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and the Clippers lose game two, one eleven to one oh one. Welcome
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This was a frustrating game, to say the least, I'm sure for
Clipper Nation because they had an opportunity to steal a game when they had no
business even being back in it. Once they were down by as many as
twenty one in that first quarter. The Clippers were down by nineteen headed into
the second. The problem was they dug themselves too deep of a hole to
climb out of, and it takes too much energy to get back into a
game and have that sustained run, and they couldn't find it. We thought,
down five with eight thirty six left in the fourth quarter, the Clippers
were going to do what they do best and have another Clippers come back,
but they just couldn't put it together on both sides of the basketball at the
same time. They couldn't have one complete quarter. Were in the first quarter,
it was their defense that was atrocious, giving up forty four points.
The second they were better offensively, you could say, and defensively, holding
Denver to just twenty eight. And then in that third quarter, this is
where they really could have taken control of the game, but they didn't take
advantage of how good they played defensively, holding Denver to just seventeen points,
but they only scored twenty one Offensively. They couldn't get into gear. If
it wasn't one thing going wrong, it was another for them. They couldn't
get their offense and their defense on the same page for enough time. In
that second quarter two, when they were down by as many as twenty three,
Denver went four minutes scoreless. Clippers had it to within eleven, but
then Denver extended the lead back up to sixteen before the first half was over,
and then just down five with about eight minutes left in the fourth quarter.
Well two minutes later, Denver's hot shooting and Gary Harris's hot night from
beyond the arc that kind of put the Clippers away. He hit three three
pointers in the fourth quarter of the game and hit big ones because when the
Clippers were down just five, then all of a sudden he hit a couple
of three pointers. Nikola Yokich hit a ridiculous shot, I think his only
make of the second half, but they would still hold on thanks to the
long ball. It started in that first quarter. Denver was seven of eleven
from distance, ridiculous, But I mentioned Gary Harris there, going four of
seven. He was two for eleven in the four games or three games he
had played in previously so far in the postseason for the Denver Nuggets, and
he goes four of seven tonight. They stifled every run the Clippers made.
They had momentum repellent they just figured out a way to hit a big shot
to stop the Clippers momentum over and over again. And the Clippers didn't do
themselves any favors. When you have seventeen turnovers, twelve of those came in
the first half. They weren't taking care of the basketball well enough. They
were careless on offense, and they were leaving guys open on defense in the
first half. First half, it was defense. Second half, they didn't
have enough offensively, and Kawhi Leonard finally struggled in a playoff game. Hadn't
happened yet. Remember, he had scored twenty nine or more and seven straight
games to start off this playoff run. Only Michael Jordan back in the eighty
seven eighty eight season had done such a ridiculous thing on offense before. But
Kawhi tonight four of seventeen thirteen points couldn't get it going. And this is
unusual. And I expect a huge bounce back game from him, because that's
that's who he is and that's what he does. That won't be an issue.
But we were looking for someone else to step up, as he has
carried this team so much during the season and obviously during the playoffs, averaging
over thirty points per games shooting. I think it was fifty six percent coming
into this one in the first seven games in the playoffs. Else had to
pick up the slack, but too many other guys were cold, and when
you combine the turnovers with the free throw shooting where they were twenty of twenty
nine, it's just one of those nights they couldn't get it going. Paul
George was pretty good. He had twenty two points, probably needed thirty plus
to pull off this victory, but he did have those big five points early
in the fourth quarter to bring it within five. Had fourteen points in the
first half, had eight points in the second half. Patrick Beverly though,
oho of one from distance, and this was another unsightly part of the box
score to look at for the Clippers, nine of thirty two from three in
the first half. They were five or thirteen. They were okay, but
nobody was getting hot from beyond the yark. I was wondering, as Landry
Shammitt gonna be that guy to step up right now and you know, go
crazy radioactive. We've seen it so many times before. Sweet Low Williams had
his moments, but he was only all of six or he was z of
six from three thirteen points total. He had a little bit of momentum going
with five points near the end of the third quarter, but time and time
again, Denver would hit a big shot when they needed it, and the
degree of difficulty and some of the shots they were able to make, especially
from Nikola Yokitch and of course Jamal Murray, but yokis with a Visa Zubots
draped all over him. He hit this ridiculous rainbow shot in the third quarter
where he's only ten feet away from the basket and he's throwing it up ten
feet in the air to get there. The ark on his shot is Dirk
Nevinsky esque, but from within fifteen feet. But that's what he does,
and that's what he had to do. Big Zoo was playing good defense for
the most part, but great offense beats good defense, and a Visa Zubots
was one of the positives in this game. He had fifteen points, was
six of eight from thee and the Clippers were really looking for him. Early
in the third quarter. He was the only one getting buckets. He had
almost half their points. Midway through the third they were running the offense through
big Zoo. We don't normally see that, but I didn't mind it.
