WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.639 --> 00:00:05.240 We're taking your calls on the LA Clippers right now 2 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:07.320 is Clippers. 3 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:09.640 Talk on Aaron on Demand, the Clippers Show of Record. 4 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:11.839 Your chance to react to everything. 5 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:15.720 Clippers Clippers news happens. Let me guess it's about Kawhi. 6 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:17.160 Here we are and now here. 7 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:21.359 He is the host of your LA Clippers pre and postgame. 8 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:23.160 At follow Adam a Adam Ousley. 9 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:26.399 I suppose if Charles Barkley was doing the postgame show, 10 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:29.719 he'd say something like the Spurs were the big old 11 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:32.759 woman and the Clippers were the churro and they got 12 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:35.479 eaten up in this one. But we're too classy to 13 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:38.000 make analogies like that. Clippers lose one twenty two to 14 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:42.719 eighty six in San Antonio to the Spurs, their worst 15 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:46.479 loss of the season. Welcome into Clippers Talk and casuals 16 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:50.840 panicking everywhere. Appreciate you guys, but panicking overall loss like 17 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:54.560 this is not it. The Clippers are nineteen and fourteen, 18 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:59.560 They're doing just fine without Kawhi. Yes, their issues, every 19 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:04.519 team flaws, Yes they can do better. Yes, this was disappointing, frustrating, 20 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:09.519 and a little bit demoralizing. It was also very predictable 21 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:14.239 from those who are paying attention to at follow out 22 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:19.200 of May because yesterday I made this tweet. I knew 23 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:23.799 that almost lost to the Pelicans, where the Clippers had 24 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:28.879 to battle back down fourteen, could come back to haunt them. 25 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:33.319 The Pelicans are the worst team in the league. The 26 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:37.040 Clippers probably shouldn't have been down fourteen in that game, 27 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:41.079 and at one point I tweeted out, regardless of the outcome, 28 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:43.959 is what I was saying. Regardless, the Clippers are going 29 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:49.480 to be gassed for tomorrow's game. Narrator says they were. 30 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:55.319 This is what happens when you don't step on a 31 00:01:55.319 --> 00:02:01.799 team's throat that is a lesser team than you. Now, 32 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.680 the Pelicans were hot yesterday from three. CJ. McCollum is 33 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:10.800 a good player. They have talent. Did I think the 34 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.639 Clippers play great? No, Pelicans were super hot. They hit 35 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:18.360 seven threes in the first quarter. But this is why 36 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:22.479 I always say a win is a win. Forget that 37 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:27.719 sports cliche. And but I forget that. I mean, no, 38 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:31.400 I'm not gonna say that. Uh, it's never a win 39 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:36.719 is a win. How you win matters, how you lose matters. 40 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:40.719 You can develop bad habits and wins and good habits 41 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:45.400 that lead to wins later in losses and tonight in 42 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:49.000 this one, I think there were some tired legs out. 43 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:54.319 There were there some bad effort plays too. Yeah, how 44 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.560 much you put on well, they were just out of gas, 45 00:02:57.960 --> 00:02:59.840 and how much you say that really was just that 46 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:04.400 not caring or trying. I'll give this team the benefit 47 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:08.800 of the doubt because there have been very few low 48 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:12.919 effort performances this season. There have been very few performances 49 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:17.879 like this where the Clippers just get waxed, just get annihilated. 50 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:23.319 I can think of a couple in Boston where they 51 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:26.960 lost one twenty six to ninety four, lost that game 52 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:32.080 by thirty two, and the home game against Minnesota where 53 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:35.360 they lost one oh eight to eighty, lost that game 54 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:41.199 by twenty eight. This was their worst loss. It was 55 00:03:41.240 --> 00:03:46.400 worse than those two games. Maybe it contends with the 56 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:50.919 Minnesota one. The Boston won whatever, how many threes did 57 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:53.520 they hitch twenty five? They're the defending champs. They get hot, 58 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:56.439 there's nothing you can do. Clippers played hard, now, I 59 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:58.840 don't think they played that bad. Boston is that good? 60 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:05.479 Minnesota they played bad in that game at home. That 61 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:08.759 was also the second night of a back to back guys. 62 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:13.120 They just beatn Portland the day before. If you look 63 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:15.759 at even good teams records, teams that go on to 64 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:19.759 win fifty five sixty plus games, if you look at 65 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:21.319 them on the second night of a back to back, 66 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:25.279 they're often like five hundred. Back to backs are difficult. 