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Speaker 1: losing Phoenix again to the Suns one eleven to one
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Speaker 1: Third loss this season to the Phoenix Suns. They have
Speaker 1: the head to head tiebreaker over the Clippers. Now, as
Speaker 1: the Clippers defense was not good enough at all in
Speaker 1: the first half. They got blitzed the Suns were eight
Speaker 1: of eleven from three in the first quarter. And I
Speaker 1: know what you guys are gonna say, Well, they were
Speaker 1: all open. First of all, they weren't all open. Second
Speaker 1: of all, even if you left them all open, it
Speaker 1: would be hard for a team to shoot seventy three
Speaker 1: percent eight of eleven from three in a quarter. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, even in today's league, there's a lot more
Speaker 1: shooting if you left them all open, purposefully open gym
Speaker 1: stuff doesn't happen like that, but it did. And I
Speaker 1: think there's something too. The Sun's just feeling unusually confident
Speaker 1: against the Clippers because they had already beat them twice.
Speaker 1: They had come back down nine under four minutes left
Speaker 1: in Game one of the season at into a Dome
Speaker 1: to win that one in overtime, and then they came
Speaker 1: back down twenty one the second game and into a
Speaker 1: Dome a week later on Halloween when they started the
Speaker 1: third quarter fifteen of fifteen from the field that was
Speaker 1: hotter than the center of the sun stuff tonight, still
Speaker 1: pretty hot outer layers. But the Clippers, Yeah, they're responsible
Speaker 1: for I think overhelping at times on Booker on KD
Speaker 1: and those guys making the Clippers pay the others. Royce
Speaker 1: O'Neal got the start. He was very good. He ended
Speaker 1: up I think with three three pointers made. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: started like three of three, ended up three of eight.
Speaker 1: So he did cool off, but some of the damage
Speaker 1: was done. The Clippers were down after that hot shooting
Speaker 1: first quarter by the Phoenix Suns. The Clippers were down
Speaker 1: by only four. They were shooting well too, they were
Speaker 1: four of seven. They couldn't hang volume wise with the Suns.
Speaker 1: The Suns ended up making twelve more threes in this
Speaker 1: game in the Clippers, and the Clippers still fought and
Speaker 1: had it to within one after a ten zero run late,
Speaker 1: even with the Suns getting thirty six more points off
Speaker 1: of three pointers. Now to counter that, the Clippers had
Speaker 1: sixty points in the paint, the Sun's just twenty four.
Speaker 1: That's how you do it. But I don't want to
Speaker 1: call it a fake comeback. But they just put themselves
Speaker 1: in a position because it wasn't This was a game.
Speaker 1: It was not over, but they put themselves in a
Speaker 1: position where they had to be so perfect. After being
Speaker 1: down one o seven to ninety six with two forty
Speaker 1: three left in the fourth quarter, they go on the
Speaker 1: ten oh run norm three pointer Harden fouled on a
Speaker 1: three hits all three zubots detonates at the ram. Should
Speaker 1: have been an end one Norman Powell runner, the Clippers
Speaker 1: are down one. In fact, how quickly did that happen?
Speaker 1: I want to see the time span of this. So
Speaker 1: it's one oh seven to ninety six at the two
Speaker 1: forty three mark. By the time it's one o seven
Speaker 1: to one oh six, there's forty seconds left. So the
Speaker 1: Clippers were able to pull that off in what was
Speaker 1: that like a minute forty five ten? I'll run it's
Speaker 1: crazy my time. Lord, math was probably bad there, but
Speaker 1: I love the fact they didn't quit when the finish
Speaker 1: line got closer. They played better. If they had some
Speaker 1: of that urgency earlier on, they probably crossed the finish line.
Speaker 1: But my point about margin of error, when you're down
Speaker 1: like that late with the clock working against you, you
Speaker 1: have to be perfect. And unfortunately Norman Powell missed a
Speaker 1: free throw. He's been missed a fourth quarter. He's shooting
Speaker 1: over fifty from three and fourth quarters this year, just
Speaker 1: like he did last year, shooting well over fifty percent
Speaker 1: from the field in fourth quarters. He's I think top
Speaker 1: five in points average in fourth quarters in the NBA,
Speaker 1: at over eight per game in the fourth quarter alone.
