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Breaking down today's action with the pre
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LA Clippers, they're locking in every
game, every night. Adam Osland,

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the Clippers fall in New Orleans one
twelve to one oh four to Zion Williamson

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and the Pelicans. Welcome into your
postgame show. I'm at a Monslin.

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This is Clippers Locker Room, coming
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We'll have Clippers stock for you.
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seventy eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy Let's get back to Smoothie

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King Center. Though with Carlo Jimenez. Carlo, the Clippers scored four points

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in about the last five minutes of
this ballgame, and they couldn't get enough

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stops on the other end. It's
not like the New Orleans Pelicans were putting

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up big points. They only had
seven points during that stretch, but they

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had key buckets late and it was
that inside outside game just killing the Clippers

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when they tried to slow down Zion. It was timely shooting from the outside

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from the Pelicans. Yeah, I
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They did not shoot the three ball
well all night at all, but

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in that fourth quarter at them,
they seemed to turn a corner and figure

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out a way to knock down Big
three. After big three. The Pelicans

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came into the third quarter just eight
for twenty five, and in that third

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quarter atom they knocked down five of
their ten attempts and those were five too

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many for this Clippers team. And
it was interesting, Adam watching that game

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end, and you mentioned the four
points in the final five to thirty five,

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and I immediately thought back to the
middle of the fourth quarter yesterday in

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Chicago. The Clippers are up twenty. They have a chance to put the

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Bulls away early in that fourth quarter. Instead, Leonard and George have to

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play down the stretch, still hung
onto the lead, but the Bulls pushing

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it to They forced Kawhi and PG
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And you wonder if those tired legs
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them. Here in New Orleans,
a tough, tough bank to back.

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They got into the hotel at three
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without much rest, just couldn't get
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it's a tough spot to be in. Of course, no James Harden as

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well for this Clippers team. But
Zion Williamson with an amazing performance. Did

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he go eight straight field goals made
at one point for the Pelicans Carlo unbelievable.

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Just the Clippers threw everything at him. They had the kitchen sink approach.

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They tried everyone, They played PJ. Tucker a ton, but they

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couldn't get enough of those key stops. But really, I think it's on

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the offensive end when you only score
one hundred and four points and go twelve

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of thirty three from the outside.
The Clippers just you know, some of

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those jumpers when you have tired legs, they don't fall for you late.

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Yeah, yeah, they did.
They didn't for the Clippers. And you

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know, Adam, my thought was
really interesting. It really felt like outside

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of two to one three, the
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On the other end, they struggled
outside. I mean, Norman Powell

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was consistent as always, but the
Clippers didn't get those double figure performances from

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somebody like Uneviats, Zubats, a
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a mere coffee. I thought PJ. Tucker played great off the bench.

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He had three blocks in this game. But offensively, you're right, the

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Clippers had good looks and they just
couldn't knock down threes. They did a

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good job of adjusting. I mean, fourteen made free throws in the second

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half after four in the first half, it still felt like late in that

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game, they ran out of the
juice on the offensive end, and if

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it wasn't Kawhi Leonard, it wasn't
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As we mentioned, this was a
big game in terms of seating in terms

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of Western Conference standings and where that
is at now. Well, the Clippers

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dropped to forty two and twenty four. They're two games ahead of the forty

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and twenty six New Orleans Pelicans.
We now have the head to head tiebreaker.

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The four teams surrounding the Clippers and
the standings all have the tiebreaker against

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them. Not a great spot to
be in, but the Clippers are coming

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back home to take on the Atlanta
Hawks on Sunday. Tip time for that

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one from the crypt will be at
six thirty. We'll have your pregame show

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starting at five thirty. They got
to get some rest, hopefully in their

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own beds tonight. Same for you, Carlo, and get right back after

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it, my friend. Great call
is always. We'll see it at Crypto

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dot Com Arena Sunday night, Adam. I can't wait to see your face.

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And the Clippers an opportunity to get
back in the win column before they

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face Portland twice. Big one,
Big One, need that one. Let's

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go back at it. Clippers faull
tonight, New Orleans one twelve to one

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oh four. You're listening to the
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a app. Clippers lose in New Orleans,

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the big easy never easy for them. Once one oh four is your

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final welcome back into your postgame show. I'm at a Mosland coming up.

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six. Nine eight seven two five
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Clippers ended up shooting forty eight percent from

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the field, twelve of thirty three
from distance. Really the difference in this

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game, it was the Pelicans going
thirteen of thirty five from three, but

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the Clippers having six more turnovers in
the Pelicans, the Pelicans having four more

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offensive rebounds on the Clippers. They
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the Clippers just thirty six fast break
points. Were tied at twelve after the

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Clippers were down big there at the
half second chance points. The Pelicans led

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nine to five, and they had
the best player on the floor tonight.

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That would be Zion Williamson. He
had thirty four points on fourteen of twenty

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one shooting. At one point he
made eight straight buckets. Oh. He

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is a tough one to stop.
Just to load. Uh, just one

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of the toughest, most unique players
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plan four right now. And while
nobody else for the Pelicans had more than

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fourteen points, they would still have
what five players in double figures. Brandon

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Ingram didn't have a good ballgame just
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J. J. McCollums just eleven, theonnas Valence Chunis just four. Herb

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Jones just one of three from the
outside. But Trey Murphy fourteen off the

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bench. I had him in my
prize picks play and he did have more

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than thirteen and a half points fourteen. Larry Nance Junior also key buckets in

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the second half and down the stretch
four of six with twelve points. Some

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of the others really killed the Clippers
when they tried to load up and stop

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Zion Williamson. They got beat and
the Pelicans played and executed their offense better

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than the Clippers down the stretch,
as they scored just more points the last

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four minutes and forty five seconds.
Paul George led them with twenty six overall,

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a nice ball game. A couple
of clutch three pointers in that fourth

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quarter. Kawhi Leonard only attempted two
shots. When he came back in in

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the fourth he had twenty three.
Norn Palid fifteen off the bench, got

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banged up. Insult to injury.
He and Terrence Mann were banged up at

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times in this ball game. We'll
keep you the abreast of the situation.

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When it comes to injuries. We'll
hear from coach Lou as well, coming

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up on our post game show.
Clippers lose one twelve to one oh four

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in New Orleans to the Pelicans.
More Clippers locker room coming up next right

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here on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio
Network. LA Clippers Basketball is odd.

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The two one three era continues.
You're listening to the LA Clippers on the

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LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers lose
in New Orleans to the Pelicans again,

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one twelve to one oh four.
This time Zion has thirty four close one

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playoff type of Atmanere and possibly a
playoff preview. The Clippers would be locked

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up with them in the first round. Currently, when you look at the

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West standings, Clippers in the four
spot, now three games back on Minnesota

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in the three spot. They also
had the tiebreaker against the Clippers, so

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it's really four games back. There
are two games up on the Pelicans,

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who also own the tiebreaker over the
Clippers, so sixteen games left. Huge

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ballgames Sunday night back home against Atlanta
for the Clippers. If you want to

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move up the standings, if you
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a series against the New Orleans Pelicans. They got to continue to win ball

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games. Tip time against Atlanta from
Crypto on Sunday is at six thirty.

