WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.360 The game is over, Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame 2 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:09.839 reaction has just begot Kawhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range. This 3 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:13.919 is Clippers locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead on 4 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:18.839 your hope for LA Clippers basketball. And now your host, you, sir, 5 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:24.440 are a bad man, Adam Auslin. Clippers lose one twenty two to 6 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:29.000 ninety one in Denver and then it really wasn't even that close. Welcome into 7 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:32.759 your postgame show. I am Adam Oslin. Coming up. You're gonna hear 8 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.240 from the head coach and the players. We're gonna be looking for that postgame 9 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:39.520 audio. But first back out to Denver with your voice of the Clippers, 10 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:42.960 Noah Eagle and off in your voice of reason here, No, I thought 11 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:46.039 you had a world class answer on Coach Low and what he's gonna say to 12 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:49.520 this team. He has to find a way to light a fire underneath each 13 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:53.039 and every guy after a loss like this. Yeah, playing it simple. 14 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:56.280 There's no excuses anymore for the Clippers. They came into this game. I 15 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:59.280 know they didn't have Nick with tuber John Wall, but you have the two 16 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:03.479 one three connection. Can you expect at minimum to be competitive every single night. 17 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:07.599 This is a team that is championship or bust this year. And if 18 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.159 nothing's gonna change from within the roster, then something has to change from outside 19 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:15.200 of the roster. And I think that's the message that's gonna come, like, 20 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:19.760 look, guys, time's a ticket. This is not a forever thing. 21 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:23.640 We have to produce now. And if they don't understand that, they 22 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.079 can't grasp that, then they've got bigger issues right now. And look, 23 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:30.640 they've got a great opportunity tomorrow night to now use that fire that maybe gets 24 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.560 lit under them. But look, Minnesota's playing well. Finally they've got a 25 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.079 couple of games. They've got some pretty emphatic wins. Anthony Edwards is starting 26 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:42.040 to look like that superstar we expected him to blossom into, and Rudy Gobert 27 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:46.480 is getting a little more comfortable with each game. I just think the Clippers 28 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.319 need to come out and set the tone on both ends of the floor tomorrow 29 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:52.799 night. I don't care if they're not shooting it well, I don't care 30 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:56.879 if they're not getting calls. You have to play hard and right now, 31 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:00.280 that's just not what's happening in these last six or seven games. Yeah, 32 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:05.680 and Minnesota just beat the Denver Nuggets, beat up on the Clippers, if 33 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:08.039 you want to go transitive property with it. But you know, I'm wondering 34 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:13.319 if, and you mentioned this during the game, but all the starters who 35 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:15.919 were pulled at the half, guys not playing big minutes, even Kawhi Leonard 36 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:21.240 plays just eighteen And coach lu talked about, you know, if Kawhi and 37 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:24.479 John Wall are never going to play back to backs this season pre game had 38 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:28.800 an interesting answer on that, and this may be a situation where we might 39 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:30.759 see Kawhi Leonard in a back to back. Yeah, we'll see. I 40 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:35.960 mean a lot of that is dependent on the medical staff and the analytics group. 41 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:40.199 They generally determine for these back to backs and for these minutes restrictions exactly 42 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:44.520 what they look like. So we won't know until they determine if they crunch 43 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:47.360 the numbers and do everything, and they always have the player's safety in mind 44 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:52.240 first, and so they're being extra cautus of course with Kawhi Leonard just says 45 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:54.479 the Denver Nuggets are with Jamal Murray and he hasn't played any back to backs 46 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:58.400 this year. For the Nuggets, so that's a common thing. So we'll 47 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:00.520 see even with just the eighteen minutes. But I do think it's good for 48 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:05.199 guys like Paul George, who was nursing a hamstring already coming in and did 49 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:08.080 not look like himself in the first half. Reggie Jackson played eighteen minutes in 50 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:13.319 this game. Zoobots fifteen, Morris fifteen. So you've got to feel like 51 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:15.680 they've got at least something left in the tank to go up to Minnesota and 52 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:19.639 find a way to get a win. But I'm not saying it's a must 53 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:22.280 win, because of course it's not a must win, but at the midway 54 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:25.199 point of the season, to lose five in a row, I can't think 55 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:28.400 of a better wake up call than that. Now, again, we talked 56 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:30.800 about this in great detail, not just on Monday, but pretty much throughout 57 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:35.199 this season. Now, the Boston Celtics last year started the season twenty one 58 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.319 and twenty one. They finished fifty one and twenty six. The Dallas Mavericks 59 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:43.080 started the season I believe it was eighteen and twenty and they finished fifty two 60 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:47.719 and thirty. So it's more than possible, but at some point you have 61 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:51.680 to kick it into gear, and I think that's what all of Clipper Nation 62 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:54.680 right now is waiting for because we've seen that gear. We've seen the Clippers 63 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:59.599 beat dominant at times this year, and it just hasn't been consistent enough to 64 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:02.159 really feel like they're making that progress that they expected at this point of the 65 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:05.520 season. Well, big game tomorrow night. We got less than twenty four 66 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:09.919 hours to find out that answer from the Clippers and see what they have. 67 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:13.599 Tip time is at six in Minnesota against the Timberwolves. We'll have your pregame 68 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:17.240 show starting right back here at five. Noah. Even in a game like 69 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:20.680 this, great call my friends. Safe travels. You know, Adam, 70 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:24.839 I always appreciate you, and even with a game like this, can't wait 71 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:29.000 because I can't if there's ever a time that you can't wait. Thankful that 72 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:31.519 the NBA plays back to backs, it's not a night like this. Want 73 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:34.639 to see if the Clippers can get the bad days out of their mount Coming 74 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:38.639 up next, we'll get to your post game box score. Looking for postgame 75 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:42.360 audio from the coach and the players. They're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers 76 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:46.199 radio close up. It's all basic. I've been spending hundred and sift they 77 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:49.120 had small faces, Rob your stashed out, doubled out down in vegan Oh, 78 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:56.720 Paul George LA Clippers basketball continue in his faints as he ferries the three 79 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:03.160 on the home of your LA Clippers. Really sup, make your crap? 80 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.680 Don'tight me like having the boys from neighborhoods and study you'll trying to fight me. 81 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.519 Clippers lose one twenty two to ninety one from Denver to the Nuggets. 82 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:20.079 Welcome back into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin coming up on a M 83 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:24.319 five seventy l A Sports. We'll have Clippers talk for you. Eight six 84 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.920 six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two five 85 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:32.439 seventy is the phone number. You can also tweet at me at follow Adam 86 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:35.800 A. Clippers end up shooting thirty seven percent from the field, five of 87 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:42.839 thirty seven from three, and I'm telling you it was much much worse than 88 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:45.720 that throughout most of the ball game. The Clippers ended up winning the fourth 89 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:50.600 quarter by twelve and inconsequential, uh garbage time fourth quarter. We're gonna call 90 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:55.759 it what it was tonight. They wanted thirty two to twenty meaningless fourth quarter, 91 00:05:55.839 --> 00:05:59.040 and you know, some of the young guys did get some run. 92 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:02.319 We wondered when Jason Preston was called up, when Brandon Boston was called up, 93 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:05.920 what was the reasoning for that. We thought it was an indication that 94 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:10.319 maybe Paul George couldn't go. Well, he could, but he started off 95 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:14.879 for seven, made just one shot in fourteen minutes, a three pointer, 96 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:18.040 finished with those three points. Kawhi Leonard started off cold as well. I 97 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:24.319 think he was oh for four then finished two for seven, had six points. 