Speaker 1: The LA Clippers.
Speaker 2: The game is ended, gather round boys, time to recap, but.
Speaker 3: The postgame coverage is just getting started. The success is
Speaker 3: the failure.
Speaker 4: Let's discuss this is Clippers locker road, breaking down today's
Speaker 4: playoff game with the pre and post game voice of
Speaker 4: the Clippers.
Speaker 3: Here's that a moss.
Speaker 2: Leg, a disappointing end to a promising season as the
Speaker 2: Clippers lose Game seven and get blown out by the
Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets with a final score of one twenty to
Speaker 2: oneh one. Welcome into your Clippers postgame show. I'm at
Speaker 2: a Moslin coming up. We'll get to your postgame box score.
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Speaker 2: to seven, five to two, zero eleven fifty. As this
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five LA Clippers season
Speaker 2: comes to an end, let's get back out to ball
Speaker 2: Arena with your radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez.
Speaker 2: Before we get to the big picture of Carlo, it's
Speaker 2: just tough to figure out why the Clippers, after leading
Speaker 2: the first quarter by five, came out so flat the
Speaker 2: rest of the way. They started strong, the DJ move work.
Speaker 2: Then they brought it in Nico, Buttom, it felt like the
Speaker 2: Clippers were going to be in a battle all night,
Speaker 2: and instead they got blitzed and it was a one
Speaker 2: punched knockout for the Denver Nuggets. That happened early in
Speaker 2: that second quarter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Nuggets out him, took the eleven point lead
Speaker 5: in a halftime. They got up big in that second quarter,
Speaker 5: up by as many as fifteen, but it just for
Speaker 5: the Clippers. The thing that baffles me is this is
Speaker 5: a team out of that for the most part this season,
Speaker 5: had been so good at in second halves and they
Speaker 5: laid down I mean Denver twenty two to four run,
Speaker 5: it was seventeen to oh one point. They just couldn't
Speaker 5: find a way to get any momentum going. You've talked
Speaker 5: about that championship mentality that Denver had, and I think
Speaker 5: knowing what had happened to them last year, the Nuggets
Speaker 5: really felt motivated, not only because they were playing the
Speaker 5: Clippers in Round one, but they wanted to show people
Speaker 5: that they could hold on to a lead in Game seven.
Speaker 5: And they did that. And if you're the Clippers, like
Speaker 5: every series that goes seven, games. You just think back
Speaker 5: to so many moments in which this series could have turned.
Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, this is a
Speaker 5: group that fought, that battled, that many people didn't expect
Speaker 5: to be here. I think it's a It's a team
Speaker 5: Clipper Nation can be very proud of with the way
Speaker 5: they attacked every day getting the fifty wins, and it's
Speaker 5: just so many moments throughout the season to remember that
Speaker 5: are special. But a tough one today for a group
Speaker 5: that en them had fought so hard since March and
Speaker 5: it just ran out of gas. Maybe that was it
Speaker 5: in the third.
Speaker 2: It looked like it at times. Denver brought the fight
Speaker 2: and the Clippers just didn't have an answer. And that
Speaker 2: championship medal showed through or shined through this Denver Nuggets
Speaker 2: team when they had to have it most down to
Speaker 2: one in this series, coming through with the miraculous dunk
Speaker 2: as they did in game after giving up the lead.
Speaker 2: They were the mentally tougher squad. Credit to the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 2: They earned this series victory, they earn a chance to
Speaker 2: move on to the second round against Okay.
Speaker 5: See yeah, And they came out and they punched hard
Speaker 5: and like you said it was just a knockout. I
Speaker 5: mean the Clippers could not recover after going down eleven
Speaker 5: at halftime, just never found an answer. And it had
Speaker 5: been a game at them where you know, Denver traditionally
Speaker 5: in this series, had won the first quarters. The Clippers
Speaker 5: had been excellent in second and fourth quarters. They were
Speaker 5: plus seventeen in second quarters in this series. They lost
Speaker 5: that second quarter by sixteen. Just an odd, odd turn
Speaker 5: of events for this Clipper team. I think Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 5: was aggressive early but just not enough for him. And
Speaker 5: then Denver eleven second chance points in that second quarter.
Speaker 5: Clippers did not have any in the second and the
Speaker 5: Clippers what they needed to do was turn defense to offense.
Speaker 5: It's been the life blood of their offense all season long.
Speaker 5: They were unable to do that this game. Credit the Nuggets.
Speaker 5: Christian Brown has his playoff career high. Aaron Gordon was excellent,
Speaker 5: he was physical, he was aggressive. Michael Porter Junior hit
Speaker 5: bag shots. Clippers did not lose to Jamal Murray, Nicola
Speaker 5: yoguch today. They lost to the rest of the Denver Nuggets,
Speaker 5: which we thought would be the area that Clippers would
Speaker 5: have the strength in. It was not the case here
Speaker 5: in game seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they weren't good enough on the margins the rule players,
Speaker 2: but the stars have to lead. And I thought Kawhi
Speaker 2: Leonard was okay in that first half. He was more
Speaker 2: than solid. But James Harden another game, unfortunately in an
Speaker 2: elimination situation where he's not going to be able to
Speaker 2: beat the allegations in this one, thirty five minutes, two
Speaker 2: of eight from the field. He did have thirteen assists,
Speaker 2: but just seven points. Your stars have to lead you.
Speaker 2: We saw the blueprint in game six and then everybody
Speaker 2: else falls in line. That didn't happen, but it is
Speaker 2: more baffling and confounding by the way this happened with
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokicic only having first fifteen points
Speaker 2: combined in the first half, they were still leading by eleven.
Speaker 2: Christian Brown, I thought, really stepped up. He started to
Speaker 2: heat up the last couple of games from the outside.
Speaker 2: He finished with twenty one points. Aaron Gordon might have been,
Speaker 2: I don't know, the second third best player in this series.
Speaker 2: He was that good for the Denver Nuggets in so
Speaker 2: many different ways, with being a glue guy but also
Speaker 2: going out and getting twenty points in a lot of
Speaker 2: these games and helping out with the scoring. So the
Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets certainly more than earned this series victory. Just
Speaker 2: disappointing that it went this way so quickly in Game
Speaker 2: seven where things got out of hand, a very devastating loss,
Speaker 2: I know right now for Clipernation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when you think about this series, Adam, games one, two,
Speaker 5: and four are one possession games, and then you look
Speaker 5: up in the middle of the third quarter of Game
Speaker 5: seven and down thirty five. It's just baffling when you
Speaker 5: think about how close this has been all series long.
Speaker 5: Denver really able to get it done with the fast
Speaker 5: break points twenty four and this one they had twenty.
Speaker 5: The Avalanche just scored. So they throw a highlight up
Speaker 5: here on the big board. The Avalanche are playing in
Speaker 5: Dallas in a Game seven right now. But Denver I
Speaker 5: thought they had more focused, they had more physicality, they
Speaker 5: had more intensity. But also, Adam, they had shot making. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and for the second straight half in the game, the
Speaker 5: Clippers had four first half threes. They struggled to shoot
Speaker 5: the ball once again, thirty twenty nine percent from the
Speaker 5: three point line. The Clippers and them had been thirty
Speaker 5: three and four when they shoot thirty eight percent, and
Speaker 5: I think they got there twice in this series.
Speaker 2: Clippers unfortunately go out with a whimper in a season
Speaker 2: that you have to say they overachieved. Gained the fifty
Speaker 2: wins after the over under was thirty seven and a half.
Speaker 2: Be a shame if people only remember that final game.
Speaker 2: I would encourage those of you who can look back
Speaker 2: a little bit further to do so. With this Clippers
Speaker 2: team and how much they were able to accomplish this season,
Speaker 2: it's just a very devastating and disappointing end. But the
Speaker 2: one thing I keep coming back to Carlow when I
Speaker 2: think about this Clippers year, When I think about this organization,
Speaker 2: and we've talked about this many times, but I almost
Speaker 2: think of them as an expansion team that is just
Speaker 2: about eleven years in since Steve Balmer took over. And
Speaker 2: that's where my hope lies. Because Steve Balmer, they say
Speaker 2: when we said it, free game ownership is the biggest
Speaker 2: advantage in sports. You even see it in a game
Speaker 2: like this where he was able to charter out Clippers
Speaker 2: fans from the wall, from the swell, have them there,
Speaker 2: have them in the building, try to create a home
Speaker 2: court advantage. Steve Balmer will do anything it takes to
Speaker 2: make sure this team is competing in a winner and
Speaker 2: has a chance to keep climbing up and eventually get
Speaker 2: to the top of the mountain and win a championship.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he has shown the ultimate investment in this
Speaker 5: crew been Adam. This was a Clipper team that, really,
Speaker 5: like you mentioned, was not picked on forty games. They
Speaker 5: win fifty games this season. Credit the front office for
Speaker 5: putting together an excellent trade deadline an offseason that made
Speaker 5: them a defensive team. Jeff Van Gundy was a huge acquisition.
