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Speaker 3: The successes the failure.
Speaker 2: Let's discuss this is Clippers locker Road breaking down today's
Speaker 2: action with the pre and post game voice of the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Here's Ada Moss Lag.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, see you got forty five, a career high
Speaker 4: from SGA and they would hold on after the Clippers
Speaker 4: came back down twenty to win one thirty four to
Speaker 4: one twenty eight over your Los Angeles Clippers. Welcome into
Speaker 4: your post game show. I'm at a Oslin coming up.
Speaker 4: We got second half highlight, your post game box score
Speaker 4: and more. But first back out to pay Cooms Center
Speaker 4: with your radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carlo,
Speaker 4: a frustrating one for Clipper Nation because they battled back.
Speaker 4: It was there, but self inflicted wounds once again. Down
Speaker 4: the stretch, that hard and turnover leading to the jump ball,
Speaker 4: A couple of misfree throws late. We have seen this
Speaker 4: story before.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tough one for the Clips. In the matter of
Speaker 5: you felt like you could have had this one right
Speaker 5: after being down by twenty in that third quarter. Despite
Speaker 5: all the mistakes the Clippers had had them twenty turnovers
Speaker 5: at that point, and the ball game, and yet they
Speaker 5: came all the way back. They made a two point game,
Speaker 5: laid down the stretch, but they're unable to get over
Speaker 5: the hill. OKC, who is so good at home, remains
Speaker 5: undefeated when leading going into a third quarter. I think, though, Adam,
Speaker 5: there's so much positive to take from a game like
Speaker 5: this early in the season. I think a game like
Speaker 5: this gives you all the confidence in the world, all
Speaker 5: the confidence of the world. Fill scover team. You turn
Speaker 5: over twenty five times, Norman Pala has two points in
Speaker 5: the first half, and yet you almost win a game
Speaker 5: in which Norm fouls out and Harden has five thousand
Speaker 5: shoots five or fifteen from the field. The Clippers learned
Speaker 5: that they can go step with step with the best
Speaker 5: team in the West on the road in a hostile environment.
Speaker 5: They were right there tonight, and I think this lets
Speaker 5: them know the bar is high. I mean, this is
Speaker 5: no longer a team. I know they talked about understanding
Speaker 5: that wherever. All the analysts, all the media, everyone picked
Speaker 5: them to be next year team. Some people didn't even
Speaker 5: have them in the play, but I think this game,
Speaker 5: this kind of performance sets that standard really really high
Speaker 5: for this team, because on a night where you make
Speaker 5: so many mistakes, you still had a chance to win
Speaker 5: the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you. I find more positives in
Speaker 4: this game, even in a loss, than maybe the positives
Speaker 4: we found in the last games in a win in
Speaker 4: some ways, because you're down big self inflicted wounds, fifteen
Speaker 4: turnovers in the four first half alone, and they couldn't
Speaker 4: figure out how to get a Vista Zubas involved early,
Speaker 4: and they finally did in that second shift with him
Speaker 4: in the third quarter. Norm started to cook twenty nine
Speaker 4: points in the second half. He wasn't deterred by the
Speaker 4: fact that he had that slow start. He's looking like
Speaker 4: a star right now, even against one of the best
Speaker 4: teams out there, with all the guys in the world,
Speaker 4: you could want to de up Norman Powell. In the
Speaker 4: second half. They couldn't stop them, and this Clippers team
Speaker 4: fought down the stretch. They did not give in. They
Speaker 4: had some tough calls go against them, and they were
Speaker 4: still right there.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, think about it at them. Okay, se shoots
Speaker 5: twenty three free throws tonight. They make twenty two of them.
Speaker 7: It takes Shay Guild to Alexander to have a coreer
Speaker 7: high forty five points, five steals, and hits fifteen free throws,
Speaker 7: and the Clippers were right there the whole way. You
Speaker 7: really feel like this is a game despite not being
Speaker 7: able to come away with the win, gives you the
Speaker 7: confidence that, unless you're playing at him one of the
Speaker 7: top teams out West, the Clippers should be winning every
Speaker 7: single night. If anything, they should be in every single
Speaker 7: game they play. There's no reason not to with their
Speaker 7: play right now. In a night where you have twenty
Speaker 7: four turnovers, you're within six. I mean, are you kidding me?
Speaker 7: Against Oklahoma City? This is a This is a team that.
Speaker 5: Did all the wrong and right things, and if you
Speaker 5: do a little less wrong things, you probably win this game.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And the Clippers are still without Kawhi Leonard. We can
Speaker 4: talk about Okay see not having their big men right now,
Speaker 4: but the Clippers are missing Kawhi Leonard, and I think
Speaker 4: their margin for error is wider than we thought going
Speaker 4: into this season with how they have played over the
Speaker 4: last week or so. Being in a game like this
Speaker 4: against OKAC, with all the mistakes they had made and
Speaker 4: still having a chance to win late on the road.
Speaker 4: It says something about this group. You see Norn Powell
Speaker 4: playing like an All star right now. They're more talented,
Speaker 4: I think offensively than maybe we gave them credit for
Speaker 4: after the first handful of games. They are showing something
Speaker 4: right now that they can hang with anyone.
Speaker 5: They really can at them. The defense is there in
Speaker 5: the half court. They are up there with the best
Speaker 5: in terms of their defense and the offense when they
Speaker 5: have their superstars going. I mean even today when James
Speaker 5: Harden wasn't going well, the Clippers only were down thirteen,
Speaker 5: I believe at halftime against Oklahoma City, with Hard and
Speaker 5: struggling from the field and Norm being essentially a non
Speaker 5: factor to start this ballgame. The Clippers show today that
Speaker 5: the bar will oh the standard is much higher than
Speaker 5: I think anyone thought at him coming into this year.
