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of the Clippers. Well, Carlo, uh, what goes up must continue
to keep going up, as Boston would outdo themselves and hit twenty five three
pointers after a game where they made twenty two in Sacramento a couple of days
ago, and over the last two games. Now they are forty seven for
ninety five from three. That's forty nine percent. I don't know if anyone's
been better in NBA history over a two game stretch. It's absolutely ridiculous at
him and I think the Clippers just ran into an immovable object today with the
way that Boston was knocking down threes, the way they were hoisting threes,
it almost felt like they knew they were gonna hit twenty five because they shot
eight of their first ten shots from outside the arc. They were hoisting early,
they were hitting early, and really they played the percentages and the percentages
worked out in their favor. You can't blame everything on another team's shooting shooting.
But today, I feel like a lot of what the Clippers struggled with
was Boston just hitting backbreaker after backbreaker from outside the arc. Yeah, some
of it just feels like wrong place, wrong time for the Clippers. They
caught a hot team at the wrong time at home. But on the the
Clippers just weren't good enough offensively. Defensively, the perimeter defense wasn't there for
the most part. And this is I'm hoping some tired legs from the Clippers
just having a little bit of a letdown after winning nine straight, where they
have lost two straight, both without Kawhi Leonard, and they could bounce back
in a big way coming up on Tuesday. Yeah, the next part of
this Clippers schedule at him is a lot kinder than recently. They'll play the
Hornets, and then they'll have two more days off, play the Grizzlies,
and then have the Heat here at home. So they got a four game
stretch in which they're not playing every other day, which I think is big
for this team. They just look tired. This is the third third game
in the last four games and a different time zone and a different arena.
They played their fourth in six days. They were without Kawhi Leonard. They
looked tired today. Paul George was getting to going early. Harden didn't do
a whole lot on the offensive end. He had a mini five zero run
in there in the third. Clippers need to get their groove back, they
need to get their momentum back. It's the NBA, and we talked about
a pregame how tight is this one conference. You can't have a three game
losing streak. You can't spend more time on the losing side, and you
gotta stay paced with the pack and the Clippers need to come away with a
win in that one. They fall by thirty seven to the Boston Celtics today
at home. They'll get back after it. The day after Christmas. They'll
be tipping off against the Charlotte Hornets at seven thirty from Crypto. We'll have
your pregame show starting at six thirty, Carlo Jimenez. Even in a game
like this, great call, my friend. We'll do it again on Tuesday.
I cannot wait to see your face at them back. The Clippers are
gonna see your face on Tuesday and things are gonna come away with a win.
We will turn this thing around. Brick brother Jake Warner, he's always
bringing the good vibes. You know how it is. I'll have a big
Carb face after Christmas for a big Clippers victory, hopefully back I like that.
Coming up next, we'll get to your final box score. Clippers lose
at home one forty five to oneh eight to the Celtics. And you're listening
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HD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio station. Not a lot to say about this
one, Clipper Nation, but I'll still try. As the Boston Celtics went
twenty five for fifty three from the outside, that's forty seven percent from three
on extremely high volume and on their in their last two games. Now the
Boston Celtics are forty seven of ninety five from three. That's forty nine percent.
I don't know if anyone has been bet or an NBA history over a
two game stretch on that volume. Maybe the Golden State Warriors, maybe the
Houston Rockets. I think Milwaukee has the all time record from three in a
game at twenty nine, so maybe they rolled that into hitting I don't know
twenty to the next game. This is unbelievable what we're seeing from the Boston
Celtics and what we saw in this one. But Clippers are certainly culpable and
have to be responsible for some of that hot shooting, as they were just
eleven of thirty four from three and couldn't get close to matching it outside of
PG thirteen and a Vitza Zubats. Not a lot of great performances in this
one, and I thought Paul George was good nine or seventeen in thirty minutes
he had twenty one points. But the effort defensively in rotating and trying to
slow down the Boston Celtics in that hot shooting, it just was not there
in this one. You lose by thirty seven at home. There aren't gonna
be a lot of positives, but a lot to talk about with this Clippers
team over the past couple of weeks now and where things could be trending.
Hopefully, this is just a blip in a long eighty two game season.
A two game losing streak, and they get right back after it come Tuesday
against the Charlotte Hornets. Tip time for that once at seven thirty. We'll
have your pregame show starting at six thirty when we return. More on this
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thirty seven at home to the Boston Celtics as they hitch twenty five to three
pointers, not a franchise record. Last season they hit twenty seven in a
game. They're coming off a game where they hitch twenty two up in NorCal
against the Sacramento Kings. So maybe a little bit of wrong place, wrong
time for the clip was against the Boston team that just has not been able
to cool down from distance. Clippers scored just one toh eight. They were
outscored in the first quarter by seven, it was twenty eight to twenty one
Boston. They outscored the Clippers by ten in the second quarter at forty to
thirty, by eight, in the third quarter thirty eight to thirty and by
twelve, and the fourth thirty nine to twenty seven. Really never let up
in this one worst loss of the season for your Los Angeles Clippers, to
say the least. Didn't have Kawhi Leonard, but Boston was without Christaps Porzingis.