Speaker 5: We'll see what happens with him, obviously a head coaching
Speaker 5: candidate this offseason. But the Clippers I think what they
Speaker 5: did this season at him is they set a baseline
Speaker 5: that next year, this needs to be the standard for
Speaker 5: this group. And I don't know if many people would
Speaker 5: have thought being a four seed being a playoff team
Speaker 5: or a five seed being a playoff team would be
Speaker 5: a standard. But Steve really believes and always having teams
Speaker 5: that compete and are competitive every single year. That's why
Speaker 5: he invests so much in this organization. And the Clippers
Speaker 5: did that this season. I expect them to do it
Speaker 5: again next season and continue to be a contender every year.
Speaker 5: A fun end of the year, and the Clippers just
Speaker 5: ran into a championship group.
Speaker 2: Here Mile High credit the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 5: They were poised, they were effective, they knew their roles,
Speaker 5: and when you win a championship, you carry that throughout
Speaker 5: your career. And they kept the same four together who
Speaker 5: were able to help them in Gordon Porter, Junior Brown
Speaker 5: and Jokich and Murray. I mean, those are five guys
Speaker 5: who all won a championship with this group, and they did.
Speaker 5: They were able to come away with a first round
Speaker 5: win here in Denver.
Speaker 2: Clippers fall in Game seven, one twenty to one. Oh one.
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Speaker 2: And with that, the Clipper season comes to an end.
Speaker 2: They fall by nineteen in Game seven to the Denver Nuggets. Well,
Speaker 2: this is the real tough part here. Carlo Jmenez, my friend,
Speaker 2: it's been a joy. It's been a pleasure all year long.
Speaker 2: Second year getting to work with you. Wouldn't want any
Speaker 2: other way. Appreciate your professionalism and your high level broadcasting
Speaker 2: talent that you bring to each in every Clippers game.
Speaker 2: Love you, my friend. It's been a ride, it's been
Speaker 2: a joy. Love you brother. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: You pushed me to be great every day. Truly, truly,
Speaker 5: we have too much fun and you provide so much
Speaker 5: excellence to the broadcast, so I could appreciate you what
Speaker 5: you do for Clipper Nation every single day. It is incredible.
Speaker 3: I will see you soon.
Speaker 5: And you know what, we got another season of Clipper
Speaker 5: basketball in a couple of months.
Speaker 3: To that, I say, let's go.
Speaker 2: Well, take a quick time out after the Clipper season
Speaker 2: comes to an end of the hands of the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 2: They lose in Game seven one twenty to one on one.
Speaker 2: I'm out of Masland and you're listening to the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Clippers Audio Network, the.
Speaker 3: LA Clippers and the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 4: This is Round one playoff action on the the LA
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Speaker 2: Well, the best teams have and play their best basketball
Speaker 2: when their best is required. Clippers didn't do that here
Speaker 2: in Game seven. They lose trailed big in this one
Speaker 2: by as many as thirty five in fall once twenty
Speaker 2: to one on one in a loss in game seven
Speaker 2: on the road to the Denver Nuggets. Welcome back into
Speaker 2: your post game show. I'm outa Moslins. It's one of
Speaker 2: those games where it happened during the regular season. You'd say,
Speaker 2: burn the tape, kill it with fire, turn the page,
Speaker 2: and I guess we have to to some degree. But
Speaker 2: the problem is that next chapter of the book a
Speaker 2: bit of an interlude before then, as the Clippers entered
Speaker 2: the offseason, they lose in seven games in the first
Speaker 2: round of the Denver Nuggets and lose an embarrassing unfortunately.
Speaker 2: I always say a win isn't a win, A loss
Speaker 2: isn't a loss to me either. It matters how you play,
Speaker 2: and the Clippers quite frankly, weren't close to playing well
Speaker 2: enough in this ballgame. After the first quarter. Just the
Speaker 2: second and third quarter miserable basketball. I'd say the downward
Speaker 2: trajectory and the downward spirals started with the turnovers, five
Speaker 2: of them in that second quarter, got down by fifteen,
Speaker 2: got down by eleven. By the end of the first half,
Speaker 2: the Clippers were down fifty eight to forty seven. And
Speaker 2: after a Kawhi Leonard three pointers start the third quarter,
Speaker 2: the Denver Nuggets went on a seventeen to nothing run
Speaker 2: where the Clippers didn't score a point in four minutes
Speaker 2: and thirty seconds after the start of the second quarter,
Speaker 2: where they went a little over four minutes without a
Speaker 2: field goal. They gain have their offense failed them to
Speaker 2: even punch back and make a run and make it interesting.
Speaker 2: Then ur Nuggets out execute them in every which way.
Speaker 2: It is a really difficult way to go out this season.
Speaker 2: I know many of you are disappointed, as you should be.
Speaker 2: Clippers win fifty games, a way over achieve in the
Speaker 2: regular season and came back to earth in this playoff series,
Speaker 2: but a series that felt very winnable, and the Clippers
Speaker 2: led two games to one, and I didn't like the
Speaker 2: sense of urgency in that Game four. I didn't. You
Speaker 2: knew it then. I didn't like what happened after Game one,
Speaker 2: blowing a fifteen point lead, and I thought it would
Speaker 2: come back, or could come back to bite them. It
Speaker 2: did in this game. They lost those second quarter minutes
Speaker 2: without Jokic to start by seven, And I said, the
Speaker 2: same thing that could come back to bite you. You
Speaker 2: gotta win those minutes. You're up by five heading into
Speaker 2: the second how do you not increase the lead without
Speaker 2: yolks on the floor. He and Jamal Murray only had
Speaker 2: fifteen points in the first half and the Clippers were
Speaker 2: down eleven. Just head scratching. Game seven, where the Clippers
Speaker 2: didn't show up outside the first twelve minutes. They lose
Speaker 2: one twenty to one on one morning postgame box score
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Speaker 2: coming in. Hate to see the season end like this.
Speaker 2: Try to find some positives. But we'll also go through
Speaker 2: what happened in this game seven, because pretty inexcusable way
Speaker 2: to play. I'm Meta Masland and you're listening to the
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Speaker 4: Clippers and the Denver Nuggets. This is Round one playoff
Speaker 4: action on the LA Clippers Audio Network.
Speaker 2: Nuggets wiped the floor with the Clippers in Game seven.
Speaker 2: Let's call it what it is. They led by as
Speaker 2: many as thirty five. They win one twenty to one
Speaker 2: on one. They win the series. They advanced to take
Speaker 2: on the OKC Thunder in the second round. Clippers weren't
Speaker 2: good enough in any facet of the game. They ended
Speaker 2: up shooting. I don't even know if I should look
Speaker 2: at this final box score. You know what the box
Speaker 2: score I'll look at end of the third quarter, because
Speaker 2: inconsequential time started early for this Clippers team, unfortunately, aka
Speaker 2: garbage time. They were down ninety three to sixty six
Speaker 2: heading into the fourth and they had only shot forty
Speaker 2: one percent from the field. There were five of twenty
Speaker 2: from the outside. Denver was at fifty two percent from
Speaker 2: the field and ten of twenty two from three. The
Speaker 2: Clippers had eleven turnovers, leading to eleven points. Felt worse
Speaker 2: than that. So they had I think four turnovers in
Speaker 2: the third quarter after being five in the second quarter.
Speaker 2: But I mean Norman Powle dribbled a ball off his
Speaker 2: foot at one point. It was just an unraveling, a
Speaker 2: complete disaster, a disaster class. The Denver Nuggets earned it.
Speaker 2: The Clippers could not match their physicality or their intensity.
Speaker 2: They were down by as many as twenty nine through
Speaker 2: the first three quarters before things got even more out
Speaker 2: of hand, down by thirty five in the fourth, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it was over heading into that fourth quarter, that magical
Speaker 2: Clippers run was not coming. And heading into the fourth
Speaker 2: Kawhi had twenty two okay. I thought Kawhi played by
Speaker 2: far the best on the team six of thirteen, two
Speaker 2: against twenty two points. Thought he showed up. But James
Speaker 2: Harden heading into the fourth quarter with the Clippers down
Speaker 2: ninety three to sixty six, down twenty seven, he had
Speaker 2: just seven points on two of eight shooting. He had
Speaker 2: thirteen assists, just two turnovers, but two of eight not
Speaker 2: good enough. I'm only taking eight shots. Norman Powell was
Speaker 2: four of ten. Miserable game from Norm Featza Zubats was
Speaker 2: okay eight of thirteen. He did have a couple of
Speaker 2: bad turnovers, but I felt like he was fighting DJ.
Speaker 2: I mean, he had seven points in the first quarter,
Speaker 2: twelve after three. But you have two stretches where you
Speaker 2: go in the second quarter over four minutes scoreless or
Speaker 2: without a field goal, and then in the third quarter,
Speaker 2: after a three pointer from Kawhi, they go on a
Speaker 2: seventeen to oher run and the game is over. Where
Speaker 2: was the fight? They're only down eleven at that it's
Speaker 2: not insurmountable. The Nuggets. We're up twenty against Minnesota in
Speaker 2: Game seven last season and lost, and Kawhi it's a
Speaker 2: three to bring it to within eight and they go
Speaker 2: on a seventeen oh run game over. How do you
Speaker 2: not answer? How do you not respond? Clippers? Just I
Speaker 2: don't know. We'll hear from a postgame. It just felt
Speaker 2: like they got overwhelmed by the moment, by the pressure,
Speaker 2: by the shot making from Denver. They fall in Game
Speaker 2: seven one twenty to one oh one. Their season ends,
Speaker 2: and the Denver Nuggets move on to take on the
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round starting Monday night.
