Clippers Lose in OT AGAIN & to Denver AGAIN

Clippers Talk with Adam Auslund after they fall 134-124 in OT in Denver to the Nuggets. You'll hear from callers, Coach Lue and Charles Mockler postgame.

Episode Transcript

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The game is over all George Moneyin the pain, but the postgame reaction
has just begot GOHI Leonard is sosmooth in the mid range. This is
Clippers locker Room, a recap oftoday's game and a look ahead on your
hole for LA Clippers basketball. Andnow your host, you, sir,
are a bad man, Adam Auslin. Clippers lose by ten as they get

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outscored fourteen to four in overtime inDenver to the Nuggets. Welcome into your
postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin.Coming up. We'll get a second half
highlight, your post game box score. You'll hear from Coach Low and the
players. But first back out toDenver and back to your voice of the
Clippers in Noah Eagle, No wheredo you want to start? The slow
start for this team? The sixpoint possession Denver had or the goal ten

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pick take your pick, Adam,pick your poison. I'm phoning a friend.
Let's let's start, I guess withthe slow start to this one,
because we've seen it all season long, and they put themselves in a hole
against such a quality club. Yeahand listen, this is what happened the
last time these two teams faced offin this building. The Clippers just got
boat raced to start the game andnever recovered in that one. To me,
it was actually a positive sign theway they did recover in this one.

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Down eighteen to start the game,toront Lui had to use two timeouts
within the first four minutes of thegame, which is just unheard of,
and the Clippers did a good jobof continuing the battle, continuing to fight,
keeping their spirits high. They endedup forcing a sixteen turnovers in this
game, and after four turnovers veryquickly, they only finished with thirteen themselves.
So they took care of the basketball. They capitalize off of Denver turnovers,

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but they allowed twenty three second chancepoints at them, and that's what
feels like it burned them when itwas all said and done. Yeah,
a big three point or late offsecond chance points. Paul George almost hit
the buzzer beater and the shot ofhis life before it went into overtime.
But the Clippers absolutely fell flat inextra minutes in this one. I mean,
look, I know that Denver's onthe second out of the back to

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back, but they didn't play bigminutes yesterday. Nicole Ki and the starters
played about twenty three minutes and thensat the whole second half. Essentially,
you're definitely the whole fourth quarter.And so yes, they're on the second
out of the back to back,but I'd argue that the Clippers are probably
even more exhausted. Double overtime gamethat took everything emotionally out of them,
and then a rough light getting herewith some very inclement weather as we all

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know in La. That that tookI think a lot out of a lot
of people who are not feeling let'ssay one hundred percent right now. And
for example, normally you would havea shooting around when you have a full
day off in between. The shootaround was optional because guys were exhausted coming
in, so I think they ranout of gas. They took so much

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effort and energy just to get backin the game to take a lead in
the fourth quarter, but when itcame down to it in overtime, they
just didn't have anything left in thetank, I thought, even in a
loss like this, of course,some great performances Mason Plumbly in that fourth
quarter was magnificent. Kawhi Leonard reallyall throughout the second half, but he
had twelve what's in the fourth quarterwas going shot for shot with Nikola Yok.

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Yeah, Mason Plumbley still as yetto miss from the fields in a
Clippers uniform. Two for two againtonight, so he's still one hundred percent
shooting from the floor. Kauai ishe looked like a superstar today. But
I think that eventually Denver just said, fine, let someone else beat us.
We're not going to let this guydo it. And finally they made
the adjustment. They got they gotJamal Murray off of him, they got

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Cave Kentavious call Will Pope onto him, and they started doubling him and getting
it either out of his hands orfronting him to make sure he wasn't going
to get it. And that's whenthe offense sputtered a little bit for the
Clippers. You know, I thinkToronto Luis is definitely still tinkering and trying
to figure out what he has.But now with nineteen games remaining in the
season, it's go time and heknows that. And so it's a hard

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balance. We've talked about it.He said, it's a hard balance of
trying to learn on the fly withalso trying to win these games and put
yourself in good playoff positioning. Butthis was this was a gut wrenching loss,
as was the one on Friday.And so now we get to see
what this team is made up,because you get to see after adversity hits
what you look like. And I'vegot my money on this team doing it
the right way. They've got aMinnesota team coming in that has disappointed themselves

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over the course of this season,but they're fighting for that same playoff positioning,
and so the Clippers know that onTuesday, they had to Golden State
the following Thursday, back to backat Sacramento on Friday, so good opportunities
for LA to gain some ground beforethey head to that final stretch of the
schedule this season. Tuesday against Minnesota, back and down town Los Angeles tips
off at seven. We'll have Clipperscount down their pregame shows starting at six.

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Noah Eagles, safe travels. Greatcall is always my friend, Adam.
You know, energy is certainly ata premium right now, but it
doesn't matter. I'm always going togive you a heart. He can't wait,
no doubt coming up. Second halfhighlights Clippers fall in OT one thirty
four to one, twenty four andDenver to the Nuggets, and you're listening
to the Los Angeles Clippers radio network. Another crushing one Clippers losing overtime in

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Denver one thirty four to one twentyfour. Not the Orange crush there.
The Brook goes then for Nuggets,take them down. Nikolokich finishes with a
forty spot in a forty point tripledouble with seventeen boards and ten assists.
Coming up, we'll dig more intothe box score. We'll also hear from

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coach lou and the players after adisappointing loss where the Clippers were down by
eighteen in the first quarter, theybattled back to take the lead in the
fourth and it was a tie ballgame hand to overtime where they were outscored
fourteen to four and just came outabsolutely flat in the last five minutes.
Let's get into some of these secondhalf highlights though, because there were plenty.

