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Speaker 2: At follow Adam a Adam Osley. Well, without Kawhi Leonard, an underman,
Speaker 2: shorthanded Clippers squad did all they could but lost in
Speaker 2: Cleveland by five final score on twenty seven to one,
Speaker 2: twenty two calves over your Clippers. Welcome in to Clippers Talk.
Speaker 2: I'm at a Moslin here on M FI seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 2: seventy frustrating.
Speaker 4: One Cliper Nation winnable game.
Speaker 2: In the end, they had their chances even without Kauai,
Speaker 2: even with being down seventeen. I think the reason they
Speaker 2: lost this ballgame, though, was just a couple extended cold
Speaker 2: streaks by the Clippers, where in the first quarter.
Speaker 4: They ended up giving up a nineteen.
Speaker 2: To seven run by the Calves to end the quarter
Speaker 2: in three minutes and thirty eight seconds, where the Clippers
Speaker 2: almost went four minutes scoreless and the Calves went on
Speaker 2: a sixteen to oh run. During that time, they started
Speaker 2: pushing the pace. They had fourteen fast break points in
Speaker 2: the first quarter alone. They finished with thirty fast breakpoints,
Speaker 2: but Clippers went four minutes scoreless. They had hard and
Speaker 2: a mirror ben batoom and out there and that lineup
Speaker 2: they just couldn't generate and they couldn't get any shots
Speaker 2: to fall. That's a frustrating stretch where they head out
Speaker 2: of the first down thirty seven and twenty five. Now
Speaker 2: a mere Coffee was also lost with what look to
Speaker 2: be a left knee injury. Hopefully nothing serious. We'll try
Speaker 2: to update you on that, but you're down twelve henging
Speaker 2: into the second after it looked like a close game
Speaker 2: early in the first kind of back and forth, and
Speaker 2: then that sixteen to oher run to start the second. Though,
Speaker 2: it's funny Nor missed a three pointer. This may have
Speaker 2: been the shot that got him going because he tracked
Speaker 2: it down follow your shot, kids, and then took a
Speaker 2: tough fallaway three pointer out of bounds on the far
Speaker 2: side that he would knock down, so he ends up
Speaker 2: getting one to go off his own extra opportunity created
Speaker 2: off the rebound, and then he was off and running.
Speaker 2: Norm dropped twenty in the second quarter, hitting everything long twos,
Speaker 2: multiple three point shots, layups, just getting to his floater,
Speaker 2: getting downhill. Norman Powell looks to be back. If there
Speaker 2: is a positive to take out of this ballgame, it
Speaker 2: is that Norman Powell looks to be back. Played thirty
Speaker 2: nine minutes and had thirty four points, by far his
Speaker 2: best shooting performance since he came back after missing significant time,
Speaker 2: first from a knee injury than a hammy. He was
Speaker 2: thirteen of twenty four from the field, five of eleven
Speaker 2: from distance, and had twenty of his thirty four points
Speaker 2: in that second quarter. Clippers are right there at the
Speaker 2: half because of that outpouring or onslaught from Norm pal
Speaker 2: He had a floater to end the second quarter, and
Speaker 2: the Clippers, after being down seventeen, were down just sixty
Speaker 2: eight to sixty four at the half, Norm gets an
Speaker 2: and one to start the third Clippers down just one
Speaker 2: problem was in what looked to be a back and
Speaker 2: forth third quarter to start where the Clippers were down
Speaker 2: seventy five to seventy four. We'll guess what happened again,
Speaker 2: another long stretch where the Clippers just couldn't get a bucket.
Speaker 2: Norm was missing, Zoo was getting muled and getting a
Speaker 2: tough whistle out there. He was very frustrated. But I
Speaker 2: will say this, overall, the Clippers have to fight through
Speaker 2: that a little bit better. At some point you know
Speaker 2: you're not getting a whistle, just play through. But the
Speaker 2: Clippers ended up going almost five minutes scoreless after it
Speaker 2: was a one point game in the third quarter, down
Speaker 2: seventy five to seventy four. So you combine that with
Speaker 2: almost going four minutes scoreless in the first quarter, two
Speaker 2: stretches combined for almost nine minutes.
Speaker 4: Where the Clippers just.