Speaker 2: Before we get out of here, I should get some
Speaker 2: thank yous out on the network side, Big thank you
Speaker 2: to the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seman, Noah Ego,
Speaker 2: Carlo Jimenez. We had Chris Taylor, a statistician all year long.
Speaker 2: We had Joey Kimball, big brother, Jake Warner, our head engineer,
Speaker 2: Daniel West, our producer. After Katie Newton moved on to
Speaker 2: Greener Pastors, but then return for Game seven tonight. Thanks
Speaker 2: for your help, Katie, appreciate everybody. We're not going anywhere
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Speaker 2: we will talk to you guys next season.
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Speaker 2: That's how it feels right now. Clipper Nation season is
Speaker 2: over comes to an end with a one twenty to
Speaker 2: one on one loss to the Denver Nuggets in Game seven.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to Denver. They advanced to the second round. They
Speaker 2: showed championship heart, metal and a spirit the Clippers didn't
Speaker 2: have in Game seven. They didn't have the requisite competitive
Speaker 2: spirit and they got blown off the court after the
Speaker 2: first twelve minutes. Welcome to Clipperstock. Final edition of this season.
Speaker 2: Streak will end for me tonight. I'll stick with you
Speaker 2: guys on the YouTube side and we'll go late into
Speaker 2: the evening if people are calling in and want to
Speaker 2: talk about this year, want to talk about moving forward,
Speaker 2: but first I do want to reflect on this game, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: because to lose like that, to come out that flat
Speaker 2: after starting the game as well as they did, it's
Speaker 2: so deflating and demoralizing to lose a game seven this way.
Speaker 2: You're up twenty six to twenty one heading into the
Speaker 2: second quarter. I mean, the DJ move paid dividends early
Speaker 2: on Dereck Jones Jr. Had a quick seven points, had
Speaker 2: a big block on Murray. I agreed with the move.
Speaker 2: I didn't see it coming from coach Lou but it
Speaker 2: made a lot of sense to me. Why because this
Speaker 2: season they had a plus twenty two net rating with
Speaker 2: DJ in the starting lineup, with Norm, with Kawhi, Harden
Speaker 2: and Zoo in one hundred and ninety three minutes this season,
Speaker 2: they were plus ninety five, and that group got off
Speaker 2: to a quick start. They were up six to Ozho
Speaker 2: and then as Denver battled back, you still had the
Speaker 2: BA two moved to go to and he came into
Speaker 2: the game and hit a three pointer right away. And
Speaker 2: the Clippers surprisingly actually went the last two minutes and
Speaker 2: forty one seconds without Kawhi on the floor, with Jokic
Speaker 2: on the floor, who started oh five, and they won
Speaker 2: those minutes, they extended the lead. They went plus six
Speaker 2: and those non Kawhi, but Yo Kid's out there minutes
Speaker 2: to end the first quarter and they're up by five
Speaker 2: at twenty six twenty one. All systems go right wrong.
Speaker 2: Norm Kawhi, Bogey Bitumen, don start the second Pal misses,
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray, missus Bogey, missus, Aaron Gordon a wild layup.
Speaker 2: He might have been the MVP of this series for
Speaker 2: the Denver Nuggets. To be honest with you, No more's
Speaker 2: on Yokic's plate, but Aaron Gordon was just spectacular all
Speaker 2: series long done. Misses a layup, Watson gets one, Clippers
Speaker 2: only up by one. Now Denver's playing his own, Yoki
Speaker 2: is still on the bench and they're bleeding points. Done.
Speaker 2: Missus a three foul on Bogie. Clippers weren't getting a
Speaker 2: great whistle Predictably, early on. It's not why they lost
Speaker 2: the game when Kawhi had that block on Aaron god
Speaker 2: after Harden came back into the ballgame at the nine
Speaker 2: to fifty seven mark, because Clippers were getting ambushed and
Speaker 2: Russ hit a three pointer and they just went on
Speaker 2: a seven to zero run without Yo Kitchen on the floor.
Speaker 2: I said, oh no, you can't lose those minutes. That's
Speaker 2: gonna bite you in the ass. Clippers are now down
Speaker 2: twenty eight to twenty six. Bogie misses a three, Yo
Speaker 2: Kicch and Zoo were back in. They matched the minutes.
Speaker 2: But there was a wild play early on after Russell
Speaker 2: Westbrook was fouled. Wins. The line went one of two.
Speaker 2: Kawhi gets doubled, gives it up to Zoo. He's spinning
Speaker 2: in the paint. Russ gets a piece of it turnover.
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon misses the layup. But Harden has a bad
Speaker 2: turnover as he's looking for Kawhi in a long outlet
Speaker 2: pass up the floor, and I don't know how he
Speaker 2: didn't see Russell Westbrook, who intercepted it got it to
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon, huge dunk. It's thirty one to twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Denver and they have all the momentum. And the Clippers
Speaker 2: starred the second quarter over six, then scored a field
Speaker 2: goal in over four minutes. A Zoo bucket at the
Speaker 2: seven to fifty nine mark would end that drought, but
Speaker 2: then jokishit a three pointer. They challenging out of bounds
Speaker 2: call it was out on Norm Watson hits a three
Speaker 2: out of a timeout. The Clippers are down seven, Kawhi
Speaker 2: three the other way. I thought Kawhi wasn't great, but
Speaker 2: he definitely showed up. Then MPJ misses a three Zoo
Speaker 2: rebound but throws it to Jokich. It's their sixth turnover already.
Speaker 2: Denver gets a bucket on a Christian Brown easy one.
Speaker 2: Clippers down six again I and one the other way,
Speaker 2: three point game. Russ three down six, Zoo floater down four.
Speaker 2: Clippers are hanging in there. Hardin would hit a three
Speaker 2: point and to make it forty four to forty one,
Speaker 2: but then Kawhi missed a good look at a floater
Speaker 2: after a blowby on Aaron Gordon. Russ missed a three,
Speaker 2: but there was a foul on Kawhi on Aaron Gordon
Speaker 2: for the rebound. He had his hand on his hip.
Speaker 2: I guessed I Kawhi was getting some interesting calls on him.
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon hit both. They're up by five. Norm hit
Speaker 2: a jumper, and I thought, okay, we're gonna be all right.
Speaker 2: Norm found his sea legs after a slow start. They're
Speaker 2: only down by three. But remember yo kitchen, Murray hadn't
Speaker 2: done anything, and they're still down. Murray's first bucket after
Speaker 2: starting erver four put the Clippers down by five, and
Speaker 2: that happened mid way through or late into the second.
Speaker 2: Harden then misses a three, falls down to try to
Speaker 2: draw the contact. Aaron Gordon comes up with a board,
Speaker 2: gets it to Russ on a runout. Norm fouls him.
Speaker 2: This was a backbreaker. Norm misses the second after making
Speaker 2: the first free throw, gets his own rebound. It was
Speaker 2: a lane violation, but they rarely ever call it. He
Speaker 2: has a putback. He entered the lane early, doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: they didn't call it. He got his own board hardened,
Speaker 2: didn't box out fifty one forty three. DJ misses a
Speaker 2: three pointer after coming in for Norm, who picked up
Speaker 2: his third foul, and that foul on Russell Westbrook foul
Speaker 2: on Kawhi again battling with Aaron Gordon. Now the Clippers
Speaker 2: are down by ten. They eventually air down fifty eight
Speaker 2: to forty seven at the half. Clippers had five turnovers
Speaker 2: in the second quarter and they went four minutes scoreless
Speaker 2: to start it and minus seven in the non Jokic minutes.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, by the way, that was the first second
Speaker 2: quarter they had lost in this series. That's not good.
Speaker 2: They were plus seventeen and second quarters at the half.
Speaker 2: Denver had eleven second chance points, the Clippers just four.
Speaker 2: They had fourteen fast break points. The Clippers turnovers seven
Speaker 2: I believed, were turned into seven points by Denver at
Speaker 2: the half, and they only had fifteen points from Jokic
Speaker 2: and Jamal Murray at the halfway point and they're still
Speaker 2: up by eleven. That's not good. Thanks to ten points
Speaker 2: from Russ, eleven from Christian Brown, ten from Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 2: Efficiently with all those guys, how are you down eleven?
Speaker 2: With Jokic only having nine points on three of nine
Speaker 2: shooting and Jamal Murray is two of seven with six points.
Speaker 2: Peyton Watson had seven at the half. He went three
Speaker 2: of three. Clippers bench had seven points of the half.
Speaker 2: Peyton Watson had seven. By himself. Kahi had fourteen points
Speaker 2: in the first half. I was somewhat okay with his play.
Speaker 2: He wasn't great, he wasn't amazing, but he was out
Speaker 2: playing their stars. But James Harden was two of six,
Speaker 2: just seven points. He did have ten assists to two turnovers.
