Clippers Lose 105-89 to Dallas, Justin Wilson @LAClippersFilm Joins the Show

Clippers Talk with Adam Auslund after they lose 105-89 in Dallas. Luka has 42 and Justin Wilson from @LAClippersFilm joins the show to talk that, cold three point shooting and more.

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Adam Moslan. The luck of theLuca Luca Donchs goes for forty two
points on St. Patty's Day,goes six of eleven from three in The
Clippers would lose one oh five toeighty nine in Dallas to the Mavericks.
They would split this two game series. Clippers lose the season series though two

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games to one. Welcome back intoor welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm Atam
Maslin. Eight six sixty nine eightseven two five seventy eight six sixty nine
eight seven two five seventy is thephone number. Coming up. Later on
the show, we will have postgameaudio from the head coach to Ron Lou
You'll hear from the players after onceagain they cannot string wins together. The

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last time they won two games ina row was back on February fifteenth,
over a month ago. It's alittle bit concerning to me. But the
effort tonight, especially defensively holding ateam to one oh five. Now,
I know a lot of people willsay they scored over one hundred and five
points. That defense was trash.Not in today's NBA. Not in twenty

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twenty one. The worst offense inthe league averages one hundred and three points
per game. I believe that's theCleveland Cavaliers. Sorry, Bob Schmidt.
The Clippers only gave up one ohfive. The problem was their offense,
which is very potent that averages onehundred and fifteen points per game, only

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gave them eighty nine. And itwas a lack of accuracy from the outside.
They go just nine of thirty twofrom three. This is the best
three point shooting team in the league, not just the best three point shooting
team in the league this year.They are historically great. They are shooting
over forty two percent from three onthe season. They could go down as

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the second best three point shooting teamall time, behind the Charlotte Hornets from
the ninety six ninety seven season.Clippers will see Charlotte that's a tough one
on Saturday back at Staples Center.But they simply could not. While they
can't string wins together, they couldn'tstring runs together tonight, and every time

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they did Luca Don. Chris answered, Luca had eleven in the first quarter,
eleven in the second quarter, ninein the third quarter, and then
eleven more points down the stretch.And I'm not saying any of those shots
are lucky. That was just funwordplay because it's Saint Patty's day. Luca
Don is this good. Clipper Nationknows this. They've witnessed him in that

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first round series last season. Hita game winner, a ridiculous one from
thirty feet out over the outstretched armof Reggie Jackson. But he shoots thirty
five percent from three on the season, and he goes six of eleven.
The Mavericks as a team shoot thirtyfive percent from three on the season.

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It's ninth they go fifteen thirty four. That's forty four percent. We talked
about it postgame with Noah Eagle.It was like trading places out there.
It was the Mavericks that were thelethal team from beyond the arc tonight,
and it wasn't just Luca. Onceagain, Tim Hardaway Junior burned the Clippers.
I believe he had twenty one pointsMonday night, had just fifteen but

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hit three three pointers. Maxi Clebahit two. Josh Richardson, who had
a monster second quarter with ten ofhis fourteen points, then keeping the Clippers
at bay when they made a littlebit of a run, he hit two
three pointers, and the Clippers offensefor whatever reason, and we'll find out

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coming up from the head coach SharronLoop post game, they really stalled out.
They missed some open shots, andI felt like the passing just wasn't
quite on point. They'd go inand out of sharing the sugar, as
Noah Eagle would say, of sharingthe basketball and making that extra pass.

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They just weren't good enough there.Now a lot of it was just an
off night when Marcus Morris, especiallyagainst the Mavericks who he has been destroying.
And I know he only had fourteenpoints Monday night when he returned to
the starting lineup, but he hadseven of those in the first quarter.
He finished tonight with eleven points,but on five of fourteen shooting, and

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he goes an unbelievably poor shooting nightfrom the distance, one of nine.
Marcus Morris is shooting forty five percentfrom three on the season. That is
very abnormal. Kawhi Leonard just oneof four, Reggie Jackson oh of three,
and he's been shooting about forty percenton the year now. Nicholas batoum,
well, he goes fifty percent butonly attempts to three pointers. So

