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Speaker 2: At follow Adam a Adam Osley. Clippers fall one twenty
Speaker 2: nine to one eleven in in Indianapolis to the Pacers
Speaker 2: without Kawhi, without Norman Powell. They didn't have enough. They
Speaker 2: lose this one by eighteen on the front end of
Speaker 2: a back to back. They are in Detroit tomorrow. I'm
Speaker 2: Adam Oslin's welcome in to Clippers Talk. Eight sixty six
Speaker 2: ninety eight seven two five seventy. Eight sixty six ninety
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Speaker 2: your phone calls. Looking for postgame audio from coach Lou
Speaker 2: as Well. I just posted this on X I have
Speaker 2: been saying it in the postgame show here. But everybody
Speaker 2: wants to overanalyze this, or some people do, and they
Speaker 2: want to turn this into something it's not. It's just
Speaker 2: where's your heart? Where's your motivation? This team doesn't care.
Speaker 2: I didn't see a team that laid down at all.
Speaker 2: I saw a team that had four key guys in
Speaker 2: this game without Kawhi and Norm Done, dj Emir and
Speaker 2: Bogie go two of twenty two from three. That's what
Speaker 2: I saw. That's not an effort thing. That is a
Speaker 2: talent disparity thing. That is, I don't know, you're not
Speaker 2: as good without your best player in Kawhi. A lot
Speaker 2: of people pre game tried to tell me they're better,
Speaker 2: there's more flow to the offense without Kawhi. It's like, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's there's more flow to missing odds, there's more passes
Speaker 2: that lead to missing shots. Without Kawhi. You realize he's
Speaker 2: one of the best ISO players in NBA history, So yeah,
Speaker 2: there's going to be some of that. He led the
Speaker 2: league in points per possession in isolation last season. How
Speaker 2: many people came in here and told me pregame that, oh,
Speaker 2: it's a good thing Kawhi isn't playing in this game.
Speaker 2: That was shocking to me. What wasn't was the result.
Speaker 2: Or you have James harden I eatsa Zubats and not
Speaker 2: much else, not enough help somebody else had to have
Speaker 2: an out of body experiences. Brian Semu would say, for
Speaker 2: them to take down a Pacers team that has now
Speaker 2: won sixteen of their last twenty one games. They're one
Speaker 2: of the best home teams in the league. They just
Speaker 2: beat Memphis at home. They can run you out of
Speaker 2: the gym. They can play a multitude of different ways
Speaker 2: on the offensive end. And people are talking about there's
Speaker 2: a lack of effort out there is coach lou motivating them.
Speaker 2: I just don't know what you're watching. That team didn't quit.
Speaker 2: They got it down to thirteen or fifteen points in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. They kept playing. They tried how many
Speaker 2: different lineups. Early in the third quarter, they tried to
Speaker 2: go small, then they went back to Aviatza Zubats. They
Speaker 2: tried to go small again around the eight minute mark
Speaker 2: of the fourth. They tried everything. Guys couldn't hit shots,
Speaker 2: and you're not gonna get as many open shots, even
Speaker 2: though they got some. But you're not gonna get nearly
Speaker 2: as many open shots without Kawhi, without Norm Powell and
Speaker 2: the gravity of those guys. That's how it works. So
Speaker 2: for everybody complaining about Kawhi, Leonard in the offense lately
Speaker 2: when they have an offense seprating coming into this game
Speaker 2: of one p seventeen when he's on the floor and
Speaker 2: like one oh nine when he's off the floor, they're
Speaker 2: infinitely better there. They're better defensively with him on the
Speaker 2: floor too. All the numbers say it like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: your eye test isn't very good. Maybe get you know,
Speaker 2: some wind decks on the goggles whatever you're using to
Speaker 2: measure how good a team is offensively with Kawhi versus
Speaker 2: without Kauhi. I'm glad we have the numbers and the
Speaker 2: team actually goes off of stuff like that and not
Speaker 2: just well, Kawhi tries to ISO too much, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's one of the best ever. And for as much
Speaker 2: as he has struggled so far in his sixteen games back,
Speaker 2: for how inefficient he's been according to some, he still
Speaker 2: is shooting forty six percent from the field and thirty
Speaker 2: eight percent from three while having the minutes increase. Going
Speaker 2: into ISO mode to act like this team is better
Speaker 2: without Kawhi is nuts. And I've been hearing too much
Speaker 2: of that lately, including pregame by some of you that
Speaker 2: are in the chat. Now. It's wild to me, you
Speaker 2: see a game like this where you know, I think
Speaker 2: the Clippers win this ballgame with Kawhi or Norm or both.
