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a very disappointing loss for this Clippers team after they had built up some
good Will with back to back victories up in Portland, and they simply could
not get stops against the Philadelphia seventy six Ers to start this game or to
close it. Yeah, it was. It was a weird one for this
Clippers team because they came out with that energy and intensity on the offensive end,
but defensively struggled to kind of stop Philadelphia. This is a sixer team
that hangs onto the basketball well, and they only turned it over eight times.
The Clippers got ten points off those eight turnovers, but Campaign comes away
with a season high. Tobias Harris hadn't scored nineteen since February. He had
nineteen in the first quarter and then Tyrese Maxi turned it on late. Just
seven points or excuse me, five points in the first half and nineteen in
the second half. All five of those points came in the first two quarter,
and Adam I felt like the Clippers got into the game when the Sixers
started to miss threes. They were five for seventeen and the second and the
third quarter combined, and then in that fourth quarter they hit their first four
and it was after the races the Clippers offensively. When you look at the
box score, you'd say, man, that's probably a Clipper win when you
look up and down. But defensively is where they faltered in this one.
Yeah, and they gave away too many possessions, especially in that fourth quarter.
I know Philly only got seven more shots up than the Clippers, who
were getting to the free throw line a lot. But you know, it's
a situation where your margin for error is too small. When a team is
that hot from the outside, you have to value the basketball. And the
Clippers weren't good enough to start the fourth quarter. I feel like we've seen
that too many times so far this season, where in that final period they
get off to really slow starts, Kawhi Leonard is on the bench and the
Clippers start to unravel. And this time they didn't even have a chance to
really come back in this one, as with six minutes left, Coach lu
saw the riding on the wall, he pulled the big three, and that's
you get a lopside of victory like this in favor of the Philadelphia seventy six
ers. Yeah, and I think he has a smart thing. By Tyler
Adam, you don't want to lose two games trying to save one, right,
might as well, wave the white flag early Pippers, though a lot
to think about before Indiana. Of course, they'll be able to watch the
film on the game tonight and mull over it tomorrow at shoot around, probably
here in this building. But for the Clippers, a tough one, a
tough loss, one twenty one, one oh seven. It's weird at him
because like Zubots has a double double, the Clippers have been great when he
does that, Harden had to double double the Clippers of great Norman pal gives
you twenty off the bench, but defensively and those turnovers late. They only
had four turnovers through the first almost three quarters and then had seven in the
fourth. It was a tough stretch for the Clippers, and credit Philadelphia they
knocked down threes in this one. Clippers will be back out of them.
Opportunity to get some revenge and get this bad taste out of your mouth and
then see Philadelphia on the road on Wednesday night. Clippers will be taking on
the Pacers tomorrow night at Crypto tiptime for that one's at seven thirty. We'll
have your pregame show starting at six thirty. Carlo Jimenez, great call.
As always, we'll see it at the crypt tomorrow. Friend, Oh,
I'll see tomorrow Atle's go. Clippers unfortunately fall in this matinee madness affair one
twenty one to one oh seven at home to the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
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lose big at home one twenty one till one to seven to the Philadelphia seventy
six ers, who got hot early and then late from three and buried the
Clippers from distance. They ended up shooting almost fifty percent from three. Really,
they were at fifty percent before inconsequential time came, and it came early
in the fourth quarter. But a team that averages just eleven point six main
threes for ball game hit eighteen against the Clippers, who only had ten main
threes them. Philadelphia was at forty nine percent from the outside, the Clippers
just at thirty six percent, and those turnovers coming in bunches. In the
fourth quarter, the Clippers had seven turnovers entering the fourth. They had seven
in the final period alone. Just sloppy play. Can't happen. Far from
championship type of stuff. And the Clippers are now ten and eleven in the
last twenty one games post Grammy road trip. Every time we think they're taking
a step forward, they win two in Portland, they're playing the right way.
Well, they take two steps back. They just completely unraveled down the
stretch and none of the big three were on the floor in the final six
minutes of the ball game. It was already over. It was just a
five point game heading into the fourth, but the Clippers were down seventeen in
the first half. They had it to win in at the half it was
fifty six to sixty three. They made some progress, they got back into
the ball game. They had it tied multiple times, I want to say
four different times in the third quarter, but they could not get over the
hump and eventually they just wilted. Early in the fourth, they just gave
the basketball away. They gave the game away. It went from the Clippers
being down by five to within about three minutes they're down nineteen. Just can't
happen at this point in the season. There's twelve games left. Really disheartening,
disappointing loss by the Clippers. Okay, get right back after tomorrow at
home against well an even better team and the Indiana Pacers, who are healthy
or healthier. Remember Philadelphia didn't even have Joel Embii their MVP. Clippers lose
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Adam Ousley. The Clippers lose to a six ers team without Joe l embiid
Big at home, one twenty one to one oh seven. Is the score
deceiving? Maybe it was a five point game early in the fourth quarter,
and then all of a sudden, the Clippers were down twenty and the starters
were out of the game, at least the Big three. By the six
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You're gonna hear from coach Lou post game. Maybe some of the players,
but I know some people are calling in. I know there's a lot of
frustration mounting some from your host too. What's you know. I don't want
to say they fooled me, they tricked y'all. But I saw some encouraging
things against Portland, even against a bad team, they seem to be playing
the right way. They seem to be playing harder, and they won both
of those games convincingly. To turn around and come out in the first quarter
and lose it forty one to twenty nine to a Philadelphia team without Joe el
Embiid that starts seven of nine from three just inexcusable. At this point,
I'm starting to think Bill Parcells is right because the Clippers their last twenty one
games post Grammy road trip are ten and eleven. You are what your record
says you are, says about you. Whatever the old line was the big
Tuna. All I know is this, They're consistently inconsistent. They've been like
this for a long time, and that's the worst bad habit they've established in
this era that I don't know if they can recover from. There's twelve games
left. There are a half game up on the Pelicans. Now Pelicans get
the four seed, and the Clippers very likely would not have home court in
any round unless there's some upset from the bottom to the top. They certainly
wouldn't have it in the first round, which is crazy considering where we were
just a month and a half ago talking about them get the one seat.
