Speaker 1: The Clippers.
Speaker 2: The game is ended, gather around boys, time to recap.
Speaker 3: But the post game coverage is just getting started.
Speaker 2: The successes the failure.
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Speaker 4: The Clippers are still winless here in the regular season
Speaker 4: at into a Dome as they drop a tough one
Speaker 4: Clipper Nation they lose one, six to one five to
Speaker 4: the Portland Trail Blazers. Welcome into your postgame show. I'm
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Speaker 4: Clippers lose by one to the Portland Trail Blazers in
Speaker 4: heartbreaking fashion. Hear it into it Dome where they weren't
Speaker 4: able to execute an inbound pass at the end, which
Speaker 4: just over three seconds left.
Speaker 1: Let's bring back.
Speaker 4: In your radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez.
Speaker 4: So I told you off air this is about as
Speaker 4: bad of a loss as you can have this early
Speaker 4: in the season. Luckily it is still early in the season.
Speaker 4: But this is a tough one and the Clippers just
Speaker 4: did not string together enough stops and execute enough on
Speaker 4: the offensive end, especially in the fourth quarter. Far too
Speaker 4: many miscues and mishaps.
Speaker 5: Carlo, Yeah, I mean for the Clippers down the stretch,
Speaker 5: they were playing with fire a little bit by allowing
Speaker 5: Portland to hang around close. But Adam, they were right
Speaker 5: there when they had opportunities to erase their mistakes and
Speaker 5: come away with the win. Norman Pala lay up late
Speaker 5: zoo box with two free throws to either tire or
Speaker 5: take the lead, and then an inbound pass with four
Speaker 5: seconds left and you throw the ball over. You look
Speaker 5: at this game and you say, man, Portland played well,
Speaker 5: but the Clippers had every opportunity to come back in
Speaker 5: this ball game. They couldn't get it done. And now
Speaker 5: the pressure turns to Phoenix where you don't get the
Speaker 5: You're on the front end of the back to back
Speaker 5: and you have a chance to maybe get one of
Speaker 5: this back to back, but you're gonna have to do
Speaker 5: it with heavier legs.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 4: Viatz Zubots we talked about it. Heading into this ballgame,
Speaker 4: he and James Harden, how many minutes would they play?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: Big Zoo was at thirty one, James Harden was at
Speaker 4: thirty two. They couldn't keep their guys under thirty. Norrin
Speaker 4: Powell was at thirty five minutes. Really frustrating way to
Speaker 4: lose a ballgame. I know we'll hear from Coach lou
Speaker 4: a little bit later here under postgame Clippers talk, but
Speaker 4: the misfree throws are just inexcusable, and it just felt
Speaker 4: like to me in this ballgame they got off on
Speaker 4: the wrong foot, especially with getting away from their bread
Speaker 4: and butter, the high pick and roll, with the beats
Speaker 4: of zoobots and James Harden. We talked about it, but
Speaker 4: in the first half, Big Zoo was what over four?
Speaker 4: That's inexcusable. You mentioned it, but two of his attempts
Speaker 4: were off of offensive rebounds. They weren't getting him the
Speaker 4: basketball and he wasn't demanding the basketball. There's blame to
Speaker 4: go on both sides. But to me, the game was
Speaker 4: lost in some ways early on when they just weren't
Speaker 4: playing this new brand of Clippers basketball, which means it's
Speaker 4: no longer an option to get Big Zoo involved. It
Speaker 4: is a necessity right now with where the Clippers are at.
Speaker 1: It really is.
Speaker 5: I mean, you see where you miss him today, Adam.
Speaker 5: The Clippers just couldn't find any interior presence with a
Speaker 5: Vitza Zubats unable to get going on that end. The Clippers,
Speaker 5: like you said, didn't really feed him the basketball, even
Speaker 5: though their offense was running through him to the first
Speaker 5: three games. All of a sudden they go away from
Speaker 5: it a little bit. I think for a team that
Speaker 5: played to their strengths through the first three games, they
Speaker 5: almost played away from their strengths here today. They were
Speaker 5: unable to dominate the painted area. They gave up twelve
Speaker 5: offensive rebounds, something we talked about pregame. Portland's the tallest
Speaker 5: team in the NBA. They were gonna get on the glass.
Speaker 5: They got on the glass here today and you're right
Speaker 5: at them. A disappointing loss, especially when you think about
Speaker 5: Tyler Low's never lost to Chauncey Billups. The Clippers have
Speaker 5: had Portland's number for years. They have won sixteen or
Speaker 5: fifteen of the last sixteen contest before tonight. Between these
Speaker 5: two teams, it's just an uncharacteristic loss. Credit to Nanfrey
Speaker 5: Simon's in Portland. But it's not like the Blazers executed
Speaker 5: late either. Felt like they missed a couple of shots.
Speaker 5: Their final shot was a DeAndre eight and three who
Speaker 5: went one for ten last year from outside of the Yark.
Speaker 5: There were chances for the Clippers and they were unable
Speaker 5: to take up, to take the opportunity and step through
Speaker 5: the front door and kind of take over this ballgame late.
Speaker 1: It's a tough loss.
Speaker 5: You hope losses like this are a little bit of
Speaker 5: a wake up call because the Clippers were playing so
Speaker 5: well against the top three of the top three teams
Speaker 5: out West to start the year, and then you lose
Speaker 5: this one to Portland, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: you wonder where are we? Where are we in the
Speaker 5: power rankings? How do we understand where we fit out West?
Speaker 5: You got a chance to prove yourself against Phoenix tomorrow.
Speaker 5: We'll see if the Clippers can do that.
Speaker 4: Felt like it was the little things tonight, you know,
Speaker 4: death by paper cuts, and a lot of them were
Speaker 4: self inflicted by this team. When it comes to just
Speaker 4: not playing with the same level of effort. I know
Speaker 4: the opponent is the.
Speaker 1: Portland Sharyl Blazers.
Speaker 4: We all knew that coming in, but you can't act like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is a team that's going for Cooper Flag or
Speaker 4: whatever the perception is of the Portland Trail Blazers that
Speaker 4: they're going to be at the top of the draft.
Speaker 4: You have to come out with the same focus. And
Speaker 4: I talked about coming into this game We're gonna learn
Speaker 4: something about the Clippers tonight.
