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one twenty nine to one oh seven to the Thunder. Welcome into your postgame
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But first we're going back out to your radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo
Jimenez from Oklahoma City, Carlo. In this one, there were some warning
signs early on with the cold three point shooting from the Clippers, the hot
three point shooting from the OKC thund and that never really changed for the most
part in this ball game. I think that's a great point at him,
because you thought at some point this Thunder team is gonna cool down and the
Clippers will catch fire. But they just never did. They never came around
like we expected them to. Like they did in Golden State, where all
of a sudden, the page turned to the fourth quarter and the Clippers lit
the book on fire. That didn't happen here in this one. The Thunder
were great from outside the arc. I thought they picked their spots well seventeen
for thirty five and forty nine percent, and meanwhile the Clippers they just couldn't
hit them late. And it's not a mis or make league. I don't
think you can boil down this game to that. Feels like the Thunder played
with great energy. They pushed the ball in transition, they dominated in the
paint, and they got eight offensive rebounds. But the Clippers have to figure
out when it's not going from three, you gotta finish in the paint.
And that's where I think the issue was in this one. The Clippers had
too many bunnies, too many good looks inside the restriction area, and then
we're unable to just put it through the rim. That's what was concerning for
me because we were holding on to the fact that in that first quarter the
Clippers had twenty four points in the they were down by just two because of
that, even though Okayse had seven threes in that first quarter, that would
swing the other way eventually, And as you mentioned, the Clippers were missing
easy ones at the basket, some of them well contested by Okase, but
the Clippers weren't going up strong enough. The end of that third quarter when
OKC made that run, you saw a mere Coffee go up with an underhand
layup after a turnover, and that's just not going to get it done against
this physical OKAC team. Yeah, I think the Clippers thought they could get
down the lane with these but check Homgrim by the way, is the second
best rim protector in the NBA, and he's only a rookie, and he
made his presence felt on that end. He finished with three blocks. Jdubb
also had three, and the entire starting lineup at him for this Thunder team
combined for all eleven of the Thunder blocks in this one. They averaged six
a game. Their presence around the rim was excellent, and the Clippers had
to get there with a little more force, a little more physicality. I
thought, you know, there was a couple plays that maybe they didn't get
a whistle. We saw the replay on TV. I Eataz going up literally
bleeding from his left arm and didn't get a call. But there needs to
be more of an emphasis for the Clippers getting downhill, finishing around the rim.
I think that is a great game to start the second half because it
wakes you up right. I mean, when Jay dub dunk sit looks towards
the crown does a victory laugh. Is a team you might see late in
the playoffs if the Clippers can make that run. And this was a wake
up call a lot of the Clippers' weaknesses that stumbled into the All Star Break
at HM. I think we're a little bit exposed tonight. They got a
lot of work on and the great part is they got tomorrow to work on
it. Yeah. Coach Lou will no doubt have his squad's attention after this
one, and they are in Memphis tomorrow. That's feeling like almost a must
win game right now if you want to be a top three seed in the
West. With how tight things are in the standings. You can't lose to
that Memphis Grizzlies team. Maybe a silver lining is Kawhi Leonard didn't have to
play much in that fourth quarter, and he was brilliant. Starting four or
four one point, was eight of nine, finished with twenty points on just
thirteen shots. Kawhi definitely care his weight. Yeah, I mean he had
the backpack on today. He was making sure his team was in the game
throughout that third quarter and I'm really forcing his way getting to his spots,
knocking down jumpers. Twenty points on nine for twelve, but he was nine
for ten from insign the arc and not as many of those were at the
rim. It was a lot of mid range wizardry from the claw. I
thought he was great in this one. Norman Powell another excellent performance off the
match. I mean, what more can you say? Nineteen points, four
for nine from three. He had a third of the team's threes in this
one. The Clippers, they didn't get that production that we wanted to see
from Paul George. I know it's something you talked about on Clips and Dip
and we'll Updank brought it up. It's like, how is PG going to
get back into a rhythm. I'd love to see him. I liked how
they got to him early at him. I'd love to see him get to
the rim a little more. See if George can get to the free throw
line. Did not show a free throw tonight. I think that could really
get Paul George going in games he plays well, he gets to that charity
strike and aggressive. Paul George is our favorite Paul George. We'll see if
we see that tomorrow in Memphis against the Grizzlies. Tipped time, same time,
five pm with your pregame show starting at four, Carlo Jimenez. Great
call is always. We'll talk to you tomorrow in Memphis. Safe travels,
my friend. Thank you so much, Adam. It was great to hear
your voice. So glad we're back. We got a game tomorrow. Let's
go, We back go, We back up, and the Clippers are looking
for a little bit of payback after this loss. They fall one twenty nine
to one O seven in OKC. To the thunder More postgame show coming up
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they have lost the head to head tiebreaker. They remain in the three spot
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talk for you six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy as. The Clippers dropped a thirty six to eighteen
on the season and simply did not get enough from two of the Big three.