The problem was they couldn't get hot enough, and every time they made that
run, Denver was too good. Gary Harris hitting big shots. I mean
Jamal Murray and Nikola Yokis in Game one combined to score just twenty seven points.
In the first quarter of Game two, they had twenty six points combined
at the half. I believe Jamal Murray had twenty and Nikola Yokis had twenty
four, which means they only combined for ten points the rest of the game.
And they still did enough offensively to hold the Clippers back, who really
shot the ball poorly in the second half. They just couldn't get that complete
game put together. It was It was frustrating to watch at times, I'm
sure as a viewer, and you could see the frustration from Kawhi Leonard.
It was an abnormal night shooting wise for the Clippers. They had some shots,
they had some opportunities to get right back into the game and put together
one solid run for ten minutes, and that's all it would have taken to
steal this game. Two eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty. Eight
seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is the phone number. Clippers lose one
eleven to one oh one to the Denver Nuggets. We'll get to your phone
calls coming up. You'll hear from Doc Rivers post game as well. This
series is tied up at a game apiece. The Clippers had plenty of chances,
plenty of opportunities. They just never really gotten sync enough offensively in the
second half. And credit the Denver Nuggets for holding on and really responding to
every run the Clippers made and responding after a really bad performance in Game one,
Mike Malone had them focused. They put up forty four points in that
first quarter. That can't happen. The Clippers can't start that slow against a
team that good. All right, coming up, more Clipper Stock postgame audio
and your phone calls at eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty. Clippers
lose by ten in Game two. You're listening to Clippers Stock on the Patriot
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here on the Patriot Am eleven fifty after they lose one eleven to one on
one in Game two to the Denver Nuggets. A series is tied up at
a game apiece. Game three is Monday night coming up. We'll talk to
tomair Azari from Clutch Points and you'll hear from Doc Rivers this segment. But
let's go to Morris in Long Beach. Morris, what's up here on Clippers
stock? Give me some positivity. It was gone and that have done that.
Don't get mad at me, But I really did look for no sweeps.
Okay, I mean I am entertained to the max, and no two
games ain't no two games gonna be like. And I'll tell you I would
not want to be guarded in Kwaiet Leonard. Game three have to you know,
the way the things went today, we're gonna have to give a Adam.
We're gonna have to give Denver some credit. That first quarter was off
the hook, but they had a perfect storm tonight going for him. They
being Denver missing the easy ones around the rim. You saw it at forty
four points on the board. Then the Clippers get into the third quarters,
seventeen did Denver score, right, So that shows you what's in these guys.
So again, I know everybody wants to just get it over with,
but I mean, I'm just entertained to the max and every game is different,
and I'm gonna tell you this, and I'm gonna let you go.
The Denver will lose back to back games before the Clippers will. Okay,
thanks, I like that nice prediction there, Morris, a positive spin.
But you're right, it's still the playoffs and you're taking on an opponent this
good that came back down three one to the Utah Jazz. Give them credit.
They were on fire and the law of averages was on their side after
what happened in Game one, where they were miserable from the field and especially
from three. And I'm expecting the same thing to happen for the Clippers in
game three because after starting five for thirteen from distance in the first half thirty
eight percent, they went four of nineteen from three in the second half.
They could not get shots to fall when they needed them most. They cannot
string enough buckets together to take the lead, and Denver led this one wire
to wire. Noah Eagle brought up a great point. It was reminiscent of
Game two against the Dallas Mavericks. That series was tied up at one one.
