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Speaker 1: At follow Adam a Adam Mosley. Clippers trailed by as
Speaker 1: many as seventeen in Dallas. They had seventeen turnovers and
Speaker 1: they would lose one thirteen to ninety seven in game
Speaker 1: two of this two game mini series against the Mavericks.
Speaker 1: Welcome in, a'm Adam Oslin. It is your Clippers postgame show.
Speaker 1: This is Clippers Talk. If you'd like to get on
Speaker 1: tonight eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy
Speaker 1: eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy if
Speaker 1: you think you got some realistic solutions. After the Clippers
Speaker 1: lose a tough one where really felt like they had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to win this game, some are going to
Speaker 1: write this off as well. Kyrie Irving was back and
Speaker 1: even though they don't have Luca, the Clippers still don't
Speaker 1: have Kawhi Leonard, but Kyrie Irving struggled mightily in this game.
Speaker 1: He was six of twenty five. You get that performance
Speaker 1: from Kyrie Irving, I feel like you gotta win that ballgame.
Speaker 1: That's the source of my frustration and the Clippers getting
Speaker 1: beat at their own game in the hustle categories, where
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks had eleven offensive rebounds the Clippers eight,
Speaker 1: and those second chance points twenty seven to sixteen in
Speaker 1: favor of the Dallas Mavericks, eleven of fourteen on second
Speaker 1: chance opportunities, points in the paint forty six to forty two,
Speaker 1: and then just the careless mistakes by the Clippers. Some
Speaker 1: of these turnovers are pretty inexcusable. And James Harden since
Speaker 1: he came back from being out for eight days, he
Speaker 1: only missed one game during that time because the wonky
Speaker 1: schedule with the Clippers, but in three of the last
Speaker 1: four games he has had turnover numbers of nine, six
Speaker 1: and tonight seven. Something's off with his timing. He doesn't
Speaker 1: look right, and I thought there were some real unforced
Speaker 1: errors out there by James Harden, or he just simply
Speaker 1: wasn't focused enough, not making sharp passes, not playing a crisp,
Speaker 1: sound brand of basketball. The level of competitiveness wasn't where
Speaker 1: it needed to be from this Clippers team against Dallas
Speaker 1: tonight because they were playing harder. Remember the idea identity
Speaker 1: of this team going back to Honolulu, when coach Lou
Speaker 1: was asked about them, he said, We're gonna be a
Speaker 1: team that plays hard every night. Tonight they got out
Speaker 1: played by Dallas. Dallas was tougher. They matched the challenge
Speaker 1: of Viza Zubats. Could they have struggled against They met
Speaker 1: the challenge, I should say Derek Liveley had eleven points,
Speaker 1: a couple of blocks, eleven boards, five assists. Daniel Gafford
Speaker 1: also had two blocks. He had thirteen and six And
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's gonna take for the Clippers
Speaker 1: to get a Vita Zubats the basketball more when they're
Speaker 1: struggling offensively and they can't hit a shot from distance.
Speaker 1: As at the half, the Clippers were six no, no, no,
Speaker 1: They were three of nineteen from the outside. They were
Speaker 1: shooting sixteen percent from three. After the third quarter six
Speaker 1: of thirty one got her up to nineteen percent from three,
Speaker 1: but Big Zoo in the third had his own seven
Speaker 1: straight points and uh, some of that he had to
Speaker 1: generate on his own because nobody was getting him in
Speaker 1: the basketball. And I understand Carlo's point, they were doubling
Speaker 1: right away, but I I guess I feel good about
Speaker 1: aviasta Zuba's passing out of those double teams. Lately. He
Speaker 1: scored seventh straight from the seven to forty six mark
Speaker 1: of the third quarter to the six fifty three mark.
Speaker 1: He gets two putbacks and then he gets a big
Speaker 1: throwdown and I think, yeah, there was a free throw
Speaker 1: in there on an and one, owing the second put back.
Speaker 1: Seven straight points. So what happens after that? The Clippers
Speaker 1: had cut it to sixty one to fifty four. Big
Speaker 1: Zoo is getting active. He's flying around, he was getting
Speaker 1: every rebound during that stretch. He was playing with the
Speaker 1: right level of aggressiveness and then right competitive spirit. He's
Speaker 1: doing the little things. He's creating his own buckets with putbacks.