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we hit one Monday night, hehit four, when four of six and
he's coming off the bench now.And then sweet Low Williams after he had
an efficient game on Monday, justtwo of ten tonight, one of four
from distance. Paul George was reallythe only one trying to keep the Clippers
in this thing. As Dallas ledby well, they won't by sixteen,

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but there was an inconsequential shot late, a three pointer made, but they
led by fifteen. They led byfourteen. The Clippers chipped away, but
they simply could not stay in rhythmlong enough to make a real dent in
that third quarter. They were downby five going into the half at fifty

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six to fifty one, and immediatelyDallas goes on a run and they're up
thirteen. Clippers cut it back tofive. The Mavericks kept hitting three pointers.
They led by fourteen, but thenbefore the third was over, Paul
George hit back to back threes toughshots and cut it to six. It
was seventy seven to seventy one enteringthat fourth quarter, but the Clippers went

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ice cold to start the fourth.They didn't score for the first three minutes
until Kawhi Leonard had a baseline dunkand he did have another throw down on
Chris dat Porzingis, who is happythis is the last game at least during
the regular season between these two teams. After Kawhi caught him after he caught

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a body Monday night and it wasPorzingis the unicorn. He did the same
thing tonight. But overall, Kawaistruggled offensively just nine of twenty one.
He struggled at times offensively Monday Nighttwo, but I felt like he had
more juice defensively in that game.But again, and the Clippers didn't lose
this game with their defense. Theyjust couldn't hit shots. And I don't

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think the ball movement was where itneeded to be. Obviously, it's not
where it can be with this teamstill big Zoo fourteen points, I want
to say he had fifteen on MondayNight against Dallas. He's been punishing them
he's been punishing every one every timehe touches the ball. I've said this
before, I posted this on Twitter, I follow Adam Ay, but it

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turns into that old shack Reebok logo. That's what he looks like when he's
throwing it down, kicks the legsout, and he's been fantastic and has
stepped up with Serge Ibaka not ableto go the last couple of games.
Now, yeah, Big Zoo hadfifteen and eleven Monday night, had fourteen
and seven tonight. But one bigissue for the Clippers really took place on

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the second half, and it wasrebounding. Because they were a plus five
in the first half on the boards, they outrebounded the Mavericks by five.
The Mavericks would outrebound them by elevenin the second half, so the Clippers
could have had a more decided advantagewhen it came to shot attempts and more

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possessions, and even though they stillhad nine more, they could have had
even more. But Dallas started toget some offensive rebounds as well, and
even with Dallas turning the ball overagain eighteen times, Clippers capitalize on that
with twenty eight points. It wasjust such a cold storm Trooper like shooting
night for the Clippers. Who wasjust one of those nights because I think

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they got some good looks that reallyjust didn't fall, looks that they will
take and make again. This isthe best three points shooting, not just
this season, historically they might endup second best all time, but tonight
just nine of thirty two, andthat was the major storyline. Plot line,

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however you want to put it,that put the Clippers or puts them
at twenty six in sixteen. Nowon the season. Before we break here,
let's take a call Morris in LongBeach. Morris, what's up?
You're on Clipper stock without a maslinhere on the M five seventy yel a
sports, Adam. I think coachLuke got our smartest today. Today is
Saint Patrick to Day, and everybodyknows that when you play on the Saint

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Patrick Day, you've got to weara green uniform, right straight up green
uniform. You know you ain't gotto wear a green uniform every night,
but you got to wear a greenuniform as named Patrick's. Everybody know that,
Adam, and I was looking atthese great unis. I feel like
I was looking at the gray uniforms. I felt like going to sleep.
I did the Clippers look like theywere going to sleep looking at them gray

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uniforms. So next year, let'smake sure we were in the green uniform
on Saint Patrick today, and Ithink we had better results. I pret
you think that's why we lost.Thanks like Adam Morris, thank you for
the phone call. Not that superstitiousto believe that, but maybe it would
have helped. Although Dallas they werewearing their throwbacks. They naturally wear green
all the time, and I'm surethey had first pick. But the Clippers