Speaker 2: They could have won still if guys just didn't have
Speaker 2: as Brian Seaman would say, if they just weren't miserable
Speaker 2: from three and just bad from three, they might have
Speaker 2: won the game. Two of twenty two from a mer
Speaker 2: done DJ and Bogee, I'm worried about a game like
Speaker 2: this from Bogdanovic. I hope you got it out of
Speaker 2: his system because I've been saying he's going to turn
Speaker 2: things around with his shooting from three as a Clipper,
Speaker 2: and then in a game where they really needed him
Speaker 2: to get it going, he's one of eight from three.
Speaker 2: I said, I would have started him. I understand the
Speaker 2: move of not doing that. They started James Harden, Chris Dunn,
Speaker 2: A Mere Coffee, Derek Jones Junior, and Avitza zubots I
Speaker 2: asked Law about it pregame, I said, is it crazy
Speaker 2: to want to start Bogie in this game to add
Speaker 2: some firepower when there's so much missing right now without Norm,
Speaker 2: without Kawhi to the starting lineup, he said, And this
Speaker 2: is a fair thought process to have from the coaching staff.
Speaker 2: You want to try to have more continuity with bench
Speaker 2: lineups and keep Bogey next to Ben Simmons. They had
Speaker 2: played well together. I suppose they at least had played
Speaker 2: a lot of minutes together. I don't know if the
Speaker 2: plus minus have been very good so far, but I
Speaker 2: get it. You're trying to bring consistency to lineups and rotations.
Speaker 2: But I'm starting Bogdanovich in a game without Norm, in
Speaker 2: a game without Kawhi in the starting lineup. Is that
Speaker 2: why they lost the game? No, because maybe he shoots
Speaker 2: the same or maybe he feels like he has more
Speaker 2: confidence and more of a green light because he's needed,
Speaker 2: and that's why he's been inserted into the starting lineup.
Speaker 2: He went four to thirteen overall, one of eight from
Speaker 2: three eleven points. I just didn't see a path to
Speaker 2: really win this game without Bogie getting it going. And
Speaker 2: from my perspective, I put him in the starting lineup.
Speaker 2: I'd put him in over a mirror DJ probably a mirror.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't always agree with coach Lou. That's okay,
Speaker 2: he's getting paid the big bucks for a reason. I
Speaker 2: have a complete casual compared to him. I just that's
Speaker 2: what I would have gone with. Is that why they
Speaker 2: lost the game? I don't know, Bogie. He had plenty
Speaker 2: of opportunities and he didn't shoot it well. Then you
Speaker 2: can make the argument, well, there's less pressure on him
Speaker 2: coming off the bench, so that could help him. Actually,
Speaker 2: there's different ways to look at it. But they did
Speaker 2: lose the game because they couldn't shoot the ball well,
Speaker 2: and in a situation like this, they had to have
Speaker 2: somebody else shoot it well from the outside and they
Speaker 2: couldn't get it. It's James Harden getting you thirty one
Speaker 2: points on seventeen shots. He has an uber efficient night,
Speaker 2: six of thirteen from three eleven assists. It's if he'sa
Speaker 2: Zubats having twenty two only six boards. But I think
Speaker 2: a lot of that is because he was guarding the
Speaker 2: pacers on the perimeter a lot. He got caught in
Speaker 2: cross matchups. Haliburton caught him a couple of times where
Speaker 2: he had to defend him from three and they were
Speaker 2: well defending threes, and it didn't matter. When Hallie went
Speaker 2: on that run. What was that near the end of
Speaker 2: the third quarter he had eleven straight points. He put
Speaker 2: him up ninety to sixty nine. He got a friendly bounce,
Speaker 2: he got into it with the Clippers. It seemed to
Speaker 2: fire him up more. He was talking some trash after
Speaker 2: a layup. I thought that the Clippers tried a lot of
Speaker 2: different combinations. I commend coach lou On that they tried
Speaker 2: just about everything. And guys were just ice cold. Guys
Speaker 2: that aren't this bad from three, not close to it
Speaker 2: done and DJ going oh of ten from three is
Speaker 2: just brutal in a game like this. So the Clippers
Speaker 2: didn't get well. They got an outlier shooting performance I
Speaker 2: would say, not in a positive way, though not somebody
Speaker 2: catching fire who was playing above their heads, a role
Speaker 2: player that has a big night, which is what they needed. Instead,
Speaker 2: it went the other way, role players who stepped down
Speaker 2: instead of stepping up. And I'm not saying the effort
Speaker 2: wasn't there. It was guys were playing hard, they just
Speaker 2: missing shots. They couldn't find it. It's frustrating, I get it.
