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Clippers fall for their fourth time in their last seven games. They lose at
home one twenty three to one to seven to the Sacramento Kings. Welcome back
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to your post game box score. You also hear from the head coach and
the players after this one. But first back over to your radio voice of
the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carlo, we talked about it during the broadcast,
but this Clippers team just waited too long to engage. And then you
take on a Kings team that was also due from the outside, and it
just seemed like first team to start knocking down three pointers and the Kings hit
a lot of critical ones. Was gonna win this ball game? Yeah?
I mean, let's be honest, Kawhi Leonard kept him in the game in
the third quarter, kept them close, kept them around. And you mentioned
it when he comes out, how did the Clippers stay alive He came out
of the game, Clippers didn't stay alive. The Kings were able to get
back in it. Big credit to Harrison Barnes. He had some tough threes
late. Even Malik Monk got into it. Darren Fox Clutch Player of the
Year, and he lived up to it raining Cutch Player of the Year.
The Kings hit tough shots, but some of them were open and some of
them were in transition, and twenty five of them were off turnovers. And
I think that's where this stands out in this one. Kings with twenty five
points off these sixteen turnovers for the Clippers. Adam, that is now thirty
seven turnovers in the last two games for your LA Clippers, and you're just
not gonna win games doing that. And the Clippers got worse in that area.
Is the game moved along just six turnovers in the first half, they
had ten in the second half. So you're in an uphill battle. You're
trying to get back into a ball game. And his self inflicted wounds keeping
you from doing so. Yeah, they this is a talented team and a
team with a lot of and a team that can do incredible things down the
stretch if they have that defensive focus and that defensive intensity that we know they
can have, that they are capable of. And so for the Clippers,
I think it's all in between the ears right now. And I think that's
why I love Tyler making them practice the next two days, because hey,
we're just not there. They're just something happened post Grammy trip where this team
has fallen off for a little bit, and has it been the team we
saw when they got that win in Boston where they're able to take care of
business against Detroit and Washington. I mean, think about how different those games
are. Detroit and Washington then the Memphis game, and those are the same
caliber of teams. Those three teams are abound at the same place in the
NBA, but it looks so different when the Clippers were on that Grammy road
trip. I think for the Clippers, they have to do a mental recheck,
do a little reality check, look at the man in the mirror,
and figure out who do you want to be for these next twenty six games
and find a way to get back to who you were. Oh look,
not the main mirror. Terrence Man, by the way, on a bright
spot for this team. Terrence Man another stellar performance. The offensive rebounds,
six or seven from the field, fourteen points. When this team turns things
around, you just look at terrace Man having that leap that we were expecting
earlier this season happening now. That will be huge for them. Yeah,
yeah, one hundred percent. I mean four assists, six rebounds, fourteen
points. He has been excellent. This is the first Clipper lost the last
fourteen games when te Man scores in double figures, and they just didn't have
the support elsewhere, especially off the bench. I mean, Norman Pal's not
off the bench, so he gets in the starting layeup. You only get
sixteen points off the bench, and the Clippers need a little bit more support
from that second unit, and I think Terrence Man fills some holes for you
with the starting group. Six for seven and this one still like him to
be a little more aggressive. Felt like he turned down a couple threes,
but his emergence has been excellent. Norman Palell, who missed the last game
with an ankle injury, but didn't miss a beat tonight twenty one points,
five for nine from three. I thought he was great for the Clippers down
the stretch. It is interesting at him because you look at this box score
and you feel like the support from James Harden, the support I know we
didn't play night from Paul George has been the missing pieces for the Clippers.
Kawhi continues to be excellent, but hardened and Paul George, whether it's a
little bit of fatigue, whether it's a little bit of not being able to
find a rhythm late in the season, those guys have to step up for
the Clippers. Yeah, well, we've seen over the past couple of weeks
now, even going back to before well at the very end of that Grammy
road trip, when this Clippers team doesn't get great performances from two of their
big three, they're very beatable out there. And as consistent as Kawhi Leonard
has been, James Harden and Paul George over the last month have certainly been
a little bit up and down. Even in this one. James Harden four
thirteen, just twenty points, Maybe a little bit of fatigue, but again,
the All Star break, it's not coming. It's in the past now.
It just happened, and they got seventeen games coming up in March,
so they have to figure this one out. It starts Wednesday against the Hallways
showdown team in the Los Angeles Lakers. Tip time here Crypto, with the
Clippers being the technical home team, will be at seven. We'll have your
pregame show starting at six. Carlo, my guy, great calls. Always
see you here on Wednesday. Thank you, Adam. Can't wait to see
you Wednesday. Get some good rest and hopefully Clippers come back locked in if
there's ever a game to refocus, I like the Lakers on the other side,
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Right back here, of course. But the Clippers ended up shooting us forty
eight percent from the field, but eight of twenty seven from the outside,
and the Kings give up forty percent shooting from three. The Clippers only attempted
twenty seven of them. I thought the Kings were a little bit better than
their reputation with their defense along the perimeter, but the Clippers didn't put a
lot up. But again, sixteen turnovers, ten of them coming in the
second half. When you're trying to make a comeback when you're down eighteen,
that is your being your own worst enemy. Having so many turnovers, it's
just almost impossible to come back when you're that careless with the basketball. Those
sixteen turnovers by the Clippers overall led to twenty five points for the Sacramento Kings.