James Harden came alive with eight of his seventeen points on the fourth quarter,
but it was too little, too late. Paul George just six of
sixteen with fourteen points. Kawhi Leonard did his part. He had twenty.
He started eight of nine from the field, his only miss was from three,
finished nine of thirteen those twenty points I mentioned, and had it going.
Someone else has got to come to the rescue and help him out.
He's not gonna play forty eight minutes. He only played thirty one That is
a positive considering there on the front end of a back to back, but
it's also because the Clippers got blown out in that fourth quarter and o case,
he ended up pouring it on, winning the fourth thirty three to twenty
five, winning the ball game one twenty nine to one oh seven. He
was key being the Clippers in it until they got down by fourteen heading into
the fourth and of the third was a mess from this team. I have
to say that and be accurate with it. They missed too many layups,
they missed too many threes. Then heading into the fourth trying to, I
don't know, get a ten point shot. I don't believe they have that
line even with how far out Steph Curry, Damian Lillard and some of these
guys can shoot in the NBA. Now, when the Clippers were going for
one shot to get them back into the ballgame, that can't happen. As
Carlo Jimenez said, you got to build it brick by brick. So they
were missing three pointers when they desperately needed them. They were missing layups when
they needed those as well. You miss those two shots, as the Clippers
did frequently after the first quarter, especially where they had twenty four points in
the paint and then could not get things to fall within the restricted area.
You miss shots like that when three balls aren't falling for you, and that's
how you get a lopsided victory in favor of the OKC Thunder. They shot
seventeen thirty five from the outside. That's forty nine percent. They shot fifty
six percent from the field. The Clippers in the first half were at fifty
two percent from the floor. They finished just at forty four percent, so
a precipitous drop for a team that was shooting the ball well enough, just
not from three in the first half. And by the time some of those
three pointers started to fall in the fourth quarter, it was too little,
too late, and they consistently were blowing layups and not going up strong enough.
Clippers lose a tough one considering the standings, considering it was a battle
for the two spot, and it was the rubber match in this best of
three regular season series between these two and the OKC Thunder now have the advantage.
Clippers fall final score one twenty nine to one to seven in OKC to
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I guess the good news is this Carlo mentioned postgame. Clippers got to
get right back up off the mat and get after it tomorrow in Memphis against
the Grizzlies, who are struggling, beating down missing a lot of players,
including John Morant. Feels like a lost season for them. Clippers cannot overlook
that squad though they played hard. You know who they beat right before the
All Star break at home, the Milwaukee Bucks. Clippers gotta win that game
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Adam Ousley, the big three was missing in okasee Is. The Clippers fall
one twenty nine to one oh seven, and outside of Kawhi Leonard and Norman
Powell and a little bit of Big Zoo, this Clippers team didn't look right
coming out of the All Star break. They dropped to thirty six and eighteen
on the season. As they lose big to the Thunder and lose a big
tie breaker, it first goes head to head in the standings. You o
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coming up on the show. You're gonna hear from coach Lou post game and
the players will Updyke of clips in dip Fame will join me here even though
it's a loss. Chuck is out tonight, Will is in. I felt
like a lot of guys were still checked out, chucked out, checked out.
James Harden showed up late, too little, too late. He entered
the fourth quarter with nine points, finished with seventeen, knocked down a couple
of big three pointers. But they just made it a little bit more respectable
than maybe what it would have been, and they still lost big once nine
one oh seven. Paul George not good enough. Six of sixteen, fourteen
points, two of six from the outside. He's got to play better.
Kawhi Leonard needs his teammates and his stars to show up. That is part
of the deal. Because he did in a big game, as he always
does. Kawhi started eight of nine from the field and didn't miss a shot
that was inside the arc. It was just a mid range master. He
only finished with twenty because he only played thirty one minutes and only took thirteen
shots. Could have got up a few more, but they weren't winning this
game with just one guy. You look at, okay, see their entire
starting five was in double figures. And then the guy they brought in to
start the second half in Isaiah Joe Well, he had nine and a couple
of big shots in the third quarter, a couple of dunks, back door
cuts. But do you look at it, SGA thirty one points. I
want to say had nineteen of those in the first half. J Dubb eighteen,
Chet Holmgrom seventeen, ten boards, three blocks, Lou Dort had nineteen.