67 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:33.319 Scheduled losses are a real thing. Is losing by thirty 68 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:37.639 six is a back to back? Enough of an explanation 69 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:39.759 for how bad the Clippers were in this game. No, 70 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:50.279 they were just extremely out of sink and offensively. I 71 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:54.360 think it hurt their defense because when you have bad 72 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:59.040 turnovers like that, when you have those bad live turnovers 73 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:04.360 like the Clippers did, well, their fourteen turnovers turned into 74 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:07.040 twenty one points for the San Antonio Spurs. That's a 75 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.240 big number. Typically, if you're getting one point per turnover, 76 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:14.839 that's solid. They got twenty one off the Clippers fourteen turnovers, 77 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:20.879 a lot of LiveBall turnovers. And you look at some 78 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:23.600 of the other numbers in this game, like fast break points. 79 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:28.959 The Spurs had thirty two to the Clippers twelve. That's 80 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:32.720 what I'm talking about. They had sixty two points in 81 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:37.439 the paint to the Clippers thirty eight. That's how you 82 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:42.279 get crushed. The Clippers also went eleven of forty one 83 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.839 from three. San Antonio went nine of forty percentage wise, 84 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:49.759 they were actually worse from the outside, but they were 85 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:55.800 much better from two. The Clippers got out worked, and 86 00:05:55.839 --> 00:06:01.000 Wemby can out talent you at times. He the Clippers 87 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:04.079 team in the first quarter. The Clippers as a team 88 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:07.839 scored seventeen points in the first quarter. James Harden had 89 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:12.040 thirteen of those points, Wemby had seventeen by himself, and 90 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:14.360 the Clippers were down thirty one to seventeen heading into 91 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:17.040 the second down fourteen already, just like they were down 92 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:21.959 fourteen against the Pels yesterday. Uphill battle, Oh grand theft 93 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.680 auto meme, Here we go again. In the second quarter, 94 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:29.839 the Spurs got up by as many as twenty five. 95 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:33.879 The only bright spot was Norman Pall had twelve points 96 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:37.160 in the second that was it, and the third quarter 97 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:41.560 it was more the same. Two buckets right away from Wemby. 98 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:46.040 It got out of hand. The Spurs led by as 99 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:48.560 many as twenty nine and the third led by as 100 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:50.600 many as forty one. In the game, they go on 101 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:55.279 to win big one, twenty two to eighty six. Clippers 102 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:58.759 shopped in nineteen fourteen on the season. If you want 103 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:04.720 to panic about this team, I mean, fan how you 104 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:11.839 want a fan? I'm just telling you this isn't indicative 105 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:14.920 of how this Clippers team has played throughout the majority 106 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:20.959 of the season or going to define their season. People 107 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:26.279 freak out over losses like this, a lopside loss. A 108 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:28.279 lot of this can be explained by the second half 109 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.199 of a back to back. This stuff happens, it does, 110 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:34.480 it does. I saw a Clippers team lose by fifty 111 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:38.560 one in the twenty twenty one season that went on 112 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:40.879 to go to the Western Conference Finals. They lost a 113 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:42.639 game earlier in the year by fifty one to the 114 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:45.519 Dallas Mavericks. Did it mean anything. No, they had their 115 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:50.360 best year in franchise history. Now, if you want to 116 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:54.360 talk about issues going on with this Clippers team aside 117 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:58.920 from this loss, that are more big picture issues, I'm 118 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:03.480 here for that. I just people are saying, oh, they're 119 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:05.720 a bad three point shooting team, they're a bad bench. 120 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:07.879 It's like, well, they don't have Kawhi, they don't have 121 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:11.720 Terrence Man. You get those back, those guys back. Kawhi 122 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:14.079 is in the starting lineup. Man's coming off the bench. 123 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:18.000 That bumps Chris done off the bench with Batom a 124 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:26.720 mere KPJ. Bamba. That's not bad now Bamba has struggled. 125 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:30.920 It was bad again tonight. Gotta be frank about that. 126 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:33.840 I think the Clippers are gonna play small a lot. 127 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:38.159 I don't think it's the end of the world having 128 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:43.720 a below average backup big. You know how many teams 129 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:46.879 have a below average backup big, the majority of them. 130 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:51.639 There are a handful of teams in this league that 131 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:55.960 are really strong at the backup five spot, a handful. 