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coach t lou After the Clippers lose by seventeen, lose for the first time
in five games, and let's not lose sight of the fact that they've still
won seventeen of twenty one, eleven of their last thirteen and or nineteen and
six since the All Star Break. I know, a loss like this is
frustrating, discouraging, disappointing because the Clippers really came out flat after they were
up nine two. Things turned around so quickly in that first quarter, and
it was really them going cold offensively and going exceptionally sub zero cold from distance,
where in the first half they were three of twenty one from three.
But it started in the first quarter where at one point they went four minutes
without hitting a field goal. But it was really about them just never getting
in sync offensively. And Paul George may have returned, but he didn't look
right. He didn't look like himself. And hopefully because in that third quarter
he came down on that right ankle or that right foot, they were working
on it. We're looking for an update on PG. Thirteen right now.
He's gonna be okay because he played just twenty five minutes due to the fact
that they were down by as many as twenty five in the second half.
But it was that first quarter that got to them, that four minute stretch
without hitting a shot. I don't know if it was the two days off.
I don't know if it was just playing in New Orleans for whatever reason.
The Clippers can never figure it out there. They obviously got smoked there
about a month ago. I believe it was March eleventh or March twelfth,
and that was a wake up call type of loss. But since then they've
been brilliant, and I thought having the two days off would really be and
fit them. Paul George was in the game, Marcus Morris wasn't the game.
No Kauai, no Surge Ibaka, no Pat Bev. Luke Kennard was
out for rest purposes tonight. But they had enough firepower against one of the
worst defenses in the NBA to where if the Clippers just played enough defense,
they would have had a chance to win this game. But it was either
their offense failing them, which happened often in the first half, or their
defense failing them in the second half. If it wasn't one thing, it
was the other. They couldn't figure it out. It was like getting all
sides of the Rubik's cube correct, not that I know anything about that,
but you get one side and it screws up another. They come out and
they hit three three pointers in the first three minutes of the third quarter,
not easy to say, matching their total number of made threes in the first
half, where again they were three of twenty one. They would hit six
threes in the third. You would have thought that would have got them back
into the game. But on the other end and on the other side of
things, New Orleans they hit five threes themselves in that third quarter, and
they would go fifteen of twenty nine from distance. Overall, that's fifty two
percent. Those are Clippers like shooting numbers. That's normally what they do from
beyond the arc. New Orleans really beat them at their own game in some
ways. Tonight, Clippers go fourteen of forty five, So they went eleven
of twenty six in the second half from three after going three of twenty one
in the first half. Eleven or twenty six is forty two percent. That's
what they average. But they never had this drastic progression to the mean where
they got scorching hot and hit seven of ten or ten of twelve like they
did against Memphis recently, where they came back down eighteen because they were down
by as many as seventeen in the first half, and it was the last
couple minutes of that third quarter that also did them in the Clippers, And
I really felt like DeMarcus Cousins gave them a huge boost in the second And
that is one of the positives tonight because Decus looked good. He had sixteen
and eleven, and he had eight of those sixteen points in the second quarter
alone. But it's the way he was getting them in the paint with a
big throw down. You know what it does mean? No good saying it.
Let Noah Eagle tell the story. Here was Decus in the second quarter
working on Hazel back him down, spin spaceline, gets the rim and slams
with the right look out for DeMarcus Cousins signed for the rest of the year
and wetulinated with a ridiculous flush. Now back to Cousins short corner forst against
her non Gomez ho back him down, spins baseline, spins to his right,
hook shot is up and hook shot us down to Marcus Cousins dominant to
start the second as the Clippers are back within nine thirty three twenty four,
dips the shoulder spins those the baseline puts it off the glass and puts it
in to Marcus Cousins a bully in the sandbox. He's got eight points off
the bench, and the Clippers are within eight thirty four twenty six with ten
fifteen to go in the second de Marcus Cousins, who earlier today, if
he didn't hear signed a contract throughout the rest of the regular season and throughout
the rest of the season with your Los Angeles Clippers. He's here to stay
through this run. And that's a good thing because he has been looking better
and better with each and every game. Is timing his rhythm, his touch
around the basket. I thought he showed some of that off there. And
he's such a skilled player and skilled passer that he can help this team.
