The game is over. Paull George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just be goot Cowhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range.
This is Clippers locker row, a recap of today's game and a look ahead
on your hope for La Clippers basketball at now your host, You, sir,
are a bad man, Adam Ousley. Clippers winning street comes to an
end at the hands of the Orlando Magic as they went in downtown Los Angeles
one thirteen to one oh eight. Welcome into your post games show. I'm
Adam Oslin coming up. We'll get your post game box corn. You'll hear
from the head coach and the players after this one. But first we get
back out to your voice of the Clippers in Noah Eagle. Clippers started slow
defensively, and they ended the game slow defensively as well. Noah Eagle.
The Magic scored at or shot sixty percent in the fourth quarter on the Clippers.
Yeah, you can bind the first and the fourth quarter of the Magic
scored seventy of their one thirteen in those two and the second and the third
the Clippers held them to just forty three. And that's what wins you games
forty three points over two quarters versus seventy points over two quarters. It's the
main difference. Look, we've been talking about defense with this team and just
how much and how important it is, and look, they were missing a
big piece with Kawhi Leonard. Certainly on the defensive end. What he brings
just in terms of his on ball defense one on one is huge. But
his help, his ability to get into passing lanes quickly, fill those up,
intercept passes, get to the rim, do everything that you gotta do.
I mean, it's all important, and so not to have them out
there, things get thrown out of whack, no doubt about it. So
look, the Clippers will get back on track. I have no questions and
no concerns. This is just a tough one to drop because of obviously the
ramifications of the standings and everything else that goes with it. So every game
is meaningful, right, and every game feels somewhat like a playoff game,
And this is a tough one to drop concerning you feel like the Clippers probably
had this in their hand up by eight going into the fourth quarter, but
not having Paul George in there to start the fourth hurt them, and then
not having their other closer out there in the fourth quarters certainly hurt as well.
Yeah. I was saying it on Twitter early on, but you let
a young team get confident early and gonna stay in the ball game all the
way through and they can find a way to beat you, And that's exactly
what Orlando did. Yeah, exactly. You just it's a young team that's
also playing with confidence right now. It's not just a young team, because
we've seen that in the past where maybe it's a young team, but they
don't they're not that confident. They're just trying to find their way. Now,
this is a team that's playing with confidence. And Mark el Foltz looks
like a new basketball player to me. At him, he's just he's just
great right now. He's done everything right. He's the engine for this team.
I know that ban Caro has been Rookie of the Year in all likelihood.
Franz Wagner is averaging almost nineteen points per game. Wendell Carter, you
know, yeah, huge three for Franz, But Wendell Carter has been a
good player for them. But Mark hell Foltz is the reason they won this
game. If it wasn't for Mark hell Foltz and everything he brought to the
table. Orlando does not come close to winning this game. So I think
he deserves a lot of praise. I think the Magic deserve a lot of
praise. I think Jamal Mosley deserves a lot of praise. But overall,
a tough loss for the Clippers. There's no way getting around it. Now
you've got to bounce right back. You've got a game tomorrow night. I
don't have to wait much longer to get right back on the saddle, and
we'll see if the Clippers can write the ship, get back to what they've
done a defensive end against one of the most explosive players in the NBA.
They just dealt with fifty from Steph Curry and won that game. Can they
do the same if Damian Lillard has one of those days? That's the question
for tomorrow. Averaging thirty three on the season, Clippers and Blazers tipping up
in Portland Ya tomorrow night at six pm. We'll have Clippers count Down your
pregame show starting at five No great call. As always, we'll talk to
you in it's twenty hours. Is that it's twenty ye can't wait it out.
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you do network Clippers loose one thirteen so one oh eight two of the Orlando
Magic in downtown Los Angeles. Welcome into your post games show. I'm Adam
Oslin, coming up on AM five seventy LA Sports. We'll have Clippers talk
for you in just a little bit here eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy, or you can
get to me at follow Adam a on Twitter. Clippers give up fifty percent
shooting to the Orlando Magic. They only went ten of thirty one from the
outside. But it was that fourth quarter where they scored thirty nine points.
The floodgates opened and the Clippers had no answer. They couldn't get stops defensively.
The Magic shot sixty percent fifteen of twenty five from the field in the
final twelve minutes of this one and outscored the Clippers by thirteen in the final
twelve minutes. They were led by Marquel Folds. He had twenty eight on
ten of seventeen shooting. Wendell Carter Junior had twenty seven and twelve. Franz
Woudner a huge three pointer over Robert Covington. He got twenty points, two
of seven from the outside, but a big one late seven to thirteen.
