The game is over, Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just been gone. Kahi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range.
This is Clippers locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look
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sir, are a bad man, Adam Ousley. Clippers unfortunately make it
six straight losses as they lose here in downtown Los Angeles one twelve to one
O eight to the Atlanta Hawks. Welcome into your postgame show. Coming up,
we'll get to your second half high lights of postgame box scoring. You'll
hear from the head coach, toron Low and the players. But first we
get back to your voice of the Clippers. Noah Eagle, No, you
said a postgame. Those miss threes, those wide open threes, kind of
a microcosm of what this game was. The Clippers started off one of ten
from distance, and they missed their last fourth reason this one that were really
good looks. Yeah, you really can't ask for much more. You know,
they get open looks, you just expect them to go down, and
they just haven't gone down during this sixth game, losing streak for the Clippers,
and that's it's obviously tough to have to deal with that, and it's
tough from a fan's perspective, from a coach's perspective, from a player's perspective,
because a lot of that just comes down to are you making your shots
that make or mis league mentality? And two years ago the Clippers made just
about everything they looked at and they were very successful. And last year they
had a decent percentage, they were pretty successful. Well, this year they
just haven't had that same touch consistently night in and night out. They've had
shooting explosions. Just tonight wasn't one of them. Ten of thirty from three.
It's just not gonna get it done. And on the season they average
thirty seven percent. So you figure one or two more of those go in,
guess what, you win this game. And that's great, we can
talk about that, and we should talk about that. I totally get it.
But at the same time, Clippers had an eleven point lead in this
game in the fourth quarter. Even with they're not one hundred great percent shooting
defensively, you've got to lock in and we've talked about that time and time
again. Defensive mentality. They had it for most of this game. They
only gave up one hundred twelve point to a team that averages one hundred and
fifteen on the season. But what I'm saying is in that fourth quarter,
when you need stops, you've got to find a way to get him,
and they just couldn't do so today. Yeah, and some self inflicted wounds,
two bad possessions, offensively offensive foul by a Vita zubots Milsa's brown misses,
both free throws. A lot of things went in Atlanta's favorite late,
but also Trey Young took over. He had a big three point a counter
one from Kawhi Leonard, and then down the stretch did most of the damage
for the Atlanta Hawks against the Clippers. Yeah, and that's not anything to
be ashamed of. Trey Young does that to every team in the NBA.
This is a guy who is All NBA last year's averaging twenty seven point four
points per game and ten assists this year. He's a star in the league.
And he might have some turmoil right now with the Atlanta Hawks, but
he's still a star and he loves playing the villain. And you saw him
right after basically bowing to the fans here, waiving them goodbye. That's what
he does. He thrives in those environments. So right when he felt they
had a little momentum down the stretch, he's gonna take full advantage of that,
and most certainly did. Look the Clippers the biggest key in all of
this again twenty one and twenty one. It's not like this team's ten games
under five hundred. Forty two games into the season, they're five hundred,
so it's a fresh start. Now you've got forty games remaining here that you
could do a lot of damage. And forty games obviously, let's say even
if you just in those forty games, let's say they go ten games over
five hundred, and those forty games, that puts them where on the season.
I'm trying to do the math in my head butt with them at forty
one. No one, Yes, it's tough, right, I don't know,
No, I can't do the math anyway, if they finished ten games
over five hundred, I think that would be like forty six and thirty six,
right, yeah, so forty six wins. I know it's not ideal
of what they're looking for, but you're building a little momentum at that point,
and you then look at that final twenty or that final fourt you I
should say, and you're thirty. Nope, you're twenty five and fifteen in
that final forty, or maybe you can go thirty and ten. As we've
talked about with those other teams, the reality of the situation is they need
to learn from their mistakes. The only way they're gonna do that is if
they learn from their mistakes. And that's really the troubling part to this point
is that it doesn't feel like they've learned enough from the mistakes this season and
adjusted. I mean, you get a huge game from a Vizza zoobots in
this one, seventeen points, eighteen boards, You get twenty nine out of
Kawhi letter Terrence Man was outstanding, fourteen eight and four fifteen from Marcus Morris.
I know he didn't shoot at his best and even Powell had fourteen off
the bench. Will you believe you should win that game and they just couldn't
figure it out because of your point self inflicted wounds towards the end of the
fourth quarter. So you have to learn from your mistakes. We'll see if
the Clippers can do that. They've got a five game homestand one game down
now four to go. Goals should be to win all four. Every game
is winnable for this team. We talk about it all the time. They
can win any game they play. So the next four games, lock in
and see if you can get four and one in this five game homestand it
starts Tuesday night against the Dallas Mavericks. Tip time right back here in downtown
Los Angeles at seven thirty. Well, I have Clippers countdown starting at six
thirty. No Eagle, great call has always my friend. Oh, I
appreciate you, and you know, I don't know. You didn't even ask
me or say that you're excited to see me in a couple of days,
Adams, I can't wait anyway, I'll see you right back here. Tuesday
night, Clippers fall one twelve to one oh eight to the Atlanta Hawks.