He's a good fit. He only had want assists, but he's one of
those guys that keeps the ball moving and when they double him, he looks
for the open man. I don't know how many open threes the Clippers ended
up missing in this one, but it was significant. It was a significant
amount of wide open three pointers that they would brick, which doesn't happen very
often to a team that you can make the argument is the best shooting team
of all time, not just the best three point shooting team this season,
but DeMarcus has helped them even in that area where they were already great strengthening
a strength, but he adds that size, that physicality, that attitude,
that nasty and the paint and apparently the guys already loved him in the locker
room. You already knew r Genrondo would, They already knew pat pat Patrick
Patterson would. But he has jailed and meshed well with this team and had
sixteen and eleven tonight in twenty five minutes. But that second quarter where he
did most of his damage and help get them into it or back into it,
I should say, after they were down by thirteen twelve minutes into the
game heading into that second quarter, but the Clippers, they had their big
opportunity. They were down six with two fifty two left in the second.
We talk about closing out quarters and closing out halves all the time because a
lot of the times that momentum can carry over, you can gain confidence,
and it can be deflating for the opposition. I think in this case,
it was deflating for the Clippers with what happened to them at the end of
that second quarter where they could not defend without fouling. They gave up multiple
and ones to the New Orleans Pelicans, and after they had cut it to
six with under three minutes left, they were down fourteen headed into the half
and Eric bled so the former Clipper destroyed him. I think he had eleven
of his eventual eighteen points in the game in the last five minutes of that
second quarter, hit a three pointer, probably one of the best games he's
had this season as a New Orleans Pelican. He has struggled. They've been
up and down, but they're still on the fringe of getting into that play
in tournament. And they're still a top ten offense. And they put up
one twenty for a reason. They average one hundred and fifteen points per game
for a reason. But they also give what they get. They give up
huge scoring nights to teams nightly, and the Clippers weren't able to take advantage
of their defense. For whatever reason, Paul George struggled for the first time
in a month. He's been the second best player over the last month and
a half outside of Steph Curry. That's the only person that has been playing
better recently than Paul George, but just three of eleven one of six from
distance. He couldn't get into rhythm and then it looked like he banged that
right foot. Still looking for a status update on him. Hopefully it's not
related to the swollen toe on that right foot that he has been playing through
admirably beautifully and he's performed at his highest right now as a Clipper most definitely,
but he's having one of the best stretches of his career and there's just
nine games left till the playoffs. Now, the Clippers have a big game
coming up on Wednesday in Phoenix. It's the battle for the two seeds in
the Western Conference. It very well could decide the two seed. The Clippers
already have the tiebreaker because they've won the first two games. They're only playing
three this season against Phoenix, but they're looking up at them right now because
Phoenix was able to go into New York after losing badly to Brooklyn and they
would beat the Knicks one eighteen to one. Ten tonight. I hear CP
three was money down the stretch and it's going to be a really tough game
for the Clippers. Hopefully Kawhi Leonard is able to go for that one.
We don't know that said he'd be reevaluated in a week. It's getting close
to that time, but obviously they could use him and Luke Kennard being back.
Sergebaka and Patrick Beverley that's unlikely. I believe both of them did not
join the team on this road trip. I don't know if the Clippers were
overlooking New Orleans tonight in anticipation of that game. We haven't seen much of
that this season, at least the last couple of months. Post All Star
Break, they've been locked in. They've been very good at all the sports
cliches that Ben Mallor would harp on with taking it one game at a time,
but there's something too that, and they have been one of the hottest
teams in the NBA, the hottest post All Star Break. But I believe
the team that has the best record since January first would still be the Phoenix
Suns. They've been scorching high. Hashtag rising Suns. That's their mantra.
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Clippers Talk after they lose one twenty to one oh three inwhere else but New
Orleans. I don't I don't know where it is. The Pelicans are twenty
seven to thirty four on the season, but they look like world beaters every
time they take on the Clippers. Coming up, Nick Hamilton will be here.
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Clippers had nineteen turnovers, leading to twenty one points. You don't need to
help out an offense like this that's already very potent. But eight of those
came in the third quarter. They couldn't get out of their own way.
