The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just begot Cowhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range. This
is Clippers Locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead on
your home for LA Clippers playoff basketball. Now your host, You, sir,
are a bad man, Adam Oslin. The Clippers once again fought and
gave everything they had, but they just run out of gas late against the
Phoenix Suns and they lose once twelve to one hundred in Game four and they're
down three one in this best of seven first round series. Welcome into your
postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up. We'll get to your postgame
box scroll score. You'll hear from the head coach and the players. But
first back out to your voice of the Clippers in Noah Eagle. No,
I'm proud of this team and Clipper Nation. Everybody should be holding their heads
high. They just the talent disparity too much to overcome. Yeah. Look,
Russell Westbrook in this game was everything that the Clippers have been embodied really
since he joined the team. I mean, he came out, set the
tone, hustle, every facet of the game. Thirty seven points on twenty
nine field goal attempts, and I thought everybody responded along with him. I
thought the crowd was great with him. Clipper Nation has come out and provided
that boost in games three and four. They deserve a ton of credit.
Sometimes it just is what it is this game. Sure, there were calls
that didn't go their way. In fact, Russell Westbrooks was the second player
in NBA history, I believe, to score thirty seven points or more with
zero free throw attempts. I mean Russell Westbrook getting zero free throw attempts in
the game. Russell Westbrook attacks more than anybody. Russell Westbrook plays more physical
than most players. To get zero free throw attempts is wild. But aside
from all that, this was a game that you got. You gotta give
credit to Feenix for the way that they played down the stretch in the fourth
quarter. They scored twenty nine points, but it just felt like they weren't
gonna miss. It just felt like everything they got they just found their way
to it. Durant was on a really good rhythm today. Booker thirty points
again. Chris Paul, I mean Chris Paul had struggled shooting the basketball really
all series. That was the one saving grace for the Clippers in this one,
and in that fourth quarter he has twelve of the twenty nine Phoenix points,
So I just there's a lot here. The Clippers also didn't have a
single and one in this game. Again, it's just little things that you
think over the course of a game. The Clippers took ten free throws in
this one. They were attacking every time on the floor. They weren't settling
for jump shots, they were getting into the paint. Kevin Durant had eleven
by himself. So third discrepancies no doubt, but Phoenix deserves credit for winning
this game. I one hundred percent believe that for the way they played down
the stretch. Chris Paul played really well down the stretch and they found their
way through it. So now the Clippers, they just gotta shift their focus.
They gotta get ready for game number five. This series isn't over yet.
They know what it's like to be up three one and falter, so
why can't they beat down three one and succeed. They're more than capable,
as they've shown in all four of these games. You could have made the
case that they could have won all four, could have easily won all four
of these games. So you're down three one head back, make it a
series, just like you did in the Conference finals when you were down three
one in one game five on the road. They're more than capable. They'll
have a chance to do that on Tuesday, and they have a coach that
knows what it takes to win a series when you're down three games to one,
in Coach Lou. I thought Terrence Man had a really nice performance,
some big three pointers he battled out there. Mason Plumley was very good too
for the Clippers, just defending very well. I thought it was some of
the best we've seen from Mason Plumley since he became a Clipper, no doubt,
And I had mentioned it earlier in the game that Mason has not scored
in double figures in a playoff games since he was with Portland in twenty sixteen.
He almost got there. He at eight points tonight, three of four
shooting, got to the free throw line for two of the ten attempts.
Two attempts is a lot for the Clippers in this game. Six total rebound,
three assists. He did a little bit of everything for them. Defensively,
I thought it was very good and I thought the Clippers again in the
second half, really took care of the basketball. I think you got to
give them a ton of credit for the way they've responded after turning it over
a little bit too much in the first half. They did a fantastic job
of only committing three turnovers in the set in the third and fourth quarters,
only leading to fifteen total points for the Suns, and they turned the Sons
over eighteen times got twenty one points off of it. A really good fight
in so many ways, a lot of positives obviously to take out of it,
and it's disappointing knowing what could be and knowing that if the two one
three connection is out there, And to me, Adam, I was saying
this off the year, but I really do believe it. Most people,
when you think Kawhi Leonard and Paul George aren't going to be in there,
you think, well, you're gonna miss their offense. Their offense is so
crucial to the success of this team. They're both averaging twenty four points per
game in the regular season, and Kawhi was averaging thirty five through the first
two games of this series, but I actually argue their defense is more important
again the light against the likes of Booker and Durant down the stretch. You've
got two guys now that you can put on them. You can shift Russell
Westbrook, who's been playing outstanding defense, over to Chris Paul and you've just
got a much better chance of defending and potentially getting stops, even playing some
of your small ball because you've got the big wings who can go out there
and grab rebounds. And that's the other thing. A couple offensive rebounds late
in that fourth quarter helps seal it for Phoenix, who's the board man,
Kawhi Leonards the board man. We've seen him do it where he's come up
with huge rebounds and fourth quarters to help seal wins, including in Game one.
So that's where they miss him the most, and I think that played
out in this game today to eventually put the Clippers at a three one deficit
in this series. And tough to get superstar calls when you don't have yours
out there on the cord Clippers calls apparently, no doubt. Clippers lose to
Phoenix in Game four one, twelve to one hundred. Clippers down three games
to one in this best of seven series. Game five coming up in Phoenix
Tuesday night. Tip time is at seven. We'll have Clippers count down your
free game show starting at six. No Ego, MC guy, hell of
a call. As always, we will talk to you on Tuesday. Adam,
you know how it goes. Can't wait ready, let's go. Coming
up next to your post game box scorer, you know hear from the head
coach and the players as the Clippers fall by twelve to Phoenix in Game four
in downtown Los Angeles. You're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network.
Clippers had all the heart, the toughness and the fight out there. They're
just missing their two best players and they lose by twelve to the Phoenix Suns
in Game four. Final score one twelve, one hundred in favor of Phoenix
and they now have a three one series lead. Game five coming up Tuesday
night in Phoenix, Tip time at seven. Pregame show right back here at
six. Postgame box Scorer says this Suns end up shooting forty nine percent from
the field. They were much better in the second half shooting wise. They
went nine of twenty two from the outside, Clippers just twelve of thirty seven.
I'm glad they got up thirty seven. Just a few more makes and
this could have been a different game because the Clippers are one of the top
three point shooting teams in the league. Granted, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George
pretty good from the outside themselves, and they're missing those two guys, but
they still have the capabilities of hitting more three pointers. I thought that they
had to get at least fifteen makes in this one. They went forty four
percent from the floor overall, had thirteen turnovers, not a bad number,
especially when just three of them came in the second half. They took much
better to care of the basketball there. Phoenix Suns had eighteen leading twenty one
points for the Clippers, and the Clippers outscored them points in the paint wise
fifty to forty six, but they still got up seventeen less free throws than
the Phoenix Suns, who got up twenty one more than the Clippers. In
Game three, Kevin Durant finished with the game high thirty one. Devin Booker
had thirty. I should say Phoenix Suns high as Russell Westbrook ended up with
thirty seven. Four year Clippers. Just an amazing effort from Russ. Once
again, he's having his best playoff series since twenty sixteen. Stats Wise,
he's putting up the best numbers, the best of figency levels since twenty sixteen,
eight years ago. Can't say enough about Russ. Unfortunately, norn Pale
did struggle coming off a game where he had forty two Maybe a little bit
tired out there for fifteen, just fourteen points. Terrence Mann was very good
off the bench, my player to watching this one. He had thirteen and
four assists, a couple of big three pointers late. Not enough though for
the Clippers, as Devin Booker also scores thirty and Chris Paul had a sequence
in that fourth quarter where he knocked down a three, had a steal,
and then put up a wild trick shot that went for him at the end
of the shot clock. And he finished with nineteen three of six from the
outside, eight of seventeen from the field. Clippers lose by twelve in Game
four. Game five coming up on Tuesday. More on that coming up next.