98 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:29.000 And when both those two start oh for eleven from the field, you're 99 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:31.279 gonna have a rough time. And the Clippers were down big in the first 100 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:34.800 quarter, they lost it by seventeen. Same in the second quarter, they 101 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:38.879 lost it by seventeen. I tell you said that we were down by thirty 102 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:43.600 four in the third, down by as many as forty three points to the 103 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:47.839 Denver Nuggets. The good news is there any well, they can fix this 104 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:51.000 real quick. They got a game tomorrow night. You want to see them 105 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:56.399 come out focused in Minnesota. More on that coming up next. Plus we're 106 00:06:56.399 --> 00:07:00.399 looking for postgame audio plus on a five seventy LA Sports we will have Clippers 107 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:02.720 stalk eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy. If I three, 108 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:10.399 you're on hold Hold eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy. You're 109 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:14.959 listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio Networks. The head call that a little 110 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:18.120 red put the big big the bread, the bull buck cuts your head in 111 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:21.959 a Monk's minute spread of that. I'm blood blood tuck linter running. You're 112 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:27.720 listening to LA Clippers basketball out it up top. Clipper puts it down plus 113 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:33.639 the foul every game all season long on their official hole. We close our 114 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:38.519 fall show. It feels because they got me doing the brook and then we're 115 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:41.839 back in the colortroom. I'm waiting on the outcome. Clippers lose. He 116 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:46.040 just saw this, Unfortunately the outcome they wanted. Once twenty two to ninety 117 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:50.680 one final score in Denver, Nuggets come out on top, and less than 118 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:55.720 twenty four hours away, Clippers are gonna be in Minnesota tomorrow night taking on 119 00:07:55.759 --> 00:08:00.319 a Timberwolve team that just beat the Denver Nuggets. Tip time for that one 120 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:05.199 is at six. Clippers countdown at five. Outside of Los Angeles, We're 121 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:09.240 leaving you until then, but coming up on an five seventy l A Sports. 122 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.439 We got Clippers Stalk eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight 123 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:16.040 sixty six ninety eight seven two five seventy as the phone number or gets me 124 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.959 on Twitter at follow Adam A outside of La taught to you tomorrow at five 125 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:24.279 in Los Angeles. It's Clippers Talk next. It feels to you. I 126 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:28.399 take your baby, Bubba. You see this is Bubba G's and the Keys. 127 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:35.240 Young cust welcome into Clipperstock. Here's a new sheriffrom Count. You won't 128 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:37.919 be able to deny it. If you're going to go to the NBA Finals. 129 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:41.120 I believe it in my heart. This is the best team in the 130 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:46.360 history of the franchise. I am all about the Clipper Nation. This is 131 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:50.279 Clippers Talk. They're trying to win the whole thing. A postgame look, 132 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:56.440 it's your LA Clippers recapping the game, the stars and looking ahead to what's 133 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:01.240 next. To hear episodes you've missed. Subscribe to Clippers Talk on iHeart Radio 134 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:07.559 or wherever you podcast. Now your host of Clippers Talk. Here's Adam As. 135 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:16.799 It's like there's rock Bottom fifty feet a crap. Then me Laber Nation. 136 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:20.320 I'm right there with you, right now, after they lose one twenty 137 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:24.399 two to ninety one in Denver to the Nuggets. And it wasn't even that 138 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:30.399 close. Clippers were down by as many as forty three, but who's counting. 139 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:33.200 Welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslin. Eight six six nine eight 140 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.639 seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the 141 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:41.879 phone number if you'd like to get on. Coming up, we will have 142 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:46.159 William Updyke from Clips and Dip. We'll do some Clips and Double Dip tonight 143 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:50.240 here on Clippers Talk and Coach lois at the podium right now. We're pulling 144 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:52.519 that sound. We'll have it all for you. I see some of the 145 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:58.679 quotes that are already percolating on Twitter. This is the lowest point of the 146 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:03.720 season. We hope it certainly is so far. Now. I'm old enough 147 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:07.000 to remember when the Clippers were two and four and had lost four straight and 148 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:11.639 people were panicking, and I preached patience and said it's going to be okay. 149 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:16.799 It's early and even though they just lost two straight to the ok See 150 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:20.799 Thunder, they're going to turn this thing around, and they did. They 151 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:26.480 would go on a winning streak near after that, another time they lost four 152 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:28.159 or five games. I want to say they turn things around when on a 153 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:37.080 wing streak, the bad loss in Orlando in overtime, they turn things around. 154 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:43.120 They beat the Boss and Celtics. It's this erratic play, though, 155 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:48.320 in the inconsistency that I think is the place of where the frustration stems from 156 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:54.600 for Clipper Nation, because you know how good this team could be, but 157 00:10:54.639 --> 00:11:01.039 they're not playing to their potential. And tonight this wasn't even SEE minus game. 158 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:05.639 This was can you get in F minus? Is there anything worse than 159 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:11.519 fus? The cooting old had chosen money spin on a pob Steve Hartman take. 160 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:16.200 Is there anything better than a Hay plus? I don't know. Luckily 161 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:22.320 never had one, I don't think. But they came out as flat and 162 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:28.440 is cold from the outside as I've ever seen. This was historically bad. 163 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:35.480 Being down by seventeen after the first quarter and only scoring fifteen points is brutal 164 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:41.799 to be doing it with this team with Kawhi and Paul George out there. 165 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:46.159 This wasn't the game against Phoenix where they had nobody available. We didn't know 166 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.759 Paul George if he was going to play or not, but he did in 167 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:56.919 a way. Played fourteen minutes, started over seven, had three points. 168 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:03.120 Kawhi Leonard started over four, played eighteen minutes, had six points. Two 169 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:07.200 for seven or overall, those two guys combined to start over eleven and nobody 170 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:15.519 can hit anything from the outside when they were being guarded and doubled. It 171 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:20.679 had the makings of what I said early on, this game could be another 172 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:24.759 Dallas situation. Remember the Dallas Mavericks two years ago. This was late in 173 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:31.000 twenty twenty, coming out of the bubble season, in the Clippers third game 174 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:35.639 of the year, late December. It was because they pushed the season back. 175 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:39.919 It started a little bit later. They lost to Dallas by fifty one. 176 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:45.320 Did it end up being meaningful or deciding their season? No, They 177 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:50.600 went to the Western Conference finals for the first time in franchise history. But 178 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:54.480 this is worse. I know the score isn't worse. They didn't get down 179 00:12:54.559 --> 00:13:00.639 by that many, and Denver's at the top of the Western Conference. But 180 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.960 they've lost four in a row and we're almost at the midway point, not 181 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:07.720 at the start of the season, with eighty more games to go. They 182 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:13.639 got forty two games left, I believe, and they just had two days 183 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:20.200 off and as I mentioned, they had the two on three connection. This 184 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:24.200 is as bad as it could get for a loss at the midway point of 185 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:28.200 the season. Will it define them? I don't know yet, but they 186 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:33.120 better turn things around and have a sense of urgency quickly. You