Once their offense finally clicked in, well, their defense was nowhere to be
found in that quarter. Clippers lose by seventeen. They will try to bounce
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host game. You knew this game was gonna be a tough one to pull
off. One Zion Williamson hit that three pointer and the third quarter, which
is was appropriate and emblematic of every shot from the outside going in for New
Orleans and uh not so much for the Clippers. Even though the New Orleans
Pelicans not a very good three your point shooting team, just hitting thirty four
percent of there's takes from the outside it's been one of their weaknesses. Tonight,
though they go fifteen of twenty nine, that's fifty two percent. Meanwhile
the Clippers go fourteen of forty five thirty one percent. It was worse than
that though, there were three of twenty one in the first half. But
you always feel like they're gonna make a run and come back. Didn't happen
though. Tonight PG thirteen played just twenty five minutes. The Clippers were down
by as many as twenty five and Paul George, for the first time in
weeks a month, had an off night. It's okay, Well, we'll
give it to him. I'm sure he'll respond Wednesday and hopefully Kawhi Leonard than
the two one three connection. They'll be back together in Phoenix for a big
one. Let's go to CJ and Alhambra to kick things off here, CJ
be kin, what's up. I'm gonna try to be man, but it
was. There was no alibi. We were ugly. We were ugly,
and uh, you know, I'm gonna have to say in retrospect, this
was probably our most disappointing loss of the season. And I say that because
first we committed to DeMarcus de Marcus came back and showed his commitment back to
us, and he played an awesome game which I think a lot of the
Clips needed to emulate and go inside and play that bully ball. The second
thing was that with Utah losing and Phoenix winning, this would have marked us
or locked us in for second and only being what that that would have put
us what half a game or a game away from Utah? I'm not too
sure. Yeah, So, I mean, this was our moment to seize.
This was the time to strike the iron when it was hot and c
hold on. So if the Clippers come back and beat Phoenix Wednesday night,
what are you gonna be saying? Oh, I'm gonna be all about it,
baby, I'm gonna be all about it. Well, I'm just saying
the sun will come out tomorrow. In the thing, this game is not
going to define their season, CJ. They could win that game on Wednesday,
which would be much bigger. Yeah, but that would have put us
ahead even even more so than than the number two spot would have been ours
on lock. You know what I'm saying. Well, they got the tiebreaker,
which is the good news. They already have that against Phoenix. This
is true. This is true. You speak the truth, mister Austin's It's
not over yet, CJ. They could still make a run at that one
seed. It's possible. Well, let me ask you this, Adam.
Do you think maybe because we did have kind of a prolonged rest it was
what two days prolonged for them since they had played well in the last twenty
days. I guess so. So do you think the Clips have kind of
acclimated to this kind of really tightened season that Commissioner or Silver has kind of
put forth, and maybe just the extra time off of brought on the little
russ We're we're looking for answers on a night like tonight. I get it,
we're reachings, but we could also just go we could also just say
they're in New Orleans and they're one in three in their last four games there.
Regardless of who has been available for both teams, it just seems like
the Pelicans have their number in New Orleans. It's been a tough place for
the Clippers to play the last couple of seasons now, and it was a
strange game because they got off to the hot start. They're up nine two,
and then they just went ice cold. Well, clearly the big easy
has become the big difficult, hasn't. It's a tough one, tough riddle
to solve. I don't know. It's something has he's in one of a
true detective. We can't figure it out yet, but they eventually did.
Who else do we have online here? Oh? Greg Inventura, you're on
Clippers stop with Adam Asland after they fall once twenty to one oh three in
New Orleans? How are you? Adam? My brother, my friends,
my brother. I'm not sure that Paul George has a stable mental condition because
he does stupid stop Adam like tonight. How came he only played twenty five
minutes because they got blown out until took out the starters. I know,
but you know, I don't understand how this guy goes hot and cold.
He is so hot sometimes great player, and then sometimes he didn't show up
at all. And I don't I don't understand, Adam, if that's a
a male condition or a physical condition, what do you think. I don't
want to play armchair psychologist or anything like that. Greg. I think shooters
go through slumps, and this isn't even a slump yet. It's one game
he has been the hottest shooter outside of Steph Curry over the last three weeks
now, and even Steph Curry has had cold streaks this season. Uh,
not this bad, Greg, I bet, I bet if I go through
his box score and his game log, I can find one. Greg.