Speaker 1: Tonight they didn't have that focus.
Speaker 5: Yeah, which is I think surprising for us, and I
Speaker 5: want to speak for both of us, Adam, but when
Speaker 5: you think about the intensity that the Clippers have played with,
Speaker 5: especially on the defenseman the first three games, it always
Speaker 5: felt like if one thing was consistent, they played hardy.
Speaker 5: Whether they lost or won, they played hard through the
Speaker 5: first three games. Chris Don and Derreck Jones Junior are
Speaker 5: a big cattle, so that they were able to pound
Speaker 5: underneath with the Vitza zubots. And today there wasn't that
Speaker 5: same intensity. There wasn't that same execution on the offensive end.
Speaker 5: In late in the clutch, the Clippers had been dominant,
Speaker 5: they'd been dominant the offensive end in the clutch, unable
Speaker 5: to be effective today, and then you have the sloppy
Speaker 5: turnovers late. Just an odd game because the way this
Speaker 5: team was trending, they were gonna hang their hat on
Speaker 5: their hustle, and today I think a little bit of
Speaker 5: that wasn't there for them.
Speaker 4: It almost felt like at times Portland was asking them
Speaker 4: to take the ball game.
Speaker 1: They weren't playing great either.
Speaker 4: The Clippers were up eighty five to eighty two heading
Speaker 4: into that fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: They hit one hundred first.
Speaker 4: This would be the first time in a Clippers game
Speaker 4: so far this season the team that got to one
Speaker 4: hundred first lost. They were in control, They had that
Speaker 4: defensive stop. Norman Pale gets out, tries to take it
Speaker 4: down the court, gets his shot blocked, it's off of him.
Speaker 4: And just the lack of execution in key moments by
Speaker 4: this Clippers team, missing a couple of free throws, including
Speaker 4: their last three attempts at the charity stripe, big part
Speaker 4: of their undoing.
Speaker 5: Chris Taylor, our statistician today, just handing me a no adam.
Speaker 5: The Clippers had two made field goals in the last
Speaker 5: five thirty five of the ballgame. Their last made bucket
Speaker 5: came with a buck fifty six on o'clock. So you
Speaker 5: go five and a half minutes, two field goals, three
Speaker 5: minutes apart. Killer for the Clippers down the stretch again,
Speaker 5: an offense six from the field in the clutch. Through
Speaker 5: the first three games. It just evaporated here today. It's unfortunate,
Speaker 5: I think the Clippers, though, there's a lot to learn
Speaker 5: from this. Sometimes losses. They say this in football all
Speaker 5: the time, but sometimes if you lose an early game
Speaker 5: like this, it kind of wakes you up for how
Speaker 5: you need to play, how you can try to be
Speaker 5: more effective down the stretch. And for the Clippers, a
Speaker 5: tough one against Portland, but you hope that they take
Speaker 5: away from this game, learn something for it and come
Speaker 5: out with that intensity that we expected of them through
Speaker 5: the first three games, because they brought it through the
Speaker 5: first three games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and a season like this with a small margin
Speaker 4: for air, you just can't have too many of these
Speaker 4: slip ups. They got to get it back tomorrow night
Speaker 4: against the Phoenix Suns. Clippers fall one six to one
Speaker 4: oh five to the Portland trail Blazers here at into
Speaker 4: It Dome on the front end of a back to
Speaker 4: back Carlojmennez great call as always. We'll see you right
Speaker 4: back here tomorrow night.
Speaker 5: My friend Adam, we get to hang out tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: It's not all bad.
Speaker 4: Coming up next, we'll get to your final box score.
Speaker 4: We'll walk you through how they Clippers lost by one
Speaker 4: to the Portland Trail Blazers. Hear it into a dome.
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Speaker 4: We are also live on YouTube at Clippers Talk. The
Speaker 4: chat is just blowing up. I can't even keep up
Speaker 4: with it right now. I know the level of disappointment
Speaker 4: coming off the weekend and then two days off where
Speaker 4: you really get to bask in the afterglow of two
Speaker 4: huge victories against Denver against the Golden State Warriors, and
Speaker 4: for the most part, outside of a few possessions where
Speaker 4: it looked more like Clippers basketball, especially defensively where they
Speaker 4: locked in. They had a twenty four second violation in
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter here against the Portland Trail Blazers. They
Speaker 4: got some stops, but offensively, you gotta knock down your
Speaker 4: free throws and you can't have who just two made
Speaker 4: baskets in the last five minutes and thirty five seconds.
Speaker 4: We knew they would struggle at times offensively, but some
Speaker 4: of the miscues out there. Just go to the final
Speaker 4: play of the game. The pass on the sideline from
Speaker 4: James Harden, that's just I think normOn Powell was opening
Speaker 4: on that possession. I'm gonna have to look at it again.
Speaker 4: You give a little tap on the back right before
Speaker 4: they went into formation. I thought maybe it was going
Speaker 4: to Norman Powell. There was some indication there. Instead, they
Speaker 4: tried to go to a viza zubats underneath the basket
Speaker 4: against DeAndre Ayton, who quite frankly out tonight, easily eatenon
Speaker 4: even hit a three pointer.
Speaker 1: Of eacha.
Speaker 4: Zubats by far had his worst game of the season.
Speaker 4: I hope he got it out of his system. I
Speaker 4: think it's twofold. It works both ways. They weren't getting
Speaker 4: him the basketball and Zubas wasn't demanding it. The body
Speaker 4: language wasn't good. I did like the fact that after
Speaker 4: he missed those two free throws he got the spectacular
Speaker 4: block that Bill Russell block it in get the rebound. However,
Speaker 4: those little moments of an indication of who the Slippers
Speaker 4: had been with their identity so far through three games
Speaker 4: coming into this one, they were just hit and miss.
Speaker 4: You got glimpses here and there of how they had
Speaker 4: played the first three games, but they weren't consistent. They
Speaker 4: didn't string together enough good possessions offensively or defensively. I
Speaker 4: thought Clippers ended up shooting four twenty five make it
Speaker 4: forty six percent from the floor to Portland's forty five percent.
