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Speaker 1: Too many turnovers, tuny miss shots from your stars, and
Speaker 1: the Clippers lose to Luca and Lebron one O six
Speaker 1: to one oh two at Crypto dot com Arena where
Speaker 1: they will run it back on Sunday night. Welcome to Clipperstock.
Speaker 1: I'm at a Moslin. The Lee Lakers, the lou Lakers,
Speaker 1: the Lukers, whatever you want to call them. They're tough
Speaker 1: to handle. Even on a back to back for them,
Speaker 1: even with the rest advantage for the Clippers, even with
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves just playing nine minutes and no ruy Hotchamora,
Speaker 1: the Clippers lost this games to the Lakers. That is disappointing.
Speaker 1: That is frustrating. Clippers without Norman Palell have to include
Speaker 1: all the context, but this was obviously a very winnable
Speaker 1: game still and of the two coming into this series
Speaker 1: this weekend looked like the game that they had to
Speaker 1: get on. Now it turns into Sunday night, they have
Speaker 1: to get that one, and they have to get much
Speaker 1: better performances from their stars. James Harden was five of
Speaker 1: twenty two, one of ten from three nine assists to
Speaker 1: six turnovers, just eighteen points, and in the second half
Speaker 1: went one for thirteen with five points to five turnovers,
Speaker 1: one for thirteen in the second half. If you would
Speaker 1: have told me that, I would have assumed the Clippers
Speaker 1: lost by fifteen and didn't have opportunities late, and wouldn't
Speaker 1: even be in a position where they could give away
Speaker 1: the basketball light they did in the fourth quarter, which
Speaker 1: also hurt them. I wouldn't be in a position for
Speaker 1: Luka Naanncish to hit backbreaking step back three after backbreaking
Speaker 1: step back three over Eatsa Zuobots, who was phenomenal and
Speaker 1: Zoo should be getting Defensive Player of the Year recognition.
Speaker 1: Read Shane Young's article that came out earlier today about
Speaker 1: Aviatza Zoubots and just how good he's been defensively. I
Speaker 1: don't even think the Clippers lost the game because of
Speaker 1: Etza Zubots got left out on an island. I'll have
Speaker 1: to run the numbers afterwards in the matchup data. But
Speaker 1: other than those two threes by Luca, maybe one by Lebron,
Speaker 1: not many made shots stood out over Eatza zoobots when
Speaker 1: they took him out to the perimeter, as the Clippers
Speaker 1: were soft switching and Zoo was fantastic staying with his man.
Speaker 1: They won the Avisa Zubats minutes handily, but he can't
Speaker 1: play forty eight of them. They go plus nine in
Speaker 1: his thirty eight minutes and lose a game by four,
Speaker 1: so they went minus thirteen in the ten minutes he
Speaker 1: was off the floor. How do you find a way
Speaker 1: to not get slacked by the Lakers on Sunday without
Speaker 1: e eacha Zubats? Well, the second units.
Speaker 3: Have to be better.
Speaker 1: Kawhi has to be better leading them when he's in
Speaker 1: with Simmons, with Bogie, with a mir with batoomb Kawai
Speaker 1: also ended up plus seven in his thirty eight minutes,
Speaker 1: so they lost the ten without him by what here
Speaker 1: by eleven? Kawhi did get to thirty eight minutes as predicted.
Speaker 1: I said it after the last game against Chicago that
Speaker 1: I thought Kawhi Leonard would have his minutes extended this weekend.
Speaker 1: There's minutes restriction removed. It was he still didn't look great.
Speaker 1: He still didn't look aggressive enough. He didn't look like
Speaker 1: he had enough pop. Some people are saying it look
Speaker 1: like a role player out there. I wouldn't go that far.