We're gonna talk Wednesday. Yep, all right, sounds good. Let's hear
from coach Lou post game after the Clippers fall by seventeen in New Orleans to
the Pelicans. Here's your head coach to Ron Lou speaking with the media.
Hey, what what do you make of New Orleans defense and Lonzo's defense,
specifically on Paul George. It seems like they were doing a good job of
denying him, not letting him get to his usual pin down shots. Would
you make of that? Yeah, I thought Izo did a good job,
you know, sniffing out plays and I'm staying aggressive, staying on Pig's body,
you know, for overall. But I thought, you know, we
got some good shots earlier in the game, you know, a lot of
shots the shots that we normally make, which we did. But you know,
they did a good job. They played a good game, they attack,
they got to the basket, they made threes, which you know,
we're coming to the game. We said, we want to pack the pain,
take away his eyeons, you know, drive to the pain, which
I thought we did a decent job of. But you know, he ended
up making fifteen threes. But you know, they just beat us, you
know, so you know, they had a game, we didn't play as
well as we wanted to and they won go ahead laws. It felt like
after the games from last week that the team was kind of headed towards a
performance like this. Uh does this just kind of underscore the point that you
were making last week about the need to get guys back. They need to
get into kind of rhythm as you guys are trying to get to where you
want to going into the playoffs. Yeah, I mean with guys being injured,
you know, it's one of another guys down. You know, guys
are still playing a little bang up, you know, playing more minus and
they wanted to play playing out of position a little bit. So you know,
we gotta get guys back, you know. And you know, don't
you know, not taking any credit with new always gonna probably played great,
probably did a good job attacking us, but you know, you know,
they just beat us. But we gotta start getting guys back and start playing
his games. Like I said, going down the streets to get some kind
of rhythm on what I hold too. Oh, Paul had tweaked his looked
like it tweaked his ankle on on a rebound and was just not himself compared
to how he played the rest of the month. Is there any concern with
his ankle? Have you talked to him, you know, any takeaways from
how he played after that first quarter? I'm I'm quite sure having had a
chance to talk to him. You know, I know, Nico got banged
up a little bit, so he tried to give it a go in the
second half and we kept pulling at his shoulder, so you know, we
got him out of there, so hopefully he's okay, but you know,
we just gotta just start getting some duffy bodies out there. Did you go
adjust him? Hey, coach Uh? You talked about coming out early in
games with the defensive mindset and setting the tone on that end of the floor.
Do you feel like that mindset or that energy was kind of missing in
this one? Yeah? I think so. I think it all started because
of the missing shots and we can't let our offields dictate our defense. And
we got some good looks. We didn't make him early, so we gotta
keep defending. But I thought of the biggest thing is they got out in
transition. You know, if our missshots, they're going to get out and
transition, get some early ones, get to the free throw a line early.
I'm attacked early with bledsoe and ball and that kind of hurt us in
that first half. And then we had a chance to you know, I
think we cut into six. Then we give him offensive rebound put back,
you know, bless all wide up in three, we file when we were
in the bonus, you know, when it was bringing up full court,
so things like that, and they kind of got the momentum and took me
to fourteen again. So those mistakes and you're not playing well offensively, you
can't have, you know, like I said, tip to have for those
guys that play well. Is it possible to just chalk a night up like
this to a long season and guys being out or do you look at that
as kind of almost like making an excuse for a game when we lost a
game. I mean, it's gonna happen. We're gonna win all of them.
You know, we didn't have a good game. We didn't play well,
and that's gonna happened. So we lost. Thank you, cam hey,
coach. Tonight after after an initial minute of the game, it looked
like you guys just had a rhythm. Might this been a game kind of
where you rust versus rests at that issue? There that kind of quandary that
you guys found yourself in. IM not sure. I gotta take a look
at a camp to be honest. Like I said, I know we missed
a lot of good out. I know Marcus particularly early on in the game.
You know shots that he usually makes that could have changed the game early
on the game, but you know, I said, he didn't make him.