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We'll have your pregame show starting at
five thirty outside of Los Angeles. We

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are leaving you until then. Coming
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in attack mode Adam Osley. The
Clippers fall again in a pivotal contest with

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seating implications, this time to the
Pelicans in New Orleans. They lose one

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to twelve to one zero four.
Welcome in the clipperstock I'm Adam oslind and

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the head coach. We'll also hear
from Chuck Mockler if he's not too mad

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at me. It felt like a
replay hype. The game up biggest of

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the year, just like the one
against Minnesota. Clippers gotta have it.

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The game against Minnesota was if you
want to have a top three seed,

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you have to win that game.
Basically, this game was about holding on

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to the four seat. If you
didn't know, if you drop below four,

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you don't have home court advantage in
the first round of the playoffs.

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If you don't have home court advantage
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you're probably cooked. And now there
are only two games up on the New

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Orleans Pelicans. Clippers are forty two
and twenty four. The Pelicans are forty

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and twenty six, and they also
have the head to head tiebreaker over your

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Los Angeles Clippers. After this victory
where Clippers couldn't stop Zion. They tried

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everything. He was a bowling shop. He was Thaneus. He had thirty

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four points, fourteen to twenty one
from the field, seven boards, four

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assists at one point, made eight
straight shots. I know the Clippers were

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on the second night of a back
to back and they didn't have James Harden,

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and that hurts. But ultimately Zion
was too good and the Clippers weren't

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good enough. With the basketball,
fifteen turnovers just nine for the Pelicans.

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Clippers got out rebounded forty to thirty
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when it came to offensive rebounds.
That all leads to the Pelicans getting up

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ten more shots than the Clippers in
a game this close. It's about the

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possession battle. They talked about a
pregame, said the Clippers have to win,

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that they didn't weren't good enough when
it mattered most. Maybe tired legs,

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jump shooting team, older team,
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can make the excuse is all I
know is they only scored four points in

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the last four minutes and forty five
seconds, settled too often for threes,

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long twos. Pelicans only had seven
points in that span of four minutes and

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forty five seconds, but they already
had the lead. The Clippers were the

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ones who need to get more stops, need to get more shots to fall.

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I blame this mostly on the offense
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the game. You only score one
hundred and four points, that's on your

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offense. Talks about a pre game. But the Pelicans have been the number

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one defense since the All Star Break. They have the fourth best net rating

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on the season. It's a little
bit surprising they're only in the five spot

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right now when you consider that they're
really balanced. They're good on both ends

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of the floor. They're also good
with the variation and how varied their offense

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is because when the Clippers threw multiple
bodies at Zion, shaded helped hedged did

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what they could, gave him different
looks, and I mean they tried everything.

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PJ Tucker, I thought, played
really well in twenty four minutes.

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Had three blocks, six points,
two of three shooting, made two three

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pointers. This was the game.
This was the opponent that you use him

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against. I've been saying it all
season long. It happened. I thought

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he helped, he gave them a
chance. He had a couple of strips

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on Zion in the first half,
had a nice block on CJ. McCollum

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in the second half, a critical
three pointer, and the Clippers had a

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two on zero. Paul George was
underneath the hoop. PJ took the corner

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three anyways made it. Took three
of them made two. You'll take that.

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But I mean they had zoobots out
there against Zion. They had made

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some plumbley for six minutes. Everybody
got their shot, Paul George at times,

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Kawhi Leonard, a mere coffee,
Terrence Man. They threw bodies after

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bodies at Zion Williamson, who just
willed them to victory. But the point

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was he punished them and made them
switch up their defense and load up so

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much and give so much attention towards
Zion that it eventually led to some hot

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three point shooters and timely three pointers
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Pelicans. That's ultimately what killed the
Clippers. They go into the fourth down

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two after Zion gets that in transition
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quarter. Just ridiculous. I don't
know how he got that to go looking

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like Tyus Edney going the full length
of the floor. The Clippers threw guys

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at him. It was contested,
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That's the other part of it.
To play defense on him without fouling is

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so difficult. But to start the
fourth, it was a Trey Murphy three,

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then another make by Zion I think
that was when he had eight straight

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makes at one point the third into
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Norman Pale after down by seven.
He had a driving layup he got downhill,

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but then Marshall hits a three pointer. Trey Murphy then catches an alley

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oop, so he kills it from
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basket, he hits another three.
Jose Alverado grand theft. Alverado hits a

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three in between two three pointers made
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match him. Some ridiculous shots from
PG thirteen there, if you want to

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take some positives away. He's looking
better and better, especially the last two

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games. But then a well contested
jumper from Brandon Ingram by PJ. Tucker

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goes. Clippers are still down by
six. One hundred and ninety four big

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Zoo followed his own miss, which
they got him involved more. It was

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a four point game. Zion another
bucket out of a timeout, brandon ingram

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three pointer. One of the backbreakers
was Larry Nance Junior, who had a

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dunk out of a timeout at a
three twenty three mark. So the Clippers,

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you're preparing for everything in that timeout
and you give up an easy one.

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They also had a turnover out of
a timeout late. That can't happen.

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They still were then striking distance after
Kawhi Leonard, he had a little

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floater to go. It was a
five point game, one O seven to

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one oh two. At the two
minute mark, Yon Nance Junior again put

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him up by seven. They had
that turnover. The Clippers, as I

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mentioned, Zion gets fouled and hits
one to two. It's you're down eight

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with under a minute left. That's
game. One of the concerning signs and

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something that playing this New Orleans Pelicans
team kind of unveils. One of those

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weaknesses is that the Clippers they settle
for too many jumpers. Sometimes I don't

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even know if I should say settle. They're made to be a jump shooting

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team. They have been in the
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top three and three point percentage under
coach lou every year. That's what they

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do. But those shots and a
steady diet of those shots all the time,

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living and dying by those shots,
and they're great at it. But

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when you have tired legs and you
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a team that gets some of the
easiest shots you will see because of Zion

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Williamson, I know it's not easy
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he has it going just a bowling
ball. Butcher knives downhill, but they

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can't get to the basket enough.
That's something that has been revealing over this

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stretch where over their last eleven games
against teams above five hundred, the Clippers

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are just three and eight. They're
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and I thought they played really well
for the most part tonight, but to

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get over the hump, I think
they just needed easier shots, and they

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don't have a guy that's great at
that. Even Norman Powell, who can

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turn the corner on you, he's
a small, still harder for him to

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get above the trees. If they're
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I don't know who that guy is. Kawhi and Paul George. They're mid

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range masters, but they don't have
the burst and explosiveness like some superstars,

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especially at this point, to either
create more mismatches or blow by guys to

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get easy once it's tough. They're
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against teams above five hundred. Clippers
look like they're being outclassed right now.

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Now, this was game five and
a five and seven. Nobody has more

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of those than the Clippers. Of
course, schedule always plays a role,

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but there's still underlining problems. I
would say that aren't going away, that

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aren't going to be easily fixed anytime
soon. It's just a personnel thing.

