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Speaker 1: Clippers defeat the Wizards by seventeen. Hear it into a
Speaker 1: home with the final score of one ten to ninety three.
Speaker 1: I'm at a Mosland after your Clippers improved to twenty
Speaker 1: five and nineteen on the season. They did enough to
Speaker 1: come through and not very impressive fashion tonight over the
Speaker 1: Washington Wizards. We'll talk about that. There were some bright spots.
Speaker 1: But as soon as I started this live, people started
Speaker 1: to say if last night was a good loss, this
Speaker 1: was a bad win, and that resonated with me. I
Speaker 1: was feeling the same way. Not gonna be overly harsh.
Speaker 1: This is not going to define their season. It is
Speaker 1: still a victory. Bad teams be good teams pretty much
Speaker 1: every night in the NBA. It happens. I just didn't
Speaker 1: feel like the Clippers won this game as much as
Speaker 1: the Washington Wizards just lost it. Because they're the worst
Speaker 1: team in the NBA. They have six victories. They fell
Speaker 1: to six and thirty seven on the season. They fell
Speaker 1: to straight twelve straight losses. This was not as focused
Speaker 1: of an effort like we saw against Brooklyn recently, where
Speaker 1: the Clippers won by fifty nine. It's at a franchise record.
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting that. But when you're up by twenty
Speaker 1: two and a half, I'm expecting a thirty point victory,
Speaker 1: a twenty five point victory. I'm not expecting starters to
Speaker 1: have to come out back up off the bench cold
Speaker 1: in the four fourth quarter because it's a twelve point game.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, after Kyle Kuzma hits a three
Speaker 1: at the seven to forty one mark, did they respond
Speaker 1: the way you'd like to see them respond. Yes, Norm
Speaker 1: Powle layup, Norm pow three pointer, beats zubats floater Norman
Speaker 1: another three. They put them away. They did. They got
Speaker 1: back up by twenty two within three minutes after it
Speaker 1: was down to twelve. It's good to see they could
Speaker 1: find the gas pedal again when they needed to. I
Speaker 1: was just a little bit alarmed that they did have
Speaker 1: to go back to the starters, and starters means no
Speaker 1: Kawai obviously because he hit twenty four minutes. And yeah,
Speaker 1: they might have gotten a little bit complacent, as Yannie
Speaker 1: Tears said in the chat here at Clippers Talk on
Speaker 1: the YouTube side, they looked a little bit disinterested. You're
Speaker 1: upe by as many as twenty five in the first half,
Speaker 1: twenty seven early in the third quarter. But often what
Speaker 1: we've seen from this Clippers team is they'll put you
Speaker 1: away and they will get run for the backups and
Speaker 1: they will win convincingly handedly. They won't have to get
Speaker 1: Ooron Powell back out there to play thirty two minutes,
Speaker 1: or James Harden to play thirty two minutes, or beats
Speaker 1: the Zubas to play thirty or Dereck Jones Junior, after
Speaker 1: playing big minutes last night, playing twenty six Mere Coffee,
Speaker 1: had to play twenty eight. He just played heavy minutes
Speaker 1: last night. Wasn't good process by them in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: To me, it looked like a team that was just
Speaker 1: trying to get by in the easiest way possible without
Speaker 1: really running their offense. Ah well, I so we have
Speaker 1: the better players. I will take some threes and get
Speaker 1: some kill shot threes up and hopefully put them away
Speaker 1: without having to go downhill. Ah, we'll cherry pick and
Speaker 1: get a couple of easy scores that way. That's what
Speaker 1: I saw on the third quarter. I didn't see them
Speaker 1: running their offense, getting into their actions, playing with purpose.
Speaker 1: That's what I was looking for. The purpose seemed to be,
Speaker 1: let's just get this over with. Well, they messed around
Speaker 1: and almost found out it was as close as twelve.
Speaker 1: It was gonna take somebody getting ridiculously hot for the Wizards, probably,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't out of reach at the eight minute
Speaker 1: mark of the fourth. It's the modern NBA that stuff happens.
Speaker 1: Probably lucky the Wizards are this bad with how the
Speaker 1: Clippers played tonight, and they have to play much better
Speaker 1: in this Aainst Milwaukee on Saturday. They do, they get
Speaker 1: that victory. Hey, I'll say, what did this game matter?