Clippers points in the paint sixty two. That's a good number, Kings
with fifty four. But the Kings, they eventually got hot. It had
a ton of silencers. They were hitting from distance whenever the Clippers were making
a run. It was first Kevin Herder who I think had three three pointers
in that third quarter, hurting hurting the Clippers in this case. Then it
was Malik Monk in the fourth quarter. Mitchell hit one hit a couple actually
one of consequence. Even Harrison Barnes, who was left wide open, went
four of seven, had twenty two points. So on a night where demonts
a bonus is just seven of seventeen, still had fifteen boards and twelve assists
with those seventeen points, but they got in some ways an off night from
him offensively. But you get de Aaron Fox going for thirty three, Harrison
Barnes with twenty two, all five starters four the Sacramento Kings were in double
figures, and then Milik Monk with twelve points off the bench, and the
Clippers they only had sixteen points off the bench total. Russell Westbrook struggled mightily
in the first half, had a much better stint into the third quarter,
but three of ten eight points. Daniel Tye got the opportunity tonight. It
wasn't Mason Plumbley soaking up some of those back up big minutes. I thought
Tys was nice four or five, eight points, six boards, but nobody
else scored off the bench. Now you have to throw in the caveat of
Okay, Paul George is out tonight, and that means Norman Powell, who
normally is their leader in bench scoring, one of the best in the NBA,
at that he's in the starting lineup instead. But a mere Coffee has
been off the last couple of games. Been some regression there from A Mer
only took two shots zher of two when he had been uber hot over the
last month and a half now and PJ Tucker just attempted one shot. Got
some minutes out there again it was just five, but the Clippers really couldn't
find any answers when the Kings were starting to knock down those three pointers.
The Clippers couldn't answer those, and eventually, oh, that's how you end
up with the loss of one twenty three to one O seven. Here at
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Sacramento Kings, who moved up to the five spot. The Phoenix Suns behind
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the Lakers, the Clippers will see on Wednesday. They're seven to three in
their last ten. They have been playing much better basketball overall the last couple
of weeks. They finally settled on a starting lineup with Brewy Hodge more in
their next to Austin Reeves, dil Lebron and ad. However, they I
lost late in Phoenix earlier today in a game where Anthony Davis really struggled in
the first half on the game four points. Try to turn things around,
too little, too late. That's a huge matchup coming up on Wednesday,
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No. PG thirteen going into this one, but Norton Powell was back and
I thought played well overall twenty one points eight of sevenventeen shooting was in the
starting lineup for PG thirteen instead of having a mere coffee in there this time.
The first two times or the first only two games coming into tonight that
Paul George had missed hit five three pointers, some clutch once, some big
ones that gave Clipper Nation hope. Here one in the far side corner where
I don't know how he had any airspace to get it off. But with
Norm Pound in the starting lineup, that means guys off the bench had to
step up more because that bench scoring tonight. It dwindled down to just sixteen
points total, basically what Norm Powell averages. They got eight from Russell Westbrook,
but just three of ten shooting. Daniel Tyes four or five, eight
and six. I thought he played well, big opportunity for him. It
was Mason Plumbing getting minutes the last couple of games tonight. Daniel Tye got
it in, got the backup center minutes. PJ Tucker got five minutes.
All of them came in the first half, looked okay. He had one
possession where he'd eat up Dearon Fox, something fierce who couldn't shake him,
but still somehow stuck the jumper over the top of PJ Tucker the Aaron Fox
down the stretch. I felt like he was using the Clippers aggressiveness and desperation
against them, drawing fouls because all of a sudden they were playing up on
him more. They were doing whatever they could to stay in front of him.
He had him off balance. He got to the free throw line.
But it was the three pointers that we talked about post game with Carlo Jmenez,
your radio voice to the Clippers. Three points silencers by this King's team
whenever the Clippers had it to within five points, and I think they had
it there three or four different times. Were in this uphill battle, mostly
because of their own doing, with ten turnovers in the second half alone,
sixteen for the game, leading to twenty five points for the Kings. But
when the Clippers made their runs, the Kings would hit a big three,
they would turn the tide back in their favor. It was Kevin Herder of
the third quarter, Malik Monk in the fourth, Harrison Barnes hit a clutch
three point in the near side corner where the Clippers just didn't guard him.
Maybe on Mitchell hit one two, And that's what the defenses look like for
good amount of time here. I put it out at follow out of May
earlier today and I was hoping things would change tonight with the Clippers back home,
had a day off, pulled out the victory in Memphis in dramatic fashion.
Last five minutes, James Harden came alive. Paul George hit big shots,
Kawhi's Kawhi, Terrence Man big put back. But I also said after
that game, if the Clippers play like this against Sacramento, they're gonna loose.
