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Well, the Clippers dropped to zero to two so far with James Harden as
they fall in Brooklyn one hundred to ninety three. Welcome into your postgame show.
I'm out a Moslin's still to come. We'll get to your final box
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eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. But first let's get back
out to your radio voice of the Clippers at Barclays Center in Carlo Jimenez,
Carlo. By my count, the Clippers went one for nine from three in
that fourth quarter, and the one they made was inconsequential by I believe Norman
Powell late in the fourth as they just struggled and settled for outside shots in
a game where once again turnovers and offensive rebounds would come back to haunt them.
Yeah, it felt like there was a stretch where they had three great
looks from downtown and couldn't get any of them to go at them. And
you're right, the offensive rebounding hurt him. Another play where roy O'Neil had
two offensive rebounds and then mckel bridges had a dunk to put it back,
and it took a six point game to an eight point game. I'm not
sure what you can ask if your head coach searn lu the message has been
the same, but till of the results at him and you just wonder what
can the Clippers trying to change? Is it more of them just still trying
to figure out how to play with each other. I think Kawhi still looks
a little timid on that offensive end. But PJ. Tucker was the shining
star of this one. Twenty one minutes or him three points, six rebounds,
three assists. He was excellent to go along with a block. You
knew this was going to be a process. I think you expect did the
Clippers to win one of these first two games and both times slow starts in
the fourth quarter? Do them in Yeah? And this was a Brooklyn team
that was without players coming into it, key players, and then they lost
Cam Thomas in the second half, and they battled and just looked like a
team that had a foundation out there where the Clippers are still looking to find
their identity and just looked a bit a little bit lost on offense, only
scoring ninety three points shooting forty percent. But I know it's a make or
miss league. Eight of thirty six from the outside. It is tough to
overcome cold shooting like that, or as you mentioned, they had open looks
but they couldn't knock them down. And then those turnoverse seven of their fifteen
coming in the fourth quarter, and they just came in bunches, Carlow.
They did come in bunches. The first five of them were before three minutes
came off the clock in that first quarter. It just didn't go their way
in the fourth, and I think for the beginning of that fourth quarter fell
like, all right, the ball isn't bouncing the Clippers way, they're missing
threes. They had opportunities on the offensive end, but then so it's the
end of that fourth quarter. They weren't getting bodies on bodies and boxing out
and it just led to extra opportunities for the Nets here in this one.
You look going forward at him a lot to grow, a lot to get
better at. And look, it's only the second game of the James Harden
era and you got a whole lot of games to figure it out, so
you can take a lot of positive away from this one. I think it
beats a Zubox was strong in the second half to go along with the ability
from PJ. Tucker. I thought Bones Island started strong only six minutes today
for Bones, and they did a good job locking up Michel Bridges through those
first couple of minutes, but he hits the threes at the end. Gotta
get a hand up. It'll be interesting in Dallas because it's not like you're
going in there with a better opportunity to win. That's a six and one
Mavericks team taking on the Raptors tonight on the road in a hostile environment against
a guy who averages thirty two in his fifteen games against you and Luka doncin
youah familiar foe there in the Dallas Mavericksoud. The Clippers played him back to
back first round series back in twenty and twenty one not gonna be easy as
they are surging right now. Clippers got to find themselves. They drop to
three and four after losing by seven in Brooklyn. They go zero to two
in New York. That game in Dallas on Friday, tiptime is at five
thirty. We'll have Clippers countdown starting for you at four thirty. Carlo Jimenez,
my friend, great call as always. Let's do it again on Friday,
hopefully with the Clippers victory. Let's do it again, Adam, And
that's right, let's get a win. Coming up next, we'll get to
your final box score. Clippers lose one hundred to ninety three in Brooklyn to
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as the James Harden era gets off to a rocky start. To say the
least, Clippers who get out scored in that fourth quarter twenty seven to twenty
two and just continue to settle for three point shots that were not falling all
night long. They ended up going eight for thirty six from the outside twenty
two percent is what they shot from three. And I talked about it in
the broadcast, but this team was settling instead of going through and running their
offense. Now, maybe the problem is there's not much offense to be run.
There's not much of a system to fall back on right now as they're
trying to implement James Harden. And to be honest, this Clippers team just
looks completely out of sources through the first two games. Offensively, I could
see it happening against the Knicks because of how good they are defensively, But
the Brooklyn Nets were twenty fifth defensively in the league, pretty much atto five
defense, and the Clippers scored just ninety three points tough one Cliper Nation.
More coming up next, we'll get to your final box score and we'll get
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Network. Clippers fall in Game two with James Harden. They lose one hundred
to ninety three in Brooklyn to the Nets. They go zero and two in
New York. They'll be in Dallas taking on one of the hottest teams in
the league that has Luka, Doncis and Kyrie Irving with the Mavericks on Friday.
Clippers end up shooting just thirty nine percent from the field, go eight
of thirty six from the outside. That's twenty two percent after they went one
of nine from three in the fourth quarter. Nine of their eighteen takes in
the fourth half of them were three pointers. They were hitting their twos,
but they were settling for two many three pointers. They finished with sixteen turnovers.
