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lose one oh one to one hundred here in downtown Los Angeles, as Kawhi
Leonard was not able to get a shot off in time that would have been
the game winner, they fall to the OKAC Thunder. Welcome into your post
game show. I'm Adam Oslin coming up. We'll get your post game box
score. You also hear from the head coach in the players after this one,
and it's not a footnote. It's the main story right now. Noah
Eagle the right knee of Paul George as we saw him take, really a
tough paull that was difficult to watch on the replay late in the fourth quarter.
Yeah, look, you feel for a guy in general. If it
is serious and we don't know yet, so it's it's wrong to speculate that
it is serious, but especially for someone like this, for somebody who's battled
so many high level injuries over the course of his career, and not just
battled, but has come back stronger each time, which is an encouraging sign
in itself. But you go back to August first, twenty fourteen, the
compound fracture of his leg. Most people would never walk again properly, let
alone play basketball again on any level in any form, let alone return not
only to star form but almost MVP form back in twenty nineteen, to battle
back from something like that, to battle back from double shoulder surgery in one
summer, to battle back from the hamstring injuries and the calf injuries and everything
that it feels like he's endured to this point, to get to this point
where he feels like he can help the team, and he was really looking
healthy again. He had the two crazy dunks in this game, one poster
one three sixty in traffic. To have all of that and then potentially have
this happen, you feel for a guy like that for all the work that
he's put in, and you feel for this team At the same time,
Like I said, you don't want to speculate that it's going to be serious.
It could be very positive news that it comes back and it's not what
everybody's expecting it to be, and that's the hope. And even if it's
not, and even if Paul George is out, Clippers did it without Kawhi
Leonard two years ago, and Kawhi Leonard is their number one PG would be
the first to admit it. He is the number one option on this team.
He is the alpha dog. He is everything to this team when it
comes down to it, and they still made it to the Western Conference Finals
without him. They've got arguably a deeper team right now, with guys who've
deserved to get minutes that haven't gotten them, like Robert Covington who got some
minutes late in this game, like Bowen's Highland, who hasn't seen minutes over
the last several games. Norman Powell is coming back very soon. This is
a team that has the firepower even without Paul George to legitimately dangerous and as
long as Kawhi Leonard's playing at his top level, which he didn't have tonight,
and that's one of the main reasons the Clippers didn't come away with a
win. But as long as Kawhi is playing like Kawai, this team is
still as dangerous as any in the NBA. I don't care who else is
out there. So I understand that there's a lot of trepidation for excitement,
and there's a lot of concern, rightfully so for Paul right now. But
with that being said, there's still a lot of reason to be excited,
and the main one is the Clippers get another crack at this team that they
just haven't been able to figure out. On Thursday. He is your voice
of the Clippers, Noah Eagle, and he will be joining us in Clippers
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See Thunder as Paul George leaves late in the fourth quarter with what looked like
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so the Oklahoma City Thunder here in Downstown, Los Angeles, and Paul George
left late in the fourth quarter with an apparent right knee injury. We're looking
for updates on that. We'll keep your breast of the situation while we have
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Let present it up. Shooting just six of thirty one from the outside after
starting two of fifteen in the first half. But that's not even the number
I'm focused on right now. Twelve or twenty one from the free throw line.
In a game you lose by one, you end up missing nine free
throws. That is just unacceptable. Can't happen. Can't lose your focus like
that. Early on, the Clippers got into it with the officials and Terrence
Man was ejected. Whether or not it was warranted or not it happened.
We'll have more on that coming up with Noah Eagle, but it just seemed
like there was a lack of focus at times. There was also great energy
and great effort at times. This Clippers team came out shot out of a
cannon, led eighteen to four. First five minutes. Spectacular defense, rotations
were on point, Guys were staying in front of their man. Point of
attack was very good. But then things started to slip. They didn't make
a shot the last seven minutes and twelve seconds of the first quarter. They
went without a field goal, and they were down twenty three to twenty two
heading into the second after being up eighteen to four early on and looking like
they were in control of the ball game. Kawhi Leonard had an off night
seven to sixteen, twenty one points, five assists, six boards, couple
of steals. Russell Westbrook I thought he played very well fifteen couple of assists,
but the rebounds eight of them, three offensive boards, the energy,
trying to get the crowd into it. I thought, had some really good
contests against Jay Gilda's Alexander where he was mashed up against him. Not easy.
A Sja went for thirty one twelve twenty five shooting, but I thought
Russell Westbrook gave him everything he could on the defensive end. If eats the
Zubots with thirteen just three rebounds, though, and he only played nineteen minutes,
so Mason plumbly got more of the run almost at twenty one minutes and
he had twelve boards, four of them offensive rebounds, and six points.
One of his better games since becoming a Clipper. Roco came in late in
the fourth quarter, ended up going just one of eight. He couldn't find
one from the outside as well, but did have a couple of steals,
only credited with one. I'm gonna say he had a deflection ended up in
the hands of someone else. But the story is, of course, Paul
George going out with that knee injury. Nine of seventeen from the field,
he was with eighteen points. It was around the four minute mark of the
fourth quarter that he left this ball game and needed to be assisted to get
into the locker room. We're monitoring that situation. We'll keep you update here
as we roll into Clippers Talk. This is still your Clippers post game show
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on Twitter, I'm at follow Adam A coming up. We got some audio
for you. Looking for stuff from the head coach in Siran lou looking for
any updates. We can obviously get on the status of Paul George who went
down late in the fourth quarter with an apparent right knee injury. So I
guess that's where we could start here. Noah, obviously it didn't look good.