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were wearing their new earned jerseys,which are gray, and I like them
a lot of people. At first, it looks like on Twitter was saying
eh man, but now you seehim in person, they look good.
I like those jerseys. Hopefully nexttime out the Clippers get a win in
them. They lose tonight one ohfive to eighty nine to the Dallas Mavericks.
Coming back, we'll have postgame audiofrom TLU, and my friend Justin

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Wilson, who's at LA Clippers Film, will be here to break this one
down. He's a fantastic follow atLA Clippers Film. On Twitter, This
is Clipper suck. I'm Adam Oslinand you're listening to AM five seventy LA
Sports. This is LA Clippers Basketball. COOLWHI Leonard is a destroyer of worlds

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right now on the official home ofyour LA Clippers. Clippers split the two
game miniseries in Dallas with the Mavericks. They lose tonight one oh five to
eighty nine to Luca don Chich Lucathe Dawn. Luca with the force on

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those three pointers forty two points andhe can do that to you. But
on six of eleven from downtown that'swhere he shot. And meanwhile the Clippers,
well, Luca hit six threes,the Clippers hit just nine. They're
oz and five this season when theyhit less than ten three point ten or

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less three pointers. Welcome back intoClippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslin to Justin
Wilson. You know him on Twitter. He's one of the best follows at
LA Clippers. Film will be herein just moments, but I do want
to hear from the head coach tlou after the Clippers go one and two

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on this three game road trip.They'll be back at April Center Saturday night
taking on the Charlotte Hornets, andhere was coach Loup post games speaking with
the media. I wanted to getyour thoughts just just a how concerning is
it just to have the lack ofconsistency. You guys had a great bounceback
win on Monday, and you comeback and unfortunately lose the game tonight.

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Just the level of consistency does thatconcern How much does that concern you?
I mean, he's not concerning.When you played the right way, I
thought, you know, for themost part, defensively, I thought we
did a good job, you know, you know, Luca torch Us,
but you know, kept every onepretty much in check, but outside hardaway
hitting at three at the end ofgiving one O five. But I thought

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defensive we competed. I thought offensively, we just didn't trust. We didn't
continue to share the basketball, andwe forced a lot of stuff, you
know, all night the balling,we chained signs of the floor, and
you know, we took some badshots of times as well. From a
positive standpoint, it seemed like PaulGeorge got back into his his you know,
regular shooting rhythm. As far asthe way he played tonight, How

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encouraging is that for you to seePaul George and get back into that type
of style of play. Yeah,it was good to see. You know.
I thought he compete on the defensiveend, you know, having a
guard Luca, you know, allnight and just you know, taking the
challenge and defensively and then like Isaid, shooting the basketball, getting back
to getting the show and getting thisflow. His offensive hythel was pretty good.
Thanks coach, yep, thanks foreverto Jonathan Hey coach. After the

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first quarter, they kind of hadyou guys in check there the next three
quarters from three ball tonight, youguys shot just twenty eight percent. Did
you feel you guys were getting inthe shots you wanted or was that just
something they were playing good defense onyou guys. I thought we got the
shots we wanted. You know,I thought Reggie's three shots was was open.
I thought Marcus was walking one fromthree about thought all nine of his

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shots were good shots. You knowthat he usually makes and you know you're
gonna have shooting nice like that.So when nice like that, you know,
usually you know your defense has tostep up and hold you down.
And I thought of defense did agood job. Outside of Luca, who
had a great game, we knewthat coming into it, that you know,
we got the ball in his handso much, he's gonna score the
basketball and make plays. But overall, I just thought our you know,

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defensive competitors was there. Thank you, good thanks going to law. It
seemed like, especially tonight and Monday, coming off the second night of back
to back, like the minutes werequite extreme, Like this felt like a
playoff series the last couple of gameshere, and we saw the bench was

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short. You didn't get a wholelot of production out of out of the
guys who did get off the benchtonight. What went into like the rotations
tonight, the flow of the gameand just deciding who was going to run
for how long? Just the floorof the game. Determines that trying to
match match Zoo's mens as much aspossible with Luca because he does a good

