WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:06.080 Time for a postgame. Look, it's your La Clippers. This is Clippers 2 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:09.839 Locker Road, brought to you by Cedars Sinai, the official health partner of 3 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:14.960 the La Clippers, and by Patchonga, official travel casino of the LA Clippers. 4 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:19.160 Breaking down today's action with the pre and post game voice. If you're 5 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:23.600 La Clippers, they're locking in every game, every night. Adam Osland, 6 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:28.440 Well, the Clippers dropped to zero to two so far with James Harden as 7 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:32.759 they fall in Brooklyn one hundred to ninety three. Welcome into your postgame show. 8 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:35.920 I'm out a Moslin's still to come. We'll get to your final box 9 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:40.240 score and we'll have Clippers suck eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy 10 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:43.600 eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. But first let's get back 11 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:47.520 out to your radio voice of the Clippers at Barclays Center in Carlo Jimenez, 12 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:52.000 Carlo. By my count, the Clippers went one for nine from three in 13 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:55.840 that fourth quarter, and the one they made was inconsequential by I believe Norman 14 00:00:55.960 --> 00:01:00.920 Powell late in the fourth as they just struggled and settled for outside shots in 15 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:03.799 a game where once again turnovers and offensive rebounds would come back to haunt them. 16 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:08.519 Yeah, it felt like there was a stretch where they had three great 17 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:14.920 looks from downtown and couldn't get any of them to go at them. And 18 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:19.719 you're right, the offensive rebounding hurt him. Another play where roy O'Neil had 19 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:25.439 two offensive rebounds and then mckel bridges had a dunk to put it back, 20 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:30.959 and it took a six point game to an eight point game. I'm not 21 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:34.879 sure what you can ask if your head coach searn lu the message has been 22 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:38.719 the same, but till of the results at him and you just wonder what 23 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:42.840 can the Clippers trying to change? Is it more of them just still trying 24 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:45.879 to figure out how to play with each other. I think Kawhi still looks 25 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:49.879 a little timid on that offensive end. But PJ. Tucker was the shining 26 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.519 star of this one. Twenty one minutes or him three points, six rebounds, 27 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:57.599 three assists. He was excellent to go along with a block. You 28 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:00.319 knew this was going to be a process. I think you expect did the 29 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.640 Clippers to win one of these first two games and both times slow starts in 30 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.080 the fourth quarter? Do them in Yeah? And this was a Brooklyn team 31 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.599 that was without players coming into it, key players, and then they lost 32 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:15.840 Cam Thomas in the second half, and they battled and just looked like a 33 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:19.240 team that had a foundation out there where the Clippers are still looking to find 34 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:22.840 their identity and just looked a bit a little bit lost on offense, only 35 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:25.439 scoring ninety three points shooting forty percent. But I know it's a make or 36 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:30.199 miss league. Eight of thirty six from the outside. It is tough to 37 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:34.240 overcome cold shooting like that, or as you mentioned, they had open looks 38 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:38.240 but they couldn't knock them down. And then those turnoverse seven of their fifteen 39 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.439 coming in the fourth quarter, and they just came in bunches, Carlow. 40 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:44.919 They did come in bunches. The first five of them were before three minutes 41 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:49.639 came off the clock in that first quarter. It just didn't go their way 42 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:53.560 in the fourth, and I think for the beginning of that fourth quarter fell 43 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:55.319 like, all right, the ball isn't bouncing the Clippers way, they're missing 44 00:02:55.400 --> 00:03:00.240 threes. They had opportunities on the offensive end, but then so it's the 45 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:02.599 end of that fourth quarter. They weren't getting bodies on bodies and boxing out 46 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:07.319 and it just led to extra opportunities for the Nets here in this one. 47 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:12.800 You look going forward at him a lot to grow, a lot to get 48 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:15.439 better at. And look, it's only the second game of the James Harden 49 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:20.159 era and you got a whole lot of games to figure it out, so 50 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:22.240 you can take a lot of positive away from this one. I think it 51 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:25.280 beats a Zubox was strong in the second half to go along with the ability 52 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:30.199 from PJ. Tucker. I thought Bones Island started strong only six minutes today 53 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:34.439 for Bones, and they did a good job locking up Michel Bridges through those 54 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:36.840 first couple of minutes, but he hits the threes at the end. Gotta 55 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:39.479 get a hand up. It'll be interesting in Dallas because it's not like you're 56 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:44.120 going in there with a better opportunity to win. That's a six and one 57 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:49.599 Mavericks team taking on the Raptors tonight on the road in a hostile environment against 58 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:53.400 a guy who averages thirty two in his fifteen games against you and Luka doncin 59 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:57.000 youah familiar foe there in the Dallas Mavericksoud. The Clippers played him back to 60 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:00.479 back first round series back in twenty and twenty one not gonna be easy as 61 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:04.400 they are surging right now. Clippers got to find themselves. They drop to 62 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:09.520 three and four after losing by seven in Brooklyn. They go zero to two 63 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:13.599 in New York. That game in Dallas on Friday, tiptime is at five 64 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:17.839 thirty. We'll have Clippers countdown starting for you at four thirty. Carlo Jimenez, 65 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.120 my friend, great call as always. Let's do it again on Friday, 66 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:25.199 hopefully with the Clippers victory. Let's do it again, Adam, And 67 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:28.439 that's right, let's get a win. Coming up next, we'll get to 68 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:31.160 your final box score. Clippers lose one hundred to ninety three in Brooklyn to 69 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:34.600 the Nets. As you're listening to your postgame and the locker room show right 70 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:42.560 here on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network loading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers fans. 71 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:46.360 This is LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the 72 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:53.439 LA Clippers Audio Network. Well it's apropos. Clippers lose one hundred to ninety 73 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:58.319 three in Brooklyn to the Nets. Welcome back into your post game and a 74 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:00.240 locker room show. I'm Adam Oslin. Still to come on Am five to 75 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.720 seventy La Sports, We'll have Clippers talk for you. Eight sixty six nine 76 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:08.519 eight seven two fives seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five to seventy 77 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:13.480 as the James Harden era gets off to a rocky start. To say the 78 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:17.319 least, Clippers who get out scored in that fourth quarter twenty seven to twenty 79 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:23.759 two and just continue to settle for three point shots that were not falling all 80 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:29.040 night long. They ended up going eight for thirty six from the outside twenty 81 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:32.800 two percent is what they shot from three. And I talked about it in 82 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:36.720 the broadcast, but this team was settling instead of going through and running their 83 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:41.480 offense. Now, maybe the problem is there's not much offense to be run. 84 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:44.279 There's not much of a system to fall back on right now as they're 85 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:46.560 trying to implement James Harden. And to be honest, this Clippers team just 86 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:50.480 looks completely out of sources through the first two games. Offensively, I could 87 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:55.360 see it happening against the Knicks because of how good they are defensively, But 88 00:05:55.399 --> 00:06:00.439 the Brooklyn Nets were twenty fifth defensively in the league, pretty much atto five 89 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:06.199 defense, and the Clippers scored just ninety three points tough one Cliper Nation. 