Speaker 1: He had just brought them to within one, but after
Speaker 1: James Harden fouled on the other end on Bradley Beal,
Speaker 1: Coach lu challenged it, and if you lose that, you're
Speaker 1: out of timeouts. They did it. I thought it was
Speaker 1: obvious they were gonna lose it. They did. Bradley Bual
Speaker 1: made both Clippers are down three. Coach Bud did the
Speaker 1: right thing. They don't have a timeout. We're up three.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let them get a shot off to
Speaker 1: tie this game. So they fiuled Norman Powell with nineteen
Speaker 1: seconds left. Little smart. It was a great move. Norm
Speaker 1: misses the first. You gotta hit both to put pressure
Speaker 1: on Fee to have to hit both. He missed the
Speaker 1: first hit the second. Phoenix is still up by two.
Speaker 1: Clippers get into the foul game with Grayson Allen. He
Speaker 1: hits the next two Subots gets a dunk on the
Speaker 1: other end, they foul Grayson Allen again. He intentionally misses
Speaker 1: the last free throw because there was just a second
Speaker 1: left and the Clippers didn't have a timeout to advance it.
Speaker 1: If they got the rebound anyways, then the Clippers lose
Speaker 1: one nine. I don't know if there was the proper
Speaker 1: urgency and intensity with rotations to start this game. I
Speaker 1: saw it in the second half. I saw the Clippers
Speaker 1: cleaning the glass through the second best defensive rebounding team
Speaker 1: in the league to Milwaukee in the second half. After
Speaker 1: they gave up fifteen second chance points to Phoenix in
Speaker 1: the first half, just three in the second half. So
Speaker 1: they're more than capable of ending possessions. Obviously, that is
Speaker 1: a part of defense. They just didn't do it in
Speaker 1: the first half. The Clippers in the first half gave
Speaker 1: up sixty points and then the second half gave up
Speaker 1: fifty one. They were better. They won that third quarter
Speaker 1: by eight, They won the fourth by three. Don't put
Speaker 1: yourself in too big of a hole over just kind
Speaker 1: of silly miscues out there with late rotations with I
Speaker 1: think overhelping at times. I mean, there was even while
Speaker 1: they were better overall in the second half with their defense.
Speaker 1: They gave up a wide open three pointer and it
Speaker 1: was a big one to Devin Booker early in the
Speaker 1: fourth after Man just had a big dunk off a
Speaker 1: KPJ feed and Terrence Man got seven minutes in this game,
Speaker 1: and he's on the outs right now in the minutes crunch,
Speaker 1: he is the Sun's call time out, and somehow Kawhi
Speaker 1: and Norm got crossed up. It's worth this wasn't a
Speaker 1: lack of effort. This was a lack of communication. With
Speaker 1: this open three. I don't know who it was on,
Speaker 1: and I'd have to see the play again. I think
Speaker 1: it might have been on Kauai, but he and Norm,
Speaker 1: both of them went somewhere else and just left d
Speaker 1: book for open for a straightaway three. Those are just
Speaker 1: silly mistakes, miscues for communication. Now, maybe that's just it's
Speaker 1: Kawhi's a eighth game. Some of that stuff is expected.
Speaker 1: He ended up having a bad turnover. This was the
Speaker 1: first fourth quarter he had played. He hit his first
Speaker 1: shot and he took in the fourth quarter this season.
Speaker 1: That was good to see over like three defenders to
Speaker 1: start things off in the fourth his first fourth quarter minutes,
Speaker 1: he got to twenty eight. They bumped him up a
Speaker 1: little bit from twenty four to twenty eight. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what I thought it would be. At one point, for
Speaker 1: a second, I was getting greedy. I was like, are
Speaker 1: they gonna give him thirty. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: this was fatigue or you just mishandle it. But Kawhi
Speaker 1: ended up having a turnover and the Suns had a
Speaker 1: run out for a layup to make it a ten
Speaker 1: point game at I think one oh two ninety two.
