WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:04.400 The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame 2 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:09.439 reaction has just be gone. Gohi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range. 3 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:13.640 This is Clippers locker Roo, a recap of today's game and a look 4 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:18.480 ahead on your home for La Clippers basketball at now your host, You, 5 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:25.519 sir, are a bad man, Adam Oslin. Clippers returned home to fall 6 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:29.320 one ten to one, all fours to the Dallas Mavericks and Kyrie Irving. 7 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:33.079 Welcome into your post games show. Coming up, we'll get to your final 8 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:35.920 box score. You'll hear from the head coach and the players after this one, 9 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.039 but first we get back to your voice at the Clippers in Noah Eagle. 10 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:41.960 You know, no, I don't say it very often, but this 11 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:44.960 felt like a game that may have been lost in the first quarter where the 12 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:49.439 Clippers got down by nineteen and had to battle back or ice skating uphill. 13 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:53.000 You could say you brought it up. Yeah, it just it just wasn't 14 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:55.920 the urgency that they needed to start the game. Where then part of it 15 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:58.920 was that Dallas just shot the lights out in that first quarter. They couldn't 16 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:02.399 miss from three. Reggie Bullock went five for five in the first quarter from 17 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:04.959 three and then went one for seven the rest of the game, so you 18 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:07.959 know, the law of averages does kind of bounce back. But overall, 19 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:11.840 Dallas still shot at seventeen to thirty five from three, and if they're gonna 20 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.959 do that without Luka don Chiz, it's gonna be hard to beat them, 21 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.959 especially with Kyrie irving and closing time. We saw some of the finishes that 22 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:21.959 he had. You know, it's a tough loss for the Clippers. There's 23 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:25.480 no really beating around the bush in this one. And now this next twenty 24 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:27.359 four hours are really less than that. Next twelve hours is going to be 25 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:32.000 fascinating. LA is going to have to make some decisions, figure out what 26 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:34.480 they want to do if they want to roll with the roster they've got. 27 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.879 But the trade deadline is always an interesting time around the NBA, and the 28 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:41.040 Clippers being one of the teams that believe they can win a title this year, 29 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:44.959 certainly with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, they're gonna have to take a 30 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.680 good, long, hard look in the mirror and figure out what makes the 31 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:51.359 most sense. But the pieces are in place, no doubt about it. 32 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:53.719 It's just about playing the right way on a consistent basis, and who was 33 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.079 saying it beats the Zubot's last game, Nick Batombs talked about it. The 34 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:00.280 consistent effort has to be there, and the first quarter it just really wasn't. 35 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:05.680 And even more bizarre, Kawhi Leonard took just four shots in that first 36 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:08.039 half. Now he made up for it in the third quarter at thirteen points 37 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:10.879 there, but ends up with just twelve shot attempts in the night. Yeah, 38 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:15.879 a little surprising from Kawhi just didn't really look like his assertive self, 39 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:20.759 certainly early in the game and one of the two of the two on three 40 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:23.439 connection. It's felt like they've done a really good job of late during this 41 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:28.840 more recent winning streak. Let's call it not a full winning streak, but 42 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:30.520 had one eight of ten games coming in and eight of nine with the two 43 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:34.080 of them on the floor, they've done a really good job of one of 44 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:36.960 them stepping up in the first quarter to set the tone, and it felt 45 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:38.680 like they didn't have that today and they got pulled early. Terrence Man actually 46 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:43.960 was the one who did it, but at some point that well dries out. 47 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:46.439 Man finishes with twenty one points twelve of them in the first You know, 48 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:51.159 it's a disappointing loss, it really is, and I think that Peg 49 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:53.680 and Kawai will certainly feel like they could have done more. I think that 50 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:59.000 the Clippers defensively in that fourth quarter just didn't do enough. And then Tim 51 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.199 Hardaway Junior hits that dagger three. You know, if they get that one 52 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:04.560 more stop, you say, okay, you can make it a one possession 53 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.080 game. And then you play the free throw game and anything is possible. 54 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.120 And we've seen crazy things, but it just wasn't meant to be tonight. 55 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:13.520 Sometimes that's the case, to make her miss league and Clippers miss tonight. 56 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:17.639 Kyrie Irving finishes with twenty four points in his debut as a Dallas Maverick. 57 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:22.599 He did make an impact late. He hit that tough fade away over Kawhi 58 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:24.360 Leonard, who got him back with a block the next time down. But 59 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:27.560 yeah, in a game where he just has twenty four, I thought he 60 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.960 might be gunning for forty in this one in his premiere. But the Clippers 61 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:36.080 lose one ten to one oh four here in downtown Los Angeles, coming off 62 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:38.439 the six game road trip. They return home not a safe haven tonight. 63 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:43.439 They'll get back after it though, on Friday against a team they just saw 64 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.840 in the Milwaukee Bucks. Looking for some revenge. Look, they couldn't pull 65 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:50.800 it off against the Denver Nuggets, but this is a chance for redemption against 66 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.719 Milwaukee. This is a huge game Friday. They need it, Honestly, 67 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:57.759 they needed for a variety of reasons, but the main one probably confidence, 68 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:00.639 believing that you can compete with the top of the top up in the NBA. 69 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:02.800 Tip time is at seven thirty. We'll have Clippers countdown for you starting 70 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:08.520 at six thirty. Noah, okay, noah, okay, great to see 71 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:11.000 it. We'll see it back here. I'm care wait at him. I'm 72 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.080 ready to go already, let's get back to it. Coming up your final 73 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:17.720 box score. Clippers fall by six to Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks. 74 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:21.240 Here at downtown Los Angeles and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers. Reaching 75 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:27.120 a minute, he was blocked by George. This is LA Clippers basketball. 