We don't want to speculate too much. It seemed like it took the
air out of the building. Yeah, it looked like understandably, you know,
when a player goes down, you see this in games all the time,
mostly in football. You know, there's a ripple effect throughout the team.
It's felt by the players out there. This is their livelihood, this
is their friend, it's a brotherhood in the NBA, and it just looked
like the Clippers, you know, they didn't have that same juice after the
play so long term, I think that it can either galvanize a group and
we've seen that happen before, including this Clipper group two years ago, or
there is such a ripple effect of being bummed out that you don't have your
brother out there with you anymore, a ripple effect of frustration of why could
this happen to us, that you then let it impact the rest of your
play. But here's what I'll say about this group, and here's what I'll
say about this injury. Again, let's not worry about what the injury is
itself until the injury is actually reported on. Yes, I think that all
of us are just assuming worst case scenario right now. Understandable, That's how
a lot of injuries work all the time. But you've got to allow for
it to happen. What if it's best case scenario. What if it's something
that it's very recoverable very quickly. I know you brought up the the Jannistetakombo
play in the finals. Is that the finals, right or the during that
run in twenty twenty one he hyper extended his knee against Atlanta. I believe
yeah. I think it was the conference finals and he maybe missed a game
or two and then somehow made it his way back, led his team to
the finals, and of course led him to an NBA championship, and had
one of the top two greatest blocks in NBA Finals history with that turnaround heads,
the pick and roll block, the alley oop on DeAndre eight and and
he did that all of that with a sprain in his knee. So with
the greatest clothes out game in the NBA Finals fifty he put up fifth and
then got fifty nuggets at ChIL the next day and what not that fifty one
fifty. Yeah, so it's obviously been done before, and so it could
be best case scenario, and I think that you have to you still have
to focus on that as well. At the same time, should it not
be should it be an injury that requires him to spend significant time away,
significant time resting, significant time recovering. This is a group that's deep.
This is a group that's assembled for this to overcome the Nix and the Bruises
over the course of an eighty two game season, to overcome any of the
adversity thrown their way. And they've got one of the best coaches in the
NBA to do it, and Toron Lu proved that his first year with this
team. And I know that a lot of fans have been wondering what toront
Lu has been thinking, where his rotations have been coming through and coming from.
But let me confirm something right now. Toron Leu is the first coach
to bring this team to the Western Conference Finals two years ago, and he
did it with the likes of Paul George, Reggie Jackson, Marcus Morris,
Nick Batoum, and Terrence Mann, Paul George being the focal point at that
point. And he has even admitted that he's not as good as Kawhi Leonard.
You've got Kawhi Leonard. And when you've got Kawhi Leonard, he said
it himself, said, anytime I'm playing, I feel like we got a
chance to win, no matter who we got on the other side. And
one of the best versions of Kawhi we've ever seen. Correct, He's shooting
up until this game fifty four point six percent in the month of March,
the third best shooting percentage on a month in his entire career. So we
look at this and we say, Okay, you've got Kauai, You've got
Terrence Mann, You've got Eric Gordon, who's been playing fantastic basketball and hit
some big shots tonight even though he didn't have his best game on the three.
And that fourth yes, A Visa's Zubots is averaging a double double at
him, and he's an offensive threat, and right now, there's not a
whole lot of centers that want to guard inside. And when he has an
off night, you got Mason Plumley who came in and grabbed twelve boards and
listen, I understand that people don't want Russell Westbrook to try to be Russell
Westbrook of old. But guess what, He's shown flashes of it. And
I'm not saying he's gonna go out there and start averaging twenty five a night
on a fish and shooting, but he's more than capable of exploding on any
given night. And we saw that earlier in the year with his previous team.
So I get it. I understand that it's frustrating and people are going
to be disappointed. I think we all are. But with that being said,
it doesn't It's not a death sentence, regardless of the eventual diagnosis for
Paul George. It's just a hurdle another hurdle that the US need to overcome.
Is it a bomber for sure, But we'll wait to see what eventual
decision is and what the eventual diagnosis is on his knee, and then we'll
jump to all the other conclusions. I believe he's getting reevaluated right now,
and that's the latest from coach lew was asked about it, understandably, I
bet that was the first question towards him tonight in his postgame press conference.
We'll have it all for you coming up later. I thought you brought up
a great point, though, as much as in the moment you could be
a little bit rattled and discombobulated and the Clippers lose one by one as they
couldn't get a shot off at the end. Long term, should this be
a significant injury, We're hoping for the best. But even in the meantime
with this uncertainty, you can rally around it. Yes, you can find
your spirit and that winning culture when their backs are against the wall that the
Clippers have shown over the season over the last couple of years, that resilient
spirit that we've seen from this team. When the chips are down, they
always seem to be at their best. Yeah, and you know what's funny
at him? I think Russell Westbrook is more important now than he ever ever
was. So Russ was a luxury for this team. They didn't need him
necessarily. They felt like they could have rolled with that. They had before
the All Star break, they had won two in a row. They were
starting to hit that stride a little bit more. But it feels like now
if Paul George is legitimately out, the Clippers need a vocal leader. Russell
Westbrook's a vocal leader. I was talking to Christina Pink on our way back
from Portland the other day and she said, you know, she's been in
every huddle since she's become a sideline reporter for the Clippers, so she's seen
all different types of regimes. She's seen Lou Williams and Patrick Beverley leading the
team. She saw the Lobs City era. She said, every one of
the teams has had a vocal leader of some sort. She said, Chris
Paul was that guy for Lob City And I said, yeah, that makes
sense. Every huddle should go in. He's talking, He's saying, hey,
we need to do this, this and this. Charles Barkley would say
every night on TNT, the best leader in sports. He's the best leader
in sport to you know. Then after that, Patrick Beverley was that vocal
leader for the team, say fire, brought that fire. And guess what
who would you say was the vocal leader right now? Russell Westbrook. She
said every single huddle, even when he's not in the game, he's talking.