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job he's on the floor. Andthat was about it. Go to Andrew
Tie that that big lineup you playedin the third quarter, adding Nick to
Marcus Kawai PG and Zoo what kindof what was that something you and the
coaches have been wanting to try fora while kind of what led to that
one? Yeah, we discussed thatyou know, I wanted to get to

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that lineup and you know with fourswitchables on the floor and you know in
zoo or surgeon in the middle andsob I was a chance and opportunity to
do it, and I thought itwas good for us. Officially, I
didn't think it was good for usbecause we didn't really run you know,
the sets the right way. Butthat's to be you know, that's that's
gonna happen, you know, youwhen you try something for the first time.
But you know, overall, Ithought defensively was pretty good for us,

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being able to switch and to dosome different things. So it looked
good to me. He was gotto just fix it offensively. Yes,
thanks there, you good, hey, coach. I was just wondering what
you thought the biggest difference was inthe challenge of defending the good Donchi between
today and the other game. Youknow, he's making this three point shot.

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You know last game he made acouple early, but then he kind
of went cold. You know,to night he consistently made it, you
know, shooting six six, foureleven, and you know he made him
tough and was just step back goingto his left. You know, he
made that shot tonight, and hejust puts a lot of pressure on you
know, he has a great handle. You know, he's strong. So
once he gets into the paint andhe gets his shoulder in front of you,

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it's tough to get back in frontof him. So mean, you
know, he played good tonight.You know, hats off to him,
and you know, I'll call ourgods fault and challenge and he just made
shots. Thanks to take a couplemore far about Hey, coach, there's
a period of time in the thirdquarter where you guys are playing great defense
on the MAVs and held him scorelessfor about four minutes or so. But

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then in that third quarter you onlyhad you know, four shots at the
rim. We see you ultimately inthe fourth quarter suddenly start going inside more
and more. Was that a pointof emphasis or is that just kind of
the flow of the game that happened. It's always a point everything sports every
night, just to attack the paint, you know, put pressure on the
rim, put pressure on the defenses. And we talked, you know,
they always come low man, andwe gotta be ready to make those passes

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out to the corner and the skippasses. You know, but that's that's
that's our model that every night.You know, we got to attack the
pain, get into the pain andthen make the right play. Thanks,
good clothes out with Tom Mark goodbig TI. I don't know where you
guys sort of struggled to make threesPG gave you two of them to end

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the third and then you guys kindof went away from him, uh in
that fourth quarter until he hitting thosetwo late in the fourth. I guess,
like, is it on you?I guess you're on the guys to
feed the hot hand like that whenyou guys are struggling to get offense.
Yeah, I mean, especially whenyou call it. But like I said,
having that unit on the floor Ithink was tough because they didn't undersess
the right way. But you know, we try to get the ball back

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to him and getting his hands onto ride the hot hand, and like
I said, it was new forthose guys. So I'm just something we
gotta continue to keep working on.Yeah, thanks day, Yes, thanks
having a great night. Clippers loseone h five to eighty nine to the
Dallas Mavericks in Dallas. Lucadan hasforty two points. You know what stupid

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board operator hold on we gotta takea call CJ and al Hambra. I'm
the board operator. CJ. What'sup. You're on Clippers stock with Adam
Oslin. How are you? Yeah, well, a little disappointed man.
You know, this loss that wetook really broke down. The five things.

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The first, obviously was don Kitchhaving just a stellar game. What
could you do on some of thosethree pointers? Tell me those are Steph
Curry? You could not And andso that's why I'm saying, just donk
is the next coming of he Heis just a guy that that you just

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have to deal with. He's justthat that is a two man Camden built
in one. And you know whenhe's not athletic, he's not fast,
but he is just solid. HisIQ is just right on point, and
I mean you just have to dealwith it. So well, you know,

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he got some great support from Richardsonand yet again Partaway Junior. The
third thing that really duked us inwas the officiating going on. I guess
these rests failed to see their optometristsbecause there were a lot of nearsighted calls
that they just let go ignored andmade no calls on. That was ridiculous.

