WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:02.560 Phoning in. 2 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:05.280 We're taking your calls on the LA Clippers right now. 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:08.640 This is Clippers Talk on Aaron on Demand, the Clippers 4 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:09.599 Show of Record. 5 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:11.800 Your chance to react to everything. 6 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:13.599 Clippers Clippers news happens. 7 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:15.679 Let me guess it's about Kawhi. 8 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:18.199 Here we are and now here he is the host 9 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:21.239 of your LA Clippers pre and postgame. 10 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:24.839 At follow Adam a Adam Osley Bogie goes one of 11 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:27.800 twelve from three and the Clippers lose three in a 12 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:32.759 row coming out of the All Star Break. Welcome in 13 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:36.000 the Clippers Talk. Welcome into the panic and the Sky's 14 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:39.679 falling radio. That's been going on since yesterday eight six 15 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:42.640 six ninety seven two five seventy eight six six ninety 16 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:46.759 seven two five seventy Not for me necessarily, but people 17 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:49.640 in here in the chat, not from the callers even 18 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:54.159 as of late, but people are melting down at Clippers 19 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:58.960 Talk on the YouTube side, not realizing that it's difficult 20 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:02.920 to win without your two top guys or two of 21 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:04.040 your top three guys. 22 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:06.280 If you don't have Norman Pale. 23 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:08.719 Their leading scorer this season, if you don't have Kawhi 24 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:14.079 Leonard their best player, you're gonna have a tough time 25 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:17.840 against teams that had won six in a row that 26 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:20.400 are having a moment, like the Pistons that have now 27 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:25.200 won seven in a row. And the Clippers fought, they battled. 28 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:30.359 They didn't run out of heart out there, they ran 29 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:33.120 out of talent. That's how the game works. Why do 30 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:38.120 you think people call it a players league? Because those 31 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:43.319 who have the stars have the power. Those who have 32 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:46.000 the stars have the advantage. The Clippers don't have theirs. 33 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:50.959 You can call it an excuse. I would say it's 34 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:56.120 an explanation. Like I don't know how you've been viewing 35 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:57.000 the NBA. 36 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:00.480 But it is a star drive league. 37 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.959 If you're missing your best players, when there's only five 38 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:06.439 guys on the court for you at. 39 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:07.959 Once, it's a huge deal. 40 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:17.240 Bogie had a really poor shooting game, an unfathomably bad 41 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:23.240 shooting game, like incomprehensible one of twelve from three when 42 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:25.599 they needed him. I said earlier today, I wanted to 43 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:30.240 see him in the starting lineup. It happened. I don't 44 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:35.280 think he lost on the ballgame because I don't know 45 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:38.360 who else you're going to and you have to have 46 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:41.479 some spacing out there, and Detroit was respecting his shot 47 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:45.360 because of his reputation, but unfortunately he's had a bad 48 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:49.439 year and he just had maybe his worst shooting game 49 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:53.199 of his career, one to twelve from three. And the 50 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:57.879 Clippers are still right there because defensively they were really good. 51 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:00.719 They held a team to one hundred and six points. 52 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:05.879 You should win that game, yeah, in today's league holding 53 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:09.400 a team to one oh six. Like, let's see, what 54 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:15.199 is the worst team average in the NBA on offense now, 55 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:20.919 it's probably about one oh six. That's nothing with today's 56 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:25.000 shooting and the modern NBA and the spacing and stretching 57 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:29.159 the floor. The worst team points per game average is 58 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:32.560 held by the Orlando Magic at one oh four. They 59 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:34.879 play at a slow pace, they have a really good defense. 60 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:43.400 But this Clippers team is right there in the game 61 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:49.280 until the end of the third quarter, which was the 62 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:51.879 first sign of things getting away from them, that eight 63 00:03:51.919 --> 00:04:00.360 oh run by Detroit. The Clippers went five minutes from 64 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.840 the two and a half mark of the third quarter 65 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:09.080 to the nine to thirty mark of the fourth quarter, 66 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:15.840 five minutes without making a field goal. They went four 67 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:19.560 minutes and twenty seconds to end the first quarter without 68 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:23.079 making a field goal with the lineup that just got slacked. 