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Speaker 4: Clippers with a loss that stings. Hopefully not past this series.
Speaker 4: Hopefully this is not the series defining win. Because Game
Speaker 4: four was one on a putback dunk from Aaron Gordon
Speaker 4: as the Clippers came back down twenty just to lose
Speaker 4: by two in the fourth quarter. Hear it into a
Speaker 4: dome one oh one to ninety nine, an absolute heartbreaker
Speaker 4: in a game where the Clippers didn't show up the
Speaker 4: first three quarters. I gotta be honest with you, even
Speaker 4: when they were down by two in the first half,
Speaker 4: I just didn't like the way they were playing. Where
Speaker 4: was the urgency, where was the toughness? It was very
Speaker 4: physical early on. And yes, the Denver Nuggets got twelve
Speaker 4: free throws to three attempted by the Clippers in the
Speaker 4: first half. It was still only a two point game.
Speaker 4: I just felt like offensively, the Clippers weren't good enough.
Speaker 4: I didn't feel it was so much of what Denver
Speaker 4: was doing. I felt like the Clippers weren't executing very well.
Speaker 4: For James Harden to get up four shots in the
Speaker 4: first half in almost nineteen minutes, that is incomprehensible. For
Speaker 4: Kawhi to be four of eleven. He had a turnover
Speaker 4: to start the game. People want to look at other
Speaker 4: players tonight and talk about Chris Dunn went one of
Speaker 4: from three to one of nine overall. Chris done at
Speaker 4: least when he was out there, played a really good
Speaker 4: defense and had some keyboards. A lot of them would
Speaker 4: turn into missus even when we got offensive rebounds, and yeah,
Speaker 4: he was off with a shot. I'm gonna start with
Speaker 4: the Stars in this game. I think the Stars and
Speaker 4: Coach Lou I know everybody wants to talk about it.
Speaker 4: The personnel that was out there at the end of
Speaker 4: regulation and a game that we thought might go into overtime. Nope.
Speaker 4: Aaron Gordon, I guess his fingertips weren't on the basketball
Speaker 4: as he got the biggest dunk of his career and
Speaker 4: he's had plenty to go. He missed a dunk in
Speaker 4: Game two that killed them. He gets it back in
Speaker 4: Game four, and we're back to being tied up. Brand
Speaker 4: new series, best out of three, and the Denver Nuggets
Speaker 4: have home court. I am proud that the Clippers battled
Speaker 4: back and finally flipped the switch in the fourth. I
Speaker 4: have no idea why it took so long, No idea
Speaker 4: from their stars, especially maybe because Kawhi was in foul
Speaker 4: trouble earlier on. He had two at the half, and
Speaker 4: they were too curious fouls. I think both on Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 4: They were just battling of the posts. There wasn't much
Speaker 4: going on there. No, the Clippers didn't get a gret whistle.
Speaker 4: They also have to be culpable for not coming out
Speaker 4: and playing the right way. From the first quarter on
Speaker 4: until the fourth quarter. This Clippers team was unrecognizable on
Speaker 4: the offensive ent. Defensively, they were good, but they look
Speaker 4: gassed and lethargic to start the game. I called it
Speaker 4: a Smelling Salts type of game where the Clippers just
Speaker 4: need to wake up. They finally did by about the
Speaker 4: time maybe they thought this game would have started. But
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna blame a three pm tip Denver was
Speaker 4: dealing with it as well. I just don't know why
Speaker 4: it took so long to engage and for them to
Speaker 4: play desperate basketball, because I saw it from Denver right away.
Speaker 4: They were playing hard. And I'm not saying the Clippers
Speaker 4: were miserable on the defensive end in the first half.
Speaker 4: I thought they played hard offensively, though at times there
Speaker 4: was just no flow. Why weren't they running more high
Speaker 4: pick and roll until the fourth quarter? They spammed it?
Speaker 4: Then almost every shot in the fourth quarter from when
Speaker 4: James Harden came in was created out of the high
Speaker 4: pick and roll. It's always there. Denver's no way to
Speaker 4: defend it. What took so long? I have no idea
Speaker 4: where this Clippers team was the first three quarters of
Speaker 4: this game on the offensive end, Where was the game plan?
Speaker 1: Discipline?
Speaker 4: But if James Harden and Kawhi Leonard are gonna start
Speaker 4: this game, what six for fifteen, You're gonna have trouble.
