The game is over, Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just be got Kawhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range.
This is Clippers locker row, a recap of today's game and a look ahead
on your home for LA Clippers basketball at now your host, You, sir,
are a bad man, Adam Osley Clippers falling downtown Los Angeles one ten
to one hundred to the Miami Heat. Welcome into your post game show coming
up second half highlights and you'll hear from the head coach Toron Low and the
players after this one disappointing loss for the Clippers as they come back home after
going two and three on their five game road trip. Noah Eagle and in
a game where they were down by twenty one, they led by two heading
into that fourth quarter, but once again just couldn't get the comeback or couldn't
complete the comeback and get it across the finish line. Yeah, look at
him. These are always tough because for the last now six games, so
include the five road games in this one, I think there's a very valid
argument doing made that the Clippers should be six and oz. There's instead they're
two and four right in these six games, and they've lost three in a
row. But to me, when you look at how the games went,
the flow of the games, they should be six and oh. And so
that's a tough pill to swallow for a team that has championship aspirations, for
a team that's fighting for playoff position in the Western Conference and right now is
only half a game in front of the ninth place in the Western Conference.
And so again, this is a process. It's a marathon and not a
sprint, and I think there's still a lot of positives to take away overall.
But the Clippers are going to have to find out why every time they
make their their move back right, they find their way back into a game,
they take a lead in the fourth quarter, why can't they finish it?
Because they have been able to do that in the last couple of years,
In the last three years, they've been the best team in the NBA
at doing that. In fact, so where did that go? Where's that
spirit? And they still have it in them. It's just a matter of
either finding the right rotations in there, getting the right combination of players in
there, or executing at a higher level. Look the turnovers. That that's
the first step. Fifteen more turnovers tonight lead to twenty Miami points. Miamily
only turns it over eleven times for thirteen Clipper points, so there's a seven
point difference right there. Then we talked about second chance points eighteen of them
for the heat in this game for a team in Miami that only average twelve
per game in over the course of this regular season their first thirty seven games,
so six more than their season average, but the Clippers only had four
second chance points. That's a fourteen point difference. We talked about just fuel
goal attempts. Have a field goals made ten more field goals made on eighteen
more attempts for Miami in this game. It's the little things, and Miami
did it tonight and the Clippers did not. That's why Miami's playing good basketball
at the moment and the Clippers in their last three have not found way.
Because again it's not like they're getting blown out. They were getting blown out
in this game and they came back and took a lead, so they're not
getting blown out. They're there every single night. It's the little things,
and they're not even playing close to their best basketball yet, which is a
good thing because you don't want to be playing your best basketball right now.
You want to be saving that for late in the season. But now,
thirty nine games in, the Clippers are almost at the midway point of this
season. And I look again at Boston from last year twenty one and twenty
one, they finish fifty one and twenty six. It's possible it's been done
before, but a couple of things need to happen. One, the continuity
guy's got to stay on the floor. And look, there's only so much
you can do Kawhi Leonard non COVID illness today. But that hurts obviously when
you've been doing something for several weeks one way and then you have to play
a completely different way. And we saw the Clippers do it for extended periods,
but that's difficult. Eventually, it just wears on you eventually, and
then you have to toggle back and forth between what's my role on this night,
what's my role on this night? Are Those are tough things to figure
out from a player's perspective on the fly, and so you've got to do
all of that. Combine that with the fact that while you're looking for that
nuity. You're also looking for and striving for perfection and limiting your mistakes.
So I think they go hand in hand in a lot of ways. But
I'm not overly down. I just think that the Clippers know what they have
to do, Now you got to go do it. It's one of those
things where when you're a kid, you know when you did something wrong,
now you gotta go fix it. You can't keep you can't make the same
mistake again, or else your parents are gonna keep getting upset. I think
that's where the Clippers are at right now, where they just can't keep making
the same mistakes to shoot themselves on the foot, and what it's doing is
it's putting them behind the eight ball a lot of time left. But I
guess it's metaphorically speaking, the perfect way to do it, because they comeback.
