WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.360 The game is over, Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame 2 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:08.919 reaction has just begun. Gohi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range. 3 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:13.880 This is Clippers locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead 4 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:18.839 on your hope for LA Clippers basketball at now your host, You, sir, 5 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:24.239 are a bad man, Adam Ousley. Clippers lose this time in Memphis 6 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:27.679 by a final score of one oh eight to ninety four. Welcome into your 7 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:31.239 post game show. Coming up your final box score. You'll hear from the 8 00:00:31.239 --> 00:00:34.439 head coach in the players as well. But first back out to FedEx form 9 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:38.840 with Noah Eagle. Noah, it felt like the end of that first quarter, 10 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:42.560 there was a huge momentum shift and that's where the game changed. How 11 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:45.079 did you see it playing and simple? This game was lost in the final 12 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:49.320 fifty four seconds of the first quarter. And it's why we talk about finishing 13 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:54.039 quarters strong. It's why we've talked about it, and we've been very up 14 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:57.759 front of how paramount that is, how imperative it is for the Clippers to 15 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:02.600 find a way through whatever end of quarter wos they've dealt with all season. 16 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:06.120 It's because of games like this. You look at this game and you say, 17 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:07.519 Okay, if the Clippers just continue to keep their foot on the gas 18 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.560 at the end of that first quarter, they're off twenty plus going into the 19 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:15.799 second. That's a lot different than being up thirteen going into the second. 20 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:19.760 And that's where this game completely turned. Memphis takes control in the second quarter. 21 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:23.159 They outscore the Clippers thirty four seventeen. They lead by four at half, 22 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:26.079 and then without Kawhi Leonard and Eric Gore and the rest of the way, 23 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:30.200 it's just the Clippers didn't have the firepower they were expecting to have and 24 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:33.159 the firepower that guided them in the first half. You know, Eric Gordon 25 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:34.920 was a plus seven, Kawhi Leonard was a plus twelve. Those were the 26 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:38.560 guys that were making an impact. They combined for twenty five points, and 27 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:42.480 neither of them played more than eighteen minutes in this game. Neither of them 28 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:45.560 even reached eighteen minutes in this game. So I just look at it and 29 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:49.120 I say, Okay, if the Clippers had finished that first quarter a lot 30 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:51.920 stronger than they did, what if? And I think that's what you're going 31 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:56.680 to look at this game and say, because it clearly could have gone very 32 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:00.879 differently even without those guys in the second half, if they just taken their 33 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:05.079 taking care of their business in the final fifty four seconds of the opening frame. 34 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:07.360 So tough one, tough one to swallow up. For sure, It's 35 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:12.240 not the end of the world because the Clippers aren't chasing the Grizzlies. There 36 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:15.520 was no real feel that they could catch them for that second seed or anything 37 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:19.479 like that. But it hurts in the sense that the Clippers are trying to 38 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:23.240 stockpile every possible win that they can and a win like this would have done 39 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.879 wonders just to help solidify them inside the playoffs and outside of the play in 40 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.680 tournament. That's a big deal. We know last year the Clippers were eighth 41 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:36.080 in the West and they didn't qualify for the playoffs because they didn't get through 42 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:38.439 the play in. You know, this is a Memphis team that knows all 43 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:40.199 about the play in just from two years ago. It allowed them to get 44 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:43.120 into the playoffs. So it can be a good thing, it can be 45 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:45.800 a really rough thing. But for the Clippers, they're trying to get into 46 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.159 that top six, not only secure a playoff berth, but also secure a 47 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:53.240 week off heading into the playoffs, which is necessary for this team as they 48 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:57.960 try to get guys like Paul George and now it looks like Eric Gordon healthy. 49 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:00.800 But I just look at this. It's okay. It's a tough loss, 50 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:05.479 no doubt, but Tomorrow's a huge game. Tomorrow's a game that if 51 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:07.439 you chose between the two coming into the day, obviously you want to have 52 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:10.360 both, but if you had to choose between the two, the New Orleans 53 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:14.680 game is the one that matters a little bit more because New Orleans is trying 54 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.479 to chase the Clippers. They're gaining steam on LA, a team that the 55 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:21.919 Clippers have already lost twice two this year. That's the game that, if 56 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:24.479 you could choose, the Clippers need to find a way to pull it out. 57 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:28.000 And so we'll see what they can come up with tomorrow. On the 58 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.520 second out of the back to back. We saw it with some of the 59 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:34.000 starters today didn't play the minutes that we would normally expect. Of course, 60 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.840 Kawhi Leonard only plays eighteen, but tomb twenty three, Westbrook twenty six, 61 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:40.400 Zubus twenty five, Terrence Man only played nineteen minutes in this game, Adam, 62 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:44.560 and they're gonna need him in all his glory tomorrow. Mason Plumley only 63 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:47.719 played thirteen minutes, Roco only played seventeen bones, Thailand played twenty. Those 64 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:51.400 guys are gonna be ready to go, and they're gonna be potentially more in 65 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:53.719 rhythm tomorrow. They've got to find a way to make an impact in the 66 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:58.039 big, easy, huge game. I'll play in to stay out of the 67 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:01.800 play in, or I'll play out that they can't find themselves in that play. 68 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:05.000 And once again, this Clippers team in tomorrow's game, it's gonna have 69 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:10.560 huge playoff ramifications. Tip time for that one in New Orleans is at five 70 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:15.280 thirties. We'll have Clippers count down your pregame show starting at four thirty. 71 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:17.920 Noah Eagle, we'll talk to you tomorrow. Great call is always my friend, 72 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:21.560 Adam. I gotta wait what twenty four not even twenty get away twenty 73 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:27.639 hours, twenty two hours for you. That's coming up next. We guys, 74 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:30.600 your final box score. Clippers losing Memphis one oh eight to ninety four, 75 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:36.199 and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network. Clippers lose one 76 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:41.439 oh eight to ninety four in Memphis to the Grizzlies. They split the two 77 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:45.959 game mini series. Welcome back in this is your postgame show. I'm atam 78 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:49.560 Moslin coming up on the Patriot AM eleven fifty and just a bit, we'll 79 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:54.240 have Clippers talk. Eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven 80 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:59.759 five two zero eleven fifty is the phone number. Clippers end up shooting under 81 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.120 forty percent from the field, at just thirty eight percent from the floor eleven 82 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:08.720 of thirty five from distance. That is thirty one percent from three after they 83 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:14.720 had shot fifty one percent from three over their last four ball games. They 84 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:18.240 did compete on the boards, lost the rebounding battle by just two, lost 85 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:23.360 the offensive rebounding battle by just one. But this was a game where the 86 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.639 Clippers were up by twenty in the first half. It was thirty four to 87 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:30.759 fourteen in the first quarter, and they let go of the momentum they were 88 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:34.639 carrying heading out of the first into the second quarter, where there was a 89 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:39.439 seven oh run in the final fifty four seconds I think it was to end 90 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:43.439 the first quarter by the Memphis Grizzlies. They would turn that into an eighteen 91 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.040 to two run. That was the difference of the ball game. Clippers got 92 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:53.399 down by four at the half and fifty five fifty one I believe, and 93 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:57.560 then no Kawhi Leonard to start the second half. No Eric Gordon to start 94 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:00.560 the second half. Clippers got blitzed in third quarter, lost it by ten. 95 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:04.120 They were even in the fourth quarter, but doesn't matter. They end 96 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:11.079 up losing one O eight to ninety four in Memphis to the Grizzlies. Coming 97 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:15.920 up big game tomorrow in New Orleans. Huge Ball Games standings Wise will update 98 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:20.399 you on that coming up next, as Memphis has beat the Clippers eight of 99 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:25.079 the last nine times, including that play in game last season, that would 100 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:31.120 keep the Clippers out of the playoffs. Huge ball game more Clippers post game 101 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:38.160 next right here on the Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network. Clippers lose one O 102 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:41.959 eight to ninety four in Memphis to the Grizzlies in a game where they led 103 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:46.839 by twenty in the first quarter. No Kawhi Leonard in the second half. 104 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:55.040 All reports say that he wants to play tomorrow, so playing on a back 105 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.360 to back, although he played just eighteen minutes and didn't play in the second 106 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:02.439 half of this one. Clippers down by four heading into that third quarter. 