Speaker 1: The LA Clippers.
Speaker 2: The game is ended, gather round boys, time to recap.
Speaker 1: But the post game coverage is just getting started. The
Speaker 1: success is the failure. Let's discuss this is Clippers locker
Speaker 1: room breaking down today's action with the pre and post
Speaker 1: game voice of the Clippers. Here's that a moss lead.
Speaker 3: The Clippers lose a heartbreaker. Hear it into it Dome
Speaker 3: to open things up in the twenty twenty four twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five NBA season as they fall in OT one,
Speaker 3: sixteen to one thirteen to the Phoenix Suns. Welcome into
Speaker 3: your postgame show. I'm at a Oslin coming up second half.
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Speaker 3: eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 3: phone number. But now we're rejoined by your radio voice
Speaker 3: of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carlo, unfortunately, you were
Speaker 3: very prophetic. You talked about a team scoring first in
Speaker 3: OT I don't know if it's Carlo's law, but we're not.
Speaker 4: We're especially not after a loss. I'm not taking credit
Speaker 4: for that.
Speaker 3: I do think those points are more pivotal than people
Speaker 3: realize because it sets its tone immediately. The Clippers were
Speaker 3: in a bit of an uphill battle, and Phoenix was
Speaker 3: relentless in getting downhill.
Speaker 5: In games of the line, anytime you look up at
Speaker 5: him and you see ot and you're trailing, it almost
Speaker 5: feels like, even though there's five whole minutes overtime, you
Speaker 5: wouldn't really stress. The Clippers were down four points with
Speaker 5: two minutes left in this ball game, but it feels
Speaker 5: more stressful when you have four minutes left and you're
Speaker 5: down by three, simply because the overtime rule. I will
Speaker 5: say in the WNBA finals, I also was correct first
Speaker 5: bucket winner did win in overtime. But want I don't
Speaker 5: want this. I don't want that credit. Especially tonight Clippers
Speaker 5: played downhill. I think they took that ninety nine to
Speaker 5: ninety lead at him, but ever since then they played
Speaker 5: a little bit from the bottom of the hill, fighting
Speaker 5: their way up. They tried in this one. I think
Speaker 5: fatigue had something to do with it. You can play
Speaker 5: as many preseason games as you want. You're not gonna
Speaker 5: mimic NBA action, NBA run. We saw James Harden feel
Speaker 5: like just run out of gas at the end of
Speaker 5: that one. Unable to hit that free throw, a rare
Speaker 5: miss for a guy who's been so clutch for this
Speaker 5: Clipper team. That could have tied things at one fourteen,
Speaker 5: and then the ball goes off his hands on the
Speaker 5: inbound on the next one.
Speaker 4: Just something that the Clippers.
Speaker 5: They let this one get away, no doubt, but I
Speaker 5: think there's a lot of positives to take away this system.
Speaker 5: How they played the entire second half on both ends
Speaker 5: of the floor. I think we're excellent. Kevin Durant did
Speaker 5: Kevin Durant like things, but the Clippers made it tough
Speaker 5: every single time when he had the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the Clippers team that had thirty nine
Speaker 3: points total in the first half. Their offense was doa
Speaker 3: after Vitza Zubats picked up two quick fouls, really threw
Speaker 3: them off the rhythm, off their timing patterns with some
Speaker 3: of I know it's not football, but with some of
Speaker 3: the movement out there on the floor in the high
Speaker 3: pick and roll between James Harden and of Vitza Zubots,
Speaker 3: it just really disrupted this team in the first half.
Speaker 3: And then that third quarter they found themselves. They figured
Speaker 3: out who they have to be on the offensive end
Speaker 3: to generate buckets in the half court, and it's as
Speaker 3: simple as high pick and roll with Avitza Zubots and
Speaker 3: James Harden. Those two combined for twenty six of their
Speaker 3: thirty five points in that third quarter to have the
Speaker 3: lead heading into the fourth of Vitza Zubats and James
Speaker 3: Harden both putting together a much better performance in the
Speaker 3: second half. But as you mentioned, James Harden, I felt
Speaker 3: like just ran out of gas. He's thirty five years
Speaker 3: of age, and we know they wanted to keep their
Speaker 3: minutes or his minutes down to around thirty four to
Speaker 3: thirty five. He ends up having to play forty late
Speaker 3: in this one because they go into ot and you
Speaker 3: could just see he was a little bit more lethargic
Speaker 3: out there late, leading to some mental mistakes and then
Speaker 3: also the turnover late.
Speaker 5: Yeah, eight turnovers in this one for James Harden, something
Speaker 5: the Clippers can't have when you consider they have twenty
Speaker 5: one on the ball game.
Speaker 4: But when you have the ball in his hands so.
Speaker 5: Much, you're gonna expect some turnovers, probably more than last year,
Speaker 5: just because Adam that usage rate is going to be
Speaker 5: so much higher for James Harden.
Speaker 4: The Clippers fought in this one.
