March 26, 2024 • 56 mins
Clippers lose at home to Indiana. Maybe Coach is right, and we're simply better on the road. Understandably frustrated callers, Chuck Mockler (sorry Will!) from The Clips n Dip Podcast, and some wise words from the Fake Philosopher, Jake Warner.
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Time for a postgame. Look,it's your La Clippers. This is Clippers
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fall once again, this time onethirty three to one sixteen to the Indiana
Pacers here at Crypto dot Com Arena, where the Clippers got blown out in
another fourth quarter where they just lookedgoa went into the fourth quarter trailing by
just eight when they were down bysixteen less than two minutes into it.
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Welcome into your Clippers postgame show.I'm Adam Oslin coming up on the Patriot
Am eleven fifty. We will haveClippers stock for you. Eight sixty six
make it eight seven seven five twozero eleven fifty eight seven seven five twos
year eleven fifty is the phone number. Right now. We are rejoined by
your radio voice of the Clippers inCarlo Jimenez. Well we keep saying it,
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Carlo, We hope this is rockbottom. We hope this is the
worst of it, but there's elevengames left in the season right now,
and it just looks like a Clippersteam early on a fourth quarters that isn't
mentally tough enough to hang in thereonce they get down and fight back.
Yeah. I mean, you're onthe second game of a back to back,
but so is Indiana, right,so both teams are playing with tired
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legs. It felt like Adam theClippers just struggled to start fast in all
three fattists of this Bowl game.The beginning of the game, Indiana goes
on the lead, then the Clippersclimb back. They take an eight point
advantage. Indiana starts the second quarterstrong. In the fourth quarter on an
eight to zero run, the Clippersstarting quarters have been tough. I know
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you're trying to preserve legs come playofftime, and know it feels like the
only thing set in stone right nowwhen the Western Conference is playing New Orleans.
But the Clippers have to figure outa way to play a little bit
more consistency come before the end ofthis one. Again, You're not winning
an NBA championship in March. Youhave to play right. Comes to April,
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and you hope this feel out periodright now gives you an opportunity to
figure out what you need to dowell, what you need to work on.
But when it feels like at themat times, the Clippers are kind
of hitting their head against the wall, making the same mistakes and new ones
are emerging at the same time.I'm not sure how you fix this,
but the Clippers have an opportunities nexteleven games to figure it out before it's
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too little, too late. Look, we know the guys care. We
saw early on in this ball game. I think this was late in the
first half or early third quarter KawhiLeonard get into it with the Vitza Zubos
on a miscoverage defensively or Kawhi hadto help out and get the block,
and he immediately said something to aViza Zubos. These guys want to fix
this. Yep, there's obvious frustrationout there. The problem is there's talking
about it and then there's doing it. And that is something coach lou has
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stressed over the last week. Andthat sense of urgency simply has to kick
in. With eleven games left,where the Clippers are free falling down the
standings to the point where they canfind themselves in the play in, which
would seem unfathomable if we go backjust a month ago, given they were
in a position to possibly be thefirst Clippers team ever to have a number
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one seed. That's not happening.A top three seed is really out of
reach at this point, and they'rejust trying to hold on to the four
spot where they're currently tied I believewith the Pelicans, who have the tiebreaker
over them. So this is concerning. This is def con one. We're
not gonna sugarcoat this, but wedo know the message has been there from
coach Lou, and that is what'sbeen interesting the last couple of weeks,
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last couple of months. This Clippersteam, for whatever reason, they're not
receiving it and it's not playing outon the court right now. Listen,
you talked about a pregame and itmight come down as I think we see
a lineup change next couple of gamesat some point, like because ty Lou
understands he's you're talking talking about adjustments. This is a coach who made an
adjustment to win three to one downto Golden State in the finals, something
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no other team has done. Heunderstands it. Sometimes in the season you
have to make brass decisions. Ithink the question becomes for him, Adam,
do at one point if you knowyou're locked into the four or five
matchup, or do you want toshow your hand? Do you want to
make that adjustment? Now feels likethe Clippers kind of have to because the
pressure is coming. You look atthe rest of the standings. Phoenix sits
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at eight, you play them twomore times, You play Sacramento once,
who sits back of you at six. The Clippers have to figure out a
way to turn this turn this around. The Rockets are surging right now.
