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Speaker 1: We got a real must win game back at the
Speaker 1: Dome on Thursday after the Clippers fall down three to
Speaker 1: two in this best of seven first round series against
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets. After Jamal Murray dropped forty three in
Speaker 1: Game five and the Clippers lost one thirty one to
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Speaker 1: the calls tonight. Hopefully you can still hear me as
Speaker 1: my voice is thrashed, not because I was screaming at
Speaker 1: the TV or anything like that. But had the pleasure
Speaker 1: of working with Rodney Pete the last two days filling
Speaker 1: in for Fred Rogan at a five seventy and uh, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not complaining, but the voice is thrashed.
Speaker 3: That's what happens.
Speaker 1: You talk a lot, happy to be able to do it,
Speaker 1: but I'm just going to talk a little bit lower
Speaker 1: for you guys.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that I'm okay with just happened, with
Speaker 1: what just happened. It doesn't mean I'm not upset. It
Speaker 1: doesn't mean I'm not disappointed frustrated. The moralizes to some
Speaker 1: extent because the Clippers again came out flat in this game,
Speaker 1: second straight game. They come out flat and they get
Speaker 1: outplayed by not even Nikola Jokic. You lose a game
Speaker 1: like this where you're down by as many as twenty
Speaker 1: two and Jokic goes four to thirteen for thirteen points,
Speaker 1: light work thirteen, ten and twelve. But Jamal Murray was
Speaker 1: by far the best player on the court. And I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure if the Clippers had the second best
Speaker 1: player out there. The second best might have been Aaron
Speaker 1: Gordon or Russell Westbrook. Did they have the second or
Speaker 1: third best player? Russell Westbrook had twenty one off the bench,
Speaker 1: eight to fifteen, shooting eleven of which came in the
Speaker 1: second quarter. He scored more points. He almost doubled the
Speaker 1: scoring output from James Harden, who was three of nine,
Speaker 1: which is eleven points. He scored Kawai, who had just twenty.
Speaker 1: Now he had eleven assists and nine boards. Kawhi, I
Speaker 1: think has only had two triple doubles in his career,
Speaker 1: and he almost just had one. There's one guy I'm
Speaker 1: looking at right now. It's James Harden. He has to
Speaker 1: play better. If you want to turn the narrative around
Speaker 1: about you in a playoff series, you have to show up.
Speaker 1: I know they're playing a very tough to crack defense,
Speaker 1: but that's why you have a step back three pointer
Speaker 1: in your arsenal that's really tough to guard. He took
Speaker 1: two to three pointers in this game. Harden has an
Speaker 1: offensive skill set that can overcome any defense, and he
Speaker 1: takes nine shots total and just two three pointers. He
Speaker 1: got to the free throw line some He had five assists.
Speaker 1: When Kawhi is that many, of course he's gonna have less,
Speaker 1: but three of nine isn't good enough. You have to
Speaker 1: put up more shots.
Speaker 3: You have to go out firing.
Speaker 1: This season has been about you.
Speaker 3: You've been the MVP.
Speaker 1: You can't go out sad in the playoffs again, you can't.
Speaker 1: But the last two games he hasn't been good enough.
Speaker 1: If the system is broken right now, how are they
Speaker 1: gonna win?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: You can look at the final score and say, defensively
Speaker 1: at them. They gave up one hundred and thirty one points.
Speaker 1: The Clippers still scored one to fifteen. They shot fifty
Speaker 1: two percent from the field and thirty eight percent from three.
Speaker 1: Was offense really the problem? At times?
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 1: Because you have to be able to score with a team.
Speaker 1: When a guy is that hot, you have to find
Speaker 1: a way. A lot of this is tough shot making.
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray was incredible. He can do this stuff. People
Speaker 1: had doubted him. Oh he's not even been an All Star.
Speaker 1: He's a playoff riser. He lived for these moments. I
Speaker 1: told you before the series. He can get up and play,
Speaker 1: not like an All Star, like a superstar, like a
Speaker 1: top five player in the league. Sometimes in a playoff game,
Speaker 1: that's how good Jamal Murray can look. Asks the Lakers,
Speaker 1: he is a killer, and he destroyed the Clippers. They
Speaker 1: had nothing for him. They tried, But if he's going
Speaker 1: to be that hot, somebody has to get hot for
Speaker 1: the Clippers too, to counter it. Nolan piled just twelve
Speaker 1: points on twelve shots. Kawhi had twenty on fifteen shots.
Speaker 1: He had eleven assists, He had nine boards. I thought
Speaker 1: of Visa Zubots was good. He had twenty seven, just
Speaker 1: five boards.
Speaker 3: But he was good.
Speaker 1: He was eleven of fifteen. Maybe they should have went
Speaker 1: to him more. I understand when a guy is a
Speaker 1: flamethrower from three, you want to counter that, extinguish it
Speaker 1: with threes yourself. Clippers went eleven of twenty nine from
Speaker 1: the outside, Denver went seventeen of thirty three. They shot
Speaker 1: almost fifty two percent from three. Rusk Goes three of six,
Speaker 1: Brown one of two, Aaron Gordon one of two, Michael
Speaker 1: Porter Junior three of five, but Jamal Murray eight of fourteen.
Speaker 1: Clippers couldn't hang with their offense. They were top five
Speaker 1: offense this year. They've been elite in this era with
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray and Nikola jokicch and Jamal Murray was due
Speaker 1: and we talked about it.