Speaker 1: But I still feel like there are opportunities to get
Speaker 1: better no matter who you're playing, to show some growth,
Speaker 1: to make progress, to become a little bit more sound
Speaker 1: with your game plan and how you want to execute,
Speaker 1: and just continue to build chemistry. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they learned a lot tonight. I don't know if they
Speaker 1: got better. I could be wrong. They come out and
Speaker 1: slaughter Milwaukee on Saturday night. What did tonight mean? Could
Speaker 1: have just meant fourth game and five nights. But I
Speaker 1: have a hard time going there with the excuse when
Speaker 1: you know I didn't play last game. Narrated to Zubots,
Speaker 1: Norman Powell, James Harden, Nico. They still don't have Chris Dunn. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think they had plenty of guys. They had most
Speaker 1: of the usuals. I was just hoping to see a
Speaker 1: more crisp, a more sound beating of the Washington Wizards tonight.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's getting greedy their professional team, but look,
Speaker 1: they shot thirty four percent. It's the Clippers offense that
Speaker 1: I didn't like. It's not that they couldn't execute their offense,
Speaker 1: because when they needed to that did. I just didn't
Speaker 1: like seeing them getting away from it throughout most of
Speaker 1: the second half and just kind of waiting for the
Speaker 1: time to run out and going through the motions. I
Speaker 1: would have rather seen more high pick and roll, more
Speaker 1: reps there with Zubots and James Harden saw some of
Speaker 1: the first half beats of Zubots looked really good. A
Speaker 1: couple of fierce dunks that second quarter. Mobamba going off
Speaker 1: from three, went three of three. Maybe had his best
Speaker 1: game as a Clipper thirteen points, four of six, shooting
Speaker 1: six boards in fifteen minutes. So there's something to take
Speaker 1: away from this game. Again, you know, we're here to
Speaker 1: try to do some analysis postgame and not just say, well,
Speaker 1: the Clippers won, so everything's great. That'd be a pretty
Speaker 1: short show. Or last night, oh they lost, everything's bad. No,
Speaker 1: I saw progress by certain players last night that carried over.
Speaker 1: Derek Jones Junior got up twenty shots last night. That
Speaker 1: was the blessing in disguise with all the guys out.
Speaker 1: He got up twenty shots and went four of seven
Speaker 1: from three. After entering that game, he was seven for
Speaker 1: his last thirty five from the outside. And then tonight,
Speaker 1: guess what he had nineteen coming off his career high
Speaker 1: last night with twenty nine. He has nineteen tonight and
Speaker 1: went three of five from distance to seven of ten
Speaker 1: from the field, and really he was seven of eight
Speaker 1: before he had to come back in. He missed a
Speaker 1: couple of shots. He was three of three from three
Speaker 1: before he had to come back in. When the game
Speaker 1: was down to twelve. So that's why I say a
Speaker 1: loss isn't a loss, a win isn't a win. You
Speaker 1: can build bad habits and a victory. You can have
Speaker 1: some good process and just get beaten a loss, but
Speaker 1: that good process eventually leads to a win later on.
Speaker 1: I hope tonight's lost didn't have them picking up any
Speaker 1: bad habits of coasting. It could have just been a
Speaker 1: tired team that feels like they've once again got the
Speaker 1: short end of the stick with the schedule. And it's
Speaker 1: the second I have a back to back, a four
Speaker 1: and five where they did go to and two and
Speaker 1: they beat the Lakers, and that's all I asked for.
Speaker 1: When I saw the four and five with the rescheduling,
Speaker 1: I said to myself, just go to and two with
Speaker 1: a win against the Lakers and you're good. That's it.
Speaker 1: And that did happen. So there's a lot of praise
Speaker 1: with this team. They're easily overachieving. There's six games over
Speaker 1: five hundred and they've only had Kawhi Leonard for six
Speaker 1: games so far. It's incredible. I'm just nitpicking the individual
Speaker 1: game tonight and saying what I liked, what I didn't,
Speaker 1: and there was probably more I didn't like, even in
Speaker 1: a win by seventeen. But overall, I love where this
Speaker 1: Clippers team is at. I love what we saw at
Speaker 1: times and spurts from Kawhi tonight. And we'll take a
Speaker 1: quick time out and we'll go through some of his plays.
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Speaker 1: one ten to ninety three over the Wizards. I'm at
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Speaker 1: Slippers win one ten to ninety three over the Washington Wizards.