Speaker 2: Could not get anything to go to me, that's the
Speaker 2: difference in this ballgame. They still had their chances late,
Speaker 2: but a real big turning point was Norm Powell went
Speaker 2: to the free throw line during that stretch in the
Speaker 2: third quarter where they couldn't hit anything and he missed
Speaker 2: two free throws. Inexplicably, the guy who just had a
Speaker 2: twenty point second quarter, harden To had a couple of
Speaker 2: turnovers during that stretch. He had a couple of misses.
Speaker 2: Ben Simmons had a miss, and the Calves go on.
Speaker 2: I think it was another sixteen to oh run, where
Speaker 2: by the time the.
Speaker 4: Third quarter is over, the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Are down one oh five to eighty eight, and the
Speaker 2: Calves had gone on a thirty to fourteen run to
Speaker 2: end the third. Those long stretches of scoreless basketball by
Speaker 2: the Clippers hurting them in this one. Now did they
Speaker 2: continue to fight?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Damn straight they did. The game looked over multiple times
Speaker 2: in the fourth and Mitchell hit a three pointer to
Speaker 2: put them up fifteen. I thought, okay, that's the dagger.
Speaker 2: Clippers made a little bit of a run, they got
Speaker 2: to twelve. Donovan Mitchell put it away with that three pointer.
Speaker 2: There probably the game. No, the Clippers just kept fighting
Speaker 2: Afeatza Zubos got one to go. Isaacacuro had himself a game.
Speaker 2: You may look at the final box score and go,
Speaker 2: what do you mean at him? He didn't have twenty points.
Speaker 2: He didn't have some crazy quarter or anything like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: He doesn't typically score this much. He doesn't typically hit
Speaker 2: threes at this rate. Isaacacorro went four or five from.
Speaker 4: The field and had.
Speaker 2: Three made three pointers on four attempts for his eleven points.
Speaker 2: He's a defensive guy in this league. He doesn't do
Speaker 2: a lot of scoring, and sometimes those little things. A
Speaker 2: guy who averages just six points per game going for
Speaker 2: eleven when your margin of error is so slim, somebody
Speaker 2: like that. Having a solid ball game can also do
Speaker 2: you in. Because after the Clippers got it to one
Speaker 2: eleven to ninety eight, he hit a huge three pointer
Speaker 2: with eight minutes left to put him up one fourteen
Speaker 2: to ninety eight. It just continued to give them a
Speaker 2: little bit of a cushion. Now, Norm came back with
Speaker 2: a bucket. Chris done with a bucket. Norm with a
Speaker 2: three pointer. Hey, nine point game. Darius Garland wasn't great.
Speaker 2: Buddy would get one to go right afterwards to put
Speaker 2: him back up by eleven. But then Chris Dunn hit
Speaker 2: a huge three pointer. It's an eight point game with
Speaker 2: five minutes left. The Clippers are there. Jared Allen I
Speaker 2: believe got a dunk on the other end afterwards after
Speaker 2: Zoo I do step up to help left his man,
Speaker 2: big throw down. Ten point game. They get up by eleven,
Speaker 2: they get up by twelve after Garland free throws Derek
Speaker 2: Jones junior big three pointer. This is the fight I'm
Speaker 2: looking for, Like the Clippers could have packed it in
Speaker 2: so many different times in this ball game and just
Speaker 2: refuse to. They're down eleven again at the two fifteen
Speaker 2: mark after a Garland bucket James Harden three pointer, eight
Speaker 2: point game, one to fifty seven left, Jared Allen bucket
Speaker 2: that made it a ten point game. Derek Jones junior
Speaker 2: three pointer.
Speaker 4: They're not giving in.
Speaker 2: It's a seven point game with a minute eighteen left,
Speaker 2: and at the thirty second mark it's a four point game.
Speaker 2: After Chris Dunn hits another three pointer. They made them
Speaker 2: have to hit their free throws late. Garland would end
Speaker 2: up going three to four the charity stripe and that's
Speaker 2: how the Clippers lose one twenty seven to one twenty two.
Speaker 4: So I don't fault the effort at all.
Speaker 2: The Clippers had multiple opportunities to let go of the rope,
Speaker 2: and they wouldn't. I'm good with that. Them not being
Speaker 2: able to get a bucket within a four minute stretch,
Speaker 2: a five minute stretch, not even a bucket a free throw.