90 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:11.600 More coming up next, we'll get to your final box score and we'll get 91 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:15.879 to Clippers Stock and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. The 92 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:19.639 LA Clippers continue their hunt for a larryob They still want to get that Lario 93 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:25.439 b don't miss a moment all season long. This is the LA Clippers Audio 94 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:30.199 Network. Clippers fall in Game two with James Harden. They lose one hundred 95 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:33.680 to ninety three in Brooklyn to the Nets. They go zero and two in 96 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:38.079 New York. They'll be in Dallas taking on one of the hottest teams in 97 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:43.240 the league that has Luka, Doncis and Kyrie Irving with the Mavericks on Friday. 98 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.680 Clippers end up shooting just thirty nine percent from the field, go eight 99 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:51.079 of thirty six from the outside. That's twenty two percent after they went one 100 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:59.759 of nine from three in the fourth quarter. Nine of their eighteen takes in 101 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:03.399 the fourth half of them were three pointers. They were hitting their twos, 102 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:11.680 but they were settling for two many three pointers. They finished with sixteen turnovers. 103 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:16.160 They came into the fourth having just eight. They doubled it and they 104 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:21.480 had four turnovers in the first three minutes of that fourth quarter. Ugly, 105 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:26.240 ugly basketball right now, Clipper Nation, Well, we have a moment. 106 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:30.160 Let's pause ten seconds for station identification here in Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. 107 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:36.720 This is LA Clippers Basketball AM five to seventy KLAC Los Angeles ninety eight seven 108 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:43.399 KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio station. Your leading scorer ended up being 109 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:47.160 PG thirteen. He led everyone with twenty four points, but seven of twenty 110 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:51.279 shooting. After he started off hot, eventually cooled off, couldn't get anything 111 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:55.560 to go from the outside in the fourth quarter. Kawhi seven of sixteen, 112 00:07:56.120 --> 00:08:01.600 another off game for him, just seventeen points. Russell Waybrook six of eighteen, 113 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.000 one of five from the outside. Five. There's a lot of attempts 114 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.879 for us. He was taking some of those I think unnecessary three pointers that 115 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:11.279 we used to see with the Lakers, where they would dare him to shoot 116 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:15.480 and he would oblige, but they were not falling. James Harden though, 117 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:20.319 four of nine twelve points, five assists to five turnovers, so kind of 118 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:24.000 the opposite of what we saw with him and Russ last game. It was 119 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:28.800 Russell Westbrook who struggled with a four assist to four turnover ratio against the Knicks, 120 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:35.360 but he had eight assists to just one turnover tonight James Harden five assists 121 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.759 to five turnovers. They're not figuring it out right now in the starting lineup. 122 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.600 I know it's just game two, but the Clippers, when PJ. 123 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:48.679 Tucker looks like you're best player out there who was a plus ten somehow in 124 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:52.279 his twenty minutes in a game they lost by seven, that is brutal. 125 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:58.279 They have time, they can figure this out. We'll talk about it all 126 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:01.600 coming up next on Clippers Top LA Sports. If I thir you on hold, 127 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:09.360 just hold for me, Daniel, chill hold. I'm trying to talk 128 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:11.320 and work the phones at the same time. I will get to you. 129 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.840 But outside of Los Angeles, we are gonna leave you until Friday. Clippers 130 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:20.759 will be in Dallas. They don't get any easier taking on a six and 131 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:26.399 one Mavericks team and Luka doncic w there's been a thorn in the Clippers side 132 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:30.279 for years. The NBA's side. Really tiptime is at five thirty. We'll 133 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:33.399 have Clippers countdown for you starting at four to thirty. Outside of Los Angeles. 134 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:37.120 Talk to you then in LA, it's Clippers stop next. This has 135 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:43.399 been LA Clippers basketball really good on a multitude of levels. Don't miss a 136 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:46.799 moment all season long on their official hold. Join us next time on the 137 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:54.240 LA Clippers Audio Network. Hello Clippers fans, if you're gonna go for it, 138 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.480 if that's what you want to do, you do. Welcome the Clippers 139 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:01.879 Talk, your first chance to react to all the the action of Clippers basketball 140 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:07.360 doing to hear every episode, Subscribe to Clippers Talk on iHeartRadio or wherever you 141 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:11.960 podcast dition on Henmy right now your host on your home For the Clippers, 142 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.279 they were in attack mode. Adam Ousley, Now, I'm not gonna do 143 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:20.080 what everybody thinks I'm gonna do and just flip out. But the Clippers start 144 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:26.679 zero and two in the James Harden era as they lose by seven in Brooklyn 145 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:33.759 with a final score of one hundred to ninety seven. And this one was 146 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.279 worse than the game against the Knicks. I'll tell you why. Coming up, 147 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:43.559 we'll get your phone calls. Chuck Mockler from Clips and Dip will be 148 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:48.679 here. We'll hear from coach lou postgame. Clipper's goingt a lot to figure 149 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:54.679 out to say the least eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight 150 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.120 sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. You can 151 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:05.840 also reach me at Illow Adam a on X. I can understand how the 152 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:13.080 Clippers in Game one would lose to a rugged, tough Knicks team that will 153 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:18.279 just beat you up on the boards, play well defensively and bring you down 154 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:24.639 to the mud and the muck and play their brand of basketball. But the 155 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:31.759 Brooklyn Nets or twenty fifth defensively and they just don't have the personnel to be 156 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:35.200 great on that end. And by the way, they were without Ben Simmons, 157 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:41.399 Nick Claxton, Cameron Johnson, and they lost Cam Thomas for most of 158 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:46.919 the second half. And somehow the Clippers just lost this game. And I 159 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:52.879 say somehow, but I'll tell you how. It's not baffling to me. 160 00:11:54.720 --> 00:12:03.639 There's an explanation for this, and it's as simple as turnovers, offensive rebounds, 161 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.399 and settling for threes. The Clippers had eight turnovers heading into the fourth. 162 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:11.559 For the most part, they had taken care of the basketball, and 163 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:15.600 on a night or they couldn't hit anything that kept them in it. They 164 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:18.600 were down two, heading into the fourth by a score of seventy three to 165 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:24.480 seventy one, and they start the fourth quarter with four turnovers in the first 166 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:31.080 three minutes, couple from James Harden who had five of their sixteen turnovers, 167 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:37.000 meaning they entered the fourth with eight. They matched that in one quarter they 168 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:43.639 doubled it. Left the game with sixteen turnovers, leading to sixteen points. 169 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:52.159 The Brooklyn Nets entered the fourth quarter with ten offensive rebounds. They got four 170 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:56.720 more and a big put back dunk. I think it was Mikhale Bridges, 171 00:12:56.000 --> 00:13:01.480 who didn't even play well four to eleven, ten points after I think he 172 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:07.399 just had thirty five against Milwaukee Cam Thomas, who was back to his old 173 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:13.080 tricks torching the Clippers only played twenty minutes, left the game early in the 174 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:18.679 third. Ran into PJ. Tucker, who was the lone bright spot. 175 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:22.919 I would say he and Paul George at least through the first three quarters, 176 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:31.120 as Tucker was a plus ten in a game they lost by seven, which 177 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:33.679 is unbelievable, meaning I think in the twenty eight minutes he was off the 178 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:41.279 court, they were outscored by seventeen. There was heart, there was hustle. 