76 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.240 He is a one man record crawl and defensive man on the home of your 77 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:36.279 LA Clippers. Clippers lose one senz one on four to Kyrie Irving and the 78 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:41.000 Dallas Mavericks Here from downtown Los Angeles Live. I'm at a Maslin with your 79 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:45.399 postgame show coming up on AM five seventy LA Sports. We will have Clippers 80 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:47.399 Talk. We'll take your phone calls at eight six six ninety eight seven two 81 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:53.920 five seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. 82 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:58.839 You can also reach me on Twitter at follow Adam A. Dallas ends 83 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.360 up shooting fifty three per from the field, but they go seventeen of thirty 84 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:05.560 five from distance. That's forty nine percent. After that hot start where they 85 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:12.600 were nine of thirteen from three in the first quarter and they put a forty 86 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:16.600 one spot on the Clippers in the opening twelve minutes, they scored just forty 87 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:21.079 points and the next two quarters combined. The Clippers defense was better but not 88 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:27.040 good enough late where Dallas scored twenty nine points in the fourth quarter some more 89 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:30.160 big three pointers. Penston hit a couple, went two of two and the 90 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:34.319 fourth from distance, and then Tim Hardaway Junior with a dagger three as he 91 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:38.680 was four of nine from the outside. Kyrie Irving, in his debut as 92 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:42.279 a Maverick, had twenty four points for the Clippers, They were led by 93 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:46.199 Norman Powell. He had twenty four himself eight of seventeen from the field, 94 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:53.920 but their two stars, Paul George just twenty points Kawhi Leonard just eighteen. 95 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:59.279 But the number that sticks out to me attempted just twelve, just twelve shots 96 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:01.000 in this ball game, and four of those came in the first half. 97 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:06.680 It was bizarre. Clippers got off to a slow start and Dallas got off 98 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:10.759 to a fast start and close fast in the end, they win one ten 99 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:15.319 to one oh four. As the Clippers return home off the six game Grammy 100 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:18.000 road trip to a loss, they lose by six of the Mavericks. Coming 101 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:23.360 up next, we're preview Friday night's game right back here. Clippers taken on 102 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:27.480 Janis and then a Kompo and the Milwaukee Bucks. You're listening to the Los 103 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:33.879 Angeles Clippers Radio Network. Oh, Paul George, LA Clippers Basketball continue bisiness 104 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:40.439 pains as he carried the three on the home of your LA Clippers. Clippers 105 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:45.519 fall one ten to one oh four here in downtown Los Angeles to Kyrie Irving 106 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.000 and the Mavericks. Still weird to say, welcome back into your post game 107 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:53.240 show. I'm ata Moslin. Coming up on AM five seventy, we'll have 108 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:57.560 Clippers talk eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety 109 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:02.759 eight seven two five seventy is the own number. Clippers next contest right back 110 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:09.319 here Friday night, right back, I guess the team they just saw less 111 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:13.600 than a week ago, and Jannison than a Koumpo and the Milwaukee Bucks. 112 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:16.600 Tip time is at seven thirty. We'll have Clippers countdown starting at six thirty 113 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:20.519 and see if they can exact some revenge after letting go of a twenty one 114 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:25.680 point lead in Milwaukee last week. It's a big one. They are just 115 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:30.639 twenty four games left in the season. Four year Los Angeles Clippers tough loss 116 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:34.360 tonight one ten one on four was your final in favor of the Dallas Mavericks 117 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:38.360 outside of Los Angeles. We are leaving you until Friday night at six thirty 118 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:41.360 with their pregame show coming up next though. Here on an M five seventy 119 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:46.279 LA Sports, it's Clippers Stop. This has been Clippers locker room both II 120 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:53.079 for Paul George. The conclusion to another game of exciting LA Clippers basketball. 121 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:58.000 Don't miss any of the action all season long on your home for the LA 122 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:03.399 Clippers. Welcome into Clipper Stock. Here's a new sheriff in town. You 123 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:07.439 won't be able to deny it. You're going to go to the NBA Finals. 124 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.160 I believe in my heart this is the best team in the history of 125 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:16.839 the franchise. I am all about the Clipper Nation. This is Clippers Talk. 126 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.240 They're trying to win the whole thing. A postgame look. It's your 127 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:26.360 LA Clippers recapping the game, the stars and looking ahead to what's next. 128 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:31.480 To hear episodes you've missed. Subscribe to Clippers Talk on iHeart Radio or wherever 129 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:39.639 you podcast. Now your host of Clippers Talk. Here's Adam Oslin. There's 130 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.000 no place like home, right maybe not. Clippers lose one tenth to one 131 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:48.159 oh four to Kyrie Irving and the new look Dallas Mavericks. Welcome in to 132 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:50.840 Clippers Stock. I'm out of Oslin. Coming up, we'll get to your 133 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.440 phone calls. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six 134 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.200 ninety eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. You'll also hear from 135 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:05.240 Coach Lou and the players. Plus Chuck will be here. Charles Mockler from 136 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:09.039 Clips and Dip. We talked about a postgame with Noah Eagle. I thought 137 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:13.960 this was a game that was lost in the first quarter by the Clippers, 138 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:18.039 who just came out absolutely flat. I said, key to the ball game. 139 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:24.039 They can't have a road trip hangover. I've seen it before with this 140 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:28.039 squad. I've seen it with other teams. You come back from a long 141 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:33.559 road trip and you just don't look right that first game. Now, typically 142 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:37.039 you got two days off before you play after a long road trip like that. 143 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:39.559 They had one day off. Would have thought it'd be enough, though, 144 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:45.039 for them to not give up forty one points in the first quarter. 