Speaker 2: That is what killed them in this ballgame. Their offense
Speaker 2: just going into deep slumps at the wrong time. But
Speaker 2: Norman Powell look great. That's encouraging. Now, hopefully you get
Speaker 2: this version of Norman pal tomorrow against Orlando with Kawhi
Speaker 2: back and the Clippers can bounce back. Tip off for
Speaker 2: that one's at four pm Pacific. We'll take a quick
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Speaker 2: out of Mosland. After the Clippers fall in Cleveland made
Speaker 2: it close interesting without Kauai one twenty seven to one
Speaker 2: twenty two. You're listening to Clippers Talk. You're on M
Speaker 2: five seventy. LA Sports.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to say there's a moral victory is
Speaker 2: this late into the season, where the Clippers have just
Speaker 2: eight games left in this twenty twenty four to twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five NBA regular season, as they lose by five
Speaker 2: by a final score of one twenty seven to one
Speaker 2: twenty two. There's hard to say, or there's hard to
Speaker 2: find a moral victories this late in the year when
Speaker 2: you drop back into the play in But I like
Speaker 2: when I see a team that is without their best
Speaker 2: player continue to keep their identity intact. Your identity is
Speaker 2: being a defensive ball club, and they held down Garland
Speaker 2: and Spider for the most part.
Speaker 4: They play hard.
Speaker 2: That's their identity. I still saw a team out there
Speaker 2: that played hard. I still saw a team that didn't quit.
Speaker 2: I'll take that. It doesn't make.
Speaker 4: Up for the loss.
Speaker 2: It's still an l. But I'd rather see that level
Speaker 2: of fight than a team that just got run over
Speaker 2: without Kawhi on the road in Cleveland, because that could
Speaker 2: have happened down seventeen early on. They could have said,
Speaker 2: all right, back it up, we got Orlando tomorrow. Schedule loss.
Speaker 2: I didn't see that from the Clippers. That's not nothing.
Speaker 2: I think getting into a close game late, well, you
Speaker 2: can learn some lessons there. Getting into a tight, high
Speaker 2: intensity game late where strategy is involved like it was,
Speaker 2: you can learn something there and hopefully it'll pay off
Speaker 2: to being a win next time out. So I'm not
Speaker 2: overly concerned about this loss. You don't have Kawhi, he's
Speaker 2: playing his best basketball this season, and you almost beat
Speaker 2: the best team in the Eastern Conference and Norman Powell
Speaker 2: looks great, And do you have a chance to bounce
Speaker 2: back tomorrow against Orlando? Like if they lose the game tomorrow,
Speaker 2: now they're in trouble. But we knew coming in this
Speaker 2: was gonna be tough to win a game against the
Speaker 2: Cavaliers without Kawhi. Leonard Ray says on the chat side
Speaker 2: at Clippers Talk on YouTube. Norm rounding into form just
Speaker 2: before the playoffs is huge. Man had that killer mentality
Speaker 2: in the first half. I mean Norm was moving beautifully
Speaker 2: out there. God he had a layup. I think in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter it looked like he was fouled. It
Speaker 2: was like he was bouncing off defenders to get to
Speaker 2: the hoop. No call, But the way he was weaving
Speaker 2: between guys, they're huge. I mean what's more important? Like, again,
Speaker 2: wins are critical right now. When you look at the standings.
Speaker 4: But if you're not getting the victory.
Speaker 2: Today in this one, and you knew that was me
Speaker 2: an uphill battle, what is I should say, the next
Speaker 2: most important thing to see from this Clippers bunch, Well,
Speaker 2: it would have been Norman Powell looking like himself again.
Speaker 2: If you want some positive and encouraging signs and takeaways. Now,
Speaker 2: hopefully this is a turning point for him and he
Speaker 2: gets back to playing his brand of basketball and the
Speaker 2: Clippers big four is strengthened. That's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 4: Some people are complaining about the calls. I brought it
Speaker 4: up a little bit.
Speaker 2: Clippers does not getting a great whistle is that's the
Speaker 2: reason they lost the game. I'm not gonna say that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it's those two one four minute stretch,
Speaker 2: one five minute stretch of going scoreless. You can you
Speaker 2: just can't go into russ for that long against a
Speaker 2: team like the Cavaliers with their offense best in the league,
Speaker 2: and hope to be able to hang with them.
Speaker 4: If eats A.