During your post game show. You're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio
network, Clippers lose one twelve to one hundred in Game four at Crypto dot
Com Arena and they're down three one and this best of seven first round matchup
against the Phoenix Suns. Welcome back into your post game show coming up on
the Patriot Am. Eleven fifty we'll have Clippers stock for you. Eight seven
seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is
the full number. Clippers end up shooting just forty three percent from the field
after they went really cold late in the fourth quarter, ran out of gas.
Suns outscored them in the final period twenty nine to twenty two. Once
again, no Kawhi Leonard, no Paul George. Both the superstars are out
with right knee injuries, and the Phoenix Suns got thirty one from Kevin Durant,
thirty from Devin Booker, nineteen from Chris Paul fifteen and thirteen from DeAndre
Aden. Proud of the guy's efforts, though, who were able to go.
Russell Westbrook with thirty seven is Clippers high in a playoff game on seventeen
to twenty nine, shooting three or six from the outside. Big shots big
takes getting to the basket. Talent disparity just two wide right now for the
Clippers to overcome it. That's it. The heart and the hustle have been
there, the effort has been there. Team's going hard, but unfortunately they
come up short. They lose by twelve. Game five. Coming up on
Tuesday night in Phoenix with the Suns having a chance to close out this series,
Clippers backs officially against the wall for the twenty twenty two twenty twenty three
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Here's Adam Oslin. Clippers are down three one in this best of seven first
round series against the Suns after they lose Game four oncewelve to one hundred.
I'm Adam Oslin. Welcome into Clippers Talk. Coming up here, we will
get to your phone call at eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty.
Eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is the phone number, and I'm
with you till four thirty Pacific time. So we got time. I got
time today to take your calls. Oh, I got time today. Coming
up on the show, you're gonna hear from Coach Lou post game as well
as Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip Pod. There's a level of frustration boiling
up with me today that I haven't felt in a little bit Clipper Nation,
and it's this when you realize and you feel like the Clippers are playing harder
and have the better squad, they just can't show it because their two main
guys are on the bench, both with right knee brains. It's a little
bit frustrating because this Sun's team has been woefully unimpressive in this first round series
for the amount of talent they have. Yeah, they're up three one for
a reason are from but it's not because they're playing as well as I think
the Clippers are considering the circumstances. It's not that I feel like the Clippers
have run out of heart or energy or fight or toughness. They just are
at such a talent disadvantage right now that no matter what they do, giving
everything they have out there playing, basically, they're a game with this roster,
with the guys who are currently available, versus a Sun's team that looks
to be at a C minus and they're still losing ball games because the Sons
have I don't know, the three best players, the two best players at
least on the court with Kevin Durant with Devin Booker, they combined for sixty
one. I mean, you can make the argument Russell Westbrook outscored them both
had thirty seven was spectacular, just battling being a leader out there, going
seventeen to twenty nine, three of six from the outside, making big shots
in the fourth quarter to try to keep it close. But the uphill battle
continues for this team because they've been snake bitten, riddled with injuries, unlucky.
I don't believe in the curse stuff. They've just been unlucky. Gaway
and Paul George were injury or prone before they became Clippers. They've remained injury
prone. They've only been on the court together for the amount of available games
I think around twenty three percent of the time since they became Clippers, and
not having them right now, it's just crippling for a team that looks to
be coming together in so many different ways. They're just down their two main
guys, so they can't pull off a victory against the Sun's team that isn't
playing that great. They're they're not dominating, they've looked unimpressive. They're just
getting by on having more talent. And you wonder how this series would look
if the Clippers had the two on three connection. And we may be wondering
that for a long time. If the Clippers don't pull off a miraculous come
back down three one. Coach Lewis coached the teams to a three one victory
before or being down three one in the NBA Finals in twenty sixteen against the
Golden State Warriors. Of course he had Kauai. He had or he had
his Kawai at that time was Lebron James along with Kyrie Irving. I said
when I heard Kawhi Leonard was going to be out for Game three, and
now he's been out for Game three and four, that if they don't have
these two guys, the Clippers can't win the series. They don't have at
least one of them. I think if they just had Kawai, it would
likely be enough based upon what we have seen play wise. But we have
an update coming from Chris Hayes. In a little bit, we'll play that
audio for you that aired on T and T earlier. Sounds like right knee
is swollen, the one he had ACL surgery on The timing is brutal for
him to be playing so well for three months where he didn't miss consecutive games
for about three and a half months, and then it happens in a first
round series. I don't believe in the curse stuff, but I'm not gonna
fault to anybody right now if they do want to go there. Eight seven
seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is
the phone number. It is just you know. Zubot sent it earlier in
the year when Kawai went out initially with the right knee stiffness for about a
month after playing the first couple of games, coming off the bench, and
then he goes out with that comes back as the ankle surgery or the ankle
in re No surgery, thankfully, But Zubot said this, the Clippers just
can't seem to have nice things. That's what it feels like right now.
So clip Nation, we got a rally and pick each other up because I'm
feeling it. Two posts game after this one, in another contest where the
Clippers had chances. They're down five going into the fourth, the Suns start
to heat up. No matter what the defense did, it didn't matter.
Chris Paul going on that run in the fourth where he hit a three,
then had a steal, then got one to go on a ridiculous flip shot
baseline fade away on the far side, a circus shot before the shot clock
went out. I think that was the ball game. That was the dagger.
The Suns did get fourteen offensive rebounds, Clippers just nine. And the
free throw disparity is also too much to overcome. You combine the attempts to
the last two games, Sons at seventy three attempts at the line, Clippers
at thirty five, more than doubling them. It's just impossible to overcome that.
You're down too many guys. It's excruciatingly frustrating to see a team go
out there and play that hard and not get rewarded for it. Russ has
thirty seven, doesn't get one free throw the attempt ten as a team.
Kevin Durant was at eleven by himself. I don't know what to tell you.
They're not getting a friendly whistle the last two games. Seems like if
you score more points in the paint, you're probably playing physical enough basketball to
get a couple of calls. Clippers points in the paint fifty, Sons forty
six, yet the Clippers takes seventeen less free throws. I don't want to
belabor it too much. But I'm just leaving it there on the table if
anybody else wants to pick up the conversation regarding the officiating the last couple of
games, because it's been rough and it just compounds things. When you're already
at a talent disadvantage like this, the gap is too wide. They almost
have to play perfect basketball. Nobody's ever played a perfect game, you know.
I heard people talk about, well, the Clippers miss six free throws
last game, so it's on them. They lost by five and they miss
six free throws. How many times are you perfect from the line. The
Suns get to miss six in this game and they still win because they have
their guys. They went twenty one to twenty seven. But you can't expect
the team to be perfect out there. And I'm not saying the officials need
to be perfect either. Man. There were some tough calls though, the
rust clean block on KD in the first half and Durant shoves but tomb to
the floor no call in the third quarter, The Roco call on Kevin Durant
not much there, plumbly gets called for a moving screen. Our Kogi hend
to the third Norm's fighting through a screen to start the fourth gets a call.
Man Harley touches KD at the five forty three mark of the fourth a
call. So I'm pointing out specifics. I'm not just I'm not just giving
out generic free throw numbers here to you do I think that's why they lost
the game. I don't know, probably not. It just doesn't help when
you're only attempting ten free throws. And it's just hard to overcome the Grand
Canyon size chasm between the amount of talent the Phoenix Suns have right now and
the talent the Clippers are missing. No Paul George, no I Leonard,
and they're both out from right knee sprains. The hitch just keep on coming
because when I saw in the first two games of this series with Kawai out
there, he was the best player, not just in the series, in
the world. Nobody was playing better than Kauai. Not many have looked better
than him. Over the last three months. The guy does everything to come
back from the ACL injury, to come back strong, to come back right
where he was in twenty twenty one in the playoffs where we already thought they're
getting to the NBA Finals. If Kauai doesn't go down. They're beating the
Phoenix Suns took the Sun six games to beat them without Kauai and Zoobots,
who, granted, is not having a very good series, last three games
having been the best performances from Big Zoo. Thought plumbly picked him up in
this one. Thought he was better. A couple of great passes, say
the ball from going out of bounds, no look magic Johnson Gift passed to
think it was Eric Gordon for a three pointer in the first half. But
that's how good Kauai was. There was no debate. He was out playing.