They came into the fourth having just eight. They doubled it and they
had four turnovers in the first three minutes of that fourth quarter. Ugly,
ugly basketball right now, Clipper Nation, Well, we have a moment.
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KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio station. Your leading scorer ended up being
PG thirteen. He led everyone with twenty four points, but seven of twenty
shooting. After he started off hot, eventually cooled off, couldn't get anything
to go from the outside in the fourth quarter. Kawhi seven of sixteen,
another off game for him, just seventeen points. Russell Waybrook six of eighteen,
one of five from the outside. Five. There's a lot of attempts
for us. He was taking some of those I think unnecessary three pointers that
we used to see with the Lakers, where they would dare him to shoot
and he would oblige, but they were not falling. James Harden though,
four of nine twelve points, five assists to five turnovers, so kind of
the opposite of what we saw with him and Russ last game. It was
Russell Westbrook who struggled with a four assist to four turnover ratio against the Knicks,
but he had eight assists to just one turnover tonight James Harden five assists
to five turnovers. They're not figuring it out right now in the starting lineup.
I know it's just game two, but the Clippers, when PJ.
Tucker looks like you're best player out there who was a plus ten somehow in
his twenty minutes in a game they lost by seven, that is brutal.
They have time, they can figure this out. We'll talk about it all
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they were in attack mode. Adam Ousley, Now, I'm not gonna do
what everybody thinks I'm gonna do and just flip out. But the Clippers start
zero and two in the James Harden era as they lose by seven in Brooklyn
with a final score of one hundred to ninety seven. And this one was
worse than the game against the Knicks. I'll tell you why. Coming up,
we'll get your phone calls. Chuck Mockler from Clips and Dip will be
here. We'll hear from coach lou postgame. Clipper's goingt a lot to figure
out to say the least eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight
sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. You can
also reach me at Illow Adam a on X. I can understand how the
Clippers in Game one would lose to a rugged, tough Knicks team that will
just beat you up on the boards, play well defensively and bring you down
to the mud and the muck and play their brand of basketball. But the
Brooklyn Nets or twenty fifth defensively and they just don't have the personnel to be
great on that end. And by the way, they were without Ben Simmons,
Nick Claxton, Cameron Johnson, and they lost Cam Thomas for most of
the second half. And somehow the Clippers just lost this game. And I
say somehow, but I'll tell you how. It's not baffling to me.
There's an explanation for this, and it's as simple as turnovers, offensive rebounds,
and settling for threes. The Clippers had eight turnovers heading into the fourth.
For the most part, they had taken care of the basketball, and
on a night or they couldn't hit anything that kept them in it. They
were down two, heading into the fourth by a score of seventy three to
seventy one, and they start the fourth quarter with four turnovers in the first
three minutes, couple from James Harden who had five of their sixteen turnovers,
meaning they entered the fourth with eight. They matched that in one quarter they
doubled it. Left the game with sixteen turnovers, leading to sixteen points.
The Brooklyn Nets entered the fourth quarter with ten offensive rebounds. They got four
more and a big put back dunk. I think it was Mikhale Bridges,
who didn't even play well four to eleven, ten points after I think he
just had thirty five against Milwaukee Cam Thomas, who was back to his old
tricks torching the Clippers only played twenty minutes, left the game early in the
third. Ran into PJ. Tucker, who was the lone bright spot.
I would say he and Paul George at least through the first three quarters,
as Tucker was a plus ten in a game they lost by seven, which
is unbelievable, meaning I think in the twenty eight minutes he was off the
court, they were outscored by seventeen. There was heart, there was hustle.
I love what I saw from him, and I liked that Coach Lou
went to him early and often one of eats. Zubas wasn't performing and while
Zoo righted the ship to some degree after poor starts, and I know he
had four points early on in the first quarter, but defensively wasn't good enough,
wasn't playing big enough off considering Brooklyn was playing small, so Coach Lou
trying to match them. I sat on Clips and Dip yesterday that right now,
I don't care if you get bad process wins, if you win ugly,
if you win doing things that aren't sustainable, you just gotta get victories.
Clippers are three and four, and trust me when I tell you this,
because I told you this before the season started. This is the easier
part of their schedule. And they're three and four, and they're getting off
to a slow start, and they have no semblance of an offense right now.
With James Harden out there. Some of it's understandable, it's just his
second game. I'm not blaming anyone in particular. They're just out of sink
and they can't figure it out. And I mentioned the turnovers and the offensive
rebounds there where after giving up seventeen offensive rebounds to the Brooklyn or to excuse
me, to the New York Knicks. Understandable, they're great in that area.
They give up fourteen though, to the Nets, who are playing small.
