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New York to the Knicks. Final score one to eleven to ninety seven.
Welcome into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up, we'll get
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eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy. But let's get back out to Madison Square Garden with your
radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carl I believe there was a
turnover on the first possession by the Clippers with Russell Westbrook and a Vitza Zoo
bos and it just felt like a nine of things to come as the turnovers
came up plenty late in the fourth as well. Yeah, it was a
tough day for the Clippers. Twenty two turnovers and eighteen offensive rebounds by the
New York Knicks. That is way too many extra possessions to give up forty
of them if you're a math guy, which Adam anytime he'd give the other
team forty extra chances at scoring, usually not gonna end up your way.
And despinal that the Clippers were in it for three quarters, despite the offensive
rebounds, despite the turnovers, just didn't go their way down the stretch.
Yeah, I thought Russell Westbrook played well, especially in that first half.
I thought James Harden looked okay out there from the second quarter on when he
was looking for his shot. But there was just not much of a rhythm
from the two superstars and Paul George and Kawhi Leonard. They just were never
in sync in this one. They weren't. And Georgia times, especially early
in that fourth quarter, fell a little bit like he was forcing it,
trying to get in rhythm. Kawhi had a solid start to that third cour
but then never really got back in rhythm. The Beauty of it is yes,
in the night like this, when Paul and Kawhi aren't going, Russ
and Harden were there to clean it up right away. I'm holding my breath
about the Mason Plumley news because man, the Clippers just looked like a completely
different team once he went down and he was having himself a game, a
scary injury. He was carried off. If you didn't hear, we're hoping
for the best, looking for some news on Mason Plumbley, who looked to
have a lower extremity injury as Julius Randall was diving for a loose ball.
So initial takeaways now, Carlow from James Harden in his first game as a
Clipper, he looks good. He looks like he's ready to run this offense.
We saw no shots in that first quarter, and then in the second
quarter he's like, oh yeah, I also have this part of my game.
And he went for seventh straight and was excellent, and almost in a
game like today, Adam like to see him be a little more aggressive on
the offensive end. James was just six or nine from the field, but
this is a night in which the Clippers could they used him shooting sixteen to
seventeen shots, especially with the way the rest of that offense was moving the
basketball and shooting the basketball. And you look at the other side with the
Knicks. They get Barrett back, they get Randall back, and of course
they get Julius Randall on the night he's able to turn it on with twenty
seven points. Barrett goes for twenty six. It was a great night offensively
for a Knicks team that came in last in the league in points per game,
and the Clippers just were too sloppy on their own end on the offensive
side of the wall. Sometimes wrong place, wrong time. Julius Randall goes
from shooting twenty seven percent from the field to start off the season to getting
twenty seven points against the Clippers as the Knicks win by fourteen and James Harden's
debut final score one eleven, two ninety seven. Clippers will regroup, get
back together, stay where they are. They'll be in Brooklyn on Wednesdays.
Taken on the Nets tiptime at four to thirty. Clippers countdown starting at three
thirty. Carla, my friend, great call. As always. We'll talk
to you on Wednesday. Doc to you Wednesday, Adam. We'll see a
very determined Clippers. Theve no doubt Clippers fall by fourteen in New York.
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Clippers fall one eleven to ninety seven in New York to the Knicks. Welcome
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Los Angeles and iHeartRadio station Clippers and end up shooting forty nine percent from the
field, the Knicks at forty seven percent. The difference though in this one,
the Knicks got up fifteen more shot attempts, so even though they shot
a worse percentage from the field overall, you get those extra opportunities. It
doesn't matter. They also were one three point or better twelve of thirty one
from the outside. That's thirty eight percent. As they came into this one
struggling, to say the least, from three Clippers just eleven of thirty two.
That's thirty four percent from three Clippers with twenty two turnovers. The Knicks
turned that into thirty five points. That is an abysmal number. Can't happen
for perspective, the Knicks had twenty the Clippers turned it into just twenty one
points. Your leading score for your Los Angeles Clippers I would be Kawhi Leonard
with eighteen on eight of sixteen shooting from the field, but Paul George just
two of eleven with ten points. Couldn't find it. James Harden played well,
was efficient overall in his debut, six of nine from the field,
two to four from the outside, seventeen points, six assists to just two
turnovers. Russell Westbrook met him there. He also had seventeen on eight of
thirteen shooting, but four turnovers, two four assists, and they came in
bunches really in that fourth quarter. This one was tied at seventy six entering
the fourth and I always say the Brooklyn Nets Clippers will see them on Wednesday.