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It was an unbelievable football game.As we said Friday night against the
Sacramento Kings. Problem his Clippers cameout on the wrong side of it.
But Russell Westbrook in that third quarter, when the Clippers start off down eight
in the second half, absolutely helpedhim get back into it. Swing at
George down the right alley, bounceit inside Westbrook, Ripe blocks fifteen to
shoot, backing down on Caldwell.Pope plays it up and in with a

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left hand. He rocks the babyto sleep as Denver calls the time out.
Four thirty four to go on thethird and the Clippers are within five.
Picks up his dribble fifteen feet out, leave it Westbrook straight away,
five to shoot. Westbrook driving righton Schnchar gets the rim, clips at
in off the window. Russell Westbrookwith fourteen, Clippers down eighty five eighty

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yo, gets quickly into the frontcourt. Leonard driving middle on Chawn Char
kick it Westbrooks swinging but two pumpfake one dribble back outside Westbrook a white
bring three. Oh, he gotit. Russell Westbrook from the outside and
the Clippers are back within five ninetyone eighty six with a minute fifty to
play in the third Clippers we're tryingto battle back multiple times. They had

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it within four in that third quarter, and there was a six point possession
after they impeded the shooter. Itwas Russell Westbrook kind of encroaching into the
landing space there of Michael Porter Junior. He hit the three, would go
to the line for one more plusthey got the extra possession there. I
think it was a Jamal Murray jumperto give him a six point possession and

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went from a four point game toa ten point game just like that.
Clippers continue to battle, but theywere down ninety seven to eighty eight heading
into the third quarter. Into thefourth, I should say early fourth quarter
Mason Plumley was outstanding for the Clippers, but late it was Kawhi Leonard just
going back and forth making impossible shotswith Nicola Yokich Leonard right to left office

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screen. It was right from GordonLeonards rise on a right wing three bottom
Kawhi Leonard a big hit from downtownand it's one O seven, one h
five la within a duke base upeighteen feet out to drive towards the middle
of the paint, looking to getto the dotted line. Four to fight
from twelve in and out back inagain. Kawhi Leonard, cool hand,

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Kawai delivering. He's got thirty oneClippers one fifteen Nuggets one thirteen double team
being shaded by Yoki Juge helped backdown on Jamal Murray Leonard to the dotted
line, fades away, gets itto go Kawhi Leonard ka boom thirty three
for the claw one seventeen one fifteenLA one forty two play. Kawai had

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twelve of his thirty three points inthe fourth quarter. All these big buckets
late. Mason Plumlilow would put themup one eighteen to one seventeen with fifty
eight point two seconds left, Buton the other end, it was Michael
Porter Junior hitting a three pointer afteran offensive rebound by Contavious Caldwell Pope.
Offensive boards were critical in this one. They may have decided the ball game

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and could certainly make that argument now. Paul George would sink two clutch free
throws to send it into ot andactually, after a Bruce Brown missed three
pointer, Paul George heaved a sixtyfooter. It went, but it was
just after the buzzer. It wasonce twenty y'all heading into overtime and the
Clippers would end up losing one thirtyfour to one twenty four in Denver to

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the reigning MVP and the Nuggets.Coming up next, we will preview Tuesday's
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not double this time, but theylose by ten in Denver, and
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thirty four to one twenty four toNikolo Kitchen his forty point triple double and
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to me at follow Adam A.Clippers ended up shooting a respectable forty nine
percent from the field. They didstart to go colder from the outside,
finish it just thirty three percent fromdistance Denver at fifty one percent from the
floor thirteen of thirty nine. That'sthirty three percent from three. Now Denver
beat him up on the board somethingfierce. They had fifty rebounds, the

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Clippers thirty eight, but the realtelling number was five more offensive rebounds,
and I believe the number was twentyone second chance points, including that big
three pointer by Michael Porter Junior atthe end of the four quarter to put
him up by two. Paul Georgewould send him into ot hitting a couple
of big free throws. He finishedwith twenty three on six of thirteen,

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shooting oh four from distance, thoughwin eleven of eleven from the line.
Kawhi Leonard masterful performance once again,twelve of nineteen after he started oh for
four, so after that he wastwelve or fifteen. He would miss just
three shots the rest of the way. Unreal. He had thirty three,

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but Yokich has forty and the Clipperslose by ten in overtime where they just
got blitzed. They just got ambushed. They just looked to run as steam.
It was a seven oh run veryquickly, and turnovers would haunt them
throughout this one, even though theywere better after the first quarter. They
still had one late from Marcus Morristhat kind of put this one away,

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put Denver up by ten. Toughon cliber Nation. They gotta get back
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Now your host of Clippers Talk.Here's Adam Osway Stop me if you've
heard this one before. Clippers losein overtime, this time in Denver to
the Nuggets, one thirty four toone twenty four. Welcome in to Clippers

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Talk. I'm Adam oslind eight sixsix nine eight seven two five seventy eight
sixty six nine eight seven two fiveseventy's the phone number coming up. We'll
have Chuck macklron from Clips and Tip. You'll hear from coach Lou. You'll
hear from the players. I saidFriday night was tough. One of the

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toughest losses any team has ever hadhappened to them. Considering you score one
hundred and seventy five points and youlose. This one feels worse in some
ways because you wanted to see thembounce back, but they came out flat
to start the game, and thenthey came out flat in overtime. And

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in between there there was some greatbasketball. Kawhi Leonard was incredible down the
stretch, going shot for shot withNikola Yokichlerini MVP Mason Plumley played his heart
out, was unreal in the fourthquarter, going against his former team.
Bones Highland gave him some great minutesin the first half, and the Clippers

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battled back down eighteen to somehow havea lead in the fourth quarter, and
they had multiple leads, but itwould head into overtime after their Achilles heel,
at least in this ball game andthroughout some of the season, just
pulled on them. An offensive reboundleading to a three pointer for Michael Porter

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Jr. With about thirty seconds left. That was the play right there.
You want to talk about the goldten, fine, the Clippers certainly didn't
get the benefit of the whistle onthis one. But I don't adhere to
the logic of well, the Clipperswould have won if you just add those
two points on in regulation one twentytwo to one twenty. Look if they

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had gotten the gold ten and itwas one on Thomas Bryan on Eric Gordon
earlier in the second half, thatchanges future possessions. You don't know how
the game plays out, so it'snot that simple. There is a butterfly
effect thing going on there. Idon't like to just dumb it down to

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well, just tack it on atthe end, and they should have won
this ball game. There's other waysthey should have won and get an offensive
rebounds with one of them, andCantavius called well. Pope was able to
come down with one. With theClippers up one eighteen to one seventeen,
with thirty one seconds left for MichaelPorter Junior to eventually hit a long three
pointer off of a Jamal Murray assist. Clippers continued to battle as they did

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in an uphill battle, down byeighteen in the first quarter. Paul George
was fouled on the other end.It was an if he call that if
Denver still had their challenge, theyprobably would have used it. And Paul
George, if he doesn't get fouledthere, he had shook Contavious Caldwell Pope
to the point where he would havehad an open shot along to ur he