Speaker 1: I was encouraged by him going at DFS at the
Speaker 1: end there for that layup, just to make things interesting
Speaker 1: as the Clippers won a couple of challenges, got the
Speaker 1: ball back, but James Harden couldn't hit a shot. I
Speaker 1: mean open three, Clippers get the offensive rebound on the
Speaker 1: miss open three misses again, one for thirteen in the
Speaker 1: second half. Is that sustainable? Do you predict that happening
Speaker 1: again on Sunday? I don't. Does that mean the Clippers
Speaker 1: are gonna win if he has a better game? Not
Speaker 1: necessarily Lebron James. He did a lot of his damage
Speaker 1: in the first half. I want to say he had
Speaker 1: seventeen of his twenty eight there, and he had ten
Speaker 1: of his twenty eight points in the second quarter. He
Speaker 1: could be better. He was on the second half of
Speaker 1: back to back. He still played thirty seven minutes. Luca
Speaker 1: had thirty one on nine of twenty two shooting wasn't
Speaker 1: super efficient. He could still be better. He's Luka Doncic
Speaker 1: and this was his first back to back as a Laker.
Speaker 1: But I am saying the Clipper Stars overall, they got
Speaker 1: to be much better than combining here for thirty nine points.
Speaker 4: You go.
Speaker 1: Kawhi and Luca at fifty nine to Kawhi, excuse me,
Speaker 1: to Lebron and Luca at fifty nine points. Kawhi and
Speaker 1: James Harden at thirty nine. Your stars, your two man
Speaker 1: duo can't get out scored by twenty like that, And
Speaker 1: a lot of it was because James Harden couldn't hit anything,
Speaker 1: and then Kawhi is missing free throws. And then those turnovers,
Speaker 1: those turnovers, those awful turnovers late and fourth quarters like
Speaker 1: we've seen all season long. Like I can, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I can live with the Lucas step back over.
Speaker 1: It beats a zoobots in a Lakers jersey. That hurt
Speaker 1: my soul? I said on Twitter? Can we petition who
Speaker 1: was ever in charge of these things? These memes that
Speaker 1: instead of the thanks Obama meme for whenever something goes wrong,
Speaker 1: it's thanks Nico Nico Harrison, Thanks Nico when those threes
Speaker 1: went in, when he had those step backs on a
Speaker 1: visa zoobots, That's what I was saying, Just unbelievable quick
Speaker 1: time out come back eight six six ninety seven two
Speaker 1: five seventy eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy
Speaker 1: is the phone number. Clippers lose one o six to
Speaker 1: one O two to the Lakers in game one of
Speaker 1: this weekend mini series. As Luca and Lebron are much
Speaker 1: better than Kawhi and James Harden. Maybe Kawhi figures things
Speaker 1: out now the minutes restriction is removed, but I didn't
Speaker 1: see many bright spots with him looking like last year's
Speaker 1: version tonight. Unfortunately, I'm Ouda Osland and you're listening to
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Speaker 1: Clippers lose one oh six to one oh two to
Speaker 1: the Lakers at Crypto in the first game of this
Speaker 1: two game mini series this weekend. They'll run it back
Speaker 1: on Sunday night. A couple big turning points to me
Speaker 1: included this. In the third quarter, Kawhi Leonard hit a
Speaker 1: three pointer that had the Clippers up seventy two to
Speaker 1: sixty nine. Luca gets an easy layup after that, and
Speaker 1: then there's a turnover on the inbounds pass from Harden
Speaker 1: looking for Kawhi. He had it taken away by Goodwin,
Speaker 1: who got another layup, so instead of being up three,
Speaker 1: they go to being down by four within seconds. That
Speaker 1: was brutal. And then the turnovers going on in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, of course, especially the one by a mirror
Speaker 1: in the backcourt and then James Harden it looked like
Speaker 1: it went off of Gave Vincent's foot, but they didn't
Speaker 1: call a kickball. But they had multiple inn sinces of
Speaker 1: back to back turnovers in the fourth quarter. That just
Speaker 1: can't happen. If eats Zuboss was phenomenal. He had twenty
Speaker 1: seven and sixteen. Chris Dunn was unbelievable. He had fourteen points.
Speaker 1: Granted all of them I believe came in the first half,
Speaker 1: but nine boards, six assists, four steals. Like he's one
Speaker 1: of the best perimeter defenders I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: Not hyperbole. Eli and WHITTI are starting things off here
Speaker 1: on Clippers stack without a MAUSLM after they lose the
Speaker 1: Lakers by four. What's up you lie?
