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Adam Oslin and this is Clippers Talk. After they fall one oh six to
one hundred two the Utah Jazz. Coming up on the postgame show, you'll
hear from Robert Flam a Clippers analyst, rebably, a basketball analyst, a
brilliant mind. We bring on periodically here on the show, and you'll hear
from the head coach to Ron Loop post game after the Clippers look like they
were going to be played off the court by the Jazz, but instead they
come back late when they were down by twenty and no one this season has
come back down twenty in a basketball game so far, but the Clippers almost
pulled it off. It was just a one point game after a Paul George
three late in the fourth quarter while he struggled from the field mightily, you
could say, overall, and the Clippers did as a team after starting three
for eighteen. Paul George hit three three's in the last three minutes of the
fourth just to give them a chance, just to give them an opportunity to
somehow pull a game off or pull a game out when they had no business
winning in Utah with the way they were playing, shooting thirty percent thirty one
percent to be exact, in the first half, when the Utah Jazz had
hit I think ten three pointers at the half, and they hit four more
in the third quarter, and all of a sudden, they were up by
twenty, and I thought the Clippers might say, Okay, let's pack it
up, get ready for Phoenix. That doesn't happen with this team. That
isn't their makeup, that isn't their character. And Kawhi Leonard early in the
fourth quarter, entering the fourth the Clippers were down nineteen, Kawhi Leonard all
of a sudden, out of nowhere. And we've seen this many times where
it feels like he's just zeroing in with his shot, he's just calibrating his
scope. The first three quarters and he couldn't hit anything either. The Clippers
as a team missed a lot of easy shots. But when Kawhi Leonard is
missing easy eight footers, eight foot fadeaways, he's missing shots in the mid
range. When he's a mid range master, you know something's off, something's
just not quite right. But then to start off the fourth quarter, all
of a sudden, he and Sergeerbacca had a nice two man game going,
but Kawhi Leonard had a quick six points. Sergear Baca also had a nice
hook shot in the fourth and Patrick Beverley, who had himself a game,
hit a big three point shot as well. They had all the momentum on
their side, and the Utah Jazz looked like they were getting or the pressure
was getting to them. The Clippers finely got it close enough where it seemed
like the impossible was possible. And by the way, Patrick Beverley I mentioned
how good he was tonight. He was a plus in a game they lost
by six points. Somehow he only had six points. You know, it's
bigger than the numbers with him. But defensively in the second quarter, when
the Clippers held the Utah Jazz to just twenty points, it was a lot
of Patrick Beverley in there it beats the Zoobots as well. The problem is
the Clippers had two really bad quarters. To start things off in the first
half in the first quarter and then to start things off in the third quarter.
They would give up thirty one points in the first quarter while just scoring
nineteen. They would give up thirty three points in the third quarter while scoring
just twenty three. They came out flat to start both halves. But it
was still good to see them show some fight when even my friend Farbotes and
Shari said, I'm willing to call this one. It's over early in the
fourth quarter. The Clippers that we've seen this in the past. The Clips
come back on you. A couple of years ago, they had seven comebacks
in the regular season when they were down fifteen plus points or more. This
is a different team. But to do this to Utah Jazz team, and
of course you'd rather get the victory, it's a loss, and they got
off to such a slow start. They came up short. But the Jazz
had just lost last night by eleven at home to the Phoenix Suns, who
the Clippers are going to see on Sunday. You knew they were gonna be
hungry and it's one guy who keeps eating against the Clippers. Mike Conley Junior
thirty three points and really hit a dagger three pointer in the fourth quarter to
put them up six when the Clippers were scratching and clung their way back into
it. But he hit seven threes. Remember last season, Mike Conley really
shot poorly, especially the first half, trying to fit in with this new
Jazz offense. Some people said he lost to step, but he still would
light up the Clippers. He's a Clipper killer for whatever reason. As a
whole of the Jazz, they hit fifteen three pointers. The Clippers not bad
there, they hit thirteen. Really, the difference was the Clippers stayed in
the game by playing aggressively and getting to the free throw line and knocking down
twenty one of their twenty four free throws, while the Jazz made just nine
at the charity stripe. And even though Paul George was six of twenty two,
had twenty five points and half of his makes were in the fourth quarter.