Speaker 3: Jamal Murray hadn't played.
Speaker 1: His best yet.
Speaker 3: He had a game like this in him. You just
Speaker 3: saw it. My problem might.
Speaker 1: Be bigger than this game with the Clippers right now,
Speaker 1: because maybe there's not a lot you can do when
Speaker 1: a guy has forty three on twenty six shots and
Speaker 1: this is just a game that you're not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to win. Lay could have won Game one up fifteen.
Speaker 1: I said it the very next day. Where was the
Speaker 1: sense of urgency and killer instinct in Game one? And
Speaker 1: if they lose this series, I'm going to be looking
Speaker 1: at that game they lose the series, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be looking at the men as played with the Clippers
Speaker 1: Big four versus the Denver Nuggets Big four, because they've
Speaker 1: been going for it, they've been taxing their guys. It's
Speaker 1: the playoffs. In that game one, when I see Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard play forty one minutes with an overtime, when he
Speaker 1: played forty seven with an overtime less than a week
Speaker 1: beforehand in a regular season game. Yes, there were big ramifications.
Speaker 1: He had to play big minutes. It was the game
Speaker 1: against Golden State. It's like, how do you play least
Speaker 1: minutes in a playoff game in overtime then you did
Speaker 1: in Game eighty two in overtime? Where is the sense
Speaker 1: of urgency? I guess we're gonna find out if coach
Speaker 1: Low misplayed his hand or not. It seemed like he
Speaker 1: was playing the long game. Denver will tire out. We
Speaker 1: have the deeper team. They're going to overtax their guys
Speaker 1: to the point that it's.
Speaker 3: Going to come back to bite them.
Speaker 1: And even though they lost Game one, blowing a fifteen
Speaker 1: point lead, and they had three minutes without Kawhi or
Speaker 1: James Hard on the court in that game where they
Speaker 1: went minus four, We'll be okay because we're the better
Speaker 1: team and eventually that will catch up to Denver. Well,
Speaker 1: it hasn't caught up to him yet, so I guess
Speaker 1: we'll find out if coach Lou is a mad genius
Speaker 1: with it with the way the minutes were distributed, or
Speaker 1: if it eventually is the Clippers undoing not matching enough
Speaker 1: minutes with their stars with Denver stars. That's what I
Speaker 1: keep thinking about. Thought about it after Game four. Didn't
Speaker 1: like how the Clippers came out in Game four. Didn't
Speaker 1: like the fate comeback that led to the Aaron Gordon dunk.
Speaker 1: I don't want to call it a fake comeback, but
Speaker 1: I know that's what the kids say when you come
Speaker 1: back but come up short. It's like, where was that
Speaker 1: urgency earlier in that game? Where was it in the
Speaker 1: third quarter when they got outscored by eighteen? Because I
Speaker 1: knew a game like this was waiting for Denver where
Speaker 1: they might be so hot. There's nothing you can do.
Speaker 1: You can't win that game. They're on fire. They shoot
Speaker 1: fifty two percent from three, Jamal Murray goes for forty three.
Speaker 1: And that's just a game you can't win. But what
Speaker 1: about some of these other games? Game won in Game four?
Speaker 3: It's frustrating.
Speaker 1: Still first of four, Clippers are backing into it, though,
Speaker 1: I expect them to win on Thursday, getting a Game seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough to win in Denver if you
Speaker 1: can somehow win Game six, but just find a way
Speaker 1: win Game six, extend the series, figure the rest out.
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Speaker 1: Every magazine was famous. Clippers lose one fifteen in Denver
Speaker 1: in game five as Jamal Murray goes unconscious drops a
Speaker 1: forty three spot eight to fourteen from the outside. Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook gave him a huge lift in that second quarter.
Speaker 1: Clippers hid it down to eight. Late in the third,
Speaker 1: Jamal hits another three. They quickly get back up by thirteen.
Speaker 1: And the Clippers came out slow and flat again in
Speaker 1: this one, and their defense wasn't good enough and Denver
Speaker 1: was hitting everything.
Speaker 3: It's a must wan game.
Speaker 1: In game six, in backing into a dome tip off
Speaker 1: at seven pre game at six, it's go to Chris
Speaker 1: in La Chris Young Clippers stop with that.
Speaker 3: I'm alson what's up.
Speaker 4: The glory dadam?
Speaker 7: And it's spoken to you sits before game three.
Speaker 5: Just an ugly game to watch today, Yeah, Chris tell
Speaker 5: me more you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, you know, thank you Murray at Westbrook they
Speaker 7: just you know, killed us basically. Yeah, And I hear
Speaker 7: what you say. You know we're not starting starting out
Speaker 7: quickly at the beginning of games and uh, trying to
Speaker 7: pay play catch up is you know it's gonna burn us.
Speaker 7: I'll trying to you know, win a game that way
Speaker 7: all the time.
Speaker 1: That's a great point. That is a great point. That's
Speaker 1: why I comebacks come up short. Sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: expend so much energy to try to mount that comeback.
Speaker 1: And the Clippers tried again in this one down twenty
Speaker 1: two and the fourth again. So I don't know, they
Speaker 1: only got one day off now between game six and
Speaker 1: if there is a game seven. I believe the Clippers
Speaker 1: are gonna win Game six, but I didn't think they'd
Speaker 1: lose last two games.
Speaker 3: So what do I know anything else?
