Clippers Lose by 7 to the Magic & Farbod Joins the Show

Clippers Talk with Adam Auslund after they lose 103-96 to the Magic and Farbod_E joins for analysis post game.

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Get your fall. It's time toReact LA Clippers Basketball. This is Clippers
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makes everything happen, Adam Ousley.Clippers fall at Staples Center to the Magic

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with the final score of one zerothree to ninety six. Welcome into Clippers
Talk. I'm at a Moslem comingup here on the show. We'll get
your phone calls at eight seven sevenfive two zero eleven fifty. Eight seven
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find coverage on Bruin's Talk on AMfive seventy LA Sports. But here we're

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talking about the Clippers losing for thefirst time in seven games by seven with
a final score one oh three toninety six to the Magic. And look,
there are reasons games like this happenedduring the regular season, and the
Clippers had played five games in theirlast seven nights, and they were missing
five crucial players out there and fourstarters, and some people say that as

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an excuse. Others would say,yeah, it makes sense how you can
lose a game like this. Butthe other side of that is they were
up late seven points with three minutesleft on Orlando. Now, some of
the shots that the Clippers were missinglate in this one, you could tell
there were tired legs. At thesix and a half minute mark, I
think it was Kawhi Leonard put upa jumper that just airballed. He didn't

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have much left. This team wasstarting to run at a gas, but
Orlando went on that eleven oh run. They had younger legs, They had
a well rested team and a bunchof guys. And I told you this
in the pre game, that aregoing to play hard because they have a
chance to either impress their new headcoach at least impressed Steve Clifford, because
now they're missing Aaron Gordon, Nikolavusevic, and Evan Fournier. Those three players

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were gone, and we thought thiscould be a trap game. And we
didn't know coming into it that therewould be no Paul George. There would
also be no Marcus Morrise and nora Gen Rondo, yet no Patrick Beverly
and no surge of Bacca. Soit's eye of the beholder a little bit.
It depends on how you interpret thesethings sometimes, but I'll say this,

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I felt like the Clippers were gonnapull it out late because Terrence Man
hit that big time three pointer.But when even he has struggled for the
first time and it matches up withtheir winning streak for the first time in
seven games, things just were notgoing well overall, especially in the second
half. Now, the Clippers didhave a sixteen point lead, but I
thought they should have been up byMoore. I said it. They could

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have pulled away, but the turnoverskept Orlando in it. The Clippers had
seven turnovers in the first half.They've been the best team when it comes
to not turning the ball over andtaking care of the basketball out of the
All Star Break, but tonight theyhad seventeen That led to seventeen points.
So they would have five more turnoversin the third, five more turnovers in

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the fourth quarter, crucial ones downthe stretch. Nicolas Batoum had one,
Kawai had one. They were tryingto find guys in Orlando. Well,
they had confidence. You give ateam life like that, and they can
come back on you, and theycan come back to bite you. Orlando
took care of the basketball. Theyonly had nine turnovers. They had fifty

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points in the paint, one ofthe other areas the Clippers have been better
in now without another big man rightnow as Patrick Patterson's the backup to a
Vita Zoo boss. Yeah, itsomewhat makes sense. You can rationalize it.
But I understand Clipper Nation. Alot of you guys were discouraged and
disappointed tonight. You want them toget seven straight victories. You wanted them

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to sweep this nine game homestand andunlikely to happen. But if they come
back and win Thursday night against theDenver Nuggets, they right the ship.
They're back on track, and thatmeans they would have won seven of eight.
Gonna be a really tough game,and we don't know who's gonna be
available yet for this Clippers team stillto come. You're gonna hear from TLU
post game, plus far Bodes andShari will be here from SI now and

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also from the Bleacher Report. He'sa hot take insider, now, not
a hot take guy, but he'san inside information guy. He broke the
news on James Harden going to theBrooklyn Nets months before anyone else did.
And far Bod's a friend. Imean, we're talking in the DMS late
at night about the Zack Snyder cutof the Justice League, all kinds of

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different subjects outside of the Clippers.But tonight you wanted to see the Clippers
pull this one out because they didhave Kawhi Leonard playing and he played well,
twenty eight points, ten of twentyfrom the field, hit a couple
of three pointers, was oh offive or oh of six from three last
night, but he just looked alittle bit gassed, you could tell in
the second half. And usually thatis what leads to misques in sloppy turnovers,