What happened? Did they peak too early? Did they put too much into
that Grammy road trip? Did they think the season was over? They did
their job. They went six and one. They won twenty six of thirty
one games. Since then, they haven't been the same. Has the rest
of the league caught up to them? Did they find some flaw in the
Clippers god tier offense? When they were running pick and roll and nobody could
stop them, the Big Three was surging. They're proving all the haters wrong.
After losing the first five games with James Harden, they looked unstoppable,
invincible, like the best team in the league. They go in to Boston
and crush them on the second night of a back to back. Is it
all the above? Call him a call him b Too many issues, too
many holes in what looks like a sinking ship right now to be able to
plug them all. I don't know, I know teams have been trapping James
Harden Moore trying to get the ball out of his hands more. But I
saw a hot team from three in Philadelphia. Granted some of those shots were
well defended, it didn't matter. But a team early in the fourth quarter
by the Clippers that had gotten back into it, had tied it multiple times,
I think four different times in the third quarter after they were down by
seventeen in the first half, cut it to eight at the half. Multiple
pg thirteen three's would tie it in the third, but they never got over
the hump. Was that the difference or was it a team that was playing
uphill and they just ran out of gas late, or you know, Maxi
was due at some point. He knocked down a couple of threes early in
the fourth quarter when it was just a five point game, and all of
a sudden, the Clippers are down by twenty three minutes later with Paul George
and James Harden on the court, they not want it enough. They had
seven turnovers in the fourth quarter, many of them coming early on taking away
possessions from them in a game where they're down. I mean, they doubled
their amount of turnovers from seven in the first three quarters to seven in the
fourth plumbly just giving the ball away. I don't know. I don't know
anymore. You think there's gonna be a turning point, you think they're making
a step in the right direction, But for every step forward, it's two
steps back and back to the drawing board. It's really disappointing, and I'm
trying to get to the root of it. And the only thing I can
think of is there consistently inconsistent and have been the entire time in the two
one three era. This isn't a bad habit that's been built up over a
season. It's been built up, built up over five years. Whether it's
because they've had two one three in and out of the lineup so much,
or because there's some level of I don't know, arrogance over confidence going on
where they think they can just walk into victories because they have the talent advantage,
they can they can just flip a switch, because as I mentioned before,
where they've had so many comebacks and they were lying that too often,
Oh, we can just come back again. We'll get it going. Hashtag
Clippers come back, We'll figure it out, We'll flip the switch. We'll
turn things around. This is what we do. It's not what championship teams
do, not against lesser competition where you're always relying on coming back on teams
down seventeen in this one, got down by as many as twenty one.
They tied it. They didn't have enough to get across the finish line,
though not even close with the way they got destroyed in that fourth quarter,
losing it thirty three to twenty four, and that wasn't even that close.
They waved the white flag with six minutes left. I know they got it
back to back tomorrow, but how on earth do you go from being down
five to down twenty in three and a half minutes. I know the Clippers
kind of did the same thing down seventeen to a tie game in about five
and a half minutes of game time, from the end of the second into
the beginning of the third. But I'm telling you, I've been saying it
for a long time. I think their greatest strength of being so resilient with
all these comebacks has led to a bad habit of being overly confident and overly
reliant on these comebacks which aren't always going to happen, and shouldn't even be
happening in the first place against its Philly team without Joe El Embiid, without
Kyle Lowry. They're missing a ton of guys right now, key guys.
MAXI had nothing in the first half and he gets nineteen points in the second
half and I think eleven in the fourth quarter. I just you never know
what you're gonna get with this Clippers team, game to game, day to
day, and I'm tired of the matinee excuse. It doesn't make sense to
me. They say, Okay, we have so many of these early day
games at home. Nobody else has to deal with this, and that's true.
But if you have so many of them, wouldn't you be used to
it by now? Wouldn't you have adjusted to them. I'm not going to
use that excuse. Clippers. They fall out of the top four in the
West. I don't know what we're looking at if they have to go on
the road in the first round against the Pelicans, a team that has had
their number. They just continually want to make it harder on themselves than it
needs to be, like with getting down big before they start playing. Start
things off. Uh Manny in Pasadena. Manny what's up? You're on Clipper
stock without amazen? Oh are you? How does it sound? Many?