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could have stepped back for three.Now he did knock down two clutch free
throws. He went eleven of elevenfrom the line that tied it at one
twenty. They got the miss withBruce Brown on the other end and Paul
George, what do we have theend of this zac because Noah Eagle had
an amazing call and I almost fellout of my chair because on first glance,
it looked like Paul George just hita sixty footer to win the ball

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game. Unfortunately, it was closerto what we saw from Joe l Embiide
just yesterday against the Boston Celtics.Here is the end of the regulation.
Murray with ten seconds left, leaveit for Brown left wing with eight seconds
left to Yo gets to the freethrow line. With six seconds left,
yogets with it back to George outsideBrown, a left wing three is up.
It's too strong rebound. George putsit up at the horn behind half

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court, fool put George puts itin, but they call it off and
they got the call right. Theball was in both hands as the buzzer
sounded. What could have been there? What could have been? I hope
this season doesn't come down to thatmantra for this team. They still have

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nineteen games left to play, butthey have lost far too many of these
close games. It hasn't just beenthe last two and they've had a lot
of self inflicted wounds, and itreally begins with just not starting games strong.
We've wanted to see that. It'sbeen one of my keys to game

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that I've used it at nauseum.I don't know what it is, because
after getting Russell Westbrook and them startingfaster against Sacramento, I suppose I thought
they would have had a little bitbetter energy, a little bit more punch
from the opening tip. Instead,at one point it was twenty to four.

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They got down by as many aseighteen in the first quarter. And
when you put yourself in those spotswhere you always have to come back against
quality competition, no less quality isan understatement. Denver's the best team in
the West. Even when you getback to having the lead late in the
ball game, you can run outof gas because you had to expend too

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much energy just to fight to battleback, and you come up lifeless in
the fourth quarter in overtime, whichwas the case tonight, where they just
got well, they were da youcould say they're down seven nothing immediately.
Couple of three balls, a coupleof broken defensive plays. Jamal Murray hit

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one, Michael Porter Junior hit one. The defense seemed to be out of
source, guys weren't in position.It was hard to watch quite frankly because
of how well they played just toget it into overtime and then to lose
ot by ten. It just feltlike it was over before it began.

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So now the Clippers, and I'llupdate you on the standings coming up.
They've lost two in a row comingout of the All Star Break. They've
lost both games with Russell Westbrook,and I'm not putting it on him by
Amy's he had a great third quarterthat helped him get back into the ball
game. I don't know if heplayed again after that, but he had
eleven points in the third, finishedwith seventeen four assists to two turnovers.

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Okay, not huge there, butfive steals. Some of it was right
place, right time, but heplayed with great effort out there, hit
a big three. And in agame like this, there are a ton
of things you can point to forhow they lost. And I've been saying
that too much lately. But whenyou're down four in the third and Denver

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comes up with a six point possessionoff of Michael Porter Junior hitting a three
in Russell Westbrook's face, who encrouchedon his landing space, I forget the
exact terminology they want to use.For this, but he impeded the landing
space there. It's a dangerous play. At first it looked like Michael Porter
Jr. Was severely hurt, butthen he kind of, you know,

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strugged it off real quick and madeit known that he was just faking it
to exaggerate the contact and to hopefullyget the call. And he did,
and they reviewed it and according tothe NBA, that's the right call.
But he goes to the free throwline, he hits that they get the
ball back also and Jamal Murray hitsa two pointer and you go from being

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down four to down ten in onepossession. Tough to overcome. I set
it on Twitter the four straight turnoversthey had when they had a fourteen point
lead against the Kings on Friday night. I think that more than anything was
there undoing tonight. Maybe it wasthe six point possession, a dead where

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I think we'll get back up byabout fourteen in the third, And in
fact they won the third quarter.After the Clippers had to within four,
had it to within five, multipletimes, had it to within six,
they were still down by nine goinginto the fourth, after they were down
by eight at a half. Sothey lost the third quarter. Somehow it
was tough after starting the third,by the way, with a different lineup

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where they inserted Nicholas Batoum. Ilove the move and it worked. It
was wicked smart. They went small. They saw they had something with Nicholas,
with Nick Batoum in the first halfagainst Jokich, they wanted to pair
his minutes against him to start thesecond half, and for the most part,

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it worked. At one point,you know what, I don't even
need to say that, because NickBatoum ended the game a plus ten in
a game they lost by ten.I was gonna say at one point he
was a plus eleven in a gamethey were down by ten. He ends
up still a plus ten in agame they lost by ten. And I'm,

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for the life of me having ahard time understanding how he never got
back into the ball game after theytook him out late in the third quarter.
I was a little bit surprised bythat. I thought they'd go back
to him. I know, MasonPlumbly played really well, really well early
in that fourth quarter. From latein the third early into the fourth,
he was taking over the game.To start the fourth quarter, he had

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an unbelievable rejection on Thomas Bryant.He had a dunk in an inn one
to start the fourth he had apass to it was Terrence Man for a
huge throwdown. He was controlling theball game. I didn't think Nicholas Mattun

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was coming in for him. Ithought there was a chance maybe one of
the guards he came in for.Terrence Man started things off in the fourth
quarter. He was taking out fivefifteen mark for Marcus Morris on the fourth.
Morris has been struggling. I stillhave faith in him, but he's

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been struggling, to say the leastover the last month now. Defensively,
teams have been picking on him more. And he did hit a jumper at
about a three minute mark. ButI know because I'm seeing all the incoming
on Twitter, and I can't avoidthe elephant in the room when everyone is

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going after the Marcus Morris move.I can't avoid it. I can defend
it to a point, but Ican't totally avoid it because I thought Terrence
Man or Nicholas Patum would have beenthe guys to go with. I love
that Eric Gordon was out there avet. I know he went over for

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four in the ball game, buthe's secure with the basketball for the most
part, makes smart decisions. Ilike seeing that next to Paul George and
Kawhi Leonard. But this was agame that I mean, how many of
we said the Clippers got to getone of these big wins against the top
team at a call last night ortwo nights ago Friday? When are the

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Clippers going to beat a team that'sahead of them in the standings when they
were in the four seat. We'llupdate two in the standings coming up now.
They have beaten Sacramento once. Itwas early in the season, but
Denver goes four no against him,and to be fair, they haven't played
Memphis yet. They got three gamesagainst them, so a chance to prove