107 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:11.519 They would end up losing by sixteen. Clippers in New Orleans tomorrow. This 108 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:18.759 is a game with playoff and seeding implications. New Orleans right now is a 109 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:24.720 game and a half back of the Clippers. Clippers still currently in that five 110 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:30.319 spot. Golden State is playing the San Antonio Spurs. They're behind the Clippers 111 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:32.439 by half a game right now. The Clippers do have the tiebreaker over them 112 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:38.519 currently because of their division record, but if Golden States should go on to 113 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:44.000 win later tonight, they'll have an identical record to the Clippers. Clippers again 114 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:46.079 have that tiebreaker, but they don't have it against the New Orleans Pelicans, 115 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:49.560 who are a game and a half back. New Orleans is won six of 116 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:56.920 seven, including a win over the Clippers just about a week ago, and 117 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:03.240 they've won eight of the last nine contests as the Clippers. So monumental, 118 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:07.680 pivotal matchup tomorrow from New Orleans. They tip off at five thirty. We 119 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:11.439 have your pregame show right back here at four thirty outside of Los Angeles. 120 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:15.800 We are leaving you until then. Coming up on the Patriot AM eleven fifty, 121 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:18.560 we'll have Clippers Talk eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven 122 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:22.600 seven five two zero eleven fifty outside of LA. Talk to you tomorrow at 123 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:31.320 four thirty in LA. It's Clipper Stock. Next. Welcome into Clipper Stock. 124 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:35.759 Here's a new sheriff in town. You won't be able to deny it. 125 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:37.120 If you're going to go to the NBA Finals. I believe it in 126 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:41.720 my heart. This is the best team in the history of the franchise. 127 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:48.360 I am all about the Clipper Nations. This is Clippers Talk. They're trying 128 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:52.960 to win the whole thing. A postgame look, it's your LA Clippers recapping 129 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:56.399 the game, the stars and looking ahead to what's next. To hear episodes 130 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:01.279 you've missed. Subscribe to Clippers Talk on hard radio or wherever you podcast. 131 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:09.480 Now your host of Clippers Talk. Here's Adam Osler. Well, the three 132 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:15.120 point party was over this time in Memphis, as the Clippers shot just eleven 133 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:20.360 of thirty five from distance. They lose one oho eight to ninety four to 134 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:24.120 the Grizzlies in a ballgame they led by as many as twenty in early in 135 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:28.360 the first quarter. Welcome in to Clippers Talk. I'm at a Moslin to 136 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:33.519 eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven 137 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:35.480 fifty is the phone number if you'd like to get on. Coming up on 138 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:39.159 the show, we'll hear from the head coach and hopefully some of the players, 139 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:43.879 plus Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip will join us here. Tail a 140 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:48.519 two quarters, tail a two halves, however you want to slice it. 141 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:56.440 The Memphis Grizzlies started this game off looking like a mess in that first quarter. 142 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:01.799 I want to say they had seven turnovers in the first twelve minutes of 143 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:05.759 the ball game. Let me check that here, But it was the Clippers 144 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:11.960 who then gave up a seven old run to end the first quarter. After 145 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:16.360 yes, Memphis had eight turnovers, make it in the first quarter to just 146 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:20.919 three by the Clippers, But there were warning signs to end the quarter. 147 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:28.840 Were after leading thirty four to fourteen with I want to say, just about 148 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:33.200 a minute left. It was thirty four to fourteen with a minute fourteen left 149 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:39.080 after Mason Plumley knocked down his second free throw, and then Memphis went on 150 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:43.840 a seven oh run to end the quarter. So the Clippers go from leading 151 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:48.720 by twenty to just thirteen, answering the second at a score of thirty four 152 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:54.360 to twenty one, and Memphis kept it rolling. I believe it turned into 153 00:10:54.399 --> 00:11:01.519 an eighteen to two run where the Clippers went a six minute stretch where they 154 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:07.679 scored just four points. The backups didn't look the way they did on Wednesday 155 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:11.519 night, to say the least. Russell Westbrook didn't look the same. We 156 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:13.879 didn't expect him to go five for five from the outside, but he finished 157 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:20.840 with just four points on two of eight shooting oh three from three, and 158 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:26.639 the momentum swung back in favor of the Memphis Grizzlies where they are raised a 159 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:33.320 twenty point deficit in the span of five on court minutes, and a lot 160 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:39.600 of that was then the Clippers turned the basketball over in the second quarter after 161 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:43.159 having just three. They would have seven turnovers in the second quarter after just 162 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:50.360 three in the first. Give him Memphis extra possessions. And when you can't 163 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:54.559 set your defense, well, they're gonna have problems on that end. And 164 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.679 when you can't set it, it usually means you're not scoring. And that's 165 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:01.120 what the Clippers weren't able to do early on in the second where they ended 166 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:05.840 up getting out scored thirty four to seventeen in those twelve minutes before the half, 167 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:13.559 they found themselves down for at the half it was fifty five to fifty 168 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:20.440 one, and then to start the third quarter, there was no Kawhi Leonard. 169 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:26.960 There was no Eric Gordon. Sounds like Kawhi after playing eighteen minutes in 170 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:31.879 the first half, well, he wants to play tomorrow, and so they're 171 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:35.600 saving him for the second game of this back to back to hopefully play his 172 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:41.480 usual minutes around thirty six. But none of us were aware of what was 173 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:46.399 going on. Obviously, the Clippers started Terrence Man and Norman Powell. I 174 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:52.120 believe it was it was Russ Norm Terrence, Nicholas Batoum and Visa Zubots to 175 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:56.360 start that third quarter. Haven't got word on Eric Gordon if he was also 176 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:00.600 being little managed because they're on a back to back, and if he'll be 177 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:05.039 playing tomorrow in that game against the New Orleans Pelicans, or if he suffered 178 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:09.000 an injury. Looking for information there, but that definitely seems to be the 179 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:15.399 case with Kawhi Leonard. The last time he played a back to back was 180 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:20.080 April eighth and ninth of twenty twenty one. Obviously, coming off the ACL 181 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:24.639 this season, they were going to take it slow. It's been a process. 182 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.320 His goal was always to get back to playing back to backs. There's 183 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:33.320 one more at the very end of the season against Portland and then against Phoenix. 