And I'm not sure if it's the rust or whatever. He had two
days of good shooting. So you know, like I said, we didn't
play well. We didn't shoot the ball well. And give them credit,
they did play well, thanks coach. And it looks like the last hand
we got a bus Nick Hamilton and go ahead, hey hey coach. Despite
the loss, it seemed like Boogie was really impactful and the paint really especially
in the middle. Finished with a double double. What did you see out
of him? It was a little bit different tonight as you guys move forward,
Well, since he's been on the team, you know, he's been
a great post presence for us. You know, he makes somebody pass if
they double or a team was doing double. He takes advantage of the guy
down low. So I mean we needed it, even though you know it
wasn't enough for tonight. But just seeing him, you know, post and
be able to score down the block and able to make nobody pass, that's
good to see. And like they he had a good game four US,
and you know, well, what else can I say? Thanks coach?
It's all we got tonight, all right. I appreciated man. Take care.
There was Coach lu post game after the Clippers lose by seventeen in New
Orleans to the Pelicans, and as always, nobody says it better than Coach
Lu. Nobody has better analysis of why his team lost. But he talked
about them missing shots and letting their offense dictate their defense. And it happened
early in that first quarter where they went into that drought, and all of
a sudden there was a twenty four to five run. I think it was
by the New Orleans Pelicans. But something a caller brought up, and we'll
get back to your phone calls. I know Jose and Southgates online eight seven
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But talking about Paul George were well and him having a tough shoot night,
and it always only happens to him, And I said, as good as
Steph Curry has been averaging thirty averaging thirty eight points per game in April,
all I had to do was go back two games to find one where he
went to a fourteen from three seven of twenty five from the field had eighteen
points in a loss to Washington. It happens to everybody. Can't overreact.
Fans always think it's only our bullpen that blows games, it's only our kicker
that misses extra points, it's only our star that has off nights. Now
you watch everybody close enough. Mama said, there every days like this,
and it was one of those for PG thirteen. But we'll see if the
Clippers bounce back in Phoenix taking on the Suns. They're one game backup right
now for the two seed. You heard Nick Hamilton get the final question in
there to coach Lou. We'll hear from him next on Clippers Stock on the
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We had some protect your Neck there from Wootan Klan coming in, Nick,
because I've been getting some frustrated callers tonight, understandably after a loss like
this before we get to the bigger picture stuff with the playoffs and what this
means for the Clippers, and we could talk a little bit about possible matchups,
but how do you view a game like this where they've been so hot
and they come out and they look pretty flat after the first couple of minutes,
and New Orleans for the most part, was able to pick the Clippers
apart tonight. How do you see a loss like this or is it a
warning sign? Or is it just one of seventy two? And these games
happen even though there's just nine left for the Clippers till the playoffs start.
I mean, as we know throughout the season, it's a game of runs.
And yeah, the Clippers team was flatter than Kyrie Irvan's Earth. They
came out with just no energy. You know, they pretty much got pumped.
I mean, the New Orleans Pelicans had their way with the Zion was
a force to be reckoned with. You had, you know, lamels,
give me a Lonzo ball rather, you know, shooting the lights out.
You had great continuity between the New Orleans Pelicans. So when I look at
this Clippers team, especially them coming off the two day rest period, it
just seems like, you know what, they just they were just either they
came out flat, but it seemed like to me they were just fatigued quite
a bit, especially with all the injuries that have been piling up. We
noticed that Paul George kind of retweeked the ankle tonight. When we spoke with
him, he said, Hey, you know what, it's not a hundred
percent, but I'm gonna ice it. I'm gonna get it ready and by
the time we're going to Phoenix on Wednesday, I'll be ready to play.
And the one thing Tylu also said to us was the fact that, hey,
you know, guys are logging in more minutes, which is which ups
the percentage for having an injury or a nagging injury that can cost them a
game or cost them opportunities to win games, especially with nine games to go,
and you can't afford to have a guy like Paul George on the injury
miss especially with Kawai and Serge Ibaka and Pat Beverley still out. So it's
going to be interesting to see how they pulled this these last nine gangs together
and really, you know, show things up to where they need to,
because it's going to be a very tough nine games ahead for this Clipper's team.
Nick Hamilton is my guest here on Clippers Talk after they lose by seventeen
in New Orleans to the Pelicans. Nick, let me follow up on that
conversation post game with Paul George. There was he talking about his ankle or
did this reinflame the foot injury that had been going on with the swelling.