And that's pretty much what we saw tonight. Carlo and I were talking
about it early in the on on the Ball game. In fact, he
said, am I still in Memphis because offensive rebounds, hustle, plays all
going to Sacramento, just like with the Memphis Grizzlies Friday night, and then
the Clippers turnovers and that being they're undoing, but also just not getting up
a lot of three pointers against a team that gives up forty percent shooting from
the outside. That's been the King's Achilles heeled. Defensively, I thought some
of it was good defense, but some of it was the Clippers turning down
shots. There was a possession I believe out of a timeout or wasn't just
Terrence Mann turning it down a shot this one along the perimeter. Emir Coffee
didn't take it. Eventually, James Harden had to heave it up, he
missed it. I think it ended up with a team man offensive rebound.
He had a lot of them make it Russell Westbrook, who eventually got the
layup to go. So indecisiveness by the Clippers like we haven't seen offensively because
even while I've mentioned yes the numbers last three months, they're just sixteenth defensively
and that's likely going down after tonight, and that is alarming for a team
that wants to be a championship contender and is. But over that same time
span they've been second offensively. That's what's been carrying them. In the first
six games. Coming into tonight out of the Grammy road trip, the Clippers
have been twenty third on offense. That's a little bit shocking. But it
looked the part tonight. They were very stagnant and they just didn't look like
a team with a plan, which is really strange to see because James Harden
was still out there. He is a system. He had eight assists,
he had twenty points, but only took thirteen shots in a game with alt
Paul George thought he had to get up fifteen plus only knock down two three
pointers. So he hasn't looked the same. And when you're that dependent on
that guy for that long to get you into your offense, I think when
he's not playing well. You see the other side of it, and that's
what we're seeing offensively from this Clippers team as a whole. As good as
Kawhi Leonard is, who can ISO and is averaging the most points per shot
attempt in isolation out of anyone this season. I think it's something like one
point three points per shot attempt in isolation. It's crazy. Kawhi still looks
stellar on both ends. Another steal and a dunk tonight. He took eighteen
shots, only made seven of them. Has been in kind of a low
key funk from three, but he's the least of my worries. Still had
twenty points in thirty five minutes. This Clippers team just hasn't looked connected defensively.
It started there. Now it feels like it's seeping into their offense.
Early on, they went to a Vita Zubats first play the game, just
like they did against Memphis. Like that get Zoo going early. But we
talked about it throughout the broadcast. Vita Zubots is four four, five of
six and they're not going to him enough. He only ended up with nine
attempts. There was an advantage there. Granted he picked up his second foul
in the second quarter. They had to take him out, but they weren't
utilizing big Zoo. The offense didn't have a flow to it. He can
be a bailot guy for you. Dump it into a Viza Zubats and let
him go to work, because he has gotten the best of Demante Bonis,
believe it or not, many times going back to when Demontes was in Indiana
and I Viza Zubats had some really good possessions against him, especially early,
frustrated him. At one point Sabonis was one for eight, but uh,
maybe we uh highlighted that a little bit too much and Demantes got a little
bit of payback against us because he ended up going seven of seventeen overall seventeen
points, fifteen boards, twelve assists. He's just that good. There's no
such thing as a broadcaster Jakes, all right, there's not. I don't
believe in it. But it was dearon Fox in the fourth quarter, who
they couldn't stop and they couldn't defend without fouling. And then those timely three
point shots from the second Mento Kings and a Clippers team that wasn't playing with
desperation or urgency or a great spirit out there energy wise, until they got
down eighteen. Then things click clicked in they looked like the Clippers. But
I've said this before, I think that is a bad habit. I think
that's a habit developed over time, because they've had more twenty point comebacks than
any other team over the last five years in the two to three era,
even going back to the year before that, with Mantrez Lou and Pat Bev
leading them. If you want to be a dominant team, though, if
you want to be a championship team, you have to put teams away.
You can't just wait to engage when you're down double digits. And we're still
seeing that from them, and there's twenty six games left the regular season.
For teams with these high expectations is used for developing good habits, and the
Clipper still have some bad ones. They need to rid themselves off. So
yeah, no PG thirteen. That hurts. But the Clippers had enough firepower
to win this game tonight, and they just have looked a little bit lethargic,
a little bit gassed, And I wonder, and I speculated after the
last game, even in a win against the Memphis Grizzlies. Did they ride
the highs a little bit too high going six to one on that Grammy road
trip, Because as much as it was a goal to go six to one
and they pulled it off, I don't know, is there's some residual effect
going on, some lingering issues of just a team that's a little bit tired.
They're an older squad and they have yet to recover from that. I
tried to temper expectations at the time. As exciting as that was best Grammy
road trip ever, Clippers playing the best basketball ever, it was still February.
It still is also concerning. They got seventeen games coming up in mar
to be dealing with this level of adversity right now. Look, there's time
to figure it out, of course, but games get more condensed. It's
gonna get harder. They have Minnesota twice and Milwaukee twice coming up. They
have the Lakers on Wednesday. They're gonna be playing with a level of desperation.
It's a quote unquote rivalry game, however you want to put it.