69 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:26.360 Is nobody could hit even with James Harden out there. 70 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:36.240 So we're talking about almost ten minutes of basketball and 71 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:39.040 a forty eight minute game where the Clippers did not 72 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:42.120 hit a field goal. For those who were telling me 73 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:46.959 just heading into that game against Indiana yesterday that, oh, 74 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:51.920 we're better without Kawhi, better offense, there's more flow to 75 00:04:51.959 --> 00:05:00.319 the offense. Yeah, do you see what happens without your stars? 76 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:08.920 Clippers got up ninety seven points. James Harden I knew 77 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:11.040 he wouldn't have the game he had yesterday. It's too 78 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:14.079 difficult to replicate that. He went five to twenty two, 79 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:18.279 eighteen points, played forty minutes, secondnive. 80 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:19.839 Of back to back. I don't fault him. 81 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:25.519 The guy has been available. He has been a workhorse 82 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:32.360 for this team, and they were out of talent disadvantage. 83 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:37.439 It is difficult to win a ballgame against a good team, 84 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:40.439 a quality team like the Pistons on the secondnive of 85 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:43.920 back to back in their place, and you don't have 86 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:48.720 Kawhi and Norm Powell. The Clippers still had their chances 87 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:52.439 that eight to zero run to put them down ten 88 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.000 heading into the fourth where they would get down by 89 00:05:55.040 --> 00:06:01.360 twelve and they still fought. They still made it interesting. 90 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:06.680 They still had it down to five. The Done Steel 91 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:10.959 and Chris Dunn just had another incredible ballgame. This in 92 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:13.639 the game against Milwaukee are two of the better defensive 93 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:18.360 games I've seen, guys. He has been averaging five steals 94 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:21.759 per game over his last five games. I think he 95 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:25.439 had fifteen steals his last four games, and then he 96 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:31.480 had five tonight. I can't believe some of the defensive 97 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:36.120 plays that Chris Dunn made. That dun Steel to a 98 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:41.920 mirror for the and one in transition to bring it 99 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.399 back to within five. After a Zoo push shot in 100 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:51.279 the fourth, Clippers were still right there. Harden hit another 101 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:53.000 three after they got it back up to eight to 102 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:56.360 bring it to five, but Duran had to put back dunk. 103 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:00.920 Bogie had a turnover. This is an open three. 104 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:10.040 Clippers are down ninety five to eighty eight. Done has 105 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:14.600 another steal out of a timeout who was flexing his 106 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:17.959 left knee afterwards. That's concerning. A mirror got to the 107 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:20.040 free throw line out of it. Knock down both. It's 108 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:26.199 a five point game again. Harden misses a three Zoo 109 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:31.879 rebound amrr missus Beasley three on the other end, eight 110 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:38.480 point game, Clippers generate another exposition the next time down 111 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:40.399 offensive rebounds. 112 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:44.959 Bogey finally hits a three after starting oh ten zoo block. 113 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:45.519 On the other. 114 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:52.279 End, Clippers are down five done misses a three. Maybe 115 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:55.279 they were settling too much for threes, but a lot 116 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:58.240 of them were generated after a shot inside the arc, 117 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:01.199 where then they got the offensive Rebut they were battling, 118 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:05.399 they were playing with desperation out there. They missed a 119 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:09.639 lot of threes Bogie did specifically, but that Kde three 120 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:11.879 pointer was pretty much the end of the ball game. 121 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:13.040 I just. 122 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:18.439 I don't fault the effort at all at all. This 123 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:22.120 team played hard. For anybody that's out there saying coach 124 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:25.040 lou can't motivate this team, or something that I saw 125 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:28.040 yes last night after they lost to Indiana, it's like, 126 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:29.199 did you watch the game? 127 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:30.759 You're telling me. 128 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:33.799 They weren't playing with heart, they weren't playing hard out there. 129 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:42.480 Mike in La, you're on Clippers stop without a Mason. 130 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:44.440 What's up, Mike? Did you see the same thing? Or 131 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:45.360 am I going crazy? 