179 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:45.279 I love what I saw from him, and I liked that Coach Lou 180 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:48.519 went to him early and often one of eats. Zubas wasn't performing and while 181 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:56.080 Zoo righted the ship to some degree after poor starts, and I know he 182 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:58.120 had four points early on in the first quarter, but defensively wasn't good enough, 183 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:03.679 wasn't playing big enough off considering Brooklyn was playing small, so Coach Lou 184 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:11.279 trying to match them. I sat on Clips and Dip yesterday that right now, 185 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:16.799 I don't care if you get bad process wins, if you win ugly, 186 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:20.200 if you win doing things that aren't sustainable, you just gotta get victories. 187 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.279 Clippers are three and four, and trust me when I tell you this, 188 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:28.639 because I told you this before the season started. This is the easier 189 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:31.720 part of their schedule. And they're three and four, and they're getting off 190 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:37.000 to a slow start, and they have no semblance of an offense right now. 191 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.759 With James Harden out there. Some of it's understandable, it's just his 192 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:46.559 second game. I'm not blaming anyone in particular. They're just out of sink 193 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:52.279 and they can't figure it out. And I mentioned the turnovers and the offensive 194 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:58.039 rebounds there where after giving up seventeen offensive rebounds to the Brooklyn or to excuse 195 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:01.240 me, to the New York Knicks. Understandable, they're great in that area. 196 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:03.639 They give up fourteen though, to the Nets, who are playing small. 197 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:09.399 There's no excuse for that. But also, the Clippers settled in the 198 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:16.200 fourth quarter for threes in a close game. They weren't down fifteen, I 199 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:22.639 believe ten, which was the Nets' biggest lead, and they were jacking them 200 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:28.519 up like it was a twenty point lead on a night where they couldn't hit 201 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:33.279 from the outside. Maybe they thought they were due, but half their takes 202 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:39.320 in the fourth quarter were three pointers. Eighteen attempts. They made eight of 203 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.399 them, only one of them was from distance at the very end. It 204 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:50.679 was inconsequential, meaning they went one for nine from three in the fourth. 205 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:56.000 I don't know why they were settling for so many. It could just be 206 00:15:56.039 --> 00:16:00.559 as simple as they're not running much of an offense right now, and if 207 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:02.759 a guy is an open three, I guess you gotta take it, make 208 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:06.720 or miss. League well, they were missing. They're cold. It's tough 209 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:11.360 to keep guys in rhythm, something coach Lou talked about recently. When you 210 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:17.279 have this much star power, how do you get everybody enough touches? How 211 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:23.399 do you get everybody involved and staying in the game with rhythm and timing when 212 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:27.960 you got this many mouths to feed. James Harden took just nine shots. 213 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:36.720 Russell Westbrook got double that up at eighteen. Kawhi took just sixteen. Paul 214 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:40.240 George was at twenty. He was hot. It was a good thing. 215 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:42.080 He had nine points in the first quarter. He had seventeen of his twenty 216 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:47.639 four in the first half. But he would cool off even though he was 217 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:52.720 one guy getting some buckets in the fourth quarter. It wasn't that game against 218 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:57.559 the Lakers where he just couldn't miss obviously finish seven or twenty two of ten 219 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:07.799 from three. This Clippers team is in a funk right now, and while 220 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:12.000 you could see it coming, and the hope is you're taking one step back 221 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:17.559 to take two or three steps forward when everything clicks in with James Harden at 222 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:19.720 the same time, there's got to be a sense of urgency out there. 223 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:26.160 And I'm not saying the effort was bad. They just couldn't execute even early 224 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:30.240 on their defense was good enough, or maybe Brooklyn was just missing some shots 225 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:34.640 because the Nets only scored thirteen points in the first quarter. Clippers only twenty 226 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:41.480 one, same that they scored against the Knicks in the first quarter on Monday, 227 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:45.480 and they were eight for twenty six to start the game. They were 228 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:51.640 cold. And I don't know what else to attribute it to, but trying 229 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:56.920 to integrate James Harden and make him a big focal point of this offense and 230 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:00.799 have him do what he does best, which is isolate run the show, 231 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:08.119 pick and roll found of Easa zubots early. But there's some growing pains happening 232 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:15.160 right now for this Clippers team to only put up ninety three points against the 233 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:21.000 next team that was deficient on the defensive end and missing some of their better 234 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:26.200 players, including Cam Thomas by basically the third and fourth quarter of this one. 235 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:30.599 That is tough. That is a head scratcher. We're gonna work through 236 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:34.640 it though. On Clippers Talk eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy 237 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:40.079 Daniel and Echo Park Daniel, you're on Clippers stock with that, I'm all, 238 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:44.160 yeah, what's up? How's it going at? Yeah, this one 239 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.160 was a little tough. I was on the freeway going back from Lombie each 240 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:51.799 I start to my watering haul caught the last like eight minutes, somewhere between 241 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:56.039 like five minutes and twenty five seconds to five minutes ten seconds. They think 242 00:18:56.119 --> 00:19:00.880 this shot up three to three pointers and absolutely victim didn't rebound. No one 243 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:06.960 was around the basket. It was a little disheartening to see that. It 244 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:11.079 makes you kind of wonder where the urgency is at. You know, it 245 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:15.400 only seems like russ is the one who's really hustling. And look, Daniel, 246 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.920 I think there was urgency. And when you have open shots, with 247 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:22.519 how many good shooters they have, sometimes you got to take them. But 248 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:25.759 there was a pattern going on all game where they weren't hitting them, and 249 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:29.720 they started to settle in that fourth quarter. Nine of their eighteen attempts in 250 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:33.839 the fourth were from distance. Yeah, it just seems that, you know, 251 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:37.160 the bread and butter like Kames Harden, you know, like I was 252 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:40.839 listening for where's the pick and roll of a? I mean, you know 253 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:45.039 what he did last year with the big man. I mean, it was 254 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.200 it was it was nice. I mean he's got well a newsflash, Joel 255 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:55.000 Embiid and Vitza Zubots aren't exactly the same player. I hear you. I 256 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:56.960 hear you, and you know it's funny because I mean, we do have 257 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:00.519 ty Lou. Couldn't there be kind of throwing it back to some kind of 258 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:03.519 like try and go hybrid. I mean, these guys are all skilled, 259 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:07.960 they could hit open shots, and I was just kind of wondering, where 260 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:11.960 what are we doing? What kind of office are we running? I don't 261 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:15.920 see any kind of rhyme or reason right now. Right now, it doesn't 262 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.799 look like they have much of a system or a foundation out there. It 263 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:23.079 looks like they're rolling the ball out in your turn, my turn. And 264 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:26.839 when they try to make plays for others, there's some nasty turnovers going on, 265 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:37.039 just ridiculous miscues at inopportune times in the fourth. Eight turnovers just start 266 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:42.440 off the fourth woefully bad, just like they did against the Knicks. Let's 267 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:47.680 go to Manny downtown Los Angeles. Manny, what's up? You're on Clippers? 