Clippers Lose 176-175 in Double OT to Sacramento

Clippers Talk with Adam Auslund after an epic game that the clippers lose to the Kings in 176-175. You'll hear from Will Updyke postgame and callers.

Episode Transcript

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The game is over. Paul Georgemoney in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just begot Cohi Leonard isso smooth in the mid range. This
is Clippers Locker Room, a recapof today's game and a look ahead on
your home for LA Clippers basketball atnow your host, You, sir,
are a bad man Adam Ousley.An exciting game, but some excruciating pain

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for Clipper Nation as they lose byone with a score one seventy six to
one seventy five in favor of theKings. Here from downtown Los Angeles.
Kings win in double overtime. Welcomeinto your postgame show. I'm outam Oslin
coming up. We'll get to yoursecond half highlights. We'll also hear from
the head coach and the players afterthis one. But first back to your

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voice of the Clippers in Noah Eagle. Noah. To say they had their
chances is an understatement. They hadlarge leads of fourteen points with five minutes
left on the fourth quarter, ninepoints six points in both over time.
They just simply couldn't close it.Look, the Kings came into this game
second in the NBA in halftime combaxwhen they trailed at halftime. The Kings

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coming in had twelve wins coming backand winning the games. The only thing
that was ahead of them coming intothis game was the Clippers, who have
thirteen wins when trailing at halftime thisyear, so now they're all even in
that category. After the Clippers ledby four following two quarters, I mean,
this was just one of the mostremarkable games I've ever seen. I've
never seen a scoring output like this. I've never seen a game in which
like neither defense could do anything essentially, And you're right, you could count,

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however, many times that the Clippershad chances the big leads that they
coughed away. I think it goesback to the shot that they allowed from
a league monk at the end ofregulations. That's the game right there.
You get one stop, you winthe game. And it felt like that
a couple of times for this team. They couldn't secure the consistent stops,
and eventually the Kings, who deservea lot of respect, are currently third

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in the West for a reason becausethey've won games like this all year.
They had Siponas foul out pretty earlyin overtime. He only played thirty one
minutes. But Daron Fox, anAll Star League monk, played like an
All Star, and even with KawhiLeonard going for a Clippers career high of
forty four and playing some menacing defensewhen they needed him, he just ran
out of gas. And with PaulGeorge being on that minute restriction he had,

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he was the one who was guidingthem in the fourth quarter in overtime,
just took over. After having justfourteen points in the first three quarters,
he had twenty in the third,in the fourth quarter in overtime combined,
so to put him on the bench, Russell Westbrook fouls out in double
ot. It was just a perfectstorm for the Clippers who just couldn't push
over that line. And those arethe These are just the tough ones to

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swallow. Look, there's a lotof good that came out of this game.
There's a lot of good to takeaway from this game. I think
there's a lot of positive momentum forthis team. But man, this is
gonna be a tough one to getover for anybody. And we're talking about
the teams that are three and fourin the West or were coming into this
one. With the Clippers having achance if they had one to get within
half a game of the Sacramento Kingsfor that three seed. They will see

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them again coming up next week,but this one stings in a major way.
Now, Russell Westbrook in his debut, did e quit himself? Well?
He looked very good out there andseemingly blended in and I thought really
deferred in a great way where hewas in control and taking care of the
basketball for the most part. Youcould tell there were a couple of times
where he said should I drive itor should I set somebody up? And

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then he deferred to setting somebody upand it was probably the right choice.
I mean, he had fourteen assistsin this game. Adam, We've seen
him have games where he's had twentypoints, twenty assists and almost twenty rebounds.
I mean, that's the type ofplayer when he's at his peak performance
that he can be. So seventeenfourteen times five rebounds, played thirty nine
minutes in his first game with theteam and ends up fouling out in double
overtime. But he brought a spark. He brought a whole lot that this

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team just didn't really have to thispoint of the season. Really, it's
the last couple of years of someonewho can set the table. And you
said it before, I don't knowthe last time we saw Kawhi Leonard and
Paul George get that many catch oftwo threes and they absolutely made the most
of them when it combined fourteen ofseventeen from three point terrets with the Clippers
actually set a franchise record and madethrees tonight with twenty six of them.

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Now, of course it was doubleovertime. The last time they had twenty
five that was in regulation, butstill franchise record, made three franchise record
in points. They had thirty nineassists in this game. At him.
I mean, this is a teamthat barely averages twenty two. This is
exactly what you expect with Russell Westbrookand you hope that he can continue and
build off of this first performance becausethat's the other part of all of this.

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The Kings didn't really make any movesat the deadline. They brought in
Kessler Edwards, who was a youngplayer that maybe they could develop, but
he's not in the rotation. Theydidn't make any moves. This is a
team that's been together. The Clippersare still finding themselves and for them to
put up one hundred seventy five pointsis pre impressive. Clippers fall one seventy
six to one seventy five two theSacramento Kings here from Crypto dot Com Arena.
No time to hang their head.There's just twenty games left in the

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season, and the next one's comingup in Denver Sunday night against the reigning
MVP, who might have another onecoming his way this season with Nikoliokich and
his stellar play. But the Clippershave Plumbly now. And let's not forget
those two play together for some years. They know each other very well.
I like it. The secret weaponin Mason plum Ly, plum Dog Millionaire

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babingos his tricks, the plumb God. Clippers tipping off in Denver at seven
against the Nuggets on Sunday. We'llhave your pregame show starting here at six.
No, you didn't have to workout today. I hope you didn't,
because you got one during the ballgame. You know, I got
on the bike at him. Youknow how it is. You know the
vibes come on now. That's theonly way you could say in shape for
a game like this. Apparently,great call is always my friend will talk