Josh Giddy ended up with twelve. Clippers weren't good enough defensively, but
I think their offense affected their defense. When you're missing three pointers and it
looks more respectable at the end. In the box score, they went twelve
of thirty two from three turns out. Some of those were inconsequential though.
In the fourth quarter after missing multiple three pointers. It was a mere Coffee
and Paul George going for home run shots. Down fourteen to start the fourth,
both of them, I think combined to miss four to three pointers in
the first couple of minutes of the fourth. It was only a fourteen point
lead. I mean the Clippers literally just came back down fourteen in the fourth
quarter in Golden State in San Francisco against the Warriors just about a week ago,
and they were chucking him up from the outside. Maybe it was because
they kept missing on the interior in the restricted area. Wasn't just Russell Westbrook
blown layups and he was missing too, but a lot of guys Norman Powell,
Emir Coffee, Paul George, of Itta Zubats, who I think played
well overall, got to twenty nine minutes. He's no longer on a minute
restriction. Had thirteen and twelve, but just five of twelve shooting. Some
of that you credit ok see young live bodies, chet holme re at the
rim. See he's had a game where he's had nine blocks. Against the
Denver Nuggets, he had three. He can test everything. You gotta know
that coming in you gotta go at him. You have to finish through contact,
you have to go up strong. Didn't see enough of that. End
of the third quarter was a disaster by the Clippers. Mislayup after mislayup,
a mere coffee, going up after a steal on a turnover after the Clippers
has just given it away with a little underhand layup. That can't happen.
I think after that, Norton Powell missed one. Russ missed multiple layups in
the third when nobody was there. He got blocked by the rim. You
can't have those mistakes in a game of this magnitude. You can't have those
mistakes if you're trying to be a top three seed. James Harden said it
yesterday to Lot Murray. We had them on pregame. They can't beat themselves
anymore. They can't just rely on their talent. Okay, see he's very
talented too. The team's surrounding them in the standings are very talented. It's
more about execution than then you fall back on talent. Clippers haven't been executing
good enough on either end for I'm gonna say their last five games now.
There's still plenty of time. There's twenty eight games left. But this was
consequential. I can't hype up this game and say how big it is and
then try to downplay it because the Clippers lost. Not gonna be disingenuous,
two faced talking on both sides of my mouth. This was meaningful and it
means if they're tied with OKAC at the end of the season, which they
very well might be, OKAC will be above them in the standings. They
have the head to head tiebreaker that is rough and the other team ahead of
them in the Minnesota Timberwolves, in that one spot in the West currently.
Well, they won both games so far against the Clippers, they still have
two more to go against them, But then you look at the team right
behind them, in the Denver Nuggets. They lead the season series two games
to one. At best, the Clippers can tie them and then I believe
it goes to conference record. So another game to play against Denver huge,
Two more to play against Minnesota huge, But that's it. Against Okac.
They won the season series two games to one. So you thought there'd be
more of a sense of urgency, more focus, more crisplay, especially after
the first quarter, even though the Clippers were down thirty five to thirty three.
I saw encouraging signs. Okac had to hit seven three pointers in that
first quarter. Clippers, I want to say, had two, but they
had twenty four points in the paint that kept them in it. They dominated
there, and I felt like, Okay, as the game moves along,
they'll start knocking down more three pointers. Okay, s will regress to the
mean. They shot about fifty percent from the outside, seventeen to thirty five.
The Clippers just twelve of thirty two, and it wasn't even that good.
They knocked down some late during garbage time. The Clippers had twenty four
points in the paint in the first quarter. They finished with forty two.
They couldn't even double that the last three quarters of the game. They went
twenty one to forty eight shooting wise. When it came to attempts in the
paint, when I mentioned missing layups, missing a lot of I'm not gonna
say they were all gimmes. Some of them were. But shots you have
to make against Oka se shots they made the last time out against Okac when
they beat them, I believe nine a month ago. The thunder. Meanwhile,
in that first quarter and they did most of their damage from the outside.
Now, they ended up in the first twelve minutes having just ten points
in the paint. By the end of this ball game, the Thunder had
fifty four. There's sixth in points in the paint and they scored forty four
of them in the last three quarters, when the Clippers ended up having what
eighteen. That's not good enough. You got to execute in these games.
