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Clippers let go of a twenty one point lead in the fourth quarter and they
fall by four to the Los Angeles Lakers in the final game of the Hallway
regular season series here at Crypto dot Com Arena, with a final score one
sixteen to one twelve in favor of the Los Angeles Lakers. Welcome into your
postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up, we will have Clippers stock
on AM five to seventy LA Sports eight sixty six nine eight seven two five
seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number before
we get to your postgame final box score as well, and hear from the
head coach. Let's hear from your radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez.
Well, somehow, some way and that way was through Lebron James knocking
down three pointers early in the fourth quarter that got the Lakers back into it.
His best performance maybe of the season, certainly from distance carload. He
burned the Clippers late. That was greatness on display once again by Lebron James.
At some point in time, Adam, you gotta kind of tip your
cap to Lebron. I think there's a lot of things that Clippers could have
done better in this game. There's a ton of things the Clippers could have
done better in this game. But I mean, he hit tough threes.
He had seven of them, a twelfth time in his career he's at seven.
He fueled them late. Let's be honest. If Lebron doesn't shoot that
way down the stretch, the Clippers do not lose this game. But he
was excellent and his teammates followed. The Lakers had five threes, so the
first three quarters, they had nine in the fourth. The Clippers just struggled
down the stretch. They crumbled, and honestly, they did something they haven't
done in a long time, and that's lose a game entering the fourth quarter
with the lead. That's lose a clutch game. This season this team that
is, for the most part, been so good, so calm, cool
and collected. They played probably their best three quarters of basketball since getting back
here from the Grammy road trip. But that did not carry over to the
fourth. And I think it goes back to what we talked about pregame.
Is this a physical thing? Is this a mental thing? I think for
the Clippers, they made mental mistakes down the stretch. The turnovers were just
a couple too many. Not getting back on the defensive end. The Lakers
again, I mean, they finished with thirty one fast break points in this
one, and they were excellent in transition. It's fifteen for fifteen in fast
break points. And outside of some Kawhi Leonard heroics in the fourth quarter,
with some tough shots, the Clippers didn't generate good looks. When the Lakers
gave maximum effort on the defensive end, they seemed to clamp down on the
Clippers. There was a tough three pointer taken by Norm Powell that comes to
mind over Austin Reeves. That was a shot clock violation. Just multiple possessions
lost by this Clippers team. Playing even with the twenty one point lead,
they didn't execute late. Yeah, no, they didn't and again that's something
they have done all years execute late, but they just they didn't do that
tonight. I don't know if it's a big because you're missing of each a
Zubats, who has been mister shurehanded, mister reliable for this team out today
with an illness. Hopefully Zoo is good to go for Friday. Hopefully he
gets better. But it was a tough one for the Clippers because we enter
that fourth quarter they're up nineteen. All you gotta do is play okay,
and the Clippers weren't able to defend the three and unable to get stops on
the defensive end and not turn the ball over late. It'll be interesting to
see because you played three good quarters, but you can't win the game until
the fourth. No, the Clippers could not close tonight. Look without PG
thirteen, they were with out of each Zubas, but they had a twenty
one point lead in the fourth quarter, and you have to find a way
to win that game. Now, it's fair to celebrate watching greatness in Lebron
James and what he was able to do, because it was incredible tonight,
and you do have to tip your cap to an extent, But this Clippers
team had a bit of a collapse down the stretch and just not being able
to get into their offense. And also it was Anthony Davis getting a couple
of key rebounds late offensive rebounds. The Clippers were having trouble just getting the
basketball back. And even though overall I believe they got up eighty nine shots
to the Lakers eighty six, there were some key possessions in that possession battle
very much favored the Lakers. In the fourth quarter, Yeah, I mean
I thought the Clippers, I don't think they shot. I think they had
two free throws in the second half, So you got to get downhill a
little bit more. You can't control the free throw line. The Clippers didn't
really get a flow offensively. I mean, twenty seven percent from three is
not what this team is used to their second in the NBA, and three
point percentage, I mean, this one leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
I do think there is some positives to take away. Clearly, this
team fought. Clearly, they came out with energy. The resurgence of an
emergence really of Terrence Man has been a revelation for this Clipper team. A
mere coffee with some fantastic defense. Clippers missed some of their closer, They
missed of Eat Zubats, they missed Paul George and this one who have been
sure handed, who know how to play late. I mean, what did
we see the entire fourth quarter? Lebron James on Daniel Tye. That was
the entire fourth quarter until they doubled and they passed the ball. The Clippers
refused to not switch that matchup, and that's what the Lakers kept going to.
You gotta imagine if George or Zubats are in this game, it goes
a different way down the stretch. Not to say that they should have not
lost this game and you had a twenty one point lead, but clearly that
scab, that weakness was picked that all fourth quarter by the Lakers. Yeah,
they spam and the problem was they used Ad as the screener. So
you got a decision to make there Kawhi Leonard instead of letting Anthony Davis roll
to the rim without anybody there, he would switch go on to Ad and
that's how they got the mismatch with Daniel Tye on Lebron James, who throughout
a lot of this game was a pretty good matchup, actually in favor of
the Clippers. We talked about it. At one point Daniel Tye was holding
his own but eventually Lebron James being one of, if not the greatest players
of all time, he is going to find a way to beat you.
And if you bring a guy like that against him, he's just going to
be able to knock down buckets laid or find the open man. We also
talked about that if you hard double him, which they tried to do to
get the ball out of his hands. Ruey hot Chimore with a couple of
big three pointers. Dangelo Russell with a couple of big three pointers in the
fourth quarter. So they have guys in the support system around Lebron in that
situation where you try to take him away and they can still beat you.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean they hit timely shots after not hitting shots the
entire game. This is a team that was shooting under twenty percent to start
the frame and got it done late and was able to close the door.
I think the Clippers, you know, you've lost too in a row.
Now for the first time since late December, you have your heels in your
backside. It's time to figure out how you want to finish. You know,
I think this team has to figure out, Hey, are we gonna
not turn the ball over? Are we gonna get back on the defensive end.
I mean fourteen turnovers to thirty Laker points, that's killer. I mean
those are giveaways. As Tyler said, those are pick sixes in football.