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themselves. Clippers is coming into thisone though third toughest schedule remaining. Nothing
is guaranteed, and by that Imean you can talk about the postseason,
but are you talking about the playoffsor the play in Because the Clippers are
dangerously close to being in the playin. Everybody is you slip up and

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go on a losing streak down thestretch, You're gonna have a fight just
to make the playoffs. So yeah, a little fired up tonight. These
games matter, and that's a goodthing. That's certainly what the NBA wants.
There have been just a slew ofgreat games coming out of the All
Star Break, coming out of atrociousshowing by the league in the All Star

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Game, but I you know,I can care much less about that than
actual gabs dobbed the stretch that allseemed to matter right now. There were
a couple of game winners tonight.Milwaukee had one with Drew Holiday, Trey
Young had one with Atlanta. DameDolla win Admiral with it had a David

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Robinson esque seventy one point game,his career high. I have to qualify
it with that because you never knowwhat Dame. You could thought maybe he's
gone for that before. No,I think it was sixty one. Unreal.
But as much as these have beengreat games the last two games with
the Clippers taking much away with moralvictories, here you're trying to secure your

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spot in the West, to securehome court in the first round, and
it's going to be up in theair the rest of the way it is.
Every game is going to be adog fight. It's great, makes
for great ball games. Clippers gottapull some of these out, though they
lose an overtime tonight in Denver onethirty four to one twenty four to the

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Nuggets. Before we break here,we'll go to the phone call Javier and
Lahabra Heights Javier Eric Clippers stop withouthim? Awesome, Hey, what's up,
Adam? Thank you for taking mycall again. I you took towards
out of my mouth. You saidit earlier, so I don't know what
to what did I say what yousaid to me, because I remember remind

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you the lives five minutes you said, why was Beato not playing? Or
I just don't see how he's here. Here's my question with Pat, Here's
my question with the two. Hewas good enough to start the second half
to make that move to take outplumbly, but then when he gets taken

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out of the end of the thirdquarter after doing a good job, he
never came back into the ball gameto my knowledge, I could be wrong
about that, but I'm pretty sure. I'm looking at twenty one minutes at
the end of the third quarter andtwenty one minutes in the final box score.
That was just surprising to me,especially because he had hit a couple
of big threes. Obviously, Hewas hot against Sacramento from the outside.

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It continued against Denver, and hisdefense was phenomenal at times, even when
guys scored on him. He wasright there. Yeah, and the audacity
is to have Marcus Morris and EricGordon claimed the last five minutes. I
mean, I don't mind having EricGordon out there at all, to have

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another ball handler out there that issecure with the basketball. I like that
move next to Paul George and KwaiLetter to make life a little bit easier
for them. But but then again, okay, I'll give you that,
but let's say the last what thirtyfive seconds when uh what's his name Murray
shot that fifty footer and missed it. Nobody boxed out, you know,

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if you wouldn't have no, no, no, no, no, no
no. It was a long rebound. It didn't end up right underneath the
basket. It was a long reboundthat got tipped out. That's just oh,
that's just a frantic thing. That'sthat's almost that's just a fifty fifty
ball. That's it's hard to saythat old guys in box out there.
I mean, I told you thisa while back, and I know you

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said earlier about you're getting a twitterabout Marcus Morris. I told you it's
a while back. I told youthis all year. I told you this
in the trade Dan Lane, Igo, you know, and you said
I'll be nice to him. Itold you, Adam, I don't think
I ever said nice to anyone.But you ain't gonna be nice to me
either. I mean, it's justI'm just lost the words. I mean,

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I just I'm just let me tellyou something that was with the wife.
Earlier. I drove from Lahabra Heightsto Inglewood to take care of some
business and we passed by the stadiumand oh my god, it looks nice.
I mean, it started to shapeup. And I'm thinking to myself,
Adam, this game is gonna lookso beautiful, and you're going think
you the keys of the palace toTylo. Are you kidding me? That

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cannot happen? A look, Istill believe in coach Lou because of his
track record of playing the right guysand the best guys and the best five
when it matters most. I stillthink that's going to happen, and Marcus
Morris can still step up and getout of this funk. Maybe that's what

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he was counting on, a biggame experience. Marcus had seven three pointers
in that game, seven against Dallas. They don't win without him. He's
had huge games for the Clippers,game winners over the Lakers, and this
was a big game and he wantedto go with the guy he trusted.
So I get it. There's rationalethere. Clippers on fortunately fall though again

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in overtime, and it stings andhis brutal and I've been saying those things
since Friday. This feels very similar. Friday was almost I called the black
Mirror game because it was so surrealto watch teams put up one hundred and
seventy points. You almost get caughtup in that and aren't thinking as much

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about the win or the loss.Tonight though, against Denver, with you
expecting the Clippers to be even hungerbecause they lost that game Friday. I
know Clipper Nation was feeling the sameway. Gotta have it. Haven't beat
him. They've won six straight againstthe Clippers, now nine of ten.
They beat a lot of teams.It's not just the Clippers. They're number

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one in the Western Conference and theyhave the two time ruining MVP, who
may win his third and Kawai methim there at the top of the mountain
of best players in the game inthe fourth quarter where they went back and
fourth with tough shot after tough shot, and I thought they were gonna pull
it out. Didn't happen. Clipperslosing o T one thirty four to one

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twenty four, one thirty four,one twenty four to the Denver Nuggets.
More Clippers stock coming up next righthere on AMPI seventy LA sports. This

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is too wild and crazy, guysin Burbank. After the Clippers lose one
thirty four to one twenty four inDenver to the Nuggets. It's tough on
cliber Nation. So it's Friday night. There's a lot of frustration and aggravation

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out there, and I'm seeing itall over Twitter. The good news is
still there's nineteen games left and wehave seen in Spurts, granted in losses,
some fantastic play at times. Comingback down at eighteen on Denver to
take the lead in the fourth isnot easy. What Kawhi Leonard's been doing,
playing at an all time high forhimself in the regular season is impressive.

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Russell Westbrook has been good in bothgames, not the reason they have
lost. They gotta get off tobetter starts. They got to engage,
lock in focus, stay there forforty eight minutes. And that's been the
problem all year, lack of consistency. Coach Low, I don't know how

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else, sir, how many wayshe can say, we got to start
with the defensive mindset. It's notgetting through this team. I posted this
earlier today, but after they startedoff the season a top five defense throughout
the first couple of months, sinceDecember first, they're twenty in defensive rating.