Speaker 1: Bad turnover. You don't normally see from him in a
Speaker 1: moment like that. He had just played great defense on
Speaker 1: KD who still somehow made this jumper on him. He
Speaker 1: did have a block on Booker that led to that
Speaker 1: man dunk off the KPJ feed like Kawhi's fingerprints, had
Speaker 1: a lay up before that. We're all over the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: He ended up with I think six points in the fourth,
Speaker 1: So baby steps forward. Kawhi is playing more minutes, different lineups,
Speaker 1: different rotations out there. Some of you guys are really
Speaker 1: going after KPJ in this one. I'll say there were
Speaker 1: a few times where I was frustrated where he's out
Speaker 1: there next to Avista, Zubats and Kawhi and he's taken
Speaker 1: the majority of the shots. I didn't like that, But
Speaker 1: I mean, he just had arguably his best game of
Speaker 1: the season against Milwaukee with doing a lot of the
Speaker 1: little things. He was really good against Boston too, and
Speaker 1: they almost won that game that third quarter he had,
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna be overly harsh, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't think he was great in this one. Terrence missed
Speaker 1: a couple of wide open threes in his seven minutes
Speaker 1: when he got in in the fourth quarter. I get
Speaker 1: what coach Lee was doing. First of all, he doesn't
Speaker 1: trust his backup big. Second of all, they're getting killed
Speaker 1: with three pointers, so why not go small? Have more
Speaker 1: switchability out there? And Terrence Man has been good on
Speaker 1: Devin Booker in his career. Kawhi did miss some really
Speaker 1: good looks from three. He did he was seven or
Speaker 1: fourteen still, but just one of five from three. The
Speaker 1: Clippers miss some good looks, but Kawhi, it's a few more,
Speaker 1: might be a different game. James Harden, of course, won
Speaker 1: five of ten, but the Clippers put themselves in this
Speaker 1: position where the late game execution had to be so
Speaker 1: perfect that Norm couldn't afford to leave that one point
Speaker 1: out there at the charity stripe. Don't let it get
Speaker 1: to that point eight too long. I know Phoenix had
Speaker 1: their issues closing out games last season. They've been better
Speaker 1: so far this season kind of seemed like those demons
Speaker 1: were coming back to haunt them for a second. The
Speaker 1: Clippers defense, it was better when it needed to be,
Speaker 1: but I would say it needed to be better a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier as well. The third quarter, I do
Speaker 1: love what I saw there. The Clippers got back in
Speaker 1: a hurry like it was.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Derek Jones Junior missed White up in three point there.
Speaker 1: In that third quarter, Norm hits a three. It's a
Speaker 1: ten point game. After the Clippers were down by thirteen
Speaker 1: and a half. Kawhi had a ridiculous fade away over
Speaker 1: two guys on the far side baseline. The movement was special.
Speaker 1: I believe Booker was his primary defender and he just
Speaker 1: went to work. There was Zoobots with an and one
Speaker 1: on an offensive rebound. Nick Richards could not handle him
Speaker 1: at all. That's why he was my player to watch.
Speaker 1: I thought that would happen. Norm had a beautiful feed
Speaker 1: to of eats of zoobots like he was James Harden
Speaker 1: going down I think the left side of the lane.
Speaker 1: He left it to Zoo for a two handed dunk.
Speaker 1: In the third and there was a turnover by the
Speaker 1: Suns and Kawhi missed a wide open three pointer as
Speaker 1: James Harden set him up beautifully in the far side corner.
Speaker 1: That was one of them that would have been big.
Speaker 1: But after Norm hit two free throws, the Clippers were
Speaker 1: down one. It was a fifteen to three run in
Speaker 1: that third quarter start things off. The right energy and
Speaker 1: spirit was there coming out of the half. But Booker
Speaker 1: hit a three on Dereck Jones Junior that was definitely
Speaker 1: not wide open guys, to make it sixty no to
Speaker 1: sixty seven. It was an insane shot. See, the reason
Speaker 1: you can't let so many wide open threes happen is
Speaker 1: because there are going to be times against Phoenix where
Speaker 1: you give them zero airspace and they still hit them.
Speaker 1: So you can't give me the easy ones because you
Speaker 1: know some of those tough shot, tough over the top
Speaker 1: jump shooting threes are going to happen from Booker and
Speaker 1: KD at some point, and that was one of them.