Speaker 4: Chris.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So it's like, you know, after we did lose
Speaker 7: Game four, you know, I saw that we we're gonna
Speaker 7: have two days you know before this game.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, that that will help us out, you know,
Speaker 4: get a little risks and.
Speaker 7: Strategize for the game five, you know, but didn't happen.
Speaker 7: And another thing I thought about, okay, you know, like
Speaker 7: I actually didn't see the the way Game four ended. Yeah,
Speaker 7: because I was on my way to a concert at
Speaker 7: the Greek so I was speaking there. There's another game
Speaker 7: where you know we lost.
Speaker 8: At the end.
Speaker 7: I was thinking of that playoff cun game in Phoenix
Speaker 7: where they kicked in the ball in the Western Conference Final.
Speaker 8: I think it was.
Speaker 3: The valley oop yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and hey, the Denver Nuggets were riding high coming
Speaker 1: into this game.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the phone call, Chris. You made some great
Speaker 3: points there.
Speaker 1: The Denver Nuggets were riding high after the way they
Speaker 1: won Game four. The Clippers said when they made that comeback,
Speaker 1: they had the lead briefly with a minute and a
Speaker 1: half left in Game four after the Bogie put back
Speaker 1: on the offensive rebound. And to be fair, Bogie played
Speaker 1: better today again. Eighteen points five to eleven, four of
Speaker 1: eight from the outside. That's great. But the Clippers were like,
Speaker 1: it's good that we showed some fight and didn't give
Speaker 1: up in that game.
Speaker 3: But the way Denver won.
Speaker 1: Was so exhilarating, so historic that of course they were
Speaker 1: going to be riding a wave of momentum heading into
Speaker 1: Game five, and it showed early. Let's go to Ryan
Speaker 1: and Santa Ana, Ryan Young Clipper stock without Am Auslin,
Speaker 1: Hi run Adam.
Speaker 8: How's it going?
Speaker 5: Well? I guess not that good, but thank you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, this is very disheartening.
Speaker 9: It's sucked a lot. Let's see, Harden didn't show up.
Speaker 9: He's fitting into his what people have said about him
Speaker 9: in the postseason.
Speaker 6: I don't like that.
Speaker 8: I hope he can turn it around. And Adelman. I
Speaker 8: don't know if It'sattleman, I don't.
Speaker 5: Know if Yokis is the head coach.
Speaker 10: But whoever is the one that is countering Tyler Low's
Speaker 10: ad juice adjustments?
Speaker 1: Tell me what adjustments specifically are being countering. I keep
Speaker 1: hearing about adjustments. I need actual get the whiteboard out.
Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
Speaker 10: I'm got next to an ode guy, But I do
Speaker 10: see that James Harden or Chris Done is guarding Yoki still.
Speaker 10: I guess they're having a zoo back off and so but.
Speaker 3: Jamal Murray and.
Speaker 1: They're not starting possessed. It's with switches. It's if you
Speaker 1: don't switch. Yeah, he's probably rolling to the rim free.
Speaker 1: It's it's just much more complicated. My guy, Darren Visserri
Speaker 1: talks about this all the time from Locked On. But
Speaker 1: people act like they could drop a play on a
Speaker 1: whiteboard and they criticize their head coach.
Speaker 3: No business.
Speaker 8: I know that they're counting whatever he's I mean, whatever, what.
Speaker 3: What should he have done against Jamal Murray? Tell me
Speaker 3: what he should.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, But isn't the point that they tried
Speaker 1: everything and he kept hitting shots. There's not much you
Speaker 1: can do against that stuff.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying whatever, whatever Tyler is, uh.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying has had a good series.
Speaker 1: I'm pointing out what I'm frustrated with specifically, and not
Speaker 1: just saying, oh, he's getting out kosher out of Justed.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, to me, the biggest criticism is about the
Speaker 1: minutes distribution and Denver and their stars playing more minutes
Speaker 1: in this series, and the Clippers have played their guys
Speaker 1: and coach Lou I think banking on the fact that
Speaker 1: they're going to run out of gas. But it hasn't
Speaker 1: happened yet, So I get it. If there's specific criticism,
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. But just I keep hearing, maybe
Speaker 1: it's a pet peeve of mind, but I keep hearing.
Speaker 3: Oh, he's being out coached.
Speaker 1: They're making more adjustments, And then I asked for okay,
Speaker 1: tell me what those adjustments are.
Speaker 3: And I don't get.
Speaker 8: Anything I'm saying.
Speaker 10: I'm saying is that whatever they're whatever the defensive scheme is,
Speaker 10: they're figuring it out and they're they're adjusting to those schemes.
Speaker 10: So it's very like, uh, yeah, they're doing a good
Speaker 10: job counting it. I don't know what it is exactly.
Speaker 1: I think that the countering is they're making shots. Russ's
Speaker 1: making shots. Jamal Murray can get separation and make tough shots.
Speaker 1: He's been doing this for a long time. Like, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's that crazy. I get what you're saying, though, Ryan,
Speaker 1: anything else, I.
Speaker 10: Think, yeah, Like what you're saying is that he should
Speaker 10: play more. Are you thinking that he used to play
Speaker 10: more minutes?
Speaker 5: Right like Kawhi Hard.