Of those six, he did go eight of eight from the free throw
line. He did have six steals, four assists, eight boards. What
else can you do for the ball club when what you do best in scoring
in this case is what PG thirteen probably does best. But he does a
lot of things well. But how else can you help the team when shots
aren't falling. I thought he did other things. He had a lot of
steals in that second quarter when the Clippers were getting back into it, But
overall, there was a lid on the basket. It was that Folger's cup
lid that I believe Donnie's remains were in in the Big Lebowski. Is there
rops around here? It was brutal to watch at times. Shooting wise,
they still ended shooting under forty percent from the field. What's interesting is they
shot almost forty percent from three. They were better from the outside than they
were from distance, or excuse me, they were better from the outside and
they were from two. In the mid range, they couldn't get the easy
ones to fall. Paul George missed some layups, a dunk at one point,
and I believe it was in the second quarter, and then Kawai tried
to put it back in and that wouldn't fall either. It was unbelievable.
But I still like to see the heart and the toughness and that never say
die, never give in never give up attitude from the Clippers, even in
a loss like this. They lose one oh six to one hundred to the
Utah Jazz Clippers, now four and two on the season. Eight sixty six
nine eight seven two seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number. If I sound a little bit different than normal, full
transparency, I'm maybe in my car somewhere in Burbank through the power of technology
making this happen because I'm feeling a little bit under the weather myself, as
many people are right now. Don't need any sympathy, but just so you
know, if it doesn't sound as perfect, mister perfect as usual, that
would be the reason why. But I know Kevin Figgers has my back back
in Burbank. Nicholas Batoon, by the way, had two amazing plays,
heady plays in the ball game while he was just one of four, like
everybody didn't shoot the ball well, but he pulled the old Jamal Crawford and
now the Lou Williams move where you get fouled on a three pointer. So
he got to the line and went six for six, so twice he was
able to bait guys veteran move into fouling him on a three point shot.
Still finished with nine points and played and it was actually a plus zero in
a game they lost by six. So overall, the backups didn't give them
what they needed the way they had played the last two games for the Clippers.
When they won by twenty three points against Minnesota, when they won by
twenty three against Portland on Wednesday, Vizza Zubots was good. Lou Williams was
feeding him a little bit and finally found his shot late in the game when
he was going to his left. Where else would it be. He's money
from there and had five assists. I want to say most of them were
too a Viza Zubots who had six of his twelve points in that third quarter
and was getting active in the paint as well, but Lou Williams was finding
him. That's a nice connection that we're seeing build right now at this Clippers
team, and that's what the early season is about, building off of things
and learning these lessons and hopefully they can learn to get off to quicker starts,
because this has been a little bit of a bad trent and you from
Tehran Loo in just a little bit here but just nineteen points in the first
quarter for the Clippers really hurt them. And then to come out flat again
in the third quarter. That was their undoing. They put themselves in too
big of a hole. They were ice skating up hill a little bit.