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to you on Sunday, Adam,I'm really not sure if I can strain
my voice anymore. I'm going toanyway, can't wait at him covering up.
Next, we'll try to get yousome of those second half highlights and
was one of the wildest games,not just the season, in NBA history,
scoring game ever, Adam, thereit is in the modern era.
But the Clippers fall by one indoublet to the Kings, one seventy six

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to one seventy five was your finalscore. And you're listening to the Los
Angeles Clippers radio network in double overtime, the Clippers fall by one to the

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Sacramento Kings here in downtown Los Angeleswith a final score of Sacramento one seventy
six the Los Angeles Clippers one seventyfive, second highest scoring game in the
history of the league. Welcome intoyour postgame show or back in. I'm
Adam Oslin coming up. We're lookingfor postgame audio from the head coach and

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the players after this one. Butlet's get to those second half highlights.
There were plenty of them in ahigh scoring game like this that started off
of the first half where the Clippersled eighty to seventy six Kawhi Leonard.
He had seventeen in the first half. He would outdo that in the third
quarter alone. So the Clippers getto stop to start this third quarter in

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moving from left to right with Westbrook, George Clubly Leonard and Morris George crossover,
drive middle into the paint. Blabit outside, swing it Leonard on
the right wing. We'll try thethree and connects Westbrook with his seventh assist
of the night. Makes it eightythree seventy six. Barnes outside Westbrook extra,
feed Leonard on right wing. Three, He's got another Kawhi Leonard with
twenty three eighty six seventy eight eightassists for Russell, Westbrook, Westbrook left

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Green, leave it Leonard straight awaythree, he can't miss. Kawai ka
boom twenty six and ten assists nowfor Westbrook ninety two eighty three. La
Leonard's gonna have to make it happen. Step back straight away three over barns
Oh Kawai cash is in its twentynine for the claw and the Clippers lead

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ninety five eighty eight. Kawhi Leonardhad twenty one in the third quarter alone,
tying a career high for most pointsin a quarter from him, and
the Clippers led one seventeen to oneten heading into the fourth where then Paul
George started cooking. George now withmet two on a crossover back and forth
down the right alley to the rim, off the window, gets the bucket

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in the foul Pg. Thirteen witha whooping harm and he had a little
something to say to Natalie's Sago afterthe fact. Paul George had sixteen in
the fourth quarter, but the Clippersgave up a nine point lead with under
three minutes left at two forty andMalik Monk would hit a three pointer to
tie the game to send it intoot Kawhi Leonard had a look at a

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seventy footer that hit off the frontof the rim, so we headed into
overtime. In ot Clippers got offto a quick start. They led by
six with three oh four left inovertime, but they would give up that
lead as well and it was atie game at one sixty four, all

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heading into double overtime, and dejavu happened again up six with now a
minute fifty seven left in doublet andthe Clippers couldn't get enough stops, couldn't
execute well enough on offense, andthey would eventually fall to Malik Monk and
his forty five points in an unrealperformance, one seventy six to one seventy

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five to the King's in double othere in downtown Los Angeles. Coming up
next on your postgame show, we'llpreview Sunday night's game and looking for postgame
audio from Coach Low and the playersafter eight historic night here at Crypto dot
com Arena, but unfortunately it endsin a loss for the Clippers. They

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lose one seventy six to one seventyfive. I did not stutter day what
a score, What an unbelievable game. Tough one though, Clipper Nation.
Coming up on AMP five seventy LASports, we'll have Clippers stock for you
at eight six six ninety eight seventwo five seventy eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy is the phonenumber. More postgame next here on Los

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Angeles Clippers Radio Network. Clippers losingdouble ot so the Sacramento Kings in downtown
Los Angeles by a brace yourself scoreof one seventy six to one seventy five,

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second highest scoring game in the historyof the NBA, but the Clippers
lose it by one. You're lookingat this final box score if you're asking
for how teams could score that much, Well, they both were near sixty
percent from the field and shot ridiculousnumbers from the outside. The Clippers set
a franchise record, hitting twenty sixthree pointers on fifty eight percent shooting,

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and the Kings they went eighteen toforty one. That's forty four percent from
distance, and Malik Monk went sixof twelve, none bigger than the one
he hit at the end of regulationto send it into overtime. He went
for forty five back in a placehe knows well here at Crypto dot Com
Arena was a Laker last season andwas able to outduel Kawhi Leonard and his
forty four, just one shy ofhis career high of forty five. Paul

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George gave the Clippers thirty four.Norman Powell off the bench had twenty four.
Nicholas Patum got off the snide fromthree. He went five of ten
had nineteen points, but Clippers hadtwenty five turnovers, leading to forty two
points for the Sacramento Kings. I'venever seen a number like that in my
life and hopefully never do again.Clippers next game coming up on Sunday,

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they don't get any easier. They'llbe in Denver taking on Nikola Yokich and
the Nuggets. Tip off for thatone is at seven. We'll have Clippers
countdown for you starting at six.Outside of Los Angeles, though, do
not go anywhere. We got Clippersstop coming up eight six, six nine,
eight, seven two five seventy eightsix six, nine, eight seven
two five seventy outside of LA.Talk to you a Sunday when the Clippers

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Next, Welcome into Clipperstock. Here'sa new sheriff in town. You won't
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podcast. Now your host of ClippersTalk. Here's Adam Oslin. Well,
the Clippers were on the wrong sideof a historic night, as you just
witnessed the second highest scoring game inthe history of the NBA, but the
Clippers fall to the Kings in doubleovertime one seventy six to one seventy five.

