Clippers lose 115-91 to the Warriors

Clippers lose 115-91 to the Warriors

Episode Transcript

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The game is over. Paul Georgemoney in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just begne Cowhi Leonard isso smooth in the mid range. This
is Clippers Locker Room, a recapof today's game and a look ahead on
your hope for LA Clippers basketball.And now your hosts, You, sir,
are a bad man. Adam Ousley. Clippers Lizard brutal one up North

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won fifteen to ninety one to theGolden State Warriors. Welcome into your post
game show. I'm Adam Oslin comingup your final box score. You'll hear
from the head coach in toront Lowand the players after. We can only
be described as one of the mostdevastating, disappointing losses of the season.
No, it's just amazing that thisteam was up the way they were in
the first half, and somehow theyhave one of their coldest second halves really

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of all time. They were fourfor thirty two before waving the white flag
in the fourth quarter. Yeah,I mean, it was just one of
those nights they couldn't knock down theiropen looks, and against this team who
even without Steph Curry, without AndrewWiggins, like Jordan Pool's a great player
and has proven it now the lastcouple of years play Thompson is a Hall
of Famer and we know that.So I look at it and I just

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say, okay, you got toknow that coming in the team did.
They came out with the urgency,They got up by twelve early in the
third quarter, and it just theycouldn't make their shots. Even if you
just take the three point shooting alone, and the Warriors didn't shoot the lights
up by any means fourteen of fortysix, but they made five more threes.
That's fifteen points off of threes ina game that the Clippers lost by

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twenty four. Sure, but youlook at it and you say it was
probably would have been closer. Itwould have been different, the pace would
have been different. Shure the otherthing, sixteen turnovers leading to twenty nine
Warriors points. The Clippers only turnedthe Warriors over twelve times, which is
not that much fewer. However,it led to twelve Clippers points. That's
a seventeen point difference right there.And to me, there's our game.
Three point shooting and turnovers once againto nag the Clippers in the butt,

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essentially in this second half more thananything else against the Warriors. You know,
people ask me all the time,what's their identity this season? And
I have to say, consistently andconsistent, and from the first half to
the second half in this one isjust epitomizes how they played throughout this year,
no doubt about it, and lookat them. Obviously, there's still
time in the season. There's seventeengames left, and I know that everybody's

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getting impatient. But the good newsis that because the Western Conference is so
bundled up and bunched up, thereis time. And it goes back to
what I was talking about a lotpregame, where the Clippers are gonna have
a lot of practice time down thestretch of this season. They're gonna have
a lot of home games, andthis is one of the hardest places to
win in the NBA. Don't getme wrong. Now, the Warriors are
twenty six and seven at home andseven and twenty three on the road.
It's just they haven't been able towin away from this arena. But they

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barely lost in this building. Soyou can't fault the Clippers for doing essentially
what everybody else did. But itwas the manner in which it happened.
Feels like the team needs to findan extra gear. They need some sort
of fire lit from underneath them rightnow. The only one who looked like
he was playing with that was TerrenceMann anytime he had minutes in this game,
and Mason Plumley, I should sayto quit twelve points and twenty rebounds.

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But Kawhi Leonard had himself a greatsecond quarter, a really great end
of the first half overall, andthen was fairly quiet in the second half.
He finished with twenty one points oneight of twelve shooting, Paul George
three of fifteen. They need more, They just need more. Out of
the two win three connection overall thirtytwo points combined when Jordan Pool scored thirty

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four himself, just not gonna cutit against this team. Clippers get out
scored forty two to sixteen in thethird quarter. They go on to lose
one fifteen to ninety one to theGolden State Warriors their next one. As
no Eagles said, no time tohang their head. They gotta get back
after it tomorrow in Sacramento against theKings. As they put up about a
week ago, the second highest scoringgame in NBA history, tip. Time

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for that one is at seven.Love Clippers countdown for you starting at six.
No my friends, safe, shorttravels, great call. As always,
we will talk to you to momAdam. I don't think it'll be
jim boys, but you know themantra remains the same. Can't wait coming
up next your final box score.Clippers have lost four in a row coming
out of the All Star break,and they lose the night against the Golden

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State Warriors. And you're listening tothe Los Angeles Clippers or the other George
and Leonard running. You're listening toLA Clippers basketball it up top Clipper puts
it down plus the foul every gameall season long on their official hold.
After leading by eleven at the half, the Clippers lose by twenty four up

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north to the Golden State Warriors inSan Francisco. Final score one fifteen to
ninety one in favor of the Dubs. As the Clippers had one of the
coldest and most miserable second halves that, quite frankly, I've ever seen before
they waved the white flag. Theywere four for thirty two from the field,

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and they waved it with about sevenminutes left in the fourth quarter and
they went four for thirty two comingout of the half after leading by eleven
at the half. It is confounding. It is tough to understand this one
Clipper nation to go that cold andthey end up and it's not even a

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true number of how bad it wasbecause on the night they were nine for
forty three from the outside, that'stwenty percent from three. They were at
thirty six percent from the field.But they got some garbage ones late that
we're inconsequential, we're not meaningful.Paul George three of fifteen and eleven points,

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one of eight from the outside.Kauai. At one point he was
seven for seven. Couldn't be stoppedinto the second quarter and it things with
that three pointer, thought they hadsome momentum. He finished eight or twelve
with twenty one. Mason Plumley It'stwenty boards had fourteen of them in the
first half, moment he had everhad in a half. Eric Gordon ruff

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from the outside two of ten Betweenhim, Paul George and Norman Powell,
those guys couldn't get anything to goas Powell was oh for seven from three
unbelievably poor shooting. Because Golden Statewas just fourteen to forty six from the

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outside. They only shot forty twopercent from the game. The Clippers defense
was really good in the first half. Well, you can't hit shots and
you can't set your defense. Well, you're gonna give lopside victories to the
opposition like this. Clippers lose onefifteen to ninety one to the Golden State
Warriors. They have lost four straight. To say their reeling is quite an

