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Speaker 2: one twelve to ninety nine to the Bulls, add into
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Speaker 2: Lou and the players. Clippers four game lose winning streak
Speaker 2: is over, hopefully, he doesn't turn into a losing streak here,
Speaker 2: but they do have Boston coming up on Wednesday. This
Speaker 2: was game two of five games in seven nights at
Speaker 2: Into It Dome, A five and seven, a four and five,
Speaker 2: depending on how you look at it. Both are true.
Speaker 2: If he didn't know the truth about Big Zoo, well,
Speaker 2: I've tried to help you. I've tried to tell you
Speaker 2: how valuable he is to this team, whether he's scoring
Speaker 2: to get twenty points or just protecting the ram and
Speaker 2: playing elite defense like he has been doing for years.
Speaker 2: Both were missing tonight beats. The Zoo bots out with
Speaker 2: an eye injury on a play he didn't get the
Speaker 2: call on last night against the Lakers. I'm about insult
Speaker 2: to injury. Couldn't go. We knew Kawhi wouldn't be playing tonight.
Speaker 2: We knew Clippers would be tired overall. But the Chicago
Speaker 2: Bulls had to fly in from Portland. That's a tough flight.
Speaker 2: They were on a back to back after losing last night.
Speaker 2: I believe their fifth straight. They lost up in Portland.
Speaker 2: This Clippers team, they had enough to win this game.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say this was some scheduled loss. They
Speaker 2: had to lose this game. They just didn't have enough.
Speaker 2: I think they had enough against Chicago. I do. The
Speaker 2: Bulls improved to nineteen and twenty five, but they're sixteenth offensively,
Speaker 2: they're a bottom ten defense. They haven't been great all season.
Speaker 2: They've been inconsistent. They did have Lonzo tonight, but he
Speaker 2: was one of eight from the outside. They did not
Speaker 2: shoot the ball well. They weren't forty percent from the
Speaker 2: field fifteen to forty six from the outside, but they
Speaker 2: are playing the math game there. They ended up. I mean,
Speaker 2: the Clippers are forty two to three pointers too, but
Speaker 2: they ended up taking four more threes to make six more.
Speaker 2: They hit fifteen. The Clippers hit nine, Clippers nine to
Speaker 2: forty two, Bulls fifteen of forty six from the outside.
Speaker 2: And Zach Lavine is a star when he's at his
Speaker 2: best thirty five points, but fifteen of those came in
Speaker 2: that third quarter, which would define this ballgame, because the
Speaker 2: Clippers were up at the half by two after a
Speaker 2: miserable first quarter where they were down by twenty to ten.
Speaker 2: At one point, down by ten, it was twenty to
Speaker 2: ten Chicago. They're down by seven entering the second. It's
Speaker 2: twenty five to eighteen, and the backups got them into it.
Speaker 2: But what I would like to explain to people is
Speaker 2: when they say, well, why didn't they just play that
Speaker 2: same lineup that made that run to start the second quarter, Well,
Speaker 2: that lineup is not going up against the Bulls starters.
Speaker 2: That lineup is going up against a bad lineup with
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bulls without Bovich, without Lonzo, without zach Lavine
Speaker 2: of course, and yeah they went plus ten there. They
Speaker 2: had a nice ten to oh run after a KPJ dunk.
Speaker 2: Terrence Man was getting loose played tonight second quarter, had
Speaker 2: a one legged fallaway. I mean he had a couple
Speaker 2: of those in the ballgame, looking like he's Dirk Devinsky.
Speaker 2: He had a big dunk in the second quarter, a
Speaker 2: lob off, a turnover from AMR, a nice dunk off,
Speaker 2: a feed from Nico batom on a back door cut.
Speaker 2: Terrence Man my player to watch. I thought was really
Speaker 2: good tonight, and I think it was telling that he
Speaker 2: was pulled from the ballgame at around the sixth minute
Speaker 2: mark of the fourth quarter. Not because he was pulled
Speaker 2: for James Harden, of course, James Harden's coming back into
Speaker 2: that game, but the fact that he was the guy
Speaker 2: who was taken out instead of Kevin Porter Junior. How
Speaker 2: do we not take away from that that coach lou
Speaker 2: has a preference. I know Terrence came in around the
Speaker 2: four minute mark of the third played through about the
Speaker 2: six minute mark of the fourth quarter when he came
Speaker 2: out for Terrence Man, So a ten minute stretch. Is
Speaker 2: that part of it? Maybe? But I thought he was
Speaker 2: one of the better players for the Clippers out there
Speaker 2: tonight and he didn't get to close the game. Some
Speaker 2: a point to him getting near the basket and kicking
Speaker 2: it out, maybe not being aggressive. Even with those mistakes,
Speaker 2: Terrence Man was six of nine from the field. I mean,
Speaker 2: he brought energy, hit twelve points. He looked fresh out there.