Clippers lose one oh six to one hundred to the Utah Jazz. Will take
a quick break, We'll come back. My friend Robert Flom, big shot,
Bob Flom, Clippers analyst, He'll be on with me. This is
Clipper stock without a moslind on AM five seventy. LA sports every moment all
season long on their officials. Why letters sends it back to home? But
the Clippers still not come in here. In Game six of the regular season,
the Clippers would fall by a score of one oh six to one hundred
to the Utah Jazz. This is Clippers stock. I'm at a moslind eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number. When it looked like the Clippers were about
to evaporate like the Clemson Tigers against Ohio State, they came back down twenty
in the second half. They were down one with just a few minutes left,
but Utah would make just enough shots, and Rudy Gobert had a couple
of killer and ones at the basket of flip shot or reverse layup where he
was fouled. He missed the free throw, but it was still a huge
shot for them. He was making his money for them tonight, as was
Mike Conley Junior with his thirty three points in just thirty four minutes. Coming
up, we'll get to your phone calls, he'll hear from the head coach
to Ron Lou But first I want to get to my friend Robert Flam,
who's on the East Coast and staying up late to come on with me here
on Clipperstock. Robert, bless you throw out your Twitter handle immediately, please,
so my Twitter handle is at rich home Flam uh and uh yeah,
thank you for having me on tonight. Robert. You gotta comfort me because
I'm actually in like some back alley in Burbank, which is not the scariest
of alley's to be in, but it's dark. I'm in my car,
the car's off with my computer and my hell et lit on my phone probably
make it look like I'm doing surveillance. Outside these people's suburban homes. They're
probably thinking I'm the Wet Bandits or the FBI or something like that. So
comfort me a little bit, because did you at least like that the Clippers
were able to get back into this game when they could have packed it in
early. Yeah. Absolutely. You know, in the NBA, it's it's
a common saying about a moral victory where you lose but you show a lot
of stuff. It's it's a loss thing can be a little happy with.
I think it's it's usually kind of cliche, and there are times where it's
not always applicable, but I think tonight's game is a real good example of
when that is. Actually the the Clippers had a very offshooting night. It
happens in the NBA sometimes guys just don't make shots. They were playing well
on offense, they didn't have many turnovers, they were moving the ball,
the shots just didn't fall. And on defense, they had some stretches where
they looked absolutely dominant, some of the best defense you've ever seen from the
Kawhi Leonard and Paul George Clippers. And yeah, I mean they brought back
in eighteen point lead to one in the late second quarter, and then the
Jazz got the lead out again and they brought it all the way back down
to a couple in the late fourth quarter. And you know, again,
as you said, the Jazz made just enough shots, but the Clippers effort,
their execution, their heart was really on display to night. Honestly,
it was. It was a good performance. They didn't win, but I
think Tyler seemed very happy after the game, and I think all the players
can walk away knowing that they really gave it. They're all. I think
it was a fine loss. Paul George. A lot of people are going
to see the box score and see he went six for twenty two and grown,
But I thought, overall, considering his shot wasn't falling, he played
a really good game in every other aspect and then came back with those big
three pointers late. Yeah. Absolutely, Paul George was a monster in this
game. I think, you know, he at one point was two for
fourteen. He handed six for twenty two and made those late threes. As
you said, the shot was not falling, but he had six steals,
and honestly he might have been even better defensively than those steel numbers indicate.
He was really everywhere, both on ball and slowing down Donovan Mitchell an off
ball and getting those steals and pushings the ball at the court and on the
night when the Clippers shots weren't falling, getting those skills and getting out in
transition was huge for actually getting them some points. So yeah, I mean,
I think he played really, really well. He also had eight rebounds
for assists. You know, he did have five turnovers. It's been an
issue with George this year as his turnovers have crept up. But it's really
hard not to be pleased with how he played. And another knock is that,
you know, when his shot hasn't falling, he doesn't always go to
the rim. And today he did get eight free throws. He made all
eight of them. He did have those late three, so and again sometimes
shots don't fall. Paul George is a great shooter. He's gonna make sauce
tonight. They weren't falling. But everything else about his game was pretty excellent.