There's no excuse for that. But also, the Clippers settled in the
fourth quarter for threes in a close game. They weren't down fifteen, I
believe ten, which was the Nets' biggest lead, and they were jacking them
up like it was a twenty point lead on a night where they couldn't hit
from the outside. Maybe they thought they were due, but half their takes
in the fourth quarter were three pointers. Eighteen attempts. They made eight of
them, only one of them was from distance at the very end. It
was inconsequential, meaning they went one for nine from three in the fourth.
I don't know why they were settling for so many. It could just be
as simple as they're not running much of an offense right now, and if
a guy is an open three, I guess you gotta take it, make
or miss. League well, they were missing. They're cold. It's tough
to keep guys in rhythm, something coach Lou talked about recently. When you
have this much star power, how do you get everybody enough touches? How
do you get everybody involved and staying in the game with rhythm and timing when
you got this many mouths to feed. James Harden took just nine shots.
Russell Westbrook got double that up at eighteen. Kawhi took just sixteen. Paul
George was at twenty. He was hot. It was a good thing.
He had nine points in the first quarter. He had seventeen of his twenty
four in the first half. But he would cool off even though he was
one guy getting some buckets in the fourth quarter. It wasn't that game against
the Lakers where he just couldn't miss obviously finish seven or twenty two of ten
from three. This Clippers team is in a funk right now, and while
you could see it coming, and the hope is you're taking one step back
to take two or three steps forward when everything clicks in with James Harden at
the same time, there's got to be a sense of urgency out there.
And I'm not saying the effort was bad. They just couldn't execute even early
on their defense was good enough, or maybe Brooklyn was just missing some shots
because the Nets only scored thirteen points in the first quarter. Clippers only twenty
one, same that they scored against the Knicks in the first quarter on Monday,
and they were eight for twenty six to start the game. They were
cold. And I don't know what else to attribute it to, but trying
to integrate James Harden and make him a big focal point of this offense and
have him do what he does best, which is isolate run the show,
pick and roll found of Easa zubots early. But there's some growing pains happening
right now for this Clippers team to only put up ninety three points against the
next team that was deficient on the defensive end and missing some of their better
players, including Cam Thomas by basically the third and fourth quarter of this one.
That is tough. That is a head scratcher. We're gonna work through
it though. On Clippers Talk eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy
Daniel and Echo Park Daniel, you're on Clippers stock with that, I'm all,
yeah, what's up? How's it going at? Yeah, this one
was a little tough. I was on the freeway going back from Lombie each
I start to my watering haul caught the last like eight minutes, somewhere between
like five minutes and twenty five seconds to five minutes ten seconds. They think
this shot up three to three pointers and absolutely victim didn't rebound. No one
was around the basket. It was a little disheartening to see that. It
makes you kind of wonder where the urgency is at. You know, it
only seems like russ is the one who's really hustling. And look, Daniel,
I think there was urgency. And when you have open shots, with
how many good shooters they have, sometimes you got to take them. But
there was a pattern going on all game where they weren't hitting them, and
they started to settle in that fourth quarter. Nine of their eighteen attempts in
the fourth were from distance. Yeah, it just seems that, you know,
the bread and butter like Kames Harden, you know, like I was
listening for where's the pick and roll of a? I mean, you know
what he did last year with the big man. I mean, it was
it was it was nice. I mean he's got well a newsflash, Joel
Embiid and Vitza Zubots aren't exactly the same player. I hear you. I
hear you, and you know it's funny because I mean, we do have
ty Lou. Couldn't there be kind of throwing it back to some kind of
like try and go hybrid. I mean, these guys are all skilled,
they could hit open shots, and I was just kind of wondering, where
what are we doing? What kind of office are we running? I don't
see any kind of rhyme or reason right now. Right now, it doesn't
look like they have much of a system or a foundation out there. It
looks like they're rolling the ball out in your turn, my turn. And
when they try to make plays for others, there's some nasty turnovers going on,
just ridiculous miscues at inopportune times in the fourth. Eight turnovers just start
off the fourth woefully bad, just like they did against the Knicks. Let's
go to Manny downtown Los Angeles. Manny, what's up? You're on Clippers?
Soft with that? I'm awesome. What's going on? Sir? First
time caller, so started to just make my presence ault tonight, you know,
before I get into the whole dream cardet thing. The Clippers really don't
have an identity right now on offense or defense and That's probably the first problem
right now, because a team like Brooklyn should have been taken care of,
like you said earlier, you know, losing some of their main guys.
One of their main scorers only put up ten points tonight. Someone needs to
step up and set the tone and identity, whether that's going to be offensive
or defensive. I want to go back to James Harden let me say.
Let me say this. Defensively, they gave up just one hundred points.
The next shot just forty from the field. They were good enough to win
this ball game. Defensively, they were right. I hear you on that.
