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Milwaukee won thirteen to one oh six. They had a fifteen point lead in
the third, They had a thirteen point lead, was just forty seconds left
in that third quarter, ends up being just an eight point lead hanging into
the fourth. They miss free throws, they miss shots. The Bucks got
whatever they wanted on the other end as the Clippers went small, and somehow,
some way they let go of what looked to be a two to zero
start to this big time road trip in March. Welcome into Clippers Stock.
I'm out a Moslin. Speaking of March, we got a little clips in
double Dip for you with Chuck mar Mackler, the proprietor of March Madness,
the Clippers version of it. Chuck, where was this game lost? I
mean, there's a cup of things that kind of point to with this one.
Do we can talk about the free throws? The Clippers on the second
nine of a back to back had nine minutes of bonus time, which is
something that I'm fairly sure has never happened before for the Clippers. But that's
something you can't throw away on the second nde of a back to back,
right that that really got me just settling for shots, just jacking up shots
that were short. You saw that, you saw the fatigue. Sure,
it was the second nd of a back to back. I don't really care
if the other team is missing two of their best three players, one of
them being their their best player. I guess I gotta go with just it
was lost by poor decision making in the fourth quarter, is what it seems.
How much do you put on coach lu in that small ball lineup that
was inept again to Bobby Port, it's a lot. I put a lot.
I don't know if I haven't been a coach who apologist or anything.
I think he's a coach. I love Coach Lou, no doubt. I
don't really know who would coach the Clippers better. But right now we're seeing
some small ball situations that are losing the Clippers' games right we s when I
think he had to play PJ. Tucker for those couple of games just to
show everyone else on the team that this isn't it. But I think tonight
like it. It just wasn't working. We were watching it not work right.
We were all watching mommy Portis do his thing against the small ball lineup,
and they were fouling like crazy with that small ball lineup. Sometimes the
hands in the passing lanes work, but they were not there tonight. It
was just it was tough. It was a tough on a mere and norm
we're pretty brutal in this one. Obviously it's not all on them, but
they didn't get a lot from the bench, and it's just it was,
Yeah, I put a fair amount on Tyler. I mean, they were
fouling like crazy basically in the second half. The Milwaukee Bucks had fourteen free
throws attempted in that third quarter alone. But then, to just compound the
pain here, the Clippers got into the bonus early in the fourth quarter,
and they didn't take advantage of it because even when they got to the free
throw line, even when they could have exploited that over and over again and
ended this game cleanly, they missed five free throws in the fourth quarter.
Paul George missed three of them, hardened with one. Even Kawhi Leonard missed
one. It's just inexcusable. I get tired legs, but three free throws
missed by a ninety percent free throw shooter in Paul George. It's just there's
no way to rationalize that. Yeah, there was some bad luck in this
game. That is also partly how you lose this game. You know,
we can't pretend that some anomaies didn't happen. Paul George was frustrated to night,
but I think some of the some of the fans are maybe on the
second night of a back to back when it comes to fatigue as well,
and we're upset to watch them, you know, kind of throw it away
post figuratively and literally in the fourth. But we all wanted to split on
this back to back. They won the conference game. I'm not trying to
sugarcoat it. This is the second time in five days we've had to watch
this team completely. I can't say what I want to say or really on
the radio, but they did it to themselves. If you can connect the
dots from there, we've seen that two times in five days. They were
thirty one in one or something like that when leading. So in the fourth
quarter, it just is gross basketball. It favored the Bucks. Yeah,
I think we're going to get more of the same. Maybe you know from
tylu pregame on wednesdayainst the Rockets are staying mentally focused because that I mean,
he's not wrong about that, right like that. That's where we've been losing
things. Is kind of the mental game. We've seen these mistakes. So
they got to clean it up. And if you really want a positive split
on it, they have a lot of chances to clean it up in March
they do. They still have what are we looking at fourteen more games here
in March. They're two to one so far during March Madness seventeen games and
third one days for the Clippers. This was just, I mean, the