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Welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm AtamHonslin eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy eight six six nineeight seven two five seventy as the phone
number, or get to me onTwitter at follow Adam A coming up.
We're looking for postgame audio from thehead coach in tehron Low and from the
players after this one, and WilliamUpdyke from Clips and Dip will be here

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as well. It was the debutfor Russell Westbrook, and I thought overall
he played pretty darnwell, played bigminutes, was at thirty nine, had
fourteen assists, did have seven turnovers, but hit a key layup at the
end of the fourth quarter to puthim up by three, only for them

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to see Malik Monk, who hadforty five, hit a three pointer on
the other end with about eight secondsleft in the ballgame. Clippers did not
to foul play the foul game.Put him at the free throw line,
don't let him get a three pointerup in a game where guys were this
hot from the outside. I wasa little bit surprised by that, but
I get it. A lot ofcoaches play it that way, and you

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don't want to foul a guy ashe's going up and with the quick,
quick release he has. That's atough call, but that would send him
into ot After Kawhi Leonard almost sunka sixty five footer that would have been
the shot of the year, andwhat was the game of the year,
especially if you're a Sacramento Kings fan, if you're a Clippers fan, this

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one stinks. Not many moral victoriesleft when there's only twenty games remaining in
the season, and this was oneagainst the team right in front of them
in the standings in the Western Conference, where if the Clippers had won,
they would have just been a halfgame backup Sacramento for the three spot.
I'll update you when the standings comingup, as these two teams do play

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again next week in Sacktown. Butit was a game lost by the turnovers
where Sacramento ended up getting up thirteenmore shots than the Clippers because the Clippers
had just an abysmal twenty five turnovers, leading to forty two points for the

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Kings and had them in a keyspot in the fourth quarter when they were
completely in control. There were manyways this game was lost, but nothing
stands out more than this. Itstarted with the Clippers being up one forty

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five to one thirty one with fourtwenty five left in regulation Europe fourteen.
Paul George's sunk a free throw.You gotta handle your business, but unfortunately
they had back to back to backto back turnover. It was unreal to

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watch them unravel to that extent,but we've seen it at times this season.
It started with a Russell Westbrook turnover, then PG had two of them.
Then it was I believe Norman Powellgetting called for an offensive foul on
an inbounds play. It couldn't evenget the ball in before they gave it
back to Sacramento. That stuff can'thappen, not at this point of the

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season. I know you're implementing somenew guys, but this team has championship
aspirations and for them to collapse tothat level to give up a fourteen point
lead with four to twenty five leftin the fourth They were still up nine
though with two forty left in thefourth quarter. Then they were up six

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with three or four left, andOT up six with one fifty seven left
in double OT. It was likethey were trying trying to outdo themselves with
collapse after calamity and collapse. Itwas just an abysmal performance at the wrong
time. Trap within a game wherethe Clippers went for a franchise high and

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points scored in three pointers made.But when they had to execute, and
really when the games slowed down asthey were playing at such a fast pace
as we were opposed to seeing allseason long, it was like they couldn't
find their half court offense. Theycouldn't get the ball up the court.
They didn't handle the traps and thedouble teams well from Sacramento to say the

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least. And they gave this oneaway multiple times. And that's an understatement.
Brutal loss doesn't mean the season's over, doesn't mean they can't come back
from this, doesn't mean they didn'thave good performances like Kauai being one shy
of his career high of forty fivepoints. He had forty four. He

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had a third quarter to remember,tied his points high, his career points
high for most points scored in aquarter with twenty one on eight of eight
shooting, and hit five threes inthe third alone, and had a shot
and double overtime that he was shorton with a jumper in the mid range

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that if he had got it togo, would have been a new career
high for him with forty six andthe Clippers would have had a great chance
to go on to win this one. But for whatever reason, in this
wild, bizarre, twilight zone typeof game where you're just wondering, how
is this even happening, David goesto the dentist. Is this real life?

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Because second high scoring game in NBAhistory, highest scoring game having back
in nineteen eighty three when the DetroitPistons beat the Denver Nuggets one hundred and
eighty six one hundred and eight werein triple overtime, just double ot here.
If they got to three overtimes,they definitely were going to break that
record. But the Clippers lose byone, with a final score of one

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seventy six to one. Seventy five. It's just comical to even look at.
And you can certainly go after bothteams defensively and say, oh,
the NBA doesn't play defense anymore.Well, I just gave you that number
from nineteen eighty three, an erathat is looked back upon fondly, that
has the all time scoring record.And I will say this, the degree

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of difficulty on some of those shotsby Malik Monk just unconscious stuff. I
don't know what you do. Kawhitried. He was getting around screens,
he was taking deep shots, andDaron Fox was getting into the paint.
And Kawhi even had a couple ofblocks against him in ot spectacular plays or
Daron Fox was in transition. Idon't know if I've ever seen this before.