Clips in overall season would make sense too. It's just not the ideal
situation of where you want to be. And I think the Clippers know that
they can still turn it on. Most certainly do that, and they hope
they will, but it's going to take some real effort and concentration from everybody
involved. Yeah, it feels like there has to start to be that sense
of urgency as we're now in twenty twenty three, and you can only do
so much with it. Injuries obviously, but this team just being out of
sorts, whether it's on offense or on defense. You know, in that
first quarter they put up twenty eight points, that's not bad, but they
give up thirty four, and they didn't come out with that focus on the
defensive end after having a really tough trip defensively in those five games where they
didn't look like themselves. Third quarter defense, who was outstanding from the Clippers.
They only give up the fourteen points. They were forcing turnovers, they
were grabbing rebounds, they were forcing missus. They did everything right in that
third quarter. But outside of that, thirty four, thirty three, twenty
nine, twenty nine, fine, not ideal, but fine. The Clippers
for most of the season had been holding opponents were there was that stretch where
they held what was it four or five straight halves under fifty Yeah, I
mean that's the Clippers defense that we have been expecting to see this season and
it just hasn't happened these last six or so games. And so again,
you know what's in there they're correctable issues. But I liked what you said,
Sense of Urgencies' twenty twenty three. The seasons almost midway through. Now
it's the time to turn it on. Now, it's the time to start
figuring out what you are and who you are and what you're about, how
you go about your business, because time's gonna run out eventually. You don't
have an unlimited runway here. Eventually the season runs out, time runs out.
You gotta go do it. Dallas is another example. Last year.
I'm gonna look it up right now, Adam, of what they started last
year and then what they finished. Yeah, I remember they got off to
that slow star where eleven and eleven or something like that early on. Even
Phoenix got off to a slow start. Eventually won over sixty games, lost
miserably in the playoffs, obviously to the Dallas Mavericks in that game seven.
But they turn things around certainly, and we're one of the best teams in
the league heading into the playoffs. So Dallas started the season last year sixteen
and eighteen. They were sixteen and eighteen thirty four games into the season.
They finished fifty two and thirty and got to the Western convers final to the
Western Conference Finals. So it's been done last year just alone. Actually I
could go even further than that, Adam. They started twenty nine and twenty
three, the six games over five hundred, but that was now what fifty
two games into the season, and finished fifty two and thirty, so they
had seven losses for the final thirty games. They went twenty three and seven
down the stretch. That's the type of heats you have to catch in the
NBA. We see it all the time in sports in general. NFL think
about some I remember the Giants winning the Super Bowls with Eli Manning. They
just caught fire. Green Bay Packers caught fire when Aaron Rodgers won the Super
Bowl. We can go there. There's many of those examples. It's true
in baseball, the hottest teams usually the team that's gonna win. Right,
the Phillies got to the World Series. They were hot. They were just
hot. And so if the Clippers can catch fire, everything could be okay.
And Dallas was the fourth seed in the Western The Clippers were the fourth
seed two years ago when they made the conference finals. That's not the end
of the world. I'm not looking at that as the end of the world
I'm looking at. Are you forming good habits while trying to get there?
And right now it feels like the Clippers are not quite where they want to
be. They're a little bit off of where they want to be. Again,
a lot of time left, not even at the midway point of the
season, but the time is now to start trying to push it a little
bit and turn it on down the stretch time will definitely be on Thursday as
well. Yeah, stiff test for the Clippers in Denver taking on the Nuggets.
Tip time is at seven. We'll have Clippers countdown for you starting at
six. That will be a great measuring stick opportunity for this Clippers team in
a way to kind of write the ship. You get a big victory over
Nikola Yogis in the Denver, Now get your feeling much better about yourself,
especially on the road, Adam, that's a tough place to play coming up
next. No, a great calls always save travels to Denver. By the
way, and happy New Year. I mean, you really just weren't even
to give me an opportunity to tell you that. I can't wait. I
was gonna see how you're gonna get that in you know, a different order
this time. But there's a will, there's a way, oh yeah,
or there's a no oh. There's an eagle coming up next. Second half
highlights with Noah Eagle. Clippers come back down twenty one, but they can't
complete it. They lose by ten one. Ten to one hundred is your
final score, Miami being the victor. Here in downtown Los Angeles, you're
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Campers lose one sets to one hundred to the Miami Heat live from downtown Los
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to me on Twitter at follow Adam A. Clippers were down by as many
as twenty one. We're down at the half sixty seven to forty nine,
but in that third quarter Pg. Thirteen started to heat up. Get the
screen from zoo box, but picks up his triples, so he goes over
the head patch to the far side. He gets right back from Jackson,
stepp into a right wing three, and George got it. Pg thirteen.