I don't know. Well, you know what, I'm all in with what
you're saying. I'm so disappointed. I've been a big Clippers fan the last
twelve years. I followed them through thick and thin and first time caller.
By the way, I always hear your show, but I don't call in.
Yeah, many, I haven't heard from pretty different. Don't make it
your last call, okay, but are things that dire that you felt like
you needed to call in? Basically? Yeah, I mean, after a
while, it seems like the emotions burst and you got to call in and
be part of the crowd that shares their two cents worth on one of them.
Now, but just just my two cents worth. The fun thing about
sports is everybody has a commentary, crazier or not. They all feel like
they know what they're talking about. That includes me now, But I'm old
enough to know. One thing is that when you have a team is good
talent wise, roster wise, as the Clippers do, It's not a question
of the timing of the game morning. It's not a question of the coaching,
not a question of X and those you know this offense. The Clippers
have have what was heralded as a Big three offense. It's been run that
way with Kawhi Harden and of course PG and quite frankly, I think they
were not a steam I think their age is showing. You can compare them
to Lebron and say, well, Lebron's fifty five years old, whatever he
is, he has to show that kind of gas burnout. But I think
we've got three players who are really good. They pay their dues. Historically
they've been great, but they have now I think health personal issues where they
can't go through a whole season and have the same output as they did.
Say the first three months in December obviously was a great month of the Clippers
out of sky high van but I see them a step slower, much less
energy. They know they've got to win, They've got the IQ to be
able to do what they have to do. They can't step up gas wise,
energy wise, they seem a step slower. I don't think there's anything
rocket signs about that, because I think that's what's happening. There might be
something to that many but I will say the last couple of games. There's
something to that because if you look at the energy of the flow, well
it's lacking. I'm watching the guys and they were moving quickly today. They
weren't sound moving together. It's what counts. They'll they'll they'll move when they
have to move, but they have to be consistent about it. You call
it some Americans. Maybe I just think it's they don't have the same energy
it's been like. But Manny, Manny, here's my point. I'm saying,
it goes back years. This isn't anything new with this team. When
they were younger, it was the same up and down consistency. So I
don't think I can just put it at they're older now. I don't.
I think the issue is, and I appreciate the phone call, is they've
just developed a really bad habit of picking and choosing when they want to play
hard because they've been given a confidence with all the twenty point comebacks, more
than any other team. So they look at it and say, whatever,
we're down ten, we're down fifteen, we're down twenty now, been here
before, and they wait to get into a ballgame. And I think,
like I said, their biggest strength has become one of their biggest weaknesses.
It's a double edged sword. It's great to have that knowledge you can come
back in games and be that resilient, but it's not great to pick and
choose. When do you want to play hard? Period? JSean Downey,
you're on Clipper stop with Ata Maus and turn your radio off. Adam leaving
the stadium again? Is this horrendous? I don't even know why I keep
them buying tickets to the game. Oh that's truth. I think you hear
both. You're both right in terms of the arrogance and not not coming up
for any game, especially at this time to you know, start off hard,
but and then they start pushing hard and that energy that you're saying that
is there. They do have the energy, which is it shows when they're
making their comeback. And then to the last colors the last colors point,
like you said, maybe they start running out of energy. Well, did
they run out of energy or did they just have bad turnovers in the fourth
quarter like they were playing fast, maybe too fast for their own good,
but they just had bad turnovers Like that. Isn't a team to me that
just completely slowed down and didn't have anything left in the tank. They just
made really stupid careless passes. Yeah. Yeah, and then they're timely shots.
I mean they would get they would be open shots, and then not
they weren't going in. And I don't know if that's tired legs. I
know we've mentioned that before. I just I don't know anymore at this point.
This is this is turning into a big disappointment. And you're right,
it's been something that's been building up for years, not just this year,
for years, and I don't know what their solution is going to be.
At this point. You might start saying if they're not gonna respond and know
that they have to come out gunning right from the beginning. Is these guys
and Tylo a good match? And I like ty Lou? But is it
a good match if you can't get them to respond anymore? Is this more
of a player thing or is this more of a coach thing? I don't
know. It's a fair question. I think at this point, I love
coach Lou, but is the message being received? How many slow starts are
we going to see with this team? Are they listening? He said recently,
maybe he needs to do something different. After the loss last Sunday,
to the Atlanta Hawks, a really brutal loss. They follow it up with
two wins against Portland, but now it feels like who cares it was Portland
didn't mean anything because then they blew the next game to a much better team
at home to Philadelphia without Joe l Embiid, and they got smacked. They
started I think eight of ten from three to seventy six ers, and then
they started the fourth quarter after starting to go cold and regrets to the mean,
and the second and third quarters four for four from three. But you
have to see it coming. I put it out there on Twitter. What's
scary is they're up seventeen and Tyrese Maxi hasn't even got it going yet.
