Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippers fans? Welcome to a quick
post game hangover here at YouTube dot com Slash at
Clippers podcast. The Clippers lose yet another close game in Minnesota.
I'm getting tired of this result. If I'm being perfectly
honest with everyone here, I'm tired of losing close ones
of Minnesota. The Clippers were up nineteen at one point
in this one, then the Wolves figured it out offensively.
The starts to the third and the fourth quarter were
really bad for the Clippers. We just saw they lost
three point shooters just in the corner. They lost them
at the top of the perimeter. They just it was.
It was tough, right and the ugh the end to
the second quarter was very difficult. Kawhi looked like he
was moving well. We'll talk about that, I'm sure, but
damn the Clippers. The Wolves looked defeated in the first
half of this one. The Clippers were moving quicker, they
had a better sense of urgency. The defense was flummoxing
the Wolves for the most part, and then the lead
got down to twelve and it just kind of fell apart.
After that. The Clippers were up at half, but they
were turning the ball over on the second quarter. They
lost Timberwolves out on the perimeter. It's frustrating, true MVP
saying not even mad at that we fought hard and
still did this without Kawhi. I'm mad at it. They
were up nineteen. There were some dumb mistakes. They should
have won this game. I'll say it. We'll talk about
how Kui looked, which was good, but the Clippers should
have won this game. It's incredibly frustrating to see the
Clippers lose this game. I mentioned off top a little
bit about the third and the fourth quarters. The Clippers
through the first half of the third quarter were two
for nine from the floor, and they started the fourth
quarter oh for eleven, So it didn't feel the starts
of those quarters was really difficult to overcome. Yes, Anthony
Edwards hit some insane threes late in this game. Nas
Reed hit a couple threes, but those are things that
I guess are easier to live with. I mean, they're
still frustrating, obviously, but these starts offensive to the third
and fourth quarter were so bad. Hard and basically was
the offense in the third quarter. I'm gonna look up
the shot charts here, but uh, hard and basically, like
was the third quarter for the Clippers. We needed it.
Not the best shooting night from three for the Clippers.
They I mean, yeah, I don't know. This one's frustrating.
Early on, you saw the offensive rebounds early on were
kind of the only thing that was a blemish on
the Clippers when even when they were of nineteen, like, hey,
everything's looking pretty good except for the offensive rebounds. The
offensive rebounds kind of came back to bite them in
the ass. They give up seventeen offensive rebounds. Edwards had
almost forty, but those offensive boards are tough to see.
They got a lot of help from their bench. Mike Conley,
of course, decided to hit two threes because that's what
happens when he plays the Clippers. Yeah. So there were
a bunch of people on Clippers Twitter also talking about
wondering why Chris Dunn wasn't in the game down the
stretch he had done. Also ended up kind of taking
a bit of a knock late in this one. It's
kind of working out his shoulder on this island, so
we hope he's okay. It was odd. I thought that
there there could have been a time for for Chris
Dunn to come in. I think it was uh Brandon
Marcus Yes, who tweeted there was a there's a chance
when Norm Powell was taking free throws that that Done
could have come in for KPJ. But he just didn't.
So it was weird. But it's hard with Done right
like we we we needed points and he's he can't,
he cannot shoot right now. Angel Garcia, you are not wrong.
Done can't shoot right now for a minute now. And
it helped the Wolves go on a run a little bit.
It wasn't entirely his fault, but that's also partly probably
why he wasn't in Lake because we needed points. I
don't know, I'm just speculating kind of the one of
the few games where ties rotations were a little odd
down the stretch. Has it happened a lot? But uh,
I don't know. I'm frustrated as hell at the Rudy
should have probably had a play reviewed. I don't know
this one is. I don't know why it is so
hard for the Clippers to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves. I
have no ill will towards the Timberwolves. They're not the MAVs,
but we just have trouble with our size. We saw
it early, not even early because we were at my teen.
We saw it later. Just difficult, just very frustrating. I
don't know. Terrence Man ten minutes not incredibly effective. What's
funny is up until the late decision making, I thought
KPJ had a good game. He was before he had
any points. KPJ had a bunch of assists and that
was fine. People asking where was Terrence Man. So, yeah,
Terrence Man just under ten minutes, he was plus six,
wasn't doing a whole lot. He took his he took
the threes that they were giving him. He only made one.