Kevin Durant ripped him in that Game two on a bad knee and took
it the other way for a dunk. So yeah, I'm venting a little
bit because the Clippers are down three games to one, and it feels eerily
similar to that first round series back in twenty sixteen against the Portland Trailblazers when
the Clippers were up two games to none, I believe, but then Blake
and CP three go out they lose the next four. Was Portland the better
team? No, they just had their guys and the Clippers didn't have theirs.
That's what this series feels like the Suns are far from running on all
cylinders. And if they make it to the second round and take on the
Denver Nuggets, and they're gonna get punched in the mouth quick because Denver isn't
missing their guys like the Clippers are eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty
eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty And I am being inundated, which
sweets about Marcus Morris getting the start, and I'm not gonna avoid the elephant
in the room. He didn't have a good game. Guys, you're minus
nineteen and twenty five minutes, three of thirteen from the field, one of
eight from three. I was surprised he got the start. Two. I
guess Coach lew is gonna go out with the guys that dance are the ones
who brought him here, the guys he'd trust the most. But I didn't
understand it after the first half, when in his fourteen minutes he was at
minus fourteen. Why not start Terrence Man in the second half? Why not
try Rocco earlier? I know, but Tuma was struggling with his shot,
but at least the defense is there and he plays just six minutes. It's
it's hard for me to rationalize either. It's curious at best. I don't
understand it. Marcus really struggled. He hasn't looked right for a while.
Now it continues, and he played twenty five minutes and was a minus nineteen
eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty. Javier start things off today on
Clippers Talk after the Clippers lose Game four one twelve to one hundred. There
down three games to one in this best of seventh series. Javier, what's
up? Thank you, Adam, and I wanted to start before I forget.
Thank you for showing your frustration, because it's super frustration. I mean,
it is to the point that I mean, no eagle just comes in
my ears. He said, Oh, you know, we'll be okay.
We've been down before. No no eagle. We have no shot on Tuesday.
If Kawai did not, I wouldn't say I wouldn't say no shot.
Javier, with this team just because of what we've seen in the last two
games, they are that far away. If they actually get some calls,
get to the free throw line, and Norma can be better than he was
in this one. I'm not gonna say no, shot, I'm not gonna
say it. This team, this team deserves a little bit of the benefit
of the doubt with how hard they've been playing the last two games. The
guys who are out there are battling, and I'm proud of them. No,
no, no, and Lean they're clean, they're behind off. I
mean they are, like you said earlier, just running out of gas at
the end of running out of gas. Next. Here's the other thing,
though, Kevin Durant going into this game had played ten more minutes in the
playoffs than anybody else. Excuse me, it wasn't even ten more minutes.
I forget the actual number, but number one in minutes played so far in
the playoffs. And he's at thirty four years of age and he had to
play forty four in this one. There is a chance that he went two
days off the Phoenix Suns, and they're older players, like CP three,
you had to play thirty seven, they might start to tire out. Yeah,
I mean, yeah, you're right. So he games on Tuesday,
and that's two points. I don't even have a lot of cause you're at
him. I'm done talking about Marcus Morris. This is my last called regarding
Marcus Morris. But you know what, now I know what Tyler's doing.
He's putting Marcus Morris. I think he wants to get fired at him.
He just going, Like you said, it's just puzzling. I don't I
don't think anybody's trying to get fired. This isn't office space or anything like
that. But Coach lou is going with the guys he trusts the most,
and clearly Marcus Morris is one of them. But you know what my next
point is, do you know what I think Adam? Maybe just my opinion,
but I'm thinking he's tired of two on three connection. I mean you
said at the beginning, they're not available. They have a history at him.
I mean I'll raising my hand at him. When that trade went down,
I would have done it too. I was the GM or the owner,
I would say, you know what, we're gonna get Kai. Every
GM in the NBA would do that trade one hundred times out of one hundred.
Yes, but you know what, look at their history. Kawai in
San Antonio, Homny would say, you're anap didn't play. Here's the problem,
Javier. He just won a championship playing through a hurt knee for the
Toronto Raptors and didn't miss a game in the playoffs. I don't think you
can second guess that decision. Ever, I don't get it's unfortunate the way
it has gone, no doubt, and your phone's breaking up a little bit.
You're battling the cell phone lines right now. I'm not interested in revisiting
the summer of twenty nineteen. I'm just not You want to second guess it
now easy to do because of the way SGA is playing and the Clippers are
down three one in a series without both of their guys. It's not just
without Kauai in twenty twenty one, or without Paul George to start the series,
or without both of them. But they want to be out there.
All the reports are saying Kawhi wants to play. They won't let them.
And we'll hear from Chris Haynes coming up, Sean and Inglewood Sean, what's
up, hey, Adama? A couple of things I want to say.
First of all, if we had a different referee crew the last two games,
the Clippers could have won both games easily. Well, they did have
different reps out there than they had Thursday night, So you got that wish,
but it didn't change anything. Well, a Thursday game Thursday night was
an abomination of calls. Today. You missed the one call where what was
that? I think it was Aden came over the back of Marcus Morris when
he was trying to rebound and he just closed it out of bounds. Instead
of a decivious i'llvious fous. They're not picking up on they won't even call
him. It's ridiculous. So that is a problem within itself. However,
being in the same situation year and a year where we're going from injuries to
uncertainty, I think it's time to pull the plug on this whole situation.
What's the solution, Sean, what are you gonna do. You're gonna trade
guys on the low. You're gonna get pennies on the dollar for superstars who
are often the thing I was looking at it you didn't allow me to finish.
I'm asking. The free agent market this year is terrible. The best
free agent is Jeremy Grant and he's not even unrestricted. So that's that's what
we have as a ridiculous free agent market. And as far as trades value,
it has to go down quite a bit. I have, But I
know you didn't want to revisit two thousand nineteen. But the first time I
heard about that trade, I said, no FGA. Please. When they
let FGA go, I said, with all those draft picks too, I
said, bad trade. And so basically, and I said, that's the
very first time I heard about it. So you're the one, Sean,
and you tend to always be the one. I'll take your word for it.
I guess, yeah, I look, I'll tell you the truth.
But anyway, to be honest with you, I feel sorry for mister Ballmer
because he did everything and he could to put a winner out there. I
loved in Chicago, where they would just pretend to try to win for a
long time. So being out here in the West Coast now I know when
I see an owner and that's trying to do everything he can, even building
a new building, has no problem with the money coming in or spending money.
But this is an abomination. We can't have another. We don't know
if this guy's gonna play or not play. So maybe I finishing. If
there's a cost to them, maybe it's time because the fans just need to
have some consistency and reliability and from John. You know what, though,
asking for that in the current state of the NBA is asking a lot.
It's not just these two guys who have been load managed. It's not just
these two guys who have been injured. We've seen Joel Embiide now go down
write knee injury, Jannis Denakumpo, Tyler Hero. It's happening throughout the NBA.
It is a war of attrition out there. You're right, but and
I hate to bring me so one more time. But if Hi didn't demand
the training for Paul, we would have graft picks. We had Dallinari,
we had a good teams. All we needed was Kawai. But oh,
I can't play with these guys, you know, So bring me Paul,
George, and we've paid too much of a price. Where we're trying to
keep Kawhi from signing with the Lake Sean. What do you think happens if
Kawhi letter doesn't go down in twenty twenty one? Where do you think happens?
