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the Clippers fall in Game two ninety six to ninety three. Here at Crypto
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I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up on the Patriot Am eleven fifty. We'll
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the phone number. Wild ballgame, Carlos, you said it felt like a
Game seven. It was the most physical game I've ever seen in person,
with what the referees were allowing out there, and Dallas got hot from beyond
the arc during winning time, during clutch time in the fourth quarter, and
that proved to be the difference. It really did, Adam. I mean
the Mavericks hit six of their fourteen threes in the final period, and that
did in the Clippers, and they hit timely threes and their role players hit
three, something their role players didn't do much of at all in Game one.
It's a confidence builder for Dallas, and I think that's what's so crushing
about this loss, not that you lost the game, but the way Dallas
was able to build up those others for Luca to find that comfortability, for
them to realize ways they can have advantages on the Clippers hurts for the Clippers.
The question is going to be, how do you find a better way
to get this offense going and how do you find a way to keep a
Vita Zubats on the floor. You talked about it, but he was excellent
in all his minutes, and the Clippers went away from him late, trying
to go small, getting a little more switchability on the floor, but it
did not finish the way they wanted it to here in Downtown. To me,
that's where the game swung. I know I'm gonna get calls about this
post game because coach Lou does rely on small ball at times. He's very
comfortable with it. But Ivita Zubats was getting some easy buckets, and I
understand the move because you want more switchability with Dallas starting to hit threes on
the perimeter, so you don't want to have a big man out there to
guard those guys at the three point line. But Aviza Zubats was a source
for their offense in the fourth quarter and was being found for easy ones.
And to me, he's just one of those guys that you got to rely
on at this point. But I trust in coach Lou. I trust this
team to bounce back. We did see Kawhi Leonard tonight. I thought it
was an up and down performance, but he progressed and got better as the
game went along. You could say, Carlo, it just looked like he
was starting to find his footing. He was getting some jumpers to fall,
he was getting a floater to go in the paint. That physicality was there,
the steal and the dunk to start off the fourth quarter of the second
half. Here as this game was a blur with the amount of physicality,
But there are positives to take away, and the biggest one will be number
two being able to play in game two one hundred percent. And you're right,
his legs weren't unumber. I think he missed all five is three short.
If I had to guess, I think everything was just off the lip
of the rim. But look, let's be honest. I mean the Clippers
weren't sweeping this series. That's not gonna happen. The Clippers haven't won a
series in less than six games all but once in their franchise history. If
you're a Clipper fan, you are stressed every time they play a playoff game.
They don't make things that easy. Maybe game one to start, but
for the most part, playoff series do not end up being simple sweeps for
the Clippers. So Luca and Dallas they got their punch, They got the
Clippers on it off night, and they played well. But I think for
the Clippers, there's so much room for improvement and a lot of uncharacteristic things
in this game that you feel like they got a good shot to split them
in Dallas, make it a best of three. Coming back home for Game
five, they need to the Dallas. At this point, I have just
taken home court advantage away from the Clippers, and it looked like the Clippers
had an opportunity to take a stranglehold of this series. If they could have
pulled this one out tonight, but now they need a victory in Dallas.
Now, going back to twenty twenty one, well, they won their three
times. It wasn't an issue for them in front of that crowd. Kawhi
Leonard with the magnificent Game six with forty five points. But that Game three
was the turning point of the series with the Clippers down two games to none,
and they were down thirty to eleven in the first quarter, and it
looked like Dallas was hunting for that kill shot and they were about to go
up three to zero on the Clippers, and that's when that resilient nature kicked
in. They came back in that ballgame. The rest is history. They
would get to the Western Conference Finals for the first time as a franchise.
But it's going to take that grittiness and this level of defense. But with
a few more shots falling for the Clippers and just easier buckets out there,
they got to find some easier ones because Dallas the defense showed tonight. Their
defense is well we've been talking about the last couple of months with Luka Dancis
playing better on the defensive end. Now and giving effort there with Kyrie Irving,
who was guarding James Harden throughout a lot of this ballgame, you could
see it they were much more connected and they may have found something with more
minutes for Derek Lively and more minutes now for Maxi Kleba, which was what
we saw at the end of game one. Carlo one hundred percent. I
mean it feels like they've moved their chess pieces. They feel like they have
the advantage. Now will how will tyleru adjust his own chess pieces coming up
for game three. I think it's a great point you'd talk about. They've
been able to win in Dallas, They've been able to play well in Dallas,
and they know what's coming for them, and they got Kawhi Leonard back
and Ivitsa Zubatz continues to be a problem if he doesn't get in foul trouble.