Your margin for error is too slim. Kawhi showed up, not enough guys
did outside of him. It is a tough loss for the Clippers. It's
guys, I'm falling. They got Memphis tomorrow. Feels like a well,
as close as you can get to a must win in a regular season game.
You can't lose to Memphis. They're one of the worst teams in the
league because they're just so depleted with injury riddled roster right now. Lost Steven
Adams before the season started, and then they traded him. They lost John
Morant. Everybody's out pretty much. The good news Kawhi only played thirty minutes,
Paul George only thirty five, James Harden only twenty nine, Zubots only
twenty nine. I hope they caught their wind their second wind and they're ready
to go tomorrow. Because the Clippers look gassed at times coming out of the
All Star break. That's a little bit concerning. We're looking for fresh bodies.
Zubots look good, Kawhi look good, Paul George, Maybe I'm reading
too much into it. Wasn't so much having tired legs, just missing shots.
He did go to the basket, some didn't get rewarded, didn't attempt
a free throw. But outside of Norton Powell and what he did in that
second quarter with fourteen of his nineteen points, and really, Brandon Boss didn't
have an eight points late, you know, excuse me, that was a
mere coffee. Brandon Boss won with four points late. Emir had his moments,
but the bench didn't give him enough. Mayson Plumley wasn't very good eight
minutes, two points, pretty much a non factor. Russ was one for
nine and may have missed five layups. I'm not kidding. He missed two
threes. Not sure I put this out at follow out of may On X.
Why they ran a play or Kawhi was looking for him for a corner
three. That's not his forte, that's not what he does he's just been
missing so many layups. And you know what those layups are, those miss
laps, they're turnovers. And in this game, the Oklahoma City Thunder had
thirty fast break points the Clippers just ten. They capitalized when the Clippers turned
it over. I know it's not technically a turnover when you miss a layup,
but when you smoke a layup like that, it's a five on four
going the other way. That's where it is. And the Clippers got beat
up in that area multiple times. Russe would miss a layup, it ends
up in a three pointer on the other side. Okay, see, he
had numbers found the open man. Wiggans knock one down, they make you
pay. So you got to play much closer to mistake free basketball against a
team like this. I was asked a couple of months ago on Clips and
Dip we got will Updyke coming on in a little bit here, who do
you fear most in the West, And of course everybody said Denver. Second
to that, I said, okay, see, because they're younger, they're
quicker to the basketball. They drive the basketball more than anyone in the league.
Their drives per game are up much higher by a wide margin than whoever
is second right now. And they also after tonight probably lead the league in
three point percentage. They were right behind the Clippers by fractions of a percent
heading into this one, and the Clippers were just twelve to thirty two,
that's thirty seven and a half percent. The OKC thunder were seventeen to thirty
five that's forty eight point six percent, So they might have taken the crown
of being the best three point shooting team. You do those two things,
well, you're gonna be be in a lot of ball games. You're gonna
win a lot of ball games. Okase is now thirty eight and seventeen game
and a half up on the Clippers. I'll update you on the standings coming
up. We'll have postgame audio from the players. The Clippers lose one twenty
nine to one oh seven in Oklahoma City. You gotta get back after it
tomorrow. In Memphis. You're listening to Clippers stock. You're seven LA Sports
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twenty nine to one oh seven. In OKC to the thunder. I'm out
of Mosland. Consequential loss for your Los Angeles Clippers as they lose the head
to head tiebreaker against OKAC. Can't build a game like that and then not
talk about it post game. It was a huge game in the Western Conference
standings. Clippers needed it, couldn't get it. Didn't look good coming out
of the All Star break. I thought there were good size in the first
quarter. Even though they were struggling and gave up thirty five points, they
were right there. They had twenty four points in the paint. You have
twenty four points in the pain in the first quarter, I expect you to
end up with sixty points in the paint. And that had been a recipe
for success for this Clippers team, and it really seemed like a point of
emphasis going back to the start of the Grammy road trip, even the game
rap per fowred against the Lakers. All of a sudden, they were averaging
almost sixty five points in the paint for about five straight games, and they
were going downhill in the first quarter, but somehow okay See turned the tide.
I don't know if they got into the Clipper's head with a couple of
blocks. Chet's tough with just throwing bodies at them, getting hands up because
the Clippers shot away, and then even when they went downhill they missed them.