Jacob won the whole thame? Okay, So then you make the trade
because you can't predict whether or not Kawhi was going to tear his ACL and
we all felt like they were the best team in the league. They had
the best team. They had a guy go down with the severe injury.
But let me counter then, Okay, the Covie year, Okay, they're
in the boat. Okay. Lebruns gathers all the troops together. He's the
grandfather to everybody, big brother, bringing them together, the sea. Whatever
we need to do, list it, Let's have sleepovers, Kai Luke,
I'm a superstar. I don't need to make the twain. I don't talk
to people. Hey, Sean, seem to work in San Antonio, seem
to work for the year before that with the Toronto Rafters. I don't care
about speculation on what type of leader a guy is. When he has two
finals MVPs and two rings with two different organizations, his leadership style works.
Okay, I'll give you that point if you want to go there. But
seriously, I do think that everybody's considering the same thing because a lot of
people are just the word on the street. I'm through with it, all
right, all right, Sean, but you're still not giving me a solution.
So you're gonna trade him for what? I don't know there you go.
You got nothing. I'm sorry. I'm a solutions driven guy. If
you're gonna say, oh, they gotta move on, what's the trade?
What's the move not I don't know. That's not good enough. What's the
realistic move? Sometimes you just find a way to keep pushing through and eventually
the basketball gods smile upon. You saw it with the Dallas Mavericks. They
went to the NBA Finals in two thousand and six. They led two games
to and lost four straight to the Miami Heat. The next season, they
came back. They won sixty seven games, had Dirk Nevinski as their number
one guy. Then he won the MVP and they got bounced in the first
round by the We Believe Golden State Warriors. Did they panic? Did they
say, oh, this isn't gonna work. Dirk can't be the best player
on a championship team, which a lot of people on the outside were saying,
Then, oh, Dirk, you soft. Michael Thompson used to stay
it on this station all the time, always too soft, They can't do
it. They just stayed the course and eventually they won a championship against Miami
in twenty eleven. Flippers may have to double down because I don't know what
you're getting for chair Paul George with them being injured like this, would you
rather trade them for lesser guys who are more available because if you know shot
of winning a championship or would you rather have guys that if they're healthy?
And yeah, it's asking a lot, you have a chance to win at
all, that's my question if you're gonna start bringing up that stuff. Brad
admission va Hell, Brad, what's up? You're on clipper stop you thanks
for taking them the call? Yeah, I thought that the three point shooting
was a problem. You know, the last two were hair balls and I
think that they couldn't get inside or if they've been able to get the mid
range, but going in the little Brad, do you think they have to
win the three point battle to win this series? It's how you counter a
team that's better than you in the mid range. They either get to the
basket or shoot threes. They had to play the analytics. They're either gonna
drop or they're not. Look if they drop, you win, or you
at least have a chance to win. If you don't take them, you
already lost. You have to attempt three pointers, it's the only way to
beat a team that's shooting fifty five were sent in the mid range. Yeah,
and they do very bit at that. Why don't one another point I
had? It seems like when I thought turnovers plumbly twice looked like it was
the NFL fuilty threw it to a free safety twice. You know, he
wasn't wasn't even deflected. So those turnovers really hurt the most because who knows
what was cooking at the air end before that happened. You know, Yeah,
the turnovers hurt, but they had thirteen. I mean, the Phoenix
Suns. They didn't take care of the basketball either. The Clippers have to
be so perfect right now because of the guys they're missing, that's what's happening.
I mean, the Suns had eighteen turnovers, so they won the turnover
battle. They won in a lot of different areas. But it's still not
gonna be good enough without Kauai, without Paul George, and it could be
frustrating because of that. I appreciate the phone call Brad eight seven seven five
two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty taking you to
the bottom of the next hour here on Clippers Talk, so I can take
a your phone calls. I'm just looking for solutions, not just who were
the Clippers or get rid of these guys? Okay, how do you improve
doing that? Tough phone, Clipper Nation, You're down three one. Series
is not over. I'm not gonna give up on this team, even though
they're back in the lines then in Phoenix, and we don't know the status
of choir Paul George or who could be available. We'll hear from Chris Haynes
coming up next on Clippers Talk on the Patriot Dam eleven fifty. Clippers lose
Game four Crypto dot Com Arena one twelve to one hundred. They are in
a three one hole in this best of seven first round series against the Suns.
Eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero
eleven fifty. J from Utah. But he's at the game. He's leaving
the game. He's a hardcore Clipper fan. Jay, what's up? Yeah,
Hey, I was at the game. I actually got my seat up.
Great, awesome facilities. Great, but uh yeah, I saw.
We played really hard. We made no threes and Morris just kept taking a
lot of unprovoked shots and uh, great atmosphere though it felt felt like the
stadium was into it. Great for cripple Clipper Nation to show up. Yeah,
it was worth to drive from Utah. Awesome game. I want to
know what you think, Adam. What should the Clippers do next? But
should we win? Win game five? Win Game five is where I think
they should do next. Jay, Okay, because we're not. We're not
to the off season yet. We're not. If somebody brings it up though,
they want to start talking about the off season, if they want to
start going there, then I'm gonna I'm gonna question what's their move. But
we have to play perfect in Game five. Highlands gotta play play better.
Highland's gotta be one of those. He can't miss from three games. If
you're a line on a twenty two year old you just traded for to carry
you, you got problems. Can you play better? Yes, but it's
not on bones Highland if they lose, no, I agree with you,
but I'm just saying this. Those are the things that have to happen to
win without Paul George and Kauai. That's fair they do. You know,
Morris has got to play above himself when he's put in the starting lineup and
we're counting on him, and then you know, both Highlands has got to
play good. Eric Gordon's got to play good. Players have to perform great
to make up for those points loss. I don't know what to tell anyone
if you're counting on Marcus Morris at this point after a big sample size of
three months of him just not looking right, what about the tune? But
toom, I'd stick with more than six minutes because he plays defense regardless of
if his shots are dropping. I agree, But he's like, because we
have no Kawai score he does, but he only played six minutes and was
zero of one. And the Clippers can obviously still score more than one hundred
points. They just did so in Game three even without Kauai, even without
Paul George, they put up one hundred and twenty four points. So it's
possible. But to me, it is what they have to play perfectly.
I know that's where they're at. That's where they're at. Unfortunately, that
is the mountain they're trying to climb right now because they're missing their two superstars.
But I'm damn proud of the effort they have given, and in my
opinion, we lost Game three when we when they scored a three and then
we turned the ball over another three. That's six points and solid. Yeah,
I understand your frustration. Jay, I'm with you a little bit.
They have to play more mistake free basketball. And if you're talking about the
turnover from a tomb to Russ on the inbounds pass that ended with a book
or three pointer in Game three, Yeah, that that was a tough one,
but they still battle back that that didn't define the ball game. They
had their chances. Let's go with Doug in Ontario, Doug, what's up
here on Clippers stock without I'm awesome, Dougie not so fresh, Doug,
what's up? It's Chuck, not Doug, It's Chuck. I'm chucking the
Dug name and going with Chuck. Then what's up? All right? Chuck?
Yeah, Hey, Adam, thank you for taking my call. You
know, Adam, I think we just gotta move on to the next game.
Obviously we gotta win. But man, he d does not miss.
Booker does not miss. And those guys they're just shooting like lights out,
and I mean, you gotta give it team. They're playing I mean against
we're down two guys, okay Kawhi and PG. But so I'm not I'm
not that impressed with Phoenix because of that fact you just mentioned. To be
honest, that's what I'm yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm not impressed
either. But what what I'm saying is that those two guys, It's like,
could they be doing that against any team? I mean, geez,
It's just it's hard to it's hard to comprehend, like the ball just every
time it goes out of their hands, it goes in. I'm just stays
frustrating. It's like we're doing a good job. I just I was surprised
that I got through. I actually live close to the G League arena,
so you know, I go to those games a little bit more often than
I go down to Crypto. Right. Well, anyway, takes care take
care of him, and I hope the Clippers do well and I hope we
get this next game, because man, I'm I'm just I'm sad at this
point. I'm not even angry anymore. I'm just bummed. So we're commisserating
here on Clippers stock Chuck and I appreciate the phone call call back in Tuesday
night. Regardless of the outcome, I appreciate it, Dave and Mona.