132 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:46.879 No? 133 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:49.039 I think they're playing hard. I think the people we 134 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:53.720 have are playing hard. But that leads to three things 135 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:58.519 that or three thoughts. I couldn't help, but uh, you know, 136 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:02.000 thinking about while listening to the end of this game, 137 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:08.039 the first is, uh, the Kevin Porter Junior trade. I 138 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:11.000 don't get it, you know, I mean the you know, 139 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:13.600 the Terrence Man Bone Tilands trade. I get the Kevin 140 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:14.639 Porter junior crade. 141 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:16.799 I mean, you don't you don't get. 142 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:19.159 You know, mart On Bouchamps isn't you know. 143 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:24.840 They didn't trade him. They didn't trade him. It wasn't 144 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:27.639 about what they got in return. They wanted a different 145 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:30.279 look in their back court. They wanted somebody who was 146 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:35.240 more stable with the basketball and wouldn't go into Iso 147 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:39.200 mode with Kawhi and James Harden on the court, and 148 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:41.759 he got tunnel vision and would just take his own 149 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:44.799 shot like that. I don't know what you're watching with 150 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:49.360 Kevin Porter Junior, but there were some real, real, real 151 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:53.159 tough moments from a young player who missed the entire 152 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:54.000 year last year. 153 00:09:55.519 --> 00:09:58.120 It is not when he was winning basketball at all. 154 00:09:58.200 --> 00:09:58.440 To me. 155 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:02.159 I every time somebody would say he's getting better, then 156 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:03.960 he'd have a game where like it was just as 157 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:08.279 bad as before. I don't think there's any irrationale or 158 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:10.559 any proof that for sure he was getting better. 159 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:11.919 I mean, he's twenty three. 160 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:14.320 Maybe he figures it out, or maybe he's just a 161 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:18.840 consistently inconsistent player that you know, plays the losing brand 162 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:22.720 of basketball because he was with a really bad Houston 163 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:23.720 team for a while. 164 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:25.759 You know, I wish him. 165 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:28.440 The best, But I don't think this is about not 166 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:30.039 having Ken poor junior at all. 167 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:31.480 No. 168 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:34.879 But and then the other one of the other things 169 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:38.000 is why was Norm Powell probably should have just sat 170 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:41.679 out a three point contest? Would you agree with that if. 171 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:43.879 He was hurt at that time? I don't know. I 172 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:45.000 don't know what the deal is. 173 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:49.960 I mean, putting up shots like that, It's not exactly 174 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:53.879 like if you think putting up three pointers stationary off 175 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:59.120 a rack is going to exacerbate the injury. I have 176 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:03.360 my doubts about that. It's not that physical of a contest. 177 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:05.159 He wasn't in the maybe. 178 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:08.039 Not, I mean maybe not. It's just, you know, given 179 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:10.399 the the you know, I guess structs the position with 180 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:11.799 the whole lebron thing. 181 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:12.279 And you know. 182 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:17.320 Everything, that's something that just pop into pop into my mind. 183 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:21.080 And you know, the third just the third thing is 184 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:23.120 is you know we're talking, you know, we all still 185 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:27.240 keep talking about, you know, getting coaching for the playoffs 186 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:31.759 and you know, doing what we had, you know, saying okay, 187 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:33.399 well we're doing this so we can do it in 188 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:36.360 the playoffs. I mean, really, the next twenty five games 189 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:38.120 are this team's playoffs. 190 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:41.320 Doing what so we can do it in the playoffs, 191 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:43.639 doing what you said? 192 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:44.120 Doing this? 193 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:44.919 Whatever it is. 194 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:48.200 And you know, whatever it is is two guys out 195 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:52.440 with injury, Yeah, no, that is that's not Hey, we're 196 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:55.360 saving them for the playoffs. That's coh. I got hurt 197 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:57.720 against Milwaukee, true, nor foul has been hurt. 198 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:00.759 I don't know. It's it's tough. 199 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:02.759 No, no, it is. 200 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:07.519 I agree, I agree, But I think, you know, somehow 201 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:12.240 we gotta start winning some games. I mean, it's you know, 202 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.320 it's getting you look at the fandings that's getting close. 