Speaker 1: Coming into this game the Big Four for Denver with
Speaker 1: Michael Porter Junior, Aaron Gordon, Nicola, Jokic, Jamal Murray had
Speaker 1: played about fifty eight minutes more than Norm, Kawhi, Zoo
Speaker 1: Bots and James Harden in this series.
Speaker 8: So what my only counter is, and I do agree
Speaker 8: with you they should play more, But do you think
Speaker 8: what basically what the Lakers they're doing is that they
Speaker 8: played on the whole fourth quarter, the almost second half,
Speaker 8: and that like bit him in.
Speaker 3: As I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Very specific instances like in Game one where you went
Speaker 1: three minutes without Harden or Kawhi on the floor and
Speaker 1: you think you can get away with that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, now that's kidding because that ended up. Those little things.
Speaker 3: Add up exactly. That's what I That's what I mean.
Speaker 8: Okay, Well, thank you for your time, all right, I
Speaker 8: appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Man uh Jose and Downey Jose? What's up here on
Speaker 3: Clipper Stock?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 6: Brother, I hope you feel better soon. I'm not so
Speaker 6: sure decorated this, but you do sound down. I don't
Speaker 6: think it's just the Clipper game.
Speaker 1: No, my voice is I've just been talking a lot
Speaker 1: the last two days, specifically the last two hundred and
Speaker 1: eight days, and I think my voice is trying to
Speaker 1: hit the wall because I haven't had a day off
Speaker 1: for so long.
Speaker 3: But it's all good. I got the tea in, honey.
Speaker 3: What do you want to say, Jose?
Speaker 8: That's good, you know what.
Speaker 6: I think something that's been a little different from the
Speaker 6: first three games to the last two games in playing
Speaker 6: the smaller guy guarding Jokice. I'm not really too understanding
Speaker 6: as to why I thought Zoo was doing a pretty
Speaker 6: good job on on Yolkice, you know, playing him and
Speaker 6: matching his minutes against them. I felt today that with
Speaker 6: playing the smaller man on him and kind of having
Speaker 6: zoo like moving around as to who he's gonna guard.
Speaker 6: Is he guarding the person in the corner at all
Speaker 6: times or who left a lot of like not knowing
Speaker 6: the defensive rotation which left Murray open. Great, okay, and
Speaker 6: he's gonna.
Speaker 3: Let me explain a pick and roll.
Speaker 1: So one of the toughest pick and rolls in the
Speaker 1: game to defend is Jokis and Murray because it can
Speaker 1: turn into a pick and pop for both guys as well. Uh,
Speaker 1: they can also do an inverse pick and roll where
Speaker 1: it's Murray's screening for Nikoloa Jokis. But let's say it's
Speaker 1: the traditional pick and roll where Nikola Jokich comes up
Speaker 1: to set a screen on Murray's man Chris Dunn. Well,
Speaker 1: Jokic's man is Zubots, and if Murray flies around that
Speaker 1: screen fast enough and it's a good screen, Chris Dunn
Speaker 1: is going to be behind him. So therefore he either
Speaker 1: has a free run at the rim or reaches Zubos
Speaker 1: cuts him off, and now there's a switch, and now
Speaker 1: Chris Dunn needs to get on nikol Jokic.
Speaker 3: That's how these things happen.
Speaker 1: It's not that they come into a possession and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's just throw Chris Dunn or James Harden on Jokic.
Speaker 3: That's not the plan. It's how you have to adjust
Speaker 3: to a devastating pick and roll.
Speaker 6: Okay, and then okay, very true on that. The other
Speaker 6: thing too, I think the lack of production from Harden
Speaker 6: has been he has found himself a lot on Jokic
Speaker 6: in the last two games, having to put a lot
Speaker 6: of body on him. It could mere reason as to
Speaker 6: why he's struggling. I do think he's a lot better
Speaker 6: than what you said where he can he had He
Speaker 6: was driving to the lane very well the first quarter.
Speaker 6: I thought, oh man, he's gonna start shooting that three,
Speaker 6: gonna start going for him because they're gonna be worried
Speaker 6: that he's gonna scream.
Speaker 5: But I don't know.
Speaker 6: That intensity kind of let up on him, and it
Speaker 6: kind of led me to as he might be tight.
Speaker 3: No, this is this is a great Jose. This is
Speaker 3: a great point.
Speaker 1: They have been putting James Harden in the action, in
Speaker 1: that pick and roll and making him guard much more
Speaker 1: the last two games, and the analytics, the numbers will
Speaker 1: tell you they have. They have been hunting that and
Speaker 1: it is wearing down his legs and Yah, it's one
Speaker 1: of those things where it's it's a very difficult thing
Speaker 1: to adjust to unless they're gonna have some pre switching
Speaker 1: going on, which is difficult with passers like Nikola Jokic.
Speaker 1: It's Harden is gonna have to fight through it. But
Speaker 1: I still think he can be better on the offensive end,
Speaker 1: but they are making him run a lot more on
Speaker 1: the defensive end the last two games. It's a great point, Jose.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think we were just lacking some the
Speaker 6: offense that we had been getting throughout the regular season
Speaker 6: from Norm and even like Bogie's run to in that
Speaker 6: seventeen and three or eighteen and three run that we
Speaker 6: had to end the season, we've been falling kind of
Speaker 6: short on that. And you're right, Bogie had a good
Speaker 6: game last game and this game, but the previous games
Speaker 6: he wasn't. And Norman Powell had that one good game
Speaker 6: in Game three, and that's what I think can help Harden,
Speaker 6: like pick up hard in like, hey, we're gonna be
Speaker 6: getting a little tired of then't worry, we got you.