It's just so hard to set up your defense, and the Clippers did not
set up their defense in this one. It hurts because you were up big,
because you're up late, it hurts more because it was against the Lakers.
Hopefully it hurts enough to where the Clippers can make a change going forward.
And the Clippers have had their share of comebacks against the Lakers in the
two pin to three era against lebron and Ad the Christmas Game and twenty nineteen
comes to mind with Patrick Beverly stripping the basketball away from lebronchas late and the
Clippers closing that one out when they were down by fourteen or sixteen. But
the Lakers got a little bit of revenge here. It does sting Clipper Nation.
We'll talk about it all coming up on Clippers Stock eight sixty six ninety
eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. But the Clippers have to
regroup now, Carlo, come back together and play with the same energy and
intensity they had throughout most of this ballgame. Because there were some positives there.
This team did look to play a more sustained level of energy, possession
to possession until they just got into some bad ones late in the fourth quarter.
Before that, I felt like that was one of the better games they
had played coming out of the Grammy road trip. But again the Clippers fall.
They were up by twenty one, they lose one sixteen to one to
twelve two Los Angeles Lakers. Here at Crypto dot Com Arena, they're taking
on the Wizards right back here on Friday night. Tip time is at seven
thirty. Well, every pregame show starting at six thirty. Carlojmenez, great
call, as always, We'll talk to you on Friday, my friend.
Thank you, Adam, talk to you Friday. Let's see if the Clippers
can sweep the Wizards. Would be a good way to end the week.
Coming up next, we'll get to your final box score. The Clippers let
go of a twenty one point lead over the Lakers in the fourth quarter.
They lose by four and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network.
They want to bring a banner with them to the into it down more LA
Clippers basketball on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Lebron James was money in the
fourth quarter from distance, knock down five three pointers and the Lakers would come
back down twenty one on your Los Angeles Clippers here in the final game of
the Hallway Series at Crypto dot Com Arena, and they are victorious tonight one
sixteen two one twelve. Welcome back into your postgame show. I'm at a
Moslin. Clippers ended up shooting fifty one percent from the field, but just
ten to three seven from the outside, and you can say that was the
difference in the ballgame. The Lakers eventually coming alive from three with nine of
them made in the fourth quarter after entering it with just five. Five of
twenty is where they started. Clippers just never came around. They had one
main three pointer in the fourth that was it. Kawhi Leonard had a couple
of big buckets late to bring it within two. The Clippers had the basketball
down two with about nine seconds left, Kawhi Leonard went for a quick two
point fade away over Lebron James. It was short. That's how the game
would end. Kawhi ended up with twenty six points on eleven of nineteen shooting,
James Harden with twenty three. Terrence Man another stellar performance from him was
sixteen. It just looks like a completely different player offensively than what we've seen
throughout most of this season. That is one of the positives in a game
where you give up a twenty one point lead. I know you're looking for
him. I'm being mister brightside here. Fourteen points off the bench from Norman
Powell, but the Clippers only having sixteen points in that fourth quarter. They
couldn't execute. And I said it as it was happening, But that lineup
to start the fourth quarter I believe was their undoing. You just can't have
three non shooters out there with Russ, with PJ. Tucker who refused to
shoot a three pointer, and Mason Plumbley, who had some really backbreaking back
to back turnovers in the fourth quarter. Those misshots, those shots that weren't
taken leading to worse possessions. You don't take the first open shot, you're
likely not getting a better one. PJ Tucker wouldn't take one in the far
side corner. That was his patented three ball. Lakers got the ball back
Mayson Plumley in transition. Need to give the ball up to Kawhi Leonard.
That didn't happen. After the Clippers got a turnover, they turned it right
back over. It was Big Plumb playing point Plumb a little bit too much
and they had seven of their fourteen turnovers in the fourth quarter. Just brutal.
Lebron's James ends up with who a nineteen point fourth quarter. If he's
not the greatest player of all time, you want to argue about him,
Michael Jordan, whatever you wish, it's insane watching a guy at his age.
I know it's been said enough, but at thirty nine, he's still
their best player period. You can say what you want about Anthony Davis,
and he's had his moments this season, but it's still Lebron James. When
they're at their best, it's him. He's their number one guy and hit
five three pointers in the fourth quarter after he was struggling mightily and the Clippers
had some really good defensive possessions against him, keeping him from getting to the
basket. With Mason Plumbley with Daniel Tice, and he elected to put him
up from the outside. And believe or not, he's shooting forty percent from
three this season. I don't know what he's shooting with a hand in his
face. But Tonight, who was automatic in the fourth, made the Clippers
pay. And that's say you give up a twenty one point lead and lose
one sixteen to one twelve. More on this one coming up next right here
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the fourth quarter and lose one sixteen to one twelve to the Los Angeles Lakers.
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They were in a tech as let the Clippers had a twenty one point lead
early in the fourth quarter, and yet they find themselves on the losing end
of the ledger. They fall by four to the Los Angeles Lakers here at
Crypto dot Com Arena, with the final score of one sixteen to one to
twelve in a miraculous comeback for the Los Angeles Lakers, led by Lebron James,
who had nineteen points in the fourth quarter and five to three pointers justin
out of this world space Jam like not even two. I'm gonna say Space
Jam one because I didn't watch two, but I know it was in it,
but I'm sure it felt like a movie for Laker fans, that performance
by Lebron James on reel in the final game of the Hallway series here at
South Figueroa Street between the Clippers and Lakers unless they meet in the playoffs,
and right now it would be looking like it'd have to be a second round
series, probably because the Clippers don't look like a top three seed currently.
They aren't Denver one again earlier, Vennesota won again earlier, and the Clippers,
now coming out of the Grammy road trip, are three and five and
as well as they played early on in this basketball game for the first three
quarters to get up by twenty one. Well, the other side, that
is one of the worst offensive performances in a fourth quarter that we have seen
in a long time. They got outscored thirty nine to sixteen. That's how
you get a twenty one point come back and a team that outscores you by
twenty five points in just twelve minutes. In fact, NBA teams had lost
eight hundred and sixty six consecutive games when they trailed by nineteen plus points entering
the fourth quarter until the Lakers defeated the Clippers tonight. Clippers on the wrong
end of history and on the wrong end of a loss to their hallway rival
here at Crypto dot Com Arena formerly Staples Center, and they're looking for answers
once again. I'm Adam Oslin. Welcome into Clippers Talk. Eight six six
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station brutal tough. How could this happen? Clipper Nation type of loss.