The New York Knicks just ran away with this thing, winning one eleven
to ninety seven as the Clippers fell apart at the seams in the final twelve
minutes. They fall down to three and three on the season. Their next
game yes, coming up in Brooklyn on Wednesday. More on that plus Clippers
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seven in New York to the Knicks, who end up out rebounding them forty
eight to thirty one and eighteen to seven. On the offensive class, Nicks
got up fifteen more shot attempts than the Clippers. Near impossible to win a
ballgame when you're giving a team that many more opportunities. It was almost miraculous.
They were tied at seventy six heading into the fourth, but then a
quick seven to run and the ballgame got away from the Clippers in a hurry.
James Harden, in his debut six of nine from the field, didn't
take a shot in the first quarter, started to cook in that second,
where he had nine of his seventeen points, six assists, just two turnovers,
but off nights from the two to one to three connection. Kawhi Leonard
efficient eighteen points on eight of sixteen shooting, but j eighteen below twenty for
him, and then Paul George two of eleven, one of six from the
outside. Just couldn't find it, couldn't get a rhythm out there, had
just ten points. Clippers lose by fourteen in New York. They'll stay there
and take on the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday. Coming up next, we do
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your phone calls. Looking for postgame audio from coach lou As. James Harden
has seventeen on just nine shots, but the Clippers were outscored thirty five to
twenty one in that fourth quarter after the game was tied up at seventy six,
well within reach. Even though the Clippers were not playing well, even
though they were struggling and didn't seem to be in rhythm offensively, they were
out of sync. Some of that is expected. It's gonna be a process.
I might have to pin the tweet I put up yesterday of James Harden
talking about, Yeah, we'll figure it out, but there's gonna be some
ups, there's gonna be some downs. It's going to take time. And
I think it was also give the Knicks credit they're doing playing a team with
that style of basketball that was desperate for a victory. After they started the
season two and four with some really tough losses. They had to play Cleveland
twice, they had to play Milwaukee, Boston, New Orleans. Tough early
season schedule, and they can beat you up on the boards, and after
Mason Plumbley went out, it just got worse from there. Looking for an
update on Big plumb after in the third quarter he looked to suffer either a
knee or an ankle injury. Don't want to speculate, but it was Julius
Randall, not a dirty play, was just going for a loose ball on
the floor, but Mason Plumbley had to be carried off by his teammates.
Never want to see that. Looking for an update when I have it,
so will you. But in a game where you're taking it on a team
with this much size, the best rebounding team in the league, and they
proved it beating up the Clippers on the board something fierce. Eight boards to
thirty one for the Clippers. More importantly, eighteen offensive rebounds to just seven
for the Clippers. Points in the paint they had fifty six, the Clippers
just thirty eight. Here's what's more alarming than anything to me, though the
Knicks had twenty six fast break points, the Clippers just six. And going
back to the last three quarters, including overtime against the Lakers last Wednesday,
the Clippers have been outscored forty two to six in fast break points. It's
alarming. It's early in the season. It was just Game six. Clippers
are three and three. They're implementing James Harden. Some of these struggles were
built in, but to see them turn the ball over twenty two times wo
especially when they generated twenty from the New York Knicks. They had twenty one
points off the Knicks twenty turnovers. The Knicks had thirty five points off the
Clippers twenty two turnovers. Their transition d was awful and just too many second
chance opportunities, with the Knicks getting up fifteen more shots than the Clippers.
Tough to win a game that way. I knew there'd be turnovers. I
knew guys not being familiar with one another out there would lead to it.
It's a byproduct of trying to integrate James Harden. I didn't know it would
be this severe though. In Game one. Give the Knicks credit. They
were ranked third defensively coming into this game, but offensively they were twenty ninth.
I warned about it in the pregame show. In fact, I was
on with the Knicks podcast yesterday and when I heard that Julius Randall had been
shooting just twenty seven percent from the field in their first six games of the
season. No one had shot worse since nineteen fifty nine. Through six games.
I knew, here we go, he's due. It's gonna happen.
Against the Clippers. He didn't shoot twenty seven percent. It wasn't that high
of a percentage, nine of twenty one, but he had twenty seven points
and ten boards, three three pointers he found himself. RJ. Barrett had
twenty six. The Clippers were far too sloppy with the basketball and just not
physical enough and lacking some personnel to match up with a team like the Knicks.
Maybe we'll see. They want to evaluate after this big move where three
forwards were shipped out to Philly for James Harden and PJ. Tucker. They
want to get a good sample size and see what they have before they possibly
make another move. The roster isn't set until it is. I'm paraphrasing,
but that's Laurence Frank at the press or for James Harden. We'll see what
they do, hopefully, Jane, or excuse me, hopefully. Mason Plumley,
who again left the game with what looked to be a scary injury.