Speaker 6: We're gonna be making these shots, you know, on our side,
Speaker 6: but it just we're falling victim to that right now.
Speaker 6: And it happens like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, it's a war of attrition and the
Speaker 1: team who's actually played their guys less is losing that
Speaker 1: bottle right now. That's my problem. The Clippers look like
Speaker 1: they don't have their legs Denver does, and they're guys
Speaker 1: have played heavier minutes. So that whole thought process right
Speaker 1: now of oh, Denver will wear down as the series
Speaker 1: goes along. It's not happening. And by the way, anytime
Speaker 1: you're playing a team that trains all the time in Denver,
Speaker 1: they are going to be the most well conditioned team.
Speaker 1: That's why the Olympic Training Center is there. That's why
Speaker 1: boxers go to training elevation. So this whole idea of ah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna gas out at some point, well, last year
Speaker 1: they did, i would say against Minnesota, but that was
Speaker 1: in the second round, not the first round. They may
Speaker 1: have the legs to get through this first round playing
Speaker 1: these heavy minutes, having this heavy load that they have
Speaker 1: to deal with because they don't have the depth that
Speaker 1: the Clippers do. It's just not working right now, and
Speaker 1: unless they gas out the last game, and then it
Speaker 1: would be the last two games and the Clippers pull through.
Speaker 1: I don't you know, it's gonna be hard to defend
Speaker 1: this strategy right right?
Speaker 6: You know what, play hard defense like they've always had.
Speaker 6: Today was a tough one on that defense side because
Speaker 6: Murray Murray had that game and uh, you know, hopefully
Speaker 6: Kawhi can have that game for us again. And if
Speaker 6: you can play hard defense and Kawhi I can have
Speaker 6: his game and do two. I mean, you's really high
Speaker 6: dependent on and and I think we need to continue
Speaker 6: to high dependent on him on the offensive tide too.
Speaker 6: They can pull out that win on Thursday, but it's
Speaker 6: gonna be hard. It's gonna take them actually getting gritty
Speaker 6: like they had been, and uh, they can pull it out,
Speaker 6: but it's gonna be on how much they wanted.
Speaker 1: I like the optimism there at the end, Jose, And
Speaker 1: again you made a really good point about how much
Speaker 1: they're making hard and work defensively.
Speaker 3: So appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 1: My friend, feel better, Adam, Thanks my guy. Let's go
Speaker 1: to John and Watts. John, what's up here on Clipper staf.
Speaker 3: With that mussels?
Speaker 5: Adam, what's to be or my brother.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know you've been listening to the show.
Speaker 3: Things are great right now. Clippers are down three too.
Speaker 3: They got a must win game, but I expect them
Speaker 3: to win Game six.
Speaker 5: No, I definitely do as well. And I mean coming
Speaker 5: into it, we said it was possibly go be a
Speaker 5: seven games theory. We could have swept them, We could
Speaker 5: have won in five.
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear this. They could have swept them,
Speaker 3: stuff like they're down three to two. Let's not come on.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm just saying, man, if they don't make them
Speaker 5: n characteristic mistakes like you said, they didn't go for
Speaker 5: the kill in game one? Who fought is that? I
Speaker 5: didn't have nothing to do with what Denver was doing.
Speaker 5: We won two, we won three. You had the opportunity
Speaker 5: to win for it. We keep blowing it. It's nothing new.
Speaker 5: We go through this every year, but we still go
Speaker 5: pull through. We go see what happens. Is giving me
Speaker 5: twenty fifteen Round one against the Spurs vibes. Yeah, they
Speaker 5: said we wentn't win two in a row, and we did.
Speaker 5: We did have home court that series, though, but you know,
Speaker 5: we'll see. James got to do a better job, man,
Speaker 5: this is why they be talking about him. Hey, is
Speaker 5: this Clippers after dark? Am I allowed to drop?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, not yet, not yet, not yet. No, we
Speaker 3: got it another. We got another twenty three minutes. John,
Speaker 3: I could throw you back on it.
Speaker 1: John, I could throw you back on hold though, And
Speaker 1: if you wait, we'll get the Clippers talk after dark
Speaker 1: and you can say whatever you want.
Speaker 5: Well, man, look all I'm gonna say. I'll give you
Speaker 5: a call back at him because I'm gonna be listening
Speaker 5: to you as long as you all tonight. Brother, We're
Speaker 5: gonna be miserable together.
Speaker 3: This is the energy I need. We're going to be
Speaker 3: miserable together.
Speaker 5: It's one game, you feel me? The Denver hang they
Speaker 5: hear when they just lost too in a row. No
Speaker 5: they didn't, so we shouldn't need it. Wow, games them home.
Speaker 5: We got one game to win. I don't even want
Speaker 5: to hear about game seven yet. We got one game.
Speaker 5: You're right, you're right, we've come to play. I think
Speaker 5: we could get it done. But the way Harden been
Speaker 5: playing these last two games, man, I don't care if
Speaker 5: you go one for twenty. Go down with the ship,
Speaker 5: my brother. We didn't bring you here to take eleven shots.
Speaker 3: I wish it was eleven shots. It was nine nine.
Speaker 5: Come on, man, come on, man, like you know that's
Speaker 5: that's part of the problem right there. And I feel
Speaker 5: like we never consistently go to Zoo. Zoo was the
Speaker 5: best player for us tonight.