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They've fallen off a cliff there,and there's reasons for that. And
how many of those games had Kawaiand Paul George I can't tell you,
but they've had enough guys that ifthey're buying in, they're talented enough and
they have the personnel to be agood defensive team to be better than bottom
ten. Yeah. Not having zoobotstonight, just like Friday night, it's

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a killer, make no mistake.That is a huge loss because then you
have zoobots on Yokis, who hasdone a decent job. I know Yokis
gets his no matter what, butyou got to make them work for it,
and you could also throw a plumlee and botomb Adam that could have
changed things. It doesn't matter thoughthey lost. They got nineteen games left

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to figure this thing out and buildsome momentum heading into the playoffs, where
all season long, it's seems likethis team has certainly had one eye on
the playoffs. They're geared towards thatthey get in the playoffs. They're healthiest
seven game series, they can beatanyone, and I still believe that,
especially because Kawhi Leonard is back andthen some. He's on one of the

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best runs of his career, maybethe best regular season run he's ever been
on. Let me give you thenumbers as he was my player to watch.
I know that's cheating to go withKawai, but last time out he
was two for seven against Denver whenthey got blown out in Denver. Since
January seventh, and this is onlygoing to go up now, he's shooting

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fifty three percent from the field,forty eight percent from three, and ninety
two percent from the free throw line. He is damn near at fifty fifty
ninety splits. That type of stuffis remarkable coming off at ACL regardless of
you're coming off in a cl Itold you this before. I think he's

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the only player that has major injuriesand then comes back and gets better somehow.
It's it's wild to see. Okay, we're gonna hear from coach Lou
in just a moment. But first, Damien in LA, what's up?
You're on Clipper stock with that,I'm awsin triple A. Man, another
tough loss, bro. Like yousaid, it's stings a whole lot since

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we usually go next level. Man, Let's get into the psychology of it
a little bit. Let's try tofigure out why we start so slowly all
the time. I think, andI'm not trying to put it on anybody,
but I know the coach Lou hasmore of a feel approach to his

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coaching and sometimes but he also quotesanalytics. He also is very aware of
them and filters that in his decisionmaking. Definitely, I think. I
think the bigger point that I feelis like you have a lot of guys
on there that are very marterial thatway, you know, they kind of
work off of how they feel,and maybe because of the talent that we

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have on this team, you know, and the fact that we can just
turn it on and turn it off. That gets us into trouble, you
know, because I'm thinking that,bro, if we don't start, you
know, fifteen to two in thefirst quarter, this isn't a game,
you know. And we continuously letguys play with us because we're resting on

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our greatness a little bit too much, you know, and I think it's
biting us in the butt because we'renot realizing. I'll say this, I
think coming I think this season,Damien, that at times they have felt
like they were good enough and theirmargin for error was wide enough that they
could experiment and still win ball games. And that just hasn't been the case

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very often. Yeah. Yeah,what I what I missed from the team
is that they don't seem to havethat spearhead like you were talking about out
on defense from the jump, Likewe used to attack people and now we're
a little bit more reactionary, whichis fine. You know, that's still
a great defense to be a reactionarydefense. But you know, and I
don't want to say, like,you know, it's Patrick Beverley that we

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missed or whatever, but when hewas here, we had attacks and we
would attack people on defense. Wehad a lot more full court press going.
There were times last night that areFriday, that I thought we should
be full court pressing. There weretimes tonight where I thought, you know,
maybe a full court press and alittle bit of change of pace on
defense might help us out. Andwe just don't seem to be getting that

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message. And I'm having a hardtime putting, you know, another finger
on what it might be. Justthat the fact that maybe Coach Lou has
given these guys a little bit toomuch leash. Yeah, I don't know,
it's an interesting thought. I appreciateit. Damien eight six six nine
eight seventy eight six six ninety seventwo five seventy let's hear from coach Lou.

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After the Clippers lose one thirty onetwenty four and Denver in ot to
the Nuggets, I thought just playingsmall kind of helped us out offensively,
was able to spread Joker out alittle bit. And then I just thought
just being the swishing picking rolls tokeep my out of that trigger, which
was good for us. And soI thought Mason would have been better with
that second unit because I thought Normanand Bones needed a a roller in that

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second unit to run our plays andrun our sets, and so it worked
out pretty good, you know,and so you know, unfortunately we didn't
get the win. But I likesome things that we did. Concerned about
the rebound stretches with Mason Emily,Yeah, I mean he did a good
job. I thought his hustle plays, I thought, you know, rolling,
getting getting to the rim. Ithought I did a lot of you

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know, really good things for us. And so, like I said,
rebounding has always been a achilles heelof ours. And like you saw on
that last shot, you know,were up one marriage used a half court
shot. You know, it hitsthe rim and they get offensive rebounding,
get a three point shot and goup too. So just those little things
like you know, but the biggestthing for it's just the way we started.
You know, you can't get downfifteen sixteen points to a good team

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like this and then you gotta fightingclawback. But overall, I liked our
grind, our grid. You know, I thought Rust did a good job
tonight. Probably should have play himlittle bit more. Well, we got
we caught a good rhythm and agood flow. Kind of took the lead,
and so I kind of took whatstuck with our guys there was coach
slew post games and probably should haveplayed Russ a little bit more. Maybe
you played well. I just betweenNicholas patum starting the third quarter and playing

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well there against Yokich as he mentionedthey went small, they liked it,
and then not playing again in thefourth. That was just surprising to me.
But he's right, Mason plum Lelywas very good. I guess I'm
coming from a perspective of can youplay him and plum Ly at the same
time when you're getting beat on theboards. I would assume so, because

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on offense, Nicholas Patoum can certainlyhang around the three point line. But
I'm not coach and I trust him. Coach lou Clippers lose one thirty four
to one twenty four in OT tothe Denver Nuggets, another aggravating one Clipper
Nation. Right now, people,we're gonna be down tonight. We'll get

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back to your phone calls coming up. We got more positives for you.
I'm with you eight six six ninetyseven two five seventy eight six six ninety
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the top of the hour. Welcomeback in Clippers lose in Denver, one
thirty four to one twenty five inot, I'm atam oslin to eight six
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seventy is the phone number coming up? Charles Mockler will still be here from
clips in dipp But first, Ryanand Burbank own Clipper stock. What's up,
Adam? What's going on? Man? Always loved talking with you.