Speaker 4: Big difference in this game. Carlo Heman has brought it
Speaker 4: up though Portland with those offensive rebounds, that was a
Speaker 4: determining factor they ended up with. I think they tied
Speaker 4: the Clippers with thirteen, but they made the most of
Speaker 4: them because Portland had twenty two second chance points, the
Speaker 4: Clippers just twelve, frustrating one Clipper Nation, as they actually
Speaker 4: shot better from three than they had been thirteen of
Speaker 4: thirty six. A lot of that was Norman Palell. I
Speaker 4: know a lot of you guys are saying Norman Powell
Speaker 4: for president. Norm Palell showed up.
Speaker 1: He was great.
Speaker 4: He had thirty He had three threes, I want to
Speaker 4: say in the third quarter or was that early fourth
Speaker 4: five of ten from the outside.
Speaker 1: Yeah, third quarter.
Speaker 4: Team Man didn't have a good game. Again, didn't play
Speaker 4: much at all in the second half. Again, he at
Speaker 4: least took a couple of threes in a jumper. He
Speaker 4: looked for a show a little bit more. It's not
Speaker 4: enough and any more offense from him. But this is
Speaker 4: a frustrating one. It's just inexcusable. I'm telling you it's
Speaker 4: too early in the season to panic with seventy eight
Speaker 4: games left. But I think it's also fair when everybody
Speaker 4: comes into this game and says, hey, this is as
Speaker 4: close as you can get to a must win in
Speaker 4: an early season bout because the opponent, because you had
Speaker 4: two days off because you have Phoenix coming up tomorrow. Instead,
Speaker 4: it felt like at times the Clippers played down to
Speaker 4: their competition and give Portland credit, Simon stepped up late,
Speaker 4: he took over at times. On the fourth quarter they
Speaker 4: put together a twelve zero run, an eight to zero run,
Speaker 4: a five to zero run near the end of the
Speaker 4: third quarter. Portland won the hustle stats. They did more
Speaker 4: of the little things. They beat the Clippers at their
Speaker 4: own game at times disappointing. Disappointing night to say the
Speaker 4: least quick time out will come back. Still have Clippers
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Speaker 4: Clippers fall by one of the Portland trail Blazers one
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Speaker 4: Slippers lose one O six to one oh five at
Speaker 4: home and into a dome to the Portland trail Blazers, difficult,
Speaker 4: frustrating loss. Clipper Nation, I get it. We'll talk about it.
Speaker 4: Eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven
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Speaker 1: Is the phone number. But no rest for the weary.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a good or bad news.
Speaker 4: The Clippers got to get right back up off the
Speaker 4: mat and take on to Phoenix Suns here tomorrow night,
Speaker 4: who had the night off. Much was made of this
Speaker 4: back to back and the Clippers trying to put a
Speaker 4: team away early. Maybe instead they take a bad loss.
Speaker 1: To the Portland trail Blazers. Give credit to Portland.
Speaker 4: But we got a lot to talk about with this
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Speaker 4: Clippers lose of the Portland Trail Blazer's one six to
Speaker 4: one oh five here and into a Dome, and it's
Speaker 4: got Clipper Nation feeling like this season is going up
Speaker 4: in a blaze. There's still two and two, it's still early.
Speaker 4: I'll try to talk you down away from the ledge
Speaker 4: here on Clippers Talk tonight. Try to bring some sanity
Speaker 4: myself here. I know you guys will try to help
Speaker 4: me with that. At eight seven seven five two zero
Speaker 4: eleven fifty eight seven seven five to two zero eleven
Speaker 4: fifty is I'm a little bit worked up about this one.
Speaker 4: Clippers have yet to win here and into a Dome,
Speaker 4: and they've lost both games that were very winnable in
Speaker 4: a similar fashion where they had the ball late against Phoenix,
Speaker 4: were down by three, didn't get a shot off turnover.
Speaker 4: Tonight they're down by one against Portland, didn't get a
Speaker 4: shot off turnover.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 4: Familiar, a little too familiar in all the wrong ways.
Speaker 4: After we've been praising them all weekend, in the last
Speaker 4: two days for showing up in Denver, for showing up
Speaker 4: in San Francisco against Golden State. Just really really frustrating
Speaker 4: and demoralizing. I'm sure for Clipper Nation to see the
Speaker 4: Clippers come back to into it be waiting have two
Speaker 4: days of really rallying around this team, and then they
Speaker 4: lose to the Portland Trailblazers one, six five. I tried
Speaker 4: to put out some warning signs saying you can't overlook anyone,
Speaker 4: especially this early in the season. Set it on multiple
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Speaker 4: seven to seven, five to two zero eleven fift But
Speaker 4: I don't know how you put together a performance like
Speaker 4: this after what we just saw this past weekend. And
Speaker 4: lay an egg in this fashion and have a letdown
Speaker 4: like this. It's early in the season. Teams like Portland
Speaker 4: who aren't supposed to do much we'll see are at
Speaker 4: a talent disadvantage. But there's belief early in the year
Speaker 4: there's hope. Especially with the play in now, feel like, hey,
Speaker 4: ten teams in each conference get into the Dance the tournament.
Speaker 4: If you want to dumb this down, so it's just
Speaker 4: the Clippers at the free throw line, that's fair, But
Speaker 4: I think it started before that. I think this was
Speaker 4: an earned loss by the Clippers. I felt like if
Speaker 4: they had won it, they snuck away or they got
Speaker 4: away with something. Some people say a win's a win,
Speaker 4: a loss is a loss. Sure, you can look at
Speaker 4: that at the very end of the season. But I
Speaker 4: think habits you build matter. How you play matters, how.
Speaker 1: You win, how you lose matters.
Speaker 4: You can play great and defeat and build off something
Speaker 4: you did in that game and it turns into a
Speaker 4: win later, or you can develop bad habits during wins
Speaker 4: that can eventually come back to bite you. That's what
Speaker 4: it felt like tonight if the Clippers got away with
Speaker 4: this one. Amina Sean says on the YouTube side. We
Speaker 4: were playing with our food at him.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Like they were down at the half.
Speaker 4: This Clippers team, they could have been down more at
Speaker 4: the half. It could have been worse. They made a
Speaker 4: little bit of a run at the end of the
Speaker 4: second quarter. They were only up by two after the
Speaker 4: first quarter. I thought there were warning signs. We talked
Speaker 4: about it during the broadcast. If eats and Zubas is
Speaker 4: not getting involved, what's going on? Seems like he wasn't
Speaker 4: engaged and the Clippers weren't looking for him. He took
Speaker 4: four shots in the first half, two of them were
Speaker 4: on off defensive rebounds, so created by himself. What's going
Speaker 4: on there? I'm gonna say it again. I tweeted this out.
