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The game is over. Paul George
money in the pain, but the postgame

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reaction has just begot Cowhi Leonard is
so smooth in the mid range. This

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is Clippers Locker Room, a recap
of today's game and a look ahead on

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your home for LA Clippers playoff basketball. Now your host, You, sir,

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are a bad man, Adam Oslin. The Clippers once again fought and

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gave everything they had, but they
just run out of gas late against the

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Phoenix Suns and they lose once twelve
to one hundred in Game four and they're

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down three one in this best of
seven first round series. Welcome into your

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postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin.
Coming up. We'll get to your postgame

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box scroll score. You'll hear from
the head coach and the players. But

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first back out to your voice of
the Clippers in Noah Eagle. No,

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I'm proud of this team and Clipper
Nation. Everybody should be holding their heads

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high. They just the talent disparity
too much to overcome. Yeah. Look,

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Russell Westbrook in this game was everything
that the Clippers have been embodied really

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since he joined the team. I
mean, he came out, set the

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tone, hustle, every facet of
the game. Thirty seven points on twenty

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nine field goal attempts, and I
thought everybody responded along with him. I

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thought the crowd was great with him. Clipper Nation has come out and provided

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that boost in games three and four. They deserve a ton of credit.

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Sometimes it just is what it is
this game. Sure, there were calls

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that didn't go their way. In
fact, Russell Westbrooks was the second player

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in NBA history, I believe,
to score thirty seven points or more with

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zero free throw attempts. I mean
Russell Westbrook getting zero free throw attempts in

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the game. Russell Westbrook attacks more
than anybody. Russell Westbrook plays more physical

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than most players. To get zero
free throw attempts is wild. But aside

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from all that, this was a
game that you got. You gotta give

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credit to Feenix for the way that
they played down the stretch in the fourth

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quarter. They scored twenty nine points, but it just felt like they weren't

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gonna miss. It just felt like
everything they got they just found their way

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to it. Durant was on a
really good rhythm today. Booker thirty points

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again. Chris Paul, I mean
Chris Paul had struggled shooting the basketball really

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all series. That was the one
saving grace for the Clippers in this one,

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and in that fourth quarter he has
twelve of the twenty nine Phoenix points,

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So I just there's a lot here. The Clippers also didn't have a

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single and one in this game.
Again, it's just little things that you

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think over the course of a game. The Clippers took ten free throws in

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this one. They were attacking every
time on the floor. They weren't settling

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for jump shots, they were getting
into the paint. Kevin Durant had eleven

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by himself. So third discrepancies no
doubt, but Phoenix deserves credit for winning

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this game. I one hundred percent
believe that for the way they played down

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the stretch. Chris Paul played really
well down the stretch and they found their

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way through it. So now the
Clippers, they just gotta shift their focus.

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They gotta get ready for game number
five. This series isn't over yet.

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They know what it's like to be
up three one and falter, so

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why can't they beat down three one
and succeed. They're more than capable,

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as they've shown in all four of
these games. You could have made the

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case that they could have won all
four, could have easily won all four

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of these games. So you're down
three one head back, make it a

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series, just like you did in
the Conference finals when you were down three

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one in one game five on the
road. They're more than capable. They'll

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have a chance to do that on
Tuesday, and they have a coach that

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knows what it takes to win a
series when you're down three games to one,

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in Coach Lou. I thought Terrence
Man had a really nice performance,

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some big three pointers he battled out
there. Mason Plumley was very good too

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for the Clippers, just defending very
well. I thought it was some of

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the best we've seen from Mason Plumley
since he became a Clipper, no doubt,

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And I had mentioned it earlier in
the game that Mason has not scored

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in double figures in a playoff games
since he was with Portland in twenty sixteen.

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He almost got there. He at
eight points tonight, three of four

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shooting, got to the free throw
line for two of the ten attempts.

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Two attempts is a lot for the
Clippers in this game. Six total rebound,

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three assists. He did a little
bit of everything for them. Defensively,

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I thought it was very good and
I thought the Clippers again in the

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second half, really took care of
the basketball. I think you got to

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give them a ton of credit for
the way they've responded after turning it over

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a little bit too much in the
first half. They did a fantastic job

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of only committing three turnovers in the
set in the third and fourth quarters,

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only leading to fifteen total points for
the Suns, and they turned the Sons

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over eighteen times got twenty one points
off of it. A really good fight

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in so many ways, a lot
of positives obviously to take out of it,

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and it's disappointing knowing what could be
and knowing that if the two one

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three connection is out there, And
to me, Adam, I was saying

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this off the year, but I
really do believe it. Most people,

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when you think Kawhi Leonard and Paul
George aren't going to be in there,

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you think, well, you're gonna
miss their offense. Their offense is so

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crucial to the success of this team. They're both averaging twenty four points per

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game in the regular season, and
Kawhi was averaging thirty five through the first

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two games of this series, but
I actually argue their defense is more important

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again the light against the likes of
Booker and Durant down the stretch. You've

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got two guys now that you can
put on them. You can shift Russell

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Westbrook, who's been playing outstanding defense, over to Chris Paul and you've just

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got a much better chance of defending
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of your small ball because you've got
the big wings who can go out there

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and grab rebounds. And that's the
other thing. A couple offensive rebounds late

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in that fourth quarter helps seal it
for Phoenix, who's the board man,

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Kawhi Leonards the board man. We've
seen him do it where he's come up

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with huge rebounds and fourth quarters to
help seal wins, including in Game one.

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So that's where they miss him the
most, and I think that played

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out in this game today to eventually
put the Clippers at a three one deficit

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in this series. And tough to
get superstar calls when you don't have yours

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out there on the cord Clippers calls
apparently, no doubt. Clippers lose to

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Phoenix in Game four one, twelve
to one hundred. Clippers down three games

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to one in this best of seven
series. Game five coming up in Phoenix

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Tuesday night. Tip time is at
seven. We'll have Clippers count down your

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free game show starting at six.
No Ego, MC guy, hell of

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a call. As always, we
will talk to you on Tuesday. Adam,

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you know how it goes. Can't
wait ready, let's go. Coming

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up next to your post game box
scorer, you know hear from the head

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coach and the players as the Clippers
fall by twelve to Phoenix in Game four

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in downtown Los Angeles. You're listening
to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network.

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Clippers had all the heart, the
toughness and the fight out there. They're

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just missing their two best players and
they lose by twelve to the Phoenix Suns

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in Game four. Final score one
twelve, one hundred in favor of Phoenix

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and they now have a three one
series lead. Game five coming up Tuesday

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night in Phoenix, Tip time at
seven. Pregame show right back here at

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six. Postgame box Scorer says this
Suns end up shooting forty nine percent from

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the field. They were much better
in the second half shooting wise. They

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went nine of twenty two from the
outside, Clippers just twelve of thirty seven.

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I'm glad they got up thirty seven. Just a few more makes and

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this could have been a different game
because the Clippers are one of the top

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three point shooting teams in the league. Granted, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George

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pretty good from the outside themselves,
and they're missing those two guys, but

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they still have the capabilities of hitting
more three pointers. I thought that they

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had to get at least fifteen makes
in this one. They went forty four

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percent from the floor overall, had
thirteen turnovers, not a bad number,

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especially when just three of them came
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better to care of the basketball there. Phoenix Suns had eighteen leading twenty one

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points for the Clippers, and the
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fifty to forty six, but they
still got up seventeen less free throws than

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the Phoenix Suns, who got up
twenty one more than the Clippers. In

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Game three, Kevin Durant finished with
the game high thirty one. Devin Booker

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had thirty. I should say Phoenix
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thirty seven. Four year Clippers.
Just an amazing effort from Russ. Once

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again, he's having his best playoff
series since twenty sixteen. Stats Wise,

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he's putting up the best numbers,
the best of figency levels since twenty sixteen,

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eight years ago. Can't say enough
about Russ. Unfortunately, norn Pale

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did struggle coming off a game where
he had forty two Maybe a little bit

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tired out there for fifteen, just
fourteen points. Terrence Mann was very good

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off the bench, my player to
watching this one. He had thirteen and

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four assists, a couple of big
three pointers late. Not enough though for

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the Clippers, as Devin Booker also
scores thirty and Chris Paul had a sequence

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in that fourth quarter where he knocked
down a three, had a steal,

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and then put up a wild trick
shot that went for him at the end

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of the shot clock. And he
finished with nineteen three of six from the

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outside, eight of seventeen from the
field. Clippers lose by twelve in Game

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four. Game five coming up on
Tuesday. More on that coming up next.

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During your post game show. You're
listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio

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network, Clippers lose one twelve to
one hundred in Game four at Crypto dot

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Com Arena and they're down three one
and this best of seven first round matchup

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against the Phoenix Suns. Welcome back
into your post game show coming up on

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the Patriot Am. Eleven fifty we'll
have Clippers stock for you. Eight seven

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seven five two zero eleven fifty eight
seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is

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the full number. Clippers end up
shooting just forty three percent from the field

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after they went really cold late in
the fourth quarter, ran out of gas.

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Suns outscored them in the final period
twenty nine to twenty two. Once

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again, no Kawhi Leonard, no
Paul George. Both the superstars are out

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with right knee injuries, and the
Phoenix Suns got thirty one from Kevin Durant,

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thirty from Devin Booker, nineteen from
Chris Paul fifteen and thirteen from DeAndre

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Aden. Proud of the guy's efforts, though, who were able to go.

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Russell Westbrook with thirty seven is Clippers
high in a playoff game on seventeen

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to twenty nine, shooting three or
six from the outside. Big shots big

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takes getting to the basket. Talent
disparity just two wide right now for the

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Clippers to overcome it. That's it. The heart and the hustle have been

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there, the effort has been there. Team's going hard, but unfortunately they

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come up short. They lose by
twelve. Game five. Coming up on

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Tuesday night in Phoenix with the Suns
having a chance to close out this series,

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Clippers backs officially against the wall for
the twenty twenty two twenty twenty three

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NBA year. Coming up next in
La, we got Clipper Stock eight seven

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seven five two zero eleven fifty eight
seven seven five two zero eleven fifty Outside

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of Los Angeles, we're leaving you
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pregame show, Clippers Countdown. So
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then La. Coming up next,
it's Clipper Stock. Hey, Adam,

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Hey, how you doing. Welcome
into Clippers Talk. Here's a new sheriff

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in town. You won't be able
to deny if you're going to go to

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the NBA Finals. I believe it
in my heart, the mid range mastery

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of Kawhi Leonard fully activated. I
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Here's Adam Oslin. Clippers are down
three one in this best of seven first

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round series against the Suns after they
lose Game four oncewelve to one hundred.