can't let 187 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:39.080 a loss like this hang around like a dark cloud. The good news, 188 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:43.879 I guess, is that they have a chance to somewhat redeem themselves because they're 189 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.600 playing tomorrow in Minnesota. And by the way, the Timberwolves just beat up 190 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:50.919 on the Denver Nuggets, who just beat up on the Clippers. Not an 191 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:56.399 easy one. The good news is the starters didn't play much and coach lew 192 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:01.559 spoiler alert didn't say as much. Of his dission going into that second half 193 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:03.320 and not playing the starters was about them being on a back to back. 194 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:11.720 Wisely, what's the point of playing them? You're down thirty four. Biggest 195 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:16.120 comeback in NBA history thirty six. Second biggest was by the Clippers down thirty 196 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:22.200 five last year against DC or against the Washington Wizards in DC. They're not 197 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:26.600 playing the Wizards in this game. They're on the road against Denver, Yogas 198 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:31.639 had three points in the first half and they were down thirty four. It's 199 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:37.440 unbelievable. It was an unmitigated disaster. You gotta be honest about it. 200 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:43.840 Just a complete failure because we had hyped this game up as a measuring stick 201 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:48.120 opportunity for the Clippers. Two days off. Had just lost three in a 202 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:56.399 row winnable games. Now they have lost five of seven. Before that, 203 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:58.759 it was four of their last six and they could have won all six of 204 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:07.360 them. So when is that sense of urgency going to set in. It's 205 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:13.480 got to start soon. One of the most frustrating things has to be this 206 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.480 team is closer to being whole than it has been throughout most of the season, 207 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:22.360 and they've lost five of seven. I know Kauai couldn't go Monday night 208 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:28.080 non COVID related illness, but they've had him a lot the last two weeks. 209 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:33.399 Their offense on the road trip was very good during that five game Roady 210 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:39.440 they were third offensively, But what happened They let their defense slip, And 211 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:43.159 coach lew said it after they lost to the Miami Heat Monday night one ten 212 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:48.279 to one hundred. Sometimes when your offense starts to come around, or one 213 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:50.200 side of the basketball starts to come around after you've been struggling in there all 214 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:56.200 season. You don't take care and focus in on the way you were playing 215 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:58.919 on the other end, where the Clippers have been a top five defense all 216 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:03.080 year long. You can't have that mindset that now our offense is playing much 217 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:06.240 better, we can let up defensively. No, not if you're going to 218 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:14.000 be a championship team. Those teams almost always finish top ten in both categories 219 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:18.399 offensive rating and defensive reading. Clippers aren't close to that right now. Offensively, 220 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:23.840 they had twenty five points with I think six minutes left in the first 221 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:32.600 half. This was brutal. This was a gut punch, not a knockout 222 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:41.759 blow. Still over forty games left. But I'm just wondering what changes could 223 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:45.600 be coming, if any, whether it's to a mentality of philosophy out there 224 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:52.440 on the court or personnel wise, because when you have losses like this and 225 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:56.759 in those areas, they already had struggled without a true backup big man that 226 00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:00.320 you can rely on. And I give Moses Brown read it. He's played 227 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:07.400 well this season, but he's still very young. He's not exactly a season 228 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:11.759 vet behind the viatsa Zoobots, and the Clippers have gone small so often. 229 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:15.759 It hasn't worked for the most part this year, because it's one thing to 230 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:19.480 go small when you have reliable guys in Kawai and Paul George playing all the 231 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.000 time. That's more of a big small with him, with them too, 232 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.880 and Nicholas Batoum, who was out tonight, and whoever you want to put 233 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.200 around them, Terrence Man, Reggie Jackson, Norman Powell, Luke Kennard. 234 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:34.599 Okay, but they haven't had the two on three connection that often. This 235 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:41.720 was just Kawai's seventeenth game. They're now eleven and six with him, and 236 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:48.720 you're trying to go small with John Wall and Luke Kennard and Norman Powell and 237 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:52.200 Reggie and four guard lineups and three guard lineups and experiment and try to figure 238 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:57.559 things out. And I'm all for it, but at some point you're getting 239 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:00.799 down to the nitty gritty and you got to say, who are we going 240 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:03.960 to be as a team, what's our identity gonna be? And at the 241 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:07.920 midway point, that seems like a reasonable place to say, Okay, lock 242 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:12.319 in laser focused, here we go and We're going to be a consistent basketball 243 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:18.920 team like we know they can be, we think they can be. But 244 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:27.480 they've played up to competition at times, and tonight absolutely didn't meet the challenge 245 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:33.920 of the Denver Nuggets. This didn't resemble the team that beat Boston at home 246 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:41.480 handily by twenty. They got handled. And it's tough to say, but 247 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:47.160 I'm not going to shy away from the truth about this team right now that 248 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:52.839 they are an unconsistent or an inconsistent contender that hasn't been able to put it 249 00:18:52.880 --> 00:19:00.640 together for long stretches. I say contender still because the talents there on paper, 250 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:06.759 the roster is there, and there have been those standout games where they 251 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:11.920 certainly look like one. The domination that they had in Toronto I thought was 252 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:18.160 really impressive on the Roadie Toronto's better than their record. They have talent, 253 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:25.279 tough place to play, and the Clippers ran through them, and you see 254 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:29.359 their offense turn around and they could run with the Indiana Pacers. It almost 255 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:33.519 beat them at their own game. If they just played a little bit of 256 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:38.279 defense, they win that ball game. So the offense is more than capable 257 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:45.880 of rising up and meeting the challenge. But not tonight. I don't know 258 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:49.119 if it was lack of focus, lack of effort, or maker miss league 259 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:55.880 and they were on the wrong side of just a brutal shooting night, an 260 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:02.240 unbelievably bad shooting night. How bad first half their two for twenty one from 261 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:06.240 the outside, I want to say at least ten of those were open threes, 262 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:11.000 but nobody could hit them early. And sometimes I said this on Clips 263 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:17.759 and Dip recently, when you're in Denver against that team, things can snowball 264 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:22.960 quickly, and I'm sure there was more pressure with each and every shot from 265 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:26.240 the outside after they started to miss a few and get down early, as 266 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:33.319 they did something like fifteen to seven. The Clippers go five minutes multiple times 267 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:37.079 in this game without scoring a field goal, from the end of the first 268 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:42.880 to the early in the second quarter. And defensively, I almost find it 269 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:47.759 harder to judge your defense when your offense is this bad, because you can't 270 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:52.480 get set on the other end. You look at the numbers. It certainly 271 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.839 wasn't good given up thirty two and thirty four points on the second quarter to 272 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:02.039 Denver, But if you're not hitting shot, it makes things so much more 273 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:07.559 difficult on the other end too, the Clippers offense has to start to turn 274 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:11.519 things around. I was just waiting for Kawhi Leonard or Paul George to get 275 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:12.759 on a heater and say, get behind me, guys, all right, 276 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:19.039 we're gonna be all right. I'll shoulder the load for a few minutes here 277 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:23.559 offensively, get us back into this game, get it to within reach until 278 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:30.519 everybody else finds a rhythm. Well that didn't happen. Clippers down by as 279 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:33.720 many as forty three and lose one twenty two to ninety one in Denver to 280 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:38.920 the Nuggets. Let's start with Michael in La Michael, what's up your on 281 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:47.200 Clippers stock without I'm awesome, Hey Adam, you know, first of all, 282 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:49.799 let me just say the Clips and GIP is an amazing podcast. It's 283 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:55.839 awesome. I love it, Thanks Mike. But with regards to this, 284 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:59.359 you know, this game, it's done. This game that bothers me so 285 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:03.960 much as much it is the the winnable games that we've lost, especially recently. 