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understatement right now, as they droppedto thirty three and thirty two and are
currently in the play and tournament.More post game coming up, Plus we'll
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one fifteen to ninety one in agame they led by eleven and a half
over the Golden State Warriors. Justa fall by twenty four. They've lost
four in a row. They've yetto win out of the All Star Break.
They've yet to win a game withRussell Westbrook, he was three or

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twelve eight points. It's after havinga great first half, faded in the
second half like many Clippers did inthis one. Unreal. I feel bliss.
I don't know if this is agood or bad news at this point.
Clippers got a game tomorrow. Isuppose you want to get the bad

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taste out of your mouth and figureout a way to win in Sacramento.
Feels like season on the brink.There's seventeen games left and the King's right
now are in the three spot inthe West and playing good ball and put
up one seventy six on the Clippersa week ago. We'll see how that

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fall off, okay is calmed down? Yeah? We're trying. Clippers lose
one fifteen to ninety one to theGolden State Warriors. They've lost four straight,

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they haven't won with Russ and Idon't know if they've found their bottom
yet, to be quite honest withyou, and that's scary. Welcome into
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from Chuck Mackler of Clips and DipPod looking for coach loop postgame audio after
this one too. Clipper Nation,I don't know what to tell you.
We keep talking about a sense ofurgency. This team hasn't had any,
or they having spurts sporadic senses ofurgency. First half was great, some

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of the best defense they had playedall season long. Kawhi Leonard was very
good Offensively, they weren't exactly hotfrom the outside were on that coming up,
but they still led by eleven afterthey had their third best mark of
points in the pain at thirty twotwenty four minutes since to this one,
shots weren't falling from the outside wherethey were six to twenty one, but

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they found other ways to score,and Kawhi was brilliant. At one point
he was seven for seven. Hehad fifteen points and a three pointer to
put them up at the half fiftysix to forty five. I don't even
know if I should keep giving thisnumber out. It's shocking. Ear must

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for the kids. Vince Vaughan andold school style. I don't even want
to say it, but I haveto. From the third quarter up until
the seven minute mark of the fourth, where the Clippers ended up pulling guys
and waving the white flag because yes, it was over, they shot four

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for thirty two. That's in thespan of seventeen minutes, crossing over from
the third into the first five minutesof the fourth. That's twelve percent.
And I believe they had to hitone three during that time. I don't

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even know what to tell you.That is twenty seven straight miss threes from
the Rockets and the playoffs type stuff. The one thing that came to mind
was how cold they went in secondhalves in three straight games in the bubble
against the Denver Nuggets. I hatebringing it up. I do, but

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it reminded me of that. AndI'm trying to give you honest analysis,
and I'm looking for answers to thisteam. Said it all season long,
you ask me their identity consistently,inconsistent, and now they're just a game
over five hundred. Is that whothey are? Bill Parcells would say,

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so you are what your record saysyou are. I don't know. I
had just seen them go ten andtwo before the All Star Break in their
last twelve games with both Paul Georgeand Kawhi Leonard. I had just seen
them get one of their best victoriesof the season in Phoenix, where Terrence
Man was in the starting lineup,had twenty six points, played brilliant defense.

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Then the All Star break comes,they bring in Russell Westbrook, and
I'm not putting it all on him. It's not fair. He had a
great first half, didn't play muchin the second half. Things got away
from him. First half was beautiful, some of the feeds he had to
Mason Plumley to Kawhi Leonard for ahuge alley oop to Paul Wars underneath the

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basket. How do they get awayfrom playing like that? The only thing
I can think of is something elseI've been telling you. You use the
regular season to try to build championshiphabits. They build and have built up
bad habits, and they haven't goneaway because after just five turnovers in the

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first half, they had seven inthe third quarter alone. When you're not
hitting shots and you're not even gettingas many up because you're squandering possessions and
giving them to Golden State because theturnovers, it just compounds things and that's
how you get a lopside is scoreforty two to sixteen in favor of Golden
State. In that third quarter,they outscored the Clippers by twenty six points

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in twelve minutes. Clippers go frombeing up by eleven at the half to
having a thirty five point turnaround andlosing by twenty four to a Golden State
team that didn't even have Andrew Wigginsor Steph Curry. They're grade at home,

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there's no doubt, but that isjust inexcusable. I don't know if
it's effort or just cold shooting,because they did miss a lot of open
threes at some point, though,hey, they were missing him in the
first half and they got to thebasket they found other ways? Were they

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even looking for those in the secondhalf. I'm Mason Plumley had a career
first half fourteen boards, most he'sever had any half of its career.
You're up by eleven, But howmany times have they played great basketball?
And then let go up twenty oneagainst Milwaukee, up twenty one in Philly,

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We're up twenty in Philly games.They should have won many of them,
too many of them, And nowyou have to be in desperation mode.
I said it after they lost toMinnesota in a game they were what's
the score? Oh yeah, upby twelve in They led by as many

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as twelve in this one too earlyin the third before everything fell apart and
they unraveled against Minnesota. More understandable. It happened in the first quarter,
and they still were in it latetonight. Within seventeen minutes, the game
was over in the second half.Yeah, Golden State is the best third

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quarter team. They are historic andthird quarters they've been like that. It's
a championship pedigree. It's what they'vebeen doing under Steve Kerr. Oh my
god, you can't get out scoredforty two to sixteen. You can't go
that cold four of twenty two fromthe field, and the third one of
eight from three. In the third, Coach lu brought in different guys,

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didn't matter, seem mental. Theyall knew there was a lid on the
basket. There was a lack ofconfidence out there. But this team,
now, we're not just talking aboutplay in. We're talking about are they
going to make the playoffs? Arethey going to make the postseason? Danger?