Is alright, that would be the best news you could get coming out of
this game. There are bigger things than just the loss. Plumbing is somebody
that this Clippers team needs, and he was eventually evaluated with the left knee
sprain. Let's hope it's not too severe or more severe than that. Obviously,
he'll be further evaluated, maybe an MRI tomorrow when I know more,
so will you. But not the type of start you wanted to see with
the Clippers with James Harden. But again, outside of the Clippers being out
of rhythm because they have a new player out there on the floor, I
thought he played well six of nine, seventeen points, six assists, of
two turnovers. He had some dimes to a beats the Zobots. Who if
I'm going to be honest right now, to start off this season through six
games, I need more from Big Zoo. I have been one of his
staunch defenders. Some have called me a Big Zoo apologist. I think he
is one of the better starting centers in this league. He's not Joel Embiid,
He's not a Vitza Zubats, but or excuse me, He's not Nikola
jokicch he is a Viatza Zubas. But he is more than serviceable. But
right now, if Mason Plumley is out for any extended period of time,
Big Zoo has to step up, point blank, and with James Harden kind
of expect him to. He makes the game easier for the bigs he plays
with. He had a through the legs bounce pass through the legs of Donovan
or excuse me, h Mitchell Robinson the center for the Knicks to Vitza Zubats
early on in that first quarter where he was fouled, found him again for
an easy lake up, a little pick and roll action. Harden didn't even
take a shot in the first quarter. He was just setting up others.
His first shot actually as a clipper was blocked by Dante DiVincenzo. It was
mid range, far side, and then he got one to go from about
the same spot. His first bucket as a clipper over two defenders in that
MIDI on the on the far side baseline. I was watching his defense closely.
He had some good possessions. Defending Emmanuel quickly not easy. He had
a patent died hardened step back three, was fouled on another one by Dante's
Devincenzo. In the second half, Harden was about as good as you could
expect, considering he hasn't played a game yet, not preseason, not a
regular season game with Philadelphia, obviously, and they were just ramping him up
over the last four days and trying to get him up to speed. Now
being with the Clippers, I thought Russ had a good game, quick nine
points in the first quarter. Clippers really had nothing going, but he had
a couple shots, tough ones off the glass, a three off a hardened
pass. Uh. He had a nice after taking I think an ill advised
three pointer. He had a nice little eurostep side step around her defender for
a layup. But there was a turnover to start the fourth quarter right as
he got in about two minutes into that fourth after a seven to zero run
by the New York Knicks, and things just compounded and spiraled out of control
from there. I'm not putting it on Russ. I think his seventeen points
were much needed. He was eight of thirteen from the field, but four
assists of four turnovers not the ratio you're looking for. I'm sure he'll clean
that up. normOn Palell in twenty two minutes off the bench, had a
nice ball game fourteen points, five of seven shooting, and four of his
five makes were from distance. He also, i want to say, had
nine points in the first half, most of them coming in the second quarter
after what I thought was a tough game for him where he played over twenty
minutes straight against the Lakers last Wednesday, from the mid point of the third
quarter until he filed out in overtime. So yeah, there's a lot of
work to be done Clipper Nation. Unfortunately, it didn't click in in Game
one with James Harden. Much of that is to be expected, but in
a game that was tied at seventy six, for it to get away from
him and lose the fourth quarter by fourteen, that was tough to watch.
And I'm still looking for that number of turnovers in the fourth when it just
unraveled on them and it looked like, ooh, seven turnovers in the fourth
quarter alone, leading to twelve points for the Knicks to start things off.
Let's go to Daniel in Echo Park. Daniel, what's up? You're on
Clipper stock without Amasen? Daniel Hey, Adam, Hey, Adam Hey,
I'm just you know, hardly. Look, he looks all right. He
looked good. He gave us some some you know, he passed the ball
off when he could have had some shots try to get the teammates involved.
I think he looks all right. Happy to see Russ go off for those
nine points real quick. Hoping the best for Mason Plumbia, I was.
I'm really worried about him because I like his energy and zoo. His hands
are just like made of stone. Lately. I just kind of hope you
could handle those bounced passes from Pardon in the future. In the near future.
Also, do you think that I and Russ would could possibly change positions
him play the point guard and Russ moved to shooting. Well, this is
what was interesting, And I didn't touch upon this yet, Daniel, but
I'm glad. I'm glad you brought it up. The idea coming into the
game was Harden's gonna play off the ball when he's on the court next to
Russ, who will then be more of the playmaker, Which makes sense.