I just let me just say this about James real quick, and I'll
just call it a night. I had a really bad uliing in my gut
when the rumors are flying around that he wanted to come to LA, you
know, force his way out. You know, just look at the passing
streets. Guy. No playoff success? Who Genie's in the third or fourth
game of the series. Man, He's gotten to the conference finals a few
times. That's playoff success. He's gotten to an NBA Finals with the OKC
Thunder, that's playoff success. We can have our opinions, but I'm not
gonna let him get in the way of facts, agreed. All I'm saying
is this, James to play with these other guys because pipe turnovers is a
lot, and I know it's one game. I'm not gonna kill the guy,
but Geeza swallows down. If you're gonna come to La too much time
to be turning the ball over, I agree with you. And he had
a couple to start off the fourth quarter, and some of it could just
be they gotta build up chemistry familiarity out there on the court. But it
was ugly. It was just a really ugly bad loss by the Clippers that
I thought. I really thought they were gonna respond in a big way because
Brooklyn's defense just isn't that good and with all the guys they're missing, they
weren't great offensively either. Holding a team to one hundred points in today's NBA
usually amounts to a win. I think the word team in the league last
season offensively average one O four Clippers held them to one hundred. No Cam
Thomas throughout most of the second half. You just gotta find a way to
win that ball game. I don't care if it's an ugly win, right
now, but you gotta stack them against teams that you're better than and far
more talented then, especially with how many guys were missing tonight by the Brooklyn
Nets. Clippers lose one hundred to ninety three. Coming up back to your
phone calls eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy oh. Morris
and long Beach called in. They'll have some positivity sewn and Inglewood not so
sure. Javier and the Hobber Heights a wild card wild card line. Clippers
dropped three and four oh and two so far with James Harden. Searching for
an identity, I have not found it yet. More Clippers sock next year
on FI seventy, LA Sports loading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers fans. This
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Audio network. Clippers lose one hundred to ninety three in Brooklyn. They're owing
two so far with James Harden and just look indecisive, lacking conviction out there
on offense. Maybe guys not wanting to step on each other's toes, not
being aggressive enough at times, being two unselfish can be a problem too.
But eight turnovers on the fourth quarter and attempting nine to three pointers in the
fourth and settling for long threes in a close game where they could have got
to their spots and just chipped away at it. Even down by ten,
there was plenty of time left, but the Clippers were rushing things out of
sink, out of sorts, and they ended up giving ten steals away to
the Brooklyn Nets, who averages five steals per game. They had ten tonight.
They were last in steals per game. Clippers helping the position, making
it easier for them tough to overcome. Welcome back in the Clipper stock.
I'm at a Oslin eight six six nine, two seventy. We will have
Chuck Mockler on in a little bit, looking for postgame audio from coach Lou.
But let's go to sew and Inglewood. Shawn, you're on Clippers stock
without a massen. Yeah, and thank you. Well. I gotta say
I was so upset Monday I didn't want to call. And after watching that
game and watching this game again, I don't care too much about the turnovers
as much as not being able to keep the other team off the offensive boards,
because I think that just killed them of the morale of the other team
playing defense, and just pretty much just because you have a small team doesn't
make you the Golden State Warriors. You have to learn how to distribute that
ball. Some people are not moving without the ball. They just don't look
like they have the continuity right now. And some of that is to be
some of that is to be expected, right, Sean. I agree with
your points, but some of that is to be expected just two games in
with James Harden. But one thing I don't like, if you think about
it, we got to start in power forward the six foot seven and his
backup is six foot five. Okay, that's just not going to work.
By the fourth quarter, as you have seen in all the games, they
start really giving up a bunch of offensive rebounds because they're worn out. Well,
here's my problem with that tonight, Sean. The Brooklyn Nets are playing
small. They don't have Claxton out there, So, yeah, the Clippers
are going to play small some. But even when they weren't with the Vitza
Zubas, at times they were still getting out rebounded. Yeah, but they
were the second guy is what I'm telling you about. You see, but
they weren't even playing a good rebounding team to like that, it's worse.
It's even worse when you're taking on a team that's going small on the Brooklyn
Nets and they beat you up on the offensive glass. It's one thing to
get out rebounded by the Knicks, that's what they do. It's another to
see the Nets do it when they got out rebounded by Utah. I get
rebounded Utah's big, though. That makes sense. But the point I'm making
is that the mentality of a six five sixty six guy is not I gotta
block out every time. It happens every time in the fourth quarter they wear
down, they stop blocking out because they're not power forwards. Okay, that
makes a big difference. And I kept saying the same thing over and over
and basically the gangs that we see. But but Jean, let me ask
you this. Let me ask you this. The Nets, John, you
don't listen. You don't listen. Sometimes you like to talk, but you
don't like to listen. And I appreciate you, but it's not your show.
The Brooklyn Nets don't have size, and they were winning the rebounding battle.
So is it just about playing position basketball where you have a quote unquote
power forward or is it about effort out there, which was I think lacking
at times from the Clippers. I agree, I mean Brooklyn was doing it.
They were rebounding, They played small the entire game, and they got
fourteen offensive rebounds and a big put back dunk by Michale Bridges. Is is
he a huge forward? Is he a big center? No? No,
I agree with you, Adam. But one other thing I wanted to say
real quick. I also watched Philadelphia and ironically they got six ex Clippers on
that team. Now maybe Boston to night. I mean that's the same.
