October 23, 2025 • 35 mins
Adam talks to Carlo after the Clippers trounce the Jazz in the season opener, 129-108. Adam then takes your calls after the disappointing start to the season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The game is done.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Wrap this one up.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Now the reaction begins. This is Clippers locker Room, your
post game look at the LA Clippers on the LA
Clippers Audio Network. Now your pre and postgame host Adam Osland.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Well, the Clippers fall flat against the Jazz in Utah
in game one. Trail buy as many as thirty seven
and they lose one twenty nine to oneh eight. Welcome
into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up. We'll
hear from Coach Lou and the players after this one.
We'll also get into your postgame box score.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
A full recap.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We'll take your calls on Clippers Talk as well if
you want to get on early. Eight six six nine,
eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But first back out to.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Delta Center with your radio voice of the Clippers in
Carlo Jimenez, who I do not envy on nights like
these where Carlo is doing some heavy lifting when your
team gets down early like this, that separates the men
from the boys when it comes to play by play
man and not many could hang with Carlo Jimenez. Carlo,
great call, but a really disappointing and embarrassing loss for
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this Clippers team to start off the season.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah, it's not many two ways, too many ways you
can paint this as a positive other than look, you
play eighty two games, and in eighty two games, things
are gonna get hard. Teams are gonna have off nights. Now,
you don't expect those off nights to happen right when
the season starts.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
But for the Clippers, and you look at.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
This game, you flush it and you say, all right,
our season actually starts on Friday, and you just look forward.
This is a group that's looked good and engaged all preseason.
But you talked about it, Adam. Young teams get hot,
they get going in an early in a hurry. Utah
hit seventeen threes, they shot fifty five percent from the field,
They didn't miss a two point ten until nine to
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thirty on the second quarter clock, and they just ran
away with things in this one. Definitely a tough one
for the Clips, but you got an opportunity to bounce
back on Friday, and that's all the Clippers can do.
And like you mentioned, and this is a team that
lost by fifty one and went to the conference finals,
you know you're gonna have bad games.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And I know a lot of people are gonna say,
come on, it's the Utah Jazz. They're intentionally institutionally tanking.
Systematic tanking going on. You can't tell any of the
players that those guys out there on the floor in
game one, no less, are going all out. They put
on a heck of a show for their fans, and
they showed up in a big way shooting wise.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You know, sometimes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
If you wait too long to put a hand up,
it's eventually gonna let a team get in rhythm and
they're gonna be lights out throughout the rest of the
ball game. So then even when you do have a
hand up, even when you do and are defending those
shots from the outside, like I saw, plenty of those
three pointers were defended by the Clippers, it just didn't
matter because this Jazz team was already laser focused and
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had found their them. They're touch, they're timing out there
on the perimeter.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And I don't know if.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
This is a franchise record. I know they've made more
than seventeen threes, but maybe in the first half with
a three point percentage at least, and how many they
had made volume wise, that was a special night for
the Utah Jazz. Tip your cap, But the Clippers have
to regroup and assess things because, honestly, to me, Carlo,
it felt like it's a continuation of what we saw
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in Game seven against the Denver Nuggets. In some ways,
Clippers fell apart in the second half of that game,
got down by his many as thirty five. Well, tonight
down by his many as thirty seven. And I think
that's what really is I putting fans on notice right
now and having them upset.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I get it. It's game one.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You have a long offseason after what happened against Denver,
and you want to find a way to get off
on the right foot, and instead the Clippers just continued
to just see a plethora of threes fall against them
and a hot shooting Jazz team that just was relentless tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, and credit Utah, And like you said, they're gonna
come out and fight. And I think you know there's
something too bad teams not knowing they're bad until they
lose twenty games, right Like, this is a Utah team
that right now feels like they can compete with anyone.
Now when we come back there on January first, I'll
be curious to see how many wins are on the board,
but for now, I mean they know and feel like
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they have the enthusiasm that every team has right now
during the young season, that you could win on every
given night. And this is a team that lost or
won two games in April and March last year combined,
so they're feeling like they need to come back and
show some fight. And it was an impressive win that
three big lineup of Philipowski, Kessler, and Marketing and we're
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really really good and overall this is a game for
the Clippers, as Chris Paul talked about it before the game,
where we just got to focus on us. I think
there's anything where you point to, wow, Utah did this
so well. That's why the Clippers lost. The Clippers have
to focus on themselves, the turnovers in the first quarter,
getting down early there, being able to get back. On
the defensive end, you saw too many times runouts, and
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then just opportunities that were missed by this Clipper team,
whether it be on the offensive end, finding guys open
and not knocking down shots. The Clippers start, they'll be better.
You know, this isn't how the season's going to go.
This team is going to find that rhythm. That's why
they're such a season team. They have that elite ability
to be able to bounce back, to have the perspective
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knowing that this is a long season, and to understand why, yes,
this means something, and this isn't something that should just
brush to the side and not care about. But understand,
you've got a chance to right those wrongs if you
go blow out a Phoenix team who's getting blown out
by Sacramento right now.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And I would be shocked if the Clippers didn't respond
in a big way this weekend at home.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
The Dome is home. Back it into a dome. They're
taking on the Suns.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
On Friday night and the home opener, and we'll have
your tip time at seven thirty. Your pregame shows starting
at six point thirty.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Carlo. I said it already, but I'll say it again.
Great call by you.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Unfortunately, a great performance from this Clippers team. We expect
better in games two and three this weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Talk to you on Friday, my friend.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Adam, we got another game and it's on Friday, and
it counts just the same. I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Coming up next I'm gonna break down what happened early
on the first half and how the Clippers would go
on to fall one twenty nine to one o eight
in Utah to the Jazz.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I'm Adam Oslin, someone at the loss for words, and
you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers all your network.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Welcome in the Clippers Talk, the official postgame show of
the Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Loload up
the phones and make your feelings knows now your host
for Clippers Talk, It's Adam Osley.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I'm I can do.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
What do you all think I'm gonna do?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Which is clip now?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Welcome to Clippers Sock, come out to Osland after they
lose big and Utah gonna be with you guys.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I think final score.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Not indicative of how poorly this game was played by
the Clippers one twenty nine till one pH eight, but
the Clippers were down by as many as thirty seven.