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I'm Adam Oslin. Welcome into Clippers
Talk. Coming up here, we will

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get to your phone call at eight
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Eight seven seven five two zero eleven
fifty is the phone number, and I'm

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with you till four thirty Pacific time. So we got time. I got

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time today to take your calls.
Oh, I got time today. Coming

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up on the show, you're gonna
hear from Coach Lou post game as well

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as Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip
Pod. There's a level of frustration boiling

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up with me today that I haven't
felt in a little bit Clipper Nation,

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and it's this when you realize and
you feel like the Clippers are playing harder

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and have the better squad, they
just can't show it because their two main

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guys are on the bench, both
with right knee brains. It's a little

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bit frustrating because this Sun's team has
been woefully unimpressive in this first round series

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for the amount of talent they have. Yeah, they're up three one for

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a reason are from but it's not
because they're playing as well as I think

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the Clippers are considering the circumstances.
It's not that I feel like the Clippers

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have run out of heart or energy
or fight or toughness. They just are

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at such a talent disadvantage right now
that no matter what they do, giving

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everything they have out there playing,
basically, they're a game with this roster,

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with the guys who are currently available, versus a Sun's team that looks

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to be at a C minus and
they're still losing ball games because the Sons

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have I don't know, the three
best players, the two best players at

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least on the court with Kevin Durant
with Devin Booker, they combined for sixty

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one. I mean, you can
make the argument Russell Westbrook outscored them both

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had thirty seven was spectacular, just
battling being a leader out there, going

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seventeen to twenty nine, three of
six from the outside, making big shots

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in the fourth quarter to try to
keep it close. But the uphill battle

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continues for this team because they've been
snake bitten, riddled with injuries, unlucky.

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I don't believe in the curse stuff. They've just been unlucky. Gaway

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and Paul George were injury or prone
before they became Clippers. They've remained injury

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prone. They've only been on the
court together for the amount of available games

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I think around twenty three percent of
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not having them right now, it's
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be coming together in so many different
ways. They're just down their two main

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guys, so they can't pull off
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playing that great. They're they're not
dominating, they've looked unimpressive. They're just

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getting by on having more talent.
And you wonder how this series would look

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if the Clippers had the two on
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that for a long time. If
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back down three one. Coach Lewis
coached the teams to a three one victory

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before or being down three one in
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Golden State Warriors. Of course he
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his Kawai at that time was Lebron
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when I heard Kawhi Leonard was going
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now he's been out for Game three
and four, that if they don't have

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these two guys, the Clippers can't
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least one of them. I think
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likely be enough based upon what we
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an update coming from Chris Hayes.
In a little bit, we'll play that

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audio for you that aired on T
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is swollen, the one he had
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him to be playing so well for
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for about three and a half months, and then it happens in a first

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round series. I don't believe in
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fault to anybody right now if they
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seven five two zero eleven fifty eight
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the phone number. It is just
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the year when Kawai went out initially
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month after playing the first couple of
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then he goes out with that comes
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in re No surgery, thankfully,
But Zubot said this, the Clippers just

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can't seem to have nice things.
That's what it feels like right now.

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So clip Nation, we got a
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feeling it. Two posts game after
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Clippers had chances. They're down five
going into the fourth, the Suns start

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to heat up. No matter what
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Chris Paul going on that run in
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then had a steal, then got
one to go on a ridiculous flip shot

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baseline fade away on the far side, a circus shot before the shot clock

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went out. I think that was
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The Suns did get fourteen offensive rebounds, Clippers just nine. And the

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free throw disparity is also too much
to overcome. You combine the attempts to

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the last two games, Sons at
seventy three attempts at the line, Clippers

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at thirty five, more than doubling
them. It's just impossible to overcome that.

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You're down too many guys. It's
excruciatingly frustrating to see a team go

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out there and play that hard and
not get rewarded for it. Russ has

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thirty seven, doesn't get one free
throw the attempt ten as a team.

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Kevin Durant was at eleven by himself. I don't know what to tell you.

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They're not getting a friendly whistle the
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you score more points in the paint, you're probably playing physical enough basketball to

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get a couple of calls. Clippers
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six, yet the Clippers takes seventeen
less free throws. I don't want to

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belabor it too much. But I'm
just leaving it there on the table if

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anybody else wants to pick up the
conversation regarding the officiating the last couple of

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games, because it's been rough and
it just compounds things. When you're already

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at a talent disadvantage like this,
the gap is too wide. They almost

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have to play perfect basketball. Nobody's
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I heard people talk about, well, the Clippers miss six free throws

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last game, so it's on them. They lost by five and they miss

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six free throws. How many times
are you perfect from the line. The

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Suns get to miss six in this
game and they still win because they have

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their guys. They went twenty one
to twenty seven. But you can't expect

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the team to be perfect out there. And I'm not saying the officials need

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to be perfect either. Man.
There were some tough calls though, the

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rust clean block on KD in the
first half and Durant shoves but tomb to

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the floor no call in the third
quarter, The Roco call on Kevin Durant

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not much there, plumbly gets called
for a moving screen. Our Kogi hend

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to the third Norm's fighting through a
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Man Harley touches KD at the five
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call. So I'm pointing out specifics. I'm not just I'm not just giving

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out generic free throw numbers here to
you do I think that's why they lost

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the game. I don't know,
probably not. It just doesn't help when

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you're only attempting ten free throws.
And it's just hard to overcome the Grand

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Canyon size chasm between the amount of
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the talent the Clippers are missing.
No Paul George, no I Leonard,

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and they're both out from right knee
sprains. The hitch just keep on coming

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because when I saw in the first
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there, he was the best player, not just in the series, in

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the world. Nobody was playing better
than Kauai. Not many have looked better

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than him. Over the last three
months. The guy does everything to come

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back from the ACL injury, to
come back strong, to come back right

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where he was in twenty twenty one
in the playoffs where we already thought they're

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getting to the NBA Finals. If
Kauai doesn't go down. They're beating the

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Phoenix Suns took the Sun six games
to beat them without Kauai and Zoobots,

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who, granted, is not having
a very good series, last three games

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having been the best performances from Big
Zoo. Thought plumbly picked him up in

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this one. Thought he was better. A couple of great passes, say

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the ball from going out of bounds, no look magic Johnson Gift passed to

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think it was Eric Gordon for a
three pointer in the first half. But

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that's how good Kauai was. There
was no debate. He was out playing.

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Kevin Durant ripped him in that Game
two on a bad knee and took

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it the other way for a dunk. So yeah, I'm venting a little

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bit because the Clippers are down three
games to one, and it feels eerily

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similar to that first round series back
in twenty sixteen against the Portland Trailblazers when

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the Clippers were up two games to
none, I believe, but then Blake

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and CP three go out they lose
the next four. Was Portland the better

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team? No, they just had
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That's what this series feels like the
Suns are far from running on all

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cylinders. And if they make it
to the second round and take on the

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Denver Nuggets, and they're gonna get
punched in the mouth quick because Denver isn't

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missing their guys like the Clippers are
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eight seven seven five two zero eleven
fifty And I am being inundated, which

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sweets about Marcus Morris getting the start, and I'm not gonna avoid the elephant

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in the room. He didn't have
a good game. Guys, you're minus

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nineteen and twenty five minutes, three
of thirteen from the field, one of

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eight from three. I was surprised
he got the start. Two. I

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guess Coach lew is gonna go out
with the guys that dance are the ones

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who brought him here, the guys
he'd trust the most. But I didn't

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understand it after the first half,
when in his fourteen minutes he was at

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minus fourteen. Why not start Terrence
Man in the second half? Why not

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try Rocco earlier? I know,
but Tuma was struggling with his shot,

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but at least the defense is there
and he plays just six minutes. It's

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it's hard for me to rationalize either. It's curious at best. I don't

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understand it. Marcus really struggled.
He hasn't looked right for a while.

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Now it continues, and he played
twenty five minutes and was a minus nineteen

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eight seven seven five two zero eleven
fifty. Javier start things off today on

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Clippers Talk after the Clippers lose Game
four one twelve to one hundred. There

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down three games to one in this
best of seventh series. Javier, what's

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up? Thank you, Adam,
and I wanted to start before I forget.

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Thank you for showing your frustration,
because it's super frustration. I mean,

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it is to the point that I
mean, no eagle just comes in

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my ears. He said, Oh, you know, we'll be okay.

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We've been down before. No no
eagle. We have no shot on Tuesday.

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If Kawai did not, I wouldn't
say I wouldn't say no shot.

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Javier, with this team just because
of what we've seen in the last two

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games, they are that far away. If they actually get some calls,

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get to the free throw line,
and Norma can be better than he was

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in this one. I'm not gonna
say no, shot, I'm not gonna

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say it. This team, this
team deserves a little bit of the benefit

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of the doubt with how hard they've
been playing the last two games. The

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guys who are out there are battling, and I'm proud of them. No,

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no, no, and Lean they're
clean, they're behind off. I

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mean they are, like you said
earlier, just running out of gas at

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the end of running out of gas. Next. Here's the other thing,

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though, Kevin Durant going into this
game had played ten more minutes in the

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playoffs than anybody else. Excuse me, it wasn't even ten more minutes.

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I forget the actual number, but
number one in minutes played so far in

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the playoffs. And he's at thirty
four years of age and he had to

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play forty four in this one.
There is a chance that he went two

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days off the Phoenix Suns, and
they're older players, like CP three,

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you had to play thirty seven,
they might start to tire out. Yeah,

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I mean, yeah, you're right. So he games on Tuesday,

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and that's two points. I don't
even have a lot of cause you're at

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him. I'm done talking about Marcus
Morris. This is my last called regarding

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Marcus Morris. But you know what, now I know what Tyler's doing.

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He's putting Marcus Morris. I think
he wants to get fired at him.

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He just going, Like you said, it's just puzzling. I don't I

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don't think anybody's trying to get fired. This isn't office space or anything like

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that. But Coach lou is going
with the guys he trusts the most,

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and clearly Marcus Morris is one of
them. But you know what my next

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point is, do you know what
I think Adam? Maybe just my opinion,

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but I'm thinking he's tired of two
on three connection. I mean you

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said at the beginning, they're not
available. They have a history at him.

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I mean I'll raising my hand at
him. When that trade went down,

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I would have done it too.
I was the GM or the owner,

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I would say, you know what, we're gonna get Kai. Every

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GM in the NBA would do that
trade one hundred times out of one hundred.

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Yes, but you know what,
look at their history. Kawai in

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San Antonio, Homny would say,
you're anap didn't play. Here's the problem,

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Javier. He just won a championship
playing through a hurt knee for the

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Toronto Raptors and didn't miss a game
in the playoffs. I don't think you

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can second guess that decision. Ever, I don't get it's unfortunate the way

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it has gone, no doubt,
and your phone's breaking up a little bit.

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You're battling the cell phone lines right
now. I'm not interested in revisiting

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the summer of twenty nineteen. I'm
just not You want to second guess it

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now easy to do because of the
way SGA is playing and the Clippers are

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down three one in a series without
both of their guys. It's not just

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without Kauai in twenty twenty one,
or without Paul George to start the series,

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or without both of them. But
they want to be out there.

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All the reports are saying Kawhi wants
to play. They won't let them.

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And we'll hear from Chris Haynes coming
up, Sean and Inglewood Sean, what's

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up, hey, Adama? A
couple of things I want to say.

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First of all, if we had
a different referee crew the last two games,

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the Clippers could have won both games
easily. Well, they did have

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different reps out there than they had
Thursday night, So you got that wish,

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but it didn't change anything. Well, a Thursday game Thursday night was

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an abomination of calls. Today.
You missed the one call where what was

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that? I think it was Aden
came over the back of Marcus Morris when

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he was trying to rebound and he
just closed it out of bounds. Instead

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of a decivious i'llvious fous. They're
not picking up on they won't even call

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him. It's ridiculous. So that
is a problem within itself. However,

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being in the same situation year and
a year where we're going from injuries to

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uncertainty, I think it's time to
pull the plug on this whole situation.

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What's the solution, Sean, what
are you gonna do. You're gonna trade

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guys on the low. You're gonna
get pennies on the dollar for superstars who

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are often the thing I was looking
at it you didn't allow me to finish.