Speaker 5: A big turning point something you mentioned Ivitza Zubats fouling
Speaker 5: out late in that fourth quarter. Harden doesn't have the
Speaker 5: robin to his batman on the offensive end, and the
Speaker 5: Clippers unable to really get rhythm on that end. Again,
Speaker 5: I think there's still a lot of positive that mere
Speaker 5: coffee to close the game was excellent for the Clippers. Defensively,
Speaker 5: Chris Dunn is a fun defender to watch. He MUCKs
Speaker 5: things up, he gets in the passing lane. He's fantastic
Speaker 5: on the defensive end. Derek Jones Junior was great. I
Speaker 5: thought Kay Jones even could have played more in this
Speaker 5: contest with a way he was able to attack the rim.
Speaker 5: If anything, we take away, Adam, if this is a
Speaker 5: Suns team projected to finish top four in the West,
Speaker 5: there's a Clippers team that can run with some of
Speaker 5: the best in the West.
Speaker 3: Hey, you mentioned it the Achilles heel for this team.
Speaker 3: As good as they were defensively, they held Phoenix to
Speaker 3: one hundred and three points through four quarters, so the
Speaker 3: defense definitely showed up even in the first half.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 3: I believe the Suns had what forty seven to forty
Speaker 3: five points, They didn't break fifty, But the turnovers over
Speaker 3: and over again, and some key ones. Obviously the most
Speaker 3: key one late down three with three seconds left late
Speaker 3: in this ballgame. But you mentioned the ones by James Harden,
Speaker 3: he struggled throughout the preseason with turnovers. I think it's
Speaker 3: as simple as they're trying a little too hard to
Speaker 3: find angles to make things happen in the half court
Speaker 3: with guys that you know aren't used to playing as
Speaker 3: much isoballer aren't used to having so much on their
Speaker 3: shoulders to create for themselves offensively, So therefore the passes
Speaker 3: have to be perfect. And Phoenix was very good in
Speaker 3: transition with their transition defense, especially in the first half
Speaker 3: of this one, where the Clippers weren't getting those easy
Speaker 3: buckets we saw throughout the preseason.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Phoenix did a great job at him
Speaker 5: of getting back on the defensive end, really forcing the
Speaker 5: Clippers to play in the half court, and that forces
Speaker 5: them to slow things down on the offensive end. I
Speaker 5: would like the Clippers to continue, even if it does
Speaker 5: lead to a couple extra turnovers. I think having that
Speaker 5: threat on offense we saw how many times Derek Jones
Speaker 5: Junior was able to get up in transition, finish in transition,
Speaker 5: Norman Powell, I think was a really really bright spot
Speaker 5: for this Clippers team today, especially on the offensive end.
Speaker 5: He was able to get out in transition. The Clippers
Speaker 5: played aggressive norms defense, by the way, I'd loved when
Speaker 5: the deflection numbers come out later to or probably early tomorrow,
Speaker 5: I'm definitely gonna look for how many deflections Norman pal
Speaker 5: had and this one felt like he was everywhere on
Speaker 5: that end. This is a good Phoenix team. I mean,
Speaker 5: this is a very good Phoenix team that got better
Speaker 5: from last year, that has some of the best ISO
Speaker 5: scorers in the game, and the Clippers were right there
Speaker 5: all night long. And this is a Phoenix team, Adam.
Speaker 5: They're starting five outside of Tyas Jones has been together
Speaker 5: for an entire season. The most of their bench has
Speaker 5: been here for an entire season a year ago. The
Speaker 5: Clippers meanwhile bringing in a whole bunch of new pieces.
Speaker 5: It's gonna take some time to mess and Jeel, you
Speaker 5: don't have the luxury of maybe playing some of the
Speaker 5: lower teams in the NBA. The Clippers, of course, take
Speaker 5: on a lot of playoff teams to start the season.
Speaker 5: I think five of their first six games are against
Speaker 5: playoff teams. So the question is going to be for
Speaker 5: the Clippers, can you learn and still come away with
Speaker 5: victories as the season goes on. Ten of Phoenix's thirteen
Speaker 5: points in overtime. Adam at the free throw line. Have
Speaker 5: to be more disciplined on that end.
Speaker 3: It's just not being able to defend without fouling. We
Speaker 3: talked about the aggressiveness and the approach on that end
Speaker 3: with Jeff Van Gundhi and how the are going to
Speaker 3: call it. It's a judgment call, but it obviously greatly
Speaker 3: affects the brand of basketball the Clippers are trying to
Speaker 3: play out there. Not saying it was called unfairly tonight,
Speaker 3: it's just the Clippers have to be aware of that.
Speaker 3: Niko Batoum was picking up fouls left in right in
Speaker 3: the second half and seemed to not have an idea
Speaker 3: exactly what was a little bit too physical or what
Speaker 3: he could get away with out there, and that was
Speaker 3: a little bit alarming to see a vet like that
Speaker 3: who was about to turn thirty six not know what
Speaker 3: a foul is. So there were some players out there
Speaker 3: who are understandably frustrated, I think. But the Clippers lost
Speaker 3: this game because Kevin Durant was able to hit a
Speaker 3: tough jumper over a double team to get this ball
Speaker 3: game into ot where the Clippers at one point had
Speaker 3: a nine to ten point lead in that fourth quarter
Speaker 3: where they had a chance to really step on the
Speaker 3: gas and pull away and take that lead to fifteen
Speaker 3: or twenty points. Credits to the Phoenix Suns they got out.