He's better playing off the ball, much better than Russell Westbrook, who isn't
the greatest shooter to say the least. That's just not what has made him
and turned him into a Hall of Famer. He's used to controlling tempo pace
by having the ball in his hands. But I noticed in that first quarter
when they were both on the court, it really didn't matter. It wasn't
just Russ bringing the ball up. It was whoever got the board was bringing
the ball up and pushing the pace. So it seems like they are intent
on still playing at a faster pace even with James Harden out there. And
in terms of those set positions where Russ has to bring it up every time,
well, it wasn't happening in Game one. It wasn't I'd say that
much structured around their two guys in the back court with more defined roles that
maybe they were looking for. It seems a little bit chaotic. I do
think it's an interesting move only because you bring in James Harden, who's great
on the ball, and I know last season he shot forty one percent on
catching shoot threes, but he only took one point eight per game. I
think he can thrive out of those two players playing off the ball more than
Russ. I'm not sure though, you're leaning into his strengths having him off
the ball. I trust coach Lulo to figure it out. Kyle in La
Kyle, you're on Clippers soft without a maas And what's up, Hey,
Adam? How you doing man? Longtime fam Really loved the pod, Really
love the show. Quick question for you. First of all, I feel
terrible for Plumb. I hope he feels better. Man. That looked like
a tear to me. Well, we're not gonna speculate. Well, we
won't speculate. We won't speculate. But my question is I get a little
annoyed at four and a half minutes when you pull our guys out when we're
down fifteen. I don't think it's out of hand that we can come back
from that. It's the same kind of energy he had last year when he
pulled all our guys out that halftime. I forgot what game it was,
but you remember what games against Denver. In Denver, it it felt like
a bit of a petulance move. I'm just saying like I felt like we
had a chance. I'm sitting there watching the game. I didn't want to
see our guys got just wanted to hear what you had to say about it.
Love the show. Thanks, so much. Man. All right,
Kyle, appreciate you. I'll say this. Some would point to that's waving
the white flag too early, or you just want to get these guys more
reps. Well, they still have a game coming up on Wednesday, and
down fifteen in a game where you only scored ninety seven. With how sluggish
and down in the mud and the muck the offense was, it felt like
they were down thirty. It was gonna be really tough against this Knicks team.
I said it when they had a nine point lead, it felt like
fifteen. I just felt like whoever made that first big run was gonna pull
away in this one. Because both offenses were struggling at times. But the
Clippers in that fourth just scoring twenty one points, getting outscored thirty five to
twenty one, seven of their twenty two turnovers coming in the fourth. I
don't think hashtag comeback clips was happening tonight. All right, we'll take a
quick time out, Clippers will regroup, get it back together. I'm guessing
a practice tomorrow with James Harden, a few tweaks, build up a little
more familiarity out there on the court. Paul George just can't have a night
where he's two for eleven, if you want to say there's some correlation there
because it was his first game with James Harden. One of my keys to
the game was staying aggressive. Regardless of who you're out there with, you
still have to play your game. There has to be a healthy balance of
being unselfish because you have so many so much star power, but also not
being passive, and I thought at times Paul George was. He finished with
just ten points. Clippers lose by fourteen in New York. More clip stock
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Law they didn't stop playing hard. You're listening to the LA Clippers Audio Network
streaming on the iHeartRadio lap. Clippers fall one eleven to ninety seven in New
York to the Knicks in James Harden's debut. I don't even know how this
is possible. The Clippers at the half, with Paul George and Kawhi Leonard
going three of thirteen to start off the game, combining for just seven points,
somehow led forty six to forty two. They still had nine turnovers at
the half, but the difference was the Knicks only outshot them by one twenty
four minutes. In by forty eight minutes, they would have gotten up fifteen
more shot attempts. Too many Clippers turnovers. They end up with twenty two
and the Knicks end up with seventeen make it eighteen offensive rebounds. Clippers fall
to three and three on the season. Let's get to Paul and Rancho Cucamonga.
Paul, you're on Clipper stock without Amasa. What's up? Hi?
Adam? You've got Kawhi, Leonards, Paul, George, James Harden,
prolific scorers, Russell Westbrook. Why doesn't he be the point guard for the
bench unit? And maybe so? Kawhi, Paul and James are touching the
ball eighty five ninety percent of the time, and Russ can pace the second
unit and provide spark and energy and some scoring. I don't get it.
I don't really don't. Well, it's early right now, and remember James,
or excuse me, Terrence Man is still out with an ankle injury.