Speaker 2: It's also completely understandable that you'd lose a game like
Speaker 2: this in Indiana was shooting like that without Kawhi Norm Powell,
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Speaker 2: Clippers fall one twenty nine to one eleven to the
Speaker 2: Indiana Pacers when they had and we're at a huge
Speaker 2: talent disparity, and the guys who you needed to get
Speaker 2: going to have a hot shooting night went the other
Speaker 2: way ice cold. So hundred two thousand would say ice cold.
Speaker 2: It was rough. I don't fault the effort. They played hard,
Speaker 2: they just didn't have enough. Hopefully Kawhi norm Both or
Speaker 2: at least one of those guys is available tomorrow. And
Speaker 2: hopefully James Harden, who was playing late into that game
Speaker 2: and hit a three pointer, was crept under by Nie
Speaker 2: Smith and rolled his right ankle and grabbed at it
Speaker 2: for a second. Hopefully he's okay and can still go tomorrow.
Speaker 2: He played thirty five minutes. We'll get to your phone
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Speaker 2: Clippers lose one twenty nine on one eleven in Indiana's
Speaker 2: the Pacers. Welcome back in. I'm out of MALESLM. This
Speaker 2: is Clippers Talk. Eight six six ninety seven, two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's start things off with Jose,
Speaker 2: Jose and Downey. You're on Clipper Stop without of Mallson.
Speaker 2: What's up Hose?
Speaker 3: What's up at him? What up at him?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: You know what I on the everything? I yeah, they
Speaker 3: didn't give up, but I mean the disparity, what was
Speaker 3: it like fifteen sixteen rebounds in total?
Speaker 2: And then yeah, but you understand, when one team is
Speaker 2: missing way more shots than the other, that gives them
Speaker 2: way more rebounds to be had. So that's not always
Speaker 2: indicative of anything that's miss shots.
Speaker 3: I was hopeful on the offensive side, would we we'd
Speaker 3: have a higher number on offensive rebounds too, you know,
Speaker 3: because we were missing now just you know, getting ready
Speaker 3: for that ball.
Speaker 2: That that part of it, that part of it's fair.
Speaker 3: Uh, The other thing is too, I mean the comment
Speaker 3: that you were talking about the continuity. It's already in
Speaker 3: the second half of the season, and how long are
Speaker 3: they going to restrict Kawhi because the continuity is going.
Speaker 2: To be important. Well, it wasn't a restriction today. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: but that that's that's not even what happens. He he
Speaker 2: has a sore left foot. The play happened against Milwaukee
Speaker 2: where he noticeably got up gimpy after a transition playing
Speaker 2: the third quarter and he was sirmishing in pain. And
Speaker 2: the other thing is, anyway, are we going to acknowledge
Speaker 2: that that's not a restriction.
Speaker 4: I mean I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that the foot thing was real. I
Speaker 3: knew the neat thing for power was because I think
Speaker 3: what was like two games ago when he got hit
Speaker 3: right on the sideline. I saw him gimpy, like I
Speaker 3: was like, all right, I can see the pole thing.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: I just didn't know that's what happened to Kawhi.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a video of the Kawhi thing from Thursday.
Speaker 2: I played it at Clipperstock on the YouTube side to
Speaker 2: show everybody of that play. I mean, that's that happened.
Speaker 3: And oh yeah, I see, I didn't know that. So
Speaker 3: now at least I know that they're talking about.
Speaker 2: A minute's restriction. Jose in general, well.
Speaker 3: Just playing more games. I wish they would be.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's playing a back to back ever. Again,
Speaker 2: why on earth would you let a guy who is
Speaker 2: hasn't played four straight years, hasn't been able to finish
Speaker 2: a playoff series play back to backs? How does that
Speaker 2: seem wise? Don't you want him to have the best
Speaker 2: chance to play and finish a playoff series? That's what
Speaker 2: I want.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. I just think that the whole in
Speaker 3: and out for everybody, just everybody, because I know we've
Speaker 3: had other players that have missed out, and I think
Speaker 3: it's just it kind of hurts us overall. The other thing,
Speaker 3: I think something we've harped on a lot this season
Speaker 3: yourself and even last year, when they're struggling with the shooting, like,
Speaker 3: gives the ball to who calmed everybody down?