Clippers made ten less threes than they did last game. I think also
there's something to be said about Luca getting those late shots. I'm sure the
Clippers will look at how they guarded him in this game. I thought they
had a fantastic job for the most part on Kyrie Irving, who was eight
for eighteen to get to twenty three points. He did have three steals,
though he was great on the defensive end. Clippers got outshine of the free
throw line Adam four to twelve in the fourth quarter. According to Brian Dancelar,
statistician, Dallas was more aggressive, they got to the line more,
and they finished things down the stretch. It's a it's a playoff series.
This is the fun part. How do you adjust? How do you move
your pieces? How do you make your disadvantage in game two your advantage in
game three. I cannot wait to see it unfold. Friday can't come soon
enough, and I think this Clippers. Friday also can't consume enough. They
want to rank their wrongs tonight. As you brought up during the ballgame,
it felt like a game seven. Well, we may get five more of
these before this series is over. Well, we have a moment. Let's
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This is LA Clippers Basketball AM eleven fifty k ev Los Angeles about an
iHeartRadio station. Clippers fall in Game two, ninety six to ninety three to
Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks, as they would come through late with clutch
three pointers. And this series is tied up at a game apiece. The
road team has one. I guess this series is underway. Coming up on
Friday will be Game three in Dallas. Tip Off is at five pm.
We'll have your pregame show starting right back here at four Carlo Jimenez, my
guy, another great playoff call by you. Let's do it all over again
Game three Friday. Yeah, let's call Game three. Oh. Unfortunately the
Clippers lose by three in this one. We'll talk about it all on your
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heading into the fourth quarter at a score of sixty six to sixty five.
Just to be outscored thirty one to twenty seven in that fourth quarter final score
Dallas Mavericks ninety six, Clippers ninety three. Here in game two, as
this best of seven first round series is tied up at a game apiece,
Welcome back into your postgame locker room show. I'm Adam Moslin coming up on
the Patriot AM eleven fifty. We will have Clippers talk. Eight seven seven
five to zero. Eleven fifty is the phone number. Eight seven to seven,
five to two, zero eleven fifty is the phone number. The Dallas
Mavericks came alive from distance late in this game and hit some clutch, timely
three pointers. Fourth quarter shooting from three six of nine for the Dallas Mavericks.
Clippers were four of nine, but it was the difference a couple of
more Maine three pointers in a game where both teams were starved for points.
This game was played under one hundred. It was the most physical game that
I've ever witnessed in person. Not hyperbole, not an exaggeration. I've never
seen anything like it. We've heard people talk about the physicality that has come
over the last couple of months. As it seems that the officials were told
to let a little bit more go as offense was getting out of control,
and it's had an effect in these playoffs too. You heard it yesterday,
Darvin Ham was talking about a post game after the Lakers Denver Nuggets game.
Probably gonna hear about it a ton tonight postgame on our call in show Clippers
Talk. We have some postgame audio from Coach Lou and the players after the
Clippers fall ninety six to ninety three at home here to the Dallas Mavericks and
Kawhi Leonards return. He finished at thirty five minutes, played just fifteen points
on seven of seventeen, shooting oh of five from three, so the Clippers
overall were just eight of thirty from distance. More postgame locker room show coming
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the first round of the Nbaight Playoffs continues. Back to more NBA playoff basketball
right here on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers lose ninety six to ninety
three here at home in Game two at Crypto dot Com Arena in this first
round, best of seven series against the Dallas Mavericks. Like it's twenty twenty
one all over again. Welcome back in. I'm Adam Moslin. This is
your Clippers post game show coming up on the Patriot Am eleven fifty. We'll
have Clippers Talk eight seven seven five to two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven,
five to two zero eleven fifty speaking of same as it ever was type
of things. Luka Doncic stepped up huge in the fourth quarter, had seven
of his game high thirty two points, but maybe the biggest shot of the
game the dagga. While the Clippers still had opportunities late, he hit a
three in the face of James hard and a step back three, a hardened
like three. Now it's Luka Doncic who is making this one of his most
famous moves. With a minute twenty six left that put Dallas up by nine,
Harden responded right out of the time out, was wide open. He
hit a three pointer. The Clippers made it interesting. Kawhi Leonard had an
opportunity late and it looked like he was fouled by Kyrie Irving. In fact,
it was called a foul initially, it was reviewed and overturned, and
I guess it's only appropriate in a game where they let him play more so
than I had seen in any game live in person. They would overturn that
call and so that three point opportunity for Kawhi Leonard ended up just being two
points. The Clippers played the foul game, Dallas would hit their shots.