Speaker 3: Those were those moments where they got out and ran,
Speaker 3: got some easy buckets off de flections, and the Clippers
Speaker 3: turnovers really killed their offense during those key minutes where
Speaker 3: Phoenix got back into the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Phoenix is ability to take advantage of those turnomers
Speaker 5: to get out and run to be aggressive downhill. They
Speaker 5: did a fantastic job of really seizing the moment, especially
Speaker 5: late in the game getting to their superstars. You really
Speaker 5: miss Kawhi Leonard in this one, Adam, because you feel
Speaker 5: like down the stretch Kawhi Leonard couldn't be somebody to
Speaker 5: take that load off James Harden to score the basketball
Speaker 5: to get downhill to create himself. I mean, the Clippers
Speaker 5: have a couple of superstars. The problem is Leonard out
Speaker 5: according to Sham Sharania for multiple weeks in his report.
Speaker 5: So James Harden's gonna have to be mister Clutch for
Speaker 5: the Clippers, and let's be honest, he was clutch get
Speaker 5: down the stretch, just could not get that last free
Speaker 5: throw to go.
Speaker 4: Credit Phoenix.
Speaker 5: They clearly are a team hunting, trying to prove that
Speaker 5: last year was a fluke after being swept in the
Speaker 5: first round by Minnesota. I think the Clippers adam proved
Speaker 5: who they are today, A scrappy team that's gonna fight
Speaker 5: hard and probably not shoot twenty seven percent from three
Speaker 5: night in the night out, a couple more of those go,
Speaker 5: I think the Clippers come away with a win today.
Speaker 5: Your two best three point shooters, Norman Palin James Harden
Speaker 5: three for sixteen on the ball game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is absolutely ball club that looks to have
Speaker 3: the makings of a team that Clipper Nation can be
Speaker 3: very proud of. Because the effort was outstanding and in
Speaker 3: a game where the offensive advantage and the talent disparity
Speaker 3: was greatly in favor of the Phoenix Suns, the Clippers
Speaker 3: more than competed in the second half. They had a
Speaker 3: chance to pull away late in the fourth quarter, weren't
Speaker 3: able to do so tip your hat to the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 3: They'll be right back here next week on Halloween, October
Speaker 3: thirty first, for a rematch here at Into It Dome.
Speaker 3: As for the Clippers, their next game in Denver on Saturday,
Speaker 3: a back to back starting in Denver against Nikola Jokic
Speaker 3: who is no Jokis and the Nuggets, and then on
Speaker 3: Sunday they're taking on the Golden State Warriors up in
Speaker 3: San fran at Chase Center. So you're getting tested early here.
Speaker 3: But I like the fight we saw from this Clippers team.
Speaker 3: It's exactly what we expected with the way that this
Speaker 3: team has been constructed.
Speaker 5: Yep, you got two days off and then you got
Speaker 5: too straight back to Banks.
Speaker 4: Baby, here we go.
Speaker 3: More Clippers postgame coming up next. But Carlo Jimenez, my friend,
Speaker 3: great call is always what talk to you from God.
Speaker 3: I was about to say Pepsi Center. It can't be
Speaker 3: that anymore Ball Arena. As the Clippers fall tonight one
Speaker 3: sixteen to one thirteen to the Phoenix Suns, Carlo, talk
Speaker 3: to you on Saturday, Clippers in Denver.
Speaker 4: We back at him.
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Speaker 3: game box score here, Oh Clippers and James Harden in
Speaker 3: the second half, that was the story. James Harden was fantastic.
Speaker 3: A Viza zu Bots got them back into the game
Speaker 3: in that third quarter. We talked about it. Big Zoo
Speaker 3: absolutely had to turn things around after a dismal first half,
Speaker 3: but ended up with ten points in the third quarter alone.
Speaker 3: That's what you wanted to see from Aviza Zoo Bots.
Speaker 3: Because the positive and the biggest one I'm taking away
Speaker 3: from this ballgame is they found how to play offensively
Speaker 3: by the time the second half started. That's it right there.
Speaker 3: The Clippers had to click in with Big Zoo with
Speaker 3: James Harden, and that got them going in the half court.
Speaker 3: Were those two combined for twenty six of their thirty
Speaker 3: five points in that third quarter alone, and Big Zoo
Speaker 3: started things off with a push shot. I said, for
Speaker 3: them to get it going, it starts with Big Zoo
Speaker 3: here in this third quarter, and it was exactly that.
Speaker 3: The Clippers also, we're starting to be able to get
Speaker 3: downhill a little bit, starting to get in transition. Zoo
Speaker 3: had a dunk on an outlet pass. It just looked
Speaker 3: like he found himself and the Clippers found their identity
Speaker 3: on the offensive end. That is something guys I was
Speaker 3: extremely concerned about in the first half. Well, we saw
Speaker 3: in the first half there were so many possessions where
Speaker 3: guys were out of position, where they were trying to
Speaker 3: do too much or not do enough. Kevin Porter Junior
Speaker 3: really struggled in this game. We'll talk more about that.