Well, I'll give you a couple reasons why they started to unravel, and
I posted it on Twitter at follow out of May early in the fourth with
a certain lineup with three non shooters on the floor. For those who say
they need to play bigs more, they need to go big. You needed
to match the physicality and the size of the Lakers or Minnesota and some of
these teams that have some beasts on the interior. Well, they had me
some Plumbery out there in PJ Tucker and next to Russell Westbrook, who's also
not a shooter. That's three non shooters, and it destroyed their offense.
They had nothing on that end. PJ Tucker was turning down three pointers.
There weren't driving lanes. The Lakers clogged the paint. They dared guys to
shoot, and that ultimately, to me, was the biggest reason the Clippers
lost this game. And you have a lineup of Mason Plumbley, Norman Powell,
Russell Westbrook, PJ Tucker, and James Harden, who eventually came back
in a right it's not enough. You got more non shooters than shooters.
It's just James Harden and Norman Powell. That's it today's league. I don't
think you can win that way. I don't think you can get by that
way. Now. Part of that is because they didn't have Paul George,
they didn't have a Visa Zoobas tonight, and we were praising them endlessly for
the effort out there without those two guys. But the truth is, it
doesn't matter that those guys weren't available when you're up. Only won in the
fourth quarter. You gotta be honest about that. Mayson plumbly with back to
back turnovers. At one point, the Clippers had four straight turnovers. They
had seven of their fourteen turnovers in the fourth quarter. Inexcusable to take care
of the basketball to the degree they did just seven turnovers entering the quarter and
then just falling apart of the seams when the Lakers applied pressure, with the
Clippers having just a lineup out there that likely wasn't going to be successful.
To some degree, the Lakers won this game. To some degree, the
Clippers gave it away. How do you score only sixteen points in a quarter.
Kawhi came back in I want to say, around the nine minute mark,
as I thought he should. Typically he'd get back in around the seven
minute mark of the fourth quarter, but things were dire they needed him.
He checked in, ended up with six points in the fourth. He got
it to within two. It was second tremaining. They got the ball back.
They got to stop with I want to say nine seconds left, nine
point one. The Clippers had the basketball down one, fourteen to one to
twelve. We talked about it during the broadcast. Carlo asked me, go
for the tire, go for the win. Well, my thinking was they're
not going to have enough gas to get through ot just like they didn't that
first game against the Lakers where they were under manned and they eventually lost in
overtime. On the road, you'd go for the kill shot, you go
for the win. At home. Yeah, you might tie it, but
Kawhi Leonard elected to go for a fadeaway two pointer over Lebron. It was
short. That was your ballgame. I don't know whether actions were available within
that play. I would have loved to see Norman Powell and get up a
three pointer to try to win the game. Had one rattle in and out
against the Lakers once this season, but knock down that three pointer over Austin
Reeves at the end of the third quarter. Well, let's go to someone
smarter than me to start this off. I want to hear from the head
coach post game after the Clippers lose a twenty one point lead in the fourth
quarter and fall one sixteen to one twelve to the Los Angeles Lakers. Here
was coach lou postgame. So, first haulf think you guys had the returners.
I know we're talking a lot about tournament. Jane specifically look like he
was playing faster, playing, playing with a different level of pace, wound
up playing I'm not sure how many minutes he played, but close to forty
minutes. Can you expect that to be Can you expect the pace that James
plays at to be sustainable when you need to do so much scoring, providing
the offense for everybody else, guarding bigger bodies, Like, how can you
get James to play basically like a clean game fourth as big a workload that
he has. Yeah, he can definitely do it. And like you said,
you saw tonight, I'm expecting the first three quarters, but it's hard
to play with pace when you're not getting stops. And then that fourth quarter
we didn't get a lot of stops, so we were wasn't able to play
with pace and get into our stuff in transition. So that's that's the reflection
of not getting a lot of stops in that fourth quarter. What do you
feel like is the pattern when James does starting the ball over and that first
half Vietnam? Yeah, probably being a little tired, and also teams of
justin you know, he's so dynamic and pick and roll, and so late
in that second quarter in the second half, they started you know, blitzing,
you know, trying to get it out of his hands. And we
made the right passes, the right plays in that regard, we just didn't
we didn't complete it once we got into our bigs or once we got it
out of out of the double team. So we didn't do a good job
with that awesome. Hey, coach, I know you said you will go
to your coach, to the coaches about a lot of different things. What
type of conversations are you guys gonna have after this game? You feel like
it's back to the drawing board or it's just like I feel good, man,
And so you know, it's one game played well for three quarters,
didn't finished the game, you know. I I never like let one one
loss or a bad loss, you know, take away from what we've been
doing and what we've built. So you know, it's a tough loss because
we you know, up twenty one points. But this is a good team.
And when you don't take care of the basketball and you don't do what
you're supposed to do, you know, you go, you're gonna lose,
you know. And so we can see that, you know. And so
but the game's over. Got get ready for the Witch's game on Friday.
As stuff just lost, may be you know, it's over appreciated. Yeap.
I mean that's right. Mindset. You have to turn the page and
get over this one and not let it linger cue the Cranberry's music. Just
can't happen. It can't carry over into the Wizard's game. Because the Clippers
played three stellar quarters without PG thirteen with out of Easa Zubats, and they
just fell apart at the wrong time. I'm not gonna say that just happened,
though, you know it just happens. Well, there was a bad
lineup I thought I could be wrong, but three non shooters out there seemed
to bog down their offense. They score twenty one points in the fourth quarter,
they win the game. They only scored sixteen. They kept turning it
over loose with the basketball, frustrating one Clipper Nation, I get it.
I'm with you on this. We'll take all your phone calls coming up next
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You're lighting up, must have a good topic. Clippers lose a twenty
one point lead to the Lakers in the fourth quarter in the final game at
least in the regular season of the Hallway Series. One sixteen, one twelve
was your final. I'm at a Monsland and you're listening to a five to
seventy LA Sports. They want to bring a banner with them to the into
it dawn more LA Clippers basketball on the LA Clippers Audio Network. When you
put it like that, I guess they let it slip twenty one point lead.