Speaker 6: Give it to him?
Speaker 3: And especially against the team was not that big. I
Speaker 3: don't think he had as many touches as.
Speaker 7: He could have had.
Speaker 2: I agree with you. There's a point in the second
Speaker 2: quarter I think it was the second quarter where I
Speaker 2: lost my mind a little bit. Yeah, I Vita Zubots
Speaker 2: hits that right handed hook shot over a triple team.
Speaker 2: He had just scored multiple baskets, including bodying Thomas Bryant,
Speaker 2: and the next six shots from the Clippers are all
Speaker 2: three pointers in the second quarter. The next six they
Speaker 2: made two of them, so they got a point per
Speaker 2: possession there. It's not great, and I Viza Zubos went
Speaker 2: from looking to be gaining a real rhythm there and
Speaker 2: looking to be unstoppable. He had eight points in the
Speaker 2: second and just made a hook shot over three guys
Speaker 2: and just went through Thomas Bryant for another one, and
Speaker 2: they go away from him six straight possessions. That is
Speaker 2: brill Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you know, I mean it wasn't just
Speaker 3: this game. I think we're My irustration coming from is just,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, some of these losses that have have amounted
Speaker 3: It's like, I don't think they're losing to like these
Speaker 3: great teams. I understand Gianni's played in the last game,
Speaker 3: but I mean they're not that good right now, and
Speaker 3: I would think we have to close up those games.
Speaker 3: The other game against Indiana that we lost when we
Speaker 3: were up twenty two even that game against the Lakers,
Speaker 3: like they weren't that good. You know, the Lakers were
Speaker 3: not that good. It's just it's it's alarming the big
Speaker 3: losses I guess they had against what I consider I
Speaker 3: think pretty mediocre teams.
Speaker 2: You know, well, I wouldn't call Milwaukee mediocre. They're thirty
Speaker 2: one and twenty four. Indiana's thirty two and twenty three.
Speaker 2: The Lakers have had the best defense in the league
Speaker 2: since like January tenth. Now, I respectfully disagree. However, I
Speaker 2: agree with your sentiment of you gotta win a game
Speaker 2: where you're up by thirteen late against Milwaukee in the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter, Jose, you gotta win a game where you're
Speaker 2: up by twenty two against Indiana. And that has been
Speaker 2: a disturbing trend where seven times already this season with
Speaker 2: twenty six games left, the Clippers have let go of
Speaker 2: the rope a little bit, or they've letting go of
Speaker 2: a lead where they have been up seven times this
Speaker 2: season by ten plus points and they have lost those games.
Speaker 2: And last season they only had that occur seven times.
Speaker 2: So they got twenty six games left to go, and
Speaker 2: you can say that, yeah, they've lost a lot of
Speaker 2: games they should have won. I think that's fair to say.
Speaker 2: There's something else that is interesting. To put it kindly,
Speaker 2: that is a little bit worrisome. The Clippers have been
Speaker 2: down double digits in every game in February, including this one. Obviously,
Speaker 2: that cannot continue. I appreciate the phone call, though, jose
Speaker 2: Let's go to Kyle in Brooklyn. Kyle, what's up? You're
Speaker 2: on Clipper shot with out of.
Speaker 4: Malsen Adam, Sir. He took the words right out of
Speaker 4: my mouth. I'm gonna do thing. That was one of
Speaker 4: the main reasons I called in that second quarter that
Speaker 4: you brought up was infuriating your strike.
Speaker 6: I think it was for.
Speaker 4: Four shots in a row, or now I think it
Speaker 4: was three. I think it was one of one before that.
Speaker 4: Three shots in a row, and then they come down
Speaker 4: and he's setting high picks for three pointers. I didn't understand.
Speaker 4: It was killing me.
Speaker 5: It was killing me.
Speaker 4: But this whole faction where the sky is falling, like
Speaker 4: everybody relaxed, like calm down. It's post trade deadlines. The
Speaker 4: two guys that we need to dig ourselves out from
Speaker 4: a sixteen point hole aren't in the game, all right,
Speaker 4: that's just the fact of the matter. It's nothing to
Speaker 4: freak out about. We're trying to figure out if Bobden
Speaker 4: can be that scoring force that we want him to be.