They're probably not gonna catch the Clippers, but that could be a first round
matchup if the Clippers fall one morespot. At some point, the Clippers
have to make a brash decision.They have to to do something out of
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the box. And I think that'scoming right now because they got to iron
out some of these issues before Aprilfourteenth comes. Yeah, I don't think
they have the luxury being able tohold stuff back till the first round playoff
series because they may not have one. They may be in a play in
situation, which will really be worstcase scenario for a team that has looked
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tired at times. You were expectingto get that week off as the playing
games are going on before the startof the first round. But things are
too close on the standings right now. Sacramento's right behind them, Dallas is
right behind them, The Phoenix Sunsare right behind them. Every team in
the Western Conference outside the Golden StateWarriors are playing better than the Clippers over
the last ten games. Clippers arefour and six over the last ten.
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Every other team outside the Golden StateWarriors tied with them in that area also
four and six. Their last tenhas been better than the Clippers. It's
really the wrong time for a tailspinlike this, but we're hoping the wake
up call comes. That's all wecan hope for right now, because this
Clippers team looks night and day differentthan what we saw a month ago and
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certainly two months ago. Here,Carlo, Yeah, and I think I
really appreciate you pointing out the playwhere Leonard's pointing at Zubots, where Zubots
later in the game had a conversationwith George, like there's care out there.
This isn't an apathetic team that doesn'twant to figure it out. I
think for a while they were hangingon to the confidence of knowing they could
turn it on. But clearly theyfeel the pressure, they feel the heat.
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They understand that they've been a subfive hundred team the last twenty two
games. So for the Clippers,how can you turn it around? You
did it when you lost six ina row. This is worse maybe than
that six in row. I mean, you haven't lost six in a row.
But the Clippers don't look like thesame team they were the standard that
they set. Can you iron outsome of these kings? Can you?
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Can you figure out ways to dowhat ty Lou is asking for? And
how does he get that message acrossto them? Like Ty said, Adham,
they're practicing more. I mean they'recoming back from road trips, they're
having practices, they're having walked throughs, they're watching a lot of film.
Ty said, they're watching more film. Clearly that's not getting to their head.
So what out of the box wayare you gonna get the message across
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us? I am intrigued these finaleleven games because you've got to imagine,
Adam, something is going to changewith how this team is operating, right
now, No, I think you'reright. Desperate times call for desperate measures,
and coach Lou said a few lossesago after the Atlanta game that he
may have to do something different.That was over a week ago. Now
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if guys aren't responding to this formof coaching, so I'm with you.
I think we're going to see somemore drastic changes down the stretch, which
you would not expect. With elevengames left, some lineup shuffling possibly,
whether it's the starting lineup, benchrotations. I don't know at this point
as we were scrambling here to findanswers with what's going on with this Clippers
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team. We'll talk about it movingforward. We do have Clippers stock coming
up on the Patriot AM eleven fiftyeight seven seven five to two zero eleven
fifty eight seven seven five to twozero eleven fifty is the phone number.
Maybe something in their favor unexpectedly.It's counterintuitive, but maybe this team going
out for the next four on theroad can help them band together here Carlo
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and find themselves twenty two and twelveat home, twenty two and fourteen on
the road. Don't love that homerecord right now. Clippers fault tonight one
thirty three to one sixteen to theIndiana Pacers. Carlo, we'll talk to
you on Wednesday with the Clippers inPhiladelphia, taken on the seventy six Ers.
Tiptime is at four thirty. We'llhave pregame at three thirty. Save
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travels, great calts tonight as well. Thank you, Adam. Can't win
a championship now, Clippers got tengames to figure it out. Let's go.
Clippers trying to look for answers.We'll see if we have any.