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Kauai was the only man back todefend it and did it was well
telling for a two time Defensive Playerof the Year. It's what he does.
But I don't know if I've everseen that happen to dear and Fox
who typically just sidesteps, euro stepsaround a guy, or just floats it
over the top, and he couldn'tagainst Kauai. This will be a game

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to be remembered you ain't gonna forgetthis one. It stings, It hurts
because of the standings, because ofthe implications, But this is one we're
gonna be thinking about for a longtime for a lot of different reasons.
Ultimately, the Clippers lose it.Offensively, they looked incredible the amount of

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easy looks that Kawai and Paul Georgegot. I feel like they got more
catch and shoot open threes than theyhad all season long. And it was
Russ dishing a lot of those passesto them, but everyone out there seemed
to be re energized. The ballwas moving, it was hopping. They

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had twenty assists in the first halfto twenty five made field goals, as
assisting on eight percent of your makes. They end up with thirty nine assists.
I'm guessing that's a franchise high.I'm trying to compile and find all
this stuff because it's a historic night. There's gonna be a lot of firsts.
But the twenty five turnovers did themin and maybe the pace that they

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tried to play Sacramento at with whichthe Kings are much more comfortable in.
They've been doing it all season.They've been doing it for a couple of
seasons, they got sped up andeventually sped out with too many of those
turnovers, trying to play at atempo they weren't quite ready for yet.
I say that, and they stillor a three pointer away from the league

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monk hitting. And they in thisball game so many ways they could have
won it, so many players thatwere right there, and the Clippers didn't
get it done Tonight. They gotto bounce back on Sunday, huge game
in Denver. You can't let thishang over your head. You can't turn

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one loss into two, and it'snot going to be easy. You're taking
on the Nuggets. They'll be ona back to back two like the Kings
were tonight. But remember Noah Eaglehad the number. Kings actually score more
on the second night of a backto back. They average one hundred and
twenty three points. That's about togo up some after they put up one
hundred and seventy six. But theyhad fifteen turnovers in this fast paced game,

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and that's not a bad number consideringhow many possessions were out there.
It's really not twenty five, thoughthat's excessive from the Clippers. Some of
it certainly seemed to be just needingto get that familiar out there with new
players. Russ I think had acouple of his turnovers looking for Mason Plumbly.

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One hit him right in the chest. He just wasn't ready for it.
That stuff can be cleaned up.But again sense of urgency. It's
time to start winning, stringing bigvictories together as you get closer to the
playoffs. They know that. Socoming up Sunday against nikolaokis the back to

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back MVP. It's gonna be agood one tonight, a historic one where
it ends in a loss for theClippers. As Malik monk Out duels Kauai.
He has forty five to Leonards fortyfour, and the Kings were a
play better. They win one seventysix to one seventy five and double overtime

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here in downtown Los Angeles over theClippers and Russell Westbrook's debut. More Clippers
talk coming up next. We'll getto your phone calls eight six six ninety
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also hear from the head coach aswell. This is Clipper Stock on AM
five seventy LA Sports, the homeof your La Clippers. Drey just later

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run I said that Clippers lose oneseventy six to one seventy five here and
down town Los Angeles. Was atthe score, you know, I said
it right, got a double check. Pitch yourself if you're a Kings fan.
I guess in double OT they takedown the Clippers by one in an

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extraordinary night of basketball in offense andshooting high degree of difficulty shots and knocking
them down. But it came downto the turnovers in the end, and
the Clippers had twenty five and theKing's just fifteen. Clippers had their chances.
I mentioned it up by fourteen,up by nine, and the fourth
quarter, which is three minutes remainingup by six. In OT, up

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by six and double OT with undertwo minutes left, Nicholas Batoum had a
shot and double overtime from distance.Thought it was gonna go. Thought we
were gonna be praising Saint Nick tonight. And he did have a good ball
game, five of ten from distance, most three pointers he's hitting the game
in about a month and a halfsince the game in Charlotte where he did
in his former team there Paul Georgehad a shot at the end of the

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first overtime, tough one tried tostep through a double team put it up.
Kawhi Leonard almost had the tip in. Looked to be a little bit
after the buzzer though even if itdid go so, it's just and a
game like this, what's aggravating iswhat needles you is the amount of opportunities
you had to win and you founda few ways to lose instead. And

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it's a historic game, second highestscoring game in the history of the NBA,
but you're on the wrong side ofit. Clippers can't let this define
their season. This can't be whatwe're thinking about come the off season.
That's not what Clipper Nation is lookingfor. You want to wash this one.
As much as there were some goodthings, and I know Coach lou

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and the players, they're gonna lookat the tape. They're gonna learn from
it. Defensively, they weren't goodenough were to matter. Most offensively,
they certainly weren't with turnovers coming inbunches and key moments. All right,
start things off here tonight. Let'sgo with Javier and lahabber heights. Javier,
what's up? You're on Clippers stopwithout AMOSSLD. What's up, Adam?

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Thank you for taking mccomby the firstcaller you said it. It was
a tough loss. It has likefour chances. It's one of the toughest
losses any team has really taken anNBA history. If you able to look
at it that way, you scoreone hundred and seventy five points and lose.

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Yeah, that's brutal. Yeah,no, it's brutal. And Russell
Westbrook, you know he helped himout. It was a smart daring Hey,
Russ, this is a huge silverlining because this was a big pickup.
All the talk, all the chatterthis week, and what I loved
about his game was, for themost part, he played within himself,

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was in control, was not takingon the high end challenge of going one
on five or one on three whenhe has those one man generating fast breaks
that he's prone to because of hisspeed. He would slow things down,
kick it out to open shooters.He found Norman Powell for a couple of

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those. In the first half he'dcollapsed the defense and fine, guys,
I just like the level of controlhe played with out there, and it
was more high i Q basketball thanjust energizer bunny up and down aggressive play,
there was more heavy play. Ithought he tried to set a couple
of ball screens for guys. Thatsomething people are looking for from him,

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and I do think him as aclipper in this environment is a very good
thing. Don't tell me a changeof scenery isn't meaningful, or that guy's
playing next to one another that actuallylike each other isn't meaningful. It is
guys play from one another. He'sback with Paul George and a team that