Well, eventually he did, so you get back into the game. But
as much as law of averages was gonna come into effect for Philly as a
team, uh, Maxi was also going to progress to the mean. And
then he has nineteen points in the second half and I think eleven and the
fourth. I don't know. If it's not one thing, it's another with
this Clippers team right now. If it's not defense, it's offense. If
it's not an offense, it's defense. It's just they can't get it together
on the same page. And it's twenty one games since the Grammy road trip
where they are a game under five hundred. That is tough. We will
take a quick time out here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. We'll hear
from the head coach coming up. Clippers lose one twenty one to one oh
seven at home the Philadelphia seventy six ers. They just strike me sometimes as
a team that plays like they've already won the championship before and oh, we'll
figure it out just like we always do because we're the champs. No,
they don't have the hardware yet, Denver can act like that. They were
hanging around the five seed for a lot of the season. Then they said
post All Star Break, here we go. We got a chance of the
one seed in the West. We're gonna lock in. What have they lost?
One game? Two games since then? They have the Larry ob They've
earned that trust. The Clippers have not. But the players sometimes I don't
know. It's like they're going through the motions. I madam Oslim, this
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that here Clippers lose at home to Philly once twenty one to one oh seven.
They aren't beating enough good teams. They can't even beat a good team
without their best player right now. No joe El Embiid, no d Anthony
Melton, no Kyle Lowry, and the Clippers ended up getting blown out when
it was a close game early in the fourth quarter. A lot of people
have been getting to me on Twitter at follow Adam a here on Clippers Talk
if you want to call it X and welcome back in. They've been saying,
what's up with the fourth quarter rotations? Where you always have Paul George
starting the fourth, Kawhi plays the entire third, Paul George gets taken out
about the three or four minute mark of the third to start the fourth.
I don't know, maybe there's something to it. Maybe you need Kawhi Leonard
to start the fourth quarter, not just in the third strong, but maybe
they flip flopped that. I'm looking for answers right now. Because there's a
level of seriousness to starting off the fourth quarter that's just not good enough.
I've seen too many of these. If you want to go back to teams
coming back on the Clippers, like the Lakers who were down twenty one and
the Bucks who were down fifteen, it was early in the fourth quarter where
those games were lost. I remember against the Lakers, the Clippers gave up
twelve points in less than three minutes. They got outscored by twelve, and
early in this fourth quarter they're turning it over. Tyrese Maxiy hits back to
back three pointers, Tobias Harris hits one. Maxie then with a floater,
back to back floaters, and all of a sudden, a five point game
goes to you being down by nineteen after a Cameron pa point shot in the
fourth and it's over. Apparently coach Luth thought it was because at the sixth
minute mark he pulled the Big three. Kawhi never even returned to the game
in the fourth. To me, if you can get into a situation,
or you can get down so big early on in the fourth quarter that Kawhi
never even plays there, I don't know. Maybe he should be starting fourth
quarters, and you changed that line of rotation in games. He's your best
player. Maybe haven't played the entire fourth instead of the entire third. I'm
searching desperately for something because the Clippers they're reeling, and they look like a
team that's about to give up the fourth spot in the West. Keith in
La here on Clippers stock without a mouslin. Here on the Patriot, Am
eleven fifty. Keith, what's up, buddy? I heard in your voice,
my man, I feel the exact same way. What do you mean?
Okay, well, now, well let's just change the subject. The
dal Jones industry levagers failed the other complicating myself. You want me to talk
about that. I know the stock market. I don't want to talk about
that either. Right now? You see an apple lately? You see an
apple lately? Okay, No, it's all good, brother, No,
No, you nailed it. Man. And and this is Keith Man you
know who. When I first met you and I introduced myself. I've been
watching this paradigm, this algorithm, quite frankly, for forty years. I'm
not going to put all forty years, of course on this unit. That's
not what I'm saying. But quite frankly, you nailed it, man.
You know, I do sense, for lack of better words, Adam,
I do send some arrogance. I don't know what else is giving arrogance.
They're overly confident, whatever you want to say. It's somewhat being a body
language expert, but just the fact that they wait to start playing till they
get down far too often. I don't know. I'm we're putting the pieces
together here, you know, we're connecting dots. It may be true,
it may not be, but the fact that it keeps happening. You just
lend yourself to some of this skepticism and speculation, which is what we're doing.
And quite frankly, the laughter from others and all that. You know,
I'm saying, you know, let me. I'll just say two more
things and I'll kind of keep pushing, you know. You know again the
Clippers, you know, it's a thing where you know, this happens around
like I say, right after you know, the All Star Break, like
you said, you know, the Grammy road Trip, all the above.
Just they don't have that winning spirit like the eighties Lakers or that kind of
Quite frankly, I use the word killer, but you know, just that
endtinct, like the like the nineties bulls, they got to catch a fire
now, I'll say, you know, also ty Low, you know he's
got a lot of chess pieces to work with it if you do play to
you know what I'm talking about. I mean, you know, well we
got to figure that out too. James Harden haling the rock all the time.
I'd like to see us maybe like you know, Norman Powell kind of
you know, just there's some adjustments I think we can make, but not
normal. I'm definitely feeling it. Man. Norms playmaking is probably one of
his weakest points. But what they have been doing recently, and I think
this is smart, They have been trying to get the ball out of James
Harden's hands and having other guys bring it up, or having Paul George run
pick and roll. Because of the playoff series, teams will key in on
one guy doing the same thing over and over again. You got to have
that varied attack. So I agree with you. Just Norm made the one.