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and it did. But the Clippersalso weren't getting to the free throw
line, and I was wondering,do they not have their legs? Are
they not attacking as much because ofthat? I don't think it was a
matter of just not getting calls.Tonight. They took almost forty three pointers.
They went twelve of thirty seven.That's just thirty two percent, coming
off a game last night where theyshot over fifty percent from three and got

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super hot from the outside, wentseventeen of twenty four in the last three
quarters of that game. And actuallyLuke Kennard who hit four straight four four
straight three pointers, no four pointplay for him, but he did hit
four straight three pointers in that fourthquarter and carried it over into the first
quarter. Tonight, he hit twomore and he had seventeen points. But

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he started to cool off after that, and the Clippers fell in love with
a three point shot a little bit. I want to say they attempted twelve
in the third quarter alone when thisgame started to swing back in the Orlando
Magic's favor. But I know someof you are thinking, okay, late
game execution, where was it tonight? It's hard to take a lot out

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of a game when you're missing fourof your five starters. Granted the Orlando
Magic or in scramble mode themselves,they're missing their three best players, but
a wounded team like that can bea dangerous one. Also, I said
that in the pre game. Imeant it, that's how these type of
losses happen. When Mo Bambo's makingthose effort plays and chase down blocks,

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and he had twelve points and eightboards when young guys have an opportunity to
shine like he and Wendell Carter Junior, that can be a problem for you.
He had eleven and three blocks andthree assists and six rebounds. And
they got a little bit from everyonetonight. I'm sure they're thinking this was
a great team win. They alsogot to the free throw line fifteen more

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times than the clip first and mostof them were earned. They were the
more aggressive team in the second half. The Clippers only gave up thirty seven
points in the first half. Theywere up fourteen at the half, but
I thought they should have been upby more, and the turnovers let the
Orlando Magic hang around, and thatwas the Clippers fatal flaw. That was
their undoing late in this game,because the turnovers came back to haunt them

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with five more in that fourth quarter, and the late game execution does have
to be better. But guy's gotto get healthy too, and hopefully that
health comes around and is coming soonerthan later, because the Clippers have been
getting by with a bunch of guysbanged up. But you were wondering if

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they were going to eventually lose steamin that area because without Lou Williams,
right now, and Rajen Rondo hasn'tstepped on the court from him, he's
nursing a hip injury. But thenMarcus Morris, who played so well and
led them in scoring last night withtwenty eight points, all of a sudden
he's not available. We find thatout a half hour before tipoff, and
that's happened a few different times.Eventually, a team, you can only

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ask so much from them when itcomes to stepping up night after night after
night. Reggie Jackson I thought waspretty good, had fifteen points, six
of eighteen shooting not a great percentage, but he did have seven assists to
just two turnovers. He and LukeKennard have been great. Terrence Man.
You can't ask for more than whathe's been giving you over the last month.

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And he finally had an off night. Coincidentally, that would be a
game that the Clippers lose, Soif you didn't know his importance to this
team and this six game winning streak, but when he didn't play well,
they end up with an l thatnight to the Orlando Magic. He was
just three of twelve, still hadsix assists, still had seven boards,
still fought late, hit that threepointer. The only three pointer he made

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in the game, but the Clippersoverall maybe went to the well one too
many times from the outside. Butis it a heat check game coming off
of last night and what happened?Maybe, And you never know what this
team they started two for ten inthe first quarter yesterday against Milwaukee and then
go seventeen of twenty four in thefinal three quarters. They can get hot

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at anytime, but they got coldat the wrong time against an Orlando Magic
team and a bunch of guys.And I know some people will say,
well, they're trying to lose.This is institutional systemic tanking going on.
No, the guys on the courtdon't care about that. They're playing as
hard as they can. There areguys on this Orlando Magic team that are

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looking for another contract. Terrence Rossjust three of twelve. I would have
thought if the Clippers lost this game, we would have thought he would have
had a bigger impact. But mostof his scoring did come in the second
half, and he did go eightof eight from the free throw line,
and Michael Carter Williams was able toknock a couple down late after missing two.
It looked like the Clippers were gonnapull it out late. They did

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not. They lose one three toninety six to the Orlando Magic at Staples
Censor. Coming up, we'll getto your phone calls. We have postgame
audio coming up from head coach toehrontLou and far Bought Us and Shari will
join me here on Clippers Talk.Post game. Clippers dropped to thirty two
and seventeen on the season. I'llcheck in on what happened earlier with the