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I'm asking. The free agent market
this year is terrible. The best

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free agent is Jeremy Grant and he's
not even unrestricted. So that's that's what

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we have as a ridiculous free agent
market. And as far as trades value,

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it has to go down quite a
bit. I have, But I

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know you didn't want to revisit two
thousand nineteen. But the first time I

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heard about that trade, I said, no FGA. Please. When they

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let FGA go, I said,
with all those draft picks too, I

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said, bad trade. And so
basically, and I said, that's the

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very first time I heard about it. So you're the one, Sean,

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and you tend to always be the
one. I'll take your word for it.

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I guess, yeah, I look, I'll tell you the truth.

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But anyway, to be honest with
you, I feel sorry for mister Ballmer

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because he did everything and he could
to put a winner out there. I

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loved in Chicago, where they would
just pretend to try to win for a

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long time. So being out here
in the West Coast now I know when

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I see an owner and that's trying
to do everything he can, even building

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a new building, has no problem
with the money coming in or spending money.

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00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.920
But this is an abomination. We
can't have another. We don't know

406
00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:06.799
if this guy's gonna play or not
play. So maybe I finishing. If

407
00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:11.559
there's a cost to them, maybe
it's time because the fans just need to

408
00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:15.880
have some consistency and reliability and from
John. You know what, though,

409
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:19.880
asking for that in the current state
of the NBA is asking a lot.

410
00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:25.319
It's not just these two guys who
have been load managed. It's not just

411
00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:30.559
these two guys who have been injured. We've seen Joel Embiide now go down

412
00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:36.079
write knee injury, Jannis Denakumpo,
Tyler Hero. It's happening throughout the NBA.

413
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:40.160
It is a war of attrition out
there. You're right, but and

414
00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:42.920
I hate to bring me so one
more time. But if Hi didn't demand

415
00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:48.759
the training for Paul, we would
have graft picks. We had Dallinari,

416
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.079
we had a good teams. All
we needed was Kawai. But oh,

417
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:55.720
I can't play with these guys,
you know, So bring me Paul,

418
00:31:55.799 --> 00:32:00.640
George, and we've paid too much
of a price. Where we're trying to

419
00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:04.200
keep Kawhi from signing with the Lake
Sean. What do you think happens if

420
00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:07.839
Kawhi letter doesn't go down in twenty
twenty one? Where do you think happens?

421
00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:10.519
Jacob won the whole thame? Okay, So then you make the trade

422
00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:15.759
because you can't predict whether or not
Kawhi was going to tear his ACL and

423
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:20.559
we all felt like they were the
best team in the league. They had

424
00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:23.519
the best team. They had a
guy go down with the severe injury.

425
00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:28.799
But let me counter then, Okay, the Covie year, Okay, they're

426
00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:31.839
in the boat. Okay. Lebruns
gathers all the troops together. He's the

427
00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:37.799
grandfather to everybody, big brother,
bringing them together, the sea. Whatever

428
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.759
we need to do, list it, Let's have sleepovers, Kai Luke,

429
00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:45.440
I'm a superstar. I don't need
to make the twain. I don't talk

430
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:47.920
to people. Hey, Sean,
seem to work in San Antonio, seem

431
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:52.440
to work for the year before that
with the Toronto Rafters. I don't care

432
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:55.119
about speculation on what type of leader
a guy is. When he has two

433
00:32:55.119 --> 00:33:01.079
finals MVPs and two rings with two
different organizations, his leadership style works.

434
00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:05.839
Okay, I'll give you that point
if you want to go there. But

435
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:10.039
seriously, I do think that everybody's
considering the same thing because a lot of

436
00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:14.799
people are just the word on the
street. I'm through with it, all

437
00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:17.000
right, all right, Sean,
but you're still not giving me a solution.

438
00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:22.559
So you're gonna trade him for what? I don't know there you go.

439
00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:28.359
You got nothing. I'm sorry.
I'm a solutions driven guy. If

440
00:33:28.359 --> 00:33:30.440
you're gonna say, oh, they
gotta move on, what's the trade?

441
00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:37.640
What's the move not I don't know. That's not good enough. What's the

442
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:46.240
realistic move? Sometimes you just find
a way to keep pushing through and eventually

443
00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:54.160
the basketball gods smile upon. You
saw it with the Dallas Mavericks. They

444
00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:59.720
went to the NBA Finals in two
thousand and six. They led two games

445
00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:04.160
to and lost four straight to the
Miami Heat. The next season, they

446
00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:08.440
came back. They won sixty seven
games, had Dirk Nevinski as their number

447
00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:13.480
one guy. Then he won the
MVP and they got bounced in the first

448
00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:17.800
round by the We Believe Golden State
Warriors. Did they panic? Did they

449
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:22.800
say, oh, this isn't gonna
work. Dirk can't be the best player

450
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:24.800
on a championship team, which a
lot of people on the outside were saying,

451
00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:28.960
Then, oh, Dirk, you
soft. Michael Thompson used to stay

452
00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:30.400
it on this station all the time, always too soft, They can't do

453
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:37.960
it. They just stayed the course
and eventually they won a championship against Miami

454
00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:45.719
in twenty eleven. Flippers may have
to double down because I don't know what

455
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:53.440
you're getting for chair Paul George with
them being injured like this, would you

456
00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:58.800
rather trade them for lesser guys who
are more available because if you know shot

457
00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:02.639
of winning a championship or would you
rather have guys that if they're healthy?

458
00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:06.159
And yeah, it's asking a lot, you have a chance to win at

459
00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:10.760
all, that's my question if you're
gonna start bringing up that stuff. Brad

460
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:15.280
admission va Hell, Brad, what's
up? You're on clipper stop you thanks

461
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:19.880
for taking them the call? Yeah, I thought that the three point shooting

462
00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:23.239
was a problem. You know,
the last two were hair balls and I

463
00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:27.920
think that they couldn't get inside or
if they've been able to get the mid

464
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:32.519
range, but going in the little
Brad, do you think they have to

465
00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:36.679
win the three point battle to win
this series? It's how you counter a

466
00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:39.079
team that's better than you in the
mid range. They either get to the

467
00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:44.119
basket or shoot threes. They had
to play the analytics. They're either gonna

468
00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:47.400
drop or they're not. Look if
they drop, you win, or you

469
00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:52.280
at least have a chance to win. If you don't take them, you

470
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:58.239
already lost. You have to attempt
three pointers, it's the only way to

471
00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:02.360
beat a team that's shooting fifty five
were sent in the mid range. Yeah,

472
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:06.559
and they do very bit at that. Why don't one another point I

473
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:13.280
had? It seems like when I
thought turnovers plumbly twice looked like it was

474
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:15.480
the NFL fuilty threw it to a
free safety twice. You know, he

475
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:21.079
wasn't wasn't even deflected. So those
turnovers really hurt the most because who knows

476
00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:24.239
what was cooking at the air end
before that happened. You know, Yeah,

477
00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:30.679
the turnovers hurt, but they had
thirteen. I mean, the Phoenix

478
00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:35.199
Suns. They didn't take care of
the basketball either. The Clippers have to

479
00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:38.880
be so perfect right now because of
the guys they're missing, that's what's happening.

480
00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:44.559
I mean, the Suns had eighteen
turnovers, so they won the turnover

481
00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:47.599
battle. They won in a lot
of different areas. But it's still not

482
00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:52.199
gonna be good enough without Kauai,
without Paul George, and it could be

483
00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:57.480
frustrating because of that. I appreciate
the phone call Brad eight seven seven five

484
00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:00.559
two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven
five two zero eleven fifty taking you to

485
00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:06.239
the bottom of the next hour here
on Clippers Talk, so I can take

486
00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:12.960
a your phone calls. I'm just
looking for solutions, not just who were

487
00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:16.199
the Clippers or get rid of these
guys? Okay, how do you improve

488
00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:22.360
doing that? Tough phone, Clipper
Nation, You're down three one. Series

489
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:27.360
is not over. I'm not gonna
give up on this team, even though

490
00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:30.280
they're back in the lines then in
Phoenix, and we don't know the status

491
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:35.320
of choir Paul George or who could
be available. We'll hear from Chris Haynes

492
00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:39.920
coming up next on Clippers Talk on
the Patriot Dam eleven fifty. Clippers lose

493
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:44.840
Game four Crypto dot Com Arena one
twelve to one hundred. They are in

494
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:49.079
a three one hole in this best
of seven first round series against the Suns.

495
00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:55.199
Eight seven seven five two zero eleven
fifty eight seven seven five two zero

496
00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:59.360
eleven fifty. J from Utah.
But he's at the game. He's leaving

497
00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:02.679
the game. He's a hardcore Clipper
fan. Jay, what's up? Yeah,

498
00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:07.440
Hey, I was at the game. I actually got my seat up.

499
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:10.320
Great, awesome facilities. Great,
but uh yeah, I saw.

500
00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:15.760
We played really hard. We made
no threes and Morris just kept taking a

501
00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:22.480
lot of unprovoked shots and uh,
great atmosphere though it felt felt like the

502
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:28.760
stadium was into it. Great for
cripple Clipper Nation to show up. Yeah,

503
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:32.320
it was worth to drive from Utah. Awesome game. I want to

504
00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:36.000
know what you think, Adam.
What should the Clippers do next? But

505
00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:39.159
should we win? Win game five? Win Game five is where I think

506
00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:43.760
they should do next. Jay,
Okay, because we're not. We're not

507
00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:46.360
to the off season yet. We're
not. If somebody brings it up though,

508
00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:49.559
they want to start talking about the
off season, if they want to

509
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:53.360
start going there, then I'm gonna
I'm gonna question what's their move. But

510
00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:58.800
we have to play perfect in Game
five. Highlands gotta play play better.

511
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:02.679
Highland's gotta be one of those.
He can't miss from three games. If

512
00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:07.199
you're a line on a twenty two
year old you just traded for to carry

513
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:10.800
you, you got problems. Can
you play better? Yes, but it's

514
00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:15.239
not on bones Highland if they lose, no, I agree with you,

515
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:19.199
but I'm just saying this. Those
are the things that have to happen to

516
00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:22.639
win without Paul George and Kauai.
That's fair they do. You know,

517
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:27.480
Morris has got to play above himself
when he's put in the starting lineup and

518
00:39:27.519 --> 00:39:30.760
we're counting on him, and then
you know, both Highlands has got to

519
00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:35.760
play good. Eric Gordon's got to
play good. Players have to perform great

520
00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:38.880
to make up for those points loss. I don't know what to tell anyone

521
00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:43.320
if you're counting on Marcus Morris at
this point after a big sample size of

522
00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:46.079
three months of him just not looking
right, what about the tune? But

523
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:52.840
toom, I'd stick with more than
six minutes because he plays defense regardless of

524
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:59.639
if his shots are dropping. I
agree, But he's like, because we

525
00:39:59.719 --> 00:40:06.559
have no Kawai score he does,
but he only played six minutes and was

526
00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:09.519
zero of one. And the Clippers
can obviously still score more than one hundred

527
00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:15.360
points. They just did so in
Game three even without Kauai, even without

528
00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:17.119
Paul George, they put up one
hundred and twenty four points. So it's

529
00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:22.039
possible. But to me, it
is what they have to play perfectly.