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I wish if each Zubos would get
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the answer to getting some easy ones. After taking just three shots yesterday,

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he gets seven at least. Played
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a mere Coffee has some slasher aspects
to him. Terrence Man does two,

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but they don't look for their shot
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They just don't have that type of
guy. So when they only shoot twelve

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of thirty three from distance. It's
not horrible league average thirty six percent from

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three, but they need a few
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they haven't post Grammy road trip,
they've been shooting about thirty six percent from

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three. That could speak to tired
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They hit fifty percent from three yesterday
against Chicago, and there was some good

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defense played against those but I think
the Clippers were just due. Maybe law

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of averages brings that down in this
game. Maybe it was the defense from

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in the New Orleans Pelicans thought they
were pretty sound overall again, number one

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defense post All Star Break, and
they're looking at the standings too and licking

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their chops knowing that they could have
home court in the first round series.

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They're just two games behind the Clippers
for the four spot. That's where they

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are at. So tough loss,
Clipper Nation, and that's another one where

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felt like as close as you can
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the season, against top notch competition, against someone close to you in the

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standings. They don't have the tiebreaker
against the four teams surrounding them in the

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standings. Not okay, See,
they lost that series two games to one

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Denver. They still have one more
to go, but Denver right now is

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two and one against the Clippers.
Minnesota won the season series three games to

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one, as did the New or
On Pelicans. So they're not beating the

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best teams. Maybe they're right where
they should be in the four spot,

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or maybe they're just not playing their
best basketball right now. It was sixteen

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games to go. Has to change. Let's go to Sterling in La Sterling.

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You're on Clipper stock without a Maaza. What's up Sterling? Hey,

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Adam, how you doing a you
know, tough loss with the Clippers.

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I think they'll be Adam, Adam, Adam, Adam. Let me tell

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you something. I've been following the
Clippers for years being my wife. Here's

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your problem, and it's the elephant
in the room. The problem is they

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were tired ninety two. They were
down ninety two to ninety going to the

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fourth quarter. You had Plumbert on
the floor. You were playing with peace.

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You come back with Zubach and they
saw a seven straight point Zubach is

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fine, but you're not going to
the championship with Zubach. You're just not

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going to happen. Sterling. If
you think Mason Plumbley is a bet better

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defender than Viatza Zubats, I got
news for you're dead wrong. Nothing supports

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that, absolutely nothing, Adam.
You can't play with pace on defense.

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You can't certainly can't play with pace
with offense. Lou talks about pace,

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You cannot play pace with Lubo.
When Paul Joy tries to run to pick

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and roll with Ubo, he can't
hit a five foot jump shot. He

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makes a little hook shot once in
a while, not once in a while,

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not once in a while. He
makes it all the time. He

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doesn't get to take many. He
makes that in the float like it's nothing.

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Sterling, you're just talking, man, but you're not. You're not

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speaking facts at all. A Look, they war those games against good teams

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in late December and January. You
started, you had tight and you had

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no Zubos was still playing majority of
those games, hey, Sterling, news

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for you, buddy. They went
twenty five during a thirty one game stretch,

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and a Viza Zubats was starting most
of those games exactly exactly. You

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can disagree, but that's actually what
happened. Demetrious in Manhattan Beach demetrious.

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What's up here on Clippers stock.
I can't take this stuff. When Viza

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Zubots is top three in rim protection
on the season, Mason Plumbley gives up

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eight percent better to opponents at the
rim than a Viza Zubats does. And

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people call in because Mason Plumbley may
have a reverse dunk or something and say

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he's better. So he's a better
athlete. It's not just about that.

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That's absurd. That's absurd. Thank
you, Adam. Yeah, I think

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the last caller, he is a
little bit out of touch on that one.

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I think I think I agree with
you earlier. You know, I've

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been very consistent having spoken to you
in a long time. I mentioned that

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they would have been they would be
the number one seed, and they did

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for only one game. But ears
the overall situation with the Clippers in me

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and you're on the same play,
We've been very consistent together, Adam,

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I totally agree with you. When
Zubacco the Clippers go, when they get

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him going in the first quarter,
he gets comfortable in that system. And

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when he get comfortable, the Clippers
didn't run their action, and when he's

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not touching the ball and he's just
out there floating as setting picks. He

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don't know if like you said,
they're jump shooting teams, and so you

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know, it throws everything off.
When you get him the ball earlier,

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it gets him his juice running.
He's get excited on the defensive ends.

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Then you see Clippers ball, and
that's where they were when they went twenty

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six and five. But I will
say this, Adam, and I want

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to say this to you that it's
been five years now Adams put up a

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shut up right now for the Clippers. Okay, now listen, it's been

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five injury riddled, bad luckiars you're
right. But here's the thing, Adam,

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and and I want to be encouraging
here on the phone. Like I

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said, I've been very consistent with
you and I've been following them. So

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I want to give the Clippers encouraging
information to night. Give it to me

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now. Of course, the scheduler
has been extreme. If you look at

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the two daytime games they played,
you look at the five and seven.

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Okay, yes, we have been
playing you know, mediocre ball against the

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top teams. But here's the thing, Adam, come playoffs. Will everybody?

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You listen, It's a day off
and then your play. I'm looking

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for the smoke. We're not dodging
the Pelicans. We're not dodging Denver.

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Were not dodging the Kings if they
get to three and I predict that the

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Clippers will go twelve and four on
their next sixteen games to snag the three

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spots, and I think we'll see
the Kings in the first round. You

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want to know something, though,
Demetrius, I don't think twelve and four

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would get them in three spot.
There are four games behind Minnesota. When

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you add in the fact that Minnesota
has the tiebreaker, that's four games to

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make up in sixteen games. I
get that, but Minnesota also got Denver

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three more times. If you look
at minnesota schedule, there's not a walk

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in the park. And I will
say this at them, I will say

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this to you, And like I
said, I bring facts and I'm very

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encouraging and I see what I see
and I'm telling you right now, Minnesota

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is gonna drop out of the sixteen
games. Remember I told you Minnesota is

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gonna go maybe eight and nine.
I mean eight and eight or maybe nine

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and seven. I'm telling you what
I'm seeing here. They are not as

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I like. Well, Demetrius.
She also told me the Clippers were gonna

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have the one seed, so well, I did well. When a time

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I told you they was gonna have
a one seed, they were. They

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had it for twenty four hours.
My friend, Hey, hey, hey,

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but guess what, Adam, they
was there. But I predicted they

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will be the number one seed again
things. Oh yeah, but listen,

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I at least said they will be
the number one seed, and yes they

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were. But hey, I don't
think the goal was to be the number

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one seed for twenty four hours.
But I gets where I get where you're

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coming from. It is possible Minnesota
could slide here. Yeah, yeah,

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well we gonna remember, Adam.
I'm telling you right now, we're we're

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looking for the smoke. We're not
doing anyone, Adam. I understand what

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you're saying about the Pelicans. We're
not running for the Pelicans. Rather,

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we four or five whatever, where
are we at? We have to do

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it this year. And the main
thing, the Clippers don't have any flaws.

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I'm telling you right now. They
got the bigs to handle, they

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got the wings to handle. And
listen, the only way the Clippers lose

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if we just missing shots. Either
we are not healthy or we just missing

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shots. And when we healthy and
making shot, cannot nobody beat us.