Speaker 4: I mean, coming into the fourth quarter, their two stars
Speaker 4: were eight of twenty one from the field. You could
Speaker 4: afford one of them having an off game, but both
Speaker 4: of them like that and hard and only taking six
Speaker 4: shots heading into the fourth What is going on. He
Speaker 4: played thirty minutes, thirty one minutes and only taking six shots. Hey,
Speaker 4: if somebody else was cooking, great they weren't, maybe they
Speaker 4: could have gotten to a beatsa zubas a little bit more.
Speaker 4: He was six of eleven at that point, so Zoo
Speaker 4: heading into the fourth a six of eleven. Kawhi and
Speaker 4: James Harden are eight of twenty one. Where I think
Speaker 4: this game was lost early in the first quarter. Early
Speaker 4: in the first quarter, I thought this was a clear
Speaker 4: sign the Clippers just weren't focused. So they have a
Speaker 4: turnover to start the game. As I mentioned earlier, it
Speaker 4: was by Kawhi. It's a bad turnover, careless turnover, and
Speaker 4: it was a sign, I guess of things to come
Speaker 4: with their offense. Even though I think in the ballgame
Speaker 4: they ended up with just ten turnovers, they had half
Speaker 4: of them in the first quarter. That's the type of
Speaker 4: stuff I'm talking about. Why are they sleepwalking into the
Speaker 4: ballgame when you have a chance to take a stranglehold
Speaker 4: of this series and go of three to one. That
Speaker 4: is alarming to me. Denver had six fast breakpoints the
Speaker 4: first five minutes of the first quarter. They had three
Speaker 4: fast breakpoints all of last game. It was that Kawhi
Speaker 4: turnover to Murray to start the game, where then Christian
Speaker 4: Brown had a put back on the other end after
Speaker 4: Murray missed it, where I was just like, huh, I
Speaker 4: don't love that. It just seemed careless, occadaisical, far from
Speaker 4: put on the throat of your opponent that you just
Speaker 4: beat by thirty four. So I keep saying, like people
Speaker 4: were talking about, ah, they won by thirty four. This
Speaker 4: is such a mismatch. This series is over. How many
Speaker 4: of y'all were telling me that yesterday and I kept saying,
Speaker 4: pump the brakes. Y'all were looking at okay see and
Speaker 4: thinking about that series. Adam, can the Clippers beat okay See?
Speaker 4: Okay see? It's two to two and Denver has home
Speaker 4: court for a best out of three. The Clippers at
Speaker 4: the end of the first quarter had just an inexcusable
Speaker 4: laps in judgment on a hard and full court pass
Speaker 4: with one point nine seconds left to beats the Zubas
Speaker 4: on the other end of the court to try to
Speaker 4: get an easy bucket. Jokicic was on them. It wouldnt
Speaker 4: have been easy to end the first quarter. It sails
Speaker 4: over his head and out of bounds. Now it's Denver's
Speaker 4: ball with one point nine seconds left. I was already
Speaker 4: shaking my head and continued to as I saw Jokic
Speaker 4: hit a thirty foot three pointer to end the first
Speaker 4: quarter with little resistance. And it's twenty seven to twenty
Speaker 4: two Denver heading into the second and I have no
Speaker 4: idea where the Clippers heads were at. It just didn't
Speaker 4: look like the same team that we saw in Game three.
Speaker 4: Five turnovers in the first quarter, strange shot selection at times,
Speaker 4: but to just give away three points at the end
Speaker 4: of a quarter like that, and more importantly, get Jokic going,
Speaker 4: I said to myself right then, and I told the
Speaker 4: guys off air, like I don't like what I'm seeing
Speaker 4: from Yokic, Like this is he low key looks great
Speaker 4: so far. He didn't have some stretch where he scored
Speaker 4: six straight or anything like that, so it didn't stand out.
Speaker 4: And he only had six points in the first quarter,
Speaker 4: but he was three or four and he was starting
Speaker 4: to bully in the paint, and yes, they would get
Speaker 4: some calls, but in the first quarter they didn't take
Speaker 4: a free throw. They attempted twelve in the second, but
Speaker 4: Jokic looked comfortable. And I'm telling you, when he hit
Speaker 4: that shot in the game, you lose by two. When
Speaker 4: he hits that three point at the end of the
Speaker 4: first quarter, Joki said to himself, I'm good. I'm feeling
Speaker 4: good now. Didn't like that. Didn't like that one bit.
Speaker 4: They let Jokic get back into this series, They let
Speaker 4: Denver get back into this series instead of handling business here.