Speaker 4: I said it early in the post game. It's not
Speaker 4: an option to get of each Zubats involved. It's a necessity.
Speaker 4: The team's gotta look for him early and often. They
Speaker 4: got to get to the high pick and roll, like
Speaker 4: the one they ran very late in the game that
Speaker 4: got him to the free throw line on the miss
Speaker 4: dunk where he ran strong to the basket and James
Speaker 4: Harden found him.
Speaker 1: Where was that early? Where was that urgency? Where was
Speaker 1: the intensity.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm most disappointed in. I don't know if
Speaker 4: they started reading their own headlines or starting to think, hey,
Speaker 4: we just took out two solid teams on the road
Speaker 4: this past weekend. We can sleepwalk through this one and
Speaker 4: have a matinee like start, because that's what it felt
Speaker 4: like people had brought up. It was a trap game.
Speaker 4: But if you know going in it can be won,
Speaker 4: don't let it happen to you. Don't overlook this team
Speaker 4: for Phoenix because you want revenge over what happened last week.
Speaker 4: Now they need revenge over what happened tonight. Now tomorrow's
Speaker 4: game is even a bigger contest. I'm telling you it's
Speaker 4: not a necessity. It's not an option to get Avitza
Speaker 4: Zubas involved. It's a necessity period. Get him involved early
Speaker 4: and often on this team right now without Kawhi Leonard,
Speaker 4: or you're gonna have a real struggle on offense.
Speaker 1: I felt like.
Speaker 4: Avitza Zuboss was checked out at times defensively because they
Speaker 4: weren't getting him involved.
Speaker 1: On the offensive end.
Speaker 4: And while they held this team to one hundred and
Speaker 4: six points and that's good, I still didn't feel great
Speaker 4: about it. There were possessions that were great. They got
Speaker 4: stops in the fourth quarter twenty four second violation. There
Speaker 4: was some defensive brilliance. There was that play where right
Speaker 4: afterwards it was Derek Jones Junior and James Harden talking
Speaker 4: to one another, grabbing each other, holding hands, doing a
Speaker 4: little dosey dough.
Speaker 1: They were having fun.
Speaker 4: It was cool to see because they put together a
Speaker 4: really fine defensive play. I don't know if there were
Speaker 4: enough of those. And then offensively, it just we knew
Speaker 4: at times it would be a grind.
Speaker 1: It has been.
Speaker 4: They were twenty fifth offensively heading into this game. They'll
Speaker 4: probably drop even lower in the offensive ratings after this,
Speaker 4: right you would expect, But Harden looks tired. I keep
Speaker 4: telling y'all this is why they have to try to
Speaker 4: find something.
Speaker 1: With Kevin Porter Junior.
Speaker 4: You're talking about how poorly he has played, and I
Speaker 4: thought tonight was probably easily his best game. They were
Speaker 4: forced feeding him the basketball to get a three. At
Speaker 4: one point, Chris Dunn had it on the right wing,
Speaker 4: he was open. He gave it right back to Kevin
Speaker 4: Porter Junior instead of taking it, like go man, we
Speaker 4: need you to score, We need you to get going
Speaker 4: We're in trouble without you, and I understand that. And
Speaker 4: I thought Kevin Porter Junior had some good moments, a
Speaker 4: reverse layup, a steal, and a score. He got a
Speaker 4: jumper to go early on the right elbow, that side
Speaker 4: stepping layup. He created a mismatch in the second half
Speaker 4: and found Kai who they had to foul. He's just
Speaker 4: not quite up to speed enough yet to where you
Speaker 4: can really rely on anyone else to control the game
Speaker 4: without James Harden having to do everything hard and again
Speaker 4: ten assists but five turnovers. The high usage is catching
Speaker 4: up with him. He was averaging twelve and seven turnovers
Speaker 4: coming into this one, twelve assist to seven. He got
Speaker 4: hot with a couple of big three pointers that were
Speaker 4: clutch shots, but Clippers had two May baskets the last
Speaker 4: five minutes and thirty five seconds of the game. And
Speaker 4: you survive if you just hit your free throws. James
Speaker 4: Harden missing two free throws, going one for two twice
Speaker 4: late is just it's just a killer. It cannot happen.
Speaker 4: Not after a miss free throw led to Phoenix winning.
Speaker 4: Not the only reason, but was a reason part of it.
Speaker 4: The other night, then he made some clutch free throws
Speaker 4: against Denver four or five, Mark miss free throw, two
Speaker 4: fifty seven Mark miss free throw. In between that, he
Speaker 4: hit a three. But Anthony Simon's got hot. What I
Speaker 4: tell you about him in the preview earlier today, he
Speaker 4: gets going. It is tough to turn a guy like
Speaker 4: that off. He is a killer in the other sense.
Speaker 4: He's coming for your heart. He gets it going and
Speaker 4: he brings out the flamethrower. I want to see what
Speaker 4: he ended up at the fourth quarter. I'll look for
Speaker 4: that in a little bit. But they missed their last
Speaker 4: three free throws. James Harden misses two under the five
Speaker 4: minute mark. That's that's how you escape from a fate
Speaker 4: that they probably deserved in this one, playing down to
Speaker 4: their opponent. But it never should have come to that
Speaker 4: to begin with with this Clippers team.
Speaker 1: Tonight, right.
Speaker 4: We roll and said, can't believe we can stop him
Speaker 4: five times in a row and not get a bucket. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean they had some really good stops in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter. They ramp things up, they ratcheted things up,
Speaker 4: but they gave up thirty to Portland in the second
Speaker 4: and twenty eight to them the third quarter. They're down
Speaker 4: at the half shouldn't happen by four, and it could
Speaker 4: have been worse. It was what a normOn Powell buzzer beater. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they were down by nine, make it eleven with a
Speaker 4: minute oh seven left in that second quarter. That's just brutal.