Speaker 3: You're not wrong.
Speaker 5: You're not wrong any points, like just kind of by
Speaker 5: default by good energy with the ball finding him in
Speaker 5: the fort. But I mean, if you're not generating good shots, hello,
Speaker 5: we got the second best center in the n b A.
Speaker 5: I mean maybe thirty and b's probably over. Zoo still
Speaker 5: went healthy. But you know what I'm saying, madam, Come on,
Speaker 5: what happened to making Jokic work on defense? Happened to
Speaker 5: given the walk to Zoo? What happened to the easy
Speaker 5: buckets Jokics was.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say yok was a non factor because
Speaker 1: he had a triple from a scoring perspective.
Speaker 5: Points and sat on the bench for most of the
Speaker 5: fourth The felt life. I mean, come on, man, we
Speaker 5: knew Jamal Murray was no good loose one of these
Speaker 5: games though at them. I know, you can't keep a
Speaker 5: good player down a whole series.
Speaker 1: But that's why when you're in control of the game
Speaker 1: like they were in Game one. You win that one
Speaker 1: because you might get in a game like this with Jamal,
Speaker 1: with Jamal Murray and you're at his mercy, and it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be too tough to win when they're shooting
Speaker 1: fifty two percent from three.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 5: Now, one thing I would like to say, and in
Speaker 5: the grand scheme of things, it probably wouldn't have mattered,
Speaker 5: But remember when we cut it to nine, right, No,
Speaker 5: it was the first thing I thought about, is you
Speaker 5: missed that free throw that could have made it eight.
Speaker 5: We didn't miss like twenty damn free throws tonight. I
Speaker 5: don't know what the actual number was. I got it.
Speaker 3: I got it for him.
Speaker 1: They missed ten free throws John, and they missed him early,
Speaker 1: they missed him late, they missed him consistently throughout the game.
Speaker 1: That can't happen. It's unlikely you go perfect. But say
Speaker 1: they hit seven more they only missed three.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say six. Let's say, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, if Weda hit six more when you missed
Speaker 5: that when the credit denied and that could have been
Speaker 5: a three point game, you know, the momentum switches is everything.
Speaker 5: I agree with you walk off to Denver. They did
Speaker 5: it once again. They did what they were supposed to do.
Speaker 5: They're the fourth seed. They had a game on their
Speaker 5: home floor and they won. Were playing to do the
Speaker 5: same game six. Game seven is anybody's game, but we
Speaker 5: gotta get through six first.
Speaker 3: John, I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 1: Throw you on hold in case you want to come
Speaker 1: on Clipper Stock after dark.
Speaker 3: I gotta take a quick time out. We'll come back.
Speaker 3: Clippers lose one thirty one fifteen in Game five.
Speaker 1: They trail three games to two in this best of
Speaker 1: seven first round series against the Denver Nuggets, with Game
Speaker 1: six being backing into it Tome on Thursday night. Souck
Speaker 1: next here on the Patriot eleven fifty.
Speaker 5: I love this team. I never miss a game.
Speaker 2: You're listening to LA Clippers playoff basketball three ball, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: right here on the LA Clippers Audio Network.
Speaker 1: Clippers lose Game five, one thirty one, one fifteen to
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets and Jamal Murray who had forty three,
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook twenty one, Aaron Gordon twenty three on just
Speaker 1: eleven shots. All three of those players outscored Kawhi outscored
Speaker 1: James Harden outscored Norman Powell, Vitza Zubats had twenty seven.
Speaker 1: We only got fifteen shots up in the game where
Speaker 1: he was doing his thing. They would go to him
Speaker 1: when they need a bucket, when it was crucial, when
Speaker 1: they tried to stop a run, but they wouldn't consistently
Speaker 1: go to him. Clippers down three games to two, must
Speaker 1: win game six Thursday Night. Back it into a dome.
Speaker 1: Jason in the Cayman Islands. Jason, what's up here on cover?
Speaker 4: So are you doing?
Speaker 3: Mane uh A long time listener. Yeah, I can hear you, Jason.
Speaker 4: Yes, one, that's good when I call it from the
Speaker 4: Cayman Islands. One wanted to, you know, just come in
Speaker 4: and give them a two cents.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: Appreciate you for all they do for the Clippers and
Speaker 4: for the nation, because you know it's consistent to wash
Speaker 4: your showing things like that. And I really appreciate it
Speaker 4: mine because you know, it's not a lot of content
Speaker 4: on the internet for Hello, no.
Speaker 3: I hear I'm letting you roll.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, Yeah, it's overseas calls, so it is a
Speaker 4: bit delayed, but but yeah, I appreciate you money. So
Speaker 4: the thing is I feel Clippers right now we were
Speaker 4: starting the game too slow, and it is we are
Speaker 4: really playing catch up right the last game that we
Speaker 4: had that we came back from that twin point, I
Speaker 4: realized we never done that tonight when we were down
Speaker 4: again because we played Zoom right, that was that caught
Speaker 4: Nuggets told off guard and we came back. But tonight
Speaker 4: I realized we never played in the zoom when we
Speaker 4: were sold down. So I'm saying I felt that was
Speaker 4: something a key point where I felt that the series
Speaker 4: would have change for us, realizing that Denver wasn't playing
Speaker 4: they that would be caught them by surprise with that,
Speaker 4: you know, So that I feel right now, Kawhi, we
Speaker 4: we need to play through him more and of course
Speaker 4: hit on all of our shots because tonight we were Uh.