Clippers came back in won Game three. Paul George, I do want
to talk about him for a little bit, because he started this one oh
for five, finished seven for nineteen, so would hit seven of his next
fourteen shots, would go fifty percent the rest of the way, four of
ten from distance. What was interesting was he was oh for four in all
four misses in the first quarter right away, where within five feet of the
rim three feet of the rim he was missing easy. Once his first make
was from distance, and then he would make a couple more. He got
going with the three ball and had five points early in the fourth quarter that
were critical to get the Clippers in a position where they could start to believe
they could overcome being down twenty three points at most in this game. That
was in the second quarter. They had a chance. They really did,
and PG thirteen was a big part of that. He had twenty two points.
But Kawhi Leonard also with what Morrish just said, Yeah, I would
not want to be guarding the claw batman to Nikola Yokich's joker in Game three.
You just know he's gonna have a huge bounce back. You're not averaging
over thirty points, ten boards, and five assists through seven games of the
playoffs for no reason. He's been really the most consistent player. They call
him mister Reliable. It's what Paul George says all the time post game.
He's ridiculously consistent and makes tough shots, and he was frustrated, and you
can even see it defensively. Jamal Murray hit a shot in the fourth quarter
where Kawhi was on him. It was good defense. Jamal Murray step back.
He's that good. You knew he and Nikolayokits were gonna bounce back and
have better performances. Doc Rivers said it pregame with Noah Eagle. They knew
this was coming. But the onslot that happened in that first quarter with forty
four points being scored by Denver, Oh, that was a little much,
all right. Speaking of Doc Rivers, let's hear from him post game after
the Clippers lose Game two one eleven to one on one, Doc, you
guys won basically three the final three quarters, but they really hit you guys
in the mouth, and that first quarter, why was it so hard to
counter that? Well, we did kind of comerad, but I honestly,
I thought they just played more aggressive. They got it into us the entire
game. I thought, offensively, we just refused to move the ball and
make simple plays as as beautiful as we moved the ball in game one,
we were the exact opposite in Game two. So the first quarter was defense.
The next three quarters is a bad offense. Next rue to Dan,
Doc, there was Yokich from three made four. You guys were a little
slow to contest. Yeah, on the first one, on the first three,
Yeah, how critical was that? I think it seemed like the Rim
just kept looking bigger and bigger than them, especially earlier it should have when
Yokich had like thirty seconds the shoot tooks first three three. So I mean,
he's he's a good player to begin with. We'll we gift him nine
points. Uh, he's just gonna get more confident. I thought, you
know, Murray was dominant, and I thought Yogi was just as dominant in
the first quarter, own and go ahead, Doc, who was the biggest
adjustment Denver did to kind of keep Kauai from getting to his spots and just
basically showing him resistance every time he was inside. I thought they just switched
a lot and you know that's it. They stayed in front of the ball.
I thought our spacing could have been better, and we didn't have many
downhill attacks, which I thought hurners as well. Cameron, Hey, coach
may the telecast showed you talking about the ball popping at halftime. Is that
a symbolism for teamwork or being crisp with the players that were called? Oh,
teamwork for sure. And you know what happens though, Each guy comes
in and he thinks he's gonna win the game for you, and what happens
is it becomes an individual game. And you know, we had seventeen turnovers
and twenty assists. The seventeen turnover was our reflection of forcing to many players
instead of just letting the offense happen. Next, we'll go to Thomas.
I just wanted to get your thoughts on kind of a Knights to Night kind
of when the bench didn't really get a chance to get going as much as
they do. How how much does that affect the starters kind of saw the
struggles as well as kind of with Paul and kawais shooting. But yeah,
well I thought the starters put themselves in trouble first. You know, the
starters are one just got us down. We look at the plus minus.
Our starters are minus sixteen nineteen eighteen. So the bench came in in a
tough game when they walked in. Sometimes the starters have to set the table,
and that didn't happen tonight. Next we'll go to Andrew Greif. Hey,
Doc, Jamaicael had a you know, a pretty impactful twenty six minutes
tonight. There were some times when you put them with the kind of the
starting four and they limited really what they could do defensively. Was that just
a reaction to putting pressure on Yo kich or what was the usage there?