286 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:08.519 Well because you look at it now, we're has a game out of 287 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:12.480 the play in and I mean, you know, in the right direction of 288 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:17.000 the sixteed. But we're very close to being in the play and yeah, 289 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:21.400 they're closer to be the ten seed, Michael than they are the first seed. 290 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:27.559 Yeah. So, I mean, but you know you brought up earlier 291 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:33.160 the Indiana game. You know that was a winnable game that you know we 292 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:36.759 lost because you know, even you look at the Boston game and Boston's a 293 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:38.599 great team, but you know we could have had that we lost at the 294 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:42.319 same thing with the Philadelphia game, Miami. You know, et cetera, 295 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:48.000 et cetera. Uh, these games that you know, if you win, 296 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:51.319 the games that you really should win, that you can win that are winnable, 297 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:55.359 they cushion. So you have some cushion for a game like this. 298 00:22:55.960 --> 00:22:56.720 Yeah, but you know what, Michael, Now, I mean, let 299 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:03.920 me say this, A game like this was built to be two Western Conference 300 00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:07.440 powers going head to head, two teams that met in the playoffs a couple 301 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:12.799 of years ago, and the Clippers should come out with the right intensity and 302 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:17.680 focus because they had just lost three in a row. As much as those 303 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:22.720 games also matter and can irk you because they were very winnable. Any game 304 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:26.880 is winnable when you have Kawai and Paul George out there and for them to 305 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:34.119 be down by forty three is also unacceptable. That was roth not tonight was 306 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:38.000 little no doubt, all right, Michael, I appreciate the phone call on 307 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:41.559 the love for Clips and Dimp. We'll take a quick time out. I'll 308 00:23:41.559 --> 00:23:44.519 screen your phone call is coming up eight six six nine eight seven two five 309 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:47.680 seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy. If you're on hold, 310 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:55.680 we'll get to you. Don't worry. You gotta be a straight shooter tonight. 311 00:23:56.559 --> 00:24:02.640 I can't not be frank on a night when Clippers lose like this because 312 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:07.559 I know what we said pre game. We hyped it up too for good 313 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:12.119 reason. I'm not gonna back down from that and say it's meaningless. Now 314 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:18.200 we'll hear from the head coach coming up more of your phone calls. William 315 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:25.599 Updyke from Clips and Dip will be here on ampire seventy al a sports around 316 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:30.640 You baby day, searching for your next set of week. Oh George, 317 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:37.839 La Clippers Basketball continue pisen his pains as he carries the three on the home 318 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:42.160 of your La Clippers. It's like to be broke. I feel like I'm 319 00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:47.480 walking the side rope without a circus day popping day. I'm a nervous thread 320 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:49.039 at a serviles bag, But I work a sweat for it's worth it. 321 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:52.920 A jay about the first to take it. Somebody to prefers to day minimum 322 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:56.400 and drop bottom. For the Clippers tonight, they lose one twenty two to 323 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:06.480 ninety one Denver to the Nuggets and weren't even competitive. They were losing the 324 00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:10.720 entire way. It was a wire to wire win for the Nuggets. Yeah, 325 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:12.519 that type of night. We're down by as many as forty three. 326 00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:17.559 Welcome back into Clipper stock. I'm atam moslin to eight sixty six ninety eight 327 00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:21.720 seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy looking for 328 00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:25.960 positives. Oh, just seven turnovers? How about that? Of course they 329 00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:29.039 only had. That's twenty four assists. I guess it's not a bad number, 330 00:25:29.079 --> 00:25:32.440 but a lot of that damage was done in the second half after they 331 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:37.759 shot twenty six percent in the first half and we're two of twenty one from 332 00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:41.160 three. Hey, it's a good thing they brought Jason Preston and Brandon Boston 333 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:48.079 there because they needed some bodies late when it turned into inconsequential time. Clippers 334 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:52.960 didn't look right spirit wasn't right, energy wasn't there, and they paid for 335 00:25:53.039 --> 00:25:56.200 it against a Denver team that was waiting for him and just ambushed him. 336 00:25:56.839 --> 00:26:00.440 Eight six, six ninety seven two five seventy. Come up, we'll here 337 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:04.279 from coach Low and William Updyke from Clips and Dip will be here. Jose 338 00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:10.279 and Downey Jose are on Clipper stock. Hey, Adam, how are you 339 00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:14.759 doing? You know what it was? It was a harsh game. It 340 00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:18.759 was really bad. But you know what I think it was in this stretch, 341 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:25.920 the defense that tends to lack is what gets me the most. And 342 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:30.880 with all these wings and all these good defenders, I think this is what 343 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:36.480 hurts me the most, the potential on that end of the floor. Plus 344 00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:40.880 they've actually played to their potential at times this season. The defense has absolutely 345 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:45.039 saved them because throughout the majority of the year Clipper has been a bottom three 346 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:48.200 offense. It's their defense that has kept them in games and has them with 347 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:53.440 a winning record. And now it's falling apart, right and then you know, 348 00:26:53.599 --> 00:27:00.839 going from last year historic shooting from the three too, I don't know 349 00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:06.079 exactly what percentage is now, but it's well, no, they're they're about 350 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:11.519 top five. They have turned that around. Uh, they're much better than 351 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:15.279 three point category, but it's gonna be. It's got to be three and 352 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:19.319 d collectively with this team, you know. Yeah, yeah, and it 353 00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:22.680 just sometimes I mean, if the shot ain't falling, I mean, you 354 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.680 know, take a step in, take an eighteen footer, you know, 355 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:30.160 seventeen footer, see if you can get yourself going. Yeah, they just 356 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:34.359 look lifeless offensively. I appreciate the phone call, Jose, I really do. 357 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:37.920 I'll get that three point percentage for you here too. They're six. 358 00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:44.559 I lied, I was one off thirty seven point six. It better than 359 00:27:44.599 --> 00:27:47.039 I did. But you know what, going into tonight, I bet they 360 00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:52.599 were five that shade. We're still a top five in defense though after this 361 00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:56.440 four game stretch. Also, good question. I will look that up for 362 00:27:56.519 --> 00:27:59.960 you. There were five or six, depending on where you would go, 363 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:02.799 Jose. Thanks for the phone call. I appreciate it. Yeah. I 364 00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:06.720 have a good one too. Uh, let's go to Javier Lahabra heights. 