The Clippers fall late by three. Kawhi Leonard did return, had fifteen on
seventeen shots in thirty five minutes. It is a positive he was able to
go for thirty five minutes. It was a positive he was able to play.
Paul George twenty two points seven to fourteen shooting. James Harden with two
big Zoo didn't get up seventeen shots, just twelve shots, had thirteen points.
Difference in the ballgame to me was a beats the zoobots being taken out
at the seven minute mark, the Clippers were down by three. They quickly
went down by eight. The small ball was ineffective. Kyrie Irving hit a
big three pointer as Russell Westbrook was shading off of him to help out with
Luka Doncic. He would also hit a tough baseline floater over Paul George.
Kyrie Irving and PJ Washington hit back to back three pointers. Some tough shots
in the fourth quarter. Give him credit. Maxi Kleeba would also come up
with a big three pointer again six of nine from three and the fourth of
the Dallas Mavericks and the Clippers fall by three two three point shots ninety six
ninety three was your final outside of Los Angeles. We are leaving you until
Friday for Game three. Clippers in Dallas take it on the Mavericks in a
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Oh, apparently the officials are saying we're not done with the nineties.
As this game went redtro tonight. It was a slugfest, reminded me of
the video game arch Rivals, and the Clippers would lose to Arrival in the
Dallas Mavericks ninety six to ninety three Here at Crypto dot Com Arena in game
two of this best of seven first round series. Welcome into Clippers Talk.
I'm outa Moslin live from Crypto dot Com Arena. Coming up. We'll hear
from coach Lou. We'll hear from the players. After this one. We'll
get to your phone calls at eight seven seven five to two zero eleven fifty.
Eight seven seven, five to two zero eleven fifty is the phone number.
Clippers led by one heading into the fourth quarter. They quickly built up
a lead that I thought, in a game where points were at a premium,
it's been the phrase of the night, might be a safe enough lead.
They were up by six, the biggest lead of the ballgame. But
in a game like this, nobody scored one hundred and it just felt like
a grind it out, dig it out of the mud rock fight make it
a boulder fight. I thought that Clippers had the momentum after Big Zoo had
a couple of buckets early a Norn Powell three pointer to start off the fourth
quarter. Clippers led seventy three to sixty seven. The Dallas Mavericks would respond.
PJ. Washington tough bucket, Luca to the free throw line, one
of two. It's seventy three seventy Clippers. Then PJ. Washington knocks down
on three. Luka Doncic hits a three pointer. Things had flipped that quickly,
nine to zero run by Dallas. They were up seventy six to seventy
three. But this may have been the turning point. And I understand the
move, but coach Lou went small. We've seen it time and time again.
He's more comfortable with it. He seems to fall back to going small
when things get dicey, and he had Russ Harden PG Norman Kawhi out there.
I understand the reasoning. They're hitting threes. You want better defenders on
the perimeter and more switchability. But it was ineffective tonight and Big Zoo was
the guy and the only guy getting easy buckets down low. In the fourth
quarter out of the time out with Russ in for Big Zoo, Kyrie Irving
hits a three pointer as Russ, who I thought had some spectacular plays,
tip outs, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, the block on Derek Lively,
but a bad defensive play as he shaded off of Kyrie Irving to help out.
James harden on Luka Dacic, and Kyrie knocked down a twenty nine foot
three pointer wide open. You can't leave Kyrie Irving. That's the difference with
this Dallas Mavericks team. Now. It's not just Luca and others in role
players. It's not Tim Hardaway Junior out there, who I think left this
game due to injury. No disrespect. He can get hot, he can
light you up. But we're talking about Kyrie Irving, a top seventy five
player. Ever, Russ is two. He's got to know you can't leave
him open. James was playing Luka Doncics well enough. I understand it's Luca
that can be an issue. You'd rather have Kawhi or Paul George on him.