We'll see what happens with the starting lineup as we move along. But I
think Russ has sacrificed a ton for this Clippers team. He has adjusted his
game and it can work with those guys out there, but it may need
a little bit more fine tuning, some staggering between him and James Harden.
Russ was a minus seven in a game they lost by fourteen. Here's what
really hurts Mason Plumbley, who I thought gave him really great minutes and we're
looking for an update on the injury he suffered. But he was a plus
ten in the eleven minutes he was out there. I really liked his effort.
The pass he had to Kawhi Leonard for a huge throwdown. I think
that was to start the third quarter. They need Mason Plumbley. We're hoping
for the best with what looked like a scary concerning injury. All Right,
special caller tonight. I know he's a Knicks fan. I'm gonna go to
him anyways. It's Andre three thousand Ways to Hate on the f and a
podcast with myself and Kevin Figures. He's a Knicks fan. He's a fan
of a lot of teams, and he's calling in tonight, likely to gloat.
Andre. What's up you're on Clipper stock with that amazin my guys,
said Nick Speed Clippers they'll be there no matter what. Anyways, pretty good
game for who, for me and for me. Yeah, I saw that
in there now, like the beginning and half when I saw Norman Pale being
white left light up in threes and like, all right, this is gonna
happen the whole game, and the Clippers are gonna probably pull away in the
third. I'm glad it didn't happen. I did tweet at you at four
minutes and I'm like, you're like only like two threes away, and I
stopped from making as a game. But then he took him out anyways,
So that was and Kawi look kind of like ye had no he had like
no three a shot at all. It was like like when I saw you
be wide open, like all right, those are going and those are going
in, and they did it so that that kind of saved us, and
it kept the game pretty tight and close. I didn't see what happened to
plumb me. God bless ope, he's all right. But yeah, that's
what I took from the game. All right, Andre, appreciate the phone
call. I appreciate you as a Knicks fan calling in. He wasn't even
patting himself in the back too much or throwing it in my face too much
that the Clippers lost this one. Kawhi did have not a great night.
Even though he shot fifty percent from the field eight of sixteen, he only
ended up with eighteen points, so for him, not the most efficient night
you could say. But that dunk to start the third quarter, as I
mentioned, I thought he had a big offensive rebound in the second quarter.
He got it to Norman Powell for a long two just to hustle play from
Kawhi, and he had a corner three I want to say in the second
half just two of six from the outside. But yeah, he wasn't knocking
him down with regularity and only taking six shots from distance. And look,
Scots are gonna be divvied up. There's only one basketball. There's only so
many shots to go around, so to keep everyone in rhythm is the challenge
really when you're touching the ball less out there, because so many guys are
great with the basketball, can play, make and score at a high lie
elite level, Hall of Fame level. They got four Hall of Famers.
Not going to be easy to make it work. I think coach lose the
right guy to figure it out. Though I'm not concerned so much with the
score. I'm concerned with the health and status of Mason. Plumley is still
looking for more on that Morris in Long Beach. Morris, what's up?
You're on Clippers sock without a mazend Hey, does Lauren Frank speak Mandolin?
Uh, you'd have to ask him because because he might have to call Dwight
Howard assuming that my boy is out. Uh, let's pray that he that.
You know, it's just temporary stuff. I don't know if they're right
now. Morris, I don't think that's the guy. But continue and then
anyway, it's just one game. I know, folks gonna get excited.
It's just one game. I want to say something to the NBA has got
party like you've never seen before. This is one year. Everybody's got a
start. They're going to figure this out. In my opinion, everybody got
one. The Clippers lost the game in the first quarter. They were cold
as ice. I mean, they had good, good looks, but they
just couldn't just couldn't drop them. And nobody played big tonight. Your boy,
Uh what was that center's name? He got all them offense and rebounds.