We didn't know if Jason Tatum would be able to go had an ankle
injury, didn't play against Sacramento. In thirty minutes. He had thirty points
today, five of ten shooting from distance, nine of sixteen. Overall,
Paul George was solid twenty one points in thirty minutes himself nine of seventeen shooting,
But Clippers didn't get much else from anyone else without Kawhi Leonard. James
Harden just fourteen points, only took thirteen shots. Now only had to play
twenty nine minutes since the Clippers, uh, we're waving that white flag early
in the fourth quarter, but off the bench, Daniel Tice some inconsequential buckets
late fifteen points. Russell Westbrook I thought had a miserable first half, but
turned it around slightly in the second half. Clippers are already down by thirty,
but ended up with twelve points. Brandon Boston had thirteen and thirteen minutes,
most of them coming late in the fourth. Clippers lose one forty five
to one oh eight. They dropped to seventeen and twelve now on the season
and eleven and four at home. Boston improves at twenty two and six on
the year, eight and six away now. Clippers next game remains at Crypto
Tuesday night, day after Christmas. They'll be taken on the Charlotte Hornets,
tip off at seven thirty pregame at six thirty outside of Los Angeles. We
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there's a lot of green in here. I don't like that. Yeah,
terrace Man said it best. That was right before tip off. It
was all downhill from there. Calling this one the Christmas Eve Eve massacre for
you Los Angeles Clippers is they get ambushed at home by the Boston Celtics and
their fans and lose one five to one O eight. Welcome into Clippers Talk,
I Madam Oslin to eight six six nine eight seven two seventy eight sixty
six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number coming up. You'll
hear from the head coach and the players after they lose by thirty seven.
Plus Chuck Moncklin from Clips and Dip will join me. Boston's not cool and
off. We knew coming into this game. They just went for a season
high twenty two made three pointers without Jason Tatum against the Sacramento Kings up in
norcl A couple of nights ago. They outdid that against the Clippers. They
hit twenty five threes twenty five of fifty three. That's forty seven percent from
the outside, which is under their three point average over the last two games.
Listen to this. The Boston Celtics and their last two games are forty
seven for ninety five from three. That's forty nine percent on high volume,
I mean real high. I don't know if anyone's been better over a two
game stretch in NBA history on that many shots from three. The only two
teams I could think of competing with that in NBA history would be the Golden
State Warriors and the Houston Rockets. Well, James Harden, some of it
was bad defense, yeah, sure, some of it was unreal shooting by
the Boston Celtics and the Clippers. On the other end, well, it
sounded more like this from them. On offense short, it sounded like pong.
Can I hear that again? Short? Short? Now? When you're
short that often, it usually speaks to tired legs. The Clippers just eleven
of thirty four from three short, and I'm just wondering if this stretch were
they won ninth straight and it'd been playing amazing basketball is starting to catch up
with them, three different time zones over the three different days their last games.
I'm not trying to make excuses for them. I'm just asking the question
short why they looked this lethargic defensively. I know they didn't have Kawhi Leonard,
but Boston didn't have Kristaps Porzingis, who's been shooting forty two percent from
three over the last ten games. The Clippers only score one h eight.
They only scored twenty one points in the first quarter. They got lit up
like a Christmas tree, and the star on top was Jason Tatum. We
didn't even know who was going to play, and he had thirty points and
thirty minutes after not playing against the Kings with an ankle injury. He goes
five of ten from the outside. Paul George tried to match him. He
was good. He had twenty one points in thirty minutes, nine of seventeen
shooting felt like though in the first half especially, he just needed to get
up more shots and then to start off the third quarter where the Clippers got
blitz some more. He didn't take a shot in the first two minutes and
then finally did out of a timeout and had a quick five points, but
it just completely unraveled and spiraled on the Clippers and they came up unbelievably short
in this ball came they lose by thirty seven at home. Maybe some tired
legs, maybe a team that I hope not would had a foot out the
door because Christmas is coming up. They got two days off. That would
be concerning. I don't want to say it was for a lack of effort.