It's not that simple. With the screens they said all the time,
and the sets they run, and if they leave their man to come cross
court to switch on Luca. He surely is gonna find the guy. They
left for an easy bucket, but that three pointer by Kyrie Irving put him
up by six. And then on the other end the Clippers had a heartbreaking
possession where first Norman Powell missed a two along to Russell Westbrook tipped it out
and those two make it. It was a Kawhi Leonard jumper that was short
as a lot of his word. Tonight we'll talk more about Kawhi, his
performance, how he looked the assessment with the sports science and how he was
moving out there in a little bit. But he misses one. Norm Powell
and Russell Westbrook are at the basket and both had easy tip ins that just
didn't fall. The hustle was there, the heart was there. They were
battling and they couldn't get it to go. Norm missed one, Russ missed
one, Nor missed one opportunities to bring it back to within four. And
then on the other end, Kyrie Irving gets a little push shot on the
far side, short corner over Paul George Well contested, doesn't matter, It's
Kyrie would hit a three pointer eighty one seventy six is the score. But
then PJ. Washington responded right away with a three, and that's something that
worries me. I thought he had a solid game one defensively, he didn't
look afraid of the moment. Well, he certainly wasn't. In game two
tonight, he woke up. That was a huge three. Kawhi would get
fout on the other end, miss the first, something you rarely see.
The Clippers would end up getting a stop on the other end. Great defense
on Luka Dancich did what they could, and then Paul George basically went coast
to coast and got a tough circus layup to go. It's eighty four to
seventy nine. Guess what happened though, Just before that, Evista Zubats came
back into the ballgame. So in the time that he was taking out taken
out to go small. It's gonna be a running theme in one of my
major points tonight. At the seven oh one mark, the Clippers are down
three. By the time of Vitza Zubats is inserted back into the ballgame,
they're down seven. Means they lost those minutes when they went small by four
in a game they lost by three, crushing, but the Clippers keet battling,
and as soon as Big Zoo came back in, Paul George found him
with a great feed on the interior and Zu got a huge dunk. But
then Maxi Kliba, who looked like he couldn't hit anything the first two games.
This is scary, knocked down a big three. Dallas back up six,
then maybe the dagger, I guess. Eventually it was Luka Doncic with
a step back three after Kawhi Leonard missed one in front of James Harden had
a hand in his face. Doesn't matter. Luca lived for these moments.
He wants to terrorize Clipper Nation. He was looking at the crowd, he
was jarring back and forth. It's picked up a technical earlier. It's Luca.
This is what he does. This is what makes Dallas so terrifying at
times, especially because he's got Kyrie next to him, who hit big shots
in the fourth quarter now too, and that Dallas defense showed up for everyone
telling me that Dallas defense was fake, fugazy regular season stuff. Even with
Daniel Gafford playing ten minutes as he just looks lost out there. They could
go small with Maxi Kliba. They had Derek Lively play twenty minutes, Josh
Green got run. Dallas is moving some chess pieces around. Now. They
figured out a few things and how to optimize lineups, and defensively they were
great. Granted, it was a nineties throwback night, and when you're allowed
that much physicality out there, yeah, it favors the defense. But the
Clippers settled for far too many threes when they weren't hitting them long jumpers.
And to me, when you have a guy like aviatsa zoo bots and I
thought at the beginning of the fourth quarter they were gonna go back to him,
and it was gonna be a wrinkle from Coach Lou that now we're gonna
punish him with big Zoo. They're not gonna see this coming. You're up
one and going into the fourth quarter, feed big Zoo, go at him.
I thought they were gonna stick with that, and instead, when Dallas
went up three, Coach Lou hit the small ball button. They go minus
four, they lose the game by three. I'm not saying it's as simple
as that. The Clippers just need to be better. Russell Westbrook shading over
on that Kyrie Irving play. That's one that can't happen another time, leading
to the MASSI Kliba three. I believe it was Luka Dancich finding him after
Paul George fell to the floor trying to go for a steal. The defense
was good initially, but he gambled. But it just stands out to me
that Coach lou felt more comfortable going small like we have seen many times before,
and Nicholas Batuma isn't out there anymore. Marcus Morris. The twenty twenty
one version isn't, but the twenty twenty four version of Avisa Zubats is a
completely different player than what we saw three years ago. I was stuck with
him. I don't know if that was their fatal flaw tonight, but to
me, it's just what stood out the most in this loss, as the
Clippers had an opportunity to take a stranglehold of this series, they lose by
three ninety six. Ninety three is the final coming up. We will hear
from Coach Loupo's game and the players. We're live from Crypto dot com arena.