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But here's the thing, Man,And I'm just I am. I'm Avid
on Twitter with some of the youknow, some of the Clippers fanatics and
you know, being in some spaceswith some guys talking about the team,
and and and Adams. You broughtit up earlier, man, But Marcus
Morris was a minus seventeen tonight sixpoints off, two of are, three

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of six or three of seven,shooting, one assist, three rebounds in
thirty three minutes. That's unacceptable.It's unacceptable. You're you're telling me that
our starter got three rebounds, that'sit. And and and you're telling me
what we're talking about this you're tellingme, Covington can't get in the game.

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Really, he can't play at all. He can't do that. I
just I and Adam, here's thething I'm not. For the most part,
I like Tyler. I think thathe's a very smart coach. For
the most part, this kind ofreeks to me a little bit of like
I have. I have my veteranguys. I want to see them shoot

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out of their current slump. ButAdam, the West is so tight,
they are running out of time.The runway is getting much shorter, and
you're just again, Adam, you'rejust telling me again. You're telling me
from a coach's perspective, that youcannot put anyone else in for those minutes.

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And here's the thing, parents Mancould play a little bit more minutes.
That's who Marcus came in for fivemark of the fourth quarter for Man
right, and again, what isI just wanted to reiterate. He had
six points with three reb and hada brutal shot against Nicola Yokich that was
very well defended. I'm not surewhy he put it up. I don't

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think it was at the very endof the shot clock, but in the
far side corner from three yeah,he had a he had a rough rough
night, and he's had a roughmonth and and Adam again. I just
the problem is the microscope is sohigh because you see the rest of these
pieces and you're going, yeah,this could all work here. But again,

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when batumb is playing that well,and he's and and he's he's finally
finding his stroke from the three pointline, and he's got good defensive measurables,
and he doesn't play again, itjust it doesn't make sense at him.
It doesn't. Well, the partthat doesn't make sense to me is
he was good enough to start thesecond half. You put him in the

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starting lineup in front of Mason Plumley, who yes, came back in the
fourth quarter and was awesome. Butit's just strange to me that Batoum never
gets back into the ball game afterhe starts the third I just I was
surprised by that. Well and againtoo, Here's the thing. I was
critical initially of the Westbrook signing becauseI thought what we've seen was like,

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Hey, this isn't gonna work.Westbrook has not been the problem at all.
No, he's really very good thelast two games. No, No,
he's injected a ton of energy he'smaking for the most good passes.
He's actually his open shooting. Imean you can see him. He's not
even wanting to really take those openthrees as much. He's like, I
want to pass and addition, buta couple of times he's made him I'm

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like, good man, that's good. That's great. That the fact matters.
There's gotta be some combo that worksagainst these elite team because this is
Look, Denver, let's just behonest at him. We know adding many
Clippers fans and this this is theworst matchup for us in terms of just
the guys on the floor, Ryan, who is it a good matchup for

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just one of just what the actualthe Clippers can throw out there, and
look, we miss Zue tonight.But in terms of like what these centers,
what these what are hype guys?We don't have the hype guys that
can really match up at all withYokich atlist with like the Lakers. You've
got Davis, you've got Lebron,you've got some note I actually think the
Lakers would scare Denver. I agreewith you there. Yeah. Well,

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and I want to point out too, Adam too, the bench our depth
is our biggest strength on this team, because the bench really got us back
into this game. And look,Denver starters, I want to point out
three of those guys playing close toforty plus minutes tonight. I mean,
that's a lot we're talking about.These These are these starters are playing all

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these heavy minutes because their bench isnot that deep and they're not gonna be
able to keep these guys leads.So look, I agree with you.
We got nineteen games left. TheClippers can still make a run at this
thing. But is these lineups,Adam. We gotta find a way to
not minus seventeen in the game.We can lose by ten, like,

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that's just it can't happen. Imean it's fair, but it's also you
know, the plus minus. Ioften like to use it when it works
for me, and then I liketo discount it when it doesn't because it's
tough in a one game sample size. It's got to match the eye test
to me as well. I mean, Paul George was a minus eighteen,
but I still want him out therein the game, and he sunk two

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clutch free throws and put it inovertime and almost hit one of the craziest
game winners you'll ever see. No, and look Paul George, he's actually
been fantastic aside from the turnovers againstthe King's game. I love his clutch
FreeFly and he had a bad turnoverin the fourth quarter of this one off
the steel by Eric Gordon. Hetried to get it back to him.

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It was I'm not saying it wascrippling, but those ones they have to
stop, like, you have totake more care of the basketball than the
Clippers have, because that is howyou lose games in the playoffs, giving
up extra possessions, And that's howthey lost that game against the sacrament Or
Kings. Without those four straight turnovers, they win. And Paul George had
two of them, and they werelive ball turnovers. And look at him.

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Let's just be honest. Wasn't theentire I mean, at least some
of the point of getting a veteranpoint guard so that Paul George wouldn't necessarily
have the ball in his hands inthose situations, Well, the ball ended
up in his hands on kind ofthat broken place steel. It had to
be in his hands. He didn'thave to give it up. He was
trying to press the break and getthem in transition going the other way.

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But he and Eric Gordon weren't onthe same page. But you're right,
no, and and look, Iagree with you. I'm fine with Eric
Gordon being out there because he's aveteran. He handles the ball well.
But again, when it comes tosome of these lineups and the way that
we're playing teams, I love theadjustment that lou made when he put when
he put the two men, I'mlike, yeah, the same solid defender

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and a Sallid shooter. But again, when we when it's run time and
we need to stop, we needa rebound or we need a shot that
we know, it's like I mean, look, look the last two games,
they couldn't get a stopper aboard whenthey needed to. That play to
Malik Monk, there were eight secondsleft, there was a timeout called by

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Sacramento. And I've heard a lotof people say, well, why are
Russ and Norn Powell out there onthe court when you had a timeout?
Why not put out your best fivedefenders there get one stop, win the
ball game or and I mentioned apost game. It's not an easy decision.
I know everybody thinks it is tojust foul and send them into the
free throw line because a guy couldput up a shot then, and if

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he hits it like Michael Porter Juniordid and he's going to the line for
four, you can lose the gameinstead of them just tying it or going
to the line for an and oneon three pointer, which would be a
four point play. It's not easy, but I get what you're saying.
I want to belabor it too much, though, Ryan, We we gotta
keep moving. We gotta keep moving, my friend, I trust coach Lou
like Lawrence Frank recently said to putthe best five guys out there when it