Overall. The starting lineup has been tremendous. The ball movement has been
great, and some of that a lot of that can be credited and attributed
to Nicholas Batum and the way he's fit in with this team and with the
rest of the starters without Marcus Morris there. I was talking about this earlier
with Noah Eagle. Is there a possibility that Marcus Morris comes back and maybe
comes off the bench so because he can be featured more there. I think
a possibility is a good way to describe it. You know, the Clippers
did just say Marcus Morris four years, sixty four million dollars contract. Nicholas
Patum very well respected veteran, but he's still in the minimum and the stuff
like contract does come into play more. It's also a very popular teammate,
very well respected as as kind of a leader. I don't think he'll really
come off the bench behind the team. I think maybe when he gets back,
he's missed so much time to say him into things, he might come
off the bench for a little bit. But I see that the Clippers at
full strength, when the games are really matter, will probably start Marcus marks
and play him a lot. I do think there is a real argument you
made that you know, his scoring and his ability to create shots is more
useful on the bench than he is the starting lineup, and that Patom's rebounding
and is passing in his defense is actually more valuable there than it would be
on the second unit as well, which is kind of the Lou Williams Show
as it were. So I think there are some arguments he made that Patum
could start over Morse, but I just think due to the circumstances of the
situation and the contracts and the players and all that kind of stuff, I
don't think it will happen too much, but it would be interesting if it
did. I think there's some real possibility it could actually be a positive,
positive decision if that's what something Pyloo goes with. I'm just gonna put that
question into the category of Adams thinking crazy thoughts because he's alone in his car
somewhere in Burbank and there's just a couple of street lights outside, which remind
me of the Clippers street lights over spotlights. They lose the tonight one oh
six to one hundred to the Utah Jazz. Robert Flom is my guest here
on Clippers Talk. Robert, what's the best thing you've seen out of head
coach Toronto LUs so far this season and the way he's handled this roster.
I think there are two things. One as you mentioned a little bit ago,
is the ball movement. The ball movement has been great to start the
year six games, you know, throwing aside that MAVs loss is kind of
a huge outlier, It's been a better over the other five games than it
was in any five game period I think with this team last year under Doctor
Verse. But I think the main thing is really the experimentation. Tyler is
willing to throw out different lineups, different adjustments on game to game basis,
and is both willing to ride the hot hand and return to lineup set he
knows work well. So the past couple of games, Reggie Jackson played a
lot of minutes. Who's playing well? Tonight he played just three because he
came in and that Clippers three guards second unit got absolutely destroyed defensively at the
end of the first court. At the start of the second one, the
Jazz really built out their lead Mike Conley was just absolutely attacking him and he
never came back in. I think that's something Tylo has been willing to do,
is play Reggie Jackson twenty minutes one game, plays three minutes the other.
He recognizes when for some of these more fringe players it's their type of
game, their type of night. I think that's something you could see again,
as with the Tube and Morris, you know, as you were just
discussing, maybe there's a night where the Tube's passing is a lot more valuable
than Morris's shock creation and he plays more than Marcus Morris. So I think
that experimentation has been really valuable. He's thrown out all sorts of lineups.
He's been very willing and capable of staggering Kawhi Leonard and Paul George to keep
some offense on the court at all times. I've I've just been really impressed.
They had some bad performances, you know that maths loss, but overall,
I think they looked really sharp, and I think Tyler has done a
very good yea. They already had in those back to back wins recently against
the Timberwolves and Portland Trailblazers, they had thirty or more assists in both of
those games. They didn't have back to back games all season last year where
they put together thirty assists from game to game. The ball movement has been
spectacular so far, as is my guest Robert Flam big Shot Bob Flam.
Follow him on Twitter at rich Homie Flam. Robert. Thanks for doing this
to night man. I really appreciate it. I feel like I have some
courage now. I'm glad to hear that, Adam. I think you was
always driving me on. Always a pleasure. Clippers lose one six to one
hundred to the Utah Jazz and Utah their next game is coming up on Sunday.
More on that in just a bit plus you'll hear from the head coach
to Ron Lu coming up and we'll get to your phone calls at eight six
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seventy. This is Clipper Stock. I'm at Am Maslins and you're listening to
AM five seventy LA Sports. The Clippers lose one oh six to one hundred
in Utah against the Jazz. Welcome back in the Clippers tuck. I'm Adam
Oslin speaking to you somewhere in Burbank. It is dark outside, but technology
rules all. I am speaking to you from ay dark alleyway, and that's
okay. I'm not scared at all now. I'm actually more like the girl
on Blair Witch Project. I'm so scared right now? Who comes to car?