184 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:39.720 This is the second to last back to back, and tomorrow is a 185 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:43.480 huge ball game against the Pelicans, who have had the Clippers number to say 186 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:48.159 the least. They beat them eight of the last nine times. They just 187 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:52.080 beat him a week ago last Saturday in downtown Los Angeles. They beat them 188 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:56.559 to keep them out of the playoffs last year. And they are currently a 189 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:58.960 game and a half back of the Clippers, and they have the tiebreaker. 190 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.679 Clippers right now on the five spot in the West with four games to go, 191 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:09.480 they're a half game up on Golden State as they're currently taking on the 192 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:15.879 San Antonio Spurs. They're in the sixth seed. Clippers do have the tiebreaker 193 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:20.759 over them. The only two teams within striking distance that they have the tiebreaker 194 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:26.279 over currently in Golden State because of division record and the Lakers because they won 195 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:33.240 the first three games of that divisional series and have one more to go next 196 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:37.120 Wednesday at Crypto dot Com Arena. Where else would it be. But that's 197 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:41.039 going to be a big game tomorrow though it starts there. Clippers have to 198 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:45.240 find a way to slay the dragon, to beat a team that has been 199 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:48.480 able to get the best of them time and time again in the New Orleans 200 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:54.720 Pelicans and Brandon Ingram, who just had an outstanding performance last night in Denver. 201 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:01.919 He's been on one. Hopefully Leonard will be on him. Last time 202 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:07.279 out. It was Marcus Morris starting against him last Saturday. Obviously, Muke 203 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:11.960 he's out in health and safety protocols right now and is out of the starting 204 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:16.039 lineup as Nicholas Batoum is the starter now at the four. Didn't have a 205 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:24.480 great game oh three from the outside, and after going sixteen of twenty two 206 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:31.720 and three games the last two games, he's really struggled, just one for 207 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:35.759 eight from three after that. Heater or of shooting over seventy percent over a 208 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:41.759 three game stretch sixteen of twenty two from distance, but he only hit one 209 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.080 last time out, when the Clippers shot sixty percent from three Wednesday night against 210 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:50.720 this Memphis Grizzlies team without Kawhi Leonard the entire way, they had unbelievable shooting 211 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:58.720 performances from Russell Westbrook on five to five from Robert Covington going seven for seven. 212 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:03.960 Those two combined to go oh of four from three tonight. I knew 213 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.879 there'd be a regression to the mean I told you coming into this one in 214 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:08.960 the pregame show. You can't expect that to happen again. They have to 215 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:14.720 find other ways to win. In early on up twenty, it looked like 216 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:18.759 they were the scrappier team, getting to loose balls, taking care of the 217 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:23.759 basketball, getting boards of Visa Zubots had nine and four. I want to 218 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:30.159 say in the first quarter it was dominant. He finished fifteen and fifteen. 219 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.080 Good game for him, my player to watch. Had five offensive rebounds, 220 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:37.480 but didn't get much help. And the Clippers were missing open shots, missing 221 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:42.279 some good looks shots at the rim. And when two of your best replayers 222 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:47.480 in the first half don't play in the second half, I'm talking about Kawhi 223 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:51.480 and Eric Gordon. Kawhi finished four of nine with twelve points. Eric Gordon 224 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:53.399 finished with thirteen points on five of ten shooting, hit a couple of deep 225 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:56.960 three pointers in the first half. They don't go in the second half. 226 00:16:56.600 --> 00:16:59.919 I don't know if that was a culture shock for the rest of the guys, 227 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.919 because they came out really flat to start the third, got down double 228 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:08.119 digits quickly, easy for me to say, battled back. But then heading 229 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:14.720 into the fourth, he could tell the momentum was all in favor of the 230 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:18.839 Memphis Grizzlies by that point, and even though some of the backups gave it 231 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.279 a ride at the end, gave a great effort when it looked like the 232 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.279 game was over Clippers at one point, we're down twenty two. That's a 233 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:30.000 forty two point turnaround after being up twenty to then being down twenty two. 234 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:38.920 Some of the backups, like Musa Diabate, moon Mere Coffee, they played 235 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:45.240 well. Rocco I think was still out there, but they couldn't get it 236 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:48.519 quite to within striking distance. But send a little bit of fear into the 237 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:51.680 Memphis Grizzlies. They put some of their starters back in, including job Morand, 238 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:55.960 who didn't have a good ball game again four of eleven, ten points. 239 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:59.599 I know he had thirty plus against the Clippers on Wednesday, but he 240 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:03.039 had eight turnovers. The guys who killed the Clippers though, Desmond Baine, 241 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:07.079 who didn't play on Wednesday, he had twenty two. Jaren Jackson Junior, 242 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:11.119 he didn't have a great game nine and eight off the bench, though a 243 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:18.279 former Clipper in Lukenard seventeen points, five made three pointers. Four of those 244 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:23.839 came when Memphis was making their run end of the first into the second quarter, 245 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:29.920 so he did some really good things for them, and the Clippers end 246 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.960 up letting go of the rope, give up a twenty point lead, and 247 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:38.559 then don't have Kawhi Leonard and Eric Gordon to start the second half, and 248 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:42.960 they end up losing by sixteen in Memphis. They get the split. They 249 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:45.599 had to get one of them. They did. They got the one Wednesday 250 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:52.240 night in a valiant effort without Kawhi, without Paul George Norman poet was his 251 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:56.039 first game back. In that one, he ended up finishing with sixteen. 252 00:18:56.519 --> 00:19:00.440 Looked better, didn't have a turnover after having four Wednesday, six of eleven, 253 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:04.039 shooting two of two from three. Struggled. They'll still miss them easy 254 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:11.400 ones that he normally makes. Clippers just didn't have enough and they're gonna have 255 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:15.240 to figure it out tomorrow against the Pelicans are waiting for him. They're not 256 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:21.440 on our back to back. The Clippers are at the rest disadvantage as a 257 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:23.960 team. They just haven't been able to figure out and crack the code of 258 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:30.559 but I'm hoping with Kawhi Leonard maybe extra motivated after they lose this one, 259 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:34.799 and he only plays the first half. And look, it typically comes down 260 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:38.799 to the medical staff making these calls on how much a player can play, 261 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:44.640 and this was unusual, no doubt, to play in the first half and 262 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:45.799 then shut them down on the second half. I don't know if I've ever 263 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:52.960 seen that before, but I guess better to have him some than not at 264 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:56.640 all. That was probably the logic there, and he did help them get 265 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:03.119 up by twenty backup though got blitzed and they went with some four guard lineups, 266 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:10.559 two different ones in the second quarter. That we're minus thirteen four guards 267 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:15.920 out there with Mason Plumley and they just got annihilated by the Memphis Grizzlies. 268 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:21.440 So Clippers got work to do, no doubt. But I's know what Eagle 269 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:27.880 likes to say best far about the NBA, You lose one typically have at 270 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:32.240 most a day or two to respond. Clippers don't even have that. They 271 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:36.480 have a chance for redemption though tomorrow it's coming that soon, less than twenty 272 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:41.240 four hours away. Now let's start things off with Javier and Lahabra Heights. 273 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:45.079 Javier, you're on Clippers talk here on the Patriot am eleven fifty without of 274 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:48.440 Moslin. What's up Javier? What's up at him? Sorry if loose reception, 275 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:52.640 I'm here walking here in lab Heights, So on my loser reception by 276 00:20:52.960 --> 00:21:03.400 breeze real quick, stay still, real quick. I'm puzzled. I I 277 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:07.920 don't understand how you play Kauai. I mean, what did the Clippers think 278 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:11.079 that they're gonna be up by fifty? Said, hey, Kawhi play We'll 279 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:14.880 be up by fifty a half and then we're good and we'll get you from 280 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:18.559 next game. I mean they should just not play them Adam at all, 281 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:22.720 just not playing him and game ready for tomorrow. I mean the game tomorrow. 