situation begged for a victory without Jannis and Denikoupo and Chris Middleton, everything was
lining up. The Clippers only were missing Russell Westbrook in this game after yes,
a tough one in Minnesota that they pulled off by one. So you
just want to get greedy this time of the year is I think where I
fall. It's just a missed opportunity where the Clippers could have gotten back into
competing for maybe even a top two seed, which is going to be very
difficult to do considering they have the toughest schedule of the three teams above them
in the Western Conference. Right now, I guess you could say they shot
the basketball better than they did yesterday. Paul George and James Harden responded in
that area. For the most part. PG had a couple of inconsequential threes
late that were meaningless after somehow they were down by ten after going into the
quarter up by eight. But you know, I'm just wondering, are there
any other guys you would have played late that could have had fresher legs out
there? Did coach lou just have his hand tiede? I think he kind
of has his hand tied, right. You know, you look at the
norm minutes and Bones only got ten in this one. He it's tough to
play Bones against his Bucks team. I thought he made a couple of good
plays, but he's still getting back to actual meaningful basketball, you know,
physically and all that stuff. Maybe Mason, I guess you maybe try and
do Mason there. But but Tyson was playing well, right, like he
only played fifteen Daniel Tye right, very true. But you look, you
know, Brandon Boston Junior is not doing anything against that Bucks team. I
love Xavier Moon, but he's not doing anything and we know, we know
what the PJ. Tucker would not shoot. So I think part of it
is uh tie his hand being tied by just some lack of other options at
the big four position. I'm not trying to say that if they would have
had auto porters they would have won this game. But these are the problems
you're gonna run into, and sometimes it is just as simple as needing your
guys to be better than the other guys. We almost had it tonight,
right, Our big view was pretty solid, but Kawhi couldn't quite you know,
get the percentages we wanted from the floor. But we shouldn't need all
three guys to be on it against the team again playing a zone without their
two best defenders. Do you have any big picture concerns about this team in
the clutch because clutch rating wise, they were the best in the league entering
this game. I think when it came to net rating, it looks like
they're falling down to sixth now after this ballgame. Maybe if I just go
from December first on, But are you seeing a pattern here that is more
concerning? Considering as you mentioned, the Lakers game was just five days ago.
I think I'm gonna give it maybe another week or so before I fully
hit the panic button. It is after the break. It's an old team.
It's going to take some motion to get them in motion, if that
makes sense. So talk to me in two more blown leads in the fourth
quarter. I don't want to second bleep. I hope that doesn't happen.
But not fully there yet. We still have to see how the kind of
de facto backup point guard Bones Island's going to look. So not a big
picture, but I would say a medium picture right now. It's definitely in
the back of my mind. The burner is warm, I would say,
yeah. And I thought Bones had some good moments in his eleven minutes knockdown
a three pointer after he had missed fifteen straight this season, got off the
snide. There also that ridiculous Okie Dokee wraparound pass to Daniel Tye, second
wrap around pass to Tye in the last couple of games. Maybe they're developing
some chemistry. However, the skeleton key is not enough to comfort me after
this lost by the Clippers. They lose one to thirteen to one oh six
in Milwaukee to the Bucks. But they'll get back after it on Wednesday in
Houston. And hey, this team for the most part this season. What
they've lost back to back games twice the last two or three months or something
like that, Chuck, so expect a big response, and they do have
a day off tomorrow, no long after play three games in a row like
the ninety nine lockout. Chuck, thanks for coming on a little clips in
double dip here on Clipperstock, my friend. We'll talk to you on the
YouTube tomorrow. Oh, thanks for having me, Chuck Clip. Oh wait,
let's get out. Let's get out that second keyword. We don't have
to give out the first one again. That's for people to go back and
find if they didn't hear it the first time. But the second keyword to
win that Russell Westbrook bobblehead, Chuck, the floor is yours. Give it
out. Frustration. We're gonna go with frustration for the second keyword. You're
asking me on this night, of all night, so we have to go
with frustration. Fair enough, it's appropriate, all right, Charles, We'll
talk to you tomorrow, my friend. Sounds good, Scoll Clips