He played big tonight and uh uh uh, what's that guard's named Burnette
or Barnett? He played big tonight, but we didn't have any of our
guys played real big tonight. But I believe they're gonna be okay, they're
gonna figure it out. But somebody, they're gonna have to do something with
the egos. Put that, Put that to the side. That's and the
pride. Everybody got the money. Now, put the egos and the pride
to the side, and let the coach make whatever decisions he's got to make
that's best for the team and that and it doesn't matter who comes off the
bench. Uh, just just work with the coach and let him make the
decision. You don't know what he does. But they got to get that
pride out the way. No pecking orders, no pecking orders, and I
think they're gonna be all right at them. I really do. So you
know, you behave yourself one game, then let me let you talk to
somebody else. But I'm not jumping up down and getting crazy behind one game,
all right, I talk to you, laiter, cool calm measure approach
there for more long beach appreciated. Yeah, Mitchell Robinson fifteen boards, nine
of them offensive rebounds. Just destroyed the Clippers on the glass. And that's
why I say I'm looking for more right now from Avitz' zoobots. Going back
to the Utah game as well, even the Lakers game, they went small
a lot because he just wasn't as effective out there as we have seen in
the past. And I'm not sure what it is, because he's got a
heck of a motor. We've seen him be mister consistent, mister reliable for
this team. Not so much tonight. While he still had eight and seven,
give him that and a couple of nice blocks. Unfortunately, they often
went back into hands of Knicks, who ended up getting another opportunity and getting
the shot made. This time, it was just far too many second chance
opportunities for the Knicks and far too many turnovers by the Clippers and giving up
those offensive rebounds and then twenty six to six fast break points in favor of
the Knicks. You bring up the parody in the league, I would say,
if there's parody, it's because of just how much talent there is with
the international game, and the pool of talent to draw from in the NBA
has never been bigger. When you see four top international stars that all have
a case of being top three players in the league, Giannis Jokic, Luca
Embiid, it's just stacked with talent. And that's what we've seen in FIBA
now and Team USA. I know Lebron is trying to put together in Avengers
like Olympic team with the best players from USA, and Joel Embiid cold be
included now, but it's it's amazing how talented the league has gotten and how
positionless it has gotten. When you see a guy like Wemby Frenchman, who's
seven to five, moving like a guard, looks like Ralph Sampson, plays
like Kevin Durant, it's insane. Jose in Southgate, Jose, you're on
Clipper South without Mas and what's up? What's up? Adam? All right,
let me tell you, deep breath, trying not to be everywhere.
We have a Clipper nation. Don't you ever have somebody else from the other
side? At least I'm a lost on Clippers side, all right. We
gotta keep it fair and balanced here, Jose, all right, A little
salty, little salty, all right, but just trying to remember how the
game started. The first three plays. I know, as listening to you
guys on clipsing there, I know we go through more motions, but our
a option was open for the first bucket. I know they'll see it in
film, but we did end up scoring on the first two plays when the
first eight option was open and Harden was a was a reason for that third
third play. We still haven't scored Hardened. Does Harder gets to the free
throw night? I know the seed howd in film? Oh, I was
supposed to started with saying, you know, like even though you had him
on, he did say the opleastics and plumbe that was woof. But another
thing to peggback with. Al Moris said, like I said, oh,
this is what I wanted to say. Today felt like Christmas Eve. We
knew we have some toys underneath the presidents, don't You don't You don't get
to everything on the first night, Adam, you don't get to everything on
the first night. So I don't think egos or anything is like that in
the way. Yet, we'll get some practices. Thing we still got next,
we still got Dallas. Then we'll see if, uh if ego or
anything like that plays a part. But I'm gonna go ahead and take advantage
of this early game to this on the East Coast. My son wants to
end, wants to end it how I ended. So hold on, Yes,
we practiced, so I'm walking back here. Ready, you ready,
let's go all here we go here, we got ready the three saying south
Gate with the little one. I like it bringing the positivity. Yeah,
they unwrapped one President James Harden. But uh, there's an embarrassment of riches
on this team, and it's gonna take time to figure out how to optimize
lineups and get everybody pointed in the right direction. But I'm confident Coach Lou
will figure it out. It sounds like a ten game trial has started if
I'm looking at these postgame quotes right, and that would end on November twenty
fifth at home against the Dallas Mavericks. So perhaps Coach Lou is looking at
the next nine games now after this one, to see what works, who
plays well with who, and to do some of that fine tuning and figuring
things out. But Jose also mentioned the Clips and Dip podcast coming up next.
We'll have Will Updike on after the Clippers lose in New York and James
Harden's first game as a Clipper, one eleven to ninety seven, a game
where the Clippers had twenty two turnovers leading to thirty five points. You want
to make it easy for a team that's struggling offensively, just get them in
transition. That's what the Clippers did, far too easy for the Knicks,
who were twenty ninth offensively and put up one hundred and eleven points on forty
seven percent shooting Tonight. Clippers, though, yeah, they got a lot
to figure out. We'll talk about some of it coming up next with Will
Updike of Clips and Dip right here on a five to seventy LA sports every
Clipper game all season, law, they didn't stop playing hard. You're listening
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in New York's final score, one to eleven to ninety seven in favor of
the Knicks. It was James Harden's debut. James finished with seventeen points on
six of nine shooting, but the Clippers had twenty two turnovers, gave up
eighteen offensive rebounds, and got out scored in the fourth quarter by fourteen welcome
back into Clippers talk still to come back to your phone calls eight sixty six
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But first let's get out to will Updike of clips and Dip Fame joining
me tonight. After the debut of James Harden in a game when the Clippers
look sloppy, out of sink, out of rhythm, and well, some
of it is to be expected, but this was just a team that came
out I thought flat for the most part offensively, and then just couldn't do
anything or couldn't find any rhythm in that fourth quarter especially. Yeah, yeah,
I agree, and to me, a lot of that I don't.