Yeah, we just put him out to five. Actually, I thought he
was very good at the five. You know, I thought he was really
the only one that showed Yoki jinny physicality. Everybody else Yokis got whatever he
wanted. I thought Ja Michael got into him and played him physical. And
then on the other end he stretches the floor fours, which is good as
well. And we'll go back to Dan back to in terms of defending Yoki,
is that going to be something obviously it's not a one person job.
Is that gonna be something that you guys are gonna have to do just a
bunch of different ways. Yeah, he's a great player. I mean great
players are great because they're very difficult to defend. And so he's definitely too
smart to give one look, that's for sure. And that's all the questions
we have for right now. Doc. There was Doc Rivers post game after
the Clippers fall one eleven to one oh one in Game two versus the Denver
Nuggets. Coming up next, we'll have to homaer Azarre Leon, my friend
from Clutch Points. We'll get his analysis on what went wrong and what has
to change coming up here in game three Monday night eight seven seven five two
zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is the phone number
or get to me at follow Adam a on Twitter where we are periscoping.
I know there's a little bit of a delay between the audio and the video
we're making. Do okay, We're doing the best we can Skeleton crew here,
and I don't want to hear from the PMS union trying to get me
old takes exposed because I say, Kawhi Leonard is ninety six m day he
has one bad game. Oh yeah, Mjay didn't have any of those.
Of course, back then when he went four and twenty or four for twenty
and ninety three in the Eastern Conference Finals and it must win game three to
not go down two games to Ozho, the Bulls could still win, and
they did because they didn't. I have to deal with three point shooters.
As you see nowadays, it has changed the game. The analytics have changed
everything. It's also a big boy three point line now, not like it
was for three years in the nineties and they shortened it. Clippers lose one
eleven to one oh one. More Clippers stock coming up next right here on
the Patriot Amlem fifty. Your LA Clippers lose Game two by a score of
one eleven to one oh one to Nikola Yokich and Jamal Murray and the Denver
Nuggets. Those two performed very well, especially in that first half where the
Nuggets led by as many as twenty three points. Coming up, we'll get
back to your phone calls at eight seven, seven, five, two zero
eleven fifty. But I do want to bring in my friend Tomair Azarli who
covers the Clippers for clutch points. Follow him on Twitter at t O m
E r A z A r l y Tomair. Was this one of those
situations where the Clippers, and this does have people don't want to believe it,
but you can lose a game in the first quarter, and I think
that's kind of what happens tonight. Yeah, I mean, and I was
asking my question for for doc PG and CAWI just want to know why was
it so hard to counter the Nuggets run. I mean, you had to
know that they were gonna, you know, try and punch you in the
mouth start the game, and that's exactly what they did. They came out
I think that's scorned by eighteen nineteen points in that first quarter, and from
there it was just really hard. You know, the Clippers did a great
job defensively the rest of the way, but you know, scoring was was
stuck in that first quarter and basically the rest of the way. You know,
I thought, I thought the Clippers didn't do a great job. You
know, they had a couple of miscommunications defensively in that first quarter, which
allowed Nicole yoke As Jamal Merge just get open looks at the three point line
and around the rim, and you know, for guys that are struggling and
haven't been fatigued, that's exactly what you need. You just need to see
the ball going the hoop, and that really ignited them from there. It's
tilmaa azarely joining me here on Clippers stock after the Clipper lose Game two and
this series is tied up at a game apiece against the Denver Nuggets Tolmara without
Kawhi Leonard playing well for once, it happens four or seventeen, just thirteen
points, still had ten boards and eight assists. But were you looking for
more from somebody else to step up and pick him up as he has done
so many times before? And who would that guy have been? I don't
know if they can be just one guy. I mean, Marcus Moore struggled
for most of the game. He sort of came alive there at the end
with a couple of three pointers late. Yeah, he didn't hit a shot
till the fourth quarter. It didn't really matter at that point. I thought
Denver did a great job with you know, collapsing whenever Kawhi Leonard drove into
the paint, you know, making you know, throwing two three guys around
him, making it really hard to shoot around the rim. You know,
the painted area of the non restricted area of the paint is where he's been
dominating. And they thrown multiple looks at him. They doubled linked, they
doubled him. So I thought they did a good job there, you know,
honestly, I thought, you know, Montres Harroll could have had a
better offensive game. I don't think he got as many calls and as when
he looks as he wanted. Lou Williams did have thirteen point seven assists,
but six or sixteen from the field, oh six from three though, those