The Hallway Series, these two teams always go hard, and maybe Carlo Amenez
brought it up. It's the perfect situation and the perfect time to take on
the Lakers to find yourself, because they've been great against them, going back
well a decade, but even more recent history. They had won eleven straight
before the Lakers won the first two. This season, Clippers won the last
one. Maybe that wakes them up. I would have thought a game against
OKC for the tiebreaker would have woke them up. I would have thought a
game against Minnesota here at home would have woke them up. Something is off
with this squad. The consistency is just not there. It started defensively,
but now offensively. This team can't just fall back on that. And maybe
it goes back to what Kawhi Leonard said. We've been getting by too much
on just talent. It needs to be about execution. We'll see if that
changes. Wednesday is a big one coming up. You're gonna hear from coach
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news Clipper Nation. Yes, they lose tonight once twenty three to one oh
seven to the Sacramento Kings, but Carlo Jimenez is still in the house and
we're taking your phone calls here. Thanks for doing this, Carlo. Oh
anytime, anytime Clippers talk a little bonus time here. Let's start with John
in Woodland Hills. John, you're on Clipper staff with Adam Oslin and your
radio voice of the Clippers, Carlo Jimenez. What's up, John? Yeah,
Hey, great call, Carlo. Awesome And Adam. I know it
was a struggle for you as a longtime Kings fan too, you know,
to be indifferent tonight or you know, impartial, But I Honestly, I'm
amazed how easy it is. I'd love this Clippers team. I don't even
think. I don't what's the line from Don Draper in the Elevator, I
don't even think about you. That's how I feel about the Kings. Now.
They're an ex that you forgot the name of their name. Yeah,
man, but the Kings. The Kings have the X factor Sabonis and the
Aaron Fox. And I have to say in observing the Clippers for the last
couple of months, Kawhi Leonard got his extension and Harden did not get his
extension. Had an extension, so that's not an issue. He can't get
paid till this summer. James Harden cannot get paid till this summer. He's
a true free agent. There's no extensions extension, wants something earlier. He
wants a commission extension eligible. Jonathan It's literally there's literally no way to pay
him. Broker Off is not walking through that. Well. The effort,
the effort has not been there from James Harden overall in the last ten games.
And that's for sure. Even though he was a hero in Memphis,
he has not brought it When they need the Clippers needed him. So if
he's disappearing like he did with the Sixers and brook and Brooklyn before here,
we should understand why that is. Does he not feel that he's worthy?
Is it the regular season? Is there's no playoff Harden? We've never seen
a playoff harder before, So why would he not step up when Paul George
was out of the next Why not the hole? There's no playoff Harden because
he lost to the greatest team I think of all time in the Golden State
Wars with Kevin Durant. Let me just mythbust that for a second. He
has had fifteen playoff series in his career where he's averaged twenty five points or
more. To act like James, Harden has only had down moments. I
mean, just last season is a perfect example. He has multiple forty point
games against the Boston Celtics for Philly. I promise you they get multiple forty
point games with this Clippers team fully loaded, they're probably winning that series.
Good luck, Carlo. You want to weigh in on this because to me,
it's a guy who looks a little bit tired. He's been burning the
candle on both ends. I mean We've talked about how this Clipper team hasn't
looked the same since that Grammy road trip. In those final two games,
he played eighty one minutes on a back to back. He played forty two
the first night, thirty nine the next night. I'm no math major,
but that's a lot of minutes and back to back games. I think the
guy's a little tired. I think these two days will do him well,
and I also think for the Clippers it's just about finding a renewed focus.
But Harden still finds a way to affect the game every single night, and
he did that tonight getting to the free throw line. Yeah, Harden gave
them a chance. I can I just make one more point before I go?
Yeah, John, I I just think that Tyron lu playing PJ.
Tucker was a huge mistake. Coffee was a zero tonight. But Coffee needed
to be the coffee that we know he needed, and because of those minutes
from PJ. Tucker, Coffee really was not in the system at all.
He was, he literally was. He was a zero the entire night,
John John, PJ. Tucker played five minutes a mere Coffee played twenty.
They lost PJ. Tucker's minutes by one. I don't think he was the
reason they lost the game. Yeah, well he hadn't played it three months.
I mean, why would they play PJ. Tucker at all? Because
he's likely going to be needed at some point in the playoffs. And I
appreciate the phone call, John, Let's do it again on Wednesday. I
just there's a lot of calls coming in here, and we got I want
to get to everything. Mike in La, you're on Clipper stop with that
of Amazon and Carla Jimenez. Mike, what's up? Well, I think
it comes down to having a team that is both old and small. I
mean it just, you know, the rebound, the offensive rebounds kill me.
It just is so frustrating. And as far as you know, Harden
goes, I mean, yeah, obviously Harden is just tired. I mean
he's been you know, you said, burning the candle on both ends.
He's in burning the candle on you know, seven ends. I mean he's
been, uh you know, been been worked and running into the into the
ground. I think this would be a great time to get bones uh the
minute, if if they can, and just you know, let hard and
recover a little bit. But the rebat. I mean the lack of five
in you know, outside of you know, a couple of centers is what
I is ultimately, I think going to keep this team from advancing super far.
In the play, Mike, you said something interesting there. I brought
this up before. You can be slow, you can be small. I
don't know if you can be both and ultimately win. Now. I still
think because the Pista Zoobots is back and playing much better, it's not really
applicable to this Clippers team when they want to play bigger. Look, Kawhi
can play power forward in this league in the modern era, right, Carlo?
