The Clippers Lose Game 2 in Utah 117-111 & You'll Hear from Coach and Tomer postgame

Clippers Talk with Adam Auslund after they lose game 2 117-111 in Utah. Coach Lue postgame audio and Tomer Azarly joins the show.

Episode Transcript

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Get your fall. Now it's timeto react to LA Clippers basketball. This
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Clippers are back in that sunken place, an O two hole and another best
of seven series that they'll try toget out of a so I'll try to
spit it out. Welcome in twoClippers Talk. I'm Adam Ausland. Eight
six six nine eight seven two fiveseventy eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number orget to me at follow Adam a on

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Twitter. Coming up on the show, you'll hear from Coach Lou and the
players after they lose by six forthe final score in Game two in Utah
of one seventeen to one eleven,with the Utah Jazz once again coming out
on top, once again winning lateover your Los Angeles Clippers. Tom Arazarli
from Clutch Points will be here aswell, but there are a multitude of

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ways that the Clippers lost this game, but the first one that comes to
mind is being down four with twominutes left in the first half and the
Clippers going eyes cold and the UtahJazz going on a run to end it
where they're up by thirteen at sixtysix to fifty three heading into the locker

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room at the half. So withthe Clippers, they were up thirteen at
the half in game one, theUtah Jazz up thirteen at the half in
Game two, and we thought maybethere'd be some magic there where the Clippers
would be able to come back justlike the Utah Jazz did, and they
started two. Once they were downby as many as twenty one. Early

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in that third quarter, Reggie Jacksonwas out of his mind. The goggles
were dialed in. He had sixteenpoints in that third quarter alone. He
would hit two huge three pointers inthe fourth quarter to get them back into
it, but then another scoring drought, unfortunately came upon the Clippers at just

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the wrong time, and boy didthey have some good looks. With about
five and a half minutes left,in fact, five thirty five left,
Paul George would sink both free throwsand the Clippers were down just one at
one oh four to one oh three. The next time they would score would

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be with a minute and a halfleft on a Reggie Jackson driving dunk.
During that time they got back,they got down by eight. By the
time Reggie Jackson scored, it wasone oh five to one thirteen with a
minute and a half left. Sothe Clippers went four minutes scoreless, and

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there were some wide open three pointersthat just have to be hit. They
missed five three pointers during those fiveminutes where they went scoreless. Marcus Morris
would miss three, Patrick Beverley wouldmiss one, Paul George would miss one,

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and two of the Marcus Morris threes, I mean there wasn't a guy.
A wide open three is categorized asbeing a three pointer where there isn't
a guy within six feet. That'show the NBA looks at it statistically,
if you're going by the analytics,I don't think there was a guy within

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ten feet of him for two ofthe three pointers. The other one was
contested by Rudy Gobert. But MarcusMorris quite simply has to be better.
He goes oh five from three.This was the second best three point shooter
all season long at forty seven percent, and to his credit, he came

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through in Game seven, where hewould go seven of nine from three for
the Clippers to prevail and move onagainst the Dallas Mavericks. But so far
in this series through two games,he's just one of fourteen. And it's
never just one guy for why youlose a game. And I'm not putting
it on Marcus Morris because Paul Georgegot off to a slow start, Kawhi

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Leonard got off to a slow start. Both of them got out scored by
Donovan Mitchell by himself in the firsthalf. I think they combined for twenty
three points in the first half.Donovan Mitchell had twenty seven. Can't happen.
These are your superstars. One ofthem has to be hot, has
to get it going, and nobodyreally did. And they were still just

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by down by four with two minutesleft in the second quarter, and they
just made too many mistakes. Theygave up multiple three pointers to end a
half, and the Utah Jazz aresimply too well coached and playing that mistake
free locked in type of basketball.Even though they did have sixteen turnovers,

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I suppose that was their one blemish, but they went twenty a thirty nine
from three. If you miss anassignment defensively, they are going to make
you pay. They are going tocapitalize on everything. Donovan Mitchell had twenty
seven in the first half, finisheswith thirty seven, so he has just
ten points in the final twenty fourminutes. But when the Clippers were making

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that big run in the third quarter, Jordan Clarkson, who had twenty four
points and also outscored Kawhi Leonard,who finished with just twenty one, just
had two points on the fourth quarter. Jordan Clarkson with those twenty four points,
well, he got him on nineof fifteen shooting. He went six
of nine from three. Do youwant to know what he was shooting in
the playoffs from distance coming into tonight. This may make you sick. He

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was shooting just twenty eight percent frombeyond the arc. He banked in a
three late in the third quarter onLuke Kennard, then he hit another one
on Reggie Jackson and back to backpossessions, and the Clippers really had a
chance to be within two or withinone, or maybe even have the lead

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with the way they were playing inthat third quarter with Reggie Jackson going off
with Paul George having eight points nearthe end of the third but they still
were within striking distance, just downseven going into the fourth quarter. And
Reggie Jackson carried over that play.And he has been amazing all season long,

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and those two three pointers he hitin the fourth got me out of
my seat. He was brilliant.And he had twenty two points in the
second half of this one. Heoutscored Donovan Mitchell in the second half.
Again, just had ten of histhirty seven points in the second half.
Paul George had nineteen of his twentyseven points in the second half. But

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Kawhi Leonard, I want to say, just had ten points in the second
half. I know he only hadtwo points in the fourth quarter and he
never really went into takeover mode.Now, the Clippers were running their offense,
they were getting open three pointers andduring that five minute stretch where they
went scoreless, those threes just haveto be made. This was the best

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three point shooting team all season longat forty one point one percent. Now
on the other side, the UtahJazz, no one took more and made
more than them, but they weren'tas efficient as the Clippers were, but
they were tonight. They shot almosttwenty percent better. They hit nine more
threes, They got twenty seven morepoints from beyond the art than the Clippers