Speaker 4: They didn't come out with the right mindset. From what
Speaker 4: I saw those five turnovers in the first quarter, lackaday'sical,
Speaker 4: sloppy basketball, hard, not being aggressive offensively. Why nobody else
Speaker 4: was cooking? Why not you? You look at this team
Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter, in the way they executed versus
Speaker 4: the first three. Where was that? Why did it take
Speaker 4: them getting down by twenty two, down by twenty heading
Speaker 4: into the fourth for the real Clippers to show up.
Speaker 4: I don't get it. Disappointing, demoralizing loss to lose in
Speaker 4: that fashion after you battle back, But you never should
Speaker 4: have been down by twenty two in this game. The
Speaker 4: Clippers let up in Denver, they're up off the mat.
Speaker 4: Now they're feeling great. Now, who's got momentum? Now y'all
Speaker 4: get acting like this series was over to me. Well,
Speaker 4: it's a brand new series. It's a best out of
Speaker 4: three and Denver has home court advantage. Game five in
Speaker 4: Denver Tuesday night. We'll take a quick time out, we'll
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Speaker 4: Clippers have had some heartbreaking losses in the playoffs over
Speaker 4: the last five years. The value Lucas buzzer beater in
Speaker 4: the and now Aaron Gordon with a put back dunk
Speaker 4: to win it for the Denver Nuggets in Game four
Speaker 4: and flip this series back to being deady even at
Speaker 4: two to two. Back to the Denver Nuggets having home
Speaker 4: court four game for the best out of three. That's
Speaker 4: what this series has turned into. So we'll be back
Speaker 4: in Denver four Game five. Coach Lou apparently postgame said
Speaker 4: the Clippers went early with sixteen seconds left instead of
Speaker 4: draining clock because they were down two and wanted to
Speaker 4: protect against not scoring and possibly need a foul off.
Speaker 4: Denver got to stop. Yeah, they got the bucket to
Speaker 4: tie the game. It looked like the same play they
Speaker 4: ran in game one to tie the game, this time
Speaker 4: hard missed Zoo was there for the tip in. Aaron
Speaker 4: Gordon blew a dunk in game two and guess the
Speaker 4: game winning dunk here in game four. Unbelievable. Sean and
Speaker 4: Inglewood near on Clipper stop with out of maus and
Speaker 4: what's up Sean?
Speaker 5: Hey, Adam Man, good to hear from you. Man, it's
Speaker 5: been a while. I just wanted to say, I'm.
Speaker 4: Really shocked you wait until tonight to call.
Speaker 5: I know a few times, it's just that things came up.
Speaker 5: I couldn't stay on the line. But I just want
Speaker 5: to let you everything you said was right on point.
Speaker 5: First of all, Adam. And there's like a racehorse that
Speaker 5: didn't get out the gate fast. You know, that's what
Speaker 5: the Clippers are like tonight. But the awesome comeback, telling
Speaker 5: to come back. But the one thing I want to say,
Speaker 5: just objectively and not negatively. We've seen that play where
Speaker 5: they isolate Kawhi on the elbow and the right elbow
Speaker 5: a lot, and in close games, we you've never hardly
Speaker 5: seen any good effect to that. Everybody's standing still and
Speaker 5: he usually Kawhi is shooting a flat shot.
Speaker 4: Do you want me to go back to game two?
Speaker 4: I could reference a game from a couple of days
Speaker 4: ago to say that we've never seen anything good out
Speaker 4: of Kauiet. The elbow is crazy, Sean. We just saw it.
Speaker 5: No, I mean on that right elbow in close games.
Speaker 5: I've seen it before. But you know what, I just
Speaker 5: wanted the times that they go to it.
Speaker 4: He just wanted the elbow. What are we talking about?
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, I'm not gonna argue with you, but you know, anyway,
Speaker 5: the point is that I hated that ending, but I'm
Speaker 5: glad they came back, and I expect them to win
Speaker 5: the series. I really do. So you were right about, Hey,
Speaker 5: they could win today or maybe they have a letdown,
Speaker 5: but I think the whole shot and let down business
Speaker 5: is over and they're going to be about business the
Speaker 5: next two games and come out of the the gate fast.
