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one of the most confounding losses of the season. Really, it would
be for any team. But unfortunately, as for your Los Angeles Clippers tonight
is they lose to the Atlanta Hawks one ten to ninety three, and sadly
it wasn't even that close. They were down by as many as twenty nine
in the ballgame and they lose a pivotal one. Considering where the standings are
at currently, we'll update you on those coming up. We'll have Clippers Talk
on a FI seventy LA Sports eight six six ninety seven two five seventy if
you'd like to get on early. But first back to your radio voice of
the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carlo has just looked like this team wasn't ready
to play tonight. Kawhi Leonard was in that first quarter, he had seventeen
points, and yet they were still down two heading into the second and that's
where things really turned for the worst for this Clippers team. Yeah, I
mean, I thought Atlanta was excellent on the offensive last They had six offensive
rebounds in that first quarter. They were aggressive early, they turned the Clippers
over, they got out in transition. They really controlled the flow of this
offense from from jump to finish, and the Clippers weren't able to move the
basketball a lot. Nine assists in the first half, eight in the second
half. There's just no rhythm or flow. And there was the double teaming
of James Harden. It was packing the paint and the Clippers could never string
together some points. They had a seven to er run early in that fourth
quarter, but I believe that was the only run of the ball game for
the Clippers. So, Adam, I think this is one where you know,
TYLERU talks about how he flushes the tape on bad losses. He says,
we watch film on the wins about the bad things we do. We
don't watch film on the losses. I don't think this is one where you
have to watch film on There's a lot of things you need to do well.
You don't need to watch the film to see that. But the shooting
and the ball moving on the offense, man, honestly, that's what concerns
me the most. I think that's one thing the Clippers can work on well.
But that's what The defensive effort I don't think was that bad in this
one. I mean, Atlanta came in averaging one hundred and twenty points.
That got to one ten. They took their foot off the gas late,
yes, but I think the Clippers were still good on that end. It
was the offense that just wasn't there. No, that's a great point,
and it just looked like there was a lot of russ to be knocked off
from James Harden out there. He started to find himself a little bit in
the fourth quarter, but it was too little, too late. After starting
I believe, zero for seven from the field. He had some assists,
he was one of the few guys generating them. But the Clippers weren't getting
any good looks for the most part through the first three quarters of this ball
game. Just no easy shots that they typically get out of high pick and
roll out of the Clippers just running their offense and getting two feet in the
paint. We talked about it early on, but you have to draw two.
You have to draw two defenders and then get them in rotation. And
this Clippers team, you know, Atlanta was switching everything and they were comfortable
doing that and going up against the Clippers who were playing too much ISO ball
with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. Granted they are great at it, but
it's tough to win a ballgame when you're not getting the others involved and you're
not able to knock them down from three. In fact, they had a
season load twenty eight made shots in this ballgame and their second lowest fuel goal
percentage in the ballgame, also a season low. As you brought up Carlo
just seventeen assists for the Clippers tonight. Yeah, it was a game.
I mean you talked about points in the paint. The Clippers shot two shots
in the paint the entire third quarter, and yeah, they got to the
free throw line of lot So I think there was more than that, right,
because you shoot eleven free throws, so you got fouled, you go
into the rim. But still, I mean to have that kind of numbers
for an entire quarter. This is a team that thrives, that not only
thrives, but survives off paint touches at them. They need to get to
the paint. If they don't win the battle of the paint, they struggle
because recently three point shooting has just been unreliant for this Clippers team, and
so you have to attack the interior of defenses, and the Clippers didn't do
that very efficiently in this one. You know they're gonna have games like these,
but I feel like at some point we got to see the fight for
forty eight minutes. Like you might lose games where you shoot thirty percent,
where you turn the ball over, but are you fighting for forty eight minutes?
I think that's gonna be the calling card for this Clippers team. You
go up to Portland twice, if there's anybody you want to play in any
place with a game rest, I mean, the schedule is lining up for
them to find a rhythm. They have to take advantage of that opportunity.
Fifteen games left in the regular season, and the Clippers right now are just
hanging on to that four spot, which means home court in the first round.
They're in a precarious position because the Pelicans have the tiebreaker against them now
after that win over the Clippers in New Orleans on Friday night. Something else
that has been a little bit of an alarming theme is just you know,
we heard recently before the game in Chicago over the past week that they were
going to try to get a Vitza Zubats more involved. He attempted just one
shot tonight, and when their offense has been stalling out, to me,
that's a guy who can bail you out and try to get some easy buckets
and get some points in the paint. And they just continually don't use a
Vita Zubas to the best of his capabilities. Was just surprising considering James Harden
was back tonight and they have been such a good combo a tandem for this
Clippers team for two months straight when they had the best offense in the league.
Those two guys were really the ones getting things started. And I think
that's been the difference post Grammy road trip. You talked about it in the
break, but when you double team James Harden and Harden has to swing to
the next highest guy on the wing, the Clippers aren't like Zubots disappears.