This series is tied up at a game apiece, with the Clippers going
to Big d on Friday. Tip off for that one's at five. Pregame
back here at four. I'm at a Moslin and this is Clippers Talk here
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the NBA Playoffs on the LA Clippers Audio Network, stream US anywhere you go
on the iHeartRadio app. The Clippers shoot their worst fuel goal percentage of the
year at thirty six point eight percent from the field. Dallas wasn't much better
at forty two percent, but they also shot forty two percent from three and
went six of nine from three in the fourth quarters. The Clippers lose game
two by three, with the final score of ninety six to ninety three.
Here at Crypto dot Com Arena, I'm at a Moslin. This his Clippers
Talk here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. Coming up, we'll hear from
coach lou postgame. The Clippers missed twenty nine of forty shots outside the paint.
Brutal. You know who can change that for you, The biggest guy
in this series, who detonated with twenty and fifteen in Game one, Big
Zoo, who got seventeen shots up, who got featured now. A preview
from coach Lou postgame is this. He said, Zoo getting into foul trouble
early changed the game for us, and that makes sense because they were trying
to go to him and he set two bone crushing fouls, one on Luca
who was hitting the life alert, which I never see. It was not
a flop. He got trucked as everybody was scrapping out there tonight. Just
insane. The level of physicality Zoo set the tone. And then I think
it was Derek Jones Junior. He puts to the floor on his second foul.
He goes out, Mason Plummet goes in. Clippers lose the first quarter
twenty three to nineteen and shot five of twenty and one of four from three
in the first quarter. Couldn't get anything to go outside of Paul George with
eight points. Unfortunately, he only had seven points the rest of the game,
and I take that back. He ended up with fourteen points the rest
of the game. So they were trying to feature Viatza zoobots. You know
how I feel about this subject. There's an easier path to win ball games,
and it starts with feeding big sue. Those are punishing, taxing,
physical plays, and in a game that was played with this level of physicality,
to me, you just had to get it to Zoom wore in the
second half because he finished with those two personal fouls. He never filed again.
He played thirty three minutes. It's not nothing, but those four minutes
where he left in the fourth quarter when they went small and they would lose
those minutes by four points in a game they lost by three, were critical,
consequential, and ultimately that's where the game was lost. In my mind,
Dallas hit threes. They stepped up Lucas Luca Kyrie's Kyrie Clippers have to
be better with game plan, assignment and discipline out there. I don't care
that Luka doncons is being guarded by James Harden. He at least had him
on the baseline. He at least could use that as the other defender and
force him that way. And if he goes by you for a two pointer,
you can live with that. Which you can't live with is Kyrie Irving
getting a wide open three. It was a deep three. It's a shot
he makes all the time. And Russ sagged off and shaded towards James Harden
to help out on Luca and Kyrie killed him. It's Kyrie irving over there.
So there's two guys that can beat you now eight seven seven five two
zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty Tajes and Walnut.
You can start things off after the Clippers lose ninety six ninety three in Game
two. Tajus, you're probably the most cogent caller when it comes to analysis.
So what do you got to know? Well, Adam, I agree
with you, like I think when Zoo got fellt trouble and we just forgot
about him really until that fourth quarter. And what else is new forgetting about
Zoo? Nowadays have more ones Hockeway, they got something to say, and
then it comes out when they move the lips, just a bunch of gibberish.
They forgot about Zoo. That's so true, Adam. I think we'll
see more of Zoo next game. But a few other points would be I
think we got we were so slow getting into our offense again, and James
Harden wasn't hitting the threes, he was doing a lot of dribbling, and
it just took a long time to get in the sets, and that was
one of the things that always played them during their struggles this year. And
you know, when Zoo was out, I thought, you know, they
could still run some high pick and rolls and generate some more open shots.
But it didn't seem we had some, but not as many clean open shots
as we would like. So were you watching the game on TV or were
you here at Cryptotagus No, I'm interested in hearing how the physicality translated to
the TV screen, because being here in person, this was the most physical
game I've seen live. You could tell on TV it was pretty physical.
I've never seen anything like it. It was borderline rec I thought somebody was
gonna get hurt. I don't want to sound too soft, but there were
some just insane plays and fouls that weren't being called a mere coffee asking for
that foul and Luca Dodgers in the second half, Luca getting teed up because
he thought he was fouled go into the basket Like I couldn't believe some of
the stuff they were letting go. I just never seen anything like it.