I mean, this is a guy who is as physically strong as anyone
out there. Who's the dude he sent flying the other day like the front
row and they weren't sure what happened, he said, Trey Lyles flying today
too, it looks like someone literally hitting a brick wall. I mean they
call him the terminator and all that, and a robot. But I don't
know, Carlo, how do you think? What do you think about that
just being a little bit undersized, being a little bit older and not being
an issue right now? I don't know if being older is an issue,
I think a little bit undersized. Maybe they were plus eight in the paint
and only minus two on the boards today, So are you a smaller team
but you still score more points in the paint. That doesn't seem to be
an issue. I think for the Clippers it really comes down to those turnovers.
I mean, he had sixteen and then getting back on those turnovers.
We saw the play. I think the play that kind of epitomizes this game
is Kawhi Leonard getting back on defense. The King's getting three offensive rebounds and
still scoring the basketball. The effort is just not there. I mean,
you can't turn the ball over and have one guy get back on the defensive
end. That is a great point and recall on your part. It happened
earlier in the first half. It was Dearon Fox on a one on one
fast break against Kawhi Leonard, who got the stop and nobody else got back.
It was him versus what four Sacramento Kings players. That is inexcusable for
a team that knows one of their weaknesses is transition defense and for guys to
let up in a situation where it's Kawhi Leonard guarding Kadaron Fox I'm gonna take
him to win that battle, and he did, so you should have another
guy there to grab the board. That was just mind blowing difficult to see.
One. One other thing that I just wanted to note is Paul George.
Obviously he didn't play to night, but you know, I mean clearly,
I think you know, whatever, you know, injuries he's had had
been having an effect on him lately because he just has not looked good at
all. And you know, earlier this season, you you know, had
one wings when he looked very explosive and you know, very very athletic,
and he didn't age you know, a toun over the course of a few
months. No, I agree with you, Mike. I think Carlo does
as well. He was legitimately their best player the first month of the season.
It was actually thirty points a game. He was better than Kawhi Leonard.
It was the game up in Sacramento where Kawhi dunked on Javo McGhee where
things started to turn around. That was right after the loss of the Denver
Nuggets with Reggie Jackson and DeAndre Jordan who beat the Clippers. That one we
shouldn't talk about, Mike. We appreciate the phone call. Let'll talk to
you on Wednesday. Thank you, guys, Javier and Lahabra hyatts. Okay,
I got to put a time limit here, thirty seconds. Everybody,
please, I want to get to all your phone calls. Avier, Oh,
real quick, Hey, how you doing, guys? Real quick?
The last couple of callers, they just mentioned what I wanted to mention.
The Clippers, you know, a little bit older, and it seems like
every fifty fifty ball they don't grab the rebound, they don't get the ball.
They don't. I don't know why. They don't know how to box
out. I've been telling you just add them for a while. They need
to box out what I para wid he used to say, rebound wins championships
doesn't read that well. You know what, pat Riley didn't have to deal
with guys taking thirty footers. The long rebounds in today's game completely change just
the math on how to get a board. Dennis Rodman might have problems at
times because it's just completely different. Yeah, that's it. I know you
guys. Thank you guys. Carlo, you want to weigh in on that.
Yeah, I just think this team has shown they can they can have
effort and they can show effort, and we've seen them when when they were
at their heights, they were making those plays. I don't know if they're
not making those plays now. I mean, we saw Vitza Zubats pool dive
into hardwood today. I mean two hundred and forty pounds head first swords of
basketball right into the hardwood. I just feel like this is a team that's
shooting themselves in a foot in their foot a lot, and so sometimes it
feels like they aren't trying. But I don't think there's a lack of trying.
When it comes to going for fifty fifty balls. They're on the floor,
there's no doubt about that. And the offensive rebounding advantage was in favor
of Sacramento. It was fourteen to ten. It wasn't huge, but as
you mentioned earlier, the turnovers I think were more consequential in that second half,
especially with ten of them, and the Clippers ended up getting up nine
less shots than the Kings, who were shooting better. Overall, you can't
win a ballgame against a team you're giving more shots too. That's also shooting
a higher percentage. And you want to talk about effort. They had seven
offensive rebounds in the first quarter. They finished with fourteen, So clearly the
Clippers focused in and honed in on not allowing so many O boards down the
stretch. Well, take a quick time out, we'll come back. We'll
get back to your phone calls. We still have Chuck Mockler coming on hits
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and Dip. He was in the house. We took a picture. Put
it at Clippers pod on X Charles. What's most alarming to you right now,
with this Clippers team and their poor play, it's tough to choose kind
of between just I guess the looking older factor, you know, against the
Thunder, I think it's easy to look old. It's a very young,
good team. But even tonight that was just you saw kind of the Clippers
age that and I guess of the rotations, I'm not really sure how much
to buy into the consistency of what the rotations have been these last two games
going forward, right you know, we had a weird whistle against Terrence Mann
in that game against the Grizzlies where things got odd have been Paul George's out
tonight. The decision to start Norm was a little interesting, especially because if
you look at kind of what the bench scoring is without Norm Powell. So
I think it's between those two things, but I guess I'll choose the kind
of age one. They have two practices before the Lakers game on Wednesday,
and then March starts, so we're gonna learn a lot about how old this
team plays versus how old it really is. Honestly, no matter where they're
at games against the Lakers, they've always got enough for In the two Pine
three era even before that. So yeah, I do think it's gonna be
telling. It's gonna be a big contest to see. I don't know if
it's gonna be a measuring stake opportunity, but just to see where they're at,
maybe physically, if they can't get up for that game, if they
don't run around and look like they have a little bit more punch out there
or pop, as coach flu likes to call it. Yeah, I wonder
if this team is a little bit worn down, and it just seems like
it coincides with the Grammy trip. You go six and one there, that
was the goal they pulled it off and ever since then. And I just
looked up the numbers last seven games. Now they're three and four and they're
twenty third offensively and twenty fourth defensively. I could buy twenty fourth defensively,
twenty third offensively is somewhat shocking to me. And some of the offense tonight
most have been especially in the first half, it just looked really funky out
there. They were not creating great looks at all. Yeah, I don't
know if I'd use the word funky because I'm trying to keep I like to
use that word in a positive light, but I do, I do agree
with what you're saying. A lot of the game. You know, our
other host, Will Updike and I were up in the press box for this
one, and you see it come kind of from like a sideway bird's eye
view, a little bit like an angled bird's eye view of us. And
what you saw, what we saw a lot of tonight was guys clearing out,
Kawhi going to work and then plan B right like and then it's kind
of, you know, we hope offensive rebounder or something like that. So
particularly tonight, there was a lot of standing around and watching, and you
know, we didn't get a strong shooting performance from James Harden from deep He
was two of ten from three, and a lot of those you know,
were off the dribble or you know, maybe assisted in things like that.
