WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:06.360 Time for a postgame. Look, it's your LA Clippers. This is Clippers 2 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:10.080 Locker Road, brought to you by Cedars Sinai, the official health partner of 3 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:15.160 the LA Clippers, and by Patschonga, official travel casino of the LA Clippers. 4 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:19.399 Breaking down today's action with the pre and post game voice. If you're 5 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:23.839 LA Clippers, they're locking in every game, every night. Adam Osland, 6 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:29.480 the seventy six ers hit eighteen to three pointers against your Los Angeles Clippers and 7 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:33.399 they win once forty one to one oh seven without Joe lmb dot Crypto dot 8 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:38.159 com Arena. Welcome into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up. 9 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:41.920 We'll have clipperstop on the Patriot AM eleven fifty today. Dodgers are on 10 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:45.320 five seventy. That means we'll be on the Patriot AM eleven fifty if you 11 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:49.280 want to get on early. Eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight 12 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:54.240 seven seven five to two zero eleven fifty is the phone number. But let's 13 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:58.359 get back out to your radio Voice of the Clippers and Carlo Jimenez. Carlo, 14 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:00.880 a very disappointing loss for this Clippers team after they had built up some 15 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:06.439 good Will with back to back victories up in Portland, and they simply could 16 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:10.359 not get stops against the Philadelphia seventy six Ers to start this game or to 17 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:14.239 close it. Yeah, it was. It was a weird one for this 18 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:18.799 Clippers team because they came out with that energy and intensity on the offensive end, 19 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:22.719 but defensively struggled to kind of stop Philadelphia. This is a sixer team 20 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:26.280 that hangs onto the basketball well, and they only turned it over eight times. 21 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:29.959 The Clippers got ten points off those eight turnovers, but Campaign comes away 22 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:32.959 with a season high. Tobias Harris hadn't scored nineteen since February. He had 23 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:37.439 nineteen in the first quarter and then Tyrese Maxi turned it on late. Just 24 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:42.640 seven points or excuse me, five points in the first half and nineteen in 25 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:47.640 the second half. All five of those points came in the first two quarter, 26 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:51.840 and Adam I felt like the Clippers got into the game when the Sixers 27 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:55.239 started to miss threes. They were five for seventeen and the second and the 28 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:59.519 third quarter combined, and then in that fourth quarter they hit their first four 29 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:02.359 and it was after the races the Clippers offensively. When you look at the 30 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:05.879 box score, you'd say, man, that's probably a Clipper win when you 31 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:08.039 look up and down. But defensively is where they faltered in this one. 32 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:12.960 Yeah, and they gave away too many possessions, especially in that fourth quarter. 33 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:15.719 I know Philly only got seven more shots up than the Clippers, who 34 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:20.599 were getting to the free throw line a lot. But you know, it's 35 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:24.360 a situation where your margin for error is too small. When a team is 36 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:28.840 that hot from the outside, you have to value the basketball. And the 37 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:30.560 Clippers weren't good enough to start the fourth quarter. I feel like we've seen 38 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:35.159 that too many times so far this season, where in that final period they 39 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:38.439 get off to really slow starts, Kawhi Leonard is on the bench and the 40 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:42.719 Clippers start to unravel. And this time they didn't even have a chance to 41 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:46.080 really come back in this one, as with six minutes left, Coach lu 42 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:49.280 saw the riding on the wall, he pulled the big three, and that's 43 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:52.400 you get a lopside of victory like this in favor of the Philadelphia seventy six 44 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:53.520 ers. Yeah, and I think he has a smart thing. By Tyler 45 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:57.080 Adam, you don't want to lose two games trying to save one, right, 46 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:00.879 might as well, wave the white flag early Pippers, though a lot 47 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:04.159 to think about before Indiana. Of course, they'll be able to watch the 48 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:07.199 film on the game tonight and mull over it tomorrow at shoot around, probably 49 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:10.520 here in this building. But for the Clippers, a tough one, a 50 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:14.759 tough loss, one twenty one, one oh seven. It's weird at him 51 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:16.159 because like Zubots has a double double, the Clippers have been great when he 52 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:20.439 does that, Harden had to double double the Clippers of great Norman pal gives 53 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:23.639 you twenty off the bench, but defensively and those turnovers late. They only 54 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:30.879 had four turnovers through the first almost three quarters and then had seven in the 55 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:36.000 fourth. It was a tough stretch for the Clippers, and credit Philadelphia they 56 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:38.960 knocked down threes in this one. Clippers will be back out of them. 57 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:43.439 Opportunity to get some revenge and get this bad taste out of your mouth and 58 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:46.840 then see Philadelphia on the road on Wednesday night. Clippers will be taking on 59 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:51.400 the Pacers tomorrow night at Crypto tiptime for that one's at seven thirty. We'll 60 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:54.960 have your pregame show starting at six thirty. Carlo Jimenez, great call. 61 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:58.599 As always, we'll see it at the crypt tomorrow. Friend, Oh, 62 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:03.960 I'll see tomorrow Atle's go. Clippers unfortunately fall in this matinee madness affair one 63 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:08.599 twenty one to one oh seven at home to the Philadelphia seventy six ers. 64 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:12.919 We'll dig into your postgame box score next right here on the Los Angeles Clippers 65 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:19.839 Audio Network loading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is LA Clippers basketball. 66 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:26.759 You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers 67 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.040 lose big at home one twenty one till one to seven to the Philadelphia seventy 68 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:39.360 six ers, who got hot early and then late from three and buried the 69 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:45.199 Clippers from distance. They ended up shooting almost fifty percent from three. Really, 70 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:49.040 they were at fifty percent before inconsequential time came, and it came early 71 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:55.160 in the fourth quarter. But a team that averages just eleven point six main 72 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:59.480 threes for ball game hit eighteen against the Clippers, who only had ten main 73 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:03.319 threes them. Philadelphia was at forty nine percent from the outside, the Clippers 74 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:10.160 just at thirty six percent, and those turnovers coming in bunches. In the 75 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:14.439 fourth quarter, the Clippers had seven turnovers entering the fourth. They had seven 76 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:19.959 in the final period alone. Just sloppy play. Can't happen. Far from 77 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:27.839 championship type of stuff. And the Clippers are now ten and eleven in the 78 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:32.519 last twenty one games post Grammy road trip. Every time we think they're taking 79 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:38.000 a step forward, they win two in Portland, they're playing the right way. 80 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:43.319 Well, they take two steps back. They just completely unraveled down the 81 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:46.920 stretch and none of the big three were on the floor in the final six 82 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:50.600 minutes of the ball game. It was already over. It was just a 83 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:56.480 five point game heading into the fourth, but the Clippers were down seventeen in 84 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:02.319 the first half. They had it to win in at the half it was 85 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:09.399 fifty six to sixty three. They made some progress, they got back into 86 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:13.399 the ball game. They had it tied multiple times, I want to say 87 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:17.839 four different times in the third quarter, but they could not get over the 88 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:25.439 hump and eventually they just wilted. Early in the fourth, they just gave 89 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:29.720 the basketball away. They gave the game away. It went from the Clippers 90 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:35.120 being down by five to within about three minutes they're down nineteen. Just can't 91 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:40.759 happen at this point in the season. There's twelve games left. Really disheartening, 92 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:45.879 disappointing loss by the Clippers. Okay, get right back after tomorrow at 93 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:51.079 home against well an even better team and the Indiana Pacers, who are healthy 94 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:59.519 or healthier. Remember Philadelphia didn't even have Joel Embii their MVP. Clippers lose 95 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:02.959 one twenty one to one oh seven to the seventy six Ers. More postgame 96 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:09.879 