No, No, I agree, And it didn't cost the Clipers of the
game. That is not why they lost whatsoever. I thought for the most
part it was called fairly just physically, it was even on both sides.
Yeah, I thought it was nothing to do with the rest. More of
our struggles came on the offensive end. I would say for the most part,
our defense was pretty solid. I just think that we got to execute
little better, get get into our sets a lot quicker, and I know
Kawi was rusty, and it looked like the team was out of sorts.
And you initially I thought Paul Georgian when he hit those first couple of jump
shots, that he was going to have a big night. But then for
some reason he got lost and they didn't. He didn't get enough shots up,
and I was just really surprised that, you know, he kind of
took a little back seat. And I guess they're trying to work it out
again with Kawhi, So you know, I expect them to work it out
and you know, see it more fluid and and they'll they'll come back on
Friday, you know. You know, last last series, they each home
team lost every game until Clippers won Game seven at home. So Clippers can
win on the road. It's not a big deal. They got enough vets,
but just got to execute a little bit better on the offensive end and
we'll see Big Zoo, you know, dominate some more. But if they
recognize that he can consistently, that's the path to winning this series. To
me, big Zoo has the advantage. It's playing. It's easy to see.
So I agree with you. Thank you for the phone call to Agus.
I like what you said about the shot distribution there. It was almost
too balanced, as in, you're not getting it to a guy who has
a hot hand enough like Paul George did early with eight points, three or
five shooting in the first quarter. He only gets up two shots in the
second quarter. After that, he finished with only taking nine more shots in
the ballgame. After the first quarter. We thought he was going to be
due after going eight for twenty in Game one, but clutch shots down the
stretch eleven of his twenty two points in the fourth quarter. I'm not saying
reintroducing Kawhi Leonard upended the offense. I think it was more about the defense
and what Dallas was able to do in the way they were able to play
out there. Same with the Clippers. It was just a culture shock.
Oh they're letting this much go guys were getting smacked, guys were getting crushed.
I thought I was watching. Was it Charles Smith who had all those
opportunities in the basket against the Chicago Bulls at the very end of that game
in ninety three, Yes, it was. It was nineties basketball and it
was an off night shooting wise. You combine those two things and you end
up shooting your worst percentage from the floor on the season at thirty six point
eight seven seven five to two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero
eleven fifty. Clippers lose Game two, ninety six to ninety three. Taj's
also brought up Kawhi Leonard. My overall assessment of the ballgame, It was
about what you could expect from Kawhi, considering he had been out for over
three weeks. His first game, he played thirty five minutes, said postgame,
he feels good, great sign there, but he was short with most
of his jumpers, didn't have the legs. Whether that's because he's not quite
one hundred percent yet or because it's just fatigue and getting his second win,
because well, you can't prepare for NBA minutes on the floor, especially playoff
minutes like this. You can't reproduce that in practice, especially with the way
today's game was played. Fifteen points on seven of seventeen shooting h five from
the outside. Did have four steals. He had that steal and dunk.
I want to say it was that early third quarter. Yes, it was
start of the third quarter when Derek Gladley, by the way, got the
start in the second half of the Dallas Mavericks. So they're pushing buttons now.
They played with desperation. They wanted this one bad. They didn't want
to go down oh two. They saw enough from Daniel Gafford Derek Glyadley's starter.
That's a quick trigger move by Jason Kidd. But you can understand it.
Gafferd just doesn't have it right now at all. He also left the
game again and went to the locker room. Looked to be damed up.
Kawhi had a great defensive possession against Jones. Junior got a turnover. It
was eventually PG with the steel, but the defense and why it happened was
because of Kawhi Leonard being smothering. So we saw dounk We saw the layup
that we thought was nan one late from him. We saw some push shots
in the lane when he stopped settling for jumpers. A couple of different times
he got a little floater to go, a little hook shot to go.
I like seeing that. You would think if he was one ramped up timing
and rhythm was there. Yeah, maybe the Clippers pulled this one out,
but you knew coming in the situation Kawhi wasn't gonna be at full force right
away off the bat. Still encouraging signs him playing encouraging. I thought after
game one, them getting that victory, they wouldn't even try him in game
two. They already got the split, give him more time off, get
him ready for game three or game four. So to me, that says
he must have been feeling pretty good that they were chasing this one tonight and
not just settling for the split here without him. But the offense definitely was
thrown off. I don't think because Kawhi. I think because the way the
game was played, and maybe guys were being a little bit too unselfish.