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Of course we need to make a
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again that had to do with tired
legs, you know, the extreme,

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extreme scheduling. But when playoffs gets
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them, they're going to be So
you're talking about a team that's motivated,

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and I think that the people are
not seeing the motivation from them because they

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so eager to get in the playoffs. Well, well, let me tell

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you something. They should also be
eager to have a top four seed because

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if you don't have a top four
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You don't even have home court advantage
in the first round. And here's the

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reason why I disagree to Metris.
There's been one team in the last fifty

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years that has won a championship that
wasn't a top three seed. One one.

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You can't tell me home court doesn't
matter. It does matter. Were

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on the same page. We have
to have the number three seeds. I

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would like to have the number three
seeds, and I think it's and I

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think it's right there for us Adam, I think it's listen, you need

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a lot of help. You need
a lot of help. What listen if

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you look at Minnesota's schedule, have
you seen the schedule at them? Yeah,

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I've looked at the schedule. The
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well, they got like I said, they got three well set the fact

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that it matter is and remember I
will call you again, Adam. And

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like I said again, look,
Minnesota could slide. It's not impossible.

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I'm not saying it's impossible, Demetrius, but we can't keep going in circles

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like this. My god, they're
technically there are really four games behind Minnesota

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because they hold the head to head
tiebreaker over the Clipper. So it may

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say three right now. Guess what
they have to be a full game ahead

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of them. That is difficult to
make up in sixteen games. Before we

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take a quick time out, let's
pause ten seconds for station identification. Here

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on a five to seventy LA Sports, this is LA Clippers Basketball AM five

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to seventy KLAC Los Angeles ninety eight
seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio

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station. Look, the one thing
I'm not gonna do is lie to you

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right now about how the Clippers are
playing eight and nine their last seventeen games,

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three to eight in their last eleven
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These are not good traits that you
want to see leading into the playoffs period.

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So they have sixteen games left,
they have a chance to turn it

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around. They could. They're not
mathematically eliminated from the three seed, but

406
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it's going to be very difficult,
especially with the way they have been playing

407
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and looking right now and with guys
being banged up. No, James Harden

408
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tonight miss his first two games as
a Clipper on this road trip. We'll

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try to update you on the status
of Norn Powell, and it was Terrence

410
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Man who went down also in this
game. Both of them came back and

411
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played through it. We'll hear from
coach Lou next. We'll get back to

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your phone calls eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy eight six six

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ninety seven two five seventy. Yeah, we'll bring more positive. You're listening

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to clipperstock. You're on a five
seventy LA Sports LA. Clippers Basketball is

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on the two one three era continues. You're listening to the LA Clippers on

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the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers
lose in New Orleans the Pelicans one twelve

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to one oh four. They lose
the season series three games to one.

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They aren't beating top notch teams.
It's been more than a trend lately.

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It's not a good one. Welcome
back into Clippers talk. I'm at a

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Moslin. Before you hear from coach
lou let's go to Don in Woodland Hills.

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00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:48.960
Don, what's up? You're on
clipperstock? Don? Oh that's my

422
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bad, My man, that is
your bet. Don, you're up?

423
00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:59.079
Hey? Can you hear me?
I got you now? Hey, I

424
00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:02.960
don't know how's going with were taking
my call? Yeah? I was basically

425
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:07.160
just wanted to talk about the the
Clips on the road. Man. I

426
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:15.160
don't think we should be too focused
on jockey for position, this home court

427
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:19.480
advantage, really, really, really
really because hey, Don don don don

428
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don Don listen for a second.
Listen for a second, and then you

429
00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:31.039
can reply, how about that?
Uh, there's one team that has won

430
00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:36.680
the championship that's wasn't a top three
seed the last fifty years, and you

431
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:42.559
don't think they should focus on home
court advantage. Oh My thing is,

432
00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:46.279
I think we're a great road team. If you look at are they last

433
00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:51.319
few road trips? You look at
the last few road trips we went.

434
00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:53.720
We went one on one on this
trip, right, Yeah, they beat

435
00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:59.880
a bad team. They lost to
the good team. Okay, but it

436
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:04.599
still is still over John, John, they're twenty two at home and twenty

437
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:08.240
and fourteen on the road. They're
better at home. Everybody is better at

438
00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:15.440
home. I just agree. But
what I'm is, we're not ducking any

439
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:19.319
smoke. I think we're We're right
what we need to be, and I'm

440
00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:22.200
I'm okay with the fourth seed.
We'll just stay right there and just kind

441
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:25.880
of cruise all the way to the
playoffs. All I know is there's no

442
00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:30.559
back to backs in the playoffs.
Okay, that's a fair point. That's

443
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:32.799
a fair point. The game slows
down, we're more of a half court

444
00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:38.039
set team. The defensive tensity will
increase. You gotta keep him oud.

445
00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:42.839
We have no rust, you know, and you know he's a big part

446
00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:46.480
of that defense. So our identity
is defense, which I've been preaching from

447
00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:52.039
the beginning, really because right now
they're about middle of the pack defensively.

448
00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:54.440
On the season, and there have
been the twenty fifth best defense the last

449
00:33:54.759 --> 00:34:00.839
sixteen games coming into this one,
So that identity he doesn't seem to be

450
00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:05.519
there. Don it'd be nice,
it'd be nice. They've talked about it,

451
00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:10.639
but they haven't done it. Like
I, I'm not interested in spreading

452
00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:15.760
misinformation. I love y'all, but
I gotta give you the facts. They

453
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haven't been playing good defense for a
long time, a long time. If

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that's their identity, they're in deeper
trouble than I thought it should be.

455
00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:35.239
But how often do they play a
great game of forty eight minutes of defense.

456
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I'm not trying to be harsh.
I'm trying to tell you what's actually

457
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happening, and not just well I
test. I don't know. I saw

458
00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:45.960
him get a stop a couple of
times. Is there a good defense?

459
00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:52.320
No, I watch every possession.
They haven't been connected enough, they haven't

460
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:57.159
been good enough. They couldn't stop
Zion at all. And that was a

461
00:34:57.199 --> 00:35:02.519
spectacular performance. Tip your cap,
but then the three started raining and yadiya

462
00:35:02.599 --> 00:35:06.960
YadA. They lose another game to
a team above five hundred in New Orleans,

463
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one twelve to one oh four.
Let's hear from coach lou postgame help

464
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me stretch of all three games he
won this year, three out of four,

465
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he's dominated just the last six months
of the third, like we talked

466
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about before the game and the and
the whole fourth and so got to pay

467
00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:25.519
attention to detail, like understand what
we want to do. And I understand

468
00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:29.599
guys want to, you know,
play, they want to you know,

469
00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:32.480
compete, and they take pride in
that. But you know, going down

470
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the stretch when we want a double
team and we got a double team,

471
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and like we said, and you
know, come out of time out,

472
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you know, we just got to
make sure we put a different give him

473
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a different look. He gets it. Got too comfortable, you know,

474
00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:49.079
running five row. They've run it
every single time, and they've destroyed us

475
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three out of four games with him
doing the same same play over and over.