Speaker 3: I know some of you were saying we needed Jordan Miller. Look,
Speaker 3: they took the Phoenix Suns to ot and it took
Speaker 3: a tough shot over a double team by Kevin Durant
Speaker 3: to get them into two over time. But overall, Clippers
Speaker 3: shoot forty five percent from the floor after they were
Speaker 3: at thirty five percent in the first half, so I
Speaker 3: think they shot a fifty five percent in the second half.
Speaker 3: And after starting, I want to say it was two
Speaker 3: of sixteen or two of twelve from three. The Clipper
Speaker 3: started to get something to go. And how about a
Speaker 3: Mere Coffee spectacular performance twenty five minutes, four to four,
Speaker 3: two of two from the outside, and a Mere dropped
Speaker 3: eleven points. They're not in this game without a Mere
Speaker 3: Coffee as well. He was incredible that three hit at
Speaker 3: the end of the shot clock, the straightaway one from
Speaker 3: thirty feet out. A Mere Coffee there was doing a
Speaker 3: little bit of work and I talked about him all preseason.
Speaker 3: He looked really good now. He also talked about Jordan
Speaker 3: Miller and guys fighting for minutes, and I thought a
Speaker 3: Mere Coffee really established himself as being somebody that has
Speaker 3: to stay on the floor for the Clippers right now
Speaker 3: as they're looking for offense. If he can provide offense
Speaker 3: with the defense, he was a to play on Kevin Durant,
Speaker 3: who still had that crazy step back over him, and
Speaker 3: James Harden, who came over to help with the contest.
Speaker 3: Like Amir had a couple of turnarounds on the paint
Speaker 3: and then two three pointers eleven points more than did
Speaker 3: his job on the offensive end, and you know what
Speaker 3: he can bring defensively. This was a game though, where
Speaker 3: the Clippers couldn't defend without fouling. In key moments. The
Speaker 3: Phoenix Suns attempted thirty four free throws and were knocking
Speaker 3: all of them down in ot and that was the difference.
Speaker 3: I give him credit because it looked like the wall
Speaker 3: had them rattled early on. But then there were some
Speaker 3: issues with Phoenix and it was Yusuf Nurkic who knocked
Speaker 3: down a big shot and a couple excuse me, free
Speaker 3: throws late more on that quick time out will come back.
Speaker 3: Second half highlights. Clippers fall one sixteen to one thirteen
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Speaker 3: Credit the Phoenix Suns. Clippers had a nine point lead
Speaker 3: in that fourth quarter. They were in control after a
Speaker 3: Terrence Man reverse bucket on a Chris dunnsteele. It was
Speaker 3: eighty eight to seventy nine, but the Suns would go
Speaker 3: on I believe a twelve to four run. They got
Speaker 3: the game into ot and they outscored the Clippers there
Speaker 3: thirteen to ten as they were knocking down all their
Speaker 3: free throws. I believe it was Bradley Beal who hit
Speaker 3: a three pointer. Clippers lose by three in the home
Speaker 3: opener and the into a dome opener. One's sixteen pint
Speaker 3: thirteen was your final. Clippers head to Denver for the
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Speaker 3: This Clippers team motivates me. I saw a team tonight
Speaker 3: that you guys can get behind. I saw the lunch
Speaker 3: Payal type of team. The underdog Clippers look like they
Speaker 3: were about to pull one out against a Phoenix Suns
Speaker 3: team that has far more talent on the offensive end
Speaker 3: right now than the Clippers without Kawhi Leonard they do.
Speaker 3: And the Clippers were miserable offensively in the first half.
Speaker 3: They were as bad as I feared they could look
Speaker 3: in the half court in the first half. If things
Speaker 3: didn't go their way and there was a disruptor, something
Speaker 3: that threw off their rhythm, their timing, their offense. It
Speaker 3: was Big Zoo picking up two fouls right away. I
Speaker 3: actually said it on Clips and Dip. Just the other day.
Speaker 3: We were arguing about who would be taken out of
Speaker 3: the game first, and I said, you know, if Big
Speaker 3: Zoo picks up two fouls, well that changes everything. He'll
Speaker 3: be the first guy out. That happened. Kay Jones came in,
Speaker 3: did have a couple of dunks, dunked on Mason Plumbley,
Speaker 3: But that Clippers team in the first half was down
Speaker 3: forty seven to thirty nine, their defense keeping them in
Speaker 3: it when they were shooting under thirty five percent, but
Speaker 3: the Suns were only at forty two percent, but they
Speaker 3: had hit ten three pointers. The Clippers, though, battled back
Speaker 3: immediately in that third quarter. I said on Twitter, things
Speaker 3: need to change with the Vita Zu bots. Immediately in
Speaker 3: the third That's exactly what happened. Big Zoo got to work.
Speaker 3: He got them their first bucket of the third quarter,
Speaker 3: a little push shot, then he hit a jumper. Do
Speaker 3: I have to apologize to someone who's been talking about
Speaker 3: Big Zoo and wanting him to take more jumpers. Well,
Speaker 3: he made one all of last season. He made one
Speaker 3: in their first game so far this season. Now it
Speaker 3: was unguarded. They gave it up. It was about a
Speaker 3: thirteen footer, but Zoo sunk it. The momentum shift happened,
Speaker 3: another shout out of a timeout after a challenge by Phoenix.