Speaker 5: That's what we learned today here at Pecon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm proud of this group. I'm interested to hear
Speaker 4: what coach Lusay's postgame. I know he'll touch upon the
Speaker 4: turnover issue, but there was something to this game that
Speaker 4: maybe the Clippers are even I don't know, reinforcing that
Speaker 4: identity of theirs. They are not giving up no matter
Speaker 4: what the score is, because down twenty on the road
Speaker 4: to Okay se could have broke them. Just like being
Speaker 4: down twenty six at home to the San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 4: They came back and won that game. They came up
Speaker 4: just short in the comeback this time. But I like
Speaker 4: what we saw in the second half. They made the
Speaker 4: right adjustments. If they just started this game differently, it
Speaker 4: could have been a different outcome, Carlo. But they will
Speaker 4: try to get back up on the horse. They will
Speaker 4: be in Texas. Taken on the Rockets, a little two
Speaker 4: game mini series, a baseball mini series, I think is
Speaker 4: what you called it. Earlier Wednesday and Friday in Houston
Speaker 4: against the Rockets. Tip time, same time, five pm Pacific
Speaker 4: on Wednesday. We'll have your pregame show right back here
Speaker 4: at four, Carlo Jimenez. Great call is always talk to
Speaker 4: you on Wednesday, my front.
Speaker 5: Talk to you Wednesday, Adam. If you want to turn
Speaker 5: this one into a positive, they gotta bring it to Houston.
Speaker 4: We'll see there. Let's go and even bigger because we
Speaker 4: know the OKC thunder have a pick swap with either
Speaker 4: the Clippers or the Houston Rockets likely the team that
Speaker 4: finishes worse than the standing so a big two game
Speaker 4: mini series coming up. More on this one. After the
Speaker 4: Clippers losing OKC, the comeback came up short. One thirty
Speaker 4: four one twenty eight was your final again Shake Gilds
Speaker 4: Alexander with a career high forty five points in the win.
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Speaker 4: Clippers battled but come up short thanks to twenty plus turnovers.
Speaker 4: They would lose in Oklahoma City one thirty four to
Speaker 4: one twenty eight to SGA, who went to a went
Speaker 4: for a career high forty five points in the victory.
Speaker 4: Clippers dropped two six and five on the season. Welcome
Speaker 4: back into your Clippers postgame show. I'm Adam Moslin. Coming up.
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Speaker 4: half highlights here. Clippers battled, They were damn big. They
Speaker 4: were down by as many as twenty in this one.
Speaker 4: They were down sixty six to fifty three at the half,
Speaker 4: got down by twenty in that third quarter. But then
Speaker 4: Norman Powell, who only had two points in the first
Speaker 4: half off of free throws, started to cook in that
Speaker 4: third quarter.
Speaker 5: Back out to Norm jams right, moves left, gets around Williams,
Speaker 5: klites the rim men lays out of a left hand
Speaker 5: Norman Powell with a finish and bound it done left wing.
Speaker 5: Norman Pound dribbles with the right hand, sizing up Carusoe
Speaker 5: all right wing, three lights is it from downtown? Ten
Speaker 5: point game, minute fifteen to go in the third Carusoe
Speaker 5: looks for help, bounces it Norman poun to take away.
Speaker 5: He's got Dylan Jones tail getting Norman to the rim,
Speaker 5: lays it up on the right hand and it rolls
Speaker 5: through for two. Norman Powell in the right wing with
Speaker 5: fifteen in the frame, dribbles to the right hand with
Speaker 5: three seconds, right wing with two seconds, a right corner
Speaker 5: three falling away.
Speaker 4: The reasons Norman Powell, Norman Storman Pow or Storm and
Speaker 4: Norman Powell had eighteen points in the third. Third quarter
Speaker 4: alone got the Clippers back into this one. In the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter, it was back and forth. The Clippers just
Speaker 4: could not get enough stops as Okay see at thirty
Speaker 4: five points in the fourth quarter also got to the
Speaker 4: charity stripe Charitablee quite often there the Clippers could not
Speaker 4: defend without fouling. Norman Pow would fall out of this game,
Speaker 4: but still was doing damage in the fourth scoring wise.
Speaker 4: Before that, Norm continued to hit some big shots, but
Speaker 4: the Clippers would fall one thirty four to one twenty eight.
Speaker 4: That is your final in OKAC. Clippers will be in
Speaker 4: Houston on Wednesday for a Texas two Step two games
Speaker 4: in Houston two game mini series Wednesday and Friday, tip
Speaker 4: off on Wednesday's same time at five pm. More on
Speaker 4: this one final box score coming up next after the
Speaker 4: Clippers lose by six in OKC to the thunder and
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Speaker 4: Clippers lose a heartbreaker in okay See in a game
Speaker 4: where they were down by as many as twenty. They
Speaker 4: had it down to two three points late. Not good
Speaker 4: enough execution. They missed three big free throws and then
Speaker 4: that jump ball between Lou Dort and James Harden after
Speaker 4: James Harden lost the basketball. Huge play there. Okay See
Speaker 4: hit their free throws. SGA went for a career high
Speaker 4: forty five points, and the Clippers ended up by my
Speaker 4: tally it says twenty one turnovers leading to twenty five points.