The Clippers lost themselves after three quarters of incredible basketball against the Lakers.
Uh that crescendo to end the Hallway Series by Lebron James, who knocked down
five to three pointers and had nineteen points in the fourth quarter. Will be
remembered for a bit here. You know, unless they play in the playoffs.
Then nobody really cares if the Clippers turn this into two losses because they
can't get over the fact they give up this twenty one point lead. That's
a problem. They got to bounce back immediately against the Washington Wizards on Friday.
Welcome back into Clipper Stock. I'm out a Moslin eight sixty six nine
seven two five seventy eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy is the phone
number. Just hit up my guys at Clips and Dip during the break.
Let's start things off with Javier and the Hobber Heights because he probably called in
I don't know, with five minutes left in the ball game. Javier,
you're on Clipper Stock without a mazen. Thank you Adams taking my call and
being the first one here real quick. You said it right at the beginning,
But I have more things to say. Tiger who lost this game,
completely lost this game. I mean, you have Plumbley, Tucker and Westbrook
starting the fourth quarter. That doesn't make sense at all. I mean,
here's a quote I just got from Coach Lou. This comes from Joey Lynn
on Twitter. I just saw this. I'll let you finish here. I've
here. Don't worry about that. But Joey Lena asked TYLERU about the Russ
Tucker Plumbley spacing, which I think may have lost in the game. Coach
Lou said there's space because PJ can shoot. He just didn't take the shots.
I don't believe PJ. Tucker has made a shot for this team,
and he hasn't taken many in a long time. But he hasn't made a
shot since November fourteenth. I know he's been out of the lineup a ton,
but his last I don't know how many games ten he's not even taking
shots. It's it's wild to me. I get it. Maybe you know
he's protecting his guys. He can't say, yeah, they were bad.
You got to stick up for your guys post game, what are you gonna
do? PJ Tucker has to take that open three point. I couldn't believe
he didn't. It was tough to watch Javier continue. I mean, honestly,
you could have put even Brandon Boston. He would take some shots.
You could have put both bone Hiland to play, except defensively they're getting destroyed.
Those guys can't go. Yeah, but shoot, I mean, and
now only that in the fourth quarter. Also, Lebron's point just was shooting
three after three and you have ties guarding him and Norman Powell. How come
he was double teaming him? You literally you just let la bunch of shoot.
They did double team him. You know what happened? Ruy Hot or
more hit two threes when they got the ball out of his hands. Other
guys killed him. De Loo had two threes. Yeah, but towards the
end, Adam the end, Yeah, what do you You got to pick
your poison at some point, right, Wow, unbelieve Adam. I mean
he had a what twenty one point lead. This one's gonna hurt, I
mean god. And then Tidan says after the after the post game, he
goes, oh, it's a tough loss, but we'll bounce back. And
I mean, I mean, you want to bury the Lakers. You want
to bury them. It's just unbelievable and nothing to Adam real quick. Paul
George, I mean, I just can't. But I mean he's hurt.
But Paul George wants an extension, Adam. Maybe he's not gonna play,
he's not plenty and he wants an extension. I don't know about that,
Adam. But he's missed I think five games this season. He's been playing
hurt. That's the problem. He probably should have sat down earlier. I
appreciate the phone call, Hobbier. I get it, man, everybody's frustrated
tonight. Mike in l A, Mike, what's up here on Clipper stop
with that? I'm assled. Well, this season is done, Adam.
Come on, Mike. You know we'll probably finish, you know, or
for fifth, made maybe six. I have no way we got the top
of three anymore, and you know, maybe make it to the second round,
and you know that'll be bad and will be left with a team that
is full of a bunch of Mike, do you have a crystal ball?
I mean, how many times were you certain about something with this team and
then they turn things around. I hope you're right, so I can say
yes. I know I'm being a prisoner at the moment, but I hope
you're right. I mean, this just feels so, you know, I
mean, you know, yes, it was that line up in the beginning
of the fourth quarter. But the problem is, you know, there's nobody
else in ty trust to play and that goes to the front. What do
you mean, What do you mean he doesn't trust a mere coffee, He
doesn't trust Terrence Man. What do you mean? Well, I thought he
waited too long, but Terrence Man was at the scorer's table for a few
possessions too long. Yeah, I thought he should have gone back into the
ball. That is definitely true. Talent Man should have gotten him back soon.
Yes, I will give you that. But yeah, like I said,
I hope you're right. That's all I can say. This is uh,
this is a rough one. I'm with you, Mike. I hear
the pain in your voice. You guys can probably hear it with me tonight
too. Consider myself a part of Clipper Nation. I'm not just some guy
with the job that's faking it. I'm not a lame no. I appreciate
that. Well anyway, Adam, thanks for taking my call. Have a
good note. All right, Mike, Hope we'll talk to you on Friday.
My friend Ryan in the bank in Burbank, Ryan, what's up here
on Clipper Stafe? With that, I'm Austen Adam. Here's the thing.
I consider myself a very even keeled basketball man, if you will, I've
watched a lot of basketball over the years. I like, there's gonna be
highs and lows in every season. Right, there's you're gonna go through shooting
slumps, You're gonna be good at shooting at one point whatever. There's been
two losses this year that I think I've stung the most for us as Clipper
fans, and it is the loss without uh, most of the starting lineup
for Denver where we lost that game to DeAndre Jordan and and Reggie Jackson.
And then I think this is that the next biggest loss now now completely completely
agree. Yeah, two biggest losses, the two most deflating all the other.
A lot of the other losses you can pin on. Guys are missing
back to back. I mean, there's there's there's things that you can just
kind of like, yeah, I can rationalize that, it makes sense.
The I think the bigger issue that we're seeing right now is that, Look,
the Clippers have a brutal stretch of games coming up. They're gonna play
seventeen days. Yeah, I'm hearing an echo, Mike from something I've been
talking about for a month. Yes, excuse me, Ryan going to be
continued. Yeah, no, it's it's going to be brutal at him.