Speaker 3: Then Zoo had a dunk on a long outlet pass.
Speaker 3: I think it was from James Harden. Zoo had ten
Speaker 3: points in the third quarter alone after just five in
Speaker 3: the first half. James Harden, after going two of eleven
Speaker 3: in the first half right there with his pick and
Speaker 3: roll partner. Those two guys played together. When things are
Speaker 3: going well, they're going well. And that's what happened in
Speaker 3: the third when Harden woke up too, because after starting
Speaker 3: two for eleven with four points, by the end of
Speaker 3: the third quarter he had quadruple that number. He had
Speaker 3: sixteen points in the third alone, and the Clippers led
Speaker 3: heading into the fourth seventy four to seventy two. And
Speaker 3: I credit the group that started the fourth quarter with
Speaker 3: Big Zoo leading them was awesome. They were really good.
Speaker 3: They were a scrap be scrappy bunch there was a
Speaker 3: good fall away by a Mere Coffee, a done steel
Speaker 3: on KD Man misses the layup, Chris duns there to
Speaker 3: put it back in. Then Kevin Durant missed a couple
Speaker 3: of free throws, a Zoo hook shot, a Norm jumper,
Speaker 3: a KD three, and a Mere turnaround jumper. Again, the
Speaker 3: Clippers were thriving the mix of some second unit guys
Speaker 3: in Big Zoo and Norm. It was working guys. They
Speaker 3: got up by nine. It was eighty eight to seventy
Speaker 3: nine at the seven to twenty seven mark of the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter. After Terrence Man had a really nice transition
Speaker 3: playoff at Chris dun Steele where he got the reverse
Speaker 3: layup to go side stepping defenders a little up and undermove.
Speaker 3: But that's when things started to go back in the
Speaker 3: favor of the Phoenix Suns. Terrence Man missed a couple
Speaker 3: of free throws. That's the theme tonight. Clippers just twenty
Speaker 3: one to thirty at the charity stripe. Tias Jones then
Speaker 3: got an easy one. Think it was in transition. It's
Speaker 3: eighty eight eighty one. A Mere Coffee then knocks down
Speaker 3: the late shot clock hoist a prayer you gotta put
Speaker 3: it up. Three pointer from thirty two feet out straight away.
Speaker 3: Clippers are up by ten now, but then d book
Speaker 3: three pointer answers it, then a two pointer, a mirror
Speaker 3: another three. Clippers are still up by eight. With five
Speaker 3: twenty three left, it's ninety four to eighty six, but
Speaker 3: Phoenix has started to find their rhythm. Yusef Nurkic gets
Speaker 3: a six footer to go. James Harden pull up overties Jones.
Speaker 3: Clippers still up by eight, but then Tias Jones got
Speaker 3: in transition easy layup. Clippers defense was nowhere to be found.
Speaker 3: Back comes James Harden, overties Jones hunt the mismatch. Clippers
Speaker 3: up by eight. They're up by nine with three fifty
Speaker 3: two left in the fourth quarter. After a mirror goes
Speaker 3: one up two at the at the line, they're up
Speaker 3: ninety nine to ninety. You gotta take that game home.
Speaker 3: You just have to up nine. Three fifty two left.
Speaker 3: Devin Booker clutch three kd tough two. Clippers started to
Speaker 3: clank some. James Harden missed a tough thirty foot three pointer,
Speaker 3: then a floater in the lane that was short. All
Speaker 3: of a sudden, it's ninety nine to ninety five, Devin
Speaker 3: Booker's at the Charity Stripe. It's ninety nine to ninety six,
Speaker 3: after Terrence Man fouled out, then a James Harden turnover
Speaker 3: takeaway by Tias Jones. That was I believe the post
Speaker 3: entry past to of Vitza Zubats as Phoenix had gone
Speaker 3: small and the Clippers were trying to exploit that, but
Speaker 3: they were probably trying to little bit too hard. First
Speaker 3: of each A Zubos picked up that bad offensive foul.
Speaker 3: That was actually the next possession. I should say they
Speaker 3: got it back after a Roys O'Neill offensive foul, but
Speaker 3: they were trying to force feed him a little bit
Speaker 3: and the Clippers weren't able to execute their offense. Tyas
Speaker 3: Jones finally got a block on a James Harden layup
Speaker 3: where he couldn't get to go. Look like there was contact,
Speaker 3: didn't matter. KD and one on the other end with
Speaker 3: a minute thirty nine left, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: it goes from the Clippers being up nine with just
Speaker 3: under four minutes left to Phoenix up by one. James
Speaker 3: Harden got back to work though after KD completed the
Speaker 3: and one to put him up one on one to
Speaker 3: ninety nine. James Harden tough step back jumper over Tias Jones.
Speaker 3: Clippers get a stop after Grace and Allen miss. Then
Speaker 3: it's James Harden at the line. He made both free
Speaker 3: throws with forty one seconds left, Clippers up one oh
Speaker 3: three to one oh one. What is Katie Kevin durant to?
Speaker 3: He goes slim reaper mode that fifteen footer fallaway over
Speaker 3: a mere coffee and James Harden tough. That's the shot
Speaker 3: right there. Clippers couldn't get the stop. Tie ball game.