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has embraced him, and everybody outthere seemed to have their game elevated and
their energy up in this one,certainly on the offensive side. With the
amount of ball movement. It wascontagious. But I really thought it started
with Russ. He found plumbly foran easy one that turned into an and
one early on, and he hita huge three and ot and had a

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lay up. I put him upthree, only for Monk to hit that
three point in a tide at theend of regulation. I'm sorry, how
have you? But you made agood point. You sent me down that
road. What's up? Yeah?And you know the frustrating thing about this
game is like you said, theyhad a couple of times they could close
the game, and you know theplayers. You know this, Like you

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said, they score one hundred andseventy five points. So at this point,
who's to blame? And honestly,ty Lou Adam with six minutes left,
they had four turnovers in a row, and he did not call a
timeout because that's one thing at him. That's one I believe he did after
the fourth one. No no,no, no, no, after the

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fourth one. I mean, Imean, even Kauai I saways guest,
he was like, guys, calmdown, let's calm down. I mean,
and Kawai didn't have one of thoseturnovers, and that I was part
of the issue. Yeah, buthe took a team. I calmed down,
guys, give me the ball.But no turnover, turnover. Okay,
So that's number one. Number two, what kind of play is Tylu?

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Every time because of the time Ihad him, they hardly ever scored.
That's number two. Number three.Terrence Man eighteen minutes Adam eighteen minutes.
I'll give you the last one.I thought that was curious, and
I think he only played about aminute after the fourth quarter in both overtimes,

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and it came at the very endas Russell Westbrook ended up fouling out.
I thought that was a little bitcurious when you needed some sort of
defense and they were picking on NormanPowell some and they were trying to go
after Russell Westbrook, who I thoughtplayed okay defense for the most part.
He certainly played hard to pick upsix fouls. But yeah, I did
think, okay, is Terrence getMan gonna get a little bit more run

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here? But I also get theother side of it. Norman Powell has
been a killer latent games for thisteam all season long. It's tough to
bring him out. Then, Imean, then, okay, nast thing.
I mean they you you bring somebodyelse, You take somebody else out,
Adam, I don't know who youtake out. I'm not saying to
take normal power out. I'm notsaying that. But you take somebody out,
well, I mean you gotta havea solution then, I mean who

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you know what didn't Adam didn't Adamat that point in you take Russell Westbrook
out of the game, then Imean, you're not gonna take a whiet
You're not gonna take Paul George you'renot gonna take over and pow. So
Westbrook, here's the last thing,Adam second second overtime plumbly two straight turnovers.
Yeah, why is he playing inthe second overtime? If some bonus

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is not playing, that's the that'sthe that when you put in Terrence Man
and you play, you know,with Terrence Man in the lineup, I
mean, why do you have plumbme so bodies is not playing? He
had back to back turnovers, andhe came in after guys got in a
foul trouble and because Paul George wason a minute restriction. Although he played

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forty one, he didn't play allovertime, So that hurt him in a
big way because he had the ballin his hands and he was hot.
He had twenty points from the fourthquarter and then and into the first OT.
I mean you said it earlier atthem. When you're fast break,
it's fast break. It's not coaching. It's fast break. Everybody just going
up, up and down the core. You scort when the game slows down,

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it's about coaching and didn't execute.So who's whose fault is a Well,
look at those four turn those fourstraight turnovers. I mean these guys
are pros, like that's that stuffjust can't happen. That's but that's not
on coaching to me, that's onPaul. George has to get it up
the court and they can't have anoffensive felon and in bounced play. I
don't think the guys need to becoached not to do that. They know

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not to do that. I meanhere, I mean, I mean,
I'm just giving you a point,Adam. I mean, hey, it's
a frustrating that. I get it. Man, I get it. You
don't you don't, you don't.You don't blame the player. The score
one hundred and seventy five points atthis point, you just playing the coach
and says, you know what,you had four chances to god this game

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and you couldn't do it. Tylo, you couldn't do it, Tylo.
All right, Javier, I appreciatethe phone call. I don't think it
was any one player or the coach. It was a lot going wrong.
To have that many collapses when youhad leads and couldn't hold on to them.
It's a multitude of issues. Allright. Let's go to Lenny in

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Inglewood. Lenny, what's up hereon Clipperstock Lenny Online two. I believe.
Hey, Adam, you know I'mglad you this Sugarhope distance because at
the end of the day, wehaven't beat the top year teams. Are

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we lost Philly? Philly handled thebox handles. You don't think that Suns
they just have Okay, So Idon't want to hear that they had CP
three Devin book out there. Soundswas a good win. But I'm talking
about full strength everybody on the board. I mean, Adam, we haven't.

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We haven't. No, Adam,you can't. You can't talk about
the Sons win without Kevin Durant.We know what's coming. You can't.
We have a lot of pity fora team that's going into super team mode
because they brought in Kevin Durant anddidn't have them that night. And you're
gonna say that's not a quality winningif it takes you from a very good
team to a great team, ora team that was in the finals two

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years ago to being a super team. I still think it qualifies as a
very good win against Phoenix in Phoenix, yeah, and clip and Cliper Nation.
It's a good win, okay,But I'm talking about on both coasts.
There's five teams. Uh, there'sthere's three teams that are above us
we haven't beaten yet, and theteams on on the East coast we haven't
beaten yet. Okay, I'll giveyou that, but they haven't played Memphis

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yet either, so they haven't hadan opportunity to. Yeah, and I'm
a good thing. Memphis seems likeit's backsliding right now, but you know,
we'll see. With his laugh,all I'm saying is that I just
think that this. I think we'rea good team. But like Hawaii said
it, we're not. We're notsaying yet because of the thing it chanceship
change. Yet we're just not whatI mean. You don't you don't not