145 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:52.039 Another first quarter where the opposition shot the lights out Brooklyn. Remember they were 146 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:58.919 eight for twelve in the first quarter against them on Monday in Brooklyn. Tonight, 147 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:05.559 Clippers come back home. The Mavericks go nine for thirteen in the opening 148 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:11.279 quarter from three just hot shooting. Reggie Bullock started five of five from the 149 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:13.960 outside. He couldn't miss anything, and the Clippers made it easier on them 150 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:20.399 by just missed assignments and poor defensive rotations along the perimeter. There were open 151 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:24.840 three pointers. Not all three pointers are created equal there's a difference between a 152 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:30.600 guy being in front of you and not and that stuff is actually categorized now 153 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:33.720 on NBA dot Com. You can look at it. There's wide open threes, 154 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:37.519 and there's open threes, and there were a lot of wide open threes, 155 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:43.080 not a guy within six plus feet of the shooter. So the Clippers 156 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:48.159 let them get into a groove offensively early on, and then even when their 157 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:52.399 defense was much better, where after giving up forty one points in that first 158 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.240 quarter, they give up just forty combined over the second and third, and 159 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:01.679 the Clippers were down just three heading into the fourth. But I think they 160 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.200 started to run out a little bit of gas and the Stars didn't have it 161 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:09.879 tonight for whatever reason. This is one of the oddities of the season. 162 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:15.759 Kawhi came out in the first half and attempted just four shots. He didn't 163 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:18.919 make his first field goal till about the three minute mark of the second quarter, 164 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:26.399 but taking just four, he ends up taking twelve, finished seven or 165 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:28.960 twelve. So he got hot eventually in that third quarter where he at thirteen 166 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.960 of his eighteen points, but that's just not enough. He only plays thirty 167 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:41.639 two minutes. Paul George plays thirty three and we just saw this post game. 168 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:46.799 But Kawhi Leonard and this is coming from Justin Russo at Fly by Night, 169 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:50.240 Clippers reporter, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George will see their minutes reduced and 170 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:54.679 cut a little bit as the team heads into the All Star break. So 171 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:00.720 a few more games where they're not gonna hit I'm gonna in the forty minute 172 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:03.799 mark. We'll see if they hit the thirty five minute mark. But in 173 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:09.639 a game where there's no Luca don Chich and Dallas is playing for their first 174 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:13.200 time with Kyrie Irving out there on the floor, for them to look like 175 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:18.320 the team that had been together longer, it's just bizarre. I mean, 176 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:20.919 Irving had twenty four, not a huge game, didn't hit his average. 177 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:24.919 He did hit a tough fade away over Kawhi and the fourth quarter late. 178 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:30.759 Kawhi blocked him the next time down. But that sense of urgency from the 179 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:35.639 Clippers you felt to kick in defensively not till the third quarter, really, 180 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:39.919 where after the first time out they looked a little bit different. On that 181 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:46.200 end, Kawai and Paul George trapped and got a steal on Kyrie Irving. 182 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:50.159 Of beast, the Zoobots had a block, Kawhi was rolling. He had 183 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:54.399 ten straight at one point for the Clippers and the third. But I've told 184 00:12:54.519 --> 00:13:00.879 y'all season long people ask me their identity. They are consistently inconsistent game to 185 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:05.879 game, quarter to quarter, possession to possession with just being locked in and 186 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:11.679 focused. And what twenty four games remaining is that who they are at this 187 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:18.159 point is something going to change. Could the next few hours heading into the 188 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:22.039 trade deadline, which is at twelve pm Pacific tomorrow changed things for them? 189 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:28.559 I don't know, but this is who they've been. And even though they 190 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.480 had won eight of their last ten, we told you there were problems in 191 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.159 there. They still weren't playing great basketball. They hadn't peaked yet, which 192 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:39.919 tells you the talent on this team that they could still win while not playing 193 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:46.440 great and going in and out of playing quality basketball within games. But eventually 194 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:54.480 that stuff burns you against quality competition. Because what happened against Chicago and Atlanta, 195 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:58.879 where they faltered down the stretch and got away with it and won those 196 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:03.480 games. Anyways, it didn't work against Milwaukee when they were up twenty one, 197 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:09.879 when they unraveled it led to a loss against a good ball club, 198 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:18.799 and tonight they just didn't look to be engaged enough. That energy that you're 199 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:24.320 hoping to see, we saw it in the third quarter. But it can't 200 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:28.679 just be for a quarter or a few minutes here and there and scattered like 201 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:33.960 that. If you listen to the pregame show after the victory over Brooklyn on 202 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:37.159 Monday to end the road trip where they went four and two successful road trip, 203 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:43.559 Grammy road trip is tough, he said. Basically, they were sporadic 204 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:48.919 with their play and consistency where they're not putting together complete games for forty eight 205 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:58.679 minutes. Tonight certainly underscored that point and Dallas won because of it. And 206 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:03.639 even and though they didn't remain shooting that hot from the outside, after hitting 207 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:09.759 nine three pointers in the first quarter, they'd hit just eight the last three 208 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:11.320 quarters. They might have won off a couple of three pointers made in the 209 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:16.759 fourth Tim Hardaway Junior or Dagger three. I thought Penson, who hit a 210 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:20.759 really tough fall away three pointer early in the fourth quarter, I think I 211 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:24.919 put him up ten. That was brutal. He went two of two from 212 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:31.720 three and the fourth and when the Clippers finally started to really ratchet up the 213 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.039 defensive intensity, and you saw Kawai on Kyrie and they were trying to get 214 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:37.720 him off of him, and they'd set a screen and try to get the 215 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:45.000 switch with Marcus Morris, but they'd try to double Kyrie, but Dallas always 216 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.440 found the open man when they were doubling, and they got a couple of 217 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:52.399 easy layups. Powell had one. I think Tim Hardaway Junior had another. 218 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:56.559 They made him pay. Just seeing the Clippers, though, all of a 219 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:02.399 sudden, bring that intensity, it was jarring because where was that earlier in 220 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:07.159 the ball game and why did it take so long for them to get there. 