those were a couple of backbreakers. I know, when the Clippers got it
to about five or seven, he took a three and that kind of missed
and the Nats scored on the other end. So, you know, Paul
George seven of nineteen twenty two points and not great, but you know,
you expect a bit more from him than the game like this. Just I
think it was a team effort scoring wise, you know, like I tweeted
out earlier, this is the third worst playoff shooting game of Kawhi Leonar's career
and the worst since Games six against the Clippers back in twenty fifteen. So
Kawhi Leonard has been a really steady, consistent player since then. And you
know, you're not going to be a forty five fifty percent shooter the entire
time. You're gonna have nights like this, And I thought the Clippers just
couldn't as a team. They couldn't find the rim. They had a couple
of shots that you know, usually the go in. Did they get the
nice bounce in today pg Zoo Tres Kawai. They just couldn't get the bounce
all of them. It's kind of rare that you see an entire team not
get the bounce like that, but it happens. You know, they still
off by nine, and they shot pretty poorly. They played pretty poorly offensively,
So I think there's a reason to be optimistic moving forward. As hot
as it was out here in southern California, it was that cold for the
Clippers team tonight, especially from distance. They only had four players hit three
pointers. Kawhi Leonard didn't hit a three, Marcus Moors did, but it
didn't happen until the fourth quarter. Patrick Beverley Oh for one. You see
Lou Williams O for six, as you mentioned Landry sham At oh for one
nine of thirty two as a team from distance against a hot shooting team,
as Denver was in the first quarter. Sometimes that can do you in.
You can lose a game early like that. But I thought of Visas Zubots,
even though I know his plus minus is a minus fourteen and Nikola Yokich
did hit some ridiculous shots on him. I think Yokis didn't he just have
two or four points in the second half, and I Visa Zubats only ended
up playing twenty minutes, and I know there is a part of Clipper Nation
that wants him to be playing more. Did they need more out of a
Visa zu Bots in this game? Did they need more than they got from
Zoo? I don't think you can say that the more minutes, but defensively
yet more minutes, yes, Look defensively, I think you know Zoo was
highly critical of himself after the games, saying that you know, I wasn't
physical with him like I was supposed to be. Overall, I didn't do
a good job defensively. I'm gonna watch the film see where I can get
better and bring it next game. So I like that those comments from him
really, you know, taking accountability towards poor start. But like you said,
Jokis had just two points in the second half. He had twenty four
a half time, and you know his only bucket came when the Clippers trimmed
it down to five eighty six. So they really did a solid job defensively
on him, making him take tough shots zubotsh Look, it's a tough balancing
act that Duc Rivers has to has to play with here because Tres against the
Nugget second unit can play really well. They don't have a shop locker there.
He can be the more physical guy, you know, and really man
handle his way around the rim. But as we saw tonight, it beat
the Zoo Bots was just you know, outside of that first quarter was a
force. It was just anytime he got the bottom of the rim, he
was dunking it. He was making it difficult for Nuggets depender Nugget shooters around
the room as well, which is what he's been doing all postseasons. So
you know, I don't envy Doc's job. He has a lot of balance,
He actually do here with Zoo and Trez. But you know, I
thought Zoo probably could have played more than just the twenty minutes that he did.
Coming into this, I thought Zu should probably be averaging around twenty five
to twenty seven minutes the game. Now, I didn't think Doc would actually
do that because Trees it's a more favorable match up for Tress. But yeah,
I don't think it's it's unfair to say we could have expected more from
Zoo in terms of minutes as well. And Monster Trez he had ten points
in eighteen minutes, did have a huge throw down where Denver just let the
Sea's part for him to go down the lane for an easy two handed dunk,
which was good to see for these six Man of the Year The newly
crowned six Man of the Year winner Telmara, I know, I believe you
were on the call yesterday with the media during that press conference, But what
can you say about the growth and just the development of Monster Tres since he
has come to LA. I mean, this is the guy who you know,
while he was in Houston wasn't really playing that much. He was only
playing as a backup to Clint Cappella and just you know, it couldn't really
find time. I know he was in the G League, up and down
in the G League and asked to go down there to get some playing time,
to get some burn. And he said yesterday on the call that we
were on. You know, all he wanted was an opportunity, that's all
he really wanted, Just an opportunity to prove that he can play in this
league and help his team and help the team wins. His teams win,
and that's exactly what he's done. You know, when he came in,
I think a lot of people just thought he was sort of an energy guy.