All right, more on that coming up. We'll get to your phone
calls eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. First, I do
want you to hear from the head coach Toronto lou after the Clippers lose by
six in Utah of the Jazz. Here he was post game speaking with the
media. Hey there, coach, what do you make of your team's performance
in this one? Well, first of all, I defensively, I thought
we were really good outside in the first quarter, though, they got downhill
and a tactics and Rudy's dynamic roll behind the defense put a lot of pressure
on our bigs to really step up and try to help, so they really
walked down the lane. I'm a lot in that first quarter. I thought.
On the second quarter, when we started switching and changing up our defense
a little bit, it did a really good job. You got down I
think eighteen in that first half, and we decided to switch a little bit.
We got our starters back in. They played a lot of minutes in
that first half, and we cut it to one and then end up going
back to nine at the half and then came out second half they went up
nineteen, we came back cut it to two or three. So I was
just proud of our fight. You know, we couldn't make shots, shots,
wasn't following the force tonight, but we just continue to keep defending and
keep grinding. So I'm proud of my team for that. It tight.
Obviously, Gobert is such a presence inside and he's always gonna be somebody's gonna
deter drives and whatnot. But considering you guys had so much success shooting in
the paint this season, what kept you guys from kind of replicating that tonight
against that Utah defense. I thought we miss some chippies around the basket.
You know, Kawik got a lot of great men range shots that he usually
makes when he gets into the paint area. But then we kicked it off
the three when they double Kauaik PG had three or four wide open threes,
you know in the first half that you know, they was leaving and I
don't know why, but we weren't able to knock down. So we got
the shots we wanted to get, you know, especially with Golbert Clark going
to paint up. I thought we did a good job of popping surge.
I'm looking for him if he didn't have him get into the second side,
but he does have a big presence in that paint when he's trying to drive.
Hey, coach, the team fought back twice once in the second quarter
and I get in the fourth to give themselves a chance in the game that
they were shooting poorly. What did it tell you about the team to see
them fight like this despite the result. Just our grittiness, I think,
being gritty and you know, still competing to the to the last horn sounds,
and that's all we can ask. You know, you're not gonna make
shots every night. But we kept defended, we kept you know, playing
the right way, and we just couldn't get shots to fall, like you
said. So it just says a lot about just trusted what we're trying to
do, the process and what we're trying to do offensively and defensively. And
they executed, you know pretty well defensively, and I just started offense,
you know, not making seats herders. Hey, ty, I'm just curious
what went into the I guess decision making to pull Pat out because he had
a really good first half plus minus wise he was dominating, but you pulled
him early in that third quarter and got Lou in there. He was tired.
He asked, what's up. You know, we we played our stars
with a lot of extra minutes and we usually try to, you know,
but the game was getting out of hands, so we threw our starters back
in and try to at least make a game of it before halftime. And
we were able to do that. And you know, we kind of overplayed
Pat Kawhi and PG in that first half, but that's what we need to
do. And the start of that third quarter, he got he got tired,
like in two and a half three minutes, so we had to get
him out and we brought Lou in for Pat. You're finding conditioning to be
a bit of a work in progress right now. Where you guys, you
like where you're at, I don't know, it's it's day to day.
It just depends on how many games we have and how many nights and you
know, back to back, you know, playing an altitude altitude up here
in Utah or if we're in Denver, so it all varies. You know,
you never know on a night to night basis basis. So we just
got to play it by ear and by field. And like I said,
peg was, I mean Pat Belly was playing great, and uh, they
got tired early that third I mean early in the third quarter, so you
know he has to come out. Hey, coach, got a question about
your assistant total tonight. We had nineteen assists. This is your second lease
of the season. Did that have an impact on your shot making? You
believe? No? How many shots to be made? I can't remember.
What were you? Fifty one? I think I couldn't couldn't have made fifty
one. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, coach.
I had that stat ready for me. I had that start up and
ready to go. He made thirty three shots tonight. Yes, nineteen assists
on thirty three shots. You know, it's pretty good. And I thought
we got a lot of shots that, like you said, we didn't make
throughout the course of the game. So I gotta look at the film.