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did. But one of the issuesfor me, and I've been thinking this
for a while, but I eventhought about it after Game one, sometimes
the Clippers wait till they reach adversityto click in and have a sense of
urgency. It didn't happen till theywere down by twenty one in this game,

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and then they come up short becausethat's just too big of a lead.
You have to expend so much energyjust to get back into the game,
which they were. They finally tookthe lead in the fourth quarter,
first time they had the lead allgame, after Reggie Jackson's second three with
I want to say it was aboutseven minutes left, Yeah, six thirty

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seven left. They were up oneon one to ninety nine. But the
problem is it shouldn't take you beingdown twenty one to play with that level
of energy and intensity out there,an effort and drive and will and passion
and just knowing that your season,well it's getting close to being on the

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line. You're down two games andnone. You can say Saturday is a
pseudo must win game. It's notliterally one, but nobody has ever come
back down three games to none inNBA history in a playoff series before.
And the Clippers should be feeling goodback at Staples Center coming off the Game
seven win against the Dallas Mavericks.But I said Game one was a huge

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missed opportunity because the Utah Jazz wereso bad offensively in the first half,
where they missed twenty one straight shotsat one point in the first quarter,
and the Clippers were only up seven, and they were up thirteen at the
half, they were up by asmany as fourteen, and they couldn't close
out that game, and there wereobviously tired legs coming off the seven game

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series against Dallas. But to me, that was a huge missed opportunity.
And then tonight they waited too longto click in down twenty one. It
shouldn't take things being that dire.It's already the playoffs. Now. There
were some adjustments made and they playedmuch better defense against Donovan Mitchell, and
they threw out the zone and itkind of jumped up the game. As

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some would say, it's what Dallasdid with them. It was effective maybe
they found something there that they canuse in Game three. But to lose
both games close down the stretch,and to come back to Night down twenty
one, just to lose by sixafter going cold for five minutes in the
fourth quarter, it is a gutpunch, I'm sure of that. Clipper

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Nation eight six six nine eight seventwo five seventy eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy is the phonenumber. Now. I did like some
of the adjustments by coach Leu.He shortened his rotation. He said pregame
that it would be about ten guysavailable, and that's what it was.
Patrick Beverley in this game. Wewere talking about his defense on Donovan Mitchell

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during the regular season and just howgood he was. He played more than
six minutes, He played twenty oneand played most of the crucial ones down
the stretch. Now he missed athree two and he's been cold recently.
Just doesn't look in rhythm coming offthe injury. Went oh five, but
he played hard. He had acouple of big time steals, one I

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think on Ingals and one Bogdanovich.But he gave everything like you would expect
Patrick Beverley to do. To markhis cousins. There was kind of a
law of diminishing returns there with him. He got off to a really hot
start, had a quick six points, but then they started to pick on
him defensively right at the end ofthe second quarter when they went on that

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I want to say it was atwelve three run in the last two minutes
before the half. Defensively, hejust can't move like he used to.
And it's not like he was afirst team All Defender Defensive Player of the
Year type guy. Anyways, thatwould be Rudy Gobert, who just won
his third and had twenty rebounds andthirteen points and a big dunk when the

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Clippers were going small, which Idon't mind. It helped get them back
into the game and helped generate thoseopen looks that they missed. But guys
have got to make shots, especiallya team like this, especially a guy
like Marcus Morris, who shot fortyseven percent during the regular season, You
just expect those to fall. He'sbeen too good for this team and you

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got too good of looks. Soit's a make miss league. But you
also gotta have some frustration. I'msure Clipper Nation just being down twenty one
to begin with. I didn't likethe start of the game, but those
last two minutes of the second quartermay have did him in. And by

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the time they found themselves, becausethis is what it's been all season long,
when they face adversity, all ofa sudden, something snaps and they
make these crazy comebacks, whether ornot they have their supers out there or
not. Tonight it was Reggie Jackson, who has been extremely valuable for the
Clippers all season long, and hehas helped spark comebacks before. But I'm

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thinking of against Atlanta, against theI want to say it was the Miami
Heat. Twice they've done this.They've come back. They were down thirty
to eleven, they were down nineteenin Game three to the Dallas Mavericks.
They came back and they rode thatmomentum into a Game four victory. So
now you're hoping for the same thingcome Game three back at Staples Center.

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It is not literally, but itis a must win type game. And
Kawhi Leonard, I'm hoping we seethe same guy we saw the last couple
of games against the Dallas Mavericks.I'm hoping he didn't burn himself out because
he had to do so much tohelp win that series. He had to
be so special. Shooting sixty onepercent from the field in that seven game

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series against the Dallas Mavericks. Youwonder what that took out of them.
Defensively, he hasn't been as good. He's been out of position. He
had four fouls again in this onethe Clippers. Look, there were some
bad fouls that I thought went againstthem, but I'm not gonna say any
of them cost them the game.It was them just not engaging and bringing
that intensity that they have to haveearly on. I can't wait till you're

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down twenty one. All right,let's go to who do we have here?
Jose and Southgate? Jose? What'sup here? On Clippers? Stye
with that? I'm awesome. Idon't man, that's Kipper Bashi ball right
there, Man, Carls. Iwasn't even I wasn't even gonna mention the
rest. But you can mention therest. I'm not going to mention the

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rest. But at the end ofthe day, that isn't account for our
miss shots. Man. We hadour shots. We had our shots.
We can gonna make them. Andhey, Clipper Nation, if anybody's listening.
They're gonna go to the game onSaturday. Do you see the offens.
I'm gonna need our same energy.Okay, we're down on two.
We're making it a harder getting needsto be. But was forged by fire

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like a wa says as. Theonly thing that's keeping me alive right now.
Okay, and Adam, they andwe're gonna think hear me atlive is
that they hitted with their best shotconsicient league, and we're still there.
We haven't hit him with our bestshot tossicient league. So that's the only
thing he um ahead in the game. All right, Adam, I don't
even want to call in, butI am gonna call in because I want
to say one thing you already known. I'll say thank you for the phone

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call as always eight six six nineeight seven two five seventies the phone number
coming back. We'll get to yourphone calls, Alan, Kevin, hold
on, we'll get to here.I'll screen these other calls. Clippers lose
game two and they are down twogames to none in this second round best
of seven series against the Utah Jazz. They lose one seventeen to one eleven.