Speaker 1: He's getting offensive boards, he's getting defensive boards. The Mavericks
Speaker 1: call a time out on their way back in. It's
Speaker 1: Norman Powett the free throw line. He hits two. It
Speaker 1: is a five point game. Kyrie comes down, misses a
Speaker 1: tough shot. He was missing a ton of them. James
Speaker 1: Harden defensive rebound, Derek Owns junior miss three, Derek Jones
Speaker 1: junior blocks, Maxi Kliba, Nauzie Marshall makes a three pointer
Speaker 1: as they got the offensive rebound after that block. Now
Speaker 1: a James Harden miss three. Okay, so let's see. There's
Speaker 1: a I think three straight possessions where the Clippers have
Speaker 1: not gotten the basketball to of eats at Zubats. They're
Speaker 1: taking threes that they have been missing at just an
Speaker 1: incredible rate in this game. I don't understand it. James
Speaker 1: Harden miss jumper, Chris Dunn missed three, a mere Coffee
Speaker 1: miss three. Zubots does all that work during that stretch
Speaker 1: and doesn't get rewarded for it at all. Another James
Speaker 1: Harden miss three. Clippers can't hate anything. They just had
Speaker 1: Big Zoo go on a seven to zero run and
Speaker 1: they completely go away from it for three pointers that
Speaker 1: already weren't falling. It would be one thing if they
Speaker 1: were hot. I know you got to hit him at
Speaker 1: some point, but maybe let Zoo get a little bit
Speaker 1: of burn there, because he was playing like a monster
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, mostly because he was touching the basketball.
Speaker 1: I know it's not that simple. I know if you
Speaker 1: look at the tape and Carlo's right when he touched
Speaker 1: the ball, he was being doubled. But too often they'd
Speaker 1: go down and settle for lower percentage shots on a
Speaker 1: night where they're shooting an even lower percentage on those shots.
Speaker 1: That's like Aviacha Zoo Bots comes out of the game
Speaker 1: of the two minute mark of the third quarter and
Speaker 1: the Clippers have scored like two buckets since that stretch
Speaker 1: he had and they're down big again. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I've never understood it. They forget
Speaker 1: about Zoo all the time. That was really frustrating for me.
Speaker 1: The frustrating part is this was a very winnable ball
Speaker 1: game because Kyrie Irving was six or twenty five and
Speaker 1: if Visa Zubots look good again, I mean, he just
Speaker 1: had a great game on Thursday. Yes, I'm sure Dallas
Speaker 1: was going to key in on that, but when you
Speaker 1: can't get anything easy to go on the offensive end,
Speaker 1: at least find him make them have to double. I
Speaker 1: don't know, opt to review the tape later and see
Speaker 1: how many of those looks were good looks in the
Speaker 1: third quarter that I can't really disagree with on some
Speaker 1: of those three pointers and how many times they probably
Speaker 1: should have dumped it into a Vitza Zubats to just
Speaker 1: get him an opportunity to continue to make a run.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't the entire game. The Clippers had it
Speaker 1: to within six thanks to somebody else going going to run.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of individual runs in this game
Speaker 1: by the Clippers keeping them in it. It didn't feel
Speaker 1: like it was a free flowing offense. It felt clunky.
Speaker 1: It felt like the gears were gummed up a little bit.
Speaker 1: But Norman Pal's so good and should be an All star.
Speaker 1: When he starts to cook, he can make some things
Speaker 1: happen for you and gets you right back into a
Speaker 1: ballgame where it looked like it's gonna be over when
Speaker 1: they're down fifteen at ninety to seventy five. After a PJ.
Speaker 1: Washington three at the eight to thirty mark of the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, normOn Pal started to cook. Then Norman ends
Speaker 1: up making ten straight points for the Clippers, and it
Speaker 1: is a six point game because of normOn Powell heroics.
Speaker 1: It's one hundred and ninety four with four forty one left.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of time, plenty of time, but Klay Thompson
Speaker 1: hit a clutch three, and as Carlo Amennez brought up
Speaker 1: earlier mentioned earlier, Dallas hit so many retort shots. They
Speaker 1: had so many answers for the Clippers, at least four
Speaker 1: times in the first half alone. When the Clippers hit
Speaker 1: a three, Dallas hit one right afterwards. That was incredible.