They missed easy looks. Russell Westbrook can't go one of nine when almost
all those shots, seven of them are at the basket. He started things
off with a nice reverse and then missed everything else. Lorren Powell missed some
a mere coffee into the third quarter. And then you have Paul George who
was just six of sixteen, and I saw this number over his last thirteen
games. PG. Thirteen is shooting just twenty five percent from three. It
was two of six tonight. On the season, I think he's still above
forty percent, which tells you how good he had been and how efficient he
was looking. But that high efficiency offense and the Clippers just putting up one
twenty with ease every night. Part of that was because catch and shoot.
Paul George was knocking everything down from three and looked like Michael Porter Junior on
steroids next to Kawhi Leonard and James Harden. So friend Justin Wilson would say,
James Harden, ye know, I mentioned him getting some buckets in the
fourth quarter. He needed to get him going earlier. They need to play
with more desperation earlier. But he had just to assist to three turnovers.
That's probably his worst assist to turnover ratio as a Clipper so far. When
I say probably, it's seems pretty obvious because I think he's still what eight
to two on the season as a Clipper assists a turnover ratio that's four to
one. That's great, that's stellar, that's elite. Yeah, he's at
eight point four assists to two turnovers per game or two and a half per
game. That's special tonight. To assist the three turnovers, you can say
some of it Clippers missing shots can't get the assists if they don't knock him
down. But I don't think he was sitting the table like he normally does.
I don't think he was being the prototypical floor general that he can be.
But enough of me. I want to hear from the head coach post
game after the Clippers suffer a blow in the standings. They had a chance
to get up to the two seed, and now they have lost the head
to head tiebreaker to the OKC Thunder and SGA here was coach lou post game.
We did a great job getting the ball in the paint and the scoring
effective the rest of the game. It just felt like the paint closed off
the third corner, got tons of blocks on the stills and coming around away
with the game of what'll worked early and why if it was when the teammates
there throwing off for that success. Yeah, I think, you know,
starting the game, like I said, we have some early success attacking the
paint, making the right play, and then the second half of that first
quarter we turned the ball over, you know, which allowed them to get
out and transition and get some easy baskets. We know coming into the game
they give up the twenty ninth most threes because they're going to pack the paint.
They're going to defend the paint first, and they thirtieth and give it
up corner threes. And so we had a lot of possessions and plays where
we got in there, we didn't make the right play, so they were
able to give block shots and turnovers. For the most part, I thought
we did a good job, you know, I thought we know executed a
game playing offensively. Defensively have been a lot better, but offensively, Like,
you know, we got some shots at the rim. I think it
was eight for twenty four at the end of the third quarter at the rim.
You know, just not finishing in the paint. Zoo had a few,
you know, dunks of at the rim. Russ had a few layups
and just getting there and attacking, and we weren't able to finish. Yeah,
they played good tonight and uh we didn't play our best game. Oh
they shot took my things something a month was sent from the fewer the third
something took them from three? Was that them making shots of that just your
defense not being what it needed to be a combination of both and so what
des be done now going forward to I guess by that get your defense back,
maybe not play Okay, see again abound, but you don't three.
No that they have the two what type breaker? That's all right? That's
okay. Yeah, does you know at this stage of things? No,
right, what can what? What came the team? Uh do? I
mean you you saw like they were able to get those runouts and everything,
like what can what can team to do? It's just a matter of execution
or or I mean run Yeah, the runouts, like I said, turn
the basketball over. So when you turn the ball over, it's like a
pick six. I mean you're just not you not gonna be able to get
back and challenge those And so you know, you turn the ball over against
his team, they thrive in transition. And when you turn the ball over,
like I said, they put you in your heels. They score at
a high clip. So just taking care of the basketball. I don't think
they got a lot of runouts. Just in our half court offense when we
took care of the basketball and you know, got the right shots. It's
just more so on the turnovers when you took your starughters off for them at
least that conscious of yeh, the game tomorrow night. Yeah, we'll make
this up. Just wasted minutes. Is that an easy decision for you to
make? It is for me. I don't care about them, but it's
easy for me. I mean, you can cut it to four six and
still lose the game, and it's wasted minutes to me. So once they
scored went up sixteen, you know we're four and a half, it was
just like it's over, you know, so get ready for tomorrow. We
cut out of game, you know, healthy and get ready. You know
for Memphis, yeah, it was over. I trust coach lew in that
situation. He waved the white flag with about three and a half four minutes
left, putting Brandon Boston a mere coffee. Terrence Man was out there,
made some plumbley some of the backups. They weren't gonna pull this one out
against ok Se, and the score did get a little bit inflated late with
some runouts by ok Se and some donks during garbage time. It was a
little bit closer, but they were still down fourteen heading into the fourth.