Speaker 1: Hearing into it home, they sweep the season series. It
Speaker 1: was Kawhi leonard sixth game of the season. So Kawhi
Speaker 1: starts thing, starts things off in the first quarter by
Speaker 1: missing a step through. Then I miss at the five
Speaker 1: minute mark. But if visa Zubos got the tip in
Speaker 1: he had the dunk. I think he was letting out
Speaker 1: some frustration. He wasn't getting a call out there. They
Speaker 1: were playing him tight, they had doubles, and Kyle Kuzma
Speaker 1: was just really good. He knows Kawhi really well from
Speaker 1: his time with the Lakers. That was the guy they
Speaker 1: would sick on. Kawhi Leonard long, strong, young player. Now
Speaker 1: he's twenty eight, twenty nine, still good and defensively seems
Speaker 1: to get up with the challenge. So Kawhi is getting
Speaker 1: frustrated and eventually has a dunk that made it twenty
Speaker 1: three to twelve in the first quarter. He comes out
Speaker 1: of the game with the four to forty mark of
Speaker 1: the first, comes back in the second, starts the second,
Speaker 1: attacks that close out and gets to his fade away
Speaker 1: at the dotted line for his second bucket after the
Speaker 1: dunk in the first. Then he lost the basketball trying
Speaker 1: to go at Kuzma and Jordan Poole, but they took
Speaker 1: it away for an easy layup. On the other end,
Speaker 1: Kawhi has a straightaway three pointer, then misses a fade
Speaker 1: away on the right elbow in the second. A Kawhi
Speaker 1: bad turnover on an inbounds pass that's taken away by
Speaker 1: Pool who hit a three, and Kawhi kind of put
Speaker 1: his hand up and acknowledge, Yeah, that's my bad. That
Speaker 1: is definitely my bad. But he would hit a midi
Speaker 1: on the far side mid post in the second quarter
Speaker 1: as well, and then the third Kawhi got a layup
Speaker 1: right away going right and there was some explosiveness there.
Speaker 1: He had a dho then from Vitze Zubas doing it again.
Speaker 1: There was an early time out taken by the Washington
Speaker 1: Wizards in that third quarter as the Clippers got up
Speaker 1: by twenty seven, but Kawhi did have a nice defensive
Speaker 1: play against Kuzma that was noticeable to me in the
Speaker 1: third quarter. I think it ended up with Washington getting
Speaker 1: a tip in anyways, but Kuzma was driving left and
Speaker 1: Kawhi was all over him. But then he got blocked
Speaker 1: on a runout where he thought he had an easy
Speaker 1: one by Kyle Kuzma. Kawai was flexing his hand for
Speaker 1: a second. I'm not trying to worry any but he
Speaker 1: looked to be fine. Afterwards, he would miss a fade
Speaker 1: away over Kuzma. Then he was short on a three short.
Speaker 1: On another three, it looked like the Clippers were just
Speaker 1: cherry picking as Harden found him for a long outlet pass.
Speaker 1: Who had and then Kawhi had a dump with his
Speaker 1: left hand. He wasn't getting locked this time. It was
Speaker 1: a nice play. I need to see the replay of
Speaker 1: that still, but that's when he reached minute twenty four
Speaker 1: for him. That was the end of the ball game.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a little bit up and down
Speaker 1: from Kawhi, but there were definitely some good moments, just
Speaker 1: seeing him dunk the basketball again, because I think that's
Speaker 1: a confidence thing, just feeling like, Okay, I'm healthy, I'm good.
Speaker 1: And by the way, as I always tell you, he's
Speaker 1: a left legged leaper, so he can still get up.
Speaker 1: All the injuries have happened to his right leg. This
Speaker 1: Clipper team, it was in ugly second half. They got
Speaker 1: out scored by five and I mentioned Kawhi in the
Speaker 1: third quarter, but some of those shots weren't great process.
Speaker 1: The Clippers are just one pass possessions, settling saying you
Speaker 1: go get a bucket, now, you get a bucket. They
Speaker 1: weren't playing hot potato with a basketball. They weren't going
Speaker 1: through their offense, and they let Washington back into it.
Speaker 1: Then to me, because they got up there was a
Speaker 1: timeout after they scored the first two buckets of the
Speaker 1: third immediate timeout. First it was a DJ putback dunk,
Speaker 1: then that Kawhi layup. Then there's a timeout and Washington
Speaker 1: refocused a little bit and the Clippers just got sloppy.
Speaker 1: That's what I saw. We're still looking for Coach lou
Speaker 1: postgame audio here if you guys liked to get on
Speaker 1: eight six six ninety eight seven two five to seventy
Speaker 1: eight six six ninety seven, two five to seventy. I
Speaker 1: think somebody called in from Chicago a little bit earlier.
Speaker 1: Just saw that dunk from Kauhi again with the left
Speaker 1: hand being the defender to the basket on that long outlet.
Speaker 1: But that's my problem is it was a lot of
Speaker 1: cherry picking. Kawhi just hanging around waiting to get a
Speaker 1: wide open dunk. I will finish him in the lowest
Speaker 1: effort way possible tonight. That's what it felt like in
Speaker 1: the third and fourth quarter. We'll we'll get to it,
Speaker 1: we'll put them away, but we're gonna do it in
Speaker 1: a low effort fashion. We're not gonna get into our offense.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna just keep playing like at zero zero.