Early on, I thought the defense was pretty strong, but they got
crushed on the boards. Boston ended up with fifteen offensive rebounds, but they
had ten second chance points. I want to say by early in the second
quarter off of just creating more possessions off of offensive rebounds. In fact,
in the first quarter they had five offensive rebounds alone, leading to seven second
chance points. So yeah, by early in the second they were at ten
second chance points. They were getting to the fifty to fifty balls. They
looked like the quicker, hungrier team, and the Clippers just didn't compete at
a high enough level, at least to meet the Boston Celtics with their god
tier like shooting and without Kawhi Leonard haven't looked like the same team the last
two games. I thought the game in OKC on Thursday was a bit of
a schedule loss, but I thought they'd get up for this one. I
gotta be honest, and I know Mattine start. That's not an excuse to
me. Here's why if we have to keep saying over and over again,
man, they keep having these twelve thirty starts twelve pm tips at home.
Nobody else has to deal with this. But if we're repeating it that often,
shouldn't they be used to it by now? I know what stinks.
I know they get the short end of the stick at Crypto dot Com Arena.
Third billing into a dome can't come soon enough, But how are you
not used to this schedule by now? These early home games. I would
have thought over the years they would start to get better. They were down
by seven in the first quarter, they were down by seventeen by the end
of the first half. By the end of the third quarter, they were
down one oh six to eighty one. Boston never looked back. They end
up winning by thirty seven in a game they led by as many as thirty
nine. If you want to say it, was a sleepwalk type of game
from the Clippers. From the outset, I don't know. I felt like
they were engaged. They weren't hitting shots like Boston was, and sometimes that
can throw off your perception of how much effort was out there when a team
is just that hot, and even when you have a hand in their face,
they're knocking them down. Paul George had a really well contested three on
Jason Tatum. I think in the first quarter. It was near the end
of the first quarter. He still hit it wrong place, wrong time.
Is Boston just a buzzsaw? They're the best team in the East, but
again didn't have Christaps Porzingis. I felt good about the Clippers coming into this
one, so I'm not gonna switch up on you like I'm Stephen A.
Smith and all of a sudden athletic. I didn't say that. Disappointing effort
from the Clippers overall, disappointing execution more so than anything though. For me,
they just weren't good enough. Too much complaining with the referees at times
too A Vitza Zubos was getting into it with them. I thought he had
a strong second stint in the second quarter, started to get active. They
were looking for him. Had I want to say, a big putback dunk
off of PG miss, another one off of Russ miss into the second quarter,
early bucket in the third quarter. He was my player to watch.
He did have sixteen to ten. You look at that in twenty seven minutes.
That's a good stat line. But he still minus twenty eight as the
Clippers got annihilated by the Boston Celtics starters. Their bench was okay at times.
I thought Russ had a really bad stretch when he came in early on
a turnover, right away, a bad three got blocked by Horford. He
was over dribbling, missed the jumper in the second just not his shots,
not a great shot selection from him, some ill advised stuff. He was
much better in the second half, but too little, too late from he
and the Clippers at that point. Now Daniel Tye started to play better and
ended up with fifteen points. But there's not a lot you can take away
from this box score outside of the difference in three point shooting the start.
Contrast there with Boston hitting fourteen more three pointers in the Clippers, You're not
gonna overcome that. Clippers also had five turnovers in the first quarter. Now
they ended up I'm gonna double source it. One of my box scoreres says
ten, the other one says eleven. I'm gonna go off that. I
trust the eye test and that matches that, So eleven's not bad. But
the problem was they had five of those in the first quarter, and that
started to set that tone for the Boston Celtics. They were getting out and
running a little bit, and the Clippers energy dump whatever you want to call
it. They didn't look quick enough. Obviously, they weren't battling like Boston
was for those offensive rebounds. Defensive rebounds for the Clippers that turned in offense
rebounds instead for the Boston Celtics is the Clippers weren't getting to them. Disappointing.
And here's something that is more concerning for me. Outside of a loss
where you can say burn the tape, turn the page, there's not a
lot you can learn from this. I've seen them over the years. They
happen within an e two game season. It's not that out of the ordinary.
I could go back to the fifty one point when that the Dallas Mavericks
had over the Clippers within the first week of the season back in the twenty
twenty one year, did it amount too much? No Clippers would go on
to the Western Conference Finals. They beat Dallas in the first round. So
these James happened. But what's been happening over and over again is Terrence Man
being in a shooting funk. There's a pretty large shample size now of data
where I want to say, this was game twenty three for him on the
season, coming back from that ankle injury, and he's at around twenty three
percent from three tonight. Oh of ten. Glad he got up ten shots.
Wish he got up even more in the fourth quarter when it was just
garbage time. I wish Man just shot himself out of this funk, because
that's what it is. It's between the ears, it's a confidence thing.
It's Steve Sacks trying to throw it to first base, and like Steve Sacks,
he continues to miss his target of six from three. This is a
guy that is a thirty eight percent three point shooter for his career. Now
that's a big sample size. But the cold start in a game where they
really could have used him with no Kawhi Leonard same in Oka. See struggled
there too. I think two of seven he was more hesitant against the thunder,
which tells you it's in his head. He's thinking about it too much.