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But you know when when you lookat the second quarter, or at
least the first half in general,we were playing some real solid, fundamental
ball where we were going inside thepaint, penetrating feeding Zoo, and for
some reason that escaped us. Imean, except for the if your name

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wasn't Kawhi Leonard or Paul George,you were just putting it up from beyond
the yard and we got to stopliving and die by the three. The
fifth and final thing is like,let's look at this Dallas Mavericks team.
You have a number one tiered superstar, a second tier star sidekick in pro

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zingis who didn't do exceptionally well tonight, and nothing but fear or four tiers
players. And the fact was,I was kind of wondering why we didn't
go to our youth movement. We'vegot guys like Zoo who did put in
thirty five minutes, Man who putin under seven, Luke who didn't play
a single second, and Coffee whocame in for a cup of coffee.

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Together combined they did sixteen minutes together. I'm wondering why we're not going to
our youth brigade a little bit moreoften, Adam, help me out,
here Ceja, thank you for thephone call. Well, I think in
a game like this, you gowith the guys who played well Monday night,
and a lot of those guys struggledtonight. And obviously Terrence Man like

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playing fourteen minutes. He played well, he got into it. Even though
he went just one of two andhad just three points in four boards,
he did bring that energy that yousee from Terrence Man. So this was
a team that had a day arrestand starters played heavy minutes. Kawhi thirty
seven, Marcus Moore thirty six ofEACHA Zubats thirty five. Reggie Jackson was

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just nineteen. He got into foultrouble early, which brought in Terrence Man
in the first half a lot,and he played well. But Paul George
played forty one minutes. I don'tthink not playing a mere coffee tonight or
Daniel Oturu is what hurt the Clippers. They just couldn't hit shots. The
old saying maker miss League, itwas applicable tonight against the Clippers. They

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lose by sixteen in Dallas to Lucadon Chich. He's the make part.
He goes six of eleven from deep, sixteen of twenty eight overall has forty
two points. Dallas still had justone oh five. You live with that,
and I think you live with alot of the shots the Clippers took.
As for the inside presence and havingmore of one and having another dynamic

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and element to your game when shotsaren't falling. I do think there's something
to that with the Clippers, andthey just have to get more calls and
keep fighting and playing through contact.They took just eleven free throws, they
hit just six. They lead theleague in free throw percentage. That was
strange to see, but once again, there were some calls that went against

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them. Are felt like if you'rewearing Clippers glasses, it's like I am
PG thirteen could have got a fewmore. Same with Kawhi Leonard. Clippers
lose though, and they dropped totwenty six and sixteen by a final score
of one oh five to eighty ninein Dallas. Coming back, we'll hear
from Justin Wilson from LA Clippers fanor at LA Clippers Fan film. Excuse

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me, he's a fan two atLA Clippers Film on Twitter. He's coming
up next on Harold and North Hollywood'son hold. That should be good more
Clipper Stock. You're an am fiveto seventy l A sports. What is
every moment all season long? I'mtheir official good why Letard sends it back
down home at the Clippers still notcome in here. Clippers go one and

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two on this three game road trip. They lose Game two of the mini
series in Dallas versus the Mavericks bya final score of one oh five to
eighty nine. Welcome back into ClippersStock. I'm at a Moslin coming up.
We'll get back to your phone callseight six six nine eight seven two
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get to me at follow Adam A. You can get to this man at
LA Clippers film on Twitter. Itis Justin Wilson back on Clippers Talk,
one of my favorite analysts. Hesees it all and he sees the truth.
Justin, thanks for coming back onthe show, man, Thank you

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for having me. I see thetruth and I wish I didn't see the
truth tonight. That was Luca.Thank you for having me. Luca was
the truth tonight? Among other things, was there anything the Clippers could have
done against some of those shots?Because to me, you just live with
that from a guy who shoots barelythirty five percent from three and he's hitting
step back three pointers like he's StephCurry against good defense. No, you're,

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you're You're absolutely correct. I thinkI think when you are when you
are guarding Luca don Chich with PaulGeorge, Nicholas Batom, Kawhi Leonard,
I think I think when he's makingshots against outstretched arms like that, you
just tip your cat. You justtip your cat, and you just you