So the offense is, as we've said the last couple of seasons, at
various points, kind of stuck in the mud. Right now, Kawhi is
making things happen in the mid rage, which is where teams are moving the
clippers because it hasn't been going well and other guys are having trouble adjusting and
moving off the ball. We saw some good off ball movement from Terrence when
he was sharing before with Russ A little bit tonight, I believe. But
when Kai's out there, we need guys to play like Kawai isn't out there
when Kawhi is out Yeah, I think that's a really good point. Kawhi
still looks good. As much as we talk about an old team, Kawhi
does not look like that. Since coming back and missing that Golden State Warrior
game, he has had punch, he has looked explosive out there. He's
had a lot of dunks, so he should have gotten felt calls on Terrence
Man has been a bright spot the last two games. There was carry over
from that Memphis game because Terrence was actually looking for his shot at times.
That and one he had in the fourth quarter in the key that was big,
and that is one of the encouraging signs right now for this team.
Totally fourteen six and four from Terrence. I would be hard pressed to,
you know, think that the Clippers have a bad record when Terrence has a
stat line like this, right, this is what this is maybe what we'll
need from Terrence Man in the playoffs on a consistent basis, and you know,
a twenty point game every now and then. If things go this way,
I don't think it will continue too bad like this, Paul George is
gonna come back get some help. But you're totally right. It did carry
over for Terrence. Man, he's really you know, it's been a bright
spot. There has been a lot since the All Star breaks, so we
got to hope this keeps up. But he was doing all he could to
try and help the clips today on both ends. What's your level of concern
with PG thirteen and the left knee soreness? Because we talked about our eclips
and DIP days were running together. I think it was yesterday we had the
live going. Yeah, it was like, man, I know, I
know, and they're already stacking up and I'm getting forgetful, and I did
feel like he needed to rest, he needed to sit down. He did.
I'm hoping because he gets four days off then between the last time he
played in the Lakers game on Wednesday, that he'll be back for that one
because he's always been very good against the Los Angeles Lakers too. But where
are you at with his play and if it's just eye test that obviously he
must be banged up right now because he's just not the same guy he was
even just a month ago. Yeah, I think my level of concern is,
I guess, to put on a scale from one to ten, I'd
go, I don't know, six point seven out of ten. The fact
that it's a knee now, We've got the groin earlier and then now the
knee is really just just why I guess I'm over five there. But we
need him to be the best number two or one B or whatever however he
wants to phrase it. We all know that he has to be the second
best player all the Clippers when it comes to scoring the basketball, and some
nights may be called on to be the first. So I hope he's at
one hundred percent. He's going to come back against the team that's really physical
to play. We assume that he'll be back for that Wednesday game with the
four days rest and everything like that, But I mean, it's a tough
matchup to come back to. But he does always play the Lakers well in
the grand scheme of things. Yeah, we just got to see, what,
you know, the playing schedule for Kawhi and PG is for the back
to backs to close the season, because that's going to be a huge part
of it too. Kawhi is having to do a lot of work even when
Paul George is out there, especially on the defensive ends. Paul Dridge has
been good, but you know, Kawhi and does what he has to do.
But without Paul George, that's an even the harder task. And I
thought you saw it catch up with him a little bit tonight, just again
because it's so hard to do. So I hope I'm being overly concerned and
it's not as big a deal because the Clippers need Paul George to be the
second best player on this team when it comes to score last one for you
here, Chuck, you talked about lineups and rotations, and guys, we've
been seeing PJ. Tucker got five minutes in the first half. He was
a minus one out there, one really good defensive possession against Aaron Fox where
I was impressed. Fox still hit it because he's that good. But just
what have you seen from the big man rotation that you like that you don't
like? Where would you like to see them go with this? Because tonight
it was Mason Plumbley out. It was Daniel tyskin the opportunity. Yeah,
I guess the only thing I like from the Clippers Big Man rotation is meets
the zoobots and nothing else. Right now, I don't know what has happened
to Plumbly. Entice Tyson did go you know, four or five if you
just look at the the box score, But defensively, there was just no
containment from him or any real uh you know, actual stops being put up.