And I think that what what I'm as a Clipper fan right now I'm most
worried about about this team is that we are a The Clippers are a front
end talent team. You need your front end guys to play. And look,
I don't want to take away the fact that Terrence Man has quietly been
sellar the last kind of I would say two three weeks, he's finally regained
his warm shooting wise, he looks a lot better. It's really a welcome
edition. And at the same token, I agree with you. You stated
PG should have sad earlier. One hundred agree they should have sat in earlier.
I thought he should have said I said it back when there was that
Detroit game at home. They happened to have thirty three in that game,
but it was the game where they didn't have an offensive rebound and they still
won, but it was by the slimmest of margins. And I thought before
that game, it's time to sit him. He's not right and you are
aren't going to be able to win the championship if he doesn't get back to
so why push things right now? Well, and that's and that's so true.
I mean like that. The thing is is that people don't get it.
You you have to have TGB right for them to have a chance.
That you have to There's no other way about that. He has to be
healthy in order for the Clippers to have a chance. I think what for
me as a fan of watching these games, the biggest thing I'm seeing right
now is is a number one, this team has not been good against the
above five hundred teams lately. And I'm talking about in the last I would
argue the last fifteen games, they really have not been good. They failed
the test to on the big stages on these nationally televised games where you're playing
Minnesota and you're playing the Pelicans. I mean, they smoked Boston, but
Adam, that wasn't a nationally televised game though. That was that was that
was just a Saturday. I'm talking about when when the So you think the
reason they're losing is because what ESPN has them on. I think they're winning
and losing based upon how they're playing. You know, they were on ESPN
that are during the first three quarters tonight, right, Ryan, No,
No, I know, Adam, I don't disagree with that. I'm just
trying to that it's a bad point. My point is, though, is
that when when, when these when the big games have happened for the Clippers,
where they're on national TV and they're playing I would argue, for the
most part, Minnesota, Pelicans, Sacramento. I mean, these are all
teams that you could theoretically see in playoff seating, you know, scenarios.
At this point right now, they just haven't looked much. And it's not
about whether or not the games are on nationally tele national television. It's about
the opponent. That's it. If you want to talk about what their record
is against teams above five hundred, fine, But if you're gonna say it's
because of the spotlight being too big, I don't know, they seem fine
through three quarters. I'm I'm just saying, I'm Adam, it's Ryan,
But I was gonna say, I'm sorry, R It's okay, it's okay,
it's all right. I was just saying though that as Clipper fans,
though, as us as fans, I want to see this team play well
when the lights are brightest on these big games, because I mean, it's
a good thing those nationally televised games when the twenty twenty one playoffs happened,
right and they came back down twenty five against the Utah Jazz, and I
think they've had enough of those big victories in the two one three era.
Trying to say either Adam that this team is it's done or anything, I'm
not. I really do. There's there's enough. What is your point,
Ryan, condense it? I'll landed here. My point is that there's enough
top end talent on this team to win a title. Still, everyone has
got to be healthy. And look, you've been smashing this point all all
time, and I would argue that it's the best point of all. Tylou
needs to never play that lineup that he played in the fourth quarter again,
And I would argue Pjucker is borderline and playable at this point, and that
if you have him in any type of scenario in a playoff series that you
have to play him, it might it should be for one to two minutes
at most, and then that's about it, and I'll land it there,
thanks Adam, all right, Right, I appreciate the phone call. Sorry
for calling you, Mike a little flustered tonight. I think he's a situational
defensive specialists. I think he can play in certain lineups. I don't think
he can play next to another bag and Russell Westbrook a non shooter. That's
my issue. If he plays, he's got to be next to four shooters.
That is a situation where he can thrive because the defense is still there.
He got some boards tonight too. Clippers fall after being up twenty one
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there's reasons behind it doesn't just happen out of thin air. Seven turnovers in
the fourth quarter, they never got the lid off the basket from distance ten
of thirty seven from the outside. When the Lakers eventually progressed to the mean,
and I mean progressed because They've been shooting thirty nine percent from the field
their last ten games. They went into the fourth at twenty two point seven
percent. They ended the game at thirty nine percent from three. I'm out
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the forge man. Uh John leaving the game? John, you're on Clipper
stuck. Hi, John, Good? How are you well? I mean,
how are you okay? So I've we did with you a couple of
times this year I haven't called in for like ten years. Last time I
called in, Brian hung up on me because the Clippers won seventeen in a
row, and he said, why can't this team win? And I said,
because Vinie del Niver is a bad coach, and I don't like to
talk Neaglie about people. Tyler's a bad coach. He's not coach. It's
not just this game with that lineup. It's not that there was no reason
for Tys to be in the game, and he allowed switched to go on
eight differently. Okay, okay, who's in the game. They don't have
a Vitza Zubas tonight. Who's in the game. But they don't. But
here's the thing. If they're gonna switch and put him on Lebron at the
three point line, what does Tys give me nothing? You can't get the
rebounds, he's outside, he has nothing on the offense. You have to
go small ball. But he's here's the problem, John, here's the problem,
John. He actually defended Lebron James really well the first three quarters,
and then Lebron just started hitting threes with a hand in his face, John,
But not nine times. What do you do? Kimes? Switch every
time. Looky's at the game, Danela Russell was literally standing in his spot
practicing his shot during the game, just standing there practicing his shot, and
then when he got it, it was an easy hit for him. You
have to haras Lebron, but it's not even that. It's not even at
this one game or whatever. I watched him do the same thing against when
when Plumley was on Zion and they scored eighteen straight times. He does not
adjust. He does not adjust. He takes slow time out. He lets
momentum switch this team. John, would it surprise you that like gms and
head coaches have voted him as the best in game adjuster in the league at
the time. One with Ron, John, I think you're just angry and
you're just saying things that are half true. But you're losing fast with the
facts. John Morris. I watched him with Morris last year, continue to
play Morris when Morris couldn't play a lick and he would not change his lineup.
He does not adjust, but he did, but he did eventually change
to John, did you did you remember that, partner? We're just going
to start making things up that he did eventually Bench Marcus Morris and then brought
him back again. What do you mean brought him back again? Bringing back
again? But you mean when Kawhi and Paul George and the entire team was
injured in the playoffs, he ended up starting him back with the Sun.