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a. With the Clippers down by fourteen. After a disastrous end to that
second quarter where they gave up four straight in a hurry at the very end,
which is some sloppy, careless play, they came out in the third
and looked focus. They won that quarter thirty five to nineteen. Marcus Morris
had eleven points, Kawhi Leonard had eight points. A Visa Zubots had six
points and five boards in the quarter. Terrence Man was everywhere. Nicholas Batoum
had a fine defensive play against Trey Young, who looked to have an open
fast break layup, and they were leading going into the fourth eighty seven to
eighty five. We've seen this before though, with these Clippers comebacks this season,
they come up short, and even with an eleven point lead about midway
through that fourth quarter, they weren't able to hold on. As Trey young
erupted. He had thirteen of his thirty in the last seven minutes of the
fourth quarter, and the Clippers just didn't have enough and couldn't hit an open
three late. They missed their last four threes after starting off this game one
for ten. Apparently that was a sign of things to come, because they
went oha four and their last four three pointers and they were wide open good
looks. Nick Batoum had one, Kawai had one, Norm had one of
Marcus Morris had one but couldn't get it to go late that would have gave
them a one point lead. Instead, they lose by four one twelve to
one oh eight to the Atlanta Hawks. Coming up next, looking for postgame
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Clippers came back down fourteen at the half to leave by eleven on a Kawhi
Leonard three pointer. Was six forty five left in the fourth quarter, just
to lose by four here at home to the Atlanta Hawks. Final score Hawks
one twelve, Your Clippers one oh eight and the losing streak is now at
six. For your Los Angeles Clippers who are looking for answers, welcome in
to Clipper Stock. I'm Adam Aslin. Eight six six ninety eight seven two
five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
You can also get to me on Twitter at follow Adam A coming up.
We'll have William Updyke from Clips and Dip on. We'll get to your
phone calls. You'll hear from Coach Low, who's at the podium right now.
But this was a game where you know, we go back to Thursday
night and we thought that was rock bottom with the way they performed against the
Denver Nuggets, and we thought they had a bounce back opportunity against Minnesota and
certainly back home in their safe haven, we thought they could get off to
a good start to this five game homestand and we talked about how important it
would be. But the Clippers, after leading by eight in the first quarter,
they kind of took their hands off the wheel a little bit. They
were up sixteen to eight, and somehow after one and getting off to a
quick start, they're only leading by one point. Twenty six, twenty five,
and they started cold from the outside. They were one of ten from
three. But there was effort, there was hustled, there was defense.
Terrence Mann into that starting lineup worked, he had himself a game. I
thought that was a great move from coach Low Noah Eagle n I just heard
him off. Mike just put the endorsement on it. It was And he's
out late in the fourth quarter because he played extended minutes all the third quarter,
I believe, the first half of the fourth. So that's starting lineup
that I think really had some good moments, especially in the third quarter,
where this Clippers team, you can say it started in the first quarter.
You can say they lost the game at the end of the second quarter with
just some disastrous place and I said that was a disaster on Twitter. I
had to call it out. What happened at the end of that second quarter
was just brutal. I mean, you have a switch where Kawhi Leonard is
on Trey Young and instead they get the switch so it's Marcus Morris, but
Kawhi was still shaded over his way to end the second and Trey finds John
Collins for just a wide open alleyup and then there's a bad pass from John
Wall in the entry pass and it ends up being a big throwdown I believe
by DeAndre Hunter. It goes from a ten point lead to fourteen about three
seconds. Just careless plays, sloppy plays, and we've seen it all season
long. The turnover number tonight isn't eye popping. It's at eleven. If
you average eleven turnovers, you'd lead the league in limiting costly mistakes. But
when they came for the Clippers, they were devastating and that was a moment
right there. But they still found a way to rally in that third quarter
after losing the second quarter and giving up forty one points where their defense look
lifeless out there once again. And second quarters have been an issue for this
team all season long. They get outscored by fifteen in the second, but
they come back in that third quarter and win it thirty five to nineteen.