Dave, you're on Clippers side without aim. Austin, Hey, I had
thank for taking my call. Like the last faller said, it seems like
Devin Booker and Kevin Durant are always making the shots for some reason. And
I know we're trying our hardest on the defense, but assis seem like they're
automatic. And today was Chris Paul. He's said he was shooting everything lights
out too, I mean, not really. Kevin Durant. Look, I'm
just gonna tell you this. Kevin Durant, he was not of seventeen.
He's not He's not making everything. Chris Paul was eight of seventeen. He's
not making everything. Devin Booker is tennis twenty one. They're not making everything,
but they have a wider margin for error because they have that level of
talent out there. They scored one hundred and twelve points. That's not a
big number. I'm just telling you, Dave, it's it's not impossible for
the Clippers to get the victory Tuesday night. It's not they can do this.
Yeah, I know Russell can have another game like you did today.
I think it would be good. I just think that the big man I
need to step it up a little bit more. Yeah, it's some more
points down in the post. I agree Zubos has been struggling. I appreciate
the phone call, Dave. I just think it's paralysis by analysis. With
the amount of responsibility out there for Zoo on the offensive end and the defensive
end especially, he just hasn't looked right. He's overthinking things. You can
almost see the wheels turning. You know, there's just so much you have
to do coverage wise, when you're missing Kawai and Paul George. I'm with
Noah Eagle what he said post game. You know, what they're missing from
them defensively could be even bigger than what they're missing offensively. That was the
first thing that came to mind when I heard Kawai was out. Oh no,
this was the guy who guarded Kevin Durant the majority of the possessions the
first two games. I credit the guys still, though they've played hard defensively.
One twelve not a big number. Clippers shot the ball better from the
outside if they got a few more free throws they could have won this game,
but not to be. They're down three one. Let's go to Salomon
and Lake Balboa. Salomon, what's up here on Clippers Stype with Adam Roslin.
Hey, Adam, you know we've talked before. You know, I'm
gonna say it up front. I am a Lakers fan. However, I
don't hate the Clippers, and in fact, if my Lakers, you know,
don't, don't proceed and don't make it, I'm next. I'm next
team up in LA. I'm a local, local fan, and I will
support my local team. Okay, a rarity, but I appreciate the honesty.
Yeah, And it's frustrating as a sports fan to have to watch this
because you know, I'm obviously pulling for the Clippers against Phoenix. I'd love
to see a Lakers, uh Clippers you know playoff battle be terrific. Of
course, not that thrilled at the same time, because you guys own us,
which irritates me, but I won't That's another subject. I'm glad you
said that Kawhi at least wanted to play, because I was fuming when I
when I saw this guy on the bench, I said, are you kidding
me? And your your teammates, your coach are fighting for your playoff lives
and you're not available, and you are correct. If they have both George
and Leonard, they destroy this team. Phoenix cannot beat the Clippers at full
strength, not even close. Maybe they get a game. That's how good
and how deep your team is. And it is definitely frustrating and very sad.
That again, and we've suffered this a little bit with a d over
as Laker fans. You've got your main players unavailable. It gets to the
point where it's unacceptable and moving forward, you said, what are they supposed
to do? Magically be healed? Do you know what are you gonna do
about it? No? No, I'm not saying that. I'm staying moving
forward. Some times you have to balance out availability and superstardom. If your
superstars are not available, but you have good, decent players like you have
with just even your backups and your role players, you know you've got to
make that decision at some point. So you know, we'll see what happens
going forward. I hope you know Leonard's available and there's some miraculous turnaround.
You never know. Yeah, I'm with you, Solomon, We're hoping for
the best. I appreciate the phone call. In the honesty, they're solo.
Good phone call. Eight seven seven five zero eleven fifty eight seven seven
five to zero eleven fifty. Let's go to Asan and Anaheim. Asan Am
I getting that right? Asan? Yeah, what's up? Memory? I
got you cool? Hey, So, first of all, thanks for taking
my call. I'm like you, I'm doubling down on the Clippers. If
I'm Steve Barmer, I'm not trading PG. I'm not trading Kauai. That's
like, you know, seeing an investment. You know it gets down after
you bought it, and then you sell it. You're losing money the sub
cost. Yeah, exactly. So let's get to what we need to do
in game five because this is not over. I know a lot of people
are doing gloom. I've seen this before. Whatever, Right, we still
have games to play, and I'm gonna give Tylos some free game if he's
listening. But there was a series back in what was it, two thousand
and one? I think the Pistons versus Lakers, Okay, my bad.
Yeah, and their strategy was Kobe and Shack are gonna be Kobe and shack.
They took everybody else out of that series and they killed the Lakers,
And that's the strategy we need to employ. Devin Booker is going to get
hit, sorry, eighty is going to get his. But if you take
everybody else out of the game, kd and Booker to not score enough points
to beat you. So we need to stop the Let me let me talk
about that analogy. First of all, Kobe shot thirty eight percent in that
series, so they benefited from that shack. Yes, he got what he
wanted, but they weren't giving him the ball a lot. He still was
shooting sixty percent. But they were fortunate that Kobe had a bad shooting series
that Pistons team. Outside that game winner, he hitting Game two in the
NBA Finals over Rip Hamilton, he was bad and some of that was their
defense. But the thing is they had their guys. That's one of the
greatest defensive teams of all time. Clippers have two of the best defenders on
the perimeter, two the best wing defenders. They're both out. How are
they supposed to slow down the other guys? Well, that's the thing is
a lot of the issues that they're having come from the outside defense when they're
trying to help on KD and Booker when instead they should be covering Tory Craig
in the corner, who's absolutely murdering us. It's a pick your poison thing,
though a'san it's a pick your poison if they're if they're covering Craig,
then Booker's gonna get open. Looks like you gotta get a little bit of
luck on your side and hope they have an off night. Well, yeah,
it's worth trying, at least to me, because if you have two
guys who are all world talents at scoring, and you know the other guys,
I would try and stop the other guys and let you know, put
row code, you know, throw different looks at KD, throw different looks
at Booker. But still they're trying. As they have done all of that.
They have absolutely done that. They have thrown double teams at Kevin Durant
often. Booker then got hot. That's what happened in the third quarter of
Game two when he got eighteen points. They shut down KD. Booker gets
hot. They only have so many guys that are great defenders that you can
use. It's just a brutal problem, right, now because of the guys
that are missing us on. I don't think it's a strategic thing by the
Clippers. It's just the overwhelming talent from Phoenix is winning out right, And
I'm with you on that. Yeah, I'm with you. It's frustrating.
I'm with you. Yeah. Well, last parting note, it's all the
you know, people that think we should blow up the team and there's no
good free agents out there. Yeah, there's no good free agents or whatever.
But there's definitely fraids to be made. There are some you know,
I'm looking at Washington, you know, they got a new GM probably looking
to blow it up, and there's some good guys we could snatch from them,
you know, hopefully keeping Westbrook. And you know, there's there's trades
to be made. So it's not all doom and gloom. No. I
like the phone. Call us on. Appreciate call me back on thirst or
Tuesday night after game five. All right, definitely, thank you. I
appreciate it. Tyler in Hollywood, Tyler, what's up here on Clipper stop
without aim Oslin? Oh hey, good to talk to you, Adam.
Yeah, I got two points this. Let me make the first one quick.