Speaker 4: Fifty four to forty three. A Mere Coffee gets a
Speaker 4: five to zero run where I think it was, Yeah,
Speaker 4: a good Kai offensive rebound. Kay Jones played hard. I
Speaker 4: gotta give it up to him tonight. I thought Ky
Speaker 4: Jones played really hard. He had a big offensive rebound
Speaker 4: saved it. A Mere Coffee gets a layup in transition,
Speaker 4: makes a three. It's fifty four to forty eight heading
Speaker 4: into the half, and normOn Pale gets a bucket to
Speaker 4: go at the very end, going down the left side
Speaker 4: of the lane off the backboard before the buzzer goes.
Speaker 4: So they're down to eleven. Definitely playing with their food
Speaker 4: some with uh just about a minute left to go
Speaker 4: into the half, and they cut it to four.
Speaker 1: They were lucky to do that.
Speaker 4: Portland went at one time had a twelve zero run
Speaker 4: in the second quarter, then they had an eight to
Speaker 4: zero run in the second quarter. I just think the
Speaker 4: Clippers didn't deserve this one. KPJ definitely had a couple
Speaker 4: of really bad turnovers, that's for sure, five of them total.
Speaker 1: That is definitely worth pointing.
Speaker 4: Out where he was too loose with the basketball and
Speaker 4: still just doesn't look up to NBA speed. I would
Speaker 4: consider bones Highland. I would pray Brandon play Brandon Miller.
Speaker 4: I'm always saying Brandon Miller, Jordan Miller, but I don't
Speaker 4: know it was happen, and I understand why I do.
Speaker 4: Kevin Bord Junior is average nineteen in the game, and
Speaker 4: when it looks good, it looks real good. That reverse
Speaker 4: layup was crazy. He has a lot of what the
Speaker 4: Clippers need in theory.
Speaker 1: Is he there yet? Can they wait for him to
Speaker 1: get there?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: They need to win tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I know this is game one of a five game
Speaker 4: homestand but it was an important one and I'm not
Speaker 4: going to back down from that. After I said throughout
Speaker 4: the day that this was one you need that you
Speaker 4: have to win all four games against Portland. They got
Speaker 4: a gift getting four games against Portland, a team outside
Speaker 4: of their division in the Pac div because they're one
Speaker 4: of the lesser teams in the West and they got
Speaker 4: them four times. You should have won every one of those.
Speaker 4: They already drop one. These are the ones that come
Speaker 4: back to haunt you later. They could have been three
Speaker 4: to one, as Blue R said, two and two Suns tomorrow.
Speaker 4: We'll take a quick time out. We'll come back eight
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Speaker 4: Clippers lose by one and into a dome one o
Speaker 4: six to one oh five in an eerily similar fashion
Speaker 4: as Halloween Is Tomorrow to the game they lost to
Speaker 4: the Phoenix. Suns were once again they had a chance
Speaker 4: to tie the game or win the game late, and
Speaker 4: it ends with the turnover instead, James Harden with the
Speaker 4: basketball and the inbounds pass looking for a Vitza Zubats
Speaker 4: and it's battered away by DeAndre Aiden. It almost reminds
Speaker 4: me of like some reverse bizarro world of the value
Speaker 4: in game two of that Western Conference Finals with the
Speaker 4: Clippers in Phoenix, where everything is going the other way.
Speaker 4: This time is the Clippers on offense, it's them inbounding it.
Speaker 4: They had more time of Eata Zubats still battling with
Speaker 4: DeAndre Ayton, but he's battling to get the basketball. Ayden
Speaker 4: defends it really well. There could have been a foul,
Speaker 4: but they're never gonna call it in this situation. So
Speaker 4: I understand that he plays the level of physicality against
Speaker 4: a Eatazubas that they needed Zubats two against Ayton in
Speaker 4: Game two of that playoff game, and instead of it,
Speaker 4: instead of it ending with a h I don't know,
Speaker 4: a Clippers lob city play here, it ends in a turnover.
Speaker 4: Just everything goes the other way, also in a negative
Speaker 4: for the Clippers. They lose one six to one oh five.
Speaker 4: Welcome back into your Clippers Top post game show. I'm
Speaker 4: Adam Mosland eight seven seven five to two zero eleven
Speaker 4: fifty eight seven seven five to two zero eleven fifty
Speaker 4: if you're watching on the YouTube live side, I do
Speaker 4: have the final possession here and we can go over
Speaker 4: a little bit because it's going to define the game
Speaker 4: in some ways. But to me, it's not why the
Speaker 4: Clippers lost the game either. I have to be honest
Speaker 4: about that. They had plenty of opportunities to pull away.
Speaker 4: They didn't take advantage. Their offense wasn't in sync, and
Speaker 4: I think it was out of sync from the get
Speaker 4: go because they weren't going through zoo Vita Zubots at all.
Speaker 4: So on the final possession three point nine, three point
Speaker 4: nine seconds left, James Harden you want him as the
Speaker 4: inbounder on the far sideline. Avitza Zubots comes in immediately,
Speaker 4: and I like the set.
Speaker 1: He sets a.
Speaker 4: Screen for Derek Jones Junior, screens his man and and
Speaker 4: djj is open in the far side corner. There's Option
Speaker 4: one doesn't even look like James Harden is looking his way.
Speaker 4: Gives him a little bit of a look, but alects
Speaker 4: not to Option two is of Eatza. Zubos then screens
Speaker 4: Norman Palell's man in Jeremy Grant gives them a little
Speaker 4: bit of a bump. Norman Powell gets out way on
Speaker 4: the left wing from about it might be thirty five
Speaker 4: thirty eight forty feet out he's wide open. There's three
Speaker 4: point nine seconds left. You could give it to him there.