476
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And so you know, give them
credit. Like when when the game's

477
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on the line, it's a close
game, he always takes over the game

478
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down the stretch. He did once
again, Zion. It's almost an impossible

479
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:10.000
guard. But he's right attention to
detail. They have to be better than

480
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that. The Clippers, though,
look guys defensively since February first, they

481
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are twenty fifth. That's twenty games, I mean twenty five percent of the

482
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season that they've been twenty fifth.
Defensively, they can talk about it,

483
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they do, but it's not happening. We'll see if that changes. Jose

484
00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:40.480
and Downey, you're on Clippers top
with that. Amazon, Hey, Adam,

485
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gotta say, yeah, it was
a disappointing loss. I'm not one

486
00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:52.519
for moral victories, but I will
say I expected to get blown out because

487
00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:58.440
that's what they've done to us in
these type of games. So I was

488
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surprised that they gave that much intensity
for the whole game coming off of back

489
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to back. That's one thing I
can say. I was pretty low bar

490
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Jose, Hey, they played intensity
and what was basically a must win game

491
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if you want to truly hold on
to the four spot and have a shot

492
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at the three spot. Come on, man, I agree with higher standards

493
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:20.280
than that. I know. This
is exactly what you just said, was

494
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what I would tell. I was
telling my family, who are Clipper fans.

495
00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:25.840
I'm just trying to take at least
some positive, but I haven't seen

496
00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:30.199
them play intensive. I'll give you
a positive. Paul, George looks great.

497
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:34.840
The last two games and played forty
one minutes. Yes, he does

498
00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:39.280
him at this level. Yeah,
and uh, I do agree with you

499
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:44.719
that that defense is not there.
They need to be more connected. I

500
00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:47.960
would like to see if you're gonna
play Tucker for that long, I mean,

501
00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:52.320
you got to play them a couple
more times so they could be a

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00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:54.920
little bit more connected. I thought
he took a lot of body from Zion,

503
00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:59.800
not that he stopped him, uh, but I mean I did like

504
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:02.320
at least he was taking some of
the files away from that potentially could have

505
00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:07.679
been Kawhi, Paul George that are
taking uh those files. The other thing

506
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is I want the only other positive
thing I can bring out of this.

507
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If they were missing Harden, yeah, it was an a point game.

508
00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:19.440
They are. They are missing Westbrook, who brings a lot of energy.

509
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I would like to think we would
have a little bit more transition points if

510
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he was in. He also does
tend to bother people. He might have

511
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been if he was under in the
game today, we might have seen him

512
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try to guard Zion out in the
three point line, maybe slow him down

513
00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:44.239
because he is fast. He likes
physical play. But I'm with you,

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00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:47.639
I if they are losing to the
teams that we need to see them win.

515
00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:52.360
Yeah, that's all I'm saying.
I appreciate the phone call, Hose.

516
00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:55.400
You brought up some good points turned
it around. Clippers lose one twelve

517
00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:59.079
to one oh four New Orleans to
the Pelicans, and coming up next year

518
00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:01.840
on Clippers Stock, we'll have Chuck
Mockler on from Clips and Dip looking for

519
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:07.079
more player audio and some more information
regarding some of the guys that went down

520
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:12.719
in this game. Played through it, but it's tough right now. They

521
00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:16.440
aren't beating good teams and the Pelicans
are trying to climb over them for the

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00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:22.639
four seat. This was a monumental
game again and the Clippers did not have

523
00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:27.800
enough to get across the finish line. You're listening to Clipperstock here on m

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00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:30.840
five to seven E LA Sports.
They want to bring a banner with them

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00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:37.159
to the into It doll more LA
Clippers Basketball on the LA Clippers Audio Network.

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00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:42.480
Clippers lose in New Orleans to the
Pelicans one twelve to one oh four

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00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:46.760
as Zion Williamson had thirty four points
made eight straight buckets at one point.

528
00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:54.719
Clippers tried just about everything their offensially
ran out of steam. Late as well.

529
00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:58.119
Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm
in a Moslim We'll get back to

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00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:01.079
your phone calls. Eight sixty six, ninety eight, seven, five seventy

531
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:04.920
more as Tage. Just hold on. First, we got Chuck Makler on

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00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:09.159
from Clips and Dip. Chuck,
what's the biggest warning sign to you regarding

533
00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:13.920
this Clippers team right now? Aside
from just, you know, the losing,

534
00:40:14.039 --> 00:40:19.880
give me something at a more granular
level. Well, I don't know

535
00:40:20.039 --> 00:40:23.760
how much granular this what I'm about
to say is other than the losing,

536
00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:29.079
but you and I had talked about
it for ninety just barely ninety seconds before

537
00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:34.880
I came on here. It's the
defense, right Like this team had a

538
00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:38.159
bit of a defensive identity for a
little bit, but right now that you

539
00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:40.440
know, Tyler talked about it at
the end of this game, about how

540
00:40:40.519 --> 00:40:45.199
Zion took over. We've seen guys
like Ant, you know, take over

541
00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:47.920
against the Clippers. There's a defensive
issue right now. If guys are able

542
00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:52.880
to quote unquote takeover this often against
this team. And yes, we were

543
00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:55.000
shorthanded, Terrence was hobbled, you
know, you know all that stuff,

544
00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:59.199
But the Clippers got and I'll say
it. I will say it. The

545
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:05.559
Clippers got good stuff from three J. Tucker tonight and still were not able

546
00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:07.400
to get a win. He played
the defense they needed and things like that,

547
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:13.440
But for me, it's gotta be
the defense. I think it's fair

548
00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:19.039
at this point twenty games, I
mean since February first, they are twenty

549
00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:23.639
fifth defensively over a twenty game stretch, and I thought there were moments they

550
00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:29.320
played really good defense. The first
half. It was a low scoring affair.

551
00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:34.159
Both teams had to earn everything.
But you start to load up on

552
00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:38.519
Zion and was dangerous or what makes
this New Orleans Pelicans dangerous? A dangerous

553
00:41:38.519 --> 00:41:42.360
team to me is because they're so
balanced, like they could score on the

554
00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:45.280
interior, but they're also a really
good three point shooting team. So when

555
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:50.400
they did try to give more attention
to Zion, understandably, they also got

556
00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:53.360
picked apart along the perimeter and big
shots were made by the Pelicans. It's

557
00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:58.679
just you see guys like Marshall and
Murphy. He's become a Clippers killer.

558
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:02.760
Even though CJ. McCollum has eleven
points and Brandon Ingram has thirteen, they

559
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:07.440
still lose this game. And also
to me, we talk about the defense,

560
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:10.519
but offensive execution late they had four
points in almost the last five minutes.

561
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:15.599
The Clippers of this one shot.
Yeah, yeah, it's just something

562
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:20.639
you know, and it is fatigue, right like I don't because of how

563
00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:23.199
the schedule makers did the Clippers,
those of us who talk about the team

564
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:28.199
do have to mention it because it
is not easy to play five games and

565
00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:30.800
seven ninths or whatever. This was
back to backs, obviously never easy.

566
00:42:31.159 --> 00:42:35.519
The Clippers are I think, what
eleven and one against teams on the second

567
00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:38.760
hande of a back to back,
But this there was tired legs. You

568
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:44.000
shot with the shot selection. You
mentioned the low scoring output towards the end

569
00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:45.960
of this game, and some of
the shot selection was just guys looking tired,

570
00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:50.079
right, And I'm not here to
blame guys for looking tired. This

571
00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:54.840
is a brutal schedule. But we're
not in a position where there's any real

572
00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:59.960
moral victories from the Clippers right now, right like the Clippers need win.