268 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:51.680 Soft with that? I'm awesome. What's going on? Sir? First 269 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:56.559 time caller, so started to just make my presence ault tonight, you know, 270 00:20:56.079 --> 00:21:00.480 before I get into the whole dream cardet thing. The Clippers really don't 271 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:03.279 have an identity right now on offense or defense and That's probably the first problem 272 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:07.319 right now, because a team like Brooklyn should have been taken care of, 273 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:11.640 like you said earlier, you know, losing some of their main guys. 274 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:15.759 One of their main scorers only put up ten points tonight. Someone needs to 275 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:22.200 step up and set the tone and identity, whether that's going to be offensive 276 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:25.480 or defensive. I want to go back to James Harden let me say. 277 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:27.519 Let me say this. Defensively, they gave up just one hundred points. 278 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:32.400 The next shot just forty from the field. They were good enough to win 279 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:37.680 this ball game. Defensively, they were right. I hear you on that. 280 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:41.960 I just let me just say this about James real quick, and I'll 281 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:45.559 just call it a night. I had a really bad uliing in my gut 282 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:48.720 when the rumors are flying around that he wanted to come to LA, you 283 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:52.400 know, force his way out. You know, just look at the passing 284 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:56.079 streets. Guy. No playoff success? Who Genie's in the third or fourth 285 00:21:56.119 --> 00:22:00.519 game of the series. Man, He's gotten to the conference finals a few 286 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:06.000 times. That's playoff success. He's gotten to an NBA Finals with the OKC 287 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:08.400 Thunder, that's playoff success. We can have our opinions, but I'm not 288 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:14.359 gonna let him get in the way of facts, agreed. All I'm saying 289 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:19.480 is this, James to play with these other guys because pipe turnovers is a 290 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:22.039 lot, and I know it's one game. I'm not gonna kill the guy, 291 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:26.480 but Geeza swallows down. If you're gonna come to La too much time 292 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:30.720 to be turning the ball over, I agree with you. And he had 293 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:34.039 a couple to start off the fourth quarter, and some of it could just 294 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:40.359 be they gotta build up chemistry familiarity out there on the court. But it 295 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:45.119 was ugly. It was just a really ugly bad loss by the Clippers that 296 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:47.960 I thought. I really thought they were gonna respond in a big way because 297 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:51.880 Brooklyn's defense just isn't that good and with all the guys they're missing, they 298 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:56.920 weren't great offensively either. Holding a team to one hundred points in today's NBA 299 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:00.200 usually amounts to a win. I think the word team in the league last 300 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:06.799 season offensively average one O four Clippers held them to one hundred. No Cam 301 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:10.119 Thomas throughout most of the second half. You just gotta find a way to 302 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:11.880 win that ball game. I don't care if it's an ugly win, right 303 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:17.319 now, but you gotta stack them against teams that you're better than and far 304 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:21.720 more talented then, especially with how many guys were missing tonight by the Brooklyn 305 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:26.720 Nets. Clippers lose one hundred to ninety three. Coming up back to your 306 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:30.400 phone calls eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy oh. Morris 307 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:33.160 and long Beach called in. They'll have some positivity sewn and Inglewood not so 308 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:38.759 sure. Javier and the Hobber Heights a wild card wild card line. Clippers 309 00:23:38.799 --> 00:23:44.039 dropped three and four oh and two so far with James Harden. Searching for 310 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:48.519 an identity, I have not found it yet. More Clippers sock next year 311 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:56.279 on FI seventy, LA Sports loading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers fans. This 312 00:23:56.440 --> 00:24:00.640 is LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to the La Clippers on the LA Clippers 313 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:07.759 Audio network. Clippers lose one hundred to ninety three in Brooklyn. They're owing 314 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:15.839 two so far with James Harden and just look indecisive, lacking conviction out there 315 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:18.119 on offense. Maybe guys not wanting to step on each other's toes, not 316 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:23.480 being aggressive enough at times, being two unselfish can be a problem too. 317 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:30.920 But eight turnovers on the fourth quarter and attempting nine to three pointers in the 318 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:34.559 fourth and settling for long threes in a close game where they could have got 319 00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:40.279 to their spots and just chipped away at it. Even down by ten, 320 00:24:40.440 --> 00:24:45.160 there was plenty of time left, but the Clippers were rushing things out of 321 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:51.640 sink, out of sorts, and they ended up giving ten steals away to 322 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:53.759 the Brooklyn Nets, who averages five steals per game. They had ten tonight. 323 00:24:55.359 --> 00:25:00.960 They were last in steals per game. Clippers helping the position, making 324 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:04.519 it easier for them tough to overcome. Welcome back in the Clipper stock. 325 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:10.319 I'm at a Oslin eight six six nine, two seventy. We will have 326 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:14.759 Chuck Mockler on in a little bit, looking for postgame audio from coach Lou. 327 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:18.599 But let's go to sew and Inglewood. Shawn, you're on Clippers stock 328 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:23.559 without a massen. Yeah, and thank you. Well. I gotta say 329 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:29.559 I was so upset Monday I didn't want to call. And after watching that 330 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:37.160 game and watching this game again, I don't care too much about the turnovers 331 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:42.119 as much as not being able to keep the other team off the offensive boards, 332 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:47.799 because I think that just killed them of the morale of the other team 333 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:53.960 playing defense, and just pretty much just because you have a small team doesn't 334 00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:59.559 make you the Golden State Warriors. You have to learn how to distribute that 335 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:03.799 ball. Some people are not moving without the ball. They just don't look 336 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:07.400 like they have the continuity right now. And some of that is to be 337 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:11.079 some of that is to be expected, right, Sean. I agree with 338 00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:14.799 your points, but some of that is to be expected just two games in 339 00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:18.400 with James Harden. But one thing I don't like, if you think about 340 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:22.319 it, we got to start in power forward the six foot seven and his 341 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:27.039 backup is six foot five. Okay, that's just not going to work. 342 00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:32.759 By the fourth quarter, as you have seen in all the games, they 343 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:37.279 start really giving up a bunch of offensive rebounds because they're worn out. Well, 344 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:41.640 here's my problem with that tonight, Sean. The Brooklyn Nets are playing 345 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:45.279 small. They don't have Claxton out there, So, yeah, the Clippers 346 00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:47.759 are going to play small some. But even when they weren't with the Vitza 347 00:26:47.799 --> 00:26:52.119 Zubas, at times they were still getting out rebounded. Yeah, but they 348 00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:56.000 were the second guy is what I'm telling you about. You see, but 349 00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:00.799 they weren't even playing a good rebounding team to like that, it's worse. 350 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:04.880 It's even worse when you're taking on a team that's going small on the Brooklyn 351 00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:08.200 Nets and they beat you up on the offensive glass. It's one thing to 352 00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:11.039 get out rebounded by the Knicks, that's what they do. It's another to 353 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:15.519 see the Nets do it when they got out rebounded by Utah. I get 354 00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:21.960 rebounded Utah's big, though. That makes sense. But the point I'm making 355 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:26.839 is that the mentality of a six five sixty six guy is not I gotta 356 00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:30.920 block out every time. It happens every time in the fourth quarter they wear 357 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:37.079 down, they stop blocking out because they're not power forwards. Okay, that 358 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:40.519 makes a big difference. And I kept saying the same thing over and over 359 00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:44.640 and basically the gangs that we see. But but Jean, let me ask 360 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:48.240 you this. Let me ask you this. The Nets, John, you 361 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:51.240 don't listen. You don't listen. Sometimes you like to talk, but you 362 00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:53.960 don't like to listen. And I appreciate you, but it's not your show. 363 00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:00.440 The Brooklyn Nets don't have size, and they were winning the rebounding battle. 