WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:05.360 We're taking your calls on the LA Clippers right now. 2 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:08.720 This this Clippers talk on Aaron on Demand, the Clippers 3 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:09.759 Show of Record. 4 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:11.839 Your chance to react to playoff. 5 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:13.679 Basketball Clippers news happens. 6 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:15.759 Let me guess it's about Kawhi. 7 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:18.280 Here we are and now here he is the host 8 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:21.399 of your LA Clippers free and postgame. 9 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:23.679 At follow Adam a Adam Ousley. 10 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:31.960 Clippers with a loss that stings. Hopefully not past this series. 11 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:37.479 Hopefully this is not the series defining win. Because Game 12 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:41.439 four was one on a putback dunk from Aaron Gordon 13 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:46.679 as the Clippers came back down twenty just to lose 14 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:49.880 by two in the fourth quarter. Hear it into a 15 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:55.280 dome one oh one to ninety nine, an absolute heartbreaker 16 00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:01.840 in a game where the Clippers didn't show up the 17 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:06.040 first three quarters. I gotta be honest with you, even 18 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:08.359 when they were down by two in the first half, 19 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:11.319 I just didn't like the way they were playing. Where 20 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:17.120 was the urgency, where was the toughness? It was very 21 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:22.439 physical early on. And yes, the Denver Nuggets got twelve 22 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:24.799 free throws to three attempted by the Clippers in the 23 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:27.359 first half. It was still only a two point game. 24 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:31.120 I just felt like offensively, the Clippers weren't good enough. 25 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:33.680 I didn't feel it was so much of what Denver 26 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:36.560 was doing. I felt like the Clippers weren't executing very well. 27 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:39.480 For James Harden to get up four shots in the 28 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:49.079 first half in almost nineteen minutes, that is incomprehensible. For 29 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:52.840 Kawhi to be four of eleven. He had a turnover 30 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:56.480 to start the game. People want to look at other 31 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:59.840 players tonight and talk about Chris Dunn went one of 32 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:02.760 from three to one of nine overall. Chris done at 33 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:04.239 least when he was out there, played a really good 34 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:09.240 defense and had some keyboards. A lot of them would 35 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:12.680 turn into missus even when we got offensive rebounds, and yeah, 36 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:14.840 he was off with a shot. I'm gonna start with 37 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:21.719 the Stars in this game. I think the Stars and 38 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:27.759 Coach Lou I know everybody wants to talk about it. 39 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:33.520 The personnel that was out there at the end of 40 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:38.159 regulation and a game that we thought might go into overtime. Nope. 41 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:41.039 Aaron Gordon, I guess his fingertips weren't on the basketball 42 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:43.439 as he got the biggest dunk of his career and 43 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:47.479 he's had plenty to go. He missed a dunk in 44 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:50.759 Game two that killed them. He gets it back in 45 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.439 Game four, and we're back to being tied up. Brand 46 00:02:54.439 --> 00:03:01.400 new series, best out of three, and the Denver Nuggets 47 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:08.199 have home court. I am proud that the Clippers battled 48 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.879 back and finally flipped the switch in the fourth. I 49 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:14.080 have no idea why it took so long, No idea 50 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:21.360 from their stars, especially maybe because Kawhi was in foul 51 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:26.000 trouble earlier on. He had two at the half, and 52 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:29.120 they were too curious fouls. I think both on Aaron Gordon. 53 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:31.039 They were just battling of the posts. There wasn't much 54 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:33.960 going on there. No, the Clippers didn't get a gret whistle. 55 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:39.520 They also have to be culpable for not coming out 56 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:42.560 and playing the right way. From the first quarter on 57 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:47.280 until the fourth quarter. This Clippers team was unrecognizable on 58 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:50.120 the offensive ent. Defensively, they were good, but they look 59 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.879 gassed and lethargic to start the game. I called it 60 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:56.960 a Smelling Salts type of game where the Clippers just 61 00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:00.960 need to wake up. They finally did by about the 62 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:05.960 time maybe they thought this game would have started. But 63 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:12.400 I'm not gonna blame a three pm tip Denver was 64 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:17.000 dealing with it as well. I just don't know why 65 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.399 it took so long to engage and for them to 66 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:23.800 