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Phoenix Suns. By the way,they were taking on the Atlanta Hawks.
They were just a half game upon the Clippers coming into tonight. I'll
give you an update there on theWestern Conference standings as well. Clippers lose
one on three or ninety six tothe Magic. You're listening to Clippers Talk
here on the Patriot eleven fifty everymoment all season long. On their officials,

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why letters sends it back home?But the Clippers still not come in
here. Clippers lose one to threeto ninety six to the Orlando Magic at
Staples Center. First loss in theirlast seven games. They've still won seven
of eight, but they were upby as many as sixteen in the second

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half, and they went ice cold. They ended up scoring just forty five
points in the second half. Thisis the number one offense in the league
coming into tonight. But part ofthe story is you have to contextualize things.
They were down four starters, fiveguys in their eight man rotation,
were out second nine of a backto back, fifth game in their last

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seven days. I think that's meaningful. I think that contributed. You can
call it an excuse or call ita reason, depending on how you see
it. But the way I seeit is the Clippers they were due for
a loss. Granted, it's badto lose to a team ight the Orlando
Magic, but if it was goingto happen, that would have been the
formula for Master. I guess thatwould have been I guess one of the

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ways you would imagine the Clippers wouldlose a game like this. They're still
eight and one on the second nightof a back to back, but without
Paul George Beverly, Marcus Morris,who just led them in scoring last night
looked fantastic, had a right calfissue right calf contusion, and Serge Ibaka
has still been out with that lowerback injury. And for the most part

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they have been getting by and guyshave been stepping up here and there to
get this team that six game winningstreak, but I think they just ran
out of gas and down the stretch. You could see it when jumpers aren't
falling like that, when everything's offthe front of the rim. Kawai Luke
Knar just missed shots that were wayoff in the fourth quarter. I thought

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that's their legs, tired legs forthe Clippers. But still they were up
seven with three minutes left, andOrlando found a way to have an eleven
oh run in that fourth quarter andthey go on to win this one.
Coming up, we will have farabout Essen Shawi here on Clippers Talk post
game from SI Now and also fromthe Bleacher Report, but we do have

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postgame audio from the head coach tLou after the Clippers lose for the first
time in seven games, and theylose by seven at home to the Orlando
Magic. Here was coach Lou postgame. Did you kind of get the sense
going into this game that you know, you guys are in your fifth game
and seven nights, that am beingdown five rotation guys, that this was

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going to be sort of an exhaustinggame, and you might kind of struggle
down the stretch. I'm probably wouldtruggle from the beginning, honestly, But
you know, if you die withguys and you know you're on the back
to back, I think it's justtough. You know. We try to
keep guys minutes down as much aswe could. It's a touch situation when
guys are not playing and guys areout and you know you playing back to
back. It's a tough situation.But I thought God's repeated and we missed

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a lot of shots they got outin transitioning the second half. You don't
give it up. Two thirty threepoint quarters. Thanks. Next we'll go
to Cam. Hey, coach,you just kind of explained some of the
challenges you guys face tonight. Butwhat can you take away from a game
like this? Oh no, Igotta look at it, Cam, You

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know what I said, Like inthe first half, you know, I
thought we should have been up atleast twenty five twenty six Mason, some
stupid turnover, took some bad shotsand they kind of got a little momentimumly
being a fourteen and a half time. But other than that, you know,
I just gotta watch it. Butthat's a mess. About it.
Thanks. Go Next, we'll goto law. You alluded to the situation

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of the schedule. You know,five games and seven nights. It's not
like the team gets a lot ofrelief. You guys come back here Thursday
night, and I just want toknow, like, how concerned are you
at this point with the lack oflack of depth? Uh, you know,
the late scratches. Uh, youknow, even the two open roster
spots and everything. I mean,well, I mean it is what it

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is, you know, right now, until guys get healthy, we just
got to continuous, you know,trying to keep playing the same the right
way offensively again defensive without wearing ourguys out. And you know, coming
on the back to back, wedidn't want to push Kawa's minutes too much
and we wanted to try and getthem down. We didn't want to play
in thirty nine forty minutes. Soyou know, until we get bodies back,

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we got to just keep managing it, you know, just keep keep
trying to adapt, keep finding differentlines and rotations at work. And I
kind of go from there. Thanks. Next, we'll go to Justin Hey,
coach, Uh, fatigue did seemto obviously be a major factor,
not especially down the stretch and thoseturnovers late in the fourth. Do you
attribute that to fatigue or anything likethat. Yeah, I mean we gotta