364 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:04.440 So is it just about playing position basketball where you have a quote unquote 365 00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:07.920 power forward or is it about effort out there, which was I think lacking 366 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:14.640 at times from the Clippers. I agree, I mean Brooklyn was doing it. 367 00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:18.640 They were rebounding, They played small the entire game, and they got 368 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:25.200 fourteen offensive rebounds and a big put back dunk by Michale Bridges. Is is 369 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:29.440 he a huge forward? Is he a big center? No? No, 370 00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:32.920 I agree with you, Adam. But one other thing I wanted to say 371 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:38.319 real quick. I also watched Philadelphia and ironically they got six ex Clippers on 372 00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:44.559 that team. Now maybe Boston to night. I mean that's the same. 373 00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:48.119 Is it ironic? It means unexpectedly amusing they made trades with them. Of 374 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:52.400 course they have a lot of Clippers right now. I get it. I 375 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:56.240 get it, Sean, And it's been frustrating so far. And I see 376 00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:59.960 your point definitely to a degree. If the Clippers are gonna run this Star 377 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:03.519 darading line about there where Kawhi Leonard's playing power forward, they have to do 378 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:07.119 it collectively. I've seen them do it plenty in big games in the playoffs, 379 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:11.359 but I don't know how sustainable it is over an eighty two game regular 380 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:14.839 season. How do you feel about that? I agree, I agree, 381 00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:18.039 and right now they don't have Mason Plumbley, so we do have to point 382 00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:21.440 that out. They are under man. They lost Big plumb for we don't 383 00:29:21.480 --> 00:29:25.960 know how long he's out indefinitely mcl sprain left knee, Sean. I appreciate 384 00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:26.960 the phone calls always. We'll do it again on Friday. All right, 385 00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:33.119 so you're here, yeah, Morris and Long Beach ather ends of the spectrum. 386 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:36.440 Please, Morris, what's up? You're on Clipper stock? You know, 387 00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:38.240 you know, you know you're still all my son did? Oh love 388 00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:41.680 it. I'm gonna call the police on you. The Clippers. All they 389 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:45.000 need is just to play with some desire. That's the only thing is rebounding 390 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:48.079 is desire. You know. They need to get a sense of urgency about 391 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:51.839 They've got to tell it. Anybody argue in mad I would like to see 392 00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:53.240 a little bit more from a boy man, but he just got back this 393 00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:56.599 afternoon. But they just need to kick in some desire, you know, 394 00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:00.799 one of them New Rockney kind of speeches. Because they all the talent that 395 00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:03.880 they need, they just need to play with a sense emergency and get the 396 00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:06.960 desire up there and then they'll be okay if they can compete with anybody. 397 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:10.400 Dember's taken off, and I know that Philly is doing good, like the 398 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:12.559 previous caller talked about it, and Golden State's doing good. But the Clippers 399 00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:15.960 in love with everybody. But it's like back in the days of playing at 400 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:19.240 the parker at them and who wants it, who wants it the most? 401 00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:22.839 And right now the Clippers are you know, like you said, they don't 402 00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:25.559 want to step on Nobody's told here's your ball. No no, no, 403 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:27.519 no, no, no no. This is one time when I'm not into 404 00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:30.200 there too much shipping in a team sport, but this is one of them 405 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.079 times the folks might have to get a little selfish man straight up, you 406 00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:36.599 know, and get hard out there on that pick and roll at the top. 407 00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:38.200 Everybody saw him do that as a master last year. Get four or 408 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:41.440 five plays for them. But all they got to do is just play with 409 00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:44.440 some desire and and they'll be good to go, you know, just just 410 00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:47.799 want it and they'll be all right, Adam, don't don't, don't throw 411 00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:49.960 the baby out with the water just yet. Okay, all right, I'm 412 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:55.000 with you, Morris, Like it's one thing to say they just don't match 413 00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:59.119 up because they lack the personnel Against a team like the Knicks. It's another 414 00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:03.000 to go up against It's another team that's playing small and have them beat you 415 00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:06.200 up for big offensive boards in the fourth quarter where they had four of them 416 00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:11.559 in a big put back dunk by Mikhale Bridges. It's one thing to lose 417 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:17.079 it to the Utah Jazz who played big, the Knicks, the Lakers. 418 00:31:17.799 --> 00:31:22.720 It can't happen against Brooklyn. That's not a personnel issue. The nets are 419 00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:29.559 small tonight and they still got critical boards. But you mentioned a guy taking 420 00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:33.319 over late and somebody just taking the reins and saying, Okay, we haven't 421 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:37.359 played well, but I'm gonna get us that ugly victory right now. I'm 422 00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:41.759 gonna figure out a way. I was hoping it was gonna be Kawhi Leonard 423 00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:48.640 when he entered the game in the fourth quarter. The Clippers were down by 424 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:53.400 ten already. I was hoping there's gonna be a time out earlier. But 425 00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:56.720 the first shot he gets up he entered the game at six forty two mark 426 00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:06.519 of the fourth for Vitza Zubats. The first shot he gets up, still 427 00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:13.599 scrolling, still scrolling, still scrolling. My goodness, all right, I'm 428 00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:19.880 looking at one thirty one. Kawhi Leonard may have gone five minutes from re 429 00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:24.839 entering the game in the fourth to attempting a shot in the fourth quarter. 430 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:30.720 You're down ten, was six forty two left in the fourth quarter. Kawhi 431 00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:35.079 Leonard comes in, and I see Paul George take a shot. I see 432 00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:39.079 PJ. Tucker, Norman Powell, Paul George again, PJ Tucker again, 433 00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:43.960 and and one Russell Westbrook takes a shot. Paul George goes to the free 434 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:49.400 throw line for a couple. By the time Kawhi Leonard, okay, he 435 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:53.319 made one at one fifty five, so we're talking four and a half minutes 436 00:32:53.680 --> 00:33:00.839 before he took his first shot coming into the fourth. I hope these are 437 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:05.839 issues that get rectified quickly, because I agree with Morris. Somebody's got to 438 00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:09.640 take control and it needs to be your best player. And he came alive. 439 00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:13.279 I think he had nine points in the third quarter, looked much better, 440 00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:16.440 but then doesn't get back intill midway through the fourth and doesn't take a 441 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:22.440 shot till four and a half minutes back in in that stint, Clippers lose 442 00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:24.599 one hundred and ninety three more of your phone calls coming up. We'll take 443 00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:28.599 a quick time out. Charles Mockler will be here too. Clippers dropped to 444 00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:32.079 three and four on the season. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five 445 00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:36.400 seventy eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. 446 00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:38.240 I'm in. I'm Mosland, and this is clipperstock here on the M five 447 00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:45.920 seventy LA Sports loading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is LA Clippers 448 00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:52.079 basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio network. 449 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:58.039 I'm picturing Toby and Bobie dancing right now in the layup line pregame. Shout 450 00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:01.599 out far bought Essensharry. I think he's still got the tweet The video pinned 451 00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:08.920 on X Clippers not dancing though. Tonight they lose one hundred to ninety three 452 00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:15.519 in James Harden's second game, when the Clippers look even less together. Five 453 00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:21.239 guys on a string. And that's what's concerning. You have a day off, 454 00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:23.920 you watch film from what happened against New York a very good defense. 