Speaker 2: Zubos didn't have a great game either, and the Clippers
Speaker 2: have to play through it. Also, at some point you
Speaker 2: have to realize, yeah, we're not getting calls tonight. It's
Speaker 2: probably not going to change, but I'm not going to
Speaker 2: let it affect my play. I thought they got into
Speaker 2: it a little bit too much with the officials. At
Speaker 2: some point you got to almost accept it. Now you
Speaker 2: can challenge some calls, and they did. But outside of that,
Speaker 2: I thought there was a little bit too much bickering
Speaker 2: by the Clippers. It was looking a little bit like
Speaker 2: the Lob City days. They were known for getting into
Speaker 2: it with officials. That stuff can become a bad habit,
Speaker 2: and this late into the season. I don't want to
Speaker 2: see that. So, you know, it's one thing for us
Speaker 2: fans to complain, it's another for the players on the
Speaker 2: court to complain. And I'll agree with miss Shakes. I
Speaker 2: eatsa Zubats. I thought you got into it far too much,
Speaker 2: because at some point it gets into your head. It
Speaker 2: affects your play. If you're always thinking that I'm probably
Speaker 2: not gonna get this call, or I can't believe it.
Speaker 2: I didn't get another call, you're late to get back
Speaker 2: on defense.
Speaker 4: You gotta let it go.
Speaker 2: At some point, you do. La Murray on Blueski, who
Speaker 2: we had on pregame, point out the fast break points.
Speaker 2: As I talked about earlier, the Clippers being outscored in
Speaker 2: the fast break thirty to eight. The only game where
Speaker 2: the Clippers were outscored by more points on the fast
Speaker 2: break was against the Timberwolves thirty two to eight back
Speaker 2: on December fourth. The Cabs push the pace, you miss shots,
Speaker 2: they're getting out and they're running the other way. Let's
Speaker 2: go to Arthur in La Arthur, you're on Clippers South
Speaker 2: with that Amazon.
Speaker 4: What's up Arthur?
Speaker 5: Hey, Adam, I just want to make a couple of
Speaker 5: quick points of about Yeah, don't you think Kawhi should
Speaker 5: have played knowing that this is the quote unquote tougher
Speaker 5: game of the two.
Speaker 4: Well, the problem was this, Arthur.
Speaker 2: So it would have been two games within forty eight
Speaker 2: hours because this was an earlier start today after the
Speaker 2: game that ended on Friday night in Brooklyn. And they're
Speaker 2: being overly cautious with Kawhi and his right knee because
Speaker 2: I don't know, he hasn't been able to finish the
Speaker 2: last four years healthy, so they're to treat it with
Speaker 2: an abundance of caution. And I don't think they wanted
Speaker 2: him playing two games within forty eight hours and that
Speaker 2: was the real issue, not so much about the opponent.
Speaker 5: Yes, hell yes. And so to piggyback on a point
Speaker 5: that Harold from North Hollywood could said a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks ago, I do agree with him. This a lot
Speaker 5: of three point shooting today. I was looking back a song,
Speaker 5: Oh Michael Jordan's when in the nineteen eighty eight I
Speaker 5: think he shot only about thirty three pointers that whole season.
Speaker 5: Now today that could be two games, let alone eighty
Speaker 5: two games. The game you don't need a pointer if
Speaker 5: you're up about five, A two pointer would put you
Speaker 5: up seven and doesn't make it a three possession game.
Speaker 5: And if you miss, you're scrambling on defense because long
Speaker 5: shuts need to run for the other team in you scrambling.
Speaker 5: What do you think about that point, I.
Speaker 4: Adam, Yeah, in that particular from there.
Speaker 5: The day and it was I'd say about thirty fifty
Speaker 5: years ago.
Speaker 4: Well, here's the thing, Arthur.
Speaker 2: The reason they take more three pointers is because the
Speaker 2: math and it goes like this, So if you're shooting
Speaker 2: thirty three percent from three, that's the equivalent of fifty
Speaker 2: percent from two, and thirty three percent from three is
Speaker 2: actually below league average. So it's not even good. So
Speaker 2: it makes sense to take more of those shots. And
Speaker 2: really they replaced a long A lot of long two
Speaker 2: pointers have been replaced by a shot that's worth a
Speaker 2: point more. They used to take a lot of long
Speaker 2: twos all the time. Now they step back a couple
Speaker 2: of feet. Why not take that shot and set it's
Speaker 2: worth a point more?