221 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:12.159 But it's been like this all season long, where they go in and 222 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:19.320 out of playing really good basketball to lackluster basketball. Just the inconsistency. They 223 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:23.720 are consistently inconsistent. You have to say, that's what we've seen from this 224 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:27.559 team for the most part this season, and tonight it's one of the most 225 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:30.799 disappointing losses of the year. Coming off a four and two road trip, 226 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:37.240 you're back home. You think there'd be some energy coming out tonight on opening 227 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:41.240 tip with the crowd behind them underneath them, but Dallas was hitting shots early 228 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:44.919 and outside of Terrence Man, who had twelve points in that first quarter, 229 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:49.720 nobody else was joining him. And the two stars Kawai and Paul George weren't 230 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:56.120 good enough. Neither had more than twenty points. That's a little bit alarming. 231 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:00.960 Clippers lose one ten to one four to the Dallas Mavericks. Let's start 232 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:08.799 things off with rex In La rex R on Clipper stock without Amazin Adam. 233 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:14.519 I'm about to give you a hot take right now. It's coming up to 234 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:18.880 the trade that line like you keep saying, you've been inconsistent for honestly since 235 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:22.200 we have gotten quiet and Paul George would be go all the way back to 236 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:29.519 the past three years. You try to rectify that situation with getting point guards 237 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:34.319 or the leaders like let's say Rondo or John Wall or Earth but so and 238 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:37.400 you think about it. One thing that was in common with all these guards 239 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.599 none of them could shoot or none of them are good shooters. I think 240 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:45.279 that's the best time that we get someone. Sounds like you've been listening to 241 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:49.599 me because I've talked about it pretty much every night recently. The difference is, 242 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.039 Yeah, those guys not great shooters. They can't play off the ball 243 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:56.160 or be that effective off the ball where some of the names that have been 244 00:17:56.200 --> 00:18:00.599 thrown out there now some of the possibilities. Yeah, those guys much better 245 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.519 shooters, and they're going to have to be. I think if they do 246 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:06.400 make a move for a guard, it's going to be somebody that can play 247 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:11.839 off of Kawai and Paul George and I just wanted to add one extra thing, 248 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:15.559 a hot take, who they can trade for, because you talk about 249 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:19.240 inconsistency. They need someone who is going to keep not just the world players, 250 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:25.000 but the stars and keep them, you know, consistent. Two guys 251 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:30.200 come to my mind, Chris Paul and Draymond Green. I know these are 252 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:33.920 two quite the hot takes, and Chris Paul's probably not even a reality, 253 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:38.279 but I don't know. They need someone who's going to change the entire way 254 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:42.599 this team's identity is because, like he keeps saying, it's inconsistently inconsistency. 255 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:47.480 Right now, all right, Rex, I appreciate the phone call. Yeah, 256 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:52.319 those are definitely hot takes. Because Chris Paul coming back to the Clippers 257 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:55.640 with the contract that he has, that would be very difficult to facilitate. 258 00:18:56.079 --> 00:19:02.559 Same with Draymond Green and his contract. But do I think there's gonna be 259 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:06.359 a move made by the trade deadline tomorrow? Yeah, I'm sure there will 260 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:11.480 be. How big or substantial, I don't know. But this team is 261 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:18.920 underperforming too often at times, and it's just confounding because you see their potential 262 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:23.400 when they lock in, when they do have that focus, when they do 263 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:27.680 look sharp out there. They're the team that we thought they'd be coming into 264 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:34.880 this season, but it comes and goes. Let's go with Mike in La, 265 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:40.640 Mike, what's up your on Clipper stock without I'm astin. Hey, 266 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:42.920 Adam, you know, I kind of wish the Clippers could have pulled off 267 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:49.440 the trades of the Lakers pulled off today. They got younger, they got 268 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:56.480 more, they got faster, meant really ultimately what the Clippers need even you 269 00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:59.240 know, I know we've talked about, you know, the need for a 270 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:02.799 point guard and the point guard that can playoff of you know, PG and 271 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:04.920 Kauai. That's just when you know, you look at this team, they 272 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:10.599 just they feel so luggish so much of the time, and they're an older 273 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:15.400 team. It's it's a fact, I think place of their advantage when the 274 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:19.400 game slows down in a playoff series. But you still got to get there 275 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:22.200 first, and there's twenty four games left, and with the way things are 276 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:27.200 in the Western Conference, every loss, every win is so crucial. I 277 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:32.079 mean, they're you know what team I think out of the play a tournament. 278 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:34.359 I think after tonight lost there in the sixth seed or in like a 279 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:38.920 game away from a game out from being in the play it all Right tournament. 280 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:42.680 You know, I actually thought tonight's game would have been a good opportunity 281 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:47.160 for someone like a mirror Poppy, just to you know, a guy who 282 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:51.279 hasn't played much, but who has you know, really over the course of 283 00:20:51.319 --> 00:20:56.000 his career played well in meeting ful NBA game well. Coachler definitely tried some 284 00:20:56.160 --> 00:21:00.400 things. Musa Diabatte was out there in the first half. He try to 285 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:03.519 shake things up to find some energy. Some of the doc rivers always used 286 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:07.000 to say, how do you find that lineup that brings that energy and turns 287 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:11.119 a game back in your favor and you recapture that momentum. But it didn't 288 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:18.480 really happen. That's a good point with Musa. Yeah, tried. I 289 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:21.480 appreciate the phone call, Mike. You made some good ones as well. 290 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:26.039 Yeah, Clippers in that sixth seed. Now Dallas is in the fourth seed. 291 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:30.359 They just flip flopped and the Clippers are a game up on the seventh 292 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:33.559 seed, which means a game outside of the playing tournament. Just a game 293 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:40.119 up on the New Orleans Pelicans. Tough one tonight. More Clippers dock coming 294 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:44.279 up next after they fall one ten to one oh four to the Dallas Mavericks. 