Speaker 1: I thought it was noticeable that the Clippers weren't going
Speaker 1: as hard in the second half, But maybe some of
Speaker 1: that is fatigue and I need to give him a break.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking big picture stuff and how you gotta
Speaker 1: play now, Mobaba, if you're looking for the bright side
Speaker 1: and the seventeen point win, I know that's plinty to
Speaker 1: say he had a three to start the second quarter.
Speaker 1: He's out there with Kawhi, and I've kind of speculated.
Speaker 1: I wonder when Kawhi comes back, is that going to
Speaker 1: bring out the best of Mobamba? Because they're boys, they're friends.
Speaker 1: You know that stuff's funny. Sometimes it can work like that.
Speaker 1: He hits the three to start the second quarter, and
Speaker 1: he has a big block on Carrington at least to
Speaker 1: in a mirror three on the other ends. In the
Speaker 1: second Clippers are up nineteen. Bamba another three off of
Speaker 1: a shovel pass from Man to make it forty four
Speaker 1: to twenty two at the eight minute mark. Man also
Speaker 1: found him for a dunk underneath the basket in this game,
Speaker 1: but overall, Mobama finished with thirteen points. In fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: four of six, shooting three of three from three. He
Speaker 1: has been a career thirty six percent three point shooter
Speaker 1: league average. He has not been that as a Clipper
Speaker 1: so far. In fact, coming into this game, as they
Speaker 1: look up the stats here, because it has been a
Speaker 1: little bit disappointing with him from beyond the arc of
Speaker 1: course obligatory low volume numbers here, but coming into this game,
Speaker 1: he was twelve of forty five from three. So now
Speaker 1: he is fifteen of forty eight. What's that put him up?
Speaker 1: So now he's at thirty one percent. One game takes
Speaker 1: him from twenty seven percent to thirty one percent just
Speaker 1: going three or three to one ball game, So he
Speaker 1: still has time. And after last game, I asked coach
Speaker 1: Lupe pre game what he saw from Kobe Brown because
Speaker 1: I thought he played pretty well yesterday against Boston. I
Speaker 1: did preface the question saying, obviously, Boston's the perfect team
Speaker 1: for Kobe Brown because they play smaller and have a
Speaker 1: lot of switchability out there, and Kobe Brown's a versatile defender,
Speaker 1: or at least he projects to be. I thought he
Speaker 1: showed some of that yesterday. I had a good possession
Speaker 1: against Jayson Tatum defensively really did before that three point
Speaker 1: made by Jalen Brown. He had to give it up
Speaker 1: because he couldn't lose Kobe Brown. But I asked him
Speaker 1: pregame about, you know, Kobe Brown playing the five in
Speaker 1: training camp and how much of that translated to that
Speaker 1: game and what he saw against Boston and overall it
Speaker 1: seemed like he was pleased with its performance. Obviously he
Speaker 1: had eleven boards. It's just the outside shooting is not
Speaker 1: materialized yet with him not in the G League, not
Speaker 1: the professional level. And we talked about a pregame with
Speaker 1: Law Murray and this is something I've been thinking about too,
Speaker 1: but is shooting isn't as necessary when he's playing the five.
Speaker 1: It'd be nice he'd be a stretch five, but it's
Speaker 1: really when you're playing the four, because then you're playing
Speaker 1: next to a big who likely isn't a shooter. We
Speaker 1: know beats Zubots isn't, or at least we haven't seen
Speaker 1: it yet. Never know, but you have to be able
Speaker 1: to shoot the ball if you're playing next to a
Speaker 1: beats Zuobots or else you're gonna clog up the paint
Speaker 1: on the offensive end. I having two guys that to
Speaker 1: be close to the basket. It may help you on defense,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna help you on the offensive end. It
Speaker 1: may help you with rebounding, it's not going to help
Speaker 1: you spread the floor and stretch the floor and give
Speaker 1: the Clippers driving lanes and open looks unless somebody at
Speaker 1: the four and five can shoot it. So unfortunately, it
Speaker 1: just hasn't happened so far with Kobe Brown. Law thinks
Speaker 1: the shot looks a little bit flat, too much like
Speaker 1: a line drive shot. Not enough arc on Kobe Brown's
Speaker 1: three pointers, and I think he went like zero three
Speaker 1: last night against Boston. But that's something we talked about
Speaker 1: this when they drafted him. The shooting has to be
Speaker 1: there from Kobe for him to get minutes, and I
Speaker 1: think that still is the case. But if he can
Speaker 1: play some small ball five where at least he can
Speaker 1: distribute a little bit and get boards and hustle and
Speaker 1: get put backs at the five, it's not as much
Speaker 1: of a problem him not shooting it well because there's
Speaker 1: gonna be somebody at the four who is a good shooter.
