This one still doesn't sit right with me. Look, I
said that a loss against the Kings would undo any goodwill they'd made up for
with the last couple of games. Loo Ky Moore locked in the equation change
is a little bit minus Kuhi. But I still got to say, like
some of what I'm seeing from the rest of the Big three that's not Kawhi
Leonard. I just have serious questions about their lettle, like their their competitive
level and how much pride they're actually taking in this because this was three quarters
of a game and the garbage time squad ended up getting this in, you
know, making this a closer game than it was when the starters were pulled
in the ford. Yeah, it was over by the end of the third
it was yeah cooked. They lost at third quarter thirty five to nineteen.
Thought they had some really bad turnovers and then the guys turning it over not
getting back on defense has been bugging me. Russ has been guilty of that.
Norm Powell was on one of those. James Harden had five turnovers.
It's felt like when things unraveled, it looked like Russ was trying to play
at a pace that the rest of the team wasn't ready for in that third
quarter, you could say, so some of those things are like a little
bit more forgivable to me. Like, obviously, if you're out of piece's
biggest Kawhi, you know, Russ is still returning into the lineup, and
I look, I have my qualms about sort of how his tempo actually fits
in with the rest of the roster, depending on the lineup that he's in.
Like, some of that stuff is a little bit understandable, but like
the effort on the boards I thought was absolutely pathetic, you know, like
the it's just I would expect Paul George and James Harden to do a lot
more knowing that Kawhi is going to be out, Like you can't just coast,
you can't coast. Is though Kawhi is still there winning, he's not
And you know, maybe this isn't a must win game in their eyes,
even though I think with the way the standings are looking, they should try
to win every game that they can to get one. That's all we're even
talking about right now, to get one round of the playoffs with home court
advantage. Let's at least try to lock up four. Can we do that?
Guys? Can we just do that? And from what I saw today
from like Paul George, who started very very well in this game, I
liked a lot of what I saw from Paul George in the first half and
then kind of took the foot off the gas and James Harden just cool.
That was a stinker. Yeah, And had they won this game, they
would have been up not technically but because they have the tiebreaker. Four games
on the Dallas Mavericks was seven remaining that might have done it, that might
have secured at least home court in the first round, which I think,
Yes, we just had a caller talk about this too. They lost their
last five home games. I don't care. You don't not want home court
advantage in the playoffs because in March they lost some games badly at home,
when before that they were a really good home team. Now they're twenty five,
and yeah, if it comes to seven games, I'm so sorry.
Like that, you just can't make an argument for me that it's not better
to be on your home court. I don't care what your regular season record
was. We know, I mean, we've talked enough about what this team's
issue was. Like they sent their foot off the gas coming out the All
Star Break. They didn't take it seriously enough. I don't think that that's
necessarily a reflection or there's no cause is not like causation is not cause,
or correlation is not causation. Sorry, with the Clippers in the home game
stuff, if it comes to a seven game series, there's just I'm sorry.
I can't find I can't think of a fan that doesn't want that on
their home court. Yeah, if there's anything that I'm gonna say throw out
when you talk about what translates to the playoffs and what doesn't. I'm gonna
say, even if you had a better road record, I still want home
court advantage in a playoff series. That's just acidine. But I look back
at that the map series, that first round series, nobody won a game
at home until Game seven. But guess who on whose home court Game seven
was? It was the Clippers. Yeah, that's a great point. You
know, we talked about it yesterday on the pod with Chuck Mockler, but
he brought up your biggest concern, what's our biggest concern at this point of
the season. And I think we both were in lockstep that the play of
James Harden over the last month is the biggest concern. Because I've said it
before, but if we're giving him, I think the majority of the credit
for that twenty six and five run, and just how unstoppable they looked when
everything was clicking. When things are looking like this where they're thirteen and thirteen
their last twenty six games since the Grammy road trip, we got to look
back his way and say, is something wrong with the system here? The
machine? Is something going on? How do you feel about that, well,
I agree one hundred percent, and like, look, I hope that
this is just a little bit of coasting to stay fully healthy or get to
where he needs to be in the playoffs. But man, given his given
his playoff record already, you gotta have concerns. The guy getting up seven
shots with no Kawhi Leonards, you gotta have some concerns. He made one,
he made one, three no other shot from the floor. To five
turnovers to eight assists not good. I just I don't get it because I
feel like I feel like there's this pervasive attitude where everybody has been there before,
but really only one guy on this roster. I mean, okay,
one guy as a starter on this roster has really been there before, not
to discredit, not to discredit anybody else, And I just don't see it.
I think like it made at the beginning, the slow start, he
hadn't played a game with Philadelphia, he had not played an NBA game prior
to coming here. Of course he was going to have to get into shape.