coming up next right here on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. The LA 97 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:14.240 Clippers continue their hunt for a Lario b They still want to get that Lario 98 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:17.600 bead. Don't miss a moment all season long. This is the LA Clippers 99 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:23.920 Audio Network. Clippers lose one's twenty one to one oh seven at home to 100 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:29.639 the Philadelphia seventy six Ers without the MVP and Joe lmbid. Welcome back in 101 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:33.000 your postgame show I'm at a Mosland. Coming up next on the Patriot AM 102 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:38.360 eleven fifty, we will have Clippers talk for you eight seven seven five two 103 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:43.040 zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five to two zero eleven fifty programming note moving 104 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:46.759 forward, If the Dodgers are on a five to seventy LA Sports, you 105 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:48.879 can find us on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. While we have a moment 106 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:54.399 though, let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on the Los Angeles 107 00:07:54.439 --> 00:08:01.079 Clippers Audio Network, this is LA Clippers Basketball AM eleven fifty d EiV, 108 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:09.079 Los Angeles about Mario and iHeartRadio station. Clippers getting back after tomorrow, right 109 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:13.160 back at Crypto dot Com Arena tip time against the Indiana Pacers, another team 110 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.519 from the East, one of the better teams in the East that is healthier 111 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.000 than the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Are Yes, they'll have to take on 112 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:22.879 the Lakers later tonight, so they'll be on a back to back two But 113 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:28.560 tiptime tomorrow at Crypto for the Clippers versus Pacers is at seven thirty. We'll 114 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.840 have your pregame show starting at six thirty outside of Los Angeles. We are 115 00:08:31.919 --> 00:08:35.919 leaving you until then. Coming up next on the Patriot AM eleven fifty, 116 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:43.600 we got Clippers talk next. This has been La Clippers basketball, really good 117 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.879 on multitude of levels. Don't miss a moment all season long on their official 118 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:54.240 home. Join us next time on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Hello Clippers 119 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:56.519 fans, if you're gonna go for it, if that's what you want to 120 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:01.639 do, you do. Welcome the Clippers Talk, your first chance to react 121 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.600 to all the action of Clippers basketball too. To hear every episode, Subscribe 122 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:11.679 to Clippers Talk on iHeartRadio or wherever you podcast the differentation on Henry right Now 123 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:16.639 your host on your home for the Clippers, they were in attack mode, 124 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.639 Adam Ousley. The Clippers lose to a six ers team without Joe l embiid 125 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:26.759 Big at home, one twenty one to one oh seven. Is the score 126 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:31.519 deceiving? Maybe it was a five point game early in the fourth quarter, 127 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:35.759 and then all of a sudden, the Clippers were down twenty and the starters 128 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:39.519 were out of the game, at least the Big three. By the six 129 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:43.600 minute mark, they were waving the white flag and they lose one twenty one 130 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:48.159 to one oh seven. Welcome in to Clippers Talk here on the Patriot AM 131 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:52.679 eleven fifty when the Dodgers are on AM five to seventy LA Sports, this 132 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:56.759 is where we will be. Eight seven seven five to two zero eleven fifty 133 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:03.240 eight seven seven five to two zero fifty is the phone number coming up. 134 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:05.720 You're gonna hear from coach Lou post game. Maybe some of the players, 135 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:09.600 but I know some people are calling in. I know there's a lot of 136 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:16.639 frustration mounting some from your host too. What's you know. I don't want 137 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:22.919 to say they fooled me, they tricked y'all. But I saw some encouraging 138 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:28.000 things against Portland, even against a bad team, they seem to be playing 139 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:31.480 the right way. They seem to be playing harder, and they won both 140 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:39.240 of those games convincingly. To turn around and come out in the first quarter 141 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:48.840 and lose it forty one to twenty nine to a Philadelphia team without Joe el 142 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:54.080 Embiid that starts seven of nine from three just inexcusable. At this point, 143 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:03.200 I'm starting to think Bill Parcells is right because the Clippers their last twenty one 144 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:09.279 games post Grammy road trip are ten and eleven. You are what your record 145 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.919 says you are, says about you. Whatever the old line was the big 146 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:20.919 Tuna. All I know is this, They're consistently inconsistent. They've been like 147 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:26.720 this for a long time, and that's the worst bad habit they've established in 148 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:31.960 this era that I don't know if they can recover from. There's twelve games 149 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:37.120 left. There are a half game up on the Pelicans. Now Pelicans get 150 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:43.360 the four seed, and the Clippers very likely would not have home court in 151 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:48.240 any round unless there's some upset from the bottom to the top. They certainly 152 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:54.639 wouldn't have it in the first round, which is crazy considering where we were 153 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:00.679 just a month and a half ago talking about them get the one seat. 154 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:07.559 What happened? Did they peak too early? Did they put too much into 155 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:13.759 that Grammy road trip? Did they think the season was over? They did 156 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:20.559 their job. They went six and one. They won twenty six of thirty 157 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:26.480 one games. Since then, they haven't been the same. Has the rest 158 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:30.799 of the league caught up to them? Did they find some flaw in the 159 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:37.960 Clippers god tier offense? When they were running pick and roll and nobody could 160 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:43.960 stop them, the Big Three was surging. They're proving all the haters wrong. 161 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:48.639 After losing the first five games with James Harden, they looked unstoppable, 162 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:52.360 invincible, like the best team in the league. They go in to Boston 163 00:12:52.440 --> 00:13:01.320 and crush them on the second night of a back to back. Is it 164 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:05.840 all the above? Call him a call him b Too many issues, too 165 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:11.399 many holes in what looks like a sinking ship right now to be able to 166 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:16.159 plug them all. I don't know, I know teams have been trapping James 167 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:24.360 Harden Moore trying to get the ball out of his hands more. But I 168 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:28.600 saw a hot team from three in Philadelphia. Granted some of those shots were 169 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:35.840 well defended, it didn't matter. But a team early in the fourth quarter 170 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:41.200 by the Clippers that had gotten back into it, had tied it multiple times, 171 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:45.720 I think four different times in the third quarter after they were down by 172 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:50.240 seventeen in the first half, cut it to eight at the half. Multiple 173 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:54.360 pg thirteen three's would tie it in the third, but they never got over 174 00:13:54.639 --> 00:14:03.919 the hump. Was that the difference or was it a team that was playing 175 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:09.440 uphill and they just ran out of gas late, or you know, Maxi 176 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:13.279 was due at some point. He knocked down a couple of threes early in 177 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.480 the fourth quarter when it was just a five point game, and all of 178 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:22.039 a sudden, the Clippers are down by twenty three minutes later with Paul George 179 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:33.320 and James Harden on the court, they not want it enough. They had 180 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:39.000 seven turnovers in the fourth quarter, many of them coming early on taking away 181 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:46.279 possessions from them in a game where they're down. I mean, they doubled 182 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:50.639 their amount of turnovers from seven in the first three quarters to seven in the 183 00:14:50.720 --> 00:15:01.080 fourth plumbly just giving the ball away. I don't know. I don't know 184 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:07.240 anymore. You think there's gonna be a turning point, you think they're making 185 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:13.200 a step in the right direction, But for every step forward, it's two 186 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:20.519 steps back and back to the drawing board. It's really disappointing, and I'm 187 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:22.720 trying to get to the root of it. And the only thing I can 188 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:30.200 think of is there consistently inconsistent and have been the entire time in the two 189 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:33.639 one three era. This isn't a bad habit that's been built up over a 190 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:41.919 season. It's been built up, built up over five years. Whether it's 191 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:43.639 because they've had two one three in and out of the lineup so much, 192 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:52.679 or because there's some level of I don't know, arrogance over confidence going on 193 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:56.159 where they think they can just walk into victories because they have the talent advantage, 194 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:00.000 they can they can just flip a switch, because as I mentioned before, 195 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:03.399 where they've had so many comebacks and they were lying that too often, 196 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:10.600 Oh, we can just come back again. We'll get it going. Hashtag 197 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:12.919 Clippers come back, We'll figure it out, We'll flip the switch. We'll 198 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:18.840 turn things around. This is what we do. It's not what championship teams 199 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:25.480 do, not against lesser competition where you're always relying on coming back on teams 200 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:29.080 down seventeen in this one, got down by as many as twenty one. 201 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:36.759 They tied it. They didn't have enough to get across the finish line, 202 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:41.879 though not even close with the way they got destroyed in that fourth quarter, 203 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:45.960 losing it thirty three to twenty four, and that wasn't even that close. 