Speaker 4: So Done doesn't have to shoot five times. I don't
Speaker 4: No one wants Done shooting five to three.
Speaker 2: Pointers as a great one point Kyle like he felt.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, when the defense is playing off of him,
Speaker 2: when nobody else is hitting, when it feels like, hey,
Speaker 2: I gotta take these shots because nobody else is knocking
Speaker 2: him down right now, I mean, where are you supposed
Speaker 2: to be?
Speaker 4: Yea is not hitting if he's He's boss is in
Speaker 4: there for a reason. We want him to be that guy.
Speaker 4: He's not being that guy. We can't get mad at
Speaker 4: Dunn for shooting. None of them are hitting anything. Uh.
Speaker 4: The only thing that that Yeah, that got to me
Speaker 4: was the Zoo situation in the second, which you already
Speaker 4: brought up. That was the thing that really dug in
Speaker 4: me a little bit. The other stuff that is interesting
Speaker 4: to me. Just I called him last week, I'm very
Speaker 4: interested in this. Like I said, we're post trade deadline.
Speaker 4: We're figuring things out. Like I'm finding littler things to
Speaker 4: focus on. So I've been focusing on Simmons, who's been
Speaker 4: very interesting to me. He's been so good, and this
Speaker 4: was the first night where I was like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 4: seeing some of his head get into it. And it's
Speaker 4: interesting watching a player who is so fluid and natural.
Speaker 4: When you watch him play and then all of a
Speaker 4: sudden he's passing the ball literally a foot and a
Speaker 4: half to a player right next to him at the
Speaker 4: three point line, or he's passing up he becomes differential.
Speaker 2: You know, who are you talking about here?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 2: Simmon, Well, he's not going to take a three, so
Speaker 2: he's going to have to be deferential.
Speaker 6: I mean when he's I mean, I'm fascinated by him
Speaker 6: because he's just a natural and the fact that it
Speaker 6: does seem like whatever his issues in the league.
Speaker 4: Have been, they've been mental, which he's he's openly.
Speaker 2: Said, Yeah, I think that's a big part of it.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, it is.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 4: And the thing the way Doc Rivers handle it is
Speaker 4: the reason I'm glad we got rid of him.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's like if a player comes to you and says,
Speaker 4: I don't want to play basketball, and he's been playing
Speaker 4: basketball his whole life, something's wrong. It's not like, oh,
Speaker 4: he's just being a bad teammate. No, dude, something's wrong
Speaker 4: with that person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he definitely. His criticism after the Game seven situation
Speaker 2: against Atlanta compounded the issue there in Philadelphia. It made
Speaker 2: it worse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm intrigued by him because I think we
Speaker 4: have a great organization that can bring the best out
Speaker 4: of the du Buy called bast week to talk about
Speaker 4: Simmons because he's just fun for me to watch.
Speaker 2: Now, Kyle, did you see that playing. I think in
Speaker 2: the third quarter where Simmons was out there next to
Speaker 2: him eats the Zoo Bots after Zoo came back in.
Speaker 2: They took him out early in the third quarter. He
Speaker 2: comes back in, they tried to go small. Then I
Speaker 2: think they took out a mere coffee, picked up his
Speaker 2: fourth foul or something. He comes back in. Ben Simmons
Speaker 2: had a play where they're playing off of him. He's
Speaker 2: top side above the three point arc, and instead of
Speaker 2: being baited into taking that shot or just passing it right,
Speaker 2: then he goes from zero to one hundred straight down
Speaker 2: the lane and through a beautiful pass to a Visa
Speaker 2: Zoo Bots for an easy one. Like he created. That's
Speaker 2: a ridiculously easy opportunity for Big Zoo out of nothing.
Speaker 2: That was great to see. That's what it has to
Speaker 2: be if those two are going to be on the
Speaker 2: floor together.
Speaker 4: And but that's that's what I'm talking about with when
Speaker 4: you see him play at such a naturally high level
Speaker 4: that we know he was and he is he has
Speaker 4: in him. The first two games, all I saw was
Speaker 4: him playing off instinct. It was fantastic. It was really
Speaker 4: really great.
Speaker 5: Today.