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, well it wasn't away.
Speaker 5: And still I don't quite dig it.
Speaker 2: But all right, well, I appreciate the phone call, and
Speaker 2: I get what you're saying about. You know, up five,
Speaker 2: you don't need.
Speaker 4: A three pointer.
Speaker 2: A two pointer makes it uh a three possession game.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with that part of it. Clippers end
Speaker 2: up falling in Cleveland one twenty seven to one twenty
Speaker 2: two without Kawhi. Leonard will take a quick time out
Speaker 2: looking for post game audio from coach lou after this one.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'll be able to get it, because, uh,
Speaker 2: I don't know if Lomer is in New York. We
Speaker 2: don't got anybody else on the beat with this team
Speaker 2: right now. In Cleveland, unfortunate Clippers lose by five without
Speaker 2: Kawhi to the Cavaliers. I'm at a Mosland and you're
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Speaker 2: Clippers lose one twenty seven and one twenty two in
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Speaker 4: Welcome back in.
Speaker 2: I'm Adam Moslin. This is Clipperstock here on M five
Speaker 2: to seventy LA Sports. Still looking for post game audio
Speaker 2: and some quotes. I don't know if we'll be able
Speaker 2: to get any of that today.
Speaker 4: Let's hear from Barry in Ohio. Hello Barry, what's up?
Speaker 4: What do you want to say about Clippers?
Speaker 6: What's up? Clippers Nation? I think overall, it wasn't a
Speaker 6: bad It wasn't a bad loss. The guys still showed fight.
Speaker 6: They played until the end of the game. How'd you
Speaker 6: feel about the officiating and arresting during this game.
Speaker 4: I don't think the Clippers got a great whistle, to
Speaker 4: be honest.
Speaker 2: I also felt like they let it get to them
Speaker 2: too much at some point. Yeah, at some point you
Speaker 2: just have to accept it, like, Okay, we're on the road.
Speaker 2: We're not getting a great whistle, but we can't let
Speaker 2: it affect our play.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I've noticed that guys weren't running back. They're pouting,
Speaker 6: arguing about calls and stuff, and I've seen that, But overall,
Speaker 6: the guys showed fight. I think if they let us
Speaker 6: play physical and let us play our kind, our branded defense,
Speaker 6: this guy's a limit. But if they're going to officiate
Speaker 6: where we're touching guys and they're not gonna reciprocate the
Speaker 6: same thing when we play offense and not called fouls
Speaker 6: for us, it's it gets kind of difficult. But overall,
Speaker 6: I think it was a good win, normous back to
Speaker 6: re form, I mean, good loss. I'm sorry about a
Speaker 6: good win.
Speaker 2: But uh so, I'm already a suspicious barrier that you're
Speaker 2: actually a Caps fan but you're you're a Clippers fan
Speaker 2: in Ohio.
Speaker 6: No, No, I'm I'm I'm i'm a i'm a i'm
Speaker 6: a I'm a Clippers fan since the Lop City. I
Speaker 6: grew up watching them, So I'm not calling as a catchman, no,
Speaker 6: right on. But yeah, it was an overall it was
Speaker 6: a good loss. I think if Kawhi stays healthy and
Speaker 6: we play through those whistles and we're playing great defense,
Speaker 6: we have a good chance of making some noise in
Speaker 6: the playoffs. It all just depends on Kawhi. And I'm
Speaker 6: not too mad about this loss. I think the Orlando
Speaker 6: game is the most important game to get, especially with
Speaker 6: us losing this game. But yeah, if we stay healthy,
Speaker 6: we have a good chance of making some noise.
Speaker 2: No, I think you make a good point, Berryer. I
Speaker 2: appreciate the phone call. Don't be a stranger here. You
Speaker 2: ain't got to be alone as a Clippers fan there
Speaker 2: in Ohio. I'm sure there's plenty of you eight six, six, nine, eight,
Speaker 2: seven seventy. But you bring up not having Kawhi and
Speaker 2: saying all we need is Kawhi healthy. Well, that's the
Speaker 2: reason is it's not worth pushing him even in a
Speaker 2: regular season game like this, where coming into this game
Speaker 2: there was only nine remaining, now there's eight. I understand
Speaker 2: these are important games. Is it more important to win
Speaker 2: these games than having a healthy Kawhi in a playoff series? No,
Speaker 2: So you prioritize health over everything else With Kawhi, that's
Speaker 2: what it has to be. I know it can seem
Speaker 2: frustrating at times, but he wasn't going to play two
Speaker 2: games in less than forty eight hours. He's not playing
Speaker 2: back to backs. He's expected to play tomorrow against Orlando.