It's about the referee, and I just have to say it, like,
the Lakers have been outscored in the paint the last thirty three games,
but have four hundred more free throws than our opponents. The Clippers have outscored
the Suns in the paint the last two games and have thirty eight less free
throws. What we're seeing, I have to say this, it's a managed
entertainment product. Unfortunately, that's my point as a Clipper fan. We always
feel like kind of the redheaded step child of the Lakers or the league or
whatever. It's not a good place to be in because this has happened before,
but this time it seems more egregious. That's that. Secondly, what
do you do about it going forward? I love Hawaiian PG as a concept,
but in practicality, even with load management era, if you're trying to
win a championship, it's a hundred game marathon, even if these guys are
playing less than that. Now, so they chose their path and it's four
years in and you can say we can do the dirt thing and keep going
with it. It's a hard decision point right now for the Clippers. But
there's so many teams the Raptors, the Wizards, the Hawks, the Bulls,
the Blazers. That are in a point where if you put Kawaii and
keeps you on the market, and your goal was to get eight or ten
guys to play almost every game with this level of grit and competitiveness, I'll
take my chances. Wait, so you're gonna trade chair Paul George to teams
who are looking to rebuild, why would they do it? They don't want
top end talent. Well, you put those two guys on the market,
one of those teams will bite. They will bite, just like what though?
Is the question? Everybody, Oh, a team will give you something,
Is it going to be close to getting back equal value? Though?
That's the problem. I don't know. I don't know. But everyone said
Russ couldn't be traded, and he was traded five times in four years or
whatever. They can be traded, you know, PG was traded. They
can be moved. And I'm just saying I would circle guys like Fiakam that
play and that game like when he's healthy, like they've shut him down the
last two years, or else he would have played seventy games. I'm saying
I would feel the team of players that play. Because you've got to pencil
in one hundred games to win a championship, they got to play at least
eighty of them. The only alternative, which I've seen enough scrap and fight
from this Clipper team and really every Clipper team the last five six years,
is that you almost have to play them less. It sounds crazy. You
play them less and you let this team fight for a top six seed and
then you bring PG in Kawaii though you've got to be healthy after the All
Star break and in the playoffs, do whatever you need to do. Those
are the only options to me. Yeah, I hear you. I just
when it comes to trade one of these two guys for lesser talent, Okay,
you may have guys who are available more, but are you gonna win
a championship? Do you have a chancel? Win a championship? Very much
unlikely. So would you rather have the possibility of winning or would you rather
have guys on the court where you're, you know, a team just fighting
to get to the second round at best, and that's your ceiling. I
don't know. I personally like the idea. I love what Norm brings.
I would get another Toronto guy like Pascal, and you know, I think
Time News a great coach, but I think he sort of wants out,
This is my opinion, and I would try to recreate sort of some of
that magic, like bringing in Nurse, bringing against Yam and get guys to
can play and go to war with that steps this quite sick, all right,
Tyler. I appreciate the phone call. Again, teams that are trying
to rebuild likely aren't taking Kauai or Paul George. It doesn't make sense.
The teams you gotta give to get. I understand that. But these teams
that may be having a sell off, they're looking for youth, they're looking
for draft picks. They're not looking to bring in aging superstars who are injury
prone. So it's a little bit nonsensical in some ways. I appreciate the
phone call, though, Tyler, and the season ain't over yet. I'm
not giving up on this team, even down three one. I've seen this
team with their backup against the wall before. I've seen coach lou in a
big spot down three one. I do want to hear though, from Chris
Haynes. This was during the broadcast on t NT NBA Reporter seems to have
insight in a pipeline too. Kawhi Leonard, he was the one before woes
to tweet out that he was coming to the Clippers. Here was Chris Haynes
during the TNT broadcast on Kawhi net spring right knee George and now Kawhi Leonard.
He will not play once again today and formorrow on that we check him
with Chris Haynes. Yes, Kawhi is missing a second straight game with what
the team is calling a right knee spring. He suffered that injury at some
point in the first two games, and I was told after game two there
was significant swelling that caused this. Now have more information. There's still some
swelling in that knee as of today, and I'm told it's not a pain
tolerant situation and that sent it out was not his fault. After an evaluation,
it was recommended that he not played to eliminate further risk. There is
no time table furs return back to you. Alright, good stuff, Chris,
thank you for that. I mean, if the guy has a swollen
right knee where he had his ACL tear, nobody's playing him in that situation.
No medical staff's gonna let him play. He's eighteen months or whatever it
is removed. It's it's not gonna happen. Let's go to Lenny and Corona.
Lenny, what's up here on Clippers stoff without Boston? Hey, I
don't know how you're doing. Then. I'm a die heard Clippers fan from
San Diego to here. You know, I've just been loving the Clippers forever
anyway, Uh, I like, I gotta love what you say today.
I mean, we lost a game of the free throw. I'm the last
two games, they get seventy three free throws, we get thirty five.
Something's wrong with that. Some of the calls. I'm not wanting to get
them Thefiici eating, but the calls the last two games have been horrendous.
I mean, what do you what do you do? We're scared to play
defense as bucks not not playing defense? You should. But that's a good
point though. The reason part of the reason they're scared to play defenses,
they're picking up Tiki Tach calls all the time. It's hard to play physical
basketball when you think there's gonna be a whistle, that's just you know,
hanging over your shoulder, and it's scary to see some calls like you know,
Westbrook's clear path that he had less and you got hit bad. Mc
chefs knocked down right in front of the roth reef and there's no call.
That's one of the more egregious non calls I've seen in my time on this
earth watching basketball in the NBA. That is a take foul where you get
two shots in the ball. It was a seven point game with two and
a half minutes left, Clippers had all the momentum. Devin Booker raised his
hand to say, I fouled him and they didn't call it. Tyler continue,
I know, I know, you know you want to, you know,
some of the solve something. I don't know what you say, but
maybe we could maybe like like like Cuban does, maybe we can have ball
done. I mean, we can go check out. Maybe just a little
scouting in Europe. I don't know, but I love our team what we
have now, and it's just a bad luck we've got. You know what
happened to Kwaiet the first two gets Quiet looked as good as anybody. He
looked better than I've ever seen. He was the best player on the floor,
no doubt about it. And he looked just he looked amazing and we
just bad luck. What can I say? You know, but the referees
got to be fair. We lost it at I'm the rebound today we were
fifteen rebounds left. We're never fifteen was less than the team. That doesn't
look good. You know. We had ten free throws today, twenty five
the other day. I don't know. I just want to yeah, I
want to appreciate you saying how you feel about the thing for real. I
mean, because it's you know, we the most talent in the league.
I think. I think with the bench and we have the most talent in
the league. I still think we can win without George and Kwaiet. I
mean we have something home with me. I believe we can. We have
a we have a great time. If we got fair calls. We won
the last geam. It's two to two, but you know it's not so
this is we'll play hard and go'll get him hard. And I appreciate you,
Adam. Thanks, Yeah, I appreciate you too. Lenny, great
phone call eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty if you'd like to vent
post game about the calls or the Clippers loss and just feeling so frustrated because
obviously this team, you know, it doesn't look like they've been outplayed.
They've been out talented. That's what it is. You're not being out worked,
you're running out of talent. Before I run out of time, though,
let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on the Patriot AM eleven
fifty, this is La Clippers Basketball AM eleven fifty KADIV, Los Angeles,
an iHeart radio station. You know what, we'll take a quick time out.