I think he's just still working it out. I think
he's still working it out. I will say I have
not been the biggest KPJ fan. I do not think
he cost us the game tonight. KPJ did not cost
the Clippers tonight. Sure there were some bad decisions, but
it's not he didn't. If you watch this game the
whole way, the starts to the third and the fourth
were really tough. The Clippers had chances to really put
this one away. I'm not putting this one on KPJ. Yeah,
I think it's just frustrating because so I want to
talk about Kawhi's minutes because if you're unfamiliar, Kawhi is
playing twenty minutes a game. He's not going to be
closing games. That That's just how it is. Tyleru laid
it out in the pregame today. You know, tis Kawhi
is gonna get his twenty minutes. He was at sixteen
minutes at half. He got you know, his the last
five minutes. I guess he ended up playing you know,
twenty forty one in this one. He got his last
five minutes and then he was done. So to me,
that does make things hard rhythm wise for the team.
It's not crazy to say that. I don't think it's
you have to do this to bring Kawhi back. Does
make the rhythm a little bit harder. He looked movement
wise in this game. Kawhi moved more on the first
possession offensively of this game than he did in the
entirety of the game on on Saturday, which was awesome.
He looked more assertive. He dribbled the ball a lot
more in this one. Great to see not exact, no,
not driving yet. Kawhi is not really driving the ball yet.
He's shooting the hell out of the ball from three.
He hit two tonight of his five. Defensive instinct is
still there. It's nice to see him moving really well,
so that's great. The minutes' restriction thing is just something
we have to deal with, and I think that's why
tonight's loss makes me more as more frustrated, because it's like, shit,
when you have a nineteen point lead and Kawhi is
not going to play in the final stretch, you gotta
win those games with how tight the standings are. That's
what makes me so just kind of feeling irked by it.
Joe Deff, You're absolutely right. He's still getting his legs
and the legs looked better tonight. If you watch this game,
you saw Kawhi. He was moving around so much more
than on Saturday, which is a great sign, especially after
the travel. We can definitely feel good about that. But yeah,
the mid game, he's still getting the legs back. He
tried a little reverse layup. I think that was his
last shot attempt or maybe second to last. Not a
lot of lyft on it, but this is where we are.
Game two, he looked better than game one for his return,
so I think we can we can be happy about that.
For sure. Someone was giving zu Bots a shout out.
Zoo's effort in the fourth Zoo and Amir's coffee effort
in the fourth quarter was phenomenal in this one. Zuo
came up super clutch with a block. Dereck Johnes Junior
finished it at the other end. It was really good
to see. And you know, they started, oh for eleven
in the fourth which is so bad. They were able
to power through that. Part of that was just kind
of the fourth quarter effort from from Zoo on defense.
The offense was kind of broken in this one the
whole game, I guess if that makes sense. I'm waiting
for the game charts to be updated. But the third
quarter it was just it was busted. The Clipper shot
forty percent in the third quarter. They took twenty shots. Yeah,
it was just a weird game offensively. Yeah, I don't know.
It's just kind of where we're at like this. We're
in this weird, kind of nebulous point with the Clippers
right where Kawhi is not going to finish games. So
you have to hope that kind of everyone's rhythm is
still going late in the game, and some guys rhythm
was going late in the game. Some guys, rhythm wasn't
going late in the game. KPg got the and one
that made this one really interesting from the line, it's
I understand there's questions about Joshua in the chat. I'm
assuming this comment says, why wouldn't he close? That makes
no sense. What's the damn point He's not closing because
because ty, it's just twenty minutes, that's what we're getting.
It's his preseason. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing. I'm just
giving the information. It's his preseason. He's playing his twenty minutes.
That's where we're at, and we kind of have to
deal with it. Games like this show why that can
be frustrating. Games like Saturday where it means absolutely nothing,
who cares. Games like this can show why it's frustrating. So, Joshua,
I do understand some of the the frustration on your
part there. It's yeah, I don't know. It's a frustrating
team that we always seem to lose too for some reason.
Joe Ingles got time late, which felt like a slap
in the face. I know it's not, but it felt
like one. Yeah, nineteen point lead you start the third
quarter two for nine, you start the fourth quarter oh
for eleven. It's just hard to overcome that. And I
know I love Chris Dunn's defense, I absolutely do. It's fantastic.
But teams don't care if he shoots at all. And
if you're just a box score person, which I'm not
pro against. If you're just a box score person, you
look at Chris Dunn's box score, that is a box
score that opponents really like. He was one for five.
Four of his shots were from three. That's what opponents want.