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Danger zone. I don't even dothe stupid top gun thing. They
are currently two games up on theLakers, who are in the eleventh spot,
just outside the play in Clippers inthe seventh spot and hanging on barely,
just by a threat that has beenthreaded and bristled out. It's there's

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not much room for error at all. And I don't get it either.
I don't understand how you can keepexperimenting at this point and trying different guys
to see what you like for theplayoffs when it's not even guaranteed. I
gotta be honest, I'm surprised bythat Eric Gordon was in the starting lineup.

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They were missing Marcus Morris, whichI know a lot of people said
Marcus was the problem. He wasn'tplaying tonight. It beats the Zubas.
Not playing certainly hurts them. ButEric Gordon was in there. Mason Plumley
was in there. Eric Gordon wassix of sixteen, two of ten from

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three. After two really good gamesto start off, his second time around
with the Clippers hasn't been good comingout of the All Star Break. I'm
just wondering, can you have asense of urgency with so many moving pieces.
I don't know. Right now,I gotta say it's not looking that

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way. They're trying too many differentguys too late into the season where they
already didn't have an identity and theycan't find one. It was the offense
failing them early in the season.Now it's been the defense, But then
tonight it was also the offense inthe second half after the defense was really
good in the first half. Someof this. At some point you gotta

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say, maybe there's just not agood basketball team. Maybe they're a paper
tiger. I don't want to believethat the personnel is there. Kawhi Leonard
has been in God's ear mode andthey keep losing games. His last twenty
one games now I want to saythey're twenty two games they're twelve and ten.

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How is that possible? With howgood Kawai has been. Paul George
certainly hasn't been great coming out ofthe All Star Break. Last three games,
three or fifteen in this one.I'm scrambling to Clipper Nation trying to
find answers here. This team,it's not one person, it's not one

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coach. It's they're imploding from allangles, collapsing in on themselves. Hey,
there's seventeen games left. Tuesday,I said there's eighteen games left to
get it right. At what point, though, are they going to turn
it around? They went through asix game losing streak this season. We

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thought that was rock bottom. Fourlate in the season seems worse. Losing
the way they did tonight feels worse. But I'm not gonna make things worse
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station called down the thunderball. Nowyou've got it. Sorry. Clippers lose
one fifteen to ninety one to theGolden State Warriors to start things off,
son of a bitch Rex in Lahobby here on the hob rides. Hear

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me, I can hear you,Adam, hear me. Let it rap
at it later, rip Adam,but not too much, if you know
what I mean. And yeah,yeah, I know what you mean.
I know what you mean. I'mjust saying that this boat is sinking.
I just if you can explain tome something here in the beginning of the
sea or the first game, yousaid, and I said it, this

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is the best Clipper roster ever.And I'm looking at this team. I
mean, just think about it.Last year at this time they had a
better record and they didn't have KawhiLeonard Paul George miss about what thirty something
games last year, didn't have NormanPowell. No, he played about thirty
of the games last year. Okay, okay, but didn't have Kawai Norman

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Powell they gotten later on in theseason. How could they have a better
record last year at this time?And now I just baffling you. Just
you explain that to me. Ijust don't get it. I'll tell you
why it looks like at times thisteam defensively, Remember last season without Kawai

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all year, they were still topten in defense eighth. This season they
were eleventh coming into this one.Let me tell you why that number isn't
what it's shows to be. Iwent back and I looked after the first
seven games of the season this year, where they were spectacular on the defensive

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end, their offense wasn't there.They started the season three and four.
Remember they had lost four straight atone point early on, but their defense
was good and their offense was struggling, and they didn't have Kawhi after the
first couple of games, and hewas playing limited minutes. I took those
seven games out and just looked sinceNovember first till well yesterday. But coming

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into this one, the last fiftyseven games, Clippers have been eighteenth defensively.
That can't happen with this roster.There is no reason, there is
no justification for them being that badfor that long. I know Zubots was
out tonight. I know he's missedabout six games this season, and it's
always a big loss without him,But Kawai has played about forty Paul George

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is almost at fifty Kawhi didn't playat all last season and they were eighth
Defensively. These guys aren't connected enough. They dip in and out of playing.
I don't know if it's hard.I don't know if it's effort or
if it's just execution out there andmiscommunication. But it's not good enough defensively.
This team has no business being thatbad. For that long, shots

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should be able to come and goand their defense should hold up. But
when shots don't go for this team, typically they don't play well on the
other end either, and that isa sign as usually a very bad sign
when you let whether you make ormiss shots affect your defense. No,
no, no, that's for sure. Another thing I was gonna ask you.

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You know, I've been on MarcusMorris all year, and like I
just said, we can't blame ifhe didn't play today. But you know
what, I just with coach LouYou know what, I'm just thinking,
how came you to regrets coaching?And I about it? And you know
what, who's his assistant coaches?Adam? Because last year he had Chauncey

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Billups and yet no, he didn'thave Chauncey last year. Chauncy was already
the head coach of Portland. Okay, but he had in the acts correct,
he may have been gone. Atkinsonalso is player development guy that's not
necessarily your in game strategy guy.Dan Craig is still there as the DC

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in multiples. Yeah, look,I'm not Look, Coach Lewis had a
tough season. I agree with that. I think the roster that we thought
was going to be deep, itjust hasn't worked. The trade deadline looked
to get them pointing back in theright direction. It lasted a couple of
games. Then they bring in Russ. There's a new reshuffling, there's a

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new reset. There's guys figuring outthe roles once again. How they fit
in with this squad. I thinkit's just too many movies parts, you
know what I mean. But hehas to Like you said, they're up
eleven and a half time. Imean, they should have won this game.
I mean there's a few games theyshould have won. But you know
what, like you said, tomorrowthey're playing Sacrimento and they gotta win tomorrow

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game and then win tomorrow would befive in a row. He said the
same thing. After Tuesday night.We said the same thing after Tuesday night.
We said the same thing going intoTuesday night after two brutal losses,
that they could have won either gameand overtime. So you're right. I'm
not saying you're wrong, Javier.I'm just saying I don't know which team's
gonna show up game the game,quarter quarter half to have I don't know.