Speaker 1: That three was insane. DJ was right there. Then Zoo
Speaker 1: had ooh, just a filthy play going around plumbly for
Speaker 1: the reverse layup to make it sixty nine. All believe
Speaker 1: that's a nice score. Booker then goes to the free
Speaker 1: throw line, Harden goes back KD jumper like there were
Speaker 1: so many times as Alan hit a three pointer to
Speaker 1: put him back up seventy six to seventy. I felt
Speaker 1: like the Clippers were gaining momentum and the Suns would
Speaker 1: hit a silencer shot, a momentum blunting type of shot,
Speaker 1: they would stem the tide. They made some big ones.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 1: I'm at least glad the Clippers got back into this
Speaker 1: ball game. They might have lost it though in some
Speaker 1: ways at the very end of the third quarter, where
Speaker 1: until Harden made that big three pointer to bring it
Speaker 1: to eighty three to seventy eight. Hitting into the fourth,
Speaker 1: the Suns went on a quick let's see Tyers Jones
Speaker 1: three radluvial jump for I think they went on a
Speaker 1: quick seven to zero run. Yeah, the Clippers had it
Speaker 1: to within seventy six to seventy five, and within the
Speaker 1: next less than ninety seconds the Suns are up. By
Speaker 1: Clippers were still there late, we'll talk more about it.
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Speaker 1: Clippers lose by two in Phoenix. They made a late push.
Speaker 1: They had it to within one after they were down
Speaker 1: by eleven and within like two minutes. Who was down
Speaker 1: to one less than two minutes, but normal miss a
Speaker 1: free throw. It was consequential. Clippers had to play the
Speaker 1: foul game. Grays and Allen did not miss. They lose
Speaker 1: one eleven to one oh nine in Phoenix to the Suns.
Speaker 1: Clippers dropped at twenty six and twenty on the season.
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Speaker 1: But I just saw this number because I've been talking
Speaker 1: about the Clippers coming into this game shooting just thirty
Speaker 1: three percent from three over the last ten games, and
Speaker 1: then tonight they shoot thirty one percent. Well, who had this,
Speaker 1: Miles Johnson? This is an interesting number. Over their last
Speaker 1: fifteen games, they're shooting basically thirty three percent on the dot,
Speaker 1: thirty two point nine percent to be specific. Ah, my
Speaker 1: pedantic self is annoying my other self. So yeah, fifteen
Speaker 1: games of shooting well below league average, and I wonder
Speaker 1: what their record was over that time. They're eight and seven, well,
Speaker 1: shooting thirty two point nine percent from three for fifteen games.
Speaker 1: That tells you just how good their defense is. I
Speaker 1: don't know many teams that could shoot that poorly for
Speaker 1: that long and still have a winning record. Eight and seven.
Speaker 1: Kawhi looked fifty to fifty tight. He wasn't very assertive
Speaker 1: early guys. His first I think his first points came
Speaker 1: off that dunk in the second quarter where it looked
Speaker 1: like he had hurt his hip or his hamstring. That
Speaker 1: was at the nine to forty five mark of the
Speaker 1: second He had the dunk where he blew by Mason
Speaker 1: Plumbley after a steal. I was concerned because it looked
Speaker 1: like it happened not even when he landed, but like
Speaker 1: what he was going up I think. But then he
Speaker 1: played through it and looked solid. He went for that
Speaker 1: tough reverse layup in the second half. Couldn't get it. Well,
Speaker 1: here's here's my problem. I like, I've already pointed this
Speaker 1: out many times Vintage, So you can't leave KD, book,
Speaker 1: Royce Beale, and Grayson wide open expect the a miss.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, they don't shoot one hundred percent on
Speaker 1: wide open threes, none of those guys. You average it out,
Speaker 1: they probably shoot something like forty five percent. Those players
Speaker 1: on wide open threes are on open threes. First of all,
Speaker 1: katiean Book, weren't the guys that were being left open?
Speaker 1: And Royce Beale Allen sure the suns, even with the
Speaker 1: amount of open threes they got, they still hit them
Speaker 1: at a higher rate than you normally hit open threes
Speaker 1: at that that's my point. I'm not happy about the
Speaker 1: open threes either. I'm just saying even with that, they
Speaker 1: still had just an incredible shooting night. Some of that
Speaker 1: is on the Clippers, though, of course they have to
Speaker 1: be better because you know, Booker and KD are gonna
Speaker 1: hit shots that you can't defend, shots that there's nothing
Speaker 1: you can do about it. Let's go to tags and
Speaker 1: Walnut tageous here on Clipper stop with out of Maza
Speaker 1: and what's up.
Speaker 4: Hey, Adam. First of all, just before I make my point,
Speaker 4: I wanted to say that in that first quarter off
Speaker 4: that norm three Miss, I think Derek Jones had one
Speaker 4: of the best rebound dunk who I've seen as a Clipper.