295 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:45.920 We'll get back to your phone calls eight six six nine eight seven two 296 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:49.680 five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy as the phone number 297 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:53.480 well here from Coach Low and Charles Macker will be here as well. You're 298 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:56.920 listening to say am five seventy l sports. Oh, it's blocked by George. 299 00:21:57.119 --> 00:22:02.799 This is LA Clippers basketball. He is a one man king Crawl, 300 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:07.480 the defensive man on the home of your LA Clippers. Frustrating night for Clipper 301 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:11.640 nations. The Clippers come back home, just lose to Kyrie Irving in his 302 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:15.960 debut for the Dallas Mavericks one ten to one oh four. Irving had twenty 303 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:21.240 four four more points than Paul George, six more points than Kawhi Leonard. 304 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:25.240 Norman Powell did have twenty four off the bench for or A. Ten of 305 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:27.480 those came in the fourth quarter for the Clippers, but not enough. They 306 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:32.359 lose by six. Welcome back in the Clippers stock. I'm out of Oslin. 307 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:34.079 Coming up, we'll have Charles Mackler on and you'll hear from the head 308 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:37.960 coach in sharn Lou Before we get back to your phone calls. Let's pause 309 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:42.680 ten seconds for station identification here on M five seventy LA Sports. This is 310 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:48.599 LA Clippers Basketball, A five seventy KLAC Los Angeles, ninety eight seven KYSR 311 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:55.319 HD to Los Angeles and iHeart radio station Wallace and Plia del Rey, who 312 00:22:55.400 --> 00:22:59.440 had the pleasure of meeting tonight here in downtown Los Angeles. Wallace, how 313 00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:03.519 you feeling about this all? Oh, thank you. Kyrie's super good. 314 00:23:06.279 --> 00:23:10.119 I'm just really impressed with him. But I don't think the Clippers should make 315 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:14.160 any trades. I still love the Clippers. The only thing I see is 316 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:19.240 I don't see Cannard being integrated into the offense. I see him standing around, 317 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:23.200 and I think, in this league, and you know, twenty twenty 318 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:29.440 three, you've got a player like that who I really like, Leonardo A. 319 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:33.440 Canard rather a lot, and I think you gotta look at tron lew 320 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:37.960 And if I think if the Clippers have shortcomings this year, you've got to 321 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:41.880 look at the coach. I think there's no other place to look, no 322 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:48.480 trades. I see the most talented team in the league, Wallace. I 323 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:52.039 appreciate the phone call. You know. Luke Kennard has been out of the 324 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:56.680 rotation some. He just played five minutes tonight, and he's been struggling since 325 00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:59.680 he came back the second time from the cafe injury. He hasn't looked like 326 00:23:59.799 --> 00:24:03.640 him self. He's been even less aggressive out there, and even when he 327 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:07.200 has taken shots, I think he was one for six Monday against Brooklyn. 328 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:11.079 They tried to get him going, he had some good looks, he couldn't 329 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:14.640 get him to go. It's been like that since he's returned pretty much. 330 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:19.680 Lucanard has just been in a shooting slump, a deep one for his standards, 331 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:25.240 especially Javier and Lahabra heights. Javier, you're on Clipper stock. What's 332 00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:29.400 up? Javier? I mean, what's up that? I think you were 333 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:34.000 taking my call getting like you and Nova Annoy Eagle said, you can't start 334 00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:37.680 the game like that. I mean they lost the gaar on the first quarter. 335 00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:40.880 I mean, you're down nineteen points in the first quarter. I mean, 336 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:45.799 that's that's that's hard to do. To get down nineteen in the opening 337 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:51.920 twelve minutes, that's not easy. Yeah. I mean you can say whatever 338 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:53.960 you want to have, Like Doc Rivers when he was forcing the Clippers, 339 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:57.640 and you know, he had to go like at least he had to Klippers 340 00:24:57.720 --> 00:25:03.359 ready to play every game. He he canning close the games, but he's 341 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:07.640 hand ready to play. And ty Lou he's the opposite. It always come 342 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.200 on flat and that's on the coaching. So at this point, hey, 343 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:15.799 there were plenty of games when the Clippers came out flat on twelve thirty starts 344 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.839 on a weekend, hundred Doc Rivers as well. I gotta at least point 345 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:23.000 that out. Yeah oh yeah those games, yeah, those call clock games. 346 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:26.440 Yeah yeah, but I mean it just I mean, and like the 347 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:30.480 other college said, I don't know what's going on with Lukeinnard, but I 348 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:33.079 mean I'm just kind of disappointed. I Mean, I know he got his 349 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:37.759 injury, but man, he worried for five to sixty minutes and empty kelis 350 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:44.200 we were just running around doing nothing but my last point here I talked to 351 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:48.039 you last time and through the whole year from tanyo, Marcus Morris. If 352 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:52.160 we didn't win the championship, the championship with Marcus Morris, you got nothing 353 00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:56.680 in coming at him again, one for eight, four rebounds, all those 354 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:00.160 thoughts at him in the beginning of the game, with Richie Bullocks shooting those 355 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:07.000 three Who's who's guarding him? Marcus Morris, Yeah, Marcus Morris had a 356 00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:15.440 rough one. If we got to trade Marcus Morris birth two movie tickets, 357 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:19.519 popcorn and the printer something. Alright, let's not be too disrespectful here, 358 00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:23.720 Javier. He's done great things for the Clippers. I appreciate the phone call, 359 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:27.319 though, eight sixty six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight sixty six 360 00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:33.160 ninety eight seven two five seventy. It was a disappointing performance from him from 361 00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:37.359 a lot of guys, because you know, the MAVs turned the ball over 362 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:44.279 eighteen times in just the last three quarters. They weren't great in terms of 363 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:47.640 just getting their shots up because they were their own worst enemy at times, 364 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:52.480 and the Clippers did get some deflections and they had their opportunities. Clippers turned 365 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:55.839 that into just thirteen points though eighteen turnovers. In the thirteen points, you 366 00:26:55.920 --> 00:27:00.799 want at least a point per turnover. They were below that. That's tough. 