Speaker 1: But that shot by Klay Thompson was a big one,
Speaker 1: six point game, four and a half minutes left. He
Speaker 1: put him up by nine, but they can seated. There
Speaker 1: was some defensive indifference going on on the next possession
Speaker 1: because of Itatzazubats was playing against Gafford who had five fouls,
Speaker 1: so he just let him get a dunk. Kind of
Speaker 1: wish the Clippers would have exploited that more. And then
Speaker 1: Norim Palell started to miss and had the bad foul
Speaker 1: on Spencer Dinwiddie on a three pointer that maybe ice
Speaker 1: the game to put him back up by ten, as
Speaker 1: he would hit all three free throws. But I was
Speaker 1: still annoyed by some of these turnovers laid by the
Speaker 1: Clippers where they just kind of unraveled a ten point
Speaker 1: game with three minutes left is not insurmountable. It's not
Speaker 1: that had kept the Clippers down in this ball game
Speaker 1: wasn't just their misshots. It was their miscues, the turnovers.
Speaker 1: After playing some phenomenal defense on Kyrie Irving as he
Speaker 1: did all night, Chris Dunn, he's one of the best
Speaker 1: defenders I've ever seen in my life. He forces Kyrie
Speaker 1: into a tough miss. He gets the rebound, but he
Speaker 1: steps at a bounds It's a turnover to the three
Speaker 1: zero nine mark ten point game. Then on the inbounds pass,
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving throws it over the head of his teammates.
Speaker 1: Kevin Porters Junior steals it, starts to go up the floor,
Speaker 1: gets his pocket picked clean lint and all by Spencer Dinwiddie.
Speaker 1: Then James Harden has a miserable pass, Klay Thompson steal
Speaker 1: PJ Washington easy dunk. Clippers down twelve. All three of
Speaker 1: those turnovers happened within a minute and six seconds for
Speaker 1: the Clippers. That's the game. Like, you're not out of
Speaker 1: it down ten with almost three and a half minutes left.
Speaker 1: They got out of it quickly there with three turnovers
Speaker 1: in a minute in six seconds. We'll take a quick
Speaker 1: time out, We'll come back. This is Clippers stock. I'm
Speaker 1: at a maslin if you'd like to get on eight
Speaker 1: sixty six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight sixty
Speaker 1: six ninety eight seven two five seventy Clippers fall in
Speaker 1: Dallas one thirteen to ninety seven. They got the split there.
Speaker 1: But I always want to get greedy, and this was
Speaker 1: a winnable game, and I don't know if the Clippers
Speaker 1: came out with the right fight, competitive spirit, and James
Speaker 1: Harden has got to clean up some of these turnovers lately.
Speaker 1: More clipperstock next year. On M five seven ELA Sports.
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Speaker 1: Clippers losing Dallas one thirteen to ninety seven. I'm at
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Speaker 1: To me, it's twenty misshots from three A not enough
Speaker 1: scrap from this Clippers team tonight, which we don't say
Speaker 1: very often. Let's go to Lenny and Inglewood. Lenny, what's up?
Speaker 1: You're on Clipper Sack with out of Masen.
Speaker 3: What's up, Adam. I know it's been a minute. I said,
Speaker 3: I wasn't gonna I wasn't gonna get involved until I
Speaker 3: saw Kawhi come back because I wasn't sure if it
Speaker 3: was real. But let me just say this, man, the
Speaker 3: Clippers have I even pressed the entire league to me
Speaker 3: with the with the NBA is going, they're the most
Speaker 3: interesting team in the NBA. Uh, they got they got
Speaker 3: the best stories. Norm Powell at thirty coming back and
Speaker 3: I mean coming up to step into the starting role
Speaker 3: and doing what he's doing, James Harden uh playing a
Speaker 3: leadership role, and then everybody's waiting on Kawhi. So that's
Speaker 3: the only real story to me in the NBA right now.
Speaker 3: So but you know, good with the bad. I think
Speaker 3: that at the front office has made some real good
Speaker 3: offseason acquisitions. Chris d u n n is ad Ogg.