282 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:26.480 That's the most important game of the whole season. Like you said, 283 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:29.640 he should have just rested him and said, you know what, which is 284 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:32.319 gonna stand for the next game and that's it. But no, they play 285 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:34.240 him, Like what do I mean? What do you think? I mean, 286 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:37.599 Oh, we're gonna be up by fifty and we'll set him in the 287 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:40.400 half and we'll win the game. Well, to be fair, they were 288 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:44.720 up by twenty in the first quarter. With him, they were up by 289 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:52.880 twenty. I just he was a plus twelve in his eighteen minutes, so 290 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:59.519 he obviously helped. Yeah, he helped. Look, I understand the logic 291 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:03.160 though, ho year of you know what message doesn't say so the rest of 292 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:06.880 the guys. Now, we got to finish the game without him, and 293 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:10.440 I don't know, I'm still looking. We got coached post game, all 294 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:11.759 y'all coming up. I know he was asked about it. We'll see. 295 00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:15.960 You know how much of this was according to plan or they were just kind 296 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:21.079 of going off a feel. I don't know, but hey, they did 297 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:23.240 get up by twenty, and Kauai wasn't the reason they started to give up 298 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:29.480 that lead. The backups came in. They didn't have it tonight. Yeah, 299 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:32.400 but like you said earlier, it's it's it's it's a mental You go 300 00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:34.720 in the second half like, where's Kawhi. Oh he's not playing. It's 301 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:40.000 just it's just a whole different approach for the players. But well, it's 302 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:47.000 not like we haven't seen starters get pulled to start a second half or early 303 00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:51.319 in a third quarter before by coach Low when they just weren't playing well, 304 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:56.559 we have seen that before. Yeah, we have, we have. I 305 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:59.759 just another thing too, Adam, I've noticed we're up. You said twenty, 306 00:23:00.119 --> 00:23:04.119 right up by twenty and then minute. This coaching staff they take some 307 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:08.160 adjustments in the second quarter. Boom, you've go on to run. I 308 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:12.039 don't think it was so much making adjustment, Adam. He didn't make no 309 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:15.880 adjustments whatsoever. He had a four man rotases, he had four guards. 310 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:22.480 Yeah, I'm from I mean you could have had. The problem is how 311 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:27.920 quickly they got ambush there. Those four guard lineups were minus thirteen and three 312 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:33.519 minutes. They pretty much had no time to adjust back. It was over, 313 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:38.599 the damage was done. Yeah, it was a rough, rough stretch. 314 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:44.200 They gave up that lead far too quickly. Yeah, lasting, Adam, 315 00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:48.119 Tomorrow's game that this is honestly, like you said, this is a 316 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:52.880 must game. Little win tomorrow. Oh my god, take out a win 317 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:53.799 tomorrow. That's all I gotta say, Adam, thank you for taking them 318 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:56.759 they do. I'm with you, Abier. I appreciate the phone call. 319 00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:00.759 Eight seven seven, five, two zero even fifty will take a quick time 320 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:04.200 out here. Clippers give up a twenty point lead in the first quarter. 321 00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:08.200 They lose one O eight to ninety four in Memphis to the Grizzlies. They're 322 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:14.400 in New Orleans tomorrow against the Pelicans, who have the tiebreaker over them. 323 00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:18.720 Clippers game and a half up on them, but they have not been able 324 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:26.119 to figure this team out for years. We don't believe it's Ian Williamson's playing, 325 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:32.279 he's been out, but Brandon Ingram has been on a tear and they 326 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:37.039 just beat the Clippers. Our crypto a week ago. More Clippers stock next 327 00:24:37.079 --> 00:24:42.519 here on the Patriot EM eleven fifty brand new sports I always is a guitar, 328 00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:49.559 or is a sports car and my MASERRADI sports car got noms. Been 329 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:59.960 through all that kill Look back, Clippers lose in Memphis? Is that why 330 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:07.119 we got Billy ray On one oho eight to ninety four to the grizz And 331 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:11.839 after being up twenty at thirty four to fourteen in the first quarter, they 332 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:15.720 were outscored ninety four to sixty the rest of the way. After they started 333 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:19.640 the game four of eight from deep, they went seven for their next twenty 334 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:25.359 seven from distance, and that was all after they took that twenty point lead. 335 00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:30.160 Welcome back in This is Clippers talk here on the Patriot am eleven fifty. 336 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:34.400 Look, I see the logic both ways when it comes to not playing 337 00:25:34.440 --> 00:25:38.440 Kawhi Leonard in the second half of this one. On one hand, you 338 00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:44.720 say, we take as much Kawhi as we can get. Any Kauai is 339 00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:52.279 better than none out there. But then the argument is, well, how 340 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:55.880 the rest of the team going to adjust to that when they know Kawai was 341 00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:57.480 playing that well and they had a twenty point lead, and all of a 342 00:25:57.480 --> 00:26:00.799 sudden they're down by four going into the second half, and now they're not 343 00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:07.200 going to have them because they did look flat. On the other hand, 344 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:11.440 how much responsibility is on them the rest of the guys if that was the 345 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:14.720 plan going in and we'll hear from coach lou in just a little bit, 346 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:18.720 you gotta be prepared for it. But I get it, Clipper Nation, 347 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:23.400 you're frustrated after this one. People are calling it mid game load management. 348 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:30.599 Kawhi Leonard though expected to go tomorrow against the Pelicans. That's the most important 349 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:36.119 thing. Let's go to Arthur and la Arthur. What's up here on Clipper 350 00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:42.599 stock without I'm Awston not too much at him. I wouldn't I didn't have 351 00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:47.319 good vibes coming into this game. Based on what I heard from Coach Lou 352 00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:52.119 and the pre games who still pass along annoy Eagle, you could tell them 353 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:56.279 that Tie is not quite a You're not quite a young man anymore. He's 354 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.519 a few years younger than me. I'm I'm almost fifty years old, and 355 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:04.759 I've been a Clipper fan since they weren't San Diego when they had twin later. 356 00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:10.279 And I have high blood pressure and high cholesterol that comes with age. 357 00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:12.880 I don't. I don't have the same body I had in my twenties. 358 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:18.519 You could and with Tyler about the civil rights well he could. He should 359 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:22.119 have learned about that when he was in college, and he was in college 360 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:26.279 and Nebraska in the late nineties after when I was. It's not that he 361 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:30.279 didn't learn about it. I think he was talking about how he experienced and 362 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:33.160 how things were different. Just being there. It's a different experience. And 363 00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:38.160 in all the people who told me about it as a kid are now gone, 364 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:41.119 so we shouldn't know. In the first half of our lives, we 365 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:45.359 didn't have Google, we didn't have YouTube, we didn't have Wikipedia, and 366 00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:48.160 we didn't have that in the early in the mid eighties, so it's not 367 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:52.079 like we we grew up with silver with silver spoons in our mouth. As 368 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:56.400 far as technology and information goals, information wasn't like. I don't think the 369 00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:00.279 civil rights movement in any way was new to code flu It was just the 370 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:04.559 location they were at going through the tour, it hit a little bit different 371 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:11.839 being able to experience and stand in some of the places the iconstant Yeah, 372 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:15.599 both my parents would deceased and they lived through that. They were they were 373 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:21.720 adults back then, So yeah, doesn't can pass along about the noa eagle 374 00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:25.599 to kill coach lou But again again, first the game goes, No, 375 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:30.559 I didn't have good vibes about it anyway, And and what's the prognosis