The one thing Coach Lou mentioned was he had the number. Of course,
after three quarters they were eight of twenty fourth a rim. So he said
the game plan was there, they tried to execute it. It's not that
guys weren't taking shots there, it just weren't making them. There's a difference
between effort and execution. The effort was there, the mindset was there.
They couldn't give him a fall. The execution wasn't. And that's how you
fall in a game like this to a really good OKC thunder team. So
look, coach Lou, he's not concerned about losing the tie breaker. He
did mention maybe just don't play. Okay, see again, maybe it's a
bad matchup. Like I said before, I felt like after Denver, because
they are the champs, the ragning champs, and they have had the Clippers
number for years. The team that I was most concerned about a couple months
ago in the West. Okay, see, they're ahead of schedule. Thought
they'd be good this year. I didn't think they'd be top three now top
two in the West. Good, thought that maybe top five. We'll update
you in the Western Conference standings coming up. We'll have Will Updike on from
clips in Dip next here on Clippers Talk. After they lose one twenty nine
to one oh seven in OKC to the Thunder. A rude awakening coming out
of the All Star break. Hey, they got Memphis tomorrow, gotta have
it. Tip time at five pregame at four. More Clipper stock next year
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Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers lose one twenty nine to one
oh seven to the Thunder in Oklahoma City, welcome back in. I'm Ada
Oslin. This is Clippers talk. Believe we'll have Will Updyke coming up in
just mirror moments from now. We heard Coach Lou earlier and he talked about,
well, the lack of makes, the lack of bunnies falling through the
cylinder for the Clippers, just mislayups misshots at the rim, the downhill pressure
was there converting those shots, well, that was a whole another ordeal,
and the Clippers really struggled, couldn't get him to go. They were eight
for twenty four. Coach Lu said he believed heading into the fourth quarter within
the restricted area at the rim, if you don't shoot it well from three
and then have that after the first quarter they had where they had twenty four
points in the paint, yeah, it's gonna be a lopsided loss. Typically
that's how it goes. Let's check in with Will Updike and see if he
can hear us here. Will you got me? It's really cool. The
films aren't working tonight, and the engineer told us that it would work on
the hotline, but hey, what's working? The Clippers loss one's twenty nine
to one oh seven. This was a tough loss on a few different layers.
One, you're coming out of the All Star break. You want to
build some momentum. We asked lat Murray earlier in the pregame show if there
was gonna be any carryover over what happened in Sam Francisco last Wednesday. He
thought, you know, the one thing you could speak to is it galvanized
the team that fourth quarter. They had coach lou being ejected, Mayson Plumbley
getting into it with some of the players, some fouls not going their way,
and they rallied around it and they came back down fourteen in the fourth
quarter like they were tonight. It wasn't to be. But against the Golden
State Warriors, they pulled it off and they had won five straight. They
looked great heading into that game against Clippers tonight. I still saw guys getting
frustrated, and there were some bad calls. It's not why the Clippers lost.
Didn't help the beats of Zubots let it get into his head a little
too much. His third foul that was a clean block on Chet and it
was a late call. I don't know what was going on there. He
couldn't get calls on the other end, I think it was Jay Dubb who
stripped him going up for a layup. Ondn't you know he got blocked.
He didn't like it was late to get back. Was arguing with the official.
You gotta put that stuff behind you if that supreme focus, laser focus
is going to be there in the last twenty eight games. Now down the
stretch they come, you just can't get into it with the officials, or
at least let the head coach get into it with them. That's one thing.
Big Zoo and others getting back late on defense because they didn't get a
foul on one end. You can't do that against Oklahoma City. You're not
gonna survive against them. Closely talked about the turnovers. Those are costly against
a team like this. They had thirty fast breakpoints. He talked about the
number of turnovers. I also brought up all those mislayups basically being turnovers just
compounds things. They aren't technically there in the box score. But trust me,
those are five on fours for OKC and they've been happening too frequently.
With Russ, He's got to finish at the rim. If he's not finishing
at the rim. I don't know if he can be in there and maybe
you dust off bones Highland. I don't know. I love what Russ is
brought to this team, but he had a brutal game and it's been like
that for a couple of months. At the rim, he's not converting.
We're talking being blocked by the rim multiple times in the third quarter going for
lamps. It wasn't okay. See the rim was going with Tumbo on him,
waving the fingers saying not in my house. That's just too costly.
Those misses, they are just something that can't happen in a game against the
OKC Thunder and the Clippers. And it wasn't just Russ. Believe me.