If you'd like to get on tonight eight six six
ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy is the phone number, and
coming up on the show, we'll have postgame audio from
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coach Lou and the players.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I appreciate all you guys in here.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Even the doomers and people saying the season is over
and fire everyone and cut this player as if it's
like a high school basketball team or something, because at
times tonight, yes, it looked that bad. I'm extremely disappointed.
You wait all summer after getting smoked in game seven
in a series.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I felt like they let get away from.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Them against the Denver Nuggets, and then they were completely
outmatched in Game seven three minutes into the third quarter,
and the very next game that counts, you put together
a performance like this. I don't want to overreact, but
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I don't want to spend this in too positive of
a fashion. Yet I want to vent a little bit.
I think many people deserve that here. Since we started
on Clippers talk on the YouTube side before the game
was even over, because for all intents and purposes, it was.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Somebody on Twitter was like, They're gonna get it.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
To twenty in the fourth I promise, Like, okay, and
what what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I think they got it to twenty two. How do
you get down twenty seven is quickly? As they did
in the first half.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
In the first quarter, I want to say, because you
know I'm already trying to eject this from memory, I
want to say they were already down twenty seven in
the first quarter. That is hard to do in the NBA.
It's really hard to do against a team that is
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predicted to finish bottom two in the Western Conference. Utah
Jazz had an over under of nineteen and.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
A half wins this season. Did they just get their
best victory already?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Maybe they're better than we thought. Maybe this won't look
as bad at some point. Right now looks awful. Hey,
Clippers come home smash. The Suns went on Sunday against Portland,
and it looks like they've righted the ship and atoned
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for this opening night loss.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Fine, but we're living in the moment a little bit.
I don't want to be a prisoner of the moment,
but I do want to let you.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Feel this loss a little bit, because it stinks and
it hurts, and I don't know how you come out
and look that lifeless. People are gonna say they're old.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It's game one. If the tired legs are coming midway
through the season, there's that malaise near the All Star break,
especially for veteran teams. That's different. This is Game one.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
That's about as disappointing of a start to as season
as you can have disheartening.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You have a right to be upset.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
It looked like a continuation of the Game seven against Denver.
So the last two games the Clippers got down by
thirty five points in Game seven against Denver and then
tonight by as many as thirty seven, so a total
of when things were at their worst, a combined seventy
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two points they were down by the last two times
we saw this team.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That's brutal.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
That is.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
A really tough way to start.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I don't know how many ways I can put this.
There's plenty of silver linings, and I'm not going to
just flip out. I'm not, but we got to. I'm here,
We'll take your phone calls, and we can be as
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miserable as you can be when it's just game one
of the regular season. Because I really thought this team
was gonna get off to a good start for like
the first time since the twenty twenty one season. But
o'h wait, here comes mister Brightside. The Killers were Utah tonight.
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But I'm mister Brightside in that twenty twenty one season.
Do you remember what happened to the Clippers?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I do. I don't forget much, for better or for worse.
Usually for worse, I gotta mind like a steel trap.
And starting off.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
That season, the Clippers had their worst loss in the
history of the French, a franchise that has had seasons
where they won twelve games, and yet they had a
loss in Game three that year. After starting off two
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to zero beating the Lakers and Denver Nuggets on the road,
they lost Game three at home one twenty four to
seventy three by fifty one.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
To the Dallas Mavericks. I was there. Do you remember that?
Let me ask you something.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
What happened by the end of that twenty twenty twenty
twenty one season.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Didn't They ended up in the.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Western Conference Finals, and betting odds would have had them
as the favorites to win it all. If Kawhi didn't
do his ACL. I fully believe they would have won
the championship if Kuhi doesn't tear his ACL. So my
point is, as much as you want to drown yourself
in the negativity to night surrounding this team, because you're
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taking incoming from your Laker friends or whoever is hitting
you up and saying lol Clippers.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Right now, this will not define them. It won't.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And if you say because a worst loss is coming, no, Hey, Look,
if this season goes off the rails and this was
a sign of things to come and we find that
out fifty games in, then I'll admit that. But I
highly doubt tonight's lost in Utah is going to define them.
If they come out and win the next game. By
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twenty what does the knight mean? Sure, if you want
to be that guy that looks back at the end
of the season say we should have won this game,
we would have been second in the standings if we
had won this game. First of all, you delusional. You
have no idea how things work. Who is talking about this?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Recently? In sports coach for Arizona State.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
My favorite college football coach, because they just beat Texas
Tech and they had just had a tough loss. I
think they got crushed by Utah and Kenny Dillingham, head
coach of the Sun Devils RP. Pat Tillman, came out
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and said, we don't win this game if what happened
last week didn't occur. He's right, there is a butterfly effect.
So anybody that just wants to go back during the
season and said this was a bad loss, this was
a bad loss, you mark those a's wins.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We have fifty five wins.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Instead, we don't lose all four games of the Phoenix
Suns last season, then we would have we would have
been the two seed.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You can't do that.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Because do they win the game against Detroit after I
think that last loss of the Suns were hard, had
fifty It's about how you respond and using this stuff
as fuel and turning one loss, hopefully into two wins.
I need two wins Friday and Sunday at the Dome
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against the Suns against Portland, two supposed bottom dwellers in
the Western Conference this season. That's what the projections say.
They also said the Utah Jazz had no business being
on the floor with the Clippers tonight. But early season
losses like this, as you're trying to mesh and bring
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in new players, if it was gonna happen, it's probably
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Early in the season. Get it out of the way,
get your wake up call.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Now, make some new coaches shirts and respond because we
all know those teams better than the way they look tonight.
No disrespect to Utah. I don't think they're as good
as they look tonight, And I don't think.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
The Clippers are as bad as they look tonight. No chance.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Somebody was telling me earlier, well, what does that matter
about the Dallas game from twenty twenty one that they
lost by fifty one? And like the point is, Dallas
wasn't fifty one points better than the Clippers because they
did that to them in one game. The Clippers ended
up beating them in the first round series in the playoffs.
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I don't think all of a sudden the Utah Jazz
have a higher ceiling than the Clippers because of what
happened tonight. You have bad losses in a long regular season.
Denver lost to the Washington Wizards twice last season, with
Jokich in both games.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I believe, So I have a long man. I can
bring up examples if you want to.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Just I don't know, listen to the Smith's tonight, Morrisey or.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Everybody hurts by r M after night one. Well that's
your decision.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
But there's eighty one games to play, and I don't
think this is going to end the Clipper season.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Mark in Huninson Beach. You're on Clipper stop without a
mousel high mark.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I got a better song for tonight's game. It was
sung by Jerry I can't think of it the last name.