Speaker 4: What's amazing is OKAC only had eleven turnovers and the
Speaker 4: Clippers got twenty one points off those eleven turnovers. That's incredible.
Speaker 4: So the Clippers, in some ways they had moments of
Speaker 4: brilliance where they played some of their best basketball and
Speaker 4: other times some of their worst basketball. This season just
Speaker 4: an absolute mixed bag. And you know what, it was
Speaker 4: twenty four turnovers and Okase didn't have one in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter, so they were better down the stretch. They
Speaker 4: out executed the Clippers, and the Clippers were in a
Speaker 4: hole heading into that fourth quarter. As good as Norman
Speaker 4: Powell was hitting that three pointer to end the third,
Speaker 4: incredible shot falling out of bounds, bringing it to within five.
Speaker 4: Okase closed better. They went twenty two of twenty three
Speaker 4: at the charity stripe the Clippers. They missed nine free
Speaker 4: throws on this one, but one by beats a Zubos
Speaker 4: late one by James Harden won by Norman Powell. It
Speaker 4: has been a running theme. I'm proud of the group
Speaker 4: in many ways, but they were also their own worst enemies.
Speaker 4: We self inflicted wounds have to stop, and I felt
Speaker 4: like early on they were trying to play at Okase's
Speaker 4: pace and that is a problem. Still, great performers from
Speaker 4: Derreck Jones Junior, who dropped twenty eight of thirteen, shooting
Speaker 4: four to five from distance normal pal with his thirty one,
Speaker 4: twenty nine of which came in the second half. James
Speaker 4: Harden continues to struggle from the field five of fifteen,
Speaker 4: did hit a couple of key three pointers, seventeen points,
Speaker 4: nine assists, but five turnovers for him off the bench,
Speaker 4: a mere coffee was awesome, thirteen points in twenty seven minutes.
Speaker 4: Clippers just can't put themselves in a hole down twenty
Speaker 4: not against Okce Clippers lose this one one thirty four
Speaker 4: to one twenty eight. They fought, they battled, but the
Speaker 4: comeback comes up short. They'll regroup get back after it
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Speaker 4: Stop me if you heard this one before. Late game
Speaker 4: turnovers and miss free throws, doing the Clippers as they
Speaker 4: battled back down twenty and OKC against Sga, who had
Speaker 4: a career high forty five points, but come up short.
Speaker 4: Clippers lose one thirty four to eight to the Thunder.
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Speaker 4: A little bit after the bottom of the hour. But
Speaker 4: this was a frustrating one kipronation. I understand that because
Speaker 4: this was the first game I felt like this season.
Speaker 4: And I don't mean to start with this off the top,
Speaker 4: but people are blowing me up at Clippers stock on
Speaker 4: the YouTube side saying we got a bad whistle, and
Speaker 4: I thought they did too. Norton Powell fouls out on
Speaker 4: a pretty weak call. They reviewed it, they upheld it.
Speaker 4: James Harden had five fouls. He was in trouble. I mean,
Speaker 4: how many guys were in foul trouble in this game.
Speaker 4: Chris dunnoff the bench, had a couple of fouls that
Speaker 4: went against him where I didn't see the consistency with
Speaker 4: the level of physicality they were letting Okay see play
Speaker 4: with compared to the Clippers. I didn't like that. Now,
Speaker 4: I'm not saying that's the reason the Clippers lost ball game.
Speaker 4: It didn't help, but they put themselves in that predicament
Speaker 4: where they were down big early on because of all
Speaker 4: the turnovers. I said heading into this game, keet to
Speaker 4: victory twelve turnovers or less. They had fifteen in the
Speaker 4: first half alone. That can't happen, not against the Thunder
Speaker 4: And I think I know why it happened. They couldn't
Speaker 4: figure it out early with the Viza Zubas once again
Speaker 4: against Okac to start this game, just like last game
Speaker 4: when they tried to exploit him against the Smalls and
Speaker 4: Caruso and the little guys trying to double him and
Speaker 4: j Dubb. They couldn't figure it out initially. They kept
Speaker 4: making the mistake of making the entry pass always from
Speaker 4: the top of the key. That's a harder pass to
Speaker 4: make when guys are fronting him. If you get into
Speaker 4: somebody on the wing to make the pass, then Zoo
Speaker 4: can steal his man and you can find the angle
Speaker 4: a little bit easier. They finally got it going in
Speaker 4: the second half, finally after his second stint in the
Speaker 4: third quarter. But I'm telling they weren't gonna be able
Speaker 4: to beat OKAC at their own game, playing small and
Speaker 4: trying to run with a team that's top five in pace,
Speaker 4: that also is the best defense in the league by
Speaker 4: a mile. The OKC thunders defensive rating is like ten
Speaker 4: points better per one hundred possessions than the next best defense.
Speaker 4: It's incredible. So trying to play at their pace, I
Speaker 4: think is what got the Clippers turning the ball over.
Speaker 4: I think it got them sped up. I'm interested to
Speaker 4: hear from coach lou about that, because at times they
Speaker 4: were successful and at times the turnovers were coming in bunches.
Speaker 4: I think OKAC had eleven more shot attempts in the
Speaker 4: first half then the Clippers, let me see, uh make
Speaker 4: it nine fifty one to forty two, nine more shot
Speaker 4: attempts in the first half, as the Clippers had for
Speaker 4: fifteen turnovers to five for OKC in the first twenty
Speaker 4: four minutes. They're not gonna beat them at their own game.