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make better possitive you're tired or not. But yeah, I thought I thought
our guys got tired and got worndown. To be honest, you know,
usually not a guy with a lotof excuses, but I didn't think,
you know, playing eight guys,you know, on the back to
back, I guess the team wasgonna keep coming, you know, put
a lot of pressure on us.I thought, when wise and you know,
like I said, we could havebeen the tire tonight. But that's

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no excuse. A lot of teamsare going through it as well throughout the
course of the league. But youknow, like I said, first half,
I thought we competed do some goodthings. Second half, I thought
they took advantage of our miss shotsand turnovers and they was able to get
out in transition to push a tempoThank you next up having it so coach
obviously, you know you had youknow, about five guys down, but

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especially there in that second half,and it seem like the offense kind of
stalled, and you know, whenthey were on double in Kawhi. Is
that kind of what you're going andget a guy like Ryando Fordy just you
know, I guess facilitating get guysand the looks. I mean, I
don't think it's stalled. I thought, Steve, you did a good job
of just double team in Kauhai.And you know, our guys got to
get to the right spots and rightspace. And we played against double teams
before, so we just gotta makethe right past and the right plays and

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attack from there. And for themost part, I thought we did.
We missed some shots, you know, couple of shots we didn't take,
but other than that, you knowit's gonna happen. They're gonna double team
PG in Kauhi, especially when kawason the court like that. You know,
without PG, teams are gonna doit more so we's got to continue
to keep working through it and keepplaying. But I thought we were had
some you know, some dcent stuff, got coassm DC stots Like I said,

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he could have been on the timetonight there was Coach Lou post game
after the Clippers lose one O threeto ninety six to the Orlando Magic at
Staples Center. While we have amoment. Let's pause ten seconds for station
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by seven for the first time intheir last seven games, but they lose
one o three to ninety six tothe Orlando Magic tonight. Well on back
a little bit with T Louis talkingabout post game there and we'll have far
bought essence Sharion coming up next righthere on Clippers Stalk on the Patriot at
AM eleven fifty, This is LAClippers Basketball. Cool Why Leonard is a

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destroyer of worlds? Right now onthe official home of your LA Clippers here
listening to Clippers Talk here on thePatriot am eleven fifty. Welcome back in.
I'm Adam Oslin. Clippers lose oneh three to ninety six to the
Orlando Magic at Staples Center. There'ssix game winning streak comes to an end.
Coming up. We'll get back toyour phone calls eight seven seven five

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two zero eleven fifty eight seven sevenfive two zero eleven fifty or get to
me at follow Adam A on Twitter. My next guest can be found at
farboard underscore e on Twitter. He'sa good friend. We talk often about
some off the wall topics, andso I'm gonna pose this question to you,
far Bod. What was worse thisClipper's loss or the Zack Snyder extended

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cut of Justice League? Uh?This loss, Come on this This was
only two hours and fifteen minutes.The Justice League was over four hours.
I mean, just really, wasn'tlike that bad? Like this loss is
like embarrassing enough, like green lanterntype thing. Justice League wasn't that bad?

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Poor Ryan Reynolds doing that? Rewatch? Why would he do that to
himself? Far Bod Essensharry is myguest here on Clippers Talk. So far
Bod, when is it fair inyour mind to say you're down four starters,
five guys in your eight man rotation, you're on the second night of
a back to back, and usethat as an excuse or a reason for
why they lost. This game isclose, right, Like you can use

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that excuse when when the game isclosed and it's like why are they within
seven against the Magic or why arethey blow like a twelve point lead or
a sixteen point lead. But it'snot fair to use that excuse when you're
up seven with two minutes left andyou go scoreless, and then you go
scoreless and it's like the exact samething they've done like four other times this
season when they're against the Bucks,the Celtics, whoever. That's the part

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where it's a pattern, and Iwas looking it up and it's like everyone
wants to diminish how many clutch minutesthey've played and blah blah blah. But
so Kawhi is ranked one hundred andseventh and clutch minutes right, But despite
being ranked one hundred seventh and clutchminutes, he's ranked twenty second in turnovers.
He has more turnovers in almost everyonein less minutes. So that's something

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that is alarming. I think that'smaybe where the primary ball handler can help
them. It's far about Essen Shariwith me here on Clipperstock after they lose
one oh three to ninety six tothe Orlando Magic. So you mentioned that,
is that the cure all having someonelike Jean Rond because when guys are
getting fatigued at the end of games, and I thought it was apparent in

