Speaker 1: The LA Clippers.
Speaker 2: The game is ended, gather round boys, time to recap,
Speaker 2: but the.
Speaker 1: Post game coverage is just getting started.
Speaker 3: The success is the failure.
Speaker 1: Let's discuss this is Clippers locker Road breaking down today's
Speaker 1: action with the pre and post game voice of the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Here's Ada Moss Lag Clippers fall by twenty two in Denver,
Speaker 2: final score one twenty to ninety eight in favor of
Speaker 2: the Nuggets.
Speaker 3: Welcome in.
Speaker 2: I'm Adam Oslin. This is your post game show coming up.
Speaker 2: We got your final box score and Clippers talk on
Speaker 2: a five to seventy LA Sports if you want to
Speaker 2: get on early eight six, six, nine, seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: But first let's get back out to ball Arena with
Speaker 2: your radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carlos
Speaker 2: Clippers team and James Harden in particular, just came out
Speaker 2: a little bit flat. They weren't crisp with their passes
Speaker 2: outside of a couple possessions where they had some great
Speaker 2: touch passes going on, but that wasn't the norm. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: this team turned the ball over far too often for
Speaker 2: the best team when it comes to fast break points
Speaker 2: in the league.
Speaker 3: In the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the Nuggets finished with thirty six fast
Speaker 4: break points at him. Not only the finished with thirty
Speaker 4: six fast break points. Here's the bigger number to me.
Speaker 4: They go sixteen for eighteen and fast break so the Clippers,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a free brucket buckets every single time
Speaker 4: Denver is able to get in the fast break. That's
Speaker 4: a tough one for this Clipper team to swallow. There's
Speaker 4: such a good half core defense. It's why they emphasize, hey,
Speaker 4: let's get back every single time in half court because
Speaker 4: they don't have an opportunity to play with our best defense,
Speaker 4: which we saw at them. When the Clippers played half
Speaker 4: court defense, they forced eighteen steals today. I mean, their
Speaker 4: half core defense is phenomenal. It's just getting back that
Speaker 4: has been the issue for this Clipper team. That's why
Speaker 4: this one probably feels all they played a lot better
Speaker 4: than the score would tell you, which is something you
Speaker 4: brought up because of how good that half core defense
Speaker 4: was in this game. It really was those fast break
Speaker 4: points that cost them. To get me, you lose by
Speaker 4: twenty two and you give up thirty six fast break points,
Speaker 4: there's your math right there, and it.
Speaker 2: Was really their offense penalizing their defense because those turnovers
Speaker 2: put their defense in really tough positions where you have
Speaker 2: to scramble to get back against the best team in
Speaker 2: transition in the league.
Speaker 3: As you put it, they.
Speaker 2: Made them pay sixteen for sixteen in fast break points
Speaker 2: for the Denver Nuggets, leading to a total of thirty six.
Speaker 2: It just seemed like the Clippers and James Harden specifically.
Speaker 2: We talked about this at the end of the broadcast,
Speaker 2: but you know, I asked coach lou about why he
Speaker 2: struggled so much in second quarters about a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago. They said, well, it takes time for him
Speaker 2: to ramp back up after playing the entire first quarter,
Speaker 2: he comes back in around the six minute mark of
Speaker 2: the second quarter. He just doesn't have the same tempo
Speaker 2: and rhythm out there. So what's gonna happen when he
Speaker 2: has eight days off. Well, I think we got our
Speaker 2: answer in this one. It just looked like James Harden
Speaker 2: was not quite as crisp as he has been for
Speaker 2: this Clippers team over the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think there's something to say at them.
Speaker 4: And we've talked about this on the broadcast. But rust
Speaker 4: is real. I mean rust is real in the NBA.
Speaker 4: The Denver Nuggets, this is their first win on tour
Speaker 4: more days of rest. I think we brought up with Beesha,
Speaker 4: you brought up to the Clippers are what two and
Speaker 4: four on tour more days of rest? Is that was
Speaker 4: a one and four or two or four one of
Speaker 4: those numbers.
Speaker 2: I feel like they haven't had that much rest for
Speaker 2: that number to be correct. But I swear somebody had
Speaker 2: that one of four.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think one of four is right. I did
Speaker 4: look it up earlier today during the press conferences. But
Speaker 4: for this Clipper group, it's just it's a tough, tough
Speaker 4: task when when you're used to playing every night, when
Speaker 4: you're used to traveling, when you're used to getting those
Speaker 4: legs under you. Now all of a sudden you have
Speaker 4: this extra time off. And we saw tonight that sometimes
Speaker 4: too much time off is too much time off. And
Speaker 4: then that kind of hurt the Clippers today. They weren't
Speaker 4: in rhythm, they weren't able to get out and running.
Speaker 4: The good news for them only two days off. Then
Speaker 4: you got to play Utah and then things start to
Speaker 4: pick up. They're gonna go to Dallas and you're playing
Speaker 4: every other day until until Christmas. But for this Clipper
Speaker 4: team a little rusty here today, I'm not too worried
Speaker 4: about it because things that the coaches talked about were
Speaker 4: over that four game stretch that they wanted to work
Speaker 4: on was their half court defense. And like we've said,
Speaker 4: I thought their half court defense was very good today.
Speaker 4: I think they executed offensively, Adam. They got up nearly
Speaker 4: forty threes in this They got a forty one threes
Speaker 4: in this game, and they were on pace to get
Speaker 4: up forty one threes. This wasn't garbage timeo where they
Speaker 4: were hucking and even to get the forty. The offensive
Speaker 4: movement was there, but they just didn't start hitting them
Speaker 4: until the game was essentially over. At the end of
Speaker 4: the contest. I think they made four threes in those
Speaker 4: final three minutes of the balling game. A tough one
Speaker 4: for this Clipper team because you felt like their process
Speaker 4: was there. You played the right defense in the half court,
Speaker 4: but it was the transition points and the turnovers that
Speaker 4: killed you in this contest.