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Do I think the talent is there, Yes, but you gotta put
it together and have some chemistry.And I don't know if they've given themselves
a great chance to build up enoughchemistry with enough time left, with seventeen
games, while they're still tinkering andexperimenting and seeing who works with, some
of that has to happen. Thereare four new players. I'm not sure
how much Bones Highland needs to play. I think when Russell Westbrook came into

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the picture, we thought, Okay, he's not gonna play much. He
played against Denver, he played againstGolden State some tonight. But Eric Gordon
was in the starting lineup. Wasn'tTerrence Man, wasn't Norman Powell. I
Roco got some garbage minutes late.I know people have been talking about him
all season. I can't answer forwhy he hasn't played. It is perplexing.

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Mike in La you're on Clippers stockwithout hm awesome. You know,
Adam, there was a time inthe history of this organization when the owner
just walked the team for another team. I'm talking about the nineteen seventy eight
Bawston felt this buffalo brave swap.For those not familiar with really ancient Well,

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I'm not interested in talking about theClippers former owner. Well, oh
this was before, this was afew hours before. But I'm saying,
if I'm advising the bomber, I'mtelling them, you may want to see
if you could do the same thingagain. Just let me tell you that's
not a solution in the modern era. Give me something else, because that's
not happening. Will The other thingI think is I wonder if Kai Lewis

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started to bove this season, startedto believe his own height a little too
much, where you know, he'sthe tinkering guy. He knows that he's
going to make the adjustments and figureeverything out, and as a result,
he started just you'm playing these rotationsthat you know, we we you know,
a ten game sample size to figureout that four guards and Marcus Morris

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are going to get feet on theboards. I'll say this, A lot
of people have first guessed some ofthe moves this season that sometimes he has
gone away from eventually, but theywent for so long, and we're curious.
I have been a little bit baffledwith some of the moves. Well,
the three guard lineups, Reggie playingthirty minutes while Terrence Man's getting dnps,

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stuff like that, and then TerrenceMan ends up getting the starting lineup
for what twelve fourteen games. Theyplay really well, and it's like,
how was he not even playing earlyin the season. This is somebody who
can do everything. He has somany ways to help you on the court.
I didn't understand it. I don'tknow. I've given him the benefit

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of the doubt that he's going tofigure things out because that's what he has
always done and still can. Tonight, though searching for answers. We'll come
back. We'll get some more ofyour phone calls. I don't have a
line open eight six six ninety seventwo five seven. He's just kidding,
by man, you can't say nocall in call my cell phone whatever.

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Eight six six nine eight seven twofive seventy eight six six, nine,
eight, seven, two, fiveseventies the phone number or get to me
at follow Adam a Clipper Nation basketballhell tonight in the second half and it
froze over with their cold shooting.They lose one fifteen to ninety one after

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leading by eleven and a half.It lost four in a row. You
gotta figure it out. I thinkthey have the guys that do so still,
but I also might be crazy.More Clippers stock next year. On
the amp by seventy George and Lennardrunning. You're listening to La Clippers basketball,
but I'm tough. Clipper puts itdown plus the foul every game all

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season long on their official home stepconnegative one. Tonight, Clippers lose one
fifteen to ninety one to the GoldenState Warriors, and it wasn't even that
close. Actually, game got awayfrom them from start of the second half,
led by twelve, and Golden Statewent on h twenty one to four

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run the Clippers before they waved thewhite flag. We're four for thirty two
in the second half. And theywaved the white flag with seven minutes left
in the second because they were downin the fourth, because they were down
twenty one seven minute mark of thefourth You're down twenty one, and they

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waved the white flag after going fourfor thirty two. They're on the back
to back. It makes sense.I have no problem doing that. It
was over. They weren't coming backthose magical comebacks at or Cole Arena like
we played in the pre game Clippersrewe down thirty one. Ain't walking through
that door. Sadly, all right, welcome back in the Clipper stock.

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I'm at'm ouslin eight six six nineeight seven two five seventy eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy.I'll still find some positives. James and
Saint George, Utah, what's up? This phone line is not a positive?
James, take me ok, speaker, bluetooth. What effort is my?

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God? I know you want tohear it later on the podcast properly,
so you want to sound good too, James, I hear it.
God help me drop. Let's goto Morrison Englewood. There's someone who's gonna
bring some positives. Morris, what'sup? Well, I'm gonna tell you

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something right now. Adam. Iknow this sound like a broken record,
and I know you've heard this.Have you ever heard the cliche a make
misleague. I have, I've usedit. I'm not using it tonight.
If you're go ahead and put it, come on at him, put it.
I mean, we've never seen nothinglike this, These boys less ice.
Oh, she says, they're gonnanever be this gold again, and

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you're gonna get some calls. SoI'm going we'll fire the coach. Take
out, let me change something.You can't let him go right now.
You can fire them at the endof the year. Okay, what do
you people are gonna do? Changethings over night? They're gonna figure it
out. Okay, they showed theycan't play. They just can't play forty
eight minutes. But they're gonna figureit out at him, all right,
and then and then never gonna bethis cold again, all right, behave
yourself. Well, it would bedifficult when you're shooting him hawth or something.

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That's That's where it looked like.I saw an a t t walk
by. As another mystery went up. There was a tonton. Do you
know what I'm not? I thoughtthis felt bad on the outside. Uh,
let's go Bradley and san Dimas Y'reon Clipper stop without him? Oslin,

(33:32):
Hey, Adam, you hear me? I got you, Bradley,
your phone sounds great, Thanks forplaying along, Yeah, no problem.
Yeah. So I think something thatI've been thinking about lately, and it
kind of harkens back to a lotof the early season struggles, not even
really like from Game one, butbefore that, when the team just decided,
like, you know, we don'tneed to back up center and we

(33:54):
kind of saw what that did earlyon. Is it possible that that twenty
twenty one run kind of I knowwhere you're going with this. Them playing
small then may not work as well. Now. Yeah, I don't want
to say like the team was likefools gold, because I think the team
was really good, but where thosethe perfect matchups to play small ball?