Speaker 2: He did have ten of their fourteen assists in the
Speaker 2: first half. Fair to say, pretty big warning sign that
Speaker 2: you're down eleven and Jokiic and Jamal Murray have done nothing.
Speaker 2: But down eleven is nothing for this Clippers team. And
Speaker 2: Kawhi hit a three pointer to start the third. It's
Speaker 2: fifty eight to fifty perfect, exactly what you wanted. But
Speaker 2: then Jokic hit a shot and he got his jumper going,
Speaker 2: and that was the missing ingredient from him throughout a
Speaker 2: lot of this series. He wasn't making or taking many
Speaker 2: jump shots or May three's here comes the seventeen oh run.
Speaker 2: Those were the first two points. Jumper over Zoo, well contested,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Kawhi misses a three. Now Christian Brown three pointer,
Speaker 2: They're up thirteen. It was their largest lead to that point,
Speaker 2: I believe. But two misses a three Gordon reverse dunk
Speaker 2: down fifteen hardened well short on a floater MPG MPJ
Speaker 2: three over Kawhi norm with a turnover. Murray misses but
Speaker 2: put back by Aaron Gordon. They're just snatching the Clipper's
Speaker 2: soule at this point. Miss is a scoop layup Michael
Speaker 2: Porter Junior three. It's seventy three to fifty fifteen Oh
Speaker 2: Denver run time out, Zoom misses, Aaron Gordon gets a
Speaker 2: bucket out of the timeout. Clippers are down twenty five.
Speaker 2: A seventeen oh run where the Clippers went about four
Speaker 2: minutes and thirty seconds without a point from down eleven,
Speaker 2: from down eight at the very start of the third quarter.
Speaker 2: After that, Kawhi three to down twenty five. That quickly,
Speaker 2: how do you not respond? How do you not find
Speaker 2: some points?
Speaker 6: That is?
Speaker 2: That is a tough one. It happened in less than
Speaker 2: five minutes from down eight to down twenty five. Game
Speaker 2: was pretty much over. Then they got out by as
Speaker 2: many as thirty five. The Clippers didn't have the fight
Speaker 2: that it was going to take to battle back. They
Speaker 2: couldn't get stops on one end, they couldn't make shawts
Speaker 2: on the other. They look like deer in the headlights
Speaker 2: at times some of the players and Denver overwhelmed them.
Speaker 2: One of my biggest concerns coming into this series was
Speaker 2: the championship pedigree and there guys being more clutch over
Speaker 2: the last five years. I said it like Jamal and
Speaker 2: Jolkich have been in so many big games, have performed
Speaker 2: at such a high level. They've been in the most
Speaker 2: game sevens I think over the last five years. They
Speaker 2: didn't win all of them. But last season they blew
Speaker 2: a twenty point lead, so you knew they were gonna
Speaker 2: be ready. Clippers looked like the team that was more
Speaker 2: tired and older squad they are, but Denver played heavier
Speaker 2: minutes heading into Game seven, older guys. Jokis has played
Speaker 2: like eighteen more minutes than Kawhi. Heading into Game seven,
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray had played twenty two minutes more than him.
Speaker 2: They both have played more than James Harden, even with
Speaker 2: him playing forty seven minutes in a game, Aaron Gordon
Speaker 2: had played more minutes. This is why to me, this
Speaker 2: series might have been lost earlier, not pushing things in
Speaker 2: Game one and playing your stars larger minutes, where Kawhi
Speaker 2: after overtime was only at forty one when in an
Speaker 2: overtime game the week before to stay out of the
Speaker 2: playing against Golden State, he played forty seven Why is
Speaker 2: he only playing forty one minutes in a playoff game?
Speaker 2: Where's the sense of urgency? You lose that game in
Speaker 2: overtime when you're up fifteen in the second half. In
Speaker 2: Game one, you don't play your guys heavy minutes. I
Speaker 2: kept saying right after that game, if they lose this series,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be thinking about this one. Well they did,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking about it. I don't understand that it's
Speaker 2: the playoffs push your stars further. Denver did, and their
Speaker 2: stars still look pressure in Game seven. You can't give
Speaker 2: away teams. I can't give away games. I should say
Speaker 2: to teams like this. I said it after Game one.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can get give away a
Speaker 2: game to Denver and go on to win the series
Speaker 2: and get away with it. It wasn't Dallas and twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: it wasn't Utah. Denver's different. They're not gonna beat themselves
Speaker 2: as much as you going to have to outplay them.
Speaker 2: They have a ton of heart and championship toughness. And
Speaker 2: even though I felt like the Clippers more talented team
Speaker 2: in this series. Well, Denver's role players played better, Russ
Speaker 2: played well, he got his revenge. Christian Brown. The last
Speaker 2: three games played really well. Then the Clippers get Game
Speaker 2: two off the brilliance of Kawhi Leonard. They blow them
Speaker 2: out in game three. Game four came out completely flat,
Speaker 2: zero sense of urgency, so you got no sense of
Speaker 2: urgency to push your stars with more minutes. In game one,
Speaker 2: you're playing the long game. Okay, it didn't work. And
Speaker 2: then in game four they come out very little purpose.
Speaker 2: Kawhy is a turnover the opening possession. I'm just like, wow,
Speaker 2: they look stuck in mud. They look like they think
Speaker 2: they're up three games to one instead of two games
Speaker 2: to one. In that Game four, that's what it looked
Speaker 2: like to me. I told you that. Afterwards, they make
Speaker 2: a comeback after having to be down twenty two in
Speaker 2: the fourth you led with a minute and a half
Speaker 2: left and Aaron Gordon gets the miraculous miss put back
Speaker 2: off the Jokic three, first ever game winning dunk in
Speaker 2: a playoff game. Well, that didn't feel good. Instead of
Speaker 2: being up three to one, it's two to two series,
Speaker 2: that's the swing game all the numbers, say winner of
Speaker 2: game five or winner of game four. Excuse me, you know,
Speaker 2: getting it back to two to two instead of three
Speaker 2: to one. That makes all the difference in the world.
Speaker 2: And then you lose game five, or if you lose
Speaker 2: Game five, you lose the series, like eighty two percent
Speaker 2: of the time or eighty four percent of the time.
Speaker 2: They lost Game five to a forty three spot from
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray. Clippers battled and look great in games, but
Speaker 2: ultimately just got dismantled and dissected in game seven. It
Speaker 2: was a very winnable series. Frustrated with the lack of
Speaker 2: sense of urgency by the Clippers at times instead of
Speaker 2: putting foot to throat. I think Game four was very winnable.
Speaker 2: I think Game one was very winnable. I didn't think
Speaker 2: you could give away one game and win this series.
Speaker 2: They gave away two. You can make that argument. You
Speaker 2: can starting things off tonight, Jose and long Beach. You're
Speaker 2: on Clippers top with out a mazen.
Speaker 7: Like.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 2: There's this thing about radio folks and how they like
Speaker 2: to listen to themselves talk. I actually don't so, Jose.
Speaker 2: If you could turn down the radio or whatever, you
Speaker 2: got the YouTube side, so I could just hear you, Jose.
Speaker 9: Good.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Wes Brook came through. Man, we had him last year.
Speaker 2: Remember, oh I remember he didn't come through for us.
Speaker 2: He went eight of forty two the last five games
Speaker 2: of that playoff series.
Speaker 10: Yeah. I know. So I'm disappointed that what happened today.
Speaker 10: You gotta wait another year for them to get to
Speaker 10: get better. But we have a good team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and who knows who's going to be
Speaker 2: back from this team. I mean James Harden as a
Speaker 2: player option. I don't know who's coming back. I don't
Speaker 2: know what the team's gonna look like. We got a
Speaker 2: whole offseason, you're right, huh Yeah, so we're gonna be
Speaker 2: off for a whole season.
Speaker 10: And I wish we could have made it to the
Speaker 10: other round. But we did it. It was a really
Speaker 10: disappointed game, yep, from starting because we was up by
Speaker 10: six points at the first quarter. Yeah, we're doing good. Beginning,
Speaker 10: We're doing good, and then it just went off falls.
Speaker 10: But I still have the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Joe Cibernation, I'm with you, Jose, keep the faith. Appreciate
Speaker 2: the phone call, Quick time out will come back. More
Speaker 2: of your phone calls We're with you till eight thirty.
Speaker 2: Here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty eight seven seven
Speaker 2: five two zero eleven fifty is the phone number if
Speaker 2: you'd like to get on Madame Oislin. After the Clippers
Speaker 2: season comes to an end, as Denver just went buzz
Speaker 2: saw through them in Game seven, led by as many
Speaker 2: as thirty five, Clippers lost one twenty two one oh
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Speaker 3: The LA Clippers and the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 4: This is Round one playoff action on the LA Clippers
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Speaker 2: Denver's championship intangibles smothered the Clippers and by the time
Speaker 2: we were five minutes into the third quarter, it was
Speaker 2: just a slow death. Clippers got down by as many
Speaker 2: as thirty five. They lose one twenty to one on
Speaker 2: one in Game seven to the Denver Nuggets. Welcome back
Speaker 2: into your post game show, Clipper Stock. I'm at a
Speaker 2: Maslin final show the season as the Clippers says, come
Speaker 2: to an end. Barry in Ohio. Barry, you're on Clipper
Speaker 2: Stock without a Maaslin. Barry, what's up?