I know that Doc Rivers when when he first came in Tres that is
Doc said that, you know, they were kind of surprised. They were
like, hey, we might have something here in Mandres. Who you know,
we thought he was just an energy, energy guy. But you know,
he's able to score around the rim, He's got a good feel for
the game, good handle, can rebollyball, can push, and transitions and
and Docus sort of just unleashed him in the last couple of years. And
uh, you know, I think Lou Williams called it at the beginning of
the year. You know, he said, if anyone was going to take
the six Men of the Year award from me, it was gonna be Treads.
And I think it was only fitting that, you know, Lou,
who has been a terrific, terrific mentor for Treasure over these last couple of
years, dating back to their Houston days, Because only fitting that Lou was
the guy who gave Treads the award yesterday, a much deserved award. And
you know, I think I think there's still much more to comfort Treads.
We forget that he's only twenty five years old, you know, just hasn't
really had a team on his own, So I think there's a lot more
to come from Tread. Forget that he also missed five months being away from
the team and the death of his grandmother Rest in peace. So you know,
once Treads really gets back in the flow of things, you know,
he could really really be a weapon for the Clippers again, like like we
saw throughout the regular season. Yeah, that was a cool moment where he
literally took the six Man of the Year trophy from Lou Williams, passing of
the tours the baton maybe, but without sweet Lou Williams. I don't know
where Monster Trez would be. That is the best two man duo off the
bench in NBA history, And I think that progression that you talk about with
Monster Trez and the differences between him this year and last year, he can
create for himself more. He's not nearly as dependent on Sweet Lou Williams setting
him up for rim runners and just being a finisher out there. He's so
much more than that. He can bring the ball up the court. Now.
I love that work ethic from Monster Trez. It is truly inspiring.
His play out there on and off the court, and what his message was.
If you guys have not heard that press conference where he officially was named
the NBA six Men of the Year. Finding it on YouTube, I believe
it's on the Clippers account. Check it out. It's about twenty minutes.
It's great, it's powerful, and somebody was cutting onions when I was watching
it. Telmair, thanks so much for doing this tonight. I appreciate it,
my friend. Of course, of course, thank you. Hopefully next
time it's after a win, but thank you, no doubt at Tolmair Azarrely
on Twitter at t O m E r A z A r l Y Coming
up next, you'll hear from PG thirteen Paul George. He led the Clippers
with twenty two points, but too little, too late. They ran out
of gas when it was just a five point game with eight minutes and thirty
six seconds left. But then two minutes later, then verse three point shooting
and one more shot from Nikola Yok it's the only shot he hit in the
second half. That would be the Clippers undoing. They lose game two,
we'll talk about game three. We'll get to your phone calls eight seven seven
five two zero eleven fifty, and you'll hear from Paul George next right here
on Clipper stock on the Patriot, A'm eleven fifty. It's frustrated Incorporated's to
night for the Clippers. They lose game two, one eleven to one oh
one. It hurts my soul. But the Clippers were their own worst enemy.
That's what was so frustrating. They had six turnovers in the first quarters,
six turnovers in the second quarter. They couldn't get out of their own
way. You heard from Doc Rivers earlier talking about twenty assists to seventeen turnovers.
That's not the ratio you want, and guys were really forcing things.
They were trying so hard to get back into the game. Noah Eagle and
I talked about it, but it reminded me of the old John Wooden quote,
be quick, but don't hurry, don't rush too much. You gotta
take care of the basketball as well if you're gonna come back down twenty three.
They had it within five, and we thought for a second this was
going to be another miraculous Clippers playoff come back. Paul George had twenty two
points and before we get to him eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty
eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty Jeff and Tarzana Jeff, what's up?