Speaker 3: I will walk in any alley with him anytime, and
Speaker 3: I know I'm coming out the other side love that dude.
Speaker 3: You're right, you got to give him. He's one of
Speaker 3: the best perimeter players. I mean, the defenders I think
Speaker 3: I've seen. I mean, he's a throwback man. He could
Speaker 3: play with Coop back in the days. He don't give
Speaker 3: a dog gone, he's going for you. But I got
Speaker 3: to tell you, man, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 3: who made the call on Mobamba. I'm not impressed with
Speaker 3: that dude. I don't know what he's doing. Every time
Speaker 3: he comes in the game. My stomach drops, like like
Speaker 3: your guy last game said he needs to do the
Speaker 3: things that he's supposed to do well, and he's not
Speaker 3: doing them. I mean, he's not a significant rent protector.
Speaker 3: He has no low post moves, and when he takes
Speaker 3: that three, it's like, oh my god. You know so
Speaker 3: ill to figure out.
Speaker 1: What do his credit. He is a career thirty six
Speaker 1: percent three point shooter. He's been bad so far in
Speaker 1: a Clipper's uniform from three, but he has years of
Speaker 1: evidence that he can shoot it from the outside. All
Speaker 1: I'm asking is to be better than Mason Plumbley was
Speaker 1: last season, and I think he has been so far slightly,
Speaker 1: but it's taking a dip as of late. I really
Speaker 1: like what we saw from him early on. He was
Speaker 1: bringing more energy, more activity out there that I was.
Speaker 3: He'll say that, Adam, the energy. I don't feel the
Speaker 3: energy when you watch he just doesn't have the energy
Speaker 3: that I'm looking for. When Kai Jones jumped off the bench,
Speaker 3: it's like you just feel there something. There's gonna be
Speaker 3: something going on. He's gonna do something bad. But yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe bad, but he's got some energy. And let me
Speaker 3: tell you something. Kevin Porter has an uncanny ability to
Speaker 3: put the ball. This is a make or mental league.
Speaker 3: That boy can put the ball in the hole, regardless
Speaker 3: of his off the court antics. That boy can play,
Speaker 3: yeah he can. He he can't get a little out
Speaker 3: of the troll. But I think when you see Kawhi
Speaker 3: come back, he's gonna settle down. I think all going
Speaker 3: to help him. That boy can ball.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: That kid can put. He can get you fifteen sixteen
Speaker 3: points in two quarters. And that's that in this league.
Speaker 3: That's that's a commodity.
Speaker 1: And well, I don't know if he's done it yet
Speaker 1: in the Clippers uniform. We're almost thirty games in, and
Speaker 1: I know this is somebody that has averaged nineteen points
Speaker 1: per game, but it was on a really bad team
Speaker 1: that was dysfunctional with the Houston Rockets, and his play
Speaker 1: has been up and down at best. And some of
Speaker 1: those three pointers that were going big shots from Grimes,
Speaker 1: from Klay Thompson from the Dallas Mavericks in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Some of that was on him defensively, there were a
Speaker 1: couple of plays where he was at a position and
Speaker 1: I just don't know, Like I I cannot trust this
Speaker 1: guy in a big game right now. I gotta be
Speaker 1: honest about that. I gotta be honest about that, Lendy,
Speaker 1: like I do not feel comfortable with KPJ and the playoffs.
Speaker 3: I can see what you're saying, and I don't. That's
Speaker 3: why I'm curious. They experience with man. Coffee is so consistent.
Speaker 3: He'll give you, He'll give you the points if he
Speaker 3: gets the minutes, So I think he's I think Tyler
Speaker 3: lois forget points.
Speaker 1: Forget points. Stop talking about points, like we're talking about impact.
Speaker 1: Like Coffee doesn't go out there and make up a
Speaker 1: ton of mistakes. Coffee's not gonna hurt you on the
Speaker 1: defensive end. Coffee's not gonna throw a pass into the
Speaker 1: fifth row like they're completely different players. Like that's the stuff.