Overall, Mantero with twelve points on four of eleven shooting, and off the
bench, Cole Anthony with some big ones as well. He put in eighteen
points in the second unit for Orlando. As for the clip first Paul George
led them with thirty, had a rough first half, had just seven of
his thirty points, had a big third quarter with fourteen, hit a big
three pointer, tried to keep them around late and the Clippers were hanging in
there. The problem was they were just trading buckets. They couldn't get any
stops on the defensive end. When they started to score and showed a sense
of urgency after a slow start scoring wise, in that fourth quarter, it
didn't matter because their defense has never showed up late. Off the bench in
this one. I do want to have a tip of the captain Robert Covington.
He had eleven points in twenty three minutes and three steals, four of
seven shooting, after not playing since the game up in Sacramento a little over
a couple of weeks ago. Now, I believe Vita Zubas had sixteen and
sixteen on his twenty six birthday plus two blocks seven of sixteen from the field.
Missed some easy ones early on as the Clippers got off to a slow
start. They were down twelve two, they were down eleven in the first
quarter. They battled back. They had it too within one, and they
were up heading into the fourth, but they would lose one thirteen to one
oh eight to a hot shooting Orlando Magic team as the Clippers defense just did
not step up, couldn't get stops late. They lose by five. The
five game winning street Clipper Nation was hoping for not to be it stops at
four, but they get right back after it tomorrow. More on that game
coming up in Portland. We'll talk about that next here in the postgame show
on the Los Angeles Clippers Ready doing Network. Clippers fall to the Magic at
home. Final score one thirteen, one oh eight in favor of Orlando.
Welcome back into your post game show. I'm Adam Oslin. So we mentioned
Clippers on a back to back, so no Kawhi Leonard in this one.
We expect him to play against the Portland Trail Blazers tomorrow night. Blazers have
lost five straight. They just lost to the Boston Celtics at home one twenty
six two one twelve. But Damian Lillard, having an unreal season, of
course, had the seventy one point game. The Admiral David Robinson asked,
seventy one point scored and he's getting. We're thirty per game, an efficient
thirty three, another high scoring guard, just as know what Eagle mentioned earlier,
just like they faced against Steph Curry recently, who dropped fifty on the
Clippers grand The Clippers came through the victory Wednesday night, not to be tonight
or today as they were trying to go for five in a row and sweep
the homestand now they go up North for one and then come back home on
Tuesday. But tomorrow night in Portland, it tips off at six pm.
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How about the magic track Orlando no joke? They win one thirteen to
one oh eight over your Los Angeles Clippers without Kawhi Leonard. Welcome in to
Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslin. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number if
you'd like to get on coming up here on the show. We'll have Charles
Mockler on from Clips and Dip. We'll get to your phone calls. You
also hear from Coach Low and the players after this one, quite frank Clipper
Nation. This is the worst loss of the season. And I said that
the last time out against the Orlando Magic, but that was in early December.
The Magic after that went on a winning streak. They've had the eleventh
best record in the NBA. I believe a couple games over five hundred since
being the Clippers back on possibly December seventh. It was that game was lost
in overtime with Kauai. This game, now with just eleven games left in
the season without Kauai, and the Clippers did it to themselves. They got
off to a slow start, as we have seen so many times before Afternoon
Delight. Not exactly when the Clippers had these home games, they seemed to
on the weekend Saturday or Sunday early start. They seemed to just come out
sluggish, this was no different. They were down twelve too early. Turnovers
came in bunches. Paul George had six of them in the first half.
He didn't have one in the second half. That's a good sign. But
coming off two games where he only had collectively two turnovers to have six in
the first half of this one, that's tough to explain. I know the
ball was in his hands more because without Kawhi Leonard, that's gonna be true.
Russell Westbrook out there, I thought, had a really good end to
the first quarter, but after that didn't have a great ball game. He
helped bring them back though, at the end of the first quarter with under
three minutes left, he went on his own one man six point run and
had eleven points and three assists in the first and after being down by as
many as eleven, the Clippers had it to within one at thirty one thirty
after one. But I said this early in the second quarter. I tweeted
it out at follow Adam, may you give a young team life like this
and confidence and they can beat you. And the magic never went away.
As the Clippers started to open things up. They had a four point lead,
a six point lead. I want to say. It was an eight
point lead heading into the fourth quarter. As they started to separate themselves,
or so they thought the Magic would battle back. They let them get hot
from the field with a thirty spot or thirty one in the first quarter,
and the Magic never really went away on the offensive end. They kept scoring.
They felt comfortable out there. The Clippers physicality was lacking that I thought
we saw for the most part during this winning streak. Obviously the game against
Memphis where they gave up fifty one in the third quarter notwithstanding, but after
that it looked like they flipped a switch on the defensive end against the Raptors,
against the Knicks, I thought they played hard defensively against Golden State.