Speaker 2: When the Clippers played well in this game, when they're
Speaker 2: all offense look decent, Terrence Man was on the floor
Speaker 2: for that. Is that the reason they lost? He didn't
Speaker 2: play enough? Probably not? Probably not, But it just tells
Speaker 2: you about lineups and rotations and maybe where the pecking
Speaker 2: orders at. You know, KPJ played last night and tonight,
Speaker 2: team Man only plays tonight and gets taken out for
Speaker 2: James Harden instead of Kemnpora Junior. In the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: Clippers did have it down to nine after a five
Speaker 2: point possession on a clear path foul, a mirror would
Speaker 2: hit both and then DJ had an and one tough
Speaker 2: bucket nine point game about three and a half minutes left.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'll give it to is that the three
Speaker 2: thirty five mark. That's when a mirror got fouled. It
Speaker 2: was reviewed, it was an obvious clear path foul. He
Speaker 2: hits both. DJ gets the and one, and so with
Speaker 2: three twenty four left, it's one O one to ninety two.
Speaker 2: That is not insurmountable. The Clippers have a chance here.
Speaker 2: But what happens the very next play. Kobe Brown, who
Speaker 2: was being hunted at times, who got into the ball
Speaker 2: game late, defensively fouled. Josh Giddy fouled Zach Levine in
Speaker 2: the fourth. The Clippers could not defend without fouling. That's
Speaker 2: when the uphill battle is at its worst, when you
Speaker 2: have to get stops. You play hard for a possession,
Speaker 2: but eventually you foul. That's frustrating. So Josh Giddy brings
Speaker 2: it back to an eleven point lead, and then there's
Speaker 2: a bad James Harden turnover and Taylor Horton Tucker as
Speaker 2: a dunk. It's one oh five to ninety two. The
Speaker 2: game's pretty much over. Kobe Brown would hit a three,
Speaker 2: but I think that was it. Zach Levine put the
Speaker 2: cherry on with a three pointer at the one to
Speaker 2: twenty four mark to put them up fifteen. Clippers lose
Speaker 2: by thirteen. So I think there's a lot to talk
Speaker 2: about in a game like this, because a lot of
Speaker 2: it can be dumbed down to the Clippers just going
Speaker 2: nine to forty two from three. A lot of it
Speaker 2: can be dumbed down to Iviza Zubots didn't play. He's
Speaker 2: your defensive anchor, and when you're going up against a
Speaker 2: team that is the worst in the league when it
Speaker 2: comes down to paint protection, they give up fifty six
Speaker 2: points in the paint per game. Clippers only had fifty
Speaker 2: of Eata Zubots could have detonated to night he was
Speaker 2: out with an eye injury. So you can explain away
Speaker 2: or excuse this loss to some degree because the guys
Speaker 2: you're missing the back to back and the shots you're
Speaker 2: missing from three, nine to forty two. But I still
Speaker 2: think the Clippers had enough talent. They didn't look good
Speaker 2: though offensively from the beginning. Even though James Harden had
Speaker 2: eleven points in that first quarter, I didn't love it.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with you. He obviously had a
Speaker 2: bad game. You can make the argument he was the
Speaker 2: only one scoring with those eleven points three threes, But
Speaker 2: to me, I don't know how sustainable that was with
Speaker 2: a thirty five year old on a back to back
Speaker 2: to keep that going, and apparently it wasn't. I think
Speaker 2: at some point you had to know either the other
Speaker 2: guys are gonna come around and you're gonna get them involved,
Speaker 2: or you're not gonna be able to win this game
Speaker 2: with is James Harden trying to go for forty when
Speaker 2: he's already gassed and you could see it early on
Speaker 2: the game. I'm not putting it all on him. I'm
Speaker 2: saying that's one of the issues I think tonight. I
Speaker 2: didn't like how the offense looked. You have eleven points
Speaker 2: but just one assists in the first quarter, You're down
Speaker 2: twenty five to eighteen. That brand of offense. And I
Speaker 2: love James Harden as a Clipper, but I just felt
Speaker 2: like they had to find a way to get somebody
Speaker 2: else going and Norman Powell didn't have a point and
Speaker 2: only took three shots in the first quarter. Norm's the
Speaker 2: other guy. To me, that's the necessity. Some of it's
Speaker 2: on him. He went zero for three in the first
Speaker 2: missed some shots, but get Norman Powell an easy bucket
Speaker 2: early now. He eventually came around and gave them a
Speaker 2: chance with his fourteen points in the fourth and ended
Speaker 2: up with twenty seven and the Clippers weren't leading at
Speaker 2: the half by two. But the same offensive issues to me,
Speaker 2: reared their ugly head in the third quarter, where the
Speaker 2: Clippers only scored sixteen points. Zach Levin's going off. The
Speaker 2: Clippers can't find any consistent offense, and James harden I
Speaker 2: want to say, what did he end up with in
Speaker 2: that third quarter? One for four. The Clippers just could
Speaker 2: not find any consistent offense or somebody to match what
Speaker 2: Zach Levine was able to do. That's not easy, but
Speaker 2: to me, that's one of those quarters where your lack
Speaker 2: of offense and one of those games where your lack
Speaker 2: of offense is hurting your defense. Again, the Bulls shot forty
Speaker 2: percent from the field, fifteen to forty six from three.