Speaker 6: Oh hey, Adam, thanks again for the opportunity for just
Speaker 6: letting us to be able to talk in But that's
Speaker 6: why I say it. Dang, You're right, Zubuck was pretty
Speaker 6: freaking awesome and credits had done for like getting his
Speaker 6: offense up this game, like it definitely didn't make it
Speaker 6: as rough to watch, but oh boy, it was pretty
Speaker 6: disappointing with a lot of those turnovers. Like you said,
Speaker 6: maybe want to tear some hero out at points, But
Speaker 6: I do want to ask you mainly like do you
Speaker 6: see any possible like concerns especially at the playoffs? But
Speaker 6: one thing that was interesting I noticed that the Wolves
Speaker 6: also lost the Jazz recently. Is there possible ways that
Speaker 6: we could keep this succeeed or unfortunately or could probably
Speaker 6: go to play in or even the Lakers might face
Speaker 6: us in the first round since they're going up and up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all possible, but it starts with the victory
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Lakers. Like Minnesota has one of
Speaker 1: the easiest schedules left in the NBA, it's a bottom
Speaker 1: five schedule. The Clippers have basically a top five toughest
Speaker 1: strength of schedule left, so it's not going to be
Speaker 1: easy to stay in front of them. Plus they have
Speaker 1: the tiebreaker over the Clippers. And now the Warriors are
Speaker 1: surgery with Jimmy Butler. They've only lost one game, so
Speaker 1: that's another team you have to worry about that's right
Speaker 1: behind them. The Dallas Mavericks are still playing hard even
Speaker 1: without ad Eli. I'm sorry, it's going to be difficult. Well,
Speaker 1: it starts with a victory on Sunday over the Lakers, though,
Speaker 1: is the best I got for you, my friend. But
Speaker 1: I appreciate you calling in all.
Speaker 6: Right, thank you so much. Yeah, at least a little hope.
Speaker 1: I'm leaving a little bit. I'm leaving the door open.
Speaker 1: One of my favorites, Lenny in Inglewood. Lenny, what's up
Speaker 1: here on Clipper sock?
Speaker 4: Hey man, I don't know, bro, I just it was
Speaker 4: real important that we take both these games this weekend
Speaker 4: because as in right now, the Lakers are the hottest
Speaker 4: team in the league and they're definitely ascending, and Kawhi
Speaker 4: does not look he ain't doing Kawhi things. And unless
Speaker 4: he starts playing put up numbers like Lebron is doing
Speaker 4: right now, and Powell comes back and we got to
Speaker 4: win at least eight eight games in the earl second half,
Speaker 4: I don't see how we're gonna really be in a
Speaker 4: real in pole position come playoffs.
Speaker 1: And you know, this entire season, the entire ope with
Speaker 1: this Clippers team is resting on Kawhi getting back to
Speaker 1: looking like Kawhi Lenny. Like, if he can't look like
Speaker 1: an All NBA player again, then yeah, they're cooked. I'm
Speaker 1: not giving up fully on that since he just had
Speaker 1: the minutes restriction lifted. Uh, but it didn't look great tonight.
Speaker 1: I need to see a better version of Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: on Sunday. It is concerning. I hate seeing a guy
Speaker 1: looking like he lost his basketball powers or just looking
Speaker 1: like a fringe All Star player when you need him
Speaker 1: to be a top five player.
Speaker 4: Yeah done. Like I like I said, coach is fantastic.
Speaker 4: They should lock him in for as long as they
Speaker 4: can because he plays with the kind of heart that
Speaker 4: you know we saw with the Clippers when they had
Speaker 4: Beverly and and some other cats. He was just he
Speaker 4: fits in I'm sorry to hear what's happening with Norm
Speaker 4: Pob but it seems like he's been having that knee
Speaker 4: issue for a minute. And but yeah, it's uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I guess we can try to, you know, put our
Speaker 4: best foot forward. But the season isn't looking good. But listen,
Speaker 4: you know, hopefully they can pull together. Went out on Sunday,
Speaker 4: and you know we'll start from there. But are you
Speaker 4: doing a good good job? Adam?
Speaker 1: All right, good to hear from me, Lenny. I hope
Speaker 1: to hear from you on Sunday with a different outcome.
Speaker 1: Kyle in Brooklyn all our favorite New Yorker that's a
Speaker 1: Clippers fan. Kyle, what's up?