203 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:16.519 It's getting very tight. 204 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:19.039 I agree with you, Mike. I appreciate the phone calls always. 205 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:21.919 We'll take a quick time out here, we'll come back. 206 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:25.679 We'll get some more of your phone calls. Clippers lose 207 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:28.799 one oh six to ninety seven in Detroit to the Pistons. 208 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:35.120 Battled. It's another game where they were down. 209 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:38.840 Double digits in February. They've been down double digits every 210 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:42.919 game this month. We'll get to your phone calls next. 211 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:45.759 I'm out of mazas and you're listening to Clippers. 212 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:46.399 Sock here on m FI seventy. 213 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:48.720 LAS Sports throws it up. 214 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:52.440 The window finishes in the fowel Los Angeles Slipper Nation. 215 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:54.759 This is your home for the LA Clippers. 216 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:56.039 LA Clippers. 217 00:12:56.279 --> 00:12:58.600 Take us with you on the Ihearts radio app. 218 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:01.559 I mean, we can overize this game to death, guys, 219 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:03.759 as the Clippers lose one, O, six and ninety seven 220 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:07.799 in Detroit to the Pistons. But there's another way to 221 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:08.360 look at it. 222 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:12.879 The Pistons are good ball club. 223 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:16.279 They have won seven in a row now, and they 224 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:18.840 weren't missing two of their top three guys like the 225 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:24.960 Clippers were, and they were hosting the Clippers. If you 226 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:28.639 don't have Kawhi, you don't have Norman Palell, it's gonna 227 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.559 be a tough time offensively. But I'm just amazed at 228 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:34.799 all the people that told me yesterday and over the 229 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:37.480 last week, like, I don't know, offensively, the flow looks 230 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:39.759 better without Kauhi. 231 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:40.960 How's that going? 232 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:45.360 Demetrious in Manhattan Beach, Demetrious what's up You're on Clippers 233 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:48.360 South With that, Adamusen take a big breath. 234 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:51.360 I agree, which I like what you just said. I 235 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:54.320 like exactly what you just said about. Let me just 236 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.960 before we talk Clippers, let me give a shout out. Now, 237 00:13:57.039 --> 00:14:00.159 normally don't do this to Kay Cuddy Ham. I think 238 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:03.440 that he should have some considerations for the MVP. Like 239 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:06.399 you said, Adam, it wasn't a shabby place. They had 240 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:09.360 won seven in a row. Nax's been playing some pretty 241 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:11.320 good ball and they got a pretty good team down there. 242 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:16.240 They shoot well, they run, they can transition, and so 243 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:19.840 we got to give Detroit credit. Now stepping back to 244 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:24.159 the Clippers, I actually feel pretty good today. I think 245 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:28.519 they played excellent defense. They did they played des especially 246 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.039 in the fourth quarter. Zubot he was you know, they 247 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:35.679 you know, they didn't get him as much touches as 248 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:39.240 he should. He ended up with what fifteen rebounds, fifteen. 249 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:41.000 Fourt He wasn't great either. 250 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:43.799 He had thirteen and fifteen, but six of eleven from 251 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.639 the field. There was a pass out of a timeout 252 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:49.039 from James Harden to him in the fourth quarter. And 253 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:51.240 this has happened far too much this season, where they 254 00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:54.000 can't connect late in the fourth quarter and hardened through 255 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:57.720 this lob mortar fire pass that wasn't close to a 256 00:14:57.799 --> 00:14:59.759 visa Zubos that amounted to a turnover. 257 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:00.600 That was tough. 258 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:04.440 But there were other times, Yeah, viatz zubats got blocked. 259 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:06.159 I mean, what happened at the end of that third 260 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:11.600 quarter is uh. Beef stew Isaiah Stewart had like back 261 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:14.399 to back blocks on possessions on the Clippers that turned 262 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:19.240 the runouts for the Pistons. They played tough, they're they're 263 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:22.559 a good ball club. Everybody thinks like our teams always 264 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:25.200 supposed to win well. The Pistons feel the exact same way. 265 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:28.799 Well, and when we had beat them ten in a row, 266 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:29.519 and so. 267 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:31.000 That's not the same team. 268 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:32.399 Man, that's not the same team. 269 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:34.840 It's not the same That is not the same team. 270 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:35.320 Uh. 271 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:38.240 But you know, James Harden had seven turnovers. Would like 272 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:41.000 to see a little bit more execution. I know he's 273 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:44.639 been playing thirty nine minutes, thirty six minutes KOs to 274 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:46.360 him fifty minutes and. 275 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:50.679 No, I mean, you know, he's been a workhorse. 