Speaker 2: That's thirty three percent. They weren't going crazy out there.
Speaker 2: They weren't. Is the Clippers offense that failed them? And
Speaker 2: I don't know if I get it. James Harden is
Speaker 2: the system and the guy, and you're gonna play through him.
Speaker 2: But I was just kind of looking to see, Okay,
Speaker 2: are they just gonna see if James Harden is gonna
Speaker 2: carry them in this game on a back to back
Speaker 2: and have some heroics and win it for them, or
Speaker 2: are they gonna spread the sugar around as to know
Speaker 2: what Eagle would say, get other guys in, keep other
Speaker 2: guys in rhythm, and therefore have some consistent offense to
Speaker 2: go to options out there to go to. They didn't.
Speaker 2: It was for the most part outside the start of
Speaker 2: the second quarter, a one guy takeover stretch back and
Speaker 2: forth where it's James Harden or it's Norman Powell one quarter,
Speaker 2: or just stretch with Terrence Man. But it never felt
Speaker 2: like the flow was great Offensively, it just didn't to me.
Speaker 2: A lot of that's eye tests, but you look at
Speaker 2: the numbers. I mean, hey, they miss good looks that
Speaker 2: can be tired legs. It can And I know you
Speaker 2: guys are talking about Harden being a MIAs thirty one.
Speaker 2: He didn't have a good game. I'm also gonna say
Speaker 2: he played thirty six minutes after playing over forty last
Speaker 2: night and was out there during some stretches where he
Speaker 2: was trying to carry some difficult lineups for the Clippers
Speaker 2: and wasn't able to do. So. You know, the plus
Speaker 2: minus is greatly influenced by who you're playing next to
Speaker 2: and who you're going against. If you're going against the
Speaker 2: other team's best lineups, well you don't have your best
Speaker 2: that can take it out on your plus minus. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying he had a good ballgame by any stretch
Speaker 2: of the imagination. But I also don't want to act
Speaker 2: like this was one guy or one issue tonight and
Speaker 2: if that was solved, everything else works out and the
Speaker 2: Clippers win this game handily. It's not all on James.
Speaker 2: A lot of things going against the Clippers, some hot
Speaker 2: shooting from the Bulls in stretches when the Clippers couldn't
Speaker 2: hit anything. I mean, in that third quarter, the Bulls
Speaker 2: ended up going on a thirty to seven run the
Speaker 2: final nine minute, nine minutes and twelve seconds of the
Speaker 2: third thirty to seven run, and to me, a lot
Speaker 2: of that is not necessarily bad defense. They tried, but
Speaker 2: toom on Levine, they tried a lot of guys on him.
Speaker 2: He was hot, he was cooking. He can do that.
Speaker 2: He is an effortless score. When he has it going,
Speaker 2: he makes it look really easy. I liked him coming
Speaker 2: out of the UCLA. I hated when people just labeled
Speaker 2: him a dunker. It was like he shot thirty percent
Speaker 2: in college from three, like he has a refined offensive game.
Speaker 2: I am a fan of his. I know some of
Speaker 2: you might want to be like, they should go get
Speaker 2: Zach Levine. That's the move.
Speaker 4: It's guys.
Speaker 2: He makes forty three million this year, and he hasn't
Speaker 2: opt in the summer of twenty twenty seven, when a
Speaker 2: lot of big names are available for forty eight million dollars.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the guy you want to
Speaker 2: make a move for, and it would probably have to
Speaker 2: involve normOn Powell. He makes over twice as much money
Speaker 2: as Norm Powell. I don't think he's twice the player
Speaker 2: normOn Palace. I till't he's good, he's better. I don't
Speaker 2: think he's twice as good as Norm pal and Norm
Speaker 2: Powell's contract much friendlier. I'm at a masin. We'll take
Speaker 2: a quick time out here. After the Clippers lose one
Speaker 2: twelve to ninety nine at home to the Chicago Bulls.