Speaker 7: Recent new Yorker? Recent new Yorker? I just moved here
Speaker 7: last year.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's another one too that's not so recent. He's
Speaker 1: got the accent. Sorry I got it mixed up. But Kyle,
Speaker 1: we talked. We talked within the last few or too
Speaker 1: few times.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been going on to Ben Simmons
Speaker 7: kick since I've been calling. But I mean, look, tonight
Speaker 7: we dismissed everything. We dismissed everything. I mean, like you're
Speaker 7: not going to have a game where Kawha is gonna
Speaker 7: miss free throws like.
Speaker 1: That and.
Speaker 7: That flat shot at the end that three he took
Speaker 7: like he's just he's just not there yet. So like,
Speaker 7: I just don't want to freak out because I knew
Speaker 7: what I was getting into with this season. I knew it.
Speaker 7: I knew what I was getting into. We need our
Speaker 7: luck to change, now, our luck.
Speaker 1: What were your expectations coming into the season, Kyle, because
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people might be able to
Speaker 1: relate to this, or at least should.
Speaker 7: My expectations, honestly was the six or seven seed. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and that's what my expectations were. And honestly, up until
Speaker 7: about a month ago, my expectations changed to a four
Speaker 7: or three seed.
Speaker 1: See that's where the disappointment is coming in. When the
Speaker 1: expectations got raised with them being four games over five hundred,
Speaker 1: before Kawhi came back and he thought, oh, we get Kawhi.
Speaker 1: He gets back to looking like Kawhi Leonard, We're going
Speaker 1: to hit the jet fuel. We're going to be fifteen
Speaker 1: games over five hundred. That's what I think has people
Speaker 1: shook right now.
Speaker 7: Well, that's the thing people that need to keep in
Speaker 7: mind is like the only way this is going to
Speaker 7: work out if luck changes for us and all of
Speaker 7: a sudden we are seeing that thirty game string that
Speaker 7: we saw last season at the end of the season.
Speaker 7: Something like that could happen. But if it doesn't, then yeah,
Speaker 7: in the offseason we got to have, you know, big conversations.
Speaker 7: That's just the way it is. I mean, why is
Speaker 7: my favorite player? He just I love him, But you know,
Speaker 7: I hope he turns it around. But he doesn't look great.
Speaker 7: He doesn't look like his legs are there. But you
Speaker 7: know they're missing shots. Man, they're missing shots. James Hard
Speaker 7: shouldn't be missing those shots. I was, dude, Everyone's saying
Speaker 7: the same thing. Zoo was amazing, and I'm very happy
Speaker 7: to say that. He's the only thing I bet on tonight.
Speaker 7: And I've had a nice little parlay on him and
Speaker 7: wooh that was nice. But I would have rather had
Speaker 7: the win. I would have rather had the win.
Speaker 1: I got you, Kyle, appreciate the phone call. Big Zoo
Speaker 1: was outstanding. Continues to cook his former team in the Lakers.
Speaker 1: But it's not enough. He's not gonna play forty eight minutes.
Speaker 1: They won his minutes. We'll take a quick time out.
Speaker 1: Clippers lose the game to the Lakers one O six
Speaker 1: to one O two. Coming up next, we'll be joined
Speaker 1: by Will up Deck of Clips and Dip Fame. I
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Speaker 1: Clippers lose to the Lakers one O six to one
Speaker 1: O two. I'm Adam Moslin. Welcome back in. It's Clippers Talk.
Speaker 1: Coming up. We'll get back to your guys' phone calls here,
Speaker 1: but we got somebody on the super Secret Guest hotline
Speaker 1: from Clips and Dip. It's Will Updck. Well, how are
Speaker 1: you feeling after this one?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 8: Uh, this one, this one hurts. This one felt right
Speaker 8: there and there was a lot of there was just
Speaker 8: kind of something some some errors and execution that I
Speaker 8: think feel is what I'm struggling with the most.
Speaker 1: Tell me about those errors. Are you mentioning the miscues
Speaker 1: the turnovers in the fourth quarter, like the stuff you
Speaker 1: can control the.
Speaker 8: Fourth quarter, like the turnovers in the fourth quarter. You know,
Speaker 8: there were a lot of things that weren't ideal. James Harden,
Speaker 8: you know, had another bunk game, which is his second
Speaker 8: in a row against the Lakers. Kawhi Leonard, you know,
Speaker 8: pretty solid. Overall of the free throws I were baffling
Speaker 8: to me. I had no idea what was going on there.