play desperate basketball, because I saw it from Denver right away. 67 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:27.240 They were playing hard. And I'm not saying the Clippers 68 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:29.759 were miserable on the defensive end in the first half. 69 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.920 I thought they played hard offensively, though at times there 70 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:37.000 was just no flow. Why weren't they running more high 71 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:40.079 pick and roll until the fourth quarter? They spammed it? 72 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:45.720 Then almost every shot in the fourth quarter from when 73 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:49.399 James Harden came in was created out of the high 74 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:56.360 pick and roll. It's always there. Denver's no way to 75 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:03.439 defend it. What took so long? I have no idea 76 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:07.759 where this Clippers team was the first three quarters of 77 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:12.279 this game on the offensive end, Where was the game plan? 78 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:13.920 Discipline? 79 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:18.000 But if James Harden and Kawhi Leonard are gonna start 80 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:26.000 this game, what six for fifteen, You're gonna have trouble. 81 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:30.439 I mean, coming into the fourth quarter, their two stars 82 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:36.360 were eight of twenty one from the field. You could 83 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:39.199 afford one of them having an off game, but both 84 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:42.959 of them like that and hard and only taking six 85 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:47.439 shots heading into the fourth What is going on. He 86 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:51.319 played thirty minutes, thirty one minutes and only taking six shots. Hey, 87 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:57.319 if somebody else was cooking, great they weren't, maybe they 88 00:05:57.360 --> 00:05:59.519 could have gotten to a beatsa zubas a little bit more. 89 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:02.720 He was six of eleven at that point, so Zoo 90 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:06.399 heading into the fourth a six of eleven. Kawhi and 91 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:15.399 James Harden are eight of twenty one. Where I think 92 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:22.680 this game was lost early in the first quarter. Early 93 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:26.040 in the first quarter, I thought this was a clear 94 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:32.920 sign the Clippers just weren't focused. So they have a 95 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:38.560 turnover to start the game. As I mentioned earlier, it 96 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:45.519 was by Kawhi. It's a bad turnover, careless turnover, and 97 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:47.360 it was a sign, I guess of things to come 98 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:50.360 with their offense. Even though I think in the ballgame 99 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:57.040 they ended up with just ten turnovers, they had half 100 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:02.079 of them in the first quarter. That's the type of 101 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:07.040 stuff I'm talking about. Why are they sleepwalking into the 102 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:10.480 ballgame when you have a chance to take a stranglehold 103 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:14.519 of this series and go of three to one. That 104 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:24.360 is alarming to me. Denver had six fast breakpoints the 105 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:28.079 first five minutes of the first quarter. They had three 106 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:32.680 fast breakpoints all of last game. It was that Kawhi 107 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:36.319 turnover to Murray to start the game, where then Christian 108 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:38.959 Brown had a put back on the other end after 109 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:41.920 Murray missed it, where I was just like, huh, I 110 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:52.920 don't love that. It just seemed careless, occadaisical, far from 111 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:57.160 put on the throat of your opponent that you just 112 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:01.240 beat by thirty four. So I keep saying, like people 113 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:05.160 were talking about, ah, they won by thirty four. This 114 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:08.720 is such a mismatch. This series is over. How many 115 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:11.160 of y'all were telling me that yesterday and I kept saying, 116 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:14.000 pump the brakes. Y'all were looking at okay see and 117 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:17.480 thinking about that series. Adam, can the Clippers beat okay See? 118 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:28.279 Okay see? It's two to two and Denver has home 119 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:37.480 court for a best out of three. The Clippers at 120 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:43.320 the end of the first quarter had just an inexcusable 121 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:47.799 laps in judgment on a hard and full court pass 122 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:52.519 with one point nine seconds left to beats the Zubas 123 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:54.960 on the other end of the court to try to 124 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:57.600 get an easy bucket. Jokicic was on them. It wouldnt 125 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:01.120 have been easy to end the first quarter. It sails 126 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:04.120 over his head and out of bounds. Now it's Denver's 127 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:07.840 ball with one point nine seconds left. I was already 128 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:12.000 shaking my head and continued to as I saw Jokic 129 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:14.000 hit a thirty foot three pointer to end the first 130 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:20.320 quarter with little resistance. And it's twenty seven to twenty 131 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:24.200 two Denver heading into the second and I have no 132 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:28.960 idea where the Clippers heads were at. It just didn't 133 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:32.240 look like the same team that we saw in Game three. 