Speaker 4: It's conceivable that Norman Powell gets the basketball there and
Speaker 4: has enough time to go to work. Whether he wants
Speaker 4: to take a three, which is unnecessary, either down by
Speaker 4: one or get inside the arc. There is enough time
Speaker 4: for that or dark towards the basket. As of Viatza,
Speaker 4: Zubats is just tangled up. When you watch the play
Speaker 4: with DeAndre Aiden, I mean, Deandre's got his jersey at
Speaker 4: the level of eatsa, Zubos should have had his before
Speaker 4: the value oop. The lob pass, the mortar fire pass
Speaker 4: from James Harden is deflected by the right arm of
Speaker 4: DeAndre Ayden while he and Zubots are battling. He's got
Speaker 4: his left arm on Zubots holding him down. They're never
Speaker 4: gonna call that foul. I don't think they should. That's
Speaker 4: just a battle between two big men, and DeAndre aid
Speaker 4: won the battle in every way people have been pointing
Speaker 4: out in the chat on Clippers Talk Live on YouTube
Speaker 4: Eighten is Zoo's kryptonite. It's fair. He played really well
Speaker 4: in that series in twenty twenty one. I thought Zoo
Speaker 4: was okay outside the value loop where he just needed
Speaker 4: to play tougher right then at the end, you just
Speaker 4: can't let ad and get to that spot, do whatever
Speaker 4: you have to. They're not gonna call a foul there.
Speaker 4: Harden does look exhausted. This was my concern over the weekend.
Speaker 4: Can you really keep this up this many minutes? He
Speaker 4: didn't play as many and he still looked tired. He
Speaker 4: was at thirty two. Some are saying, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: this is the ramp up process. He's getting his Sea legs.
Speaker 4: He's getting his NBA legs. Maybe, or maybe he's thirty
Speaker 4: five and having it to do way too much right now.
Speaker 4: That's a distinct possibility as well. I thought, just like
Speaker 4: the game against Phoenix, he made some really good plays
Speaker 4: late and some really bad plays late. I thought the
Speaker 4: Clippers in the fourth quarter, you know, they hit a
Speaker 4: twomb three to start it, they had some really good opportunities.
Speaker 4: They didn't close out the third the way they should have,
Speaker 4: first of all, and these are the little things that
Speaker 4: kill you when it comes to a death by paper
Speaker 4: cut situation where the Clippers were in control to some
Speaker 4: degree into the third quarter. It is eighty five to
Speaker 4: seventy seven, with a minute twenty two left, Scoo gets
Speaker 4: a layup and a three pointer just like that cuts
Speaker 4: it to a three point game hands heading into the fourth.
Speaker 4: It's lessened that blow that run by Niko, Buttoom immediately
Speaker 4: knocking down a three to start the fourth. But they
Speaker 4: just couldn't string enough shots together or stops. KPJ had
Speaker 4: a really bad take early in the fourth quarter that
Speaker 4: got swatted, but then he had a really nice feed
Speaker 4: to Jones for a dunk. But seven point straight from
Speaker 4: who was it Rupert of Portland. That was a big
Speaker 4: turning point in the game. I gotta be honest. That
Speaker 4: hurt them these I know basketball is a game of runs.
Speaker 4: They were extreme in this game, absolutely, and it was
Speaker 4: because the Clippers offense just going into deep lolls.
Speaker 1: Uh rupe pair.
Speaker 4: Would be how you pronounce it, as I checked the
Speaker 4: pronunciation on Basketball Reference. Rupe Peer had seven straight points
Speaker 4: early in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Those were big.
Speaker 4: KPJ did have that step back bucket, Emir had a
Speaker 4: nice block, but I didn't like them forcing the basketball
Speaker 4: to Kevin Porter Junior. As I mentioned earlier, Chris Dunn
Speaker 4: got it on the right wing, gave it right back
Speaker 4: to KPJ and told him to shoot it, didn't make it,
Speaker 4: then missed another three.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 4: They're trying to get him going, but instead Klingon makes
Speaker 4: a three pointer. Both big men for the Portland Trail
Speaker 4: Blazers make threes. You could say that's bad luck on
Speaker 4: the Clippers part, and Klingon hit like two threes in
Speaker 4: college and last year I think DeAndre Eighten was two
Speaker 4: for ten from three and he knock one down in
Speaker 4: this game. That's just fluky. It's crazy, but it happens
Speaker 4: when you mess around and find out against a bad team.
Speaker 4: The level of seriousness was not where it needed to be.
Speaker 4: As Ryan Rickley points out here on the chat side,
Speaker 4: it wasn't not even close. And now the Clippers have
Speaker 4: some tough games coming up. As Mike Kim points out Suns,
Speaker 4: thunder Spurs, Sixers next four games, he's going straight doomer,
Speaker 4: saying they could lose all four. They're tough opponents. We'll
Speaker 4: see if the Sixers get healthy. How About let's start
Speaker 4: with winning tomorrow, with getting one back against the Suns,
Speaker 4: not just for what happened tonight, but the untbeat him
Speaker 4: opening night here into it home. How about geting to
Speaker 4: win here and not hurting yourself with self inflicted wounds.
Speaker 4: I hate seeing that. I hate seeing a team beat themselves.
Speaker 4: And that's what it felt like in so many ways,
Speaker 4: in the little ways of just you know what, We're
Speaker 4: gonna go away from Vitza zoo bas and we'll get
Speaker 4: to him later in the game. We'll get them a
Speaker 4: couple of buckets in the third quarter. It'll come alive.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: You gotta get him going in rhythm. You could see
Speaker 4: it wasn't there early because he wasn't getting touches. You
Speaker 4: could see it was there for a second and the third,
Speaker 4: but then they took him out because they're trying to
Speaker 4: save minutes with the game coming up tomorrow. They did
Speaker 4: not play with the right intent. They did not play
Speaker 4: like a team that knew they had to take care
Speaker 4: of business against a lesser opponent. That's what's frustrating. I
Speaker 4: think we still have one more time out here. Is
Speaker 4: echo quality back in Burbank? Or am I wrong on
Speaker 4: that we'll take one time out, we'll come back, We'll
Speaker 4: hear from coach lou postgame. Clippers lose one six to
Speaker 4: one oh five to the Portland Trail Blazers add into
Speaker 4: a dome, another turnover to end a ball game when
Speaker 4: they had a chance to win it. So two games
Speaker 4: where they close things out over the weekend and then uh,
Speaker 4: they're book ended by two games here and into a
Speaker 4: dome start the season against Phoenix, and then tonight against
Speaker 4: Portland where they don't get it done in crunch time.
Speaker 4: Mixed bag, so far, hard to draw any long reaching conclusions.
Speaker 4: That's why I've been prefacing things all weekend. While you
Speaker 4: can be excited, there were still warning signs like Harden
Speaker 4: having to do way too much more. Clippers talk next
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Speaker 1: Clippers two and two. But it feels worse than that
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 4: I did say their first ten games, I'd sign up
Speaker 4: for going to them going five and five. But they
Speaker 4: had just such a great opportunity to go three and one, and.