Was this something different or was it related to that. No, he said
it was basically he just, you know, the ankle because he actively,
you know, caught up, but he stepped on Terrence Man's foot and they
got caught up, and so it was just something that hey man, it's
just it's it's the ankle, it's not the foot. He may he emphasize
that right off the bat which was a good sign to hear, especially when
you know his previous problems with with the ankle and with the foot most importantly,
So that was a good sign to hear. You know, they didn't
have to take an MRIs or X rays or anything of that nature. So
again that's a positive sign. Probably, like I said, probably just aggravated
it as and I believe him, you know when he said, hey,
I gotta, I gotta is it to get some treatment on it. And
they have, you know, about a day or so to take care of
that, and you know, tape it up, and he's gonna, you
know, play like the person that he leaves to play like, you know,
which is stepping on the floor and executing the way he needs to execute
it in order to get this team another W, especially on Wednesday, gets
a very tough Sun team if you can put tonight aside a little bit and
just talk about their overall play post All Star Break, where they're nineteen and
six. They've been the hottest or one of the hottest teams in the league
over the last month and a half. Now, has it changed your view
of I guess how you see them in terms of championship contenders in this league
right now. You know, I think they can be. I think they
can be definitely a championship contender. I think when you look at this team,
the depth of this team, and I think that's what continues to be
gloss over, is the depth at this team, especially guys they've added,
like you know, trading for Rajon Rondo, getting a Boogie Cousins who signed
for the rest of the season, which I thought was a tremendous deal and
it was very smart for the Equippals to do. A props to Lawrence Frank
and company for that. But then you look at the depth of this team.
You're gonna get Sergeybaka back, when you get Kawhi Leonard back healthy,
and you look at the second unit. I mean, this team is going
to be a very dangerous team if they managed to stay healthy, especially in
a tough Western conference that they're going to have to face. Regardless if it's
going to be you know, Denver at some point, the Lakers, the
sun Utah Dallas, whoever it may be able to make it, they're going
to need all hands on deck in orders going to get to at least the
conference finals. I'm under the impression that the Clippers do not make the conference
finals. At least, that's gonna be some real serious questions when it comes
to the future of Kawhi Leonard in the Clipper's uniform. So they gotta go
all in. They got to make the NBA finals, period, but they
definitely have to make the conference finals. He is Nick Hamilton follow him at
Nick Hamilton's two one three on Twitter. Nick in talking about the playoffs and
the Clippers next game coming up on Wednesday in Phoenix. How have you seen
the Suns this season? Because some people think, well, they were eight
no in the bubble last season and there was something building bubbling there and then
they bring in CP three, they make some other nice ancillary type of moves
and there's a reason they're in this position right now. But others still doubt
them of being, you know, a team that could be in the Western
Conference finals or could make it to the finals. They think it's a year
or two too early for some of their young guys. How do you see
the Phoenix Suns this season? Well, first of all, you got to
give a lot of credit to James Jones, who's the general manager, who
had the fourter two to bring in the Monty Williams, who I think it's
done a phenomenal job that they had coaching physician, also bringing in a guy
and convincing a guy like Chris Paul who to come in and really be that
floor general that they've been needing along put them in alongside DeAndre Ayton and Devin
Booker and the rest of the team. So I think that's been a tremendous
help for the Phoenix Suns, and I think the Phoenix Suns can make a
decent playoff run. At my under the impression that they can actually make the
conference finals or the NBA Finals. Not so fast, my friend, because
let's let's slow it down just a bit, because I do believe as talented
as this Phoenix Suns team is, and as gritty and tough as they can
be because of guys like Chris Paul who feed off the energy and feed off,
you know, people downing him and downing the team, there's still one
player away in my estimation, before they can get to that next level.
Whatever who that player may be remains to be seen, but I do think
they are a player away from getting to that level. But I don't think
in a seven game series, they can beat the Clippers, for example,
in the playoffs, I think they could take them seven. I don't think
they can beat him at seven. What about the Utah Jazz, because there
are another team that people look at is you have to prove it to me
until I believe in you of being a real contender. Obviously they don't have
Donovan Mitchell right now, but he should be back by the playoffs, which
I think start May twenty second. Do you see them as a threat to
either the Clippers or the Lakers in the West. You know, it's hard,
Adam, because when I look at the Utah Jazz, they have a
great regular season. We've seen this, We've seen this episode before, but
in the playoffs they never live up to expectations. So I'm kind of weary.