Kawhi was aggressive. He had eight points. Marcus Morris, who started zero
four from the outside, knocked down three three pointers. He had eleven in
the third of Visa Zubots, who had a great game. I thought overall,
my player to watch had seventeen and eighteen. Just in the third he
had six and five. Nicholas Batoum made an outstanding defensive play when it looked
like Trey Young was gonna have a run out for an easy lay up,
and he chased him down and redirected the shot, and the Clippers led by
two. Heading into the fourth. It was eighty seventy eighty five and looked
to be in control of the ball game. And we're doing so even without
Kawhi to start the fourth quarter after he had already played up to thirty one
minutes. Norman Powell was in there, John Wall hit a big three pointer,
Terrence Mann took one coast to coast and got the and one. Moses
Brown had multiple dunks off of great feeds from John Wall, and the Clippers
absolutely looked to be in control of the ball game. Kawhi comes back in
first thing he does, hits a three, and there are up one two
to ninety one, was six forty five left, and then things just absolutely
turned back in the favor of the Atlanta Hawks, who closed out the game
on a twenty one to six run, and a lot of those twenty one
points were from Trey Young, leave thirteen of them. He countered with a
three after Kawhi hit that one to put him up by eleven, got to
the free throw line and then just went float goat with it, multiple floaters
down the stretch. After Kawai tied the game back up with forty three seconds
left at one oho eight, Trey Young hit another one, and the Clippers
and maybe we should have seen it coming. I'm gonna start to the game
from three, but they had multiple good looks from distance Kauai. Then Marcus
Morris, who lost his man relocated reset, had all data, put up
that three pointer and missed it. After just hitting three and some big momentum
shots in that third quarter, and even before that, I thought there was
good process with the offense, with Kawhi Leonard getting into the paint over and
over again. He had a kickout to Nicholas Patoon wide open, couldn't get
it to go. Another kickout from Kawai ended up with Norman Powell on the
far side for a corner of three, wide open, couldn't get it to
go. They missed their last four three pointers. They started the game one
for ten. They missed their last four and they were open good looks and
the Clippers now lost sixth straight and are searching for answers as his Clipper nation
right now. This is a cheap team with championship aspirations focused on the Larry
O. B And I'll give you the standings update. It's not pretty coming
up, but losing to a Hawks team that was giving up one hundred and
twenty one points at their last eight games were just like the Clippers. They
had lost six of eight. Something had to give in this one. Both
teams looked desperate for a victory, but Atlanta was just the better team late
and they got Clippers got out executed, and Strey Young turned it on.
Not only were they given up one hundred and twenty one points per game,
well round up and go once twenty two teams were shooting forty nine percent against
them, the Clippers under forty percent at thirty nine percent, and that ten
to thirty number from the outside and those threes that were miss late just killed
him backbreaking missus that they had to have where they could have had a little
more cushion before getting to a point where all of a sudden it was a
tie game once again after being up eleven. There were a couple other offensive
possessions there. Kawhi Leonard took a tough jumper, but it's Kawai tough to
fault that. Norm had a shot blocked of Itza Zoobas had an offensive foul.
Really one of the few plays that he didn't make after having a really
good bounce back performance after not looking like himself recently. Those seventeen and eighteen
boards seventeen points eighteen boards for boards for Big Zoo, But Clippers Good couldn't
get the stops when they needed to late Atlanta outscores them twenty seven O twenty
one. Couldn't make the shots, couldn't get the stops. Formula for disaster,
and that's what leads to them losing. They're sixth straight by four points.
When they led by eleven, was six forty five left in the fourth
quarter. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety
seven two five seventy is the phone number, Lenny in Inglewood. We couldn't
get to you on Friday. Lenny, You're on Clippers stop without amasson.
Hey, what's up at him? Bill Man? At this point they need
to seriously think about maybe just scrapping what they got well pulling the major trade.
Because if you think there's no team in history, man that's lost six
games and gone on to winning, saying, you can't point to a team
that's ever done that. Once again, I'm not saying that it's impossible,
but man, this this, this is this is a joke. This is
a joke. Grown. I mean, you know, these Cats are just
aren't playing. When I said at the beginning of the year something was missing,
everybody's saying it's too early, it's too early. You know some of
the mysteries. Cats band were old but won the third oldest team in the
league. And usually the first thing to go with the old team is their
defense because they don't feel like Jason young dudes around. They'll sit, they'll
sit in the corner and knock down knocked down the threes. And I like
Morris, but man, we don't have we don't have fast feat forwards,
man. And it's a problem. And like I said, if the Balmber
doesn't address it, it's gonna be embarrassing when he opens up at that new
stadium because I don't I don't see how he's gonna be able to sell half
defeats. This This is this is supposed to be our year, bro,
It is supposed to be our year. The Lakers won five in a row
without Aunt, without Anthony Davis, and we're going they just eat this Hawks
team by twenty If you if you want to compare right now and when it
reigns, it wars. If you're a Clippers fan, you don't like seeing
the Lakers on a winning streak while you're on a losing streak like this,
even though the Clippers have dominated them for Yeah, I understand the frustration.