Speaker 1: Those little things are what matter out there. And then
Speaker 1: if Coffee catches a heater like he has for most
Speaker 1: of the season, that's almost like bonus, like he's not
Speaker 1: going to let you down in the little ways that
Speaker 1: Kevin Porter Junior. I mean, there is a reason tonight
Speaker 1: I watched this game, and I don't always go off
Speaker 1: of one off plus minus, but he had nineteen points
Speaker 1: and was also a minus sixteen out there, and I
Speaker 1: think a lot of that is is truthful. I think
Speaker 1: that plus minus with him, like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he was a net positive out there even though he
Speaker 1: had nineteen points.
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest, Okay, okay, well you know you
Speaker 3: got to do perspective. That's good anyway, Look, man, like
Speaker 3: I said, the whole league's waiting for Kawhi. We all,
Speaker 3: we all want to see what he looks like. I think,
Speaker 3: I think, I know, I know they're gonna make some trades.
Speaker 3: Uh uh. We're kind of logjam at that's six five
Speaker 3: six seven spot players. So but I just hope they
Speaker 3: don't they don't touch Powell, and I hope I hope
Speaker 3: Done stays a clipper for life. We need a dog
Speaker 3: like that, yeah, because that do you You don't you
Speaker 3: don't find dudes like that in today's If he ever
Speaker 3: gets a consistent jumper about thirty forty fort he's he's golden.
Speaker 3: So anyway, man, keep up your thing. Adam and uh
Speaker 3: I said, well, let's let let let's wait for Kawhi
Speaker 3: to get back and see what we got. I'm with
Speaker 3: you on that.
Speaker 1: Well, I expect you to call him more frequently when
Speaker 1: he is back.
Speaker 3: All right, Lenny Show for cheese for show.
Speaker 1: Lenny is one of my favorites. Appreciates you. Lenny, have
Speaker 1: a good nime man, you too. Clippers lose one thirteen
Speaker 1: to ninety seven in Dallas to the Mavericks. We'll take
Speaker 1: our fine time out. We'll come back. We'll hear from
Speaker 1: the head coach to Ron lou after the Clippers lose
Speaker 1: by sixteen in Game two to the Maps. Clippers. Next
Speaker 1: game coming up on Monday, last game before Christmas, will
Speaker 1: be in Memphis. They got some things going for them
Speaker 1: right now, taking on the Grizzlies. Tip Off is at
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Speaker 1: Clippers lose by sixteen in Dallas to the Mavericks. Welcome
Speaker 1: back into Clippers talk. I'm at a Mazzando drop one.
Speaker 1: Thirteen ninety seven was your final Clippers next ball game
Speaker 1: coming up against the Memphis Grizzlies. Let's hear from your
Speaker 1: head coach into Ron lou post scheme. I'm interested in
Speaker 1: hearing these comments.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, like I said, in that first half,
Speaker 4: just you know, eleven turnovers. I think it scored seventeen
Speaker 4: points on eleven of my turnovers in that first half,
Speaker 4: and then seven offensive rebounds for twelve points, you know,
Speaker 4: in that first half, and then you know, we just
Speaker 4: couldn't get an offensive rhythm. I ain't think all night
Speaker 4: and get them credit for you know a lot of
Speaker 4: things that they did, but just couldn't get in the
Speaker 4: flow offense. We turned the basketball over, couldn't really get
Speaker 4: to our spots like we wanted to, and so I thought,
Speaker 4: you know, defensively, we did a good job in that
Speaker 4: first half. Then we gave up like four or five
Speaker 4: offensive rebounds the last five minutes, which allowed 'em to
Speaker 4: get dunks and put backs, and so we had to
Speaker 4: be better with that as well. Upfill you guys got
Speaker 4: mixed frustration trying to pull over times, but also could.
Speaker 5: Be able to how a good again, make make it
Speaker 5: a one or two nisial game there.
Speaker 3: How'd you how'd you feel you get dealt with the
Speaker 3: mental battle of what that game kind of was.
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean, you know, we you down and you
Speaker 4: compete and things get chippy. So that's not really a issue.
Speaker 4: Like you said, just you know, come back, cut up
Speaker 4: and then I think we give up two threes back
Speaker 4: to back, you know, and so that kind of broke
Speaker 4: our back. But you know, down fourteen and a half,
Speaker 4: coming out in that third quarter, I thought we came
Speaker 4: out with a with a strong fight and uh just
Speaker 4: wasn't enough.