Steph Curry is just that good and it doesn't matter sometimes, but for the
Magic to stick around consistently and yes, beat down by eight heading into the
fourth quarter, where it looked like the Clippers were starting to take control at
eighty two to seventy four with PG thirteen, Paul George coming out and having
fourteen, doubling up his first half production with just seven having fourteen, and
the third I thought the Clippers were going to make their move. Step On
the opponent's throat as they started to wake up in this afternoon start and possibly
win this one by double digits. Magic came out firing though in the fourth,
and the Clippers came out a little bit flat. Cole Anthony had the
end one to start the fourth quarter. Clippers weren't doing a lot of scoring,
and the Magic ended up shooting sixty percent from the field in the fourth.
Had some huge shots answered every bucket as the Clippers finally had a sense
of urgency at least offensively, and Paul George had some big shots and a
big three pointer, but each shot was answered by the Orlando Magic. They
punched right back. They weren't afraid. Why would they be. They were
in control throughout a lot of this ball game. They started off hot,
they closed well too, and everything the Clippers threw at them they had an
answer for down the stretch and Paul George hits that three point to bring him
within two with a minute left, and Wagner steps up and makes a tough
three in the face of Roco to put the Magic backup by five. With
forty seconds left, Paul George drives gets a layup. It's a three point
game. With thirty seven seconds left, markl. Foltz answers with a layup
of his own. Eric Gordon has a layup, Clippers down by three or
twenty four seconds left. Folts gets found on the other end intentionally. It
makes both free throws. They would go on to win one thirteen to one
oh eight. Pretty inexcusable loss. Though this late into the season, I
could care less that Kawhi Leonard was out. Of course, that affects the
ball game, but I believe the strategy here was the Shippers can still get
this one without Kauai, and they play him against the tougher opponent against the
Portland Trailblazers on the road tomorrow. Right, that's kind of what we're all
assuming he's not playing back to backs this season. It doesn't look like there's
at least one more. And I'm fine with that because you look at the
production from Kawai. It's worked. The way they've managed him and his right
knee coming off the ACL, he's been absurd since January. You can make
the argument maybe he's been the best player in the game. He Yokich,
Ambide, Yannis, all those guys, I've been that good and Kawhi has
been in that category best three point shooter since January in the league. Turned
into a damn splash brother. But I wonder if Orlando took that personally.
Although arresting Kawai against US, okay, we'll come out. We thought we
should have beat Phoenix the other night, and they went a close one tonight
against the Clippers, and they battled and played well, and the Clippers defense
never really found any footing when they needed to. The third quarter was good,
yeah, holding Orlando seventeen points coming out of the half. The starters
were much better at the beginning of the third quarter than to start off the
game in the first. Marcus Morris had a rough first half. He had
nine points in that third quarter. As I mentioned, Paul George had fourteen
in the third. But those six turnovers they were costly. They were down
by two in the first half. They couldn't get out of their own way
early on because of the turnover issue, and then late because they just weren't
very connected on the defensive end. Orlando had him off balance, off kilter.
Give him credit mentioned it coming in. Orlando has been playing better basketball.
They've been in some of these games that they've lost recently to Phoenix Milwaukee.
I don't know if the Clippers played down to their competition as much as
they just for whatever reason, needs smelling salts to start off games on the
weekend, these early afternoon starts. I thought, outside of Russ in that
first quarter and Terrence Man in the backups when they came in Roco two,
they just were da a little bit lifeless out there. Same story. We've
seen this movie before with this team on these afternoon weekend starts time and time
again. But with twelve games left now, eleven games left after this one,
would just thought if it was going to change at some point today against
the Orlando Magic, it would have didn't brutal, brutal loss because they're just
a couple of games up and the loss column on the team in the eleven
spot. I'm not sure if it's the Pelicans or the Lakers right now.
I'll update you when the standings coming up here as some games already finished earlier
today eight six six nine eight seven two seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven
two five seventy. Hey, I liked that Roku got minutes. I thought
he made the most of them. Twenty three minutes, four seven shooting.