You're on Clipper stock, Adam. I hope you don't go around keep
saying that Kwhi Leonard's the best player in the NBA because he's not, because
he has one bad game. You want me to start pulling up Michael Jordan
playoff games where he was bad, He's the second best player in the NBA.
To who the other guy that plays in the LA is the best player?
Even though I hate that team, that guy is the best player at
thirty five years old. To do what he does. I mean, they
took a fat al yesterday. Yeah he did. But you know what,
they lost the first game against Portland and one. Right. Yeah, let
me tell you something. Houston is not Portland. Houston actually plays defense.
Okay, but we remember Portland was played Portland with playing without the big men
in that series two. Yeah, they didn't have Zach Collins. I understand,
but the Houston Rockets have been the best defense so far inside the bubble.
But I'm not here to harp on what happened with the Lakers yesterday.
Who cares. Let's worry about the Clippers here. Okay, here's the thing
though, do you know what I don't understand. The Zuboff is getting better,
but he's not a real great defensive player. Why couldn't they stick Noih
in for like five minutes and guard and guard you know, their center and
the other thing? Jeff, you're killing me tonight. Aviza Zubots has been
the second best defensive center within six feet of the rim all season long.
But they're shooting from outside, Adam, from outside, You're talking about a
one of a kind player. If he stays healthy, he's likely a future
Hall of Famer in Nikola Yokich. I mean, he can do that against
him anyone. He's a terrible defensive player. And they don't get enough points
from the paint. The Clippers. Did you notice that they couldn't shoot from
outside? They should be Jeff. They had forty eight points in the paint
compared to thirty six for the Denver Nuggets. Right, because Denver is shooting
all these shots from outside. Okay, but forty eight points in the paint,
you're saying they're not good in that area. They are? Well,
wait a minute, they could they couldn't hit They should they had sixty or
seventy because there's three point shooting was terrible tonight, But they're also one of
the best three point shooting teams. I mean, eventually you thought those shots
were going to four. They weren't night, they weren't. Jeff, You're
right, that is an accurate statement. And you know how much I love
the Clippers, But I don't think Doc coached the real good games tonight.
All right, Jeff, I appreciate after Monday, all right, hopefully after
a win, Jeff, Clippers lose by ten with the final score of one
eleven to one on one of Visa zubass is not a good defender. Brain
exploding, All right, let's move on. I want to hear from PG
thirteen post game, he scored twenty two points. He led the Clippers and
led them early in the fourth quarter when it was just a five point game.
Here was Paul George Hey, Paul Document mentioned that he felt like after
that first quarter when they scored forty four, the defense was was pretty good
that you guys put out there, but it was the offense. I guess
what do you feel like the offensive trouble with the last three quarters? Was
that more kind of stuff they were thrown at you guys, or just miscommunication
miss execution by you guys. I think a little bit of everything. Definitely
miscommunication on our part, and I think, you know, getting credit for
the defense they were throwing at us. I mean, I think I know,
and we're aware of how to attack it now just based off of us
talking. But you know, they did a good job of just swarming us,
and we gotta be better. Oh well, from game one to game
two, did they surprise you with anything they did defensively as far as maybe
the timing of the double teams or the way the double teams clean because they
think they held you and Kawai took a mind six baskets inside the paint.
This playoffs, you know, it's this, this playoffs game of adjustments.
At this point. They made the adjustments from game one. It's no surprise.
We just you know, we we we weren't aware that they were going
to do that tonight. But it comes no surprise that they're going to make
the adjustment. You know, we we just gotta be better going into game
three. Timerican go ahead. The first of all, it looked like you
hyper extended your knee at some point. Were you okay after that play?
I know you played through it. Yeah, yeah, I did, but
I was able to play through it. I was fine once I got moving
again. And then Doc said that, you know, they really punch you
guys in the mouth in that first quarter. I'm just wondering. Obviously you
had to expect that they would come like that, but why was it so
hard to counter there there big run to start. I don't think it was
hard. I think we missed. We missed some shots. You know,
we just couldn't find a basket in the first quarter. That was, you
know, really the game you know, us not playing defense and allowing him
rhythm and shots in the first quarter and us not making shots. It was
a big swing in that first quarter. I think mirriam being good. Hi,
Paul. Obviously the last three quarters we're better than the first. There
you guys kind of got close to seven. You're in there, and did
it feel like you guys my kid over the hump? There where the moments
where it seemed like it could be in your grass? Yeah? Absolutely absolutely.