455 00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:30.320 You're playing a bad defense, and the offense looked even worse. That is 456 00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:35.679 difficult to rationalize and work through. But we're trying here on Clippers Talk. 457 00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:38.000 Welcome back in. I'm Adam Auslin eight sixty six nine eight seven two five 458 00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:43.159 seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. The simple answer, 459 00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:47.039 Opchams Raiser, it's just Game two with James Harden is gonna take time, 460 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.639 and they're gonna take their lumps along the way until they figure it out. 461 00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:54.880 They have the guys that do that, they have the talent to do that. 462 00:34:55.440 --> 00:35:00.519 It's just a little bit disheartening and discouraging when they're playing a completely depleted 463 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:05.199 Brooklyn Nets team that didn't even get a good game from Michale Bridges. They 464 00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:09.440 only score one hundred points and the Clippers only score ninety three, missing open 465 00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:15.320 three after open three in the fourth Scott North Hills, you're on Clipper stock 466 00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:19.480 without a mas and what's up? Well there. I don't really appreciate you 467 00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:23.000 taking the call, and I appreciate your work. I wanted to get your 468 00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:28.920 opinion on a couple things. I'm not the biggest James Harden fan now. 469 00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:35.159 In fairness, obviously everything you're saying is correct in terms of it's gonna take 470 00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:40.519 time. You can't realistically expect these Cats to after a couple of games, 471 00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:46.199 have everything ironed out, and the people who have these expectations, I just 472 00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:50.719 think it's absurd. No, but I will say this, Scott, not 473 00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:52.679 to cut you off, and I'll let you come back in here, but 474 00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:55.360 I will say this, you still have to have a sense of urgency. 475 00:35:55.639 --> 00:36:00.000 You still have to find ways to win ball games while you're building and now 476 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.800 not playing your best. They have enough talent to do that right now, 477 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:08.719 and it hasn't happened the last two nights. I agree completely. What I 478 00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:12.960 want to get your opinion on Adam and see, I'm not a James Harden 479 00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:17.920 fan, and the reason I'm not is you're looking at his last three scenarios 480 00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:24.039 there where he plays his way out of Houston, he plays his way out 481 00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:30.400 of Jersey. He can't get along with people in Philly, and he plays 482 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:35.599 his way out of there. And more than anything, I believe these and 483 00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:39.360 I hate to use the C word in the playoffs, but I believe we 484 00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:45.280 have about a good ten or twelve exhibits by now to prove the point that 485 00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:53.320 in the very biggest games. And I understand he had two phenomenal games last 486 00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:59.440 year in the playoffs. But if you look at the record and the really 487 00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:04.400 big game, the Game six is the Game sevens. He's had so many 488 00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:13.760 opportunity and not one time, Adam, I cannot point to one exhibit where 489 00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:19.800 he even played ordinary. That's the problem I had with picking him up. 490 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:25.840 I like last year's team better. I feel injuries were the compromising factor last 491 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:31.360 year, And obviously I certainly hope this whole thing works out, But I 492 00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:36.159 wanted to get your opinion on what I just said. Well, when you 493 00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:40.000 talk about James Harden and his playoff woes, you're talking mostly about close out 494 00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:45.840 games. Because if you look big picture, he's had sixteen instances where he's 495 00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:51.079 averaged twenty five points or more in a playoff series. That's unbelievable, that's 496 00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:55.960 elite. But he has come up small at times in those big closeout games, 497 00:37:55.960 --> 00:38:01.280 a Game six or a Game seven. He's also had the unfortunate timing 498 00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:05.480 of running into one of the best teams ever in the Golden State Warriors with 499 00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:09.559 Kevin Durant, after they had just won seventy three games the year before without 500 00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:14.880 him. Some of it's been unlucky, but it goes back to after having 501 00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:19.440 a Great Western Conference Finals in twenty twelve when he was the third option with 502 00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:22.199 the OKC Thunder. He then struggled in the finals against Lebron and the Miami 503 00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:27.119 Heat. Now, I still think as a third option, as a fourth 504 00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:30.440 option at times, depending on who's hot for this Clippers team. I'm just 505 00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:36.079 not that worried about James Harden in a big playoff game because Kawhi Paul George, 506 00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:37.679 those are your two superstars that are going to take the majority of the 507 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:44.119 shots and have the most amount of pressure on them, and that alleviates some 508 00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:47.559 of it on James Harden. Every circumstance is a little bit different with the 509 00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:52.199 last couple of stops from him, and he's back home now, so there's 510 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:57.639 a lot working in his favor. It feels like this is maybe his last 511 00:38:57.639 --> 00:39:02.119 opportunity to play for a team and be superstar on an elite squad that has 512 00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:05.800 a chance to win a championship. Scott, do you hear me on that? 513 00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:08.880 I certainly do. And last thing out him, He's been very gracious 514 00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:14.239 with your time. I think as it goes along, you're gonna see Harden 515 00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:20.159 and Westbrook playing less and less at the same time. Yeah, I agree 516 00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:25.440 with you, Scott's That was my biggest concern coming into this new configuration with 517 00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:30.440 the Big four, just there's some redundancy with those two players in their game 518 00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:36.079 and needing the ball in their hands. And while James Harden can play off 519 00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:38.519 ball, it's not what he's best at, not what he's known for, 520 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:46.360 not exactly maximizing his talents of why he became an MVP. I understand you 521 00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:50.960 want Russ to have the ball in his hands because off ball he doesn't offer 522 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:53.760 as much. He's not a great shooter and took some tough three pointers in 523 00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:58.079 this one missed. I want to say his first three. I ended up 524 00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:01.199 one for five. I know we started off the year hot from the outside, 525 00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:04.840 and last year he shot thirty six percent from three, but that's just 526 00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:08.840 not his game. I'm wondering what's going to happen as we move along and 527 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:13.760 Terrence Man gets healthier, and it sounds like he is healthier going out of 528 00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:17.519 this game than he was coming in. That's encouraging. Javier in Lahaber heights 529 00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:22.000 here on Clipper Stock with that Amasen, what's up out here? It was 530 00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:24.360 up? Thank you for taking my call real quick. I mean, all 531 00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:29.320 the callers said what I was gonna say, uh, just in general here 532 00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:34.360 and I just you know, and you brought a good point. The Nets 533 00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:37.119 are not a big team. There's no way they should have got so many 534 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:40.000 offensive rebounds. I mean, this is a fourth quarter. I mean this, 535 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:44.960 this is a quarter that you need to rebound, box out and they 536 00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:47.159 didn't do it. And then the turnal was it just it was just like 537 00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:52.920 here we go again. And at this point, I mean, what do 538 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:55.800 you what do you do? Adam? I meant, vier you point something 539 00:40:55.800 --> 00:41:00.519 out there that Javier, you pointed something out there that's interesting thing to me, 540 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:02.480 and we'll come back to you here in a second. But the other 541 00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:07.840 problem is when you settle for long three pointers and you're missing, they turn 542 00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:12.840 into long rebounds. So even if you are underneath the basket in good position, 543 00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:17.360 it doesn't matter. Sometimes the ball is ricocheting off the rim and it 544 00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:22.519 