It was his first game since he played up in Sacramento. Had eleven points,
three steals. He made a big impact Franz Wagner, though, I
mean stared him down with that three pointer, got it over Roco's outstretched arm
with under a minute left. That was a big time shot and the Clippers
just too disconnected on the defensive end. And yeah, I see some of
the tweets out there, Terrence Man only getting eighteen minutes. He played early
in the fourth quarter. I want to say once again, he played through
the end of the third, early into the fourth, but then was taken
out when Paul George came back in. And I don't think Terrence Man got
back into the ball game late. It seemed like they could have used some
defense. Russ was out there, Eric Gordon was out there. Eric Gordon's
played really well in closing lineups. But outside of that stint the end of
the first quarter, Russell Westbrook fourteen points, yeah, nine assists, but
six turnovers, five or fourteen from the field wasn't his day. So I
look, I'm reading some of the tweets. I can't ignore him about Terrence
Man getting more time out there. He and Robert Covington were both the plus
six in a game they lost by five. That's tough, But I just
don't have many excuses for a team, even without Kawhi Leonard in a game
like this, with what's at stake, with a dozen games left in the
season, for losing this one today at home after having two days off,
I would have thought they would have came out stronger. They would have closed
stronger, certainly, but you can't let a team catch a rhythm and then
all of a sudden try to turn the faucet off and flip that switch.
It's hard to do sometimes. Orlando was comfortable, they were in sync,
they were sharp. They had a lot of turnovers. Still, Clippers somewhat
took advantage of it, but they turned the ball over too much themselves.
Clippers in this one finished with fifteen turnovers. I want to say eleven of
those came in the first half, so just four last twenty four minutes.
That's much better. Orlando had six in the second half after having twelve in
the first half, but they showed a lot of resolve. Clippers up eight
heading into the fourth quarter. I would have thought veteran team, knowing what's
at stake, you put this one away, couldn't do so eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
So have the Clippers turned that proverbial corner. I don't know. I
thought they were gonna get this once a day. He went out Kauai.
They had the best player on the floor talent wise, and Paul George he
get thirty but six turnovers. They started to regress to some of those issues
they've had after having I want to say the last two games just fifteen turnovers
total. They had fifteen and this were alone. More Clipper stock. Next,
during a five seventy l sports Clippers was one of the most disappointing losses
of the season. They fall one thirteen and one oh eight to the Orlando
Magic at home. The winning streak ends at four. Welcome back into Clippers
stock. I'm atam oslin eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Clipbers shoot
forty six percent from the field. They didn't have it going from the outside.
Just six of twenty two Orlando though fifty percent from the field, they
go just ten of thirty one. And they did hit four more threes and
shot a little bit better, but that fourth quarter Clippers could just couldn't stop
anybody. Orlando got whatever they wanted. And sometimes when a team is already
in rhythm, it doesn't matter if you put a hand in their face.
They're still gonna stick shots like that. They're professionals out there. Both teams
had fifty eight points in the paint. That's a good number for the Clippers.
They've been over fifty now. I want to say the last five straight
games when it comes to scoring in the paint went on the season, they're
probably still around forty five per game, but the turnovers coming back to haunt
them, and just a poor defensive performance, especially down the stretch when they
needed their defense to carry them. No you go mention it, it's time
to get stops. Clippers never did. And even when their offense and they
showed up big and I don't know what their scoring output was the last eight
minutes of the ball game. I should look that up because I know they
started to catch fire. They started to make a lot of shots. But
they're just trading buckets out there all right, Javier and lahabber heights. You're
on Clippers. Stop without a Moslin Javier, start things off? What's self
bad? I'm thinking to take him at call a game. This game unisusable.
How can you lose two times to Orlando? I mean at this point,
I mean, I keep telling you all year, Adam, why do
you play Marcus Morris in the fourth quarter? You said it yourself. They
kept scoring and scoring. You had he had Tyler? Who had Marcus Morris
Russell Westbrook playing the last on six minutes. Those two guys do not play
defense, Adam? The game who not play defense? You should have had
in man, you said a couple of good points. Man play what eighteen
minutes? Clubbington played twenty three? Why and if you know they're scoring a
substitute he at Westbrook out of the game and get Moors out of the game.
More Scott three rebounds Adam three two or from the free throw line because
they miss freetros. Marcus Morris should have had one rebound thirty one minutes.
I mean, this is ridiculous. I mean, when is Tyler going to
see that? I mean looking too when they were I don't know what they're
A minute in the half left and they were down by three. He called
him out. He said, it will play for Russell Westbrook. He's driving
the name. I mean, I was like, what am I scene?
I mean, honestly, Adam noa eagle. He's got to call it a
coach. I mean, he's calling the game objectively, like we're not going
to speculate about coach Lu and what he could have done or should have done.
There were some curious moves out there. Yes, I thought Russ getting
thirty seven minutes Terrence Man just eighteen, and I'm sure he got asked about
it post game. I still trust coach Lu to press the right buttons at
the right times in the key moments of the most pivotal games. But I
get your frustration to Javier. There's eleven games left and Russ after that stint
late in the first quarter where he really turned things around for the Clippers and
was huge there, he struggled in when you need defense down the stretch.