Bullseye from team and the Clips were within seven seventy five sixty eight. Leave
it for George and the big court logo screen to his right Zubos George stepping
on another right wing three bottom Pg. Thirteen A trade to bring it tore
thin one at a time out Miami seventy five seventy four. George left wing
five to shoot screen you his right up from new box. George stepan on
straight away three, Oh, Paul, George funny first lead since fourteen to
twelve A fourteen all Rod and the Clippers are up seventy seven seventy five George
with eighteen in a blake. Paul George had thirteen points in that third quarter.
Clippers led by two heading into the fourth after being down twenty one.
It was eighty three eighty one Clippers, but they simply seemed to run out
of gas lately in fourth quarters when they try to make these comebacks. In
this fourth quarter, they were outscored twenty nine to seventeen. Paul George didn't
return until the about the six minute mark of the fourth. Clippers had some
critical turnovers late that would come back to bite them, and they lose one
ten to one hundred to the Miami Heat here in downtown Los Angeles. Coming
up next, looking for postgame audio from coach Lou and you'll hear from hopefully
PG thirteen and some of the players after this one. Clippers now two and
four last six games. As Noah Eagle mentioned all Verry Winnabowl Ball games,
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Cross Clippers come back home, get down by twenty one, led by two
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and four in their last six contests. Home was not a safe haven for
them. They returned after going two and three on the road, and they
lose one ten to one hundred to the Miami Heat. After battling back down
twenty one, they had a two point lead heading into the fourth quarter.
They lose the fourth quarter twenty nine to seventeen. Welcome in to Clipper Stock.
I'm out a Maslin live from downtown Los Angeles eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy. Eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number taking you till about the top of the hour. Coming up,
we'll have audio from coach Lou and the players. Charles Mockler will be
here from Clips and Dip, and of course we'll be getting to your phone
calls at eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. I can see
a few that called in before we even started the show here. It's gonna
be one of those nights, and it was one of those games in the
first half of the Clippers. The problem is we're almost at the midway point.
How much longer are we going to keep saying that at one point did
they have that sense of urgency and flip the switch and build up some consistency
and continuity. Now it's not easy. We learned about an hour before the
game that Kawhi Leonard wasn't going to be able to go non COVID related illness.
And he's played i want to say they're eleven and four, eleven and
five with him and played about fifteen or sixteen games so far this season.
That's it, and the Clippers now dropped to twenty one and eighteen. Were
dangerously close to the midway point. And you want to see some of these
things they've been working on come to fruition, but instead they're regressing defensively,
while granted getting better offensively, although tonight wouldn't tell you that. But before
this game, on that road trip, in those five games, they had
the third best offense in the league during that time, while overall having the
twenty sixth best offense on the season. Problem was their defense slipped. They
had the twenty eighth best defense after having a top five defense all season long,
and now overall they're outside the top five defensively. Now, giving up
one hundred and ten points isn't a ton, but the Miami Heat had thirty
four in the first quarter and the Clippers put up twenty eight. On offense.
They shot fifty percent from the field in the first quarter. They look
good. There were three or six from the outside. But where was the
defense and where was that sense of urgency and the defensive intensity you have to
start off games with. Especially you come back home, you think, okay,
little home cooking, had a day off, feeling better, long road
trip and We're gonna come out and set a tone and let Miami know it's
not going to be the same like it was recently for them. They won
seven or three, but they just had a big game winning shot by Tyler
Hero running three pointer in Utah the other night. I said it turned the
faucet off. They flooded the place. Thirty four points given up in the
first quarter, thirty three in the second they win. I want to say
five straight quarters given up thirty points or more going back the last couple of
games now and they're down twenty one in the first half. Just a brutal
showing because in the second quarter the offense didn't continue. They went six and
a half minutes at one point from about the eight and a half minute mark
to the two thirty mark of the second and scorgeous four points one bucket by
Beats the Zoobots and a couple of free throws from Big Zoo as well.