There was a three pointer he turned down early in the first half,
and James Harden got on him about it. He would then continue to fire
to no avail. But zero of ten, that eight hundred pound gorilla is
now weighing like a ton on his back, which just shooting himself out of
this shooting funk, which is what it has to be. Shoot yourself out
of it. Like John McClain and die Hard. Yes, it's a Christmas
movie. If it takes place around Christmas, it is a damn Christmas movie.
Sure, that's what's been like for Terrence Man right now. Unfortunately,
I think he'll come around. I believe the data and the evidence we have
for him in his entire career is more meaningful than this twenty three game stretch.
This is a guy who has been reliable for the Clippers with his play
when guys have been out. He's just overthinking it. He just needs to
play instinctual basketball. He just needs to see a couple go through. But
with every miss, it's like a hitter in the slump, in a slump
at the plate, just gripping the bats so much harder, saw dust flying
everywhere. It just makes things so much more difficult for Terrence Man. As
he continues to miss in the game, he goes over and the Clippers lose
by thirty seven. Well, start with Sean and Inglewood. Sean, what's
up here on Clippers stock without a maza, Hey, Adam and just leaving
from the game. And I'll tell you, right at the outset, you
just feel that it was like something that lets the you know, it was
like appliance that wasn't plugged up. You know, it just wasn't a lot
of energy in the Clippers. I mean, there was some effort, like
you said, in that first quarter, but it seemed like Paul George was
really he was trying to get his The other guys were like, you know,
they just didn't really feel like they could do anything. And I saw
the Celtics kept bunching up the paint, and so when the Clippers came into
the paint, they started getting frustrated because they were getting fouled and they weren't
getting any calls. I mean, they were getting slapped around quite a bit.
But on the other side, if you breathed on the Celtics, you
got called for a foul. Well, it certainly something seemed like a home
game for them, and this one unfortunately, Yeah, it did seem like
a home game for the Celtics and that aspect. So it was it started
going, you know, circling the drain pretty quickly, you know, after
they can't get a call, and you know, but the one thing,
as you said, it also seemed like they were The Celtics got four rebounds
every rebound that the Clippers get. With all due respect to Zoo who was
in there fighting, that seemed like that did happen. And one positive Kobe
Brown, Yeah, three, he's seeming to get comfortable that one play where
Russ came down and forced the action to him and flipped it out to Kobe
in a real positive past. All Kobe had to do was catch and shoot.
That was good. But when you talked about terrace Man, if I
could chime in, if he had the mentality of Brandon Boston, Brandon wants
to be the next Kobe. Well, he comes out there, he's shooting
all the time, his gun is loaded, and Terrence man needs to have
maybe a little bit more that mentality like Brandon Boston had. I don't,
I don't, I don't disagree with you. But he did get up ten
shots in this one went over ten. I thought he was less hesitant overall
today than he was the past couple of games. Yeah, but I'm not
man at the game. I mean, he's two losses. I'll give him
a pass. But you know, after all this is over, the next
game, go for it, go after it. Hopefully Kawhi be back,
and hopefully pretty soon in a week or two, we'll see makes him pump
fumbly hits the floor too. Did you see him pregame? He was going
through some drills, a little three on three. He still had a brace
on his leg, which isn't a great sign. He wasn't going full force.
He wasn't going full speed out there. But it's something to take away
from it, right, But they said it's only supposed to be for two
months, and that was about six weeks ago. So I'm optimistic that we'll
have him back, and maybe the guys just need to just get a little
rejuvenation and come on back and and just you know, because they weren't doing
any health defense too much. That was one of the things I saw,
And they certainly weren't blocking out. How are you gonna help How are you
gonna John? How are you gonna help out on guys? When everyone's hitting
shots like that? How you how are you gonna help defense? I don't
know, but they figured out out. I'm just saying, if if a
team's that hot, like you can't really play off anyone. Well, they
were hot because they were getting wide open jumpers. Come on, some of
them were wide, were wide open, some of them were well defended,
and it did not matter at all. Yeah, you could have been better,
That's all I gotta say. But yeah, I agree with you for
your point you made today. All right, Sean, appreciate the phone call.
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they went four minutes without a make, and I felt like Boston didn't go
a possession without hitting a three pointer. They knocked down twenty five of them,
shot forty seven percent from three and win one forty five to one oh
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I'man a Mosland eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight sixty
six nine eight seven two five seventy. Boston had ten second chance points by
the nine minute mark of the second quarter. They were getting offensive rebound after
offensive rebound. The point where the game really spiraled out of controller went sideways
on the Clippers to me, was after Tatum got called for that reckless close
out on Kobe Brown undercut his landing space. Uh, that was a mad
three pointer plus the foul, and I think after that, the Clippers were
down by nineteen in the first half. They were down seventeen twenty four minutes
in down by as many as thirty nine. They lose by thirty seven.