Speaker 6: Norm scored a ton tonight, but maybe zooming out away
Speaker 6: from this game into the first whatever, it's been seven
Speaker 6: weeks of the season as a whole. How would you
Speaker 6: assess the task that Norm was given this season and
Speaker 6: what he's done with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's definitely taking advantage of his opportunity
Speaker 4: as being a starter, you know, scoring the basketball, shooting
Speaker 4: the ball well from the field, from three, from the
Speaker 4: free throw line, and then tonight I thought he did
Speaker 4: a good job attacking and they might have blocked four
Speaker 4: or five of his shots at the rim, you know,
Speaker 4: at the basket, be cause they're a good shot blocking team.
Speaker 4: So he attacked well. And you know, you gonna have
Speaker 4: night where we don't shoot the ball well. But we
Speaker 4: gotta be better when you're not sh when you're not
Speaker 4: shooting the ball well, we gotta be even better defensively.
Speaker 4: And I thought we could have been a little bit better.
Speaker 6: How do you I know, we guts just a lot.
Speaker 5: How do you how do you help jeans protect the basketball?
Speaker 6: Ty took this assignment.
Speaker 2: Early and a lot of them, you know, possessions just
Speaker 2: then the shots at all.
Speaker 6: How do you gotta help alleviate some of that?
Speaker 4: Just trying to get him off the ball times, you know,
Speaker 4: a team is trying to pressure him, throwing different looks
Speaker 4: at him, you know, And so I mean, does a
Speaker 4: good job of figuring that out. Like I said today,
Speaker 4: I just I thought he looked a little tired, a
Speaker 4: little slow tonight me personally, But like you know, he
Speaker 4: gonna play and battle through whatever he needs to be
Speaker 4: on the floor. And you know, just one of those
Speaker 4: games where he didn't shoot the ball well, had a
Speaker 4: couple of turnovers. But you know, we just can't let that,
Speaker 4: you know, sidetrackers like, okay, we gotta you know, get better,
Speaker 4: you know, continue to keep taking care of the basketball,
Speaker 4: but offensive rebounds, taking care of those like we did,
Speaker 4: you know, better than the second half and they just
Speaker 4: kind of go from there. But I just thought, like
Speaker 4: I said, Kyrie, trying to get up the floor, pressure
Speaker 4: James and really warm down and you know, we wasn't
Speaker 4: able to get a good flow into our offense tonight.
Speaker 2: And I guess maybe related the second unit.
Speaker 3: It just feels like you can't really get a lot
Speaker 3: of minutes out of those guys right now. And what
Speaker 3: is something that you can pinpoint that you need that those.
Speaker 5: That group to be better than when they're on the floor,
Speaker 5: especially without James.
Speaker 4: They've been okay, they've been pretty good this year, have
Speaker 4: no problem you know with the bench and the way
Speaker 4: were mixing. The combinations have been good for us. And
Speaker 4: so you know, you're not gonna play well every night,
Speaker 4: but you gotta have a mentality every night we step
Speaker 4: on the floor defensively, we're gonna be good and we're
Speaker 4: gonna compete on the defensive end. You're not gonna make
Speaker 4: shots every night.
Speaker 1: We understand that there was Coach loupos game Clippers lose
Speaker 1: by sixteen in Dallas to the Mavericks. A couple of
Speaker 1: the highlights there before we get to Daniel West with
Speaker 1: a Western Conference standings update. I mean it was staring
Speaker 1: me right in the face. He's right in front of
Speaker 1: me and his last name is West. We gotta do
Speaker 1: this consistently throughout the season. I think this will be fun.
Speaker 1: Our new producer here in for Katie. But Coach Lou
Speaker 1: said no flow on offense that was very much apparent.