Speaker 1: The other four guys out there could all be shooters,
Speaker 1: or at least three of them that's what it's about.
Speaker 1: So he doesn't play tonight, or he doesn't until very
Speaker 1: late in the ball game, obviously in consequential garbage time
Speaker 1: minutes Mobaba plays and that could just be because Jonas Balanceew.
Speaker 1: This is physical and big and it's a good matchup
Speaker 1: from and he played well. I just want to see
Speaker 1: if anything materializes moving forward here with Kobe Brown, because
Speaker 1: I thought he looks olid last night against Boston. He
Speaker 1: played thirty eight minutes, forty minutes. We will see. We'll
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Speaker 1: Slippers win one, ten to ninety three. Hear it into
Speaker 1: a dome over the Washington Wizards as Kawhi as his
Speaker 1: first dunk and make it two of the season. And
Speaker 1: you know why that's significant. I think well Outam he's
Speaker 1: a professional, of course, Yeah, he's six seventy. He should
Speaker 1: be fine to dunk it. Still, Yeah, it's significant because
Speaker 1: the last time I believe we saw Kawhi Leonard dunk
Speaker 1: the basketball, it was Game three in Dallas, off that
Speaker 1: oop from Paul George in transition where Kawhi to go
Speaker 1: up and get it, and then he was hanging on
Speaker 1: the rim because he was afraid of dropping to the
Speaker 1: floor and the impact that would have on his right knee.
Speaker 1: He was noticeably hurting that Game three, especially, he was
Speaker 1: not moving well. He goes up for that dunk, he's
Speaker 1: hanging from the rim. That's the significance to me of
Speaker 1: him dunking for the first time tonight, having that confidence
Speaker 1: again of the impact of dropping to the floor. He
Speaker 1: ends up with fifteen points on sixteen shots in twenty
Speaker 1: four minutes, which is still his minutes limit. I made
Speaker 1: a prediction in the pregame show or during the broadcast
Speaker 1: that I think I have no knowledge of this. I'm
Speaker 1: just guessing. I think there's a chance Kawhi and his
Speaker 1: minutes go up on Saturday. Now, that's all assuming he
Speaker 1: wakes up out of bed tomorrow and feels good. But
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised by that. If his minutes went
Speaker 1: up to thirty or twenty eight against Milwaukee and we
Speaker 1: get Kawhi Leonard in the fourth quarter, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: shot by that. But it's just an uneducated prediction. It's
Speaker 1: just going off of how many games in a row
Speaker 1: he's been at twenty four minutes now, that's all it is.
Speaker 1: And it's a big game, and he's been really good
Speaker 1: against Johanna in the past defensively. Zoo started the game
Speaker 1: off in goggles, by the way, that was a subplot
Speaker 1: to this game. The Zoo vision era was short lived,
Speaker 1: maybe two minutes. He said enough. He didn't like it,
Speaker 1: couldn't see out of them. Some guys just hate it.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis across town felt the same way, and he's
Speaker 1: had a couple of different eye injuries and he just
Speaker 1: it's just as rupts his vision. Can't have it. It's
Speaker 1: just too unfamiliar. They've been playing basketball one way forever.
Speaker 1: They don't want to look through some goggles. Oh L, Frank,
Speaker 1: what's on the broadcast? I didn't even know. So he
Speaker 1: was right next to us over here talking with Jim
Speaker 1: Jackson and Brian Seman. I wasn't paying attention to that.
Speaker 1: I'm to check that audio post game. I did not
Speaker 1: know about that. That I record every game and I
Speaker 1: will be listening to that later. But Ray said, of course,
Speaker 1: he emphasized the need to get him healthy into the postseason.
Speaker 1: Talking about Kawhi. Let's hear from coach lou post game
Speaker 1: after the Clippers win one, ten to ninety three over
Speaker 1: the Wizards, peered into it, don't you.
Speaker 5: Can't dictate who's gonna get the shots if you play
Speaker 5: in basketball the right way, you know, And so I
Speaker 5: don't think we did that the second half of the
Speaker 5: third on all.
Speaker 1: The way through.