I think you echo the sentiments of much of Clipper Nation right now, Lenny.
It's hard to push back against a lot of that talk. I appreciate
the phone call. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy is the full number, the best I
can give you right now. Boston Celtics were in the same spot last season
at twenty one and twenty one, and they were the best team the second
half of the season, and they turn things around. Doesn't guarantee anything for
the Clippers, just tells you it can be done. Teams like the Pelicans
got off to really slow starts and then they were one of the better teams
in the second half last year. Same with the Dallas Mavericks, who the
Clippers will see on Tuesday Night. But the expectations for this team obviously as
one of the favorites coming into this season, if not the favorite, and
it's insult to injury, and it just stings even more because you see the
Western Conference, you see how wide open it is, and the Clippers could
be the cream of the crop, but they haven't been able to take advantage
of the West being down, or being each other up, or there's been
a lot of injuries throughout the Western Conference. It's not just the Clippers.
Look at Devin Booker being out for Phoenix. Look at Steph Curry being out
for the Golden State Warriors, and that team has kind of rallied around it.
No Paul George tonight, Yes, no Luke Canard. That's huge.
But Atlanta was reeling. This team looked like it was teetering on the verge
of a huge blow up, and I think there was a chance to break
their spirit early on. Clippers didn't seize that opportunity. They're up sixteen to
eight, and they just weren't able to put together enough good possessions on either
end, and that has been the story. Even defensively. Now they're not
the same team that they were throughout most of this season. One twelve isn't
an awful number, but the Hawks shot fifty percent, and as good as
the Clippers were in the third quarter, they couldn't get stops the last six
minutes when they had to. They fall by four at one twelve to one
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seventy You hope this is the low point of the season. I thought it
was Thursday night. We thought it was Friday night. The hits keep on
coming, right now, When are the Clippers going to hit back? Is
it going to start Tuesday night against Dallas? Certainly a team they know very
well. We'll update you on the status of Luca Donchers. By the way,
for that game. But right now, Clippers trying to find themselves.
That's our identity this season. Not sure they produced one at this point.
Thought it was a great defensive team. Well they've slipped greatly on that end
now, so a lot of holes. It's whacker ball. You fix one
thing, something else arises. Looked like they were playing better offensively during that
stretch on the road, but defensively they gave. They were giving up points
left and right. More clipperstock. Next here on a m by seventy l
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Downtown Los Angeles to the Atlanta Hawks. Welcome back into Clipper stock. I'm
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Coach Lou. We'll get to William Updyke from Clips and Dip. But let's
go back out to the phone lines and get to Michael in La Michael,
you're on clipper Stock. Hey, Adam, how are you? I'll do
it all right, gonna do a live show here from downtown Los Angeles.
I can't complain too much. I'm at a point and I can tell you
I've been a the first fan since the nineteen nineties. The first game I
ever went to Doctor Reverse with the backup point guard to Gary Grant, who
was that ninety two, Yeah, ninety two, the Danny Manning Ron Harper
Arrow. But I'm at a point where now I just want us to have,
you know, I, in an ideal world, we get the number
two pick, and okay, you would get the number one pick, so
they don't, you know, pig slop, and that may wind up being
the best outcome from this season because this is just depressing. Well, that
idea is certainly depressing. I'm with you on that. For things to fall
apart that much, Michael. As I mentioned before, teams have pulled out
of tailspins like this and have gone on to winning streaks, and it's more
than possible because the talent is there. We know this. Whether or not
they're going to play the right way, or play consistently enough and really apply
the principles that coach lew was looking for, I'm not sure because we haven't
seen any consistency. They have been consistently inconsistent. It's an annoying a little
saying, but it's the truth. With this Clippers team, some of it
is understandable due to continuity. But they're now eleven and seven with Kauai and
I believe he's played I want to say fifteen to the last nineteen games or
fifteen to the last eighteen games. You know, they've been closer to hole
and I appreciate the phone call, Michael than they were earlier in the year
when they were playing better defense, and I know some of that defensive rating.
We expected a little bit of slippage because strength of schedule. They had
one of the easiest schedules, now one of the hardest schedules. The Atlanta
Hawks were not a part of those elite teams that they have coming up,
and they're gonna face we weren't counting on that loss. Weren't counting on Atlanta
playing better and out at executing. The Clippers stay on the stretch of a
game where Trey Young as fourteen of his thirty in the fourth, and he
can do that, but when you're up eleven with under seven minutes left,
you gotta close that game out. Kawhi was on the floor Foard. He
tied the game at one oh eight, but Trey Young answered and the Clippers
went for a three pointer. And I don't mind the plays are going for
a three down two because they got good looks. They have to hit those
shots. That's part of their offensive identity that we know, drive kicks,
swing and if you generate an open look and Marcus Morris has that shot coming
off the third quarter he had, you think it would go down. Kawhi
Leonard had a good look at the three two. So the shots were there,
But should shouldn't have come down to that is the question when you're up
eleven, and they had some really bad possessions midway through the fourth that I
already discussed in the first segment. I don't want to relive them. Let's
go out to let's see Eddie in Whittier, Eddie, what's up here?