367 00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:06.720 Clippers get up eight more shots than the Dallas Mavericks. Doesn't matter, 368 00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:11.200 they still lose by six. Let's go to Sean and Inglewood. Sean, 369 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:15.319 what's up, hey, Boddy? How you don't can you hear me? 370 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:19.440 I got you? Sean? Okay, great, Well listen to Adam. 371 00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:23.079 First of all, I just have two points I want to make. The 372 00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:30.839 first one is whatever they have to do to change, whatever they do their 373 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:34.359 rootsine they get going. They just came out. They come up to many 374 00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:41.799 times extremely flat, with the energy just being just almost negative. It was 375 00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:45.640 just like, oh, well, we gotta play a basketball game. It's 376 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.720 not exciting, you know. It was just it was so blog say that 377 00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:53.200 by the time they realize that, okay, we're nineteen points down, you 378 00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:56.680 know. But the other thing I wanted to talk about is that there were 379 00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:02.200 times they did get turnovers. They in that third quarter, they got a 380 00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:07.519 bunch of turnovers. They hand five fast breaks, and now the trend as 381 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:11.680 somebody goes in the corner and shoot at three instead of getting a high percentage 382 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:15.400 lay up and getting filed, and so they were about four times they did 383 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:19.680 that. I think they were just about to take the lead and they pop 384 00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:23.720 it out to somebody that bricks up at three and it doesn't go in where 385 00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:27.279 you would have got a m one or at least filed at least three out 386 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:32.960 those four times, and so to too many times, and everybody does it 387 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:37.799 in the NBA now where they're taking that lower percentage shot even though if a 388 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:45.000 wide open three is a two two and the pain is still better as far 389 00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:48.599 as percentage wise. And I think they got lulled into doing that because Dallas 390 00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:53.440 was hitting a lot of three. So it's a very disappointing loss there. 391 00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:57.039 I mean there's things as that could be pointed here, there and everywhere. 392 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:02.160 I'm not going to do that. I think Zoo was on the board to 393 00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:07.200 like crazy in the first quarter. I hate seeing Zoogle out of the game. 394 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:12.079 And I also think that Jill McGee had a period when he blocked him 395 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:17.519 out four or five shots and that actually also had an effect. All what's 396 00:29:17.559 --> 00:29:19.960 your what's your take on it? Man? Yeah, McGee was good in 397 00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:23.160 his six minutes. He had three blocks, of eats. The Zoobots overall, 398 00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:26.799 I thought really made an impact in the second and third quarters. He 399 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:30.279 finished with nine and ten. I thought they still could have got him more 400 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:36.039 involved offensively. Kauai got it to him with some intent and he got to 401 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:40.960 and and one play. Look, if you got wide open three pointers, 402 00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:45.160 it may be a lower percentage, but some of those guys on wide open 403 00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:49.480 three shoot forty six percent. Some shoot fifty percent, and it's worth an 404 00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:56.279 extra point. So this is a very good three point shooting team Sean. 405 00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:00.519 When they're not falling, it's tough. They still shot thirty six percent. 406 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.880 That's not awful. That's a little bit below what they shoot on the season. 407 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:07.440 But they missed one. It was Nicholas Batoum who missed a good look 408 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:11.640 in the fourth. Paul George missed a good look early in the fourth when 409 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:15.839 Dallas was starting to build up a double digit lead again, And those were 410 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:18.720 shot that they had to have because Dallas was getting them. On the other 411 00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:22.359 end. You talk about three point shooting, well, Dallas was making nurse. 412 00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:26.240 That was a huge difference in this ballgame. All right, eight six 413 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.680 six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven two five 414 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:33.599 seventy is the phone number coming up. Back to your phone calls, and 415 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:38.759 we'll hear from Charles Mockler from Clips and dip. Clippers lose one ten to 416 00:30:38.839 --> 00:30:44.359 one O four to Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks. We didn't have look 417 00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:48.160 at nonstage in this one disappointing loss, to say the least, coming off 418 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:52.519 that successful four and two road trip from the Clippers. This is Clippers sock 419 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.200 here on em five seventy l sports, Oh, Paul George, La Clippers 420 00:30:56.319 --> 00:31:02.480 basketball continue Pikes in its face as he carried the three on the home of 421 00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:06.960 your LA Clippers. Welcome back at the Clippers talk after they fall one ten 422 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:11.960 to one O four to Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks, and the Hits 423 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:21.880 keep on coming, Clibernation, listen up closely. Sham Sharania of The Athletic 424 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:26.759 is reporting that the Brooklyn Nets are trading Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns for 425 00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:33.160 a package including Michael Bridges, Cam Johnson, four first round picks, an 426 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:38.599 additional draft compensation, meaning they didn't have to give up Eton or Booker or 427 00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:45.480 CP three, and Kady is back in the Western Conference and back in the 428 00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:53.480 Pacific Division. Who that it's a major bobshell dropping here as we are just 429 00:31:53.680 --> 00:32:00.480 about fourteen hours away from the trade deadline. Welcome back into for Stock. 430 00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:05.279 I'm at a Moslin. Joining the show right now post game is Charles Mockler 431 00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:08.000 from Clips and Dip. Charles, the floor is yours. You want to 432 00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:13.519 react to the Kevin Durant news. I don't know how to react to the 433 00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:17.640 Kevin Durant news. Adam. I wish he wasn't in the Western Conference. 434 00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:23.680 I think part of this is I'm frustrated because the Clippers they have not made 435 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:29.480 some move to this point that people who wanted them to make the team. 436 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:31.559 You know, we saw some of the same issues that we've been played with 437 00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:37.519 all season happened again tonight against the Mavericks team that didn't have Luca Dodger. 