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Speaker 1: Clippers lose one oh three to one oh one here
Speaker 1: and into a zone to a team that has now
Speaker 1: won ten straight on the road in the Oklahoma City Thunder,
Speaker 1: to a team that has the best record in the
Speaker 1: league and the MVP in SGA. I'm comfortable saying that
Speaker 1: even on a night where he went seven of twenty nine,
Speaker 1: they still the Thunder beat the Clippers, Your LA Clippers
Speaker 1: one o three to one oh one. I'm Adam Oslin's
Speaker 1: welcome into your postgame show. As we got some more
Speaker 1: sky is falling talk and fire this person. We're right
Speaker 1: back to that after the Clippers just had one of
Speaker 1: the most successful weeks but lost a club game to
Speaker 1: the OKC Thunder, who were fantastic tonight, even without SGA
Speaker 1: having a good game, even without Jdubb, even without Jet Holmgren.
Speaker 1: They're ten to zero in games without j dubb Now
Speaker 1: the other Jalen Williams. He went three of three from three,
Speaker 1: hit some huge shots four or four overall had twelve
Speaker 1: points and Aaron Wiggins had nineteen. Those are areas the
Speaker 1: game was lost tonight. James Harden just four or fourteen,
Speaker 1: six turnovers to eight assists, not good enough. Two turnovers
Speaker 1: down the stretch looking for eats zubats that were if
Speaker 1: if he had best passes ill advised at best passes,
Speaker 1: passes you can't make against this thunder team. Clippers made
Speaker 1: a lot of passes you can't make against a team
Speaker 1: this good. From early on in the ballgame, I saw
Speaker 1: they were trying for a lot of long outlet hit
Speaker 1: ahead passes and they were being intercepted or thrown out
Speaker 1: of bounce because, okay, see is different. They're the best
Speaker 1: defense in the league by a lot. They're great. You
Speaker 1: have to be more precise than the Clippers were. But
Speaker 1: this is where the game was lost. I set it
Speaker 1: in the first half. I set it at halftime if
Speaker 1: they lose the game. This is why the Clippers are
Speaker 1: up ten heading into the second quarter and Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: who looked very aggressive at times four or five with
Speaker 1: his eight points getting Downhill put it up Ben he did.
Speaker 1: He has a swooping layup, sidestepping Alex Caruso. In the
Speaker 1: first minute of the second quarter, the Clippers have a
Speaker 1: twelve point lead. Let me be as exact as possible
Speaker 1: here and go to the game log so I can
Speaker 1: tell you how long it took for them to give
Speaker 1: away a twelve point lead. You have a Hartenstein dunk
Speaker 1: bogey miss three, and Crusoe lay up on a runout
Speaker 1: bogey miss and an Aaron Wiggins layup. Clippers start one
Speaker 1: for five. Second quarter, Simmons offensive foul, another turnover, Norm
Speaker 1: turnover Wiggins three. Clippers are only up by three now
Speaker 1: Hartenstein put back, Kawhi turnover th under Ball pressure was
Speaker 1: suffocating as good as I had seen to start that
Speaker 1: second quarter. Clippers were also loose with the basketball at
Speaker 1: times and looked like they thought they were playing a
Speaker 1: different ball club, like they were still playing Memphis. Now
Speaker 1: this is okay. See that the best defense in the
Speaker 1: league by lot. That was as frustrating of a fifteen
Speaker 1: to oh run as I had seen, which took place
Speaker 1: where the Clippers from After that, Ben Simmons swooping layup
Speaker 1: to put them up thirty six to twenty four, Up
Speaker 1: by twelve at the eleven sixteen mark, the Clippers, by
Speaker 1: the let's see here seven to fourteen mark, would find
Speaker 1: themselves down thirty nine to thirty six, a fifteen oh
Speaker 1: run on them. In just over almost five minutes, they
Speaker 1: went from the eleven minute sixteen second mark to the
Speaker 1: let's see six fifty five mark at the second quarter
Speaker 1: without scoring a point. It would be a norm Pal
Speaker 1: three point or tied up. At thirty nine. They were
Speaker 1: incomplete control. They had some really bad turnovers and without
Speaker 1: Sga on the floor, they gave up a fifteen to
Speaker 1: zero run. That can't happen. That's where the game is lost.