Speaker 2: The four game winning streak is over eight six six
Speaker 2: ninety seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what we're not doing to do tonight.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna be like this is why Harden's not
Speaker 2: a no star. James Harden sucks now. I see people
Speaker 2: in the chat try to make these long reaching conclusions
Speaker 2: out of one game. And it was not a good
Speaker 2: game from James Harden. It was not a good game
Speaker 2: from KBJ. It was not a good game for a
Speaker 2: lot of guys, it's not defining their season. Also, one
Speaker 2: of the main reasons they are six games about five
Speaker 2: hundred is because of James Harden. Just gonna point that
Speaker 2: out once again feels like it needs to be said.
Speaker 2: I just I cannot stand the knee jerk reactions, the
Speaker 2: one game analysis and going, oh, we suck James Harden's bad.
Speaker 2: Their Clippers are six games over five hundred and they've
Speaker 2: gotten five games from Kawhi Leonards so far. So just
Speaker 2: pump your brakes on that one. Chris in La you
Speaker 2: just left the game, Chris, what's up?
Speaker 6: Hey man?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I totally agree with you one hundred percent. People
Speaker 7: are delusional if they think that, I mean, the reality
Speaker 7: of it is, we got tough Delta, tough deck, right,
Speaker 7: I mean back to back. We know that we've struggled
Speaker 7: him back to backs all season. It's okay, just guy's
Speaker 7: legs were tight or you know, we weren't getting enough
Speaker 7: air under our jump shots. They were flat. We did
Speaker 7: bring some defense quite a bit, to the best of
Speaker 7: our ability at times to try to make those runs.
Speaker 7: But when you've got Levine, who's by far, you know,
Speaker 7: when he's healthy, he's a great player. We've seen him
Speaker 7: go for forty before. You know, I don't think it's
Speaker 7: panic bute at all. But one thing I'd like to say,
Speaker 7: real quickly, a quick, little minor tweak move could be
Speaker 7: a PJ. Tucker and bones Highland for a Jordan Clarkson.
Speaker 7: Now I wouldn't be so mad about that. What I
Speaker 7: do think?
Speaker 2: Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris Chris, Why would you
Speaker 2: tell do it?
Speaker 7: How did they get too expiring? Too expiring contracts?
Speaker 2: What do you think they're way over the car? What
Speaker 2: do you think they're way over the cap or something?
Speaker 7: No, but I think Clarkson's not in their deep plans.
Speaker 7: They'd rather see maybe they can get a flyer on
Speaker 7: Highland if he fits for their system, their rebuild mode,
Speaker 7: they get out from under Clarkson's two years at fifteen million,
Speaker 7: the salaries match. Maybe that's why he's definitely on the block.
Speaker 7: We know that.
Speaker 2: I just don't see how they can't get how they
Speaker 2: can't get more for him than that. I don't see
Speaker 2: how they can't possibly get more than just expiring contracts
Speaker 2: for Jordan Clarkson. You know, he's a sixth year.
Speaker 7: Island to me is more.
Speaker 2: He's a sixth year.
Speaker 7: But Bones Isiland. Bone Island to me is better than
Speaker 7: a throw in. I mean, I think Bones Siland has
Speaker 7: some If we're gonna not plan tonight would have been
Speaker 7: a great night where we were missing some offensive punch.
Speaker 7: Would it's picking these games and back to backs we
Speaker 7: miss a little bit of offensive punch. It's not a
Speaker 7: slam on the guys. They play so fricking hard every
Speaker 7: night defensively, it's hard to get up every game to
Speaker 7: have the offensive punch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all I'm.
Speaker 7: Saying, I'm not to be critiquing' I mean other than that, No,
Speaker 7: we shouldn't make any over wholesale changes. We know what
Speaker 7: that happens. We gave away all our depth last brought Harden.
Speaker 7: Got lucky in being able to keep Harden with Kawhi,
Speaker 7: which works perfectly build that depth around it. We're right
Speaker 7: there if we could get one little tweak of punch
Speaker 7: and not have to give up any of our core guys.