If he doesn't get the pass off the pick and roll, He's almost not
an option for this team. You'd love to see him rescreen get Georgian Zubats
in the pick and roll, Leonard and Zumos pick and roll because those pick
and rolls with Zoo have been so effective. But when teams double, the
Clippers kind of throw it away. It's the first option of their set and
then there's not looked towards it. Again. You mentioned one field goal today
he shot. He went to the free throw line two times, which means
a total of three shots in this ballgame. You hope of eats zoo Bots
gets more involved than he needs to, because look, Portland's not a walk
in the park. DeAndre Ayden has been playing well for them recently. The
Clippers need to make sure they're at their best when they go into Portland.
I thought you really miss Norman Palell in this one, Adam. I mean
his ability to be consistent as of late, Norm coming into this game had
been averaging seventeen points in his last thirteen games, and he's an automatic seventeen
off the bench the last three weeks for the Clippers, And you lose that,
and there wasn't much spark off the bench. Coffee Highland, Tucker all
kind of struggled in this game. They had the only eight points off the
bench for the majority of the ballgame for the Clippers. Meanwhile, Atlanta's bench
poured in forty points. So we're gonna hope for a speedy recovery for norm
Clippers though. This is their final two game stretch of rats. So you
want to build a rhythm. You're gonna be playing every other day, and
now is the time to build that rhythm. Clippers get two days off,
then they are in Portland. That will be on Wednesday. Tip time from
Portlandia's at seven. We'll have your pregame show starting at six. Carlo Amenaz,
great call. As always, We'll talk to you from Portland from Motor
Center on Wednesday. See the Clippers can get some roses in the city in
the Rose City. Okay, okay, I like it. I like it.
Shout up, Brian, please cookies Clippers looking a bounce back. I
be bringing the cookies tonight. Still some positives. Clippers lose one ten to
ninety three. Here at home at crypto dot Com Arena to the Atlanta Hawks.
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tonight four from the field, just two points. Clippers lose big at home
to the Atlanta Hawks, one ten to ninety three. Welcome in your postgame
show. I'm Adam Oslin. Well, we have a moment. Let's pause
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This is LA Clippers Basketball AM five seventy KLAC Los Angeles, ninety eight
seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio Station. How do you only end
up with ninety three points? Well, you shoot thirty seven percent from the
field. It was their second lowest field goal percentage in the game this season.
They only made twenty eight shots. That was their lowest when it came
to made shots on the year. Clippers out rebounded by five. Both teams
ended up with sixteen turnovers, but Atlanta got a little bit sloppy in the
fourth. But here's the difference. You can line these up. Hawks give
up sixteen turnovers, the Clippers turning that into eighteen points. The Clippers give
up sixteen turnovers the Hawks turned into twenty six points, and they had twenty
fast breakpoints at the half. They ended up with thirty one fast breakpoints.
It was just pretty unbelievable. Almost thirty or points coming in the fast break.
That cannot happen Clippers giving up easy ones. But to me, more
so in the defense, it was what they weren't able to do on offense
and outside it gets to the free throw line. In the second half,
to me, it just looked like a team that was going through the motions
playing isoball, wasn't intent on trying to get to the basket, wasn't putting
out that level of effort to get downhill, to draw two defenders, to
get to some mismatches. They just acted like, we can beat this team
straight up with our C or D game tonight. Because of where Atlanta is
at tenth in the standings in the Eastern Conference, in the fringe of being
out of the play in tournament, looks like they'll be in it. But
they didn't have Trey Young, They've been beat up, they had lost three
in a row, and the Clippers still were down by twenty nine in a
game and just look lifeless, lethargic, listless. It is the worst loss
of the season considering where we're at with fifteen games left. I think that's
a given now, like that's plain and simple and obvious to everyone. It
might be one of the worst losses, if not the worst loss in the
two and three era, if I'm being frank with you, if I'm being
completely honest, and I will try to be coming up on Clippers Talk eight
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five seventy still got one more segment here on your national shows. The Clippers
get twenty eight from Kawhi, twenty six from Paul George. Nobody else was
in double figures, and those two guys, I would say, still didn't
play well. They were able to get that because of how talented they are,
not because they were working within the offense much. Clippers lose one ten
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They'll be in Portland for quite a back to back, a two game with
the day of rest in between Wednesday and Friday, both games in Portland against
the Trailblazers. You would like to think that's a great opportunity for the Clippers
figure things out. But we thought that coming into this game after the loss
they had to the Pelicans, where they had a lot more fight against a
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mode. Adam Osley, you know that four leaf clover, I think just
had three pedals on it. The Clippers lose one ten to ninety three here
at home on Saint Patti's what it feels like right now. If it wasn't
for bad luck, they've had no luck at all. What you got to
create your own luck, make your own luck, play the right way,
and when you're down twenty nine to a team that is a bottom dweller in
the Eastern Conference, obviously those things didn't happen, as the Clippers lost by
a final score of one ten to ninety three here at home to the Atlanta
Hawks. Welcome in to Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslin to eight six six
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You can also get to me at follow Adam a on X. Some people
have some people I'd rather not have have tough one Clipper Nation, And by
tough, I mean this is bottom of the barrel, rock bottom, as
bad as things could be right now for your Los Angeles Clippers, with is
fifteen games remaining before the playoffs, which is why I would categorize this as
their worst loss of the season. I'd say this stretch of losing four of
their last five worse than losing six in a row when there's still seventy games
left like they did and eventually turn things around to now get back to a
point where it looks like guys are completely unfamiliar with one another, like they
have no idea how to run their offense. James harden Returns looked like a
shell of himself. Tonight started zero for seven, finally got some buckets to
go in the fourth quarter, but didn't look right. I don't know if
it's health related. I don't know if it's rhythm related. I know the
Clips couldn't find a rhythm offensively at all, and it's because they took themselves
out of that possibility when you just go one on one, when you think
you can beat a team just on talent and you don't have to outwork them,
and you don't have to adhere to your principles and your philosophy and your
drive kickswing mentality, and instead you go, hey, get to Kawhi.