Yeah, he and Marcus Morris were in there. Robert Covington came in for
a visa zu Bots as they went smaller very late in the fourth quarter.
But and I don't think it was just them two getting picked on. I
mean, Vizza Zubots had shots made on him, that's the thing. Orlando
was making some tough shots as well late. That was part of this.
But you give a team good looks early, then when you try to stop
them late and play better defense and stay closer to your man, sometimes it
just doesn't matter. They caught a rhythm. It's too late. Mentioned in
Jersey, you're on Clippers stock without Am Austin. Hey, Adam, how
are you doing? Hey? How's everything? I'm good? Match? What
did you think of the ball game? Oh yeah, Landa's got some bigs.
Yeah, you know, but they're gonna be a lottery I bet.
And I wouldn't be surprised if they get Frenchman. Not a base is nice,
so heavily the team, right though, we get the I thought we
get this win. I hope we get the third seed or four to six,
because I wouldn't want to say Phoenix in the first round. Well right
now, that's how it's set up. They'd be against Phoenix in the four
or five matchup. That very well could happen in the first round. I
think I don't think the run is gonna be hundred sent healthy. And you
know Chris Paul, you know how he's in the playoffs as we know,
would be wanted to put Plumbly with Zoo back in the fourth quarter and led
George and kwiren comes when he comes back tomorrow from his day off. Yeah,
I don't know if that would help much, Mitch with some of the
shooting that's going around this league. I don't I don't know if Plumbly on
on Franz Wagner would have helped there. Yeah I say this, I mean
all I'm shocked at Cole Anthony is on the bench. Well, I remember
false boy. They really raved about him, and I'm being so charactic in
Philadelphia. He was the number one pick in the draft. They raved about
him for a reason, and he's turned things around. And it's good to
see a good young player finding himself now in the league. Had issues early
on none selling this one with his twenty eight points on ten of seventeen shooting
against the Clippers. Let's see Damien in La Damian, what's up your on?
Clippers? Stop without'im awsin triple A? Man, Oh my brother,
how you doing this? Was I wouldn't normally say it was a tough loss,
but I probably have to go with a little bit of an irresponsible loss.
You know. Again, the things that cost the Clippers the game were
things that were easily you know, like easily fixable. But really in the
second half, man, the energy just dropped off. You know, I
was in the building, and the energy just dropped off, you know,
defensively especially, but just didn't seem like they were attacking. It seemed like
they got away from what was working. I know that the Clippers, you
know, they tend to have problems with a lot of these younger teams that
are playing quote unquote unconventional basketball, newer brands of basketball. I know that
these guys were big and lengthy tonight, you know, and it definitely gave
us a little bit of problem, but it wasn't overcomable. What I want
to see in those type of circumstances is the Clippers to start using their brains,
you know, and to start using their basketball acumens and getting in there
and just playing head games with these guys. We let these teams play with
us, and it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Why,
you know, I get the competitive nature, you wanting to man up with
the guy, but we don't need to do that. We play so much
harder night in and night out, you know, with these teams that are
sub five hundred than we really need to. I don't know what are your
thoughts on that, Damian. I appreciate the phone call. I just want
to see them come together and some of what they've practiced and have shown us
the last three four games during the win streak manifest itself out there on the
court defensively, because coming into this one, during the four game winning streak,
they were still just seventeenth defensively, they were second on offense. Clippers
put up one oh eight. That's still not a great number. They have
scored I want to say one hundred and twenty five or more five times coming
out of the All Star break, so six or twenty two from the outside,
it's going to do that. But if your defense is what you lean
on and what you hang your hat on, shots can come and go.
It's a make or mis league. But if you were ly on your defense
and your effort to be there every night, they're gonna win ball games.
And this was a very very winnable game up eight hitting into the fourth quarter
that they let get away from them with Orlando going off for thirty nine points
in the fourth. Sometimes you can't just decide when you want to start playing.
Oh, we got off to a slow start in the first quarter,
but we turn things around. We could do the same thing later. Sometimes
those bad habits catch up with you. It's happened a lot this seasons to
the Clippers. It happens again against Orlando. They lose one thirteen to one
oh eight. Coming back, more of your phone calls eight six six ninety
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five seventy only sports. The Clippers got one defensive stop in the last four
minutes and thirty six seconds against the Orlando Magic. They gave up thirty nine
points in the final twelve minutes and they lose by five. Final score Orlando
one thirteen. You're Los Angeles Clippers one oh eight. Welcome back into Clippers
Stock. I'm at a Moslin still looking for some postgame audio. Did find
a few little bites online. We'll try to bring that to you. We'll
get back to your phone calls, but first let's go to Charles Mockler from
Clips and Dip, who said he was only coming on now during losses since
Will's only coming on during wins, and one you know to they ended up
being a loss for the Clippers, a surprising one, one of the more
discouraging, disappointing ones, just because of the run they've been on the opponent
and the sense of urgency that just has to be there at this point of
the season. Charles, would you see it the same way? Because I
feel like both losses to Orlando were two of the worst losses of the year.