530
00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:27.400
I know that's where they're at.
That's where they're at. Unfortunately, that

531
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:31.559
is the mountain they're trying to climb
right now because they're missing their two superstars.

532
00:40:31.559 --> 00:40:36.519
But I'm damn proud of the effort
they have given, and in my

533
00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:39.039
opinion, we lost Game three when
we when they scored a three and then

534
00:40:39.079 --> 00:40:46.719
we turned the ball over another three. That's six points and solid. Yeah,

535
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:51.000
I understand your frustration. Jay,
I'm with you a little bit.

536
00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:53.760
They have to play more mistake free
basketball. And if you're talking about the

537
00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:58.079
turnover from a tomb to Russ on
the inbounds pass that ended with a book

538
00:40:58.119 --> 00:41:00.840
or three pointer in Game three,
Yeah, that that was a tough one,

539
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:05.719
but they still battle back that that
didn't define the ball game. They

540
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:08.760
had their chances. Let's go with
Doug in Ontario, Doug, what's up

541
00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:16.039
here on Clippers stock without I'm awesome, Dougie not so fresh, Doug,

542
00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:22.079
what's up? It's Chuck, not
Doug, It's Chuck. I'm chucking the

543
00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:27.400
Dug name and going with Chuck.
Then what's up? All right? Chuck?

544
00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:30.880
Yeah, Hey, Adam, thank
you for taking my call. You

545
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:35.320
know, Adam, I think we
just gotta move on to the next game.

546
00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:39.480
Obviously we gotta win. But man, he d does not miss.

547
00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:45.760
Booker does not miss. And those
guys they're just shooting like lights out,

548
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:51.840
and I mean, you gotta give
it team. They're playing I mean against

549
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:54.679
we're down two guys, okay Kawhi
and PG. But so I'm not I'm

550
00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:59.039
not that impressed with Phoenix because of
that fact you just mentioned. To be

551
00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:02.800
honest, that's what I'm yeah,
that's what I'm saying. I'm not impressed

552
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:08.079
either. But what what I'm saying
is that those two guys, It's like,

553
00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:13.800
could they be doing that against any
team? I mean, geez,

554
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:19.039
It's just it's hard to it's hard
to comprehend, like the ball just every

555
00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:22.320
time it goes out of their hands, it goes in. I'm just stays

556
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:27.760
frustrating. It's like we're doing a
good job. I just I was surprised

557
00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:30.239
that I got through. I actually
live close to the G League arena,

558
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:35.199
so you know, I go to
those games a little bit more often than

559
00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:38.440
I go down to Crypto. Right. Well, anyway, takes care take

560
00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:42.960
care of him, and I hope
the Clippers do well and I hope we

561
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:45.039
get this next game, because man, I'm I'm just I'm sad at this

562
00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:50.760
point. I'm not even angry anymore. I'm just bummed. So we're commisserating

563
00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:54.360
here on Clippers stock Chuck and I
appreciate the phone call call back in Tuesday

564
00:42:54.440 --> 00:43:00.719
night. Regardless of the outcome,
I appreciate it, Dave and Mona.

565
00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:04.519
Dave, you're on Clippers side without
aim. Austin, Hey, I had

566
00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:07.039
thank for taking my call. Like
the last faller said, it seems like

567
00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:13.119
Devin Booker and Kevin Durant are always
making the shots for some reason. And

568
00:43:13.920 --> 00:43:16.400
I know we're trying our hardest on
the defense, but assis seem like they're

569
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:21.840
automatic. And today was Chris Paul. He's said he was shooting everything lights

570
00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:25.400
out too, I mean, not
really. Kevin Durant. Look, I'm

571
00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:29.840
just gonna tell you this. Kevin
Durant, he was not of seventeen.

572
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:32.719
He's not He's not making everything.
Chris Paul was eight of seventeen. He's

573
00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:37.440
not making everything. Devin Booker is
tennis twenty one. They're not making everything,

574
00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:42.320
but they have a wider margin for
error because they have that level of

575
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:45.960
talent out there. They scored one
hundred and twelve points. That's not a

576
00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:52.719
big number. I'm just telling you, Dave, it's it's not impossible for

577
00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:55.760
the Clippers to get the victory Tuesday
night. It's not they can do this.

578
00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:01.320
Yeah, I know Russell can have
another game like you did today.

579
00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:06.079
I think it would be good.
I just think that the big man I

580
00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:09.519
need to step it up a little
bit more. Yeah, it's some more

581
00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:15.719
points down in the post. I
agree Zubos has been struggling. I appreciate

582
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:19.559
the phone call, Dave. I
just think it's paralysis by analysis. With

583
00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:23.039
the amount of responsibility out there for
Zoo on the offensive end and the defensive

584
00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:29.000
end especially, he just hasn't looked
right. He's overthinking things. You can

585
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:34.119
almost see the wheels turning. You
know, there's just so much you have

586
00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:38.199
to do coverage wise, when you're
missing Kawai and Paul George. I'm with

587
00:44:38.239 --> 00:44:43.440
Noah Eagle what he said post game. You know, what they're missing from

588
00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:46.400
them defensively could be even bigger than
what they're missing offensively. That was the

589
00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:50.519
first thing that came to mind when
I heard Kawai was out. Oh no,

590
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:53.840
this was the guy who guarded Kevin
Durant the majority of the possessions the

591
00:44:53.840 --> 00:45:00.039
first two games. I credit the
guys still, though they've played hard defensively.

592
00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:06.559
One twelve not a big number.
Clippers shot the ball better from the

593
00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:12.119
outside if they got a few more
free throws they could have won this game,

594
00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:15.920
but not to be. They're down
three one. Let's go to Salomon

595
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:19.960
and Lake Balboa. Salomon, what's
up here on Clippers Stype with Adam Roslin.

596
00:45:21.079 --> 00:45:22.840
Hey, Adam, you know we've
talked before. You know, I'm

597
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:27.159
gonna say it up front. I
am a Lakers fan. However, I

598
00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:30.719
don't hate the Clippers, and in
fact, if my Lakers, you know,

599
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:34.559
don't, don't proceed and don't make
it, I'm next. I'm next

600
00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:37.880
team up in LA. I'm a
local, local fan, and I will

601
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:42.400
support my local team. Okay,
a rarity, but I appreciate the honesty.

602
00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:47.199
Yeah, And it's frustrating as a
sports fan to have to watch this

603
00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:52.760
because you know, I'm obviously pulling
for the Clippers against Phoenix. I'd love

604
00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:58.280
to see a Lakers, uh Clippers
you know playoff battle be terrific. Of

605
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:00.440
course, not that thrilled at the
same time, because you guys own us,

606
00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:06.599
which irritates me, but I won't
That's another subject. I'm glad you

607
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:09.079
said that Kawhi at least wanted to
play, because I was fuming when I

608
00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:12.840
when I saw this guy on the
bench, I said, are you kidding

609
00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:17.360
me? And your your teammates,
your coach are fighting for your playoff lives

610
00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:22.920
and you're not available, and you
are correct. If they have both George

611
00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:29.599
and Leonard, they destroy this team. Phoenix cannot beat the Clippers at full

612
00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:34.039
strength, not even close. Maybe
they get a game. That's how good

613
00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:38.199
and how deep your team is.
And it is definitely frustrating and very sad.

614
00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:43.079
That again, and we've suffered this
a little bit with a d over

615
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:47.840
as Laker fans. You've got your
main players unavailable. It gets to the

616
00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:52.199
point where it's unacceptable and moving forward, you said, what are they supposed

617
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:54.440
to do? Magically be healed?
Do you know what are you gonna do

618
00:46:54.440 --> 00:46:58.760
about it? No? No,
I'm not saying that. I'm staying moving

619
00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:05.320
forward. Some times you have to
balance out availability and superstardom. If your

620
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:08.440
superstars are not available, but you
have good, decent players like you have

621
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:13.559
with just even your backups and your
role players, you know you've got to

622
00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:15.960
make that decision at some point.
So you know, we'll see what happens

623
00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:21.599
going forward. I hope you know
Leonard's available and there's some miraculous turnaround.

624
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:24.280
You never know. Yeah, I'm
with you, Solomon, We're hoping for

625
00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:27.519
the best. I appreciate the phone
call. In the honesty, they're solo.

626
00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:31.480
Good phone call. Eight seven seven
five zero eleven fifty eight seven seven

627
00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:38.440
five to zero eleven fifty. Let's
go to Asan and Anaheim. Asan Am

628
00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:44.280
I getting that right? Asan?
Yeah, what's up? Memory? I

629
00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:47.599
got you cool? Hey, So, first of all, thanks for taking

630
00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:54.880
my call. I'm like you,
I'm doubling down on the Clippers. If

631
00:47:54.960 --> 00:48:00.559
I'm Steve Barmer, I'm not trading
PG. I'm not trading Kauai. That's

632
00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:06.360
like, you know, seeing an
investment. You know it gets down after

633
00:48:06.400 --> 00:48:08.119
you bought it, and then you
sell it. You're losing money the sub

634
00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:15.519
cost. Yeah, exactly. So
let's get to what we need to do

635
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:19.039
in game five because this is not
over. I know a lot of people

636
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:22.599
are doing gloom. I've seen this
before. Whatever, Right, we still

637
00:48:22.639 --> 00:48:29.320
have games to play, and I'm
gonna give Tylos some free game if he's

638
00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:34.440
listening. But there was a series
back in what was it, two thousand

639
00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:42.280
and one? I think the Pistons
versus Lakers, Okay, my bad.

640
00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:47.079
Yeah, and their strategy was Kobe
and Shack are gonna be Kobe and shack.

641
00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:52.440
They took everybody else out of that
series and they killed the Lakers,

642
00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:58.719
And that's the strategy we need to
employ. Devin Booker is going to get

643
00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:04.360
hit, sorry, eighty is going
to get his. But if you take

644
00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:08.760
everybody else out of the game,
kd and Booker to not score enough points

645
00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:14.280
to beat you. So we need
to stop the Let me let me talk

646
00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:16.800
about that analogy. First of all, Kobe shot thirty eight percent in that

647
00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:22.519
series, so they benefited from that
shack. Yes, he got what he

648
00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:24.400
wanted, but they weren't giving him
the ball a lot. He still was

649
00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:29.960
shooting sixty percent. But they were
fortunate that Kobe had a bad shooting series

650
00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:32.599
that Pistons team. Outside that game
winner, he hitting Game two in the

651
00:49:32.760 --> 00:49:37.840
NBA Finals over Rip Hamilton, he
was bad and some of that was their

652
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:40.920
defense. But the thing is they
had their guys. That's one of the

653
00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:45.280
greatest defensive teams of all time.
Clippers have two of the best defenders on

654
00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:50.960
the perimeter, two the best wing
defenders. They're both out. How are

655
00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:57.239
they supposed to slow down the other
guys? Well, that's the thing is

656
00:49:57.639 --> 00:50:01.159
a lot of the issues that they're
having come from the outside defense when they're

657
00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:07.239
trying to help on KD and Booker
when instead they should be covering Tory Craig

658
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:10.840
in the corner, who's absolutely murdering
us. It's a pick your poison thing,

659
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:15.880
though a'san it's a pick your poison
if they're if they're covering Craig,

660
00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:19.519
then Booker's gonna get open. Looks
like you gotta get a little bit of

661
00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:22.840
luck on your side and hope they
have an off night. Well, yeah,

662
00:50:23.119 --> 00:50:27.239
it's worth trying, at least to
me, because if you have two

663
00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:31.480
guys who are all world talents at
scoring, and you know the other guys,

664
00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:36.800
I would try and stop the other
guys and let you know, put

665
00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:38.800
row code, you know, throw
different looks at KD, throw different looks

666
00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:44.280
at Booker. But still they're trying. As they have done all of that.