Let's see what happens. He can get us a bucket quiet seventeen in the
first quarter. Great, they were still down to the warning signs were there.
Ear Kawhi finished with twenty eight individuals. While being a superstar League still
have to play within an offense. I don't care who you're playing. It
was Atlanta tonight, and the Clippers played down to their competition completely. Sure
Atlanta has been better post All Star Break, literally better than the Clippers.
They look at net rating, their defense coming into this one was thirteenth,
the Clippers was twenty fifth. They give up ninety three points to your Los
Angeles Slippers. They just were switching and guarding and staying in front of their
man, and the Clippers were making it far too easy for that to happen.
James Harden eventually started to attack later on and had some success, too
little, too late. How do you get down twenty nine at home to
the Atlanta Hawks? Confounding, perplexing, bafling, and inexcusable at this point
in the season. How can it not be You're trying to win a championship.
Let's remember what the goal was supposed to be. Are they building championship
habits? No? In fact, it looked like, if anything, all
the bad habits that they had built over the last month or so throughout a
lot of this season, with having a lack of effort out there, energy,
spirit, scheme, game plan, discipline, it looked like it all
peaked at once. James Harden didn't look good. Bones Highland didn't look good.
Both are starting point guards. Bones was zero for four, and while
they initiate things and get them into their offense, other guys weren't cutting hard,
weren't moving playing with pace within the half court. It's not like you
have to get up and down and run all the time. You just have
to get into your sets faster. The Clippers are elite when they do so
within the first twelve seconds of the shot clock, and they're one of the
worst teams in the league when they do it the last twelve seconds of the
shot clock, a shot clock that was not broken tonight. No excuse is
there, like the Lakers could say they had last night here against Golden State,
the Clippers offense looked broken. I don't even know what I was watching.
It almost like a team that didn't like each other, doesn't want to
play together. I don't think that's the case. I don't think they have
any locker room chemistry issues. They all wanted to bring in James Harden.
It was working spectacularly. He misses the last two games, and they played
harder than those. After the loss of Minnesota very disappointing. They bounced back
against Chicago. Granted, they shot fifty percent from three, which is becoming
too much of an outlier because coming into this one after the Grammy road trip,
last seventeen games under thirty six percent about thirty five point eight percent from
three. They're still second overall, which does tell you how good they were
for a sustained stretch of time from the outside. But there's a reason they're
probably not getting as many open threes now as they were before. They're not
generating enough good shots. And yeah, maybe some shooting variants in there too,
but tonight eleven of thirty six thirty percent from three another bad shooting game.
But it just looked like they felt like, uh, we'll put them
up in one on one situations and we're more talented. Eventually, talent will
overcome. Cohi said it after a win against Detroit that they were getting by
too much on talent and not enough on execution, and the Chickens have come
home to roost on their lack of execution and building up those good habits so
that you do have something to fall back on when shots aren't falling, when
guys don't have it that night, you're still playing hard, you're still running
your stuff. The Clippers, oh, this was an offense stuck in mud,
quicksand just nasty flow out there. I predict coach Lou will use that
word nasty to talk about their lack of flow offensively. We'll hear from him
in a little bit. But let's start things off with a call, Javier
in the Lobber Heights. You can start things off tonight here in Clippers stock
since you called in the fourth quarter, Javier, what's up? Well,
what's up? No? I called them a third quarter. I'm not just
stand corrected. I can't get anything right tonight. This Clipper team couldn't either,
you know what. I just I think they're they're just I don't know
there. Remember I called after the uh, the Timberworks game last week and
I said, man, they look old. And today again they look old.