Before that, he said before that he doesn't By the end of the season,
he was hardly playing John. I get it, but that's just not
true. They went on talent, and even he said talent, they just
had a lot of bulls. He's just he gets out coach. He just
does. Are you gonna tell me? In the New Orleans game that they
didn't score every time? And with Plumbley in there, and he never made
a change. Tonight, he never made a change. You had to go
small ball and harassed. They beat you. They beat you, but you
got to harass Lebron from the second. So you want coach lou to play
small ball. That's interesting because he does it all the time and gets criticized
for it. I know, but he doesn't. He does it all the
time and that's what you have to do. But then he doesn't do it
like tonight. And I would argue having a guy who's six to eight out
there is. Your tallest player is still small ball. John. I knew
I'd get killed for this, but it just it is true. He does
not adjust. Watch you'll watch in the future. You'll see it. The
same play will beat him eight, nine, ten times in a row.
John, There's a lot of watched him to play Richard Jefferson in a Game
seven against the Golden State Warriors, old Richard Jefferson to win a playoff series.
I have watched him make more adjustments in unorthodox adjustments that nobody else would
plenty of times. That's how they came back down against Dallas, down against
the Utah Jazz. That's how they competed against the Phoenix Suns and took him
to six games without without Kawhi Leonard. I watched him orchestrate a twenty five
point comeback to break the curse, or whatever you want to say about getting
to the conference finals. John, I understand being angry tonight, and we
can have our opinions. Clearly, John, I appreciate the phone call.
I'm guessing there's a reason you don't call that often, and there's a reason
that Brian Semen hung up on you ten years ago. Bryan's pretty patient guy.
I try to be too. I gave you airtime. I just to
act like it's Look. Was there a bad lineup in the fourth quarter tonight
to start things off? Yeah? I thought so. Does that mean coach
lose a terrible coach? Uh No, he is pretty well known for being
one of the top five best coaches in the game. I don't think that's
really debatable at this point. Clippers lose twenty one point lead. We'll come
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from all angles tonight. Now John's on Twitter that follow out of May going
after me. I get it. It's frustrating. Clippers lose a twenty one
point lead. Never should have happened. It's gonna be one of those nights
you lose the Lakers like that in epic fail fashion. Yeah tough, I'm
madam Oslind Welcome back into Clippers talk. Let's try to get through some calls
here. Let's be quicker. It's my fault. I want to go back
and forth with John. I guess see what Brian Seman was talking about ten
years ago. I want to time travel. We're going to talk with Bride
about this. Shelley leaving the game, one of my favorites, Shelley.
What's up? You're on clipperstock Shelley really click? Oh there you go?
Hi there, Adam, how are you? I gots you? You're up?
Okay? So the first thing I want to say real quick to your
point is my perspective on Tyler making adjustment. It's not really that, it's
more that he's playing with selectively physical and mental tough So, like he said
in his postgame, you know we got people that didn't defend in the fourth
quarter. Well you know you start. I agree with you. That's starting
that that lineup in the fourth to start was horrible, Like what was he
thinking? And I just think it's interesting that you have Russell Westbrook with five
fouls and you've got Kawhi and James Harden was won. I mean, I
don't I just don't. I think they're selective with defending in my opinion,
And here's my question. Was that good or bad that RUSS had five fouls
in Kawhi and James Harden only had one. Are you attributing fouls to more
effort on defense? Yeah, there's something called defending without fouling. I don't
think because Kawhi only had one foul and Russell Westbrook had five tonight, that
means RUSS had a better defensive game than Kawhi. You are right. I'm
just saying, though, sometimes when you see all of that, it is
a testament to the effort that they're putting out. I just and I saw
the whole game. I was right there, and I even thought like,
man, I just don't I think they get out of the way of Lebron.
That's just my opinion. But but here's here's my question for you.
Okay, my question is about PJ. Tucker. So, yeah, when
he like he's so blatantly didn't take one shot in particular where I was like,
oh my god, do you think he's a little upset with us and
so his heart isn't in it? Or do you think he's cold because he
hasn't played for this season or do you think it's you know, he's just
older now, Like I want to know if you think there's like some sort
of motivation personally, No, Shelley, I'll nip that in the blood right
now. PJ. Tucker hasn't been taking shots going back to November before he
got benched and didn't play the last two and a half months. He took
his last six games till November twenty seventh, until he played again here in
February the twenty third. In those last six games, he attempted two shots
total. Two in his last six games. That's because he doesn't think he
has it anymore from three. I guess he doesn't have a confidence in his
shot. He's thirty eight. He's the second oldest player in the league to
Lebron. He might just turn thirty nine. Actually, like Lebron coach Lou
said it before jokingly, he's seventy five years old. He's a competitor.
He wants to compete and be out there, and I think he can be
a defensive specialist in spot minutes in certain matchups like maybe against Zion, like
maybe Jokic. Believe it or not, he's eat him up kind of well
the last couple of years. I've seen it in Philly, So it's it's
a shot that he had to take tonight to prove that something was different,
and I guess nothing's changed offensively from him. It's it's brutal to watch.
Yeah, he's taken one shot in the last three games since he got back
into the rotation, and he didn't even want to take that shot. He
tried to turn it down twice and then threw up a weird floater. But
Shelley, I appreciate it. Let's do it again on Friday, all right,
Lenny in Inglewood, Lenny, you're on clipper stop without a mascle Lenny,
Let's try to be quick. I know you've got good stuff, but
yeah, but I don't know if you don't like me to night man,
because you know, I think the problems and I've seen this before with the
bubble, and I've seen it before when they start collapsing. I just don't
know who's the leader on this, on that on that court man, because
that's the one thing that you get with Lebron. Lebron will organize those to
ghilst cats. He focuses them he gets them into my places. They need
a Kawhi is a great leader by example, but they need somebody on that
court to direct that traffic and to get these cats because and the rally around
emotionally, structurally, it's like they don't have it. I've seen this.