Speaker 6: Ty James at his seventy ninth Coura tripled up today,
Speaker 6: I think eighth all time. Just what can you say
Speaker 6: about just his longevity, the overall complete game that he's
Speaker 6: able to provide for you know, long time in the NBA.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you take a guy who you know,
Speaker 5: was a you know, dominating scorer who can score fifty
Speaker 5: to sixty, and then now you can turn him into
Speaker 5: a guy who can get you, you know, thirteen fourteen assists,
Speaker 5: you know, and so rebound the basketball. I don't know
Speaker 5: how he does it by jumping his house of the floor.
Speaker 5: But somehow he gets it done. I mean, somehow he
Speaker 5: gets it done. But you know, he's just you know,
Speaker 5: every every time he's getting better and better at certain things.
Speaker 5: And you know, it doesn't surprise me by him climbing
Speaker 5: the charts, you know, for as triple doubles. The rebounding
Speaker 5: a little bit, but you know the system points.
Speaker 6: How high again does he jump?
Speaker 1: Okay? Gotcha?
Speaker 6: What does it do for your team when when your
Speaker 6: guards you're able to rebound at a high level like that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it makes us better. You know, we struggled since
Speaker 5: I've been here as far as rebound, what defensive rebound
Speaker 5: of basketball? And you know, I think we were twenty
Speaker 5: ninth last year or in the l years past twenty eight,
Speaker 5: and I think this year we're second or third, you know,
Speaker 5: And so when your guards rebounding basketball, that does change
Speaker 5: the dynamics of your team.
Speaker 6: Coach, what's one thing that frustrates you the most?
Speaker 3: End game?
Speaker 5: Not only tonight, but just keep playing the game the
Speaker 5: right way. The way we got the lead is the
Speaker 5: way we got to continue to keep playing. And at
Speaker 5: times we don't do that, you know, So we got
Speaker 5: to be better just playing through the game, you know,
Speaker 5: not letting the would dictate how we play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Coach Lou, there is saying play the game the
Speaker 1: right way. The way that we got the lead is
Speaker 1: the way we need to keep playing. This is what
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, guys. I said it on the broadcast.
Speaker 1: I did not like the process in that third quarter.
Speaker 1: Coach Lou said, they basically didn't play basketball the right
Speaker 1: way in the second half. I mean, so, if you
Speaker 1: want to say I'm being overly harsh, Coach Lou's echoing
Speaker 1: the same sentiment sentiments it This was the Clippers doing
Speaker 1: the bare minimum, it felt like at times in the
Speaker 1: second half to hold on and win this game. That's
Speaker 1: why I didn't like. That's how I felt about it.
Speaker 1: And Coach Lou said, sometimes they do get away from
Speaker 1: what got them that big lead. They stopped playing the
Speaker 1: right way. Now against Brooklyn, they did it for forty
Speaker 1: eight minutes, and that's what can happen. You can beat
Speaker 1: a team by fifty nine, apparently, lead by as many
Speaker 1: as sixty four if you play it right for forty
Speaker 1: eight minutes. I'm not asking that every game, but there
Speaker 1: were far too many minutes in the second half of
Speaker 1: this one, where it was just very sloppy basketball, Jonathaning
Speaker 1: said to credit the Whiz though I was impressed they
Speaker 1: were prepared for the hardened lobbs of Derek Jones Jr.
Speaker 1: They broke up a few of them they did. Let's
Speaker 1: hear from Mike in LA before we take a time
Speaker 1: out here. Mike, you're on Clipper stop with out of
Speaker 1: Mazen by way, I.
Speaker 3: Agree with you.
Speaker 4: I don't think they're being overly harsh. That second half
Speaker 4: was just decidedly uninspiring.
Speaker 5: It was it was.
Speaker 4: It was not good as great as last night was,
Speaker 4: even though it was a loss. That's you know, roughly
Speaker 4: how bad that second half was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you can look good in the loss
Speaker 1: and you can look bad in the victory. Sometimes.
Speaker 4: I mean, I just hope we can get it together
Speaker 4: for you know, Saturday night the game.
Speaker 1: Tell me, what do you think about this? I'm not
Speaker 1: overly concerned that what happened tonight is going to bleed
Speaker 1: into Saturday. Even though I didn't love the way they played,
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 4: I'm not concerned about that. I think, you know, this
Speaker 4: could have also just didn't you know, just meant believing,
Speaker 4: you know, the end of the you know, you know
Speaker 4: four and five, you know for the season, just you know,
Speaker 4: saying wow, well finally at the end of this you know,
Speaker 4: you know, let's just whatp down a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, little senior itis, Like, Okay, it's over. We got
Speaker 1: to foot out the door. And Mike, I appreciate the
Speaker 1: phone calls, do it again on Saturday night. I gotta
Speaker 1: take good time out here. Always, Like Mike in La,
Speaker 1: one of our consistent callers here, he's not concerned about
Speaker 1: Saturday or this game, you know, having the Clippers in
Speaker 1: this downward spiral or anything like that. They won by seventeen. No,
Speaker 1: the process was not good in the second half, but
Speaker 1: there was down to twelve. They got it up to
Speaker 1: twenty one in three minutes. After the starters came back in.