Speaker 3: James Harden floater bounces off the rim. Couldn't get the
Speaker 3: friendly role. Then goes into overtime and the Clippers lose
Speaker 3: this one as Phoenix was living at the charity stripe
Speaker 3: and the Clippers offense and James Harden missed a free
Speaker 3: throw late and then had a turnover down by three
Speaker 3: with three seconds left at the very end of the game. Heartbreaker.
Speaker 3: We'll talk more about it next quick time out. Sixteen
Speaker 3: to one thirteen was your final. Clippers lose to the
Speaker 3: Phoenix Suns here add into it. Dome coming up next.
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Speaker 3: Clippers fall one sixteen, so one thirteen, n ot hear
Speaker 3: it Into It Dome they start off the season. Oh
Speaker 3: and one, they start off into It domeh and one
Speaker 3: they're in their into It Dome era. Man the Suns.
Speaker 3: Something about the Suns. Clipper Nation already was upset with
Speaker 3: them after tonight, even more so. Welcome back into Clippers Talk.
Speaker 3: I'm at a Maslin. Whether you're listening on a five
Speaker 3: seventy LA Sports or if you're on the YouTube side
Speaker 3: at Clippers Talk, you want to get in on the
Speaker 3: chat here. People are talking about if Harden could just
Speaker 3: lock in the last two minutes. Look, I'm not putting
Speaker 3: the game on Harden. If he has to do that
Speaker 3: much to win every night, guy, that's not a recipe
Speaker 3: for success. I'm telling you right now. That can be
Speaker 3: very problematic hard and playing forty minutes. They don't want that.
Speaker 3: They know that's not sustainable. They know they have a
Speaker 3: back to back coming up this weekend. The guy who
Speaker 3: came in to spell him tonight was not very good.
Speaker 3: And Kevin Porter Junior thirteen minutes one of eight, couldn't
Speaker 3: find a shot, took some ill advised shots. He has
Speaker 3: to be better. There were a lot of Clippers that
Speaker 3: can play better, and even James Harden going two of
Speaker 3: eleven to the first half. Look, if he starts faster,
Speaker 3: if their offense starts faster, they're not in that position
Speaker 3: where they're down at the half like that. But they battled,
Speaker 3: and they had the lead with just under four minutes left,
Speaker 3: up by nine at into a dome over Phoenix. They
Speaker 3: couldn't close it out. They ran out of gas. Tough
Speaker 3: one Klipernation, I get it. We'll start things off with
Speaker 3: Brandon in Nashville. Brand random drops Jose and Southgate.
Speaker 2: Jose, what's that at him?
Speaker 6: What's up at him?
Speaker 3: It's appropriate that you're the first call on Clippers stock right.
Speaker 6: Come on, yes, sir, Look this game was not on Harden.
Speaker 6: It was on Carlos for mentioning the first point in overtime,
Speaker 6: and it was for you mentioning those two thousand on Zuba. Now,
Speaker 6: I'm just kidding, man.
Speaker 3: I was going to way to start things off.
Speaker 6: God, look, I'm trying to players.
Speaker 3: Decide things right. There is no broadcasters jinks. The players
Speaker 3: are the ones who put in the work. We don't
Speaker 3: take credit when they do well. We're not going to
Speaker 3: take credit either of the blame when they don't.
Speaker 6: Look at them. I'm just trying to laugh.
Speaker 3: Okay, alright, I got you. Continue.
Speaker 6: Oh man, for a second, I was in my second
Speaker 6: place when we were scored this for five minutes. But
Speaker 6: after that it's up until probably three men in mark
Speaker 6: in the fourth quarter. The office were great, We're moving
Speaker 6: the ball, everyone was touching the ball, everyone was coming
Speaker 6: off screens. But then when once we got close to
Speaker 6: the game, I mean closer end of the game, it
Speaker 6: just stayed in James harden hand, which I get it,
Speaker 6: you need to keep us in there. But we just
Speaker 6: got to keep that motion going. Oh that's a tough
Speaker 6: one at him, but I want to have lost an
Speaker 6: any any other way out shame under Dog New Doghouse,
Speaker 6: class Dog, clip.
Speaker 3: Ard Jose and Southgate always ends it with that, and
Speaker 3: then we give a little clap afterwards. Great start here
Speaker 3: on Clippers Talk. We'll take a quick time out. We'll
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Speaker 3: is sewn and Inglewood?
Speaker 4: JJ?
Speaker 3: The boy is asking on the YouTube side the goat
Speaker 3: Sean from Inglewood? Where is he? That was jose and Southgate.
Speaker 3: You guys can't hear the callers. That's a little bit surprising.
Speaker 3: I'll check on that on the YouTube side. More Clippers
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Speaker 3: Clippers lose one sixteen to one thirteen here at the
Speaker 3: Intuit Dome home opener in ot tow the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 3: Welcome back into Clippers Talk. I'm out a Maslim. Whether
Speaker 3: you're listening on AMPIRE seventy LA Sports or on the
Speaker 3: Clippers Talk side on YouTube. Frankie Boy nine says, they're
Speaker 3: in the chat. I love this Clippers team. My god,
Speaker 3: we played pounds to pound with a team with supposedly
Speaker 3: three All stars. Yeah, you can't knock the fight. Harden
Speaker 3: with twenty five points in the second half. I know
Speaker 3: he missed the free throw, he had the turnover, but guys,
Speaker 3: he had multiple blowbys late in the game where I
Speaker 3: was like, whoa, this is not last year's version of
Speaker 3: James Harden. It's not Philly's version. He had more burst.