Speaker 2: You gotta go in with your eyes open and understand
Speaker 2: the situation. The goal is to have Kawhi healthy in
Speaker 2: the playoffs and him being able to finish a season healthy,
Speaker 2: because I know a lot of Clipper Nation fields like this.
Speaker 2: You know what, It's one thing if we lose in
Speaker 2: the playoffs and we go out with our best player
Speaker 2: and we're just not good enough, that's one thing. But
Speaker 2: over and over again, not having Kawhi that final game
Speaker 2: and ending the season that way, that's what leaves a
Speaker 2: bitter taste in your mouth because you wonder what could
Speaker 2: have been, because you feel like you were cheated by
Speaker 2: the basketball guys in a way. We haven't been able
Speaker 2: to see this team healthy, their best player, a guy
Speaker 2: who you get him healthy in a seven game series
Speaker 2: you feel confident against anyone be able to finish off
Speaker 2: the playoffs upright. That's been the problem. So I'm sympathetic
Speaker 2: to people who are wondering why he's out today against
Speaker 2: the Cleveland Cavaliers. But you got to understand the big
Speaker 2: picture here. This entire season is about getting Kawhi healthy
Speaker 2: for the most important games in the playoffs. That's how
Speaker 2: you have to look at it. We've seen him against Cleveland.
Speaker 2: We know he's a difference maker. He had his best
Speaker 2: game against them just less than two weeks ago in
Speaker 2: a game they wanted into it, don't We'll see him
Speaker 2: against Orlando tomorrow. More on that game coming up. After
Speaker 2: the Clippers fall without Kawhi Leonard one twenty seven, twenty
Speaker 2: two on the road to the Cavaliers. I'm out of
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Speaker 2: It was in Cleveland by a final score of one
Speaker 2: to twenty seven and one to twenty two to the
Speaker 2: Cavaliers without Kawhi Leonard, who they will have back tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Ghost brings up a question after the Clippers lose by five,
Speaker 2: what's the point in resting Kawhi and playing everyone else
Speaker 2: thirty plus minutes on a back to back. Everyone's going
Speaker 2: to be gas tomorrow. Just puts more straight on Kawhi well,
Speaker 2: because it ended up being such a close game. James
Speaker 2: Harden came back in the game was winnable, so they
Speaker 2: ended up playing guys heavier minutes. Norman Pale at thirty
Speaker 2: nine beats Zubats at thirty seven, James Harden at thirty five.
Speaker 2: It was close enough where the Clippers went for it.
Speaker 2: They had a shot, couldn't get it across the finish line. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: Calves held on against the Kawhi less Clippers team.
Speaker 4: I mean, I.
Speaker 2: Think if they were getting blown out, those minutes would
Speaker 2: have been down for all those guys, but they weren't.
Speaker 2: Credit them for battling, Credit them for fighting. Keenan says,
Speaker 2: even though we lost, we kept fighting and never gave up.
Speaker 2: But coaches need to better, need to do better in
Speaker 2: what way? I don't understand how this one is on
Speaker 2: the coaches.
Speaker 4: I think the.
Speaker 2: Coaches actually had a pretty good game plan that gave
Speaker 2: the Clippers a chance to win. It came without Kawhi
Speaker 2: Leonard uh and.
Speaker 4: The players did their thing.
Speaker 2: normOn Pale, Look, there's a real good chance this games
Speaker 2: gets out of hand if Norman pal doesn't drop twenty
Speaker 2: in the second quarter. That was their lifeline. Norman Palell
Speaker 2: got them back into it down seventeen. He had a
Speaker 2: special performance in that second quarter in a good game overall,
Speaker 2: with thirty four points. If this is what we're going
Speaker 2: to see you moving forward, we're in good shape with
Speaker 2: Norm playing at this level. Lenny in Inglewood, one of
Speaker 2: my favorites. Lenny, you're on Clipper SoC without Amusin's hell?