Here's my problem with that. Here's my problem. I'm not saying they
aren't an older team, that's just factual. But how did they look younger
later in the game, when all of a sudden they started to move faster,
when they felt like there was an opening to maybe come back and pull
off another crazy Clippers come back down by twenty plus. Sure seemed like it
was more about effort than just looking old. Yeah, But by then,
like you said, they were already down what twenty something, and there was
already a oh it was too late. I'm just saying, if you're old,
you shouldn't be able to play faster later in the game. You should
be more tired then, right, So I think it's an effort issue.
It's a spirit issue with this team. So, I mean at this point,
and it's like, like we talked last night, I mean, if
it's not the if it's not Ty Lou, then I guess it's the players.
They're just they just turned him off. And when usually I mentioned earlier
that Kawhi had set this statement. What look after the Detroit game that they're
just from they're just way off talent. That means that they're not executing in
an offense. I don't know, Coach Lou is not getting through, but
it just it just it just seems they're way off and it's just sad.
Just what you said. Fifteen games left, I mean, they could go
all the way to what the fifth seed, sixth seed, I mean from
being a one seed, Adam, when was that game but a month ago?
Through a one seed into this, I mean, this is it all
happened after the Grammy road trip paper, they're eight and ten. Since then,
after going six and one on that road trip, getting way up,
riding all those emotions of playing great basketball, and it's just fallen apart.
It was like they thought that was the end of the year or something.
Let's peak on this Grammy road trip and then we can coast the rest of
the way. That's how it feels sometimes. They're inconsistencies from game to game
have become inconsistencies from quarter to quarter, from possession to possession. Bad habits
beget bad habits. It's just, I don't know any other way to put
it. They're compounding the fact that they're playing this bad basketball, this late
into the season, and it's all bad habits. I just saw a quote
from Kawhi Leonard. I appreciate the phone call Avier as always, my friend.
He said, it's between the ears with us. I mean, that's
as true of a statement as it gets. The talents there, Kawhi said,
guys are saying the right things, just time to do it. I
think this team has had an issue with being too comfortable being down, and
their greatest strength, that resilience when you're down by twenty, has turned to
a weakness because they just expect to be able to come back sometimes, so
they sleep walking the ball games, take the first quarter off, and just
expect that magic to always happen, because it has thirteen times more than any
other team. They've come back by twenty plus going back to twenty nineteen.
But that's not what championships do. They also put their throat on the opposition
they finished teams if they played as hard as they did against the Pelicans.
Tonight against the Atlanta Hawks, the Clippers likely win this game at twenty.
No disrespect to the Hawks, but that's what they're at on the season without
Trey Young right now. They used to have no business being up twenty nine
on the Clippers in a game here at Crypto. We'll take a quick quick
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Yeah, not enough move tonight by the Clippers offense. They lose hear at
home at Crypto dot Com Arena to the Atlanta Hawks one ten to ninety three
in a game they were down by twenty nine in They mounted uh somewhat of
a comeback late, but it would come up way short. It was far
too late for that to happen. They started to play harder to Kawhi Learn's
point post game, saying, it's between the years. You could see it
out there. All of a sudden, the Clippers had the right demeanor,
need that to start game. But at what point do you say, this
is who they are with fifteen games left. At what point do you say,
how do you build good habits with just fifteen games left? How do
you build good habits get out of these bad ones? Just with a full
reversal after a season's worth of inconsistent play, granted two months of amazing basketball,
the best basketball we've seen in the regular season by a Clippers team,
can they get back to that? Maybe the talent is there. I do
think they can, but it's gonna take a mind shift, her mentality shift.
I don't coach Lou has been saying all the right things. I don't
know why the message is not being received by the Clippers currently. Let's hear
from what do we got? Who do we got? Who do we got?
Sean and Inglewood? Sean, what's up here on clipperstock? Well?
Some of the things I noticed about that game, and good to talk to
you, Adam. First quarter, the Hawks had about seven offensive rebounds,
and so they know what, They're the best team in the league at offensive
rebounds, which is the Clippers one of their biggest weaknesses. So I'm not
I wasn't that surprised. We talked about in the pregame. It's still bad,
Okay. So what I was trying to say, there were times when
the Clippers didn't even put a body on a guy. Yeah, and you're
going to get that from guys that are actually wings and not exactly really power
forwards, the Sinners, because their mentality would not always be, hey,
I need to put a body on a guy. And so John is a
problem. Let me finish, I get the agenda, let me finish let
me finish and I'll shut up. I did the teams against the big teams
this year. The Clippers are five and sixteen against all of the teams with
big lineups, the big playing two guys that could be sinners. Now,
give me, give me a couple of those teams. Give me a couple
of those three one and three against the Lakers, one and three against Minnesota.