Is it ironic? It means unexpectedly amusing they made trades with them. Of
course they have a lot of Clippers right now. I get it. I
get it, Sean, And it's been frustrating so far. And I see
your point definitely to a degree. If the Clippers are gonna run this Star
darading line about there where Kawhi Leonard's playing power forward, they have to do
it collectively. I've seen them do it plenty in big games in the playoffs,
but I don't know how sustainable it is over an eighty two game regular
season. How do you feel about that? I agree, I agree,
and right now they don't have Mason Plumbley, so we do have to point
that out. They are under man. They lost Big plumb for we don't
know how long he's out indefinitely mcl sprain left knee, Sean. I appreciate
the phone calls always. We'll do it again on Friday. All right,
so you're here, yeah, Morris and Long Beach ather ends of the spectrum.
Please, Morris, what's up? You're on Clipper stock? You know,
you know, you know you're still all my son did? Oh love
it. I'm gonna call the police on you. The Clippers. All they
need is just to play with some desire. That's the only thing is rebounding
is desire. You know. They need to get a sense of urgency about
They've got to tell it. Anybody argue in mad I would like to see
a little bit more from a boy man, but he just got back this
afternoon. But they just need to kick in some desire, you know,
one of them New Rockney kind of speeches. Because they all the talent that
they need, they just need to play with a sense emergency and get the
desire up there and then they'll be okay if they can compete with anybody.
Dember's taken off, and I know that Philly is doing good, like the
previous caller talked about it, and Golden State's doing good. But the Clippers
in love with everybody. But it's like back in the days of playing at
the parker at them and who wants it, who wants it the most?
And right now the Clippers are you know, like you said, they don't
want to step on Nobody's told here's your ball. No no, no,
no, no, no no. This is one time when I'm not into
there too much shipping in a team sport, but this is one of them
times the folks might have to get a little selfish man straight up, you
know, and get hard out there on that pick and roll at the top.
Everybody saw him do that as a master last year. Get four or
five plays for them. But all they got to do is just play with
some desire and and they'll be good to go, you know, just just
want it and they'll be all right, Adam, don't don't, don't throw
the baby out with the water just yet. Okay, all right, I'm
with you, Morris, Like it's one thing to say they just don't match
up because they lack the personnel Against a team like the Knicks. It's another
to go up against It's another team that's playing small and have them beat you
up for big offensive boards in the fourth quarter where they had four of them
in a big put back dunk by Mikhale Bridges. It's one thing to lose
it to the Utah Jazz who played big, the Knicks, the Lakers.
It can't happen against Brooklyn. That's not a personnel issue. The nets are
small tonight and they still got critical boards. But you mentioned a guy taking
over late and somebody just taking the reins and saying, Okay, we haven't
played well, but I'm gonna get us that ugly victory right now. I'm
gonna figure out a way. I was hoping it was gonna be Kawhi Leonard
when he entered the game in the fourth quarter. The Clippers were down by
ten already. I was hoping there's gonna be a time out earlier. But
the first shot he gets up he entered the game at six forty two mark
of the fourth for Vitza Zubats. The first shot he gets up, still
scrolling, still scrolling, still scrolling. My goodness, all right, I'm
looking at one thirty one. Kawhi Leonard may have gone five minutes from re
entering the game in the fourth to attempting a shot in the fourth quarter.
You're down ten, was six forty two left in the fourth quarter. Kawhi
Leonard comes in, and I see Paul George take a shot. I see
PJ. Tucker, Norman Powell, Paul George again, PJ Tucker again,
and and one Russell Westbrook takes a shot. Paul George goes to the free
throw line for a couple. By the time Kawhi Leonard, okay, he
made one at one fifty five, so we're talking four and a half minutes
before he took his first shot coming into the fourth. I hope these are
issues that get rectified quickly, because I agree with Morris. Somebody's got to
take control and it needs to be your best player. And he came alive.
I think he had nine points in the third quarter, looked much better,
but then doesn't get back intill midway through the fourth and doesn't take a
shot till four and a half minutes back in in that stint, Clippers lose
one hundred and ninety three more of your phone calls coming up. We'll take
a quick time out. Charles Mockler will be here too. Clippers dropped to
three and four on the season. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five
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I'm picturing Toby and Bobie dancing right now in the layup line pregame. Shout
out far bought Essensharry. I think he's still got the tweet The video pinned
on X Clippers not dancing though. Tonight they lose one hundred to ninety three
in James Harden's second game, when the Clippers look even less together. Five
guys on a string. And that's what's concerning. You have a day off,
you watch film from what happened against New York a very good defense.
You're playing a bad defense, and the offense looked even worse. That is
difficult to rationalize and work through. But we're trying here on Clippers Talk.
Welcome back in. I'm Adam Auslin eight sixty six nine eight seven two five
seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. The simple answer,
Opchams Raiser, it's just Game two with James Harden is gonna take time,
and they're gonna take their lumps along the way until they figure it out.