Speaker 4: They had to figure out how to get a Ea
Speaker 4: Zubots involved against a team playing small, not letting him
Speaker 4: get doubled turn the ball over. I think one of
Speaker 4: the first plays of the game was a turnover by
Speaker 4: Viatza Zubots as they tried to give him the basketball.
Speaker 4: That one was completely on him. I think there were
Speaker 4: some good lessons learned though, because in the second half,
Speaker 4: in the third quarter, in that second stint, they finally
Speaker 4: got Zoo going and that was the difference. That's when
Speaker 4: the Clippers started to make their run. That's when things changed.
Speaker 4: After they had another turnover to start the third quarter,
Speaker 4: Derek Jones Junior was looking for Vitza Zubots and the
Speaker 4: Clippers ended up going small early on in the second half.
Speaker 4: Then when they came back to Zoo down fifteen at
Speaker 4: the four minute mark, that's when they started to cook hard.
Speaker 4: Knocked down a couple of three pointers. Zuo dunked on
Speaker 4: Dort Dort off a pass from I think Norman Powell
Speaker 4: on the left wing. Harden still got an offensive foul.
Speaker 4: There were a ton of those in the game with
Speaker 4: the Clippers who felt like Zuo had an and one,
Speaker 4: though off a KPJ passed from the wing. He started
Speaker 4: to crush them and to the third quarter. In the
Speaker 4: last four minutes, he had a dunk to make it
Speaker 4: an eight point game. After Chris Dunn was the first
Speaker 4: to a loose ball that ended up in a Norman
Speaker 4: pal three pointer, who also got going in that third
Speaker 4: quarter after having just two points in the first half
Speaker 4: at the Charity stripe. No less, Norman Powell had eighteen
Speaker 4: points in the third quarter alone. But there was a
Speaker 4: play where Chris Dunn went to the floor faster than
Speaker 4: anybody I've ever seen for a loose ball right before
Speaker 4: normOn paw three to bring it to within ten. Then
Speaker 4: a Zuo dunk brought it to eight. I steal in
Speaker 4: a normal layup and it's down to six. And then
Speaker 4: he ends up getting a three pointer to end the
Speaker 4: third quarter from the far side corner. Just a ridiculous,
Speaker 4: high degree of difficulty shot, and the Clippers, who were
Speaker 4: down twenty in the third, had it to within five
Speaker 4: to start the fourth. Then it was Zoo over Crusoe
Speaker 4: to start the fourth quarter, but then he missed a
Speaker 4: couple of good good looks against Crusoe one. There was
Speaker 4: a double or a triple team there. He tried to
Speaker 4: force it, but you gotta take advantage of the smalls
Speaker 4: mouse in the house. So after making his first shot
Speaker 4: the fourth he missed two in a row. Clippers, though,
Speaker 4: were still hanging in there. Yes, the turnovers would hurt them.
Speaker 4: One from a mere coffee leading to an ouls Crusoe
Speaker 4: bucket one oh seven to ninety nine. Then it beats
Speaker 4: a zoobots was not found by James Harden at around
Speaker 4: the nine minute mark, are an inbounds pass with point
Speaker 4: eight seconds left, when Zoo had the mismatch, he went
Speaker 4: away from him. It ended up being a twenty four
Speaker 4: second violation. Another turnover. So let's see how many they
Speaker 4: had in the fourth quarter alone. I'll say this, they
Speaker 4: did their best work in the fourth. After having fifteen
Speaker 4: turnovers at the half and six more in the third quarter.
Speaker 4: The Clippers ended the fourth at twenty four, so they
Speaker 4: only had three turnovers in the final twelve minutes. I'll
Speaker 4: give him that, but it's just the totality of them.
Speaker 4: You put yourself in a hole like that against OKC,
Speaker 4: it's a problem. And they made a ton of big
Speaker 4: shots Lou Dort, J Dubb SGA. Of course, the Clippers
Speaker 4: really pushed them and Oka See. I don't think it
Speaker 4: was so much that the Clippers were just awful down
Speaker 4: the street to this game, but Okaysee had a lead
Speaker 4: and they made big shots to hold on to it.
Speaker 4: There were some huge shots though by the Clippers. A
Speaker 4: Norm three to make it a five point game. Dort
Speaker 4: responds with a jumper. Norm gets to the line, goes
Speaker 4: one for two. H six point game, a J Dub
Speaker 4: bucket back to eight. Zoo spins on J Dub on
Speaker 4: the other way on the other end, six point game
Speaker 4: again SGA bucket, eight point game. They were responding to everything.
Speaker 4: James Harden gets hits hit by it by the elbow
Speaker 4: of Shay Gilds as Alexander at the Temple. He was
Speaker 4: out for a second. Then he gets fouled, goes one
Speaker 4: of two. Seven point game, could have been six. Then
Speaker 4: Zoo had a crazy offensive rebound though off of his
Speaker 4: miss free throw that led to a NORM three. So
Speaker 4: I don't know, Blessing in disguise he missed that second
Speaker 4: free throw James Harden, but then at JDub three to respond.
Speaker 4: So the lead is back to eight. Offensive rebound from
Speaker 4: Derreck Jones Junior was also a big play. Zubots goes
Speaker 4: to the line though after they get a stop and
Speaker 4: then he misses one. It's a three point game. Like
Speaker 4: they all add up him. James Harden, Norman Powell missing
Speaker 4: free throws SGA immediately hits a three doubles a score
Speaker 4: from a three point game to a six point game.