Speaker 7: And you're right, why would Utah do that? But maybe
Speaker 7: they will because they want to get out from Clarks
Speaker 7: and maybe they get more I don't know. I've also
Speaker 7: heard the name Chris Bouchet at a ten point eight
Speaker 7: million dollars cap. Hold, maybe we can pry him a
Speaker 7: little bit of tweak here or there. We've got Piland
Speaker 7: and Tucker's contracts to kind of play with if we're
Speaker 7: not going to play Bones, and Bones is a great player.
Speaker 7: I mean, if we could play him in a game
Speaker 7: like this and back to back, hopefully we play him
Speaker 7: Thursday night against the Wizards after back to back with
Speaker 7: the Celtics. We're just missing that little punch Adam.
Speaker 2: Christ Chris and a season where Bones is obviously the doghouse.
Speaker 2: Why do you think he's playing all of a sudden.
Speaker 7: It's not because of that. It's just games. How many
Speaker 7: games we're playing and how many as the NBA didn't
Speaker 7: do us any favors. I get it a massive tragedy
Speaker 7: in southern California, so we've got to do it this way.
Speaker 7: But I mean, four games and five nights, eight games
Speaker 7: and eleven nights, it's a lot of basketball wear and tear.
Speaker 7: We've got some travel coming up after, you know, don't forget.
Speaker 7: We've got the Celtics, Wizards, Bucks, then we got to
Speaker 7: go to Phoenix, San Antonio, and then we're out on
Speaker 7: the road, playing every other day. So that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 7: It's it's not about that. It's just bodies and minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's all bodies and minutes.
Speaker 2: I hear you, Chris, You're a smart collar. I need
Speaker 2: you there.
Speaker 7: No panic, Hey, Adam, no panic though, we're right there,
Speaker 7: we're in the fifth slot. We're great. I mean, it's
Speaker 7: the same. The same people that are saying this stuff
Speaker 7: about Harden are the same people that say, oh, we
Speaker 7: should have signed PG.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 7: We knew that worked perfectly, just given the type of
Speaker 7: bout basketball we played, the depth and whatnot we all
Speaker 7: know is there. You know some games you play that
Speaker 7: many games are gonna be a little bit of flat.
Speaker 7: It is what it is. But I think between us
Speaker 7: a little tweak here there. If we're gonna to be greedy, fine,
Speaker 7: If not, I'll roll with what we've got. We don't
Speaker 7: play back to backs in the playoffs anyway, so I'll
Speaker 7: roll with it. And one last thing out of before
Speaker 7: I go, I will say this, This shows and really
Speaker 7: exemplifies how great Ivizi Zubac has become a player. Wise,
Speaker 7: missing him tonight, you don't realize it every night. Obviously
Speaker 7: his numbers are way up this year, but this would
Speaker 7: have been a game where he's the same thing twenty
Speaker 7: and twenty. Let's not forget that. That shows you how
Speaker 7: much Zubac means to all of us. You know, he's
Speaker 7: an hell of a player, barely misses games. But anyway,
Speaker 7: no panic mode here. I mean, go clips. We're in
Speaker 7: great shape. Thanks for giving me the time, Adam.
Speaker 2: I need you to call in next time. One of
Speaker 2: my favorite calls of the year. Thank you, Chris, Appreciate you,
Speaker 2: my friend.
Speaker 7: You got it. Brother.
Speaker 2: Clippers fall by thirteen to the Chicago Bulls once twelve
Speaker 2: to ninety nine was your final. We'll take a time
Speaker 2: out here, We'll come back. We'll hear from coach lou.
Speaker 4: I just.
Speaker 2: It seems to me that fans often only look at
Speaker 2: trades from their side. We get the good player in
Speaker 2: the trade, they get bad players like Chris obviously values
Speaker 2: Bones Highland. I do think he's a good player. I
Speaker 2: think it could be a backup point guard in this league.
Speaker 2: He's also not getting minutes right now at all. People
Speaker 2: are saying Harden and KPJ combined to go six of
Speaker 2: twenty seven. If you don't play Bones tonight. When do
Speaker 2: you play him? I don't know if you guys have noticed,
Speaker 2: he's been completely out of the rotation all season long.
Speaker 2: I think the riding is on the wall. Maybe he
Speaker 2: gets some run because the condensed schedule coming up. But
Speaker 2: outside that, I would not count on seeing Bones Highland,
Speaker 2: and I would not count on other teams putting a
Speaker 2: ton of value into getting Bones Highland. I don't think
Speaker 2: Bones Hihland, PJ. Tucker alone are getting Jordan Clarkson. Gotta
Speaker 2: be honest, but I appreciate the phone call is a
Speaker 2: good one from Chris More. Clippers sock Next. You're on
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Speaker 2: Clippers lose and fans are back to freaking out. They've
Speaker 2: only won four or five Now it's over. Sky's falling.