Speaker 8: Mmm? Not in the best move right now, but I
Speaker 8: want to start by saying we had a great regular season.
Speaker 8: We weren't supposed to be in this position to begin with.
Speaker 8: Good guys got us here. I just am really disappointed.
Speaker 8: I feel like this series was a very winnable series, yep,
Speaker 8: and we lost to hustle and grit and in my opinion,
Speaker 8: leadership and mental toughness.
Speaker 2: But I agree with you. I agree with you on
Speaker 2: all those points. It's hard to reckon style and celebrate
Speaker 2: what an accomplishment this season was winning fifty games when
Speaker 2: they said they'd win thirty seven. At least Vegas had
Speaker 2: the over under at thirty seven and a half. When
Speaker 2: things just the bottom falls out on you in Game seven.
Speaker 2: To this degree, it's just because they set a new standard.
Speaker 2: No were they supposed to be here, but they got here.
Speaker 2: And once you get in this series against a team
Speaker 2: that you can definitely beat, and you come up short
Speaker 2: like this and you don't come through at all in
Speaker 2: the biggest game of your season, that's what a lot
Speaker 2: of people are gonna remember.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And the biggest thing. If there's one basketball aspect
Speaker 8: where I think we really lost this series, it's rebounding.
Speaker 8: It took us I mean even up until Game seven
Speaker 8: We're still struggling with offensive rebounds and boxing.
Speaker 2: Out in yep, Aaron Gordon killed.
Speaker 8: Unacceptable, that's just unacceptable. Ball watching, not not guarding cuts,
Speaker 8: you know what. I knew it was bad. It was
Speaker 8: like we were on offense actually earning our buckets and
Speaker 8: they were playing transition offense and guys weren't getting back
Speaker 8: and they were getting easy cuts, wide open threes, And
Speaker 8: I'm like, when's the effort? Like we were at top
Speaker 8: five defense this whole year. We didn't look like a
Speaker 8: top five defense in this series.
Speaker 2: Once Denver look they did at times, they did at
Speaker 2: times they really did, Like look at some of the
Speaker 2: scores in this series. But the problem was, whenever Denver
Speaker 2: really clicked in, it felt like they just ran away
Speaker 2: with it. They could go on runs and the Clippers
Speaker 2: just had no answers. It happened in game five, It
Speaker 2: happens tonight, it happens in Game one when they battle
Speaker 2: back down fifteen. The Clippers had too many scoring droughts.
Speaker 2: It's just Denver had the grit, as you mentioned, the toughness, you.
Speaker 8: Know what was eye opening as well too. When things
Speaker 8: get tight, we really don't have anything to go to,
Speaker 8: like watching the Nuggets. They'll just get into their pick
Speaker 8: and roll and they they they'll get a good shot.
Speaker 8: When we play offenses, either here James Harden try to
Speaker 8: beat the man in front of you and get a bucket,
Speaker 8: and if he doesn't do that, you know, that's a
Speaker 8: lot easier to guard. They'll just collapse on that and
Speaker 8: then we're just playing on a corner three or one
Speaker 8: of our shooters that hit. We don't really have some
Speaker 8: type of bread and butter. But maybe I'm maybe I
Speaker 8: just watch the game a little different. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think there's something to that. I felt like at
Speaker 2: times they didn't go to the pick and roll enough
Speaker 2: with Harden and Zoo, but they also threw a zone
Speaker 2: at them a lot in this series to try to
Speaker 2: negate that It worked and the Clippers didn't have many
Speaker 2: counters afterwards.
Speaker 8: But anything else, Berry, one last thing, I just want
Speaker 8: to I know things are bad now, but we got
Speaker 8: the best owner in the in the league, and we're
Speaker 8: gonna win eventually some point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. Thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the phone calls all season long. Berry,
Speaker 2: appreciate you, man.
Speaker 8: I appreciate the streak as well, you've been killing it there.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Thanks bro.
Speaker 2: I put my hope in Steve Balmer. If ownership is
Speaker 2: the biggest advantage in sports and it is disast Sacramento Kings,
Speaker 2: then you have a chance because of Steve Balmer, and
Speaker 2: he's driven and passionate and wants to bring this team
Speaker 2: a championship. It just it's frustrating. That's six years of
Speaker 2: this era with Kawhi and form Kawhi PG has left
Speaker 2: us with a lot of disappointment. It is frustrating that
Speaker 2: the Clippers were healthy. We got them healthy in a series.
Speaker 2: We got to the series with Kawhi healthy and he
Speaker 2: was good coming into Game seven. He was the leading
Speaker 2: scorer in this series. Kawhi was very good in this
Speaker 2: series and he was by far their best player today
Speaker 2: and showed up for the most part. But the promise
Speaker 2: and the dangling carrot was just if we can only
Speaker 2: get Kawhi healthy for a playoff series. This is the
Speaker 2: first time that Kawhi has exited a playoff series on
Speaker 2: the court in front of fans a loser since twenty sixteen,
Speaker 2: first time outside of the bubble at least that he's
Speaker 2: been able to exit a series healthy on the losing
Speaker 2: end since twenty sixteen. It just makes it all that
Speaker 2: much more disappointing. The entire talking point that we have
Speaker 2: had for years is just get us a healthy Kawhi.
Speaker 2: And I'm not putting this series on Kawhi.
Speaker 5: He was.
Speaker 2: I think he was a top two player in the series.
Speaker 2: Very good. Maybe not great enough, but very good. But
Speaker 2: you got Russ Christian Brown role players for the Denver
Speaker 2: Nuggets out playing some of the Clippers guys that can't
Speaker 2: happen A Tief in Irvine, A Tief you're on Clipper
Speaker 2: staff for that, malson what's up a Tief any autumn.
Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you to you first now
Speaker 1: for holding it down for the entire Clipper nation. It's
Speaker 1: like the amount of I guess, like the overwhelming feeling
Speaker 1: of disappointment is like definitely, you know, permeating through my
Speaker 1: veins right now. But I just wanted to give you
Speaker 1: a shout out and all the Beat writers who like
Speaker 1: you know, continue to inform all of us about what's
Speaker 1: going on with the team. I think what you just
Speaker 1: said really is the most frustrating thing about tonight's loss
Speaker 1: is like we we've been holding onto this dream of
Speaker 1: if Kawhi can just make it healthy, then with the
Speaker 1: combination of tie and giving him a one A in Harden,
Speaker 1: you know that that would be enough. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's really frustrating that, like you said, we
Speaker 1: squandered opportunities earlier in the series to be able to
Speaker 1: actually capitalize take a lead and then you could afford
Speaker 1: to have a night off in their home and still
Speaker 1: win the series. And the fact that we gave them
Speaker 1: games and then put it all into a game seven basket.
Speaker 1: It just honestly, like as a longtime Clipper fan, I
Speaker 1: didn't have a good feeling coming into it, and then
Speaker 1: it's just like rubbing me the wrong way that the
Speaker 1: next series, like Shay is sitting there, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think that that should have been our guy, and
Speaker 1: the fact that we we traded him away for the
Speaker 1: promise of the immediate possible chip that I would bring
Speaker 1: us and then all we got was a bunch of injuries.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, man, I'm just I'm really hurt,
Speaker 1: I guess right now, like as the Glipper fans is
Speaker 1: really hurting. But I just wanted to say thank you
Speaker 1: to you man like really like one of the few
Speaker 1: positives is just all like the guys who like righte
Speaker 1: about the team, talk about the team like yourself.
Speaker 2: And I just want to say thank you to man,
Speaker 2: Thanks Satief. I appreciate the thoughts and I understand the
Speaker 2: frustrations after this game because it's true. Uh, this could
Speaker 2: be a hold my beer like situation. You think it's
Speaker 2: bad now, Well, if SGA and the Thunder go on
Speaker 2: to win the championship this season, do you want to
Speaker 2: talk about salt and the wound. Yeah, it's just there
Speaker 2: is no bottom to the pain in this moment, after
Speaker 2: the way they just lost that Game seven, after losing
Speaker 2: a series that was very winnable, after having guys healthy,
Speaker 2: and I'm not going to say that they lost it
Speaker 2: more than Denver won it, but there were times in
Speaker 2: this year I definitely felt like that after this Game seven.
Speaker 2: I don't think you can say that it was never
Speaker 2: just demolished them, but this is a tough pill to swallow.
Speaker 2: Kevin in Arkansas, Ah, he dropped right then. Matt in Seattle, Matt,
Speaker 2: you're on Clipper socker without Amazen.
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 8: Aim?
Speaker 2: Well, you know Clipper season's over. That's pretty much what
Speaker 2: we're talking about here. What's up with you?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 11: This is so frustrating, bro, Like.