365 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:10.559 Javier, what's up here in Clippers talk with that? I'm astin it. 366 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:15.319 Wi's up, Adam. Thank you for taking a real quick Remember I mentioned 367 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:18.279 it last Sunday. I told you some of those games you're gonna come back 368 00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:22.160 to haunt them. But you know what you said, just give us some 369 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.319 time. They're not even in a position to be like nitpicking games that haunt 370 00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:29.880 them at the end of the season. They're not even good enough for that 371 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:34.839 right now, Jose, excuse me, Javier for being honest. But but 372 00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:40.680 but you noticed this, Adam was it. It's been since he's been a 373 00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:44.839 coach. He doesn't have him ready. It seems like, you know, 374 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:48.720 yeah, you call him the comeback clips. But they shouldn't come to that, 375 00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:51.799 Adam. They should have They should be ready to play every game. 376 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:55.799 I understand some games you're off, but look at these games. There's no 377 00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:59.519 excuse for this. I just don't know what else he can say. Some 378 00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:03.319 motive eate them to make shots, Like what else is she supposed to do 379 00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:07.119 in those situations. I think they are well prepared. I think sometimes they 380 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:11.319 come out flat because they're an older team and they lack some of that boost 381 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:14.359 and some of that energy, and tonight in the thin air in Denver, 382 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:18.640 it caught them in a really bad way. We've seen games like this from 383 00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:21.759 them before, but this is obviously on the extreme end. There have only 384 00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:25.880 been a few like this in the two one three era. Yeah, well, 385 00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:27.680 I mean, like you said, tomorrow's the big game, back to 386 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:30.839 back game, and we'll see all the team response. If they respond, 387 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:33.599 if they win the game, then maybe it's all start to pay. They 388 00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:37.880 come back flat again, then at this point you got you gotta say, 389 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.960 what's going on? Taylu. I mean we're already, like you said in 390 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:47.759 the mid that we're already went pay two games in. Tylu has a body 391 00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:52.160 of work of pushing the right buttons in the playoffs. Do you want a 392 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:57.559 great regular season coach that is getting wins that you end up forgetting about that 393 00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:00.839 get lost in eighty two game games, or do you want a guy who 394 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:06.720 has been winning games in the playoffs? Well, I mean you know, 395 00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:08.720 of course you want to win the playoffs. But then again, not just 396 00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:11.240 me had him, there's other callers that called you said, you know what, 397 00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:14.759 we don't want the Clippers to start in the first round on the road. 398 00:30:14.839 --> 00:30:15.839 It's hard to win the road. I agree, I mean you want 399 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:18.720 the first round, you know what I'm saying, first round the road, 400 00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:21.519 checking around the road. Hey, I agree. I bring it up all 401 00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:23.799 the time. The last team that wasn't the top three seed to win at 402 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:27.759 all would be the ninety five Houston Rockets. There's a track record here, 403 00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:32.599 there's history. Yeah, but they had a Kimo Lage one. So anyways, 404 00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:33.799 all right, Adam, thank you for thinking about car and we'll see, 405 00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:37.960 like I said, tomorrows the big game. He gotta you gotta show 406 00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:41.359 up. Thank you, Adam, Thank you appreciate the phone call. As 407 00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:45.759 always, Hobbier, he is one of our regulars here on Clippers stop one 408 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:49.759 more before we go to the head coach, Damien in La Damien, what's 409 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:55.359 up, Tripleay, thanks for taking my call. Man oh man, this 410 00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:57.079 is like I usually say, tough bluss when it's a tough bluss, but 411 00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:00.200 this is kind of embarrassing. It is a couple of things I wanted to 412 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:03.000 I mean, there's couple of things I wanted to get to, and then 413 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:06.119 before we go, I had a question. I want to leave you with 414 00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:14.559 ponder, but I feel really embarrassed because of the fact that this isn't the 415 00:31:14.599 --> 00:31:18.880 first time that we've put up a bad performance on national television, you know, 416 00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:22.839 like you know, normally, I'm I'm listening to the game, I'm 417 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:26.000 with you and I'm with Noah, and I like the call. I prefer 418 00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:29.839 the call. But because we were on national television, you know, I 419 00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:32.680 thought, well, hey, let me go down somewhere and watch TNT, 420 00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:36.680 and you know, this is what we give. And now I'm gonna have 421 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:40.880 to hear about what Chuck has to say. And you know, and Shack 422 00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:44.119 is you know, he's a he's a Laker, so he's not gonna say, 423 00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:45.799 you know, And I'm just like, man, you know, this 424 00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:51.240 was our game, you know, And and Tyler and the boys out there. 425 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:53.920 Man, they they didn't represent for us, man, And that really 426 00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:56.640 needs to be said. And this isn't the first time, you know, 427 00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:00.960 I think we we found out that we really need a backup for Zoo. 428 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:05.920 There needs to be a conversation about why we're not imposing our will and starting 429 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:10.359 early, like you said, we need to be adapting our our identity and 430 00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:15.039 imposing that will and then sticking to the mission. Me and you we tweeted 431 00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:16.359 about it. Man. They need, you know, get to the paint 432 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:20.880 or die trying. Why do we have why are we going two for twenty 433 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:22.880 one if it's not working in the first half. Get to the paint. 434 00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:27.559 We were ten for ten when I tweeted you right, we were ten for 435 00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:30.200 ten from the line. We were getting to the line, one of our 436 00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:32.799 best free throw knights. Why did we not do the little things, the 437 00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:37.440 smart things, the things that you and I can see in order to keep 438 00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:39.240 a ball game close? And that's what I had a problem. A lot 439 00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:44.960 of that, though, is energy and hustle, and they came out lifeless, 440 00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:50.000 in flat They were doa You know, it takes more energy to get 441 00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:53.880 to the basket and draw contact and hopefully get a call than it does to 442 00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:58.559 sell us settle for a jumper. And I'll say this though, I am 443 00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:01.640 aware that you know, not just you know, the Clippers, but many 444 00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:06.039 teams will go into Denver and put up a stinker. You know, if 445 00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:08.079 you don't have your mind right, if you don't have your win, it 446 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:10.640 can be hard to put up shots and to stick with it. Now, 447 00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:16.279 what happens even against bad Denver teams because they've always had a great home court 448 00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:20.960 advantage. Yeah, they do have that home court advtage. There's something to 449 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:24.319 be said for that, But there's nothing to be said for two for twenty 450 00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:28.759 one. Like let's get inside, let's get back to home. What we 451 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:30.960 do, which is getting in the paint. Let's let Big Zoo eat. 452 00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:35.839 You know, we definitely need a strong backup for him because he's really breaking 453 00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:38.720 us back for us, and you know, we need to do something to 454 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:43.200 get him a spell. The guys did look a little tired. I wonder 455 00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:45.640 if pg's hammy was right. But the question that I had, you know, 456 00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:50.200 because I know you got to get to a lot who is you know, 457 00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:52.079 because I really don't know who's the heart and soul of this team now 458 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:57.200 that Pat Bev is gone. Who do we look to, who's talking to 459 00:33:57.240 --> 00:34:00.400 the team, Who is the one holding us amountable on the court and not 460 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:06.440 letting us get away with anything. Well, unfortunately, I think I think 461 00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:09.960 one of those guys. The guy that comes to mind is Nicholas Batum and 462 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:15.039 he couldn't go tonight, so that hurt him right off the back. When 463 00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:16.760 you when you said that, I was like, damn, we missed him, 464 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:22.400 We missed him. They do. Yeah, that could have made and 465 00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:27.559 I appreciate the phone call Damien. That could have made a difference to start 466 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:30.639 the game. Even though he's not going to be out there with the starters, 467 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:32.599 he would have been the guy that came in quick with them going small 468 00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:37.920 early on. Instead it was Roko who looked okay, he had a big 469 00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:42.320 block early on, but he was over four from three. He couldn't get 470 00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:49.679 anything to fall. The Clippers have played at times this season like a team 471 00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:52.320 that assumes they're flipped the switch, team that can come back at any time. 472 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:57.679 But they aren't proving it. They aren't even some of the comebacks. 