on 376 00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:34.680 Eric Gordon? Is he gonna play tomorrow? And idhood, I don't know 377 00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:37.640 what we're looking for an update on that, Arthur, but we're gonna hear 378 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:41.960 from coach lew And just a little bit now, you said you didn't have 379 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:45.480 good vibes going into the game, what about when the Clippers were up twenty 380 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:48.119 in the first quarter, But no, I knew they were gonna lose and 381 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.400 lose that league because they on the road to That's another thing that you don't 382 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:56.359 know. I've been probably mentioned they when you on the road, you have 383 00:28:56.440 --> 00:29:02.319 to you know that, he say, run through to tap even as it 384 00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:07.079 is the first quarter. Well, Arthur, I appreciate the phone call. 385 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:10.359 Look I mentioned it on Twitter. I said when the Clippers are up twenty, 386 00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:14.079 I said it, Grizzlies are gonna make a run. The Clippers have 387 00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:18.640 to continue to play this level of defense. Though shots come and go. 388 00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:22.279 Your defensive effort has to be solid, has to be consistent, and you 389 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.160 got to stay locked in on that end because coming out the defensive mindset was 390 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:32.519 there. They look great. Let's say they had five steals on the first 391 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:36.640 quarter. That can't be right though, because they only ended up with five. 392 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:42.519 This was a game though they had a command of But at twenty point 393 00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:48.880 lead in the NBA doesn't mean what it used to. If anybody knows that, 394 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:53.799 it's Clippers fans because of how many comebacks they have had over the years. 395 00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:57.319 Now down by twenty, let's hear from coach lu though post game. 396 00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:00.559 But before we get to that, let's pause ten seconds. First station identification 397 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:07.279 here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. This this LA Clippers basketball AM eleven 398 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:15.200 fifty KiB Los Angeles, an iHeart radio station. Clippers were up by twenty. 399 00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.240 They end up losing one O eight to ninety four in Memphis to the 400 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:21.759 Grizzlies. And here was coach was speaking with the reporters post gap. I 401 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:25.799 thought, our turnovers, you know, in that second quarter, and then 402 00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:29.480 you know, also you know, not being able to get stops defensively, 403 00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:32.880 like they were able to score easy and will and a lot of them op 404 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:36.680 our mistakes just turned the basketball over, inbound the ball, rebound the ball 405 00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:38.720 turning over, They getting lay ups and dunks, and so we didn't do 406 00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:42.039 a good job with that and handling that, and so they was able to 407 00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:45.400 get back in the game. But you know, we still had a great 408 00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:48.359 opportunity, Like we was only down for at halftime, and they're a good 409 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.720 team and a number two team in the West for no reason, and so 410 00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:53.480 we had to keep up compulsion, continue to keep playing. And so we 411 00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:56.640 do. It's gonna make a run. We know it's gonna be that fast. 412 00:30:56.920 --> 00:30:59.000 But you know, we put ourselves in a good position. We just 413 00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:00.400 didn't do a good job just finishing the game, you know, taking care 414 00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:03.599 of the basketball, taking good shots and then getting stops on our other end 415 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:07.880 in the second and third quarter. There was was it something they were doing 416 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:11.759 that you just wanted making shots you normally make. I gotta go back and 417 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.960 watch it. But I think I thought a few times over penetrated, didn't 418 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:18.960 make the right pass. I thought our turnovers really hurt us. And then 419 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:21.960 we didn't make some shots as well. So those three things together a bad 420 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.920 combination. When we got us for three three pointers night game, just losing 421 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:33.119 traffic game. I gotta go back and watch it, you know, but 422 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.039 I think some of us, I've seen a few of those game playing mistakes. 423 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:38.359 You know, we didn't do a good job staying attached. We didn't 424 00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:41.000 do a good job on the stack when he slipped out, we didn't communicate 425 00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:44.960 that he got an open three, and so you know, those things we 426 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:47.559 gotta clean up and get better with. And so you know, a lot 427 00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:48.759 of a lot of focuses, you know, own job, which I thought 428 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:52.160 we did a good job with him trying to slow him down, but then 429 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.799 everybody else got going, kind of had some big games. So you know, 430 00:31:56.160 --> 00:32:00.680 big game for us tomorrow. We gotta be ready to go three on. 431 00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:07.440 I don't often you been in a game, we'd be allowed twenty seven 432 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:09.480 percent of shooting up with three and then the moon. But I don't look 433 00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:15.200 pro digits. I don't know. I mean, was that all to you 434 00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:19.880 now? I mean, you know, the biggest thing for us, Like 435 00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:22.039 I said, we didn't score the ball like we're capable of doing, like 436 00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:23.799 we did in that first quarter, and that, you know, that hurt 437 00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:27.160 us. You know, this team's going on scoring one hundred and eight points 438 00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:29.960 at home. You could you could live with that, you know. So 439 00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:31.680 we didn't do a good job scoring the basketball. I thought we had a 440 00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:35.519 great first quarter, and then after that we got a little stag that then 441 00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:37.519 we turned the basketball over and then we didn't just continue to keep getting to 442 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:42.279 our next actions like we did in that first quarter. The team man russ 443 00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:49.440 it last thirteen about three minutes. Did you see what, folks, as 444 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:53.319 you see? I thought pace. I thought scoring on the floor, and 445 00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:58.079 that's you know, that's where we would looked at. And so we didn't 446 00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:00.359 do a good job of taking advantage of apple lots in with that unit, 447 00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:04.240 especially scoring on basketball, and then it was hard for us to get stops 448 00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:06.519 as well, and that's what allowed them to get back in the game. 449 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:12.119 Do you feel like the team should think like more Jared's than the middle there 450 00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:19.799 and really influence might gets to see like there was a lot of those extra 451 00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:24.200 passes that didn't details made many shots, a lot of tough of any quality 452 00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:27.839 shots. Yeah, I mean some shots we passed up, like you said, 453 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:30.920 And then we talked about their heavy nail teams. So the floor pass 454 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:32.680 is gonna be wild upen to drive it, and when Jared comes across the 455 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:35.880 help, we gotta be ready to make the right pass and right play. 456 00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:37.640 And uh, we know they sell out, you know, taking away that 457 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:40.759 corner pass on the excess and so the the the high quadrant is gonna be 458 00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:44.000 open. And we just didn't do a good job, like you said, 459 00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:46.000 of reading the game and reading the defense like we needed to, and like 460 00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:47.880 I said, when we attacked the paint, you know, we're a totally 461 00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:51.440 different team. But making the right play as well, which I don't think 462 00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:52.960 we did a good job all tonight. Oh well, what do you feel 463 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:57.799 like the second quarter? What you feel like all the team do all to 464 00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:00.920 execute all the defensive league. I thought we did a good job with job. 465 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:02.319 I thought we really did a good job with just trying to slow him 466 00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:05.920 down, and he's a hit of the snake, you know, And so 467 00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:08.960 I thought we did a good job with him with that band and Luke get 468 00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:14.079 Get going a little too easily. But you know, if I can take 469 00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:15.239 anything away from the game, I would say, you know, just doing 470 00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:17.440 a good job, one job, because he's killed us in the past. 471 00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:22.320 There was Coach Lupo's game Clippers losing Memphis, and he's right, you know, 472 00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:28.519 this game was lost by them not hitting shots and going through scoring droughts. 