204 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.720 They waved the white flag with six minutes left. I know they got it 205 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:52.440 back to back tomorrow, but how on earth do you go from being down 206 00:16:52.519 --> 00:17:00.440 five to down twenty in three and a half minutes. I know the Clippers 207 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:07.279 kind of did the same thing down seventeen to a tie game in about five 208 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:11.519 and a half minutes of game time, from the end of the second into 209 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:15.000 the beginning of the third. But I'm telling you, I've been saying it 210 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:22.359 for a long time. I think their greatest strength of being so resilient with 211 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:27.319 all these comebacks has led to a bad habit of being overly confident and overly 212 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:33.000 reliant on these comebacks which aren't always going to happen, and shouldn't even be 213 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:38.680 happening in the first place against its Philly team without Joe El Embiid, without 214 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:44.319 Kyle Lowry. They're missing a ton of guys right now, key guys. 215 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:53.519 MAXI had nothing in the first half and he gets nineteen points in the second 216 00:17:53.519 --> 00:18:00.960 half and I think eleven in the fourth quarter. I just you never know 217 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.240 what you're gonna get with this Clippers team, game to game, day to 218 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:12.440 day, and I'm tired of the matinee excuse. It doesn't make sense to 219 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:18.880 me. They say, Okay, we have so many of these early day 220 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:22.319 games at home. Nobody else has to deal with this, and that's true. 221 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:27.000 But if you have so many of them, wouldn't you be used to 222 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:36.680 it by now? Wouldn't you have adjusted to them. I'm not going to 223 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:44.680 use that excuse. Clippers. They fall out of the top four in the 224 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:48.400 West. I don't know what we're looking at if they have to go on 225 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:53.079 the road in the first round against the Pelicans, a team that has had 226 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:59.720 their number. They just continually want to make it harder on themselves than it 227 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:06.759 needs to be, like with getting down big before they start playing. Start 228 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:11.519 things off. Uh Manny in Pasadena. Manny what's up? You're on Clipper 229 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:17.039 stock without amazen? Oh are you? How does it sound? Many? 230 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:22.359 I don't know. Well, you know what, I'm all in with what 231 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:26.119 you're saying. I'm so disappointed. I've been a big Clippers fan the last 232 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:30.440 twelve years. I followed them through thick and thin and first time caller. 233 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:33.599 By the way, I always hear your show, but I don't call in. 234 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:37.960 Yeah, many, I haven't heard from pretty different. Don't make it 235 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:41.440 your last call, okay, but are things that dire that you felt like 236 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:45.279 you needed to call in? Basically? Yeah, I mean, after a 237 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.079 while, it seems like the emotions burst and you got to call in and 238 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:52.640 be part of the crowd that shares their two cents worth on one of them. 239 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:57.599 Now, but just just my two cents worth. The fun thing about 240 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:02.880 sports is everybody has a commentary, crazier or not. They all feel like 241 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:06.359 they know what they're talking about. That includes me now, But I'm old 242 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:10.720 enough to know. One thing is that when you have a team is good 243 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.920 talent wise, roster wise, as the Clippers do, It's not a question 244 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.200 of the timing of the game morning. It's not a question of the coaching, 245 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:22.480 not a question of X and those you know this offense. The Clippers 246 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:27.039 have have what was heralded as a Big three offense. It's been run that 247 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:33.319 way with Kawhi Harden and of course PG and quite frankly, I think they 248 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:37.720 were not a steam I think their age is showing. You can compare them 249 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:41.720 to Lebron and say, well, Lebron's fifty five years old, whatever he 250 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:45.559 is, he has to show that kind of gas burnout. But I think 251 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:49.279 we've got three players who are really good. They pay their dues. Historically 252 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:55.119 they've been great, but they have now I think health personal issues where they 253 00:20:55.160 --> 00:21:00.559 can't go through a whole season and have the same output as they did. 254 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:03.519 Say the first three months in December obviously was a great month of the Clippers 255 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:10.079 out of sky high van but I see them a step slower, much less 256 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:12.599 energy. They know they've got to win, They've got the IQ to be 257 00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:17.839 able to do what they have to do. They can't step up gas wise, 258 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:22.359 energy wise, they seem a step slower. I don't think there's anything 259 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:27.400 rocket signs about that, because I think that's what's happening. There might be 260 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:32.400 something to that many but I will say the last couple of games. There's 261 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:37.400 something to that because if you look at the energy of the flow, well 262 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:42.599 it's lacking. I'm watching the guys and they were moving quickly today. They 263 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:51.079 weren't sound moving together. It's what counts. They'll they'll they'll move when they 264 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:53.519 have to move, but they have to be consistent about it. You call 265 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:59.960 it some Americans. Maybe I just think it's they don't have the same energy 266 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:03.119 it's been like. But Manny, Manny, here's my point. I'm saying, 267 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:07.960 it goes back years. This isn't anything new with this team. When 268 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:14.920 they were younger, it was the same up and down consistency. So I 269 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:19.559 don't think I can just put it at they're older now. I don't. 270 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:23.119 I think the issue is, and I appreciate the phone call, is they've 271 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:27.799 just developed a really bad habit of picking and choosing when they want to play 272 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:37.319 hard because they've been given a confidence with all the twenty point comebacks, more 273 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:41.400 than any other team. So they look at it and say, whatever, 274 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:45.319 we're down ten, we're down fifteen, we're down twenty now, been here 275 00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:55.119 before, and they wait to get into a ballgame. And I think, 276 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:00.079 like I said, their biggest strength has become one of their biggest weaknesses. 277 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:04.519 It's a double edged sword. It's great to have that knowledge you can come 278 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:10.680 back in games and be that resilient, but it's not great to pick and 279 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:15.640 choose. When do you want to play hard? Period? JSean Downey, 280 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:22.759 you're on Clipper stop with Ata Maus and turn your radio off. Adam leaving 281 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:26.240 the stadium again? Is this horrendous? I don't even know why I keep 282 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:30.960 them buying tickets to the game. Oh that's truth. I think you hear 283 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:38.279 both. You're both right in terms of the arrogance and not not coming up 284 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:44.680 for any game, especially at this time to you know, start off hard, 285 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:48.480 but and then they start pushing hard and that energy that you're saying that 286 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:51.640 is there. They do have the energy, which is it shows when they're 287 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:55.880 making their comeback. And then to the last colors the last colors point, 288 00:23:56.960 --> 00:23:59.759 like you said, maybe they start running out of energy. Well, did 289 00:23:59.799 --> 00:24:03.079 they run out of energy or did they just have bad turnovers in the fourth 290 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:06.960 quarter like they were playing fast, maybe too fast for their own good, 291 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:11.240 but they just had bad turnovers Like that. Isn't a team to me that 292 00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:15.079 just completely slowed down and didn't have anything left in the tank. They just 293 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:22.400 made really stupid careless passes. Yeah. Yeah, and then they're timely shots. 