473 00:34:57.679 --> 00:35:01.639 They come back shorter, they come up short. We've seen that against Miami 474 00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:08.719 the other night, down twenty one. They have to come out feeling like 475 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:15.280 they're the underdog and playing like that, like their backs are against the wall, 476 00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:19.639 like they're still down nineteen early on in that game, in Game three 477 00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:23.159 on the road in the Lion's Den to the Dallas Mavericks, Like if they 478 00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:28.719 need to have some type of mindset where they start games like that, because 479 00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:32.119 really that's when everything changed or they were about to drop Oh they were about 480 00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:36.960 to be down oh three in that series. Nobody's come back down oh three, 481 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:40.199 They're down nineteen in twenty twenty one, that first round of the playoffs, 482 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:45.079 and Kawai takes over and Paul George follows them and everybody else kind of 483 00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:49.880 jumped on the back of the two one three connection. I don't know how 484 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:52.880 they do it. I don't know how to get their attention in the regular 485 00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:57.360 season sometimes with these games. But if this doesn't, I don't know what 486 00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:01.280 will. It's gonna be really interesting to see what type of team shows up 487 00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:07.239 tomorrow in Minnesota. While we have a moment less pause ten seconds for station 488 00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:14.039 identification here on A seventy LA Sports, this is LA Clippers Basketball A five 489 00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:20.760 seventy KLAC Los Angeles, seven KYSR HD to Los Angeles and iHeart radio station. 490 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:24.760 It's just frustrating and discouraging because if you're gonna win a championship, you 491 00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:30.559 have to have championship like habits. You have to build them over a season. 492 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:36.840 Even before Golden State won in twenty fifteen, they already were starting to 493 00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:40.639 handle teams and third quarters where they were pulling away from teams or getting back 494 00:36:40.679 --> 00:36:45.159 into games. They were always winning third quarters, something great teams typically do. 495 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:50.199 Let's hear from coach lou postgame. Clippers lose and we're down as many 496 00:36:50.239 --> 00:36:53.280 as forty three. Final score one twenty two to ninety one in favor of 497 00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:58.239 the Denver Nuggets, who was your head coach, Toronto lou after the game, 498 00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:01.920 Dad, I think you know, I think earlier on we got some 499 00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:05.800 good shots till we didn't make and then we kind of let our offense, 500 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:07.440 you know, dictate our defense, and we didn't do a good job of 501 00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:10.800 everything we talked about, just the cuts, you know, Aaron Gordon on 502 00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:15.920 the offensive rebounds, and we didn't. We didn't have a defensive mindset to 503 00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:17.320 start the game, and it kind of hurt us. You know, got 504 00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:20.320 some open shots, but you don't make as part of the game. But 505 00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:22.119 we had to be better defensively and we knew that coming to the game where 506 00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:24.440 they embarrass you. And so you know, tonight it was a tough game 507 00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:30.440 for us. See, you bet you that defensive mindset started games. Want 508 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:32.760 to be keys for this team set that after the EA game. Fine, 509 00:37:34.519 --> 00:37:38.320 uh tonight tonight get that white Bundy. You think that's something that's occurred. 510 00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:42.840 I'm not sure. You know, we don't try to do everything. We 511 00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:45.800 don't went to the drawing board three or four times, but you know, 512 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:47.239 we just gotta be better to start games. And so you know, our 513 00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:51.159 group understands that this was a tough game for us tonight. You know, 514 00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:52.639 and we came in and you know, we don't make shots earlier. Your 515 00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:55.639 defense has to be really good. And so we didn't make shots early. 516 00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:59.440 You know, I think we started off one for nine or one for thirteen 517 00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:01.480 from three, something like that. And so, you know, and all 518 00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:04.800 of us pretty good looks. But when you don't make shots that, your 519 00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:07.079 defense, guys has to be even better. And so tonight they took it 520 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:10.719 to us. They played a good game and had number one team in the 521 00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:14.039 West for a reason. And so we get him again next week to see 522 00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:19.159 what we made of I see sat started the half time. How much of 523 00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:21.760 that was just the back to back with me? And half half was just 524 00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:25.320 it's not effective. Yeah, the back to back was was uh pretty important, 525 00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:28.960 but I mean and they didn't have it tonight, you know, And 526 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:30.559 so you know, I just thought, we give our young guys a chance 527 00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:34.239 to you know, play hard and compete, get'em a little bit of 528 00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:37.159 experience, not knowing who's gonna play tomorrow, and so my mindset was just 529 00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:39.360 you know, thinking about the back to back and you know, getting ready 530 00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:44.360 for tomorrow when you're down thirty four, thirty six and a half time yeah 531 00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:49.199 something, Yeah, not uh, not with any eye too tomorrow just for 532 00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:52.159 the night in Jo. Why do you feel paul Ki came out of that? 533 00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:57.079 Oh he's fine. Is there playing on me at the first half? 534 00:38:57.159 --> 00:38:59.760 Is there any possible you can quite play tomorrow? It's just, you know, 535 00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:06.599 I don't know, just looking at its four s, three losses and 536 00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:09.440 everything. We try to keep the team together early game or everything late. 537 00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:13.920 I mean, I know you got a better team prose every day. Is 538 00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:19.440 there anything different that you tell him right now this one season versus four games 539 00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:22.320 the street back in October just to keep No, we just gotta we just 540 00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:24.880 gotta play better, you know, I think on both sides of the basketball, 541 00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:29.199 we gotta play better, and so we haven't been doing that since we 542 00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:30.280 got a whole group back. And then we know it's gonna take some time, 543 00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:34.280 and so that's what happened. When you get everybody back so late in 544 00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:37.599 the season, it's gonna take a little time. And so right now losing 545 00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:38.760 the four games, you know, we want to win every game, but 546 00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:43.480 my thing is more so us building the right habits on both sides of the 547 00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:45.400 basketball and right down. Since we had our whole group together, we haven't 548 00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:47.880 done that, so we gotta be better with that, you know, continue 549 00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:51.320 to work on lineups, continue to work on you know, how we want 550 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:53.000 to play, but we haven't been very good, you know, since everybody's 551 00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:58.440 been back. Do you feel like for what you've seen so far that that 552 00:39:58.519 --> 00:40:00.159 had its can be built for where we Oh? Yeah, for sure, 553 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:02.599 I mean we have it in its. We do it in spurts, you 554 00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:07.840 know, and the Pailly game, the Boston game, like when we played 555 00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:09.079 you know, two and a half good quarters, but were having to string 556 00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:13.199 along, string out, you know, forty eight minutes and so you know, 557 00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:15.440 nothing to get discouraged about. We just know we gotta play better. 558 00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:16.760 We gotta play hard on the defensive end, you know, that's where it 559 00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:20.719 all starts. And we'll be fine, you know. So you know, 560 00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:22.760 I gotta be better, the players gotta be better. But nothing to panic 561 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:27.119 worry about. We either well, we'll be able to get on track. 