Speaker 2: Nikol Jokich, who has been on a tear, it seemed
Speaker 2: like the break cooled him off. Having four days off,
Speaker 2: he wasn't at his best tonight in this one. He
Speaker 2: has spoke about that in the past. He loves every
Speaker 2: other day playing that keeps him in rhythm. He didn't
Speaker 2: look the same. Still doesn't matter. This Denver Nuggets team
Speaker 2: there top ten offense. They found other ways to score
Speaker 2: and it was off of Clippers mis cues and mistakes
Speaker 2: out there. Still, you brought him up a little bit
Speaker 2: earlier with me. But Kevin Porter Junior a bright spot,
Speaker 2: a silver lining in this one. He came in and
Speaker 2: immediately had an impact.
Speaker 1: He did.
Speaker 4: I thought he was effective off the bench for a
Speaker 4: bench unit that was a little stalled out. He finishes
Speaker 4: with sixteen points, sixteen of the Clippers of the majority
Speaker 4: of the Clippers bench points in this contest. I was
Speaker 4: able to get downhill. I thought he would played good
Speaker 4: defense in this one. At him. He had four steals
Speaker 4: and or two steals in four assists and was efficient
Speaker 4: shooting fifty percent from the field. Ken Porter Junior just
Speaker 4: continues to look more comfortable and more comfortable with every
Speaker 4: single game. Is the reason he was the youngest guy
Speaker 4: in league history to have fifty points in ten assists
Speaker 4: in a contest. He can score with the best of him,
Speaker 4: and we're seeing that, especially these tough shots at him.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's a tough shot maker when he gets
Speaker 4: inside the paint and he gets to that follow a jumper,
Speaker 4: and for ninety percent of the league, that's a bad shot.
Speaker 4: But for Kevin Porter Junior, he's shooting at like sixty
Speaker 4: percent clip from that five to ten foot range over
Speaker 4: there in the mid range, So it's been it's been
Speaker 4: fun to see him knock down those shots be excellent
Speaker 4: on the offensive end. This Clipper group an opportunity to regroup.
Speaker 4: I wonder Adam we saw Nikobatum the start, but he
Speaker 4: didn't play much in the second half of this Bowl game.
Speaker 4: We'll see if the Clippers change up how they want
Speaker 4: to play the starting lineup. Tyleru was very complimentary of
Speaker 4: his group pre game. He said, one advantage we have
Speaker 4: is we have so many guys who you can insert
Speaker 4: into the starting lineup and take away kind of play
Speaker 4: plug and play, because they have a lot of lengthy,
Speaker 4: tall bigs or fours. Really, when you think about guys
Speaker 4: like the Niko Batoom and Kevin Moorder Junior and a
Speaker 4: Mere Coffee, I mean all those guys could start for
Speaker 4: this Clipper team and have started for this Clipper team,
Speaker 4: So we'll see. I mean, I'm sure Tyler and Jeff
Speaker 4: Van Gundy will Tye will be up till four thirty
Speaker 4: watching the tape, and then Jeff will wake up at
Speaker 4: four thirty to watch the tape. So you know someone's
Speaker 4: always going to be at the computer looking at this
Speaker 4: one for this Clipper team, I'm not too concerned to
Speaker 4: those two will definitely be figuring out ways to find
Speaker 4: solutions for the Slippers group.
Speaker 2: You know, they're my inspiration for doing Clippers Talk each
Speaker 2: and every day. When I see guys work that hard,
Speaker 2: I know I gotta step my game up. Stay with
Speaker 2: Carlo Jimenez after the Clippers unfortunately fall one twenty ninety
Speaker 2: eight in Denver.
Speaker 3: Carlo, Okay, so one, we thank you, sir.
Speaker 4: This is for the chat and for Clipperstock. No trades,
Speaker 4: no trade, no trade request today, guys do not bring
Speaker 4: up a single trade idea. They've lost three in a row.
Speaker 4: It's not the end of the world. I don't want
Speaker 4: to listen to Clipperstock on the flight back and hear
Speaker 4: eight hundred trade requests.
Speaker 2: Thanks for getting my back bro, I'm gonna replay that
Speaker 2: about five different times here in the post game.
Speaker 3: You guys heard Carlo Jimenez.
Speaker 2: All right, no trade talk the first rule of clipperstock,
Speaker 2: no trade talk even after you lose three straight. But Carlo,
Speaker 2: hopefully a much sharper Clippers team Monday night, back at
Speaker 2: home against the Utah Jazz. Tip time for that once
Speaker 2: at seven thirty. We got your pregame show at six thirty.
Speaker 2: We will see you then. Safe travels, my friend.
Speaker 4: Safe travels, Adam, I get to see you in person
Speaker 4: on Monday.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
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Speaker 2: AP Clippers lose by twenty two in Denver to the Nuggets.
Speaker 2: Welcome back in I'm out of Mosland.
Speaker 3: What up, Clippernation.
Speaker 2: Whether you're listening on a five seventy LA Sports or
Speaker 2: on the YouTube side at Clippers Talk, appreciate you. Tough
Speaker 2: loss for the Clippers. I understand it. Some people are
Speaker 2: gonna be upset tonight especially when I read this box score.
Speaker 2: The Clippers shot just forty five percent from the field.
Speaker 2: It's not awful. But the Denver Nuggets, after starting off slow,
Speaker 2: we're at fifty five percent. They went ten of twenty
Speaker 2: nine from three, the Clippers fourteen of forty one. They
Speaker 2: got up forty one, but only hit fourteen and a
Speaker 2: lot of those were coming in inconsequential time. They got
Speaker 2: a couple during garbage time late in the ballgame. The
Speaker 2: story is the Clippers nineteen turnovers. Denver did have twenty two,
Speaker 2: but the Denver Nuggets had thirty six fast break points.
Speaker 2: The Clippers had twenty five, a great number, but Denver
Speaker 2: was sixteen of eighteen in fast break transition buckets, Clippers
Speaker 2: ten of sixteen. They didn't convert as well as the
Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets, and that makes sense because the Denver Nuggets
Speaker 2: are the best fast break team in the league. When
Speaker 2: it comes to fast break points, they averaged eighteen per game.
Speaker 2: They doubled that against the Clippers with thirty six, and
Speaker 2: the Clippers were leading by five two minutes into the
Speaker 2: third quarter. Jamal Murray had a tough reverse layup on
Speaker 2: Aviza Zoo Bots and I thought, uh, Oh, it was
Speaker 2: right out of a timeout. Here we go, the Denver
Speaker 2: Nuggets are about to lock in and focus in as
Speaker 2: they lookedda to start the second half, they looked unfocused.