But when you're hot, you're hot. When you're not, you're not, And.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
That basically was it.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
They shot eighty percent in the frigging first quarter and
we couldn't pass the ball or make a basket. I
don't know how many threes I saw us miss in
the first half, but yeah, when you're hot, you're hot.
When you're not, you're not. It was the perfect We
were dismal and they were on fire. And when you
get behind by that much, yeah you can come back
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and little let's get down by twenty by the fourth court.
If you can't change, we kept playing the same way basically,
no matter what team was out there the whole first
three quarters, so there was just no way of catching up.
It's just one game, you know. Yeah, it's just embarrassing
the way it wound up. But hey, I'll be there
on Friday in the Swell and one of the swell guys,
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so we'll just, you know, put this one off and
forget about it. But man, what an embarrassing beginning.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Uh, And Mark, You're right.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
The Utah Jazz literally shot eight percent from the field
in the first quarter. They were sixteen of twenty and
four of a from the outside, and they started sixteen
of eighteen inside the three point line in this game.
That's insane. I'm sorry this stuff. It happens every now
and then in the NBA, and everybody always thinks they're
on the wrong end from a hot shooting night from
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a bad shooting team. Every fan base feels like that
this only happens to us, It only happens to us. Well,
if everybody feels like that, I guess it happens everybody.
I'm hoping this is just one of those nights against
the Clippers because I believe in their defense and I
think we're gonna see it coming up.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But Mark, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Clippers look to regroup and bounce back, hopefully in a
big way on Friday. Back it into a dome. There's
no place like dome. There's no place like dome. Coming
up next, more of your phone calls.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Eight sixty six nine seven two five seventy eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
As the Clippers got trucked in Utah by marketing Kessler
and Hayce Bailey was on a minist restriction. They do
have size in Utah. Paus More coming up next, Imtam
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Moslas and you're listening to a five.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Seventy sports God, let's get back at it. This is
l A Clippers basketball right here on the l A
Clippers Audio network.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I have a time I rolled him and I would.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Behind me with the music. Here, you're hot, you're hot,
you're not, you're not.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Courtesy at Jerry Reid and Mark and Hinson Beach calling
for that earlier after.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Clippers looked pretty cold.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I was hoping revenge a dish best served cold. I
maybe they'll wait for the first game against Denver. I
was just hoping a little bit more spirit, fight, urgency,
competitiveness out there from a team that is coming off
an awful loss in the first round.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Where they weren't competitive. I guess the Nuggets take it out.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Four months later on the Utah Jazz. That's what I
was hoping for. Didn't happen tonight. Clippers lose Game one
in the regular season one twenty.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Nine to one, eight getting choked up just looking at
this box score. Rob in Round Rock Texas. Help me out.
What's up? Rob?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Hello, Adam. I had originally called to ask you the
cause of the Clippers' team defense breaking down, but I
think you've answered that question. So I want to know,
did any Clippers player's effort stand out in a positive way?
Oh to you, I like this.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I got one for you. I thought Derek Jones Jr.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Derek Jones Junior in the second half was attacking, still
playing hard. I thought of Easa Zubats at times. Those
were the two guys that stood out to me that
were playing with the right amount of energy and effort.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
I would say, Okay, that's great, Okay, yeah, because they
looked like the Washington generals on defense tonight.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Well, I gotta say, if I go through the tape
and I show and highlight every three pointer are made
by the Utah Jazz, I think it would surprise people
with how many of those were well defended.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
And it didn't matter.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I'm talking hand in the face, Chris donn All over
a guy, It did not matter. They had a special
night from beyond the arc, they had a special shooting night.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Overall, it was I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
It was Utah's maybe most impressive shooting night of the season.
It just happened to take place against the Clippers in
Game one.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Well better, we hope we'll do better next time.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Can only go out from here, Rob, appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Really thanks, Adam.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Edward in Granada Hills. You're on Clipper stop with that.
I'm also Edward. I'm team Edward.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Hey, what's up at him?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
What's up? But how are we doing?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Man?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
So as you can tell, I come with some more
bad news. Man, I'm just disappointed in Kawhi again. He
just can't defend anybody, and that it's just not the
best player. He can't defend anybody on points. It's just unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
He can't defend anybody. Or he didn't defend well tonight,
because there's a difference.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
He can't, Adam, he can't defend anybody. He can't stand
in front of anybody anymore. Bro.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I could pull clips from that series against Denver and
show you a ton of them.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I could show you some plays tonight, I got. That's
just not true, Adam.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
He didn't.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
He didn't forget how to.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Three buckets at the rim against Kawhi in that series,
and everybody keeps blowing it up.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
You know, Kawhi wasn't even on him the majority of the.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Time, But he was supposed to be on it because
that's the guy that's scoring all the points and the
best player on your team. It's supposed to be scoring.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
It's supposed to.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Be guarding the best player on the other team in
the crucial moments.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Right Well, if you're the best defender, not most best
players on teams aren't as good of defenders as Kawhi is.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Kawhi did guard Nikola Jokic at the end of Game
four to get him to throw up that airball as
he came over to help. That miraculously went into the
hands of Aaron Gordon who was right plays right time,
Johnny on the spot. They were very fortunate. Edward, just
please please, because you know I'm the receipt master.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
You better stay around. You better stay around.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
This season because I got news for you. Kauie a
bad night defensively, the Clippers did. They were in rotation
defensively as well. Sure, he had a bad game overall,
This game is also not going to define Kawhi Leonard.
He didn't forget how to play defense all of a sudden.
I saw him play and move very well in the preseason.
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I am not concerned about that part of it. They
got to play together is the issue.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
No.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
I understand that because it wasn't just him, it was
everybody on the team.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I mean, okay, but you're saying.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
No, no, because because I mean, you win as a team,
he loses the team, right zoo Botch. He played excellent,
but I felt like at times he didn't understand that
he was being double team and needed to pass out
and tried.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
To force the game. I feel like Harden didn't play
enough defense and didn't didn't try to create as much
offense as he usually does in other games. I feel
like Nicholas Batoon, if he doesn't shoot fifty percent, he's
not good enough for us.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I loved.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I feel like they had nine turnoversion first quarter and
were their own worst enemies and couldn't get into their offense,
and they were a mess. And it's game one with
some new players out there like Bradley Beal, it's not going.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
And I also feel like and then I also feel
like Brook Lopez. I love, He's a great addition to
the team, but he's playing too much on the three
point line. We needed a big man to rebound. I
love him picking and popping, but he needs to be
in the paint more.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
My guy, uh like he shot five of eleven from three.