Speaker 4: I hope. So I appreciate the phone call, Sean. Good
Speaker 4: to hear from you. I just don't know what's it
Speaker 4: gonna take to get up for a ball game. It's
Speaker 4: a playoff game. You're at into a dome, the crowd
Speaker 4: is into it. I don't know why the Clippers were
Speaker 4: so slow to engage. I don't know why it took
Speaker 4: being down twenty heading into the fourth quarter for them
Speaker 4: to play faster. They were playing noticeably faster. They were
Speaker 4: executing so much better. Kawhi is dunking now, got that
Speaker 4: steal on Jamal Murray for the two handed dunk, went
Speaker 4: right for another dunk. Like Kawhi and Harden woke up
Speaker 4: out of nowhere after sleepwalking into this game. Where was
Speaker 4: the urgency where I don't understand it. I'm still looking
Speaker 4: to see if anybody asked coach lou about personnel in
Speaker 4: the final possession. Law Murray's bringing up the same stuff
Speaker 4: that I was talking about. Now with the end of
Speaker 4: end of the first quarter. That three pointer by Jokic,
Speaker 4: Now I should say if eachsa Zubas was there, it
Speaker 4: was well defended. But that was throwing the ball away
Speaker 4: with one point nine seconds left at the end of
Speaker 4: the first quarter so carelessly. I hated what I saw
Speaker 4: early on in this ballgame. I could not stand the
Speaker 4: way the Clippers were playing. They just were sleepwalking out there.
Speaker 4: I haven't said that a lot this season. They've been
Speaker 4: much better to start games, but with a huge opportunity
Speaker 4: like this, I wanted them to come out of the
Speaker 4: gates flying, because maybe you could break Denver if you
Speaker 4: actually started this game the right way. After beating them
Speaker 4: by thirty four, maybe you could put them away early
Speaker 4: with all the guys banged up with them and yo
Speaker 4: kids yelling on the court side and them looking to
Speaker 4: be in disarray looking for answers, and instead the Clippers
Speaker 4: just gave him life. And they knew it. They knew
Speaker 4: they can't come out like that. I heard coach lu
Speaker 4: say at pregame. They knew how they were supposed to
Speaker 4: come out, and they just didn't. Was it the start time?
Speaker 4: Are they fatigued? They didn't look fatigued in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: I just didn't feel like they were awake yet. But
Speaker 4: it is extremely disappointing that they lost a game like
Speaker 4: this in that fashion. Cool you woke up late. They
Speaker 4: almost had a miraculous comeback. Has anybody come back down
Speaker 4: twenty to start the fourth quarter. In playoff history, I
Speaker 4: don't think the Clippers were down twenty when they started
Speaker 4: that fourth quarter. I know against me in Game one
Speaker 4: and twenty twelve, and I don't think they were down twenty.
Speaker 4: I think it was within like eighteen or sixteen against
Speaker 4: Golden State in the thirty one point comeback. What took
Speaker 4: so long? Why didn't you play like that earlier? Why
Speaker 4: didn't you just run more high, pick and roll earlier?
Speaker 4: Ball movement was pretty non existent. But I don't understand.
Speaker 4: I have to go back and watch the entire game.
Speaker 4: But I felt like offensively, I don't know, they weren't trusting,
Speaker 4: they weren't going with the game plan. Maybe they were tired.
Speaker 4: It was extremely physical early on, and then all of
Speaker 4: a sudden in the second quarter they started calling some
Speaker 4: tiki tak stuff when Kawhi was on Aaron Gordon. That
Speaker 4: was weird. I didn't like that the refs all of
Speaker 4: a sudden just hit the brakes on the physicality and said, ah,
Speaker 4: we're gonna call some minimal contact stuff when we just
Speaker 4: let guys destroy each other in the first quarter. I
Speaker 4: think that's part of the reason you got the kerk
Speaker 4: fluffalo at the end of the half with six seconds left,
Speaker 4: where the Clippers are down by two. James Harden didn't
Speaker 4: like a foul from Christian Brown. He got into it
Speaker 4: with him. Aaron Gordon comes over. Now Norman pals into
Speaker 4: it if he's a zubots Jo Kic. I thought that
Speaker 4: was gonna get them going in the third quarter. Instead,
Speaker 4: the Clippers they got down big, down twenty heading into
Speaker 4: the fourth. It was a two point game at the half.
Speaker 4: I thought they were lucky to be down by two
Speaker 4: with the half and their offense just completely stalled out
Speaker 4: even more in the third quarter, putting up just seventeen points.
Speaker 4: But where were Kawhi and James Harden in the third
Speaker 4: How does one of them not take the game into
Speaker 4: their hands with it being that close. That's what I'm
Speaker 4: scratching my head about. Is it just make or miss
Speaker 4: stuff or were they not being aggressive enough? Were the
Speaker 4: running enough high pick and roll? Was Denver's defense that good?