Speaker 12: All I asked for for like four years was just
Speaker 12: a healthy Kawhi under Taylou and any results in a
Speaker 12: first round lost like, oh man, I don't know, and
Speaker 12: the fact that we had what Kawhiz and Tide we're
Speaker 12: a part of that twenty twenty lost, that Game seven loss.
Speaker 12: They just felt like there was no no energy, no
Speaker 12: no frustration, like.
Speaker 8: I, oh, no, dogs, they didn't bring it.
Speaker 2: They didn't show up. I thought Kawhi played well, not great,
Speaker 2: but he at least showed up. He played hard even
Speaker 2: when they were getting io.
Speaker 12: Kwi played good, not great in the entire series. He
Speaker 12: played great in Game two. He had the great first
Speaker 12: half today, but there was some myth hues there. He
Speaker 12: just no boxing down ag some bad files.
Speaker 11: I don't know.
Speaker 12: Then I loved though he's an league coach, but at
Speaker 12: the end of the day, he's a doct Rivers disciple.
Speaker 12: I think I do when I'm gone. I doubt that
Speaker 12: happens this offseason.
Speaker 2: He just signed an extension. I just don't know. I know,
Speaker 2: like there are things to put on coach louin this series,
Speaker 2: I think that's fair. I didn't like the lack of
Speaker 2: minutes for Stars in Game one when they were up
Speaker 2: by fifteen. I thought you should go for the kill
Speaker 2: and have a sense of urgency. I didn't like what
Speaker 2: I saw with how flat they were to start Game four,
Speaker 2: that turnover that James Harden had to end the first quarter.
Speaker 2: They got Jokics going with that three point to end
Speaker 2: that first quarter in Game four, I feel like it's
Speaker 2: a big turning point, not just in that game, but
Speaker 2: in this series. And then the personnel that's on the
Speaker 2: floor at the end of Game four, Yeah, you came
Speaker 2: back down twenty two. They would have stolen the game away,
Speaker 2: and you could say they really didn't deserve that game,
Speaker 2: but the fact is they were there. You got to
Speaker 2: optimize lineups, you gotta have guys out there to get
Speaker 2: that board, you gotta have the right guys out there
Speaker 2: to defend, and they weren't. Like that's fair to put
Speaker 2: on coach Lou. And if you want to say he's
Speaker 2: part of the reason they came out so flat, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Some of these guys just it is a
Speaker 2: players league, so there's plenty of blame to go around,
Speaker 2: I'll put it like that.
Speaker 12: What do you think, Matt, Yeah, I mean I know
Speaker 12: he hadn't prepared, but just the sound that there were
Speaker 12: so many miscommunication areas in this in the game seven.
Speaker 2: Well, and I gotta say this, everybody always gives Jeff
Speaker 2: fan gunn to you all the credit when they're good defensively,
Speaker 2: so if they're not, I guess people are gonna put
Speaker 2: that on Coach Lou. That's not fair.
Speaker 12: No, yeah, no, I'm not saying that's on Coach Lou,
Speaker 12: like just to say I'm frustrated as the players at that, Yeah,
Speaker 12: like having that many community communication areas in a game
Speaker 12: seven like and just not not boxing out like like
Speaker 12: I know, I know Russ that that was a pure
Speaker 12: lane violation, but he still gotta you gotta box out James, Like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's on him. I mean there was a miss
Speaker 2: Q early in the first half where who was looking
Speaker 2: at one another they gave up an easy jumper. Was
Speaker 2: a Viza Zubos and somebody else. It might have been
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray's first shot. Like they just gave up a
Speaker 2: good look. Nobody knew who they were guarding. It was brutal.
Speaker 2: I think it might've been a Brown three pointer.
Speaker 12: Yeah, on the on the right wing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, so we're on the same page. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like that stuff can't happen in game seven's left a
Speaker 2: guy wide open, Like there's wide open because you're rotating
Speaker 2: and you're switching. This wasn't even that they just fell asleep.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and I think right after that there was like
Speaker 12: a simple like slip and the age you gotta wide
Speaker 12: open layup. After that, it was like three straight communication
Speaker 12: areas in the second half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, anything else, Matt? Have you called in before?
Speaker 2: I like you. I like your phone call.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think I did. And I knocked out the
Speaker 12: other night and I was just.
Speaker 11: Still on the phone.
Speaker 13: Remember that.
Speaker 2: Did I put you back on holder? I never, I
Speaker 2: never got I never fired you up.
Speaker 12: Well, I was just you tried like sawing my name.
Speaker 2: I think I was like, oh, I'm sorry for putting
Speaker 2: you to sleep. It was it was late, It was late.
Speaker 2: That was that was a late show. Well, I'm glad
Speaker 2: we got to you this time. Don't be a stranger.
Speaker 2: If reduce some off season episodes, Matt, appreciate it, my.
Speaker 12: Friend, I do, I do appreciate you. This is the
Speaker 12: first place I go to after every winter lost. I
Speaker 12: just go straight to this two channel. It does it
Speaker 12: does comfort me a little bit.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I was there for. I wish I'd
Speaker 2: started up a few years earlier. But Matt, appreciate you.
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Speaker 6: Not very good man, you know, Adam, thank thanks for
Speaker 6: putting the show together. I think you know, we need
Speaker 6: we kind of need to let it out tonight.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a beg. You gotta do some blood letting,
Speaker 2: whatever it takes.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think the positive we can kind
Speaker 6: of take from this is that we finally got to
Speaker 6: see what it looks like right like with everybody healthy
Speaker 6: what the vision is, and I think the reality is
Speaker 6: that we're just not good enough, you know. And it's
Speaker 6: you know, it's sad to say because I love the
Speaker 6: squat this year, you know, like I love the defensive
Speaker 6: tenacy that we gave.
Speaker 3: Uh you know, let me you.
Speaker 2: Are they not talented enough or are they not mentally
Speaker 2: tough enough.
Speaker 6: I don't think we're talented enough, Like I mean, like
Speaker 6: when we're relying on our two stars Harden and Kawhi
Speaker 6: and you know, and we all know hardened capabilities in
Speaker 6: the playoffs is very limited, and I think now we're
Speaker 6: just kind of coming down on wal Kawhi is like
Speaker 6: I'll go to and if our role players are not
Speaker 6: hitting their their open shots, then yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 6: definitely don't think I mean, it's probably a little bit
Speaker 6: of both, uh, you know, but but it's hard to
Speaker 6: like kind of believe that we're not mentally tough when
Speaker 6: we got Hall of Fame guys and vets that have
Speaker 6: been in the league for a while, and.
Speaker 2: Well, they're not as mentally tough as Denver. I think
Speaker 2: that's confirmed. I think that's definitive after what I just
Speaker 2: saw tonight. They're not Denver has in factor, in intangibles,
Speaker 2: and they rise and they meet the moment, and the
Speaker 2: Clippers didn't.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so. I mean, like, you know, personnel wise,
Speaker 6: I mean, we got Vets who's supposed to beat those guys.
Speaker 2: But I'm still here, are you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. I just I just don't think we got it.
Speaker 6: I think it's time to start looking at the future
Speaker 6: and and start planning because I this whole retooling thing,
Speaker 6: I just don't think it's gonna work.
Speaker 2: Well. I don't know if there's a doctor strange like
Speaker 2: infinite possibilities or whatever. I don't want to go too
Speaker 2: far into the off season because there are too many variables.
Speaker 2: But I do know Steve Bomer doesn't want full rebuild years.
Speaker 2: He wants to be competitive all the time. We shall
Speaker 2: see what direction they go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but are we, like as fans, like mediocrity?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 6: Is that what we're okay with?
Speaker 2: Like, I mean, I feel like, how do you define mediocrity?
Speaker 2: How would you put it? You think fifty wins? Is
Speaker 2: that like losing the first round?
Speaker 6: Good enough to make the playoffs but getting bounced in
Speaker 6: the first round.
Speaker 2: The problem is like they don't have They're still missing
Speaker 2: some draft picks coming up, and acting like a rebuild
Speaker 2: without draft picks is a better option. I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's accurate.
Speaker 6: Well, I feel like we can get draft picks back
Speaker 6: if we can trade away out pieces. Right, Like, we
Speaker 6: got a lot of solid role players that other teams
Speaker 6: will want. And I think Kawhi's contract is just tradable too.
Speaker 2: Right, He's got two years left. He played thirty seven
Speaker 2: games in the regular season. He did come out of
Speaker 2: this season healthy. That is a positive. Some team might
Speaker 2: make that move, but we're talking like one hundred million
Speaker 2: dollars still left on that contract. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't think you're not getting like three first round
Speaker 2: picks or anything. Maybe one first round pick and one
Speaker 2: decent young player.
Speaker 6: I feel like we could probably get two solid first
Speaker 6: round picks for Kawhi. I mean, he still got it.
Speaker 6: It's just you know, we can utilize him here.
Speaker 2: I don't he played thirty seven games this year. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you're getting more than one first round pick.
Speaker 2: I luka, donc has just got one first round pick. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's an outlier, but it's we'll see. Warren. I appreciate
Speaker 2: the phone call. We'll have episodes during this summer. We'll
Speaker 2: talk off season Clippers. We'll talk about, you know, whether
Speaker 2: it's a retool or rebuild or what direction they're gonna go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, that sounds good. Hey, thanks, thanks Adam, keep up.