Okay, one and one against the Celtics, on two against the Bucks,
the Celtics, one and three. Do you think the Celtics are that
big? You think the Celtics are that big? Two guys that are said
the side they have the side don't start with me. They don't start for
Horford together. Sometimes they do, but all no, they're one and three
against So you're saying. What you are saying, Sean, is they're bad
against the best team in the league, even though they beat Boston or of
those games they didn't have worzingis fair enough. But they were one and one
against Boston. I admitted that, but that for the most part. But
you're just naming good teams for the most part, right that play b on
one against Cleveland the same thing as a good team. Oh, we're too
small for them. That's what Tyler said. Okay, so seriously, at
some point, it's not working. It's just not working, this small ball
and that's what that's why they lost tonight. It had nothing to do with
the Clippers not running their offense whatsoever, Sean. Is because they didn't play
too big. I agree with everything you said. They were lack of days
ago. They weren't hitting the shots and seems like they didn't care all right,
or they just was kind of melding it in. I agreed. So
why don't we start with that stuff? Is what I'm saying. I think
that is where the turnaround starts. Not playing Mason Plumbley next to a Viza
Zubot so they clog up the plant paint and can't do anything offensively. I
tell you what, They's not a recipe for success, Sean, it's not.
They can't beat these teams. They cannot beat They should have had somebody
better than Plumbly. They didn't. They didn't engineer the team right, and
they can't beat these teams in the playoffs, no way. They're headed for
the first round knockout. They really are well because they're just not playing well.
Not necessarily because teams are just bigger than them, like they're just not
playing well. It seem like it seemed like when they went twenty six and
five, Sean over thirty one games, they could beat anybody. So I'm
not just gonna say it's a personnel issue or a strategy issue. I appreciate
the phone call. Mark and Hinson Beach never change Sean, Mark, what's
up? How's it going at them? I agree with everything you said,
and on Sean's thing, the one thing you kind of forgot is we haven't
been a full force year. And not to blame you know, injuries or
anything like that, but you know, one of the downfalls of this game,
and I agree with you it was one of the worst, if not
z words is you're when you don't score for ten minutes from the third into
the fourth, you're not gonna win too many games unless you've got a fifty
point lead to begin with. But you know, not having Westbrook out there,
not having Norman Poll I think was one of the key factors tonight.
And no one stepped up. Bones Island didn't, the other guys Coffee didn't
have a good night. You need someone to step up when one of your
good bench guys, I mean our bench scored what eight points? Again,
you're not gonna win the game with a combination of everything. And like you
said, Leonard and Paul George can't do it all, especially with you know,
this is one of the times where the coach can coach, but you
can't make the basketballs going to the hoop. The players have got to,
you know, learn it. I don't know, maybe we need to go
back to our spring training here or summer camp, and maybe he should have
shoot arounds for a little bit longer, maybe even do the some more wind
sprints. But of course the players might say, ah, but you know,
something's got to be done to get that mindset. Like Leonard said,
it's in between the years. But you know, right now, I couldn't
figure out what was wrong other than the statistics, but why it was happening.
There's not any poison in the locker room that I'm aware of or heard
about. So what is it? Do you got any ideas? And one
last question, yeah, I said Westbrook doing that? You know, how's
Westbrook doing on the recovery? They haven't mentioned too much as I've been able
to see anywhere as far as the surgery went, and how is even working
out? You know that sort of thing. Yeah, I don't know.
Mark saw him on the bench. Still has the cast on the left hand.
If I have an update, I'll give it to you. If you're
not running and I appreciate the phone call your sets fast enough. If you're
not getting into your offense. The Clippers don't get good shots. All the
numbers say it. They don't run crisp, sharp sets. They're not a
good offense. They don't have James Harden going to the basket on to finding
open shooters. They're not a good offense. They get aviatcha Zubats one shot,
not a good offense. Too much ISO, not enough passing, not
enough mismatch hunting, and just not playing hard enough. That's what it comes
down to. You can't execute your offense if you don't go hard. That's
how you get the defense off balance. And they weren't Bobby leaving the game,
Bobby, what's up here on Clippers? Sooft for that, I'm awesome.
I think I think you're you're spot on. I mean, they're not
playing hard enough. But I think it's also I think Tay, I think
He's kind of experimenting, is what I feel. I mean, I just
what was he doing to experiment tonight? Tell me? Well, I think
because from the beginning of the season every no, no, no, no,
no, no, what was he doing to experiment tonight? Tell me
he can't. He kept PJ in way too long. He kept PJ.
Wait, how is PJ the problem tonight? How? No, no,
he's not. He wasn't the problem. But what if I told you he
finished with a plus minus a plus three and was the only player to finish
with a positive plus minus. I mean, honestly, it is surprising,
But it is kind of surprising when he's freezes and he just doesn't he doesn't
doesn't go up to throw, or when Bones, who is a real quick
player, just keeps slipping dribbles up and just loses the ball because you thinks
you can get tighter than he really can. So how is that on coach
lou tinkering? Experimenting? Is he's just tinkering because Bones is playing for for
Westbrook right now, which is that's thought. We do so out of necessity,
right, had a necessity, right, so we don't have an option.
So how is coach Lou tinkering if we're also saying we don't have an
option. He's playing the guys that are available. Bones is one of them.