Speaker 4: I didn't feel like that. I feel like the Clippers
Speaker 4: were just absolutely lethargic out there. Clippers lose this one
Speaker 4: in heartbreaking fashion, echoing the value oop from Phoenix. The
Speaker 4: Lucas shot with Dallas in the bubble, But should they
Speaker 4: have been down by twenty eight games to the fourth. No,
Speaker 4: that's my point. Get it going earlier. Your two top
Speaker 4: guys can't be that bad. For three quarters, felt like
Speaker 4: there were the game was there to be taken. Instead,
Speaker 4: Nikola Jokic slowly but surely, just was putting together a
Speaker 4: huge game for himself. We waited for it tonight. He
Speaker 4: had it thirty six, twenty one boards eight as sis.
Speaker 4: He had thirty points the final three quarters. I'm telling
Speaker 4: you that three pointer to end the first quarter. Something
Speaker 4: clicked in for Jokic. Then he said, yep, I got
Speaker 4: it going. It's my night. He went three of six
Speaker 4: from the outside. Clippers lose one on one to ninety nine.
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Speaker 4: Clippers lose on an Aaron Gordon put back because Jokis
Speaker 4: was wide left on his three point to win the game. Instead,
Speaker 4: it was Aaron Gordon tipping it in. It was off
Speaker 4: his fingertips in time as the backboard went red to
Speaker 4: signify the end of regulation and the Clippers would come
Speaker 4: out losing one o one to ninety nine. Hear it
Speaker 4: into it dome. And now we'll be going to game
Speaker 4: five Tuesday night in Denver, tied up at two games apiece.
Speaker 4: Let's go to Morris and Inglewood. Morris, you're on Clippers
Speaker 4: stoff for that? Mausm, what's up?
Speaker 6: Morris Gay with a game with a mighty dude game? Yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 4: Would call it a mighty good game. Sarah's man was
Speaker 4: in the building tonight.
Speaker 6: But who're the world champions?
Speaker 4: Ed?
Speaker 6: Okay, I risk my case.
Speaker 4: What do you mean? Who the world champions are? Denver? One?
Speaker 4: Two years ago? The Boston Celtics are the world champions.
Speaker 6: Well they still got that that that that breeding, man.
Speaker 6: I'm telling you right now that I'm proud of the Clippers.
Speaker 6: They started the game twenty two points behind. In the
Speaker 6: fourth the game was over, people turned off the TV
Speaker 6: at them.
Speaker 7: They turned it off.
Speaker 6: Next thing you know, they have jumped out there, got
Speaker 6: a short need looked like they was gonna pull it off. Now,
Speaker 6: I don't have a hold of that, but I guarantee
Speaker 6: you ain't. Nobody started the basketball game behind twenty two
Speaker 6: points and then took the lead on it. Now they lost,
Speaker 6: they lost, But I'm in pressed with him. Man, we
Speaker 6: got a team. I just can't agree with some of
Speaker 6: the thags thing I'm gonna get Why were.
Speaker 4: They down twenty two to a team they just beat
Speaker 4: by thirty four a mighty.
Speaker 6: Good game at I'd give Dinners some credit.
Speaker 8: That boy.
Speaker 6: You had to give it to the best brander in
Speaker 6: the world doing his thing. Thirty six points at ninety
Speaker 6: seven rebounds. I mean, I gotta give them some props too.
Speaker 6: But I'm proud of the Clippers. They're gonna come back.
Speaker 6: They're gonna be alright. It's about adjustments and at the
Speaker 6: end of the day, at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: the the difference is going to be the coaching. It's
Speaker 6: going to be the coaching. Nobody expects to seem to
Speaker 6: go quick. And by the way, I don't mean on
Speaker 6: this the Clippers of the damn good spot you will
Speaker 6: would want to be that.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the phone call. I'm not listening to the
Speaker 4: Clippers are in a damn good spot tonight. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I appreciate your optimism, but a damn good spot would
Speaker 4: be up three to one, not tied to to and
Speaker 4: giving home court advantage back. I can only I can
Speaker 4: only take so much positivity. I gotta dip the show
Speaker 4: in reality to some degree. Here is my friend jac
Speaker 4: the brick would say, I can't say they're in a
Speaker 4: damn good spot. Denver just took back home court. It's
Speaker 4: a best of three, so let's try another call here,
Speaker 4: Jeffrey in Phoenix, Home of the Value. Jeffrey, what's up
Speaker 4: here on cumber Sock?