Speaker 1: They let it go.
Speaker 4: And they lost at home to the Portland Trail Blazers
Speaker 4: one six to one oh five, as the Clippers could
Speaker 4: not execute when they had too late miss free throws
Speaker 4: and a backbreaking turnover with three point nine seconds left
Speaker 4: on an inbounds play from James hard looking for a
Speaker 4: beat to Zobots, I'm Adam Oslind welcome back in This
Speaker 4: is Clippers Talk on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. And
Speaker 4: if you're watching on the YouTube side at Clippers Talk,
Speaker 4: people are coming up with new trade ideas. You guys
Speaker 4: still want Jeremy Grant or you over that now that
Speaker 4: he was awful tonight. The Clippers still lost to Portland,
Speaker 4: but we just go night tonight with his stuff and
Speaker 4: performance to performance. I'm telling you you can't be a
Speaker 4: is at the moment. You got to look big picture here.
Speaker 4: I thought there were warning signs even in those two
Speaker 4: victories with James Harden and how tired he looked when
Speaker 4: they were going to Derrick Jones Junior to bring the
Speaker 4: ball up at the end of that game against the
Speaker 4: Golden State Warriors which resulted in turnovers. I said, oh,
Speaker 4: that's not great to me. I'm glad they won, but
Speaker 4: you know, there's a price to pay for playing heavy minutes.
Speaker 4: The tank looked even more empty tonight.
Speaker 1: Late.
Speaker 4: Let's hear from coach lou post game after the Clippers
Speaker 4: lose one o six to one oh five, hearing into
Speaker 4: a domes with the Portland trail Blazers.
Speaker 3: Obviously well as minus excu should her job. But what
Speaker 3: did you what did you see that it felt like,
Speaker 3: you know he shout and closing that game.
Speaker 6: I don't know a lot of different things.
Speaker 7: I think those defensively, you know, thank signings to attack
Speaker 7: it down the stretch. There's my call to let him
Speaker 7: cause we were still up you know, forcing to me
Speaker 7: in the zoo, and he made some tough shots of mentally,
Speaker 7: just you know, their pressure spread us up, made the stagnant.
Speaker 7: You know, there was physical you know, playing on the
Speaker 7: top side, and you know, we just didn't execute them
Speaker 7: were supposed to, like we talked about, cause we knew
Speaker 7: exactly what they were gonna do.
Speaker 6: And also miss a lot of free throws coming down
Speaker 6: the stretch as well, you know, to you know, go
Speaker 6: up to you know, to go up one. You miss
Speaker 6: a couple of free throws. That's part of the game.
Speaker 6: But you know it's gotta be better execution down the skirt,
Speaker 6: down the stretch. A Hey, coach, So the game right
Speaker 6: right here, you're your head coach Trump.
Speaker 4: So as the game like today, like, uh, you do
Speaker 4: have a back to back tomorrow, How does that affect
Speaker 4: your players that life they're mentally all would you have
Speaker 4: to do there won't be ready?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we were tired that. We talked about this
Speaker 6: few Titans though. The all your game did close this
Speaker 6: season is that just kind of make up of the
Speaker 6: team still.
Speaker 7: Hutting each other trying to figure out how to all
Speaker 7: our game was gonna be plus those eighty two h.
Speaker 3: Eighty So what's the best way for you guys do
Speaker 3: with especially at ninth night time when you and you
Speaker 3: said Mr Peeterrows, mister shots.
Speaker 5: Things like that.
Speaker 6: Just keep attacking, I think, keep playing the right way.
Speaker 6: We're not gonna make shots every night.
Speaker 7: You know, we understand now did a better job taking
Speaker 7: care of basketball, but their pressure getting slow us down,
Speaker 7: you know, made a stagnant We couldn't get the ball
Speaker 7: to the guys we need to get the ball to
Speaker 7: and so we just gotta be better with that. And
Speaker 7: so it's a good test for us. You know, we
Speaker 7: saw last game, you know against Golden State. You know
Speaker 7: we brought in by GP and then Wiggins and coming
Speaker 7: and did the same things efensively, so we had two
Speaker 7: days to work on it. We didn't do a good
Speaker 7: job of executing how we wanted to play and how
Speaker 7: we needed to play against it, so we would get yeah,
Speaker 7: try In the.
Speaker 4: First half, Portland seem like they did a really good
Speaker 4: job taking Zoo out of the game offensively, they I
Speaker 4: believe the only shot he had was a free throw
Speaker 4: line jumper kind.
Speaker 6: Of what what did you see from that defensively that
Speaker 6: basically did take him out?
Speaker 7: Or was it all you guys just I would say
Speaker 7: on us, you know, just doing another job, you know,
Speaker 7: trying to get Zoo the ball.
Speaker 6: But they did a good job of just swarming though
Speaker 6: Aiden did a good job of trying to put the
Speaker 6: suet on his catches no easy catches and.
Speaker 7: Even when they went small, but they tried to post it,
Speaker 7: did a good job in front of the post that
Speaker 7: we couldn't.
Speaker 6: Get Zoo the ball.
Speaker 7: Similar question, but with James obviously had another double double,
Speaker 7: was four straight games with the double dove over him,
Speaker 7: but just uh six of eighteen from the field and
Speaker 7: had the five turnovers. Was there anything that you felt
Speaker 7: they were doing against him that that led to him
Speaker 7: being indefficient?
Speaker 6: From the field or was it just not you think
Speaker 6: just wearing down.
Speaker 7: I think throwing different bodies at him, you know, pretty
Speaker 7: pressure in the full cord, in the half court, leaning
Speaker 7: on 'em, top top locking, top siding, and you know,
Speaker 7: just trying to wear it now.
Speaker 6: And they have great defenders so they can throw multiple
Speaker 6: bodies at him, and that's what they did tonight.