Speaker 1: Oh that futback dunk. That was sensational. Like he's already
Speaker 1: had three or four Dunk of the Year candidates, This
Speaker 1: one might have been my.
Speaker 4: Favorite, especially off of Miss. It was like a dunk contest,
Speaker 4: someone throwing it off the board to him and it
Speaker 4: was just it was just so perfect. It was like,
Speaker 4: I don't think I've seen a better, you know, Clipper
Speaker 4: dunk off Miss.
Speaker 1: That that that might be the best Clipper dunk off
Speaker 1: of a Miss since Blake dunked on the back of Gasol.
Speaker 4: That's true. I forgot about that one. But Adam, when
Speaker 4: I when I looked at this game, you know, I'm
Speaker 4: more encouraged overall. And the reason why is it's just
Speaker 4: you can kind of see when Qui is working his
Speaker 4: way back and we see that moment of the moments
Speaker 4: of greatness, but he's still testing himself. Clippers are still
Speaker 4: trying to play with him, learn to play with him again,
Speaker 4: get him integrated. And it's just going to take time.
Speaker 4: You know, it might take another month before we see
Speaker 4: the Clippers, you know, fully oiled and and like the
Speaker 4: you know, a fine too machine, like a fine two car.
Speaker 4: But you know, when you look at last year and
Speaker 4: I was comparing contrast to the last year's team to
Speaker 4: this year's team, there was a for a good amount
Speaker 4: of games where the Clippers last year, you know, they
Speaker 4: were playing on the string. Everyone knew what they were doing,
Speaker 4: and everyone had them as title contenders, everyone from the
Speaker 4: natcial media and we all thought, you know, they have
Speaker 4: a chance to win it all. And when I compare
Speaker 4: and contrast, the two teams defensively were better than last
Speaker 4: year's team by far.
Speaker 1: They were sixteenth in the NBA defensively last season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so these are the things that give me a
Speaker 4: lot of encouragement when I compare those teams. I mean,
Speaker 4: last year's team to this year's team, defensively were far better.
Speaker 4: And now what they increase opportunities for Zubuk and norm
Speaker 4: They've shown that they're more than capable of carrying the
Speaker 4: offensive load. So when you look at last year's team,
Speaker 4: maybe you could say, you know, we have a little
Speaker 4: bit we lost a little bit off the bench because
Speaker 4: Powell and Westbrook at times, but mostly Powell. When he
Speaker 4: came off the bench, he provided you know, that that
Speaker 4: six male role here, we're kind of we get it.
Speaker 4: Sometimes we don't, but overall we you know, offensively, once
Speaker 4: we have Kawhi back, you know, playing like an MVP,
Speaker 4: we have I think even more weapons offensively than we
Speaker 4: did last year. As far as with Cowell and Zubac
Speaker 4: with their roles being increased now, I think that it's
Speaker 4: just going to take time and Coach Lou's gonna have
Speaker 4: to find those rotations where maybe he's gonna need to
Speaker 4: leave Zoo two of the big four in the game
Speaker 4: at the same time and go about it that way.
Speaker 4: But I think overall, that's why I'm encouraged, because I
Speaker 4: don't see a whole lot of you know, like where
Speaker 4: we've set back from last year to this year. I
Speaker 4: think our ceiling could even be higher. It's going to
Speaker 4: take time and everyone needs to play together. And the
Speaker 4: biggest thing is the role players. We can't have done
Speaker 4: and Darry Jones both shooting poorly, especially when you go
Speaker 4: into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: In a series. That is my biggest concern. One of
Speaker 1: those guys where both of those guys go cold if
Speaker 1: one of them's hot, if just they just need one
Speaker 1: of them to be on from three. Honestly, they just
Speaker 1: need one of DJ or Chris Dunn to be on
Speaker 1: from three in a series and that should be enough.
Speaker 1: But I have that same concern that they just don't
Speaker 1: have enough shot making or shot creation in a seven
Speaker 1: game series.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, I think, but you know, our ceiling
Speaker 4: is still there. You know, people threw us like, hey,
Speaker 4: we're not gonna like you know, we're gonna be in
Speaker 4: last place or whatever without Paul George. But if you
Speaker 4: really think about it, and if you compare last year's
Speaker 4: team this year's team, I think our ceiling is a
Speaker 4: little bit actually higher than what it was last year.