Clippers just haven't looked consistent enough on either end recently, and it was six
straight quarters where they allowed thirty points or more, because they allowed thirty in
every quarter to the Indiana Pacers on Saturday. That game just looked like,
oh, a layup contest, back and forth at times, like both teams
had a handshake agreement that we're not going to play much defense today. Let's
see who can outscore the other. And the Clippers lost it by one,
and Kawhi Leonard was there for that game. Harry's Haliburton was there in that
fourth quarter though, and put one on the Clippers. So you thought,
okay, bounce back opportunity before they head back out on the road for some
tough games Thursday night in Denver taking on Nikilokich, a team that's surging right
now. They just beat Boston. Clippers weren't able to do that on the
road. So we're almost at the midway point and we're still waiting for the
Clippers to round the corner. I know a lot of this is injury influenced.
It is, but they've had a little bit of good health of good
luck. I hope that continues because I know a lot of people saw Paul
George grabbing at the right hamstring. I took note of it too, same
hamstring that kept him out seven games in November. Looked like he was in
the locker room, came out in the fourth quarter, didn't get back into
the ball game till the six minute mark. That's struggling, saw him holding
it a little bit and after he hit a jumper, did his best out
there. But the Clippers generated just seventeen points in the fourth. But Denver
right now is at the top of the Western Conference and they're going to see
them and enter the lions Den Thursday night. That all of a sudden looks
like a huge game. I would have been anyways, but right now,
the Clippers gotta stop the hemorrhaging. They could really use a top level victory
against one of the elite teams in the league for the last couple of years,
against the back to back reigning MVP in Nikolok. They got to build
up some consistency fast and get back to their foundation, their identity, which
was being a good defensive team regardless of what was happening on offense, because
that's the reason they've had a winning record this season. The defense has carried
them. Otherwise they'd be under five hundred easily because they've been on bottom five
offense. But the offense is coming around now that Kawhi Leonard's back, or
was, and then the defense slips that can't happen. You gotta get both
those things on the same page, point in the right direction. So Clippers
in a precarious position, and it feels like a critical point of the year
where you gotta see some growth. Who's the team going to be because typically
championship teams top ten defense and offense, and the Clippers just aren't there yet.
They lose tonight after coming back down twenty one to have a two point
lead entering the fourth quarter. And this is a trend. They've been dominating
third quarters and then losing fourth quarters. Noah Eagle brought it up during the
game, the Clippers all of a sudden aren't completing these comebacks. Yes,
they had the one in Detroit. They were also led that game by fifteen.
But against Dallas, they win that third quarter thirty seven to twenty six,
they lose the fourth thirty one twenty seven. At Boston, they win
the third quarter thirty six twenty four, they lose the fourth thirty two to
twenty five. A game they came back in looked like they were gonna win
it. Look click, there's gonna be a classic Clippers comeback. Couldn't be
Boston. That time against Indiana, they won the third quarter thirty eight thirty
one. They lost the fourth thirty eight to thirty seven, and they win
their quarter by twenty tonight and then lose the fourth by twelve. So the
last three third quarters heading into tonight, they had won by an average of
ten points, and then they went in tonight by twenty to take a two
point lead, just to get beat up in that fourth quarter, mostly by
bam Adebayo, who was getting whatever he wanted. He had I want to
say, nine of his thirty one in the fourth and I think every make
was a two handed rim rocker or a put back dunk. Just ridiculous athleticism.
At twenty five, he's just getting better and better, and the Clippers
didn't have an answer, And at times Zubots wasn't out there because he got
into foul trouble. He took two brutal fouls and a sequence. First got
called for the offensive foul, and then it looked like verticality rule should have
been in place, but he didn't get the call there either. Defending the
rim, I called for the blocking foul. In the other end, Clippers
also had a couple of brutal turnovers in the fourth quarter. What's been the
theme all season. Turnovers. They finished with fifteen of them. That's just
about what they've been averaging fifteen point six I think per game. But they
had back to back turnovers. It was Norman Powell off a pass from Paul
George who just wasn't looking, and then John Wall went into the teeth of
the defense and lost it in the restricted area the very next time down eight
sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventies and the phone number. We'll come back. We'll get to all
your phone calls. Clippers come back just to lose by ten one ten one
hundred was your final score here in downtown Los Angeles. Miami's now won eight
of elevenies. Clippers losers of two of their last or four of their last
six. They listened to Clipper stock here in Amp five seventy sports. Don't
say, she don't don't save, she don't want to be Henny got it?
Count it from distance. The odds on favorite to hoist the Larry O'Brien
heavily contest it, and it doesn't matter on the home of your La Clippers.
Clippers lose one ten to one hundred. Smith, it's not yet.