134 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:39.480 Five turnovers in the first quarter, strange shot selection at times, 135 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:45.360 but to just give away three points at the end 136 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:52.279 of a quarter like that, and more importantly, get Jokic going, 137 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:55.360 I said to myself right then, and I told the 138 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:58.399 guys off air, like I don't like what I'm seeing 139 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:03.320 from Yokic, Like this is he low key looks great 140 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:06.240 so far. He didn't have some stretch where he scored 141 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:08.600 six straight or anything like that, so it didn't stand out. 142 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:11.519 And he only had six points in the first quarter, 143 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:13.759 but he was three or four and he was starting 144 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:19.000 to bully in the paint, and yes, they would get 145 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:22.279 some calls, but in the first quarter they didn't take 146 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:26.679 a free throw. They attempted twelve in the second, but 147 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:30.840 Jokic looked comfortable. And I'm telling you, when he hit 148 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:32.600 that shot in the game, you lose by two. When 149 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:33.840 he hits that three point at the end of the 150 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:40.480 first quarter, Joki said to himself, I'm good. I'm feeling 151 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:48.279 good now. Didn't like that. Didn't like that one bit. 152 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:53.440 They let Jokic get back into this series, They let 153 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:57.320 Denver get back into this series instead of handling business here. 154 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:00.360 They didn't come out with the right mindset. From what 155 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:04.799 I saw those five turnovers in the first quarter, lackaday'sical, 156 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:13.960 sloppy basketball, hard, not being aggressive offensively. Why nobody else 157 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:19.720 was cooking? Why not you? You look at this team 158 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:22.080 in the fourth quarter, in the way they executed versus 159 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:26.279 the first three. Where was that? Why did it take 160 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:29.000 them getting down by twenty two, down by twenty heading 161 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:31.799 into the fourth for the real Clippers to show up. 162 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:42.519 I don't get it. Disappointing, demoralizing loss to lose in 163 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.440 that fashion after you battle back, But you never should 164 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:51.720 have been down by twenty two in this game. The 165 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:58.840 Clippers let up in Denver, they're up off the mat. 166 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:05.840 Now they're feeling great. Now, who's got momentum? Now y'all 167 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:10.159 get acting like this series was over to me. Well, 168 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:13.840 it's a brand new series. It's a best out of 169 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:18.639 three and Denver has home court advantage. Game five in 170 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:20.960 Denver Tuesday night. We'll take a quick time out, we'll 171 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:24.519 come back. We'll get to your phone calls and more 172 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:27.879 Meta Masland. Then you're listening to Clipper Stock here on 173 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:34.120 the Patriot m LIM fifty Meta Mosland. 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Back to the Denver Nuggets having home 185 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:22.000 court four game for the best out of three. That's 186 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:24.679 what this series has turned into. So we'll be back 187 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:32.320 in Denver four Game five. Coach Lou apparently postgame said 188 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:35.639 the Clippers went early with sixteen seconds left instead of 189 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.279 draining clock because they were down two and wanted to 190 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:42.159 protect against not scoring and possibly need a foul off. 191 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:47.879 Denver got to stop. Yeah, they got the bucket to 192 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:50.399 tie the game. It looked like the same play they 193 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:55.080 ran in game one to tie the game, this time 194 00:13:55.159 --> 00:14:02.720 hard missed Zoo was there for the tip in. Aaron 195 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:05.600 Gordon blew a dunk in game two and guess the 196 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:12.000 game winning dunk here in game four. Unbelievable. Sean and 197 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:14.120 Inglewood near on Clipper stop with out of maus and 198 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:14.720 what's up Sean? 199 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:19.240 Hey, Adam Man, good to hear from you. Man, it's 200 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:23.320 been a while. I just wanted to say, I'm. 201 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:24.960 Really shocked you wait until tonight to call. 202 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:29.559 I know a few times, it's just that things came up. 203 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:32.159 I couldn't stay on the line. But I just want 204 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:34.919 to let you everything you said was right on point. 