I can't say that enough, but he has had a tendency to miss these
shots, in particular at the rim recently. I don't think it's contagious.
The OKC Thunder were good building that moat and the Clippers didn't break through it.
While we have a moment, let's pause ten seconds for station identification here
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once twenty nine is a one to seven to the thunder. You're not making
threes, you're not making layups, You're not getting victories, plain and simple.
You're not getting help from two of the big three in Paul George and
James Harden showing up in a game of this magnitude, Kawhi Leonard did.
Where were his friends? He's got to get some help, all right.
I looked at the way he was playing, and you could see it was
I don't know if it's playoff mode activated or KAUHYI just sensing the moment,
knowing it's a big game, tiebreaker on the line. He was ready,
he was engaged. James Harden and Paul George a little bit too passive,
not assertive enough. I just can't believe James Harden ended up with just two
assists to three turnovers. That is unreal. You know, on bad games
he has eight assists and maybe five turnovers. So some of those I'm sure
miss layups, miss three pointers uncharacteristically. Misshots are bad shots from the Clippers
that don't normally happen, and they normally fall. But you gotta give okse
credit their top four offense, their top four defense. They do it on
both ends. One of the best teams in the league for a reason.
We just know the Clippers are better than this. They've beaten o case,
They've gotten up against them in a huge game just a month ago at home,
Kawhi with the big block on SGA Paul George with nineteen of his thirty
eight points in the fourth quarter. I didn't see that fire in their eyes,
and you need it, especially in Oka. See they haven't won there
since twenty twenty. It's maybe the best home court advantage in the league.
That crowd is on top of you. Their fans are great. Feel like
they took the mantle from Arco Arena back in the day of being the loudest
known crowd. Small market. The city embraces OKAC Thunder, that that is
their baby, and they let it be known. Russell Westbrook got a great
ovation for all the work he did there soon as he came into the ballgame.
Smart basketball fans they don't forget, and the Clippers they didn't look up
to the challenge of not just facing the Okac Thunder, but being in the
lions Den, being in that environment. So tomorrow and Memphis, Hey,
they won two in a row. They had lost nine in a row before
that. But the Grizzlies have won two in a row. Heading into the
All Star Break, they had beaten Houston, solid win, and they've beating
the Milwaukee Bucks. And you could say what you want about Waukee struggling so
far with Doc Rivers, and say whatever you want about the situation between ext
Clippers arguing about Doc and taking accountability and all these things. That's a huge
win for that Grizzlies team. That's probably the best win of the season.
They will be riding high. They will believe that they can beat the Clippers
tomorrow night. Second, I have a back to back. It's not gonna
be easy. Those never are, but the Clippers have to have it.
Then you come back home. You take on the Kings on Sunday, the
Lakers on Wednesday. Two massive ballgames they all are, but especially Pac DIV
contests against a team in Sacramento trying to climb up the standings. Same with
the Lakers trying to get out of the plan. So I'm not trying to
put too much into the game. I'm trying to put the appropriate amount and
It was a bad loss for the Clippers. I have to level with you.
Tiebreaker was on the line, top two seat on the line, and
they didn't come through. And outside of the first quarter, I just didn't
like the way they looked for the most part. Now they were only down
two and a half, they were battling. They just felt like they were
hanging around and maybe okay see felt that too. If they got into rhythm,
made a run in that third quarter like they did, they could put
the Clippers away. And that's kind of what happened. Clippers just weren't sounded
enough on either end. Coach Lou didn't like the defensive effort. That a
lot of the offense was just not getting the ball in the hole, not
executing. But obviously, if you're not doing that, you got to play
elite defense. The Clippers didn't. They let a lot of backdoor cuts,
dunks, eight offensive rebounds they had eleven themselves. But there were some big
buckets at inopportune times, timely shots for the Okac thunder that the Clippers could
not stop. They put them away in the fourth. They win once twenty
nine to one oh seven. We'll take a quick time out. We'll come
back, we'll close things out. We'll update you in the Western Conference standings
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fans. This is LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on
the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers losing OKAC one twenty nine till one to
seven to the thunder. Heard from coach Lou earlier, he ain't shook.