They have the guys that do that, they have the talent to do that.
It's just a little bit disheartening and discouraging when they're playing a completely depleted
Brooklyn Nets team that didn't even get a good game from Michale Bridges. They
only score one hundred points and the Clippers only score ninety three, missing open
three after open three in the fourth Scott North Hills, you're on Clipper stock
without a mas and what's up? Well there. I don't really appreciate you
taking the call, and I appreciate your work. I wanted to get your
opinion on a couple things. I'm not the biggest James Harden fan now.
In fairness, obviously everything you're saying is correct in terms of it's gonna take
time. You can't realistically expect these Cats to after a couple of games,
have everything ironed out, and the people who have these expectations, I just
think it's absurd. No, but I will say this, Scott, not
to cut you off, and I'll let you come back in here, but
I will say this, you still have to have a sense of urgency.
You still have to find ways to win ball games while you're building and now
not playing your best. They have enough talent to do that right now,
and it hasn't happened the last two nights. I agree completely. What I
want to get your opinion on Adam and see, I'm not a James Harden
fan, and the reason I'm not is you're looking at his last three scenarios
there where he plays his way out of Houston, he plays his way out
of Jersey. He can't get along with people in Philly, and he plays
his way out of there. And more than anything, I believe these and
I hate to use the C word in the playoffs, but I believe we
have about a good ten or twelve exhibits by now to prove the point that
in the very biggest games. And I understand he had two phenomenal games last
year in the playoffs. But if you look at the record and the really
big game, the Game six is the Game sevens. He's had so many
opportunity and not one time, Adam, I cannot point to one exhibit where
he even played ordinary. That's the problem I had with picking him up.
I like last year's team better. I feel injuries were the compromising factor last
year, And obviously I certainly hope this whole thing works out, But I
wanted to get your opinion on what I just said. Well, when you
talk about James Harden and his playoff woes, you're talking mostly about close out
games. Because if you look big picture, he's had sixteen instances where he's
averaged twenty five points or more in a playoff series. That's unbelievable, that's
elite. But he has come up small at times in those big closeout games,
a Game six or a Game seven. He's also had the unfortunate timing
of running into one of the best teams ever in the Golden State Warriors with
Kevin Durant, after they had just won seventy three games the year before without
him. Some of it's been unlucky, but it goes back to after having
a Great Western Conference Finals in twenty twelve when he was the third option with
the OKC Thunder. He then struggled in the finals against Lebron and the Miami
Heat. Now, I still think as a third option, as a fourth
option at times, depending on who's hot for this Clippers team. I'm just
not that worried about James Harden in a big playoff game because Kawhi Paul George,
those are your two superstars that are going to take the majority of the
shots and have the most amount of pressure on them, and that alleviates some
of it on James Harden. Every circumstance is a little bit different with the
last couple of stops from him, and he's back home now, so there's
a lot working in his favor. It feels like this is maybe his last
opportunity to play for a team and be superstar on an elite squad that has
a chance to win a championship. Scott, do you hear me on that?
I certainly do. And last thing out him, He's been very gracious
with your time. I think as it goes along, you're gonna see Harden
and Westbrook playing less and less at the same time. Yeah, I agree
with you, Scott's That was my biggest concern coming into this new configuration with
the Big four, just there's some redundancy with those two players in their game
and needing the ball in their hands. And while James Harden can play off
ball, it's not what he's best at, not what he's known for,
not exactly maximizing his talents of why he became an MVP. I understand you
want Russ to have the ball in his hands because off ball he doesn't offer
as much. He's not a great shooter and took some tough three pointers in
this one missed. I want to say his first three. I ended up
one for five. I know we started off the year hot from the outside,
and last year he shot thirty six percent from three, but that's just
not his game. I'm wondering what's going to happen as we move along and
Terrence Man gets healthier, and it sounds like he is healthier going out of
this game than he was coming in. That's encouraging. Javier in Lahaber heights
here on Clipper Stock with that Amasen, what's up out here? It was
up? Thank you for taking my call real quick. I mean, all
the callers said what I was gonna say, uh, just in general here
and I just you know, and you brought a good point. The Nets
are not a big team. There's no way they should have got so many
offensive rebounds. I mean, this is a fourth quarter. I mean this,
this is a quarter that you need to rebound, box out and they
didn't do it. And then the turnal was it just it was just like
here we go again. And at this point, I mean, what do
you what do you do? Adam? I meant, vier you point something
out there that Javier, you pointed something out there that's interesting thing to me,
and we'll come back to you here in a second. But the other
problem is when you settle for long three pointers and you're missing, they turn
into long rebounds. So even if you are underneath the basket in good position,
it doesn't matter. Sometimes the ball is ricocheting off the rim and it
turns into an easier board for a smaller player out there. Do you hear
me, Harveer, I mean, but yeah, I hear you. But
I mean it just seems like it just you just have to show some great
man. You just got to go in the walk and get that ball.