Now, how do you feel about him from the first three quarters? How'd
you feel about Lebron and that leadership the first three quarters? You know,
there was something interesting here. I noticed at the half the Clippers were back
out on the court at least five minutes putting up shots before the Lakers came
out of the locker room. And I would speculating, Huh, I wonder
if they're having some come to Jesus moment down fourteen to this Clippers team with
out of Easa Zubos and Paul George just throwing it out there. Well,
that's that's true, And I think that's what you know, he and you
know he looks that you know the Nuggets what's his name? Contain's call?
Well, Pope said something that he said after the All Star Game, Jokid
sent out a text to the team that he said, just inspire them and
rallied them and got them. You know we're gonna call so I think that
they're gonna have to address that, man, like, who's that guy?
Who's gonna be that guy? But now, but Lenny, Lenny, Lenny
Lenny. We're in year five of the two to three experiment. You know
who has the most twenty point comebacks over the last five years, the Clippers.
Does Kawhi get any credit for that? Is? Was that leaders?
Yeah? He does. But I said by an example, I'm just saying
when things when things sometimes go bad, like there's there's just like they said,
people were saying there was no reason to lose that game tonight. Man,
that was that was crazy. So don't play three shooters, don't turn
the ball over seven times in the fourth quarter. Because there's only so much
you can do about Lebron James when he gets hot from the outside. I
don't know how you stop him. Even at the age of thirty nine.
Yes, it's that crazy. He's still that good. He's still a top
ten player, I believe in today's league, which you have to do is
score. On the other end, they needed five more points than they win
this game. They only scored sixteen points in the fourth quarter. That was
the issue. To me, Well, you're right about Lebron is the eighth
one in the world. I mean, that's just it's just nobody len Lenny.
I want to get to the rest of these phone calls, my friend,
but callin Friday will go longer. All right, all right, I
love that. I love you Eddie here, Eddie and Whittier Eddie. What's
up? You're on Clippers soft for that? I'm awesome. What's up?
Adam? Surprisingly I agree with you on a lot of points tonight. Obviously
that lineup and the four as it sucked. I also agree with you on
the last you know, Kawi tying the game. I kind of wish it
would have gone for the three. I agree they were tired. I kind
of wish hard it would have took that last shot, you know, or
someone else. I just wish we just had to like either take that three
to win it or that's it. You know, we didn't win. It
is what it is. It was like the movie you said that earlier.
It felt like watching a movie, even as a Clipper fan. However,
it was a horror flick. Lebron Jeans caught fire from three and made those
five threes, and there was just no stopping him. I mean, these
Lakers definitely wanted to win this last game at Staples of the Hallway Series.
But the good news is there's still a lot of basketball left. I don't
think Tyler is a bad coach. I think he's a great coach in the
playoffs, and this is him just experimenting as he always does. And you
know what, the little brother won the Hallway Series the Clippers, so you
know, take that good night. It's not a bad point. The Clippers
still won the Hallway Series overall. I believe it was fifty wins to forty
eight for the Lakers total, whatever it was numbers wise, the Clippers they
secured the head to head record against the Lakers with their last victory against them
this season. But the Lakers they won the season series for the first time
since I think twenty eleven, twenty twelve. Let's go to markin Hudson Beach.
Mark quickly here, I'm that way, yeah, Adam, Yeah,
you're on. Yeah. Yeah. Here's the thing. When you're up by
twenty one. Yeah, when you know by twenty one, I tell everyone,
Okay, just trade them baskets and you'll win the game. He might
slip a little bit, yep. And coach lou is a great coach.
He only made poor decisions this game at the beginning there in the fourth quarter,
and he didn't change him fast enough yep to go back to that trading
baskets for the rest of the fourth quarter. He's a great coach. He
can know just most of the time. But tonight he had the wrong lineup
out there. I totally agree with you. In the fourth quarter he should
have gone with Bones Highland and uh yeah, well let me finish. Let
me finish, Mark, I got other people to get to I got your
point. We're at the gist of it. I appreciate you, my friend.
We'll do it again on Friday. I just want to make sure to
get other people in tonight because I know a lot of people want to be
heard. Pam and Temple City, Pam quickly here. Oh thank you,
Adam. I'm not going to ask how you're doing, but out of what
I was going to talk about has already been covered. But I don't understand
why team Man was standing there at the score stable so much. Instead of
being allowed in or instead of getting in, you're waiting for a stoppage of
player or a timeout to be called, Pam. I appreciate the phone call.
Let's do it again on Friday. I'm not trying to be rude.
I'm trying to get everybody in steff On in Highland Park or Steven Stefan,
steven ercle Uh, Zachary and Santa Monica. Zachary, you're on Clipper stock
by Adam Okay, I'll try to be quick as possible. Yeah, it's
just a disappointing way to end, you know, what had been a dominant
run by the Clippers. As other callers have said, I just don't see
any reason why. There's no rational reason why they lost this game. I
just feel like it was mistakes that a veteran team like them should know not
to make. Even with the bad lineup that you were pointing to in the
fourth quarter, it just feels like, have they played well in other ways,
they still could have overcome that, but it was just a total collapse.
I guess that's all I'll say for now. If we're short on time.
Thank you, Zachary. I appreciate tageous to close things out tonight here
on Clippers Talk, and I agree, so much had to go wrong.
It was a perfect storm of bad things happening to the Clippers. Stages closed
things out. Hey, Adam, I'm tryump being some positivity. When I
called on Sunday, I told you the recent struggles to me were about the
pace and them getting too slow sets and not playing with purpose. On Tuesday
after practice, I think Tylu echoed everything I said for verbatim. He said
the pace was slow, everything that I was mentioning on Sunday. Today,
the first three quarters, I thought the pace was much better. I thought
they were playing with purpose. I don't want to look at the fourth quarter.
If we can play like that, with the way we did the first
three quarters, it's just gonna We're just going to replicate what we did on
that on that tree. So let's get PG healthy. Played the way we
did the first three quarters will be okay. Thanks, Adam, Dagus in
Walnut, bring in some positivity. I'm here for it. I guess I'm
here for more phone calls too. It's up to King Newton eight six six
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Downey masondently skipped over them somehow. Jose one of my favorites. What's up,
Hey, what's up? Man? Uh? You know what? And
the four games before they all star in the last four games that you mentioned
a lot the lack of energy, those three quarters, they have good energy.
I mean, I think I've mentioned this before in the previous call.