205 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:38.120 First of all, Adam. And there's like a racehorse that 206 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:40.600 didn't get out the gate fast. You know, that's what 207 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:45.519 the Clippers are like tonight. But the awesome comeback, telling 208 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:48.879 to come back. But the one thing I want to say, 209 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:53.480 just objectively and not negatively. We've seen that play where 210 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:56.440 they isolate Kawhi on the elbow and the right elbow 211 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:01.000 a lot, and in close games, we you've never hardly 212 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:05.039 seen any good effect to that. Everybody's standing still and 213 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.840 he usually Kawhi is shooting a flat shot. 214 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:10.320 Do you want me to go back to game two? 215 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:14.399 I could reference a game from a couple of days 216 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:17.080 ago to say that we've never seen anything good out 217 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:19.559 of Kauiet. The elbow is crazy, Sean. We just saw it. 218 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:23.559 No, I mean on that right elbow in close games. 219 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:28.320 I've seen it before. But you know what, I just 220 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:29.840 wanted the times that they go to it. 221 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:33.519 He just wanted the elbow. What are we talking about? 222 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:37.519 Okay, Okay, I'm not gonna argue with you, but you know, anyway, 223 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:42.000 the point is that I hated that ending, but I'm 224 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.200 glad they came back, and I expect them to win 225 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:48.000 the series. I really do. So you were right about, Hey, 226 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:51.559 they could win today or maybe they have a letdown, 227 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:54.679 but I think the whole shot and let down business 228 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:57.519 is over and they're going to be about business the 229 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:01.159 next two games and come out of the the gate fast. 230 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:04.279 I hope. So I appreciate the phone call, Sean. Good 231 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:08.440 to hear from you. I just don't know what's it 232 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:12.320 gonna take to get up for a ball game. It's 233 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.080 a playoff game. You're at into a dome, the crowd 234 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:18.559 is into it. I don't know why the Clippers were 235 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:23.120 so slow to engage. I don't know why it took 236 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:26.480 being down twenty heading into the fourth quarter for them 237 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:31.000 to play faster. They were playing noticeably faster. They were 238 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:35.039 executing so much better. Kawhi is dunking now, got that 239 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:38.559 steal on Jamal Murray for the two handed dunk, went 240 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:43.440 right for another dunk. Like Kawhi and Harden woke up 241 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:50.759 out of nowhere after sleepwalking into this game. Where was 242 00:16:51.240 --> 00:17:00.320 the urgency where I don't understand it. I'm still looking 243 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:02.559 to see if anybody asked coach lou about personnel in 244 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:08.119 the final possession. Law Murray's bringing up the same stuff 245 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:11.079 that I was talking about. Now with the end of 246 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:16.400 end of the first quarter. That three pointer by Jokic, 247 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:18.640 Now I should say if eachsa Zubas was there, it 248 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:26.279 was well defended. But that was throwing the ball away 249 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:28.039 with one point nine seconds left at the end of 250 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:34.039 the first quarter so carelessly. I hated what I saw 251 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:36.359 early on in this ballgame. I could not stand the 252 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:40.079 way the Clippers were playing. They just were sleepwalking out there. 253 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:44.559 I haven't said that a lot this season. They've been 254 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:48.359 much better to start games, but with a huge opportunity 255 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:50.039 like this, I wanted them to come out of the 256 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:54.480 gates flying, because maybe you could break Denver if you 257 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:58.480 actually started this game the right way. After beating them 258 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:02.880 by thirty four, maybe you could put them away early 259 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:06.960 with all the guys banged up with them and yo 260 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:11.160 kids yelling on the court side and them looking to 261 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:15.480 be in disarray looking for answers, and instead the Clippers 262 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:19.279 just gave him life. And they knew it. They knew 263 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:21.759 they can't come out like that. I heard coach lu 264 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:24.319 say at pregame. They knew how they were supposed to 265 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:28.119 come out, and they just didn't. Was it the start time? 266 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:32.240 Are they fatigued? They didn't look fatigued in the fourth quarter. 