Speaker 4: Then Norm has this ridiculous reverse layup in traffic with
Speaker 4: three defenders there, takes it down to a four point game,
Speaker 4: but then he fouls out weak foul. I agree with you, guys.
Speaker 4: They challenged it to no avail. Isaiah Joe layup turned
Speaker 4: out to be a seven point game after they hit
Speaker 4: the free throw after the foul two. Then Harden with
Speaker 4: the oop to Derek Jones Junior to make it a
Speaker 4: five point game. Like the Clippers does not give up
Speaker 4: at all. That resilient nature remained intact. That's what has
Speaker 4: me encouraged in some ways by this loss more than
Speaker 4: I was encouraged in some ways by wins. Honestly almost
Speaker 4: given a game away to the Toronto Raptors. The Clippers
Speaker 4: had it down five forty five seconds left and it
Speaker 4: beats the Zubas, gets the n one and this time
Speaker 4: does hit the free throw. It is a two point
Speaker 4: game at one thirty one twenty eight, but another foul
Speaker 4: Sga gets fouled by a mere Coffee on a jumper.
Speaker 4: Tough call. Again, he hit both. It's one thirty two
Speaker 4: to one twenty eight, and then Harden gets clamped by
Speaker 4: lou Dort, loses the basketball, turns into a jump ball.
Speaker 4: Okay Se wins it, and they win the game one
Speaker 4: thirty four to one twenty eight. My point is, if
Speaker 4: this Clippers team could have figured out early on how
Speaker 4: to unlock a Vita Zubots and get him going and
Speaker 4: impose their will, and they tried. I mean, they had
Speaker 4: how many stints with the Vita Zubats before they figured
Speaker 4: it out? At least three before that second stint in
Speaker 4: the third quarter around the five to four minute mark
Speaker 4: where they finally figured out how to get him going. Finally.
Speaker 4: Had they just been able to do that earlier in
Speaker 4: the game, they wouldn't have been down twenty. They wouldn't
Speaker 4: have had as many turnovers, I don't think, because they
Speaker 4: were trying to play small and play at Okac's pace
Speaker 4: and that's not gonna work. Even when they won their
Speaker 4: minutes initially in the first quarter by going small, why
Speaker 4: would it say they went like plus four at one
Speaker 4: point right away they went plus eight when they put
Speaker 4: a two men. They were only down by one after
Speaker 4: the first quarter, But then they started to lose those
Speaker 4: small ball minutes. It wasn't sustainable. The only path to
Speaker 4: victory to me would be getting of each of Zubats
Speaker 4: going and whether it was on him or on the guys,
Speaker 4: getting him the basketball and making poor post entry passes.
Speaker 3: They couldn't do.
Speaker 4: It the first three or four stints with the each
Speaker 4: of Zubats till the end of the third quarter. Too little,
Speaker 4: too late. They were down by at least fifteen by
Speaker 4: the time they figured it out. In Oka. C out
Speaker 4: executed them to a degree. I guess late. I mean
Speaker 4: they hit a lot of big shots, and they hit
Speaker 4: a lot of free throws. Idn't think the Clippers, though,
Speaker 4: were awful. Only three turnovers in the fourth yes, three
Speaker 4: miss free throws. One of them turned into a three pointer,
Speaker 4: though off an offensive rebound. On the second one missed
Speaker 4: by Harden, so it's really two that hurts you. They
Speaker 4: weren't perfect. But it wasn't that they were so bad
Speaker 4: in the critical moments as it was. Okay, see answering
Speaker 4: every time the Clipper made a shot or getting to
Speaker 4: the free throw line, and Clippers not being able to
Speaker 4: defend without fouling on some pretty TICKI tac week calls.
Speaker 4: We'll take your phone calls. You know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: win right now, Mike in La, Mike, you're on Clippers
Speaker 4: stock without a maslin. What's up?
Speaker 2: Twenty What was it? Twenty two to twenty four? Twenty
Speaker 2: five turnovers?
Speaker 4: Twenty four?
Speaker 6: How many miss free throws?
Speaker 2: Twenty four turnovers? And what was it? Nine? Eight? Nine
Speaker 2: miss free throws?
Speaker 8: Nine?
Speaker 6: I mean, it's amazing that they got back in it.
Speaker 4: Well guess what they went encouraging about that They had
Speaker 4: their best three point shooting game of the season. This
Speaker 4: might be their best of the entire season. They went
Speaker 4: twenty of thirty seven from three. That's fifty four percent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I look, I like the fight for
Speaker 2: them to you know, get back in it when they
Speaker 2: were down twenty and to you know, make a game
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 6: But I mean, you know, I guess is it on
Speaker 6: the coaching staffs?
Speaker 2: I mean I know the coaches. Coaches aren't out there
Speaker 2: passing the ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're telling them to make those turnovers. Mike, that's
Speaker 4: what they're telling them. Yeah, no, I think it's what
Speaker 4: I said. They got sped up trying to play at
Speaker 4: Okac's pace. Oka See was top five in pace coming
Speaker 4: into this game. The Clippers were twenty ninth. But when
Speaker 4: things weren't working without a beatsa zoobots or you know,
Speaker 4: with him early on, they had to make an adjustment.
Speaker 4: They went small, they got into a track meet, and
Speaker 4: they either got a three pointer or turn the basketball over.
Speaker 4: It's felt like every possession, what are the.
Speaker 6: Other it really did?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, anyways, I guess bronkak Houston and hopefully we
Speaker 7: can you know, get two wins there.
Speaker 6: We need it.