Coming up here on your postgame lockerroom show on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio
Network. LA Clippers Basketball is onthe two to three Era Continues. You're
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listening to the LA Clippers on theLA eight Clippers Audio Network. Clippers lose
one thirty three to one sixteen hereat Crypto to the Indiana Pacers, after
losing here to the seventy six Ersin a similar fashion where they pulled away
early in the fourth quarter just yesterday. Welcome back into your Clippers post game
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locker room show. I'm Ada Oslin. Coming up on the Patriot AM eleven
fifty. We will have Clippers talkfor you eight seven seven five to two
zero eleven fifty eight seven seven fivetwo zero eleven fifty. Remember when the
Dodgers are on AM five to seventy, we will be on the Patriot AM
eleven fifty. Just another listless startto a fourth quarter, which is really
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where this game fell apart. Therewere some moments the end of the third
two where the Clippers had it closer, a little bit of momentum, and
they gave them some shots to PascalSiakam. But you get down sixteen at
are minus eight in the first minuteand forty six seconds of the fourth quarter,
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that's game. It can't happen.You can't allow them to double the
lead in less than two minutes tostart off the fourth. And look,
I thought there were some issues there. We'll talk about it on the Patriot
AMLM fifty with Clippers talk. ButI was surprised to see three non shooters
on the floor and no Kawhi andno Paul George to start that fourth quarter
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zoobots, Russ and PJ. Tuckerbasically through not shooters. Right now,
well, we have a moment.Let's pause ten seconds for station identification here
in Los Angeles. Clippers are yournetwork. This is LA Clippers Basketball AM
eleven fifty k EV Los Angeles andiHeartRadio station. We'll take a quick time
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out. We'll get into the boxscore. We'll get into Clippers stock as
well. Clippers lose one thirty threeto one sixteen at home to the Indiana
Pacers, and you're listening to theLos Angeles Clippers Audio Network. They want
to bring a banner with them tothe into it dull more LA Clippers basketball
on the LA Clippers Audio Network.The Clippers lose one thirty three to one
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sixteen to an Indiana Pacers team thatshot seventeen of twenty eight from three,
and it was better in that throughoutmost of the game. Actually, that's
sixty one percent. They have beenshooting thirty five percent from three their last
ten games. Tyrese Haliburton over hislast fifteen was at twenty two percent from
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the outside. He goes six ofnine from three. Clippers finding new ways
to lose. But I'd say thishas been a trend too. Teams have
been shooting much better against them overthe last month or so. Clippers are
ten and twelve since the Grammy roadtrip. When everything seems to be turning
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on its head. And this teamis finding a new rock bottom each week
in every ball game. It seemslike unless they're taken on the Portland trail
Blazers, and that good will theybuilt up there is gone. Right now.
You lose this back to back athome, you're now in the five
spot in the West. You don'thave home court in the first round.
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You're flirting with disaster of falling allthe way into the plan. Unbelievable.