473 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:30.360 You hold Memphis to one oh eight, you should win that game. 474 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:35.519 But the Clippers only scored ninety four. They shot thirty eight percent from the 475 00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:44.039 field, thirty one percent from three, just attempted eighteen free throws. Memphis 476 00:34:44.280 --> 00:34:52.280 wasn't great scoring wise. It was what the Clippers weren't doing by just playing 477 00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:55.480 in mudd at times and not making the right basketball play. As coach lew 478 00:34:55.599 --> 00:35:00.719 was talking about there, and as far as the four man lineup, the 479 00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:05.719 rationale was having Bones, Norman and Russ in that lineup for pace and scoring. 480 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:10.360 Obviously, they were not successful in those three minutes that they had out 481 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:14.760 there in the second quarter, and they got blitzed because you know, defensively 482 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:19.840 they're gonna give up some points. The hope is though, that they're able 483 00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:23.400 to do damage and outscore the opposition on the other end, and they had 484 00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:29.320 a really bad stint. Clippers lose after being up by twenty one o eight 485 00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:32.760 to ninety four to the Grizzlies. Huge one coming up tomorrow in New Orleans 486 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:36.079 against the Pelicans, who were just a game and a half back of the 487 00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:39.039 Clippers and have the tiebreaker over them, and they have brandon ingram b I 488 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:45.199 coming up next. We'll get back to your phone calls eight seven seven five 489 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:49.519 two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty. Well, 490 00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:53.880 Charles Mockler on from Clips and Dip right here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. 491 00:35:53.920 --> 00:36:05.239 This is Clippers talk. That's time that my neck. It was us 492 00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:15.000 anniversary of his death. Clippers fall in Memphis one oh eight to ninety four 493 00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:19.440 to the Grizzlies in game two of this two game mini series. Clippers on 494 00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:22.199 the back to back, they'll beat in New Orleans, taken on the Pelicans 495 00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:25.400 tomorrow. Got an update for you on Eric Gordon, who coach lew was 496 00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:30.079 asked about post games, said he didn't know his status, but he left 497 00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:32.199 the game or didn't play in the second half because of right hip soreness. 498 00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:37.360 Kawhi didn't play because apparently a minute's restriction. And I just saw this from 499 00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:43.280 Andrew Greiffe of the LA Times. Norm Powell and Russell Westbrooks said they weren't 500 00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:47.920 aware Kawhi would play only the first half, so it wasn't something they could 501 00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:51.440 prepare for. Russ said, I don't know if anybody knew, but that 502 00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:53.199 was something that Kawhi and the medical staff figured out. But no, I 503 00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:58.920 didn't know. In the audio that we had post game from coach lew we 504 00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:05.079 didn't hear a question regarding Kauai, I believe regarding the situation with him just 505 00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:07.840 playing the first half eighteen minutes and not playing in the second half because he 506 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:12.559 wants to play on this back to back because the Clippers again are in New 507 00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:15.239 Orleans in a huge ball game tomorrow against the Pelicans. All right, let's 508 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:20.880 get to Chuck Mockler from Clips and Dipped does the podcast with myself and Will 509 00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:24.800 Updyke. Chuck, how did you feel about Kawhi playing the first half and 510 00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:28.679 not the second half? In this one. I know a lot of Clipper 511 00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:34.320 Nation is left scratching their heads about this move. I mean, as we 512 00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:37.440 all should be. This was more I mean, it was a very weird 513 00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:43.519 thing to happen in a very weird season for the Clippers, and it happened 514 00:37:43.559 --> 00:37:47.079 to happen in you know, there's five games left, so scratching their head. 515 00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:50.840 I really, I'm kind of speechless about it, to be honest. 516 00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:53.320 It was I mean, your quote set of all the guys that melis was 517 00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:57.760 going to happen. Tyler seemed a little frustrated in the postgame presser. I 518 00:37:57.840 --> 00:38:01.199 think a lot of us feel for that, because I don't know, it 519 00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:05.480 was kind of clear this wasn't the plan from the start, because why would 520 00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:08.199 you play the first half just so you could set out the second and play 521 00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:12.239 again tomorrow. It just doesn't It didn't really add up from the beginning, 522 00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:15.840 and I don't know if it ever will, but it's I think it's a 523 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:20.039 kind of microcosm of the season for the Clippers. Apparently, Tylu said he 524 00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:23.159 does expect Kawai to be able to play his full workload tomorrow, so I 525 00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:30.079 guess he was pressed on it. But yeah, it's it's tough to understand 526 00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:35.920 this one. Look, I think you'd say better to have Kawhi Leonard play 527 00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:38.320 some than not at all, because they were up twenty with him. He 528 00:38:38.519 --> 00:38:43.840 was a plus twelve out there. He wasn't the reason that they gave up 529 00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:45.559 that lead in the second quarter, and it wasn't like they were up twenty 530 00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:47.880 at the half. And then he doesn't play in the second half and they 531 00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:52.280 got ambush like that. He didn't play early on the second quarter, and 532 00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:58.800 that's where things swung back in favor of the Memphis Grizzlies. When did you 533 00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:02.199 see this game turn though? I mean it was a three guard lineup, 534 00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:06.440 but real quick, I know he was good in the first half, which 535 00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:09.480 is great, But the taking him out thing, it's just tough because it 536 00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:14.280 was so sudden. So I think that leads some Clippers fans minds to worry 537 00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:17.480 a little bit, which I think might be just fair, given again the 538 00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:21.880 oddity of just having him play the first half. But where I think everything 539 00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:24.760 kind of went wrong was a three guard lineup, which makes sense. I 540 00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:29.760 was trying to pivot from probably a game plan that he made a whole game 541 00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:34.159 for, So I think it was a three guard lineup. The turnovers were 542 00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:37.360 brutal as well. It was just the tone was nice for the first you 543 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:39.719 know, first quarter it was great. We had a good defensive intensity. 544 00:39:40.119 --> 00:39:44.559 But then it just slipped away. But to him, didn't have his best 545 00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:47.000 game. I don't know, man, it kind of fell apart in all 546 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:52.400 the usual ways. Yeah, the Clippers had just three turnovers in that first 547 00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:57.559 quarter. They end up with eighteen, so they had fifteen the rest of 548 00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:00.719 the way. They had five of those in the second I want to say 549 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:07.119 six more of them in the third quarter. Offensively, you know, they 550 00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:09.719 weren't good enough on that end, because Memphis still only scored one oh eight. 551 00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:14.480 It gets the Clippers offense that let them down. They're three points shooting. 552 00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:17.199 They've been so red hot. Okay, you expect some regression to the 553 00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:21.519 mean, but they started off this game well from the outside, and then 554 00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:25.840 things just crater for them and they end up shooting thirty seven thirty eight percent 555 00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:30.920 from the field. The ball movement didn't look the same, even though they 556 00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:34.679 did have twenty six assists. I don't know if coach Slew said there was 557 00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:37.800 a nasty flow to the ball game. We've heard that used to describe the 558 00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:42.519 Clippers offense a few different times over the last week. But you know, 559 00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:45.880 it just didn't look like the same team, especially Russell Westbrook and Robert Covington 560 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:50.000 and Nook. They weren't going to go twelve or twelve from the outside. 561 00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:54.960 We knew that going in. They just had really poor offensive outings compared to 562 00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:59.719 what we saw Wednesday night. Though. Yeah, and it makes sense a 563 00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:04.079 little but though right we were going against a more fuller Memphis Chrisley squad. 