Speaker 4: If everyone can play their roles better. And the perfect example,
Speaker 4: Adam is look at Dallas last year. They were in
Speaker 4: the fifth or sixth seed. They they at the right time,
Speaker 4: they all clicked and they played so well and they
Speaker 4: made it to the final.
Speaker 1: They were also going to lose in the first round though,
Speaker 1: if Kawhi was healthy.
Speaker 4: So I agree, and it was to us that.
Speaker 1: They got pretty fortunate. And then PJ Washington goes off
Speaker 1: against Okay, see you like, but that's how the playoffs go.
Speaker 1: And I appreciate the phone call. TA, just we got
Speaker 1: to take a time out here, like right place, right
Speaker 1: time matchups, you have a player who, uncharacteristically a role player,
Speaker 1: steps up in a series and plays at a different
Speaker 1: level than you expected, and that can pull you through Sometimes.
Speaker 1: Clippers lose in Phoenix one eleven to one oh nine.
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Speaker 1: Clippers lose by two in Phoenix. They storm back. They
Speaker 1: held the Suns without a field goal in the last
Speaker 1: two minutes and forty three seconds, but Phoenix made the
Speaker 1: free throws, Powell missed his, and the Clippers lose one
Speaker 1: eleven to one o nine to the Sons. Man The
Speaker 1: Sons hit twenty two to three pointers. They needed all
Speaker 1: of them, as La Murray points out in a two
Speaker 1: point when they needed all of those twenty two made
Speaker 1: three pointers. Clippers beat them up in the paint, but
Speaker 1: from the outside, the Sons were special tonight, Clippers defensively
Speaker 1: were not good enough. At La Murray the NU there's
Speaker 1: some Kawhi Leonard's sound there if we could go to that,
Speaker 1: I do want you to hear from Kawhi. In fourteen
Speaker 1: minutes on the floor together, Law Murray said, the Clippers
Speaker 1: starting five man lineup of Harden, Powell, Derek Jones, Junior
Speaker 1: Leonard and Zubots outscored the Sons thirty nine to twenty four.
Speaker 1: So their five man's starting lineup did outscore them. All
Speaker 1: other Clippers lineups were outscored eighty seven to seventy in
Speaker 1: the other thirty four minutes. And here was La Murray
Speaker 1: asking Kawhi what needs to be better from the bench lineups?
Speaker 5: What do you feel like the bench units, especially with
Speaker 5: you out there, needs to do to you know, get
Speaker 5: better over this next Uh, let's just say this word
Speaker 5: chip that y'all are on.
Speaker 6: Uh, just keep competing on both ends, sharing the ball,
Speaker 6: talking in the defensive ends and we'll be good, especially offensively.
Speaker 5: Like where do y'all you know, what do you see
Speaker 5: out there that you know you can say like this
Speaker 5: time next week we can we can be a little
Speaker 5: bit more crisp on that than it or fourth.
Speaker 6: I think just sharing the ball and just getting into
Speaker 6: sets instead of coming down playing slow. You got to
Speaker 6: play with a little bit more pace, and that's setting
Speaker 6: screens with pace. I'm coming off the screens with pace
Speaker 6: as well, and obviously trusting teammates.
Speaker 1: There was Kawhi Leonard post game. We'll take a quick
Speaker 1: time out here, last one of the night. Clippers lose
Speaker 1: one to eleven to one, O nine to the Phoenix.
Speaker 1: There Kauai just kind of simplifies it. Talk more on defense,
Speaker 1: cut harder. He always talks about basketball is a simple game.
Speaker 1: You do the fundamentals, you do the little things right,
Speaker 1: other things fall into place. Of course, that's that San
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs makeup. Clippers lose by two in Phoenix. They
Speaker 1: will be in San Antonio coming up next on Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: Clippers lose one eleven to one oh nine in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: That is your final. They drop to twenty six and
Speaker 1: twenty on the season before we get to Daniel West
Speaker 1: for your Western Conference standings update. Let's hear from Hojse
Speaker 1: and Southgate. Jose, what's good?
Speaker 4: Can you hear me? All right?
Speaker 1: I can hear you. I know you're hurting right now.
Speaker 1: Team man's your guy and he's not playing much.