He was one of their better players. I didn't mention
him earlier, but this is one of the guys thoughts that.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
I understand that. But he's also a seventh footer that
needs to be in the paint.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, and you're talking about two different.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Ls playing today. It's Tylu because he never has the
guys prepared. He never has the right editions.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
They won right the games last season with Kawhi only
playing thirty seven. They won fifty games last season with
Kawhi only playing thirty seven. To say that he never
has the guys prepared when they.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
You know what they're over under was last season thirty
seven and a half games, Kawhi only played thirty seven,
and they still won fifty. I'm not going to just
make these long reaching conclusions because of one game I've
been I haven't missed a Clippers game since twenty sixteen.
I've seen a lot. I got a good memory. This
too shall pass.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
This well as well it's a roller coaster, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Well we're on it and right now, you know it's
still going up. It's the climb part of it.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
But I'm hoping they're gonna hit the top gun roller
coaster portion of it or whatever's going on Notsbury Farms now,
and we're gonna be elated and have our hands up
against Phoenix on Friday.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
I help soo, Adam Man, I appreciate you bringing me
on man.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
All right, Edward, appreciate you. We'll take a quick time out.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Clippers lose one twenty nine to one o eight to
the Utah Jazz in Utah.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And everyone's losing their minds. I get it, I do,
but this whole I don't know. You better come pretty strong.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
If you're just going to say this is an indictment
on coach, lose coaching resume. His entire career came down
to this night. It was all defined tonight, like no,
how many games did they win last season where they
had no business winning. You might think the Jazz had
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no business winning tonight. Slipper's gotta respond.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Speaking of TYLERU, we'll hear from him coming up.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
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Speaker 3 (30:00):
I should have expected this tonight, not this outcome, but
the fallout was Clipper Nation being this upset and calling
for everyone's job after the Clippers lose one twenty nine
to one oh eight in Game one of the twenty
twenty five twenty twenty six season. Yes, it was a
bad start. It's about how you finish right. Clips were
down by as many as thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It was brutal eight.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Six, six, nine, eighty seven, two, five seventy. Jonathan and
Buyna Park Jonathan, what's up here on Clipperstock?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Hey man?
Speaker 10 (30:32):
I mean, I feel like I'm like every other fan
tonight I was everyone was just mad, and uh, I
just wanted to know, from an analytical point of view,
what did you think of the second unit? I know
they looked really good in the preseason, but I don't
know I've seen like tonight. It looked like we have
a lot of play finishers, but they just didn't have
any like anyone that could just get a bucket like
John Collins was supposed to be that, but he just
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didn't look like it tonight, to an extent that I
would like my.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Man forget get a bucket. They couldn't get into their
first action, they couldn't get into their offense. When at
the three forty eight mark they had it was Lopez
CP three, Collins done with Kawhi, and they had back
to back turnovers. This is still the first quarter from
Collins looking for brook Lopez and then done looking for
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brook Lopez miscommunications and then CP three he has a turnover,
three straight turnovers. Jazz are up nineteen. They couldn't even
get started. They couldn't even get off the ground. It
was just it was a comedy of errors. Honestly, they
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all you could do is laugh at one point, this
doesn't mean the Utah Jazz are the two thousand and
four Detroit Pistons defensively, It's this is more about what
the Clippers weren't doing and the way they just couldn't execute.
Speaker 10 (31:55):
Yeah, it felt like there were like four minutes in
the first quarter where they just didn't even get a
sh just because of how many turnaments they head back
to back to back.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
The Jazz had a nineteen to two run. It was
It was gross. It was hard to watch.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You let a young team in their home opener get
comfortable and get confident like that.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Even if you get back into.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
The game, they're not going anywhere. And the Clippers most
definitely did not get back into the game. That was
an avalanche.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
So did you feel like I mean, our second unit
did play. I mean it didn't play too bad, but
do you feel like there was I almost wanted to
see more of the first unit just because of how
bad they started, and I feel like they needed to
get like another another run in sooner at least. I
feel like Bill didn't get a lot of playing on.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
I think they came back in by the six minute
mark of the second quarter, maybe the seven minute mark,
where the starters were back, and they did play more
than I thought they would, considering how bad and how
lops and how the game was.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Getting away from them.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
And Kawhi Leonard played twenty nine minutes in a game
where they were down by twenty seven pretty quickly. James
Harden played twenty nine minutes. Ifvisa Zubats played twenty seven,
Bradley bules on a minister distraction probably hit it getting
to twenty oh but John Collins was at twenty eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I like I I.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Do think he gave them more run than he typically
would later in the season, just because even if you're
getting blown out, we might as well give these lineups
a little some reps out there.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
That makes sense.
Speaker 10 (33:29):
All right, Well, it was great talking to.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
You, all right, Jonathan, appreciate you. Quick time out will
come back. Clippers lose badly on one eight in Utah
of the Jazz. I'm out of Muslims. This is clipperstock
here on N five seventy, ELA.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
Sports streaming on the iHeartRadio, while this is the Los
Angeles Clippers Heart exclusively, I mean LA Clippers on Network.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
A dude, sorry, one up's new coach fire everyone, it's over.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Just know, guys, I'm the king of receipts and I
ain't gonna forget how a lot of you overreacted to
Game one, because this thing will turn. It is one
game they lost badly. Let that be a lesson anyone
who says the wins win and losses a loss. Know,
it kind of matters how you play and who you play.
Clippers fall on one oh eight in Utah to the Jazz.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
If you're on hold, stay on hold. I'll get to you.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
I'll do some Clippers talk after dark on the YouTube side.
Even though we're done on a five to seventy LA Sports
because it was game one, because of the outcome, I'll
stay on with you guys. Before we get out of here,
I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lallerbryan
Seeman know what ego, Carlo Jimenez on the call, see
easy calling you in here on the board. Daniel West,
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we'll talk to you next time, saying with big brother Jake,
I'm Adam Osland.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere on the YouTube side.
I'll be right here on the radio side. We'll be
back on Friday.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
Mmm.