But Russ is supposed to be back soon, so there's something. Okay
that's said Bristol vinergy hey Man always a blessing Madam man till next time,
these eight Clipper fans and you Adam, the's it out over yet? Let's
see what's happening. But ain't my brother till next time? My brother?
All right, Keith, I appreciate the phone call, Like Keith, one
of our favorites. Here another one Morris in Inglewood today, not long beach.
Morris, what's up here on? I mean, I didn't want to
let you know how to change it with dress. Let me tell you something,
you guys, Oh, you're all talking like you about the play like
we are playing team. That's a clip of a place. Hey, Morris,
Morris, reality check, reality check. There are a couple of games
from being a playing team right now, there are a couple of games out
on being a playing team. I'm not gonna lie to you here, Okay,
I'm not gonna just the fact we're not playing team. That's Oh,
so you go from Morris Morris, let's review. You go from they're gonna
be the number one seed to well, at least they're not a playing team.
That's where you moved the goalpost was the way you guys are talking,
You talking like they're playing team? Are boris? I can't lie to you
when they're playing bad, I'm going to tell you they are playing bad playing
good. I didn't say they was playing good. I said they're not a
playing team. And I want you to notice, I'm going with these guys
we got right now, we married and Jude Jules, look at I know
what I've seen. It's in them, and I'm not ready to bail on
them right now in March because things is a little rough, you know,
like the rest of you. So you're going to give you another collad and
behavior though. All right, Morris, I didn't say I'm bailing on them.
I'm telling you the way they're playing right now, they're trending the wrong
direction. There are a couple of games up on being a playing team.
What are we talking about. They're five and five their last ten games.
That is the worst record in the West of the top nine seeds over their
last ten. The Lakers are six and four, Dallas is seven and three,
Sacramento seven to three, Phoenix is seven to three. New Orleans is
eight and two. They're coming for the Clippers. E E can kiss the
top three seed goodbye. At this point, it's over completely. Sorry,
I have to be honest about that I told you it was a long shot
already, because Minnesota is the tiebreaker. I have to give you the truth
because of all of a sudden, the Clippers losing the first round, and
I've been saying at sunshine and rainbows and lollipops or whatever, and then I'm
like, oh, I don't know what happened. Well, no, right
now, it would make sense by the way they're playing to lose to a
team that has had their number in the Pelicans in the first round, they
probably wouldn't be favored. So I don't know what you want me to tell
you. If they're not playing good, I'm gonna be down on the squad.
If they're playing great like they were back in December and January, they
will be praised and celebrated. So they have an opportunity to get back to
that. They have a game tomorrow. They have twelve games left in the
season to prove something. But ope, in the last twenty one games,
which is twenty five percent of the season, they're ten to eleven. That's
just reality. Let's hear from coach lou post game after the Clippers lose to
an MB list seventy six ers team one twenty one to one to seven at
home. Here was coach lou post game. No physicality. I think we
started a game with a physicality and they got comfortable, like you said,
early in the game, you know, making threes. Tobias got to a
spot a couple of times made a three, and then Kelly, you know,
he made a couple of threes. He kind of get them going with
the momentum. And so I thought we did a good job starting off with
the blitz with Maxi, but then we gave up a couple of offensive rebounds
which they scored on, and just you know, our physicality started a game
with a defensive mindset. You know, it wasn't great night, and so
they got to come through what they made shots. And now you're fighting up
here all night, y'all. Did you said that me that y'all had tied
in the middle of the third quarter, then they built a bigger one.
What happened between you guys being able to come back and then somehow, just
subjectively speaking, playing worse after you tied it than when they built the first
lead. Yeah, we had some turnovers. We talked about it, got
out in transitioned got some easy baskets, and then we had a couple you
know, question shots for our shots selection whether we got filed or not,
and they was able to get back. We didn't have good floor balance and
they got shots as well, you know. And then we also scored,
tied the game up, and came back and buddy, you got a three
on the made basket. We didn't get matched up. And so those things
are just paying attention to detail and understand that what we need to do and
coach. It seemed like Cam and Tyrese when they were in a Florida game
together gave you guys problem was all nine they were able to get to the
paint, find open looks. Why was so difficult for you guys to contain
both of them when they were on the floor specifically together. Yeah, I
thought there's speed hurt us, you know, being able to attack the paint,
point of attack, defense of getting downhill and then making plays. And
so once they get down here, you got to react. So Zoo's coming
over. Now you're in the X situation. We've got to get to the
corners. Now they swing, swing and drive it again, and you just
constantly in rotations. And so if your point of attack defense isn't great.