When teams are down big, they're gonna go to that three. I mean,
run them off the line. I'm not saying that they won't score that
too, but it's it's more of a mental ship when they're hitting those three
in a row. And that doesn't help. Again with the Tyler not being
a good coach, No, he's one of a lot of serious a lot
of comebacks. He's a good coach, doesn't mean you make the right move
every single time. It doesn't mean you're a perfect coach. And because I
didn't like that lineup and it didn't end up working doesn't mean I know something.
He does it. He's very aware of all these things. Because I'll
say this, I believe in the first half with Lebron on the court and
Mason Plumbley next to PJ. Tucker and Russell Westbrook, they ended up going
a plus eight with Lebron on the court without Kawhi Leonard in the first half,
so I'm sure his logic was it worked. Then we need one more
stint from these guys. Let's see if they can pull it off. And
they just couldn't. Yeah, they couldn't. They couldn't, But you know
what, I just want to see more energy. I think energy will get
him back back in any race. I would love to see them show up.
It's not about the national game. I was listening to that earlier Colder.
I've been waiting around, but it's not about a national game or who
you play, I mean, what station you play on. It's just how
I would like to see them get up on these more important games, these
trying to take over first place, these teams that are in the playoffs.
One thing I didn't like from Tyleru. Not that I'm hanging on the Lakers
or anything, but he called them, oh, that's a good team over
it. They're in the ninth and tense for a reason. Those are teams
that we have to take care of. I don't care if it's the Lakers,
the Warriors, it's just nine, ten, eleven, even eight.
We have to take care of them. Yeah, I understand that. Look,
they've underperformed for the most part. I do think they're capable, though,
of nights like this, I'm not that surprised. I've been talking about
them being a bad matchup for the Clippers for some time now. Tonight the
Clippers had their number for three quarters, dominating them. Norm Powell hits that
three pointer puts them up by nineteen heading into the fourth quarter. You think
this one is secure. It has to be. It needs to be.
It's not just losing to the Lakers and losing the way they did tonight.
It's just losing a ballgame, period. Clippers need victories right now. Three
and five pollst the Grammy trip and the way they're playing sands the first three
quarters of tonight's ball game. This team's unrecognizable from what we saw during these
hot stretches where they've had one of the hottest stretches or the hottest stretch in
franchise history. So it's a major loss because of the standing implications. The
Clippers now are two games behind the Denver Nuggets, who won earlier over Sacramento.
One of the Kings a step of win that game, Minnesota one in
a close one. Again, it's the Memphis Grizzlies. Okay, see surging
beating teams down like they did the Clippers. Eventually in the fourth quarter.
Clippers are now just three and a half games up on the Phoenix Uns in
the five spot. Phoenix has the toughest schedule meeting but they have enough talent
to overcome that. And do you want a four or five matchup against the
Suns? And no, I'm not gonna come off of saying the Clippers need
to be a top three seed. Could a non top three seed win the
championship be the first team to do so since the ninety five Houston Rockets be
the second team in the last fifty years to do so. Yeah, I
think records today are more injury influenced, both manage influence. They're not as
representative of how good a team is sometimes, but you put yourself in a
really bad spot where, oh, now you have to play to get out
of the West Minnesota and Denver and not one of them, because if you're
in that four spot, well, you're taking on one of them in the
second round. You'd be taking on the Minnesota Timberwolves. Currently. It's just
they put themselves in a really tough spot. Now it is a bad loss
for a multitude of reasons. What can't happen is you let this loss bleeding
to another against the Wizards on Friday, who the Clippers have to beat,
because after that they got a back to back Sunday and Monday against the Timberwolves
and the Milwaukee Bucks. Tell me a worse back to back road back to
back in the league this season, especially right now, I'm convinced Milwaukee is
gonna snap out of this where they have been struggling under Doc Rivers, and
they've won three in a row. Now they beat Minnesota, you might be
getting them at the long time, wrong place, wrong time. So the
Clippers have to respond. They have to show something Friday that this was a
fluke, that this was the outlier, that they're angry about it, that
they never want to see this happen again. Considering how extraordinary a comeback is
to blow a twenty one point lead should never happen that the one team I
would think that could pull it off would be the Clippers. We've seen that.
Tonight, they get a taste of their own medicine against their crosstown or
hallway rival in the Los Angeles Lakers about to be Crosstown with them hitting it
into a Dome next season. And Lebron who's just Lebron James, This is
oh Man. I don't know. He's making a real tough argument to go
for anyone else. Being the goat, playing this well this long into his
career, there's obviously the longevity goat. Tonight, Clippers are on the wrong
side of a special performance of the likes that we haven't seen from. I
don't think Lebron's had a game this good, playing with that level of desperation
all season. Who knows what it does for this Lakers team? Do they
get out of the plan now? I said it pregame. Both these teams
felt like they were a little bit at the crossroads. Winner could go one
way, loser could go another way. The Clippers have to fight through this
adversity period. You gotta find a way to overcome bad losses like this and
learn from them and hopefully get healthy before we get out of here. Boy,
do we need them. Tonight is the Professor the prof Big Brother Jake
Warner from the podcast one Network Big Brother Jay Podcast with some positivity for us
from the fake philosopher. Please God give us something Jake. Well, it's
kind of reflective to tonight. But I fixed me because there were times I
was the problem. Hold yourself accountable, Clippers have to hold themselves accountable after
that abysmal showing tonight. Yeah, that's one of the worst fourth quarters,
maybe the worst, likely the worst at a two point three era. It
was bad. Oh, hold yourself accountable. Learn from this. Move forward.
Clippers tipping off against the Washington Wizards at seven point thirty right back here
at Crypto on Friday night. They got twenty five games left, plenty of
time. We'll have your pregame show starting at six thirty before we get out
of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler,
Bryan no Ego, Carlo Jimenez on the call, the callers, the listeners,
big brother, Jake Warner, head engineer, Katie Newton, our producer
until Friday night at six point thirty with the pregame show, I'm Meta mans
and we'll talk to you then. So why he was doing his thing?
All they want to do is win in La I win. I thought they
gave everything they had. I'm very proud of them. This has been Clippers
Talk. The official postgame reaction of the LA Clippers. God bless Paul George
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