For the most part, Plubly getting the DNP was surprising. I'm a
little concerned that we haven't really totally got this rotation figured out this far into
the season, but we just needed to be better, right like if that's
if that's being in the better positions defensively, you know, PJ. Chucker
did get those five minutes, and hey, he was out there, so
it seems like maybe that those dnps start up again. But we we just
got to figure out which two guys are gonna be balanced for the spot,
because that's that's really what I would like to see, and I hope it's
between Plubly and Times. What about the possibility of Bones Highlands somehow getting into
this rotation. What about the possibility of Bones. Why not he could have
been used tonight right Like we needed scoring off the bed. He's scoring off
the bed. I understand the defensive liability of having him and Norm Powell out
there at the same time, if you could somehow stagger them. And I
wasn't even sure Norm was going to play, so I thought maybe this would
open up an opportunity for Bones. But it just semes seems like they're gonna
need a shot in the arm. They're going to need someone to get on
a run and catch lightning in a bottle while other guys are regressing. Terras
Man has provided some of that, but they need more juice out there in
athleticism for an older team. All right, he is Chuck Mockler. One
of my favorite things about this day now is just the fact that while I'm
talking to Chuck, I tweet something out, and while he's talking to me,
he likes it in real time. Charles, thanks for coming on Clipperstock
tonight for a little double dip. Yep. Excited to do the pond tomorrow.
Let's go Clips. Let's go Clips. Coming up back to your phone
calls after they lose one twenty three to one oh seven here at home to
the Sacramento Kings. They're three and four in their last seven games since the
Gurmy road trip. A connection there, I don't know. I don't know
how you can't look to that a little bit right now. But we'll hear
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Tony brass version uh okay, before we get out of here, a
couple more phone calls than you're gonna hear from big brothers Jake, Warner,
Jose and Downey. You're on Glipper stop for out of Mauslins after they fall
one twenty three to one oh seven to the Kings, Ise, Hey,
what's upppening? You know what, you guys have been on target about the
energy and just playing slow. I mean, I felt today was one of
those days that they kids, they could have really tried to beat down the
middle with a really using Zoo. There's quite a like many plays where he
had the smaller player on them, and instead of taking advantage it, they
just started passing around to go for that three and we got tired legs or
you don't have the energy, Those are all gonna be short shots. I
mean, you gotta you gotta use what's that your advantage? And if you
know, if Zoo has a smaller man pinned down, gotta get the ball
in there, gotta get the ball. Give these guys some rest, then
maybe little those shots of land in the fourth. You know, if they
have to take less shots, you know, I wonder if they almost need
a refresher course on who Avitza Zubats is. I'm not saying it's like Kevin
Durant, Do you know who the hell I am? It's not like that.
But he and James Harden were so in sync in the pick and roll
and it was the best version of a Vita Zubats we had seen before he
went out for those ten games or however many it was with the right calf
injury, and now he's getting lost in the shuffle when he can be a
weapon you go to, especially in a game like this, Aviza Zubots is
playing hard, he has energy, he's got young legs, and he looks
to be fully healthy again. He's not on a minute restriction. Find him.
That's what's a little bit confounding. You have an offense a system with
James Harden in the high pick and roll that, as coach Lu said,
before you run it sixty times, you're probably getting fifty five good looks.
And they didn't go to it enough, and they didn't go to Zoo enough.
When he's hot, he starts five of six in the first half.
If there's a guy out there that's three or three that's five of six.
I'm gonna feature him much more. He only ended up with three more shots
in the second half, that is, and one of them I think was
an offensive rebound and I put back. Yeah, I'm sorry, you got
me going there, Ose. I appreciate the phone call, my man.
Let's do it again on Wednesday. All right, all right, man,
Damien in La I saw you at the game. Wasn't able to say,
Hi, Damien, what's up here on Clipperstock? Adam? What's going on?
Triple A? Man, it's my birthday, Broddie oh Man, happy
birthday. And I'm sorry about the loss. Thank you. Yeah, Man,
it's okay, man, But you know I had to call in,
bro, because today I'm just proud to say that. You know, I
got myself into a new place, and you know we're moved in the whole
time you've known me, Bro, I've been homeless. Man, I've been
living out of my car, doing deliveries and everything, trying to get myself
right, trying to get a credit score and all that type of stuff.
You know, I'm a musician, Bro. We live off of cash,
you know. So when the pandemic hit, it hit me hard. When
the pandemic hit. It hit me hard. I could have, you know,
taken some shortcuts and done some things, but I just decided I was
going to live my life, you know, and meeting you and the crew,
big bro, you know, Carlow and of course no ego man like
that. Really, that really did a lot for me. Having the Clippers
as my team did a lot for me. And I know that there's a
lot of people out there in Clipper Nation right that are going through it.