On Clippers? Stop with at him Austin, Hey, what's up Adam?
Quick question? Number one six game losing streak? Is this the longest in
the two one three era? You know, the Kawai Paul Georgi era.
And then my second piece is, you know we have the talent, but
do we just not have the right conductor, you know, meaning the coach.
I know you've seen him do well before, but is it just burnout
of coaching? You know, we see that sometimes with with players and coaches.
It's just you know, I mean, you see here three. I
would hope it's not burnout. And I have faith in his philosophies and his
strategies and the way he can push the right buttons. We saw it in
Cleveland, We saw it with the Clippers in the playoffs two years ago.
Right now on the regular season, obviously things aren't jail and things aren't working.
I think there's just a lot of moving parts right now that has led
to the Clippers not develop any any sense of consistency whatsoever, a semblance of
consistency. It's been a brutal stretch and I think I'm guessing this would be
the longest losing street with the two on three connection. I'll have to look
that up. I'm not positive on it. Obviously. Last year Kawhi Leonard
was out all season, and they've had some other periods certainly where Kawhi and
Paul Georgeman out for long stretches. So I'll try to find that out.
But either way, it's it feels, I'm sure for Clipper Nation right now.
Unacceptable for a team with championship goals. Let's go to and I appreciate
the phone call Eddie Todd in Englewood. Todd, you're on Clippers stop without
them all. Hey, Adam, I just have one question. I kind
of want to know if you think that Marcus Morris Hello, went a little
closer on that last shot to spend it over time. I appreciate the phone
call, Todd young Man, good question it is, but I would lean
towards the side that I was just talking about. If you haven't open three
like that wide open, and that means a guy that's not even within six
feet of him because he lost his defender relocated. Reset had old day to
think about it, and sometimes you know players, players may overthink it in
situations like that. But we've seen Marcus come through and clutch spots for this
Clippers team. The seven three pointers he had in Game seven against Dallas a
couple of years ago come to mind. He wants those shots and I'm sure
he wants that one back. And I don't know if you can ask for
a much better look than that. You drive towards the basket. Well,
they had more guys in the paint waiting for him than we're out there on
the perimeter where he has been able to do damage and just lit them up
in that third quarter with eleven points, Clippers fall one twelve to one ZHO
eight. Still looking for coach slew postgame audio, I believe, but we
can go to Damien in La here, Damien, what's up? Hey,
triple A oh Man, tough loss, bro tough law. Thanks for having
me. Though, I guess the biggest thing and we just talked about it.
I was really, really, really and I'm gonna use a big word
here, I would be fuddled, okay, by we had six minutes left
in the quarter. In the fourth quarter, we're in the penalty and you
know, we're still looking for perimeter buckets that kind of rubbed me the wrong
way a little bit, you know, and then the other thing was on
a positive note. I really felt like Parent's Man had a positive game starting,
and so piggyback off of a prior conversation that we had. I would
really love to see if parents Man could have spinned into a more of a
leadership role like we talked about with the tomb. I would like to see
Batum, you know, hand that torchhop to him and have a young guy
be the spirit of this team. What do you think? No, I
think Terrence Man. You know, he is twenty six years of age and
I think has one of the higher basketball iqes in the league. Smart player.
That's why they let him guard multiple positions, learn multiple positions at times.
I think it led to him not playing as well out there because he
couldn't focus in on one thing early this season, early last season, when
he's just being instinctual and he knows his role a little bit more, it's
a little more defined. That's better for him. But I think guys follow
what Terrence Man says. I just at this point in his career, like
you have Kawai Paul George Nicholas Batoum. You have veterans there and Marcus Morris
who are leaders. I think Terrence and his time will come, but I
certainly don't think you know, guys would scoff at anything he said. They'd
taken a heart because Terrence has come up big for this team over the years,
the Game six performance against the Utah Jazz. He's played big in big
moments, and I loved how he looked out there today in the starting lineup.