Like I said, with speed guards, they're going to get downhill and put
a lot of pressure on your defense. Today in the Atlanta game, we're
kind of very similar in a lot of ways for you guys. This month
has been a tough month for you guys as well. Is this a worrying
trend that you've seen out of the team and in terms of the last few
games where they haven't picked up the physicality out of the gates as you said,
Yeah, I just think our mindset, we can't fall victim of you
know, being tired or what the schedule is like. You know, we
know we got to play better basketball going into the playoffs or it's going to
be a early season. And so you know, still got full confidence in
this team, and you know, full confidence in what we can do,
you know, and just I'm going out and doing it, you know,
every single night, you know, not thirty two minutes like we talked about,
not twenty six minutes, like forty eight minutes of doing the right things,
doing the right coverage, just not having as many game plan mistakes getting
back in transition, and I think they might have had eighteen points in transition
in the first half. You know the way we charted, you know,
so that's not good enough and so we just got to be better in that
regard, Coach, start to follow up with a negative question. After a
negative question, don't worry about it in negative son, you can follow up
as as you want. It's sort of the same vein you guys are playing
for home field or home court advantage office in the playoffs, but you really
struggled at home lately. Is that also a worrying trend for you or now
that you're getting healthy, can you turn that around or you're confident about that
or maybe we need to start on the road there. Maybe as a positive,
we did have Norm back in the game today. Can you just speak
about his performance? And you know how imperative it is to have him in
the line up. Yah, it's important having Norm you know, offensively,
you know, be able to make shots, be able to space the floor,
be able to get down he attack the basket, but also get into
the free throw line. And so he's very valuable to what you want to
do. And so you know there's gonna be nights where you know, you
struggle shooting the basketball like we have, Like justin said early on, like
I think twenty eighth in the league since January of making open catch and shoot
threes. You know, so if you're not making shots, your defense it
definitely has to be on point. And we haven't been very good defensively and
if we want to take that next step, we got to be better.
Hey, coach, question, when Harden seems to be the guy getting going
early, it seems to just stunt PG a little bit. And then when
he can get going, it seemed like the offense picked up. And that's
when you guys did make your run and take the lead of seventy three to
seventy nine, and then it felt like that it went away from PGS.
That's something schematically, you guys are working to get card and going early.
Or is it just the Florida game. It just got just kind of filling
out what's the defense is given them? Yeah, just the Florida game.
You know, I thought James's had a good rhythm, you know, pick
and roll wise early on, and so we want to take that take advantage
of that. You know, Kawhi has it going to post, the teams
are not going to double. We want to take advantge of that and then
PG you know, catching shoe pick and rolls, you know, ioles or
whatever. And so when you have three dynamic players, you know, offensively,
then it just kind of goes by the Florida game, there was Coach
Lou post game after the Clippers lost one twenty one to one oh seven at
home to the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Let's review. I told you it
was an uphill battle type of game. He said the same. I told
you I Philly got too comfortable getting good looks from the outside. Then they
catch a rhythm. It doesn't matter if you guard them or not. He
said the same. I told you if they don't start playing better, yeah,
they'll lose in the first round. He said the same. So why
are you guys getting mad at me? I'm giving you reality, reality of
the situation. Coach Lou apparently is in locks that with it. This team
needs to play better. And I love what you said about you can't fall
victim to the schedule feeling tired. It's a mindset thing. And also this
team, their attention to detail is lacking. Where's the game plan? Discipline?
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know what's going to
take. But then he said this, which I found very interesting. Here's
a question regarding where things are trending right now. You know, so that's
not good enough, and so we just got to be better in that regard.
Coach, sorry to follow up with a negative question. That's after a
negative question. Don't worry about it negative, so you can follow up as
as you are. It's sort of the same vein. You guys are playing
for home field or home court advantage office in the playoffs, but you've really
struggled at home lately. Is that also a worrying trend for you? Or
now that you're getting healthy, can you turn that around? Are you confident
about that? Or maybe we need to start on the road there, Well,
there you go. You're in luck if you want them starting on the
road. It's very likely with the way they're playing right now, they are
a half game up on the New Orleans Pelicans, who are trying to chase
them down for the four spot, and therefore they would have home court advantage
over the Clippers in the first round, something I did not think we'd be
saying a month ago. Unbelievable, But Coach Lucium's confident even if they do
have to start on the road. His confidence never waivers. I do wonder
sometimes if the team takes the nod from him in that area. We've talked
about it on this show. They seem so sure of themselves, which you
need some of that. You need to believe you can come back. You
need to believe you're great. You also need to show it consistently for forty
eight minutes. And that just has not happened, not nearly enough. The
Clippers went from looking like the best team in the league for two months straight
to now being under five hundred in their last twenty one games post All Star
Break, post Grammy road trip. Actually all right, Mitch in New Jersey,
Mitch, you're on Clippers soft without a Maasen watch up Hyng with Adam
kicked off as it is, and then you got the Clippers playing living dangerously,
acting like sitting there rel of the story. They're gonna make it to
the finals by tiptoe and just fall into the finals. You know, they
have four Hall of Famous, they have a set that one of a few
teams as a true set, and have a two big guys that can believe
leave is you're back. And if we see the West is so good,
and we see these good teams, there's always somebody having a triple double.
How come I don't see that with these full Hall of fame is and wish
we're coming back and a good young play. I never seen a triple double,
PAULI to see a triple double? Well you answer, You answered your
own question. When you have that many good guys sharing the basketball and the
usage rating of having the ball in their hands, they're unlikely to have a
triple double. The reason you see it with Jokic all the time, the
reason you see it with Luga Dantis all the time is because the pulls in
their hands much more. How do you think about that? I wish you
was sweezing two balls the thanks, Adam, All right, let's go to
Ryan and Burbank. I appreciate you, Mitch. Ryan, what's up?