Speaker 2: I think Mike Malone got their attention in that timeout,
Speaker 2: and from then on they outscore the Clippers by a
Speaker 2: wide margin. Even though I think the Clippers defense was
Speaker 2: fine when they could actually play half court defense. But
Speaker 2: when you have nineteen turnovers, yeah, it leads to a
Speaker 2: lot of easy buckets in transition thirty six for the
Speaker 2: Denver Nuggets. Your final box score for the Clippers. Kevin
Speaker 2: Porter Junior had sixteen off the bench to match Norman
Speaker 2: Powell sixteen with the starters. James Harden had fifteen points
Speaker 2: and six assists, but nine turnovers and I want to
Speaker 2: say he had six in the first half. He looked
Speaker 2: completely out of sync and out of sorts out there
Speaker 2: after being out for the last eight days. Remember he
Speaker 2: didn't play that game on Sunday against the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 2: Did like the performance. As we talked about with Carlo
Speaker 2: Jomenez from Kevin Porter Junior Boones Highland, I understand the
Speaker 2: logic of putting him in. He's been hot from three.
Speaker 2: He knocked down a couple late in this ball game
Speaker 2: when they were already down by twenty, but coach Lee
Speaker 2: was trying to lean into offense because defensively they were
Speaker 2: actually doing okay. Nick oh Kitch guys had a meager
Speaker 2: sixteen points sixteen and seven six of nine from the field.
Speaker 2: I think he had nine points or eight points in
Speaker 2: the first half. The Clippers had held him in check.
Speaker 2: Denver didn't look right either, but the Clippers made it
Speaker 2: too easy for them with turnover after turnover, especially in
Speaker 2: the second half after they had that brief five point
Speaker 2: lead early in the third quarter. Clippers fall on one
Speaker 2: ninety eight in Denver. Clippers next ball game coming up
Speaker 2: Monday night, back against the Utah Jazz into a Dome.
Speaker 2: More on that coming up here in the Clippers postgame
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Speaker 2: Clippers lose by twenty two in Denver. One twenty to
Speaker 2: ninety eight was your final. After the Clippers led by
Speaker 2: five two minutes into the third, Denver would open things up.
Speaker 2: They did damage They outscored the Clippers in the third
Speaker 2: thirty five to twenty two and thirty seven to twenty nine,
Speaker 2: and the fourth and the Clippers were their own worst enemies.
Speaker 2: Far too many plays where they basically set the rakedown
Speaker 2: and then stepped on it unforced turnovers. They were just
Speaker 2: giving the basketball up to the Denver Nuggets with nineteen turnovers.
Speaker 2: Denver had twenty two, but the Clippers nineteen turnovers That
Speaker 2: led to thirty six fast break points for the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 2: They doubled their season average and fast break points were
Speaker 2: they're number one at eighteen per game. They had thirty six.
Speaker 2: Clippers lose by twenty two in Denver. Next contest coming
Speaker 2: up against the Utah Jazz Monday Night Kawhi Bobblehead Night
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Speaker 2: At follow Adam a Adam Ousley. There's a great underrated
Speaker 2: nineties flick called things to Do in Denver when You're
Speaker 2: Dead with Andy Garcia and the Clippers. They got cooked
Speaker 2: in that second half. They lost by twenty two to
Speaker 2: the Denver Nuggets. Welcome in to Clippers Talk. I'm out
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Speaker 2: After a tough loss where the Clippers were right there
Speaker 2: and then.
Speaker 1: It was gone.
Speaker 5: The game was gone.
Speaker 2: Denver ran away with it, and they ran away with
Speaker 2: it because they had thirty six points in transition thanks
Speaker 2: to the Clippers nineteen turnovers. That'll do it. They went
Speaker 2: sixteen of eighteen in fast break points, I said, pregame
Speaker 2: one of my keys. You can't turn it over against Denver.
Speaker 2: They lead the league in fast break points at eighteen
Speaker 2: per game. They doubled it and had thirty six. And
Speaker 2: there were opportunities still where the Clippers, as poorly as
Speaker 2: they were playing early on, they were right there.
Speaker 3: They were right there. They're in the third quarter. And
Speaker 3: I hate to.
Speaker 2: Pull a receipt on myself in this way, but I
Speaker 2: tweeted it out right as it happened. Right is the
Speaker 2: turning point hit. And if you're watching on the YouTube side,
Speaker 2: if you're in the chat, I appreciate you, or if
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Speaker 2: But it just felt like, and I tweeted it out
Speaker 2: at the time that Jamal Murray that reverse layup out
Speaker 2: of the timeout on a Visa Zoo box gave them
Speaker 2: renewed energy and life out there when Denver looked miserable
Speaker 2: to start things off in the third quarter. I'll show you,
Speaker 2: guys in the chat. I said it as it happened.
Speaker 2: You could feel the momentum being ripped away from the
Speaker 2: Clippers with just that one play. Sometimes a dunk isn't
Speaker 2: just a dunk.
Speaker 3: A three is just the three of block. Is in
Speaker 3: just a block.
Speaker 2: They're momentum changing plays. And this was a crazy reverse
Speaker 2: layup by Jamal Murray, I said, Murray, tough layup.
Speaker 3: Here they come. That was pretty much it.
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon then hit a three pointer, and after the
Speaker 2: Clippers led by five early in the third, it was
Speaker 2: fifty five. All Clippers continued to miss. Harden continued to
Speaker 2: turn it over, and he just looked completely out of
Speaker 2: source tonight. I compared it to how he looked in
Speaker 2: the preseason and earlier this season when James Harden got
Speaker 2: off to the slow start and was turning the ball
Speaker 2: over relentlessly. Tonight, a lot of those turnovers they're laying
Speaker 2: at the feet of James Harden. The Clippers had momentum
Speaker 2: after Niko Batoum knocked down back to back three early
Speaker 2: in the third quarter, and the Denver Nuggets were turning
Speaker 2: it over themselves. They had more turnovers than the Clippers.
Speaker 2: They were a mess. They had three turnovers in the
Speaker 2: first two minutes.