573
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:04.559
It does seem like we're on a
path to play the Pelicans in the first

574
00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:07.239
round, be that with home core
advantage or not. Is you know,

575
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:10.480
yet to be seen, but we
all got to hope that it winds up.

576
00:43:10.519 --> 00:43:14.920
So the Clippers do have home court
advantage in this first round. They

577
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:19.639
also have another five and seven starting
April fourth against the Denver Nuggets, so

578
00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:24.480
one to close out the season.
Basically, the one thing that has really

579
00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:28.639
set alarm bells off with me,
one thing that has kind of crystallized with

580
00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:32.320
me and just my thinking about how
this team has been constructed in one of

581
00:43:32.360 --> 00:43:36.320
their flaws, and I hope it's
not a fatal one, but they don't

582
00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:42.639
generate enough easy shots. They just
they have a steady diet of jump shots.

583
00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:45.239
They have two of the best ever
in that area, but late in

584
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:49.880
games, who's that guy that can
get to the basket and get a bucket?

585
00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:52.639
They don't use Aviatza zoo bots.
He still only had seven shots,

586
00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:55.840
coach lou said before yesterday's game,
but they were going to try to get

587
00:43:55.880 --> 00:44:00.559
him more opportunities. I think he
took three shots yesterday and seven today.

588
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:04.400
He had at least one easy one
that he got to go on and put

589
00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:08.000
back on his own miss in the
fourth quarter. But Norman Palell has juice

590
00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:12.360
getting downhill, but the problem is
he's small and it's tough for him to

591
00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:16.000
finish around the trees. Kawhi and
Paul George don't attack the basket as much,

592
00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:20.719
certainly not as much as they used
to. To me, that's a

593
00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:23.800
real void missing on this team right
now that just gets exploited more when you

594
00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:28.639
see a team like Zion on the
Pelicans, just you know, being a

595
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:32.880
battering ram downhill. Yeah, the
Clippers kind of go to play when they

596
00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:36.360
need a bucket, right is,
you know, give the ball to Kawhi

597
00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:38.360
and clear out, let him do
its thing, which we trust when it's

598
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:43.639
Kawai because you know it is Kawhi. But there isn't a set, you

599
00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:45.760
know, it's not like, oh, the Clippers are running the Spain pick

600
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:50.280
and roll so well and this is
our thing or something like that. It

601
00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:52.280
still does to like a little bit
of a wild card. We love the

602
00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:58.800
pick and roll with due in James
Harden, which has been from all of

603
00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:00.880
the Clippers and that we're going to
see that spanned a lot in the playoffs.

604
00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:04.960
But you're right, when that's not
working and when the court shrinks from

605
00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:08.159
the playoffs, sometimes you need a
quote unquote easy bucket or something like that.

606
00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:14.599
But we're gonna have to rely on
kind of you know, well executed

607
00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:17.639
set plays, which is something we
haven't seen a lot from the Clippers.

608
00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:22.800
When we have, it's been phenomenal. But I totally agree with you Harden

609
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:27.519
getting some reps and hopefully he doesn't
miss too many, if not any more

610
00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:30.840
games to really get this ironed out. Because we've seen this team be elite

611
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:35.639
and offense right like we've seen them
do these things, they've just removed themselves

612
00:45:35.679 --> 00:45:39.320
from that good process so much and
only have half a month. From why

613
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:43.360
I said I wanted the Clippers to
win ten games in March and have good

614
00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:45.920
process the last two weeks. I'm
pretty sure they're five and four right now

615
00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:50.840
with two weeks left. So if
that was, if your measuring stick was

616
00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:53.360
similar to mine, we're gonna have
to see some really encouraging things in these

617
00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:57.840
next two weeks. One thing I
will say that has been encouraging the last

618
00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:01.239
two games, Paul George. He
laid forty one minutes. He knocked down

619
00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:07.599
some really tough, just high degree
of difficulty three pointers back to back shots

620
00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:12.000
in that fourth quarter. There was
a Jose Alvarado three right in between those.

621
00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:17.679
But making tough shots again, playing
within himself but being more aggressive.

622
00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:22.519
He attempted twenty one ten to twenty
one, three of nine from the outside

623
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:27.079
the last two games from Paul George. There is something there. Looks like

624
00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:31.320
he is turning a corner now one
hundred percent. I was on here yesterday

625
00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:34.559
and you checked me a little bit
because I was like, hey, I

626
00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:37.239
love the efficiency, I just wish
it with more shots, and you were

627
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:38.480
like, he put up twenty eight
on twelve shots. It's pretty good,

628
00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:43.320
and that was phenomenal. I would
say I'm more encouraged by his twenty one

629
00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:46.039
field goal attempts tonight because that is
what we're going to see in the playoffs.

630
00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:50.599
Kawhi, Paul George, and James
Harden's field atteps are all going to

631
00:46:50.639 --> 00:46:53.440
go up. It's great to see
Paul George wanting that opportunity in the regular

632
00:46:53.480 --> 00:46:57.599
season right now, and he's also
filling the statuet in other places. He

633
00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:00.960
had five boards and six fift tonight, right He was doing a little bit

634
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:05.199
of everything. Defensively, you know, second game, move back to back

635
00:47:05.239 --> 00:47:07.760
against a really a giant team that
always gets to the problems. He wasn't

636
00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:12.920
as sharp as he totally could have
been, But offensively, I think it

637
00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:19.400
was Jamal Christopher who said on Twitter
Clippers the Power user that the Clippers ceiling

638
00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:22.119
is kind of dictated by Paul George, Right, Like which Paul George we

639
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:24.519
going to get if we hit twenty
one field, go up to Paul George.

640
00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:28.440
I feel a lot better about the
Clippers. Yeah, and like you

641
00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:31.000
mentioned, six assists just two turnovers, they're running more pick and roll with

642
00:47:31.079 --> 00:47:36.519
him of course right now, especially
because no James Harden, he took care

643
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:40.079
of the basketball overall. I just
his activity level the last couple of games

644
00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:44.039
has looked a little bit different out
there. He looked more comfortable, looked

645
00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:47.079
to be in rhythm. But unfortunately, the Clippers fall in New Orleans to

646
00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:52.599
the Pelicans. They get back after
it back home against the Atlanta Hawks coming

647
00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:57.039
up on Sunday night. In between
now and then, I believe we will

648
00:47:57.079 --> 00:48:00.800
have a YouTube coming up. Do
we have a YouTube live on up tomorrow?

649
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:04.039
Chuck? Okay, exciting stuff.
Maybe I'll give away another sticker.

650
00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:07.719
People seem to be after that.
It's a big deal. Katie, our

651
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:09.280
producer here is give me a dirty
look like a sticker. What are you

652
00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:12.880
going to give him a gold star? No, it's a sticker of the

653
00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:15.760
new Clippers logo. Okay, just
some respect, we need it, Katie,

654
00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:21.880
let us, let's let us have
something right now. Katie will be

655
00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:24.119
able to respond a little bit.
Here Clippers lose to Night Once twelve to

656
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:27.920
one, O four. He is
Charles Mockler. Charles, we'll see on

657
00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:32.119
the YouTube tomorrow, my friend.
Absolutely, we'll go clip coming up next.