You know, remember who his guy is, you know who his guy
growing up was. We had a Cardo, all of those Rondo right,
Hey, Rondo was a puppy, you know when they won the championship,
but they allowed him to mature into that role of being a leader on the
floor. And I see a lot of that in, you know, in
our guy man. You know, I see that he's taken a lot of
the notes from guys like Patrick Beverley, from guys like Rondo, and you're
seeing him, you know, put this into something that is completely different and
maybe completely better. The other thing that I want to say is about John
wall thought he had a better game today. I would love to see him
more in the fashion of, you know, kind of taking the breaks off
of him a little bit more. Sometimes I feel like we just really need
to let him eat and letting him get on his you know, lou Will
Jamal Crawford and just do what he does out there. Yeah, but you
know what, this isn't a team that necessarily needs a guy that is a
streaky score like that. They have great shooters. They have a lot of
consistent, efficient guys. John Wall at his best is getting downhill, finding
Moses Brown like he did in this game and has at times this season,
and making plays for others and then picking his spots carefully. I think he
did a very good job of that. I feel like over the last week
and a half or so he's been much better in those areas. And I
thought he had a pretty solid game after a really solid first half Friday night
in Minnesota. So I just don't know if you need that from him to
him to put up twelve shots or fifteen shots, or give him a green
light or anything like that. Sometimes I just want him to feel comfortable,
and sometimes I wonder about his comfort level offensively out there. I see him
giving a lot of efforts, you know, on the defensive kind, and
I applaud that because you know, the question mark for a lot of people
for John walk coming over. But you know, I just want him to
see what we can do to try to make him feel a little bit comfortable,
and I wonder if he's feeling hamfort It's just, you know, I
don't really worry about the guys too much. I just want everybody to settle
into their roles and really, you know, kind of put that championship hat
on, and I feel like we've been underdogged so long. You know,
it's time to step up the level of intensity and really know that there's nobody
that can hold it. We play with people, and we don't need to
let seems like Atlanta play with us. You know, thanks for the call
I had him. I've great to see you to night. Man, have
a great night. Good to see you too. Appreciate the phone call,
Damian. We'll take a quick time out here on Clippers talk and to his
point about Clippers not getting into the line late. You know, Norman Powell
had a tough game. He was three of thirteen for his fourteen points and
had a shot blocked late in the fourth quarter on big possession and not having
Terren's man out there because he had played heavy minutes. I think he played
the entire third quarter and then the first five or six minutes of the fourth
quarter. They could have used him, but they need him in the third
to get back into the ball game. So not easy decisions to make,
but I really think coach Lew may have found something here with him in the
starting lineup, because if you want drive, kick swing, that is a
guy who gets into the paint and can create havoc a little bit and puts
pressure on the rim and also has turned into a pretty darn good passer that
can find the open man when the defense converges on him. Clippers lose though,
one twelve to one, O eight to the Atlanta Hawks. They're six
straight loss. More coming up and we'll talk with William Updyke from Clips and
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a moment. But first, William up from Clips and Dip is joining us,
does the podcast with myself and Charles Mackler. Will Obviously you can say,
well, given up an eleven point lead is where the game was lost.
But obviously the Clippers were also down by fourteen and a half. They
weren't playing good basketball, and they haven't been consistent all season long, and
it's getting harder and harder to pinpoint the reason for some of these losses and
why they can't put it together quarter to quarter. How do you see it?
I mean, I just feel like we're still falling in some of the
same mistakes. We still saw three gods line up in this game, although
we did move away from it, like I did like the adjustment at the
third quarter and in the second half. But I just don't know what to
say. I mean, the offense is still stagnant. It's still bad.
And the thing that that's really frustrating is when the offense isn't working, it
seems like the defense takes a break and the offense it isn't working a lot.
So I just don't look, I don't know what to do with this.
I feel like I've been pretty upbeat through even the last few losses.
But what's the statistic. No team has ever won, No team that's gone
on a seven game or more losing street has ever won an NBA championship.
That's a tough one. Well, they're at six right now. I like
your point though, regarding you know, letting them their maker misses affect their
defense. That didn't happen as much early in the season when they seem to
be much more locked in and energized on the defensive end. And I think
there is something too that what just can't happen at the midway point of the
season anymore, Like these are mistakes that should have been cleaned up the good
process or the steps you have to take to becoming a champion. You would
think some of that stuff, you know, we wouldn't be seeing this late
into the season anymore. But I also like the move of Terrence Man into
the starting lineup. You brought up three guard lineups, and Reggie Jackson doesn't
end up getting back into the game in the second half, and I know
that's tough for him. Obviously, he was a guy who when he was
available, started the last one hundred and thirty games with the Clippers. But
he's a team player. I'm not concerned about that. But I think this
could be something moving forward with Terrence Man because it just makes sense to have
somebody in the game early on that can get to the rim, that can
get into the teeth of the defense, and that's really how their attack starts.