Speaker 2: Clippers fall once twelve to ninety nine at home to
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bulls and the second night of him back
Speaker 2: to back without Kawhi with out of eatsa Zubats, two
Speaker 2: of their top three players on this team, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: would put Aviasa Zubots ahead of Norman Powell only because
Speaker 2: outside of scoring, Norm doesn't offer a lot. He's great
Speaker 2: at it, he's efficient with it. But Avisa Zubats what
Speaker 2: he does for your defense, there's no way to replace
Speaker 2: that guy. Is there a way to find somebody better
Speaker 2: than Bombomba or kai Jones? That's the question. Is there
Speaker 2: somebody out there if you know knows Valonchewnis could go
Speaker 2: for two seconds. Yeah, he's an improvement. I would take it.
Speaker 2: He has beat up the Clippers in the past, we
Speaker 2: know that. But he's older, he's in Washington. If you
Speaker 2: can get him for the right price. Sure, It's no
Speaker 2: slight towards Mo, who just hasn't had the season we
Speaker 2: were looking for. I don't think he had a terrible night.
Speaker 2: And kai Jones is just still young and very raw
Speaker 2: out there, and on a night like tonight, I think
Speaker 2: it underlines underscores and highlights the fact that the Clippers
Speaker 2: just don't have a great backup big that Coach Lou
Speaker 2: will rely on. They don't have Big Zoo tonight and
Speaker 2: Mobomba plays fifteen minutes, Coach Lou is gonna go small
Speaker 2: before he plays one of their backup bigs heavy minutes
Speaker 2: even on a night without Aviatza Zubats, and they got
Speaker 2: crushed on the boards by fourteen and seventeen offensive rebounds
Speaker 2: and some key ones late by the Chicago Bulls in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter when the Clippers were trying to take
Speaker 2: back momentum and make a run. So I do think
Speaker 2: one of the big one of the big things coming
Speaker 2: out of this ball game, along with seeing Terrence Man
Speaker 2: get pulled before KPJ, is that the Clippers don't have
Speaker 2: her reliable enough backup big to play even twenty minutes
Speaker 2: on a night without Aviatza Zubats. He started, he started
Speaker 2: both halves. He did not end up playing heavy minutes.
Speaker 2: There's no way to replace Zubats. No one's saying that
Speaker 2: they're not going to find a guy as good as him.
Speaker 2: If Zoo is out, that's one of those guys you
Speaker 2: can't lose still be a contender. That's just he's too
Speaker 2: integral to the team. But if he's hurt for a game,
Speaker 2: if he's in foul trouble early, do you have anyone
Speaker 2: that you can go to feel confident in to spell
Speaker 2: Viata Zubats for a game for a quarter. I don't
Speaker 2: know if the Clippers do after tonight. I think this
Speaker 2: was a big opportunity for Mobamba. I don't think it
Speaker 2: was terrible, but Coach Lou doesn't seem to have the
Speaker 2: faith in him to play him heavy minutes even without
Speaker 2: Big Zoo Tonight. Let's hear from Coach Lou post game
Speaker 2: after the Clippers losing at home one twelve to ninety
Speaker 2: nine to the Chicago Bulls.
Speaker 4: Keep up with him and keep you guys close to
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we talked about before the game, and I told
Speaker 6: you yesterday. The team plays fast. If you don't get
Speaker 6: back in transition, they're going to attack you at every position.
Speaker 6: And so you know, we can't hang our head we
Speaker 6: miss it when we miss a shot, can't complain to
Speaker 6: the officials when we don't get a call, because we
Speaker 6: told you they're gonna they're gonna push the pace and attack,
Speaker 6: attack the paint, and so we didn't do a good
Speaker 6: job with that. You know, with Zoo out having to
Speaker 6: play small, you know, they beat us up on the
Speaker 6: glass a little bit as well. But you know, I
Speaker 6: knew it coming into the game, Like I said, they
Speaker 6: were going to play hard. They lost for five in
Speaker 6: a row or six in a row, and they were
Speaker 6: thirsty four win, you know, and so they came in
Speaker 6: they attacked us.
Speaker 4: I thought defensively they did.
Speaker 6: They did a good job by mixing the zone and
Speaker 6: man up, you know, to keep us all balanced and offensive.
Speaker 6: We just played way too slow, like we let them
Speaker 6: get back, let them get set. And when you're playing small,
Speaker 6: you got to play fast. And we talked about it,
Speaker 6: like we got to make sure we pushed the pace,
Speaker 6: can't get back in transition to get get to his matchup.