Speaker 3: Of the third quarter.
Speaker 2: The Clippers defense was incredible. Their half court defense was good.
Speaker 2: You're gonna look at the final box score and say,
Speaker 2: what do you mean, Adam, they gave up one twenty. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because they got thirty six points in transition because the
Speaker 2: Clippers offense failed their defense. That's what you saw tonight.
Speaker 2: That's what you've seen a lot this season. They got
Speaker 2: a top five defense, they got close to a bottom
Speaker 2: five offense. Kawhi cannot come back soon enough. He's got
Speaker 2: a bobblehead night. On Monday, we had Lob Murray on
Speaker 2: in the pregame show. He doesn't believe Kawhi will be
Speaker 2: back for that game they're taking on Utah. They shouldn't
Speaker 2: need them back for that game if they play a
Speaker 2: much crisper, sharper ball.
Speaker 3: Game than they did.
Speaker 2: I mean Murray turned it over to start the third
Speaker 2: quarter after the Clippers were down forty eight to forty
Speaker 2: seven at the half, after they battled being down. What
Speaker 2: were they at one point in that first half. I
Speaker 2: want to say they were down by twelve. They battled,
Speaker 2: even though they almost lost the non Jokic minutes in
Speaker 2: the first half.
Speaker 3: That was this point.
Speaker 2: They were down by as many as thirteen in the
Speaker 2: first half. The Clippers started three for thirteen from three,
Speaker 2: but then they started to hit some, and by some
Speaker 2: I mean some. They were tough from the outside. Overall,
Speaker 2: the Clippers ended up fourteen to forty one. That's thirty
Speaker 2: four percent from three. But after being down thirteen at
Speaker 2: the end of the second quarter, when the starters came
Speaker 2: back in and James Harden wasn't turning it over the Clippers.
Speaker 3: It's made a great run.
Speaker 2: They had the lead there too. These are the two
Speaker 2: turning points that decide a game. To me, I don't
Speaker 2: want to oversimplify it.
Speaker 3: I don't think I am.
Speaker 2: These are critical pivotal moments of the game that end
Speaker 2: up typically deciding things. It's a run here or there
Speaker 2: that you're not able to come back from or overcome.
Speaker 2: Because with the Clippers being down by thirteen, it was
Speaker 2: let's see here, thirty eight to twenty six. I didn't
Speaker 2: think they were going to score forty before the end
Speaker 2: of the first half. At one point, I was that
Speaker 2: concerned their offense was brutal. DeAndre Jordan gets that value
Speaker 2: from Russell Westbrook. Early second quarter, Denver's up thirty six
Speaker 2: to twenty three. That's the nine to forty five mark,
Speaker 2: and by let's see here scroll down a little bit
Speaker 2: more A little bit more, a little bit more by
Speaker 2: the four minute mark. So about six minutes later, the
Speaker 2: Clippers have a one point lead at thirty nine to
Speaker 2: thirty eight after a Norman Pow three pointer. The starters
Speaker 2: got him right back in it when they turned the
Speaker 2: basketball over, when they were getting shots up, when they
Speaker 2: could actually hit threes. Some of this I think is
Speaker 2: just the rust factor, not Russ rust. If Russell Westbrook
Speaker 2: got his revenge game out way to go, I don't
Speaker 2: think he had some monster game. He had a couple
Speaker 2: of good defensive possessions in the second half. He was
Speaker 2: talking junk to the Clippers bench. But this wasn't about Russ.
Speaker 2: It was about rust and the Clippers having a substantial
Speaker 2: amount of it. I have some WD forty in studio
Speaker 2: here that I want to bring to Denver. Oil him
Speaker 2: up like the tin Man. Four days off for the Clippers,
Speaker 2: but remember eight days off for James Harden. He didn't
Speaker 2: play Sunday. Now, did he deserve the time off, yes,
Speaker 2: but you could see it out there. He wasn't right.
Speaker 2: He didn't look like James Harden. It looked like a
Speaker 2: preseason game when he had multiple games around double digit turnovers.
Speaker 3: But again.
Speaker 2: The Clippers down thirteen in the second quarter, they bounce back.
Speaker 2: Denver did get a couple of big buckets to end
Speaker 2: the half after a James Harden turnover, Christian Brown easy layup,
Speaker 2: Christian Brown another easy layup, and Nikola Yokas hitting a
Speaker 2: three pointer. The Clippers easily could have had the lead
Speaker 2: heading into the half, which is somewhat remarkable with how
Speaker 2: bad they looked early on, down by thirteen, but it's
Speaker 2: the third quarter of me, guys, that's it. Denver was
Speaker 2: on the ropes. They looked miserable out there. They looked
Speaker 2: like a team that was broken. Three turnovers in the
Speaker 2: first two minutes of the third quarter coming out of
Speaker 2: the half. Apparently at that point Mike Malone's message did
Speaker 2: not resonate with them that time out. After Niko Batoum
Speaker 2: hit that second three pointer, that was it. At the
Speaker 2: nine thirty one mark, Clippers are up fifty five to fifty.
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray comes out and hits a wild reverse layup
Speaker 2: over Visa Zubas. Jamal Murray is not having a good season.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it boosted morale seeing him make an explosive
Speaker 2: play like that, like he was doing pre acl like
Speaker 2: he was doing last season during their championship run. He
Speaker 2: just has not looked good going back to playing for
Speaker 2: Canada this summer. You get that layup, it's fifty five
Speaker 2: to fifty two Clippers. Then James Harden misses a floater
Speaker 2: and Aaron Gordon hits a three pointer. TI game, Norm Palell,
Speaker 2: to his credit, knocked down a three after struggling tonight.
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray goes to the free throw line. Norm Powell
Speaker 2: misses a three. Then you have Christian Brown getting another
Speaker 2: easy one off of a James Harden bad pass. Denver's
Speaker 2: up fifty nine to fifty eight. I think they would
Speaker 2: not relinquish the lead at that point, the seven thirty
Speaker 2: six mark of the third quarter on I don't think
Speaker 2: they ever gave it back. In fact, as I scroll
Speaker 2: down here, it's confirming it. Yeah, that was it.
Speaker 1: That was it.