Welcome back into your postgame locker roomshow. I'm out of Moslin. After
the Clippers let go of it earlyin the fourth quarter, just didn't seem
mentally tough enough to withstand being downeight, then they're down sixteen, when
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they're down by as many as twentythree, the game's over. The same
thing happened yesterday in the fourth quarterthe game they were down five in they
were down by nineteen about three minuteslater. The Clippers are just imploding at
the moment in free falling. We'lltalk about it next on the Patriot AM
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eleven fifty eight seven seven five totwo zero eleven fifty is the phone number
eight seven seven five to two zeroeleven fifty. Outside of Los Angeles,
we are leaving to you and twoWednesday, when the Clippers are in Philadelphia
taking on the seventy six ers again, second time in a week. Tip
Off at four to thirty pregame atthree point thirty outside of LA. We'll
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talk to you then in LA.It's Clippers Talk next. This has been
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podcast. Hen right now your hoston your home for the Clippers. They
were in attack mode. Adam Ousley, It's like there's rock bottom fifty feet
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a crap. Then me. Ifyou thought I was hot last night after
that Clippers loss, I'll get readyfor this episode of Clippers Talk. I'm
Adam Oslin. Welcome in to thePatriot AM eleven fifty. When the Dodgers
are on AM five to seventy.This is where we will be. Eight
seven seven five to two zero elevenfifty. Eight seven seven, five to
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two zero eleven fifty is the phonenumber after the Clippers collapse in another fourth
quarter where they just were doa completeimplosion. Seen it far too many times
over the last two months. Theyare now in the five spot in the
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West. The Pelicans had the tiebreakeron them, and the Clippers are flirting
with disaster of falling into the plan. I hope Morris is online, who
just yesterday was saying, Hey,you guys are acting like we're a playing
team or something like that. Well, you might get your wish or be
careful what you wish for. Itmay happen. That's how dire things are
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right now for the Clippers. I'mnot trying to be hyperbolic. I'm not
trying to hype this up for ratings. I love this team, I love
Clipper Nation. I want them tosucceed, and it is hard to watch
what we've been seeing over the lastcouple of months. You go from winning
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twenty six of thirty one ball gamesto now being ten and twelve in their
last twenty two post. It's aGrammy broad trip where they I guess it
peaked, went six and one.What happened? I keep asking this question.
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It's starting to lead to a lotof speculation with this team. I
see it everywhere on Twitter, Ihear it on phone calls. I've thrown
out the theory that the reason they'reso inconsistent with their effort is because for
so long they had gotten away withit. They could be down big,
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they'd come back, they'd flip aswitch, they'd turn it on. So
it developed a bad habit of beingoff for possessions, for quarters, for
games where they just don't bring itconsistently enough, not for forty eight minutes
at least. There's one theory.Some people have attached themselves to it.
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Their greatest strength, their resilient nature, more twenty point comebacks than any other
team, has now led to theirbiggest weakness because they think they can pick
and choose when they want to tryhard and adhere to coaching. I don't
know what else coach lou was supposedto do. Now I'll have a slight
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criticism. Maybe it's not a slightone, but the message is clear,
take care of the basketball, rebound, get back on defense, and stop
giving up so many open, wide, open easy layups. When it comes
to transition points, it continues tohappen. A lot of people told me
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Russ is coming back, that'll fixall this. I said, Uh,
the issues are a little bit biggerthan just one player at this point.
Love what Russ brought tonight. Noone guy's gonna save this team. It's
whack them with the amount of problemsyou're seeing out there. You fix one
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another starts, you get a stop. You can't score, you score,
you can't get a stop. Theyonly had ten turnovers tonight. I'll give
them that. They shot fifty fourpercent from the field. There was six
of twenty from the outside. Twentyis a very low number of takes from
three for them, and that's shootingthirty percent. You want to know what
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the Indiana Pacers shot. This isdisgusting. Ear must for the kids.
Seventeen of twenty eight from three.That is sixty one percent from three.
They shot better from three than fromtwo. It's near impossible to win a
game with a team that hot,I said, going into the fourth quarter,
it's somewhat impressive they're only down eight. But here's where the game got
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away. From them and has beenmaybe going back to what happened against the
Lakers up twenty one in the fourthquarter and let going or letting go of
the rope, I should say thatthat may have been the first instance of
this. But for whatever reason,the Clippers are breaking and falling apart to
start fourth quarters. They go fromdown eight more than manageable with twelve minutes
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left to down sixteen a minute fortysix into the fourth. But I will
say this, I didn't understand thatlineup. I don't understand how you start
the fourth without both Kawhi and PaulGeorge and with three non shooters on the
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floor. It was a Visa Zubatsnext to PJ. Tucker, next to
Russell Westbrook, next to James hardand Norm Powell, more non shooters than
guys who can get it to go. The floor spacing was miserable. We
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watched us turned down a three,came out a great option not his game.