Speaker 9: Hey, Adam, Yeah, I just watched the game. I definitely
Speaker 9: you know, I feel your frustration, but there were things
Speaker 9: I noticed in the first half, and you know, I
Speaker 9: want to just get your take on them. Maybe you
Speaker 9: might not agree with them, but this.
Speaker 7: Is just what I saw.
Speaker 9: So coming out slow, obviously we had Kawi, Harden, and Normal.
Speaker 9: I think they all had single digit points in the
Speaker 9: first half. I could be mistaken about that, but I
Speaker 9: think a big reason for that was because of a
Speaker 9: really good adjustment that Denver made that we really just
Speaker 9: had no answer to in the first half. And you
Speaker 9: could definitely make the argument we should have made the
Speaker 9: adjustment sooner. So Denver, basically every time either Chris Dunn
Speaker 9: or Derek Jones Junior was out on the floor, they
Speaker 9: double teamed Harden or Kawi whenever they touched the ball
Speaker 9: right away.
Speaker 10: They've done that in the.
Speaker 4: First throughout this series, Jeffery, they've left Chris right. This
Speaker 4: wasn't the first game they started leaving Chris Dunn open.
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, you're right.
Speaker 9: But in this game Chris dunshot over five from three.
Speaker 9: Derek Jones Junior didn't make it three either.
Speaker 4: And for doing something they've been doing the entire series
Speaker 4: that's not new adjustment.
Speaker 9: Well, we had the answer of bringing out the shooter
Speaker 9: bogie in the fourth quarter, and I think that actually
Speaker 9: pretty much stopped the double teams. We were able to
Speaker 9: face the floor out more and not have that problem.
Speaker 11: I kind of.
Speaker 9: Was afraid that maybe Denver figured out that they could
Speaker 9: play Chris Dunn out of the series. Hopefully not totally,
Speaker 9: but him shooting over five from three and just being
Speaker 9: a black hole on offense definitely scared me a lot.
Speaker 9: Today personally, I think I saw the double teams come
Speaker 9: a lot faster, like they're just not gonna let Harden
Speaker 9: or Kawhi do anything on offense. But Chris Dunn is
Speaker 9: out there.
Speaker 4: I mean that's fair. They probably were more in sync.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the phone call. I gotta take a quick
Speaker 4: time out. That was Jeffrey and Phoenix. He thought the
Speaker 4: double teams came faster from Denver on Kawhi and James Harden.
Speaker 4: I mean, they've been doing that all series. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I know Chris Dunn had a bad shooting game. He
Speaker 4: was probably due the Clippers, though. I just did not
Speaker 4: like the sloppy play in the first quarter with five
Speaker 4: turnovers and looking at Lethargic out there on the offensive end,
Speaker 4: the lack of ball movement. I mean, guess what they double?
Speaker 4: That means somebody's open. They made Denver pay every time
Speaker 4: for that in Game three, they didn't in this game.
Speaker 4: Quick time out will come back eight seven seven five
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Speaker 4: eleven fifty. Clippers lose one on one to ninety nine.
Speaker 4: Hear it into a dome. In Game four, as we're
Speaker 4: tied up at two games apiece, I'm at a Mausland
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Speaker 4: Clippers trailed by as many as twenty two, just to
Speaker 4: have it tied with eight seconds left, but unfortunately, an
Speaker 4: eron three from Nikola Jokic would end up in the
Speaker 4: hands of Aaron Gordon for a putback dunk that had
Speaker 4: to be reviewed. I thought live ball was still on
Speaker 4: his fingertips, but it was so close. I don't think
Speaker 4: you could overturn it. And I haven't seen any conclusive
Speaker 4: evidence from Clippers fans that said that would show that
Speaker 4: the ball was still in his hands. Then was the brakes?
Speaker 4: You leave yourself open and stuff like that when you
Speaker 4: get down by as many as twenty two and the
Speaker 4: series is tied up at two games apiece, with Game
Speaker 4: five being back in Denver on Tuesday night, best at
Speaker 4: three with the Denver Nuggets having home court advantage. Back,
Speaker 4: Let's go back out to a couple of phone calls.
Speaker 4: Alfonso in San Dimas, Alfonso, give me thirty seconds so
Speaker 4: I can get to the rest of these calls. Alfonso,
Speaker 4: what's up?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 3: What some man?