You're on Clippers soft with that? I'm auson. Hey, Adam, this
iSIG. It's a rough one, man. I'm not gonna I hate being
pessimistic when I come on here because I feel like the fan base is just
we're always pessimistic. But this is a rough run. Man. That it
felt like there was no no entergy with this team right now. I don't
you know that. I think the maddening part at him is like we we
as fans, saw that two month stretch and we're like, this team looks
like the best team of basketball. They're playing great, they figure out the
lineup situation, everyone's locked in, and that grammy trip. I mean,
they go six and one on the road, and you're like, that's It's
hard to win NBA games on the road, and the Clippers have been now.
I think they're almost a better road team than they are a home team,
which is perplexing you. You're not gonna win a championship being a better
road team than home team. I'm sorry. I hope that's not shocking to
anyone, but uh, that's the way it is. The Only team that
has done it is the ninety five Houston Rockets that won all those clutch games.
They were called Clutch City when their backs were against the wall. You
know what else that team had the championship from the year before. They had
that to fall back on. That confidence, like this notion that, well,
oh, the Clippers are better on the road. Though maybe those who
just start on the road and everything will be fine. That's not going to
work. You may get out of a round doing that. You're not going
to go through the West having to play on the road consistently and having to
win all those tough games because other teams are much better at home. No,
Adam, You're completely right. And again it's just it's so perplexing as
a fan watching this and going, how are we losing to the Atlanta Hawks
by twenty at home? How are we losing to the seventy six ers by
seventeen at one point? And again, it's like we've seen during the game,
they have this stretch where it's, oh, they going to twelve ozer
run. Oh, they're going on an eight to two run, and they're
tying the game up and they're right there, and then it just falls apart
just as easily, and it's just maddening, and I just I don't know,
man, it sucks because again, for big stretches out of the year,
this team look like the best team in basketball, And now I'm going,
are they getting around? I don't know? Right, let me bring
something up here. You know what the difference is typically between a good player
and an All Star and a great player. It's not that the good player
doesn't have nights where they look like an All Star or look like a great
player. The difference is they do it more consistently. That's all it is.
And the same goes with the team concept. You can say, oh,
the Clippers look so good for these ten minutes, Well, it's about
sustainability. It's about doing it for forty eight minutes. That's what great teams
do, and the Clippers aren't doing it. And that's what's most concerning to
me. Like maybe the answer is staring us in the face. They aren't
a great team now. They certainly aren't right now. Yeah, now,
they're definitely not. Adams. It sucks, It really sucks, and I
just I just got a hope. I'm praying that this team, you know
whatever, flips the switch. I'm happy that Westbrook is coming back. But
yeah, Adam, this team, they don't look good. It just don't.
It sucks, all right, right, I appreciate the phone always.
Look, there's still hope. And I'll tell you why. Kawhi Leonard is
on this team, and I've seen him flip the switch, and I've seen
him raise his game and take it to the highest level. In a playoff
series. There's not many guys in the history of the league you'd rather have
in a seven game series than Kawhi Leonard, regardless of seeding and where you're
at. But I hope the rest of the guys can take a cue from
him and follow the leader, because I just don't like the way this Clippers
team has been playing now for over two months. I'm talking about two months
of bad play. It's too significant to ignore twenty one games. That's twenty
five percent of the season. We'll come back. We'll hear from Will will
Updyke of clips and Dip. After the Clippers lose one twenty one to one
oh seven at home to the Philadelphia seventy six ers, I don't know if
it's a good or bad news. They got a game tomorrow, gets a
Pacers team that can get out and run then wear you down. I think
you're tired now, feeling old now? Well, the Pacers can make you
feel real old and slow quick if you don't match their energy. I'm Adam
Oslin. This is Clippers talk here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty loading Clippers
fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is La Clippers basketball. You're listening to
the La Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Feel like the Clippers that
builds up a lot of bad habits like how to fall apart and implode completely
in a fourth quarter? I do it again against Philly, goes from a
five point game to being down twenty and coach Lou pulling the big three Kauhie
never even getting back out there in the fourth At the six minute mark,
Clippers lose to the Sixers one twenty one to one. Seven at home.
Welcome back into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Osland and joining me on the show.
His will Updyke from Clips and Dip. I guess you got the Rihanna
Ti song tonight, because well, do we lose rights? I don't know.
I don't know what's going on there. Fair use policy, Will,
I'm just gonna leave it to you. The floor is yours. You know.
There are some rules because we're on the radio here, But outside of
that, you can bring out the flamethrower. You can say what you want
about this team and be brutally honest, and I may or may not have
a rebuttal to anything you say. All right, I mean where to really
start this team is just absolutely gutless. I want to say that, you
know, we talked earlier about through this stretch of really uninspired play. Is
it that this team things that they can flip switch or is it that they're
completely apathetic? And what I saw in this was that they were completely apathetic.