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After coming back and taking the leaddown twenty one with nine minutes left
in that third quarter. They hadthe lead, they were up one with
six and a half minutes left inthe four quarter, but they would go
cold. More Clipper stock next righthere on AM five seventy LA Sports niney
is on which I'm about the Clippers, the LA Clippers and the Utah Jazz.

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You're listening to playoff basketball. I'mthe LA Clippers official Home Clippers losing
Game two in Utah by final scoreone seventeen to one eleven, and once
again they are down two games tonone in this best of seven second round
series against the Utah Jazz. Welcomeback into Clippers Stock. I'm out of

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oslin to eight six six nine eightseven two five seventy eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventies of thephone number. And one of my points
in the first segment is I justfeel like they took too long to realize
they were in a fight. Theyhad to get down twenty one, they
had to get down ten late inthe fourth quarter in Game one, until

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they made a fast and furious lightcomeback and had a shot to tie that
game. At the end. Youcan't do that over and over again against
good teams. Eventually you're gonna getburned. I know they have done this
and won and have come back manytimes this season, and that's part of
the spirit with this Clippers team andhow resilient they are. They never give
up. But you gotta put yourbest foot forward. You have to start

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fast. The Utah Jazz they executefar too well. They remind me a
little bit of let's say, thelater titles won by the San Antonio Spurs,
like in twenty fourteen. They maynot have the highest end talent,
although Donovan Mitchell is making the caseright now in this playoff series that he's

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been the best player out there sofar. But you look at those Spurs
teams. Tim Duncan was on theback end, so it's you, nobly
Tony Parker, and they still gotit done with Kawhi Leonard, a young
Kawhi Leonard wasn't even close to reachinghis prime, but he was the Finals
MVP in twenty fourteen. But theyjust would out execute you, and they

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would play a lot of mistake freebasketball, and they could beat you at
your own game too, And sofar the Utah Jazz have done that.
They went twenty of thirty nine fromthree. No one attempted more three pointers
in the regular season. They attemptedforty three per game in the regular season.
Nobody made more than them. Butthe Clippers were the most efficient team

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from distance, and it ended upbiting them during that five minute stretch in
the fourth where they would go scoreless. All right, let's go to David
in Santa Monica. David, you'reon Clippers Stop with Adams and what's up?
David? Hey, Adam, thanksfor taking the call. I first
just want to reiterate Don mcclenn andPetros among many others on these airwaves,

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saying how great of a job you'vedone all season on in taking these Clippers
product and making it your own.It wouldn't be the same without you,
so thanks so much. Well,I appreciate that. David. What's up?
What do you want to say aboutthe game tonight? Yeah? A
second thought about the game tonight.You know, it was a really exciting
game. I'm really proud of theway they battled back. I watched it

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in a bar. I try toget people interested. I was yelling defense.
You know, some people turn theirheads. That's pretty good for what
you know, we've seen him withthe Clippers, and you know they're they're
they're getting their foothold totally. Butsurely they showed some heart tonight about the
game itself. I would have likedto see then trying to get Kauai more

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involved down the stretch. I knowyou've touched on it in the open,
but I mean one play he hadwhere he took it coast to coast in
the fourth quarter and slanted it onthe other side was what I mean,
one of the most exciting and athleticmoments in the game, and I just
feel like they didn't do a goodenough job of getting him the open look

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towards the end of the game.David, I appreciate the phone call callback
on Saturday. I like you forobvious reasons there, but not just because
you praised me coming in there.But you're very observant, obviously because that
was the only bucket that Kawhi Leonardwould have in the fourth quarter. Came
into the fourth with nineteen points,left the fourth with just twenty one points.

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He was second in fourth quarter scoringthroughout the entire playoffs so far,
with every team. In fact,he and Paul George coming into tonight's game
were top two in fourth quarter scoringin the NBA. Believe it or not,
Paul George scored more points coming intotonight's game and did so in tonight's

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game. So who remained there thanKawhi Leonard had so far in the playoffs
in the fourth quarter. He's donehis best work in the fourth but he
still got off to a slow start. I think just had nine points in
the first half, Paul George,but he started to get more aggressive and
he did have six assists, didhave a couple of tough turnovers. But

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Kawhi finishing with just twenty one whenPaul George finished with just twenty in game
one. You're looking for one ofthese guys to go for thirty thirty five
plus. They are your superstars now, rage Jackson. I mean twenty two
of his twenty nine points in thesecond half. He was awesome. But

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against this Utah Jazz team, whenDonovan Mitchell Mitchell is playing this well and
getting them off to a good startin the first half after taking over in
the second half of Game one,you're just waiting for one of your superstars
to take over. Let's go toAlan in Winnetka. Alan, what's up?
You're on Clippers side without of Auslin. How are you? Hey?