And in short, yeah, in a game where they didn't shoot it well.
I know the numbers at the end are gonna say, Okay, they
were forty six percent from the field, but they shot thirty nine percent the
first quarter where they were already down double digits early on. At the half,
the Clippers were at forty three percent. And look, it's not that
their offense was so bad and scoring one oh eight isn't great, don't get
me wrong, but they didn't have the firepower to match what Boston was doing.
They got outclassed and outplayed and out hustled and outworked, and that's how
you get a lopside score like this period. Not enough guys stepping out,
stepping up with the absence of Kawhi being out, I thought it was a
game where they need a lot more from Norman Powell. He struggled early and
ended up with just seven points, three of nine shooting. Yeah, Kobe
Brown knocked down a couple of three pointers. If you're looking for positive,
Sean and Englewood did bring that up. But Russell Westbrook a really rough first
half off the bench. The Cavalry didn't exactly arrive to help out the starters
who just got crushed plus minus. Wise, they were losing their minutes in
a big way. James Harden was a game worst minus thirty four. Terrence
Man was a minus thirty three. You eat to Zubots of minus twenty eight,
Paul George to minus twenty seven. Hey, I'm here coffee just minus
eleven. Of course he only played seventeen minutes, probably a reason for that.
He wasn't great either. Look outside of Paul George and I eats a
Zubots in that second quarter a little bit now, during the time of the
game where it was still within reach, not many Clippers played well. Damien
in La You're on Clippers South without a mileson. What's up, Damien triple
A man, first and foremost, thank you for taking my call. And
I just want to say Mary Christmas to you, brother, Mary Christmas to
you and yours as well. This is a real disappointing, embarrassing loss.
You know, I'm up there in the yacht club as I call it,
in the three hundred section, and it's a green up there. I can't
get my bobblehead, you know, because they've taken them and the energy on
the defensive end. I just I didn't get it. Like like you said,
it wasn't that the game that the Clippers played was all that terrible,
especially to start the game, but the defensive energy and then the lack of
rebounding. I thought that, you know, we're thinking that, yeah,
we want to get out there and we want a gang rebound. Zubac tells
his end another double double. He's been playing better and he's been improving,
so I'll get off of him. I won't get on his sack. But
dude, the next guy, Russell Westbrook with five rebounds, and I'm looking
at it and I'm saying, we got to do more. I'm looking at
it and I'm thinking, like in the locker room, Okay, it's not
that bad. It looks bad on paper, but it's not that bad.
We start to tighten up on the defensive end and start to get in there
and lock in on the rebounding. We should be right back there in this
game. Get a little bit better closed out, and start to you know,
work better in transitions. Here's the problem, Damien three. When they
weren't rebounding, it was because Boston was hitting shots. There were no rebounds
to be had they hit twenty five three pointers. My god, well yeah,
but do you but do you think that you know, I think the
first quarter was a really poor effort by the Clippers on the glass. When
Boston only shoots forty from the field and go eleven or twenty seven in the
first quarter and they still come up with twenty eight points, that's because they
had five offensive rebounds and they had seven second chance points. That can't happen.
Kristaps wasn't even out there, not even at all, Like I can't
even imagine what it would have been like if you would have been there.
But I can tell you as a competitor myself, like not even on their
level, but of any level, if you let me go out there and
feast on the boards, it's not gonna stop. Like I'm gonna just feel
like I got you, because this is where games are won and lost.
And I think that we em bold in the Celtics by not giving up that
type of you know, competitive effort on the offensive and defensive glass. They
knew they had us, and they knew they could that we weren't gonna gonna
give that effort, you know, and it showed. Yeah, I think
it's a fair point, Damian. I appreciate the phone call. They knew
the Clippers weren't fully focused from the get go. It compounded on them because
of all the hot shooting from Boston too. But when they're the ones out
there just cracking bodies and being physical and grabbing boards early on, there's an
intimidation factor there. They feel like the Clippers are right for the picking.
Its snowballed on them. Uh, bad Christmas analogy. That's what happened.