For PJ. Tucker to then takea three in the near side corner
in their first possession of the fourththat would go over the backboard and basically
be a turnover, not a liveball one. But yeah, Bruss would
miss one. Then the Clippers goscoreless. They're down sixteen. Indiana doubles
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the lead in a minute forty six. I go back to the Lakers game
because that was a lineup I didn'tunderstand to start that fourth quarter. You're
up twenty one and they got blitzedand we're minus twelve in less than three
minutes in that fourth quarter. AndI just have seen this trend yesterday.
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It happened just yesterday to a teamfrom Philly without Joe lmbid. The Clippers
are in the game down five,and they end up losing the fourth quarter
by nine points. And it reallywasn't even that close. Let's see.
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Oh, they ended up losing thefourth quarter by nine points tonight and it
really wasn't even that close. Phillywent up on them as the Clippers went
three minutes scoreless. By twenty afterClippers were down by just five. What
are they doing to start fourth quarters? What's baffling is they have one of
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the best clutch time records in theleague this season. When the game is
within five in the last five minutes, they can't even get it to within
five. They're getting blown out tostart the fourth They're getting slacked within two
minutes. Yes, you can losea game that fast in today's NBA.
I remember I had Sean and Inglewoodsay like, well, just try this
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lineup a little bit. What howcould it hurt? Well? They went
big, I guess, with BeatsaZubats and PJ. Tucker, another non
shooter and Russell Westbrook and they gotambushed and the game was over. They
put in the Powell Rangers lineup,it was too late. Kawhi came in
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earlier than usual, about the nineminute mark of the fourth. Paul George
came in after the first time out. I'm not sure why he wasn't starting
the fourth quarter. I don't understandthat. So yeah, there's a blame
everywhere with this much going wrong.And as I mentioned, people are starting
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to wonder, Okay, are theytoo old? Maybe? But I see
him ramp up and play with moreenergy sometimes when they're down in a fourth
quarter, meaning what they have morein the tank later in a ball game.
I would think if they're old,as we have seen at times in
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the middle of a fourth quarter,once they're down big, ah, they
turn it on, going a twentyone to ohero run against Brooklyn. So
I don't know if I buy that. People are wondering do they care?
I don't know what everybody feels.I saw Kawhi Leonard getting into it with
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the Viza Zoobots after a play.I think it was early in the third
quarter where Kawhi had to cover forBig Zoo, blocked the shot and then
immediately had words with the Viza Zobotsfor being out of position. Apparently seems
like they care enough. They're bickeringout there. He got into it Paul
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George too. Is that holding guysaccountable enough? I don't know. Seem
like they cared earlier in the season. They just stopped now does that make
sense to you? Is there scheduletoo tough? In March? Seventeen games
in thirty one days? Did theygive everything in the Grammy road trip and
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emptied the tank? And they're justtoo old? They're just too tired,
a little bit gassed. Coach whowas admitted to some of that. But
you can't give into that fatigue mentally, you can't. And I don't know,
I've seen enough energy out there.But now there's seven and seven in
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March, three games left to go. Do they have too many bad habits?
Yeah, I think so. Theyhaven't just built up bad habits over
this season. They've built it upin the two and three era, and
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they're really coming back to bite them. Kawhi Leonard said even when they were
winning that they were relying too muchon talent and not enough on execution.
Now the talent looks tired, maybeold, and they can't fall back on
that foundation of having that great executionto carry them. Some have brought up
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are there too many agendas going on? Guys wanting minutes? Bones, PJ?
Tucker being sent home? PJ?Basically, how do I put this
airing grievances in order to get moreminutes to the media. That's what happened.
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How else can I put it?That's literally what happened. He complained
to the media early on the season. He complained after he was already sent
home and disciplined, and he's gottenback into the rotation because of it.