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How you doing, Adam? Idon't know if you feel this way,
but I feel I don't feel asstressed as I did in the last couple
of years that we were in thispredicament. I feel more. I feel
like we have we can still comeout and get and win this series for
the two because we got veterans whoare champs on this team, as in
Kauai, and also a Rondo whohe he see something he doesn't like,

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he'll say it, and we alsogot a Ibaka coming back hopefully game three.
I got a lot of faith inthe Clippers. We've seen everything Utah
have. We've seen everything they have. I haven't seen everything we have,
So I think we're gonna get tothe next two games. We might still
win the Utah and a finish itoff here and in La for the game

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Stix, and hopefully we come outon top. Thank you, Adam,
Thank you for the phone call.Alan. Oh, they probably need to
win their next two games. Theyhave to win four of the next five
to win this series. So yeah, they're gonna have to steal one in
Utah at least. But it's notgonna be easy. This isn't the same

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team that we saw with the DallasMavericks, who were more one dimensional with
Luca down Chitch running everything and beingthat orchestrator out there, and they kind
of go as he goes, eventhough there were times where Tim Hardaway Junior
and Doran Finney Smith were so hot. But this Utah Jazz team is extremely
balanced. They moved the ball verywell, and they got a bunch of

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snipers on the outside. I mean, Jordan Clarkson was unconscious, especially when
they needed a big shot late inthat third quarter to kind of stem the
tide when the Clippers were really makingthat big push. But also Ingalls had
a big three pointer after the Clippersmissed one, he would hit one.
I think they put him up seven. It was a huge shot of backbreaking
shot late in the fourth quarter.CJ and Alhambra. CJ. What's up

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here on Clippers stop without a Mosslin? Hey Adam, So let me tell
you two big things that we needright now. The red eye flight tonight.
We'll get the clips right for bothgames three and four. I know
this, get him back home.I'm gonna slam it. Second of which
Rando can't be for bod S andShari and be a no show. He's

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got to come through. He's gotto come through. Gave us yes,
sir, he didn't play in thisgame. He was a DNP and he
didn't play well in the last fourgames in the playoffs. So I understand
this. And that's the point thatI'm trying to make, is that we
need Wando to come into this.We are trying to get to to the
Promised Land and get that Larry O'Brien. Last of which, Adam, I

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gotta be honest with you, thismight be my last call. So I
want to give a big shout outto you to know Ah Eagle, zach
Oncaldi, Jake, Big Brother,Jake Morris and Inglewood, Tagus and Walnut,

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Jose and south Gate and Clipperker,Mudgeon Jeff and Tarzana. And the
reason why Brother, I'm making thismy last call is because you've got a
producer that wants to get cute withthis snoop dog sound bite that is telling
me apart. No, I'm gettingvery serious here, Adam. It is
telling me apart because he says itin animus. He says it with conviction

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that it's to mock us season.We don't need that on our flagship station.
So you know what, Adam,We're pulling for this win this Larry
O'Brien, I wish it upon usand I'm going to catch you next season.
Brother. Well, I love you, CJ, and I hope you
do call in and continue to callBob Smith's gonna have a field day with

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this one. Now. You justgave him more, ammo. CJ.
Just just a production piece. It'sjust out of context type of audio.
He's just having fun, just havinga time. All right. Let's hear
from the head coach post game.After the Clippers lose by six in Game
two to the Utah Jazz by ascore of one seventeen to one eleven,
here was Coach lu speaking with themedia. So, you guys really hung

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in there despite their their they're strongstart, they're strong shooting in the third
quarter. But where did this gamekind of get away from you guys?
In your eyes? But what wasit really the difference here? Just the
first half? You know, youcan't dig yourself a hole like that.
I guess a good team, youknow, And then you gotta expend all
the energy trying to get back inthe game, and you know you don't
have enough to finish, you know, so you know, you just can't

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dig holes like that, especially onthe role. You know, I'm playing
from behind like that. And wetalked about getting off too good starts,
and you know, once again,you know, Donovan Mitchell got them off
to a great start and they justkind of took off from there. So
you guys went to that zone anddisrupted Donovan's rhythm and the fourth quarter,

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you guys took the league. Butthen the Jazz hit those three threes.
So what do you feel like isthe bigger challenge disrupting Donovan or just playing
against a team that they can Theyhave so many shooters at and and it's
just tough to match up a zonefor too long because they'll find those shooters.
Now, first of all, justtaking the challenge one on one against
Donovan, you know, and whenhe gives the ball up, it's not

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just him. Were getting beat upthe drill about other guys too. You
know, they put it back downthe floor attacking. Now we got to
help. Now it's swinging swing forthree, So we got to do a
better job with our individual defense andtaking the challenge one on one. That's
the first thing. And we knowthey want to thrive. They thrive all
driving kicks, you know, gettingto the paint, making play, So
we got to do a better jobof closing out to the other guys and
keep them under control. Do youfeel like you found something in that there

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in that third quarter once you switchthings up, Yeah, we found something.
But you know, just you know, we just gotta like I said,
we just gotta take the challenge,you know, one on one that
starts right there, and then afterthat we can start building from there.
But I like what I saw,you know, resilience, like I said,
fighting back to take the lead,having some great shots on a stretch
that we just didn't make and theymade them. So just going back to

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John Bold Washersfield and see what wecan get better at. You've been here
down to zero obviously the last series. What was your message to the team
after tonight's game? Don't message.I really don't talk after the game,
so just you know, bringing inlet's go, we're going back home.
Hey, coach, I was justwondering after Reggie hits that three to give

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you guys the lead. You guyspretty much don't really make any shots for
like the next four minutes. Wereyou happy with the shock quality that you
guys got? I guess I was, Yes, Yes, I was happy,
very happy. Can't I mean,what else can you get? I
mean four or five wide open threes? You know, we just didn't make
so we knew vod he was gonnahelp. We knew our shooters is gonna
be open, and we just gottastep up to make shots if we don't.