Speaker 4: I agree with you, Mike. It's good to hear from you,
Speaker 4: my friend. All right, don't be a stranger, absolutely well,
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Speaker 4: five seventy LA Sports after their comeback comes up short.
Speaker 4: Too many turnovers, too many mistakes, and too deep of
Speaker 4: a hole against too good of a team in the
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City Thunder, with SGA going for forty five, his
Speaker 4: career high against his former team in the Clippers, and
Speaker 4: hitting fifteen of sixteen free throws attempted. That is a
Speaker 4: that is a really big number. Sixteen.
Speaker 6: Wow.
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Speaker 4: That thing, that turnover thing Clippers had twenty four Clippers
Speaker 4: lose one thirty four to one twenty eight in OKC
Speaker 4: to the Thunder. Lauren Hill on the way in here,
Speaker 4: Welcome back into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslain, the official
Speaker 4: postgame show of your Los Angeles Clippers. Whether you're listening
Speaker 4: on M five to seventy Sports, are watching on the
Speaker 4: YouTube side at Clippers Talk. Look, people are asking when's
Speaker 4: Kawhi coming back? I mean, guys, come on, what are
Speaker 4: we doing here? No one knows. I can't know. If
Speaker 4: you're asking that question the chat tonight, that's a mute.
Speaker 4: I can't take it. I mean, just listen to the
Speaker 4: pregame show with Lot Murray. So we got Lot Murray
Speaker 4: sound coming up too. But I asked him the question
Speaker 4: about Kawhi and nobody nobody knows, nobody can know. Yes,
Speaker 4: they could be eight and two or seven and four
Speaker 4: if they had Kawhi right now or eight and three.
Speaker 4: This was game eleven, but neither here nor there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Terrence Man wasn't great again. He did knock down a
Speaker 4: big three pointer in the second half, I believe, but
Speaker 4: he only played eighteen minutes. They're closing with guys who
Speaker 4: are getting it done, a mere coffee Chris done. They've
Speaker 4: out played Terrence Man without a doubt through eleven games,
Speaker 4: and I'm not here to defend it. If they went
Speaker 4: away from Terrence Man the starting lineup, I wouldn't bat nigh.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't now do I think it's the reason they're
Speaker 4: losing or when they lose it's on Terrence Man. Not really.
Speaker 4: It's as simple as if he doesn't play well early,
Speaker 4: or doesn't play as well as those guys, he doesn't
Speaker 4: get heavy minutes so yeah, tough one because of the turnovers.
Speaker 4: Tough one because of you know, people are pointing out that, well,
Speaker 4: the Clippers actually attempted more free throws than the okay
Speaker 4: see thunder, Okay, great, like the timing of some of
Speaker 4: the calls, the late calls, Like, just because they attempted
Speaker 4: more doesn't mean I know from kliper Nations perspective that
Speaker 4: they felt all of those were legit fouls or obvious
Speaker 4: foul are not tiki tak fouls that the Clippers were
Speaker 4: being called for, right, I felt like the Clippers were aggressive.
Speaker 4: I'm not complaining about them not getting enough calls. I'm
Speaker 4: complaining about some of the calls that went against them.
Speaker 4: And it's the only time this season I've said anything
Speaker 4: about the officials. It happens like once or twice a year.
Speaker 4: Do I think that's why they lost? No, if you
Speaker 4: have twenty four turnovers and miss nine free throws yourself,
Speaker 4: there's your problem. You gotta look internally first about what
Speaker 4: you can do better. So here was Lot Murray post
Speaker 4: game with Aviza Zoo Bots. I want you guys to
Speaker 4: hear this audio. It's not that one though, it's this one.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's this one. Do we got it?
Speaker 2: Playing against that kind of line of nobody over six six? Basically,
Speaker 2: what was the adjustment that you had to make from
Speaker 2: the first outside could have time to have the game
Speaker 2: that you did?
Speaker 8: Just you know, uh, that was throwing me early post
Speaker 8: up set, you know, the set defense that were shrinking
Speaker 8: the floor, that were trying to double from the baseline.
Speaker 8: They were going the first pass so and I didn't
Speaker 8: have a good spacing, so I kept turning the wall
Speaker 8: over and uh, I was just uh, you know, they
Speaker 8: were throwing the ball. I wasn't taking the ball out
Speaker 8: one after the max. I was the first one down
Speaker 8: the floor, and uh they would throw it to me
Speaker 8: when there was no there was no help, there was
Speaker 8: no shrinks on the floor, and uh, I could play
Speaker 8: against the defense was not set, so I was playing
Speaker 8: against you know, spawn one on one. Well, can you
Speaker 8: take away from this game from a defensive standpoint? I
Speaker 8: mean not much.
Speaker 2: That scored one.
Speaker 8: Thirty so not much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nice fade out there by Katie. I felt that deep.
Speaker 4: Not much. Not much. Shout out Patris and Buddy Show
Speaker 4: lose by six. There was big Zoo post game one
Speaker 4: thirty four one twenty eight your final n ok C
Speaker 4: as SGA win per career high forty five points, kind
Speaker 4: of salting the wound, insult to injury. He does it
Speaker 4: against his former team that traded him for Paul George,
Speaker 4: who's no longer here. Of course, it wasn't just for
Speaker 4: Paul George. It was to get Kawhi Leonard. If you
Speaker 4: get Paul George, Kawhi would sign a little more complicated.
Speaker 4: National media won't tell you that sometimes though, they'll just
Speaker 4: put up the trade graphic and graphic and be like, hey,
Speaker 4: they gave up all these picks just for Paul George.