It did. We've played some frosts. Snowman coming in. Clippers lose one
forty five to one eight at home to the Boston Celtics. Morrison Longbeach,
you're on, Clipper stop with that amazend they had even I do not care
who was playing the Boston Celtics, they were going to lose. Where you
can hear fifty percent on eighty some shots from the three point line, look
out, America. When you got forty five points on fifteen shots by the
eight minute mark in the second quarter, that the game is over. These
guys are hu listen, we need some some specimens. They did this in
sack Town the other night. It's just unbelievable. They're shooting that they're doing
now, Sometimes the team can make you look bad. And I was listening
to Carlo. I mean, Sean got more credibility because he's doing witness equal
at the game. I'm just in to Cargo, But Carlos says something he
got my attention. He said that the Boston Celtics are nine and one when
they've had two days rest and when they're shooting like that, Adam, anybody
gonna beat them. And every team in the National Basketball Association has had games
like this one when they've gotten one big and they lost big. And unfortunately
we ain't getting no pass. So we'll see the next game. Okay,
Adam, do you behave yourself all right? The long beach. I agree
with you to a degree. I just think the Clippers are playing a role
in Boston being that hot from the outside. Sacramento is still not a great
defense. The Clippers over the last eighteen games, I want to say,
were tenth defensively since the new starting lineup change, and that has dropped significantly
over the past week. The Clippers' defensive rating has been going down getting worse
because they played some really good offenses and they blew out the Pacers and the
Knicks, and it was garbage time in the fourth quarter, and the Clippers
let them score a lot of points, so that somewhat skews the numbers,
but Okase put a big one on them, and Boston tonight did the same
while the game was still in the balance. Boston the last two games has
shot forty seven of ninety five from three, that is forty nine percent from
distance over almost one hundred shots in a two game stretch. What's gonna bug
me is and I take your point that the Clippers, there's not a lot
you can do when a team is that hot. But what's gonna bug me
is I just know on Christmas Day Boston against the Lakers is only gonna shoot
like ten to forty two from the outside or something. They're gonna get this
hot shooting out of their system against the Clippers and the Kings the other night,
and they're due to go cold. Now, that's usually how it works
with the law of averages. Let's hear from coach Loup post game after the
Clippers fall one forty five to one oh eight at home to the Boston Celtics.
Boston attempted fifty three from deep. Today, when a team is shooting
that many volume threes of that type of clip, how does it test your
perimeter defense, especially without Kawhi. I'm gonna test it a lot, you
know, we do. Come into the game. They're gonna shoot a lot
of threes the league in three point attempts, and all their guys can shoot
them, you know, And so coming to the game, we talked about
that disgusted. You know, even when you think they're not gonna shoot it,
they're gonna shoot it, you know, And so we had to be
good at just getting out to those guys, making them put on the floor,
you know, making them getting I think they're second to lasting league,
you know, getting to the basket. You know. So we know they're
gonna shoot threes, and we just didn't do a good job defensivee tonight or
offense fee as well in that regard. Oh we're classy like that now,
now, ballet Sports there head coach lou On postgame with that audio, Clippers
lose by thirty seven to the Celtics. We'll take a quick time out.
Obviously spot on with everything he said there. Clippers weren't good enough offensively,
certainly not on the defensive end, and that's how you get a score or
you lose by thirty seven. More Clippers start coming up next here on five
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You're listening to the La Clippers Audio Network streaming on the iHeartRadio wipp What's
up now? Christmas music? Clippers lose by thirty seven. At home,
they fall one forty five to one oh eight to the Boston Celtics. It
would have melted any snow if we had some here in so cal After they
went twenty five for fifty three from three. They attempt forty three per game
typically. Uh, that's second in NBA history to the Houston Rockets in twenty
eighteen. Twenty nineteen they attempted forty five per game. I want to say,
of course, when you're that hot, you're gonna get ten more up
deservedly, so twenty five to fifty three, forty seven percent from the outside.
Boston Celtics went big over the Clippers. Welcome back into Clipper Stock.
I'm got a Maslin eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
phone number I heard the music? Wasn't that Christmasy. I liked it.
We got Chuck Makler on now of course because of it for a little Clips
and double dip here on Clippers Talk. Chuck, you were there in person?
What was it like? Man? Was it any different? Am I
missing something? Well? I guess the only difference is I couldn't change the
channel where I'm sure from your perspective because maybe put something else on. But
no, this one, this one was tough. What made it even tougher
was just the amount of support that the Celtics had in the building. This
is I'm not throwing shade at Clippers fans at all. Celtics fans travel well.
But there was a moment early in the game where they had two really
tough offensive rebounds and the crowd just sounded like we were in the middle of
Boston or something like that. So I guess that was a little disappointing that
the Celtics fans got to see their team win in such fashion at stables.
I got to ask you this, and hey, yeah, credit the Boston
transplants. It was probably an early Christmas present to get to see their team
at this game. And maybe they'll be there on Monday as well. But
did it sound like this live when the Clippers were missing shots, Because to
me, this rim being miked almost sounds like you're playing pong short one more
time, Kamie more time. Shortly. It felt like that the whole game.