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We's got good shots and we didn'tmake them. So hopfully this game,
Ley, I go down. Thanks, Hey, good evening, coach.
Want to ask you you get youheld your work true to your word.
At the bend of the game,you said you wanted to keep your
roads down to ten men. Eachof those guys played double digits. Accept
Terrence Man, Is everything okay withTerrence? Why didn't you see more time

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in this game? Because he wasout of a rotation for right now?
Okay time You talked yesterday about beingwary of driving into that into that paint
when Rudy's in there, But tonightyou seemed like the best offense you guys
got was from those drives and sprangout. What did you see from the
effort of the way you guys generatedoffense off your drives in the paint.

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We just talked about it all serious. We know when we attack and Rudy's
garden, you know, Steph Kurry, he's gonna help, you know,
So our guys have to be readyto shoot the basketball and we gotta make
the right play. And I thought, you know, like especially going down
the stretch, guys executed it well. You know, we got some great
looks and we just didn't make SoI'm happy with that and hopefully going home,
we had to knock some shots downhigh Coach, but ortis on fire.

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Media Mitchell score forty five and thirtyseven the past two games. Are
you're planning to put either Kyle Whiteor BG as full time defenders on him.
Yes, that's what we try todo tonight as well. My thought
Pat bel became and get a goodleft and you know, got into him
a little bit, pressuring him,got into his handle. So it's gonna
be a variety of guys. Butwe guys to take the challenge one on

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one and then when we got intoball one on one to make my team,
team defense even been y'all have anice night. Thank you, thank
you, thank you. Coach louthere post game after the Clippers losed by
six in Game two in Utah,something he talked about there is what we
brought up. They dug themselves toobig of a hole, and then you
have to spend all that energy totry to get back into a game and

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you come up short and shots areflat late because your legs are dead.
It happens. You can't let yourselfget down twenty one. To find that
fight. You gotta have it fromthe outset, from the opening tip.
It's been a problem really going backto the last month of the regular season,
the Clippers getting off to slow startsin first quarters and not doing what

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coach Lewis said multiple times, whichis come out with that defensive mindset,
that intensity from the get go.And then also we talked about taking the
challenge one on one against Donovan Mitchell, not getting beat off the dribble guys,
just being better individually with their defense. Before break here Greg and Ventura,
Greg, you're on Clippers stopped withouthm Alston. Hi, Greg,

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Hey, Adam, I really appreciateall your pregame and postgame and commentary journ
to the game. But I gottatake you to task at all, Adam,
Why are you doing this lane excuseof dead legs. You've you've mentioned
it three or four times postgame.Come on, Adam, I just mentioned

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it for the first time tonight.Greg. This is the playoffs, dude.
Nobody gets an excuse for having deadlegs, tired legs. Come on,
man, Well great, Greg,let me ask you this. If
you go through a seven game seriesand have one day off before starting the
next series, versus going through afive game series and having six days off,

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don't you think one team is goingto have more energy. No,
it's always been that way, Adam, and all of the NBA for all
the years. At seventy five yearold man me has listened to everybody has
to step it up and get itin gear, and that they didn't do
that. And I just don't appreciateyou. Keep Greg. I'm not blaming

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tonight's loss on having heavy legs,but I can tell when jump shots are
that short from Kawhi Leonard there probablyis some fatigue there. I'm sorry,
my eyes are not deceiving me.Well, he didn't come through tonight.
I have to say that was abad game for Kawai and I hope he
comes through from now on. ButAdam, do you think that any team

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has ever I would ask you tolook this up. Has any team ever
lost the first two games and comeback and four out of five and one
the series? You mean like aman twice? Twice? Yes, twice.
That's what you're asking them to do, right. The only team,
and I'll have to look this up, that I think may have done,
is the Houston Rockets in ninety four, the Clutch City Rockets, because they

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were known for getting down early ina series and somehow coming back. I
think they won five or six mustwin games on their way to winning that
ring. So I'll look it upfor you. Greg. It's a good
question. I appreciate the phone.All right, we'll take a quick break
here, we'll come back. Wegot postgame audio from Reggie Jackson after the

(33:37):
Clippers lose in Game two of thisbest of seven second round series against the
Utah Jazz one seventeen to one eleven. You're listening to Clipper stock. I'm
atam Oslin and this is a fiveseventy l A Sports at Seaters. This
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of LA Clippers Basketball. I gottago. I gotta go. I gotta
go. I gotta go. Igotta I gotta gotta, I gotta go.
Not yet, we're still with youfor another fifteen minutes or so.
Here on Clippers Talk, I'm ata Maslin eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy eight six six nineeight seven two five seventy. We do

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have postgame audio from Reggie Jackson comingup, but first let's pause ten seconds
for station identification. Here on Afive seventy LA Sports, this is LA
Clippers Basketball. AM five seventy KLACLos Angeles, ninety eight seven KYSR HD
two Los Angeles, and iHeart radiostation Marvin in South LA. You're on
Clippers Stop without of Maslin. Hi, Marvin, and I'm glad to hear

(34:45):
you. Thank you for manning ClipperTalk. I just want to say you're
doing a great job. And Isay that because I hear you on Grogan
and Ronnie Key, and you alwayshave this passion for Clipper Talk. So
even though we can read to disagree, is all good so thank you so
much much appreciation for manning supper talk. That being said, yeah, yeah,

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that being said, I just wantto mention that let's be positive.
It wasn't a blout. We haven'tblown up by the Utah jobs. It
only difference of three points in gameone and six points in this game.
It was just that we didn't hitthe jobs spread, especially with Morris and
the tomb, the key shots andalso Kawai and PG thirteens needs to be

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aggressive and selected. That's why Ilike to play a Reggie Jackson. He
has stepped up this game. It'sbecome more aggressive and we can see that
with Kauai and in PG thirteen.If that can spread through them, then
skies are the limit. And wedidn't home hometown cooking. Coming back to
Clippers and Staples, so I don'tknow how it is how the Utah Jazz