Speaker 3: Lenny, Hey, what's up? What's up? Man? You ended on
Speaker 3: a point and I want to begin with it just
Speaker 3: right now. It's about getting Norm back in form. If
Speaker 3: Norm is back in form, we're looking good, and you know,
Speaker 3: the chances of us beating the best team, second best
Speaker 3: team in the NBA without Kawhi was already slim pickings.
Speaker 3: And then when we lost a mirror, that wasn't looking
Speaker 3: good either. But we get Norm back in form and
Speaker 3: we can still get we So as of right now,
Speaker 3: we're in sabbath. We lost six.
Speaker 2: Right as of right now, after this ballgame, they're in eighth.
Speaker 2: I'll give you the update right here now. There's a
Speaker 2: couple of games going on later tonight. Minnesota and the
Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors are playing. Currently, the Clippers are behind
Speaker 2: both of them. But we got to be rooting for
Speaker 2: here's what you want San Antonio to win it home
Speaker 2: over Golden State Minnesota, to lose it home against Detroit, Well.
Speaker 3: That that's gonna stretch, is Kate? Is Kate cutting in back?
Speaker 2: I believe he's playing. Yeah, that's that's a winnable game
Speaker 2: for the Pistons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a winnable game. And so is saying, oh no,
Speaker 3: not Wenby anyway, I don't care. Man, long we got
Speaker 3: Norm back. I needed Norm to have a big game,
Speaker 3: you know, So we're okay. Man, we're okay for the
Speaker 3: first time. I was a little bruved when we didn't
Speaker 3: when we didn't win that game against OKC. But we're back.
Speaker 3: I wanted to see Norm back, So we're good. Man,
Speaker 3: be okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like Lenny, they could have given up in this game,
Speaker 2: and they didn't. To me, that's meaningful. I know that's
Speaker 2: not nothing.
Speaker 3: I totally agree. And and Norm just went on him.
Speaker 3: He went bananas. And that's what we need.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: There's there's just very few teams that have a third
Speaker 3: you know, and Norm is the leading scorer, but technically
Speaker 3: he's still like a second or third option. But he
Speaker 3: can get you thirty. Yeah, that's bananas.
Speaker 4: Man, easy thirty, light work thirty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah yeah, light work thirty. I like that. So
Speaker 3: I think we're good now. And then ky Lou, you know,
Speaker 3: we always got some of the sleeve for the playoffs.
Speaker 3: So let's just let's just let's just let's just stay,
Speaker 3: let's just stay the course. We're good, all right, Lenny.
Speaker 4: Good to hear from you my friends. All right, brother,
Speaker 4: be good show, Thanks Lenny.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Clippers fall by five.
Speaker 2: Spirited effort, played hard, played well for I don't.
Speaker 4: Know, I'll say.
Speaker 2: Thirty nine of the forty eight minutes. Just those two
Speaker 2: big stretches where they go four minutes scoreless in the
Speaker 2: first just about and of almost five minutes scoreless in
Speaker 2: the third probably what did them in overall, aside from
Speaker 2: just not having Kawhi. Leonard beats a zoobots an off game,
Speaker 2: didn't get a great whistle, a lot of things going
Speaker 2: against them, and the Clippers still made it interesting, kept
Speaker 2: you glued and listening to this ballgame with Carlo Jimenez
Speaker 2: on the call. So let's bounce back tomorrow, climber Nation
Speaker 2: Clippers in Orlando with Kawhi back taking on the Magic.
Speaker 2: They're a good ball club. Ignored their record, They've been
Speaker 2: banged up. When they're healthy, they're tough. They're one of
Speaker 2: the best defenses in the league top three defense, just
Speaker 2: like the Clippers. When they hit shots, you're gonna have
Speaker 2: a tough game. Hopefully the Clippers bring their defense and
Speaker 2: Kawhi on offense will certainly help. Tip off at four
Speaker 2: pregame at three. Before we get out of here, I
Speaker 2: do want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian
Speaker 2: Seaman know what Igo, Carlo Jmenez on the call. As
Speaker 2: I mentioned Peg brother Jake Warner will see you on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: back and into a dome here in the bank. Our
Speaker 2: producer Daniel West doing a great job as always.
Speaker 4: I'm at a Mosland.
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