He's been decent here and there.But I don't know if that's great rewarding
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the guy for that, or agood example to young guys like Bones Highland
who got his opportunity. Harden wasout a couple of games, was great
against Chicago and then Harden came backand it just seemed like Bones was checked
out. I don't know why thebody language wasn't there. I know we've
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gotten to a point where we're judgingfacial expressions and the way guys carry themselves
on the court and shrugging their shoulders. But hey, you lose six of
nine, you're ten and twelve whenyou're trying to win a championship post Grammy
road trip, that's where it leadsother guys they got contracts up. Is
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that part of it human nature?It could be some guys pressing, some
guys not can't get on the samepage, can't be in sync, can't
win ball games. Let's start thingsoff tonight with Mike in la here on
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Clipperstock on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. So Mike, hey, and you
know, at a certain point yougot to say that when you have a
team that is the oldest team inthe league, possibly also the smallest team
in the league. I have saidthis before, Mike, I said this
a few months ago. You justyou can I know, you can be
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slow, you can be small.I don't know if you could have a
roster construction with both and win inthis league and they are both well they
are both and you know, itwas just a matter of time until it
caught up. Basically, I think, you know, I mean, you
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see, it's not like you know, I mean, you know, could
the players played better? And Imean Kawhi and Paul George are playing more
than they've ever played in the season, you know for us, Hey,
some speculator, maybe the little measurementbefore, if that's what was going,
maybe they need it, maybe they'replaying so much. But I don't buy
that either, because Paul George hasbeen on a heater the last three weeks.
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Kawhi has still been good. Likethey're not connecting with everybody else,
they're not playing together as a cohesiveunit, but individually they don't look that
tired to me. Paul George hasbeen playing much better over the last twelve
thirteen games now than he was forabout a month and a half, and
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they're losing. That's true. Soit is, Yeah, throw a dart.
I don't know what it is withthe team, right you know,
we're trying to figure it out.Mike. I appreciate the phone call,
my friend. Let's do again onWednesday, Let's take a quick time out,
we'll come back. We'll have Ithink Chuck Mockler is on tonight Clippers
loss, so he comes on withtheir losses because it's a really bad loss.
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And then sometimes it's will Maybe we'llhave them both on. I don't
know. Clippers lose one thirty threeto one sixteen. Strength in numbers.
You gotta stick together, I'm hoping. And this could be the optimist in
me, the glass half fool guy, which is so me. But maybe
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a road trip is the best thingfor him. Guys in the fox hole
together, I don't know. Itwasn't the Grammy trip. That's what he
got next next four on the road. More Clippers stock coming up right here
on the Patriot EM eleven fifty.Every Clipper game all season long, they
didn't stop playing hard. Listen tothe La Clippers Audio Network streaming on the
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iHeartRadio lap. The Clippers were infirst place when they got back from the
grimmery road trip. Twenty two gameslater, they're in fifth. Not a
rockstar, not so much at themoment. Clippers. They lose tonight second
nut of a back to back,one thirty three to one sixteen to the
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Indiana Pacers. They were also ona back to back, by the way,
and actually had less time to prepare. I know, their younger team.
I don't care. That's not anexcuse for this. The Clippers were
in the game down three and ahalf, down eight, hanging into the
fourth quarter, and then we're justcould put kab Louie done collapsing again,
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not rising to the occasion at all. Coming up, we'll have Chuck and
will Updyke on. Plus we'll hearfrom coach lou postgame. It's that type
of night. Need both of theseguys. But first, Javier in the
Lobra heights, Javier, what's uphere? On Clipper stoff with that amazend
what's up item? Thank you fortaking my call again. You know what,
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that line up in the fourth quarterwith Russ, Tuckber and Zubak,
that was ridiculous. You don't putthat line up in the beginning of the
fourth quarter. I mean that thatthat's just my mind boggling. I agree.
I pointed out during the ball game, I couldn't believe they were going
with three non shooters to start thefourth quarter against the team with shooters everywhere.
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That was matchup hunting and picking theClippers apart, and I mean they
just got out of score thirty twoto twenty seven, and the third you
have to get back into it.Yes, you need stops, and if
that's the logic, well more defendersin there. But you also have to
continue to score and find that balance. And I just I didn't understand that
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one. I mean, I kindof another thing to I disagree with Carlo
or Cliper announcer. They said theClippers do care. How did they care
if they allow one hundred and thirtythree points? I mean, I mean
one hundred and thirty three points anddid the same thing yesterday. Well,
the Pacers are historic with the amountof points they scored per game and shot
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sixty one percent from three tonight,so I can see how it would happen.