658
00:48:32.679 --> 00:48:37.559
Final phone calls eight sixty six nine
eight seven two five seventy and I

659
00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:42.519
do have an update on Norman Palell
and Terrence Man postgame as they both took

660
00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:45.599
some hits, got some raspberries,
got some bruises. I'll give you that

661
00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:51.320
next. Here on Clippers stock on
a five to seven LA Sports loading Clippers

662
00:48:51.639 --> 00:48:57.079
fully loaded with Clippers fans. This
is LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to

663
00:48:57.119 --> 00:49:02.800
the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers
audio. Clippers in a precarious position holding

664
00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:07.000
on to the four spot, but
the Pelicans are right behind them, and

665
00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:10.519
they have the tiebreaker. There are
two games behind the Clippers now trying to

666
00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:16.079
chase them down to have home court
advantage in what looks like quite possibly a

667
00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:21.960
first round matchup. After the Clippers
lose one twelve to one, oh four

668
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.480
and lose the season series of the
Pelicans as well. Welcome into Clippers talk

669
00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:30.079
a Madame Moslin. Let's go to
Morris and Long Beach. What's up,

670
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:32.880
Morris? How we doing? Hey, we'll get you know that. I'm

671
00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:36.280
gonna tell you what I didn't see
today. And we were talking about zoo

672
00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:37.800
Box earlier. He needs this brother. We didn't see that pick and roll

673
00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:40.199
when hard And wasn't in there to
night. We don't see that pick and

674
00:49:40.239 --> 00:49:44.199
roll. Zubak low like an All
star when they got when they're running that

675
00:49:44.199 --> 00:49:46.199
pick and roll. Well, you
know it seems like everybody's running the pick

676
00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:51.400
and roll. No they can't.
James hardin a damn mere quarterback. Yeah,

677
00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:52.639
they lost to the Pelicans. The
Pelicans didn't to have our number.

678
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:55.239
But like an earlier calls said,
now you get a day in between them,

679
00:49:55.239 --> 00:49:59.599
two games in between those games.
So and that's what I learned.

680
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.519
I earned his money. So I'm
not excited about playing the Pelagasse. I'm

681
00:50:04.519 --> 00:50:06.719
gonna taste that, madam. And
we don't be for real about this.

682
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:10.400
Ain't no series this year is gonna
be easy with nobody, that's true.

683
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:15.280
Everybody's gonna have all good gutabody.
So anyway, get me in the building

684
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:16.639
at me, and I'm not worried
about because they still gonna do very,

685
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:22.159
very very well. Okay, you
behaved yourself, all right, Rus Yeah,

686
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:25.719
I've said it many times. I
think the Western Conference first round could

687
00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:31.639
be a bloodbath. There's no easy
out. I think Denver playing the Lakers

688
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:36.679
would even be tough. I know
they've beat them like seven or eight straight

689
00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:40.840
times. If that happened, okay, see versus the Lakers, I think

690
00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:45.400
the Lakers could win that series.
If it's Minnesota versus Dallas in the first

691
00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:50.480
round or Phoenix. Can't tell me
the Mavericks of the Suns couldn't upset Minnesota.

692
00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:55.239
Just not gonna be an easy one
in the Western Conference it rarely is.

693
00:50:55.320 --> 00:51:00.119
But I don't think the disparity from
one through four and what could be

694
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:05.679
five through eight in the West talent
wise, is that wide. Would be

695
00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:09.280
my point. Tajus in Walnut tagus
here on Clipper stop with that, Amusen,

696
00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:15.639
Hey, what's up? Adham?
You know you mentioned that the Clippers,

697
00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:20.480
you know, don't generate enough easy
shots, and I've been, you

698
00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:22.079
know, thinking the same thing for
a while. And there's one of your

699
00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:25.119
thoughts on this, I'm sure that
they Clippers have a reason for this.

700
00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:30.840
But when I've noticed for a long
time when Kuiet they're double team, and

701
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:34.599
he's been getting hard double team this
year, Like as soon as he touches

702
00:51:34.639 --> 00:51:37.719
it, there's always two people on
the strong side and three people on the

703
00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:43.800
weak side. So if Harden throws
the ball to Kawhi, he gets doubled.

704
00:51:43.840 --> 00:51:46.559
And if Harden isn't open, he's
having to do work to just make

705
00:51:46.599 --> 00:51:52.800
a pass kind of cross court.
And in the triangle offense, when Phil

706
00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:59.920
Jackson had it and with MJ and
Shack, they would have that corner per

707
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:04.360
and also available, so there would
be three on this strong side. And

708
00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:08.239
I think, you know, if
Kawi is double teamed, he could throw

709
00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:13.280
it to Norman like with one pass
and he could shoot it. Maybe they're

710
00:52:13.320 --> 00:52:17.360
worried about that defender dropping to Kaui, And I think it's easier when like

711
00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:22.800
you have a stronger postperson like Shack
back in the day to these cultures in

712
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:25.920
the basket. But like we always
want Zubac to get more touches. I

713
00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:29.960
think he could be part of that
triangle. PG could be part of that

714
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:32.000
triangle and Kauai. But right now, I've seen it for a long time

715
00:52:32.079 --> 00:52:37.559
and I'm just wondering why. Hey, I remember a game where Luke detonated.

716
00:52:38.039 --> 00:52:42.119
I think he went off against Orlando
and like gave one of the ninety

717
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:47.079
six Eastern Conference Finals but continues ages. Yeah, So I'm just you know,

718
00:52:47.159 --> 00:52:51.159
and I've seen this for this trend
for a long time, and I'm

719
00:52:51.199 --> 00:52:54.280
thinking, like, if Kauai is
getting double teamed hard every possession, then

720
00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:58.320
why aren't we getting a better shot? And every time I see the same

721
00:52:58.360 --> 00:53:01.039
thing, he's having to do a
hard ribble out because that first person is

722
00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:05.360
available and there's three on the weak
side, and I would like to see

723
00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:08.119
get just three on the strong side
kind of run that triangle. It'll force

724
00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:13.639
them to go get into motion to
keep moving and it might be just one

725
00:53:13.679 --> 00:53:15.920
pass where Kui has to make and
we can take a good shot. It

726
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:19.320
simplifies the game. We don't have
to work as hard. PG doesn't have

727
00:53:19.360 --> 00:53:22.920
to go into his bag to get
a contested twenty footer. I think when

728
00:53:23.039 --> 00:53:27.840
we're not running the pick and rolls
with James Harden, if we can implement

729
00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:31.119
that sort of triangle offense, and
it's kind of because you know, Tylu

730
00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:36.800
played with under Phil Jackson and he
ran this system, so there must be

731
00:53:36.840 --> 00:53:40.519
some reasoning. But I just don't
forget why we're having two on that strong

732
00:53:40.559 --> 00:53:45.719
side and not getting better shots from
that. Yeah, there have been some

733
00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:52.199
data out there on the Clippers by
some of the high level NBA thankers that

734
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:57.920
they're not getting enough points per possession
out of double teams when Kawhi specifically is

735
00:53:58.039 --> 00:54:02.199
doubled, and that's somewhat concerned.
He's not an elite playmaker. He's good,

736
00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:07.039
he's very solid, and he's gotten
better over the last five years.