They were even in flip to switch mode, coming back from a deficit
with in a two possession game, able to take over a game against a
team missing their best player, missing an MVP caliber player, and just completely
unable to do it, and put to the point where the game was so
out of hand our best player didn't even touch the floor in the fourth quarter
because ty Lou had seen enough, and I think, frankly, we've all
seen enough. This team had more had almost three times as many turnovers as
made field goals in the fourth quarter. I just don't know that there's nothing
to be said that we haven't already said. They don't show up for things,
they're not consistently locked in, they don't come out with energy, And
I don't care how difficult a brunch game isn't I don't care about any of
that. We've been saying the same things, and I think it's pretty apparent,
right now that this team has been this team, They've been this version
of the team that they've been since the All Star break, for as long
as they were the team that we all thought could win a championship, when
they went on a nine game win streak, when they went six and one
on a Grammy road trip. So what is this team really? What is
this team really? It falls I guess somewhere in between the two, but
I would say that it's a team that's slightly above five hundred. And I
don't know what to do. I don't know how you can be fine as
a professional losing like this all the time on your home floor. I just
don't know. Like when I say gutless, I mean there's just absolutely zero
prize. I don't understand. I mean, like, would it has been
better? Would we have turned it around if Kawhi was out there on the
floor, things do look a lot better. He's not a vocal leader,
but he leaves by example. But at the same time, like the rest
of you guys, you don't have enough in the tank. You don't care
enough. It's too lack a daisical for you to bring in a performance for
your home fans. I just I don't get it, and you know,
I do want to time stamp all of this with like this is still regular
season stuff. We are an insane Kawhi Leonard playoff performance from this team being
drug to another Western Conference final, which from the rate of play we've seen
so far, would be completely undeserved. But I don't know what to look
forward for in this team in the regular season. I think the best hope
for the one shining light that we have is that you roll the dice in
the playoffs and we get a fully healthy team. And maybe they are underneath
all this the layers of garbage, there's a flower bed or something worthwhile when
this team gets to the playoffs. Damn, let me ask you this,
well, is this team? Look, you have to have a certain level
of confidence. To be a professional at the highest level. You have to
have belief in yourself. Are they I don't know, irrationally overconfident? Is
that where they are? Because that leads to that flip the switch mentality.
But they look to me far too often like a team that I don't know
plays like they had won the last couple of championships, knows they have it
when they need it, and they just lean on that, but obviously it
wasn't enough to overcome being down seventeen early in this ball game. Look,
I gotta say, what I'm seeing out there is a complete apathy. It
just it really looks like there is not like there is not a pride or
urgency, even when it's a game they you know, they need to win,
even it's like a game when you absolutely should put away the seventy six
ers had not beaten an opponent. They had not had a lead of twenty
or more points since Joel Embiid had been out. So you're not only getting
beat by a shorthanded team, you're getting historically beat even with their context,
like even within their context. So you know, like if they believe that
there's somehow this team that can flips the switch or has shown enough, I
gotta be honest with you, that to me is worse than the apathy.
That, to me is worse than not caring, because that is a level
of delusional like maybe you should be fifty one fifties, Like maybe you shouldn't
be playing at all, you shouldn't be showing up to work because you're just
you've completely lost the handle. Well, it definitely seems unfounded to have that
type of confidence right now with what we've seen for two months straight from this
Clippers ball club. He is will Opdyke of and Dip. There was a
live earlier with him and Chuck Mockler. I jumped in for a second during
a break here. Well, I guess we'll talk to you on Tuesday,
my friend, and hoping the Clippers turn things around and win a game tomorrow
against the Pacers. Thanks for doing it. Let's do it, Let's do
it. Thanks for having me. Let's go Clips, Let's let's try.
Final segment coming up next. Clippers lose big to the Philadelphia seventy six ers
at home, and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network and the
Patriot AM one fifty loading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is LA
Clippers basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network.
Since the Grammy road trip, where things have taken a turn for the
worse, Clippers offense is just fifteenth. Their defense is twenty seventh in the
league. They wanted to be a top five defense this season. They are
far from that, as they give up one hundred and twenty one points to
a Philadelphia seventy six ers team without Joel Embiid that had been struggling offensively.
They were twenty fifth over the last ten games offensively, and as will Updyke
just mentioned in our last segment, they hadn't been up by twenty points on
a team without Joel Embiid until they took on your Los Angeles Clippers today.
So if this ain't rock bottom, I don't want to know what that is
for this squad, because being under five hundred for a twenty one game stretch
leading into the playoffs with just twelve games left is not what we were looking
for from this Clippers ball club. Sadly, before we get out of here,
let's bring in Katie Newton. It's casual Katie's Corner where she asked NBA
questions or just anything really to me and we had things on a positive here.
Katie, what's up? All right? So? How many jerseys do
they have? Like? How many? It's do you know? Not including
the new one like soccer? Yes, sorry, on the pitch, kids
on the pitch, h four or five? Right now? They got an
alternate, they got a city edition, they got a home road yeah.
Next year they'll have the red back, which is good. Clippers looking to
bounce back. Tomorrow. Tip off against the Pacers is at seven thirty and
we'll have pregame from Crypto at six thirty Before we get out of here.
I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Laller, Brian Seeman,
know at Iocarlo Jimenez on the call, Baby, Jake Warner, the callers,
the listeners, Thank you, Katie. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
At six thirty. White was doing his thing. All they want to do
is win in La. I win. I thought they gave everything they had.
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