The game is done.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Wrap this one up.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Now the reaction begins. This is Clippers locker Room, your
post game look at the LA Clippers on the LA
Clippers Audio Network. Now your pre and postgame host Adam Osland.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Well, the Clippers fall flat against the Jazz in Utah
in game one. Trail buy as many as thirty seven
and they lose one twenty nine to oneh eight. Welcome
into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up. We'll
hear from Coach Lou and the players after this one.
We'll also get into your postgame box score.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
A full recap.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We'll take your calls on Clippers Talk as well if
you want to get on early. Eight six six nine,
eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But first back out to.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Delta Center with your radio voice of the Clippers in
Carlo Jimenez, who I do not envy on nights like
these where Carlo is doing some heavy lifting when your
team gets down early like this, that separates the men
from the boys when it comes to play by play
man and not many could hang with Carlo Jimenez. Carlo,
great call, but a really disappointing and embarrassing loss for
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this Clippers team to start off the season.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah, it's not many two ways, too many ways you
can paint this as a positive other than look, you
play eighty two games, and in eighty two games, things
are gonna get hard. Teams are gonna have off nights. Now,
you don't expect those off nights to happen right when
the season starts.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
But for the Clippers, and you look at.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
This game, you flush it and you say, all right,
our season actually starts on Friday, and you just look forward.
This is a group that's looked good and engaged all preseason.
But you talked about it, Adam. Young teams get hot,
they get going in an early in a hurry. Utah
hit seventeen threes, they shot fifty five percent from the field,
They didn't miss a two point ten until nine to
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thirty on the second quarter clock, and they just ran
away with things in this one. Definitely a tough one
for the Clips, but you got an opportunity to bounce
back on Friday, and that's all the Clippers can do.
And like you mentioned, and this is a team that
lost by fifty one and went to the conference finals,
you know you're gonna have bad games.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And I know a lot of people are gonna say,
come on, it's the Utah Jazz. They're intentionally institutionally tanking.
Systematic tanking going on. You can't tell any of the
players that those guys out there on the floor in
game one, no less, are going all out. They put
on a heck of a show for their fans, and
they showed up in a big way shooting wise.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You know, sometimes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
If you wait too long to put a hand up,
it's eventually gonna let a team get in rhythm and
they're gonna be lights out throughout the rest of the
ball game. So then even when you do have a
hand up, even when you do and are defending those
shots from the outside, like I saw, plenty of those
three pointers were defended by the Clippers, it just didn't
matter because this Jazz team was already laser focused and
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had found their them. They're touch, they're timing out there
on the perimeter.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
And I don't know if.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
This is a franchise record. I know they've made more
than seventeen threes, but maybe in the first half with
a three point percentage at least, and how many they
had made volume wise, that was a special night for
the Utah Jazz. Tip your cap, But the Clippers have
to regroup and assess things because, honestly, to me, Carlo,
it felt like it's a continuation of what we saw
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in Game seven against the Denver Nuggets. In some ways,
Clippers fell apart in the second half of that game,
got down by his many as thirty five. Well, tonight
down by his many as thirty seven. And I think
that's what really is I putting fans on notice right
now and having them upset.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I get it. It's game one.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You have a long offseason after what happened against Denver,
and you want to find a way to get off
on the right foot, and instead the Clippers just continued
to just see a plethora of threes fall against them
and a hot shooting Jazz team that just was relentless tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, and credit Utah, And like you said, they're gonna
come out and fight. And I think you know there's
something too bad teams not knowing they're bad until they
lose twenty games, right Like, this is a Utah team
that right now feels like they can compete with anyone.
Now when we come back there on January first, I'll
be curious to see how many wins are on the board,
but for now, I mean they know and feel like
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they have the enthusiasm that every team has right now
during the young season, that you could win on every
given night. And this is a team that lost or
won two games in April and March last year combined,
so they're feeling like they need to come back and
show some fight. And it was an impressive win that
three big lineup of Philipowski, Kessler, and Marketing and we're
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really really good and overall this is a game for
the Clippers, as Chris Paul talked about it before the game,
where we just got to focus on us. I think
there's anything where you point to, wow, Utah did this
so well. That's why the Clippers lost. The Clippers have
to focus on themselves, the turnovers in the first quarter,
getting down early there, being able to get back. On
the defensive end, you saw too many times runouts, and
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then just opportunities that were missed by this Clipper team,
whether it be on the offensive end, finding guys open
and not knocking down shots. The Clippers start, they'll be better.
You know, this isn't how the season's going to go.
This team is going to find that rhythm. That's why
they're such a season team. They have that elite ability
to be able to bounce back, to have the perspective
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knowing that this is a long season, and to understand why, yes,
this means something, and this isn't something that should just
brush to the side and not care about. But understand,
you've got a chance to right those wrongs if you
go blow out a Phoenix team who's getting blown out
by Sacramento right now.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
And I would be shocked if the Clippers didn't respond
in a big way this weekend at home.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
The Dome is home. Back it into a dome. They're
taking on the Suns.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
On Friday night and the home opener, and we'll have
your tip time at seven thirty. Your pregame shows starting
at six point thirty.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Carlo. I said it already, but I'll say it again.
Great call by you.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Unfortunately, a great performance from this Clippers team. We expect
better in games two and three this weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Talk to you on Friday, my friend.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Adam, we got another game and it's on Friday, and
it counts just the same. I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Coming up next I'm gonna break down what happened early
on the first half and how the Clippers would go
on to fall one twenty nine to one o eight
in Utah to the Jazz.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I'm Adam Oslin, someone at the loss for words, and
you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers all your network.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Welcome in the Clippers Talk, the official postgame show of
the Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Loload up
the phones and make your feelings knows now your host
for Clippers Talk, It's Adam Osley.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Don't worry.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I'm I can do.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
What do you all think I'm gonna do?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Which is clip now?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Welcome to Clippers Sock, come out to Osland after they
lose big and Utah gonna be with you guys.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I think final score.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Not indicative of how poorly this game was played by
the Clippers one twenty nine till one pH eight, but
the Clippers were down by as many as thirty seven.
If you'd like to get on tonight eight six six
ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy is the phone number, and
coming up on the show, we'll have postgame audio from
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coach Lou and the players.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I appreciate all you guys in here.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Even the doomers and people saying the season is over
and fire everyone and cut this player as if it's
like a high school basketball team or something, because at
times tonight, yes, it looked that bad. I'm extremely disappointed.