Speaker 1: Kawhi wasn't very good during that time. He has to
Speaker 1: lead them. He had a terrible turnover, and the Clippers
Speaker 1: around him, in Ben Simmons, in Bogeye in Norm and
Speaker 1: a mere Coffee weren't good enough either. The Clippers were sloppy,
Speaker 1: they didn't execute well enough. I don't know who they
Speaker 1: thought they were playing right then, but this is the
Speaker 1: OKC thunder and you have to take care of the
Speaker 1: basketball better. Than they did, even with Sga off the floor,
Speaker 1: even a game without Jdubb, without Chet, That to me
Speaker 1: is the ballgame. Now. Did they have their chances late?
Speaker 1: Of course, you're down four heading into the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: you're well within striking distance. It is a great back
Speaker 1: and forth, one of the better played ball games, at
Speaker 1: least from a high drama standpoint that we had seen.
Speaker 1: And late in the game, the Clippers, once again, just
Speaker 1: like in the second quarter, had some bad, bad turnovers.
Speaker 1: Okay sees up three midway through the quarter after a
Speaker 1: Caruso tough layup. After a timeout, a mere jumper put
Speaker 1: the Clippers back to within one. Aaron Wiggins finally missed
Speaker 1: a floater after having seven points to start the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Amir goes to the free throw line, misses the second.
Speaker 1: I believe, yeah, I think he hit both of those.
Speaker 1: Actually Sga fade away though, would have the Clippers down
Speaker 1: by one at ninety two to ninety one. Bogie airballed
Speaker 1: won where he was fouled. He had a rough ballgame
Speaker 1: in this one, surprisingly one of six h three from
Speaker 1: the outside. Zuke comes back in with the starters, but
Speaker 1: as DJ instead of done. Why because DJ was clamping Sga.
Speaker 1: At that point, Sga was one of nine against Derek Jones.
Speaker 1: Junior Kawhi has a great push shot on Carson Cason Wallace,
Speaker 1: excuse me, after he pushes him on the right block
Speaker 1: and just out muscled him. Shaye misses, but Harden has
Speaker 1: a turnover the other way, and that turnover in a
Speaker 1: game that tight down the stretch just can't happen. He
Speaker 1: forced it badly looking for Beatsa Zubas. In the role
Speaker 1: he has to make that pass, he does. The Clippers
Speaker 1: they were right there. He would have another turnover on
Speaker 1: an inbound pass to a Beatsa Zubats after a timeout
Speaker 1: in Ato. People are blaming coach Lou for that. That's
Speaker 1: on the players. James Harden has to be better there, right,
Speaker 1: That's what I saw. Clippers weren't good enough. normOn Powell
Speaker 1: another turnover looking for a beats zu Bots that was
Speaker 1: reviewed and a three pointer by Alex Caruso, who was
Speaker 1: one for six at the time of this shot, probably
Speaker 1: the biggest shot of the ball game in my mind.
Speaker 1: It happens with the one fifty four mark to put
Speaker 1: them up one hundred to ninety nine. Brutal after that
Speaker 1: you get the hard and turnover on the inbounds play
Speaker 1: on the near sideline or near side baseline looking for it,
Speaker 1: beats to Zoobots al screws Woll even missed a free
Speaker 1: throw credit the wall. Clippers are still only down by two.
Speaker 1: But then Derek Jones Junior misses a free throw on
Speaker 1: the other end, gives it right back, and then Norman
Speaker 1: Powell got a great look at a three pointer, missed it.
Speaker 1: Tip out from Zubots goes to Kawhi, dribbles down the clock,
Speaker 1: has a double team on him, takes a tough fallaway
Speaker 1: long two pointer doesn't go. Sga hits his free throws.