Speaker 8: Oh man, my blood is still boring right now? Man,
Speaker 8: Just like so many mistakes, Clippers did be walking through
Speaker 8: the first half. A third quarter was horrible then even Tyler,
Speaker 8: I'm not sure if you noticed that. Like I was
Speaker 8: reading on social media, last play, it was just a
Speaker 8: defense to play. He didn't needed one defense to stop
Speaker 8: to go to overtime. He had like all small.
Speaker 4: I noticed, I've been talking about it.
Speaker 1: Thanks all awesome.
Speaker 4: I noticed that Nico Buttoom wasn't out there. I noticed
Speaker 4: that Ben Simmons wasn't out there. I noticed I noticed
Speaker 4: it was Norman Pale and James Harden underneath the basket.
Speaker 4: I haven't heard that being brought up post game to
Speaker 4: coach Lou appreciate the phone call off Onzo Justin in
Speaker 4: Sherman Oaks, Justin, You're on Clipper stock without a miles
Speaker 4: and after our heartbreaking loss. What's up, Justin?
Speaker 12: What a terrible game, what a disgrace. I don't even
Speaker 12: think that was heart bread. I don't even really care
Speaker 12: about how we came back at the end. I don't
Speaker 12: even see that as a comeback. I see we just
Speaker 12: started playing playoff basketball. Because the first with you.
Speaker 4: Justin, I agree with you. They finally in battle that
Speaker 4: was playoff basketball, finally in the fourth quarter exactly.
Speaker 12: Now, I have the same cake as you that the
Speaker 12: first three quarters and even a couple of minutes into
Speaker 12: the fourth I think it was still in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 12: Kawhi had he was left on an island with Murray
Speaker 12: on him, and he passed it out, like, come on,
Speaker 12: a dude, who is ten for ten against Murray just
Speaker 12: a couple of days ago in the series. Does it
Speaker 12: attack that? I'm And I noticed at the very beginning
Speaker 12: of the game the leftard like the ball had no
Speaker 12: zip on those taps. That's something that I noticed. The
Speaker 12: ball had no zip.
Speaker 4: This team, I don't know if they were tired, weird
Speaker 4: start time, whatever, but there's just no excuse. It's a
Speaker 4: playoff game. But you got a chance to go up
Speaker 4: three one. So that's where I'm at with it. Justin.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the phone call. I just got to get
Speaker 4: through these calls here before we get out Alan in
Speaker 4: Silver Lake, Alan, what.
Speaker 7: Do you got, Adam? You know it's just leaving the game,
Speaker 7: and you know that play at the end of the
Speaker 7: first quarter was even worse because they had made a
Speaker 7: great defensive stop by with all, you know, defending against
Speaker 7: the joker to get the ball to make that inbounds pass.
Speaker 7: It was, it was. It was one of those things
Speaker 7: where you know, you watch a lot of sports and
Speaker 7: you're like, this little thing can't happen.
Speaker 4: Front of mistakes, little late, but I'd say, big things
Speaker 4: early are we killed them?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: The other thing, just watching the game, I thought, it
Speaker 7: seems to be the strategy. Let's, you know, let's throw
Speaker 7: our reserves on them, Let's get him tired, you know,
Speaker 7: and have a big fourth quarter. And maybe that was
Speaker 7: why we started they were a little more tired than us.
Speaker 7: I don't know it was.
Speaker 4: They didn't look more tired, they looked more energized. The
Speaker 4: Clippers were down by twenty two before they started to
Speaker 4: engage in this game and run their offense in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter. That's when they started to get desperate after
Speaker 4: Yolkic floor of twenty two. I appreciate the phone call, Alan.
Speaker 4: I don't know why the Clippers looked the way they
Speaker 4: did coming out in this ball game. I guess you
Speaker 4: credit Denver to some degree, but I felt like I
Speaker 4: could see it. The Clippers didn't have the same pop,
Speaker 4: the same juice out there. They weren't moving the same way.
Speaker 4: They weren't as quick. I noticed it immediately, Kawhi Harden
Speaker 4: not being nearly as aggressive, and if they're getting doubled,
Speaker 4: there is a man open. They've been double plenty in
Speaker 4: this series. But the ball movement was better. Not tonight.
Speaker 4: It was brutal. They had fourteen assists. Excuse me, that
Speaker 4: was at the half. Okay, it wasn't exactly that bad.
Speaker 4: They finished with twenty five. I'm heading into the third
Speaker 4: quarter is really the part of the game I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: I know they clicked in finally in the last ten
Speaker 4: minute's of the ball game, but they weren't good enough,
Speaker 4: and they put themselves in a position to be down
Speaker 4: by twenty two early in the fourth Rick in Malibu? Rick,
Speaker 4: what's up here? On Clipper sock? Rick in Malibu?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Can you hear me?