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And it kind of gave the teamthe whole wrong idea of their basketball philosophy
since then, as it gave themsome fools gold. Now it wasn't fools
gold against Dallas against Utah, andthey had to run some small ball against
Phoenix when Zoo went down too.I have wondered this. I've also kind

(34:37):
of speculated whether or not the leagueis caught up to some of that playing
five out. But the truth is, I mean I can count the amount
of times that they've truly gone towing stop this season, which we thought
was going to be the identity andthe versatility that they have on this team
would make sense that it would beabout on one hand, about you know,

(34:58):
a few a few times oh yearthey've really tried it and an unleashed
wing stop. Roco has not beenplaying after he had a good January where
he started to get some minutes allof a sudden, and guess what,
he caught a rhythm. He shotthirty nine percent from the outside. When
people were saying, well, sohe's not even shooting that well early in
the season, It's like, yeah, if you play one or true minutes

(35:19):
a week, it's not gonna happen. I that part of me. I
can't understand it for the life ofme as well, James or excuse me,
y yeah, Bradley, Yeah,yeah, I just you know,
throughout the season, especially when we'reseeing those three guard lineups, you know
they'd go small, and it's likethe expectation was the offense will open up.

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But you know the thing about especiallytwenty twenty one, is you had
probably the only week defender out therewas Reggie right, because you know,
Muke has his problems, but inthose playoffs, you know, he was
he was flying. Muke was greatin those playoffs. He did a lot
of the dirty work even when shotsweren't fallowing. And he hit seven threes
against Dallas in Game seven, Buteven when shots weren't falling, he was
doing the little thing. Yeah hewas. He was battling Gobert down in

(36:02):
the post and Mega talking series himand the tomb and uh, you know,
but now right when you have Reggieand Luke and norm out, they're
granted, two of those guys aren'there anymore, but you know they played
a lot. They played a lotin the first sixty games. A lot.
Yeah, yeah, And so Iguess my main point here is,

(36:22):
I just, you know, uh, it's hard for me to get excited
about these last seventeen games. Thisteam is really really flawed. You know,
If they're going to put out thateffort every night, I'm gonna match
that effort the rest of the season. But I guess my main point is,
uh, I just kind of thinkthat it's hard to put blame on
one party in the organization when completelythe whole thing is really kind of a

(36:45):
disaster completely when you have something fallingapart to this degree, it's never just
one thing. It's not that simple. And Bradley, I mean, good
job, good effort tonight. Man, you got to call back tomorrow.
I appreciated my friend. I don'tknow, I don't know if I'm gonna
watch tomorrow, man, but yeah, keep the faith, keep it.

(37:08):
I mean, look, would itnot be the most Clippers thing to win
their first championship while playing this badand having a low seed, Like,
would they not make it harder onthemselves? That would seem to track to
me, I couldn't agree with thatmaybe a week ago, but I just
think I think we're at that pointa lot, a lot. Actually yeah,

(37:32):
I think it might just be timeto to not look toward but you
know, really really kind of letit go. But you know, I
think give us. We're still fans. But all right, thanks Sadam,
Thanks for the time. Appreciate you, Bradley. Uh, let's go to
Sean and Inglewood. Sean, you'reon Clippers Stipe without aim Aslinky. Good

(37:53):
to talk to you. Thanks forgetting back to the phone in time.
Yeah, I feel like you jumpedover a chair. Oh No, the
school, Jim Over, I justwant to talk to you about the entire
You said the team doesn't have anidentity, and the am I wrong?

(38:14):
What's their identity? I've said it'sconsistently inconsistent. That's an identity you don't
want. I'm not arguing with you, Adam No, I'm just saying they
haven't had an identity since Montress,Harold Lou Williams the year before they got
Kawai and Paul hold On. HoldOn, they definitely had an identity in

(38:36):
the twenty twenty one playoffs, andit was being a switchable, versatile team
that could guard one through five.Okay, I'll give you that, Okay,
but currently the identity and the impactof Russell everything's not Russell's fault that
became aboard, but you actually putGordon Highland, parents Man and also Power

(39:06):
in a situation of flux, notaware of where they sit in you can
actually shine. Let me get backto you hold On, because you touched
upon something interesting. It's not thatit's Russ's fault, but bringing in any
player this laid into the season that'sgoing to be playing thirty minutes and starting
is difficult to implement an integrate.Right, Yeah, you're taking my slow

(39:30):
because what happened is that I wantedhim here, but I didn't want him
to start right away and just disrupteverything. And so the by products of
his disruption you can see it intheir body energy and their language on the
court. And then they're forcing themshots that they felt more comfortable taking when

(39:50):
they had more time and they knewthat they were going to get minutes.
You can see it all, andit's a it's a kind of a flux
that you a dynamic that is thewhole team's experience it and clus to fact
to make the perfect storm even worse. The first game they played together that
they really should have won and theyhad the league tay Lou can't call a

(40:15):
play when it's eight seconds of fiveseconds on the closs and get a decent
shot. All right, are youtalking about the King's game. I'm talking
about the King's game. They wereup three. They didn't foul, Monk,
you're up three, like foul?Well, but no, I'm pretty

(40:36):
sure, Sean. Let me finish. Look, I love you, but
we're not gonna do that. Sean. This is what happened. It sounds
like that was the plan, andthe players didn't execute it. I'm not
putting that on coach Lou. Ifguys don't foul, they are professionals,
they know they're up three. Youfoul, agatta to you win the free

(41:00):
battle, you win the game.John, am I wrong? You're right
about that. I don't know ifhe'd called it or not, but they
didn't call the right player on offenseeither. Every time they get they don't
even get a hyperstenic or this shotwhen their second less on the clock,
they call the time out and guesswhat you see a four stump shot.