562 00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:30.239 And I have no doubt about that. Obviously you had it for some event 563 00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:35.320 shages. Just say it again, the evench had to be difference in it. 564 00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:40.679 John and obviously wasn't available and either wasn't available and just how we how 565 00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:45.199 do he was not even in the second half. But in the first half 566 00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:49.199 way, how do you assess, Oh, what you saw from how those 567 00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:52.639 guys played the other we would keep Norman team, And yeah, I thought 568 00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:54.880 they did a good job, you know. I thought we'd generated some good 569 00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:58.760 shots, some shots that we normally make that we didn't. And it's just 570 00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:00.920 one of those nights, you know, defensively or we struggled. But you 571 00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:02.920 know in those nights when you struggle offensive I just said, you know, 572 00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:07.039 we gotta be better defensively, and so you know, it is what it 573 00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:08.960 is. You know, we gotta be better. You know, we've seen 574 00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:13.800 came into a you know, ran into a good team at night and we 575 00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:15.360 wasn't ready, you know, and so you know it happens. You know, 576 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:19.119 it's a bad game. We gotta you know, Erase, this's when 577 00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:22.840 you get ready for tomorrow. Well, we got the end of that a 578 00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:27.719 race two. I like the mindset there I do. It's not a sign 579 00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.480 to panic. That's what you have to hear from your leaders. There are 580 00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:36.760 forty two more games left in the season. It can't be a time to 581 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:40.679 panic, but it is a time to have a sense of urgency, and 582 00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:45.119 they have a chance to show some of that tomorrow in Minnesota against a good 583 00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:49.119 team that just beat Denver, or against a team that is playing better at 584 00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:52.599 least more Clippers stock coming up next eight six six ninety eight seven two five 585 00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:55.639 seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy we'll get back to your 586 00:41:55.639 --> 00:42:00.719 phone calls. We'll hear from William Updyke, clips and tip. This is 587 00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:05.840 M five seventy Las boys on my head of my game, steal cupping my 588 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:09.960 least with the beats, still not loving police. It was blocked by George. 589 00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:15.400 This is LA Clippers basketball. He is a one man crawl and defensive 590 00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:22.639 man on the home of your LA Clippers. Last time that I checks five 591 00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:27.039 chains on my neck, it was no smile on my BP. Last time 592 00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:32.159 that I check set trail by as many as forty three. They lose one 593 00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:40.760 twenty two ninety one in Denver for the Nuggets. Things to do in Denver 594 00:42:40.840 --> 00:42:45.760 when you're dead, it's a great movie. Clippers a dad. In fact, 595 00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:51.679 they're more than alive and hopefully well and going to Minnesota tomorrow, and 596 00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:53.719 they got forty two more games to play in the regular season. That's the 597 00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:59.320 good news. They have a chance to turn around very quickly and show who 598 00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:02.199 they are. I'm just waiting for that to happen over a sustained period of 599 00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:07.679 time though. I think that's part of the issue for me with this team. 600 00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:09.719 Yeah, that's the thing that we keep coming back to. Right I 601 00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:14.480 will up Dyke is joining us now. I didn't even didn't even introduce him 602 00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:16.920 of This guy's ready to go after a loss like this. It's William up 603 00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:21.320 Dyck from Clips and Dip a Little Clips and double Dip here on clippers stock 604 00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:25.280 will let a Rip. I apologize. I'm chomping at the bid after this. 605 00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:30.239 I mean, look, that's has been the most frustrating thing, right 606 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:34.039 like I'll lead off with the bad. The most frustrating thing has been every 607 00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:37.599 time we think this team finds an identity. Every time we think that they're 608 00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.639 turning a corner or something, they go on a skid or they turn out 609 00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:46.800 like such an uninspired performance that it honestly gives you an existential crisis about why 610 00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:52.280 or even a fan I get that. I understand that. I mean, 611 00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:57.760 I guess, like the non rain cloud or the sunlight is we can say, 612 00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:00.559 hey, you know, at least it wasn't fifty one now I think 613 00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:04.599 this is no. I think this is worse. Like the score wasn't worse, 614 00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:07.639 but this is in the middle of the season. That happened in Game 615 00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:10.159 three, and they just had two days off to prepare for this, and 616 00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:14.119 they didn't have Kawhi in that game against Dallas. I don't believe either, 617 00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:20.960 Okay, but like this is technically what Game fourteen of Kawai and Paul George 618 00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:23.480 and I think after a break. I mean, like, I'm not saying 619 00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:27.639 that they deserve the benefit of the doubt where it's the same as it being 620 00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:30.719 the third game of the season, But like, this game could go. 621 00:44:31.280 --> 00:44:34.519 In my mind, this game was gonna go one of two ways. It 622 00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:38.400 was gonna be a really tightly contected game or the sort of like ugly issues 623 00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:44.039 with the Clippers often and the Stars not really being able to gel due to 624 00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:46.800 not having the time was going to rear Dug we Head. I said yesterday 625 00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:50.559 that I thought that it would definitely be the former, It would be a 626 00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:53.719 closely contested game. Turns out I was very much wrong. Yeah, so 627 00:44:53.840 --> 00:45:00.960 was I. William Updyke is our guest here on Clippers Stock. This is 628 00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:06.840 a great podcast with Charles Mockler and myself. I don't want to say it's 629 00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:09.079 great and then say that I'm on it too, So let's just say it 630 00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:13.639 to you guys and then and then it's me, you know, at third 631 00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:15.800 wheel in it and having a good time. And I love doing it, 632 00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:20.360 but especially on nights like tonight, it's good to do some clips and double 633 00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:23.039 dip because let me ask you this, because I don't know what to make 634 00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:29.559 of this, because I leaned towards it's a maker misleague sometimes and the Clippers 635 00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:34.199 have to take those open threes that they had in the first half that they 636 00:45:34.199 --> 00:45:37.719 weren't hitting. There were two or twenty one, but they kind of have 637 00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:39.840 to take them to unlock their offense. It just seemed like it was one 638 00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:44.159 of those nights where they weren't falling. I don't how do you see those 639 00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:49.480 offensive struggles, especially early on with the starters. Yeah, I mean, 640 00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:52.320 I understand why people can get a little upset about the three point shooting thing 641 00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:55.800 because it has been so cold, and ideally, I mean this offense is 642 00:45:55.800 --> 00:46:00.280 that it's best when they're really getting a lot more paint touchet uh and getting 643 00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:05.119 those shots. Uh. You know, it's so tough because they do take 644 00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:07.239 the ones that are more frustrating. Is I feel like the heavily, the 645 00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:13.119 more contested choose and stuff when they're not falling, because it just looks so 646 00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:16.880 much uglier. But yeah, I mean fourteen percent as a team from three, 647 00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:20.960 I don't know what you do with that. I you know, like 648 00:46:21.079 --> 00:46:24.360 that's one of those things, that law of averages that's like so bad that 649 00:46:24.440 --> 00:46:29.679 it's it's it's not sustainable. Uh, and it has to bounce back and 650 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:34.800 and it was everybody right PG with what one of five Luke Kennard couldn't like 651 00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:40.880 Luke Kennard's struggle. That Luke Kennard's struggling like that with some open ones is 652 00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:45.079 completely bizarre. I do love the fact that coach lew says, Okay, 653 00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:50.599 we got a game to play tomorrow. Starters don't have it. I'm going 654 00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:52.480 with the backups who made a little bit of a push. I'm not sure 655 00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:55.840 if it was an ADO or a nine oh run early in that third quarter, 656 00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:02.119 but I still like that because they have had come comebacks before. Operating 657 00:47:02.159 --> 00:47:06.800 like that where he will take out the starters and say, you guys are 658 00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:09.039 bringing it. I'm going to punish you for this and backups. Here's your 659 00:47:09.119 --> 00:47:14.800 chance. Well, and it just makes sense too. I mean this game 660 00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:19.039 was over on that five minute, five minute, half minute Clipper scoring drought 661 00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:21.960 when Nuggets going an eighteen oh run. I