But I mean I would have hopedthe Clippers scored more than one sixteen
if that's the case. Yeah,I mean, at this point, honestly,
Adam, I don't think the playersare listening. I mean a couple
of things I brought up during theyear contract like you said, and I
brought it up too. Paul Georgewants an extension, Hardy wants to get
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paid. I mean it's just everythingjust a snowball. I mean it just
and I told you about Tyler louMan. He just way overrated, but
you guys like him. And lastthing is you're going to get a car
right now, Adam from Morris andLong Beach. He's in the ever Team's
fine, we're good. We're gonnaget to them one season. You just
watched. I mean, I don'tknow, I don't know why you got
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to get the guys called. Butanyway, thank you, Adam, Thank
you Adam, Miss Cleo over here, Javier and Larbra He's right. Morris
always wrong about one thing in Inglewood. Now, Morris, you're on Clippers,
stop without im ausn't ingle what hey, Adam, I'm gonna tell you
what's going on with the Clippers rightnow. It's very obviously everybody. When
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you get to the fourth quarter,Kawhi gotta be on the floor. It's
straight up. You got to goto the start the first fourth quarter,
the first four minutes of the fourthquarter. You got to play that like's
the last four minutes. Well,well, Morris, what happened? Because
he's never done that in the twoand three era, He's always played the
entire third quarter, and he comesback in around the seven minute mark of
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the fourth. Why why did itchange now because we're losing right now?
Well, but but what but whyif it worked before for so along,
why are they losing now because otherteams have favored us out? Man,
these guys are professionals. That guygot to start the fourth quarter. The
face of the team is playing defense. We're not doing that right now.
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He's got to start the fourth quarter. Look, Morris, I brought this
up yesterday, but you know thatI said, maybe that's a change you
make, But I don't think that'ssolving everything with this team at all.
Even when he got back in thePacers extended their lead. I think you
talk about the team, Let's talkabout the Let's talk about the Clippers.
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Let's talk about the clipp Let's talkabout the Clippers patients. Well, the
Clippers were playing the patients tonight andthey were up against fire straight up.
And you're right when they started thefourth quarter, when they started that,
well, with that lineup, withthe defensive lineup, you're right, And
you know you're right about this.They were looking for matchups and they took
advantage of them. They being thefaces but if the Clippers start Kawhi in
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the fourth quarter, I'm sorry,man, he got to go over forty
minutes a game now, I meanthe playoffs of all, but he started
for us. The playoffs have alreadystarted for us. He is. Everything
is gonna be alright, you betterbelieve it. But we're gonna have to
start Kawie in the fourth quarter.At them, Morris, you keep shifting
the excuses from one day to thenext for this team. I think we
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need to have a higher standard forthe Clippers. That's what I'm saying.
We're making. We make an observation. Well, I hope they're gonna be
all right, and I hope you'reright. But before it was you know
they're gonna get the number one seed, then it's hey, they're still not
in the play in, so celebratethat. Well, Morris, guess what.
They are dangerously close to being inthe play in. So where do
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you shift the argument? Now they'regonna win. I don't care what none
of these people are saying. Iknow what this team can do. I've
seen these guys doing their best.Now they're going through it right now,
you guys gonna bail ship with themto get tough. Let's finish out there,
but we're gonna talk about what's actuallyhappening and not just say everything's fine
right now. Kawhi got to startthe fourth quarter and we gotta go win
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with a defensive mindset as the samethey've been told worse. I love you,
but they've been told that for monthsthat they needed to start with more
physicality and defensive mindset, and themessage is not being received. I appreciate
the phone call. Speaking of themessage, let's hear from the messenger in
coach lou postgame after the Clippers loseone thirty three to one sixteenth. I
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think this could get spicy. Didn'thave one? Do you guys have one?