Speaker 1: And for everybody out there that keeps wanting to tell
Speaker 1: me that Kyrie Irving is food defensively, which I told
Speaker 1: you guys, was bs heading into that playoff series. Like
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks had the number one defense after the
Speaker 1: All Star break last season for a reason, Kyrie can
Speaker 1: play defense. And what did Coach Lou talk about the
Speaker 1: ball pressure on James Harden slowing them down from getting
Speaker 1: into their offense. From who Kyrie Irving? So for everyone
Speaker 1: to want to say he's food, he gets cooked, like
Speaker 1: please watch the game, Like that's where he made his
Speaker 1: impact tonight. It wasn't in the offensive end. He played
Speaker 1: really good defense for someone who's supposed to be known
Speaker 1: as this terrible defender that disrupted the Clippers offense. All right,
Speaker 1: Clippers now sixteen and thirteen on the season, and we
Speaker 1: bring in our new producer, Daniel West. Daniel, how are
Speaker 1: we doing tonight?
Speaker 5: Doing pretty well? I mean, doing as good as we
Speaker 5: can giving that result. Unfortunately, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 1: Well, how are we doing standings wise?
Speaker 5: All right? So here we go leading the Western Conference?
Speaker 5: Do we have the Oklahoma City Thunder second, the Memphis
Speaker 5: Grizzlies third, Alprin Shinggoon and the boys, the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 1: How about that? They're just a good ball team. They're
Speaker 1: a good basketball team. They are. Oh, the Clippers have
Speaker 1: trouble with a team like Houston's. Like, well, they're third
Speaker 1: in the West. Everyone has trouble.
Speaker 5: With eighteen to nine. Yeah, it seems like it's more
Speaker 5: than just a Clippers fourth. The Mavericks who beat the
Speaker 5: beat the Clippers tonight. Talk about that fifth, the Lakers sixth,
Speaker 5: That currently the last team outside of the playing category,
Speaker 5: the Denver Nuggets seventh, Steph Curry and the boys, the
Speaker 5: Golden State Warriors. Clippers fall to eighth right now ninth
Speaker 5: the Spurs and last team right now in the playoffs
Speaker 5: play in Timberwolves.
Speaker 1: Okay, how many games are the Clippers behind the fourth
Speaker 1: seed now held by the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 5: Mavericks are eighteen and ten, Clippers are sixteen and thirteen.
Speaker 1: I can't do that math. How many games back?
Speaker 5: That's what two and a half games should do it
Speaker 5: for it.
Speaker 1: Right, it's not the standings should say it right there.
Speaker 1: Let's see the Clippers are seven games back of Okay,
Speaker 1: see Dallas is four and a half, so they're what
Speaker 1: two and a half games back of the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, we can live with that. Everything's
Speaker 1: so close to the standings watch right now in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference. But it's going to be like this all
Speaker 1: season long, so I feel like we should keep this going. Yes,
Speaker 1: very last segment every night here on Clippers Top. We
Speaker 1: got Daniel West with that Western Conference standings update the
Speaker 1: role I was born to appreciate you, my guy. Good
Speaker 1: to have you on board here. Clippers lose by sixteen one,
Speaker 1: thirteen to ninety seven was your final against the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1: Now I want to hear this from Bashton Swinsteiger, who
Speaker 1: was wrong once again saying the Clippers would go to
Speaker 1: and oher in Dallas. And he was saying that thinking
Speaker 1: Luca was going to play in both games, and now
Speaker 1: he's saying Kyrie Irving is food. Defensively, It's like people
Speaker 1: don't even watch tape anymore. They just want to narrative
Speaker 1: basketball to narrative their way through thanks, Like, who cares
Speaker 1: what's actually happening out there. I'm just going to go
Speaker 1: off of somebody whose reputation or what some talking head
Speaker 1: has said to me in the mornings. Like that stuff
Speaker 1: to me, Ugh Suber frustrating. All right, Before we get
Speaker 1: out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization.
Speaker 1: Ralph Lawler, Bryan Seaman, Noah Eagle, great call earlier, My Guy, NBC,
Speaker 1: Carlo Jimenez, great Carlin Dallas. Big thanks to big brother
Speaker 1: Jake Warner. We're thinking about you. Colin yee see yeezy
Speaker 1: in the studio, Daniel West, go West, young Man West
Speaker 1: is with us now he's our new producer. He'll update
Speaker 1: you in the Western Conference standings. I want to thank
Speaker 1: the callers, the listeners, the chatters. Until Monday night, I'm Adamson.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you then. Clippers in Memphis taking on
Speaker 1: the Gris.
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