turns into an easier board for a smaller player out there. Do you hear 545 00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:24.039 me, Harveer, I mean, but yeah, I hear you. But 546 00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:29.440 I mean it just seems like it just you just have to show some great 547 00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:30.800 man. You just got to go in the walk and get that ball. 548 00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:35.719 I mean I just I mean, at this point, it's like I remember 549 00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:38.280 Adam to have four days after the Lakers game, to have four or five 550 00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:43.199 days to to you know, work the team out, and what happened in 551 00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:49.280 New York lost by what twenty and then today it was even more disappointed at 552 00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:52.159 this point, Adam, I mean, you can't blame you can't blame Bomber, 553 00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:55.760 you can't blame la Ran. So who do you have to So who's 554 00:41:55.760 --> 00:42:00.559 the only one that well, who's on the spot. I'm not going to 555 00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:04.360 play the blame game yet, the blame game, not yet. It's only 556 00:42:04.360 --> 00:42:07.800 two games. Yes, Coach Lou, I think you're pointing towards him. 557 00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:12.360 There's a lot of responsibility there for him to figure out how to make this 558 00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:15.639 thing work. The good news is, look, I believe he's the right 559 00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:22.000 guy to make these personalities mesh, these different games, different styles of play 560 00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:23.920 mesh. If anyone can figure it out. I do think it's Coach Lou, 561 00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:27.920 and he acknowledges going to be a process and it's gonna take time, 562 00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:31.239 but they will get there. So two games in a very disappointing loss against 563 00:42:31.239 --> 00:42:35.800 Brooklyn, I know, because I feel like when you have that much talent. 564 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:40.599 You should just figure it out at some point and talent should overcome uh, 565 00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:45.360 not having that foundation yet or system implemented or familiarity out there. It 566 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:50.039 didn't happen though, tonight out of here. Yeah, all right, thank 567 00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:52.000 you, thank you for taking a mile. Appreciate you. All right, 568 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:54.480 we's off Friday. I'm sure Marvin in downtown Los Angeles. Marvin, you're 569 00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:58.719 on Clipper style with that a maaz on. What's up? Hey, Adam? 570 00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:01.800 Thank you for the whole game. We should be happy that because pardon 571 00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:06.800 during the first season. That's the second half season, because that's where the 572 00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:10.840 urgency is. Because they lived the playoffs, and by them, they should 573 00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:15.360 have already figured out things after the All Star game. Iron out things at 574 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:22.039 all I rather than the injury free which they are all and take their buns 575 00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.679 and bruises figure it out. Then the injured did not play at all. 576 00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:30.559 When was the last time we saw all of them played together injury free? 577 00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:34.880 So it's gonna take time to gel just get We just got to get in 578 00:43:35.079 --> 00:43:39.639 time, the patience and don't figure out by the second season or even earlier 579 00:43:39.639 --> 00:43:45.960 than that. And second, the need was a power forward, not James 580 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:51.320 Harden. They should at least try Togain. Who is that power forward? 581 00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:55.519 Marvin? Who's the name who cont Harrold is out for the year with an 582 00:43:55.559 --> 00:44:00.480 a c L injury. What are you talking about, Well, someone similar 583 00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:04.360 to him? Oh, okay, Mantres Harold just grow on Trees. Look, 584 00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:07.559 I'm a solution's driven guy. If you say, oh, they should 585 00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:10.679 have just got a power forward, you better have a name for me, 586 00:44:12.119 --> 00:44:16.199 and not a guy who's out for the entire season. Love Trees, but 587 00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:21.280 I don't know if he would be the solution either for this team because his 588 00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:27.239 defensive woes. Like we saw from PG Tucker tonight, they're trying to overcome 589 00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:31.079 the loss of Mason Plumley. Terrence Man just got back and he looked it 590 00:44:31.119 --> 00:44:35.559 a little bit, looked rusty. Oh of two and nineteen minutes. We 591 00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:39.079 know it's more about the little things. But I'm interested to see as we 592 00:44:39.159 --> 00:44:43.599 go along, as Man gets back in a rhythm. This was his first 593 00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:49.440 game of the season. How this Clippers team starts to just reconfigure and find 594 00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:53.679 ways to win ball games and find guys in groupings and rotations and lineups that 595 00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:59.960 work. I'm confident Coach Lott will figure it out. Tonight was disappointing. 596 00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:01.679 We'll talk more about it. We'll get back to your phone calls. Eight 597 00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:06.639 six six ninety seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy. 598 00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:10.159 But up next Chuck Mockler from Clips and Dip will be here. I 599 00:45:10.239 --> 00:45:16.400 met a moslind This is Ami seventy, LA Sports loading Clippers fully loaded with 600 00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:22.039 Clippers fans. This is LA Clippers Basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers 601 00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:28.800 on the LA Clippers Audio network. Clippers lose in Brooklyn one hundred ninety three. 602 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:35.000 Highlight of the game was the pregame with no Eagle Carlo amennez At a 603 00:45:35.039 --> 00:45:37.880 great call, though even in a loss tough one. Clippers dropped to zero 604 00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:40.920 and two so far with James Harden, welcome back in. This is Clippers 605 00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:45.440 Talk. I'm at a Moslin. Eight six six nine eight seven two five 606 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:49.840 seventy is the phone number. But right now Chuck Mockler for a little Clips 607 00:45:49.960 --> 00:45:53.480 at Double Dip action here on Clippers Talk. How are you, Charles, 608 00:45:55.159 --> 00:45:59.239 I don't know. I'm not doing very good. Adam. I know it's 609 00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:05.400 on the game of the James Harden experiment, but ninety three points against a 610 00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:09.440 shorthanded Nets team, a defense that seems to be doing its job. You 611 00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:13.800 know, one hundred points giving up isn't anything to really, you know, 612 00:46:15.079 --> 00:46:20.519 put your nose up to in the modern NBA. But this offense is broken 613 00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:23.039 right now. I just I don't know, Am I wrong? No, 614 00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:27.440 that's a good way to put it. I will try to spin that though, 615 00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:30.320 because coming in we all said, well, we're not that worried about 616 00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:34.280 the offense. They'll figure it out. It's the defense worried about. The 617 00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:37.119 defense hasn't been that bad. I'll give it up. One hundred points was 618 00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:38.960 nothing tonight. I thought defensively they were good enough. Granted, like you 619 00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:43.199 said, a Brooklyn Nets team that was missing a lot of guys, including 620 00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:46.199 Cam Thomas throughout most of that second half. You would think, though, 621 00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:51.960 that they could just roll the ball out and do you know, a plethora 622 00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:55.559 of just my turn, your turn and win a ball game against this Brooklyn 623 00:46:55.599 --> 00:47:00.639 Nets team. And they couldn't even do that tonight. No, there's this 624 00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:06.320 weird disconnect where it feels like everyone is passive at the same time and everyone 625 00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:09.280 is too aggressive at the same time. If that makes sense. You look 626 00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:14.440 at just even if you were just box if you were just box score watching 627 00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:17.039 this game, you can get a pretty good idea of what happened. Russell 628 00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:22.280 Westbrook had eighteen field goal attempts. Usually that's something that's not too bad. 629 00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:27.360 But Kawhi had fifteen, James Harden had not. That's not ideal, right, 630 00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:30.360 George, shoot's thirty five percent. You don't like that. You look 631 00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:35.800 at the fourth quarter box score and you see eight turnovers in the fourth quarter 632 00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:40.599 and or seven. Excuse me, it's just I know it's going to take 633 00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:44.719 a minute. Tyler was gonna do is ten to fifteen games type thing. 