132 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:02.960 Bamba's been disappointing. The lack of motor is what gets 133 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:07.679 to me. He's got the size, he's got skill. Even 134 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:11.440 though he's missing three pointers and having like his worst 135 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:14.320 season from three, right now, you would assume it's going 136 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:16.639 to turn around. I think his first three shots were 137 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:19.559 all threes and he missed all three. Then he did 138 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:23.919 get a nice bucket on Wemby in the post. We 139 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:27.000 should do that a little bit more. I just want 140 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:29.080 to see more activity from him. I want to see 141 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:32.399 more fight from him. I eats and Zubots had a 142 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:35.679 bad game. Zoo haters are trying to dunk on Zoo tonight, 143 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:38.440 like he didn't dunk on Wemby the last game in 144 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:43.519 their twenty six point comeback, Wenby out played him. They 145 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:48.320 also I understand Zoo's frustration on the defensive end on 146 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:52.120 some of the rotations, like he had had it with 147 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:55.080 some of his teammates. There were some really bad plays 148 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:02.519 where guys were or just not giving the effort defensively. 149 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:05.919 Maybe it was tired legs. I don't know. We're looking 150 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:10.519 for Coach Lou postgame audio coming up here. I'm interested 151 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:12.639 to hear from from him after a game like this. 152 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:17.559 Is it a burden the tape game? Is it like 153 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:22.159 hot ass? Did you use? You drop it wherever Frodo 154 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:25.399 put the ring Mount Doom or something? 155 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:25.720 Yeah? 156 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:31.279 Yeah, I have a sar on you put it there. 157 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:35.240 That's where you put the game film? Because how much 158 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:37.039 can you learn from a game like this? The thing, 159 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:39.320 the thing that I hate about games like this is 160 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:42.039 not so much that the Clippers just got annihilated. I 161 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:45.440 do hate that, but there's so little to take away 162 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:49.039 from it. If you want to make long reaching conclusions 163 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:53.240 out of games like this, I think that's in poor judgment. 164 00:10:54.360 --> 00:11:00.559 I think you are reaching. The reason Coach Lou doesn't 165 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:06.039 is because we have thirty three games now, a thirty 166 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:08.879 three game sample size, we're forty percent of the way 167 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:13.200 through the season, guys, believe it or not. So we're 168 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:15.639 gonna look at how this team plays the majority of 169 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:19.720 the time, ninety five percent of the time, not the 170 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:26.279 couple times where they've had games like this. But everybody 171 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:30.919 starts going to trade talk. What are we doing? Are 172 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:33.639 we gonna be a contender or not? It'say, guys, how 173 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:38.519 many times I just say this, Until you see how 174 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:42.480 Kawhi Leonard looks, you shouldn't be making any big moves 175 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:46.960 because if Kawhi can't stay healthy, it doesn't matter if 176 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:50.559 you go out and get Jimmy Butler or Zach Levine 177 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:54.759 or anybody you're pining over. If Kawhi is not there, 178 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:59.000 you're not a contender. So see how Kawhi looks if 179 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:04.360 he can stay healthy, and then reevaluate things and then 180 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:07.639 reassess the roster. Now, if you can go out and 181 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.360 fleece somebody like they did Portland to get Norm Powell, cool, 182 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:14.720 do it regardless, because that's a good move independent of 183 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:17.279 Kawhi's health. If you can get Calling Sexton and not 184 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:20.320 give up much right, because he's a young player and 185 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:22.360 you can have him for years to come. It's not 186 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:24.840 all hinging on whether or not Kawhi Leonard is healthy. 187 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:30.440 We hope he can be, but I really think you 188 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:33.440 gotta be judicious about this. You gotta be careful. You 189 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:37.919 gotta pick your spots because you don't want to go 190 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:40.240 out there and go all in or try to upgrade 191 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:44.720 and make a big swing when Kawhi's health is still 192 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:50.399 up in the air and uncertain and it is hopefully 193 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:53.200 he's back on Saturday. That's the target date that La 194 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:57.240 Murray gave. He was all to me pregame, talk to 195 00:12:57.320 --> 00:12:59.519 him about Kevin Porter Junior. We'll get to that audio 196 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:01.600 later in the show. We'll take a quick time out, 197 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:03.399 we'll come back. We'll get to your phone calls. Eight 198 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:06.240 six six nine eight seven two five seventy h six 199 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:09.919 six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. 