Speaker 2: The seven thirty six mark turnover, James Harden, Christian Brown,
Speaker 2: easy one, fifty nine to fifty eight. Denver would never
Speaker 2: trail again for the last eighteen minutes of the game.
Speaker 2: Let me make it twenty minutes of the game. Matth Is
Speaker 2: Hard Michael Porter Junior hits that big three, Aaron Gordon
Speaker 2: gets fouled. Clippers defense wasn't terrible, but they can't score.
Speaker 2: They can turn it over, they can't score. They had
Speaker 2: a backcourt violation in the third quarter. They're down sixty
Speaker 2: eight to sixty. They need something, anything, and they have
Speaker 2: a backcourt violation. Michael Porter Junior or another three. He
Speaker 2: had some backbreakers, and then Nikola jokicch went on a
Speaker 2: little bit of a run. Russell Westbrook even hit a
Speaker 2: free throw, went one of two, but Jokic hit a
Speaker 2: three pointer at seventy seven sixty three. The Clippers are
Speaker 2: just drowning. Clippers down heading into the fourth quarter by
Speaker 2: a score of eighty three to sixty nine. They were
Speaker 2: up by five two minutes into the third quarter. They
Speaker 2: fell apart on offense and it affected their defense because
Speaker 2: it's hard to play in transition and scramble and cover
Speaker 2: for somebody else, typically in those cross matchups when you're
Speaker 2: running back on defense when they're on a fast break.
Speaker 2: Clippers lose this one by a final of one twenty
Speaker 2: to ninety eight. Coming up, we'll read the comments. We'll
Speaker 2: take your phone calls. Eight sixty six ninety eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: Clippers dropped to fourteen and twelve on the season. We'll
Speaker 2: update you on the Western Conference standings coming up too.
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Speaker 2: App check Clippers lose by twenty two, Clippers fall one
Speaker 2: twenty to ninety eight, and Denver to the Nuggets. I'm
Speaker 2: Adam Moslin. Welcome back in. This is Clippers Stock on
Speaker 2: AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: And at Clipperstock on the YouTube. Appreciate everybody in here.
Speaker 2: I know there are some disgruntled fans tonight with some
Speaker 2: of the lineups from coach Lou. Maybe we'll hear from
Speaker 2: coach Lou at some point here if we can find
Speaker 2: some postgame audio. As I looked at Katie Newton, who's
Speaker 2: got to foot out the door because she's done in
Speaker 2: like a week. At her replacement, Daniel West is now
Speaker 2: our producer here for Clippers Talk for your Clippers broadcast.
Speaker 2: More from Daniel coming up here. But I want to
Speaker 2: hear from coach lou after this one, because while some
Speaker 2: of it can be attributed to cold shooting, Ice cold
Speaker 2: Andre three thousand, ice cold shooting, some of it is
Speaker 2: completely on the Clippers with unforced errors, miss cues, poor
Speaker 2: timing out there. And maybe it's understandable because of the
Speaker 2: schedule and having four days off and James Harden being
Speaker 2: out for eight days. Maybe that's it's that simple. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's it. Denver looked sloppy too. It was not a
Speaker 2: great or well played basketball game out there whatsoever. Denver
Speaker 2: had twenty two turnovers, Clippers had nineteen. Clippers lost a
Speaker 2: game where they got up six more shots they did
Speaker 2: for the first time though against Denver this season, lose
Speaker 2: the rebounding battle. Some of that is because the Clippers
Speaker 2: were missing more, but some of it was just I
Speaker 2: don't know, them not being sharp enough even when it
Speaker 2: came to clean the last that is an effort thing.
Speaker 2: It's crazy because there were a couple touch passes in
Speaker 2: this game, a couple of them from Vitzas Zubats that
Speaker 2: were incredible. One of them the Clippers didn't convert on,
Speaker 2: but like high high level basketball stuff. Harden had in
Speaker 2: the second quarter, a steal and a passed to Zubos
Speaker 2: between Jokich and Michael Porter Junior for a big dunk
Speaker 2: that was spectacular, and the Clippers went on a twenty
Speaker 2: one to two run. In the second quarter when Harden
Speaker 2: was playing like himself, Zoo had that spinning dunk on
Speaker 2: Michael Porter Junior. There were just a couple of highlights
Speaker 2: from a passing standpoint that contradict a game where the
Speaker 2: Clippers have nineteen turnovers. It's like they had some of
Speaker 2: their best passes in this game and then also their worst.
Speaker 2: Just polar opposites, opposite ends of the spectrum there from
Speaker 2: the Clippers. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. At times,
Speaker 2: it seemed like they were capable. In the third quarter,
Speaker 2: there was some amazing ball movement on a Harden to
Speaker 2: Zoo to Betoomb to Norm play. I think they were
Speaker 2: down by two and Norm Powell missed the three on
Speaker 2: the left wing. It was incredible passing Zubats had I
Speaker 2: mentioned that pass earlier. I'm trying to think who that
Speaker 2: was two, but Chris Dunn. He had a really nice
Speaker 2: pass in this ball game. It makes no sense. At
Speaker 2: times they look locked in focus sharp at times. They
Speaker 2: looked like a team that hadn't played in four days
Speaker 2: and their best player hadn't played in eight days. I
Speaker 2: don't want to let him off the hook because of that,
Speaker 2: but I don't know how else to explain some of
Speaker 2: these turnovers. We saw same from Denver standpoint. What they
Speaker 2: were doing. Both teams were extremely careless with the basketball.
Speaker 2: It looked like their rhythm and timing wasn't there.
Speaker 3: That fair to say.
Speaker 2: It wasn't just James Harden, as he had nine nine turnovers,
Speaker 2: nine of their nineteen. That's that's significant. But Jokic had
Speaker 2: some bad plays as you don't normally see. Chris Dunn,
Speaker 2: who had four steals in the first half, was making
Speaker 2: incredible plays out there and almost ripped one from Jokic
Speaker 2: as he sagged off of and cheated off of Aaron Gordon,
Speaker 2: which typically means Jokis is gonna find Aaron Gordon because
Speaker 2: he has eyes in the back of his head, and
Speaker 2: instead Chris Dunn got a piece of it, but it
Speaker 2: went out bounds. It looked like he was about to
Speaker 2: have I think two steals or three steals in a row.