Yeah. No, I like the adjustment and then Karen's you know,
he brings the energy on both ends of the floor, which is great to
see. Yeah, it's just it's just hard to watch these games slip away
and just continue to watch this offense like really stagnate. I just don't know,
I just don't know. Now, I mean, I think coming into
this season. On the podcast, Clipps and Dip all three of us were
like, there's no roster move that need to be made, and now I
feel like maybe the Clippers need to get in the bow Yon sweet Steaks.
I don't know, something needs to happen, and I feel like, you
know, if the in game play adjustments haven't haven't happened thus far. I
mean, I know the sample size is still small with Kwai and Paul George,
but man, I think that if you're in the front office or the
coaching staff, like you gotta be scratching your head at this point and saying,
man, when are we going to turn a corner? Because you know,
you and I have talked about the Boston Celtics and how they started last
season where they ended up, but pre All Star Break, when that ended,
they were still eighteenth in offense and second in defense. Clippers have slipped
out of the top five defensively and they are still a bottom three team offensively.
And man, from what I saw tonight, what was the There's a
five minute stretch where they got outscored seventeen to four, Like it is looking
a little bleak to me right now. Yeah, And I do like the
comparison, but I stand when people pushed back and say, well, well,
Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum. You know those guys are playing back to
backs and right now Kawhi Leonard his right knee, he's not in a position
to do that. But this team does still have so much talent. Would
I be shocked if they made a move, if they consolidated some of the
talent. Now, we talked about that a little bit before the season started.
People were wondering, how are you gonna get minutes for everyone? And
we know with this front office they make big, bold moves, so you
know what's on the table with this group. But and just speaking to the
guys who are here right now, you know, I'm looking for positives tonight.
Maybe it's just because he was my player to watch, but I thought
of Visa Zubots was awesome. Outside that offensive foul, he was pretty close
to a flawless ball game. He had seventeen and eighteen and was once again
making a smaller team page just like he did in Toronto. Well in an
incredible bounce back game. Right, Like you know we've talked about, he
hasn't quite looked right on the floor for for stretches of time. But a
seventeen and eighteen performance, that's a great time. That's a great takeaway.
I still don't know about Moses Brown getting more minutes than Robert Covington, who's
got a D and P again, But Zoo definitely trending back upwards, you
know. But too, I thought overall was solid. The shooting just wasn't
there. But those are shots that he normally makes. Those were a lot
of great books. Him going one for five, you know, it definitely
hurt us, but that's not you know, that's not a constant. That's
not something that you can count on. I mean him and Morris from three
combined to shoot like twenty five percent, and that's you know, like that's
one of those things that those were good looks. That was some good process
there, that was moving the ball around. That was something I could see
improving things. It's just, you know, unfortunately they weren't rewarded for those
efforts. Tonight, Clippers lose one twelve to one oho eight at home to
the Atlanta Hawks. So we've talked about rock bottom going back to Thursday night
when they were down by forty three to the Denver Nuggets. Now, the
good news is you can say at least they are at home. They're not
traveling, They're not being in eight different cities and eight different days or whatever
it was in fifteen days, and that wear and tear is not going to
be there. But how much do you put into this game now, Tuesday
night against the Dallas Mavericks. How do you view this because obviously it's not
technically at must win contest, but it's about as important as a game gets
midway through the season. I mean, no regular season game, I guess
is a must win game. But yeah, you're right, this is about
as close as it gets. I mean, five game homestand you've already dropped
one. I mean you gotta come out at the very worst three and two
of this, right, like you know, if you're hoping to get your
season back on track. They're now they're now playing five hundred ball essentially.
Like I mean, no regular season game can be a must win, but
this is as darn close as it could possibly get for the Clippers. He
is William Updyke from Clips and Dip does it with Charles Mockler and myself.
I'm assuming we'll have a tripod coming up tomorrow night. Will thanks for doing
this a little clips and double dip tonight here on Clippers Talk. My friend
absolutely starting to be a little rainy it. Things will trend up though,
no doubt. And they have an opportunity here on this homestand look, they
take out Dallas Tuesday night, you get two days off to prepare for the
Denver Nuggets, who you know they'll be out for revenge against and they want
to make a statement last Thursday night. They'll have a chance to redeem themselves
on Friday. But first things first, they take on the Dallas Mavericks coming
up next. We will have postgame audio from coach Lou Will close things out
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Let's hear though from the head coach to Ron Loeu after this one it's in
the final six or so? What happened that he kind of got loose on
you guys? I thought he got downhill. We picked him up trying to
pick him up the worrying down but picked him up a little too high and
he was able to get down hill and get into the paint and kind of
call some havoc. But I mean, you know, he's a great player,
so you know he's gonna make some plays, and you know that's what
he did down the stretch. You guys try a new starting lineup today?