267 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:38.720 I just didn't feel like they were awake yet. But 268 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:42.240 it is extremely disappointing that they lost a game like 269 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:48.839 this in that fashion. Cool you woke up late. They 270 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:53.400 almost had a miraculous comeback. Has anybody come back down 271 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:55.680 twenty to start the fourth quarter. In playoff history, I 272 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:57.680 don't think the Clippers were down twenty when they started 273 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:01.359 that fourth quarter. I know against me in Game one 274 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:03.680 and twenty twelve, and I don't think they were down twenty. 275 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:06.759 I think it was within like eighteen or sixteen against 276 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:10.160 Golden State in the thirty one point comeback. What took 277 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:13.680 so long? Why didn't you play like that earlier? Why 278 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:15.759 didn't you just run more high, pick and roll earlier? 279 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:27.440 Ball movement was pretty non existent. But I don't understand. 280 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:30.720 I have to go back and watch the entire game. 281 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:38.079 But I felt like offensively, I don't know, they weren't trusting, 282 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:41.799 they weren't going with the game plan. Maybe they were tired. 283 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:44.319 It was extremely physical early on, and then all of 284 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:46.319 a sudden in the second quarter they started calling some 285 00:19:46.359 --> 00:19:49.240 tiki tak stuff when Kawhi was on Aaron Gordon. That 286 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:55.680 was weird. I didn't like that the refs all of 287 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:58.480 a sudden just hit the brakes on the physicality and said, ah, 288 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:02.599 we're gonna call some minimal contact stuff when we just 289 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:07.000 let guys destroy each other in the first quarter. I 290 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:08.680 think that's part of the reason you got the kerk 291 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:11.000 fluffalo at the end of the half with six seconds left, 292 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:17.359 where the Clippers are down by two. James Harden didn't 293 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:22.160 like a foul from Christian Brown. He got into it 294 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:26.039 with him. Aaron Gordon comes over. Now Norman pals into 295 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:31.160 it if he's a zubots Jo Kic. I thought that 296 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:34.079 was gonna get them going in the third quarter. Instead, 297 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:39.680 the Clippers they got down big, down twenty heading into 298 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:41.400 the fourth. It was a two point game at the half. 299 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:45.839 I thought they were lucky to be down by two 300 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:51.039 with the half and their offense just completely stalled out 301 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:56.440 even more in the third quarter, putting up just seventeen points. 302 00:20:58.359 --> 00:21:05.039 But where were Kawhi and James Harden in the third 303 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:08.519 How does one of them not take the game into 304 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:14.279 their hands with it being that close. That's what I'm 305 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:18.000 scratching my head about. Is it just make or miss 306 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:20.640 stuff or were they not being aggressive enough? Were the 307 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:25.880 running enough high pick and roll? Was Denver's defense that good? 308 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:29.079 I didn't feel like that. I feel like the Clippers 309 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:40.200 were just absolutely lethargic out there. Clippers lose this one 310 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:47.160 in heartbreaking fashion, echoing the value oop from Phoenix. The 311 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:54.079 Lucas shot with Dallas in the bubble, But should they 312 00:21:54.079 --> 00:21:56.160 have been down by twenty eight games to the fourth. No, 313 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:02.519 that's my point. Get it going earlier. Your two top 314 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:07.039 guys can't be that bad. For three quarters, felt like 315 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:10.880 there were the game was there to be taken. Instead, 316 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:19.960 Nikola Jokic slowly but surely, just was putting together a 317 00:22:20.039 --> 00:22:23.240 huge game for himself. We waited for it tonight. He 318 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:29.240 had it thirty six, twenty one boards eight as sis. 319 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:33.960 He had thirty points the final three quarters. I'm telling 320 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:38.160 you that three pointer to end the first quarter. Something 321 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:41.359 clicked in for Jokic. Then he said, yep, I got 322 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:43.400 it going. It's my night. He went three of six 323 00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:46.519 from the outside. Clippers lose one on one to ninety nine. 324 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:49.000 Take a quick time out. We'll come back. We'll get 325 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:51.640 to your phone calls. Eight seven seven five two zero 326 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:54.920 eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty 327 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:56.000 is the phone number. 328 00:22:57.160 --> 00:23:00.240 Back to first round action between the LA Clippers, Say 329 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:04.839 Denver Nuggets. This is the LA Clippers audio network. 