I don't know who what. Somebody's playing some tunes here in downtown Los Angeles.
That's how you know we're live. Clippers now won just two of their
last six contests, and his Noah Egle brought up during the game pregame post
game, these have all been very winnable games for the Clippers, going back
to the start of the road trip, when they're up twenty against Philly,
they come back against Boston, losing by one against Indiana, and then tonight
they led by two heading into the fourth quarter. Let's go to Ken and
Fontana. Ken start things off. You're on Clippers stock on a five seventy
a sports Ken Drop. We got Damien in La. I feel like he's
gonna be online. Damien. What's good? What's good? Bro man?
Another tough love? Thanks for having me on. I'll get right to it.
Brother. I had a little problem with, uh, you know,
the continuity of the of the of the of the bench guys coming into the
fourth quarter. You know, it just kind of felt like its fell apart
a little offensively, defensively. It was really weird because they seemed like they
were still on the rope on a string. But then offensively, I just
couldn't seem to get back into the flow. I'm kind of had a loss
right there, Adam. Yeah, the start of that fourth quarter was a
problem for the Clippers. They didn't score the first two and a half minutes,
didn't get their first field goal made till the eight fifty five mark,
a Nick Batoum lay up who else he always comes through and it was off
a great pass from John Wall, I must say, But they were out
of rhythm and out of sorts after having that great third man. I thought,
I thought what Luca Nard did in the second half was a little encouraging.
I'm a little, you know, kind of head scratching a little bit
because it didn't seem like him and John Wall could really get on the same
page. I don't know how it seemed to you like, it just seemed
like John Wall really had a hard time finding the flow of the game.
Yeah, I thought, you know, the last three games from John Wall,
he had played better, but he ends up still a minus eleven,
not the worst minus plus minus category for the Clippers tonight, But that turnover
he had or he went into attack mode at the basket, which you do
like to see. But he was looking to draw the foul and I think
not much else or not much else of a plan going on there, and
they ripped it from him. And it was right after the critical turnover from
PG trying to find Norman Powell. And that's a perfect example of just missing
that familiarity and continuity out there. You know, those guys haven't played together
much at all, and Norman Powell wasn't looking for that pass from Paul George
and those back to back turnovers I thought were backbreaking and eventually led to this
loss. Anything else or damon you know again? You know, I think
it's just a little thing in the loss, little idio secrecies, stuff that's
gonna come with building our chemistry. I'm not discouraged by the losing right now.
I'd rather do our losing right now and be ready for the postseason without
really tipping our hand too much. So I think it's all gonna pay off
in the end. And I would just tell Clicker Nation to hold on,
be patient, and don't take too much from a loss. In January,
Damien, with some good perspective there, Damian Ice, to meet you tonight.
At the game as well. My friend, Hey, he's gone,
thank you. You know, there's something I want to bring up because I
remember, and this somewhat parallels where the Clippers are right now, and I
know where Clipper Nation is right now. But remember two years ago during the
twenty twenty one season, the Clippers couldn't close games out late. They had
one of the worst clutch time ratings in the NBA. And they worked on
it, and they figured it out, and they showed up big when the
moment was the biggest in the playoffs. In those scenarios during clutch time,
last five minutes of a game within five points, Coach Lew eventually always figures
it out with this squad. I have all the faith in the world that
he'll do the same this season. Let's go to Ken and Fontana. Who's
back now? Ken? What's up here at Clippers stype without a Moss?
Hey, Adam, how you doing, dude? Okay? All, I
think there's like a prayer going on the arena. And I don't know if
this is disrespectful, but the show must go on right long time call it
first, I mean low time living the first time. Call it. I
just want to say that I'm coming from a point of passion and that right
now in years and it looks like this has been brought on all season,
that the Clippers aren't closing out the halves the end of the first half.
It's costing them and all the effort that they put in in the third quarter,
it's lost to go to the three guard line up. I don't believe
that the three guard lineup is successful at that time. And as she's spoken
about before, I think Roko needs to get into the game. Yeah,
Ken, I don't disagree with much of what you're saying. Just off the
eyeball test and with the advanced analytics, the three three guard lineup hasn't been
very successful for this team. And I appreciate the phone call. We went
into this season with the expectations of seeing wing stop, five guys out there
on the floor that could I'll shoot, that could all switch, could all
defend, and we've hardly seen it. Now. It could be coach lewis
waiting to play that card for when he has to, and they'll surprise teams
and they'll get the jump on him because of it. But and we'll hear
from coach lew coming up We gotta be honest, we haven't seen it in
the three guard and four guard lineups at times haven't proven to work for this
squad. Unfortunately, another phone call here so I can meet my mic and
meet him. Oh we got Terrence Mann audio coming up, Tagus and Walnut
days. You're on Clipper Stock withoutam Oslinda Happy New Year. Wanted to say
two things. One, it just seemed today offensively, it was just too
much perimeter passing around the three point line. There was not enough tech inside.