It just other than Paul George to start this one, it was just
kind of a nightmare for all the Clippers. I mean, I'm sure you've
gotten some calls about it, but Terrence Man really didn't do anything to help
his case to keep starting. Oh for ten is just brutal and something you
really don't expect. So I keep saying we're not going to see more performances
like this, but I don't know. Look, I don't want him to
be taken out of the starting lineup, but at this point it's getting difficult
to defend, and I wouldn't be shocked if it did happen. I don't
know how that's going to help his confidence if he's removed after winning the starting
job, and really it was a long time coming in many ways, and
now he's not taking advantage of the opportunity. And that's what's so frustrating.
Right now, He's in with the worst shooting funk of his career at a
time when they need him and he needs to prove that that starting job is
his and it's cemented in stone. Yes, it was tough to see today,
and a mere coffee also was a little bit invisible out there, which
is, you know, a recipe for disaster when the Clippers are down.
Kawhi and a mirror and Terrence are both kind of non factors that combined one
for thirteen from most you guys. I was interested, and maybe this's just
had to do with timing of the game or something like that, but I
really thought Tyler was going to open the second half with Norm Powell in or
one of a mirror or Terrence man, But I just wasn't in the cards
tonight. Norm he again just another kind of innof no one. Really,
it was just brutal all around. I'm exhausted even looking at the box for
after seeing it, you're just like, oh, yeah, this one looked
as bad on the box score as it did kind of on the court.
Hey, I've been talking for it for an hour, talking about it for
an hour. You could talk about it for ten minutes. Damn it,
Chuck, all right, this will be my gift Christmas. You know I
do want to say, no, go ahead. I was gonna say,
this is the Burn the Tape game. I think you tweeted this out this
one. It's you know, two losses in a row is tough. We
talked about on our last episode yesterday. I have clips and dips so that
to remember where this team was at right. There was no Kauhi in this
one. The twelve thirty start makes things crazy. The Celtic shooting was already
crazier than it usually is, and the Celtic defense is very real. I
don't watch a lot of Eastern Conference basketball, but seeing that in person,
it was a nice little lipless test. I guessed for ninety percent of the
Clippers to go against a Burn the Tape game, just kill it with fire,
maybe like put the virus in the computer where the game is being logged
on the server type of game, because I don't know how you know,
there's not VHS tape anymore or anything like that. But you know what,
Paul George is pretty good. I thought I felt like you should have taken
even more shots because he was so hot early on, and to start the
third quarter, the first two minutes he didn't touch the basketball or take a
shot. That was a little bit frustrating, But twenty one points on nine
of seventeen shooting. I'm not gonna say he didn't show up. Yeah,
I mean he showed up early. Right at first, this game became a
bit of a Paul George Jason Tatum duel, which was gonna be exciting if
if everyone else kind of picked up the slack. But we just got killed,
you know, in the bench minutes that was that was brutal. But
yeah, I mean, credit Paul George still made me feeling under the weather.
But I mean, you know, twenty one on fifty three percent shooting.
He Yeah, the game just didn't flow like it really needed to,
I guess, But I agree, I would have been happy if he would
have taken sixty shots from this one. It's sounding more like the No Words
game. That's what it's turning into right now. Do you think there's something
big picture wise with this team right now? There's anything more concerning than just
them losing by thirty seven and losing that last game in o case, see,
do we should we not overreact too much and this team is still trending
in the right direction? Is my question. I think what we saw is
I mean, unsurprisingly, yet again, I don't know how many times I've
said it on this podcast, the team goes as far as Kawhi Leonder and
Paul George, So when one of those guys is out, things are gonna
be even harder. We know James Harden is great. I would have liked
him to see him be a little more aggressive in this one, you know,
just kivin who was out and whatnot. But I don't think there's anything
super big to take away. They went up against a team that you know,
they were shorthanded as well too, but that's a really good Celtics team.
I think, what if Clippers fans want a game to maybe look at
to maybe blow out of proportion, and I mean that in a respectful way.
Is what happens on Tuesday against the Hornets? Is Kawhi gonna go?
How are they gonna come out after losing by just under a cool forty to
the Celtics? So I would I'm weirdly looking more ahead to that game and
seeing the response from this team. Any body language expert type stuff. With
Kawhi Leonard on the bench, was he getting up and looking, you know,
like he wasn't moving around too gingerly. I'm just wondering, Chuck,
you were there. I didn't have I didn't have my Kawhi binocular Lumby,
but he didn't look like he was moving too gingerly. We gotta something about
Mary that. Come on, get those binoculars going. There was no wak.
I didn't see him using a walker or anything like that, So I
think I'm hoping he's good for Tuesday. All right. He is Chuck Mockler
of Clips and dip Our, roving intrepid reporter today at Crypto dot cavrita at
Chuck Mockler's where you find him at Clippers pod is where you find C and
D. Chuck, thanks for doing this one today especially, I really appreciate
it. My friend, Hey, thanks for having me. And good luck
with the callers. Yeah, good luck at him, good luck with that
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Now. I figure to do this with the Clippers. Make it count.