Speaker 1: They said, okay, let's put it away. So a more serious, professional,
Speaker 1: focused approach on Saturday night is what we expect against Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back, we'll
Speaker 1: close things out here on Clippers stock after they win
Speaker 1: one ten to ninety three over the Washington Wizards, hear
Speaker 1: it into a dome on a five seventy La sports.
Speaker 3: I love this team. I never miss a game.
Speaker 2: You're listening to LA Clippers basketball free ball, Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: right here on the LA Clippers Audio network.
Speaker 1: Ten to ninety three over the Wizards. Hear it into
Speaker 1: a dome. I'm out a maslin. We are alive. Appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys in the chat. Appreciate you guys that are
Speaker 1: calling in. Clippers are six games over five hundred, with
Speaker 1: just six games from Kawhi Leonards so far. And I
Speaker 1: called this an uninspiring victory because of how they played
Speaker 1: in the second half, and coach lou seemed to be
Speaker 1: on the same page with talking about how they didn't
Speaker 1: play the right way a lot of the time in
Speaker 1: the second half. Maybe you could say they were playing
Speaker 1: with their food a little bit. They got lackadaisical out there.
Speaker 1: I would say they were trying to do the bare
Speaker 1: minimum to beat this Wizard's team in the second half
Speaker 1: after leading by twenty two in the first half. And
Speaker 1: you just don't want to see too many instances like that.
Speaker 1: That leads to bad habits, that leads to bad patterns
Speaker 1: and trends out there. Amina Sean said, I thought the
Speaker 1: second half our offense kind of went cold, was like, well,
Speaker 1: why did he go cold? They weren't running their offense.
Speaker 1: It was just Kawhi is gonna cheer you pick on
Speaker 1: one end. They'll hoistome threes and if they can build
Speaker 1: up the lead that way, a lower effort way, they're
Speaker 1: fine with that. But they weren't going through their actions
Speaker 1: and playing hard and cutting hard. And I get it,
Speaker 1: you're playing the worst team in the league, but you
Speaker 1: want to play the same way no matter who your
Speaker 1: opponent is. That's the sign of a great team. And
Speaker 1: the Clippers have done that at times. They won by
Speaker 1: fifty nine over Brooklyn, so that's the standard, and they
Speaker 1: didn't meet it tonight. They still won by seventeen, and
Speaker 1: they come out and they're fully locked in against Milwaukee
Speaker 1: on Saturday. It's all good. I'm just telling you what
Speaker 1: I saw tonight. I don't think what happened tonight is
Speaker 1: some deep rooted issue with this ball club. It could
Speaker 1: just be a one off thing. It could just be
Speaker 1: fourth game, five nights. Saturday night, those their fifth game
Speaker 1: and seven nights. Then they'll have six and nine. That
Speaker 1: doesn't get much easier this Clippers team. I still am
Speaker 1: overall vary encouraged with where they're at, of course, and
Speaker 1: they put themselves in this position because they typically do
Speaker 1: play for forty eight minutes hard out there, so tonight
Speaker 1: is definitely the outlier guys, and I think, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to make too much out of this,
Speaker 1: but not having somebody like Chris Dunn who reinforces how
Speaker 1: hard you have to play every possession, just like Patrick
Speaker 1: Beverley used to. I'm not gonna say that's nothing. I
Speaker 1: know they had plenty of guys back, everybody butt him,
Speaker 1: but Chris Dunn is a reminder of their identity. That
Speaker 1: is a loss not having him tonight. It is hopefully
Speaker 1: he's back. He's had a knee injury. It's not serious.
Speaker 1: Coach who said that pregame. Hopefully he's back on Saturday
Speaker 1: because they could use him against name Dalla in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: They haven't played better. I'll do a full preview tomorrow.
Speaker 1: What they just laid waste to the Miami Heat. They
Speaker 1: handled their business tonight in a big way at home
Speaker 1: against Miami. They get rest off tomorrow. They get the
Speaker 1: day off tomorrow, just like the Clippers. There's no rest advantage.
Speaker 1: There's a travel advantage. Clippers aren't going anywhere, but that's
Speaker 1: a big game on Saturday, a measuring stick type of game.
Speaker 1: Giannis is one of the best top five players in
Speaker 1: the NBA and has played at an MVP level this season.