200 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:14.519 Happy New Year, Indeed, leave this loss in twenty twenty four. 201 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:18.879 I'm just about done talking about what happened tonight in 202 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:22.120 San Antonio. I'm at a Maslin and you're listening to 203 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:26.039 Clippers talk. You're only in five seventy Ela Sports. 204 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:31.600 I love this team. I never miss a game. 205 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:36.000 You're listening to LA Clippers Basketball Free Ball, Yes, sir, 206 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:39.320 right here on the LA Clippers Audio network. 207 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:42.960 The Clippers tipped off in San Antonio less than twenty 208 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:49.200 four hours after their last game tipped off yesterday in 209 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:53.360 New Orleans, and it showed. They lost one twenty two 210 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:56.759 to eighty six to the Spurs. Welcome back in It 211 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:59.200 is Clippers talk. I'm at a Moslin. Appreciate you guys, 212 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:01.600 eight six six, No I need seven two, five seventy. 213 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:05.360 We're here for another what thirty eight minutes here to 214 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:10.320 the bottom of next hour. Happy New Year, and happy 215 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:12.399 move on from this game and never talk about it 216 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:16.240 again after tonight, because that's probably what's gonna happen. Still 217 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.519 looking for postgame audio from coach lou We'll hear from 218 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:21.240 Lot Murray, but first Mike in Los Angeles. Mike, what's 219 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:24.679 up here on Clippers stock with that of Austin him Mike, Hey. 220 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:29.399 Adam, So you know, I used to think that this 221 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:33.240 team's biggest weakness was really power forward and wing. Now 222 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.759 I've changed. I think the biggest weakness is really just 223 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:37.960 another ball handler. 224 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:40.679 I mean that, you know, Hey, Mike, who's been saying 225 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:42.879 that for three weeks? Here, who's been saying that for 226 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:43.480 three weeks? 227 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:47.600 I know, I know I'm preaching another choir, But I 228 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:49.879 have come around, is what I'm giving. 229 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:50.879 You think that's fair? 230 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:55.799 I mean, it's just the turnovers and also just you know, 231 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:58.519 after a bad lossess to put things in perspective. I 232 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:02.919 remember the season where the Clippers, who was with Pooh 233 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:06.960 Richardson and Lloyd Vought, almost broke the record for most 234 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:10.440 losses consecutive losses to start the season, and they won 235 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:13.679 that last game to avoid the record on a buzzer beater, 236 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:16.440 and it was like they won the championship. So you know, 237 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:17.759 we've come a long way from that. 238 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:21.039 Was that the year they won twelve or fourteen games? 239 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:22.120 What did they win? 240 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:25.440 Something like that? Yeah, I don't remember exactly, but yeah, 241 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:26.720 something like twelve. 242 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:30.000 You're gonna get Ralph Laller on the line and revisit 243 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:32.559 those those days so people can be a little bit 244 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:35.080 more thankful right now. Maybe huh, But. 245 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:37.759 Yeah, no, I mean this team is fun. You know tonight, Yeah, 246 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:39.679 second night of a back to back. You know, as 247 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:41.399 you've said, you know, if you minutes to go less 248 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:44.240 than twenty four hours after sipoff, which is a whole 249 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:47.039 other thing, you know, is what it is. I mean, 250 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:48.759 all in all, the season has been a lot of fun. 251 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:52.360 You know, nineteen and fourteen is you know great, you know, 252 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:54.679 after thirty three games with no Kauai and you know 253 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:58.480 all the other injuries we've had, and you know, hoping 254 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:00.440 for good things in the new year and a happy 255 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:00.960 new year to you. 256 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:04.279 A happy new year, Mike. I'll talk to you next year. 257 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:07.480 My friend appreciates you as always. It's like we're getting 258 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:11.600 a lot of we need this type of player, we 259 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:16.240 need a ball handler, we need a center, we need 260 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:19.240 three point shooters. I'm not seeing a lot of names 261 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:22.399 here in the chat. It's weird how that works. Nobody's 262 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:26.000 actually giving any reasonable trade. Somebody's like, what do you 263 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.399 guys think about getting Andre Drummonds? Well, why would Philly 264 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:33.080 give him up? Philly's not punting on the season. Why 265 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:37.279 is Philly giving up big thirst Andre Drummond, who I 266 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:40.720 think is a little bit overrated. I mean, i'd take him. 267 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:46.919 He will be an upgrade. But again, I can never 268 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:50.399 seem to find any realistic trades. When you guys want 269 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:52.919 to do this stuff, or any details on what they 270 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:57.240 should do that are at all based in reality. Like, 271 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:59.600 I have fun with the trade talk too. I've been 272 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:04.079 talking about Colin Sexton. I think he is attainable. Oh 273 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:06.880 and Dan West, our producer, said, you're right here, man, 274 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:09.200 just grab the mic and jump in or just just 275 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:11.359 just go over to it and be like, hey, Adam, 276 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:11.839 I got something. 