But the way he's coming out of the break, it's just a little
incomprehensible and it is definitely worrisome. You hope I mean, I hate that
I'm relying on this, But you hope that it's to flip the switch thing,
right, Like you hope that he's going to be able to gear it,
to get it back into high gear and sort of lock those things in
as we get towards the end of this season. But I from right now,
it doesn't look great. I'll say that it's almost like a false sense
of security. We'll just we'll flip that switch when we get there. You've
mentioned it before, but at times it has looked like a team that felt
like maybe we had done enough, we proved who we can be when we're
running on all cylinders, and therefore, now just fast forward to the playoffs
and we'll be that team that was twenty six and five of our three already
one game stretch for a couple of months. Yeah, I'm not seeing it
right now. And stuff like I mean, like I can understand like some
of the poor shooting things. I can understand things, but like getting scored
by sixteen points in the pain, getting outscored by sixteen points on second chance
point, getting out rebounded fifty six to thirty eight, like these are things
that they could slow down, like it's not just it's not just any one
thing. And we shot forty one percent from three as a team and like
still couldn't put this one away. Like it's just there's a lot of effort
things that feel like they're not coming together. And I think, look,
I obviously a lot of a lot of iyre, a lot of a lot
of blame has to go on the big stars. That's that's what they get
paid for, that's what they're there for. But I do think that it's
as we get closer and closer to the postseason that it is concerning looking at
some of these rotations that we have and how ineffective they've been. Kyce looked
like a bonehead to night. I don't know what was going on there,
but I like, I just I have some concerns about about the playable rotations
in an actual playoff series. And I just feel like we're getting to the
point where it's like maybe seven to eight guys, and if the rotation is
that short and you get a bad game out of Paul George and or Harden,
that's gonna be like that's just gonna be a tough road to ho I
don't know how else to put it. You mentioned Daniel Tye there, and
I wonder how much of that was rust. He played eighteen minutes, but
it was the first time he had played in I think ten days, which
is interesting. Some guys look like they were playing really hard out there.
I felt like if E's the Zubas was trying to make up for everybody else's
mistakes. But he's going up against the Bonis and there's an individual battle going
on there where you know, he's got a tough of an assignment where he
can't do everything like sorry, that's not gonna happen. He had eleven boards
and four off into rebounds, and I felt like was playing really hard.
He didn't shoot the ball that well. I at least like the fact they
gave him fourteen shots. But there were other guys. Yeah, they waited
too long. Probably they waited too long, and then you're down. You
know, you go from being down four with eight minutes left in the third
quarter to a couple minutes later being down fifteen, as we have seen too
many times because of all the turnovers and live ball turnovers and giving the other
team, you know, too many opportunities. When you give a team sixteen
more shots than you the likelihood that you're going to win that game on the
road against a good team, a quality team still in the Sacramento Kings with
their two main stars. It just makes things so much tougher. I just
did it looked like they were trying to play the Kings game, trying to
play too fast. That was one issue for me, Will But then also
I don't know if it was mental fatigue over the road trip, but they
just looked like they lost focus. They absolutely looked like they lost because I
mean, those turnovers were those those turnovers were really ugly looking. And yeah,
I don't know, I guess I do think that they have all season
long had an issue of maintaining their identity in game and not like not playing
another team's game. I feel like it's kind of rare that we see the
Clippers sort of impose their sort of tempo and their sort of style of play
on another team. And I think that that was one thing that they were
more effective at doing during that win streak, you know, leading up into
the Grammy road trip before the break, and I just haven't seen that same
level, like even in these wins and where processes looked a lot better.
The defense has looked a lot better. The rebounding from Kawhi and Paul George
has looked so much better. I just don't feel like I've seen the same
level of being able to impose both like their tempo and style of play on
a game. And that is kind of troubling because you're not gonna beat another
team playing their game. Seven games we're up against it here, Will,
I didn't mean to cut you off, but to me, that point kind
of speaks to lacking that identity. What are you trying to force teams to
play? What is your style of play? Like you're forcing them to adjust
to you, but what's your style of play? I don't It's been a
little bit of a moving target. Big Will update has been with us tough
defensive team that is bottom three defensively over the last two months. Will,
thanks for doing this tonight a little clips and doubled it absolutely. Thanks for
having me. Let's go clip quick time out. We'll come back, we'll
close things out. Clippers losing Sacramento. This is the Patriot AM eleven fifty.
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LA. Clippers basketball on the La Clippers Audio Network Clippers losing Sacramento their next
game back at Crypto against the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night. Before we get
out of here, I do want to address something that Coach Lou said postgame.
I brought this up. The one thing that I've identified that's changed offensively
for this team and adjustment by the opposition over the last couple of months.
They've been blitzing James Harden and trapping him much more, slowing him down,
taking him out and them out of their offense. And Coach Lou chalked up
him going one for seven tonight to the King's blitzing and out letting Harden play.
He thought he could have tried to get him more ISOs, but says
the Clippers have to handle blitz is better. Well, seven games left.
Figure it out here. Before we get out of here. I do want
to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lalabrian Seeman no at Ego, Carlo Jimenez
on the call, Katie Newton, our producer here thinking about big brother Jake
Warner as well. Till Thursday night, with the pregame show for Clippers Denver
Nuggets starting at six, I met a mans and we'll talk to you then.
Ma Whi was doing his thing. All they want to do is win
in La r win. Thought they gave everything they had. I'm very proud
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