Speaker 1: It's just there's other guys whose teams have had more success.
Speaker 1: Hasn't really been in the conversation or front of mine
Speaker 1: as much. Jokic, SGA, It's gonna be SGA. But Giannis
Speaker 1: has been great this season and he's still just thirty,
Speaker 1: the Greek Creak, not exactly all grown up here. But
Speaker 1: tomorrow on the show, as I told you, during the break,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go through Lawrence Frank talking with Brian Semen
Speaker 1: and Jim Jackson. We'll have that for you at Clipper's Talk.
Speaker 1: On the YouTube side is we don't miss any days.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow is gonna be like one hundred and eleven days straight.
Speaker 1: We haven't missed a show. This Clippers team. Defensively, guys,
Speaker 1: they hold a team under one hundred again mentioned it earlier,
Speaker 1: but fourteenth time this season they've done that. They only
Speaker 1: did it eleven times all of last year. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: check to see if they're updated offensive and defensive rating.
Speaker 1: Is out and it is so they're twenty third offensively
Speaker 1: after tonight, there's still second defensively. As the season goes along,
Speaker 1: obviously we're deeper into the year now and the Clippers
Speaker 1: have played what forty four games, the numbers fluctuate much less.
Speaker 1: We've gotten that larger sample size for past the midway point. Now,
Speaker 1: as for the standings, this Clippers team, I'll give it
Speaker 1: to you because you wouldn't be able to hear Daniel
Speaker 1: West down the line. But unfortunately the Lakers one tonight,
Speaker 1: and I said it last night, outside of not pulling
Speaker 1: off that big victory against Boston, the other thing that
Speaker 1: was bugging me about what happened last night was all
Speaker 1: they did was soften up the Celtics for the Lakers tonight.
Speaker 1: They gave the Celtics everything they could handle. They took
Speaker 1: them into ot and guess what it led to the
Speaker 1: Lakers getting a big victory over them tonight. As predicted,
Speaker 1: They won one seventeen tonight the six. So the Lakers
Speaker 1: are still currently ahead of the Clippers in the standings.
Speaker 1: They're in the five spot, Clippers in the six spot.
Speaker 1: Clippers have one more victory than them. The difference in
Speaker 1: win percentage is it's better to have one less loss
Speaker 1: than one more win. Lakers are twenty four and eighteen.
Speaker 1: Clippers are twenty five and nineteen, so they're still right there.
Speaker 1: They've won the first game between these two. I think
Speaker 1: the second is February fourth, and that game is here
Speaker 1: at Intoit Dome. But the Clippers are game and a
Speaker 1: half up on the Dallas Mavericks, who ended up getting
Speaker 1: a big victory in OKC. But Oklahoma City still far
Speaker 1: and away best team in the Western Conference. There's six
Speaker 1: and a half games up on the Houston Rockets who
Speaker 1: are in the two spot. Memphis behind them by just
Speaker 1: a half game in the three spot, Denver a game
Speaker 1: behind Memphis in the fourth spot, and they have the
Speaker 1: tiebreaker because of conference record against the Clippers, and then
Speaker 1: they'll five Clippers six, Dallas seven, Minnesota two games behind
Speaker 1: the Clippers in the eight spot, same with the Sacramento Kings,
Speaker 1: and then Phoenix two and a half games behind the
Speaker 1: Clippers in that tenth spot. So things are as tight
Speaker 1: as ever in the Western Conference, and a winning streak
Speaker 1: or a losing streak can vault you up or have
Speaker 1: you fall. Pre fall like Tom Petty towed the standings
Speaker 1: if you're not careful, needless to say, huge game coming
Speaker 1: up against Milwaukee on Saturday. They're eight and two in
Speaker 1: their last ten games. They're in the fourth spot in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference at twenty five and seventeen. Remember, after
Speaker 1: a slow start to the season, tip off a seven
Speaker 1: thirty pre game at six thirty. Before we get out
Speaker 1: of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization.
Speaker 1: Ralph Lawler, Brian Seemen, Carlo Jimenez on the call, Noah, Ego,
Speaker 1: what's up? Bro Y g big brother, Jake Warner, head engineer,
Speaker 1: here into it, dumb good hanging with Big Bro. As always.
Speaker 1: We were talking some jump back and forth for about
Speaker 1: five hours, as we do. Of course, big thanks to
Speaker 1: Daniel West back in Burbank, the callers, the listeners, statistician Joey.
Speaker 1: Tonight Clippers win one ten to ninety three over the Wizards.
Speaker 1: Talk to you six point thirty on Saturday back here
Speaker 1: at the Dome.
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