277 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:12.319 I got them. 278 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:13.279 So what was it? 279 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:15.359 What was the record of that Clippers team that was talking. 280 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:18.119 About that'll be twelve and seventy back in nineteen eighty six, 281 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:22.720 nineteen eighty seven. Woo oh, I mean as bad as tonight, 282 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:24.680 was a lot to be grateful for there. 283 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:29.319 Yeah, those were some dark days. Some people are in 284 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:33.279 here saying Andre Drummond is not good. Some are saying 285 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:36.880 Sexton and that's it. A ball handler and a solid shooter. 286 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:42.119 He is a really efficient player out there. He's underrated. 287 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:46.079 Somebody want Jordan Clarkson. Sexton's better than Jordan Clarkson. He 288 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:49.720 gives better effort on defense, he's a better playmaker, and 289 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:52.839 he's been a better shooter. What exactly is Jordan Clarkson 290 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:56.400 doing better than Colin Sexton? Can anybody tell me that? Now? 291 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:59.480 If you're saying, well, Clarkson could be cheaper than Sexton. Okay, 292 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:06.160 but from a skill standpoint, calling sections better in every way. 293 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:10.359 I don't know what people are talking about. Maybe because 294 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:15.920 Jordan Clarkson typically has big games against the Clippers, so 295 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:20.839 that skewed your perspective. Well, we have a moment. Let's 296 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:25.200 pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on AM five 297 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:26.680 to seventy LA Sports. 298 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:31.079 This is LA Clippers Basketball. AM five to seventy KLAC 299 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:35.160 Los Angeles, ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles 300 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:36.759 and iHeartRadio station. 301 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:39.160 I mean, I think they could cut PJ. 302 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:39.680 Still. 303 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:42.119 I'm not as familiar with the new CBA, but I 304 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:45.400 don't think there's anything against that. But he has an 305 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:49.359 eleven million dollar expiring contract. I think there's a decent 306 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:52.880 chance they still find a deal like that can fill 307 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:58.799 a salary in a trade package. Oh, here we go. 308 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:04.200 Clarkson's better the eye test great. He's not better empirically, 309 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:07.640 he's not. Factually he's not like, none of his numbers 310 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:09.640 are better, none of his shooting numbers are better. But 311 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:13.960 from an eye test, he is a really bad defender. 312 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:16.799 He doesn't give effort on that end, like anybody who 313 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:21.559 thinks Clarkson is better than Sexton today, I your eyes 314 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:24.839 and to get checked my man him Athy, you're better 315 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:28.880 in this. Uh, let's see. We got some more phone 316 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:31.039 calls coming up. Eight six six ninety eight seven two 317 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:33.519 five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy. 318 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:35.759 I want you to hear some audio. This was pregame 319 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:39.920 with myself and law Murray of the Athletic because this 320 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:43.599 ties into the conversation a little bit about another backup 321 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:47.240 ball handler, and I think the question is in there 322 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:49.039 so you guys will get the full context here. This 323 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:51.640 was pre game with La Murray of the Athletic. Have 324 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:55.480 you seen incremental progress with him so far this season? 325 00:19:55.559 --> 00:19:58.519 It feels like some of the same issues remain, which 326 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:01.240 is not making always the smart bet basketball play out there. 