Speaker 4: There were just a few moments where I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: there it is. There it is. I hope our staff
Speaker 4: can figure that out. I like, there are There was
Speaker 4: a moment when he when he was coming down I
Speaker 4: think it was three on three and I don't know
Speaker 4: what it was, but I know he has the athleticism
Speaker 4: and the talent to just he was coming across the lane.
Speaker 4: He's probably four feet away. He could have easily gone
Speaker 4: off with a left hand and laid the ball up,
Speaker 4: and he deferred. And there's been a couple of times
Speaker 4: like that. There was another time at the top of
Speaker 4: a three point on the left side where he deferred
Speaker 4: to Bowman who was a foot and a half two
Speaker 4: feet away from him. That doesn't help anything. It's like
Speaker 4: make a move, you know what I'm saying, Like there's
Speaker 4: there were a few moments where he felt uncomfortable. I
Speaker 4: hope we have the staff that's going to get to
Speaker 4: the eighty percent ninety percent of him I'm seeing over
Speaker 4: the last three games. It's like that is a hell
Speaker 4: of an athlete and a great basketball player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kyle, I appreciate it. Hell a phone call. I
Speaker 2: agree with you. There's a ton of upside to Ben
Speaker 2: Simmons that can be unlocked if they can get some
Speaker 2: of those habits to change. We'll take a quick time out.
Speaker 2: Clippers lose one twenty nine to one eleven in Indiana
Speaker 2: to the Pacers. Will come back. We'll get back to
Speaker 2: your phone calls. I'm Oudam Mosland and you're listening to
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Speaker 2: Clippers lose by eighteen without Kahi and Norm in Indiana
Speaker 2: to the Pacers. Just saw this from La Murray postgame,
Speaker 2: said coach Lou didn't express any concern about that fourth
Speaker 2: quarter collision with James Harden looked like he was grabbing
Speaker 2: at his right ankle. That's good. He did talk about
Speaker 2: pace many times that the Clippers had trouble with that,
Speaker 2: and this is great to see. La Murray said. While
Speaker 2: Ben Simmons will not play tomorrow, the door is open
Speaker 2: at some point to play on zero day's rest at
Speaker 2: some point this season. Clippers have five more back to
Speaker 2: backs after tomorrow's game, but law Murray was told that
Speaker 2: the door is open to Ben Simmons eventually playing back
Speaker 2: to backs. I'm Adam Moslin, welcome back. In Clippers lose
Speaker 2: one twenty nine to one to eleven in Indiana to
Speaker 2: the Pacers. Ryan and Burbank. Ryan, Yeah, about thirty seconds here.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, my friend, but we got a ton of time.
Speaker 4: You're good.
Speaker 7: You're good, Adam. I think you hit a lot of
Speaker 7: this on the head man. It's just wide open shots
Speaker 7: getting bricked. I mean, you talk about Derrek Jones Junior,
Speaker 7: you know done Bogee, I mean, all these guys had
Speaker 7: wide open opportunities. It wasn't like contested and that the
Speaker 7: only thing that I'm happy about is that. And like
Speaker 7: the last Colors said about the trade, deadline. Simmons is
Speaker 7: creating open offense on the bench for these players, and
Speaker 7: I think that's the biggest thing moving forward. When that
Speaker 7: offensive lineup of Kawhi, Harden, Zoo Pale and Derek Jones
Speaker 7: Junior has been playing one of the best ratings in
Speaker 7: the NBA.
Speaker 4: We just we need this.
Speaker 7: Team to be healthy come playoff time. Be healthy via
Speaker 7: s top six seed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Clippers starting lineup, I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 2: I like it, Ryan. The Clippers starting lineup with James
Speaker 2: with Norm with DJ Kawhi and a Visa zubats as
Speaker 2: the best net rating of a five man unit in
Speaker 2: the NBA over one hundred and fifty minutes. They've been
Speaker 2: really good and Kawhi is not even back to all
Speaker 2: NBA four. They don't have them in this game kind
Speaker 2: of changes everything. I don't know what some people were
Speaker 2: thinking talking about, oh, they'll be better without Kawhi, or
Speaker 2: my eye test says, you know, the flow's just much
Speaker 2: better offensively without them. Cool, They're not scoring more points
Speaker 2: per one hundred possessions without Kawhi. That's what batters at
Speaker 2: the end. Demetrius in Manhattan Beach, what's up, You're on
Speaker 2: Clipper sock Man.