Speaker 2: But the Clippers lose one twenty to ninety eight to
Speaker 2: the Denver Nuggets, And some people in here are talking
Speaker 2: about the lineups and specifically KPJ and Bones Highland being
Speaker 2: out there. And if you're watching on the YouTube live side,
Speaker 2: you can see that Himothy he is him uh put
Speaker 2: up their net rating in sixty minutes, that two man lineup.
Speaker 2: Not that it's just two on five or something like that,
Speaker 2: but when those two are on the court together in
Speaker 2: the sixty minutes they've been out there so far this season,
Speaker 2: they have an offensive rating of ninety three. That is
Speaker 2: extremely bad. Average offensive rating is like one eleven. Average
Speaker 2: good offensive rating is about one twenty. So when I
Speaker 2: tell you that, listen to their defensive rating one thirty three,
Speaker 2: a minus forty net rating. Does coach lou have any
Speaker 2: options right now?
Speaker 4: Do?
Speaker 2: I think it's understandable that he would try it, because
Speaker 2: it hasn't been huge minutes yet. Even though you could
Speaker 2: say in theory you could see how those two guys
Speaker 2: wouldn't play well together, he was looking to juice up
Speaker 2: the offense the defense. I mean, Kevin Porter Junior had
Speaker 2: a good game. I will say that he came in
Speaker 2: made an impact right away, A small bright spot. He
Speaker 2: came in around in the three minute mark. Uh, when
Speaker 2: there's three minutes left in the second quarter. He missed
Speaker 2: a jumper, but then had a great pass to Mobama
Speaker 2: for a dunk where he left it for him. He
Speaker 2: made a three early second quarter, a tough layup. I
Speaker 2: thought he was aggressive, assertive and obviously could get his
Speaker 2: own shot and create for himself. Bones Highland, he came
Speaker 2: in right around the same time it's a twenty one
Speaker 2: to seventeen Denver Nuggets lead, and most of his scoring
Speaker 2: was done during inconsequential time. Didn't find the bottom of
Speaker 2: the net like many Clippers players, because the first quarter
Speaker 2: they started off three for thirteen from three, the second
Speaker 2: quarter they went three for ten from three.
Speaker 3: The third quarter they.
Speaker 2: Went was that three for eight from three a little
Speaker 2: bit better. And then the fourth quarter, who cares, they
Speaker 2: were down. They were down twenty two. Coach lou pooled
Speaker 2: James Harden that was the end of the game. And
Speaker 2: that was after appropriately so another bad turnover leading to
Speaker 2: an easy bucket. I want to say it was Christian
Speaker 2: Brown again. Now Julian Strother with the dunk to put
Speaker 2: him up by twenty two. After a Bones turnover picked
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook poked it away. He played some good defense.
Speaker 2: He was tampsing the Clippers bench a little bit. Russ
Speaker 2: was on his revenge stuff even though his shot still
Speaker 2: was evading him. You could say, Russell Westbrook, where did
Speaker 2: he end up shooting in this game? One of my
Speaker 2: box scores. The ESPN side has not even worked once tonight,
Speaker 2: like their game log. I've seen this happen before, where
Speaker 2: you know, the first quarter it's not working. I've never
Speaker 2: seen it go this long where the entire game. Nobody
Speaker 2: decided to update it. In fact, I hit him up
Speaker 2: on X with a strongly worded letter, very strong. Russell
Speaker 2: Westbrook was two of nine oh three from three. So
Speaker 2: let's see here. He is two nine, five for twenty
Speaker 2: eight in three games against the Clippers so far this season,
Speaker 2: five for twenty eight.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: Your team won Victor go the Spoils. But he was
Speaker 2: talking a lot for a guy that's five of twenty eight.
Speaker 2: But hey, he had some solid defensive plays in this one.
Speaker 2: Everybody else was dealing with the evil four letter like
Speaker 2: I was. I was dropping some four letters trying to
Speaker 2: get that thing to work.
Speaker 3: I rely on that. Uh, some people are saying.
Speaker 2: It's overlapping play when you have Kevin Porters Junior out there,
Speaker 2: when you have him next to Bones Highland, I get
Speaker 2: that they're similar.
Speaker 3: Bones is a better three point shooter. Not really.
Speaker 2: Tonight Clippers lose one, twenty to ninety eight. Coming up,
Speaker 2: I think we got some postgame audio from coach Lou.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be able to find it, Kittie. Whatever you
Speaker 2: took the night off, that's fine, but I'm gonna find it.
Speaker 2: I'm still here.
Speaker 3: I'm not going anywhere. Clippers dock.
Speaker 2: We got we got you till the bottom of the
Speaker 2: hour here. If you're listening on the YouTube side or
Speaker 2: on A five seventy LA Sports, appreciate you guys. After
Speaker 2: the Clippers drop one badly in Denver, they lose by
Speaker 2: twenty two. They're fourteen to twelve on the season. We'll
Speaker 2: update you on the standings coming up. I'm at a
Speaker 2: maslind and you're listening to AM five seventy LA.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, summer, saying my guy Matt Mattawarren in the chat
Speaker 2: you know it wasn't Michael Myers on Friday at thirteenth.
Speaker 2: It was Mike Malone who took apart the Clippers as
Speaker 2: the Nuggets dissected them to win by twenty two final
Speaker 2: score one twenty to ninety eight. Denver over your Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Clippers.
Speaker 3: I'm at a Maaslim.
Speaker 2: This is Clippers sock here on the M five seventy
Speaker 2: LA Sports and at Clippers Talk on the YouTube side.
Speaker 2: I know some of you guys are gloating about Russell
Speaker 2: Westbrook being five of twenty eight from the field in
Speaker 2: three games against the Clippers. But Denver one tonight, so
Speaker 2: Russ gets to talk. He was doing some chirping. He
Speaker 2: was barking over to the Clippers bench after a couple
Speaker 2: defensive plays, and the defense was solid. It was We
Speaker 2: saw some of that in his time with the Clippers.
Speaker 2: We didn't see as much in the playoff series against Dallas,
Speaker 2: where I think in the last five, last five games
Speaker 2: of that series he was eight for forty two something
Speaker 2: like that. He struggled, but he's made an impact with
Speaker 2: the Denver Nuggets because they're playing at a much faster pace.