667
00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:47.519
They have absolutely done that. They
have thrown double teams at Kevin Durant

668
00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:52.679
often. Booker then got hot.
That's what happened in the third quarter of

669
00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:57.599
Game two when he got eighteen points. They shut down KD. Booker gets

670
00:50:57.639 --> 00:51:00.599
hot. They only have so many
guys that are great defenders that you can

671
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:07.000
use. It's just a brutal problem, right, now because of the guys

672
00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:10.039
that are missing us on. I
don't think it's a strategic thing by the

673
00:51:10.119 --> 00:51:17.800
Clippers. It's just the overwhelming talent
from Phoenix is winning out right, And

674
00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:22.719
I'm with you on that. Yeah, I'm with you. It's frustrating.

675
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:27.960
I'm with you. Yeah. Well, last parting note, it's all the

676
00:51:28.280 --> 00:51:30.239
you know, people that think we
should blow up the team and there's no

677
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:35.519
good free agents out there. Yeah, there's no good free agents or whatever.

678
00:51:35.719 --> 00:51:38.079
But there's definitely fraids to be made. There are some you know,

679
00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:43.880
I'm looking at Washington, you know, they got a new GM probably looking

680
00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:46.280
to blow it up, and there's
some good guys we could snatch from them,

681
00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:52.320
you know, hopefully keeping Westbrook.
And you know, there's there's trades

682
00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:55.360
to be made. So it's not
all doom and gloom. No. I

683
00:51:55.719 --> 00:52:00.320
like the phone. Call us on. Appreciate call me back on thirst or

684
00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:05.119
Tuesday night after game five. All
right, definitely, thank you. I

685
00:52:05.239 --> 00:52:07.639
appreciate it. Tyler in Hollywood,
Tyler, what's up here on Clipper stop

686
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:10.519
without aim Oslin? Oh hey,
good to talk to you, Adam.

687
00:52:14.039 --> 00:52:15.639
Yeah, I got two points this. Let me make the first one quick.

688
00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:21.320
It's about the referee, and I
just have to say it, like,

689
00:52:21.519 --> 00:52:23.519
the Lakers have been outscored in the
paint the last thirty three games,

690
00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:28.800
but have four hundred more free throws
than our opponents. The Clippers have outscored

691
00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:30.760
the Suns in the paint the last
two games and have thirty eight less free

692
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:36.719
throws. What we're seeing, I
have to say this, it's a managed

693
00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:43.840
entertainment product. Unfortunately, that's my
point as a Clipper fan. We always

694
00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:46.840
feel like kind of the redheaded step
child of the Lakers or the league or

695
00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:51.679
whatever. It's not a good place
to be in because this has happened before,

696
00:52:51.719 --> 00:52:54.719
but this time it seems more egregious. That's that. Secondly, what

697
00:52:54.760 --> 00:52:59.800
do you do about it going forward? I love Hawaiian PG as a concept,

698
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:04.840
but in practicality, even with load
management era, if you're trying to

699
00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:08.480
win a championship, it's a hundred
game marathon, even if these guys are

700
00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:15.199
playing less than that. Now,
so they chose their path and it's four

701
00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:17.480
years in and you can say we
can do the dirt thing and keep going

702
00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:22.599
with it. It's a hard decision
point right now for the Clippers. But

703
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:29.039
there's so many teams the Raptors,
the Wizards, the Hawks, the Bulls,

704
00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:32.880
the Blazers. That are in a
point where if you put Kawaii and

705
00:53:34.119 --> 00:53:37.679
keeps you on the market, and
your goal was to get eight or ten

706
00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:44.199
guys to play almost every game with
this level of grit and competitiveness, I'll

707
00:53:44.239 --> 00:53:50.480
take my chances. Wait, so
you're gonna trade chair Paul George to teams

708
00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:54.920
who are looking to rebuild, why
would they do it? They don't want

709
00:53:55.000 --> 00:54:00.920
top end talent. Well, you
put those two guys on the market,

710
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:07.679
one of those teams will bite.
They will bite, just like what though?

711
00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:09.840
Is the question? Everybody, Oh, a team will give you something,

712
00:54:10.039 --> 00:54:14.199
Is it going to be close to
getting back equal value? Though?

713
00:54:14.599 --> 00:54:17.159
That's the problem. I don't know. I don't know. But everyone said

714
00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:21.320
Russ couldn't be traded, and he
was traded five times in four years or

715
00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:27.599
whatever. They can be traded,
you know, PG was traded. They

716
00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:31.280
can be moved. And I'm just
saying I would circle guys like Fiakam that

717
00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:37.159
play and that game like when he's
healthy, like they've shut him down the

718
00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:39.119
last two years, or else he
would have played seventy games. I'm saying

719
00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:45.079
I would feel the team of players
that play. Because you've got to pencil

720
00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:49.800
in one hundred games to win a
championship, they got to play at least

721
00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:53.000
eighty of them. The only alternative, which I've seen enough scrap and fight

722
00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:58.159
from this Clipper team and really every
Clipper team the last five six years,

723
00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:05.000
is that you almost have to play
them less. It sounds crazy. You

724
00:55:05.159 --> 00:55:08.400
play them less and you let this
team fight for a top six seed and

725
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:13.559
then you bring PG in Kawaii though
you've got to be healthy after the All

726
00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:15.440
Star break and in the playoffs,
do whatever you need to do. Those

727
00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:20.320
are the only options to me.
Yeah, I hear you. I just

728
00:55:20.840 --> 00:55:23.960
when it comes to trade one of
these two guys for lesser talent, Okay,

729
00:55:24.079 --> 00:55:27.880
you may have guys who are available
more, but are you gonna win

730
00:55:27.920 --> 00:55:30.519
a championship? Do you have a
chancel? Win a championship? Very much

731
00:55:30.599 --> 00:55:35.840
unlikely. So would you rather have
the possibility of winning or would you rather

732
00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:39.599
have guys on the court where you're, you know, a team just fighting

733
00:55:39.639 --> 00:55:44.360
to get to the second round at
best, and that's your ceiling. I

734
00:55:44.440 --> 00:55:46.960
don't know. I personally like the
idea. I love what Norm brings.

735
00:55:47.159 --> 00:55:52.480
I would get another Toronto guy like
Pascal, and you know, I think

736
00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:54.840
Time News a great coach, but
I think he sort of wants out,

737
00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:59.039
This is my opinion, and I
would try to recreate sort of some of

738
00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:02.719
that magic, like bringing in Nurse, bringing against Yam and get guys to

739
00:56:02.800 --> 00:56:07.800
can play and go to war with
that steps this quite sick, all right,

740
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:13.119
Tyler. I appreciate the phone call. Again, teams that are trying

741
00:56:13.239 --> 00:56:20.679
to rebuild likely aren't taking Kauai or
Paul George. It doesn't make sense.

742
00:56:22.519 --> 00:56:27.880
The teams you gotta give to get. I understand that. But these teams

743
00:56:28.039 --> 00:56:32.599
that may be having a sell off, they're looking for youth, they're looking

744
00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:38.960
for draft picks. They're not looking
to bring in aging superstars who are injury

745
00:56:39.079 --> 00:56:44.400
prone. So it's a little bit
nonsensical in some ways. I appreciate the

746
00:56:44.440 --> 00:56:50.360
phone call, though, Tyler,
and the season ain't over yet. I'm

747
00:56:50.440 --> 00:56:53.920
not giving up on this team,
even down three one. I've seen this

748
00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:59.079
team with their backup against the wall
before. I've seen coach lou in a

749
00:56:59.119 --> 00:57:06.000
big spot down three one. I
do want to hear though, from Chris

750
00:57:06.119 --> 00:57:13.840
Haynes. This was during the broadcast
on t NT NBA Reporter seems to have

751
00:57:14.719 --> 00:57:17.360
insight in a pipeline too. Kawhi
Leonard, he was the one before woes

752
00:57:17.519 --> 00:57:22.239
to tweet out that he was coming
to the Clippers. Here was Chris Haynes

753
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:28.480
during the TNT broadcast on Kawhi net
spring right knee George and now Kawhi Leonard.

754
00:57:28.760 --> 00:57:30.760
He will not play once again today
and formorrow on that we check him

755
00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:35.159
with Chris Haynes. Yes, Kawhi
is missing a second straight game with what

756
00:57:35.320 --> 00:57:38.719
the team is calling a right knee
spring. He suffered that injury at some

757
00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:43.280
point in the first two games,
and I was told after game two there

758
00:57:43.360 --> 00:57:47.000
was significant swelling that caused this.
Now have more information. There's still some

759
00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:51.639
swelling in that knee as of today, and I'm told it's not a pain

760
00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:55.400
tolerant situation and that sent it out
was not his fault. After an evaluation,

761
00:57:55.559 --> 00:58:00.760
it was recommended that he not played
to eliminate further risk. There is

762
00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:04.079
no time table furs return back to
you. Alright, good stuff, Chris,

763
00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:07.400
thank you for that. I mean, if the guy has a swollen

764
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:12.559
right knee where he had his ACL
tear, nobody's playing him in that situation.

765
00:58:12.760 --> 00:58:17.599
No medical staff's gonna let him play. He's eighteen months or whatever it

766
00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:24.119
is removed. It's it's not gonna
happen. Let's go to Lenny and Corona.

767
00:58:25.039 --> 00:58:29.079
Lenny, what's up here on Clippers
stoff without Boston? Hey, I

768
00:58:29.119 --> 00:58:32.960
don't know how you're doing. Then. I'm a die heard Clippers fan from

769
00:58:32.960 --> 00:58:36.800
San Diego to here. You know, I've just been loving the Clippers forever

770
00:58:36.920 --> 00:58:39.480
anyway, Uh, I like,
I gotta love what you say today.

771
00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:42.519
I mean, we lost a game
of the free throw. I'm the last

772
00:58:42.519 --> 00:58:45.239
two games, they get seventy three
free throws, we get thirty five.

773
00:58:46.360 --> 00:58:51.159
Something's wrong with that. Some of
the calls. I'm not wanting to get

774
00:58:51.199 --> 00:58:53.760
them Thefiici eating, but the calls
the last two games have been horrendous.

775
00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:58.880
I mean, what do you what
do you do? We're scared to play

776
00:58:58.920 --> 00:59:04.480
defense as bucks not not playing defense? You should. But that's a good

777
00:59:04.519 --> 00:59:07.719
point though. The reason part of
the reason they're scared to play defenses,

778
00:59:07.920 --> 00:59:10.920
they're picking up Tiki Tach calls all
the time. It's hard to play physical

779
00:59:12.039 --> 00:59:15.480
basketball when you think there's gonna be
a whistle, that's just you know,

780
00:59:15.639 --> 00:59:20.360
hanging over your shoulder, and it's
scary to see some calls like you know,

781
00:59:20.440 --> 00:59:22.639
Westbrook's clear path that he had less
and you got hit bad. Mc

782
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:25.599
chefs knocked down right in front of
the roth reef and there's no call.