Just seem like they lacked a rhythm and a focus. Who's the guy that's
gonna carry us for a bit here, where's the source of our offense coming
from? Norman Powell, by the way, is unfortunately in a funk.
This is surprising to me because Norm has been great all season long, and
it has been great in the playoffs for the Clippers. Had forty two in
that game three right here at Crypto last season against the Phoenix Suns without two
to one three. He is four verse sixteen from the field in this series
so far, he's three of six from the outside. He's only taken six
three pointers. They're running him off the line. He talked about that in
practice. They're aware of the season that he had should have been top three
and six Man of the Year voting. I'm gonna said that right now.
Put him over who I'll put him over, Bobby Portis. I'm fine with
nas Reed being there. I'm fine with Malink Monk, but normOn Pal needs
to be top three as well. Norm shot forty four percent from three on
the season. So Dallas came in, they circled that. They knew they
would have to slow him down. They have so far, and that's consequential
for the Clippers. That's a big deal. That's something worth monitoring. Russ
was two of nine. He hit a big three pointer. He also had
back to back possessions where he missed a layup and then went one on three
in transition against the Dallas Mavericks and got blocked. As you would expect,
he did have a block making up for that against Derek Lively, but a
little bit out of control at times. We'll take a quick time out.
Clippers lose Game two ninety six to ninety three. Here at home at Crypto
dot Com Arena to the Dallas Mavericks. I'm Adam Oslin and you're listening to
the Patriot AM eleven fifty. Back to more of the NBA playoffs on the
LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers Mavericks continues now stream us anywhere you go on
the iHeartRadio app. Lose in Game two ninety six to ninety three in a
no blood, no foul contest, and I mean that never seen a more
physical game where the refs let more go in person and the Clippers are on
the wrong end of it. They lose by three as Dallas got hot from
three in the fourth quarter. They came into the fourth just eight of twenty
four from the outside, and they go six of nine in that fourth quarter
timely shots, most of them open as Luca Dantis was creating some mismatches here
and there. Two came to guard him. Other guys were left open.
Keith and La you're on clipper stop for that Amazon, Hi, Keith,
what's up man? We're gonna be all right at him. And I know
you know that everything you always say your breakdowns is always on the one.
Bruh. You know what I'm saying. At the end of the day,
I really believe this, We're going to be all right. It was just
a three point loss. I don't have pretty you know, just listening to
my radio and all that stuff, and I'm listening to you going to the
physicality and all that. But at the end of the day, it was
a three point loss. I'm simply saying, I think what you're saying,
and the previous callers said before me. Definitely some execution issues. That doesn't
make any sense why Norman Powell didn't have like thirteen to night or something like
or whatever. You know what I'm saying. You know so, and I
know that probably has to do with the return of Kawhi. We're so thankful
for that. But that that, like you said, with coaching and all
that, it's some chess. Last time we talked about even like alluded to
a little chest, there's some chess pieces there at them, there's some serious
chess pieces. And we're even with all of that, justing and this,
that and the other. That's why I don't like this loss. And I'm
not excusing it, not excusing it at all. I don't like this loss.
But at the end of the day, it was only by three.
And let me tell you, man, like you were saying, Man,
I'm gonna tell you for me, and I'll say this couple of things.
I'll let you respond Dallas that it is just me personally, Dallas. The
Nuggets and the Celtics are about the few teams that really make me chew off
all of my fingernails when it comes to the Clippers. You know what I'm
saying, I got this, Yeah, you know what I'm saying. So
but but that said, what we experienced the night, and even some funky
rap calls that happens, you know, life, and all that, we
still only lost by three, Adam and Clipper Nation. We just got to
regroup. We got a focus and focus and all that, and just you
know what I'm saying, Adam, I'll kind of defer a little bit and
let you respond to my brother. No, I appreciate it. Keith is
always one of my favorites. They do need to regroup a little bit offensively.
I just felt like the game plan discipline wasn't there. You mentioned execution.
Some of it's just guys missing shots, some open shots they typically make.
Some of it was Dallas's defense. Some of it was not being intentional
enough with how they were attacking the Dallas Mavericks. I think Josh and Sierra
Madre Josh on clippersack with that. I'm awesome. Hey, Adam, I
appreciate you taking my call. I'm not I'm glad I played. Now.