(35:52):
fans got away with it with ifthey had any restrictions with the pandemic having
a full a full house. Idon't know how it is at Staples,
but hopefully Steve Bamber can do somethingto loosen their restrictions so all Clipper fans
can fill and have a soldot crossover there because I know in ESCN they
talk about us having Carton's boards offans. That's ridiculous from ESTN, We

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Clipper fans. We always feel thathouse. We always have a soldouts and
we have a passion to it.So hopefully we can have some lessen the
restrictions so we can go ahead andsupport our Clippers. Thank you so much,
Marvin, Thank you for the phonecall. Yeah, as of right
now, I think it's about seventhousands. Max's capacity at Staples Center just
got to be even louder if there'sless of you. Kevin in Culver City,

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Kevin, what's up here on ClipperStock? Hey, Anam, I
just want to say blessing saw you. It's been a while since the pandemic.
I've called chaosa Morris and Jeff andTarzan and Adam. We do a
great job doing the show. Reallyappreciate you. Every I try to listen
to I can't find it. Well, check out the Patriot at am eleven

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fifty. If the Dodgers are onfive seventy, that means we're on eleven
fifty. Oh yeah, So Ijust wanted to talk about the game a
little bit. You know. Tonightwas a clear indication of why you gotta
win those game ones when you can. I heard all week in Katino Mobi
talking about teams coming in rusty.This Utah team, the best three point
shooting team the league, miss twentystraight shots. Yeah, a thirteen point

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lead. We didn't win it.And then they came out tonight and they
shot hot tonight. That's why yougot the hot opportunity. You gotta strike
big. So what happened today.We got into a three point shooting contest
with him, but two miss history. Danovich made history and the whole game
changed in the fourth quarter. Wecan't get into a three point shootout with
these guys like we did against Dallas. Kawai and Paul George have to come

(37:45):
inside, go at him and makethis some mid range game. You saw
when the Clippers made their comeback.Paul George was going to the basket and
one and one. You gotta keepgoing to the basket, get some fouls
on God there he's gonna come atyou, and everything else would open up.
Just like the game seven against Dallas. Kawai and Paul George have to
go inside. We can't settle fortwenty points from Paul George twenty two from

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Kawai Kawai's Gotta have thirty five PaulGeorge's Gotta have twenty eight. I worked
out Kawai. He's gotta get theball. He's a dog, but you
gotta let him know this is yourtime to take over. I liked at
the end of the game what Isaw from Beverly getting in Mitchell's face and
I locked that foul that Paul Georgedown on Mitchell. I saw Reggie Jackson
get fired up. They said,we're not gonna let these guys punk us

(38:27):
anymore. The serious is gonna turnaround now and we're gonna go at him
when I take it in anymore.Another thing, too, you gotta get
the markets in there. I knowit's hard on the defense, but one
thing he does is when he postedup, he solds that game down and
Gobert cannot guard him. He getsfouls on him. It's not a good
master for a little bit more toslow this game down and make it n

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You gotta slow down, all right. I appreciate the phone call in the
fashion, but my goodness, Kevin, are you still there? Yeah,
yeah, I'm just I'm just tryingto keep it one hundreds. You just
have to I just got to breakit down. You know, we gotta
slow this game down. You can'tplay up tempo with the Jazz you got.
You gotta make the game ugly andbudy it up. That's Clippers basketball
problem. The problem is at thesame time you're saying they gotta get to

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the basket, Well, it's harderto do that in the half court.
You gotta take advantage of transition opportunitieswhen you have them, and you gotta
play at an up tempo pace evenif you are on the half court.
So look, DeMarcus Cousins was great, and I want to say the first
five minutes he was out there andthen the Utah Jazz went after him and

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then they went after him defensively,and he can be a liability on that
end, definitely. And I'm aPaul George guy. All I'm saying about
Paul is he has to be aggressive. Paul and Kawhi gotta be aggressive.
If we're gonna win this series.We're gonna win on the backs of Paul
George and Kawhi Leonard. We gottahave our superstar step up. Paul George
has to be aggressive. When he'saggressive. He's one of the best top

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fifteen players in the league. He'sgot all the skill there. You just
gotta keep it on in to stayaggressive. Can't guardian when we start giving
the ball up and you have otherguys missis shops like you saw tonight,
that's what happens. Paul George hasgot to be aggressive, just like you
see Mitchell on the other and he'sgot all the ability to do it.
Clippers in seven, stay aggressive,Paul George and Kahi, we got this.

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Keep it up, keep enthusiavan Adam, let's go. Kevin. I
appreciate you. Yeah, I don'tdisagree with that, especially Paul George.
He just can't be tentative out there. He talked about being indecisive in Game
one, and he still looked likea guy who was not taking some opportunities

(40:37):
that were there for him in thefirst half. Now he had nineteen of
his twenty seven points in the secondhalf, so he did turn things around
her excuse me, eighteen of histwenty seven points in the second half,
and he was good down the stretch. But the Clippers, they had open
three pointers that just did not fall. And I think you have to live

(40:58):
with those shots, if that's partof your identity as a team. They
were wide open. They were openbecause guys were getting to the basket and
kicking it out, getting to thepaint and spray it out. Those shots
just simply have to be made,and they weren't, and that was the
backbreaker for them. That five minutestretch in the fourth quarter had five really

(41:19):
good looks from distance. None ofthem fell. All right, we'll take
a quick break. We'll come back, my friends, tomare azarely from clutch
points. We'll be here. Clipperslose Game two one seventeen to one eleven
in Utah to the Jazz. They'recoming back to Staples Center on Saturday.
Hope to see you there. Itwas lively, to say the least,
for that Game seven against the DallasMavericks. The fans make a difference,