783
00:59:25.800 --> 00:59:30.880
That's one of the more egregious non
calls I've seen in my time on this

784
00:59:31.079 --> 00:59:37.760
earth watching basketball in the NBA.
That is a take foul where you get

785
00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:40.440
two shots in the ball. It
was a seven point game with two and

786
00:59:40.480 --> 00:59:45.519
a half minutes left, Clippers had
all the momentum. Devin Booker raised his

787
00:59:45.679 --> 00:59:50.079
hand to say, I fouled him
and they didn't call it. Tyler continue,

788
00:59:50.280 --> 00:59:53.480
I know, I know, you
know you want to, you know,

789
00:59:53.559 --> 00:59:55.239
some of the solve something. I
don't know what you say, but

790
00:59:55.320 --> 00:59:59.960
maybe we could maybe like like like
Cuban does, maybe we can have ball

791
01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:02.000
done. I mean, we can
go check out. Maybe just a little

792
01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:06.079
scouting in Europe. I don't know, but I love our team what we

793
01:00:06.119 --> 01:00:07.320
have now, and it's just a
bad luck we've got. You know what

794
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:12.800
happened to Kwaiet the first two gets
Quiet looked as good as anybody. He

795
01:00:12.840 --> 01:00:14.840
looked better than I've ever seen.
He was the best player on the floor,

796
01:00:14.960 --> 01:00:19.079
no doubt about it. And he
looked just he looked amazing and we

797
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:22.280
just bad luck. What can I
say? You know, but the referees

798
01:00:22.320 --> 01:00:25.039
got to be fair. We lost
it at I'm the rebound today we were

799
01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:30.440
fifteen rebounds left. We're never fifteen
was less than the team. That doesn't

800
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:32.159
look good. You know. We
had ten free throws today, twenty five

801
01:00:32.239 --> 01:00:35.760
the other day. I don't know. I just want to yeah, I

802
01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:39.280
want to appreciate you saying how you
feel about the thing for real. I

803
01:00:39.320 --> 01:00:44.440
mean, because it's you know,
we the most talent in the league.

804
01:00:44.480 --> 01:00:46.000
I think. I think with the
bench and we have the most talent in

805
01:00:46.000 --> 01:00:50.239
the league. I still think we
can win without George and Kwaiet. I

806
01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:52.039
mean we have something home with me. I believe we can. We have

807
01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:54.960
a we have a great time.
If we got fair calls. We won

808
01:00:55.079 --> 01:00:58.880
the last geam. It's two to
two, but you know it's not so

809
01:00:59.519 --> 01:01:01.679
this is we'll play hard and go'll
get him hard. And I appreciate you,

810
01:01:01.719 --> 01:01:06.199
Adam. Thanks, Yeah, I
appreciate you too. Lenny, great

811
01:01:06.239 --> 01:01:09.199
phone call eight seven seven five two
zero eleven fifty if you'd like to vent

812
01:01:09.639 --> 01:01:15.039
post game about the calls or the
Clippers loss and just feeling so frustrated because

813
01:01:15.079 --> 01:01:21.159
obviously this team, you know,
it doesn't look like they've been outplayed.

814
01:01:21.199 --> 01:01:23.320
They've been out talented. That's what
it is. You're not being out worked,

815
01:01:23.559 --> 01:01:27.840
you're running out of talent. Before
I run out of time, though,

816
01:01:27.880 --> 01:01:30.320
let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on the Patriot AM eleven

817
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:37.000
fifty, this is La Clippers Basketball
AM eleven fifty KADIV, Los Angeles,

818
01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:44.159
an iHeart radio station. You know
what, we'll take a quick time out.

819
01:01:44.639 --> 01:01:46.840
Producer Katie doesn't have eight arms.
I can't ask her to do too

820
01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:50.559
much more than the phones are bringing
off the hook. I got it,

821
01:01:50.679 --> 01:01:53.800
I got you, Katy. During
the break, plus, we'll have Charles

822
01:01:53.920 --> 01:01:59.639
Mockler Chuck Bockler from Clips and Dip
Pod coming up. Next. Clippers fall

823
01:02:00.920 --> 01:02:05.639
in Game four, one twelve to
one hundred. Right there with the Clipper

824
01:02:05.719 --> 01:02:13.360
Nation. More Clipper stock next here
on the Patriot EM eleven fifty. Last

825
01:02:13.440 --> 01:02:16.519
time that it was five chins on
my neck. It was no smart on

826
01:02:16.599 --> 01:02:21.559
my bread last time that. I
Clippers lose one twelve to one hundred to

827
01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:24.920
the Phoenix Suns and they are down
three one in this best of seven first

828
01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:29.800
round series. Welcome back in This
is Clipper Stock here on the Patriot AM

829
01:02:29.880 --> 01:02:34.000
eleven fifty. I'm adam Oslind.
Game five is coming up Tuesday night in

830
01:02:34.239 --> 01:02:38.360
Phoenix. We got Chuck Mockler online
from clips and dip. We will get

831
01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:43.239
back to your phone calls eight seven
seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven

832
01:02:43.360 --> 01:02:45.800
seven five two zero eleven fifty.
Believe that we'll get back to him,

833
01:02:46.320 --> 01:02:52.480
but first Chuck. Another frustrating one
where I feel like the Clippers, you

834
01:02:52.559 --> 01:02:57.079
know, they're playing at an a
level, they just don't have the guys

835
01:02:57.159 --> 01:03:00.760
to get you over the top because
the talent disparity. I still don't feel

836
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:02.360
like the Phoenix Suns have played that
great yet in this series, and that's

837
01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:07.000
part of what makes it so frustrating. Yeah, I think the thing that's

838
01:03:07.039 --> 01:03:10.519
tough is that you have guys who
are playing at in a level. You

839
01:03:10.639 --> 01:03:15.760
have Rusts and Norm who are absolutely
lighting it up. You know, Terrence

840
01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:19.159
and his limited minutes has played great
too, but then no one else is

841
01:03:19.239 --> 01:03:22.159
really kind of on a medium to
just okay level. You have a starting

842
01:03:22.199 --> 01:03:27.679
power board and Marcus Morris, who
was removed from the starting lineup for very

843
01:03:27.679 --> 01:03:30.519
good reasons. And then his replacement, Nick La tomb couldn't do well,

844
01:03:30.519 --> 01:03:34.719
and then you kind of have this
this subots drop off as well, where

845
01:03:35.239 --> 01:03:37.079
there's not a lot of balance on
this team right now in terms of the

846
01:03:37.199 --> 01:03:40.119
good and the bad. It's just
it's kind of a team of extremes.

847
01:03:40.519 --> 01:03:44.840
But you are right. I think
if you're a Suns fan, you're probably

848
01:03:44.840 --> 01:03:46.800
a little worried about the fact that
you know, you're letting this version of

849
01:03:46.800 --> 01:03:51.280
the Clippers team make it really nervous
a lot of the time. But you

850
01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:54.079
know, I mean, I think
I said on our last episode that the

851
01:03:54.159 --> 01:03:58.559
Clippers needs to find a way to
score one hundred and fifteen points, and

852
01:03:58.719 --> 01:04:01.239
they couldn't get that done then,
I which is unfortunate because we saw some

853
01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:05.920
great russ basketball and you know,
the rest of the thing again it's full

854
01:04:05.920 --> 01:04:10.480
of frustrating, But here we are
getting a lot of calls on that ten

855
01:04:10.599 --> 01:04:14.800
free throw attempts to twenty seven for
the Phoenix Suns. The last two games,

856
01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:18.000
they have attempted seventy three free throws, doubling the Clippers, who are

857
01:04:18.119 --> 01:04:23.599
just at thirty five. More than
doubling. The output of the line from

858
01:04:23.639 --> 01:04:27.400
the Clippers is frustrating, especially they
scored more points in the paint than the

859
01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:30.440
Phoenix Suns. You would think that
would mean something. Russell Westbrook getting thirty

860
01:04:30.519 --> 01:04:35.400
seven and not one free throw.
It's tough to explain. I don't know

861
01:04:35.519 --> 01:04:40.000
what it is right now, but
you can't control that stuff. I guess

862
01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:45.519
you gotta keep moving and just hope
that you'll get some more otherworldly performances from

863
01:04:45.559 --> 01:04:47.400
some of the role players. But
you brought it up. Marcus Moore starts,

864
01:04:47.440 --> 01:04:50.000
it's a storyline in this one.
I'm getting a ton of tweets my

865
01:04:50.079 --> 01:04:56.280
way about it, and I don't
get it either. I do not understand

866
01:04:56.400 --> 01:05:01.360
it. Twenty five minutes minus nineteen. I understand starting him and trying something

867
01:05:01.599 --> 01:05:09.360
because desperate times. But when he's
a minus fourteen in his fourteen minutes in

868
01:05:09.400 --> 01:05:13.519
the first half and the eyeball test
completely matched it, he's not hitting shots.

869
01:05:14.039 --> 01:05:16.920
He's not a good defender right now. I just don't understand. And

870
01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:21.360
they have looked. Nick Latombs played
six minutes. I know he's not hitting

871
01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:25.440
shots. He's also only taken I
think nine so far in the series.

872
01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:30.599
But at least he's giving you defense. Robert Covington's just more of an unknown.

873
01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:32.599
What is he going to give you
because he's played so little? Just

874
01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:36.599
how do you feel about the four
spot right now with the Clippers? The

875
01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:43.320
fourth spot really since Robert Covington came
back from that short stint. I think

876
01:05:43.360 --> 01:05:45.920
it was how some safety protocolls his
quote. I think that day was something

877
01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:49.760
like he's looking forward to playing a
lot of basketball. Pretty much since that

878
01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:54.960
quote, he has stopped playing a
lot of basketball. And we've now gotten

879
01:05:55.079 --> 01:06:00.320
into a scenario where a team that
was billed as being all in on this

880
01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:02.960
wingstop thing and the personnel and the
guys he brought in and on paper looks

881
01:06:03.000 --> 01:06:06.559
so good. Think of all the
five out lineups you could do. Obviously,

882
01:06:06.679 --> 01:06:11.960
with quiet PG being out, that
takes a large hit. But the

883
01:06:12.039 --> 01:06:15.400
Clippers don't even really have a backup
plan because of how the other power forward

884
01:06:15.719 --> 01:06:20.079
rotations have been dealt with, right
like Tyler waited too long to switch out

885
01:06:20.119 --> 01:06:25.000
but toomb for Marcus Morris, and
so now but two masks to get used

886
01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:29.880
to playing with our new starting point
guard Russell Westrook in a very limited amount

887
01:06:29.880 --> 01:06:31.559
of time, to get playoff caliber
ready, Well, what were they but

888
01:06:32.199 --> 01:06:35.400
like like six and two, five, and two like it was it was

889
01:06:35.480 --> 01:06:40.639
good, like there were results,
yeah, but now you get to the

890
01:06:40.679 --> 01:06:44.559
playoffs and it's just Roco can't even
play a game without having to be on

891
01:06:44.599 --> 01:06:49.000
the bike because his body isn't use
to actual NBA basketball. So the management

892
01:06:49.039 --> 01:06:53.440
of the four position for the Clippers
on this season is probably one of the

893
01:06:53.519 --> 01:06:56.920
things that I'm most upset about.
Taking Quaiet PG out of this obviously because

894
01:06:56.920 --> 01:07:00.840
we know that there's spots are safe, but it's just been wonky at this

895
01:07:00.039 --> 01:07:04.119
point. The five guard lineup feels
a lot better to fans than four guards.