Producer Katie doesn't have eight arms. I can't ask her to do too
much more than the phones are bringing off the hook. I got it,
I got you, Katy. During the break, plus, we'll have Charles
Mockler Chuck Bockler from Clips and Dip Pod coming up. Next. Clippers fall
in Game four, one twelve to one hundred. Right there with the Clipper
Nation. More Clipper stock next here on the Patriot EM eleven fifty. Last
time that it was five chins on my neck. It was no smart on
my bread last time that. I Clippers lose one twelve to one hundred to
the Phoenix Suns and they are down three one in this best of seven first
round series. Welcome back in This is Clipper Stock here on the Patriot AM
eleven fifty. I'm adam Oslind. Game five is coming up Tuesday night in
Phoenix. We got Chuck Mockler online from clips and dip. We will get
back to your phone calls eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven
seven five two zero eleven fifty. Believe that we'll get back to him,
but first Chuck. Another frustrating one where I feel like the Clippers, you
know, they're playing at an a level, they just don't have the guys
to get you over the top because the talent disparity. I still don't feel
like the Phoenix Suns have played that great yet in this series, and that's
part of what makes it so frustrating. Yeah, I think the thing that's
tough is that you have guys who are playing at in a level. You
have Rusts and Norm who are absolutely lighting it up. You know, Terrence
and his limited minutes has played great too, but then no one else is
really kind of on a medium to just okay level. You have a starting
power board and Marcus Morris, who was removed from the starting lineup for very
good reasons. And then his replacement, Nick La tomb couldn't do well,
and then you kind of have this this subots drop off as well, where
there's not a lot of balance on this team right now in terms of the
good and the bad. It's just it's kind of a team of extremes.
But you are right. I think if you're a Suns fan, you're probably
a little worried about the fact that you know, you're letting this version of
the Clippers team make it really nervous a lot of the time. But you
know, I mean, I think I said on our last episode that the
Clippers needs to find a way to score one hundred and fifteen points, and
they couldn't get that done then, I which is unfortunate because we saw some
great russ basketball and you know, the rest of the thing again it's full
of frustrating, But here we are getting a lot of calls on that ten
free throw attempts to twenty seven for the Phoenix Suns. The last two games,
they have attempted seventy three free throws, doubling the Clippers, who are
just at thirty five. More than doubling. The output of the line from
the Clippers is frustrating, especially they scored more points in the paint than the
Phoenix Suns. You would think that would mean something. Russell Westbrook getting thirty
seven and not one free throw. It's tough to explain. I don't know
what it is right now, but you can't control that stuff. I guess
you gotta keep moving and just hope that you'll get some more otherworldly performances from
some of the role players. But you brought it up. Marcus Moore starts,
it's a storyline in this one. I'm getting a ton of tweets my
way about it, and I don't get it either. I do not understand
it. Twenty five minutes minus nineteen. I understand starting him and trying something
because desperate times. But when he's a minus fourteen in his fourteen minutes in
the first half and the eyeball test completely matched it, he's not hitting shots.
He's not a good defender right now. I just don't understand. And
they have looked. Nick Latombs played six minutes. I know he's not hitting
shots. He's also only taken I think nine so far in the series.
But at least he's giving you defense. Robert Covington's just more of an unknown.
What is he going to give you because he's played so little? Just
how do you feel about the four spot right now with the Clippers? The
fourth spot really since Robert Covington came back from that short stint. I think
it was how some safety protocolls his quote. I think that day was something
like he's looking forward to playing a lot of basketball. Pretty much since that
quote, he has stopped playing a lot of basketball. And we've now gotten
into a scenario where a team that was billed as being all in on this
wingstop thing and the personnel and the guys he brought in and on paper looks
so good. Think of all the five out lineups you could do. Obviously,
with quiet PG being out, that takes a large hit. But the
Clippers don't even really have a backup plan because of how the other power forward
rotations have been dealt with, right like Tyler waited too long to switch out
but toomb for Marcus Morris, and so now but two masks to get used
to playing with our new starting point guard Russell Westrook in a very limited amount
of time, to get playoff caliber ready, Well, what were they but
like like six and two, five, and two like it was it was
good, like there were results, yeah, but now you get to the
playoffs and it's just Roco can't even play a game without having to be on
the bike because his body isn't use to actual NBA basketball. So the management
of the four position for the Clippers on this season is probably one of the
things that I'm most upset about. Taking Quaiet PG out of this obviously because
we know that there's spots are safe, but it's just been wonky at this
point. The five guard lineup feels a lot better to fans than four guards.
This Marcus Wares, which I think is kind of all we need to
know about. It's the current state of this power forward rotation. There's been
a mystery A lot of this season has been a lot of what ifs,
but not having Kawai and Paul George right now it stands out more than ever.
It's just def Con one. It's amazing to have both of them out
with the same right knee injury. Not the same, but it's being called
a right knee brain We don't know the extent of it really, especially with
Kawhi Leonard, but I am proud of this team, like we're seeing the
resilient spirit of the Clippers once again. There's something to that. It reminds
you why you're a fan of them, because they continue to battle no matter
what the odds are. It's feeling like twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen again,
it's feeling like the twenty sixteen first round series Blazers and Slippers when they lost
CP three and Blake Griffin after the first two games. It's unfortunately classic Clippers
in some ways. But there's also, you know, reasons to hold your
head high. Sure. I mean, I'm sorry, yes, we can
hold our head high. You're just over it. The results. I get
that. I get that side of it too. I don't know if I'm
over it. I just mean, right now, we're staring at three one
right like it's not it's just a little tough. They have played great.
They haven't rolled over. That's something they've had to do, even in the
regular season when we were led by Reggie Jackson and Marcus Morris a couple of
seasons ago. You know, that mentality has always been there, so it's
great to see that mentality there. It's just difficult that that mentality usually should
be kind of the second dary if we need to tap into this thing.
But because of the key absences, it's now just kind of the Clippers identity
of fight very valiantly but come up short, partly because of things that are
totally out of your control. So maybe I'll probably feel better tomorrow. I'll
feel better when we're doing the tripod. But right now, man, I
don't know how many we fought valiant les I got in me today specifically completely
understand it. The moral victories are ringing hollow with some right now is completely
understandable. What do you think with their backs against the wall, officially they
have to win or their season is over. On Tuesday night, let me
just ask you, what would you go with rotations wise in that ball game.
The thing that's tough about that is that tis kind of exhausted every possibility.
I guess I'm really hoping that Zoo can step it up. A week
ago, we're talking about how great Zoo is, and now we are eating
some of those words because he just hasn't looked himself. What we're gonna see,
I think, is more of the same from Russ, which is unparalleled
hustle, you know, passion, whatever of those words you want to use.
He has been phenomenal at that. He's gonna you know, Russ is
gonna have to be efficient. He's getting He's going to get yet again twice
as any field goal attempts, as anyone else on the Clippers. We need
Russ to be efficient, we need I guess let's start Robert Covington. Niko
hasn't had it, Morris hasn't had it, Roco hasn't exactly had it either.
But I don't really know what we're waiting for. Or let's see what
Terrence Man can do in the starting lineup. I don't understand what Terrence has
to do to get more meaningful minutes to maybe start a game. But we're
gonna see a bunch of weird stuff. I think Tyler is going to be
hopefully in you know, fun tinkering time mode. But we got to hope
for more of this, you know, some efficiency from Russell Westbrook and just
you know, we need everyone else to be just as good as they were
in Game three, and hopefully we get a little bit of help or not
even help. Hopefully we just get a normally res game down in Phoenix.
Yeah, I would start Terrence Man if there's no Kauai, if there's no
Paul George, and I would let him go for forty minutes because he's played,
he's earned it, that he's earned it for a while. And you
know they made their run after giving up a run in the first quarter.
Terrence Man comes in. It's just so plainly obvious that they're better with him
on the floor. Oh that's another head scratcher for this entire season. All
right, Chuck, I appreciate it. Man. Not an easy one to
come on post game after, but it's in your contract. You have to
do the losses. Will has to do wins and moral victories. So thanks
for doing this, and we'll have the tripod coming up soon on Clips and
Dip with all three of us. Charles, we'll talk to you soon.