276 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:54.720 He has been an innings eater at a star position 277 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.320 with a high usage rating. I can't really criticize James. 278 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:00.000 He shouldn't be having to do this much. 279 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:04.799 Yeah, see he's playing at thirty nine thirty eight minutes. 280 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:08.120 But again, let me just let our Cliffer Nation know 281 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.799 today that everybody take a deep breath here today on 282 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:16.279 the twenty fourth, Okay, were missing fifty points. Kawhian's average 283 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:19.559 twenty five points his last two games, Norman Powell right 284 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:23.440 around twenty four to twenty five. That's fifty points right there. 285 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:27.679 So this team is not really geared. We're defensive team. 286 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:30.720 That's why we brought Jeff then Gandhi Indi here to 287 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:34.360 slow this game down. So when you missing two star 288 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:37.440 players and you're going up against a team like Detroit 289 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:40.480 is Red Hot or any team that can shoot the three, 290 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:43.200 you know, we have to make threes. When we shorthanded, 291 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:45.200 we got to shoot the ball well. We got to 292 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:49.879 play better transit transitional defense. We almost have to be 293 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:52.639 perfect when we're without our guys, because that's the way 294 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:56.200 this team built. Now, with our whole team together, you'll 295 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:59.480 get an opportunity to see really how dangerous this team is. 296 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.120 But listen, at the end of the day, Adam me 297 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:05.000 and you both said the same thing. This team needs 298 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:08.079 to be healthy, and that's our number one concern. I'm 299 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:10.759 not concerned. We got the best starting five out there. 300 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:14.319 The usage rates show it. And listen, let's take a 301 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:18.480 deep breath tonight. I feel much better than I did yesterday. 302 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:23.240 And hey, moving forward, you know, we need our guys 303 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:25.240 to play, but we also need them healthy, and that's 304 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:27.279 what I'm concerned about. Thank you, sir. 305 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:29.720 To be sure, it's great phone calls always bringing some 306 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:34.880 sanity to the conversation here. Like if you told me 307 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:38.039 in these back to back games the Clippers would shoot 308 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:44.079 twenty one for eighty one from three twenty six percent, 309 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:48.640 I would have been like, yeah, they got smoked both games. 310 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:51.000 Indiana pooled away in the second half. 311 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:55.160 Yesterday, the business pooled away the second half of the 312 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:59.640 fourth quarter, and really the last three minutes. You told 313 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:02.920 me that, and you don't have norm in Kauwhi for 314 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:06.359 both games, Like, yeah, they're not gonna win those games. 315 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:10.680 You can't shoot that poorly from the outside. We'll take 316 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:12.680 a quick time out, we'll come back. We'll get your 317 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:15.480 phone calls. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. 318 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:18.039 I mean, I'm aleslined. After the Clippers lose one O 319 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:23.880 six to ninety seven to the Pistons. All Right, there 320 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:26.240 weren't that far from finding a way to pull out 321 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:30.480 a game without Kawhi, without Norm against a team that 322 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:31.319 won six in a row. 323 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:38.640 They didn't quit. Pistons just had their guys. 324 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:41.839 Clippers were missing a couple of heirs, a couple of 325 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:45.039 key guys. More Clippers sock next year in n five 326 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:49.039 seveny Elis sportshin no finishes. 327 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:52.039 In the fowl Los Angeles Slipper Nation. This is your 328 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:53.480 home for the LA Clippers. 329 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:54.759 LA Clippers. 