Speaker 4: So there was Coach Lou a great question by Joey
Speaker 4: Linn postgame. We had him on the pregame show, Joey
Speaker 4: Lynn from SI Now. But I'll sum it up for
Speaker 4: you guys and give some analysis and what he was
Speaker 4: talking about. I know on the YouTube live side, you
Speaker 4: guys couldn't hear Coach Lou, But that's all right, I'll
Speaker 4: give it to you. He talked about a lot of
Speaker 4: different things, doing them in this goes back to me
Speaker 4: saying death by paper cuts. It typically comes down to
Speaker 4: that in a game like this where you lose to
Speaker 4: Portland a lot of things. He thought they could have
Speaker 4: blitz Simons more but didn't elect to. That was his call,
Speaker 4: and Anthony Simons made some tough shots. He most certainly
Speaker 4: did in that fourth quarter. I want to see what
Speaker 4: Anthony Simons ended up shooting. You know what, somebody in
Speaker 4: the chat get to me on that. If you have
Speaker 4: the numbers in the fourth quarter from Anthony Simons and
Speaker 4: just what he was able to do. But the defensive
Speaker 4: pressure sped them up. They got stagnant with the ball.
Speaker 4: There was a play I pointed out in the broadcast,
Speaker 4: but Chouncey Billups learned from coach lou about this. Late
Speaker 4: in a shot clock, what you do is to trap
Speaker 4: the ball handler. It's called a fire and they did
Speaker 4: that against James Harden, resulting in a turnover in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter. You could see it. Chouncey Billups called for it.
Speaker 4: He said, go, go, go, and the double came. They
Speaker 4: trapped him. Clippers lost the basketball. But he said, this
Speaker 4: is stuff they've been working on the last two days.
Speaker 4: They just didn't execute. So they knew what they had
Speaker 4: to work on, they knew what was going to happen.
Speaker 4: They were prepared for it, but they didn't execute. They
Speaker 4: didn't get it done when they needed to against when
Speaker 4: there were live bullets out there against a team and
Speaker 4: it was no longer practice. That's frustrating. He mentioned the
Speaker 4: free throws. They went four to nine in the fourth
Speaker 4: quarter at the charity Stripe Guys. He was also asked
Speaker 4: about tomorrow's game. He said, we'll be ready for Tis.
Speaker 4: They talked about Brad Turner from the La Times asking
Speaker 4: him about all these close games. Coach Lou acknowledged, all
Speaker 4: our games are going to be close. Yeah, when you
Speaker 4: play defense like this, you're in a lot of games.
Speaker 4: You got to close them out. They did in two
Speaker 4: of them, and two of them they did not. Regarding
Speaker 4: Beast of Zubas, he said it was on us for
Speaker 4: not getting Zubats the ball more early while they were
Speaker 4: trying to take him away. He said they could have
Speaker 4: done a better job trying to get Zubos the ball.
Speaker 4: They were swarming, swarming him defensively Portland pushing him out
Speaker 4: towards the perimeter too. But then he also talked about
Speaker 4: as Joey Lyn asked him about James Harden, Uh, just
Speaker 4: throwing different bodies at James Harden, wearing him down. And
Speaker 4: that's what you're seeing right now, and that's concerning Yeah,
Speaker 4: I know what Simmons was overall ten for twenty four.
Speaker 4: What was he in the fourth quarter alone? My friend
Speaker 4: Bounette here in the chat, that's what I'm interested in.
Speaker 4: I know a lot of people are going to be
Speaker 4: back with Clippers Stock after dark and we'll have more
Speaker 4: postgame audio for you there. But this was a really
Speaker 4: tough loss, as bad as it can get early in
Speaker 4: a season where you're still trying to get your first
Speaker 4: win here and into it Dome and you lose to
Speaker 4: a team that's probably going to finish bottom two in
Speaker 4: the Western Conference.
Speaker 1: I think they got a first round pick.
Speaker 4: Many are calling it capture the Flag with Cooper Flag,
Speaker 4: and Portland will probably be involved. But early in the
Speaker 4: season is when stuff like this happens. And that's why
Speaker 4: I was concerned, because you can get a team to
Speaker 4: rise up, and especially if you give them life like
Speaker 4: the Clippers did tonight. They made it too easy on
Speaker 4: them by not clamping them down, by not showing up well.
Speaker 4: They started off eight nothing and their defense was locked
Speaker 4: in early. It wasn't consistent, it wasn't consistently good enough,
Speaker 4: not to the level we had seen over the past
Speaker 4: couple of games. So it is frustrating, and people are
Speaker 4: now wanting to talk about trades and Lonzo Ball and
Speaker 4: it's like, man, he's not even playing right now, and
Speaker 4: just came back. You want another injury prone guy. That's
Speaker 4: the move after a loss like this, That's the conversation.
Speaker 4: Ayton has been a tough matchup for Beats Zubats over
Speaker 4: the years. There's no getting around that. And I think
Speaker 4: collectively the team defense by the Portland Trail Blazers, knowing
Speaker 4: that we take away Zubots, we can take away the
Speaker 4: Clippers offense, they can't get into a rhythm. Smart on
Speaker 4: their part. It also tells you about the Clippers and
Speaker 4: who they are this season. They're featuring of eatsa Zubots.
Speaker 4: Teams are keying in on that, so they have to
Speaker 4: adjust to it. It's that cat and mouse game. The
Speaker 4: Clippers have to be prepared for this. Teams are watching
Speaker 4: tape two. They're gonna try to find a way to
Speaker 4: take away your strengths, and a Vita Zubats has certainly
Speaker 4: been one. Anthrety Simons was three of six.
Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter, so it was good.
Speaker 4: Clipper's not good enough. I'm nearly good enough. They better
Speaker 4: step up tomorrow night against the Phoenix Suns. We had
Speaker 4: the day off. Tip time for that one at seven
Speaker 4: thirty right back here at into a dome pregame at
Speaker 4: six point thirty. Before we get out of here, I
Speaker 4: do want to thank the Clippers organization. Ralph Plaulabrian Seaman,
Speaker 4: Noah Eagle, Carlohman is on the call. Big brother Jay Warner,
Speaker 4: who's on Cloud nine tonight, says Dodgers are victorious and
Speaker 4: World Series champions. Zach Ocalady back in the bank, our producer.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Zach. Everybody in the chat.
Speaker 4: We'll have some Clippers Talk after dark for you in
Speaker 4: about I don't know, thirty five minutes whenever I can
Speaker 4: get home. Lorda unpacked from this one. Everybody else will
Speaker 4: talk to you Tomorrow night.
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