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this one because of how badly certainguy's missed, like Kawide Leonard at the
six minute mark putting up an airballon a step back jumper. But is
ra Gen Rondo the fix for themgetting to their spots with less effort and
therefore they have more juice left tofinish teams off late. I think it
can help. I mean, thething about this team is like a lot

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of times when it comes to push, comes to shove moments people like to
people like to in the regular season, they like to just say, oh,
you know, these are all thecontext, right, this is the
context. This is why they lost, which is like fair, that's fine,
whatever, But when you see themlose, the manner in which they
lose, regardless of the context,is the exact same way that they lost

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in Game seven. In Game fivein Game six in the playoffs. That's
the thing that needs to switch andI think that's where maybe Rondell can help.
But like that's a gamble. Imean, he's kind of I mean,
it's a good it's good from thestandpoint of, you know, from
a leadership perspective, but he isinjured and older, and we've never even

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gotten a chance to see what evenhas in the tank this season. He's
only played twenty games. Well,that may be a good thing. He
could be fresh there. I knowhe hasn't played yet for the Clippers,
but he's five months removed from theNBA Finals with the Los Angeles Lakers,
where he was fantastic against the Heat. I think that's the hope that he
still can flip that switch and beplayoff Rondo and showed that recently. But

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you mentioned, Okay, Clippers fansare having flashbacks or PTSD to what happened
in Game seven against the Denver Nuggets. But they did pour it on late
against the Milwaukee Bucks. They didcome back against the seventy six ers and
the Atlanta Hawks recently, and theyhad I thought a nice two game back
to back win stretch over the SanAntonio Spurs where there were also down guys.

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I mean, this can't erase allthat good will that they built up
over the last couple of weeks,right, but definitely, it definitely doesn't
erase all that goodwill. It's justthe unfortunate thing for them is that Walton
while they were winning, everybody elsewas winning. Like you look at the
standings, and it's if we lookat the standings right now, the Jazz

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one sixth straight, the Sons ofone three straight, the Lakers two who
beat that same magic team, theNuggets three, the Blazers three, and
the MAVs one. So even thoughthey're winning, everybody else's so it kind
of does undo it when you're lookingat the standpoint of the standings where it's
like, you beat all these goodteams to stay in good standings and you

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lost to the worst one and nowyou're still only you're only one game ahead
of the Lakers and two and ahalf games ahead the Blazers. So it's
you're playing with fire a little bitin that regard, so that it just
makes the Nuggets game not much moremeaningful. It was already meaningful, but
now that Nuggets gains gonna be givenmore important and that's fair. But you

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know, I'm a glass half fullguy here, Farbot. If they weren't
winning those games during the six gamewinning Street, they'd be wave on while
their teams were winning. I mean, yeah, it doesn't It definitely doesn't
erase it. Yeah, it doesn'terase it. It's just when you have
the scheduled win, it's unfortunate tolose that one. I think there's always
more reaction to losing the scheduled winthan there is to losing the game you

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expect to lose, no doubt.Farbod Essen Shari is my guest here on
Clipper Stock after they lose one ohthree to ninety six at home to the
Orlando Magic. Farbot, I wantto ask you. We talked about Rondo.
They're bringing him in when Patrick Beverlyis healthy again. How do you
see this guard rotation shaking out?Because Luke and Ards played really well recently.

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Obviously Terrence Man you can't take himout, but Reggie Jackson has also
I think, been averaging twenty pointsor more over the last week or so.
They've been really good. These guyshave stepped up. So how would
you divvy up minutes for this team. I don't know that's that's a tough
part, because then that's a milliondollar question. Everybody keeps asking, I
think you have to keep Zoo inthe starting lineup. What's your pay pal

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man, I'll hand it kidding.I think I think you got to keep
Zoom the starting line of moving forward. Reggie has played, you know,
really well, and then Pat isalways really good. I think it might
be a thing where, like theythey're just gonna play guys at certain moments.
I think maybe because I imagine ina moment like tonight where they were

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or where they were, they mightwant Rondo in because it's it's become too
familiar with how many turnovers Kawhi has. At the end, he gets swarmed
and he needs somebody else to makethat play. He is far about Essen
Shari. He covers the Clippers forSI Now. He also writes for The
Bleacher Report. Follow him at farbotunderscore E on Twitter. Far bought on

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a nightlight tonight And I don't meanto, you know, talk about myself
and what's going on. How Iget a vaccine shot earlier and I feel
terrible, but you know, insome ways, like the Clippers. I
was a little bit gassed and Ineeded you, so thanks for doing this,
man, I appreciate it. Noworries. I mean, you can
just watch another four hours as acclateedJustice League that it might you know by

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the time you finish that, Ithink your arm will stop being sore.
Don't put me back in that place. I feel like Dark Sea would be
stepping on my head at that point. For how about thanks again, my
friend, No worries. Coming upnext, we'll take one last break here
on Clippers Talk after they lose byseven at home to the Orlando Magic.