Speaker 8: The good work.
Speaker 2: Appreciation, Warren. We'll take a quick time out. We'll come back.
Speaker 2: Clippers lose Game seven and they got stomped. We're down
Speaker 2: by as many as thirty five. They lose one twenty
Speaker 2: to one on one. Their season comes to an end
Speaker 2: in a fashion. I don't know if anybody would have
Speaker 2: predicted that. I did say pregame, you know this is
Speaker 2: gonna go one up. Three ways Nuggets win close, Clippers
Speaker 2: win close, or the Nuggets win big. I never saw
Speaker 2: a scenario where the Clippers could win this game big.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately I did see one for the Nuggets, and that
Speaker 2: was a possibility and it happened. What's the Jeff Goldbloom
Speaker 2: line in Jurassic Park. I'd hype being right all the time.
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Speaker 2: Clippers lose one twenty to one on one in Game
Speaker 2: seven and go out with a whimper in this twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four twenty twenty five Clipper season. It's unfortunate because
Speaker 2: there were so many highs this season to end on
Speaker 2: just the ultimate low. It's tough. It's really disappointing. I
Speaker 2: understand the backlash and everybody, you know, this is the
Speaker 2: time for Sky's falling Radio. I guess if you're ever
Speaker 2: gonna have those moments, and typically I think people overreact
Speaker 2: both ways during the season, but now is a time
Speaker 2: where you can let it out and I'll be understanding
Speaker 2: to it. Because they got run over, they got trucked
Speaker 2: in Game seven, and outside of Kawhi, nobody showed up.
Speaker 2: That is really disheartening. Let's hear from Kevin in Arkansas. Kevin,
Speaker 2: what's up your on clipperstoft without a Mawsen I.
Speaker 9: Was that would have had him. Man Man, I'm just
Speaker 9: I'm feeling real bad about Tyron lou Man. I think
Speaker 9: he cost us a series.
Speaker 2: Tell me exactly how he costed them the series.
Speaker 9: I think after game one. He's seen that the Nuggets
Speaker 9: was playing off Chris Dawn and that was hipping them out.
Speaker 9: Senses they couldn't defend us if you start betune to
Speaker 9: have four suitors out there, with Harden running the pick
Speaker 9: and roll and with Big.
Speaker 2: Zoo Dab Look, Kevin, it's a fair point. This is
Speaker 2: all a part of my sense of urgency theme and
Speaker 2: the lack of sense of urgency in this lack of
Speaker 2: sense of urgency in this series. The fact that it
Speaker 2: took till the second half of game six to start
Speaker 2: n Eco. He was there the entire time, and I
Speaker 2: think that's fair criticism too. He was hiding in playing sight.
Speaker 2: I thought he was gonna go to him in game
Speaker 2: five to start. He still didn't start tonight. I don't
Speaker 2: mind the DJ move. I actually think that was a
Speaker 2: good move. But tomb still started the second half. But
Speaker 2: why did it take so long between that, not playing
Speaker 2: your stars more minutes in game one when they're up
Speaker 2: five to fifteen and going for the kill and then
Speaker 2: four and the lack of urgency to start, and then
Speaker 2: the lack of urgency with lineups in closing with guys
Speaker 2: that can rebound and defend. I think those are all
Speaker 2: fair criticisms of coach lou in this series. I don't
Speaker 2: think he had a good series. I gotta be honest.
Speaker 9: Me neither. And I think we was a better team
Speaker 9: five games in this series. And if you the better
Speaker 9: team five games in this series, you supposed to win
Speaker 9: the series. And I think he didn't have enough sense
Speaker 9: of urgency to play between him with the shoe. We're
Speaker 9: not losing nothing defensive and we gained him more offensive.
Speaker 9: The Nuggets is the Nuggets is a bad defensive team.
Speaker 9: I feel like we left them off the hook defensive.
Speaker 9: I think we could have at text them more with
Speaker 9: between them and the starting lineup. Agree with you if
Speaker 9: you're gonna wait, if you're gonna wait the game six
Speaker 9: to pull Chris down, they tell you that you knew
Speaker 9: that Game two, Game three, Game four, in game five,
Speaker 9: I feel like we could have won this series in
Speaker 9: six games at and den one more team. I think
Speaker 9: he should have put those defensive guys in to end
Speaker 9: the uh, to end the position game four or who
Speaker 9: would have been up through to one in this sies, you.
Speaker 2: Gotta have the right personnel out there for that for
Speaker 2: that one possession, you have to have the right personnel.
Speaker 9: Why not have the right person I.
Speaker 2: Agree his logic was guys had been sitting and had
Speaker 2: been cold, like Nico or Ben Simmons and some of
Speaker 2: your bigger, taller guys, and so he didn't want to
Speaker 2: put him back in for one possession, and those other
Speaker 2: guys played good defense up until that point to get
Speaker 2: to come back down twenty two. But I completely agree
Speaker 2: that it is what did I say afterwards, It's the
Speaker 2: same thing as late in the game when you sub
Speaker 2: guys in that are taller because it's a rebounding situation
Speaker 2: on a free throw attempt. It's the same thing. To me,
Speaker 2: that is a personnel issue. That is putting the best
Speaker 2: guys out there to defend or to get a board
Speaker 2: for one possession, to get it into overtime to be successful.
Speaker 9: I feel like he didn't put I feel like he
Speaker 9: didn't put our guys in position to be successful this
Speaker 9: year because Kawhi Leonard was the best player in this series.
Speaker 9: He was the most consistent guy in this series.
Speaker 2: And he almost I almost would say Aaron Gordon might
Speaker 2: be that guy.
Speaker 9: Honestly, well, he's not carrying the offense like Kawhi and
Speaker 9: the joker.
Speaker 2: And that's true, that's true. But he was very consistent.
Speaker 9: He was he was the most consistent role player in
Speaker 9: this series. I agree with you on that.
Speaker 2: He starting his role to a level that the Clippers
Speaker 2: had nobody to match him.
Speaker 9: With, nobottery. And yes, I agree with you. We agree,
Speaker 9: And Kevin, I don't. I don't feel like James Harden
Speaker 9: is a guy that we can win with. I think
Speaker 9: he's he's at best a number third option. Well like,
Speaker 9: if he's your taken option, you can't win the championship
Speaker 9: with James Harden. Is they guy?
Speaker 2: I get the criticism. He did not show up in
Speaker 2: this game seven unfortunately, Kevin. I appreciate the phone calls,
Speaker 2: some really good points.
Speaker 8: All right, all right, appreciate you, Adam.
Speaker 2: Quick time out, come back. More of your phone calls
Speaker 2: eight seven seven five to two zero eleven fifty eight
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Speaker 2: Ugh difficult way to end the year.
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Speaker 2: Clippers lose in Game seven and get run off the
Speaker 2: floor one twenty to one. O one was the final
Speaker 2: in favor of the Denver Nuggets. Welcome back in It's
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Speaker 14: Was a good big Adam Man from the LBC man
Speaker 14: call him right by the Poly High School. Peyton Watson,
Speaker 14: man crazy.
Speaker 2: Peyton Watson played well, he bowled out.
Speaker 14: Yes he did, Yes he did. I wish I could
Speaker 14: say the same for most of the team.
Speaker 15: Man.
Speaker 14: It's just very unfortunate for a great, great season. Man,
Speaker 14: This is one of the best seasons just as a
Speaker 14: Clipper fan I've experienced since the year we went to
Speaker 14: the Western Conference finals. Man, a lot of ups, some downs,
Speaker 14: but overall great season. I hate how we went out.
Speaker 14: Definitely could have closed better in a couple of these games. Man,
Speaker 14: gave them game one up fifteen. Gotta come away with
Speaker 14: that game four. Man, we gotta have some extensive people
Speaker 14: and man, Betoon Derrick Zones Junior. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 14: have done out there. We can't have hard and Bogey
Speaker 14: out there. I understand that got us there, but dude,
Speaker 14: we get we gotta get that rebound. We gotta be
Speaker 14: able to switch everything.
Speaker 2: It's situational basketball. Situational basketball. Because here's the thing, and
Speaker 2: I brought this up also, what if Jokis doesn't try
Speaker 2: that heave in that way? What if they actually ran
Speaker 2: some actions gotta switch on to Harden or Norm or
Speaker 2: Bogie and just got an easy bucket that way? It
Speaker 2: would have looked even worse from a personnel standpoint. But
Speaker 2: that option was out there because of the way the Clippers,
Speaker 2: you know, position their five guys on that one play.
Speaker 2: There's there's no excuse to me for not having the
Speaker 2: right guys in in that moment to get one stop
Speaker 2: to get it into overtime.
Speaker 14: Jokis is the best player in the world. He bailed
Speaker 14: us out. He could make that shot. Remember last season
Speaker 14: he had an incredible shot like that against the Warriors.