327 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:03.000 Is he going to be the guy who's out of 328 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:04.640 the rotation when Kawhi Leonart comes back. 329 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:09.359 I mean, that's I would expect Kevin to be the 330 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:11.839 de tense guy. I mean, because it's not just Kawhi 331 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:15.200 we're talking about, it's Terrence Man as well. Like what 332 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:19.680 happens with Terrence coming back is more interesting to me 333 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:30.880 because with all of Kevin Porter Junior's shortcomings Soronlu always 334 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:34.319 wants to have a primary ball handler kind of player, 335 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:37.880 a guy who can create for others. And if he 336 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:41.160 believes that he can do that with a bench of 337 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:46.920 say Chris Dunn, Terrence Man, the miror Coffee Nikovertoom and Obama, 338 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:50.440 than okay, I'm not sure you're going to see that 339 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:53.079 five man lineup out there. And you also have to 340 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:57.359 consider guy like Kawhi whenever he gets back, is probably 341 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:00.359 not playing every single game when he gets back, and 342 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:04.240 you got to keep guys engaged somehow. So it's going 343 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:08.200 to be very tricky to see what happens. But just 344 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:10.880 the center and on Kevin, there are things that he 345 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:13.720 does well. You can always tell when he's out rhythm. 346 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:17.920 He didn't play Friday night and it showed he had 347 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:20.559 some misses around the rim to go with, you know, 348 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:25.640 the difficult shot selection and shot making at times. And 349 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:29.319 at the same time, he's going to help them because 350 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:32.480 he's a body out there who they don't have to 351 00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:36.160 worry about. Defensively, he'll make some plays and he'll play hard, 352 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:40.440 and so it's good on a long process. I think 353 00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:42.839 it's a lot easier to say he'll be out the 354 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:46.599 rotation when the team is fully healthy. But it's not 355 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:48.440 just Kawhi the way you know, and it's Terrence Man 356 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:51.119 as well. And we got to just see trust how 357 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:55.640 much TVU trust someone like Chris Dunn, who Chris is 358 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:58.359 dying a lot of all handling himself. And I think Chris, 359 00:21:58.519 --> 00:22:00.640 other than he had one bad pass that led to 360 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:03.839 a trade Murphy three, I believe I was Chris's live 361 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:06.240 ball turnover. But I think Chris Dunn is the guy 362 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:08.839 who needs to beat a backup point guard if they're 363 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:12.000 gonna start Kawhi and they're gonna keep playing Terrence. 364 00:22:12.599 --> 00:22:15.519 I mean, that's what I've been saying. When Kawhi comes back, 365 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:21.200 half Terrence Man and Chris Dunn share the ball handling 366 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:26.200 duties with the backup unit. Those guys are more sound 367 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:29.440 with the basketball. But it's not perfect. So you could 368 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:33.559 look to go outside of this team internally and try 369 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:37.559 to find somebody. Colin Sexton has been the name for me. 370 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:44.240 I don't know how anyone can think Clarkson is a 371 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:50.160 better offensive player than Colin Sexton. Like him at he's 372 00:22:50.200 --> 00:22:52.039 in here is saying, well, I didn't say defensively, I 373 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:56.599 said offensively, he's not better offensively than Colin Sexton. Here 374 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:59.359 is what Jordan Clarkson is doing this season, and look, 375 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:01.720 could he help the Clippers. Maybe you'd have to surround 376 00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:04.640 with a bunch of defenders, like he is really bad 377 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:07.799 on that end. Colin Sexton is just undersize but gives effort. 378 00:23:08.039 --> 00:23:11.519 Clarkson doesn't give great effort defensively. He's getting sixteen points 379 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:13.880 per game while shooting forty one percent from the field 380 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:18.319 Clarkson and thirty four percent from three. Sexton is getting 381 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:22.440 seventeen points per game while shooting forty eight percent from 382 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:27.319 the field, seven percent better there and uh, forty two 383 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:33.799 percent from three, like eight percent better from three. There 384 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:39.720 is no argument that Jordan Clarkson is better on offense 385 00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:42.720 in twenty twenty four, soon to be twenty twenty five, 386 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:46.200 and then Colin Sexton, and we already know he's worse defensively. 387 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:49.680 So again it's a it's a bad argument. There a 388 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:52.279 guy Himothy. You want to die in that hill like 389 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:58.640 Rock has with KPJ. Go for it, but it's nonsensical. 390 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:07.160 It's completely nonsensical. Again, Calin Sexton is shooting seven percent 391 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:10.920 better from the field and eight percent better from three 392 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:14.240 and scoring an extra point per game. Here's all you 393 00:24:14.279 --> 00:24:18.359 need to know. Clarkson takes more shots and still scores 394 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:21.400 less per game than Colin Sexton. Do you know why? 395 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:25.759 Because efficiency matters? And it turns out Callin Sexton is 396 00:24:25.799 --> 00:24:30.000 a career forty seven percent field goal shooter and thirty 397 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:34.519 nine percent three point shooter. Jordan Clarkson is a career 398 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:38.599 thirty four percent three point shooter and forty four percent 399 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:44.279 from the floor for his career. The stats are lining 400 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:46.839 up with where he is for his career, both for 401 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:47.640