Speaker 7: No, yeah he is then, but I do want to
Speaker 7: say shout out Cartno had a little bit of night work,
Speaker 7: so I had to catch that second half on iHeart nice.
Speaker 7: But what I did see was what I did see
Speaker 7: was cart Leonard that first don and then like NDI
Speaker 7: with his knee slocked. But then it's stills near my
Speaker 7: outre in the fourth quarter. That looks like a winter leave.
Speaker 7: I hope this turned down like a little bit of
Speaker 7: a Bill's.
Speaker 3: And chief situation. Bill's winging the regular season, but when
Speaker 3: we see him in the playoffs, we'll have their number.
Speaker 3: Don't even worry about it. And they needed all those threes,
Speaker 3: and we were right, we were right behind them at him.
Speaker 3: So I feel pretty good. It might be the night work,
Speaker 3: but here we go.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Great phone call Jose in Southgate there. I like that
Speaker 1: comparison Clippers of the Chiefs once they get the Phoenix
Speaker 1: Suns in a playoff series. I do feel like it's
Speaker 1: a good matchup for this if they could just be
Speaker 1: healthy against them for once in a playoff series. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to Daniel West on how the West is one.
Speaker 1: After the Clippers lose by two in Phoenix. We need
Speaker 1: that good Western Conference standings update here, Daniel.
Speaker 8: All Right, I just hit refreshed on the computer, so
Speaker 8: this should be up to date here. Number one as
Speaker 8: they've been for a while now. The Oklahoma City Thunder
Speaker 8: thirty seven and eight second. The Rockets had a big
Speaker 8: win tonight in Boston thirty one and fourteen, thirty one
Speaker 8: and sixteen record at at three, Grizzlies fourth, the Nuggets
Speaker 8: holding steady twenty eight and eighteen fifth place, twenty six
Speaker 8: and eighteen record the Clipper they had Lakers excuse me,
Speaker 8: Lakers twenty six and twenty are the Clippers at sixth,
Speaker 8: seventh of the Wolves twenty five and twenty one Phoenix
Speaker 8: Suns to one tonight over. The Clippers are in eighth,
Speaker 8: twenty four and twenty one, ninth Dallas Mavericks twenty five
Speaker 8: and twenty two. And rounding out your playing situation, the Kings,
Speaker 8: who are now two games above five hundred and twenty
Speaker 8: four and twenty two.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I see the Rockets one on the Thompson
Speaker 1: buzzer beater tonight in Boston.
Speaker 8: Kings one.
Speaker 1: They're in a secure spot, the Houston Rockets. They have
Speaker 1: the head to head tiebreaker over the Clippers as well.
Speaker 1: It's not just Phoenix Denver Nuggets. They have it because
Speaker 1: of conference record right now over the Clippers. Clippers are
Speaker 1: one to zero against the Lakers. But now I'm starting
Speaker 1: to think about these head to head tiebreakers, Daniel, after
Speaker 1: a game like this where they they lost all three
Speaker 1: games against Phoenix.
Speaker 8: You know, you say the season is long, and do
Speaker 8: all these games? Yes, because when you look at the
Speaker 8: end of the year and you look at these tiebreakers,
Speaker 8: suddenly seeding becomes a bigger issue. And if you don't
Speaker 8: have tie breakers over anyone, it's a rough ride.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Because like you can look at like, Okay, the
Speaker 1: Clippers are only two games back of the four seed
Speaker 1: held by the Denver Nuggets, but really is three games
Speaker 1: back because they have the tiebreaker so yeah, these games
Speaker 1: are consequential. Daniel we s great job is always.
Speaker 8: Thank you say madam.
Speaker 1: Clippers losing Phoenix by two. Next game coming up in
Speaker 1: San Antonio. They need that one. The Spurs, they're twenty
Speaker 1: and twenty three, the three and seven, the last ten.
Speaker 1: They're desperate for a victory. Clippers have to play with
Speaker 1: more desperation to start the ball game before we get
Speaker 1: out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization,
Speaker 1: Ralph Olobrian Seaman, Noah Igo, Carlo Jimenez on the call.
Speaker 1: Our producer here in the bank, that would be Daniel
Speaker 1: West Elite Sastition, Chris Taylor appreciates you, the callers, the listeners,
Speaker 1: the chatters. We'll talk to you guys on Wednesday, Clippers
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