He saying, hey kid, good stuff on that defensive rotation right there.
We need you to do more here. That's what they need more than
ever right now. They need someone to step up and be that fire and
that vocal leader. If they get that out of him on a consistent basis.
I know Terrence mannill follow him. I know if he's a zubots will
follow him. I know Marcus Morris will follow him. I know what Norman
Powell gets back on the floor, he's gonna follow him, Eric Gordon Mason
Plumbing, Nick Patoum, and most importantly, I know Kawhi Leonard's gonna follow
him. Becau Kawhi Leonard is ready, and you know he likes he likes
to prove the doubters wrong. We've seen it how many times in his career.
Think about that run in Toronto, the one years in Toronto. What
did it come? Right after a year in which people said he's not as
good as he thinks he is. Why is he sitting out? How could
he do this to the Spurs? Well, guess what Nick Batoum said it
when he signed with the Clippers. The last thing you want to do is
is be on a team that's not on the same team as a po Kawhi
Leonard. And right now I've got feeling he's gonna be pretty ticked off.
You won't like him when he's angry. And to your point of Russell Westbrook
being that vocal leader, that's something he's so comfortable with. He has come
out and said, Look, I know Kawai doesn't talk a lot. I
can talk for him. Hell I can talk for everybody. That's what he
loves to do. And he's great at gaining the crowd involved when the Clippers
are making a push. And I thought he played had one of his best
defensive efforts out there tonight. He had some tough calls go against him,
as did the Clippers in this one. I know there's probably gonna be some
calls on that, but I like the way he engaged with SGA and gave
that level of effort on the defensive end. Yeah, without a doubt,
And I think that Russ has been everything that the Clippers could have hoped for
in a variety of ways, but maybe the most important one is the availability
and the intensity he brings every single night. So he's playing every game,
and he's playing every game at maximum effort. And there's something too that there's
a trickle down from that. If your point guard is playing with that level
of ferocity and force and just going out there and running around with his head
on fire, everybody else is going to start to follow along and follow suit.
So I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do now as a leader
and galvanizing this group. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventies the
phone number. Let's get out to start things off to John in La John,
you're on a special edition of Clippers Talk with your Voice of the Clippers,
Noah Eagle John, what's up there? Seems to talk about tonight reps
scatter ball with plumbly and not moving the ball. The rest were horrible.
Number twenty eight was right up there with Donovan, I think called well on
one play which was a very bad call. If you looked at the if
you looked at the video on that, it was just ridiculous. And they
continued the whole game. The guy was, I don't know, maybe he
is, you know, I'm taking some you know, making some deal.
All right, all right, we're not gonna go there quite yet. But
listen, I don't Tim Donna, he was fifteen years ago. Let's let's
move it forward a little bit here. You mentioned the ball, but John,
I appreciate the phone call. You mentioned the ball movement though, and
he touched upon something there that Coach lu talked about post game. Apparently some
quotes are coming out. He didn't like the way they played offensively, especially
on that last possession. He wanted them to push it because he thought they
had the numbers and could have gotten an easier shot. Well. He also
mentioned the assist numbers and moving the basketball. The Clippers only had twenty one
assists on forty one made field goals. And one of the main reasons they've
been so good offensively after the All Star Break is because they've moved the ball
as well as they have, and Russell Westbrook has been a big part of
that. Well, Russell Westbrook only finished this game with two assists, and
that's something that's not very common, especially considering how well he was getting into
the pain, how well he was collapsing the defense. He was finding open
man, especially open shooters. The Clippers just could not make some of their
shots six or thirty one. But I do want to talk about the officials,
all right. I'm happy to talk about the officials. Boossa Dagger is
the name of the official who gave the technical foul to Kawhi Leonard and then
two technical fouls to Terrence Man. And I know that Mike Fortello, who
just exited the building, was very unhappy with Musa Dagger, and he went
off on him on the television broadcast. He also went off on him to
me at halftime. Here's what I'll say about that. I don't think that
the Clippers got calls in their favorite today. I think they had some calls
really go against them, and that can be frustrating. But at the same
time, it's been a problem all year for the Clippers. They take too
much time worrying about the last play instead of moving on to the next one.
And we've seen it a couple of times There was a play a couple
of games back where Norman Powell thought he was fouled in the corner, turned
to the official and he was wide open on an offensive rebound. Nick Betune
through to him thinking he was gonna be ready for it, and his back
was turned to the basketball. It went out of bounce for a turnover.
I think it's happened a little bit too much. And what we've seen,
I think now is because the Clippers have argued so much with these officials.