You wait all summer after getting smoked in game seven
in a series.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I felt like they let get away from.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Them against the Denver Nuggets, and then they were completely
outmatched in Game seven three minutes into the third quarter,
and the very next game that counts, you put together
a performance like this. I don't want to overreact, but
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I don't want to spend this in too positive of
a fashion. Yet I want to vent a little bit.
I think many people deserve that here. Since we started
on Clippers talk on the YouTube side before the game
was even over, because for all intents and purposes, it was.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Somebody on Twitter was like, They're gonna get it.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
To twenty in the fourth I promise, Like, okay, and
what what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I think they got it to twenty two. How do
you get down twenty seven is quickly? As they did
in the first half.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
In the first quarter, I want to say, because you
know I'm already trying to eject this from memory, I
want to say they were already down twenty seven in
the first quarter. That is hard to do in the NBA.
It's really hard to do against a team that is
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predicted to finish bottom two in the Western Conference. Utah
Jazz had an over under of nineteen and.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
A half wins this season. Did they just get their
best victory already?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Maybe they're better than we thought. Maybe this won't look
as bad at some point. Right now looks awful. Hey,
Clippers come home smash. The Suns went on Sunday against Portland,
and it looks like they've righted the ship and atoned
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for this opening night loss.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Fine, but we're living in the moment a little bit.
I don't want to be a prisoner of the moment,
but I do want to let you.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Feel this loss a little bit, because it stinks and
it hurts, and I don't know how you come out
and look that lifeless. People are gonna say they're old.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
It's game one. If the tired legs are coming midway
through the season, there's that malaise near the All Star break,
especially for veteran teams. That's different. This is Game one.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
That's about as disappointing of a start to as season
as you can have disheartening.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You have a right to be upset.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
It looked like a continuation of the Game seven against Denver.
So the last two games the Clippers got down by
thirty five points in Game seven against Denver and then
tonight by as many as thirty seven, so a total
of when things were at their worst, a combined seventy
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two points they were down by the last two times
we saw this team.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That's brutal.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
That is.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
A really tough way to start.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I don't know how many ways I can put this.
There's plenty of silver linings, and I'm not going to
just flip out. I'm not, but we got to. I'm here,
We'll take your phone calls, and we can be as
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miserable as you can be when it's just game one
of the regular season. Because I really thought this team
was gonna get off to a good start for like
the first time since the twenty twenty one season. But
o'h wait, here comes mister Brightside. The Killers were Utah tonight.
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But I'm mister Brightside in that twenty twenty one season.
Do you remember what happened to the Clippers?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I do. I don't forget much, for better or for worse.
Usually for worse, I gotta mind like a steel trap.
And starting off.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
That season, the Clippers had their worst loss in the
history of the French, a franchise that has had seasons
where they won twelve games, and yet they had a
loss in Game three that year. After starting off two
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to zero beating the Lakers and Denver Nuggets on the road,
they lost Game three at home one twenty four to
seventy three by fifty one.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
To the Dallas Mavericks. I was there. Do you remember that?
Let me ask you something.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
What happened by the end of that twenty twenty twenty
twenty one season.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Didn't They ended up in the.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Western Conference Finals, and betting odds would have had them
as the favorites to win it all. If Kawhi didn't
do his ACL. I fully believe they would have won
the championship if Kuhi doesn't tear his ACL. So my
point is, as much as you want to drown yourself
in the negativity to night surrounding this team, because you're
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taking incoming from your Laker friends or whoever is hitting
you up and saying lol Clippers.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Right now, this will not define them. It won't.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And if you say because a worst loss is coming, no, Hey, Look,
if this season goes off the rails and this was
a sign of things to come and we find that
out fifty games in, then I'll admit that. But I
highly doubt tonight's lost in Utah is going to define them.
If they come out and win the next game. By
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twenty what does the knight mean? Sure, if you want
to be that guy that looks back at the end
of the season say we should have won this game,
we would have been second in the standings if we
had won this game. First of all, you delusional. You
have no idea how things work. Who is talking about this?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Recently? In sports coach for Arizona State.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
My favorite college football coach, because they just beat Texas
Tech and they had just had a tough loss. I
think they got crushed by Utah and Kenny Dillingham, head
coach of the Sun Devils RP. Pat Tillman, came out
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and said, we don't win this game if what happened
last week didn't occur. He's right, there is a butterfly effect.
So anybody that just wants to go back during the
season and said this was a bad loss, this was
a bad loss, you mark those a's wins.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We have fifty five wins.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Instead, we don't lose all four games of the Phoenix
Suns last season, then we would have we would have
been the two seed.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You can't do that.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Because do they win the game against Detroit after I
think that last loss of the Suns were hard, had
fifty It's about how you respond and using this stuff
as fuel and turning one loss, hopefully into two wins.
I need two wins Friday and Sunday at the Dome
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against the Suns against Portland, two supposed bottom dwellers in
the Western Conference this season. That's what the projections say.
They also said the Utah Jazz had no business being
on the floor with the Clippers tonight. But early season
losses like this, as you're trying to mesh and bring
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in new players, if it was gonna happen, it's probably
gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Early in the season. Get it out of the way,
get your wake up call.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Now, make some new coaches shirts and respond because we
all know those teams better than the way they look tonight.
No disrespect to Utah. I don't think they're as good
as they look tonight, And I don't think.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
The Clippers are as bad as they look tonight. No chance.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Somebody was telling me earlier, well, what does that matter
about the Dallas game from twenty twenty one that they
lost by fifty one? And like the point is, Dallas
wasn't fifty one points better than the Clippers because they
did that to them in one game. The Clippers ended
up beating them in the first round series in the playoffs.
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I don't think all of a sudden the Utah Jazz
have a higher ceiling than the Clippers because of what
happened tonight. You have bad losses in a long regular season.
Denver lost to the Washington Wizards twice last season, with
Jokich in both games.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I believe, So I have a long man. I can
bring up examples if you want to.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Just I don't know, listen to the Smith's tonight, Morrisey or.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Everybody hurts by r M after night one. Well that's
your decision.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
But there's eighty one games to play, and I don't
think this is going to end the Clipper season.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Mark in Huninson Beach. You're on Clipper stop without a
mousel high mark.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
I got a better song for tonight's game. It was
sung by Jerry I can't think of it the last name.