Speaker 4: I got you?
Speaker 5: Rick?
Speaker 10: You hear me?
Speaker 5: At him?
Speaker 6: I got you?
Speaker 10: First of all, why you're not hearing me at him?
Speaker 4: I hear you?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 10: Sorry about that. So, first of all, I want to
Speaker 10: say I'm the guy who gave me a bunch of
Speaker 10: grief that the Clippers weren't built to win a chap.
Speaker 7: I know, oh, I know, and I want to I
Speaker 7: want to omit that wrong.
Speaker 4: I think that like twenty minute conversation we had, do
Speaker 4: you think.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, well, well there was a lot more we
Speaker 10: talked about, but that was probably the main thing you
Speaker 10: took away from it. I heard you call me out
Speaker 10: after game one, so I wanted to get that out
Speaker 10: of the way. That they're they I think they upbuilt.
Speaker 10: I think that the lesson they could take from today's
Speaker 10: game is actually kind of a good one. If they
Speaker 10: play hard, best ball, they will beat this team. Yeah,
Speaker 10: they tend not to play hard basketball on afternoon games.
Speaker 10: I've gone to a million of them, and they tend
Speaker 10: to They tend to really come out slow.
Speaker 4: I know, I know the m with this team in
Speaker 4: afternoon games. I just don't care.
Speaker 10: That's what That's what they would do.
Speaker 4: That's what's tired to me. That is an excuse. And
Speaker 4: if you have so many afternoon games, then you should
Speaker 4: probably be used to playing in the afternoon.
Speaker 10: How by the way, you and I aren't the only
Speaker 10: two people frustrated in that stadium and say the exact
Speaker 10: same thing. I mean, it happens over and over again.
Speaker 10: But when I hear people talk about adjustments, there are
Speaker 10: no adjustments done. Was wide open. He went one periosts
Speaker 10: he was making before. Those are good shots. The odd
Speaker 10: the obstinct to me was Harden took two to three
Speaker 10: point shots the whole game.
Speaker 4: To the lack of aggression was alarming to me in
Speaker 4: this game, Rick, I appreciate the phone call, and I
Speaker 4: appreciate you being a big man admitting your a uh.
Speaker 4: Hear my guys still uh before we get out of here,
Speaker 4: Richard in La Richard, you're clipper stock With that, I'm awesome, Dick,
Speaker 4: are you there, no Richard, Matt and Hawaii Matt Aloha.
Speaker 11: Hey, hey Aloha Adams. I don't think there's anything more
Speaker 11: we could say that you haven't already said. But what
Speaker 11: a clipper thing to go for one of the best
Speaker 11: games I've seen this to this what it is today,
Speaker 11: I'm smelling a hardened makeup game. Though I'm smelling one,
Speaker 11: Hopefully I'm right.
Speaker 4: Harden makeup game. I like it. I like the positivity
Speaker 4: on the way out. He and Kawhi Leonard have to
Speaker 4: be much better. I expect them to be win game five,
Speaker 4: find a way and then you got another chance. Hear
Speaker 4: it into a dome, and that would be we at
Speaker 4: least have another game here and into a dome. I'm
Speaker 4: hoping it's with an opportunity to close out the series.
Speaker 4: This was a tough, disheartening loss by a Clippers team
Speaker 4: that just I don't understand it, but for whatever reason
Speaker 4: in this ball game, I'll put it like this, one
Speaker 4: team started desperate, the other team waited till they got
Speaker 4: down by twenty two. Clippers came into this game and
Speaker 4: looked like, we know we're better. We'll be able to
Speaker 4: figure it out as the game goes along. We don't
Speaker 4: have to play that hard right now. They didn't have
Speaker 4: the focus they did in Game three. Playing from behind
Speaker 4: in a good Jokic game is a tough game to win.
Speaker 4: Clippers lose on a game winner not by Jokic, by
Speaker 4: Aaron Gordon. That with the put back dunk one on
Speaker 4: one to night nine before we get out of here.
Speaker 4: I don't think the Clippers organization Ralph La'labrian Seeman know
Speaker 4: what Eagle, Carlo Omenez people are taking Warner ahead engineer
Speaker 4: here into a dome. Daniel West back in Burbank a
Speaker 4: Meda Masen. We will talk to you on Tuesday.
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