Speaker 4: Like no, it was because they had an agreement from
Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard that he would come if they did the
Speaker 4: trade for Paul George. So it's really for two players.
Speaker 4: I know, Nuance is tough. Uh. It was the Clippers
Speaker 4: only having three turnovers in the fourth quarter that has
Speaker 4: me somewhat encouraged. They still missed three free throws, one
Speaker 4: of them ended up in a three pointer made though
Speaker 4: on an offensive rebound by Visa Zubos and some of
Speaker 4: the stuff if he was talking about there, totally agree with.
Speaker 4: And it makes sense when they could get a stop
Speaker 4: and then beat okay See down the floor and it
Speaker 4: beats the Zoo bots was hustling down the floor, so
Speaker 4: they wouldn't be able to load up on him with
Speaker 4: a double team or a triple team because their defense
Speaker 4: wasn't set yet. When they could kind of get in
Speaker 4: I don't know, a semi transition, then they'd give him
Speaker 4: the basketball. Was just one on one coverage and he
Speaker 4: was just detonating on whoever was guarding him. Caruso Jay
Speaker 4: Dubb didn't matter. Zoo was getting that bucket. They struggled
Speaker 4: on the first half against a set ok See team,
Speaker 4: and Big Zoo had to be better with some of
Speaker 4: those plays too. There were plays to be made where
Speaker 4: he turned the ball over. He had four turnovers. Let's
Speaker 4: go through the turnover list, shall we. It is the
Speaker 4: name of the game and it's why the Clippers lost
Speaker 4: this one. I guess twenty four Tulshol two for Terrence Man,
Speaker 4: three for Deris Jones Junior, four for Big Zoo as
Speaker 4: I mentioned, three for Norman Pale, five for James Harden.
Speaker 4: Of course, he has the ball in his hands far
Speaker 4: more than anyone else, and as the highest usage rating
Speaker 4: you would expect it. He also led them in the
Speaker 4: assist department with nine two Ferniko Batoum, you know who
Speaker 4: didn't have a turnover and had eight assists. Chris got
Speaker 4: that dog in him. Done. Chris Done had a hell
Speaker 4: of a game, guys. I can't say enough about how
Speaker 4: well he played. He played I don't know, like something
Speaker 4: like thirteen or fourteen straight minutes from midway through the
Speaker 4: third till midway through the fourth quarter. Something in there.
Speaker 4: He had a big rebound and put back over two
Speaker 4: defenders early in the game. He had the big three
Speaker 4: that killed a fourteen to ohero run in the second
Speaker 4: quarter by ok Se. That was one of the big runs,
Speaker 4: the biggest run where things started to get away from
Speaker 4: the Clippers, where the turnovers are coming in bunches. You
Speaker 4: can point to that for one of the reasons they
Speaker 4: lost this game. He had another three with thirty seconds
Speaker 4: left in that second quarter. He had that hustle play
Speaker 4: where he got to the floor in a loose ball
Speaker 4: quicker than I've seen just about anybody. But the last
Speaker 4: two fouls he picked up soft tender fouls, just not
Speaker 4: exactly a hard hack a shack type foul, but that's
Speaker 4: the way they were calling it. And the Clippers put
Speaker 4: themselves in a position with all the turnovers to where
Speaker 4: they were in an uphill battle against themselves and maybe
Speaker 4: against the officials.
Speaker 3: In some ways.
Speaker 4: It was a poorly officiated game. I felt like that, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it'd hurt the Clippers. Is it the reason they lost? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I don't think so, but I know you guys were
Speaker 4: talking about it, telling it, and I'm not going to
Speaker 4: avoid it. Were eleven games in and this is the
Speaker 4: first game that I've said anything about the refs. I
Speaker 4: think it was obvious on some of those calls. It
Speaker 4: was just tough. Dunn saved a possession around the nine
Speaker 4: thirty two mark of the fourth quarter. I mean, those
Speaker 4: hustle plays and the stuff he does is Pat bev esque.
Speaker 4: That's why he became my new favorite Clipper. I knew
Speaker 4: what he could bring. I said it before he played
Speaker 4: a game in a Clipper's uniform. There's your new Patrick Beverley.
Speaker 4: Chris Dunn, and his on ball defense is just incredible.
Speaker 4: Might be better in some ways because he's a bigger
Speaker 4: player than Patrick Beverly, really and that's very very high praise.
Speaker 4: But three of six two three pointers for him and
Speaker 4: eight assists to zero turnovers. He ended up a team
Speaker 4: high plus four in a game they lost by six.
Speaker 4: That's one where I look at the box score and
Speaker 4: the plus minus and it lines up with what my
Speaker 4: eyes saw when Chris Dunn was out there. They won
Speaker 4: those twenty seven minutes. Make it about twenty eight quick
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Speaker 4: postgame after they lose one thirty four to one twenty eight,
Speaker 4: battled back down twenty and OKC, but not good enough.
Speaker 4: They'll be in Houston on Wednesday. More on that coming
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Speaker 4: Clippers lose lateon OKC after they made a run in
Speaker 4: storm and Norman Powell. He had twenty nine of his
Speaker 4: thirty one points in the second half. Here's one of
Speaker 4: the most encouraging takeaways. First of all, they figured things
Speaker 4: out eventually with Beatza Zubots. That is something that needed
Speaker 4: to develop and they need to show some progress in
Speaker 4: that area. How they can play against small ball lineups
Speaker 4: with the BEATSA Zubots. They figured it out eventually, so
Speaker 4: hopefully next game they can start quicker. The other thing
Speaker 4: is Norman Powell. In the first half, guys had two
Speaker 4: points and how many shots did he end up getting up?