I mean I just I mean, at this point, it's like I remember
Adam to have four days after the Lakers game, to have four or five
days to to you know, work the team out, and what happened in
New York lost by what twenty and then today it was even more disappointed at
this point, Adam, I mean, you can't blame you can't blame Bomber,
you can't blame la Ran. So who do you have to So who's
the only one that well, who's on the spot. I'm not going to
play the blame game yet, the blame game, not yet. It's only
two games. Yes, Coach Lou, I think you're pointing towards him.
There's a lot of responsibility there for him to figure out how to make this
thing work. The good news is, look, I believe he's the right
guy to make these personalities mesh, these different games, different styles of play
mesh. If anyone can figure it out. I do think it's Coach Lou,
and he acknowledges going to be a process and it's gonna take time,
but they will get there. So two games in a very disappointing loss against
Brooklyn, I know, because I feel like when you have that much talent.
You should just figure it out at some point and talent should overcome uh,
not having that foundation yet or system implemented or familiarity out there. It
didn't happen though, tonight out of here. Yeah, all right, thank
you, thank you for taking a mile. Appreciate you. All right,
we's off Friday. I'm sure Marvin in downtown Los Angeles. Marvin, you're
on Clipper style with that a maaz on. What's up? Hey, Adam?
Thank you for the whole game. We should be happy that because pardon
during the first season. That's the second half season, because that's where the
urgency is. Because they lived the playoffs, and by them, they should
have already figured out things after the All Star game. Iron out things at
all I rather than the injury free which they are all and take their buns
and bruises figure it out. Then the injured did not play at all.
When was the last time we saw all of them played together injury free?
So it's gonna take time to gel just get We just got to get in
time, the patience and don't figure out by the second season or even earlier
than that. And second, the need was a power forward, not James
Harden. They should at least try Togain. Who is that power forward?
Marvin? Who's the name who cont Harrold is out for the year with an
a c L injury. What are you talking about, Well, someone similar
to him? Oh, okay, Mantres Harold just grow on Trees. Look,
I'm a solution's driven guy. If you say, oh, they should
have just got a power forward, you better have a name for me,
and not a guy who's out for the entire season. Love Trees, but
I don't know if he would be the solution either for this team because his
defensive woes. Like we saw from PG Tucker tonight, they're trying to overcome
the loss of Mason Plumley. Terrence Man just got back and he looked it
a little bit, looked rusty. Oh of two and nineteen minutes. We
know it's more about the little things. But I'm interested to see as we
go along, as Man gets back in a rhythm. This was his first
game of the season. How this Clippers team starts to just reconfigure and find
ways to win ball games and find guys in groupings and rotations and lineups that
work. I'm confident Coach Lott will figure it out. Tonight was disappointing.
We'll talk more about it. We'll get back to your phone calls. Eight
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But up next Chuck Mockler from Clips and Dip will be here. I
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great call, though even in a loss tough one. Clippers dropped to zero
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Talk. I'm at a Moslin. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. But right now Chuck Mockler for a little Clips
at Double Dip action here on Clippers Talk. How are you, Charles,
I don't know. I'm not doing very good. Adam. I know it's
on the game of the James Harden experiment, but ninety three points against a
shorthanded Nets team, a defense that seems to be doing its job. You
know, one hundred points giving up isn't anything to really, you know,
put your nose up to in the modern NBA. But this offense is broken
right now. I just I don't know, Am I wrong? No,
that's a good way to put it. I will try to spin that though,
because coming in we all said, well, we're not that worried about
the offense. They'll figure it out. It's the defense worried about. The
defense hasn't been that bad. I'll give it up. One hundred points was
nothing tonight. I thought defensively they were good enough. Granted, like you
said, a Brooklyn Nets team that was missing a lot of guys, including
Cam Thomas throughout most of that second half. You would think, though,
that they could just roll the ball out and do you know, a plethora
of just my turn, your turn and win a ball game against this Brooklyn
Nets team. And they couldn't even do that tonight. No, there's this
weird disconnect where it feels like everyone is passive at the same time and everyone
is too aggressive at the same time. If that makes sense. You look
at just even if you were just box if you were just box score watching
this game, you can get a pretty good idea of what happened. Russell
Westbrook had eighteen field goal attempts. Usually that's something that's not too bad.
But Kawhi had fifteen, James Harden had not. That's not ideal, right,
George, shoot's thirty five percent. You don't like that. You look
at the fourth quarter box score and you see eight turnovers in the fourth quarter
and or seven. Excuse me, it's just I know it's going to take
a minute. Tyler was gonna do is ten to fifteen games type thing.
But you're not wrong. We thought that it would be even at its base,
better than ninety three points per game like they were tonight. And the
way they just kept chucking three after three in the fourth quarter, they're not
falling. It's not an insurmountable lead. You don't have to settle for three
pointers, and they did, and they just kept missing. That offense was
really really tough to watch, and it just showed, look when guys are
missing that many open threes, and a lot of them were good looks,
good takes. I guess you could say if they just weren't having such a
cold night to start with. But it tells you there's just not a lot
of rhythm. Guys don't feel like they're in the flow of any type of
offense, and therefore they're not going to fall right. There's no rhythm.