And it doesn't do like people like players like Luke Kennard any favors.
If you're just passing on the printer, guys are just cheating on him anyways.
And I think I don't know if it's just because Kawhi was missing today
they forgot how to post up or do anything. But there's a lot of
perimeter passing. That was the first point. What did you think about that?
Yeah, there's something to that. Although you know, when they weren't
turning the basketball over, they shot the three ball very well. They were
twelve of twenty nine. That's I looked at the first half, and they
only got up twelve threes. They hit six of them. And they only
got up twelve three pointers. If anything, they probably should have taken a
few more. Okay, okay, I would like to see a little bit
more of the attacking. But well, it doesn't mean they don't attack,
drive, kick, swing. The most open shots they get on the perimeter
usually come from them breaking down the defense on the interior. First. Yeah,
and the third quarter at work, fourth quarter, maybe it was a
line up. It didn't seem to work well, and it was maybe it's
a rotation. But the other thing that I know, we're always talking about
the small ball lineup, and I just wanted to give my two cents when
when like let's say Zubach gets in fell trouble, we always go to the
small ball lineup with Nick Patoum at the five, and we have a stretch
five. And I liked the small ball lineup, like you say, it
worked against Utah a few years ago and all that, but I would like,
you know, a little bit more parody sometimes bring in their traditional five
because I think it's it gives the other opposing defense a different look. I
mean, the opposing team another look. Where if you look at the top
three teams right now, and the Pelicans they got Zion and Jonas fell in
Tunis, and then Denver they got Eric Gordon and Kit and then Memphis got
Jaren Jackson and Steven Adams. All of them are big guys inside and they're
going to get all those offensive rebounds, and it's kind of been our kryptonite
this year, or giving up offensive rebounds. So I like the small ball
lineup when it's working and if guys are hitting shots. But if it's not
working or you want to give a different look, I would like to see
a traditional big come in for some minutes and see how the game goes.
I think it will take a lot of pressure off the other guys, especially
Paul George having to play the five tageous I hear you, want to hear
you. They don't have I think a reliable backup big right now, So
at a night like tonight. And I like Moses Brown and I think he
has played great in spots this season for the Clippers, But Isaiah Hartenstein is
in New York now and Musadiabat is in the G League, and Coach Low
does love to go small, but the difference is, and he's talked about
this a lot, they go with a big small sometimes sounds like an oxy
moron, but because if you have Kauai and Paul George out there, and
Marcus and Roco or Terrence Mann and Nicholas Patum, you know you're small,
but you've got guys that can grab boards, and you have a two time
Defensive Player of the Year, you have Paul George who was third and defensive
Player of the Year voting a few years back. You can get by when
those two guys are out there with the right combination of wings. But we
haven't seen as much as that so far this season. It's it's a little
bit curious to me. It certainly is. All right, well, take
a quick time out, we'll come back. More of your phone calls eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven two
five seventy as the phone number, And to be fair, I think they
would a stick with zubots. But he got into foul trouble. Eventually came
back with about two minutes left, but had those two fouls he picked up
in the fourth quarter. Those also were crippling for the Clippers. It just
seems like whatever can go wrong, how's gone wrong. He's going wrong.
Murphy's at all kinds of things going bad for the Clippers right now. But
there's still above five hundred and they're still in a good possession position in the
Western Conference. But Thursday is a huge game against the Denver Nuggets, who
are at the top of the West. Right now, we're on that more
phone calls plus coach Lou and Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip. That's all
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Michael greg hold on, We'll get to you, but first we go out
to the super secret Guest hotline where Charles Mockler joins us from Clips and Dip
a podcast with myself, he and William Updyke. Charles, good to have
you on. Don't have a lot of time. Let's get right into it.
Where was this game lost in your opinion for the Clippers? Charles?