(41:22):
It's just ridiculous. Okay, bea better coach, Tylo. I'm saying,
you know, so what all wouldhappened? That momentum of those first
two overtime losses also had a bigeffect on the entire team. I can
see it. I agree with you. I agree with you. I think
let me see if you pick upon this shown because on that last road

(41:45):
trip where at one point, Ithink that was during the sixth game losing
streak, when they were on theroad and they blew that game to Philly
where they were up by twenty andthey were playing great, and they look
great, and for whatever reason theygave it away. There was something there

(42:05):
that I think is lingering because youremember, and I'm trying to put this
together and make sure I have thisright. But the Clippers almost and this
was the next time around on aroad trip. This was that last one
and it wasn't the six game losingstreak, but there were warning signs.

(42:27):
Remember the game in Atlanta to startoff the road trip. They won it,
but they were holding on late afterhaving a big lead and they almost
gave it away. Then they don'tplay guys against Cleveland, they lose that
game by twenty three. Then againstChicago they almost did the same thing and
fumbled the game away at the endsjust to hold on. They have had

(42:51):
issues closing games, even in wins. This is why I never say a
wins a win. You can seewarning signs, you can see flaws there.
And guess what happened on that tripwhen they played a better team in
Milwaukee and they led by twenty one, they did give it away. They
did complete the collapse that time becausethey were taking on a better opponent,

(43:12):
but the signs were there in twogames beforehand. Are you with me?
I'm with you. Again, theycome down to identity. As you were
saying, and I was saying,and I think the one thing they need
to do ternce Man definitely needs tostart because he gets the energy going.
And then as you were saying,the piggyback on your point, they have
guts to get their clothing team together, and clothes okay than what they were

(43:37):
doing. I'm just glad you watchedand called in tonight. Sean, are
you gonna calling them all? Ihave no idea. I'm telling you,
I'm good. I'm frustrated. Iget it, brother, you get three
Hall of Famers on this team andyou can't call a five second place is
to get a shot of I'm gettingvery frustrated, all right, Sean.

(44:00):
I hope you keep the faith aswell. Ali Yun and Lancaster ali Yun,
I get that right, Yes exactly, Hi Adam, Hi ali Yune,
what's up? But I want tostay in man. You don't think,
uh, what book would be better? Coming from the bench. When

(44:21):
I was asked on the clips anddip pod if they get Russell Westbrook,
what would be the best position forhim, I thought it was going to
be off the bench and for acouple of different reasons. They have had
trouble keeping up energy, and Ithought at the end of first quarters into
second quarters and throughout the year they'vehad issues in second quarters, that would

(44:42):
be a good bridge point for Russplaying early in that second quarter with Paul
George because typically they would stagger theminutes where kah I wouldn't come back into
the second quarter until about the fiveor six minute mark. So you'd get
a lot of PG and Russ there, and those two obviously have chemistry.
They've worked together in okayc And thenI thought this same thing could happen and
the thirds going into fourth quarters.But they want a point guard. They

(45:05):
wanted the starting point guard. Theycampaign for him. They got to figure
it out. He's in the startinglineup and it hasn't look There have been
beautiful moments from this team where theoffense looks better than ever against Sacramento at
times, against Denver at times inthe first half. At times tonight,
Russell Westbrook just throwing dimes, gettinginto the paint, passing up three pointers,

(45:28):
getting into the paint and then givingMason Plumly an easy one. He
did it multiple times, got himto the foul line that way too,
found Kawhi Leonard for a lob,found Paul George underneath the basket. They
weren't getting these easy baskets early onthis season with that's why you bring him
in there, to make the gameeasier for those guys. The flip side
of it is you're trying to figurethings out with them and it leads to

(45:52):
a lot of turnovers because coming intothis game, in the seventy eight minutes
that Russ, Kawai, and PaulGeorge had been on the floor together coming
into this game, so in justthree contests, yes, but there's only
seventeen left, they had turned theball over thirty five times in seventy eight
minutes, so almost almost a turnoverevery two minutes. It was that bad

(46:21):
because two of the last three gamescoming into this one day and twenty five
turnovers. So they gotta smooth thingsout. If those three are going to
play together on the floor and Russis going to be a starter, it
can't be feast or famine. Theyhave to be more consistent. What do
you think, Elliott, Yeah,you're right, you're right, But also

(46:42):
I think I don't know if thisteam is not too big for Tyls.
What do you think? Say itagain? The Cliffers team, they're very
lordy. I don't know if it'stoo much. The Cleveland Cavaliers with Lebron
James weren't too much for him.So no, I don't think that's the

(47:02):
case. But I appreciate the phonecall you and we'll talk to you tomorrow.
We'll take a quick time out eightsix six ninety seven two five seventy
eight six sixty ninety eight seven twofive seventy looking for coach lou postgame audio.
We'll also have on Charles Mapa fromEclipse and dip Pod Spicy Tonight here
at Clipper's talk, it was gonnabe up eleven at a half. I

(47:28):
don't know how they can go thatcold from the outside and for some of
it not to be mental when you'remissing shots like that. I think guys
were gripping in the second half.But if Paul George is gonna go one
fray from the outside, Westbrook goesover five, How's over seven and Eric

(47:50):
Gordon's two for ten, I don'tknow. Maybe that does tell the story.
Maybe this is that simple maker missLeague. There you go, Morrise
or Clipper stock decks here an fiveseventy l a sports hen he got it.
Count it from distance. The oddson favorite to hoist the Larry o'bride
heavily contest it, and it doesn'tmatter. On the home of your LA.

(48:10):
Clippers lose one fifteen ninety one upNorth in SF in a game where
they had eleven point lead at thehalf. Kawhi Leonard hit a three pointer
before the end of the first halfand they lose this one. As welcome
back into Clipper Stock, I'm autamoslin eight sixty six ninety seven two five

(48:37):
seventy eight six sixty ninety seven twofive seventy. Clippers have lost four in
a row. They continue to hemorrhichright now, and I don't know what
the answer is, hence why welike taking phone calls sometimes on Clippers Stalk.
Look, I I do think Isaid this early on this season.