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matters most of the playoffs, becauseI've seen him do it before with the
Clippers and with the Cleveland Cavaliers.So let's let's hope for the best.
And I love you, man,and I love the optimism, and I'm
suring for us to hopefully make arun here in these last nineteen games.
So we'll see. I'm with you, my friend. One more art in
la art. You're on clipperstock.Oh yeah, Adam, I want an

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unknown. I'm missed some kultroso calmdown. And yeah, we we had
some technical issues. We'll have itfor you on Tuesday. Okay, good
goods to know that, don't Oh, he's great. Press on the North

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and the point the point of thePoint of Sist that's had a version called
jump too went on with Van Halenand uh, who's the other band?
Sorry? H who's it? Who'sthe band? So the point of Sist
this got you, got you,got you because he loves the music during
the jump ball. Yeah, I'min hops of pain. Us Russell injured

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in the fourth quarter because North saidthat he fell to the floor. I
don't know that. And coach Lukecame out post game and said he could
have played him more or he shouldhave played him more. I'm paraphrasing.
I'm not sure the exact quote,but I don't think it was an injury
issue. Uh. He played twentyfive minutes at seventeen and five steals.

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Absolutely was one of the engines tohelp get them back into this one.
So was Norn Palett time, whoI haven't talked about enough. I know
he only had nine points and hemissed a layup ar it looked like he
was tripped and ended up being afive point swing because there was a three
point or made on the other endby the Denver Nuggets. That hurt him.
But I liked his energy bones Highlandin the first half. His energy
was infectious and he was going upagainst his former team in Denver. I

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just want to get a couple ofother guys names in there tonight, because
there were a lot of good performanceseven in a loss, as well as
Nathan. He was great. Yeah, no criticized Nike, but two.
But the loss of Sacramento the nightthey were down by one and he shout
at three, Oh, doesn't itstrike you as on you and Hill.

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I didn't think they were down oneon that one. I have double check
on that. I don't believe thatwas the case. I appreciate the phone
called though, Art, Okay,gotta get out of this break, or
get to a break and get ChuckMockler in here. Clippers loose one thirty
four to one twenty four and otin Denver. Second straight loss in overtime.
In Sacramento it was double overtime.These Clippers have lost four in the

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last six. Now, it lookedlike they had a lot of momentum.
They had one ten of fourteen headinginto the All Star break, they bring
in Russell Westbrook. He's played well, but they haven't had the wins to
show for it. Against good competition. Yes, but if they're gonna be
in the same picture and talked aboutas a contender as well, you have

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to beat other great teams, andthe Clippers haven't done a good enough job
of that all season long. Theybelieve, I believe they only have eleven
twelve wins at the most against teamsabove five hundred, and that's one of
the worst marks in the West.Lord Clippers stock next with Charles Macklin from
Clips and Dip right here on seventySports. Clippers lose one thirty four to

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one twenty four in overtime in Denver, and I just went to Zupprter film
through the long rebound the Denver Nuggetsgot that eventually ended up in the hands
of Michael Porter Junior for the threeto put them up too for Paul George
hit two free throws a tied togo in overtime. Cantabious Caldwell Pope made
a health of the play. MasonPlumley was there. It was a long
rebound off of half court shot byJamal Murray. I don't know how KCP

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got that ball, but if you'vecalled Aaron Gordon a Clippers killer in the
past, oh, KCP might havemade the play of the game. Welcome
back in. I'm Adam Oslin's toughone. I know Clipper Nation their next
game coming up on Tuesday back homeagainst the Minnesota Timberwolves. More on that,
but first let's get out to ChuckMockler from Clips and Dip Pod does

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it with myself and will Updyke Chuck. Where would you say this game was
lost? Because it's one thing tosay, Okay, you can lose a
game in the first quarter, andI do agree with that, but they
were up to they had a lead, and they weren't able to close things
out and up to is not abig lead, but they battled all the

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way back and had their chances.Did you see it just being that offensive
rebound that I just mentioned, Well, I think that offensive rebound while it
definitely didn't help, you know,it's you want to go to golten what's
your theory on goaltend? Because forme, that happened in like the nine
minute mark of the fourth To sayyou can just tack on two points at

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the end and say, well,the Clippers would have won one twenty two
one twenty. I think that's alittle thing. I think that's a little
flimsy of an argument, because thepoint total affects how teams play down the
stretch and what plays they run.One play affects the next. So if
they did get those two points,then we don't know how Denver would have
responded, right, It's a butterflyeffect with the goaltend. I don't think

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you can just you know you're right, add those two points and then play
the game exactly like it was.The climber's end up winning. I think
there's a big issue right now withthe power forward position and the defense you're
getting from that position when Marcus Morrisis on the court. It's been tough
the last couple of games. Obviously, you know, against the team like
the Kings of a couple of nightsago, would you have Jared Pox difficult?

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And then would you have a teamlike Denver It's even harder. So
I think there's some rotation issues,tear it's made and did not getting enough
time and clutch minute, not gettingany real minutes in overtime. I know
he was in there, but itfelt like he just put a bit after
the game was kind of out ofreach. So there's got to be something,
you know, kind of reevaluate,I think with Marcus Morris's But it's

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when it comes to closing for thisteam right now. And I could see
Terrence Man in a position like thatfor a board like that, all of
Patrick Beverly, who taught all smallerplayers how to pick up clutch rebounds latent
games, especially to keep a teamaway from getting one. But I mean,
do we think that's that's going tochange. I get the frustration.

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I've gotten multiple calls on it tonight, and I was a little bit.
The reason I find it more curiousin this situation where Marcus Morris ends up
playing thirty three minutes is because NickBatoum started the second half. There was
enough faith to start him. Itworked. It always works with Batoum.