438 00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:39.920 It's sure they had Kyrie Irving, but they didn't have Luka Dodger. They 439 00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:45.039 didn't have their two best defenders. And we just keep seeing the same thing 440 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:47.480 from the Clippers. So I don't know. I guess you know, the 441 00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:52.200 Sun Depp takes a hit, for sure, but when you have Jander eight 442 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:54.799 and Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, and even this version of Chris Paul. 443 00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:59.279 You're still going to be a pretty good basketball team. But you know a 444 00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:01.400 lot of people are saying in the Pacific Division is the best in basketball, 445 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:06.759 and now it just keeps getting better and maybe the best in sports after this. 446 00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:09.200 Jay Crowder is also a part of the deal. He'll be heading back 447 00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:15.200 to who are hitting the full reset button after losing Kyrie Irving who had twenty 448 00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:21.079 four against the Clippers tonight as a member of the Dallas Mavericks. Yeah, 449 00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:24.680 I thought, you know, considering what was at stake and where they dropped 450 00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:29.079 in the standings because of this loss to the Dallas Mavericks, and with just 451 00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.960 twenty four games left, this was one of the toughest, most difficult, 452 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:36.519 frustrating losses of the season. For those reasons. You bring up Charles where 453 00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:40.079 they're still dealing with the same inconsistency out there on the floor and I'm not 454 00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:46.279 sure why a first half where Kawhi Leonard only takes four shots is just bizarre 455 00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:51.079 to watch. But they came out flat and gave up forty one points in 456 00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:54.000 the first quarter to Dallas. And this is a team that has been known 457 00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:59.920 for getting off to slow starts, but lately those comebacks are coming up short 458 00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:04.880 quite often this season than maybe in years past. Are you seeing the same 459 00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:10.800 thing? Yeah, It just like I feel like we're still at game one 460 00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:20.000 almost right Like we're there's a minute restriction now on a PG and Kauai kind 461 00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:22.760 of because of the fact that we played such a short rotation over this road 462 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:28.440 trip, you know, these Eastern Conference teams and stuff like that. I'm 463 00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:31.079 kind of all out of things to really kind of say what the issues are 464 00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:34.800 with the Clippers, because it's nothing new. You know, we're still not 465 00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:37.960 Dee and Robert Cunnington. Luke Kennard, he's kind of, you know, 466 00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:43.760 seems like a shell of his former self. And PG and Kawai just couldn't 467 00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:45.719 get it done tonight, right, Like, it's not that they should have 468 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:49.559 played more. They just weren't very good tonight. And we've seen that happen 469 00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:54.519 a little more often recently, and it just it's just tough. Even during 470 00:34:54.519 --> 00:34:58.920 the wind streak, there wasn't, you know, really an identity formed or 471 00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:02.519 anything like that. We haven't seen a stretch of play where this team looks 472 00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:05.800 like the best team in the NBA, we've only seen it in shifts, 473 00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:08.920 so I mean something's coming in the next twelve hours. I would have to 474 00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:15.800 assume if it's Westbrook on a buyout and Christian Wood for Reggie Jackson, I 475 00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:20.280 guess we'll just keep our heads down and keep going forward. But it's getting 476 00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:22.360 a little frustrating now, and it's still it's pretty incredible that you know, 477 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:27.159 there's only twentieth games left from the season to go. What position do you 478 00:35:27.239 --> 00:35:31.599 think is more important for the Clippers to strengthen their backcourt or their front court. 479 00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:37.800 I think it's got to be the backcourt. We saw Reggie Jackson with 480 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:45.239 just the terrible entry pass turnover today. Guys are exhausted. Paul George can't 481 00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:52.840 run point like we need right now, you know, And I just don't 482 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:54.760 know. It feels like it's fifty one to forty nine in terms of importance. 483 00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:58.960 If I'm being out street because we need someone to play take up some 484 00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:01.639 minutes for Zoo, and we might need someone to give Marcus morriser break. 485 00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:06.119 There's no reason for Marcus Morris to be playing thirty minutes and pursue and not 486 00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:08.199 be closing in a game like this. When the rim is just wide open. 487 00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:14.039 So yeah, I'm gonna go fifty one percent back court, forty nine 488 00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:17.280 percent front court. All right, I'm gonna go positive to end things here. 489 00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:22.039 Norman pal had twenty four. He had ten of his twenty four points 490 00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:25.880 in the fourth quarter. He's been so good for this team over the last 491 00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:30.800 two and a half months now. He's given them exactly what they've asked for 492 00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:36.039 in a trade with the Portland Trail Blazers that you know, you look back 493 00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:37.960 upon. It's just unbelievable to how they were able to get this player. 494 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:47.920 Yeah, I'm at a loss. It's fantastic to see. I hope these 495 00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:52.480 stays right. I think most Clippers fans get nervous at anytime a guy has 496 00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:57.719 a really good game before the trade deadline. But we'll see Clippers lose tonight 497 00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:02.360 one ten to one oh four, or to the Dallas Mavericks as the West 498 00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:07.599 gets that much tougher with Kevin Durant back in it with the Phoenix Sons. 499 00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:10.719 Well, Charles, thanks for doing this tonight. I appreciate it. Tough 500 00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:15.559 one for Clipper Nation, especially with this news coming out as well, but 501 00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:19.440 I'm sure we'll be doing eclipse and double dip tomorrow my friend, Oh, 502 00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:23.559 absolutely for sure, or a tripod tomorrow night. It's the clips and double 503 00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:29.679 dip though outside of you know, the game and the tough analysis after a 504 00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:32.320 loss like this one. Who coming up next? We'll get back to your 505 00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:37.119 phone calls eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine 506 00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:40.920 eight seven two five seventy as the phone number. How you feeling? Cliper 507 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:46.920 Nation Sons got KD and they didn't give up any of the guys in their 508 00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:52.800 big three with eight and CP three and Devin Booker. Unbelievable. Back to 509 00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:54.719 your phone calls next. You're on a five seventy al A Sports. It 510 00:37:55.039 --> 00:38:00.920 was blocked by George. This is LA Clippers basketball. He is a one 511 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:05.480 man king crawl and defensive man on the home of your LA Clippers. I 512 00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:09.199 guess three straight forty point games from Cam Thomas didn't sell KD on staying with 513 00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:15.719 the Nets. Kevin Durant is now a member of the Phoenix Suns and joined 514 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:21.440 CP three, Devin Booker and DeAndre Eighten. On a night where the Clippers 515 00:38:21.480 --> 00:38:24.159 lose one tenth to one oh four to Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks. 516 