Ooh, where was there? I got you? Now? Where was the
game lost tonight? In your opinion? I think we gotta go with the
lineups in this one. I mean the third quarter was great. Obviously,
you get to the fourth quarter and you start off on a seven oh run
because you got a three guard lineup and that's not doing what it needs to
do on the defensive vent Norm Powell played all of the fourth he was minus
twelve. He goes, oh four from the floor. We just saw the
same things that have been frustrating Clippers fans for a while now, which is
three guards, you know, maybe four sometimes and then not a center,
not closing with the big just giving up the middle of the the floor on
the offensive, excusing on the defensive end. And yeah, just kind of
more of the same, I guess after what was I mean, probably the
best third quarter of the Clip season. Between that and they've been dominating third
quarters recently. They've won the last four third quarters handling. But they've lost
all those fourth quarters, and they've lost three of those four games. They
just haven't looked right or haven't been consistent enough with sometimes their effort on defense,
with their shot making. There's only so much you can do about that.
But they just aren't completing these comebacks anymore. And maybe getting down in
the first half. And you can say they lost that game to Indiana by
the way they played in the first half of that one. You could say
the same for this one. When you're down twenty one, you can lose
a game early on because you run out of gas. You have to expend
all that energy to get back into it. And I think that's part of
what happened tonight. Yeah, And I mean, you know, you know,
Norm played the entire fourth, but we had our main, you know,
our starters playing the whole third because we needed it. You know,
to your point, it's hard to dig yourself out of a twenty point the
whole on a consistent basis. And you know, just to add insult to
the injury, we got the PG thigh cape and then he kind of grabbed
at a running back on defense to I'll hope or some because of from that
in the next couple of days. But yeah, I mean, you know,
we're an older team. It feels like all the guards are kind of
regressing a tad at the same time. And yeah, it's just digging ourselves
bigger holes to get out of. Earlier in games, Clippers lose one ten
to one hundred here in downtown Los Angeles to the Miami Heat. Charles Mockler
from Clips and Dip is our guest here on Clippers Talk. So we heard
coach lou come out post game after their lost Saturday. Some quotes came out
from Andrew Grive talking about still in the tinkering mode, still where they're trying
to figure out rotations. We're almost at the midway point. And I've said
this before, but Coach lu likes those big sample sizes. He likes to
give guys a chance ten game sample size in a certain position or a certain
slot in the rotation, or twenty game sample size. And we're about to
hit another twenty game sample size. I wonder if that's when things really start
to change more drastically with lineups. Do you think there's anything too that,
Charles, Yeah, I mean, you know, there's evidence of that for
sure. So I think that's something that people who are frustrated kind of look
at and I would tell themselves myself kind of included like, well, this
should be changing coming up right because it's not working. It's not like there's
even ups and downs right now. It's mostly just downs with these specific kind
of three guard lineups that we're running. So I hope it changes. You
know, a lot of this also depends on you know, it's tough missing
Kauai, but when you're missing Kawai and you still have a healthy rest of
the roster, maybe it's time to give guys like a Mirror a little more
run with some bigger lineups or Robert Cummington who did used to play for the
Clippers sometimes. So yeah, I mean, here's two it changing because this
three guard byn up stuff is not getting get done, and you know,
there might be some personnel changes to give them the backup. Big situation.
I know a lot of people want the Clippers to close small or excuse me,
close big when Zoo is playing well and you know, helping clog up
the middle, So maybe we can get some reinforcements to help him save a
little bit of himself for later in the games if Tie chooses to use him.
I mean, it seemed like one of those games where they could use
a second big to throw at Bam out of Bio who was just destroying them
in the paint, particularly in that fourth quarter. Now, we're hoping Paul
George is okay, We're hoping Kawhi Leonard is okay non COVID related illness and
is back and ready to go Thursday night against the Denver Nuggets. But all
of a sudden, that feels like one of those pivotal, magnified games of
the season. And I'm not saying it wouldn't have been any ways, but
with the Clippers coming into the game not playing great basketball, if they could
somehow get a victory there, all of a sudden, the trajectory or the
momentum is back in their favor. Does does it feel like that to you?
It just feels like a huge contest coming up on Thursday. Yeah,
I'm gonna be honest, I'd just take a split of the back to back.
Missnesota got back on track a huge game, Anthony Edwards just now,
and i mean, yeah, beating the one seed in Denver would be fantastic
against Yoki, who's having somehow yet another absurdly you know, elite season.