Speaker 4: But we played too slow.
Speaker 6: They was able to do some good things defensively and
Speaker 6: only only good thing about us offensive to night we
Speaker 6: only had ten turnovers, so you know, got up ninety
Speaker 6: four shots, but we took care of the basketball. But overall,
Speaker 6: like I said, they just they beat us in every
Speaker 6: every faster of the game.
Speaker 8: Hey, coach, So in that third quarter exactly, then kind
Speaker 8: of went off, got thirty five points at the end
Speaker 8: of the game. What's such a tough cover? You guys
Speaker 8: do a lot of different guys, and what do you
Speaker 8: think is a tough cover? Why he was able to
Speaker 8: get the shots he was able to get and get
Speaker 8: to the rim and shoot threes and stuff like that, cause.
Speaker 6: He's a really good player, you know, And so I
Speaker 6: didn't think we did a good job of shrinking. We
Speaker 6: could have went to the fire a little earlier, you know. Defense,
Speaker 6: we just tried to get it out of his hands. So,
Speaker 6: you know, like I said, he was he had it going.
Speaker 6: And then the biggest thing was just fouled him too much,
Speaker 6: like when he got to the basket, you know, shoot
Speaker 6: one one foot runners, we're fouling him while he's going through,
Speaker 6: and he was able to get to the free throw
Speaker 6: line ten times as well, you know, So we gotta
Speaker 6: be better with that.
Speaker 9: Teah, I think you already alluded to this. But that
Speaker 9: second quarter, y'all hit the pain incredibly well. What work
Speaker 9: with that second unit? And in the second quarter, y'all
Speaker 9: hit the paint really well, and so what really, we'll
Speaker 9: work with that second unit where you're able to have.
Speaker 4: We got stops.
Speaker 6: He was able to get stops, and so when we
Speaker 6: got stops, we was able to get out and run
Speaker 6: and transition and get to the paint, get to the basket.
Speaker 6: And then when you don't get stops, you know, you're
Speaker 6: taking the ball out Every single time you're playing against
Speaker 6: a seid defense, it makes it tougher.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: So that second unit came in that second quarter, we
Speaker 6: you know, we went small, we got some stops, and
Speaker 6: we were able to get out in transition a little
Speaker 6: bit more.
Speaker 10: Ty, What have you seen out of your small ball line?
Speaker 10: There's a couple of games that where you haven't gone
Speaker 10: with the big in the second units. What have you
Speaker 10: seen that of those minutes? Anything that you've liked or
Speaker 10: maybe haven't liked.
Speaker 4: I like us defensively, I don't like us offensively?
Speaker 10: What's wrong offensively?
Speaker 4: It's nasty?
Speaker 10: Is there is there are there things with that second
Speaker 10: unit that could be done to remedy that?
Speaker 6: Or is that like we can play faster, we can
Speaker 6: get to the second and third action like we talk
Speaker 6: about every single day, and just do what we asked
Speaker 6: you to do.
Speaker 4: You know. So we don't do that, you know, we
Speaker 4: look bad.
Speaker 6: You know, But if you continue to play the game,
Speaker 6: if you don't have it get to the second, third action,
Speaker 6: teams are going to give you the answer to the test.
Speaker 6: If you stand in one spot and we hold the basketball,
Speaker 6: it's easy to load up. There's nowhere to go you know,
Speaker 6: so when we play like that, like I said, it's.
Speaker 11: Tough ty obviously, no no one likes to lose. But
Speaker 11: and a loss like this, are you able to find
Speaker 11: positives in this where you know, you can kind of
Speaker 11: recalibrate and kind of you know, get it going again
Speaker 11: after this?
Speaker 6: Oh, we had no choice but to get it going again.
Speaker 6: But I don't see any positive about.
Speaker 11: This game, not a single I mean, you mentioned the turnovers.
Speaker 11: We're down, so we'll take that one. You can't fight
Speaker 11: the second one though, No.
Speaker 2: Good was the heavy man? I said, James and Norm played?