Speaker 4: You can tell, honestly, you can tell where when the
Speaker 4: Clippers are.
Speaker 5: Not playing they gonna have a rough wound.
Speaker 4: It's always our first quarter where we start the game.
Speaker 4: If we really move like, yeah, we're gonna have a
Speaker 4: tough game. I can sit down and watch a game
Speaker 4: and I can tell you know how they need to
Speaker 4: get my aggressive because what they're doing now because they
Speaker 4: know that Harden is our engine. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: He don't want to gets everybody going, so if they
Speaker 4: contain him, it makes it difficult for Kawhi and Paul
Speaker 4: Will and everybody else to get in our rhythm. You
Speaker 4: get what I'm saying. So I feel we need to
Speaker 4: start the game very very aggressive and get shots up.
Speaker 4: Even if the shots now going down, we need to
Speaker 4: go inside because we are a very good team. Once
Speaker 4: we go down to zoom. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: He can make shots in the middle. You se know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying because your kids right now, he's to me.
Speaker 4: We're making him arrest a lot, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Because on defense, when he's on defense, we need to
Speaker 4: play zoom more, go to you more, and you make
Speaker 4: him work more. Because when Yoki getting on offense, all
Speaker 4: he's doing is just sitting down and just baiting, waiting
Speaker 4: and baiting, waiting and beating, you see what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: and then making the past and then they hitting the
Speaker 4: open shots. So we need to make him work way
Speaker 4: more on the defensive end. Put him in a lot
Speaker 4: more pick of rolls, run him down because he's the engine.
Speaker 4: Four Nuggets. Murray. Murray's playing tonight, we kind of we
Speaker 4: kind of wake him up, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: But we we need to conteam your kich as much
Speaker 4: as possible. Don't make make Murray beat up, make Murray
Speaker 4: beat us, if anything, but don't make your kids, because
Speaker 4: if your kich yokis is getting everybody involved. Russell, we
Speaker 4: we're gonna have to live with that. Russell is making shots,
Speaker 4: Kudos to him, you know what I'm saying, Just like
Speaker 4: how they do it with Chris Dunn. We have to
Speaker 4: make Russell beat us. I agree with Russell did us.
Speaker 1: The problem is he's been good in three of these
Speaker 1: games now. He was good in Game one, good in
Speaker 1: Game two, and he was great instrumental in tonight's victory
Speaker 1: for the Denver Nuggets. He has burned them, mister Adam.
Speaker 4: We know for if we look at how Russell been
Speaker 4: paying for the whole season. He's good in the corner trees.
Speaker 4: So if he's I think Russell always trying to prove
Speaker 4: a point. Now, so if he's in the corner the corner,
Speaker 4: get up on him, you know, respect him, make him dribble.
Speaker 4: If he's at the top of the key. Let him
Speaker 4: shoot all day. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 4: once he get in the corner, respect that at least he.
Speaker 5: Gave us the the the.
Speaker 4: He let us know that he can shoot it. So okay,
Speaker 4: respect him, let him drive because you know he's not that,
Speaker 4: you know, effective when he going to the rim, you know.
Speaker 1: So, Jay, Jason, you know, I wasn't sure if your
Speaker 1: call was real at first. Obviously it is at this point.
Speaker 3: Uh, which island are you on?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Money, which I'm the Cayman Islands.
Speaker 3: But there's three.
Speaker 4: Right right? Grand Okay, Uh, yes, sir, it is.
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued by your phone call. I hope the Clippers
Speaker 1: aren't gonna be visiting you on vacation there soon or anything.
Speaker 4: Paul George. Actually, well, I'm sorry to say not no, no, no,
Speaker 4: but I've seen Paul George, Paul George looking looked like
Speaker 4: he was here recently. Sorry for doing you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. But yeah, it's nice hearing you should pay
Speaker 4: a visit.
Speaker 1: You know. Oh this this this light in the mood,
Speaker 1: this helped this lost tonight, Jason. You got to call
Speaker 1: in more often, okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, from Hey, hear me. I was there a few
Speaker 4: months ago when you when we was playing Lakers and
Speaker 4: and and the into it Doom. I was there. I
Speaker 4: was there for the that that that stretch where we
Speaker 4: played Indiana and we played uh.
Speaker 5: One more team.
Speaker 4: I can't remember who we played that that Jazz. I
Speaker 4: think it was Jazz. Yeah, but I was there for that,
Speaker 4: for that, for them games, you know, so big Doom.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Sorry, no, go ahead, now
Speaker 4: I'm saying. It's just big up to the whole Cliper nation.
Speaker 4: Still you, And I mean we got this, you know
Speaker 4: we we Game six, We're gonna come through. Still you.
Speaker 4: So what I'm saying, And we're gonna make sure we
Speaker 4: get this them six and then go back to then
Speaker 4: because we already proved we can win in then. But
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, So it just take it
Speaker 4: one game at the time, Kawhi. You gotta get an
Speaker 4: early start, James gotta get an early start. And Chris
Speaker 4: Dunn just keep shooting, bro, they gonna keep testing him.
Speaker 4: Just keep shooting ticket time and knock down the shots
Speaker 4: and limits that turn over us. It's very frustrating to
Speaker 4: know that we've been singing this from the very start.