Speaker 3: You know, me and Dime Dropper are always watching for that. Uh,
Speaker 3: quickly here Alan leaving the game, you're on Clippers talk
Speaker 3: here on MPUs seventy LA sports Ilan.
Speaker 7: Hey, you know a couple of thoughts. I'm sitting in
Speaker 7: the Swell section, and I actually do think that section
Speaker 7: is making a difference. I think it's intimidating and it
Speaker 7: had a brilliant and it's working. Uh it's called it's
Speaker 7: getting the Clippers a couple extra points a game just
Speaker 7: through miss free throws and stuff like that. You know,
Speaker 7: I just would have loved to have seen it. Looked
Speaker 7: like Powell had you know, a little bit of a
Speaker 7: stroke and sowed a coffee, and I just don't think
Speaker 7: he saw Duran. He scored every important basket you know,
Speaker 7: in crunch time. And I don't think we just have
Speaker 7: to go to hard end for everything. I think there
Speaker 7: were other guys who could have thanked a couple of shots.
Speaker 3: Here's the problem.
Speaker 7: He was frustrating.
Speaker 3: Harden was the one who got him in like he
Speaker 3: was making all those shots until he wasn't. So you
Speaker 3: kind of had to see if he still had the
Speaker 3: hot hand, right.
Speaker 7: I I he was.
Speaker 3: He was the one who was cooking him.
Speaker 7: But you know those two times when he could have
Speaker 7: taken a shot and he was intimidated by Durant in
Speaker 7: the paint, by those long arms, you just wish he
Speaker 7: had put those up.
Speaker 3: What about the crossovern Durant to get to the basket,
Speaker 3: like he also blew by him and drew the.
Speaker 7: Foul great so then widen.
Speaker 3: So basically when he made them, but you didn't like
Speaker 3: James Harden when he missed them.
Speaker 7: No wrong, I liked it. I liked it when he
Speaker 7: took the shots, and I didn't like it when he
Speaker 7: passed off. And it looks like he could have taken
Speaker 7: the shots and he didn't.
Speaker 3: It wasn't earlier you were saying, get the other guys involved.
Speaker 3: Now you're saying you liked him when he took the.
Speaker 7: Shot, So then bill a play. If he's not gonna
Speaker 7: if he's too scared of Durant in the paint, build
Speaker 7: a play around somebody else made him think somebody else
Speaker 7: is gonna take a shot.
Speaker 3: Again, he got downhill, got to Durant. I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly what you mean now, and I'm
Speaker 3: trying to follow.
Speaker 7: You really want Harden taking every every French time attempt,
Speaker 7: you know, I don't.
Speaker 3: Want any one player always taking every shot. But you
Speaker 3: just said, so yourself take the shot, but then don't
Speaker 3: take the shot. I'm having trouble following you.
Speaker 7: Alan you're building, you're building a play. You're building a
Speaker 7: play around the guy, and he's all the way in
Speaker 7: the paint. If he's not going to do it. If
Speaker 7: you built a play and he's not going to take
Speaker 7: the shot, then he's not the guy to build the
Speaker 7: play around that.
Speaker 3: What shots? What shots was he not taking? I just
Speaker 3: don't understand because you started off by saying he took
Speaker 3: every shot, and now you're saying he's not taking shots.
Speaker 3: That's the disconnect right now.
Speaker 7: I'm saying, I'm saying he took, had every offensive play
Speaker 7: built around him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a system nobody else can create like he
Speaker 3: can on this Clippers team. That's how they were able
Speaker 3: to score at all.
Speaker 7: I looked, I saw guys who looked like they deserved
Speaker 7: a shot to take some shots and have some plays
Speaker 7: tried around him, and in crunch time there and they
Speaker 7: didn't take it. We don't know when Kohy coming back.
Speaker 7: This is not a way to win games. In the
Speaker 7: fourth quarter. You saw with somebody like brand who's like
Speaker 7: kind of turns it on right there at the end
Speaker 7: and made those key shots.
Speaker 3: Alan, I appreciate it. I still you're all over the
Speaker 3: place a little bit. I appreciate the phone call. I do.
Speaker 3: I just don't know what you want. Like Harden is
Speaker 3: going to run the offense for this team. That's who
Speaker 3: he is. That's how you generate everything off of him.
Speaker 3: And it wasn't every single shot. He took a lot
Speaker 3: of them. He made a lot of them. He's the
Speaker 3: reason they were up by ten. A lot of that
Speaker 3: was him. So it's tough, quick time out. We'll come back,
Speaker 3: we'll close things out. Clippers lose one sixteen to one
Speaker 3: thirteen in the into it dome opener. More of your
Speaker 3: phone calls eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy
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Speaker 3: Clippers losing ot to the Phoenix Suns here and into
Speaker 3: a dome one sixteen to one thirteen in game one
Speaker 3: here and into a dome game one of the regular season.