Speaker 14: But we we have to have better people in, you know,
Speaker 14: a better defensive lineup, best balls on Tie. I've been
Speaker 14: kind of flip flopping on ty these past couple of years,
Speaker 14: especially with all the Marcus Moore's stuff and PJ. Tucker
Speaker 14: is starting last Year's just just very unserious. I was
Speaker 14: a big fan of Tie after you know, we let
Speaker 14: go of Doc after the bubble, and then that that
Speaker 14: very next season he coast us into a Western Conference finals.
Speaker 14: During that whole playoff run, he was making changes, taking
Speaker 14: Pat Bev out the lineup because Luca was cooking him.
Speaker 14: You know, it's certain DeMarcus Cousins at certain points. Where's
Speaker 14: that Tye been these last couple of years. Man, he
Speaker 14: could have put us in way better positions to win.
Speaker 14: I understand we had injuries, you can account for that.
Speaker 2: But not not necessaries. They didn't have injuries in this series,
Speaker 2: and he could have gone to he could have gone
Speaker 2: to patoomb earlier. I asked lot Murray about this yesterday.
Speaker 2: I asked a Lot Murray about it yesterday when he
Speaker 2: came on, I said, why did it take so long?
Speaker 2: He says, because he didn't want to give David Adalman
Speaker 2: the ability to see that look and then Denver gets
Speaker 2: a chance to adjust to it. But to me, I
Speaker 2: think you got to have more of a sense of urgency.
Speaker 2: I think when it's a two to two series, after
Speaker 2: what happened in Game four, that's the point where I'm
Speaker 2: definitely going to Nico to start and play in thirty
Speaker 2: five minutes.
Speaker 10: I agree.
Speaker 14: Well, caller just said, what are we losing when Niko
Speaker 14: on that lineup? Yes, got like adjustments is going to happen. Period.
Speaker 14: We're playing professor from a basketball you got to adjust
Speaker 14: to adjustments. This guy just got, you know, hired, you know,
Speaker 14: a couple games before the playoffs. Come on, Ty, you
Speaker 14: can't out coach him, Like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 14: You worried about, you know, adjustments. I'm just I don't know.
Speaker 14: I think it should be big changes coming, you know
Speaker 14: this this season. I love Kawhi. It's been six years.
Speaker 14: I'm glad he finally is able to finish a postseason healthy,
Speaker 14: you know, And I don't know. Maybe I know he
Speaker 14: played thirty seven games, but maybe you know, a desperate
Speaker 14: team is willing to take a gamble on that. Let
Speaker 14: hard and walk. Thank you Harden by the way it's
Speaker 14: been in this amazing series. You know, maybe he just
Speaker 14: wants to go elsewhere. Maybe he wants to come back.
Speaker 14: I don't know, but either way, I mean, if one
Speaker 14: on running back, I guess it's probably going to be
Speaker 14: the same result. But who knows that Kawhi is going
Speaker 14: to be healthy.
Speaker 2: Like this again, Joshua, I understand. I got to guess
Speaker 2: more phone calls though, but I'm with you, that's going
Speaker 2: to be a big conversation this offseason about Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 2: about I don't think anyone's untouchball on this team. Let's
Speaker 2: got to Clipper Chris in La Clipper Chris, you got
Speaker 2: thirty seconds. What do you want to say?
Speaker 8: Okay, Adam.
Speaker 7: One thing that bothers me, you know, this game and
Speaker 7: you know, doing the season, all that is when we
Speaker 7: start shooting threes and we're not hitting them, we should
Speaker 7: just go away from that and you know, work for
Speaker 7: two point shots. And then the other thing is he
Speaker 7: to beat a dead horse. But that third game that
Speaker 7: we had to red played in Denver that really killed
Speaker 7: us for the season. And as far as Clipper Nation
Speaker 7: and wondering about Tyrone Lou, it's like, you know, who
Speaker 7: are we going to get to replace him? Yes, exactly
Speaker 7: the Cavaliers back in twenty sixteen against the Golden State
Speaker 7: Warriors down three games to one.
Speaker 1: He was the one that coached him to that championship.
Speaker 2: Yes, we know, and I appreciate it. But it is
Speaker 2: a good point, Chris, like you want to replace him
Speaker 2: with somebody like who? Like you gotta find a better option.
Speaker 2: I like coach Lou. He just got paid. I think
Speaker 2: he has some blind spots like everybody. I think he
Speaker 2: could have made some better decisions in this series. But like,
Speaker 2: I don't think he's going anywhere. Guys, uh, I think
Speaker 2: he's one of the best coaches in the NBA. He
Speaker 2: didn't have a great series. Zachary and Santa Monica. Zachary,
Speaker 2: what's up here on Clipperstock? Zachary Jose and Downy Jose?
Speaker 2: What's up here on Clipperstock?
Speaker 11: Adam hey Man, great job, brother. Let me start with
Speaker 11: that great job. It's been a couple of years that
Speaker 11: I've been calling you keep it up, man, and a
Speaker 11: little bit of everything that you guess I said, you
Speaker 11: guys are all right. I agree with you. Nobody should
Speaker 11: be untouchable. I for the first time, I don't know
Speaker 11: if I want to say that about Zoo because I
Speaker 11: like the everything he showed this year. Would really like
Speaker 11: to feature her, feature him even more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so maybe that's really.
Speaker 11: Somebody who I would love to Hey, let's hold off
Speaker 11: unless something.
Speaker 2: Zoom might be the one guy that's untouchable. Zoo might
Speaker 2: be the one guy that you definitely hold on to
Speaker 2: right right.
Speaker 11: And you know, I think you've noticed. I mean, I
Speaker 11: won't go too hard into it, but I think you
Speaker 11: noticed before in the last two years. I'm not the
Speaker 11: highest on Kawhi, but I did appreciate that he played
Speaker 11: all year, and you have him at probably the highest
Speaker 11: value that you have had him in a long time.
Speaker 11: I hope they do. You know, Hey, again, a deal
Speaker 11: comes up, you go for it. And and like you said,
Speaker 11: I don't think you're getting all these multiple first round picks.
Speaker 11: I don't really think so. But is there a trade
Speaker 11: out there that maybe you get an expired contract and
Speaker 11: you can at least get maybe a start in that way.
Speaker 11: But yeah, were you free up here?
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. They got so many money, so much
Speaker 2: money that's going to be freed up anyways, seventy million
Speaker 2: after next season. They're on track to have like one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty the season after that. I don't think
Speaker 2: that's necessarily as appealing as actually finding some real young talent.
Speaker 2: That's what I think would be of interest to them,
Speaker 2: or draft capital. Sean and Angel would Sean, you're on
Speaker 2: Clipper stap without them all quickly.
Speaker 15: Sean, Hey, Adam, you know you talked about not putting
Speaker 15: a big in to get the rebound the first game
Speaker 15: of the year, Hard and mister free throw. There was
Speaker 15: not a second big in the game. And Tyleru as
Speaker 15: I've been saying before, and I didn't call the bad Malcolm,
Speaker 15: but he just loved small ball and he always gambles.
Speaker 13: Small will win against big. But you do need that rebound,
Speaker 13: you know. And so you brought up a good point
Speaker 13: about the end of that game.
Speaker 2: Where Zoo was on the floor at the end of
Speaker 2: game four.
Speaker 13: Yeah, but you needed Zoo was sticking.
Speaker 2: Uh, he was yes, I understand anything else, anybody under
Speaker 2: the bucket, Sean, anything else?
Speaker 13: Well, I'm well, yeah, I'm just tired of reliving in
Speaker 13: twenty nineteen. I'll tell you that twenty twenty. So it's
Speaker 13: just it's disappointing. I didn't call the bad amount the
Speaker 13: Clippers or you did good as far as you went,
Speaker 13: and uh, you know, let's let's get a power for it.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Sean. Appreciate the phone call. Marco in Detroit.
Speaker 16: Marco, how you doing, Adam? What's going on?
Speaker 10: Adam?
Speaker 2: I'm hanging in there. How about you?
Speaker 16: I'm cool. Look, I'm in a fan before the two
Speaker 16: one three era. Sorry, I'm of horse. I was a
Speaker 16: fan before Kawai and Paul came. So I've been through
Speaker 16: the heartbreak before those two. And I was saying, man,
Speaker 16: we've been going through his for since twenty nineteen. These problems.
Speaker 16: We can't blame Doc, we can't blame Paul, George, can't
Speaker 16: blame Trees.
Speaker 2: Well, who are you gonna blame for them winning thirteen
Speaker 2: more games than people thought they were going to to
Speaker 2: start the season.
Speaker 16: I get that were overachieved, but man, this team just
Speaker 16: didn't have any fight.
Speaker 9: He just didn't.
Speaker 2: I can't argue with you today. I didn't like what
Speaker 2: I saw out there. Marco. I appreciate the phone call,
Speaker 2: but I'm up against it, my friend. I appreciate you
Speaker 2: calling in from Detroit, and I'm guessing your voice is
Speaker 2: hoarse because it was one of those games.
Speaker 8: My god, Oh Marco.
Speaker 2: Someday, someday, keep the faith hang in there. Someday it
Speaker 2: will be rewarded again. Steve Balmer is the hope before
Speaker 2: we get out of here. Final audition. On the radio
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