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just shake the man's hand and youmove on. I do think in the
first half they were switching a littletoo easily with Reggie Jackson, which kind
of maybe which may have let Lucaget into a rhythm a little bit,
because it's an easier shot to shootagainst, obviously Reggie Jackson versus like a

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Batomb or a Morris or a PaulGeorge. But I thought on the whole,
defense wasn't the issue in either ofthese games against Dallas. I actually
thought they'd put together a really goodtwo games stretch of defending Luca don Chichen
of Dallas Mavericks, which was goodto see because at times it looked like
there was certainly effort and energy missingin that game in New Orleans when they

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lost by twenty and they did respondon that end of the floor. What
do you attribute the Clippers poor shootingnight too, though? Is it just
one of those nights or was theresomething else they could have done to locked
their offense. It's it's honestly,probably a boring answer, but at least
in my eyes, it's just shootingvariants. This is the number two offensive

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basketball and like they were getting cleanlooks. I think Marcus Morris was one
for nine from three, and he'sone of the best three point shooters in
the league, and he was gettingclean, catching shoot looks. Those are
shots you want to take. Samething with Kawhi Leonard. He was one
of four on three, nine oftwenty one overall, he missed some pet
shots that could have stemmed the tidea little bit. So like they shooting

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variants. Nights like this don't happentoo often with a team that's as good
offensively as the LA Clippers. Butbut when they do, you just you're
gonna have a hard time winning.I don't they scored eighty nine points.
That's you're not gonna win any gamesscoring eighty nine points, especially in today's
NBA. But I think personally,this lass is not the loss you're upset

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with. You're upset with the NewOrleans loss. You're upset with the Memphis
loss a week and a half ago, where there was no effort and they
looked extremely old and slow. Andthat is that those are the losses that
you, like, you're really scratchyour head and asks yourself about the potential

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of this team. That those arethe losses that are like particularly concerning,
not a loss tonight where like afuture Hall of Famer is on fire and
you can't do anything about that,nor can you make shots. That's not
this game isn't a concern. It'sthose other games that that are concerning.
Yeah, this was more of ayou live with the results type of loss,

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and the results were Dallas shot reallywell from three and Luca don Chich
was that good. But I dowonder when the Clippers threes aren't falling,
as they weren't in this game.And there have been few and far between
games so far this season like thisfor them owing five though, when they're
under ten three pointers made in acontest, where else can they go?

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When they're not getting free throws,what else can they do to try to
manufacture some more points in the pain? So that that's a tough that's a
tough question to answer because the teamis old like they aren't. They aren't
a team that's going to get outon a fast break to get easy transition

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points and things like that. Honestly, if they if you're it's it's to
me, it's more or less ofabout the quality of shots that are taking.
I don't think many teams period aregoing to win many games when they
aren't making a lot of threes.In today's NBA, it's the three ball.
The three ball is incredibly important forany team. It's not even not

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just the Clippers. They just happento have a lot of really good shooters.
And you know, if this isin the playoffs, if they aren't
gonna if you if you aren't,if you're gonna miss open threes, you
are going to lose. It's notin my estimation, it's not so much
about getting points in the paint tryingto circumvent missing open shots. The point

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of the offense in NBA basketball isto get open shots. And if you
are getting your shooters open shots.It's a make or miss league, as
Doc Rivers used to say, youknow, if you got to make shots.
And hopefully they don't catch a dryspell in the playoffs like they did
tonight. But yeah, I justthink that as a team, they have

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a lot of really great shooters andthey do a great job of generating open
looks. You know, you wouldlike to see them get to the free
throw line a little more. PaulGeorge especially seems to get the short end
of the stick on calls. Youwould like to see them get to the
line a bit more and get easierpoints. But on the whole, they
generate really good shots. They havean incredible historic offense. I don't think

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I don't think they're The way theygo up about getting their points is much
of an issue to me, becausethe caller brought this up, and my
guest here on Clippers Talk is JustinWilson follow him on Twitter at LA Clippers
Film, And I'm going to usethat caller to ask you this question by
proxy, because I would never talkabout the officials postgame here. We rarely