294 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:26.960 I mean they would get they would be open shots, and then not 295 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:30.720 they weren't going in. And I don't know if that's tired legs. I 296 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:36.000 know we've mentioned that before. I just I don't know anymore at this point. 297 00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:38.599 This is this is turning into a big disappointment. And you're right, 298 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:42.160 it's been something that's been building up for years, not just this year, 299 00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:45.960 for years, and I don't know what their solution is going to be. 300 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:52.720 At this point. You might start saying if they're not gonna respond and know 301 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:57.240 that they have to come out gunning right from the beginning. Is these guys 302 00:24:57.319 --> 00:25:00.400 and Tylo a good match? And I like ty Lou? But is it 303 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:03.440 a good match if you can't get them to respond anymore? Is this more 304 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:07.160 of a player thing or is this more of a coach thing? I don't 305 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:10.720 know. It's a fair question. I think at this point, I love 306 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:15.119 coach Lou, but is the message being received? How many slow starts are 307 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:19.279 we going to see with this team? Are they listening? He said recently, 308 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:22.839 maybe he needs to do something different. After the loss last Sunday, 309 00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:29.599 to the Atlanta Hawks, a really brutal loss. They follow it up with 310 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:33.759 two wins against Portland, but now it feels like who cares it was Portland 311 00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:37.319 didn't mean anything because then they blew the next game to a much better team 312 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:45.359 at home to Philadelphia without Joe l Embiid, and they got smacked. They 313 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:49.160 started I think eight of ten from three to seventy six ers, and then 314 00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:52.839 they started the fourth quarter after starting to go cold and regrets to the mean, 315 00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:59.759 and the second and third quarters four for four from three. But you 316 00:25:59.839 --> 00:26:03.759 have to see it coming. I put it out there on Twitter. What's 317 00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:07.640 scary is they're up seventeen and Tyrese Maxi hasn't even got it going yet. 318 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:11.599 Well, eventually he did, so you get back into the game. But 319 00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:18.200 as much as law of averages was gonna come into effect for Philly as a 320 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:22.160 team, uh, Maxi was also going to progress to the mean. And 321 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:26.759 then he has nineteen points in the second half and I think eleven and the 322 00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:32.640 fourth. I don't know. If it's not one thing, it's another with 323 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:34.319 this Clippers team right now. If it's not defense, it's offense. If 324 00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:40.880 it's not an offense, it's defense. It's just they can't get it together 325 00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:45.880 on the same page. And it's twenty one games since the Grammy road trip 326 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:51.440 where they are a game under five hundred. That is tough. We will 327 00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:53.279 take a quick time out here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. We'll hear 328 00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:56.240 from the head coach coming up. Clippers lose one twenty one to one oh 329 00:26:56.279 --> 00:27:03.359 seven at home the Philadelphia seventy six ers. They just strike me sometimes as 330 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:07.319 a team that plays like they've already won the championship before and oh, we'll 331 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:11.880 figure it out just like we always do because we're the champs. No, 332 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:18.240 they don't have the hardware yet, Denver can act like that. They were 333 00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:21.799 hanging around the five seed for a lot of the season. Then they said 334 00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:22.960 post All Star Break, here we go. We got a chance of the 335 00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:26.759 one seed in the West. We're gonna lock in. What have they lost? 336 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:32.759 One game? Two games since then? They have the Larry ob They've 337 00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:38.440 earned that trust. The Clippers have not. But the players sometimes I don't 338 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:41.720 know. It's like they're going through the motions. I madam Oslim, this 339 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:48.240 is Clippers sock here on the Patriot MLM fifty loading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers 340 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:53.319 fans, this is LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on 341 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:59.599 the LA Clippers Audio Network. Coming to Jesus moment on Palm Sunday, is 342 00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:03.599 that here Clippers lose at home to Philly once twenty one to one oh seven. 343 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.200 They aren't beating enough good teams. They can't even beat a good team 344 00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:12.319 without their best player right now. No joe El Embiid, no d Anthony 345 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:18.000 Melton, no Kyle Lowry, and the Clippers ended up getting blown out when 346 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:22.240 it was a close game early in the fourth quarter. A lot of people 347 00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:27.039 have been getting to me on Twitter at follow Adam a here on Clippers Talk 348 00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:33.000 if you want to call it X and welcome back in. They've been saying, 349 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:36.640 what's up with the fourth quarter rotations? Where you always have Paul George 350 00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:42.319 starting the fourth, Kawhi plays the entire third, Paul George gets taken out 351 00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:45.000 about the three or four minute mark of the third to start the fourth. 352 00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:49.680 I don't know, maybe there's something to it. Maybe you need Kawhi Leonard 353 00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:56.720 to start the fourth quarter, not just in the third strong, but maybe 354 00:28:57.039 --> 00:29:02.519 they flip flopped that. I'm looking for answers right now. Because there's a 355 00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:06.240 level of seriousness to starting off the fourth quarter that's just not good enough. 356 00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:11.519 I've seen too many of these. If you want to go back to teams 357 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:18.039 coming back on the Clippers, like the Lakers who were down twenty one and 358 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:23.799 the Bucks who were down fifteen, it was early in the fourth quarter where 359 00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:30.880 those games were lost. I remember against the Lakers, the Clippers gave up 360 00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:36.000 twelve points in less than three minutes. They got outscored by twelve, and 361 00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:41.559 early in this fourth quarter they're turning it over. Tyrese Maxiy hits back to 362 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:47.720 back three pointers, Tobias Harris hits one. Maxie then with a floater, 363 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:53.960 back to back floaters, and all of a sudden, a five point game 364 00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:00.279 goes to you being down by nineteen after a Cameron pa point shot in the 365 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:07.720 fourth and it's over. Apparently coach Luth thought it was because at the sixth 366 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:14.880 minute mark he pulled the Big three. Kawhi never even returned to the game 367 00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:19.039 in the fourth. To me, if you can get into a situation, 368 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:25.160 or you can get down so big early on in the fourth quarter that Kawhi 369 00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:29.079 never even plays there, I don't know. Maybe he should be starting fourth 370 00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:34.119 quarters, and you changed that line of rotation in games. He's your best 371 00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:41.559 player. Maybe haven't played the entire fourth instead of the entire third. I'm 372 00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:49.839 searching desperately for something because the Clippers they're reeling, and they look like a 373 00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:55.319 team that's about to give up the fourth spot in the West. Keith in 374 00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:57.319 La here on Clippers stock without a mouslin. Here on the Patriot, Am 375 00:30:57.319 --> 00:31:03.440 eleven fifty. Keith, what's up, buddy? I heard in your voice, 376 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:07.279 my man, I feel the exact same way. What do you mean? 377 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:14.319 Okay, well, now, well let's just change the subject. The 378 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:18.240 dal Jones industry levagers failed the other complicating myself. You want me to talk 379 00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:19.640 about that. I know the stock market. I don't want to talk about 380 00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:26.440 that either. Right now? You see an apple lately? You see an 381 00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:33.480 apple lately? Okay, No, it's all good, brother, No, 382 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:36.359 No, you nailed it. Man. And and this is Keith Man you 383 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:38.359 know who. When I first met you and I introduced myself. I've been 384 00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:42.559 watching this paradigm, this algorithm, quite frankly, for forty years. I'm 385 00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:45.839 not going to put all forty years, of course on this unit. That's 386 00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:48.519 not what I'm saying. But quite frankly, you nailed it, man. 387 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:52.720 You know, I do sense, for lack of better words, Adam, 388 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:59.079 I do send some arrogance. I don't know what else is giving arrogance. 