That's where that short leash came from today. That's where that quick whistle came
from today. On Terrence Man, it was an accumulation of what had been
happening for the first almost two quarters of the game. So to me,
they have to look in the mirror as well and say, okay, how
can we be better along with the officials, work together here and do this
in the proper way. You gotta play through it and leave that last play
in the past, because I wonder how much of that led into the free
throw shooting. With that lack of focus out there at the charity stripe where
they were just twelve of twenty one. You pointed out early on in this
game, and the pattern continued. They really never were able to right the
ship on the freebase tonight. No, I mean Kawhi Leonard on the season
is shooting eighty eight percent, but since January eighth is well above ninety and
he went five of seven. That's bizarre. Paul George, on the season
eighty eight percent, went over two. Russell Westbrook, who has been shooting
it real well at the free throw line, went three of five, and
Terrence Mann, who on the season is at seventy eight percent but of late
is well into the eighties, also missed a couple. He went one for
three. And so you're getting good free throw shooters missing. It's not necess
necessarily saying like Mason Plumley, who is speaking right now to some season ticket
holders, who's sixty three percent. You could say, oh, you know,
I could see him going three for five or I Viza Zoo bots maybe
missing a free throw two at seventy percent on the season. But it's when
you're good free throw shooters are missing, that's when it's extra frustrating, especially
in the game you end up losing by one point. You had nine that
you left up the line eight six sixty nine eight seven two five seventy.
Alla Yune in Lancaster, You're on Clipper Stock, a special edition your voice
of the Clippers. No what Eagles on? All un what's up? Alli?
You and you're on all right now? Allay Yune. Mike in La
Mike, you're on Clipper Stock. First, I want to say, Noah,
thank you for doing this special edition of Clippers Hawk. We Clipper Nations,
Clippers fans are so lucky to have you as a voice of Clippers.
Thank you for the great work that you do. I appreciate that. Mike,
thank you. And you know, I completely agree with what you guys
were saying earlier regarding the officials that it just it needs to be more out
and a mature or focus or you know, professional mindset on the part of
the team. But you know, in the end of the day, this
game came down to free throws. You know, they go nineteen of twenty
one from the line, they probably wouldn't. Most likely would they go sixteen
of twenty one from the line, they most likely wouldn't. So you know,
in the end, given you know, in a vacuum, this is
not a terrible loss, given the circumstance of the season and where we are
in the season, though this is a pretty pressure loss. Yeah, no
doubt about it, Mike. We appreciate the phone call. I think you're
right. Obviously, the free throws play a factor. The other thing we
haven't talked a whole lot about yet three point shooting. Clippers got a lot
of really good looks from the outside. They only go six of thirty one.
You know, it was just one of those games where nothing was falling,
and really for both teams in many ways. Oklahoma City went ten of
thirty seven from three twenty seven percent, but they made thirteen other fourteen free
throw attempts. So you just look at the efficiency at the line and then
the three point shooting for the Clippers. They're a top five three point shooting
team in the NBA right now at thirty eight percent. To go six of
thirty one is incredibly out of character. And I'm sure Adam would agree.
They got really clean looks through most of the game, and that's what was
surprising. Okay, See on the season, they are tent Defensively, they're
good on that end. They use their youthfulness, their athleticism to also keep
you from getting buckets and the Clippers only scored one hundred, but I believe
what we have an update here now. Yeah, so this is Andrew Greiff
just talked to the crew chief, Curtis Blair after this game. They do
these pool interviews when there's a controversial call in a game. Every crew chief,
head of the officially officiating crew for the game, we'll have to talk
to any sort of reporter. So Andrew asked, what did Kawhi Leonard do
or say to earn his technical foul? Curtis Blair said, after a no
call on a made basket, he aggressively claps at the official and was called
for the first technical foul. So the second question was what did Terrence Man
do or say to earn his first technical foul and what prompted a second technical
foul? So quickly after that, Curtis Blair said, after the no call
on Kawhi, when the official gave Kawhi the first technical man points aggressively at
the official and got the first tea. After that, he used profanity words
toward the official and got the second technical foul and therefore was ejected from the
game. And that is your answer from crew chief Curtis Blair. Still not
a whole lot that that explains. I think that's pretty much what we already
expected, and if we're being honest, I still don't agree with it.
I think that it was it was not the right move in this game.
And that's what Mike Fortello was saying the TV broadcast was that he felt Moosa
Dagger made the game about himself in that moment. And that's a common consensus
theme when something like that happens, is that people tend to believe. Okay,
so this is an official that's starving for some attention right now in a
big game with major implications standings wise. And look, the Clippers could have
really used Terrence the way he was playing on both ends of the floor.
Yeah, and I know officials have a tough job and they have to have
six skin out there. But in this one, aggressive pointing, aggressive clapping
end up in technicals and no one came to this game wearing an officials jersey
they are to watch. Well, it's a different jersey, but with an
officials they've on the back. But outside of me, who's just crazy,
nobody was here to see the officials. You're right, you got to overcome
it. You have to play through it, and the Clippers have to have
a little bit more poise than they showed tonight. Obviously, they lose one
oh one to one hundred more with Noah Eagle coming up next here on Clippers
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Peter leaving the ball game, Peter, what's up? You're on Clippers?
Still? Hey, a couple of things. I know you guys touched
on the referees and stuff, And still doesn't make sense to me why they
checked man so quick. It seems like he just got double teed up quick
and was gone obviously, Like you know, every diehard fan you know,
upset, right, I was lost by one point, but specifically that made
me pretty pretty upset. And then also the Kauhi. I don't know if
he was confused. I don't know if he pulled the gr Jr. Smith
thinking that, you know, those tie game. I don't know what happened
at the end there, but it was pretty tough, man. I don't
know. It's tough to see that in first two you guys there, Yeah,
we got you, Peter, No, I know you want to start
with the first one on the quick trigger, the quick whistle Weather referee on
the second tech for Terence Man. Yeah, Peter, we appreciate it.