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have this season, maybe two orthree games, maybe Kauai going at James
Harden, that was one of themand him getting the off arm offensive foul
called on him. But the Clippersduring the Live City days had a reputation
of being whiners and getting into ittoo much with the officials. I don't
feel like that is the case,even though it would be warranted with this

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team, considering the lack of callsthat they get their bottom five and three
and free throw attempts, and PaulGeorge especially and it goes back to the
game in Brooklyn, I feel likewhen he was going downhill, attacking and
getting nothing out of it. Whatdo you make of their lack of calls?
Are the officials? I don't wantto say they have something against the

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Clippers, but I know it feelslike that at times with Clipper Nation.
Are they doing enough? Or doesPaul George need to play the flap game
because a lot of guys do andare successful with it. So I I
do think that Paul George does getthe short end of the stick, and
he does get fouled quite a bitwhenever he does get downhill. That being

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said, I do also think thathe doesn't help himself out because at times
he goes to the rim a bitsoft he's leaning, he's he's he's got
his shoulders pointed towards the sidelines insteadof the rim. He's not he's not
as forceful as he could stand tobe to help himself as far as getting
calls in regards to in regard,but really he's the only guy with downhill

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juice for us other than Lou Williams, who's kind of regrets this year.
So the reason why we don't geta lot of foul calls is we largely
don't have anybody that's like breaking downthe defense getting to the rim to get
fouls. But with Paul George,he's the one that does. And I
just think that one he really does. He really does get fouled. But

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more than anything, he could standto go to the rim a bit stronger,
a bit more compact, so thatso that rest can actually see him
getting fouled instead of seeing someone who'sjust being sort of quote quoe weak and
he's just like falling to the floorleaning away from the basket. He's got
to play with a little bit moreforce and fervor when he's going to the

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rim. In my opinion, JustinWilson is my guests here on Clippers Talk.
He's at LA Clippers film on Twitter. Final one for you justin what
do you think of Marcus Moore's backin the starting lineup and what that can
provide this team? And do youthink of Visa zubots is making a case
for him also return as a starter. You know, on the whole,

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Marcus Morris and Nicholas Batum provide alittle bit of that. I think Marcus
Morris may have been the better playerat this point in time for the for
the Clipper, So I'm not madat it. It's more of a minute
disparity minutes allocations between those two.The real one is Zoo. I think

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I think Zoo is making this reallystrong case to start, and he has
been for a long long time.He's doing he's doing everything that he can
to to grab that starting spot.He defends, he runs like he runs
like hell, he scores everything aroundthe rim. He's even he even showed

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over these last two games and inthe bubble an ability to switch out onto
guys like Luca don chich And he'sa flat out better player than Sergebaka.
And I just think on a teamdeprived of athleticism and youth, and pop.
He's someone that can help us geteasy baskets with like, for instance,
going from defensive offense, he canbeat everybody down the floor and maybe

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get like an early seal to likeget a foul or get an easy bucket
that way. You know, weoften talk about the team meeting in easy,
easy buckets. He's someone that canhelp in that regard as far as
like his pick and roll, hislaw, his lob threat, his lob
gravity. So all in all,I'm I'm I'm indifferent on the Marcus Morris

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Nicholas Beatum thing. They both shootreally well wide open jumpers. I think
Marcus Morris has a little bit morejuice as it pertains to like attacking clothes
outs and things like that. ButI do think that if Vizza Zuba at
this point should be starting, Idon't think he will, but I think
he should, and he definitely shouldbe playing more minutes than Sergebaca on a

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night tonight. Basis the beast heis. Justin Wilson. Follow him on
Twitter at LA Clippers Film. Justin. I appreciate you coming on as always.
You break down the game tape andyou're able to articulate exactly you know
what Clipper Nation I think is feelinga lot of the times, not just
on Twitter, but also with yourcommunication here on Clippers Talk. Man,

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I appreciate you. You're great atthis. Thank you. I really appreciate
that. I'm humbled by those thosekind words. And you know it's a
bad loss. I'm not a badwell, this wasn't a bad loss.
But hopefully we can get back ontrack and the games ahead, we need
to start winning some games here wherewe're we want to. I want to
see us get on a win streakhere. This uneven inconsistency when it comes