Speaker 1: Kawhi would have to intentionally miss the second one he does.
Speaker 1: Clippers run out of time with points six seconds left,
Speaker 1: and they lose one oh three to one oh one.
Speaker 1: Here to die Oklahoma City Thunder, but poor execution in
Speaker 1: key moments. We'll take a quick time out. We'll come back.
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Speaker 1: Clippers lose one o three to one oh one hearing
Speaker 1: into a homes at the Oklahoma City Thunder, and everybody
Speaker 1: is just looking to blame one person. And the easiest
Speaker 1: guy to blame right now is Coach Lou because he's
Speaker 1: back and they lose their first game when he's back,
Speaker 1: even though logically it doesn't make a ton of sense.
Speaker 1: He didn't tell James Hard to throw those bad passes
Speaker 1: or Norm Powell. He didn't tell Norman Pale to not
Speaker 1: get back and guard Alex Grussol in a wide open
Speaker 1: three pointer on the far side corner. So you guys
Speaker 1: can play that game, but it's not for me. I'm
Speaker 1: going to bring up specific plays that have nothing to
Speaker 1: do with Coach Lou, like that's just they got to
Speaker 1: out execute late. There were miscues, it's a blown opportunity.
Speaker 1: I totally understand being frustrated, but I think making him
Speaker 1: the scapegoat in this game is just a complete oversimplification
Speaker 1: of what actually happened out there. Good news is Kawhi
Speaker 1: still look very good. I thought that fadeaway he had
Speaker 1: over two guys with the long two pointer was going
Speaker 1: to go. You guys are saying, well, that inbound was
Speaker 1: off an ATO from coach lou It's like, yes, do
Speaker 1: you think there's only one play on that ato to make? Like,
Speaker 1: first of all, you got to give some credit to Okay,
Speaker 1: see as well, you're the best defense by a wide margin.
Speaker 1: This stuff happens where guys get sped up, they're rushed,
Speaker 1: they have really bad turnovers, and then it's because of
Speaker 1: the accumulation of plays over forty eight minutes, because the
Speaker 1: ball pressure from OKC, the way they're giving you zero airspace.
Speaker 1: It's impressive, it really is. We'll take a quick time out,
Speaker 1: we'll come back. Clippers lose to the Thunder one oh
Speaker 1: three to one oh one. Tear it into a dumb
Speaker 1: They've still won eight of ten, guys, they's still been
Speaker 1: playing pretty darn good basketball. OKC is gonna win sixty
Speaker 1: five plus games this season. It's not the end of
Speaker 1: the world. It is one that stings because you were
Speaker 1: right there, because you played Sga even in his minutes
Speaker 1: in thirty seven minutes he was a plus zero. He
Speaker 1: was right at zero and he was seven or twenty
Speaker 1: nine from the field. I'm out of Maslim and you're
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Speaker 1: Clippers lose one oh three to one oh one. People
Speaker 1: going after coach lou postgame. Alex Caruso hits a three
Speaker 1: pointer that was unguarded in the far side corner. That
Speaker 1: was the type of bounce that Kawhi got the Toronto
Speaker 1: Raptors against Philly. The Clippers hold the OKC thunder to
Speaker 1: one oh three, and people are like, why didn't Nico
Speaker 1: Batoum play more? For what reason? Exactly? For what reason?
Speaker 1: Their defense was spectacular overall, SGA was seven of twenty nine.
Speaker 1: I love Nico, but it's their offense that failed them,
Speaker 1: scoring just one hundred and one points. And you know why,
Speaker 1: because Okayc's really good.
Speaker 3: They have the best defense by a wide margin, and
Speaker 3: people are talking about why didn't challenge the foul on Sga.