That's what you need from your leader. But I will give you an update
on the Western Conference standings here because here's the thing. The Clippers are just
a half game up on the Denver Nuggets. They're in the four spot,
Clippers in that three spot game and a half back of OKC. But really,
because the tiebreaker, it's two and a half games back. Currently Minnesota
has the tiebreaker over them. There's two more games to go. The Clippers
would have to win both of them for it then to I believe, be
about conference record after head to head, that's a tough road to ho This
Clippers team is in a precarious position right now because those three teams surrounding them,
Denver behind them, ok SE, Minnesota in front of them. They
all have much easier schedules for mating than the Clippers. The Clippers coming into
this game had these seventh toughest schedule left, and that doesn't even account for
the fact that they're playing seventeen games in March. Still, how concentrated those
games are. Denver, OKC, Minnesota, they all have bottom ten schedules
remaining. So the Clippers are gonna have to be on their game, not
just tomorrow against a Memphis team that's twenty and thirty six and two and eight
in their last ten games. But they just beat Milwaukee, They're gonna have
to get quality wins the rest of the way, some of them on back
to backs. I think they have seven more instances of back to backs.
They're gonna have to beat Minnesota. They got one more game left against Denver,
two more against Minnesota. You gotta win those. It's asking a lot.
They could easily drop down to the fourth spot. They have a little
more distance between themselves and the Pelicans. The Pelicans are three games behind the
Clippers in the five spot. Dallas's four games behind them in the sixth spot.
But March is coming. Winter is coming. Seventeen games in March,
seventeen games in thirty one days. It's one of the toughest treaches I've ever
seen. What's the phrase into a dome? Can't come soon enough before we
get out of here tonight and get ready for tomorrow. Clippers in Memphis Tip
time five pregame at four. Let's get to producer Katie Newton start things off
of this. The phone issue not your fault. It's not your fault.
Well, I know it's my fault. You know what it is? She
got real upset, picked it up, through it against the wall. I
was like, don't do it. I hold smashed it. Okay, It's
just like when you hit the VCR back in the day or slap the top
of the old original nes kind of like take out the cartridge that works,
right. I did try to unplug it? He did? You had plugged
unplugged the router? Did you try it? So? Is the first question
they asked. Well, we got a question coming from Katie. Because this
is Katie Newton's casual NBA corner. She's not the biggest NBA fans, so
she will throw a variety of questions my way and hope that you know I'm
some genius. Stump the swab going on here. What's up, Katie?
What's the question? So? I think it was in the third quarter you
and Carlo were talking and you're I said something about like you couldn't wait until
the fourth quarter because then and some players could go in like are they only
allowed a certain number of minutes each quarter? Well, they're not going to
play a guy for twenty minutes straight or something like that. Typically, your
starters they might play eight minutes in a quarter. Sometimes they'll play the entire
quarter. But I think the Clippers were sensing that this one could be getting
away from us. So Kawhi Leonard came in around I don't know, a
five or six minute mark of the fourth quarter. They're down by fifteen plus.
They gave it a shot. They couldn't make any distance or close the
distance against the Memphis or Memphis Grizzlies tomorrow against the OKC thunder tonight, and
I was it. They pulled the plug on the starters on trying to come
back on this one with about three and a half four minutes left. So
not a bad question. He just can't run guys into the ground when you're
on the front end of a back to back, especially and you're down big
against a quality squad on the road, the likelihood they were going to be
able to overcome that deficit. Let's just say, just pet your some money
would say, follow up question, is anyone on a minute's restriction right now?
Uh? Not? To my knowledge. It came out earlier today,
and that is good news. I'm glad you brought it up. If it's
a zoobots no longer on a minutes restriction. Doesn't seem like Paul George or
Kawhi Leonard are either. And we're hoping everybody came out healthy of this game.
Look to be that way, cross your fingers. I got another one
tomorrow against the scrappy Memphis Grizzlies team and guys still playing for something, because
when you have a bunch of starters out, it's a huge opportunity for those
backups on the Grizzlies, So Clippers cannot overlook them whatsoever. But it came
down to this tonight. Twenty four points in the paint in the first quarter
for the Clippers, eighteen the last three quarters, just nine of thirty shooting
the rest of the way. Clippers lose one twenty nine to one oh seven
to the thunder As I mentioned, we'll get back after it to here with
Clippers countdown starting at four. Clippers back after it tip off at five in
Memphis. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank the
Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, no ego, Carlo Jmenez on
the call. Great to be back with Carlo. Great to be back with
Katie Newton here in the bank, our producer. We'll see Jake Warner's Sunday
night, our head engineer. Big thanks to the callers, Thank the listeners
tonight and thanks to those on x Well. Doc to you tomorrow at four.
Clippers taking on the Grizzlies. I'm Adams Land. We'll be speaking with
you then. So why was doing his thing? All they want to do
is win in La? I win. I thought they gave everything they had.
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