I'm hearing it. I'm with all of y'all, and I just need for
y'all to know that, Yo, I got a story too, and this
team is special to me because of that too. I was you know,
I just thought, Adam, I'm straight together and extra fifty to sixty dollars
a month, and I'm gonna get my tickets, you know, and I'm
gonna come see you guys, because it's important, you know. Like that
was my escape, bro. Like that was the only time I could ever
get out of my car, you know what I'm saying, other than when
I was doing you know, the gigs that I had. Other than that,
I was just doing deliveries and I was sleeping up in this mug,
you know. But three years later we got the credit score up. We're
over seven hundred. We moved into a really nice spot, you know what
I'm saying out there towards San Diego, you know. And nothing had to
change, bro, Like I still got my tickets. We're still at games.
I'll be there on Wednesday. And you know, from the bottom of
my heart, Bro, I just had to say, thank you, big
Bro. I know you're listening. Thank you. No Ego, if you
get to hear this, thank you, Carlo, thank you. Carlo has
been putting his foot in this call. Man. We gotta have to spell
him in as with him, because he's putting the him in it right there.
And I just appreciate all of y'all man for accepting me and giving me
the courage to start. And I appreciate you bro go clip Damien. I
appreciate the phone call. It's inspiring. And we got to take a picture
Wednesday. I mean, we haven't talked enough recently here on Clippers Talk and
happy birthday, my friend, and the progress you have made and hanging in
with this team here in Clipper Nation and Clipernation is family. I mean,
we stick up for each other. We got each other's back. So Damien
as always appreciates you. Bro. Let's hear from Tagus and Walnut to close
things out tonight before we hear from people to Jake Warner, what's up?
Tagous Hey, what's up Adam? You know, when we were surging and
had that winning street going, we would quite often talk and say, you
know what, are other teams gonna do what like you got? They got
to pick their poison? Are they going to go hard in PG or quiet?
And it seems like recently and during these struggles, we're not saying that
as often. And I've been trying to kind of like figure out what's been
going on. To me, there's a few things. One, they're taking
too long to get into their sets and their actions very slow, and they
it's very predictable, and you can't do that against elite teams because they're very
good at defensively like these against Minnesota Oklahoma, and when they actually pick up
their pace, which you saw a little bit of today, they look like
a much different team. That's one thing. Two, it's very like predictable
as well, when we're posting up Kawhi and we're not getting generating good open
shots from the double team, and quite often we're passing around the perimeter,
but sometimes we're not seeing the dives to the basket and that sort of thing.
So I would like to kind of see them, you know, play
with purpose and whether they set the screen roll, it's got to be much
quicker and if Kawhi is you know, instead of having Qui posts up all
the time in the first quarter. I would like to see PG sometimes in
the post and maybe Kauhi is on the receiving end on some of the open
shots. But the way that they're playing right now is very slow, and
they're not able to get that break like when maybe they were younger to get
those open shots like pig and hard and it's a little bit harder now for
them, understandably, so so I would like to just see them pick up
the pace. I think that will go a long way and kind of reigniting
what they had during that surge. Yeah, a lot of good points there.
Tage just as always one of my favorite callers. They knew do need
to play with more purpose and play faster even in the half court. It
doesn't mean playing fast means you have to be in transition all the time,
playing up tempo, just making quicker, more decisive decisions in the half court
is really what's required from this team. And it's a little bit shocking that
it's fallen off to this to agree the last seven games, because for three
months to the second best offense, at times the best offense, and then
all of a sudden, the last seven games they're twenty third offensively. I
could see the defense slipping even further down the rankings, the offense to drop
twenty one twenty two spots. That's that's a little bit concerning, and I
gotta think some of it is tired legs when you're playing slower like that James
Harden and those heavy minutes we talked about with Carlojmenez earlier bringing it up that
look guy played back to back games where he was at eighty one minutes total.
That has an accumulative effect that compounds, and those dogs are still tired.
That's what it is sometimes, even with an All Star break. I'm
hoping they catch their second win soon. The good news is they do have
two days off before taking on the Lakers. Right back here at Crypto on
Wednesday. Even better news, big brother Jake Warner is gonna bring us some
positivity before we get out of here, because he is the fake philosopher,
the Professor Jake Warner Big Brother Jake podcast on the podcast one network. What's
up man? What an intro? Thank you you got it? Bro.
Shout out to Damien. By the way, that's that's an aspiring story.
Man. He's more of the fake philosopher than myself. That was powerful to
hear like this. Yeah, absolutely, But I do have some light at
the end of this tunnel, and it's not a train. Okay. That
old Mike d'antni. I love it. That's the only thing I liked about
him. But here we go. When you stop chasing what you want,
you walk right into what you need. So when they stopped chasing these victories,
the walk right into him, madam. Okay, okay, feel I
mean yeah, he won with the universe. Get in tune and find their
identity again. This team, all right, buddy, had a well formed
identity throughout most of the season. You gotta get back to that. Don't
get back to it. I'm not worried at all, you know, I
don't worry. If I worry, you should worry. I'm not worry right.
You keep us afloat here as always, Big brother, Jake Corner,
big bro for a reason. We'll see you on Wednesday too. Absolutely,
before we get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization,
Ralph olo'brien, Seeman, Noah Ego, Carla Jimenez on the call,
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