896
01:07:04.199 --> 01:07:08.320
This Marcus Wares, which I think
is kind of all we need to

897
01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:14.280
know about. It's the current state
of this power forward rotation. There's been

898
01:07:14.320 --> 01:07:17.800
a mystery A lot of this season
has been a lot of what ifs,

899
01:07:18.840 --> 01:07:24.719
but not having Kawai and Paul George
right now it stands out more than ever.

900
01:07:24.920 --> 01:07:28.679
It's just def Con one. It's
amazing to have both of them out

901
01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:31.360
with the same right knee injury.
Not the same, but it's being called

902
01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:35.599
a right knee brain We don't know
the extent of it really, especially with

903
01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:42.199
Kawhi Leonard, but I am proud
of this team, like we're seeing the

904
01:07:42.360 --> 01:07:46.159
resilient spirit of the Clippers once again. There's something to that. It reminds

905
01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:50.800
you why you're a fan of them, because they continue to battle no matter

906
01:07:50.920 --> 01:07:55.440
what the odds are. It's feeling
like twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen again,

907
01:07:55.840 --> 01:08:00.960
it's feeling like the twenty sixteen first
round series Blazers and Slippers when they lost

908
01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:06.880
CP three and Blake Griffin after the
first two games. It's unfortunately classic Clippers

909
01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:11.559
in some ways. But there's also, you know, reasons to hold your

910
01:08:11.599 --> 01:08:17.159
head high. Sure. I mean, I'm sorry, yes, we can

911
01:08:17.279 --> 01:08:20.560
hold our head high. You're just
over it. The results. I get

912
01:08:20.600 --> 01:08:23.760
that. I get that side of
it too. I don't know if I'm

913
01:08:23.800 --> 01:08:27.720
over it. I just mean,
right now, we're staring at three one

914
01:08:28.039 --> 01:08:31.000
right like it's not it's just a
little tough. They have played great.

915
01:08:31.039 --> 01:08:33.760
They haven't rolled over. That's something
they've had to do, even in the

916
01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:39.159
regular season when we were led by
Reggie Jackson and Marcus Morris a couple of

917
01:08:39.199 --> 01:08:42.159
seasons ago. You know, that
mentality has always been there, so it's

918
01:08:42.199 --> 01:08:46.479
great to see that mentality there.
It's just difficult that that mentality usually should

919
01:08:46.479 --> 01:08:49.119
be kind of the second dary if
we need to tap into this thing.

920
01:08:49.439 --> 01:08:54.199
But because of the key absences,
it's now just kind of the Clippers identity

921
01:08:54.319 --> 01:08:59.359
of fight very valiantly but come up
short, partly because of things that are

922
01:08:59.399 --> 01:09:02.520
totally out of your control. So
maybe I'll probably feel better tomorrow. I'll

923
01:09:02.520 --> 01:09:05.399
feel better when we're doing the tripod. But right now, man, I

924
01:09:05.439 --> 01:09:12.640
don't know how many we fought valiant
les I got in me today specifically completely

925
01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:17.359
understand it. The moral victories are
ringing hollow with some right now is completely

926
01:09:17.560 --> 01:09:23.600
understandable. What do you think with
their backs against the wall, officially they

927
01:09:23.720 --> 01:09:27.720
have to win or their season is
over. On Tuesday night, let me

928
01:09:27.800 --> 01:09:30.439
just ask you, what would you
go with rotations wise in that ball game.

929
01:09:33.279 --> 01:09:38.560
The thing that's tough about that is
that tis kind of exhausted every possibility.

930
01:09:38.640 --> 01:09:44.560
I guess I'm really hoping that Zoo
can step it up. A week

931
01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:46.319
ago, we're talking about how great
Zoo is, and now we are eating

932
01:09:46.439 --> 01:09:49.680
some of those words because he just
hasn't looked himself. What we're gonna see,

933
01:09:49.760 --> 01:09:56.279
I think, is more of the
same from Russ, which is unparalleled

934
01:09:57.079 --> 01:09:59.920
hustle, you know, passion,
whatever of those words you want to use.

935
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:01.960
He has been phenomenal at that.
He's gonna you know, Russ is

936
01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:06.199
gonna have to be efficient. He's
getting He's going to get yet again twice

937
01:10:06.239 --> 01:10:10.199
as any field goal attempts, as
anyone else on the Clippers. We need

938
01:10:10.319 --> 01:10:15.359
Russ to be efficient, we need
I guess let's start Robert Covington. Niko

939
01:10:15.479 --> 01:10:18.720
hasn't had it, Morris hasn't had
it, Roco hasn't exactly had it either.

940
01:10:18.840 --> 01:10:21.439
But I don't really know what we're
waiting for. Or let's see what

941
01:10:21.600 --> 01:10:26.680
Terrence Man can do in the starting
lineup. I don't understand what Terrence has

942
01:10:26.760 --> 01:10:30.800
to do to get more meaningful minutes
to maybe start a game. But we're

943
01:10:30.840 --> 01:10:33.439
gonna see a bunch of weird stuff. I think Tyler is going to be

944
01:10:33.800 --> 01:10:38.960
hopefully in you know, fun tinkering
time mode. But we got to hope

945
01:10:39.000 --> 01:10:42.640
for more of this, you know, some efficiency from Russell Westbrook and just

946
01:10:43.079 --> 01:10:45.239
you know, we need everyone else
to be just as good as they were

947
01:10:46.199 --> 01:10:49.159
in Game three, and hopefully we
get a little bit of help or not

948
01:10:49.239 --> 01:10:54.479
even help. Hopefully we just get
a normally res game down in Phoenix.

949
01:10:55.399 --> 01:10:59.960
Yeah, I would start Terrence Man
if there's no Kauai, if there's no

950
01:11:00.199 --> 01:11:03.880
Paul George, and I would let
him go for forty minutes because he's played,

951
01:11:03.920 --> 01:11:08.079
he's earned it, that he's earned
it for a while. And you

952
01:11:08.159 --> 01:11:11.760
know they made their run after giving
up a run in the first quarter.

953
01:11:11.960 --> 01:11:15.520
Terrence Man comes in. It's just
so plainly obvious that they're better with him

954
01:11:15.560 --> 01:11:19.640
on the floor. Oh that's another
head scratcher for this entire season. All

955
01:11:19.720 --> 01:11:23.880
right, Chuck, I appreciate it. Man. Not an easy one to

956
01:11:23.920 --> 01:11:26.760
come on post game after, but
it's in your contract. You have to

957
01:11:26.840 --> 01:11:32.159
do the losses. Will has to
do wins and moral victories. So thanks

958
01:11:32.239 --> 01:11:35.680
for doing this, and we'll have
the tripod coming up soon on Clips and

959
01:11:35.760 --> 01:11:39.880
Dip with all three of us.
Charles, we'll talk to you soon.

960
01:11:41.079 --> 01:11:45.439
Absolutely help everyone has a good weekend, yes, sir, More Clippers stock

961
01:11:45.479 --> 01:11:48.479
coming up next. Final segment eight
seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight

962
01:11:48.560 --> 01:11:53.079
seven seven five two zero eleven fifty
Back to your phone calls next, Plus

963
01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:56.640
we'll hear from coach lou postgame.
Clippers lose Game four one twelve to one

964
01:11:56.760 --> 01:12:01.600
hundred in a must win situation on
Tuesday in Phoenix, This is Clippers Stock

965
01:12:01.640 --> 01:12:08.319
here on the Patriot EM eleven fifty
bit of a Clipper Nation therapy session tonight

966
01:12:08.439 --> 01:12:15.199
after they lose Game four one twelve
to one hundred. Played hard, went

967
01:12:15.279 --> 01:12:20.319
all out, and the Clippers just
come up short in the talent area.

968
01:12:21.479 --> 01:12:27.640
That's it. That's all it is
right now. Phoenix says, I think

969
01:12:27.760 --> 01:12:34.039
underwhelmed the majority of NBA fans with
this group. They haven't looked great.

970
01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:39.800
They're just better than a Clipper's team
without Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, and

971
01:12:39.920 --> 01:12:45.119
not by much. Eight seven seven
five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven

972
01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:48.239
five two zero eleven fifty tags and
Walnut tagous. What's up? You're on

973
01:12:48.279 --> 01:12:53.640
Clipper Stock? Hey, Adam,
before I talk about the game, I

974
01:12:53.760 --> 01:12:55.960
know we had a lot of talk
about blowing the team up, but to

975
01:12:56.039 --> 01:13:00.359
me, it's not easy. Like
every goal of a franchise is to be

976
01:13:00.479 --> 01:13:04.880
in the position to win the championship, and when we have Paul George and

977
01:13:05.000 --> 01:13:11.279
Quay, we put ourselves in that
championship conversation. We've seen through all those

978
01:13:11.359 --> 01:13:14.720
years of Lob City. You could
be a good team, but that doesn't

979
01:13:14.760 --> 01:13:17.680
mean you're a championship caliber team,
which and we don't want to. People

980
01:13:17.720 --> 01:13:19.800
have to understand if you want to
get rid of them, it's going to

981
01:13:19.840 --> 01:13:24.920
be a rebuilding process, and then
people will become impatient with the rebuilding process.

982
01:13:25.000 --> 01:13:28.640
So you have to take the chance. I mean, there's nothing the

983
01:13:28.680 --> 01:13:30.960
second guess, you know, I
agree with you. I'm with you.

984
01:13:31.239 --> 01:13:35.079
I think it's smart. Let's get
an analysis. I the grass is always

985
01:13:35.079 --> 01:13:43.359
greater. Yeah, and you know
this team right now, the heart that

986
01:13:43.399 --> 01:13:46.960
they show reminds me of obviously the
Pat Bad Lou Williams and Montres Harold.

987
01:13:47.279 --> 01:13:53.119
The only difference is all those players
and all the role players had a defined

988
01:13:53.239 --> 01:13:57.920
role because they didn't have a superstar
kind of the say, but it made

989
01:13:57.920 --> 01:14:00.319
it a lot easier for them to
excel. Here, everyone kind of got

990
01:14:00.479 --> 01:14:03.239
hurt at the wrong time and we
got a new pieces, so it's a

991
01:14:03.279 --> 01:14:08.600
lot harder for these new players to
excel the way that we want to see

992
01:14:08.640 --> 01:14:12.920
them, like hit those open threes, So it's a tough situation for them.

993
01:14:13.920 --> 01:14:15.359
I don't know if that accounts for
what's happened with the four spot,

994
01:14:15.479 --> 01:14:25.079
but I agree with you overall being
anything else as Yeah, I think maybe

995
01:14:25.439 --> 01:14:30.600
you know, we see a relevation
A revelation here is that hopefully we can

996
01:14:30.720 --> 01:14:34.720
keep Westbrook to a team friendly contract
because everyone said not to sign him,

997
01:14:34.800 --> 01:14:40.479
and the separate organizations signed him,
and how good has and moving forward,

998
01:14:41.920 --> 01:14:45.840
fload every day off of Paul,
George and Kawai and I would love to

999
01:14:45.920 --> 01:14:49.640
see them in a full year together
next year or that sort of thing,

1000
01:14:49.720 --> 01:14:54.960
because I think it will just pay
so much more dividends going forward. With

1001
01:14:55.199 --> 01:14:59.920
Russell Westbrook as a Clipper, Yeah, to agus, he has acquitted himself

1002
01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:03.880
well. He's instantly been a fan
favorite. You know, runs up to

1003
01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:09.239
that corner of the court, starts
clapping his hands before every game, gets

1004
01:15:09.319 --> 01:15:14.319
the fans into it. Russ has
been a godsend for this team. He's

1005
01:15:14.359 --> 01:15:17.840
been huge. There was a lot
of second guessing. I had my doubts,

1006
01:15:18.600 --> 01:15:24.279
I had my reservations about bringing in
Russ, but it was more about

1007
01:15:24.319 --> 01:15:28.000
bringing any guy that late into the
season, with just twenty one games left,

1008
01:15:28.319 --> 01:15:30.600
that was going to be playing all
of a sudden thirty minutes per night.