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to wins and losses and things likethat. Got to clean that up before
the playoffs, no doubt, myfriend. Clippers next game is coming up
Saturday, back at Staples Center.Tip time is at seven pm against the
Charlotte Hornets. Coming up. We'llget back to your phone calls eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy. That's the phone number. After the

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Clippers lose by sixteen to the DallasMavericks and you're listening to Clipper Stock.
I'm at a Moslin and this isAM five to seventy l a sports coo.
Why Leonard is a destroyer of worldsright now on the official home of
your LA Clippers. Clippers lose toLuca don Chits in the Dallas Mavericks by

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a final score of one h fiveto eighty nine in Dallas. Welcome back
into Clippers Stock. I'm at aMoslin Before we get back to your phone
calls, we'll get to Harold inNorth Hollywood right after this. Let's pause
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now number one for podcasting and iHeartRadio station. Harold in North Hollywood,
you're on Clipper Stock. What's up, Adam? How are you? I'm
good. I told you I'll getto your phone call. No, I
know you did, and this ispast my bedtime and I was starting to
snooze. Look, first of all, I want to wish the U.

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S A. Bruins good luck tomorrownight against Michigan State. I'm with you,
Harold. Bring it. They needJohnny Jusing to be healthy exactly.
He's got a shoot and everybody hasto come together and play hard. And
you know, I'm looking forward tonext season. But anyway, when I
wanted to talk about the Clippers,the NBA, as everybody knows, it's

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all about the three point shooting,and if they're not consistently hitting that shot,
they can't be They can't win.Nobody in this league can do that,
and that's their problem. Paul Georgeis on one night, he's off
the other night. Wait, waita second, Harold, harol. Hell,
yeah, they're the best three pointshooting team in the league. They
were bad one night. It isnot their problem. But look at what's

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their record. If what is theirproblem, then there are ten games over
five better. Well, they've hadsome injuries. PG thirteen and Kawhi Leonard
have combined to be out nineteen gamesso far this season, and Pat bev
has been out a dozen games.That is the main reason they still even

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going back to last season, theyhaven't had enough on court time to develop
that continuity. But there are thirtygames left and I still like the defensive
effort tonight. I mean there're tengames over five hundred, Harold, They're
still very good. No, Iagree with you, Adam Arger. You
weren't a golden Mike. Is thatright? Oh? You heard correct,

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I got lucky. Somebody somebody enjoyedlistening to me, was it you,
Harold? No, no, no, I heard it. I forget what
joy I heard of it? Butwhy aren't players? Why are so many
players sitting out because of injury?I hear guys a toll or an ankle
or ankles or usual. Everybody's peoplewant to see these guys playing well.

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They want to see him playing thoughin the playoffs, Harold, And everyone
prioritizes the playoffs nowadays. These guysare worth too much. They make a
ton and no issue with that,but you don't want to run them down
during the regular season. And soif you're a team that's and you think
you're destined for the playoffs and youcan somehow load manage or you're just able

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to not have them overutilize during theregular season and overworked, you have to
do that. And any team thatis top five in their conference, everything's
angled towards the playoffs and playing yourbest basketball then. But there is that
other side where you have to buildup that consistency also during the regular season.

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The regular season does matter. Someof the traits and some of the
habits that you build up can carryover into the playoffs. So the Clippers,
they have to get back to moreof that consistency and consistency and consistently
winning, because they have not wontwo games in a row since February fifteen.

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Hopefully that changes, and I thinkit will in the very near future.
But they got a good Charlotte Hornet'steam coming two Staples Center. That
game we'll tip off at seven pmSaturday night. We'll have your Clippers pregame
show starting at six pm, andCharlotte's gonna be angry because they just lost

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by thirty in Denver. Before weget out of here, I do want
to thank the callers, the Clippersorganization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seaman,
Ralph Lawler, Justin Wilson, BigBro, Jake get Well. Until Saturday
night, I'm Adam Oslin. We'lltalk to you at six him bec