(48:58):
On one hand, I think thegame may have caught up with some of
the five out lineups because more teamsare doing it, something that the Clippers
were a step ahead on in thetwenty one playoffs. But we also just
haven't seen them tried enough. It'sstrange. I thought all season long,

(49:20):
how is Roco playing this little?What is happening? Nicolas Batoum not getting
as many minutes as Marcus Morris,Terrence Man not playing enough, getting dnps
that stuff. They lost a lotof games when they had one of the
easiest schedules in the NBA to openthings up. So it is a little

(49:45):
bit perplexing even for me as wetry to reach Chuck Mockler. But that
ain't happening. Let's go to Jamesand Saint George. Oh, this is
a good call out him. I'msure the phone will be great now.
James, what's up? Yeah,the phone's James Water. Dear God,

(50:10):
on a night like tonight, didI mention our petids are falling off?
It's just like that. Clippers loseone fifteen to ninety one of the Golden
State Warriors. Look, there's seventeengames left. If coach lew is the
guy I think he is, he'sgoing to figure it out. If he's
the same guy he was two seasonsago in in twenty sixteen for the Cleveland

(50:35):
Cavaliers, making the tough decisions.This is someone who wasn't afraid of bench
lebron James before. If you cando that, you can take away anyone's
minutes who's not performing, because Idon't see at this point how they can't
go with the guys who are playingthe best. You have to There's seventeen
games left. There's nothing else thatcan be done. At this point.

(51:00):
You have to win to get intothe tournament. You guys might have to
win this game to the play in. They are just in that deep of
a hole right now. Yeah,and the West is too tight, so
trying out new lineups. And I'mstill looking for postgame audio from coach Low

(51:21):
and even a quote here and there, and Drew grayfe hook it up only
times. Well, I'm orry,where are you at? Not seeing any
If there was time for a player'smeeting would be now. But we do
have some audio I wants you tohear that we played in the pregame show.
And this is from Paul George onwith JJ Reddick, a former Clipper.

(51:46):
This was on the Old Man inthe three podcast. It's an amazing
interview. It's an hour long.And I don't know if this is encouraging
or making you hopeful and sanguin andoptimistic, or if this is the flaw
of this team. I'm not sure, but I want you to hear it

(52:08):
either way. Here was pg Iwant jj Reddick. Where would you sort
of assess where the Clippers are rightnow relative to the rest of the best
teams in the NBA. I think, honestly, I think our record,

(52:28):
you know, you know, youlook at some teams and it's like,
all right, their record doesn't indicatehow good of a team they are,
And I think that that's the casefor us. Like we're a team that,
like, all right, you putus in a seven game series with
how well t Lou coaches and hisadjustments, Like, we're a team that's
going to come out in a sevengame series when we're healthy, you know

(52:52):
what I mean, Like, well, we'll make the adjustments. We got
the personnel, we got the playersthat play and perform on a big stages,
Like we got proven winners on ourside. I like where we're at,
like our chances, like we justyou know, I've missed fifteen games,

(53:12):
Kwie, missed about fifteen to twentygames, Like we just haven't had
the luck of being healthy for afull season and to be able to play
with you know, a full roster. Our whole season, and I think
that's just where our record is indicatingthat, Like we haven't had much practice
time, we haven't had much onthe court time, given with so many

(53:37):
guys in out of the lineup,like we're in now here we are again
adding Russell to the lineup. EricMaze bones like there's three games in,
they're still figuring out our system.Like I think it's just that's just what
it comes down to for us.We just don't have We just haven't had
the luck of putting in good hoursand good you know, game in,

(54:00):
good practice days, being fully atour best, and when we get down
to the stretch, like like Isaid, seven games, we're going to
be a tough out. That lastpart there, well, I know you
have to have confidence, and atthis point you have no other other option

(54:20):
than to believe you're a flip theswitch team, because they certainly haven't been
consistent all season long. The talentmay be there, but I wonder if
they relied on that mindset too much. Just get us to the playoffs,
Just get us in a seven gameseries, we'll figure it out. That
and they've let the regular season goby the wayside. They've had one and

(54:43):
a half eyes on the playoffs allseason long. I don't know, but
I did find that interesting. Yougotta believe in yourself, you gotta believe
in the team. And that wasgranted before they lost to Minnesota Tuesday night,
and obviously before they lost tonight.But when does the urgency kick in?

(55:05):
When do you say we actually haveto start playing basketball. We had
a caller earlier say they just can'tdo it forty eight minutes. Guess what.
That's where an NBA game is.At some point they do against quality
competition, you will lose. Theylost two overtimes in the last four games

(55:28):
too good teams, games they couldhave easily won. And I just hope
that mindset isn't what it's seeped into the point where the regular season doesn't
matter enough. We're here for theplayoffs because I don't know, if you
can just turn it on. GoldenState might be able to. They have
a built in identity. They've beengreat, they have four championships, they

(55:52):
won it last season. They mightbe able to play around. I don't
know if they Clippers can afford todo that and then say, yeah,
we'll be the sixth seed or theseventh seed and figure it out. There
has been one team in the modernera that has won that is not a

(56:13):
top three seed. I told youthis earlier on the season. It matters.
The only team that did it wasthe ninety five Houston Rockets. They
were a sixth seed. They also, though, had won it the season
before, so you could say,okay, they were champions. The famebody
was gonna pull that off. Itwas clutch City outside that. History does
not favor the Clippers in the positionthey're in. We'll come back, We'll

(56:36):
see if we get somebody on fromclips to day. I don't know,
Chuck's phone just skipped it across thelake or something. Eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy eight sixsix nine eight seven two five seventy Clipper
Nation sweets keep coming in out followout of May. I get it.