And look, I completely agree with you. I think that anybody in this
building, anybody watching on TV, anybody who listened to us as we described
it, would have agreed as well that it probably wasn't the right call,
and I think Moosa Dagger honestly agrees. Now you know, Worgers came out.
Kawhi was talking to the media after the fact, and he said that
Mousa Dagger came over and apologized for giving him the original technical foul, So
I think he even recognizes that it was his mistake. Now we're talking about
major implications of that call alone, because let's think about it. Kauai gets
a t and Terrence Man gets two, Shay gets three free throws, makes
two, and the Clippers lose this game by one. So again, I'm
not saying it's the reason they lost this game. There are so many things
you could point to, but it certainly feels like one of the major factors
that helped point it because at the same time, it also thwarted the Clippers
momentum in that second quarter. The Clippers were rebuilding their lead in the second
quarter, and at that point Shay could bring it closer. The thunder ended
up tying it. Clippers go back in front, then Terrence gets tossed,
and then the Clippers relinquish that lead, go into the break down by a
couple and then battled back went up going into the fourth and then would eventually
lose this game by one. So it was topsy turvy in many ways.
But that definitely was a momentum builder for a young Oklahoma City team that's just
playing with immense confidence right now. And you wonder in a game a low
scoring of fair in today's game one a one to one hundred, with there
being so many whistles, there was a lack of rhythm out there at times.
A wonky whistle can do that. I mean, we saw a double
foul, lane violation, multiple offensive fouls a half dozen of them on the
Clippers in this one. So it's understandable as a viewer or frustrated, and
we saw the players obviously the frustration boil over. So again I'm gonna go
back to to the Paul George part of this, because you can point to
so many areas, as I said, as to why this game was lost.
But PG in this game played thirty five minutes and led all scores and
led all players I should say plus fifteen. He was a plus fifteen in
this game. So this was a game that even though PG wasn't scoring at
an elite clip yet eighteen points and thirty five minutes on seventeen shots, he
had seven rebounds, he had five assists, he had three steals, he
had a block, he limited his turnovers, He played really really good basketball
and helped facilitate offense for the Clippers, And in a game that Kawhi didn't
have it going, that's where he was immensely missed down the stretch. So
again I'm not saying that should he have to miss time, it's gonna be
detrimental to this team, because Kawhi doesn't have very many nights like he did
tonight where he went seven of sixteen, and generally when he does it one
night, the next night he comes back and puts down forty or so.
But with that being said, that's why PG leaving this game was so brutal,
just because of the impact that he had in the same can be said
about Terrence Mann, who had eight points in ten minutes of action. I
just thought he was stupendous. Andy in Pasadena, who was just leaving the
game. Andy, what's up here? On Clippers Talk, we got your
voice of the Clippers, Noah Eagle. Andy, what do you ask?
Noah? Hey, I'm just gonna fire off here. Just wanted I got
to meet Noah tonight. What an awesome guy, best play by play man
in all of sports. Dog Clippers, He's the man. And Adam,
thank you for your commitment to the Clippers all year long. Love your updates
on AM five seventy. But man, I was at the Jazz game when
Kawhi got injured, so it really sucked to be at this game to see
PG thirteen go down. Also, just really is a bummer to see the
Clippers put up one of their better defensive efforts. They got a lot of
turnovers tonight on the defensive end, and to lose like that just a bumber.
You guys have already touched on the reps. But I'm having some flashbacks
of Clippers past here with the Lob City Clippers man, where we are just
missing on the free throw line, where games are just in our grass there
for us to take, and I don't know, just seems like recently,
in the last twenty games or so, we have just been cold on the
charity line and that has really hurt us. National. National critique of Russ
Westbrook I think is way off. I think Russ has been awesome as a
Clipper. Love seeing them out there. And the last thing I'm gonna say,
last thing is I think we are great in the defensive zone off rebounds,
but man, our offensive zone rebounds are just not there. And that's
all I got. Let's go, Andy. Pleasure to meet you tonight,
you and your daughter. It was a great time. I hope you had
a good time, even despite the loss and certainly a damper on it with
Paul George and whatnot. But the one thing I just said, most of
what he said I thought was val The one thing I actually disagreed on was
the offensive rebounding. It feels like the Clippers have done a much better job
of that of late. Unless he's talking about defending the offensive forwards, I
think that's probably what he meant was was other teams getting timely offensive rebounds against
the Clippers, which has been a problem now dating back a couple of years
and certainly this year as well. Look, they went small. I think
it was the right decision to go small down the stretch. The one thing
that I will say, it felt like a Visa Zubats had a little bit
of an impact on this game on the offensive end, and he went out
with four fouls and I don't believe he came back in after that. And
that was a little puzzling considering he was five or five from the floor,
had thirteen points in nineteen minutes. Sure, he only grabbed three rebounds in
this game, but he was starting to make his presence felt on the glass.