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gonna argue with that they aren't webut I mean, like, we're not
even like you don't. I justI've never seen a team that wants it
bad to break down and turn theball over like that, with those kind
of leads. Man. I justI just haven't seen that. I just
said. And I don't know whatto say. I really don't know what
to say. I don't know wherethe breakdown is. I don't know if

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it's on the players. I don'tknow if it's on the coaching, but
it's this. This ain't it.This doesn't make any sense now, Yeah,
Ron is the first game with Russ. I mean, yeah, give
a little bit of time. Yeah, this is a good thing. But
the same time we're squeezing out.I mean it is. It is gonna

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affect Man's minutes undestand Tylu got toget him acclimated quickly because the playoffs are
coming and we gotta we gotta,we gotta push on our chips into the
middle of the table. But theguy just went we just spoke before.
I just understand why Roko is totallyout of the lot, out of the

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rotations. I mean, what didhe say something? Did he crack a
bad joke us? I mean Ican't that. I don't know either,
Lenny. All I heard was earliertoday. I believe coach Lu did say
he is the player that has sacrificedthe most for this team this season.
And obviously that's the truth because hehasn't played much and even in a game

(36:43):
without a visa Zoo bots, Ithought we might see him more. Didn't
happen. All right, Well,you know, we gotta an extremely tough
game against Denver. I know Vegasis probably gonna have us, you know,
the underdog one. It's big,but what I big? But you
know we got we gotta be thetop year team at full strength when the

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other teams at full strength, oryou know, we're gonna go onto the
playoffs and it's gonna be a it'sgonna be you know, we're gonna play
some really good, inspiring ball,but we're gonna walk away, but once
again the moral banner victory. Andyou know, I guess this Clipper Nation
is cool with that. That's whatit is. But I was I wanted
more. I want more this year, man. I think everybody wants more

(37:28):
this year. And they gotta figurethis out. Man. They got about
two weeks. Lenny, I appreciatethe full call. You're right, they
do have to figure it out.Time is of the essence. There's twenty
games left and Clipper Nation is hungryand it's a championship or bus type season.
That's how I see it. Thisis year four of the two one
three connection with Kawai and Paul George, so yeah, sense of urgency has

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to be there. Peter and huntsonBeach, what's up here on Clipper stop
without am aslin listen. I justwanted to say, I really dig your
honesty. I think you call itthe way it is. I was listening
to Javier and I agree with him. What I don't understand, and I'll
make my point brief. I don'tunderstand thy Lou's substitution patterns. I know

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he wanted to give Russ his minutes, but at the expense of who Terence
Mann, who is arguably, asidefrom Kauai, arguably been the best player
on the team this year, andto take the minutes from him, I
myself, I would rather see PaulGeorge get rid of, you know,
get the ball taken out of hishands, or sat on the bench in

(38:38):
the fourth quarter. I know thatmight not be popular, but I still
don't understand they haven't. We haven'treally seen Bones either. I know he's
new and Roco is he was adefensive presence, could have helped out tonight.
I think this is squarely on thyLou. I know you'll disagree,
but I respect your opinion. Loveyour brother, all right. I appreciate

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the phone called Peter. Look,you can point a lot of fingers and
look at a few different areas.I just can't say it's one guy or
the head coach. I think that'soversimplification of what happened tonight in a wild
one. To say the least thoseturnovers, that's on the players. Four

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straight turnovers, turnovers like that.I don't see how you can watch that
and say, oh, that's oncoach Lou you should have taught a better
No, these guys are pros atthe highest level. In a superstar and
an All Star and Paul George whoat his pocket pick by Darren Fox for

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an easy one. It just seemedlike they lost focus once they got up
by a significant margin late, multipletime times, and it kept happening again
and again, and they gotta staylocked in. And it's something we've talked
about all season. All this teamgoes in and out of playing really good
basketball, and there was some amazingbasketball play tonight, and you really saw

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it all the ups and downs ofthis team. I guess on display Clippers
lose one seventy six to one seventyfive in double overtime to the Sacramento Kings.
Here on Clipper Stock, we're comingup next when they empy seventy only
Sports Clippers take a punch to thegut, lose a heartbreakers one seventy six

(40:45):
to one seventy five in double overtimesto the Sacramento Kings, who gained ground
on them in the Western Conference standings. Welcome back in the Clipper stock.
I'm Metam Moslin, coming up backto your phone calls at eight six six
nine, eight seven two five seventyeight six six ninety seven two five seventy.
But first, will Updyke from theclips and dip pod. Will where

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was this game lost in your mind? I think in some of the failures
to get stopped late, and Ithink that that comes from a rotation thing.
Obviously, you know, no Zubosin this one. That hurt us.
But the lack of Terrence man minutesI think was really really puzziti scary

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to Eric Gordon first, who hadn'ttouched the floor, and I can't even
remember how long before he came inthere. And overtime it a lot of
it. I gotta be honest withbaffling to me. I know that Tyler
is trying to work things out withthe new guys. I I just don't
know that some of those rotations wereit. Terrence Man ended up playing just

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thirty four seconds in both overtimes,and we've gotten a lot of calls on
it, and I can understand whypeople had won him out there in a
game that's that high scoring and youseem to have no problem on that end.
And by the way, Terrence Manhas been much better on the offensive
end, So what about trying toget a few stops and not having as
many flaws on defense that the Kingswere trying to pick on over and over

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again. It's a great success,apparently when you score one hundred and seventy
six points. So I understand that. I also get how Norman Pale has
been really good late in games allseason long. But if people are saying
that, okay, take out RussellWestbrook then and eventually he did foul out,
I can understand that argument. Whatwas your overall assessment though, of