389 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:04.440 They're overly confident, whatever you want to say. It's somewhat being a body 390 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:08.480 language expert, but just the fact that they wait to start playing till they 391 00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:13.799 get down far too often. I don't know. I'm we're putting the pieces 392 00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:15.720 together here, you know, we're connecting dots. It may be true, 393 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:21.039 it may not be, but the fact that it keeps happening. You just 394 00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:25.160 lend yourself to some of this skepticism and speculation, which is what we're doing. 395 00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:29.799 And quite frankly, the laughter from others and all that. You know, 396 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:30.279 I'm saying, you know, let me. I'll just say two more 397 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:34.400 things and I'll kind of keep pushing, you know. You know again the 398 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:37.119 Clippers, you know, it's a thing where you know, this happens around 399 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:39.839 like I say, right after you know, the All Star Break, like 400 00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:43.200 you said, you know, the Grammy road Trip, all the above. 401 00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:46.839 Just they don't have that winning spirit like the eighties Lakers or that kind of 402 00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:49.960 Quite frankly, I use the word killer, but you know, just that 403 00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:52.680 endtinct, like the like the nineties bulls, they got to catch a fire 404 00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:59.839 now, I'll say, you know, also ty Low, you know he's 405 00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:01.880 got a lot of chess pieces to work with it if you do play to 406 00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:04.559 you know what I'm talking about. I mean, you know, well we 407 00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:07.279 got to figure that out too. James Harden haling the rock all the time. 408 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.240 I'd like to see us maybe like you know, Norman Powell kind of 409 00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:14.559 you know, just there's some adjustments I think we can make, but not 410 00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:19.079 normal. I'm definitely feeling it. Man. Norms playmaking is probably one of 411 00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:22.400 his weakest points. But what they have been doing recently, and I think 412 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:25.279 this is smart, They have been trying to get the ball out of James 413 00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:29.519 Harden's hands and having other guys bring it up, or having Paul George run 414 00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:31.720 pick and roll. Because of the playoff series, teams will key in on 415 00:33:31.720 --> 00:33:35.559 one guy doing the same thing over and over again. You got to have 416 00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:38.759 that varied attack. So I agree with you. Just Norm made the one. 417 00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:43.680 But Russ is supposed to be back soon, so there's something. Okay 418 00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:46.440 that's said Bristol vinergy hey Man always a blessing Madam man till next time, 419 00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:50.640 these eight Clipper fans and you Adam, the's it out over yet? Let's 420 00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:52.960 see what's happening. But ain't my brother till next time? My brother? 421 00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:55.680 All right, Keith, I appreciate the phone call, Like Keith, one 422 00:33:55.720 --> 00:34:01.119 of our favorites. Here another one Morris in Inglewood today, not long beach. 423 00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:05.319 Morris, what's up here on? I mean, I didn't want to 424 00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:07.440 let you know how to change it with dress. Let me tell you something, 425 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:09.960 you guys, Oh, you're all talking like you about the play like 426 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:14.159 we are playing team. That's a clip of a place. Hey, Morris, 427 00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:19.400 Morris, reality check, reality check. There are a couple of games 428 00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:22.480 from being a playing team right now, there are a couple of games out 429 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:27.119 on being a playing team. I'm not gonna lie to you here, Okay, 430 00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:31.440 I'm not gonna just the fact we're not playing team. That's Oh, 431 00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:36.039 so you go from Morris Morris, let's review. You go from they're gonna 432 00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:38.599 be the number one seed to well, at least they're not a playing team. 433 00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:43.360 That's where you moved the goalpost was the way you guys are talking, 434 00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:50.880 You talking like they're playing team? Are boris? I can't lie to you 435 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:55.039 when they're playing bad, I'm going to tell you they are playing bad playing 436 00:34:55.079 --> 00:34:58.880 good. I didn't say they was playing good. I said they're not a 437 00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:01.360 playing team. And I want you to notice, I'm going with these guys 438 00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:05.320 we got right now, we married and Jude Jules, look at I know 439 00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:07.679 what I've seen. It's in them, and I'm not ready to bail on 440 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:10.320 them right now in March because things is a little rough, you know, 441 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:13.800 like the rest of you. So you're going to give you another collad and 442 00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:17.480 behavior though. All right, Morris, I didn't say I'm bailing on them. 443 00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:23.079 I'm telling you the way they're playing right now, they're trending the wrong 444 00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:29.800 direction. There are a couple of games up on being a playing team. 445 00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:37.159 What are we talking about. They're five and five their last ten games. 446 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:46.280 That is the worst record in the West of the top nine seeds over their 447 00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:51.360 last ten. The Lakers are six and four, Dallas is seven and three, 448 00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:53.599 Sacramento seven to three, Phoenix is seven to three. New Orleans is 449 00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:58.480 eight and two. They're coming for the Clippers. E E can kiss the 450 00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:06.599 top three seed goodbye. At this point, it's over completely. Sorry, 451 00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:09.119 I have to be honest about that I told you it was a long shot 452 00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:15.599 already, because Minnesota is the tiebreaker. I have to give you the truth 453 00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:21.280 because of all of a sudden, the Clippers losing the first round, and 454 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:24.599 I've been saying at sunshine and rainbows and lollipops or whatever, and then I'm 455 00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:29.039 like, oh, I don't know what happened. Well, no, right 456 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:31.760 now, it would make sense by the way they're playing to lose to a 457 00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:36.920 team that has had their number in the Pelicans in the first round, they 458 00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:40.920 probably wouldn't be favored. So I don't know what you want me to tell 459 00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:46.760 you. If they're not playing good, I'm gonna be down on the squad. 460 00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:53.559 If they're playing great like they were back in December and January, they 461 00:36:53.599 --> 00:37:00.639 will be praised and celebrated. So they have an opportunity to get back to 462 00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:05.039 that. They have a game tomorrow. They have twelve games left in the 463 00:37:05.079 --> 00:37:10.480 season to prove something. But ope, in the last twenty one games, 464 00:37:10.519 --> 00:37:15.840 which is twenty five percent of the season, they're ten to eleven. That's 465 00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:22.679 just reality. Let's hear from coach lou post game after the Clippers lose to 466 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:29.840 an MB list seventy six ers team one twenty one to one to seven at 467 00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:32.440 home. Here was coach lou post game. No physicality. I think we 468 00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:37.480 started a game with a physicality and they got comfortable, like you said, 469 00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:40.920 early in the game, you know, making threes. Tobias got to a 470 00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:45.880 spot a couple of times made a three, and then Kelly, you know, 471 00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:47.199 he made a couple of threes. He kind of get them going with 472 00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:51.199 the momentum. And so I thought we did a good job starting off with 473 00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:53.760 the blitz with Maxi, but then we gave up a couple of offensive rebounds 474 00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:57.960 which they scored on, and just you know, our physicality started a game 475 00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:00.079 with a defensive mindset. You know, it wasn't great night, and so 476 00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:04.000 they got to come through what they made shots. And now you're fighting up 477 00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:09.360 here all night, y'all. Did you said that me that y'all had tied 478 00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:13.159 in the middle of the third quarter, then they built a bigger one. 479 00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:20.559 What happened between you guys being able to come back and then somehow, just 480 00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:25.639 subjectively speaking, playing worse after you tied it than when they built the first 481 00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:29.880 lead. Yeah, we had some turnovers. We talked about it, got 482 00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:32.679 out in transitioned got some easy baskets, and then we had a couple you 483 00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:36.559 know, question shots for our shots selection whether we got filed or not, 484 00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:38.679 and they was able to get back. We didn't have good floor balance and 485 00:38:38.719 --> 00:38:42.239 they got shots as well, you know. And then we also scored, 486 00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:46.039 tied the game up, and came back and buddy, you got a three 487 00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:49.719 on the made basket. We didn't get matched up. And so those things 488 00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:54.039 are just paying attention to detail and understand that what we need to do and 489 00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:58.719 coach. It seemed like Cam and Tyrese when they were in a Florida game 490 00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:00.159 together gave you guys problem was all nine they were able to get to the 491 00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:04.800 paint, find open looks. Why was so difficult for you guys to contain 492 00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:07.280 both of them when they were on the floor specifically together. Yeah, I 493 00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:09.039 thought there's speed hurt us, you know, being able to attack the paint, 494 00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:13.800 point of attack, defense of getting downhill and then making plays. And 495 00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:15.320 so once they get down here, you got to react. So Zoo's coming 496 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:19.119 over. Now you're in the X situation. We've got to get to the 497 00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:22.000 corners. Now they swing, swing and drive it again, and you just 498 00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:24.480 constantly in rotations. And so if your point of attack defense isn't great. 