Speaker 2: They basically went from bottom five in pace last season
Speaker 2: at the top five in pace this season. A lot
Speaker 2: of that is the Russell Westbrook effect.
Speaker 3: We got some audio, make it just quotes. I get confused.
Speaker 3: There is a difference.
Speaker 2: Sometimes This comes from joey Lynn. TYLERU said, Chris Dunn
Speaker 2: kept asking to come out of the game, which is
Speaker 2: why he only played twenty one minutes tonight. He is
Speaker 2: still recovering from an illness and the altitude was affecting him. Man,
Speaker 2: you could see it too. Chris Dunns got that dog
Speaker 2: in him, but next to that is lungs and apparently
Speaker 2: coming off the illness, he still doesn't feel right. He
Speaker 2: doesn't have his cardio back. So a little bit concerning
Speaker 2: Joey Lynn also caught up with Russell Westbrook post game.
Speaker 3: Russ was very.
Speaker 2: Appreciative of the tribute video that he got back in
Speaker 2: LA against the Clippers, but a week ago, Russ said, quote,
Speaker 2: it was actually surprising, to be honest, I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Balmer and the entire Clippers organization for
Speaker 2: taking me in and welcoming me. They embraced me and
Speaker 2: what I brought to the game, and the fans showed
Speaker 2: that I'm appreciative and grateful for that.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 2: I like seeing that from Russ, and they won the game.
Speaker 2: Russ gets to talk like that, and guys love Russ regardless.
Speaker 2: He is an all time player favorite.
Speaker 3: That's who he's been.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Hopefully Chris Dunn gets better because they need him, and
Speaker 2: he's been dealing with this illness now for I don't
Speaker 2: know a week or more, been under the weather, been
Speaker 2: playing through it because he was sick against maybe a
Speaker 2: little bit less than a week. He was sick in
Speaker 2: the game against the Houston Rockets last Sunday, and he.
Speaker 3: Played through it. He tried to push through it.
Speaker 2: Something else I saw postgame was from the Denver Nuggets
Speaker 2: side on X and they got something called the Defense
Speaker 2: Player of the Game chain and who got it Jamal Murray.
Speaker 2: He was flexing with it. Mike Malone gave it to him.
Speaker 2: And the reason for that is he was guarding Norman
Speaker 2: Powell lot and Norm coming into this game had had
Speaker 2: his way with the Denver Nuggets with thirty seven the
Speaker 2: first game where I think he had twenty two points
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter of that one against Denver in
Speaker 2: that big victory. It was the second game of the
Speaker 2: season for the Clippers, and then the second game he
Speaker 2: had twenty eight or twenty nine, and he came in
Speaker 2: shooting twelve of nineteen from three against Denver at sixty
Speaker 2: three percent, and tonight was just three of ten, six
Speaker 2: of fourteen overall, had sixteen points. Jamal Murray took up
Speaker 2: the challenge. Played much better on the defensive end. That
Speaker 2: is the weakness with the Denver Nuggets. Last season, they
Speaker 2: were top ten defensively coming into this one, they were
Speaker 2: sixteenth tonight. They looked better there, but the Clippers made
Speaker 2: them look pretty damn good too at times because of
Speaker 2: all the turnovers, because of the sloppy play, the erratic
Speaker 2: passes that just seemed to be a bit outside. Same
Speaker 2: with the Denver Nuggets. Both teams didn't look like themselves,
Speaker 2: but Denver has the talent advantage. They have Nikola Jokicic
Speaker 2: and even though he didn't have a great game, Jamal
Speaker 2: Murray not just his defense, but he had twenty points.
Speaker 2: And I do think he ignited them with that reverse
Speaker 2: layup early in the third quarter. I think that was
Speaker 2: a big shot. So Clippers lose one, twenty to ninety eight.
Speaker 2: Denver took control and they ran away with this one.
Speaker 2: We'll take one more time out here. Eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy eight sixty six ninety
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the full number, and
Speaker 2: we'll preview a little bit of Monday night's game. Kawhi
Speaker 2: Leonard bobblehead Night. Could that pretend something? I don't think so.
Speaker 2: We talked with Lomurray earlier. I don't think he's playing
Speaker 2: on Monday. I think it's too soon. Maybe later next
Speaker 2: week when they're in Dallas or Memphis. He's got to
Speaker 2: go through contact practices first.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 2: I don't think you can ramp up fast enough to
Speaker 2: be there on Monday, nor she have to against the
Speaker 2: Utah Jazz. We'll update you on their score tonight and
Speaker 2: talk about with this Jazz team and why they've been
Speaker 2: struggling so much so far this season. Clippers lose by
Speaker 2: twenty two in Denver. I'm out of Mozland and you're
Speaker 2: listening to A five seven LA Sports.
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Speaker 2: The song hits a lot harder before tip off and
Speaker 2: not after. They lose by twenty two, but I'm still
Speaker 2: with it. Clippers falling Denver one twenty to ninety eight.
Speaker 2: Clippers had nineteen turnovers. Denver Nuggets had thirty six points
Speaker 2: fast break points that is double their season average, which
Speaker 2: the highest in the league at eighteen points per game.
Speaker 2: And Madame oslind this is Clippers Talk here on M
Speaker 2: five seventy LA Sports and at Clippers Talk on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you, guys. I do want to caution some people
Speaker 2: in here. When there's a loss like this, we tend
Speaker 2: to try to take too much out of it, extrapolate
Speaker 2: and make these long reaching conclusions about where the team
Speaker 2: is or is this player still good. People are questioning
Speaker 2: Jordan Miller tonight. Him Athy says, Adam, do you think
Speaker 2: we're too high on Jordan Miller? He is to arable
Speaker 2: by a lot of impact metrics. Absence said Miller got
Speaker 2: to try other moves besides the deceleration step. Russ was
Speaker 2: timing him tonight, and other teams will begin timing him too.