But I thought we played the right way. I thought we shared the basketball,
guys got open looks and we just didn't make tonight. Okay, And
what do you think about your thoughts on Michael Connelly and his effectiveness today?
He was great you know, he was special. I thought we did a
great job on Donovan, just showing him different coverages, try to keep him
off balance. We did a great job on mcdonovitch, But you know,
I thought Conley and angles really hurt us. Angles off the bench really hurt
us. Getting downhill. I think he gets seven or eight assists, you
know, seven or eight rebounds, and then Connley shot making early on,
you know, really changed the game for them. So we did a good
job on pretty much everybody else, but Connley was the one that really really
hurt us. There was head coach Hiran lu post game after the Clippers lose
one oh six to one hundred to the Utah Jazz, talked about his team
showing some grittiness, showing some fight, and there's some staffs that are representative
of that. They had six seals all by PG thirteen Paul George. They
had eight blocks to just three for the Utah Jazz. And also when the
Clippers were a minus eleven in the first half on the boards, they turned
into a plus eight in the second half, so they did a much better
job to get back into the ball game. I think part of what were
the self inflicted wounds were really in the third quarter when the Jazz put up
that thirty three spot on them. Some of that was miscused from the Clippers
giving them easy shots in transition. They had six of their ten assists in
the third quarter, so they only had ten assists in the ball game,
but they had some really untimely ones in the third. Clippers lose by six.
Coming up next, we'll talk about Sunday's game against the red hot Phoenix
Suns, who have reloaded with CP three, who was getting the most out
of Devin Booker and DeAndre Eighten. Clippers lose one h six to one hundred
more. Clippers talk up next. Eight six six ninety seven two five seventy.
This is a five seventy LA Sports Paul George would hit it three with
three fifteen left to bring the Clippers within one at ninety five to ninety four,
but that's as close as they would get. They lose one oh six
to one hundred to the Utah Jazz in Utah. Welcome back in the Clipper
stock. I'm at a Moslin eight six nine eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number the Clippers fought and you just heard from Toronto lou that they
competed out there even when their shots weren't falling. I think that's the biggest
calling. Cowherd like takeaway from the game, and there are things you can
take away that are positives in losses. There are things that can be negatives
in wins that you could take away. Sometimes when it's too easy, you're
not tested. But tonight was not that for the Clippers. They were down
by as many as twenty. They had to compete and play hard down the
stretch and play their best basketball in that fourth quarter when they outscored the Utah
Jazz by thirteen just to have a chance. But it was too much Rudy
Gobert down stretch and it was way too much Mike Conley Junior, who had
thirty three points on eleven of twenty shooting with seven three pointers and a few
of them were just wide open and you knew they were going down. He
was a plus twenty four in a ball game they won by six. He
was word of the difference maker. The Clippers did a good job against Donovan
Mitchell, similar to how they did a great job against Damian Lillard last game.
Mitchell just fifteen points on six or fourteen shooting. It was all Mike
Conley. That's the guy who was beat them many times before. He took
that first round series loss to the Clippers back in twenty twelve. A little
bit too personal. Maybe when the Clippers had that huge twenty eight point or
twenty nine point comeback in Game one of that seven Cape series that wins seven.
I don't know he hasn't forgotten about that. The Clippers, though,
will look to get back on track in Phoenix come Sunday. We'll have tip
time for you starting at five pm. That meets Clippers camp down starts at
four pm. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank
the Clippers organization, No It Eagle, Ryan Semen, Ralph Lawler, and
back in bar Brank my radio partner Kevin Figures for keeping me steady as usual.
He'll be on Fox Sports Radio later tonight momentarily, so keep it tuned
right here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. Thanks to you the listeners.
Thanks to everyone for coming outside their houses and wondering why I'm parked outside
them and screaming into a telephone like a madman. Oh that technologies nuts these
days. Until Sunday, starting at four pm with your Clippers Countdown show.
I'm Adamslin. We'll talk to you then I'm getting the shot at night. Wall