Clippers fall one forty five to oneh eight the Boston Celtics at home.
Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm at a Moslin Get to me on x
at follow adam A Coming up here. We'll have Kaye's casual Corner. But
first I want you to hear because, as Ben Maller always says, the
real story is in the losing locker room, and the Clippers definitely lost this
one. Who was a rough one. There was loss of the season,
but I wouldn't say rock bottom or anything for this team. That was when
they lost to a Denver team. Without three of their main guys. This
is a team that has still won nine of their last eleven games, and
it's somewhat understandable. First game back from a long road trip you're taking on
Boston, they were hot. Last game, they remained hot. I don't
want to make too many excuses, but I'm not going to. I'm not
gonna panic too much either or say this is sky is falling time for this
Clippers team. Kawhi comes back healthy, they handle their business against they struggling
Charlotte Hornets team on Tuesday. It's all good, But here was PG thirteen
in the locker room talking with the media post game. Also, room were
at which this team shoots threes? How hard or difficult was it to run
them off at three point line? Uh? Extremely difficult? How so they
shot the ball? Well, you know the team that is uh confident that's
shooting it, and uh yeah, they ain't pass shots up. Well,
I know, TIS talk so many times about it doesn't really care where you
guys die, usually turning teams the best shot. But when the teams like
shooting Batman three point ten, does it start to all the way you guys
think about? How do you warn the office, like, do we need
to start shooting three just to play catch up? Nah? We stuck with
the same offense we've been playing. They just you know, that'sh that's just
how they play. Wouldn't say it necessarily caused by the fist, but you
saftly a team at the time. This was a tough week defensively for this
entire team. Alright, Obviously you guys had a good start to the church.
But and the end of the way, did how do you use next
week to re establish uh the defense? Good question? Uh, Well,
hopefully we be you know, back healthy and we just try to see what
takeaways from the last two games and go from there. Well, it'd be
tough to not let these two games derail you. I mean, you guys
have made such a great progress. Yeah, we're a great spot. We
won now I leading up to the two losses. It's the NBA. You
know, every teamam that's gonna be a challenge. We played to the better
teams in the NBA. Doesn't derail from where we're headed out where we trying
to get to, said, are they speG Yeah? There he was a
post game in the locker with various reporters I like that positive spirits still high.
Overall, this team has been doing the right things. There's been good
process. They are trending in the right direction. They've still won fourteen of
nineteen. You like to see it, and they have an opportunity. I
guess the next two ball cl at home next week in Charlotte and in the
Memphis Grizzlies, who do have John Morant back. I understand, but some
lesser competition overall can't overlook anyone though right now, and the Clippers have to
continue building good habits all right before we get out of here. I'm not
going to Vita zoobots now. Paul George ended that so beautifully. Katie,
what's up? I want to go to casual Katie's corner who's not the biggest
basketball fan and likes to ask me some basketball for dummies like questions, and
I think it's fun. Katie Newton, our producer here, what's up,
Katie? Well, I guess I was just gonna ask you a Christmas question,
but you can do that too. Whatever we know, we can deflect
from this Clippers game, Don't get me wrong. I mean in the modern
day of basketball, I guess when was the last time someone broke the glass?
Is that a thing that actually happens? Ooh, like dunk so hard
and I mean shack pulled down the rim a few different times. I think
Zion did it once. In terms of actually breaking the plexiglass, that's a
lot harder to do now than it was back in the eighties. There's a
famous clip of Jordan at a Nike basketball camp dunking, ripping down the rim
and the glass just shattering like it is NBA jam on all his defenders while
he doesn't get touched by the glass, but everyone else got scraped up and
cut. It's kind of an incredible underrated play at NBA history. So I
don't know if that's a deflection on my answer because I can't remember. You
know, I didn't figure it happened a lot outside of like video games.
I've played NBA Street a lot, so you know, oh which volume GameCube?
Katie's casual video game knowledge as well? Here you don't remember the volume?
It was more fun than just the NBA is doctor j on the cover?
Do you have the old ABA? Probably the first version? Okay,
okay, fair enough, great job today, Katie. Before we get out
of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lahler,
Brian Seaman, no Ego, Carlo Jimenez on the call, the callers,
the listeners, big brother, Jake Warner, our head engineer at Crypto.
And before we get out of here, I do want to remind you the
Clippers are taken on the Charlotte Hornets back at Crypto Tuesday night, tip off
at seven thirty, pregame at six thirty. And lastly, have a holly,
jolly Christmas, Merry Christmas and happy Holidays. So why was doing his
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