499 00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:28.199 Like I said, with speed guards, they're going to get downhill and put 500 00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:32.480 a lot of pressure on your defense. Today in the Atlanta game, we're 501 00:39:32.559 --> 00:39:37.639 kind of very similar in a lot of ways for you guys. This month 502 00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:39.440 has been a tough month for you guys as well. Is this a worrying 503 00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:43.119 trend that you've seen out of the team and in terms of the last few 504 00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:45.360 games where they haven't picked up the physicality out of the gates as you said, 505 00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:51.239 Yeah, I just think our mindset, we can't fall victim of you 506 00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:52.880 know, being tired or what the schedule is like. You know, we 507 00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:55.960 know we got to play better basketball going into the playoffs or it's going to 508 00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:00.400 be a early season. And so you know, still got full confidence in 509 00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:02.679 this team, and you know, full confidence in what we can do, 510 00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:06.639 you know, and just I'm going out and doing it, you know, 511 00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:08.760 every single night, you know, not thirty two minutes like we talked about, 512 00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:12.639 not twenty six minutes, like forty eight minutes of doing the right things, 513 00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:15.400 doing the right coverage, just not having as many game plan mistakes getting 514 00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:19.800 back in transition, and I think they might have had eighteen points in transition 515 00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:22.119 in the first half. You know the way we charted, you know, 516 00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:23.800 so that's not good enough and so we just got to be better in that 517 00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:30.440 regard, Coach, start to follow up with a negative question. After a 518 00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:34.559 negative question, don't worry about it in negative son, you can follow up 519 00:40:34.599 --> 00:40:37.639 as as you want. It's sort of the same vein you guys are playing 520 00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:39.559 for home field or home court advantage office in the playoffs, but you really 521 00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:44.679 struggled at home lately. Is that also a worrying trend for you or now 522 00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:46.000 that you're getting healthy, can you turn that around or you're confident about that 523 00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:52.679 or maybe we need to start on the road there. Maybe as a positive, 524 00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:55.159 we did have Norm back in the game today. Can you just speak 525 00:40:55.159 --> 00:40:59.639 about his performance? And you know how imperative it is to have him in 526 00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:02.280 the line up. Yah, it's important having Norm you know, offensively, 527 00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:05.599 you know, be able to make shots, be able to space the floor, 528 00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:07.599 be able to get down he attack the basket, but also get into 529 00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:10.639 the free throw line. And so he's very valuable to what you want to 530 00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:15.599 do. And so you know there's gonna be nights where you know, you 531 00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:19.239 struggle shooting the basketball like we have, Like justin said early on, like 532 00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:22.679 I think twenty eighth in the league since January of making open catch and shoot 533 00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:25.000 threes. You know, so if you're not making shots, your defense it 534 00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:30.159 definitely has to be on point. And we haven't been very good defensively and 535 00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:31.719 if we want to take that next step, we got to be better. 536 00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:37.119 Hey, coach, question, when Harden seems to be the guy getting going 537 00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:40.280 early, it seems to just stunt PG a little bit. And then when 538 00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:43.800 he can get going, it seemed like the offense picked up. And that's 539 00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:46.199 when you guys did make your run and take the lead of seventy three to 540 00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:50.000 seventy nine, and then it felt like that it went away from PGS. 541 00:41:50.039 --> 00:41:52.880 That's something schematically, you guys are working to get card and going early. 542 00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:54.440 Or is it just the Florida game. It just got just kind of filling 543 00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:58.079 out what's the defense is given them? Yeah, just the Florida game. 544 00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:00.599 You know, I thought James's had a good rhythm, you know, pick 545 00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:05.360 and roll wise early on, and so we want to take that take advantage 546 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:07.239 of that. You know, Kawhi has it going to post, the teams 547 00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:08.159 are not going to double. We want to take advantge of that and then 548 00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:12.679 PG you know, catching shoe pick and rolls, you know, ioles or 549 00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:15.400 whatever. And so when you have three dynamic players, you know, offensively, 550 00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:20.440 then it just kind of goes by the Florida game, there was Coach 551 00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:23.400 Lou post game after the Clippers lost one twenty one to one oh seven at 552 00:42:23.400 --> 00:42:30.440 home to the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Let's review. I told you it 553 00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:35.960 was an uphill battle type of game. He said the same. I told 554 00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:39.920 you I Philly got too comfortable getting good looks from the outside. Then they 555 00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:43.119 catch a rhythm. It doesn't matter if you guard them or not. He 556 00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:46.280 said the same. I told you if they don't start playing better, yeah, 557 00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:50.280 they'll lose in the first round. He said the same. So why 558 00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:55.280 are you guys getting mad at me? I'm giving you reality, reality of 559 00:42:55.280 --> 00:43:00.880 the situation. Coach Lou apparently is in locks that with it. This team 560 00:43:01.079 --> 00:43:07.000 needs to play better. And I love what you said about you can't fall 561 00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:14.719 victim to the schedule feeling tired. It's a mindset thing. And also this 562 00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:19.880 team, their attention to detail is lacking. Where's the game plan? Discipline? 563 00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:24.000 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know what's going to 564 00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:30.559 take. But then he said this, which I found very interesting. Here's 565 00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:36.480 a question regarding where things are trending right now. You know, so that's 566 00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:38.119 not good enough, and so we just got to be better in that regard. 567 00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:44.360 Coach, sorry to follow up with a negative question. That's after a 568 00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:47.599 negative question. Don't worry about it negative, so you can follow up as 569 00:43:47.719 --> 00:43:51.519 as you are. It's sort of the same vein. You guys are playing 570 00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:53.440 for home field or home court advantage office in the playoffs, but you've really 571 00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:58.199 struggled at home lately. Is that also a worrying trend for you? Or 572 00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:00.519 now that you're getting healthy, can you turn that around? Are you confident 573 00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:04.920 about that? Or maybe we need to start on the road there, Well, 574 00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:09.360 there you go. You're in luck if you want them starting on the 575 00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:14.280 road. It's very likely with the way they're playing right now, they are 576 00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:20.320 a half game up on the New Orleans Pelicans, who are trying to chase 577 00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:23.039 them down for the four spot, and therefore they would have home court advantage 578 00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:28.960 over the Clippers in the first round, something I did not think we'd be 579 00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:37.960 saying a month ago. Unbelievable, But Coach Lucium's confident even if they do 580 00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:44.519 have to start on the road. His confidence never waivers. I do wonder 581 00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:50.880 sometimes if the team takes the nod from him in that area. We've talked 582 00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:57.679 about it on this show. They seem so sure of themselves, which you 583 00:44:57.760 --> 00:45:02.719 need some of that. You need to believe you can come back. You 584 00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:09.239 need to believe you're great. You also need to show it consistently for forty 585 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:15.280 eight minutes. And that just has not happened, not nearly enough. The 586 00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:19.440 Clippers went from looking like the best team in the league for two months straight 587 00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:22.639 to now being under five hundred in their last twenty one games post All Star 588 00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:29.280 Break, post Grammy road trip. Actually all right, Mitch in New Jersey, 589 00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:35.440 Mitch, you're on Clippers soft without a Maasen watch up Hyng with Adam 590 00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:39.320 kicked off as it is, and then you got the Clippers playing living dangerously, 591 00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:43.079 acting like sitting there rel of the story. They're gonna make it to 592 00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:47.199 the finals by tiptoe and just fall into the finals. You know, they 593 00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:51.920 have four Hall of Famous, they have a set that one of a few 594 00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:55.760 teams as a true set, and have a two big guys that can believe 595 00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:01.079 leave is you're back. And if we see the West is so good, 596 00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:06.719 and we see these good teams, there's always somebody having a triple double. 