That would be huge, but given you know, we're not going to know
any Paul George News he said he was gonna wait to see how it's hamstring
response tomorrow in terms of you know, missing time, I just take the
split if I'm being honest right now. Yeah, stuff to get greedy right
now with the way the Clippers have been dropping games recently. He is Charles
Mockler. He covers the Clippers for Clips and Dip with myself and William Updyke.
We'll have a new episode out for you guys with a tripod soon.
I know that, Charles, thanks for doing the Clips and Double Dip experience
to night here on Clipper Stock. Yeah. Absolutely, good luck with the
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back into Clipper Stock. I'm at a maslin. Let's go to Greg in
Newport. Greg, you're on Clipper Stock. What's up? Hey? What's
that battam? I told you last week? Man, I wasn't gonna tell
you Happy New Year, but happy New Year, bro, Happy New Year.
Great? Hey man, I'll tell you what them hot dogs outside of
Stickle Center was smelling real good tonight. Man. Oh yeah, hey,
man, listen, I am old for four when I go to the games
in person this year. I haven't seen the Clippers winning game yet at home,
and I'm you know, I'm I'm I'm very positive when it comes to
the Clippers. But man, I'm starting to get frustrated at the way we're
playing. I don't like these lineups to Tylo's running out there, We're getting
out rebound, We're not getting no offensive rebounds. We're letting the other team
get offensive rebounds. A second and third shot that's the basket. I'm disappointed
that Kauai decided not to play tonight. I haven't seen him play in person
yet, and I'm just wondering. Man, it looks like John Wall is
just a shell of himself. Man. It seems like when he comes in
the game, he doesn't know what he's doing, or it appears that he
looks like he doesn't know what he's doing. When he does decide to penetrate,
he's basically just running into three people and turning the ball over and fall
into the ground. I mean, to be fair, he's been up and
down, not just between games but quarters. In between quarters, he's just
been very erratic with his play. Because you mentioned the turnover. Well,
he had a really nice fee to Nicholas Patum in a backdoor cut for an
easy one in the fourth quarter. Two. Yeah. I mean, I'm
not gonna take away what he did positive, but I'm just saying at him.
I've been watching him for the last four five games that he comes in
and plays, and he just looks like he's out of sorts. Man.
He doesn't. He doesn't look like the John Wall I'm used to seeing running
up and down the court. You know, scoring lay up a whill and
getting past the defense. Man. So I don't know, man, Like
I said, I'm just really getting and you know, getting behind in these
games and having to come back take so much energy from you man. And
he was talking about how the Clippers have been winning the third quarters and losing
the fourth quarters this because they're taking so much energy in the third quarters.
I'm with you. I'm with you, my friend. I appreciate it.
We're up against it though here, and I want to get some other callers
in. Let's go to Mac and appreciate you. Greg. Hopefully we'll talk
to you next time on Thursday night. Mac and lagun Niguel quickly thirty seconds,
thirty seconds. I had a little epiphany there, dude, how many
how many playoff games have the Clippers wanted? And he's gone, Mac,
I'm sorry all the epiphany? Was it gonna be the revelation? Okay?
Finally Michael nla Michael closed things out tonight. Thirty seconds. Hey, Adam,
I gotta say. Everybody keeps talking about, oh, well, we're
gonna do this and get ready for the playoffs. It's all about the playoffs.
The regular season doesn't matter. I'm concerned about this team actually making the
playoffs or not making the playoffs. I should say it just I mean,
you know, I know the West hasn't been as good as you know,
everyone talks about how the West is the mediocre or whatever, But I mean
this just you know me, games are adding up. Yeah, Michael,
I hear you. I appreciate the phone call. Look, there needs to
be more of a sense of urgency right now from this Clippers team. I
think it's fair to say as we approached the midway point of the season,
because well they're just four games back a first place, they're only two games
up on the Utah Jazz, who are in the tenth spot in the Western
Commerce. All right, before we get out of here, I do want
to thank the Clippers organization. Noah Ego, Brian Seeman, Ralph Waller,
Dennis Degastino's that Assisian to the stars, big brother, Jay Warner head engineer
here and everywhere, and Katie Newton in the bank, the callers, the
listeners. I'm Adam Ozen will talk to you on Thursday when the Clippers are
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