Speaker 4: He was also in foul trouble, so I mean that's
Speaker 4: part of it. He had three fouls in the first half.
Speaker 4: He got three shots up oh three, his two points
Speaker 4: at the free throw line. He came out like a
Speaker 4: demon in that third quarter. I mean, I know he
Speaker 4: wasn't a Deacon demon or whatever. He was a bruin,
Speaker 4: but he torched the net in the third including one
Speaker 4: of the toughest shots that anyone has made all season,
Speaker 4: not just in Clippers games in the NBA. That far
Speaker 4: side corner three falling out of bounds to beat the
Speaker 4: buzzer to end the third quarter was incredible, electrifying, and
Speaker 4: he could They couldn't shut the water off. They couldn't
Speaker 4: do anything about it once Norm caught fire. One of
Speaker 4: the most capable teams in the league to guard Norman
Speaker 4: Powell with all the defenders they have in the OKC Thunder,
Speaker 4: the best defense in the league, they could do nothing.
Speaker 4: Twenty nine points in the second half. In fact, how
Speaker 4: many minutes was that that he ended up playing in
Speaker 4: the second half. That's what I'm curious about here. So
Speaker 4: fifteen in the first half and then he ends up
Speaker 4: at thirty six, So what is that like nineteen minutes
Speaker 4: in the second half. It's my math, right, fifteen at
Speaker 4: twenty one? Yeah, twenty one minutes in the second half,
Speaker 4: and Norm had in those twenty one minutes, he had
Speaker 4: twenty nine points. That is special. Norm continues to play
Speaker 4: like an All star even when he didn't have it
Speaker 4: in the first half was cold, asse frio, it did
Speaker 4: not matter in the second half, scorching hot. To turn
Speaker 4: a game around like that is really important. I think
Speaker 4: for a guy who's coming into his own that I look,
Speaker 4: he's capable of this because he put in the work,
Speaker 4: but it's still different actually going out and performing. And
Speaker 4: now I'll have more confidence. If he starts slow in
Speaker 4: a game, it doesn't matter. He can turn it around.
Speaker 4: I mean that layup he had in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 4: splitting the defense left handed, just incredible. Norman Powell, where
Speaker 4: did he end up from three ass five of eight?
Speaker 4: What is this his ninth game with five to three pointers?
Speaker 4: Who has more games with five or more threes made
Speaker 4: than Norman Powell at this point? I think Lamela was
Speaker 4: in there, maybe Jason Tatum, they were competing in that area.
Speaker 4: Zacho Quality pulled that stat last time. Kay Newton doesn't care,
Speaker 4: and that's fine. Everybody has this Chris, but I just
Speaker 4: can't believe that he could start that poor and finish
Speaker 4: that strong. Thirty one points, twenty nine in the second half,
Speaker 4: twenty nine and twenty one second half minutes for Norman Powell.
Speaker 4: So build off of it. I say after wins, there
Speaker 4: are things you can work on. We talked about that
Speaker 4: after holding on against the Toronto Raptors, after having some
Speaker 4: really bad mistakes down the stretch against Sacramento when they
Speaker 4: were up big. How many double digit leads have they had?
Speaker 4: Almost every game they've had a double digit lead. So
Speaker 4: now you got a loss, but there are lessons to
Speaker 4: be learned. There's plenty of good stuff to take away
Speaker 4: from this ultimately disappointing defeat, and I'm hoping they build
Speaker 4: upon some of the good stuff that they learned in
Speaker 4: this game against Houston on Wednesday. Tip off for that
Speaker 4: one is at five pm. Well of your pregame show
Speaker 4: starting at four. Oh, we got one more. I thought
Speaker 4: this was it and there's your twenty fifth turnover of
Speaker 4: the night. We'll add one more on. That was my fault.
Speaker 4: I thought this was the final segment. We're coming back
Speaker 4: here for one more. Clippers d up losing one nOkc
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Speaker 4: Clippers lose in Okay. See, it was the first game
Speaker 4: so far this season they haven't led by double digits.
Speaker 4: I certainly had double digit turnovers twenty four total. That's
Speaker 4: what did the ben We've talked about the official sum
Speaker 4: but in the end, you missed nine free throws, you
Speaker 4: have twenty four turnovers. Ten in the second quarter when
Speaker 4: that fourteen to zero run happened, they just came in
Speaker 4: bunches over and over again. They couldn't even get a playoff.
Speaker 4: Clippers need to regroup, figure it out taking on a
Speaker 4: good Houston Rockets team that has more than just standings implications.
Speaker 4: The OKC thunder choose who they pick swap with between
Speaker 4: the Clippers and Rockets after this season, so you want
Speaker 4: to be ahead of the Rockets, so they want the
Speaker 4: better of the two picks, which means you want to
Speaker 4: be ahead of them in the standings. Ultimately, so huge
Speaker 4: two game mini series coming up Wednesday and Friday. Before
Speaker 4: we get out of here, I do want to thank
Speaker 4: the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seman, noa ego, Carlo
Speaker 4: Jimenez on the call, big brother Jake Warner was my friend.
Speaker 4: Happy Veterans Day, those who are serving, those who have served.
Speaker 4: And a big thank you to our producer Katie Newton
Speaker 4: tonight for not rubbing it in too much when I
Speaker 4: thought that was our last break maybe a little bit
Speaker 4: until Wednesday. I'm out of Mas and we will talk
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