1009
01:15:31.119 --> 01:15:34.720
They got off to the oh and
five start there. I want to

1010
01:15:34.800 --> 01:15:40.079
say a game under five hundred now
with Russ, but it's it's not him

1011
01:15:40.520 --> 01:15:45.840
it's the injuries, it's the guy's
missing, it's continuity issues. Whenever you

1012
01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:48.319
just bring somebody in late in the
season, there's going to be an adjustment

1013
01:15:48.399 --> 01:15:53.600
period. But overall, yeah,
hopefully they're able to retain him. He's

1014
01:15:53.640 --> 01:15:58.239
obviously playing well above being a bought
out player right now from what you would

1015
01:15:58.279 --> 01:16:02.520
expect on the buyout mark. Uh, let's go mitching the jersey. Mitch.

1016
01:16:02.600 --> 01:16:08.720
What's up, Adam? How are
you doing, Buddy? I think

1017
01:16:08.720 --> 01:16:13.640
you've heard I would like and he's
a whole of fame. Most people like

1018
01:16:13.720 --> 01:16:16.359
him or not. Of course I
was underrated, but I had to add

1019
01:16:16.479 --> 01:16:20.520
one of our superstars would be up
to free one and we I think if

1020
01:16:20.520 --> 01:16:24.800
we had both of them, I
think we would have swept it was it

1021
01:16:24.920 --> 01:16:29.000
bench this week. But you say
we're not curse? How about Jinks?

1022
01:16:29.119 --> 01:16:30.720
How is that? Is that a
better term? No? I don't believe

1023
01:16:30.760 --> 01:16:33.560
in that stupid ass either. I
believe in guys who actually put in the

1024
01:16:33.600 --> 01:16:38.600
work deciding things out there on the
court. They dude, they don't get

1025
01:16:38.680 --> 01:16:41.239
hurt. They don't get hurt intentionally, you know. I mean, they're

1026
01:16:41.239 --> 01:16:43.880
the best athletes in the world.
They're constantly running in that you know,

1027
01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:47.640
tiptop shape, all these plays,
especially like you know, they're both whole

1028
01:16:47.680 --> 01:16:50.399
of families, I think, And
I don't want to see of course.

1029
01:16:50.479 --> 01:16:54.399
So wait now it's worn Bridge.
I don't want to see him add a

1030
01:16:54.439 --> 01:16:59.920
big man and nuckles zoo back is
inconsistent. And I hope to see Marsco

1031
01:17:00.720 --> 01:17:03.399
hopefully next year, and hope they's
a game seven, game game six,

1032
01:17:04.199 --> 01:17:10.439
and try again next year, stay
healthy and we would have the crown.

1033
01:17:10.520 --> 01:17:14.880
I think, all right, Mitch, the problem is, and I know

1034
01:17:14.960 --> 01:17:16.039
what a lot of people are saying
right now is yeah, that's what we

1035
01:17:16.159 --> 01:17:20.000
said coming into this season. Oh
we're getting Kawai back this time, it's

1036
01:17:20.039 --> 01:17:29.760
going to be different. And now
they're both out. It's just incomprehensible that

1037
01:17:30.079 --> 01:17:34.479
they'd be in this state after trying
to get through the regular season by resting

1038
01:17:34.560 --> 01:17:43.720
guys and being overly cautious, and
now they're still out. That's why I

1039
01:17:43.800 --> 01:17:46.199
think a lot of Clipper Nation is
vexed. Morrison, Long Beach, what's

1040
01:17:46.239 --> 01:17:49.479
up? Hey, I'm gonna day, Adam, we make an history.

1041
01:17:49.720 --> 01:17:55.079
Get we got we got to make
history. Three one we have got to

1042
01:17:55.279 --> 01:17:59.399
make We got a dog. We
got a dog. They got some dogs

1043
01:17:59.439 --> 01:18:02.159
too, well, we got a
dog. Anything as possible. Do not

1044
01:18:02.319 --> 01:18:05.479
give up the ship. Just set
money Williams. Give him, give him

1045
01:18:05.479 --> 01:18:09.840
some credit. He's coaching good.
But Tyroupe Tyrone Lou, I know he

1046
01:18:09.880 --> 01:18:12.800
got stuff up the sleeve. I'm
proud of this team. I still think

1047
01:18:12.840 --> 01:18:14.680
they're gonna win it. Man,
I'm crazy. I don't get what do

1048
01:18:14.720 --> 01:18:16.520
you say? They got it in
them. All they gotta do is get

1049
01:18:16.600 --> 01:18:19.880
some timely shots. And they're in
this think and by the way, by

1050
01:18:19.920 --> 01:18:23.000
the way, we're gonna be straight
about it. We're gonna go Vacan.

1051
01:18:23.520 --> 01:18:28.840
If Phoenix losted the Clippers in the
first round and they're down to all pro

1052
01:18:29.119 --> 01:18:31.399
all whatevers, there would have been
an investigation. We're gonna have to be

1053
01:18:31.520 --> 01:18:34.800
one because we're about to beat him
on Tusie Atom or you behave yourself.

1054
01:18:35.520 --> 01:18:40.520
I hope you're right, Morris,
I hope you're right. I still believe

1055
01:18:40.560 --> 01:18:44.880
this team can win that game Tuesday, and you get that one to stay

1056
01:18:44.960 --> 01:18:49.039
alive, then you're coming back to
la Ooh. Heavy pressure would be on

1057
01:18:49.039 --> 01:18:53.600
the shoulders of the Phoenix Suns,
and right now they don't look like they're

1058
01:18:53.640 --> 01:18:59.359
ready for that. They definitely aren't
ready for a Denver Nuggets team should they

1059
01:18:59.399 --> 01:19:01.840
get out of this degrees with the
Clippers. Let's hear though from coach Loup

1060
01:19:01.880 --> 01:19:05.760
post game Clippers lose Game four,
one twelve to one hundred at Crypto dot

1061
01:19:05.800 --> 01:19:12.359
Com Arena. It was was the
fight that you guys were able to show,

1062
01:19:12.960 --> 01:19:15.800
consider a quick turn around everything.
That's pretty much what you would help

1063
01:19:15.880 --> 01:19:18.560
to see. I guess say it
again, the fight that you guys showed

1064
01:19:18.600 --> 01:19:23.439
today keeping it close again, is
that what you'd hope to see? That

1065
01:19:23.520 --> 01:19:25.520
kind of fighting now, I hope
to see a win. We're not planning

1066
01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:27.680
to keep it close. I don't
know y'all might think that, but we're

1067
01:19:27.680 --> 01:19:30.439
planning to win. And we had
opportunities. You know, in that second

1068
01:19:30.520 --> 01:19:32.520
quarter, I thought we had eight
turnovers. You know, they kind of

1069
01:19:32.560 --> 01:19:36.119
got those easy baskets. But I'm
margin for airs slam. So you know,

1070
01:19:36.159 --> 01:19:40.199
we just gotta do a better job
taking care of the basketball, which

1071
01:19:40.199 --> 01:19:42.680
we did in a second half,
and a better job on the glass,

1072
01:19:42.880 --> 01:19:45.319
you know. And so you know, our guys, we're competing to win

1073
01:19:45.359 --> 01:19:48.199
and we're not competing to keep it
close. And so you know, they

1074
01:19:48.279 --> 01:19:50.880
playing well down the stretch. I
thought, CP you know on that fourth

1075
01:19:50.960 --> 01:19:55.840
quarter really carried them and make some
big shots for them. But like I

1076
01:19:55.840 --> 01:20:00.439
said, ideal love how our guys
competed and stayed engaged and locked in the

1077
01:20:00.520 --> 01:20:02.640
whole forty eight minutes. Did you
find anything line up plays that maybe you'd

1078
01:20:02.680 --> 01:20:09.600
like to use in Game five?
No, to that third quarter you got

1079
01:20:09.880 --> 01:20:13.600
all to a seven oh start,
and then the Sun's kind of picked themselves

1080
01:20:13.680 --> 01:20:17.119
up the mat and it seemed like
their offense just really they couldn't be stopped

1081
01:20:17.119 --> 01:20:20.760
from there, Like where do you
feel like the game and that the reporter

1082
01:20:20.960 --> 01:20:24.960
kind of kind of turned for you
guys. Guys couldn't recover from the run

1083
01:20:25.039 --> 01:20:33.199
they went on. Yeah, they
made some shots, you know, book

1084
01:20:33.279 --> 01:20:40.319
Katie Katie got away from must a
couple of times where he shouldn't have,

1085
01:20:40.479 --> 01:20:42.319
and then you know when he caught
the ball. We didn't do a good

1086
01:20:42.399 --> 01:20:45.039
job, you know, especially in
that like sitting that third quarter crowd and

1087
01:20:45.079 --> 01:20:46.840
I'm getting into him, you know, speeding him up and once he's able

1088
01:20:46.880 --> 01:20:48.760
to play with the ball and like
get to his spots, I mean,

1089
01:20:49.119 --> 01:20:53.119
you add his mercy, you know. So some things we got we can

1090
01:20:53.159 --> 01:20:56.840
clean up and get better at you
know. And like I said, start

1091
01:20:56.880 --> 01:20:59.600
off the third quarter really good,
high intensity And like I said, there

1092
01:21:00.079 --> 01:21:01.840
star players. They do what they
were supposed to do. They make shots

1093
01:21:02.319 --> 01:21:05.319
and they created a lot of shots
with their teammates as well. There was

1094
01:21:05.359 --> 01:21:10.199
coach lu postgame. Clippers lose one
twelve, one hundred in Game four downtown

1095
01:21:10.319 --> 01:21:15.119
Los Angeles. Game five coming up
Tuesday night in Phoenix, must win for

1096
01:21:15.119 --> 01:21:16.840
the Clippers to extend their season.
Before we get out of here, I

1097
01:21:16.880 --> 01:21:19.800
do want to thank the Clippers organization, No It Eagle, Brian Seaman,

1098
01:21:19.920 --> 01:21:25.439
Ralph Lawler, big brother Jake Warner, head engineer, Katie Newton back here

1099
01:21:25.439 --> 01:21:28.760
in the bank, our producer,
the callers, the listeners. Appreciate all

1100
01:21:28.840 --> 01:21:31.720
you guys. You helped lift my
spirits after this one. War's my heart

1101
01:21:31.800 --> 01:21:38.119
some of these calls. We'll do
it again Tuesday regardless, Go Clippers.

1102
01:21:39.119 --> 01:21:44.760
This has been playoff Clippers Talk,
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1103
01:21:44.960 --> 01:21:47.960
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1104
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1105
01:21:55.479 --> 01:21:59.199
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01:21:59.800 --> 01:22:03.640
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