737
00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:09.880
But if you want to say there
is a weakness in his game, I

738
00:54:10.039 --> 00:54:15.119
guess that would be it. But
remember he and PG, this is why

739
00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:20.639
they wanted that prototypical point guard.
They have it now in James Harden.

740
00:54:20.679 --> 00:54:22.440
But you're right, there's still gonna
be instances. They're gonna get doubled all

741
00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:25.760
the time, and you have to
get the defense in rotation and find that

742
00:54:25.800 --> 00:54:34.239
open man and just nuke from distance
because this Clippers team needs to be much

743
00:54:34.239 --> 00:54:39.440
better from three than they have been
post Grammy road trip. That's what's strange

744
00:54:39.480 --> 00:54:45.760
to me, really, it's been
too long now where they haven't been elite

745
00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:49.920
from three You look at on the
season, the Clippers are still second in

746
00:54:49.960 --> 00:54:53.960
three point shooting at thirty eight point
eight percent, which tells you how good

747
00:54:54.000 --> 00:55:00.440
they were for a period of time, because if you just go back fifteen

748
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:07.360
games now, they've only been shooting
thirty six percent from three last fifteen games

749
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:12.880
and they're still second overall on the
year. So they were scorching hot for

750
00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:15.920
a while when the offense was really
moving, when everything was clicking and firing

751
00:55:15.960 --> 00:55:21.079
on all cylinders. When they went
twenty six and five during a thirty one

752
00:55:21.119 --> 00:55:25.360
game stretch, when James Harden started
to get comfortable and this Clippers team became

753
00:55:25.519 --> 00:55:31.840
very scary and they had the highest
rated offense in the league. Something has

754
00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:36.239
changed. I don't know if it's
just tired legs. You know what coach

755
00:55:36.320 --> 00:55:40.920
Leuwoi stresses is they have to get
into their offense quicker. Now they're an

756
00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:45.079
older team, but you look at
the data from the first twelve seconds of

757
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:49.559
taking a shot within that time in
the shot clock versus the last twelve seconds

758
00:55:49.599 --> 00:55:52.440
of the shot clock, it's night
and day. They go from a top

759
00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:58.000
three offense to basically the worst offense
when they take too long and don't take

760
00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:01.800
a shot until the last twelve seconds
of the shot. It's something with this

761
00:56:01.880 --> 00:56:06.440
team that has been stressed over and
over again from coach Lou. I don't

762
00:56:06.440 --> 00:56:08.360
know why the message hasn't been received. I don't know if it's a personnel

763
00:56:08.440 --> 00:56:13.199
thing. I don't know if it's
an age thing. I brought up something

764
00:56:13.320 --> 00:56:17.519
concerning over the last month or so
that you know, it's one thing to

765
00:56:17.519 --> 00:56:22.880
have a small team, it's one
thing to have a slow team. Can

766
00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:27.519
you win with both, because that's
kind of where the Clippers are at.

767
00:56:27.679 --> 00:56:32.199
Yes, sometimes they play with more
pace they did yesterday with bones. Sometimes

768
00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:36.519
they don't. Second, I have
a back to back maybe that accounts for

769
00:56:36.559 --> 00:56:40.719
some of that, but not enough
built up consistency where everything has been second

770
00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:45.559
nature for this team so far offensively, that you can just react and do

771
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:50.960
things instinctually without having to think too
much. That's what you want heading into

772
00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:54.199
the playoffs. It can still happen. There's sixteen games left. I do

773
00:56:54.280 --> 00:57:00.760
want to check out strength of schedule
between them and the Minnesota Timberwolves and the

774
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:05.360
New Orleans Pelicans. So the team
in front of them by three games,

775
00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:09.039
but really it's four because Minnesota has
the tiebreaker. They have the seventeenth toughest

776
00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:16.480
schedule. The Clippers have the eighteenth. The Pelicans, who are two games

777
00:57:16.519 --> 00:57:20.920
behind the Clippers, but they do
have the tiebreaker, they have the fourteenth

778
00:57:21.039 --> 00:57:24.599
toughest schedule, So I guess you
could say the two teams around them have

779
00:57:24.679 --> 00:57:29.599
a slightly tougher schedule than the Clippers. Remaining, the Clippers still have the

780
00:57:29.639 --> 00:57:34.159
Denver Nuggets one last time. They
still have Cleveland with likely Donovan Mitchell coming

781
00:57:34.199 --> 00:57:37.280
back, still have another game against
the Kings, two against the Phoenix Suns

782
00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:39.079
towards the end of the season.
They play the Magic Yes, that's a

783
00:57:39.079 --> 00:57:45.800
good team now, same with the
Indiana Pacers. A lot of time to

784
00:57:45.840 --> 00:57:51.760
improve, just needs to start happening
by the game when it comes to building

785
00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:54.559
those habits. That means Sunday Night
against Atlanta, they're down right now.

786
00:57:55.119 --> 00:58:00.559
That was the last team the Clippers
looked a lead against offense, I would

787
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:02.000
say, for forty eight minutes when
they put up one hundred and fifty in

788
00:58:02.079 --> 00:58:06.719
Atlanta in the last game of that
Gammy road trip where they went six and

789
00:58:06.760 --> 00:58:09.320
one. So maybe they can recapture
something playing them again now at home tip

790
00:58:09.360 --> 00:58:13.719
time Sunday night at Crypto six thirty. We'll have your pregame show starting at

791
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:15.639
five thirty before we get out of
here. K you Newton, you got

792
00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:17.639
a question free? You just want
to talk some mess. No, I'm

793
00:58:17.639 --> 00:58:21.760
not gonna talk some mess. Pick
and roll is not where you actually roll

794
00:58:21.840 --> 00:58:24.000
the ball down the court. Correct, Yeah, it's not like bowling.

795
00:58:24.159 --> 00:58:30.119
Can you do that? Though they
do it sometimes to say to save time

796
00:58:30.199 --> 00:58:35.960
on the clock, So you're not
totally wrong, Katie. Right, do

797
00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:37.559
they have to do the thing like
bowlers do, put their foot behind them

798
00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:43.440
and yeah, it's like the big
Lebowski. It's just perfect. It's crazy.

799
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:47.360
They he'll put on their sweaters.
Marcus zero. All right, before

800
00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:51.239
we get out of here, I
do want to thank the Clippers organization,

801
00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:54.599
Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, Noah
Ego, Carlo Jimenez on the call,

802
00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:58.440
Katie Newton, our producer back here
in the bank, people, the Jake

803
00:58:58.480 --> 00:59:01.559
Warner, the callers, the listener
until Sunday night with the Clippers tipping off

804
00:59:01.599 --> 00:59:05.840
at six thirty against the Hawks,
We'll have pregame at five thirty. I'm

805
00:59:05.880 --> 00:59:08.880
Adam Oslin. We'll talk to you
then, so why he was doing his

806
00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:13.000
thing. All they want to do
is win in La. I win.

807
00:59:13.159 --> 00:59:15.079
I thought they gave everything they had. I'm very proud of them. This

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has been Clippers Talk, the official
postgame reaction of the LA Clippers. God

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bless Paul George. Are you not? It's a change. Don't miss an

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episode all season law Go to wherever
you podcast and subscribe today. Well up

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the show. I got you on
the iHeart Radio. You guys are great.

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Thank you for joining us for another
exciting broadcast of LA Clippers basketball.