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a huge one, all right,Tomarrazzarli is next. You're listening to Clippers
stock. I'm out of Moslin andthis is a five seventy LA Sports.
The quest for the Larry O'Brien isoff for them to get to the Promised
Land for the first time in franchise. From your listening to La Clippers playoff
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Mike smoke nas Slam and went upfun and make sure us thrown welcome back.
In two Clippers talk, I'm outof Osland after they fallen Game two
in Utah one seventeen to one eleveneight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. Andto the point, and one of the
themes we've been talking about during theplayoffs, this is a constant. We

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just always want to see our superstars, of course be aggressive out there,
and Clipper Nation is calling for thattonight. But one of the things that
has hurt them, and I justsaw a couple of postgame quotes from Kauai
from Paul George, is that thembeing in foul trouble has taken away some
of that aggressiveness. They've been alittle bit more tentative because of that,

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and that makes sense. But Clippershave to do a better job of defending
without fouling, period, especially inthat first half against Donovan Mitchell, who
was getting anything he wanted. Allright, I wanted my friend back.
On Tomair Azarrely, he covers theClippers four clutch points. He's at tomair
t O M E R A ZA R l y on Twitter toemare,

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thanks for coming on tonight. Wherewas this game lost in your mind?
It's where the Clippers have lost acouple of games as posted to season.
That third quarter. You know,I would even see that second quarter when
we got down thirteen and a halftime. But you know, I think
I thought they really made a runthere in that third quarter. But they

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really have to figure out a fortyeight minute game line because for whatever reason,
they have these these lolls of thesestretches where either the defense get beat
a little too often they're not makingshots, and I think we saw that
today. I think they hung inthere early in the first quarter, made
it the one point game, andthen Jordan Clarkson Donovan Mitchell got off.

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You know, to the Clippers credit, they were hitting some very, very
tough shots, but I think theyweren't making it difficult enough on Donovan and
on Jordan Carkson to the point whereeven though they cooled off in the second
half, I think they had nineteenpoints on twenty shots, the Jazz other
guys were able to keep them afloat. You know, go Barry Ingles,

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the aang had one, I believe, so they were able to keep them
afloat. I really think the Clippersjust need to figure out a way to
play a forty eight minute game.It's obviously a lot easier said than done
by I just thought they had toomany stretchers today where they let the game
get away from them, even inthe fourth quarter where they came back to
the league, then they couldn't makea three. After that. They had

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four or five wide open threes fromMarcus but Nick Pottom had one in the
corner, PG had one, justjust couldn't go down. So they really
got to find a way to playa forty eight minutes complete game. And
I think once they do that,they'll be okay. They'll be back in
the series. But until we seethat, it's just gonna be tough because
because Utahs are preally really good teamto the number one team record wise in
the NBA for a reason, tellMarazzarli is our guest post game to the

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Clippers lose by six in Game twoin to the Jazz. To your point
of having those lolls, we've seenthem at times during the regular season,
and if you pay attention to anyteam close enough, you know all those
flaws come to the surface. Butfor me, maybe one of the issues
is actually also one of their strengths. As resilient as they are, sometimes

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they wait too long to click inand have that sense of urgency. And
you could see it as soon asthey got down by twenty one. Reggie
Jackson said, I'm gonna take thisgame into my own hands, and I'm
gonna be confident out there and takesome shots and make some and get us
back into this. Because they havecome back so many times this season.
They came back down nineteen in Gamethree against the Dallas Mavericks. I just

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wonder if it's almost a double edgedshort at times, because they're waiting for
that real adversity to hit, justfor them to realize they're in a fight.
I mean, ty Loo said thiswhen I asked him. He's like,
we can't keep getting down big.It takes too much fight out of
them to come back and get backin the game that you don't You almost
don't have that extra you know,kick just just to finish the game out

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once you come back. I thinkwe've seen that a couple of times.
I mean, I think Kawi wentwhen God knowed that one game. PG
had a very clutch fourth quarter inthat game against the Mavericks, but they
were able to really finish it out. But this is a much better defensive
team. This is a much morebalanced team in the Utah Jazz scoring wise,
they really have a lot of realplaymakers. We forget that Mike Conley
still hasn't played a game of thisseries, and he's he's known as the

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Clipper Killer. So why While Ido feel the Clippers really squandered two opportunities
to win, I think we didsee some glimpses of what can work against
against Mitchell and clarkson zone defense,sort of just to throw them off their
game. You know, tie noteof this post game, but they need
to play more physical and stay onthe body of Mitchell Moore as opposed to

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letting off come off screen. Ithink what you saw the Utah Jazz do
is start to start to set theirscreen higher for Mitchell so that he's walking
up into a three or into adeep mid rang two. And you know,
with Zubos playing drop coverage, that'sjust the buckets form every time it's
a tough shot. I think theshot you want to give up. I'm
supposed to drive with the best basket, but when Mitchell's hitting that, I
mean, you saw today he wasjust rolling the entire time. So I

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think not only a good start isimportant for them, but just to be
more physical, just to master theirphysicality and close more of their will not
get pick up silly fous and offensiveyou know, offensive rebounding foules or offensive
fouls or you know, push shotsand stuff like that. I just gotta
play smart basketball for forty eight minutes. I think that's really it for them.
They've really done it for about thirtysix minutes of times. Maybe it's

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thirty four minutes, but they needa forty eight minute game to beat this
team, and I think once they'llget on the board with a win.
If they do in Game three,I think that don't really spark them moving
forward. But you just gotta getthat first one. Follow Tilmare azarrel At
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(48:00):
see him, they'll go viral.Tell Mare to your point about the three
point shooting. You mentioned Donovan Mitchellthere and how good he was from beyond
the arc six of twelve, butJordan Clarkson six of nine. Those two
combined for twelve of their twenty madethree pointers, And it is very difficult
to beat a team when they hittwenty three's over fifty percent shooting. I