They took eleven threes in the force, they made one. They took thirty
six the whole game. That's tiredness too. You know, maybe they're not
as used to getting this. You know, the sets lined up, so
you just take the ISO three, you take the one pass and then the
three point. We saw a couple of those from Kowhir, at least one
that was just it's that thing that Clippers fans have been worried about, which
is that heart and that energy and that effort, which you know they've been
saying they want to play faster. They're still middle of the league in pace,
they're still not totally winning the possession battle. These growing pains, and
hey, I'll say I'm guilty of it. These growing pains are a lot
bigger than what we thought they were going to be, which is compounded by
the fact that this is a quote unquote easy part of the schedule. This
is when we were supposed to be stacking wins. Yes, that was before
the James Harden trade, but as we all thought that James Harden trade was
gonna make us better, so we should at least be on pace to be
over five hundred for these these opening ten games before things get really you know,
in the weeds with the scheduling. But I mean, there's it's not
like there's a lot of fingers the point. I guess it's not one person's
fault, but everyone's got to get it figured out. It seems yeah,
and in the short term, I could have seen them taking a step back,
but I would have thought they would have just found a way to win
a game like this in Brooklyn against a depleted Nets team that was missing guys
coming in and then lost their best player against the Clippers, for sure,
Cam Thomas, I mean, Michale Bridges had ten points on four of eleven
shooting. How do you lose that game where Cam Thomas is out from pretty
much the start of the third quarter on One of the things that Color brought
this up that we've been focusing on, is just someone taking the reins and
taking over late. It's an ugly game. You can't figure it out,
You got to dig it out of the dirt, as Brian Seaman would say.
And hey, Kawhi Leonard comes back in with six point thirty left in
the fourth quarter. He doesn't take his first shot in the fourth till one
fifty five left in the fourth. Right, that's the guy to me that
you just have to get him involved right away. That's what he's there for.
He's your closer one hundred percent. We've heard that every player is gonna
have to sacrifice from this California four or whatever we're calling it. But when
it's late, there's there's one guy who definitely shouldn't sacrifice, which is Kawhi.
There's another who probably shouldn't, which is Paul George. Everyone else get
out of the way. Help these two guys in crunch time do what they
are supposed to do, which is take this team to where they've never been,
and that I guess still has to get figured out. But I might
be on the side of some of the college I'm a little fired up by
this. I'm just like I wish it was Game two instead of Game seven
or wherever we're at already. You know, like this is just there's seventeen
games in March. I'm worried about this team. This team has a lot
of stuff to get figured out between now and then. I do think they
will figure it out to some extent. I don't think it will get worse
for you know, when it comes to that. But this offense is not
a modern NBA offense right now and the starting five. We talk about finishing
a lot, but the Clippers issue a lot of this time. This two
and three era has been starting games slow. And they're still starting games slow.
And that's against kind of the rhetoric we heard during this whole offseason about
you know, starting quick and playing fast. It hasn't really happened outside of
the first game against a very bad Blazing team. So well, look,
they won the last two first quarters. They won both first quarters in New
York. They did. They weren't great, but their defense was good enough.
I just if it's not one thing is another the defense. Yeah,
the defense is there. The defense has shown up for sure, But you're
right, it's the offense where it's like we should have maybe a fifteen point
lead instead of a six point lead or something like that. It feels like
when there's one kind of bump right now, they're getting so derailed they can't
really get on track, and I guess it's more practice time and hopefully when
they get back on the West Coast it's a little more comfortable. But who
we got to hope that starts soon. I'm not sure about your I can't
get any worse checks notes. Oh, they got Dallas on Friday. Okay,
okay, I'm doing my best year. No no, no, it's
fair. It's fair and we like that. Look, it would be on
par for the Clippers to show up in a big way against Dallas and win
right like they We've seen this team play down to competition and then just figure
it out. But we're waiting for them to click in Chuck, thanks for
doing this tonight. Do we got a tripod coming up tomorrow? We have
a tripod at some point for sure. I'm still in Montana, but we'll
figure something out, all right, all right, Well, thank you.
Check that's down. Yeah, Clippers fall one hundred ninety three to the nets.
They'll be in Dallas, tip off at five thirty against Luka Doncics and
the Mavericks on Friday. We'll have your pregame show starting right back here at
four thirty. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank
the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, who's on the pregame show if you missed
it, Ralph Lawler, Brian's seaman, Carlo Amenne is on the call.
Big brother Jake Warner, a producer back here in the bank. Katie Newton
didn't have time for a segment tonight. I'm so Katie. Plus you know
it's kind of a downer. I don't know. Uh, it's till Friday,
with the Clippers being in Dallas taking on an old familiar foe. I'm
an Amazon. Want to talk to you four pint thirty then? So why
was doing his thing? All they want to do is win in La Win.
I thought they gave everything they had. I'm very proud of them.
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