He just had a great game against Chicago and now a really bad game
tonight. Absolutely, I'm it's just trying to get that same jelling mentality that
happened at the beginning of the season, but with different caliber players we're not.
When everyone's healthy, I think it's going to be fine. But the
guys just they're just not jelly and when they get Harden was out the last
two games, Big Zoo has been out times. Norm Powell was out tonight.
That's not coach Lou tinkering. That's just bad circumstances and not having all
your guys. It's tinkering with what we have to try and get what we
had, tinkering with what we have. He has to play Bones. How
is that tinker Yeah, but Bones isn't Westbrook. He has to play him
right now he doesn't have Westbrook, So how is that considered tinkering? Trying
to get Bobby? Bobby, you're killing me, man, You're killing me
trying to get him be what trying to get him be? What did you
see what Bowles did against Chicago. So it's on coach lu So does coach
Luke get credit for how good he was against Chicago. I'm not saying it's
on coach lou I'm not I'm giving should we rewind? You started with saying
it's too much takery? It is too it is too much secret. I'm
not saying this coach. I'm just trying to see. I'm trying to say
he's trying to find the best alternative with what we have. We don't have
it, right, Okay, that's fair, Bobby, that's fair. All
right, A meeting, a meeting of the minds. I appreciate the phone
call, Bobby. I like you, my friend call in on Wednesday.
All right, yeah, I will do We'll do. Sounds good, all
right, Steven Lahabra, you're on Clippers talk, not just with out of
Maza. Now we got Carlo Jimenez on post game. He's back in.
Coxy goes long without scoring, I mean, set a play, I mean
throwing petros a kid or something. I mean, there's no way that you
can go that long without scoring. It's like a bunch of fourth graders out
there who can't shoot. Eventually, one of them is going to make it.
Apparently it's harder than it looks. No, believe, it's not that
as hard as it looks. I played it. Then they wouldn't have had
a problem going eight minutes without a field goal. I guess if it's not.
They're professionals, you know, Like even Doc Rivers said, Wow,
the Coopers couldn't score tonight. I mean, God, call the time out,
set up a play, do something, drive to the basket. It's
Embarrasscene that they can't actually score. I mean when they lost to the Lakers,
they were down. I mean they were up by fifty to the Lakers,
and then they lost that game. I mean, what's the coach doing
out there all the time out? Let a set play? Drive to the
basket. Steve, I'm going to say, you went about one for four
on points tonight, so you had a Clipper shooting night because you did say
drive to the basket, which I agree with, and they didn't do enough
of that. But some of your points, call time out, run a
set play they did, Steve, they didn't execute. They didn't do a
good enough job with that stuff. They tried. They weren't good enough.
No wonder he's got the fire. Don't wonder Lebron wanted him out of there.
Jesus, Now, what the hell are you talking about, Steve?
What do you do? You know who's coaching the team, and do you
know what that Lebron wanted to coach Lou with him on the Lakers, Like
you're just talking, Don says. But it's an impressive rant in some ways
because of how little information actually was a factual in this case. So,
Steve, I appreciate the phone call. Carlo tag you want to respond to
that one? Your your childish gambino right now walking into the room that's on
fire. Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I don't know what's
respond to that one. It's tough out here. The only response is next
well said uh, Marvin in downtown Los Angele's Marvin, you're on Clippers?
Stop with that on Moslyn and Carlo Jamenez post game after they lose one ten
to ninety three here at home to the Hawks. Hey, Adam, yes,
I was at the Clipper game, and unfortunately the Clippers they look pluggish
and complacent or has to contray Young wasn't in the game or something. But
nonetheless, you're absolutely one hundred percent right. They lacked effort and and that
have nothing to do with being old. I was. I was at the
Clipper game when they played the Lakers, and the Clippers were up by almost
thirty points, and then Lebron James and the fourth for rally the truth and
they beat us. So it has it has to be effort, execution,
and consistency. Thank you, Adam. All right, Marvin, appreciate the
phone call. That was a nice palate cleanser. I get effort, execution,
consistency, all things Coach Lou has been looking for from this team for
a long time. He's said the right things, Carlow. It just seems
like right now the team, for whatever reason, the message isn't being received.
They're not consistently doing those things. Yeah, and that's the weird part.
It's we've heard this. We didn't execute, we didn't play with enough
effort, weren't consistent enough. We've heard that for a months now, We
real that for months from this from this Clipper coaching staff, from TYLERU.
So how do you get the message to your guys to then move to be
executed on the floor. I don't know, but I'm interested to see what
Tylu comes up with. I know the guy Tyler is. He will probably
not sleep tonight and watch the game six times to try to figure out what
he's going to do next, because that's that's what he does. That's how
dedicated he is. But yeah, I am very interested to see what the
changes because clearly Adam the messaging, while correct, is not being received.
And then execute it right, and they have the guys to execute it.