597 00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:09.559 How come I don't see that with these full Hall of fame is and wish 598 00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:15.079 we're coming back and a good young play. I never seen a triple double, 599 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.719 PAULI to see a triple double? Well you answer, You answered your 600 00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:22.800 own question. When you have that many good guys sharing the basketball and the 601 00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:25.679 usage rating of having the ball in their hands, they're unlikely to have a 602 00:46:25.679 --> 00:46:29.639 triple double. The reason you see it with Jokic all the time, the 603 00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:32.760 reason you see it with Luga Dantis all the time is because the pulls in 604 00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:37.639 their hands much more. How do you think about that? I wish you 605 00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:40.000 was sweezing two balls the thanks, Adam, All right, let's go to 606 00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:43.599 Ryan and Burbank. I appreciate you, Mitch. Ryan, what's up? 607 00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:45.679 You're on Clippers soft with that? I'm auson. Hey, Adam, this 608 00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:50.679 iSIG. It's a rough one, man. I'm not gonna I hate being 609 00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:52.920 pessimistic when I come on here because I feel like the fan base is just 610 00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:58.280 we're always pessimistic. But this is a rough run. Man. That it 611 00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:02.280 felt like there was no no entergy with this team right now. I don't 612 00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:06.960 you know that. I think the maddening part at him is like we we 613 00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:09.599 as fans, saw that two month stretch and we're like, this team looks 614 00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:15.119 like the best team of basketball. They're playing great, they figure out the 615 00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:19.840 lineup situation, everyone's locked in, and that grammy trip. I mean, 616 00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:22.119 they go six and one on the road, and you're like, that's It's 617 00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:23.920 hard to win NBA games on the road, and the Clippers have been now. 618 00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:27.920 I think they're almost a better road team than they are a home team, 619 00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:31.039 which is perplexing you. You're not gonna win a championship being a better 620 00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:36.039 road team than home team. I'm sorry. I hope that's not shocking to 621 00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:39.280 anyone, but uh, that's the way it is. The Only team that 622 00:47:39.320 --> 00:47:45.440 has done it is the ninety five Houston Rockets that won all those clutch games. 623 00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:47.960 They were called Clutch City when their backs were against the wall. You 624 00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:53.280 know what else that team had the championship from the year before. They had 625 00:47:53.320 --> 00:47:58.280 that to fall back on. That confidence, like this notion that, well, 626 00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:00.719 oh, the Clippers are better on the road. Though maybe those who 627 00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:02.920 just start on the road and everything will be fine. That's not going to 628 00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:07.199 work. You may get out of a round doing that. You're not going 629 00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:13.039 to go through the West having to play on the road consistently and having to 630 00:48:13.039 --> 00:48:17.599 win all those tough games because other teams are much better at home. No, 631 00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:22.760 Adam, You're completely right. And again it's just it's so perplexing as 632 00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:27.639 a fan watching this and going, how are we losing to the Atlanta Hawks 633 00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:30.719 by twenty at home? How are we losing to the seventy six ers by 634 00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:35.840 seventeen at one point? And again, it's like we've seen during the game, 635 00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:37.159 they have this stretch where it's, oh, they going to twelve ozer 636 00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:40.079 run. Oh, they're going on an eight to two run, and they're 637 00:48:40.119 --> 00:48:44.639 tying the game up and they're right there, and then it just falls apart 638 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:50.079 just as easily, and it's just maddening, and I just I don't know, 639 00:48:50.159 --> 00:48:53.000 man, it sucks because again, for big stretches out of the year, 640 00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:55.559 this team look like the best team in basketball, And now I'm going, 641 00:48:57.599 --> 00:49:00.800 are they getting around? I don't know? Right, let me bring 642 00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:07.239 something up here. You know what the difference is typically between a good player 643 00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:10.440 and an All Star and a great player. It's not that the good player 644 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:15.519 doesn't have nights where they look like an All Star or look like a great 645 00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:19.639 player. The difference is they do it more consistently. That's all it is. 646 00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:22.960 And the same goes with the team concept. You can say, oh, 647 00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:25.920 the Clippers look so good for these ten minutes, Well, it's about 648 00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:30.360 sustainability. It's about doing it for forty eight minutes. That's what great teams 649 00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:36.280 do, and the Clippers aren't doing it. And that's what's most concerning to 650 00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:39.360 me. Like maybe the answer is staring us in the face. They aren't 651 00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:44.480 a great team now. They certainly aren't right now. Yeah, now, 652 00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:46.360 they're definitely not. Adams. It sucks, It really sucks, and I 653 00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:50.960 just I just got a hope. I'm praying that this team, you know 654 00:49:51.079 --> 00:49:53.239 whatever, flips the switch. I'm happy that Westbrook is coming back. But 655 00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:57.119 yeah, Adam, this team, they don't look good. It just don't. 656 00:49:57.239 --> 00:50:00.880 It sucks, all right, right, I appreciate the phone always. 657 00:50:01.119 --> 00:50:07.800 Look, there's still hope. And I'll tell you why. Kawhi Leonard is 658 00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:12.559 on this team, and I've seen him flip the switch, and I've seen 659 00:50:12.639 --> 00:50:19.400 him raise his game and take it to the highest level. In a playoff 660 00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:22.039 series. There's not many guys in the history of the league you'd rather have 661 00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:25.320 in a seven game series than Kawhi Leonard, regardless of seeding and where you're 662 00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:30.679 at. But I hope the rest of the guys can take a cue from 663 00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:37.559 him and follow the leader, because I just don't like the way this Clippers 664 00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:40.480 team has been playing now for over two months. I'm talking about two months 665 00:50:42.679 --> 00:50:46.840 of bad play. It's too significant to ignore twenty one games. That's twenty 666 00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:52.360 five percent of the season. We'll come back. We'll hear from Will will 667 00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:55.079 Updyke of clips and Dip. After the Clippers lose one twenty one to one 668 00:50:55.119 --> 00:51:00.400 oh seven at home to the Philadelphia seventy six ers, I don't know if 669 00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:04.440 it's a good or bad news. They got a game tomorrow, gets a 670 00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:08.719 Pacers team that can get out and run then wear you down. I think 671 00:51:08.760 --> 00:51:15.519 you're tired now, feeling old now? Well, the Pacers can make you 672 00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:19.880 feel real old and slow quick if you don't match their energy. I'm Adam 673 00:51:19.880 --> 00:51:24.519 Oslin. This is Clippers talk here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty loading Clippers 674 00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:30.280 fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is La Clippers basketball. You're listening to 675 00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:36.320 the La Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Feel like the Clippers that 676 00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:40.400 builds up a lot of bad habits like how to fall apart and implode completely 677 00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:46.119 in a fourth quarter? I do it again against Philly, goes from a 678 00:51:46.159 --> 00:51:52.559 five point game to being down twenty and coach Lou pulling the big three Kauhie 679 00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:57.159 never even getting back out there in the fourth At the six minute mark, 680 00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:00.199 Clippers lose to the Sixers one twenty one to one. Seven at home. 681 00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:06.639 Welcome back into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Osland and joining me on the show. 682 00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:13.159 His will Updyke from Clips and Dip. I guess you got the Rihanna 683 00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:17.280 Ti song tonight, because well, do we lose rights? I don't know. 684 00:52:17.400 --> 00:52:22.360 I don't know what's going on there. Fair use policy, Will, 685 00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:25.960 I'm just gonna leave it to you. The floor is yours. You know. 686 00:52:27.079 --> 00:52:30.159 There are some rules because we're on the radio here, But outside of 687 00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:32.519 that, you can bring out the flamethrower. You can say what you want 688 00:52:32.679 --> 00:52:38.719 about this team and be brutally honest, and I may or may not have 689 00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:45.079 a rebuttal to anything you say. All right, I mean where to really 690 00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:50.840 start this team is just absolutely gutless. I want to say that, you 691 00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:57.199 know, we talked earlier about through this stretch of really uninspired play. Is 692 00:52:57.239 --> 00:53:01.079 it that this team things that they can flip switch or is it that they're 693 00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:06.760 completely apathetic? And what I saw in this was that they were completely apathetic. 