564 00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:07.360 You know, you look at that first quarter. John Rant scored what not 565 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:12.559 very many points. He didn't really finish this one on anything, you know, 566 00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:15.079 super incredible stat line lines. But I mean, when you have this 567 00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:17.800 many jumpers and you have a cold night, this is what happens. Like 568 00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:22.519 the process to get these jumpers is good, but when it when the shots 569 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:25.119 aren't falling, I think it looks a lot worse. So, like you 570 00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:30.199 said, ball movement in the first quarter was great, And yeah, it's 571 00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:32.679 just you need I mean, we need with Paul George out, we need 572 00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:35.880 someone, you know, we need two or three guys to kind of make 573 00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:37.960 one Paul George and then another guy to step up. And it just didn't 574 00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:42.239 happen tonight. Terrence Man also add an off night. He was one for 575 00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:45.679 seven. Bones Highland, who has been so good over the last four games, 576 00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:49.519 for fourteen, He was a minus twenty out there. I still like 577 00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:52.000 the fact that he got fourteen shots up in twenty four minutes and attempt at 578 00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:58.800 seven three pointers. This kid is fearless. Look I've said this before, 579 00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:01.559 but if the defense of effort is there, if he's not turning the ball 580 00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:06.519 over much, they've got to be able to find some minutes for him because 581 00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:09.639 there is something there that he taps into that this Clippers team really needs. 582 00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:14.840 Yeah, I think Law Murray tweeted it how there was going to be ten 583 00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:19.039 guys playing for kind of nine spots tonight, and I think that's gonna light 584 00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:22.639 of fire and make Bones kind of go for it a little harder in these 585 00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:24.880 last couple of games because Nor I'm still is trying to get worked back. 586 00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:30.360 I think he probably has you know, the spot over Bones right now. 587 00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:32.360 But Bones is really efficient in a couple of games before this. If he 588 00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:36.559 can tap back into that and kind of help us turn it around in these 589 00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:39.159 final four games, I mean, that'll help him see some time in the 590 00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:45.559 playoffs for sure, and this Pelicans game tomorrow, it's like a playout type 591 00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:47.960 game, like to stay out of the play in you got to win this 592 00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.480 game. And brandon Ingram has been on a tear and they've dominated the Clippers 593 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:57.400 last few years, including the play in game. They've won eight of their 594 00:42:57.480 --> 00:43:02.639 last nine games. And they just played Saturday, different Clippers team though obviously 595 00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:07.800 no Marcus Morris, and they were going right at him early in that first 596 00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:10.519 quarter. I'm hoping this time, because we talked about it in our preview 597 00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:15.000 on Clips and Dip, that Kawhi Leonard's got to be on brandon Ingram to 598 00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:19.960 keep him from getting him rhythm earlier on the ball game, because once he 599 00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:22.800 gets one is hard to shut him down. Yeah. I mean, if 600 00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:27.840 Kawhi Leonard it's kind of hard to say this a little bit, right, 601 00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:30.639 but I mean, Kawhi Leonard he didn't play that second half. The medical 602 00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:34.760 team seemed like it was a good idea. He's gonna be fully rested. 603 00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:38.480 We need inevitable Kawai tomorrow on both ends. You're totally right, He's got 604 00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:43.119 to be on BI. He's got to make it difficult for him right from 605 00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:45.519 the jump. I love what Nick Latune did tonight in the first quarter with 606 00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:50.239 his defensive intensity since he's been in the starting lineup, that's really raised when 607 00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:52.639 the game has started. But I mean, all eyes are gonna be Kawai 608 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:58.199 tomorrow night after what happened today, So we got to hope he's at his 609 00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:01.400 very best. You know, the time there were eyes on him for the 610 00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:06.360 wrong reasons with that poor possession laid against the OKC thunder. He came back 611 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:09.239 the very next game and went thirteen of fifteen with thirty two points, and 612 00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:12.960 it looked like and I know he doesn't hear any of these things, but 613 00:44:14.119 --> 00:44:17.000 some of the press clippings or what some people were saying about Dort putting him 614 00:44:17.039 --> 00:44:23.440 in the door tar chamber may have been caught on Kawai's radar because he was 615 00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:29.800 unreal in that ball game and as inevitable as he could be thirteen or fifteen 616 00:44:29.920 --> 00:44:32.880 from the field. So I'm hopeful Kawai can bounce back with a huge, 617 00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:37.559 complete game, and coach lou did say he expects him to play his usual 618 00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:40.400 minutes tomorrow. Tip time for that one was at five thirty. We got 619 00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:46.320 Clippers campdown at four thirty Clippers in New Orleans taking on the Pelicans. Chuck, 620 00:44:46.599 --> 00:44:50.880 appreciate you doing this tonight, my friend. Unfortunately after a loss this 621 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:52.840 time. But it's in the contract. What can we do about it? 622 00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:57.239 Hey, I gotta get Simil to take a look at that thing. Maybe 623 00:44:57.239 --> 00:45:00.280 I'll be on the morrow after they win. Okay, I'm down for let's 624 00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:06.320 do it. Here is Charles Mockler of Clips and Dip Pod does it with 625 00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:10.559 myself and will update. Clippers lose tonight in Memphis one O eight to ninety 626 00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:15.199 four. Kawhi plays just the first half, held out in the second half 627 00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:19.199 to get ready for tomorrow's game. So the Clippers got one going against the 628 00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:22.480 Pelicans, one of the biggest games of the season until the next game. 629 00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:25.119 You know, that's how it goes. Right now, there's four remaining. 630 00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:35.360 It feels like a postseason started early in the NBA playoff positioning. Everybody's aware 631 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:39.079 of the standings. It is imperative for the Clippers to get this victory over 632 00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:43.679 the Pelicans tomorrow. More Clippers stock Next, we'll go back to your phone 633 00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:46.000 calls. Eight seven seven five two zero eleven. Fifty eight seven seven five 634 00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:52.840 two zero eleven fifty. It listens to the Patriot AM eleven fifty, Clippers 635 00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:57.960 fall in Memphis one oh eight to ninety four to the Grizzlies. I'm at 636 00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:00.000 a Moslin This is Clippers talk here on the page at AM eleven fifty. 637 00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:04.559 You remember when the Dodgers are playing on five seventy were over on the Patriot 638 00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:07.960 A M eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is the phone 639 00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:16.480 numbers. Morris clears your throat right for the song. I'm gonna you know 640 00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:19.679 I did have one, but I'm gonna tell you something. You're right. 641 00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:22.760 The playoffs have already started. Yeah, have already started. Adam Still was 642 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:25.800 a brilliant man. That playing thing was. Man, I'm telling you there's 643 00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:29.840 got a lot of cities excited because normally you'd be out of the mix. 644 00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:32.360 The playoffs have already started. It's something you said at him. You gonna 645 00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:37.159 stole my thunder. It's about momentum. We had it going on in the 646 00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:38.760 first quarter. I was at the pizza places with my wife. When we 647 00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:40.760 was there by twenty, I said, this car, honey, we're gonna 648 00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:45.480 beat the traffic because we got this. But the only thing that's faster than 649 00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:47.800 the NBA is a hockey park. I mean, the game moves real quick. 650 00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:51.679 And I'm gonna tell you something. Don't nobody shows right from the Los 651 00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:54.440 Angeles Skippers. They don't store more games, stole more games than anybody in 652 00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:58.800 the NBA. They don't stole games in Portlands, they don't stole games in 653 00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:00.880 Dallas. It's just out of the territory. And I'm gonna tell you something. 