They have the level of talent where you should never be down by twenty nine
at home to a Hawks team without Trey Young. Honestly, that's just with
Treyng. With Treyon. I mean, was it either way with Treyng,
with the Jontay Murray. I don't care if they still had Al Horford,
if they still had Kyle korver Jef Tigue on the team, if Dominique Wilkins
was out here playing tonight. It's just it was just a brutal loss.
We'll take a quick time out, We'll come back. Clippers are down by
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We got your radio voice of the Clippers in the house still, Carlo
Jmenez. Carlo, choose your own adventure. Were gonna take a few more
calls here. I'd love to all right, man, you too like to
live dangerously? Oh yeah, you know what, Tags, Tags and Walnut,
There's gonna be a reasonable phone call tonight here. Tags is an analytical
type of guy. Tajus, what's up? Hit me? I appreciate it.
Uh and Loo's up? Carlo? You and Adam make a great one
to punch. Now, Who's then, James Scotty. I'll let you guys
decide. I'm not even Scottie. I'm like no, no, We're like
I'm Jed Bush. We're like Shack and Penny. You know. Oh,
I'll take pre microfracts or Penny. If you want to be Shack, I'll
be shocked. Oh that sounds like you want a penny. I like the
guy who mentions four pounds is shack. Sorry, let's get let's get back
to it. Hey, just what's up? All right? Okay? You
know I agree with what you said, Adam, and you know the way
and I've been saying this, well in this slump uh that they get they
get into their sets too slow. And we signed again today, like they
start the fourth quarters. It was so slow. They didn't get into some
of their sets like it was. It was unbelievable, my wrong, Carlo,
Like there were times you talked about post game, but they weren't even
getting to their second action. Ever at times tonight you have many fast break
points. At a halftime four two two? Did they double it in the
second half? You got the box score Clippers ended up with eleven continue Taj
just sorry. They almost need there like that dann Toni Phoenix offense shoot within
eight seconds or less, but here it should be like within five seconds acrossing
half court. You gotta get into your into your action within five seconds and
maybe that will create a little faster paced They gotta like maybe hit that five
second mark. Like okay, we crossed at eighteen, but then thirteen fourteen
or fifteen seconds guy to get into it. And if they have that type
of mindsett maybe they'll get into a faster pace. I don't know what it
is. And the second thing Adam was, I think that's the time we
called you. I said, you know, when QUI post up, we're
not getting great shots. And today in the third quarter, he posted up
and the first pass went to once he got double team, wants hard and
he was ten feet behind the three point line. Like I was saying,
I feel like they're missing that triangle, that third guy on the strong side
of the basketball, and they changing their offense with fifteen games left pages.
I'm sorry, but I know they just need to run what they know.
Yeah, no, I agree, It's just it's just disappointing when when he's
double team and he's having to work so hard to make that find that open
look an open pass. But I agree with everybody who said, Adhaim,
we just got get into a faster pace. Play with effort. If we
play like you know, the effort that PJ. Tucker played with, I
think we would have had a chance to win. Hey, Carlos Plat,
PJ. Tucker. There was one guy who went flying into the stanchion today
and that was PJ. Tucker, and that was the loudest this building got
hey all night. Also the only player with a positive plus plus minus night.
PJ was a plus three out there. Come on, Dave, just
thank you for the phone call. But we still got one more break here
and a couple more calls to get to Josh in Sherman Oaks. Josh,
what's up here on clipperstock? Carlo Amenez, your radio voice the Clippers is
on. Hi, This got back from the game. Gotta say it was
one of the worst efforts I saw in my thirty years of being a fan.
But you know, you have to take some positives away. It looked
like Kawhi may have got injured, but he got up and you know kept
playing. That's a big positive. Xavier spark plug off the bench in the
last two minutes. You got to be happy about that. I mean,
and yeah, PJ. Tucker have to applauded his energy and you know,
trying even then after everything down, I think come playoffs, we're going to
be hopefully get these last few you know, things worked out and then play
better, all right, Josh. Appreciate the phone call Mike in La Mike,
you're on Clippers soft of that a Maslin and Carlo Menace. Hey guys,
I'm just curious why we don't see a guy like Kobe Brown just get
another shot. I mean, you know, this team, the side they're
they're they're so small, and you know there is somebody there on the bench
who has size and I think could help out with some of the rebounding issues.
Also, you know, I mean, give Jordan Miller a shot.
See what you know Musa can do in these situations and just need some you
know, use to get us to the playoffs when you know the game slowed
down and no more back to Max et cetera, et cetera, and then
we can you know, get back to our you know, current guy.
So to speaker, Mike, appreciate the phone call. Carlo. You want
to touch upon that one. I mean, I understand maybe the feeling of
wanting to mix things up, but Kybe Brown is a rookie and while he
has had stretches where he's played well, often looks a little hesitant out there.
I wouldn't say he's found his footing as a rookie in the NBA,
So I don't know if that would be the move I would pick going forward.