I just felt like he had a little bit more to give to this
game. But when you go small, you're running the risk of giving up
offensive rebounds. And despite giving up some untimely, really inopportunite offensive boards,
the Clippers still got the stops and still had a chance to win this game,
despite missing nine free throws, shooting nineteen percent from three, and everything
else that you can go down the list on. So I understand that there's
a frustration there. But with that being said, they overcame a lot of
whatever shortcomings they may have had and still gave themselves a chance. It was
just more frustration that they couldn't get that last shot off before the buzzer,
I thought in the fourth quarter where they only gave up twenty one points,
granted they only had nineteen on offense, but there were some plays where guys
were gang rebounding, were helping the helper, were rotating very well. We're
playing impenetrable defense. Even while they went small against Giddy, who was trying
to get to the basket. You saw one, two, three different hands
up there trying to redirect shots. I love seeing that. I thought the
effort was great late. But it is interesting of Visa. Zubos has been
their anchor for some time now, and he didn't come back into that ball
game. Yeah, a little surprising. Now. Part of it also could
have been that they were looking to hunt some of those mismatches and if Shay
had the ball in his hand and Zubots was out on that island on the
perimeter, that's not the ideal matchup. But I think that's what Toronto Lou
was looking at in this one. But considering the offensive impact he had and
considering the offensive struggles the Clippers had in the fourth quarter, a little bit
of a surprise that we didn't see him at all. Andy, thank you
for the phone call we got Damien in La. You're on Clippers stock with
Noah Eagle, Damian. What's up, gentlemen. It's a pleasure to get
you guys both on the line. Man, No, a great call tonight.
I just gotta say first and foremost and listening to the best thing going
in entertainment as far as the NBA is concerned. You guys do a great
job night in, night out. It's the one two punch, like of
my dreams pretty much. So thanks. It's everything that you guys have done
to the team. Uphold you guys did. But I want to say it
on the air now let me get to the game. Yeah, I'll go
back. Adam. You said it, man, I was surprised to not
see Subak at all. I totally understand and and I feel the same way.
I get what they were trying to do, maybe exploit the matchup from
small ball into it, but it's not working. Let's try it. We
had, you know, about eight minutes to go, no Subak. Let's
give Dubak a minute fifty or something like that and see what happens. It
would have been really nice to have him on the floor shake Alexander. He
did a lot of this work in the pace, so I'm thinking that if
he's you know, if we have Zooben there, maybe it deters him a
little bit. He had a great game. It wasn't for lack of effort
that I felt like that we didn't lose, But you know, we just
got away from what was working early, you know, and that was playing
like our hairs on fire. We play like that there's nobody that can really
stand up with us. But if we're gonna let these young dogs play with
us, man, who knows what could happen and we leave the game up
to the refs. This was, you know, within our realm to do
it, and we let one slip away. So I don't know, man,
we got we gotta get right with it though, And to be fair,
you know, the Clippers ended up taking seven more free throws than the
Okac Thunder in this one. So as much as we're talking about the refs,
they did get to the line enough, they weren't able to convert there.
But I see your point about Visa Zubos. I can see it both
ways. Because the switch ability was working. They held a team to one
oh one they only scored twenty one points in the fourth quarter on the Clippers.
It's hard to go away from that when a team isn't scoring at a
high rate. Yeah, and look, Damian, we appreciate you man.
Thanks for everything that you do, listening to us and supporting us and really
believing in this team as we know you do. You know the one thing
that I will say, you said something about playing against these young bloods,
and there is something to that where I'm just kind of looking through the Clippers
game log this year, Adam, how many games can you remember that are
blowouts? Either way? There's really a lot. There's only a hand thing
in this league. Nobody's out with a three point shooting sometimes, for sure.
But I certainly feel like the Clippers this year have played a ton of
close games, and it feels like they play right to their competition every single
day. And that can be both good and bad, because I look at
that and I say, Okay, well, they get into a seven game
series with any team, no matter how good they are, they're going to
raise their level to play with that same competition. You know, We've seen
that happen at times this year, where they've recognized big games, and it
felt like this was going to be one of them, and they find their
way through. They claw and they scratch and they fight, and that's what
OKAYC did as well. And so I think that these two teams are just
equally as hungry to prove for one another what they believe they are. For
Oklahoma City that they should be in the playoffs, for the Clippers, that
they should be right there in the conversation with anybody, But I do think
this team does have this factor where even if there's a great team on the
other side, they don't care, they're not phased by it. These are
guys that've been there before. Even if it's a team that maybe doesn't have
all that many wins, they understand that that team is going to be still
incredibly skilled and they're gonna begin for a dog fight. I just can't remember
all that many blowouts either way. Sure, final scores might look even more
lopsided than they actually were. For example, the Knicks game, the Clippers
beat them by eleven, it was closer than eleven for the vast majority of
that game. Or the Blazer game on Sunday they beat him by fifteen.
It's a lot closer than fifteen for the majority of that game. So I
look at a lot of these and I say, Okay, they're right there.
And you know, I go back to that stretch where they lost five
in a row coming out of the All Star Break. Sacramento double overtime,
one point, one bounce goes the other way. You win that game.
Denver overtime, one bounce, you get the rebound on the Jamal Murray half
court heave, You win that game. Minnesota, that was a battle the
entire forty eight minutes. A couple of balls bounced the other way, You
win that game. And then of course Sacramento again a one point lost,
one more bounce goes your way, you win that one. So there was
a chance they could have gone four and one in those games. And that's
what still gives me salace with this team is knowing that you get them to
the playoffs. They know it's a different level, and certainly their head coach
knows they've got to reach a different level. And I thought at times tonight
the intensity was ratcheted up to a level that we hadn't seen coming out like
Gangbusters, being up eighteen to four like that in some of those moments on
the fourth quarter, with that great defensive effort from the Clippers, you could
tell there was more on the line, as we have just nine games left
now in the regular season and they're going to see this team again. It's
almost a two game well we call it a two game mini series, but
it's a two game playoff tuneup type series going on right now against the Oka
See Thunder very much so, all right, we'll take a quick time out.