654 00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:05.480 How do you think Memphis felt? How do you think Memphis felt being 655 00:47:05.559 --> 00:47:08.760 the only achievement in the NBA to lose the fifteen point in league going into 656 00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:12.559 the fourth quarter. Well, and I'm gonna take we in trumpling a little 657 00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:15.360 bit. But as long as we got Kawhi with the attitude of I'm listening 658 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:20.920 to no doctors, I'm playing the best, the attitude and the spirit we 659 00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:22.679 need, we're gonna be all right, Adams, the NBA in the West, 660 00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:27.719 it's tough, brother, but we're competing and it ain't over until it's 661 00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:30.840 over. So we better be happy that we in the mix because a lot 662 00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:34.159 of cities ain't in the mix. Okay, So there it is. Let 663 00:47:34.199 --> 00:47:36.960 me let you go, Adam. Let you let some some pressing calls come 664 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:42.360 on in leading Morris, thank you for the phone call. Look, the 665 00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:47.679 truth is the expectations we're gonna win the championship this season, something that Clippers 666 00:47:47.719 --> 00:47:52.880 can still achieve, but they have underachieved during the regular season so far. 667 00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:58.599 There's no doubt they might win as many games as they won last season without 668 00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:04.039 Kawhi Leonard at all, with Paul George only playing thirty one games. So 669 00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:08.840 I understand the frustration and why people are a little bit discouraged, and why 670 00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:13.280 Kawai not playing in the second half of this one and the teammates apparently not 671 00:48:13.480 --> 00:48:16.519 knowing the plan or if there was a plan, we haven't gotten clarity on 672 00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:22.000 that. I get it. That couldn't count for guys all of a sudden 673 00:48:22.039 --> 00:48:25.159 have to change up the way they're playing, the roles, the mindset out 674 00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:28.519 there. Okay, I was going to defer to Kauai. Now I got 675 00:48:28.599 --> 00:48:30.719 to be more of a scorer. That's tough to deal with. Now they 676 00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:35.239 got the split though in Memphis, and I expect Kawai to put it on 677 00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:38.239 a master class tomorrow against New Orleans. I just do he gets up for 678 00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:43.519 big games this way he does. He's a killer. He has been one 679 00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:47.000 of the best clutch performers of his era, and right now with the Clippers 680 00:48:47.480 --> 00:48:52.360 hanging on by a thread in the five seed currently, but Golden States up 681 00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:55.199 at the half over the San Antonio Spurs, and they're just a half game 682 00:48:55.239 --> 00:48:59.599 back of the Clippers. And guess what I told you about it at the 683 00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:06.039 trade in line. The Lakers made some great moves and they are currently just 684 00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:07.719 a game and a half back of the Clippers. Now, Clippers do have 685 00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:15.559 the tiebreaker over them, but the Lakers have an easier schedule coming up outside 686 00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:17.360 of having him to play the Clippers. They got Utah a couple of times, 687 00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:21.159 they got Houston. They do have to play Phoenix, as do the 688 00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:22.880 Clippers, but that's the last game of the season. It's possible the Suns 689 00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:27.400 have already wrapped things up with them being solidified in that four spot. We'll 690 00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:31.800 see Clippers still have something to say about that. Suns, by the way 691 00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:36.920 up early on the Denver Nuggets, who don't have Nicola Yokis tonight in Phoenix. 692 00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:44.559 So a lot of shuffling happening in the Western Conference currently. But I 693 00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:49.519 can't go through the season not warning you when there were bad signs and red 694 00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:53.159 flags along the way for why the Clippers are only at forty one wins and 695 00:49:53.239 --> 00:49:58.239 why there are only four games above five hundred currently. I gotta be honest 696 00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:02.519 with you, it hasn't gone according to plan whatsoever. Do they still have 697 00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:07.199 the talent to get it done. Of course they do. But tomorrow's game 698 00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:13.320 against the Pelicans is gonna say a lot about this group. They've beaten the 699 00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:17.440 Clippers eight of their last nine matchups. They took them out in that play 700 00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:22.599 in tournament last year, and the Clippers did not have Kawhi Leonard in that 701 00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:25.840 game. They didn't have Paul George either. Tomorrow they'll have Kauai. We're 702 00:50:25.880 --> 00:50:30.079 hoping Eric Gordon's okay because he's been very good, especially from the outside, 703 00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:36.440 stretching the floor for this team. But these guys got to step up and 704 00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:42.880 put together their best performance forty eight minutes of locked in defense along with executing 705 00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:45.679 their offense, getting two feet in the paint, kicking it out, making 706 00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:50.159 the extra pass, turning down good shots for great shots because New Orleans can 707 00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:54.480 score with the best of them, and Brandon Ingram has been torching teams, 708 00:50:55.239 --> 00:51:00.920 including the Clippers. You look back. He's having one of those ascensions, 709 00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:06.639 one of those moments where you're seeing the growth of a young player in real 710 00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:08.559 time. Because he's still just twenty five years of age. It's felt like 711 00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:12.880 he's been in the league forever, originally drafted by the Lakers, but he's 712 00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:17.400 still so young. And you just look in the month of March and he's 713 00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:22.440 getting twenty seven per game on fifty three percent shooting from the floor forty percent 714 00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:24.960 from the outside. Last few games thirty one points, twenty six, twenty 715 00:51:25.079 --> 00:51:28.800 nine, thirty two, thirty thirty two, twenty six, thirty one. 716 00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:32.960 Clippers got to make a statement, and it's got to come early, no 717 00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:39.920 easy buckets, Everything contested, and hopefully Kawhi Leonard as the primary matchup against 718 00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:45.559 Brandon Ingram. He did eventually, but it was too late in the first 719 00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:49.880 quarter, as the Pelicans already got hot in that victory over the Clippers a 720 00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:55.320 week ago last Saturday. First it was Marcus Morris trying to guard him. 721 00:51:55.960 --> 00:52:01.440 Kawhi eventually got on him, but then others like Trey Murphy, the third 722 00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:06.400 who went ten of twelve from the outside, got really hot and they shot 723 00:52:06.519 --> 00:52:10.400 sixty two percent from three against the Clippers. That can't happen again. Clippers 724 00:52:10.440 --> 00:52:15.800 can't get out rebounded by the Pelicans forty five to thirty one, and the 725 00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:21.519 Pells were a plus ten on the offensive boards. That can't happen again. 726 00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:25.760 And that was a game where the Clippers had nineteen turnovers. They were great 727 00:52:25.800 --> 00:52:30.079 in the first quarter, big reason they led by twenty and they took care 728 00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:34.199 of the basketball today, but then the wheels fell off. There just has 729 00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:37.920 to be a laser focus tomorrow. Treat it like a playoff or a play 730 00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:42.639 in game. To stay out of the play in. Clippers and Pills tipping 731 00:52:42.639 --> 00:52:45.840 off tomorrow at five thirty. We will have your pregame show right back here 732 00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:50.679 at four thirty as the Dodgers will be on AM five seventy LA Sports later 733 00:52:50.760 --> 00:52:53.400 tomorrow night, so we'll be on the Patriot AM eleven fifty Before we get 734 00:52:53.400 --> 00:52:57.320 out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Noah Eagle, 735 00:52:57.960 --> 00:53:01.519 Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawler, big brother, Jake Warner, head engineer 736 00:53:01.880 --> 00:53:06.880 then a Stagustino statistician to the stars, Katie Newton, our producer, and 737 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:12.840 Katie we got music for your Katie's Casual Corner Now because it's photoophs plan. 738 00:53:13.280 --> 00:53:16.480 What's your question tonight before? It's a really easy one. Like you you 739 00:53:16.599 --> 00:53:22.119 watched basketball growing up, right, I did? Who was your favorite player 740 00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:24.440 as a kid like that? You were like, yes, m I don't 741 00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:28.360 know if I should say this you were a kid, you were. I 742 00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:30.960 didn't love the team, but I loved this player because the way he shared 743 00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:35.639 the basketball, and that would be Magic Johnson and sharing is caring. And 744 00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:37.920 I loved the fact that he gave the Clippers of itza zoo boss for Michael 745 00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:43.039 Muscala. There we go. But you know I grew up in NorCal. 746 00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:45.599 Yeah, I was a King's fan. There's no conflict of interest there. 747 00:53:45.639 --> 00:53:51.599 I haven't been a Lakers fan ever, but Matgic Johnson was my favorite player. 748 00:53:51.960 --> 00:53:57.440 Just love washing him play with that joy. Clippers got a good one 749 00:53:57.480 --> 00:54:00.280 though, in Russell Westbrook. Right now, let's hope you can bounce back 750 00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:05.119 tomorrow too. Good question, Katie. We'll do it again tomorrow starting at 751 00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:08.320 four thirty with your pregame show Clippers Pelicans. I'm Adam Oslin. We'll talk 752 00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:15.360 to you then. This has been Clippers Talk, a postgame conversation about your 753 00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:20.079 LA Clippers with Adam Oslay. If you like the show, subscribe to Clippers 754 00:54:20.119 --> 00:54:23.480 Talk on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you podcast. They have the best. 755 00:54:23.920 --> 00:54:29.000 This team has those championship ingredients. They have some of that DNA. 756 00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:32.920 We can see it. This is Clippers Basketball. Join us next time on 757 00:54:34.039 --> 00:54:36.280 the LA Clippers Audio Network