(56:57):
There is a lot of aggravated peopleout there. Someone said, I can
cannot wait for us to reboot thiswith the Superstars. We are a giant
jigsaw puzzle with no work, noneof the right pieces. I don't know,

(57:17):
but the picture is not getting anymoreclear. What they should do.
I still believe. I still thinkthey got the right, guys. Clearly
they gotta put together and it's gotto start tomorrow. We'll Clipperstock next year.
By seventy sports George and Lennard running. You're listening to La Clippers basketball,

(57:40):
but I'm tough. Clip puts itdown plus the foul every game all
season long. On their official homeClimbers lose one, fifteen and ninety one
up north to the Golden State Warriors. I met him Oslin. We're trying
to have a sense of urgency tonight here at Cliberstock, kicking doing the
best of wee care here, kickof reason through. What's happening with this

(58:01):
Clippers team out of the All Starbreak? They had one ten of fourteen.
Coming into the All Star break,they had one ten of their last
twelve with Kawai and Paul George.During that time, they looked to have
been turning a corner, and nowit's all falling apart at the seams.

(58:22):
I gotta be honest with you,that's what's happening. It looks like a
team that has forgotten how to winright now. They lose both over times.
They lose to Minnesota in a gamethey were up by twelve, they
were up by twelve to start thethird quarter or early in the third quarter
against Golden State and couldn't hit ashot. I don't know if they were

(58:46):
just pressing at some point, ifthe season is weighing on them with all
the different moving parts and guys don'tknow their roles, I can only speculate.
I don't know, but the product, which is so good at times,

(59:06):
just they can't seem to find anyconsistency out there, and you gotta
have it in this league. Let'sgo to Alan norwalk Al, what's up?
You're on clipper side without Amazin?Yeah, how's it going? It's
all good. Al, what's up? I was just, you know,

(59:29):
just taking a look at the numbers. You. I can't help but feel
bad for Westbrook. I don't thinkit's fair, of course, to blame
him for this losing streak, andwe haven't been as I mentioned. Yeah,
I don't think it's about Russ.I think it's about bringing in a
player, and bringing in a starterat the point guard position this late into

(59:49):
the season. That may be theproblem. It's just somebody that has the
ball in their hands and a highusage like that so much you're up,
you're up. Ending your your offenseand your play and you're trying to do
too much with too little time tofigure it out. Yeah, I think
the results. It's just tough forhim to come in and they go on

(01:00:12):
a losing streak and he's has,you know, these turnovers and mysteries.
I think the noise is just goingto continue to grow and it's it's kind
of just bad luck. You can'thelp but feel bad for the guy.
Yeah, I get it, andI feel bad for some of the other
guys that we're finding their rhythm andthen realized, oh, we're gonna reshuffle

(01:00:34):
things. Here we go because NormPowell, I don't know what's going on.
One for nine from the field,two points oh of seven from the
outside, just thirteen against Minnesota,just nine against Denver. This was someone
who was scoring in bunches in sixof the last eight games before the last

(01:00:57):
three where he has struggled. Ijust gave you the numbers. He was
getting twenty or more and on hisway to looking like the six Man of
the year. Shooting has been absurdon the season. He's at forty two
percent from the outside, but hehas had a month were he just shot
forty eight percent from three in January. He still shot forty percent on a

(01:01:24):
bad month in February. I don'tget it, Mike and Brow. You're
on Clippers South without I am awsome? Yeah, how you doing, Adam?
I hate to be the bear ofbad news, but I just read
where Norm Powell is wearing a slingin the locker room. Well, that's

(01:01:45):
a little bit of an explanation.Yeah, there's something going on with his
arm. Anyway. My take is, I just feel like Father Time is
caught up with this team. Ijust think they're out of gas. Does
Kawhi Leonard look out of gas?He's playing some of the best basketball of

(01:02:07):
his career and he's your best player. Does father Time caught him? Because
it doesn't look like it. Buthe can't do it all at him?
He can't do it all. Ohhe can't. But you said this team
and he is the most important playeron the team. I'm talking about the
other players. Paul George is notplaying like like he like he should.

(01:02:29):
Norm Powell hasn't played well, justlike you've just mentioned. I don't know
what's going on with Marcus Morris.That's another mystery. That's fair. He's
been rough the last two months.Shooting has fallen off, defense has fallen
off, everything. He hasn't lookedlike the same player he's been at all.

(01:02:52):
Yeah, you know, and he'sout tonight with an injury, and
maybe that's some of the explanation thatcould be it. I hate to bring
up the team across the hall,but I just happened to watch him last
night, and without hate what you'regoing to interesting? Yeah, without without
Lebron James and uh Davis, theycame out with energy. And granted they

(01:03:20):
beat a Oklahoma team without Shay Giljis, but you know, they came out
with energy. They won the game. Hey, the Clippers came out with
energy too. Where'd it go inthe second half. I don't know.
I don't know. I think theygot out coached, To tell you the
truth, I think I think Curr'sa much better coach. And you know,
and like I said, I thinkthat that one game where they went

(01:03:44):
into double overtime really took a tollon this team as far as gas and
and and just energy and everything.And now with man, it's just you
know, he's probably thinking, whatdo I got to do? All right?
Yeah, I hear you. Youmake some ceiling points, y'all.
Clippers lose one fifteen to ninety one. I'll offer you this on the way

(01:04:08):
out. Coach Lewis said he's confidentstill. When things aren't going well,
you have to be tough enough topush through a quote. We just got
to stay the course. Got tobe mentally tough, mentally strong. Can't
give in, just gotta be tougher. Starts tomorrow in Sacramento. Tip time

(01:04:30):
is at seven, while Clippers countdown in six. Before we get out
of here. Do you want tothank the Clippers organization? Noah Eagle,
Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawlor, bigBrother, Jake Warner, Katy Newton or
producer here into bank, the callers, the listeners, the tweeters. I'm
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