00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:29.880 Pet's heads are falling off. It is difficult to keep track of some of 517 00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:32.039 the star players in the movement right now. It's still strange to talk about 518 00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:37.360 Kyrie Irving being a Dallas Maverick and now Kevin Durant being a member of the 519 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:43.280 Phoenix Suns. Difficult to process. Tough loss for the Clippers and the West 520 00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:46.400 and the Pacific Division just got a whole lot tougher. Welcome in to Clippers 521 00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:51.039 stock. I'm out of Moslin eight six six ninety seven two seventy eight six 522 00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:55.000 six ninety seven, two seventy It's gonna Lenny in Englewood money. What's up? 523 00:38:57.559 --> 00:39:04.239 Oh man? Where do I start? I told you from the beginning 524 00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:07.760 of the year or something's wrong with this team. They're not playing with the 525 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:12.840 with a sense of urgency and not playing like they got a chip on their 526 00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:16.679 shoulder. Then I told you Reggie Jackson was not a starting point guard on 527 00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:22.119 a championship team, and you you counted me. I told you something's wrong 528 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:24.440 with Luke Kennard, been wrong with Luke Kenard at this point, he needs 529 00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:32.880 to return some money. And now we just flipped from fourth to six and 530 00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:38.199 Phoenix is the favorites to win it off. And this is gonna go down 531 00:39:38.280 --> 00:39:43.599 as one of the worst seasons in Clipper history. And it's looking like that 532 00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:46.519 Paul George trade at Kawhii and Sister we make it's gonna go down one of 533 00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:52.280 the worst tracy as well. They have achieved zero, they have gotten, 534 00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:57.760 They've gotten not sent Bro, all right, I don't know why. I 535 00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:00.880 mean, I know Steve Barmer was resistant to to do what Kawhi affect. 536 00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:06.800 If we would have just lady, what happens if Kawhi doesn't tear his acl 537 00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:12.599 they win it. Yeah, but they have a great chance of winning it. 538 00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:15.280 But let me tell you this, they had it. Let me tell 539 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:19.280 you something. The way way Giannis after Scimble was playing in that series, 540 00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:23.360 he just kept getting He just kept getting better and better right before our eyes. 541 00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:28.119 I mean that final game he had fifty points and twenty rebounds. Bro. 542 00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:31.480 He was great. But we don't We saw what Kawai did to him. 543 00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:36.519 Huh. We saw what Kawai did to him in the Eastern Conference Finals 544 00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:38.960 in twenty nineteen. I don't think it would have been the same. We'll 545 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:45.119 never know. I'm just saying how can you plan for Kawhi Leonard taking a 546 00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:50.159 bad step and tearing his acel. It's just bad luck is very unfortunate. 547 00:40:51.039 --> 00:40:57.880 Well, let me just say this, Norm Powell is untouchable Kawai because we're 548 00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:02.000 never gonna get back, but we want for him Terrence Man and I'm besides 549 00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:07.320 that, they's just going ahead and prepare for a full on rebuilt, because 550 00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:12.280 I you can't sell us that this team is gonna He's gonna do anything. 551 00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:16.119 We can't get by now, we can't get by Dallas we had I did 552 00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:22.320 not see as getting by Joke at Denver the way they They've destroyed us, 553 00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:32.000 and now you got kd CP three Eighten and Book on the same damn team. 554 00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:38.400 It's over, Man's so I'm going to I'm putting my money in Vegas 555 00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:42.719 tomorrow. I don't know how the NBA. I don't know what's the on. 556 00:41:42.920 --> 00:41:46.119 Maybe I don't know what's the ill. We all thought it was over 557 00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:51.480 when Brooklyn brought in James Harden to add to Katie and Kyrie and that didn't 558 00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:59.280 work out. You never know what these things? Am I wrong? No 559 00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:01.559 I ever say that. Did you really see us away? He playing We're 560 00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:05.960 gonna all of a sudden just wake up and start stopping through the West and 561 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:07.599 getting the finals. Let me come on, really, man, I really, 562 00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:14.039 I've seen this team turn things around before. And there's still twelve more 563 00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:19.239 hours left a little bit over that before the trade deadline, and I would 564 00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:22.320 be surprised if the Clippers don't make a move to improve this ball club. 565 00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:27.599 I'd be very surprised. So we'll see, we'll talk on Friday, Okay, 566 00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:31.280 Lenny, all right, man, Clippers lose one ten to one, 567 00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:37.119 O four to the Dallas Mavericks on a night, or the Phoenix Suns end 568 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:45.679 up with Kevin Durant to add to the value team Clipper saw in the Western 569 00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:49.480 Conference finals a couple of years ago without Kawhi Leonard took him to six. 570 00:42:49.639 --> 00:42:52.519 But yeah, this is going to be a new super team in this league. 571 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:59.000 KD with Devin Booker is about as lethal as it gets, those two 572 00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:04.480 with their shot make ability. But again he had Kyrie Irving and that situation 573 00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:07.760 didn't work out. It's a war of attrition. Healthiest team goes on to 574 00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:12.480 win it. Right now, the Clippers, though, they gotta worry about 575 00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:16.480 themselves and the way they're playing with twenty four games left, they have to 576 00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:21.639 find some sort of consistency through the rest of the season. The good news 577 00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:23.800 is they've got a lot more home games left to play. They got a 578 00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:30.239 lot more days off to build up some of that chemistry through practice and preparation 579 00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:35.079 and to get this thing right. And we'll see on Friday what this roster 580 00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:37.119 looks like. They fall by six, though, tonight, Before we get 581 00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:40.480 out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization. No It 582 00:43:40.599 --> 00:43:45.480 Eagle, Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawler, no Big Brother, Jake Warner's night, 583 00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:51.480 Mike Noo filling in doing a terrific job with us here our engineer in 584 00:43:51.559 --> 00:43:55.760 downtown Los Angeles. Big days to the listeners, the callers, Katie Newton, 585 00:43:55.800 --> 00:44:00.800 our producer. Back into bank until day with the pregame show starting at 586 00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:05.239 six thirty when the Clippers are taking on Milwaukee Bucks. Right back here, 587 00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:08.039 I'm out of Boslin. We'll talk to you then. This has been Clippers 588 00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:14.400 Talk, a postgame conversation about your La Clippers with Adam Oslap. If you 589 00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:17.719 like the show, subscribe to Clippers Talk on the iHeart Radio, wapp or 590 00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:23.119 wherever you podcast. 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