What did you like what you saw to that? And is that something you
can see for the first evil future until you get Yeah, I liked it,
you know, I thought, you know, just defensively, I think
defensively were really good. Just still you know, learn how to play with
teammate at the point guard position. But you know, PG gets back you
can help with that as well, you know, But I thought overall it
was pretty good. You know, just if you're going to close games like
that, just getting better with just trying to close games and making sure we
get quit of ball in spots. But overall defensively with that union, I
thought it was really good and some things we just gotta keep working on.
When it came to closing the game, like second half of that fourth quarter,
after having a living point lead, do you feel like the offense really
need to do better in order to maintain that lead. I thought we got
some decent shots, but then we had some turnovers too. We have some
turnovers that led the easy baskets for those guys, and then we had a
couple of them block at the riom that led to you know, it's basically
like a turnover, and they got out in transition got some easy baskets.
Like I said, we we we scrapped, we competed, We had opportunities,
you know, I think up nine, had you know, missed three
free throws in a row, we had a chance to you know, go
up seven or whatever. We had turned the ball over. So we did
some good things to get back in the game after being down. And I
liked our fight tonight. You know, I thought we did play hard,
you know, for the for the whole forty eight manus defensively, you know,
they they got some good players over there, but some things you got
to keep working on. But I did like what I see to what I
saw tonight, tie after and not like this losing the league like you guys
did. What's what's the mood in the locker room right now? I don't
know yet. Is there I guess, for lack of better phrase, is
there is there a somewhat of a worry in a six game loser trick that
you can lose some guys in the locker room trying to figure things out and
stuff like that. No, I don't think so. I mean, we
had professionals over in the locker room and you know, just test your character
and test who you are, you know, as as a person and as
a basketball player. And so I'm pretty sure everyone at locker would been through
some worse things in this, you know, And so tonight was encouraging for
me. You know, I know Atland has been struggling, but they asked
some you know, some really good players over there, and but seeing what
we did tonight, you know, I was encouraged. The second half.
You know, you went away with that from that three guard lineup that you
had in the first half. Is that playing those three guards together, that's
something you feel like it's it's kind of over at this point. It's a
large Yeah, we're just gonna you know, experiment with different guys. But
I think the three guard rotation, you know, not their fault, but
it's just it's tough for us defensively to get stops, you know, you
know, every night, and so you know, we just just gonna see
it, just continue to keep playing with it and just kind of go from
there. Obviously it's a night when and Luke isn't available because of injury.
When he comes back, you know, you have a log jam, a
guard. What do you see that shake up, that lineup, that rotation
is shaking out. Yeah, we have a plan in place, but until
Luke gets healthy, we won't see it yet. Brought up a couple of
the turnovers late. Nicholas Batoum was looking for Kauai, threw it into the
back court. Jandre Hunter gets the easy two points. Marcus Morris had one
late as well. So things we've seen this season coming back to haunt the
Clippers. Late in the ball game. They go ice cold from three,
They have some bad turnovers, they lose by four, what's end? What's
the positivity? Though? It' to night Morrison, long beach, Morris here
on Clipper stock with that, I'm awful, you know, Adam, I'm
a tough loss. They they're all tough losses. But I'm gonna tell you
something. The playoffs have already started for us. The playoffs have already started
for us. I'm gonna tell you something. The team needs a shock,
some kind of shock, and you know, we try to keep it property
of Adam. I'm gonna tell you, but you know what, I think
the coach should go before the players will because on paper, these guys should
be doing better. And I love my boys. I love my boys.
I don't care what's going on, but the fact of the matter is on
paper they should be doing a lot better. And if we're gonna hold somebody
responsible, you know, you always talk with the CEO, and I mister
Bamber with the coach. So to see what's happening with Dallas in the on
Tuesday. But don't be shocked, man. If the trip Clippers and the
ownership do something to shock this team, because seventh place in the West,
it's not what they was talking about doing. This year, Adam, so
I love you, Adam one on Tuesday, thanks for the phone call.
Well, I have the utmost faith and coach Lou big picture long term with
this team. I think he's the right guy. Appreciate the phone called up.
Morris. All right, Jose and Southgate, you will close things out
with positivity, yes, Adam, you know, like Morris said, those
are the boys and I even though we're on a six game Lucy Street,
I remember how nice we were looking when you know, when we were winning,
So I'm not concerned too much. You know, these next two games
he could be good wins. I'll forget about these these last YIX glosses.
Adam. It was good at seeing you today and Noah, that gave me
my something to talk about because you know the game. But besides that,
Adam, let's go Clippers. Jose, thank you for the phone call.
A good way to close things out tonight here on Clippers Stock. Clippers next
contest coming up Tuesday night against the Dallas Mavericks. Tip time at seven thirty,
Clippers countdown show starting at six thirty. Before we get out of here,
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