I think that that was like a hardened agnostic issue. I don't know if
it was the layoff. I don't know if it was a trip to the
first trip to the East Coast or what was going on there, but they
did not They were just not quick enough to walk into MSG and get a
win there. Yeah, guys just looked a little bit unfocused. Maybe it
was all the hoop loss surrounding James Harden. That can be a distraction.
It was game one. It's understandable. I've been a little bit hard on
of eatz Zubats tonight because I think they just need more from him than what
we've seen so far this season. He's been a little bit up and down.
He had five turnovers, he led them in the turnover category. He
had one early, he had one in the fourth where they were trying to
make a push and come back after that seven zero run start of the fourth
by the Knicks. And if Mason Plumbley is out for any extended period of
time, this is a Viza Zubots his opportunity to really shine, to show
his worth on this team, and he just has to step up right now.
And it was a game against the Knicks that you know, they have
bigs that can just punish you on the glass, and that's what happened.
Absolutely. Absolutely, I'm actually glad that you bring that point up because I
think with me and certainly with a lot of people fans and people who analyze
the team, I think Zoo has has had a pretty good grace period.
And you know, we talked about how he does improve it. You know,
he's making these incremental improvements. But I couldn't agree more that there's there
comes a point right where you do have to analyze, okay, so like
what is the weak link in the chain? Where can we can we move
things? And I'm not saying that we're at that point right now where it's
unrectifiable, but it is maybe a time to look in the mirror and say,
okay, or is this the ceiling that a Vita Zubos is at.
If he is, what does that mean for the ceiling for this team?
And is that enough for us? I feel like it's just about consistency with
him right now. He started off last season so hot, got banged up,
was hurt, missed some games for the first time in a couple of
seasons, and this year he's just been very up and down. And maybe
it's roles and new players out there and James Harden tonight, but Aviza Zubots
they just need him to be more that stabilizing force he was to start off
last season, and it's got to start now because we expect even on even
in the best case scenario with Mason Plumbley, he's likely at least missing Wednesday,
probably Friday. Don't want to speculate too much further than that, but
this is a big opportunity for Viza Zubots. But okay, don't want to
harp on it too much. Let's talk about James Harden. Your takeaways from
him in his first game as a Clipper. I thought, for the most
part, he wasn't the issue. You could say the Clippers being out of
sync is a side effect of just having James Harden out there. But he
was efficient. Six assists also to two turnovers. I like what I saw
for the most part. Yeah, I mean, there's not really a lot
to dislike their three to one assist, the turnover ratio. You love to
see that he's just like the crew. I mean, he's just he's the
table setter, can be the facilitator, but also just you know, the
best three levels, like one of the best three level scoring options that they
have outside of two to one three, And it's just really exciting. He'd
seen him take some of those deep like being able to take a deep three
off the dribble. I thought it was apparent in that game just how much
space in gravity he's still demands on the floor. This is still a high
caliber player with regardless of how you may feel about his exits or where he
is at this point in his career. But I was actually one of the
things that kind of stuck out to me is I thought anytime Norm was out
there, it feels to me like Norm is gonna it's gonna put up some
numbers comfortably through this regular season. And I was also really impressed because I
think one of the one of the issues that I potentially saw with the Hardened
deal is reduce minutes for Bones Thailand. But we saw some run out there
with james Enbone Thailand, which I really liked the idea from a developmental standpoint,
But what do you think about what do you think about how those two
could possibly benefit from hard and maybe more so than we thought they might be
detracted from. Well, I'm hoping that he leans into more of the play
playmaking aspect that he possesses. I posted a video last night to follow out
of may on X, just showing what an elite pass or he is,
what vision he has, and he has the potential to make the game so
much easier for everyone out there. And I do think Bones is somebody that
could play well off the ball. As much as we talk about him pushing
the pace, he gets the ball in his hands off a rebound and he
gets him into their sets quickly. Bones Highland's a really good shooter. He
makes quick decisions out there. I feel like he could be somebody that can
also cut to the basket now that he's shown to be a better finisher.