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He's never a negative. He wasa plus ten in a game they lost
by ten, but he never playedagain to my knowledge, after he went
out at the end of the thirdquarter for Plumbly. Now, I get
you keep Plumbly in because he wasplaying great in the fourth but could bread.
But toom find a spot in thelast twelve minutes somehow next to him.
I don't. I don't know.I hope he can. I mean,

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I think at this point the twoanswers to why would two was it
are some kind of soft that it'srestriction, you know, where they're just
kind of keeping his as healthy asthe game before the playoffs. That might
be a thing. He only playedin eight minutes against Phoenix at that game
before the All Star break. Yeah, that's interesting, I mean because other
than that, the choice under thanhealth is that he's just not in the

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closing rotation, which I don't thinkClippers said would really want to here right
now, right given how we've seenthis team before games recently. So typically
he always is this is somebody whohas closed out postseason games with them like
it's he is one of the guysthat you'se a lot next to Paul George
and Kawhi Leonard when you're talking aboutdeath lineups and who you want to see

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out there, Normally it starts withthose three. I totally agree. But
we've we've hit him a seemingly veryhard reset with twenty one games left,
is when they decided to kind ofhit the reset button and figure these things
out. I thought it was goodhow Tayloo managed Russ's minutes tonight. I
thought that was good. You know, he wasn't in the closing lineup.

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I don't think anyone thought he reallyshould have been, so you know,
you like to see that. Butthere's still now we have another kind of
lineup stickler going on, which isthese Morris minutes and sub minutes distribution with
the tube and Terra's man. Sowe have a lot to figure out in
nineteen games. I think. Ithink we've talked about it on the Pond

(58:45):
before. It feels kind of likewhere a game one again. It felt
like that at the trade deadline,and then it feels like that a couple
of games after the trade deadline.So I mean, time is money right
now for the Clippers. You mentionedRussell Westbrook, and I thought they manage
his minutes well, and I thoughthe was part of this comeback. In
the third quarter he had eleven ofa seventeen points. He hit a big

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three pointer. He has too,I think the surprise of a lot of
people, he's been very good inboth games so far. In no way
was he the reason he lost eitherthe Clippers lost either of these last two
games. Yeah, that third quarterwas great tonight. I don't know if
I would go out on the limitssay he's been very good. His decision

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making has been great. I thinkwe've seen the good and bad from Russ.
Right, We've seen him blow acouple of layups at the rib.
We've seen some soft turnovers, butwe've also seen him jump start in the
transition game and make the right reads. I think in that third quarter,
as you mentioned, you know,they kind of gave him this mid range
shot. He just took a coupleof steps in and hit a floater,
And that's exactly what you want tosee from Russ if you're a Clippers fan.

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So it's been pretty solid for thesefirst two games. But I mean,
he's evidently going to have a startingrole in the playoffs, it seems
like. So just just more thingsfrom the clips to get figured out.
I guess the one thing that youcan always depend on what this team since
the start of the new year especiallyis Kawhi Leonard and just his otherworldly basketball

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savvy and brilliance to go back andforth like he did late with Nikolayokich.
That was art that was a thingof beauty. Put it in the getty.
I was so impressed. Once again. I don't I don't know why
I keep being impressed. I guessit's just because of the injury and to

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see someone who looks better than evercoming off in ACL I that may be
historic. I don't know. Ican't remember a case. But it almost
makes it all the much more frustratingwhen you're losing games with these performances by
Kauai. You know, Yeah,we saw this last year with PG in
the year before that when Kwai wasout. Would there it be these games

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where your superstar plays exactly like youneed him to play, and he's been
so good at his job lately.He's been at the elite of elite,
you know, level wise right now, and it just hurts to squander these
kind of performances. Paul George cameon late too, which was nice,
but no, I mean it's justanother one of we should have won this

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one. You know that that overtimeperiod was brutal. Le we score two
points or something like that, justnot just not everyone else's night. But
thankfully, you know, Kawai showedup. Yeah, and I don't want
this to turn into it would couldhave should a season when you have Kauai
at the peak of his powers likethis, and Paul George overall playing well

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enough, playing like an All Star. He was an All Star, and
he's had huge games and huge momentslike the recipe for success is certainly there
with this team, but seating mattersso much, and right now as I
look it up, after they've nowlost two in a row coming out of
the All Star break and two justyou know, absolute gut punches are like

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an elbow to the gut. WhateverKawai gave Yokich that he tried to exaggerate
there at the end and then realizehe wasn't getting the call and jumped right
up to see Kawash show that emotiontoo, like cobad Man, what do
you do it? But the Clippers, the Clickers, right now their game
up will being out of the seventhspot currently held by the Golden State wars

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these games, you know, it'sa double edged sword because as exciting as
they're going to be down the stretch, they are also so meaningful. And
when you lose ones like this andFriday Night, you can just slide down
the standings like David Vassey, Idon't know if you saw that what Park

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was? That was it Miller Park? Yeah. With the Brewers, it's
it's just crushing to lose some ofthese games in this fashion and the implications
of what happens afterwards. But onthe other hand, it makes Tuesday's game
a huge deal too. Yeah.Right, it's all gonna be interesting.
At this point, you'd almost youknow, I know, Clippers fans are
talking about trying to avoid the PhoenixDenver, you know, back to back

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series, which would be great.One of the ways you could maybe do
that is playing the Kigs in thefirst round, which I know doesn't sound
fun, but it seems easier thanplaying Phoenix and then Denver. So we
don't. This team kind of caresabout seating late. We all remember the
Daniel Oturu game against the Thunder andthings like that, so it's I don't
there's so many things that can happenover these next tight teams. Is Charles

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Mackler from Clips and Dip does thepodcast with myself and William Updyke, and
we're gonna have a tripod coming upfor you tomorrow night. Oh, it's
gonna be tough one. All right, Charles, thanks for doing this tonight
after the Clippers lose by ten andot to Denver, my friend. Yeah,
here's to a fun one next time. All right. Before we get

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out of here, I do remindyou Tuesday night Clippers back Home taken on
the Minnesota Timberwolves. You can justsee these glimpses of greatness, as the
song says here by photo ops atthe end of every show, it's there
ingredients. They just haven't been ableto put it all together for their masterpiece

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yet. The hope is it's stillyet to come, and they peek at
just the right time. And thetime is now, with nineteen games left,
Tuesday Night's game, where they're hostingMinnesota, tip time is at seven.
We'll have Clippers countdown starting at six. Before we get out of here.
I do want to thank the Clippersorganization, Noah Eagle, Brian's Seaman,
Ralph Lawler, big brother, JakeWarner, ahead engineer, producer,

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Zacho Quality doing good work. Andfor Katie Newton tonight, who we hope
feels better. The callers, thelisteners, the tweeters appreciate all of you
till Tuesday with the pregame show startingat six. I'm Autam Moslin. Let's
talk to you then. This hasbeen Clippers Talk, a postgame conversation about

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