But when you're hot, you're hot. When you're not, you're not, And.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
That basically was it.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
They shot eighty percent in the frigging first quarter and
we couldn't pass the ball or make a basket. I
don't know how many threes I saw us miss in
the first half, but yeah, when you're hot, you're hot.
When you're not, you're not. It was the perfect We
were dismal and they were on fire. And when you
get behind by that much, yeah you can come back
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and little let's get down by twenty by the fourth court.
If you can't change, we kept playing the same way basically,
no matter what team was out there the whole first
three quarters, so there was just no way of catching up.
It's just one game, you know. Yeah, it's just embarrassing
the way it wound up. But hey, I'll be there
on Friday in the Swell and one of the swell guys,
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so we'll just, you know, put this one off and
forget about it. But man, what an embarrassing beginning.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Uh, And Mark, You're right.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
The Utah Jazz literally shot eight percent from the field
in the first quarter. They were sixteen of twenty and
four of a from the outside, and they started sixteen
of eighteen inside the three point line in this game.
That's insane. I'm sorry this stuff. It happens every now
and then in the NBA, and everybody always thinks they're
on the wrong end from a hot shooting night from
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a bad shooting team. Every fan base feels like that
this only happens to us, It only happens to us. Well,
if everybody feels like that, I guess it happens everybody.
I'm hoping this is just one of those nights against
the Clippers because I believe in their defense and I
think we're gonna see it coming up.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But Mark, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Clippers look to regroup and bounce back, hopefully in a
big way on Friday. Back it into a dome. There's
no place like dome. There's no place like dome. Coming
up next, more of your phone calls.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Eight sixty six nine seven two five seventy eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
As the Clippers got trucked in Utah by marketing Kessler
and Hayce Bailey was on a minist restriction. They do
have size in Utah. Paus More coming up next, Imtam
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Moslas and you're listening to a five.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Seventy sports God, let's get back at it. This is
l A Clippers basketball right here on the l A
Clippers Audio network.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
I have a time I rolled him and I would.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Behind me with the music. Here, you're hot, you're hot,
you're not, you're not.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Courtesy at Jerry Reid and Mark and Hinson Beach calling
for that earlier after.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Clippers looked pretty cold.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I was hoping revenge a dish best served cold. I
maybe they'll wait for the first game against Denver. I
was just hoping a little bit more spirit, fight, urgency,
competitiveness out there from a team that is coming off
an awful loss in the first round.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Where they weren't competitive. I guess the Nuggets take it out.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Four months later on the Utah Jazz. That's what I
was hoping for. Didn't happen tonight. Clippers lose Game one
in the regular season one twenty.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Nine to one, eight getting choked up just looking at
this box score. Rob in Round Rock Texas. Help me out.
What's up? Rob?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Hello, Adam. I had originally called to ask you the
cause of the Clippers' team defense breaking down, but I
think you've answered that question. So I want to know,
did any Clippers player's effort stand out in a positive way?
Oh to you, I like this.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I got one for you. I thought Derek Jones Jr.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Derek Jones Junior in the second half was attacking, still
playing hard. I thought of Easa Zubats at times. Those
were the two guys that stood out to me that
were playing with the right amount of energy and effort.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
I would say, Okay, that's great, Okay, yeah, because they
looked like the Washington generals on defense tonight.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Well, I gotta say, if I go through the tape
and I show and highlight every three pointer are made
by the Utah Jazz, I think it would surprise people
with how many of those were well defended.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
And it didn't matter.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I'm talking hand in the face, Chris donn All over
a guy, It did not matter. They had a special
night from beyond the arc, they had a special shooting night.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Overall, it was I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
It was Utah's maybe most impressive shooting night of the season.
It just happened to take place against the Clippers in
Game one.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Well better, we hope we'll do better next time.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Can only go out from here, Rob, appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Really thanks, Adam.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Edward in Granada Hills. You're on Clipper stop with that.
I'm also Edward. I'm team Edward.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Hey, what's up at him?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
What's up? But how are we doing?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Man?
Speaker 7 (24:14):
So as you can tell, I come with some more
bad news. Man, I'm just disappointed in Kawhi again. He
just can't defend anybody, and that it's just not the
best player. He can't defend anybody on points. It's just unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
He can't defend anybody. Or he didn't defend well tonight,
because there's a difference.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
He can't, Adam, he can't defend anybody. He can't stand
in front of anybody anymore. Bro.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I could pull clips from that series against Denver and
show you a ton of them.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I could show you some plays tonight, I got. That's
just not true, Adam.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
He didn't.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
He didn't forget how to.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Three buckets at the rim against Kawhi in that series,
and everybody keeps blowing it up.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
You know, Kawhi wasn't even on him the majority of the.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Time, But he was supposed to be on it because
that's the guy that's scoring all the points and the
best player on your team. It's supposed to be scoring.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
It's supposed to.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Be guarding the best player on the other team in
the crucial moments.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Right Well, if you're the best defender, not most best
players on teams aren't as good of defenders as Kawhi is.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Kawhi did guard Nikola Jokic at the end of Game
four to get him to throw up that airball as
he came over to help. That miraculously went into the
hands of Aaron Gordon who was right plays right time,
Johnny on the spot. They were very fortunate. Edward, just
please please, because you know I'm the receipt master.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
You better stay around. You better stay around.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
This season because I got news for you. Kauie a
bad night defensively, the Clippers did. They were in rotation
defensively as well. Sure, he had a bad game overall,
This game is also not going to define Kawhi Leonard.
He didn't forget how to play defense all of a sudden.
I saw him play and move very well in the preseason.
(26:14):
I am not concerned about that part of it. They
got to play together is the issue.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
No.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
I understand that because it wasn't just him, it was
everybody on the team.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I mean, okay, but you're saying.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
No, no, because because I mean, you win as a team,
he loses the team, right zoo Botch. He played excellent,
but I felt like at times he didn't understand that
he was being double team and needed to pass out
and tried.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
To force the game. I feel like Harden didn't play
enough defense and didn't didn't try to create as much
offense as he usually does in other games. I feel
like Nicholas Batoon, if he doesn't shoot fifty percent, he's
not good enough for us.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I loved.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I feel like they had nine turnoversion first quarter and
were their own worst enemies and couldn't get into their offense,
and they were a mess. And it's game one with
some new players out there like Bradley Beal, it's not going.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
And I also feel like and then I also feel
like Brook Lopez. I love, He's a great addition to
the team, but he's playing too much on the three
point line. We needed a big man to rebound. I
love him picking and popping, but he needs to be
in the paint more.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
My guy, uh like he shot five of eleven from three.