634 00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:51.360 But you're not wrong. We thought that it would be even at its base, 635 00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:55.880 better than ninety three points per game like they were tonight. And the 636 00:47:55.920 --> 00:48:00.679 way they just kept chucking three after three in the fourth quarter, they're not 637 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:05.719 falling. It's not an insurmountable lead. You don't have to settle for three 638 00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:09.360 pointers, and they did, and they just kept missing. That offense was 639 00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:14.320 really really tough to watch, and it just showed, look when guys are 640 00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:16.320 missing that many open threes, and a lot of them were good looks, 641 00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:20.239 good takes. I guess you could say if they just weren't having such a 642 00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:22.719 cold night to start with. But it tells you there's just not a lot 643 00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:27.679 of rhythm. Guys don't feel like they're in the flow of any type of 644 00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:30.599 offense, and therefore they're not going to fall right. There's no rhythm. 645 00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:36.000 They took eleven threes in the force, they made one. They took thirty 646 00:48:36.039 --> 00:48:39.079 six the whole game. That's tiredness too. You know, maybe they're not 647 00:48:39.159 --> 00:48:43.800 as used to getting this. You know, the sets lined up, so 648 00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:46.599 you just take the ISO three, you take the one pass and then the 649 00:48:46.639 --> 00:48:50.400 three point. We saw a couple of those from Kowhir, at least one 650 00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:54.079 that was just it's that thing that Clippers fans have been worried about, which 651 00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:59.719 is that heart and that energy and that effort, which you know they've been 652 00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:02.159 saying they want to play faster. They're still middle of the league in pace, 653 00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:07.800 they're still not totally winning the possession battle. These growing pains, and 654 00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:12.159 hey, I'll say I'm guilty of it. These growing pains are a lot 655 00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:16.480 bigger than what we thought they were going to be, which is compounded by 656 00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:21.039 the fact that this is a quote unquote easy part of the schedule. This 657 00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:23.960 is when we were supposed to be stacking wins. Yes, that was before 658 00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:28.599 the James Harden trade, but as we all thought that James Harden trade was 659 00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:32.920 gonna make us better, so we should at least be on pace to be 660 00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:37.480 over five hundred for these these opening ten games before things get really you know, 661 00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:44.119 in the weeds with the scheduling. But I mean, there's it's not 662 00:49:44.159 --> 00:49:46.320 like there's a lot of fingers the point. I guess it's not one person's 663 00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:51.199 fault, but everyone's got to get it figured out. It seems yeah, 664 00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:53.360 and in the short term, I could have seen them taking a step back, 665 00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:58.559 but I would have thought they would have just found a way to win 666 00:49:58.599 --> 00:50:02.800 a game like this in Brooklyn against a depleted Nets team that was missing guys 667 00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:06.920 coming in and then lost their best player against the Clippers, for sure, 668 00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:09.440 Cam Thomas, I mean, Michale Bridges had ten points on four of eleven 669 00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:14.199 shooting. How do you lose that game where Cam Thomas is out from pretty 670 00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:17.000 much the start of the third quarter on One of the things that Color brought 671 00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:22.159 this up that we've been focusing on, is just someone taking the reins and 672 00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:25.880 taking over late. It's an ugly game. You can't figure it out, 673 00:50:25.880 --> 00:50:29.679 You got to dig it out of the dirt, as Brian Seaman would say. 674 00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:31.760 And hey, Kawhi Leonard comes back in with six point thirty left in 675 00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:36.559 the fourth quarter. He doesn't take his first shot in the fourth till one 676 00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:40.000 fifty five left in the fourth. Right, that's the guy to me that 677 00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:44.480 you just have to get him involved right away. That's what he's there for. 678 00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:49.320 He's your closer one hundred percent. We've heard that every player is gonna 679 00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:53.119 have to sacrifice from this California four or whatever we're calling it. But when 680 00:50:53.159 --> 00:50:58.679 it's late, there's there's one guy who definitely shouldn't sacrifice, which is Kawhi. 681 00:50:58.920 --> 00:51:02.239 There's another who probably shouldn't, which is Paul George. Everyone else get 682 00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:07.280 out of the way. Help these two guys in crunch time do what they 683 00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:12.519 are supposed to do, which is take this team to where they've never been, 684 00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:16.000 and that I guess still has to get figured out. But I might 685 00:51:16.039 --> 00:51:19.679 be on the side of some of the college I'm a little fired up by 686 00:51:19.719 --> 00:51:24.760 this. I'm just like I wish it was Game two instead of Game seven 687 00:51:24.840 --> 00:51:30.719 or wherever we're at already. You know, like this is just there's seventeen 688 00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:34.599 games in March. I'm worried about this team. This team has a lot 689 00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:37.360 of stuff to get figured out between now and then. I do think they 690 00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:40.679 will figure it out to some extent. I don't think it will get worse 691 00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:45.000 for you know, when it comes to that. But this offense is not 692 00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:51.880 a modern NBA offense right now and the starting five. We talk about finishing 693 00:51:51.920 --> 00:51:54.119 a lot, but the Clippers issue a lot of this time. This two 694 00:51:54.199 --> 00:51:59.920 and three era has been starting games slow. And they're still starting games slow. 695 00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:04.679 And that's against kind of the rhetoric we heard during this whole offseason about 696 00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:07.719 you know, starting quick and playing fast. It hasn't really happened outside of 697 00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:13.719 the first game against a very bad Blazing team. So well, look, 698 00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:16.519 they won the last two first quarters. They won both first quarters in New 699 00:52:16.599 --> 00:52:21.159 York. They did. They weren't great, but their defense was good enough. 700 00:52:21.239 --> 00:52:24.280 I just if it's not one thing is another the defense. Yeah, 701 00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:28.519 the defense is there. The defense has shown up for sure, But you're 702 00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:31.400 right, it's the offense where it's like we should have maybe a fifteen point 703 00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:36.440 lead instead of a six point lead or something like that. It feels like 704 00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:39.400 when there's one kind of bump right now, they're getting so derailed they can't 705 00:52:39.440 --> 00:52:45.360 really get on track, and I guess it's more practice time and hopefully when 706 00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:47.519 they get back on the West Coast it's a little more comfortable. But who 707 00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:52.679 we got to hope that starts soon. I'm not sure about your I can't 708 00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:57.000 get any worse checks notes. Oh, they got Dallas on Friday. Okay, 709 00:52:57.039 --> 00:52:59.760 okay, I'm doing my best year. No no, no, it's 710 00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:06.639 fair. It's fair and we like that. Look, it would be on 711 00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:08.880 par for the Clippers to show up in a big way against Dallas and win 712 00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:15.800 right like they We've seen this team play down to competition and then just figure 713 00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:19.840 it out. But we're waiting for them to click in Chuck, thanks for 714 00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:23.280 doing this tonight. Do we got a tripod coming up tomorrow? We have 715 00:53:23.320 --> 00:53:25.800 a tripod at some point for sure. I'm still in Montana, but we'll 716 00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:29.320 figure something out, all right, all right, Well, thank you. 717 00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:37.280 Check that's down. Yeah, Clippers fall one hundred ninety three to the nets. 718 00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:42.079 They'll be in Dallas, tip off at five thirty against Luka Doncics and 719 00:53:42.119 --> 00:53:45.239 the Mavericks on Friday. We'll have your pregame show starting right back here at 720 00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:46.119 four thirty. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank 721 00:53:46.119 --> 00:53:51.199 the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, who's on the pregame show if you missed 722 00:53:51.239 --> 00:53:53.519 it, Ralph Lawler, Brian's seaman, Carlo Amenne is on the call. 723 00:53:53.559 --> 00:53:58.360 Big brother Jake Warner, a producer back here in the bank. Katie Newton 724 00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:00.719 didn't have time for a segment tonight. I'm so Katie. Plus you know 725 00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:05.639 it's kind of a downer. I don't know. Uh, it's till Friday, 726 00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:08.960 with the Clippers being in Dallas taking on an old familiar foe. I'm 727 00:54:08.960 --> 00:54:13.679 an Amazon. Want to talk to you four pint thirty then? So why 728 00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:16.400 was doing his thing? All they want to do is win in La Win. 729 00:54:16.559 --> 00:54:20.199 I thought they gave everything they had. I'm very proud of them. 730 00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:24.320 This has been Clippers Talk, the official postgame reaction of the LA Clippers. 731 00:54:24.440 --> 00:54:29.480 God bless Paul George. You know it's just changed. Don't miss an episode 732 00:54:29.559 --> 00:54:32.559 all season. Law Go to wherever you podcast and subscribe. Today we'll have 733 00:54:32.639 --> 00:54:36.000 the show I got you on the iHeart Radio. You guys are great. 734 00:54:36.079 --> 00:54:40.039 Thank you for joining us for another exciting broadcast of LA Clippers basketball