We'll come back. We got more from Noah Eagle eight six six nine
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lose one oh one to one hundred to the Thunder. Here at home,
still looking for updates on the situation with Paul George, who left this game
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on Noah Eagle here and Noah, it looks like through all the sources we
can find here, Paul George left the arena on the back of a cart.
His right leg was extended. Clippers not expected, understandably to have an
update on him tonight. Yeah, that's the status right now. A PG
thirteen who if you didn't know, went down late in the fourth quarter with
an apparent right knee injury. We're looking for updates, but it looks like
we're gonna be waiting until after this show to get anything from the Clippers in
the next twenty four hours. No doubt a concerning situation Clipper Nation, we
get it. It's disheartening, especially after a loss like that, which is
compounds things. But they're taking this team on again on Thursday. They have
to get back after it. And as Noah Eagles mentioned, they still have
Kawhi Leonard, and Kawhi Leonard says, when I'm on the court, I
feel like we can win. That's meaningful, that's big time. All right,
let's go to Howie in the eight one eight. Howie, you're on
sty what's your question? Thanks? Thanks for checking the calls. Thanks to
Noel for all your great calls and the coach Forchella's insight to the games.
Prayers for for PG thirteen. First of all, you know, we hope
for the best for him. And so that was kind of a weird game.
I didn't see after we get off for the big starts seventeen or eighteen
to four, whatever, it was. Everything they just seemed I don't know
what happened. Almost the defense got tight for okay see or it just seemed
really odd the team tonight. They was I don't think they played their best
tonight, but and I was kind of upset why Zoo wasn't it Like you
guys talked about why Zoo wasn't in at the end of the game and why
they didn't have him there, because Shay was getting in the middle quite often,
coming up in the lane and getting up in the middle like really easily
and putting left shots from like three four feet out, you know, like
with no problem. I think if Sue would have been there, that would
have really helped out. And then lastly, I just want to tell all
the Clipper fans that we can't I'm getting text from my friends saying, oh,
God, here we go again. It's a Clipper Jinks and oh,
here we go again. The Clipper fans, we have to get together and
we have to do the best of what we got with a team. Man
and Covington and Gordon and makeup. You know, if he's gonna if if
PG thirteen is gonna be out for four to six weeks or maybe maybe more.
I mean, who knows what's gonna happen. But you know, we
got a rally. We I don't want to get these texts from my friends
about talking about the Clipper Jinks is back again. Here we go again.
I mean, please, we hear you, We hear you. Howie we
got you? Man and Clipper Nation is going to band together through this.
There's no doubt. It's tough right now. Did see this quote from Kawhi
Leonard post game as he's doing his presser, asked about the Paul George injury
if he has to miss time, Kawai said, next man up, We'll
see. We got a group of guys that still want to win. Yeah,
and so I agree with that. I do want to go back to
the zoobots point and how we we appreciate the call I appreciate the kind words
as well well. So when I said that, I was surprised that we
didn't see zoo bots. That was more about the offense. It wasn't about
the defense. I actually think the defense was great in that fourth quarter.
You know, I know Shay was getting into the paint, but let's be
realistic here. The end of the third quarter, when there was a center
on the floor, Shay was getting to the basket. There's a difference there.
He was laying it up versus having to take tough mid range or floaters.
I think that's what the Clippers were hoping to force, and sometimes he
made him. He had thirty one points. He took twenty five shots to
get there. I look at this and I say, I don't think zobots
would have made a defensive difference. I think that he could have made an
offensive difference. So that's really where we're looking at. I don't know if
you agree with me at him, but that's what I saw. No,
I he didn't have a great game in terms of gathering rebounds and being that
force in the paint. Plus, Okay, see likes to go small,
so there was that opportunity to play big and We've seen zoobots punished teams recently
against the Golden State Warriors who tried to play small against him, So I
completely see your point there. He was more effective really on that side.
Thirteen points five or five shooting guy was perfect from the field in this one.
Quickly, Wallace imply a del ray you're on Clippers. Stop with your
voice of the Clippers. Noah Eagle, Oh, thanks so much for having
me. No, you know, I'll tell I'm leaving the game now,
and before I say anything. The dunk, the three sixty dunk by PG.
Thirteen was just insane. And just to be there. You know,
I've been to so many Clipper games and that's one of the more memorable moments
than I have, and I'm just so grateful. There's just just to be
there with my grandson. Oh my god, just seeing that was insane.
My feeling is that questioning the call, oh taking our last time out.
I was just wondering if that was in your opinion, was that a good
use of the time. It would have been nice for us to talk,
I think about what we're gonna do instead of doing that. I was one
of your opinions. Yeah, it's a good point, Wallace and something that
I don't think anybody else has brought up yet, and something we haven't really
talked about yet, but something that deserves to be at least mentioned. So
instead of holding that final time out to Ron, Lew elects to use the
challenge to potentially see if he could get the ball back, and it was
out of Ron Russell Westbrook and realistically I'm not even sure it was, but
it was just it wasn't clear enough that it wasn't out on Russell Westbrook for
them to overturn it. And I think deep down he knew it, but
Adam, you said it on the broadcast live, it was a hail Mary
that he probably needed to take. One just to reassure his team, like,
hey, I've got your back, and two also, what if you
win it, then you're gonna get the ball back. Then you got a
two for one opportunity to go in front. If you don't get the bucket,
you can still get a stop. So it probably made sense in the
moment, but it was tough considering it was the final time out he had.