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Russell Westbrook in his first game asa Clipper? Offensively? I mean,
he does some really great things.He can generate some looks for people,
he can get down hill. Imean, you know, his struggles finishing
around the basket are gonna be aproblem. Those are fast breaks like just
waiting to happen. The turnovers weren'tgreat, and honestly, like this isn't

(42:54):
his fault, you know, heI just don't think that he was the
right choice to go with to havetwo guards in there down late. I
know Paul George is on a man'srestriction, so you know, there were
some there were some instances where Tylowhad his hand kind of forced. So
I do understand it. Like Isaid, overall, I just think some
of those were some puzzling decisions.I think that this was this was again

(43:16):
it was lost in some executions.I mean that some of those turnovers were
absolutely brutal and over time, butlike not being able to get a stop
against a good against the good offense, I mean just trading buckets. I
don't think it's the best thing.But but Russell Westborod did help the offense
overall. But it's you know,it's it's sort of an up and down

(43:37):
thing. It's it's kind of similar, uh as we had with Reggie,
but you know with the with themore athletic garden that it's you know,
a better password to be sure.Yeah, I just uh that that late
game execution was was just not verygood and he just has to wonder really
right, like for a team thathas struggled in that area, is shaking

(43:59):
off the line and the starters tothis degree with now twenty game laps,
is that the right move for success? Uh? You know it was brought
up in the pre game pressor Tylouand that season team where basically they shipped
out after team. Uh. AndI can't remember. Was that the year
they lost to the Warriors in fiveor the was that the year they ended

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up getting swept. I think thatwas the year that Lebron in Game one
and they ended up getting swept.Anyways, they lost that in overtime.
Yeah, and maybe that turns outdifferent effect game one is different. Who
knows. But I'm saying like,it's just a lot of gambles to make.
And I you know, I'm noteven saying that that's just the Russell

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Westbrook thing. I thought, youknow, oh well he offensively, Uh,
he definitely did do some things upfor other guys for sure, But
yeah, I don't know. Andlike having Norm Powell out there also not
a guy who's gonna get you astop and he's barely touching the ball.
It's just like I said, it'sjust kind of baffling in some of those

(45:02):
kind of calls. Yeah, Iwill say this though, I thought one
of the most indicative signs of animpact from Russell Westbrook was the fact that
Paul George and Kawhi Leonard had juicedthroughout this game. They were attacking,
they were playing downhill, they weremoving the ball. Kawai hat a couple
of spectacular passes, one of themhere where he was spinning and I think

(45:25):
threw it over to Norman Powell orNicholas Batoum in the nearside corner for a
three pointer. But I hadn't seenthat level of energy from them consistently throughout
a game, especially when where theyplayed heavy minutes like they ended up doing
tonight. And I thought, Okay, maybe it's the Russell Westbrook effect here
where he's taking some of the offensiveburden of having to set the table off

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their plate and it's working. Theyseemed to have a little bit more pep
in their step to have a littlebit more pop. As coach Leu would
say, would you agree with that? I would agree with that one hundred
percent. And I do love theway that he was getting the offense into
motion sooner in the shot clock.That was That's probably the best point of

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the night. I forgot to bringthat up. Will. That was the
most stark contrast of seeing this Clippersteam all season being bottom ten in pace
and really in the two one threeera playing like that to all of a
sudden, flying up and down thecourt and creating multiple possessions and getting shots
off when then the first five toat least ten seconds of the shot clock,
all right, Yeah, And Ido think that that could be key

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to you know, reserving some staminafor both Kauai and Paul George. You
know, it just this was twoyears ago the best half court offense in
the in the NBA, so Ialso don't want to discredit that, but
it was it was nice to see, I agree, getting into sets faster.
I think it's something you can definitelyhelp with. And you know,

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there were a couple of journals thatweren't necessarily his fault. There was one
of Mason fummily I think in firstor second quarter in that second ship,
which I think is normally with alittle bit more time on court together,
is something that Mason is able toput away. So you know, there
were some things that weren't fully hisfault. I also just liked the way
that he was really I mean,he was fully committed to setting up his

(47:15):
teammates, wasn't really taking a lotof shots. It wasn't like the revenge
tour. Uh, you know thatthat I had kind of doom prophesized about.
So yeah, I think that therethere was a lot of good,
to be sure, and this law, I want to be perfectly clear,
like this isn't on him. I'mnot blaming the loss for this law.

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I do think that there was somelineup in vocational issues late that you know,
it needed a stop, and Ijust don't think that the right personnel
was on the floor to achieve thatgoal. I thought there were a couple
of plays where you could almost seethe wheels turning and instead of it being
Russ being Russ, he slowed down. He was war methodical, and he

(48:00):
made the right basketball play and itwas noticeable there was there was a concerted
effort there from him. Yeah,and there were, uh, there were
sometimes early where I thought maybe hewas kind of rushing things a little bit,
And then I agree, he definitelydid settle into things. He was
slowing down, he was looking toget to see his teammates. So you

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know, there was some good Therewas some good stuff there. Look,
I think that the offense is probablygoing to be less than a less of
a struggle. But this team hasto get back on track defensively. And
the Kings are a good offense.I give them that course, Uh,
but you know it we allot oneseventy six. I mean, what is

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Denver gonna put up on? Youknow, I'm just I am. I
am a little dubious of the Clippersdefense right now. And you know,
the Westbrook edition. God bless hisheart, it doesn't help. It doesn't
It doesn't help anything on that endof the floor. And he was kind
of sleeping on that to ended uptime an. It's funny. Coming into
the season, I was much lessworried about the defense than the offense.