I felt they could have won this game without him, but I am glad
that he played. He got his legs under him, and he kind of
got better as the game went along. Now you kind of said to yourself,
his jump shot was really short, and hopefully he spends a couple more
days in practice getting that down because they're going to need him to hit those
shots throughout the rest of the series, because this is a dogfight now,
as Kyrie and Luca have shown you that they are in this for the long
haul. So that's my observation number two, you kind of hit it on
yourself. Norman has not looked right now. He ain't made a big shot
early in the fourth quarter, but other than that, he's not missing.
He was missing a lot of short shots inside the paint. He needs to
start hitting those. And my last point is I did not understand taking Westbrook
out. Westbrook they need his energy, Like his energy is so vital.
There's more things, there's things that are more important than energy and its execution.
And he took some bad shots two of nine from the field. He
did hit a big three, and I liked his spirit defensively for the most
part and the boards he was getting. But I believe he was taken out,
coach lew said, because he had played him for something like twenty straight
minutes, and that's one of the reasons he was out for a second.
But again, his defensive laps gave up that three point to Kyrie Irving.
That was a huge, huge play that just can't happen. I don't disagree
with that, But my point is when he came out, that's when Dallas
made their run. So having him out there was important. I get what
you're saying, and yes, he blew the assignment on Tyrie's three. But
you also can't say it's not a coincidence that Dallas went on their run when
he came back, Boss Josh. That's when they went small, and that's
really when Dallas made their run. That's true. I honestly didn't didn't like
the small ball lineup. I didn't think it was very effective. But Westbrook's
energy is very important to the team. That's all I'm saying it is.
But everybody's playing with energy now. It's the playoffs that you could see.
Everybody was on the floor. Everybody was going nuts out there at this ball
game. I presee the phone call though, Josh gotta take a quick time
out last one. Clippers lost ninety six to ninety three. Love overall what
Russ has brought so far, but they got to be more sound in those
big moments down the stretch. Hopefully that changes in Game three in Dallas on
Friday. More on that coming up right here on Clippers Stock on the Patriot
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Game two ninety six to ninety three to the Dallas Mavericks, and they have
lost home court. They gotta win a game in Dallas. Game three is
Friday. I'm Ata Moslin. This is Clippers Talk. Final phone call the
night. Jose in Southgate. Jose, what's up? What's up at him?
All right? He said, We're only lost by three. We went
up into we went up by one going into the fourth. And Corlin,
it wasn't one hundred percent out there. He wasn't he wasn't going for fifty
to fifty balls. There was a play with where Terrence Man was trying to
hand off the ball to him, and he's just sure. He just walked
on to the other side of the court. I'm like, all right,
all that being said, like I said, it was only down by three.
We can't forget about Zoo and we can't forget about coffee. We can't
afford another game where keeping quite inered in there when he's looking like that.
But I'm glad he got a gauze to see how far he is from filling
one hundred percent. We got three days. I believe, Adam, We're
gonna be all right. Clipto clar first look. I want to make this
clear. They did not lose this game because Kawhi looked rusty. Part of
the reason they got up by one hanging into the fourth was Kawhi. The
hope now is he responds well to playing thirty five minutes in the NBA game
for the first time in three weeks, not just any game, a playoff
game, not just any playoff game, one of the most physical games I've
ever seen two days off. That bodes well, but it's at least encouraging
to see him play thirty five minutes. I didn't think he'd get up that
many. I thought maybe thirty. It's a little bit scary as the Dallas
Mavericks and some of their others getting going. PJ. Washington, MAXI Kleiba,
Josh Green something to keep an eye on a monitor moving forward. Before
we get out of here, I do want to bring in Big Brother Jake
Warner, the fake philosopher Big Brother Jake podcast on the podcast one network.
Big Bro, what's up Yo? I'm a little hurt like you are,
but I'll make it short and brief. I heard when you stop chasing what
you want, you walk right into what you need. Okay, we need
a dub Okay in the worst way universe. We're chasing. Bring it toward
Oh please. Clippers and Dallas on Friday, Game three tip off at five
pregame shows starting at four, Big Bro, thanks for all you do here,
can you? Thanks to you back in the bank thanks to the Clippers
organization. Ralph Olabrian Seaman, Noah Eagle. Let's good to see. I'm
Eagle tonight. Carlo Jimenez on the call the Colors. The listeners will talk
to you Friday at four. So why he was doing his thing? All
they want to do is win in La. I win. I thought they
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