Speaker 2: To cat and mouse game, a game of adjustments with
Speaker 2: young players as there's more tape out there and scouts
Speaker 2: are paying attention. And Russ did rip him once maybe
Speaker 2: twice when he got to the basket. I'm a big
Speaker 2: Jordan Miller fan, and nothing that I've seen so far
Speaker 2: has changed that. Even though his first miss was a
Speaker 2: really bad way off three, even though yeah, Russell Westbrook
Speaker 2: got the best of him with the basket, He's a
Speaker 2: young player in this league that hasn't given enough minutes
Speaker 2: out there to say whether or not those metrics, the
Speaker 2: advanced numbers are meaningful or something you should read into.
Speaker 2: At this time, I'm not going there. I think you
Speaker 2: have to give him a lot more time. And with
Speaker 2: no Terrence Man with no I saw DeAndre Jordan tonight,
Speaker 2: with no Derek Jones Junior, you got to remember that
Speaker 2: part of the equation tonight for the Clippers. Jordan Miller
Speaker 2: should continue to get some minutes. Would I like to
Speaker 2: see less of the KPJ.
Speaker 3: Bones Highland minutes? Probably?
Speaker 2: At this point you know my feelings about Bones Highland.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if he's long for being a clip.
Speaker 2: Once December fifteenth opens up and more guys are eligible
Speaker 2: to be traded, I'm glad he's getting this opportunity right now.
Speaker 2: And I thought it made some sense because he was
Speaker 2: ten for his last twenty from three the last two
Speaker 2: games to give him run against Denver when you need
Speaker 2: some offense. They just didn't have his best game out there.
Speaker 2: Sometimes guys get overly psyched up to go against their
Speaker 2: former employer, especially when there was some bad blood between
Speaker 2: he and Jamal Murray KPJ.
Speaker 3: I thought was solid. I thought he was good.
Speaker 2: But should those two be playing on the court next
Speaker 2: to one another. The Clippers are in a position right
Speaker 2: now where if they don't play but two more minutes.
Speaker 2: He didn't play many in the second half after he
Speaker 2: hit those two big three pointers to start the third.
Speaker 2: If they don't play him enough, they don't play a
Speaker 2: mirror enough, you're gonna see those two out there. Will
Speaker 2: you see him Monday night against the Utah Jazz? Probably
Speaker 2: Utah has I say that, and I think of PMS
Speaker 2: right away to point break.
Speaker 3: They have.
Speaker 2: They've lost seven of eight. They just lost to night
Speaker 2: to the Phoenix Suns. They were competitive, they were at home.
Speaker 2: They lost one thirty four to one twenty six. We
Speaker 2: were monitoring that game. It was closer than that. But
Speaker 2: they're five and nineteen. They're the worst team in the
Speaker 2: Western Conference record wise.
Speaker 3: Actually, you know what the New.
Speaker 2: Orleans Pelicans have played a couple more games than they're
Speaker 2: five and twenty one. They're a mess all kinds of injuries.
Speaker 2: But as our friend will Updyke would say, you're not
Speaker 2: playing their record. A team can step up and beat you.
Speaker 2: Portland did it to the Clippers. Probably shouldn't have happened,
Speaker 2: but those losses typically happen over an eighty to two
Speaker 2: game season. To everyone, the Clippers cauldnot overlook this Utah
Speaker 2: Jazz team just because of the record. They shouldn't be
Speaker 2: this bad. It's mostly the same team that got off
Speaker 2: to the hot start last season and everybody was like, wow,
Speaker 2: how is Utah at the top of the West for
Speaker 2: like three days.
Speaker 3: It didn't last.
Speaker 2: We know they might be trying to capture the flag,
Speaker 2: and Danny Ainge has his sights on other things, but
Speaker 2: market In has not looked right so far this season.
Speaker 3: Overall.
Speaker 2: That first game against the Clippers, I was shocked at
Speaker 2: how poorly he played and just, I don't know, looked
Speaker 2: like a lack of intensity out there.
Speaker 3: I have great respect for him. He's a very good player.
Speaker 2: He was just six of twelve and it's.
Speaker 3: Thirty nine minutes against the Clippers.
Speaker 2: He took twelve shots in thirty nine minutes.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: Well, that's your best player, and the Clippers won that
Speaker 2: first matchup one sixteen to one oh five. That was
Speaker 2: back on November seventeenth. Marketing finished with eighteen points. He's
Speaker 2: coming off a game tonight. Yes, he had nineteen. The
Speaker 2: game before that he had eight. The game before that,
Speaker 2: he had thirteen. I don't know what's going on. I
Speaker 2: know he got paid. I don't think he's resting on
Speaker 2: his laurels or anything like that. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: accuse a guy that maybe just slow start to the
Speaker 2: year for whatever reason. But with him, Walker Kessler being back,
Speaker 2: Colin Sexton, John Collins, Jordan Clarkson off the bench, they're
Speaker 2: not devoid of talent. You can't tell me this Utah
Speaker 2: Jazz team on paper doesn't look better than their actual record.
Speaker 3: They do.
Speaker 2: They should be better. So the Clippers have to be
Speaker 2: much sharper with their play, and those unforced errors hopefully
Speaker 2: get cleaned up over the next two days because the
Speaker 2: Clippers have more time off. So James Harden will have
Speaker 2: played what one game in ten days now before we
Speaker 2: get to Monday. I'm hoping he looks more like himself.
Speaker 2: The Clippers need him to be the guy who I
Speaker 2: was talking about being an under rated or dark horse
Speaker 2: for the MVP conversation, because he's been that good so
Speaker 2: far this season and he's the main reason the Clippers
Speaker 2: are still two games above five hundred without Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 2: So Monday Night tip off it into a dome at
Speaker 2: seven thirty, pregame show at six thirty, it is Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 3: Bobblehead Night.
Speaker 2: Before we get out of here, I do want to
Speaker 2: thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, Noah Eagle,
Speaker 2: Carlo Jimenez, big brother, Jake Warner, thinking about you bro
Speaker 2: back here in the studio, Executive producer Katie Newton, new
Speaker 2: producer Daniel West, Dan the Man.
Speaker 3: Happy to have you.
Speaker 2: I hope this has been a positive experience so far.
Speaker 2: I didn't freak out that much because they got down
Speaker 2: twenty toda. I didn't throw anything, just kleenicxuh. The callers,
Speaker 2: the chatters, I appreciate you guys outside of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you on Monday Night. But of course,
Speaker 2: more Clippers talk on the YouTube side over the next
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