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think it's only happened nine times oreight times ever, and the Clippers were
the most recent team to do itin Game three against the Dallas Mavericks on
the road in that must win situation. I just want to point that out
for a second. But in talkingabout this team and some of the adjustments
in Game two, what did youlike or what did you not like about

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some of the moves made by coachlew We saw more Patrick Beverley. I
thought that worked for the most partbecause he brought that hustle. He looked
like Patrick Beverley outside the shot.He just seems to be out of rhythm.
But he's been a good defender againstDonovan Mitchell. I mean, Pa,
PA's looked good at times. Ithink it's stuff that I think playing

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Pat is negated when you're playing Zoobotsbecause because they're setting those screens so high
and the covers are going over onso many of those screens that Mitchell basically
has a three pointer or about eighteento twenty foot mid range two. Because
Zubats is drop dropping so far back. It was even worse when Cousins came
in in terms of the space Mitchellhad Mitchell. Mitchell missed a couple of

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those. So I liked what Iliked what Zubos, what Patrick Beverley did
today, but I think it waskind of negated by playing zoos. So
I really think they they maybe shouldjust go back to playing small, starting
out small with Gilbert out there.I don't think they made Golbert pay enough
for having to guard us small.Whether it was but two or Morris or
whoever it was, I don't thinkthey made him pay enough. I think

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I think what Tyler will should probablywell would probably do is you know this,
when we saw last yearies, we'regoing with zoobots against the bench,
whether it was Willie calli Stein,I think you can do that against Favors
because Favors is not much of arim rolling throat. He's not that much
of a room protectors when you compareto Gobert. So I think that you
can play Zoom more in the favorsminutes a Derrick favors minutes, and then
start small and try to stay smallwhen Gobert is out there, and really

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just punish him for having the guarda small Meghan come out to the perimeter
and guarda Batom GUARDI Moore's guard ofKawaiet. Put the ball on the floor
and drive by him if you can. But but create different opportunities ofst that
mismiss that you have. I don'tthink the Climbers have done that enough.
That's just really one adjustment I'd liketo see. But yeah, I just
think if you're gonna play pad outthere as a defensive guard against against Mitchell,

(50:35):
you've got to be more physical end. You really have to. I
think just stay stay small with Gobertout there, and they can pay on
the defensive end. He is Toemrazarlifinal one for your here toemer Because the
Clippers Stars were outscored sixty one toforty eight by Donovan Mitchell and Jordan Clarkson.
How much more do you expect fromPaul George and Kawhi Leonard, who

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to me seems no justiceably fatigued comingoff that series against the Dallas Mavericks.
I'm not trying to make an excuse, but let's be real, that was
one of the most unreal performances ina seven game series that we have ever
seen on both ends of the court. How much more can you expect from
them right now? I mean,I'm just gonna expect. I'm not sure,

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but the Clippers are gonna need it. They're gonna need more. Whatever
more is. Whether it's thirty fiftypercent shooting, whether it's forty, whether
it's thirty five, I don't know. But I actually think Paul Jorge has
been pretty decent. You know,while he's three point chatt hasn't been going
down. He is getting to theline, he is putting pressure on the
rim, and we really getting someof his points that way. I do
think he needs to he just needsto let it fire from outside, shoot

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some more. He's been a fortypercent three point shooter on ten attempts over
the last two or three years.I just think he's been a little bit
more on his head. So Ijust think he needs to let it fly
a bit more just shoot the ball, and Kawai needs to be his usual
aggress himself. He seems to beI don't know if he's taking a back
hee, but he seems to maybejust be trying to manage himself up end
the game. Over the last coupleof games. He's trying to take his
spots a little bit, and Ithink you have to see what he did

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against Dallas where he went and hetook those spots. He got to his
spots at will, and he scoredor created his brothers from there. This
is a very unselfish team. Soeven Kawai and PG don't have great games,
I don't think it's necessarily just onthem. You know, Marcus Dca
had a couple of threes, buttoo May stayed a couple of threes.
It's got to be everyone's gotta bea TeV effort, but it definitely starts
with Kawai and PP. They they'vegot to be the stars. You know,

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Donovan and Clarkson are good, butthose two can't get out played by
those two like did tonight. Sodefinitely expecting a bounce back games from both
Kawai MPG and Game three if theydon't I mean, I don't know.
I don't want to think about whatcould happen. Let's just hope they do
bounce that. He is temare Zarliagain. Follow him on Twitter at t
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(52:51):
for clutch points. Tomare hope tosee you at Staples Center on Saturday.
Come by and see me. Igot a gift for you, Yes,
sir, thank you, appreciate it. Thanks till Bear. Before we get
out of here, final call datain the LBC, Dana, give us
some positivity going out of Clippers stocktonight. Yeah, I've got a there's

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a trojan horse defensively in the NBAand they're not even using it. And
how do I get in contact withJerry West? I'm sorry, Dana,
I'm serious. I'm not drunk.I don't drink, so there's something like
that. Well it is late,you know, I wasn't thinking that,
but it's I drink, Keith.But there's a trojan horse defensively in this

(53:39):
sport anything else, Dana, that'snot as cryptic. Clippers to have it
so they can stomp everybody basically,not maliciously, but you know, I
want them to win, all right, Danny, I appreciate the phone call.
We all do. Clipper Nation ishoping that's going to happen on Saturday.

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They cannot go down three games toOh look, we've seen this story
before. It just happened against theDallas Mavericks and they had to win that
game three on the road. They'recoming back to a safe haven at Staples
Censor. Clipper Nation, I hopeit's see you there. Be loud before

(54:22):
we get out of here. Ido want to thank the Clippers organization,
Noah Eagle, Brian Seaman, RalphLawler back here in Burbank, the Great,
the fantastic Sam Zeo, Sam,thank you until Saturday with your pregame
show starting at four thirty for Gamethree from Staples Censor. I'm at a

(54:44):
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