Speaker 2: Was that out of necessity tonight?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, they're two best players they had available
Speaker 2: for him. But there was Coach Lou post game obviously
Speaker 2: a little bit of frustration there. We'll dig into some
Speaker 2: of what he talked about. We'll take a quick time out,
Speaker 2: we'll come back. We'll hear from Daniel West Clippers lose
Speaker 2: one to twelve ninety nine. But we've heard this from
Speaker 2: Coach Lou before talking about small ball. What he likes
Speaker 2: about it is the switchability. Defensively, well, he doesn't like
Speaker 2: about it is how slow they're playing on the other end,
Speaker 2: just pounding the ball into the ground, and you know
Speaker 2: that's some of that is on Harden, some of that
Speaker 2: is on KPJ. They have to be better and weren't
Speaker 2: good enough tonight. Clippers lose by thirteen at home to
Speaker 2: the Bulls. I'm out of Mouslims and you're listening to
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Speaker 2: Clippers lose one twelve to ninety nine to the Bulls,
Speaker 2: add into a Dome. Four game winning streak is over
Speaker 2: a second quarter lineup that made that ten to zero run,
Speaker 2: that was playing fast, getting stops, getting out in transition.
Speaker 2: It was Norm pal Terrence Man, Keim Porr, Junior, a
Speaker 2: Mere Coffee and Nico Batoom. Others are bringing up that
Speaker 2: three pointer that KPJ took midway through the fourth quarter
Speaker 2: when the Clippers had it down to thirteen against Jim
Speaker 2: Jackson called out the ill advised shot postgame analyst on
Speaker 2: fan Dual TV, I think the best in the business. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was a bad shot. On a night. You guys know,
Speaker 2: I'm not a verse to criticizing KPJ shot selection. You
Speaker 2: know what I would do, I'd have Chris Dunn and
Speaker 2: Terrence Man beat the two backup ball handlers and just
Speaker 2: have them share the duties there because KPJ is far
Speaker 2: too inconsistent. It's weird. We haven't seen Rock in the
Speaker 2: chat for some time.
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Speaker 2: Before we get out of here, let's hear from Daniel
Speaker 2: West with how the West was won an update on
Speaker 2: the Western Conference standings after the Clippers lose by thirteen
Speaker 2: and home to the Bulls.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm not a lot of winning tonight. In fact,
Speaker 12: of the nine teams that were playing in the from
Speaker 12: the Western Conference, only two of them one and that's
Speaker 12: because they were playing each other. So someone had to
Speaker 12: win there. That was the That was the tale of
Speaker 12: the night.
Speaker 4: Real quick.
Speaker 12: Here, Oklahoma City still leads at thirty seven threety five
Speaker 12: and seven record. I should say Rocket second twenty eight
Speaker 12: and fourteen, Grizzlies third, twenty eight and fifteen. They were
Speaker 12: one of the two winners tonight, Nuggets fourth twenty six
Speaker 12: and sixteen. You're La Clippers still sitting at fifth twenty
Speaker 12: four and eighteen, the Lakers twenty two and eighteen and six,
Speaker 12: mav seventh, twenty three and twenty King's eighth, twenty two
Speaker 12: and twenty record, Wolves ninth, twenty two and twenty one,
Speaker 12: and moving into the last spot in the plan right now,
Speaker 12: the Phoenix Suns with the record of twenty one and
Speaker 12: twenty one.
Speaker 2: So here's what hurts most tonight. This was a missed
Speaker 2: opportunity to take advantage of all those teams. One right,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, the Mavericks lose in Charlotte to the Hornets.
Speaker 2: The Rockets lose at home to the Pistons. You mentioned it.
Speaker 2: Somebody had to lose between the Grizzlies and Timberwolves. I
Speaker 2: don't know the Clippers are gonna be able to catch
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies, so they probably got what they wanted there
Speaker 2: with the Timberwolves losing, Phoenix lost. They're behind the Clippers
Speaker 2: too badly. In Cleveland, they had so many things go
Speaker 2: their way, but you got to make your own luck.
Speaker 2: You got to handle your own business. They weren't able to.
Speaker 12: You could have been the third. Almost everyone lost. This
Speaker 12: was the night.
Speaker 2: Ah January twentieth, twenty twenty five. This was the night
Speaker 2: the Clippers didn't take advantage unfortunately. Bounce back not gonna
Speaker 2: be easy. They're taking on the Boston Celtics on Wednesday
Speaker 2: at the Dome. The defending champs tip off at seven thirty.
Speaker 2: Pre game at six point thirty. Before we get out
Speaker 2: of here, I do want to thank Los Angeles Clippers organization,
Speaker 2: Steve Balmer, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seaman, noa ego, Carlo Hemanz
Speaker 2: on the call, big brother, Jake Warner, our head engineer,
Speaker 2: the producer. You just heard from them, Daniel West, Thank
Speaker 2: you Daniel, the callers, Chris was great, the listeners, the chatters.
Speaker 2: We will talk to you guys Wednesday, six thirty pre game,
Speaker 2: Clippers back at the Dome, taken on the Boston Celtics.
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