They want Chris Dunn to be taking as many threes
as possible because he will probably miss them. The defense
is phenomenal. I'm not saying anything like that, but teams
are funneling the ball towards Chris Dunn. Our compatriots over
at the Law of the Jam the Pod talked about it.
That's just what it is. It's tough when he's in
the starting lineup. That is something that other teams have
focused on. This was another Chris Dunn's starting game. If
you're unfamiliar with the current system of the Clippers, it's
gonna be kind of a swat between Chris Dunn and
Derek Jones junior and the starting lineup. Minnesota is a
team that really pressures James Harden, so we needed someone
to be that help with distribution. That is why Chris
Done started. Thank you everyone for hanging out. This is
just a quick little postgame recap. I'm upset. I'm gonna
get a burrito in a few minutes. If you want
to listen to us, it's using myself, Adam Moles, and
Will Updike here at Clips and Dip. You can find
all our old episodes here on YouTube. I'm gonna put
this one out as audio two, so if you missed it,
you can listen to my quiet rage TD asking Chuck
do the Clips need to get a backup point guard
and backup Big at the trade deadline. I'd put backup
Big over backup point guard if I'm being honest, because
Kai Jones and Mobamba are unplayable. They are not good
at basketball for what the Clippers need right now. I
don't know what backup point guard you get. I don't
know who look like. I just don't like. I know
everyone wants to do the What if we just traded
our bad players who aren't playing for a really good
backup point guard. It doesn't work. I wish it did
work that way, all right. The burrito alarm went off
for head out in like ten. Thank you, shar gets it.
Therapy Breedo very much so. Coffee makes winning plays should
have been in there at the end. Coffee was really
good for the most part tonight. He was good late.
The hustle was there. He had four offensive rebounds, which
is insane and much needed against a gigantic mini team.
But I think the offense was just a little inconsistent
for what Tyler wanted. JHC. This is very funny. Rudy
Gobert is probably my least favorite player, so I really
wanted to win. Fair, absolutely fair. I don't get how
he's so bad at offense so close to the rim.
He's eight feet tall. This is such a This is
a frustrating loss. I know Kawhi is coming back. Whatever.
We had a nineteen point lead in this game. It
was just, Uh James Harden did not shoot very well.
We absolutely needed him in the third. We needed him,
but the defense, it wasn't one of the better UH
James Harden defensive games tonight. We were just like when
the Clippers lead started to slip. We were just sending
doubles at guys, and we were sending doubles at the Timberwolves,
and then a guy would just be hanging out in
the corner and they would make the corner three. The
Wolves made a bunch of tough threes late in this game,
but they were given a bunch of easy ones earlier,
which I was particularly frustrated about. I think that was
kind of one of the more frustrating parts of this game.
That and I don't know, there's a lot of this.
It's just weird playing Minnesota. Terrence Man only gets ten minutes,
but Toom had a bit of a rough game. If
I'm being I love Nico, but he just the whistle's
been weird with Nico. He picked up two fouls really fast.
He doesn't even crack fourteen minutes. It was tough man.
Shout out to Zoo seventeen to six team. Yet again,
Derek jos Junior was efficient. I mean, I don't know,
just tough. I want to get that we need to
get these wins. So the other part about the Kawhi
kind of twenty minute thing is we still need to
stack wins. We need to stack wins just as much
as we did when he was out, because he's not
going to be playing right now. In these final stretches
of games, it was just it was weird the guys
were getting lost on defense. Matthew Gillespie, You're absolutely right.
I don't know if the standings of been updated live yet,
but it just it just makes them it's just tighter.
Seeds four through eight are separated by three and a
half games. We need these wins. I know it's Kawhi's preseason.
We need these wins. And when you're up nineteen, I
know it's the new NBA, but this is a team
that the defensive identity got a little messy tonight and
late it was just it was just difficult. Yeah, I
don't know people are saying. Some people are like, hey,
it's no big deal, we played them close. I want
to beat Minnesota selfishly, I want to beat Minnesota, and
we need to beat Minnesota. Unclear on when the Kui
minutes restriction is gonna be lifted. I don't know if
it's gonna be anytime soon. It might be moved around
a little bit. Yeah, the Clippers are not very good
against the West right now. It's very it's not ideal.
I don't know if there's gonna be some postgame quotes
coming out soon. Go follow the beat writers. They will
have you covered. I was just a little upset, wanted
to let off some steam. Hope everyone has a good
rest of your night. Here's to the Clippers winning in Denver.
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