Speaker 8: But the turnovers to me, just back to back to
Speaker 8: back that you know, there were a lot of things
Speaker 8: where this could have been a fifty to fifty game,
Speaker 8: and they're definitely were some calls that were preferential to
Speaker 8: the Lakers, but there was a lot of execution errors
Speaker 8: that felt. It just felt, with how thin the margins were,
Speaker 8: was sort of an insurmountable thing to sort of an overcome.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Goawhileiner right now? He did
Speaker 1: have his minutes limit removed, it looks like but he
Speaker 1: still doesn't look the same as last year.
Speaker 8: I mean, I don't know. We talked about this coming
Speaker 8: into this game, and I mean we were even talking
Speaker 8: about if Norm Powell was here. I picked twice as
Speaker 8: my player of the game because I thought if anytime
Speaker 8: that this was both the time for the governor to
Speaker 8: come off in terms of minutes and for him to
Speaker 8: you know, sort of re establish what he has been
Speaker 8: and what we know I mean or hope he still
Speaker 8: can be and solid game tonight. I mean, you know,
Speaker 8: like it was alright, it wasn't. It wasn't that sort
Speaker 8: of you know, top five, top three player that we
Speaker 8: know he can be, so I you know it.
Speaker 1: But can he still be? Is the question?
Speaker 3: I think?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, this to me
Speaker 8: wasn't a ste It's still a step in the right
Speaker 8: direction in terms of the minutes are there. You know,
Speaker 8: we talked a little bit about this, but there was
Speaker 8: bound there's bound to be an adjustment period while he
Speaker 8: does ramp back up. So it wasn't like super encouraging.
Speaker 8: But I guess you know, this to me isn't a
Speaker 8: step backwards in any way.
Speaker 1: Is Sunday a must win game for the Clippers in
Speaker 1: order to stay out of the plan.
Speaker 8: I mean, we're tied with the Warriors right now, so
Speaker 8: we do still have the tiebreaker. But like, yeah, I mean, yes,
Speaker 8: let's get a win.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: I'm up against it.
Speaker 5: Will.
Speaker 1: Sorry to keep this short, it's unfortunate Clippers lose tonight
Speaker 1: one six to one oh two. Uciate you joined me
Speaker 1: here for a little bit.
Speaker 8: Well, thanks, Adam.
Speaker 1: We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back, we'll
Speaker 1: close things out. Clippers fall by four to the Lakers.
Speaker 1: The panic is underway. I get it. It's frustrating. Lakers
Speaker 1: somehow have Luka Doncic handed to them on a silver platter,
Speaker 1: and you have to watch him in a Lakers jersey
Speaker 1: with step back three pointers over each the zoobots late
Speaker 1: in the ball game, like we've seen two many times before.
Speaker 1: Looking for some postgame quotes from coach Lou as Well,
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Speaker 1: Clippers lose one O six to one O two to
Speaker 1: the Lakers at Crypto pain. Watching Luca in a Lakers
Speaker 1: jersey at all in any game is difficult for me.
Speaker 1: In a game against the Clippers where he has thirty
Speaker 1: one and is hitting those patented step back three pointers
Speaker 1: over Viza zubots late in the ball game, it hurts
Speaker 1: and the Clippers only gave up one hundred and six points.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say them not switching that or excuse me,
Speaker 1: fighting through the instead of switching, instead of soft switching
Speaker 1: like that and leaving of Eatza Zubots on an island
Speaker 1: is what killed them. And you guys gotta understand how
Speaker 1: the plus minus works. Like they won the minutes one
Speaker 1: of easta Zubats was out there on the floor while
Speaker 1: the Lakers were doing all that, while they were pulling
Speaker 1: him out to the perimeter. The Clippers still won those minutes.
Speaker 1: It's not what killed them. The minutes that did really
Speaker 1: hurt them. Some of the second uni stuff where guys
Speaker 1: couldn't hit anything. Unfortunately, a mere coffee just four points,
Speaker 1: Bogie two of eight, six points, Ben Simmons two points.
Speaker 1: Those guys got destroyed. Clippers have to be better. On Sunday,
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