Speaker 4: Of the season and right now you're still struggling with it.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. It's very challenging, bro. Like
Speaker 4: I know, we're supposed to know. This is playoff, bro,
Speaker 4: so take care of the ball all these imagine if
Speaker 4: you think about it, the first game, it was a
Speaker 4: flims the pass in bound pass. That's why the pass
Speaker 4: got picked off. You can't be passingly that in a playoff.
Speaker 4: Come on, man, it can't work like that. You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. You have to make perfect passes, perfect
Speaker 4: mounce passes. If you see a guy. The thing is,
Speaker 4: if you see an open player, by the time you blink,
Speaker 4: he's not open no more. So that pass that you
Speaker 4: think is gonna make it. No, you have to look
Speaker 4: elsewhere to go to a different route, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. So I got on the turner wards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta take a time out, my friend. But
Speaker 1: your analysis hits harder with that beautiful accent. I love
Speaker 1: hearing your voice after a Clippers loss. Now I hope
Speaker 1: we can do it again after a Clippers win on
Speaker 1: Thursday night.
Speaker 4: All right, you mean all the time on, you got yourself.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: We got Cup Nation much respect, no flow, have a
Speaker 4: great night you too.
Speaker 1: Jason gotta take a time out here on Clippers stock.
Speaker 1: Jason from the Cayman Islands. There so he saw Paul
Speaker 1: George going fishing. Then go can Coon went to the
Speaker 1: Cayman Islands. I know you guys enjoyed hearing that. Oh more,
Speaker 1: postgame Clippers stock here after they lose one thirty fifteen
Speaker 1: in Game five, Game six back into a dome Thursday night,
Speaker 1: I mean a mouslind and you're listening to the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Clippers Audio Network, the LA.
Speaker 2: Clippers and the Denver Nuggets. This is Round one playoff
Speaker 2: action on the LA Clippers Audio Network clip.
Speaker 3: Lose big.
Speaker 1: In Denver, down by as many as twenty two again,
Speaker 1: final score one thirty one to one fifteen.
Speaker 3: Nuggets come out the victors.
Speaker 1: They're up three games to two in this best of
Speaker 1: seven first round series. Game six, must win Game six
Speaker 1: back and into it dome on Thursday night. Jeane in
Speaker 1: North Carolina, you're on Clipper stock without a mauslin higiene.
Speaker 11: Hegen, I mean, yeah, what's what's up?
Speaker 5: Gene?
Speaker 3: Hi Adam, I mean higiene?
Speaker 11: Yeah, Hey, I got some hot takes and then they
Speaker 11: might not be really the best you know what I'm
Speaker 11: saying to say, but I'm going to say them tonight.
Speaker 1: All right, can you turn me down in the background,
Speaker 1: just turned down the feed that you're listening to, because
Speaker 1: I just want to hear you.
Speaker 3: Gene. All right, get them off. We got about a
Speaker 3: minute and a half here.
Speaker 1: Get those takes off.
Speaker 11: Okay, so number number one.
Speaker 5: Number one is.
Speaker 11: And you know it might not be really taken really
Speaker 11: like you know, like good for the for the fam
Speaker 11: or whatever, but I'm gonna'na, I'm gonna take a hot take.
Speaker 11: Like basically, remember when Tyleru got hurt, his back was
Speaker 11: jacked up, and uh, Brian Shaw was like, feed the
Speaker 11: ball to Zoo. I think at that time that when
Speaker 11: when Tyleru came back all of a sudden, it was
Speaker 11: like Zoo was just like, you know, he was being
Speaker 11: like the the main guy. But we but but Tyleru
Speaker 11: goes away from that because for some reason he doesn't
Speaker 11: want to do that. It's like it's like it's DNA
Speaker 11: that he does not want to do.
Speaker 5: Number one.
Speaker 11: You slow down the game. You're getting the person who
Speaker 11: can score on these guys at any point in time.
Speaker 11: And we already know from years and years ago for
Speaker 11: people who've been watching who that he should have been
Speaker 11: getting the ball a long time ago. And he don't
Speaker 11: get the calls that a person like Jokes get when
Speaker 11: he flops around the court.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate the phone call, Jean, I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: gotta run. There may be something to that, but it's
Speaker 1: not like Zu got up five shots, he got up fifteen.
Speaker 1: There wasn't nothing.
Speaker 3: In fact in this ballgame.
Speaker 1: He got up more shots than norm same amount as Kawhi,
Speaker 1: six more than James Harden.
Speaker 3: But that's on James Harden.
Speaker 1: He's gotta be better. Clippers have to be better and
Speaker 1: they have to win. It's a true must win game.
Speaker 1: Thursday night back in the nime A Dome. Tip off
Speaker 1: at seven pregame at six. Before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Ralph Lawler,
Speaker 1: Brian Sieman, Noah Igo, Carlo Jimenez on the call people.
Speaker 1: Brother Jake Warner, We'll see you on Thursday back here
Speaker 1: in Burbank. Daniel west Our producer Daniel great Job is
Speaker 1: always my friend, killing it with the music, especially after
Speaker 1: a loss. Like music soothes the Savage Beast. I needed that.
Speaker 1: I needed the phone calls too. We'll keep it going
Speaker 1: here at Clipperstock. On the YouTube side, I'm out of
Speaker 1: Mazin talk to you Thursday.
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