He was one of their better players. I didn't mention
him earlier, but this is one of the guys thoughts that.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
I understand that. But he's also a seventh footer that
needs to be in the paint.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, and you're talking about two different.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Ls playing today. It's Tylu because he never has the
guys prepared. He never has the right editions.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
They won right the games last season with Kawhi only
playing thirty seven. They won fifty games last season with
Kawhi only playing thirty seven. To say that he never
has the guys prepared when they.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
You know what they're over under was last season thirty
seven and a half games, Kawhi only played thirty seven,
and they still won fifty. I'm not going to just
make these long reaching conclusions because of one game I've
been I haven't missed a Clippers game since twenty sixteen.
I've seen a lot. I got a good memory. This
too shall pass.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
This well as well it's a roller coaster, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Well we're on it and right now, you know it's
still going up. It's the climb part of it.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
But I'm hoping they're gonna hit the top gun roller
coaster portion of it or whatever's going on Notsbury Farms now,
and we're gonna be elated and have our hands up
against Phoenix on Friday.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
I help soo, Adam Man, I appreciate you bringing me
on man.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
All right, Edward, appreciate you. We'll take a quick time out.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Clippers lose one twenty nine to one o eight to
the Utah Jazz in Utah.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And everyone's losing their minds. I get it, I do,
but this whole I don't know. You better come pretty strong.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
If you're just going to say this is an indictment
on coach, lose coaching resume. His entire career came down
to this night. It was all defined tonight, like no,
how many games did they win last season where they
had no business winning. You might think the Jazz had
(29:33):
no business winning tonight. Slipper's gotta respond.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Speaking of TYLERU, we'll hear from him coming up.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
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Speaker 1 (29:47):
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Speaker 1 (29:52):
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Speaker 3 (30:00):
I should have expected this tonight, not this outcome, but
the fallout was Clipper Nation being this upset and calling
for everyone's job after the Clippers lose one twenty nine
to one oh eight in Game one of the twenty
twenty five twenty twenty six season. Yes, it was a
bad start. It's about how you finish right. Clips were
down by as many as thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It was brutal eight.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Six, six, nine, eighty seven, two, five seventy. Jonathan and
Buyna Park Jonathan, what's up here on Clipperstock?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Hey man?
Speaker 10 (30:32):
I mean, I feel like I'm like every other fan
tonight I was everyone was just mad, and uh, I
just wanted to know, from an analytical point of view,
what did you think of the second unit? I know
they looked really good in the preseason, but I don't
know I've seen like tonight. It looked like we have
a lot of play finishers, but they just didn't have
any like anyone that could just get a bucket like
John Collins was supposed to be that, but he just
(30:53):
didn't look like it tonight, to an extent that I
would like my.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Man forget get a bucket. They couldn't get into their
first action, they couldn't get into their offense. When at
the three forty eight mark they had it was Lopez
CP three, Collins done with Kawhi, and they had back
to back turnovers. This is still the first quarter from
Collins looking for brook Lopez and then done looking for
(31:19):
brook Lopez miscommunications and then CP three he has a turnover,
three straight turnovers. Jazz are up nineteen. They couldn't even
get started. They couldn't even get off the ground. It
was just it was a comedy of errors. Honestly, they
(31:39):
all you could do is laugh at one point, this
doesn't mean the Utah Jazz are the two thousand and
four Detroit Pistons defensively, It's this is more about what
the Clippers weren't doing and the way they just couldn't execute.
Speaker 10 (31:55):
Yeah, it felt like there were like four minutes in
the first quarter where they just didn't even get a
sh just because of how many turnaments they head back
to back to back.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
The Jazz had a nineteen to two run. It was
It was gross. It was hard to watch.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You let a young team in their home opener get
comfortable and get confident like that.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Even if you get back into.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
The game, they're not going anywhere. And the Clippers most
definitely did not get back into the game. That was
an avalanche.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
So did you feel like I mean, our second unit
did play. I mean it didn't play too bad, but
do you feel like there was I almost wanted to
see more of the first unit just because of how
bad they started, and I feel like they needed to
get like another another run in sooner at least. I
feel like Bill didn't get a lot of playing on.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
I think they came back in by the six minute
mark of the second quarter, maybe the seven minute mark,
where the starters were back, and they did play more
than I thought they would, considering how bad and how
lops and how the game was.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Getting away from them.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
And Kawhi Leonard played twenty nine minutes in a game
where they were down by twenty seven pretty quickly. James
Harden played twenty nine minutes. Ifvisa Zubats played twenty seven,
Bradley bules on a minister distraction probably hit it getting
to twenty oh but John Collins was at twenty eight minutes.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I like I I.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Do think he gave them more run than he typically
would later in the season, just because even if you're
getting blown out, we might as well give these lineups
a little some reps out there.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
That makes sense.
Speaker 10 (33:29):
All right, Well, it was great talking to.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
You, all right, Jonathan, appreciate you. Quick time out will
come back. Clippers lose badly on one eight in Utah
of the Jazz. I'm out of Muslims. This is clipperstock
here on N five seventy, ELA.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
Sports streaming on the iHeartRadio, while this is the Los
Angeles Clippers Heart exclusively, I mean LA Clippers on Network.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
A dude, sorry, one up's new coach fire everyone, it's over.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Just know, guys, I'm the king of receipts and I
ain't gonna forget how a lot of you overreacted to
Game one, because this thing will turn. It is one
game they lost badly. Let that be a lesson anyone
who says the wins win and losses a loss. Know,
it kind of matters how you play and who you play.
Clippers fall on one oh eight in Utah to the Jazz.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
If you're on hold, stay on hold. I'll get to you.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
I'll do some Clippers talk after dark on the YouTube side.
Even though we're done on a five to seventy LA Sports
because it was game one, because of the outcome, I'll
stay on with you guys. Before we get out of here,
I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lallerbryan
Seeman know what ego, Carlo Jimenez on the call, see
easy calling you in here on the board. Daniel West,
(34:52):
we'll talk to you next time, saying with big brother Jake,
I'm Adam Osland.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere on the YouTube side.
I'll be right here on the radio side. We'll be
back on Friday.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
Mmm.
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