Absolutely help everyone has a good weekend, yes, sir, More Clippers stock
coming up next. Final segment eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight
seven seven five two zero eleven fifty Back to your phone calls next, Plus
we'll hear from coach lou postgame. Clippers lose Game four one twelve to one
hundred in a must win situation on Tuesday in Phoenix, This is Clippers Stock
here on the Patriot EM eleven fifty bit of a Clipper Nation therapy session tonight
after they lose Game four one twelve to one hundred. Played hard, went
all out, and the Clippers just come up short in the talent area.
That's it. That's all it is right now. Phoenix says, I think
underwhelmed the majority of NBA fans with this group. They haven't looked great.
They're just better than a Clipper's team without Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, and
not by much. Eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven
five two zero eleven fifty tags and Walnut tagous. What's up? You're on
Clipper Stock? Hey, Adam, before I talk about the game, I
know we had a lot of talk about blowing the team up, but to
me, it's not easy. Like every goal of a franchise is to be
in the position to win the championship, and when we have Paul George and
Quay, we put ourselves in that championship conversation. We've seen through all those
years of Lob City. You could be a good team, but that doesn't
mean you're a championship caliber team, which and we don't want to. People
have to understand if you want to get rid of them, it's going to
be a rebuilding process, and then people will become impatient with the rebuilding process.
So you have to take the chance. I mean, there's nothing the
second guess, you know, I agree with you. I'm with you.
I think it's smart. Let's get an analysis. I the grass is always
greater. Yeah, and you know this team right now, the heart that
they show reminds me of obviously the Pat Bad Lou Williams and Montres Harold.
The only difference is all those players and all the role players had a defined
role because they didn't have a superstar kind of the say, but it made
it a lot easier for them to excel. Here, everyone kind of got
hurt at the wrong time and we got a new pieces, so it's a
lot harder for these new players to excel the way that we want to see
them, like hit those open threes, So it's a tough situation for them.
I don't know if that accounts for what's happened with the four spot,
but I agree with you overall being anything else as Yeah, I think maybe
you know, we see a relevation A revelation here is that hopefully we can
keep Westbrook to a team friendly contract because everyone said not to sign him,
and the separate organizations signed him, and how good has and moving forward,
fload every day off of Paul, George and Kawai and I would love to
see them in a full year together next year or that sort of thing,
because I think it will just pay so much more dividends going forward. With
Russell Westbrook as a Clipper, Yeah, to agus, he has acquitted himself
well. He's instantly been a fan favorite. You know, runs up to
that corner of the court, starts clapping his hands before every game, gets
the fans into it. Russ has been a godsend for this team. He's
been huge. There was a lot of second guessing. I had my doubts,
I had my reservations about bringing in Russ, but it was more about
bringing any guy that late into the season, with just twenty one games left,
that was going to be playing all of a sudden thirty minutes per night.
They got off to the oh and five start there. I want to
say a game under five hundred now with Russ, but it's it's not him
it's the injuries, it's the guy's missing, it's continuity issues. Whenever you
just bring somebody in late in the season, there's going to be an adjustment
period. But overall, yeah, hopefully they're able to retain him. He's
obviously playing well above being a bought out player right now from what you would
expect on the buyout mark. Uh, let's go mitching the jersey. Mitch.
What's up, Adam? How are you doing, Buddy? I think
you've heard I would like and he's a whole of fame. Most people like
him or not. Of course I was underrated, but I had to add
one of our superstars would be up to free one and we I think if
we had both of them, I think we would have swept it was it
bench this week. But you say we're not curse? How about Jinks?
How is that? Is that a better term? No? I don't believe
in that stupid ass either. I believe in guys who actually put in the
work deciding things out there on the court. They dude, they don't get
hurt. They don't get hurt intentionally, you know. I mean, they're
the best athletes in the world. They're constantly running in that you know,
tiptop shape, all these plays, especially like you know, they're both whole
of families, I think, And I don't want to see of course.
So wait now it's worn Bridge. I don't want to see him add a
big man and nuckles zoo back is inconsistent. And I hope to see Marsco
hopefully next year, and hope they's a game seven, game game six,
and try again next year, stay healthy and we would have the crown.
I think, all right, Mitch, the problem is, and I know
what a lot of people are saying right now is yeah, that's what we
said coming into this season. Oh we're getting Kawai back this time, it's
going to be different. And now they're both out. It's just incomprehensible that
they'd be in this state after trying to get through the regular season by resting
guys and being overly cautious, and now they're still out. That's why I
think a lot of Clipper Nation is vexed. Morrison, Long Beach, what's
up? Hey, I'm gonna day, Adam, we make an history.
Get we got we got to make history. Three one we have got to
make We got a dog. We got a dog. They got some dogs
too, well, we got a dog. Anything as possible. Do not
give up the ship. Just set money Williams. Give him, give him
some credit. He's coaching good. But Tyroupe Tyrone Lou, I know he
got stuff up the sleeve. I'm proud of this team. I still think
they're gonna win it. Man, I'm crazy. I don't get what do
you say? They got it in them. All they gotta do is get
some timely shots. And they're in this think and by the way, by
the way, we're gonna be straight about it. We're gonna go Vacan.
If Phoenix losted the Clippers in the first round and they're down to all pro
all whatevers, there would have been an investigation. We're gonna have to be
one because we're about to beat him on Tusie Atom or you behave yourself.
I hope you're right, Morris, I hope you're right. I still believe
this team can win that game Tuesday, and you get that one to stay
alive, then you're coming back to la Ooh. Heavy pressure would be on
the shoulders of the Phoenix Suns, and right now they don't look like they're
ready for that. They definitely aren't ready for a Denver Nuggets team should they
get out of this degrees with the Clippers. Let's hear though from coach Loup
post game Clippers lose Game four, one twelve to one hundred at Crypto dot
Com Arena. It was was the fight that you guys were able to show,
consider a quick turn around everything. That's pretty much what you would help
to see. I guess say it again, the fight that you guys showed
today keeping it close again, is that what you'd hope to see? That
kind of fighting now, I hope to see a win. We're not planning
to keep it close. I don't know y'all might think that, but we're
planning to win. And we had opportunities. You know, in that second
quarter, I thought we had eight turnovers. You know, they kind of
got those easy baskets. But I'm margin for airs slam. So you know,
we just gotta do a better job taking care of the basketball, which
we did in a second half, and a better job on the glass,
you know. And so you know, our guys, we're competing to win
and we're not competing to keep it close. And so you know, they
playing well down the stretch. I thought, CP you know on that fourth
quarter really carried them and make some big shots for them. But like I
said, ideal love how our guys competed and stayed engaged and locked in the
whole forty eight minutes. Did you find anything line up plays that maybe you'd
like to use in Game five? No, to that third quarter you got
all to a seven oh start, and then the Sun's kind of picked themselves
up the mat and it seemed like their offense just really they couldn't be stopped
from there, Like where do you feel like the game and that the reporter
kind of kind of turned for you guys. Guys couldn't recover from the run
they went on. Yeah, they made some shots, you know, book
Katie Katie got away from must a couple of times where he shouldn't have,
and then you know when he caught the ball. We didn't do a good
job, you know, especially in that like sitting that third quarter crowd and
I'm getting into him, you know, speeding him up and once he's able
to play with the ball and like get to his spots, I mean,
you add his mercy, you know. So some things we got we can
clean up and get better at you know. And like I said, start
off the third quarter really good, high intensity And like I said, there
star players. They do what they were supposed to do. They make shots
and they created a lot of shots with their teammates as well. There was
coach lu postgame. Clippers lose one twelve, one hundred in Game four downtown
Los Angeles. Game five coming up Tuesday night in Phoenix, must win for
the Clippers to extend their season. Before we get out of here, I
do want to thank the Clippers organization, No It Eagle, Brian Seaman,
Ralph Lawler, big brother Jake Warner, head engineer, Katie Newton back here
in the bank, our producer, the callers, the listeners. Appreciate all
you guys. You helped lift my spirits after this one. War's my heart
some of these calls. We'll do it again Tuesday regardless, Go Clippers.
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