And respect the Magic, they played well, but the Clippers defensively just
fell apart. The seams. Yeah, it was pretty unbelievable to see them.
You know, they played so well in the third quarter I think was
Thanky Squard seventeen or something like that, and then in the fourth I just
evaporated. I thought the rotations were a bit wonky late, which I'm sure
we'll talk about in a sect. But you're right, these two Orlando Magic
losses with two kinds of completely different teams have just been a stain one has
already kind of a close to being dirty season. So I mean, thankfully
get Kauai back tomorrow against the Blazers. But this was a tough game from
I think it's Tailu perspective for sure, and speaking to that, I've had
some calls on it already. But this was with just eighteen minutes played,
the fewest amount of minutes Terrence Man had played in the games since February twenty
fourth. He was a plus six out there. I thought we might see
him late, but they stuck with Russell Westbrook and Eric Gordon in the backcourt.
I think Eric Gordon's played really well in closing lineups. And to his
credit, Russ has already said postgame that this was on me tonight. He
didn't feel like he had a great game, even though he had a great
end to the first quarter and switched the momentum and got them back into it,
but overall he was struggling and ends up playing almost forty minutes. So
how would you have gone about maybe divvying up the minutes there? Well,
I mean it's just more Terrence Man, right, I think, didn't I
mean Russ played the first thirteen minutes of this game, which made sense.
Like you said, he had a great end to the first quarter, but
then it just kind of again fell apart as the Clippers have kind of been
doing as they're trying to fit all this stuff together. So it's just more
Terrence Man minutes. I mean, I love seeing Robert Covington out there,
but again we're just we're at games seventy. I think or sixty nine are
fairly close to those numbers. But like we're still figuring things out right,
We're still seeing these closing lineups and Russ on the closing lineup. You know
that's going to happen in the playoffs. We just hope that it is the
opposite of how it went tonight. He and Marcus Morris we're out there later.
Eat Zoobots was out there. He was subbed out for Robert Covington very
late there as they went a little bit small, and Orlando did hit some
tough shots and some big shots. But my point throughout this has been,
well, you let a team that's a young team gain confidence, find a
rhythm, and then even when you start to dig it your heels in defensively,
sometimes it just doesn't matter they're already into the flow of the ballgame and
they are going to hit higher degree of difficulty shots like we saw with that
shot from marcol Fulls from three with under a minute left. Yeah, I
mean markol full was so empowered that he got his career high I think today
if I'm not mistaken, So you're totally right. These young teams feed off
the energy and when you you know, let them do kind of whatever they
want and start to feel it that this is what happens. It felt like
Cole Anthony had sixty five points to night at one point. He seems to
always kind of hurt the Clippers, and then Vager just had the confidence that
that's three late to push it to five, like around less than a minute.
Lester, it was just a backbreaker, and you know, they felt
that they could do that because the Clippers allowed them to building that they could
do that. I thought over all of the Clippers had a tough defensive ball
game where guys just weren't communicating at the level we had seen them over the
last three at least, and Mason Plumley didn't have a great game as well.
He had a really bad turnover off a rebound or an inbounds pass late
in this one, I did feel like I think a Viza Zubots on his
twenty six birthday, finished with sixteen and sixteen, a couple of box He
had a couple of miss cues early on where he missed some easy ones and
gained a few offensive rebounds. Because of that, I thought he was okay
out there in this one, but not quite as dominant as we have seen
recently. Yeah, it's a bit of a bummer to see him not you
know, be it, I guess one hundred percent of what we've seen recently.
But he was one of the better guys for the Clippers. I know
he was a little you know, rough in the paint early, but we
need all the help and get on the board and that was good to see.
And defensively, it's just night and day between him and Mason Plumbly,
and you know, dude doesn't handle the ball as much as Madson Plumbly,
which felt like a lot today. We did get to see that fantastic no
look behind the back but to him in the corner, which was fun,
but maybe a little less point plumb moving forward, it seemed a little bit
unnecessary, but effective Nonetheless, I liked seeing it out there. Paul Georgia's
seven points in the first half, he really struggled. I think he started
three for ten from the field. He erupted though in that third quarter and
finished with thirty. Felt like he did his part, certainly on the offensive
end. He was helped keeping them close within distance as Orlando couldn't miss anything
in that fourth quarter, Paul George was knocking down shots on the other side.