Speaker 5: You know, Adam Good talking to you, it's it's like
Speaker 5: I'm hearing all the callers and everything. It's like beating
Speaker 5: a dead harsh I agree with you. It's a bizarre
Speaker 5: whoever made that that bizarre, weird question about the team
Speaker 5: is better with our Kawahi. I think they need to
Speaker 5: rethink some things and not even actually calling the radio
Speaker 5: station to waste your time in the listener's time. I mean,
Speaker 5: you got to have the eye test and know that
Speaker 5: you're talking about one of the greatest elite players this
Speaker 5: league has ever seen, and you want to have him
Speaker 5: for the playoff. Like me and you, Adam and certain people,
Speaker 5: we're not worried about Kawhi. We need him healthy. We
Speaker 5: know what he's going to bring during the playoffs. We
Speaker 5: need the rest of the board and in jubox. We
Speaker 5: know what he's going to bring. We know what power
Speaker 5: is going to bring. So we need a total effort.
Speaker 5: We need a total effort. We got enough. Like you said,
Speaker 5: our starting five is to me, I love our starting five.
Speaker 5: I'll put our starting five up against anyone in the league.
Speaker 5: I think the rotation coming off coming off the bench
Speaker 5: with Simmons. I think actually made him. Man, he's looking
Speaker 5: pretty good. I mean, I mean, what can you expect.
Speaker 5: I mean, the guy is he's feeling a little bit
Speaker 5: more happier now and he's playing the way he plays,
Speaker 5: and so you know, that's just where we're at now.
Speaker 5: But look, we got Jeff ben Gandhi, we got ty Lu.
Speaker 5: I mean, we got everything we need at him here.
Speaker 5: I don't want to hear the excuses from.
Speaker 2: Well, they need good health, Demetrius as always, and I
Speaker 2: appreciate the phone call, my friend. I'm up again. So
Speaker 2: we got to take a time out here because we're
Speaker 2: getting out of the bottom of the hour. But what
Speaker 2: they need more than anything is something completely outside their control,
Speaker 2: good health. Unfortunately, the injury gods have not been on
Speaker 2: their side over the last five six years, maybe since
Speaker 2: their existence with this franchise, but specifically with Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 2: and today more specifically with Kawhi and Norm Powell out
Speaker 2: against Indiana Clippers once twenty nine to one eleven. We'll
Speaker 2: come back, we'll close things out next. I'm outa Moslins
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Speaker 2: Back to Clippers basketball. Clippers lose one twenty nine to
Speaker 2: one eleven in Indiana to the Pacers, second most points
Speaker 2: they've given up since that loss to OKC in November.
Speaker 2: LT Murray, I'll have him on pre game tomorrow. I
Speaker 2: think I disagree with him about this. He said this
Speaker 2: wasn't about threes. The Pacers just ran the Clippers off
Speaker 2: the floor. I think those things go together. First of all,
Speaker 2: Pacers had six fast break points, and if you're missing
Speaker 2: a bunch of threes, it leads to long rebounds and
Speaker 2: a team getting into their offense much more quickly. So
Speaker 2: I might have him on if he's wanting to come
Speaker 2: on again pregame tomorrow, we might have to talk about that.
Speaker 2: He had an interesting point here about James Harden. The
Speaker 2: stat for you. This was the first time James Harden
Speaker 2: lost a game in which he scored thirty plus points
Speaker 2: since October twenty twenty two with the seventy six ers,
Speaker 2: and he also asked James Harden postgame about how practices
Speaker 2: have gone. James Harden said, Uh, practices have gone well,
Speaker 2: but the Clippers missing Kawhi Norman Powell quote makes it
Speaker 2: that much more difficult to win a game. What else
Speaker 2: do you need to know about this one? Hopefully they're
Speaker 2: back tomorrow, but sometimes it's not that difficult to explain
Speaker 2: how a game like this happens. Before we get out
Speaker 2: of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization,
Speaker 2: Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, noa ego, Carlo Jimenez on the
Speaker 2: call people with Jake Warner, a producer here back in
Speaker 2: the bank, Daniel West, Thank you Daniel, the callers, the listeners,
Speaker 2: the chatters, appreciate all you guys. We'll do it again
Speaker 2: tomorrow starting at three Clippers in Detroit. Take it on
Speaker 2: the Pistons. I'm out a maazam. We'll talk to you this.
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