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Eight seven seven five two zero elevenfifty is the phone number. A reminder,
A friendly reminder. My friend TimKates is on M five seventy l
A Sports right now after the Bruinsget back to the Final four. But
we're talking Clippers tonight. More Clipperstalk coming up, and I still want
to unpack some of what T Lousaid post game. I thought there were

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a couple of interesting bites there.We'll get into that. We'll dig into
that next right here on Clipper Stockon the Patriot AM Element fifty. What
is every moment all season long?On their officials Kawai Letard sent it back
home, but the clipp Nations stillnot come in here. You're back in

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on clipperstock. I'm at a Moslinand you're listening to the Patriot Am eleven
fifty after they lose one oh threeto ninety six to the Orlando Magic at
Staples Center. No need to overreact, Clipper Nation. You've still won seven
of your last eight games. They'vestill been playing some of the best basketball,
I think the best basketball they've playedall season long, while being down

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starters all over the place. That'swhat's encouraging to me, the fact that
no Paul George, he's been inand out. Marcus Morris has been in
and out. Same with Kawhi Leonardat times. The two who have been
missing over the past couple of weeksnow Serge Vaka and Patrick Beverley. Those
are two of your guys. Defensivelyand overall. It wasn't necessarily the defense

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that failed the Clippers. It wastired legs on offense and some lackadaisical turnovers.
Because Orlando there's the second to worstteam offensively. They're averaging one oh
four points per game this season.Now, it's hard to analyze and get
a gauge on where this team isgoing to be in the future soon because

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they made so many moves at thetrade deadline. But they did just put
up one hundred and three points tonight. The problem was they outscored the Clippers
in the second half sixty six toforty five. The Clippers, even though
their offense wasn't completely locked in,and you heard Tlu a few segments ago
say it, they should have beenup by more. They could have put

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this game away earlier. And whenyou give a young team life, guys
that are looking for any sign oflife with this Orlando Magic team that is
second to last in the Eastern Conference, they're going to take advantage of that.
And I thought they rose up atthe end and those young legs showed
up for them as well, whereasI thought the Clippers five games and seven

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nights, I do think it wasa factor tonight. I don't know any
other way to account for some ofthose jumpers that were just so short in
the fourth quarter where they only putup twenty three points and Orlando had thirty
three, and outside that team manthree pointer, there was an eleven three
run in the last three minutes ofthe game by the Orlando Magic, and

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the Clippers just looked like it wasasking a little too much to win this
game tonight without four of your fivestarters, without Rondo so far. But
hopefully they can get healthy and bemore consistent the assistency we've seen recently,
I mean, winning seven of eight, but they've been playing fantastic defense coming

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out of the All Star Break tonightincluded. Overall, I thought they were
much better than the first half,obviously, but the team that we thought
they could be, they look likethat over the past two weeks, and
I wouldn't let one loss like this. Granted it's a tough loss to an
Orlando Magic team, it can bediscouraging, but if they come back and

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beat the Denver Nuggets Thursday night,you can remember this. Probably not,
it's not going to define their season, but I do think the Clippers are
starting to turn that corner and theydefinitely look like a different team than last
year. Overall, effort wise,I didn't think it was effort hurting them
tonight. I thought it was executiondown the stretch that was their downfall.

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Clippers dropped with thirty two and seventeenon the season they lose to the Orlando
Magic. Before we get out ofhere on Clippers Talk, I do want
to thank Noah Eagle, Brian Seamanand Zach Lcaldy here back in Burr Bank.

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He pulled that t lose sound thatI desperately wanted to hear from tonight
the head coach. You need somewords of wisdom after a loss like this
with the Clippers lose by seven tothe Orlando Magic. So thank you Zach.
Also, as always, thanks forRalph Lawlor Big Brother Jake, Big
Brother Jake podcast back in effect.Check it out. Congrats to the UCLA

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Bruins get into the Final four.Clippers will get back after it. Thursday
night tip time is that seven pmat Staples Center versus the Denver Nuggets and
Aaron Gordon and JaVale McGee. Now, we'll love your pregame show starting at
six. I'm at a Moslins We'lltalk to you then you