It was at least good to see him play at his best in the
second half of this one. Yeah, this was shaping up to be a
really, really bad Paul George GA maybe the worst one of the seasons.
But yeah, he did what he's supposed to do as the superstar or today
the number one for the bloopers about Kahi Leonard. So you know, late
Paul George was awesome. Early hustle restlook was great. It would have been
nice we could have gotten both of those at the same time. Yeah,
and that's you know, leading me into my next question. I asked the
question. You know, we've we've talked about this a lot, and I
think we both thought they had turned a corner after that victory over the Golden
State Warriors four straight. But then in the manner they won where they were
playing more consistent basketball out there, not just individual basketball, but as a
group. It seemed like they were really starting to develop more of an identity
in knowing who they were on both ends. No Kauai and this one of
course, but it looked like just a little bit of a step back from
what the Clippers were currently building. Yeah, I would agree with that,
and I think it was kind of expected, right. We added a guy
who's going to be getting twenty five minutes a game pretty late into this season
and now have to figure out how it works. So it wasn't always going
to be you know, four and one and things like that, like there's
gonna be some tough stretches. We just hope, we have to hope that
there are two games as opposed to four or five. He is Charles Mockler
from the Clips and Dip podcasts now on YouTube as well with myself and William
up deck. Charles, thanks for doing this, unfortunately after a loss where
you will only be coming on then, so hopefully we don't talk for a
couple of weeks, right, Yeah, I gotta renegotiate this deal. I'm
not sure who spoke for me at a meeting, but I was not there
for it. So maybe I'll talk on a win. Hopefully will probably shouldn't
have been made your agent. That's a good point, all right, Charles
appreciated my friend. Yeah, Ma'm we going at him coming up next.
Back to your phone calls. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy
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season drop two as I update the standings and refresh here. Thirty seven and
thirty four still in the five spot, but now a game and a half
back of the Phoenix Suns who are in the fourth spot. Just a game
up on the Dallas Mavericks, who have the better conference record, which would
be the tiebreaker as they tied the season head to head series. I believe
two to two, so so much to play for. Eleven games left,
and the Clippers are taking on thirty one and thirty nine Portland Trail Blazers who
are on the outside looking in, you know, on the play in tournament.
Currently welcome back in the Clippers talking about him as to eight six sixty
nine eight seven two five seventy Morris and long beach Morris, what's up?
Hey, let me tell you that man, I ain't trip and look at
listen. We didn't have our studd We didn't have our stud tonight. That
the number one defensive player in the Western conferences, Kawhi Leonard. You know,
yeah, yeah, I understand all that, Morris. But the magic
of twenty nine to forty two. You're at home, you had two days
off? Yeah no, no, I'm sorry. Listen. We're playing professionals.
We're not playing the Lincoln High School Tigers. Listen, that's fine.
They also have professionals who are stepping up in place of Kawhi. You want
to make that argument, No, no, no, look at it.
He is the anchor of this team's defense. Okay, they're not gonna lose
when this guy's playing at him and people just calling up they have decided the
clip If you go ahead and give them a a clipboard and say draw off
a play, they couldn't do it. So I'm not going to second guess
the coach man that guy. We can't Morris, how many points is Kawhi
making up for in that fourth quarter where the Magic scored thirty nine on them?
You know what, they might not have gotten thirty Believe me, not
only would the defense presidents have been even have scored this Adam. It hasn't
changed. Whoever got the best players win the game. Kawhi Leonard is a
stud and of course he's one of the best players in the game, as
is Paul George Morris. Here's my point. I think the Clippers had enough
to beat the Orlando Magic today, did they not? They were up by
eight head against the fourth quarter. Can we be honest about that? They
did? Yeah? Okay, yeah they did, they did? Yeah.
They did. They did. I ain't gonna kid about that. They they
did, but I noticed too. I know that Kawhi Leonard is important to
this team. Of course, that they had in the defense they showed against
Golden State, that's the Clipper defense. That's the one they got. So
they got to look they didn't have it to date. They didn't have it
to the obviously, but they got to look at him, so it'll be
triples, so they would one. And when I lost one game in the
last five, they're gonna be okay, And you know what that I'm I'm
gonna get you some props because even when I have my doubts, you know,
you still have confidence in this team. And I got faith in the
Timber management. I believe they know what they heck they're doing. And I
know this, when Kawhi Leonard is on that floor, that's a different basketball
team, straight up. Okay, the minute you're getting the call Adam behavior
though, thank you, Mars, I believe in all those things as well,
and the Clippers are going to bounce back from this. But Kawhi Leonard
wasn't on the floor in the third quarter either, where the Clippers only gave
up seventeen points. They had enough talent out there to win this ball came.