I don't want to. I don't doubt them as far as what they
can and do, because in the playoffs, if anybody, if any it
could be anybody's series, as we've seen last year when they were up three
one and got taken down thanks to Jamal Murray and the Denver Nuggets. So
when you look at this team now, yeah, the Rudy Gobert is on
it, is definitely on a defensive tear. He's had a great defensive season.
But I think also too, when you look at what is transpired with
this team as far as the ups and downs, they could be a contender.
But I'm not sold on the Utah Jazz in the playoffs. I'm just
not sold on that. I'm more I'm more nervous about the Denver Nuggets,
even without Jamal Murray. I think that's the team people need to watch out
before. So on, going back to the Clippers, they are a game
back of the Phoenix Suns. They take them on Wednesday Night. Clippers currently
in the three seed. They'd be taken on the Dallas Mavericks if the playoffs
started today. Dallas is two games back of the Los Angeles Lakers, who
are in the fifth seed. But of the Mavericks or Trailblazers, who do
you think would be a better matchup for the Clippers in the first round.
I don't even have to ask the Lakers or put them into that mix,
because obviously that would be the toughest matchup at both teams. I mean,
that would be a slug match to see that happen in the first round.
But between Dallas in Portland. Who do you think would be a tougher matchup
for the Clippers. Honestly, Adam, I would have to say the Well,
give me the Dallas Mavericks because when I look at Luca Dodgers, when
I look at that team, what they've had to go through, the ups
and downs dealing with the health of przingis having him not having him, and
they'll still be able to keep their head above water and be able to float
the way they need to do. As far as being in playoff contention,
I think that may be it. We saw that the Clipper struggle with the
different him me with the Dallas Mavericks last season and even in the bubble,
so I think something there's something about the Dallas Mavericks team that really gets the
Quippers amped up and really gets down, you know, gets down and dirty
with them. So I think the Dallas Mavericks, you know, they come
in fearless, they don't have any any apprehension. They come in they're gonna
give it to the Clippers the way they're going to give it to him,
as we witnessed early on in the season. You know what they did to
him, And so I think it's no different. I think they're only going
to get better with time. But at the same time, I think the
Clippers can match up. Obviously with the Dallas Mavericks. I think the Clippers
are able to beat them in a series. They could. They learn how
to just conceede to play defense. As far as just being consistent and then
having again having everyone healthy. That's going to be the key for this Clippers
teams, making sure that you have everyone healthy enough to compete. He is
Nick Hamilton. Follow him on Twitter at Nick Hamilton two one three, founder
of Nightcast Media, NBA analysts. You see him on Going Rogan. You
also listen to him on Serious XM. Nick. Are you going on with
Rogan and Rodney as well tomorrow? I have no idea. Hopefully it'd be
sometime this week, Adam, but I haven't got the limbo yet. But
we'll see. We've been going on the same day lately. Man. Come
on, Oh, I'm trying to keep the strink a lot. I see
now how the Clippers at the winning streets before, unfortunately before tonight. That's
that's the street I want to have with you, Adam. We'll start a
new one just like the Clippers. Nick, thanks for coming on tonight.
I appreciate you, man, absolutely thank you having me Adam talk to you
soonbuddy. Clippers lose by seventeen in New Orleans with the final score of one
twenty to one oh three. More postgame audio coming your way. We'll get
back to your phone calls. Final segment coming up eight seven seven five to
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here, turn and fall. Clippers fall one twenty to one h three in
New Orleans. Brush it off. They got Phoenix coming up on Wednesday.
Tip time for that game is at seven PM versus the Suns. We'll have
your Clippers countdown shows starting at six before we hear from PG thirteen. Post
game, Let's go to Jose and Southgate. Jose, you're on Clippers stop
without in Auslin. How are you? Yeah, Jose, Yeah remember that?
Yes Adams, Jose, I usually call you from my garter Southgate.
Well, right now, my job got me in the middle of a parking
lion Bakersfield. Got back to the job. I saw this play three back
to back defensive players on viion opening of the game. Next thing you know,
I'll welcome to the restaurant. We're down by twenty stash forward. I'm
talking to you, wondering what's happening after Wait, happy birthday, mister Hamilton's
after hitting you guys saw it you said, Mama said were always gonna have
one of these games and say it was on those games. But besides that,
I heard that they want to tell you t and nice Adam. They
put some respect on mister a wa okay any real Clipper side note Before this
game, we've been bawling. He's only nine games left. Relaxed, man,
last off play first Oh, going with the Aaron Rodgers r E L
A X. Relax, Let's relax to some soothing tones from Paul George here.