We'll move to a break here, we'll come back. Will Updyke will
join the show. Clippers fall one, ten to ninety three at home to
the Atlanta Hawks that were down by as many as twenty nine. We're all
looking for answers together. That's a good thing, climination together. It takes
everyone wherever. Carlo and I are still together. Here post gave who here
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Audio Network. Times are hard. We got the Fuji's out. Clippers lose
one, ten to ninety three at home to the Atlanta Hawks when there's just
fifteen games left in the regular season. If you want that standings update,
I have it for you. The Clippers are now very tenuous spot, one
game up on the New Orleans Pelicans. Clippers in the four spot, Pelicans
in the five spot. Remember, Pelicans have the tiebreaker on the Clippers.
And it's probably safe to say a top three seed is not walking through that
door. At this point, Clippers are much closer to being the five seed
than being a top three seed. Very disappointing ball game. I met a
Moslin. We still have your radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jmenez here
post game. A few more calls, Greg and Harbor City. Greg,
you're on Clippers Talk with Adam and Carlo. Good evening, gentlemen. Is
it we all have fans, we all want our teams to win every game,
right, That's that's rabid fans. But you know, maybe they were
looking past these guys a little bit, being under five hundred team, and
you know it maybe just wasn't but years of them. Should that be happening
with fifteen games left in the season and considering what I just said about the
standings and how close they are to dropping out of having a home court in
the first round though, So who are you looking to Portland? No,
they're looking to the two days off, That's what I think. But what
I'm saying is, maybe, you know, it's just we're not the ones
suiting up and going to the trainer and having people injured. Maybe they just
maybe you're it's the dog days of the NBA right now, and they just
got to push through it. And uh, they're gonna be They're a great
team. They're a really good team. They get the people healthy, they're
gonna be okay. But this, you know, it's just we're not the
players really living it. We don't know what really went on in the team
between the years, or they're maybe they're beat up because the other and these
other guys want you to go down the bench. Maybe the maybe it's a
disadvantage. The talent level isn't as high to beat teams. So you just
got to ride with them. They'll get through it. I mean, it's
all critical right now. All these teams are playing. But you know,
I just ride with them, and I know they're going to be good.
And they just got to get in the playoffs, just like the other team
in the other town last year. Did you just got to get in And
then and with Kawhi and Paul George, they're gonna do some damage. And
I don't I have total faith in them, all right, Gregg, keep
the faith last half full type of guy. How could you tell I'm gonna
read a quote here from Paul George postgame, Carlo can't wait. He said,
we want to be a team that's consistent. We want to establish an
identity. Right now, I don't think we have an identity. That is
very alarming that over, when are we ad sixty plus games, almost seventy
games in, they still don't have an identity? Sixty eight games, sixty
seven How could that be? How could they have not crystallized an identity?
But I think he's being brutally honest. Obviously he's pulling back the curtain a
little bit. But it says something that they are this far into the season
and don't know exactly how they're gonna play every night. I mean, I
think they had an identity at one point during this year when they were twenty
one and six in that thirty one game, Stretcher, no that that math
does we work twenty forty five and scenario thank you, sorry, just numbers
that night. I just feel like the identity was we're gonna run pick and
roll with zoobotes when Kawhid double teams, we're gonna hit a three and we're
gonna destroy the paint on offensive rebounding. And that was the identity I mean,
they went up to Toronto to start that Grammy Roadchhrip had sixty points in
the paint. The next game they had seventy points in the paint against Boston.
They were unbelievable from outside the arc. They hit twenty one threes against
Atlanta. They got back on they didn't turn the ball over. The identity
was, you didn't turn the ball over. You hit threes and you ran
pick and roll with James and everything worked off of that. And tonight they
turned the ball over, they didn't hit threes, and James harden pick and
roll did not work to how it usually does. I just I think,
Adam, you got to find a way. I don't know what it is,
but you got to find a way to get the James pick and roll
back, because when it was working, everything else was working. Yeah,
everything fell into place. This team was on the best role they had been
in in the regular season in the two to three era, in the history
of the Clippers franchise ever. Ever, Ever, I'm with full agreement with
you that is the key that unlocks their offense. High pick and roll with
James Harden. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank
the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Ryan Seaman, Noah Eagle, Carlo Jmenez
him emphasis on him on the call tonight, the callers, the listeners,
big Brother, Jake Warner. They're powering through Maretho. He's seven point three,
twenty six point two, twenty. Katie helped. We got nothing with
a numbers, so we're screwed. Six. It was a lot, I'll
say that a lot. I'm looking at number twenty nine. The Clippers were
down by that many to Atlanta. They have to bounce back, and maybe
this is what it knights this team. A loss, this bad creates a
sense of urgency. Finally, with fifteen games left, we'll see. They'll
be in Portland Wednesday night. Might listen to last week's show. Sorry,
I just heard you say, Carlow with the snipe at the end, the
sniper. We'll be all right, go hang ahead. Play off Kawhi is
coming pre game Wednesday from Mooto Center in Portland. Starts at six Amanda Muslin
for Carlo Amennez the rest of the crew. We'll talk to you then.
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