330 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:57.119 Take us with you on the Ihearts Radio II. 331 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:00.400 Some of y'all are like, Hey, we should be able 332 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:03.920 to beat anyone, no matter who's available. It's like, that's 333 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:07.039 not how the league works. If you don't have your 334 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:10.279 best guys and the other team does. It is a 335 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:16.079 players league, It is a superstar driven league. And the 336 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:19.079 Clippers have no shame in losing like this to the 337 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:22.160 Pistons one six to ninety seven in Detroit on the 338 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:22.839 second night of. 339 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:26.640 A back to back. The guys who are out there fought. Yeah, 340 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:27.200 that sucks. 341 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:29.680 It's still a loss. It's still three losses in a row. 342 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:32.119 I get the frustration to a point. 343 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:32.640 I just. 344 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:36.480 If the Pistons had lost this game, they would have 345 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:38.839 been like, what, we just lost to a Clippers team 346 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:43.799 without Kawhi, without Norm Pwell, but. 347 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:45.039 They had all the advantages. 348 00:19:46.359 --> 00:19:50.240 Jeremy in LA, you're on Clipper stock without a maz 349 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:50.799 and what's up? 350 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:56.960 What's up at Jason C in the chat for those 351 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:01.400 who don't know. But I just feel like you know 352 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:05.839 that it's one thing for the efforts there, right, Like, 353 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:09.759 no one's no one's gonna unless you're you're just completely blind. 354 00:20:09.799 --> 00:20:13.319 No one's gonna No one's gonna fault the effort, right, 355 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:16.440 No one's gonna fault the people on the floor. People 356 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:18.599 have to make shots. It is what it is. Like 357 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:21.599 Bogie's a great shooter. I have full confidence in him 358 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:25.119 going forward. Like people have bad games, guys have bad games. 359 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:27.960 Second night of a back to back, there's. 360 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:28.559 Not much you can do. 361 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:32.880 What I do want to see for the rest of, 362 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:36.039 you know, the season, if we can, if we can 363 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:39.359 do that, I just want to see us play a 364 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:42.640 little faster, that's all. And by faster, I don't mean 365 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:45.960 playing fast. I don't mean fast breaking all the time. 366 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:50.079 But I feel like we get in the worst situations 367 00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:53.960 when we go slow, slow, slow, James Harden dribbles the 368 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:57.119 air out of the ball, uh into a pick and 369 00:20:57.200 --> 00:21:00.480 roll that goes nowhere at three seconds left on the 370 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:03.960 shot clock. I feel like you haven't valued those possessions. 371 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:07.279 But the other side of that, Jeremy is James Harden 372 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:11.720 averages the most points in isolation this season. He was 373 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:14.759 second last year in points per possession isolation. Like, he 374 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:15.680 is good at this. 375 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:17.119 This is why he is a Hall of Famer. 376 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:20.039 I get when it doesn't work, it looks bad, but 377 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:21.480 it works a lot. 378 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:27.039 I absolutely agree with you, And it's actually to mitigate 379 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:31.079 how many times he does go isolation for us, because 380 00:21:31.079 --> 00:21:35.039 the more you put pressure on the defense early in 381 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:40.240 the shot clock, the easier those isolation chances will be. Right, Yeah, 382 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:40.839 I agree with that. 383 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:42.160 With a better. 384 00:21:42.279 --> 00:21:45.799 Matchup later in the shot clock because you went a 385 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:48.079 little faster, because you went a little quicker. And the 386 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:51.359 other part of that is that will also possibly help 387 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:54.559 just get us more shots. And the more shots we get, 388 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:57.200 the better we're going to be because every time we 389 00:21:57.279 --> 00:22:02.519 get more shots in the opponent, we're almost completely ridiculously 390 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:03.079 hard to beat. 391 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:04.720 And well, you want to get. 392 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:06.759 You want to guess how many more shots? Hey, you 393 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:08.400 want to guess how many more shots they had in them? 394 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:13.559 Believe it was fourteen tonight. I believe it was fourteen tonight. Yes, 395 00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:15.039 I do know. We have to make it. 396 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:19.319 They went to the free throw line a lot though. Now, Jeremy, Jeremy, 397 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:20.759 I agree with you, and I'm going to say this, 398 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:24.680 when they have Ben Simmons, they will be pushing the 399 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:27.039 ball up the floor and getting into their offense quicker, 400 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:29.119 even with him playing next to James Harden like that. 401 00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:30.960