Thank you for the call. Say it was PG thirteen post game speaking
with media. Hey, Chen, how you doing good? You got an
incident where I think you stepped on Terrence Man's foot. Did that impact your
toe at all? Uh? No, I was the ankle impacted. The
ankle. Ankle was a little sore. There's a little story. Just get
some treatment on it. Tonight. Do you think tonight was a matter of
rust versus rest? If you guys had a little you guys were in a
good rhythm. They were playing games every other night, some games back to
back, and then you had a couple of days off kind of got you
out of that rhythm. Was that the case to night you feel? Uh?
I think we just we just didn't bring it. We were flat tonight.
I don't know necessarily. UH can contribute it to uh the rest.
We've been doing pretty well when we had rest. So I just think we
were out of scene. And uh, you know, they just get them
credit. They played a great game tonight defensively and offensively. They were hot,
you know the second time we played them here and they've been hots.
Go along. Hey, Paul, just going back to what New Orleans has
been able to do to you guys the last few times that you guys have
played there, I mean, is there anything that specifically they're doing that makes
you makes you uncomfortable or or kind of get you off off your game because
it's kind of been Yeah, I mean, it's just it's just their energy.
It's just their energy. We we just haven't matched their energy. You
know, they were all over the place defensively, from shrinking closing the pain
off to kind of just just running everywhere. You know, they played a
real you know, energetic Uh they play energetically and uh, you know it.
It it affected our offense, and you know, we have some tough
possessions that led to easy baskets for them. And this team they run.
You know, they play fast, they play in transition, and you don't
get good looks you don't take care of it. Uh, it's gonna be
these these kind of nights. Team has a big game coming up Wednesday in
Phoenix. You guys all asually played well against him. What do y'all need
to do to make sure that y'all are ready to bounce back and perform in
that one? Uh? Just game planned, Uh, game plan the same
way we're playing every other game. Go to Mare. Hey, PG,
I'm just curious. You know, Ty has talked about the need to get
healthy bodies back on the court because we've been banged up kind of all a
year. Uh, is there any sense of concern about guys getting worn down
the guys who've been playing heavy minutes. He talked about guys playing heavier minutes
and they want to guys playing out a position. Is there any concern from
you and your part about guys getting worn down at all? No, I
mean, this is this. I think the luxury of this team is the
strength that we have with with the depth. You know, so we've we've
been well, you know, we've been well. One game where we didn't
play so well, and uh, we we just had to do a better
job. You know, it just came down to effort and energy. We
just had to do a better job tonight. But you know, we we
gotta hold it down for the guys that are that are nursing injuries. We
know injuries as part of the game, but we gotta hold it down for
him. Apologized, apologized if I'm necessarilier, But do you have any here's
about the ankle injury moving forward at all? I mean, it's it's it's
start right now. But you know, it's it's the game time. It's
two days away. You know, we'll see, you know, I think
I should be good. I'm gonna I'm gonna do everything I can to be
one hundred's close to one hundred, so right now, I mean, it's
it's it's not a thought right now that I'm playing. You know, we'll
see, you know, if anything changes come Wednesday. Okay, thank you.
There was PG thirteen post game after he had his first down game in
weeks, went just three of eleven, nine points and just twenty five minutes.
Clippers were down by as many as twenty five. They lose by seventeen
in New Orleans. That next game that he was alluding to is in Phoenix
on Wednesday. It's just kind of a big deal. It's the Clippers trying
to get the number two seed. They're currently a game back of the Suns
at forty three and twenty. And here's something encouraged in Clipper Nation. They're
closer to the one seed than they are to the four seed. As the
three seed right now, they're two and a half games up on the Denver
Nuggets, who are in the four seed. They're just two games back of
the Utah Jazz who lost earlier tonight to Minnesota for the one seed until Wednesday.
And before we get out of here, I do want to thank the
Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Semen, Ralph Lawler, Nick Hamilton for
coming on back here in Burbank, my radio partner Kevin Figures until Wednesday.
Who it's gonna be good where the Clippers are in Phoenix taking on the Suns.
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