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But recently the offense has been fantasticand the defense coming into this game since
January first, in the New Yeartwenty second, and this obviously is not
going to help your defense a racingtonight. I'm curious to see what they
dropped there. All right, Well, I appreciate it, man, I
know we're going to have a clipseand well, this is double dip.
We got a tripod coming up onMonday with myself, you and Chuck Mockler.

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But thanks for doing this night hereon Clippers Talk. Well absolutely,
thanks for having me. A heartbreakerof a lap, but such a weird
game that I feel like no oneshould be getting two down on anything just
yet. Yeah, this was likethe black Mirror game. I don't know
what just happened. All right,Well, appreciate it. Coming up.

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We'll take a quick time out,we'll come back. We'll get back to
your phone calls. Eight six sixninety seven two five seventy eight six six
ninety eight seven two five seventy Cliplose one seventy six to one seventy five
and double overtime to the Kings.Just trying to make sense of things,
all right. I'm not going toobig picture here, but which is basketball?

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More about it next here on Clipperstock on amp by seventy eli sports
Clippers lose one seventy six ten seventyfive and double overtime. Here at Crypto
dot com arena, welcome back inthe Clippers stock. I'm out of Moslin.
All right, cliber Nations, you'vebeen asking about it. I wasn't
terrorists man playing more. Coach Lewisasked about a post game on him just

(50:35):
playing eighteen minutes. He said,quote, he was good. He should
have played more. He said nothaving Man on the floor was as much
as a learning experience for him aswell. So I really love that he
said that before this season. Hetakes accountability when he feels like he has
a misstep coaching wise, a lotof guys would just be stun be like,

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well, I didn't do it becauseof this reason. I'm thinking of
bet Hellen or somebody like that.Sorry, Ben, I'm bad, But
yeah, it's It's one of thosethings that I think makes him pretty likable
and relatable. He will own itwhen stuff like this happens and appears to
have tonight before we get out ofhere quickly, rapid fire Ray in Torrance,

(51:25):
You're on Clippers stock. Wow.Wow, wow, Adam. That
was probably the most exciting and mostfrustrating regular season game of my life with
the Clippers. The last threey fiveyears, I've been going so disappointing but
so exciting. I had my sonwith me, we had a great time,
but losing that game with frustrating you. I won't go in the whole
thing with Tyler other than you know, besides the whole rotation issue, it

(51:47):
was the whole managing of the secondhalf timeouts. Why he's calling timeouts earlier
in the in the half kind ofpuzzling, and then he didn't have any
at the end, so that's whyhe waited for, you know, turnovers
before calling one. If you didit halfway through, would have stopped that.
And then we didn't have a timeout at the end where you covered
a three point line. Let theguys driving score. Why the wine was
covering line? Did had time totell his guys, don't let that happen.

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It was so frustrating, and theywent to overtime. They lost the
whole thing and double over time.So there was a time out before the
lake Monk hit that three pointer,so I don't know, show him up
well at the at the very endon the last play that into the fourth
quarter. Okay, Well, therewas a king's time out with eight point
one seconds left, so they morethan had enough time. Okay, then

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I guess at that time, talentedguys, let the guys score. Do
not let the three point play becalled or shot and they let it shut
the shot and he drove and kickedit out. If they don't want to
take a two point, it's hardto make them take a two pointer outside
of fouling. Intentionally fouling and putput him at the line. Let him

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just let him, let him score, don't kick it out. Let They're
not going to do that. Theyare going for the three pointer there apparently,
so just saying you're gonna let himscore when they set up a play
around the perimeter, that's what theywere going for. So the only really
other option is to play the foulgame, all right, Appreciate the phone
call the rapper fire. Yeah,here we go, Uh Damien in La

(53:13):
Damian Youreon clipper stock, Hey,Adam oh Man. Tough lost, tough
loss. Thanks for having me on. It was great to be there because
I was a part of history.I won't get into all the stuff that
you guys are getting into. I'lljust say, you know, Tyler's learning
too, and we need to givehim a pass on that. He's got
a big fast ahead of him,you know, trying to figure out how
he's gonna find out all these minutesfor all these guys, and I think

(53:36):
he's doing a pretty good job.We put up one hundred and seventy five
points tonight. We figure out thelittle little things will be great. But
as far as Russ, I thinkit's gonna work. At him, I
think it's gonna work. I wasreally pleasantly, you know, surprised and
pleased by what I saw Rust beingRuss. It looks good to me.
How do you feel about it?I thought at times he wasn't being Russ.

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He was being more choose and pickywith win to attack, how to
attack. I thought there was morestrategy to his game and getting guys involved.
I thought it was a great firstgame for Russell Westbrook in Los Angeles
Clippers uniform. Unfortunately, it comesto the loss. I appreciate the phone
called Damien, and that's it.I know what Jose was gonna say.

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Let's go Clippers. Clippers fall doubleo two, one seventy six to one
seventy five to the Sacramento Kings.Tough one because, as I mentioned,
the implications in the standings and thenwe'll tell you how this affected things.
Drop the Clippers to the five spot. They're now a half game back of

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Phoenix. They're in the fourth spot, two and a half games back of
Sacramento, still in that three spot. I'll see him again next week.
Clippers next game coming up on Sunday. Have we taken on the Denver Nuggets?
Tip Off is at seven while Clipperscountdown and six before we get out
of here. You want to thankthe Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, hell
of a call. If you werelistening, you were in for a treat.

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The young goat. I mean,I'm never surprised by it, but
the nights game was a surprise,and as usual he rose to the occasion.
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