Yeah, it was just too crucial point of the game, and considering
how many interesting calls there were. There was probably even more of a thought
say, hey, you never know, you never know how this is gonna
come out. But ultimately, Noah, you had it right the first time
where the call was gonna end up standing it did. We will take a
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But we got a special edition with Noah Eagle tonight, your voice of the
Clippers. So let's get back to your phone calls. Pam in Temple City,
Bam, what's up? What do you want to say? No,
thank you? For having me, both of you. I really appreciate you
being on two. Noah Wallace covered Mike comment about the the challenge, but
my other comment is what is the deal? I was holding the ball like
that instead of getting points put into the bank, and we were we don't
have the time out because of a loss of challenge, and we run out
of time. That to me is playing not to lose instead of playing to
win. My other communists, I hope that's sometime during an extent at Clopper's
Talk, both of you would come on and give us your journey and how
you got into broadcasting, and we'll buy you the Clippers. And I'm sure
I speak for everybody when I say we'd been very interested enough sometime. God
bless you guys. I love you guys, and I love the Clippers,
and I thank you for having me. God bless you, Pam. We
appreciate it. That was touching. That was very nice. Shout out Temple
City as well, which I didn't know existed until a few weeks back.
The Clippers actually had a dinner over there. Beautiful area, absolutely beautiful area.
So shout out to you, Pam. And look you brought up the
final play something that we talked about it a little bit, but not a
ton. I don't think it was them necessarily trying to do anything. I
was a little surprised that they decided to hold it for the last shot.
You know, I don't hate the call because if you get a good look
and you end up knocking it through. And they didn't have a time out
anyway, so it wasn't like they could stop the clock in any way,
shape or form. But the way I looked at it is, Okay,
go to the basket, see if maybe you can get foul, See if
maybe you can somehow get one to go, and then rely on that defense
again, see if you can get a stop. But I'm sure that T.
Lou looked at it saying, hey, we just saw one of our
superstars go down. We've got one of our best defensive players who got ejected
midway through the second quarter. Let's just take our chances, and this is
going to be our best chance. They're not gonna have time to set up
their defense because we're not going to call a time out, and let's go
for the win. And I think that's what happened. And I think that
they just didn't get a clean shot, and Kauai didn't feel comfortable putting up
a not clean shot to try to win the game, and that's how it
all resulted in the one point loss. One more call here, Jose in
south Gate, Jose, you're on Clippers top a regular here. You don't
normally get a talk to Noah Eagle Jose, what's up? Hey? What's
up? Noah? What's up? Adam? I was actually just three my
son down. I'm like, Hey, is there anything that you want me
to tell him? And he wants me to let you know that he's very
going a new Clipper off it. But besides that that, it was a
tough blapa and we were at the game and we saw the Paul George three
sishy donks, we saw the on the donk open it out going on.
Let me just think to night, okay, tonight, okay, good night?
All right. So, yeah, but I wanted to say, Noah,
Adam you know, said about PG but I really did. I realized
that my voice, as you can see, I was yuming they didn't show
the replay inside the stadium. Yeah, I can't see what was long,
Like, did the land awkwardly or anything? Yeah? Yeah, it was.
It was a tough landing. It was one of those hyper extensions of
the knee, it looked like and had to be carved out of the arena.
So early signs not ideal, but like we said, we're not going
to speculate on it until we hear official word, which will likely come tomorrow.
We're hoping for the best today, yes, and I'm not saying hopefully
Roco could get some more plain time. It looked like Josh how I noticed
that Sga went like on an eight eight point scoring spree by himself. I
noticed that Roco was just a little off. Hopefully, you know, just
get so many minutes. But we got him back on Thursday. Noah,
thank you, Adam, thank you. Shout out Flaller. Let's up platfor
helse closen things out well with the Jose Jose Jose Jose before we get out
of here, though, we got a brand new segment. You know,
there's Katie's casual Corner. But tonight we got positive moments with the fake philosopher
big brother Jake with us what's up, y'all, what's up y'all. You
know, it was a tough loss tonight and we were hurting really bad over
it. We were all a little bummed. I know I was bummed.
I was in a bad mood. It's all right, you can tell,
right yeah. But there's always a silver finding in every cloud. And my
thought tonight, never regret a day in your life. Good days give you
happiness and bad days give you experience. Every experience is a good experience,
right you, Damn right? I love it. It's not going to learn
from every day. Baby. There he is, Big Brother Jake Warner,
Big Brother Jake Podcast. Check it out. We'll be doing this more often.
Positive moments with the fake philosopher, big Bro. Appreciate it, inaugural
voyage. Love it. I appreciate it. Thank you all right, Noah,
anything else before we close out here? No, love you guys.
Appreciate you, guys. Thanks everybody for calling in and listening all the time.
And tough loss. But what do I always say? Best part about
the NBA You get right back on the saddle on Thursday. You get another
crack at the same team. Nonetheless excited for that one tip time seven thirty
Clippers. Okay, see Thunder, We got your pregame show starting get six
thirty before we get out of here. I do want to thank Noah Eagle
for the extended addition and spec shull edition of Clippers Talk Tonight. Big thanks
to Brian Seaman, Ralph All our big Brother Jake Warner, head engineer,
Big Brother Jake Podcast in the Bank. We had Katie Newton, our producer.
Casual Corner with Katie who will return shortly. Thanks the callers, the
listeners. We're all hoping for the best with PG thirteen. Of course,
we love you guys. We'll talk to you on Thursday. Can't. This
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