694 00:53:06.800 --> 00:53:09.960 They were even in flip to switch mode, coming back from a deficit 695 00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:16.719 with in a two possession game, able to take over a game against a 696 00:53:16.760 --> 00:53:23.000 team missing their best player, missing an MVP caliber player, and just completely 697 00:53:23.079 --> 00:53:28.280 unable to do it, and put to the point where the game was so 698 00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:31.440 out of hand our best player didn't even touch the floor in the fourth quarter 699 00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:36.280 because ty Lou had seen enough, and I think, frankly, we've all 700 00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:42.679 seen enough. This team had more had almost three times as many turnovers as 701 00:53:42.719 --> 00:53:46.159 made field goals in the fourth quarter. I just don't know that there's nothing 702 00:53:46.320 --> 00:53:52.159 to be said that we haven't already said. They don't show up for things, 703 00:53:52.199 --> 00:53:55.719 they're not consistently locked in, they don't come out with energy, And 704 00:53:55.800 --> 00:54:00.519 I don't care how difficult a brunch game isn't I don't care about any of 705 00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:05.079 that. We've been saying the same things, and I think it's pretty apparent, 706 00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:08.639 right now that this team has been this team, They've been this version 707 00:54:08.760 --> 00:54:14.320 of the team that they've been since the All Star break, for as long 708 00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:17.360 as they were the team that we all thought could win a championship, when 709 00:54:17.360 --> 00:54:21.639 they went on a nine game win streak, when they went six and one 710 00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:24.800 on a Grammy road trip. So what is this team really? What is 711 00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:30.480 this team really? It falls I guess somewhere in between the two, but 712 00:54:30.559 --> 00:54:35.719 I would say that it's a team that's slightly above five hundred. And I 713 00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:39.280 don't know what to do. I don't know how you can be fine as 714 00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:46.239 a professional losing like this all the time on your home floor. I just 715 00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:51.360 don't know. Like when I say gutless, I mean there's just absolutely zero 716 00:54:51.599 --> 00:54:54.239 prize. I don't understand. I mean, like, would it has been 717 00:54:54.280 --> 00:54:59.639 better? Would we have turned it around if Kawhi was out there on the 718 00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:01.880 floor, things do look a lot better. He's not a vocal leader, 719 00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:07.000 but he leaves by example. But at the same time, like the rest 720 00:55:07.039 --> 00:55:09.719 of you guys, you don't have enough in the tank. You don't care 721 00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:15.960 enough. It's too lack a daisical for you to bring in a performance for 722 00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:20.199 your home fans. I just I don't get it, and you know, 723 00:55:20.519 --> 00:55:23.039 I do want to time stamp all of this with like this is still regular 724 00:55:23.119 --> 00:55:30.280 season stuff. We are an insane Kawhi Leonard playoff performance from this team being 725 00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:35.480 drug to another Western Conference final, which from the rate of play we've seen 726 00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:42.239 so far, would be completely undeserved. But I don't know what to look 727 00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:46.159 forward for in this team in the regular season. I think the best hope 728 00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:51.320 for the one shining light that we have is that you roll the dice in 729 00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:55.800 the playoffs and we get a fully healthy team. And maybe they are underneath 730 00:55:55.960 --> 00:56:02.840 all this the layers of garbage, there's a flower bed or something worthwhile when 731 00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:07.360 this team gets to the playoffs. Damn, let me ask you this, 732 00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:13.840 well, is this team? Look, you have to have a certain level 733 00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:17.000 of confidence. To be a professional at the highest level. You have to 734 00:56:17.039 --> 00:56:24.000 have belief in yourself. Are they I don't know, irrationally overconfident? Is 735 00:56:24.039 --> 00:56:29.400 that where they are? Because that leads to that flip the switch mentality. 736 00:56:29.559 --> 00:56:32.280 But they look to me far too often like a team that I don't know 737 00:56:32.800 --> 00:56:37.159 plays like they had won the last couple of championships, knows they have it 738 00:56:37.239 --> 00:56:42.880 when they need it, and they just lean on that, but obviously it 739 00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:46.800 wasn't enough to overcome being down seventeen early in this ball game. Look, 740 00:56:47.159 --> 00:56:51.559 I gotta say, what I'm seeing out there is a complete apathy. It 741 00:56:51.719 --> 00:56:55.519 just it really looks like there is not like there is not a pride or 742 00:56:55.679 --> 00:57:00.320 urgency, even when it's a game they you know, they need to win, 743 00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:06.599 even it's like a game when you absolutely should put away the seventy six 744 00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:09.559 ers had not beaten an opponent. They had not had a lead of twenty 745 00:57:09.639 --> 00:57:15.320 or more points since Joel Embiid had been out. So you're not only getting 746 00:57:15.400 --> 00:57:21.119 beat by a shorthanded team, you're getting historically beat even with their context, 747 00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:25.159 like even within their context. So you know, like if they believe that 748 00:57:25.239 --> 00:57:30.480 there's somehow this team that can flips the switch or has shown enough, I 749 00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:32.960 gotta be honest with you, that to me is worse than the apathy. 750 00:57:34.199 --> 00:57:37.280 That, to me is worse than not caring, because that is a level 751 00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:42.639 of delusional like maybe you should be fifty one fifties, Like maybe you shouldn't 752 00:57:42.679 --> 00:57:45.639 be playing at all, you shouldn't be showing up to work because you're just 753 00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:52.079 you've completely lost the handle. Well, it definitely seems unfounded to have that 754 00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:55.440 type of confidence right now with what we've seen for two months straight from this 755 00:57:55.519 --> 00:58:00.360 Clippers ball club. He is will Opdyke of and Dip. There was a 756 00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:04.960 live earlier with him and Chuck Mockler. I jumped in for a second during 757 00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:07.960 a break here. Well, I guess we'll talk to you on Tuesday, 758 00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:12.800 my friend, and hoping the Clippers turn things around and win a game tomorrow 759 00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:15.039 against the Pacers. Thanks for doing it. Let's do it, Let's do 760 00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:17.719 it. Thanks for having me. Let's go Clips, Let's let's try. 761 00:58:19.159 --> 00:58:23.079 Final segment coming up next. Clippers lose big to the Philadelphia seventy six ers 762 00:58:23.079 --> 00:58:27.320 at home, and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network and the 763 00:58:27.320 --> 00:58:34.000 Patriot AM one fifty loading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is LA 764 00:58:34.079 --> 00:58:38.719 Clippers basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. 765 00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:45.039 Since the Grammy road trip, where things have taken a turn for the 766 00:58:45.079 --> 00:58:52.039 worse, Clippers offense is just fifteenth. Their defense is twenty seventh in the 767 00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:58.920 league. They wanted to be a top five defense this season. They are 768 00:58:59.159 --> 00:59:01.800 far from that, as they give up one hundred and twenty one points to 769 00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:07.880 a Philadelphia seventy six ers team without Joel Embiid that had been struggling offensively. 770 00:59:08.519 --> 00:59:14.800 They were twenty fifth over the last ten games offensively, and as will Updyke 771 00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:19.039 just mentioned in our last segment, they hadn't been up by twenty points on 772 00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:23.920 a team without Joel Embiid until they took on your Los Angeles Clippers today. 773 00:59:24.719 --> 00:59:29.159 So if this ain't rock bottom, I don't want to know what that is 774 00:59:29.199 --> 00:59:34.480 for this squad, because being under five hundred for a twenty one game stretch 775 00:59:35.239 --> 00:59:38.639 leading into the playoffs with just twelve games left is not what we were looking 776 00:59:38.679 --> 00:59:45.320 for from this Clippers ball club. Sadly, before we get out of here, 777 00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:51.800 let's bring in Katie Newton. It's casual Katie's Corner where she asked NBA 778 00:59:51.960 --> 00:59:55.039 questions or just anything really to me and we had things on a positive here. 779 00:59:55.159 --> 00:59:58.760 Katie, what's up? All right? So? How many jerseys do 780 00:59:58.800 --> 01:00:01.880 they have? Like? How many? It's do you know? Not including 781 01:00:01.880 --> 01:00:07.480 the new one like soccer? Yes, sorry, on the pitch, kids 782 01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:10.559 on the pitch, h four or five? Right now? They got an 783 01:00:10.599 --> 01:00:15.280 alternate, they got a city edition, they got a home road yeah. 784 01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:22.920 Next year they'll have the red back, which is good. Clippers looking to 785 01:00:23.119 --> 01:00:28.039 bounce back. Tomorrow. Tip off against the Pacers is at seven thirty and 786 01:00:28.079 --> 01:00:30.599 we'll have pregame from Crypto at six thirty Before we get out of here. 787 01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:34.440 I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Laller, Brian Seeman, 788 01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:37.159 know at Iocarlo Jimenez on the call, Baby, Jake Warner, the callers, 789 01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:39.920 the listeners, Thank you, Katie. We'll talk to you tomorrow. 790 01:00:39.960 --> 01:00:45.320 At six thirty. White was doing his thing. All they want to do 791 01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:47.519 is win in La. I win. I thought they gave everything they had. 792 01:00:47.679 --> 01:00:52.679 I'm proud of. This has been Clippers Talk, the official postgame reaction 793 01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:57.320 of the LA Clippers. God bless Paul George. Are you not? It's 794 01:00:57.400 --> 01:01:00.840 just changed. Don't miss an episode all season. Go to wherever you podcast 795 01:01:00.920 --> 01:01:05.039 and subscribe today. Love the show. I got you on the iHeartRadio. 796 01:01:05.079 --> 01:01:08.000 You guys are great. Thank you for joining us for another exciting broadcast of 797 01:01:08.280 --> 01:01:10.800 LA Clippers basketball.