Speaker 1: They called it out of bounds. It was a foul,
Speaker 1: but it was off of aviatsa zoobas and they called
Speaker 1: it out of bounds. The Thunder knew not to challenge
Speaker 1: it because it would have turned into a foul then
Speaker 1: on a viatza zobos. But because they called it out
Speaker 1: on OKC, Coachluke couldn't challenge it either. This wasn't on
Speaker 1: the rest. This wasn't on coach lou This is partially
Speaker 1: because OKAC is that good defensively and partially because the
Speaker 1: Clippers got sloppy to start the second quarter and then
Speaker 1: late in the ball game as well with some bad passes.
Speaker 1: They've won eight of ten. They easily could have won
Speaker 1: this game. Yes, but I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: positives going around, and nothing's bigger than Kawhi Leonard looking
Speaker 1: like himself ten of twenty two of four from the outside,
Speaker 1: an efficient twenty five the ten boards, awesome. DJ's defense.
Speaker 1: The way they played defense on SGA in this game
Speaker 1: was incredible. Guys, they were so good. He went like
Speaker 1: one of ten or one of eleven against Derek Jones Junior,
Speaker 1: and people are saying what Nico should have been in
Speaker 1: over Derek Jones Junior. Late people are complaining about the
Speaker 1: late game lineup, and it's like, who are you taking out?
Speaker 1: Harden Kawhi zubots DJ, who's locking up SGA Norm who's
Speaker 1: one of the best fourth quarter players in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Who are you taking out? We'll take one more time out,
Speaker 1: lose one O three to one oh one at home
Speaker 1: to the OKAC Thunder and everyone's losing their minds. I'm
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Speaker 1: People are really saying the refs handed Okay, see this victory.
Speaker 1: I'm not going there. Let's see. The Clippers took twenty
Speaker 1: eight free throws. OKAC took twenty. I thought there were
Speaker 1: some interesting calls on Hartenstein. At times I thought the
Speaker 1: Clippers got a friendly whistle. Overall, there was one really
Speaker 1: bad no call underneath the basket late. Yes, SGA intentionally
Speaker 1: foul to eat the zoobots. They just called it out
Speaker 1: on Oka see instead that should have been in beats
Speaker 1: zoobots at the free throw line. But don't tell me
Speaker 1: the Clippers didn't have their chances to win this game.
Speaker 1: They missed free throws, they had three bad turnovers. Late,
Speaker 1: Caruso got an open look and okaysees defenses as advertised.
Speaker 1: It is that good. I give the ball to Kawhi
Speaker 1: every possession. I'm also seeing here on Clippers stuck on
Speaker 1: the YouTube side. They pretty much did, and then they
Speaker 1: doubled and trapped him, and then he'd find DJ in
Speaker 1: the short role. Like I don't know what game people
Speaker 1: were watching. They tried, They really did. He took the
Speaker 1: fade away long two pointer after Norm Pale missed it
Speaker 1: and Visa Zubas tips it out late, and I thought
Speaker 1: it was going into over a double team. But I
Speaker 1: get the frustration, guys. It's just there's another team out
Speaker 1: there as well. You gotta maintain perspective where the Clippers
Speaker 1: are at. They have won eight of ten. It sucks
Speaker 1: because they could have been in the sixth spot. This
Speaker 1: isn't necessarily the game I'm gonna be looking at at
Speaker 1: the end of the season if they're in the plan.
Speaker 1: There were much worse losses and way more inexcusable losses
Speaker 1: than this credit. Okay, see they win one o three
Speaker 1: to one oh one. But yeah, yes, the Clippers had
Speaker 1: their opportunities. They have to finish, they have to execute better.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they do on Wednesday in New York against the Knicks,
Speaker 1: tip off at four thirty. Before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Ralph Lawler,
Speaker 1: Brian Seeman, Noah Egle, Carlo Jimenez on the call, Big Brother,
Speaker 1: Jake Warner, our head engineer, back here at into a Dome,
Speaker 1: Thanks Big Brom back in the bank, Daniel West, the callers,
Speaker 1: the listeners, satistician Joey. We will talk to you Wednesday
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