330 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:10.240 Clippers lose on an Aaron Gordon put back because Jokis 331 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:12.720 was wide left on his three point to win the game. Instead, 332 00:23:12.759 --> 00:23:15.519 it was Aaron Gordon tipping it in. It was off 333 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:19.279 his fingertips in time as the backboard went red to 334 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:22.519 signify the end of regulation and the Clippers would come 335 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:24.920 out losing one o one to ninety nine. Hear it 336 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:28.640 into it dome. And now we'll be going to game 337 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:34.400 five Tuesday night in Denver, tied up at two games apiece. 338 00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:40.839 Let's go to Morris and Inglewood. Morris, you're on Clippers 339 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:42.240 stoff for that? Mausm, what's up? 340 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:47.200 Morris Gay with a game with a mighty dude game? Yeah, 341 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:48.079 I'm sorry, I. 342 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:51.079 Would call it a mighty good game. Sarah's man was 343 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:52.000 in the building tonight. 344 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:57.400 But who're the world champions? 345 00:23:57.559 --> 00:23:57.599 Ed? 346 00:23:58.359 --> 00:23:59.519 Okay, I risk my case. 347 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:03.279 What do you mean? Who the world champions are? Denver? One? 348 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:06.119 Two years ago? The Boston Celtics are the world champions. 349 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:09.599 Well they still got that that that that breeding, man. 350 00:24:09.599 --> 00:24:11.720 I'm telling you right now that I'm proud of the Clippers. 351 00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:14.440 They started the game twenty two points behind. In the 352 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:17.480 fourth the game was over, people turned off the TV 353 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:18.000 at them. 354 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:18.920 They turned it off. 355 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:21.160 Next thing you know, they have jumped out there, got 356 00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:23.720 a short need looked like they was gonna pull it off. Now, 357 00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:25.559 I don't have a hold of that, but I guarantee 358 00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:28.920 you ain't. Nobody started the basketball game behind twenty two 359 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:31.720 points and then took the lead on it. Now they lost, 360 00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:33.720 they lost, But I'm in pressed with him. Man, we 361 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:36.119 got a team. I just can't agree with some of 362 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:38.319 the thags thing I'm gonna get Why were. 363 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:40.400 They down twenty two to a team they just beat 364 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:43.279 by thirty four a mighty. 365 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:45.079 Good game at I'd give Dinners some credit. 366 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:45.400 That boy. 367 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:46.799 You had to give it to the best brander in 368 00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:50.559 the world doing his thing. Thirty six points at ninety 369 00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:53.279 seven rebounds. I mean, I gotta give them some props too. 370 00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:55.400 But I'm proud of the Clippers. They're gonna come back. 371 00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:58.440 They're gonna be alright. It's about adjustments and at the 372 00:24:58.480 --> 00:24:59.839 end of the day, at the end of the day, 373 00:24:59.880 --> 00:25:01.839 the the difference is going to be the coaching. It's 374 00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:03.960 going to be the coaching. Nobody expects to seem to 375 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:05.599 go quick. And by the way, I don't mean on 376 00:25:05.640 --> 00:25:07.799 this the Clippers of the damn good spot you will 377 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:08.559 would want to be that. 378 00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:11.400 I appreciate the phone call. I'm not listening to the 379 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:13.920 Clippers are in a damn good spot tonight. I'm sorry. 380 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:18.200 I appreciate your optimism, but a damn good spot would 381 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:21.079 be up three to one, not tied to to and 382 00:25:21.319 --> 00:25:25.000 giving home court advantage back. I can only I can 383 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:27.440 only take so much positivity. I gotta dip the show 384 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:30.079 in reality to some degree. Here is my friend jac 385 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:32.400 the brick would say, I can't say they're in a 386 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:38.839 damn good spot. Denver just took back home court. It's 387 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:45.480 a best of three, so let's try another call here, 388 00:25:46.079 --> 00:25:51.680 Jeffrey in Phoenix, Home of the Value. Jeffrey, what's up 389 00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:52.440 here on cumber Sock? 390 00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:56.559 Hey, Adam, Yeah, I just watched the game. I definitely 391 00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:00.400 you know, I feel your frustration, but there were things 392 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:03.000 I noticed in the first half, and you know, I 393 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:05.039 want to just get your take on them. Maybe you 394 00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:06.319 might not agree with them, but this. 395 00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:07.400 Is just what I saw. 396 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:12.519 So coming out slow, obviously we had Kawi, Harden, and Normal. 397 00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:15.119 I think they all had single digit points in the 398 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:18.480 first half. I could be mistaken about that, but I 399 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:20.599 think a big reason for that was because of a 400 00:26:20.680 --> 00:26:24.000 really good adjustment that Denver made that we really just 401 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:26.759