We never gave up the fight. We never quitted on each other.
Like I said, we just gotta be better figuring out you know where that
double was coming, when that double is coming, and sharing the ball.
I think that's just where we gotta be better. Myself person I got to
just be a better playmaker in those situations, candying go ahead, Hey Paul,
seemed like you guys had a lack of energy or they had more energy
coming out to start the game with. But that sense of urgency, how
do you change that going into game three? We just gotta come ready.
That's it. Uh, there's no blueprints. We just gotta come ready,
you know. That's that's that's on us. Uh, But we will we
will be better for game three. There's no PEP talks for it the playoffs,
So uh, we got we gotta be ready, we gotta come out
a lot stronger, and we'll be up for the fight and challenge game three,
and we have time for one more. We go to Thomas H.
Paul. Uh. You know, near the end of the game, I
noticed Street guarding Jamal Murray a little bit more. Do you say that that's
gonna kind of have to be one of those challenges that you're gonna have to
take on, kind of guarding him later in games? Uh? I mean,
we we got multiple guys that can do the job. You know,
for us, it's just whoever is closer, whoever's around. Everybody's comfortable matching
up with whoever. What so great about this team is the versatility with our
defenders. So you know, everybody's gonna have different matchups. I was just
on them tonight towards the end, but you know, everybody's gonna have that
matchup. There was PG thirteen Paul George. He did lead the Clippers with
twenty two points, and what I liked about his night was he was seven
of nineteen, but he started oh for five, So he goes fifty percent
the rest of the way, and he was an attack mode. He was
being more aggressive than he was in Game one where he had just nineteen points.
And Noah Eagle brought up this stat pre game, and I thought it
was appropriate because a lot of people have been getting on Paul George a little
bit, even though he had the thirty five point huge game in Game five
against the Dallas Mavericks, when really his back was against the wall in some
ways legacy wise, with people talking about playoff p and all that, and
he responded in a big way. But Noah Eagle talked about playing next to
Kawhi Leonard in the playoffs and what happened last season for Pascal Siakam with the
Toronto Raptors, who are now tied with the Boston Celtics in their second round
series at two games apiece. But Pascal averaged nineteen points per game during that
playoff run playing next to Kawhi Leonard. Paul George, he was averaging eighteen
coming into this one, So I'm gonna say it's at nineteen now. So
when you're playing robin next to Kawhi Leonard, there's gonna be times where Kawhi
is taken over and you got to do everything else to help the team.
You may not get as many looks, and when you do, you gotta
find a way to knock him down. And I thought PG thirteen did a
pretty good job of that tonight. He did his part four of ten from
distance. He had them in this game. I was looking for somebody else
to step up from three and start to knock them down and catch fire.
And I think that would have been the difference. Let's say Landry Shammitt or
Sweet Lou Williams and gets high from distance. That's all it would have took.
But the Clippers had a chance to sneak away with a win. Unfortunately,
they lose by ten in Game two. Game three is coming up on
Monday. You know the Clippers are gonna come out focused. You know,
I've been watching a lot of that show Cobra Kai. I just finished season
two on Netflix. Good Show. Didn't realize how good it was. Thought
it was just like a YouTube parody joke Clan. Nope, it's better than
that. But Johnny and Lawrence and Cobra Kai, that's who the Clippers are
gonna have to be. In that first quarter of Game three, strike first,
strike hard, no mercy. I want to see them put up a
forty spot in a quarter. You know they're capable. Clippers lose one eleven
to one oh one in Game two. Before we get out of here,
I do want to thank the Clippers organization, the great Noah Eagle, Brian
Seaman, Ralph Wahler, and back here in the Bank Burbank, we had
the fantastic Sam, Zia and Zach attack until Game three with your pregame show
starting at five pm on the Clippers Radio network, but also we'll be on
AM five seventy LA Sports for that contest first playoff game I think on five
seventy so five o'clock Monday, Game three. I'm at a Moslin. We
will talk to you then