mean, yes, we've seen 662 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:24.679 them crawl back from things like that before. This just from watching the game 663 00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:30.239 clearly wasn't that night. So you do get to preserve the stars a little 664 00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:32.239 bit. I really hope, I really hope, just for like the sake 665 00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:37.199 of continuity, that we can get some minutes out of at least one of 666 00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:40.719 the two stars, even if it's just another first half or something like they 667 00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:45.679 just they need the rest, like they need the reps. I you know, 668 00:47:45.880 --> 00:47:50.320 rust was definitely apparent. And it's just a bummer because you know, 669 00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:53.000 we know that rotation changes are coming. Uh. You know, this was 670 00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:58.800 supposed to be the glorious return of Robert Covington. Uh and and this is 671 00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:01.440 kind of what we get laid in our lap. And it's it's really unfortunate 672 00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:06.760 because I don't know, I just keep coming back to it that this is 673 00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:10.519 what this is Games four team right with Kawai and Paul George. I believe 674 00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:15.039 that's correct. It's somewhere. It's a little bit over a dozen games so 675 00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:17.960 far with it, both of them this season, and that's just I mean, 676 00:48:19.159 --> 00:48:23.000 you know, at forty games in that's just that's not enough to do 677 00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:27.239 much with it with a lost like this, you know what I mean, 678 00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:30.719 Like I can't point to the clear thing that's the takeaway that's like, this 679 00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:36.920 is what's really crippling the Clippers team other than them just not having time together, 680 00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:39.360 you know, like you know, PG and Kawai starting all nine. 681 00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:43.320 You know, we could see that happen in another game maybe, you know, 682 00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:45.639 when they're when they're minutes are at a at a regular pace, they 683 00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:49.159 can kind of get into the flow of the game as they you know, 684 00:48:49.239 --> 00:48:53.480 they both tend to tend to. So it's so tough for me to like 685 00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:58.679 take away a whole lot of like real tangible things other than you know, 686 00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:01.079 just the lack of continuity, the lack what feels like again a lack of 687 00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:06.800 identity, and just some very uninspired play like it was, you know, 688 00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:10.400 on top of everything, it was very uninspired. Yeah, that is very 689 00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:15.159 well said. What's your best guess on if Kawhi Leonard plays tomorrow? Coach 690 00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:19.280 lew was asked about it, he says he doesn't know. He plays eighteen 691 00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:23.360 minutes, but pregame it sounded like coach lew is still open to that idea. 692 00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:27.719 And look, he's not the one making the call. The medical staff 693 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:32.119 is. It's a collective group effort, I guess. But considering how bad 694 00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:37.400 they lost this game and him playing fewer minutes, what do you think reading 695 00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:42.599 the tea leaves on Kawai tomorrow Minnesota, And honestly, like, I don't, 696 00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:46.159 I don't know what the staff and the like the coaching stafskin this tide 697 00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:50.239 to do. I'm gonna say that like as a fan and someone who watched 698 00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:53.639 the team, Man, I hope so. Like I hope so. And 699 00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:57.880 I'm fine with Kawai and not playing all back to back and stuff. For 700 00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:00.800 a night where you get smacked like that you only play eighteen minutes, I 701 00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:05.719 would really like to see some some progress and even just getting rests on the 702 00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:08.760 floor, Like I'm not even expecting him to be in this next game back 703 00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:13.800 where he was and where we've seen him even in this season, but like, 704 00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:17.039 just get on the floor a little bit. I mean, you are 705 00:50:17.079 --> 00:50:20.960 gonna you know, you are going to play tight games. When we get 706 00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:25.039 to the playoff and I don't know, I do I would personally like to 707 00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:29.559 see it at least some minutes, even if it's just another eighteen minutes thing. 708 00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:35.119 He is William Updyke from Clips and Dip. That's a great show with 709 00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:39.960 myself and Charles Mockler at now. It's not at him at all. You 710 00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:43.599 guys have been doing this for years. You built this thing. I'm just 711 00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:45.559 jumping on him, piggybacking along for the ride. I love it though. 712 00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:50.719 It's a fun ride. And we'll do some more Clips and Double Dip tomorrow 713 00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:55.280 night with Charles Mockler after the Clippers played in Minnesota. Well not easy to 714 00:50:55.360 --> 00:51:00.280 come on tonight after the Clippers worst loss since the game against Dallas. I 715 00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:06.519 think you can say it could be worse. It could be worse. You 716 00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:08.079 made it better though, so I appreciate you man. Thanks for doing this 717 00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:14.760 already. Thanks Adam coming up next. Final phone calls eight six six ninety 718 00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:19.960 seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy Is this 719 00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:23.039 Clippers stock on a five seventy LA sports d Were you ever feel like we 720 00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:25.320 need back? Didn't just take me back. We just take me back, 721 00:51:27.639 --> 00:51:30.280 and this is the smiles we had when we were young. Oh, Paul 722 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:37.039 George La Clippers basketball continue, I s in his pains as he carries the 723 00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:51.119 three on the home of your La Clippers say something driven. Clippers lose by 724 00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:53.960 thirty one in a game they were down by forty three in in Denver for 725 00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:59.280 the top season the West and the Nuggets. Final score one twenty two ninety 726 00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:02.960 one. I'll come back in the Clippers stock Morris close things out with some 727 00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:07.880 positivity. Well, I want to tell them, excuse me, I'm gonna 728 00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:10.159 take something tomorrow. It's not a gimme. There's no such a thing to 729 00:52:10.199 --> 00:52:14.920 gimme, and said it was. I'm telling you, I already said it. 730 00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:17.079 It's definitely not a gimme. That team just beat Denver. Ye what 731 00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:20.840 they're waiting on it tomorrow. But I'm gonna tell you something's in the middle 732 00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:22.840 of the season. We got at a little bit of time to go. 733 00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:24.840 They're not doing what we thought they would do. But you know something, 734 00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:28.960 we should remember something. We're not in last place and the NBA is a 735 00:52:28.960 --> 00:52:30.800 funny year. You look at the Chicago Bulls. I don't think there are 736 00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:35.239 five hundred, but they're beating any of the top teams twice. Okay, 737 00:52:35.320 --> 00:52:39.559 as the Oklahoma just scored one hundred and fifty points the other day and then 738 00:52:39.559 --> 00:52:43.000 turn around the loft to a lot though, so we're still in the mix. 739 00:52:43.239 --> 00:52:45.199 I'll give it you tomorrow, Adam, keep your head up. Okay, 740 00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:46.519 all right, that was pretty good Morris. I'll take that level of 741 00:52:46.519 --> 00:52:52.679 positivity and a realistic approach to it. But look, Clippers are now five 742 00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:57.920 games back of the number one seed held by the Denver Nuggets, and they're 743 00:52:58.039 --> 00:53:02.719 only two and a half games or up, I should say, of being 744 00:53:02.760 --> 00:53:08.079 the eleventh seed and being out of the plan. The team that's in the 745 00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:14.119 eleventh spot, the Minnesota Timberwolves at eighteen and twenty one, is the Clippers 746 00:53:14.239 --> 00:53:19.440 dropped to twenty one and nineteen. Tomorrow tips off at six in Minnesota the 747 00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:22.800 Target Center. I think it's still called that we'll have pre games starting at 748 00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:24.599 five before we get out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers 749 00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:29.719 organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seman, Ralph Wahler, po brother, Jake 750 00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:35.199 Warner Or, head engineer, producer, Katie Newton, and Zacho o'qualady until 751 00:53:35.280 --> 00:53:39.239 tomorrow, Clippers playing two games in less than twenty four hours, starting at 752 00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:43.199 five with the pregame show from Minnesota. I'm at a Moslin. We will 753 00:53:43.239 --> 00:53:58.840 talk to you than this has been. Clippers Talked a postgame conversation about your 754 00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:02.559 LA Clippers with Adam Oslap. If you like the show, subscribe to Clippers 755 00:54:02.599 --> 00:54:07.960 Talk on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you podcast. They have the best. 756 00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:13.079 This team has those championship ingredients. They have some of that DNA. You 757 00:54:13.199 --> 00:54:16.519 can see it. This is Clippers Basketball. Join us next time on the 758 00:54:16.800 --> 00:54:19.760 LA Clippers Audio Network