Speaker 3: Clippers come up just a few shots, a few plays short.
Speaker 3: KD hit a really tough shot at the end of
Speaker 3: regulation over a double team. Harden came over to help.
Speaker 3: Didn't matter. He's seven feet tall. The Durantela, with long legs,
Speaker 3: long arms, was able to create enough separation. Some of
Speaker 3: that is just, you know, an all time scorer, one
Speaker 3: of the best ever, a Hall of Famer, being too
Speaker 3: good for the Clippers. The people want Jordan Miller. I'm
Speaker 3: seeing that. In the chat on the YouTube side, Lee
Speaker 3: Iban said that Michael Torres said, hopefully KPJ can shake
Speaker 3: off the rust in the next few games. He has
Speaker 3: to score for this team to have a shot. I
Speaker 3: mean they have a shot even with him not scoring tonight,
Speaker 3: So I'm not sure that's necessarily accurate. He was that
Speaker 3: bad and the Clippers still were up by ten in
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter. At one point, up by nine with
Speaker 3: just under four minutes left. Have to find a way
Speaker 3: to close out that game. I know we have some
Speaker 3: audio post game from coach Lou. It's quick here. I
Speaker 3: want to hear from Coach Lou in this SoundBite, maybe
Speaker 3: a little bit of insight on just went wrong? What what?
Speaker 3: What went wrong? Spit it out Ocelind's late in the
Speaker 3: ball game with the Clippers up nine, with nine with
Speaker 3: just under four minutes left, what's it.
Speaker 1: Like on the floor looking up at that wall?
Speaker 8: The wall's crazy. That's our six man. Those guys allow
Speaker 8: you know, they're into the game. I think even made
Speaker 8: Katie miss two free throws, you know in a row,
Speaker 8: you know, just being loud, and so we need that
Speaker 8: every single night. And it was good to see.
Speaker 3: What's it like on the floor looking up at that wall? Ye,
Speaker 3: same question, We got it the walls. Coach Lou there
Speaker 3: talking about the wall, and it was everybody there at
Speaker 3: the wall performed. I thought the into a Dome experience
Speaker 3: was top notch as you would expect. Everything went off
Speaker 3: without a hitch. It's just unfortunate that Clippers couldn't come through,
Speaker 3: as the crowd really helped them rally and did make
Speaker 3: a difference. Like Allan said on the phone line earlier,
Speaker 3: and I want to point something out that you guys
Speaker 3: have been bringing up in the chat, but one of
Speaker 3: the encouraging signs tonight was the Clippers having thirteen offensive
Speaker 3: rebounds and out rebounding Phoenix fifty one to forty two.
Speaker 3: You don't often lose a ball game, and I guess
Speaker 3: you could see this both ways, depending if you're the
Speaker 3: optimist of the pessimist. You don't typically lose a ball
Speaker 3: game where you get up fourteen more shots than the opposition.
Speaker 3: Both teams had twenty two turnovers. The Clippers lost after
Speaker 3: getting up fourteen more shots. That first half offense and
Speaker 3: especially from distance, was just miserable. They figure that out.
Speaker 3: They put it together for forty eight minutes on the
Speaker 3: offensive end, with Big Zoo and James Harden both playing
Speaker 3: to their capabilities like we saw in the second half.
Speaker 3: They'll be okay, but it's gonna be a tough matchup.
Speaker 3: Obviously on Saturday in Denver versus the Nuggets, the front
Speaker 3: end of a back to back. That's an afternooner starting
Speaker 3: at two pm with your tip off. We'll have your
Speaker 3: pregames starting at one, and then they'll be on Sunday
Speaker 3: in San Francisco taking on the Golden State Warriors, so
Speaker 3: two of the more competitive teams in the Western Conference
Speaker 3: before they return back to into It Dome next Wednesday
Speaker 3: against the Portland trail Blazers. Clippers gotta find a way
Speaker 3: to at least get the split this weekend. They have
Speaker 3: two days off. I like this early schedule where it's
Speaker 3: I know the back to backs are tough, but you
Speaker 3: also get two days off in between, and therefore can
Speaker 3: work on smoothing out some of the kinks in the offense.
Speaker 3: We saw too much of that in the first half.
Speaker 3: Foul trouble didn't help a lot of things. To be
Speaker 3: encouraged by Clipper Nation and everybody here and into It
Speaker 3: Dome was amazing tonight. You help this Clippers team get
Speaker 3: back into it. I just ran out of gas a
Speaker 3: little bit late. And Kevin Urant, yeah, he's great. He's
Speaker 3: very good at basketball. As Brian's deeman would say, Clippers
Speaker 3: faull On's sixteen to one thirteen in ot to the Suns.
Speaker 3: Before we get out of here, I do want to
Speaker 3: thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, Know what Ego,
Speaker 3: Carlo Jimenez on the call, Big Brother, Jake Warner, the
Speaker 3: head engineer here at the Dome, Into it Dome, Katie
Speaker 3: Newton our producer back in the bank. We'll talk to
Speaker 3: you at one pm with your pregame show on Saturday.
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