I'm just not gonna make a lot of excuses for this one because it
is a brutal loss at the end of the season where you would hope everybody,
no matter the squad, has their attention out there, no matter the
star time. There's eleven games left, first half of way back to back,
or we expect Kawhi to be back up in poor tomorrow for the Clippers.
Harold in North Hollywood, Harold, you're on clipperstock. Hey, Anam,
how't are you? It's not Harrol. I will easily call. But
you know, Morris's one pologetic Clipper fan. I don't know where he gets
all at the We like we like the optimism. It balances out because obviously
there's gonna be some negativity at times, especially after a loss like this,
and I'm sensing that's where you're coming from. Well, that's fine, you
know what. I'm ready to scream every time you stay Well, we lost
the game, but we didn't have Kawhi Leonard. Look, Steve Bambers signed
him. The Clippers knew what they were getting when they signed him. You're
gonna have him play one day and maybe in Clayton not play the next game.
And I look at you know, I know I'm critical. I like
Paul George, but he's very inconsistent. He might have a great game one
day. In the next game he disappears. The great ones don't disappear.
I mean I like to do supporting cast they have. He doesn't. He
doesn't have many games where he has disappeared. He's had one game, hey,
Harold, Yes, Sir, Paul George, out of his last at
least twelve games here has had one where he hadn't scored at least twenty.
He's pretty darn good. He's an All Star for a reason, so it's
not like every other game you don't know what you're going to get. For
the most part, he's been getting twenty five points per game over the last
twenty efficiently. Oh no, I'm been out putting him down. He's an
All Star. Hey, can I say one team I want? Go Bruins
today against Northwestern. All right, Harold, I like that. Go Bruins.
Bruin Stock coming up later tonight with Timmy Gates, hopefully after they get
the victory. Jose in Downey, Jose what's up your on Clipper Stock?
Hey Adam, how are you doing? You know what? I think you
guys said a lot of great points in the earlier callers than in yourself too.
I think one thing that stuck out what you said was, you know,
they're not going to be scared. Nobody's gonna be scared of us,
you know if we're not playing good defense. And uh's something that shows up
a lot, and it's it was. It was really frustrating out there because
Anthony, I know he's a quick guy, but he was getting into the
paint in the fourth quarter like crazy man, and I think that's what kind
of did is up and being at the game he was doing it on on
Terian's man. I know we're thinking, why is he only played eighteen minutes?
And I want to that's when they took him mile when he went when
Anthony went three straight times at Man and scored. But I don't think that's
the reason why you leave Man out the whole time, you know, But
it was frustrating. It was really frustrating. Yeah, I get it,
Jose, I'm with you there because this is a team that has preached all
season long. Come out with the defensive mindset. I thought it was starting
to happen. I thought they had flipped that switch on that end that no
matter who was out there, because even if Kawhi Leonard is available, he's
playing thirty five minutes, he's not playing all forty eight. So there are
other times where you still have to find your defense without him. It can't
just be about one guy, whether or not you commit to playing great defense.
The Clippers have the bodies and have the guys with the capability to do
that, I think, and they've been poor when it comes to point of
attack defense really all season long, with just not accepting the challenge of staying
in front of your man. I thought there were some bad habits that were
developed early on this year where guys were too reliant on Aviza zoobots cleaning up
for their mess on the perimeter, because big Zoo is that good on the
interior. But against teams, and Orlando looked hungry in this one, as
they had lost some close ones and had challenged some good teams. They got
over the hump against the Clippers. Clippers got to get right back after it
though. Tomorrow night up in Portland again, Damian Lillard and the Portland trail
Blazers. Not gonna be easy. I did see this quote though, and
I liked it. I can't play it for you, and I'll find out
why in a second. But Russell Westbrook post game was asked if there's a
level of excitement for this back to back after a tough ball game today,
he said, yeah, hell yeah. I can't wait to play tomorrow after
that s I did tonight. Look for us to bounce back in a big
way. Look for the Clippers to bounce back, hopefully with Kawhi Leonard.
They fall one thirteen to one oh eight to dates the Orlando Magic. Before
we get out of here, I do want to think the Clippers organization.
Noah Eagle, Brian Seeman, Ralph Lawler, big brother, Jake Warner,
head engineer, Zachy o'caldy, doing great work, fantastic work. And now
he's going to Vegas. Vegas, baby back yess safe travels, my friend,
bring me something back. The callers, the listeners, I appreciate you
guys as well. I guess what happens in Vegas days in Vegas, so
you don't frit me anything until tomorrow. The pregame show starting at five Clippers,
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