He just has to get minutes. I know in this one he ended up
with twenty two, just two of nine shooting and off night from him,
four assists to three turnovers, five points total. But I do think they
just have to find minutes for these guys. And the Knicks probably was just
a bad team to have to play off the bat considering their physicality, considering
how much they beat you up up front with their size, and the Clippers
right now, especially if Mason Plumley's out for a while, they just don't
have the size to match it. I know they tried PJ. Tucker.
They played him at the five and a small ball lineup a few different times.
He was zero two from the outside. I love us hustle everything,
but you know, it's gonna be a bit of an experiment and figuring this
thing out right now with James. But I wanted to throw something back,
as you will, because we talked about it on the podcast recently. Just
starting him next to Russell Westbrook, Russ had a night's game as other guys
were struggling. He had seventeen on thirteen shots and had nine of those I
believe in the first quarter. But it was interesting to me just washing to
see who handled the ball bringing it up the floor. We heard coach lu
say, well, Russ is gonna be the point guard more so when James
is out there, he'll play off ball. It didn't really play out that
way to me. If James caught the basketball off a rebound, he brought
it up. If Kawhi did, he brought it up. If Paul George
was out there, he brought it up. Like they just want to push
the pace regardless of who gets the ball off the board. Yeah, and
I'm a fan of that. I'm a fan of that kind of thing in
game, sort of you know, going with the plow, trying to optimize
getting into things a little bit quicker. Obviously that'll look a lot better as
the communication is better. I'm still I mean, things are much much more
up in the air. And now with Mason out who had an absolutely incredible
little run there to end the second quarter help the Clippers come out to like
a nice little lead. But I'm still struggling a little bit with the long
term fit of Westbrook and Harden. I just will harden Is certainly can playoff
ball. We've seen that. I know that it can work. It just
feels a little questionable to me. I guess the time is to not have
the ball in his hands. And I know that they'll they will work it
out, and they will figure it out because you know, Russ has has
been good for this team too, and still you know still is a great
facilitator and you know certainly has his own things offensively. But yeah, I
that to me is just not the smoothest It's not the smoothest fit. I
really, I hope that I'm wrong. I don't see that long term maybe
being the best. Look, it feels a little bit clunkiest. Actually after
this game, if anybody can figure it out, it is coach lou.
I just the part that baffles me a little bit is if you're bringing in
James Harden, he probably to get the most out of him, should be
on ball. That that's the thing. But that doesn't don't get why you're
taking the ball out of the assist leader's hands, like I just I really
I don't understand it. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see as we go
along here how things develop. Another one on Wednesday, Clippers in Brooklyn taking
on the nets. He is Will Updyke follow him at Will Updike up d
y k E on Twitter. Will do We gotta clips and dip YouTube episode
coming tomorrow. Oh, you're darn right, we do. All right,
let's go. We will talk to you then, my friend, thanks for
coming on to a double dip to night here on Clippers Talk. Absolutely,
thanks for having me coming up next, back to your phone calls. Clippers
fall one eleven to ninety seven in New York to the Knicks. As you're
listening to Los Angeles Clippers Network on five seven LA Sports every Clipper game all
season, law, they didn't stop playing hard. You're listening to the LA
Clippers Audio Network streaming on the iHeartRadio WIP. Clippers losing the debut of James
Harden one eleven to ninety seven in New York to the Knicks. They dropped
to three and three On this young twenty three twenty four NBA regular season You
hear the outro music so Yeah, it's gonna be a quick segment. We
got UCLA basketball coming up here at the top of the hour before we get
out though quickly. We don't have the time. Okay, Katie, Katie's
casual corner. Katie, you got a question for me tonight? Basketball related?
Yes? I do. Uh? What's that? Adam? Are you
gonna grow yourself a James Hard and Beard? I don't know if I got
Beard game like that, you gonna slap some roguain on some beard oil something.
bTB would use some holistic medicine stuff. I'm sure he's got some lotus
flower. We'll see. The Beard finishes with seventeen points on six of nine
shooting in his debut. Clippers fall though by fourteen. It was tied heading
into the fourth and they got blitzed by the Knicks to end it. Next
game coming up Wednesday in Brooklyn, they're taking on the nets before we get
out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization. No Eagle,
Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawler, Carlo Jimenez, your radio voice up,
the Clippers, the callers, the listeners, big Brother, Jake Warner,
a head engineer. Katie Newton, our producer until Wednesday. Clippers starting off
at three point thirty with your pregame show Clippers Countdown. Well, they'll be
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