Or as a done somewhere? Whosaid? Who? You said?
Well? Now, James Hawden mentioningthat you guys didn't have an identity?
You guys have had one? Whereis it? Well? Can we start
with this? Identity is with youshut the door first? Don take you
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shut that door, please, sir? So identity? You know, for
us, it's gotta be toughness,which means physicality. Mentally, have physical
toughness. A high powered offense.We can score a lot of different ways.
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And we got to have a defensivemindset. And so right now,
do we have an identity? Ithink, yeah, we're soft. That
could be an identity if you wantto call it that. Like we got
to be tougher mentally and physically,But we do have an identity. When
we were twenty six and five,we had a great identity, you know.
So you can't pick and choose whenyou want to lead. You can't
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pick and choose when you want tohave identity. You can't pick and choose
when you want to do things theright way. And so just do the
right things every night and everything elseto fall in fall in order. And
so I guess we do have anidentity. We got to get back to
that, you know, because we'vehad it. You know. But when
you lose games, it's easy togo the other way, and we're not
going to do that. And I'mnot gonna let our team do that.
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And you know, I'm tough minded, and so I've been through everything and
so of these guys, and sothe only way we're gonna get out of
is playing hard for forty eight minutes, doing things right every single night,
every single possession, not two outof five, not two out of six,
not every time. Just do theright thing and you would be able
to get out of this rut,you know. And so, yeah,
we have an identity, but rightnow our identity has been shaken because we're
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not winning. You know, we'renot doing things the right way consistently.
And so when you don't do that, you're gonna lose. You know,
you're gonna lose games games you shouldprobably win or you think you should win,
and you're not gonna play as goodas you think you should play.
And so I thought the first quarter, I thought we were great. I
thought we really did some good thingson both sides of basketball. And then
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can we sustain it? Can wedo it for forty eight minutes and not
just one quarter or two quarters ortwo and a half quarters. Can you
sustain it every night? And that'sgonna be our mindset. James also mentioned
that this is the first time inhis career has been part of a team
that this late new season, therereally isn't an identity, is I mean
building off that is it's the firsttime you've seen this late in the season.
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A group of players have said thereis no identity to your team.
Yeah, I don't know what they'retalking about. I just answered the question
for you. But does it frustrateyou when you hear the guys say that?
They don't frustrate me. I meanit's frustrating to watch too, as
much as they talk about to play, and it's it's frustrating to watch at
times, like I said, Andwe're better than that, and we've shown
that, and so you know,we just got to We just gotta do
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our jobs one through fifteen and thecoaches, we all just got to do
our jobs. Do your job wellwe asked you to do and once you
don't do that that we can adjust. Or when you do that it doesn't
it doesn't work. We can adjust, you know. And so we definitely
have an identity. But I'm tiredof hearing that word. So just start
keep talking away with the players.I have an identity, and I know
what the identity of our team is. Coach, you know you've been talking
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about forty years. Well, thatwas strong. I liked hearing that from
Coach Lou. I believe in him. He's the right guy. He's turned
this around. If they're going toI think he's a leader to do it.
He came out straight up and said, our identity right now is soft.
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How can you argue with that?Morris A long beach. Englewood might,
but we're not gonna sugarcoat it here. That's what the Clippers are playing.
That's why they're in this position whereyou have players saying they don't have
an identity and a coach saying theydo. So guys are on the same
page and they're splintering. I reallydo think an upcoming road trip with everybody
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together could be just what they need. Doesn't mean it's for sure turning anything
around. You gotta do the work, do your job, as coach lu
said, But maybe he's coming atthe right time. I don't know.
I'm desperate for anything right now too, with this team. Ryan and Santa
Anna. Ryan, you're on ClippersTalk without a maslin as we're desperately searching
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for answers here, Ryan, what'sup? Hey, Idam, how's it
going? Yeah? This is uh. We got punched in the face and
uh yeah, it started off likefrom the very beginning of the game.
I don't know the guy, buthe was guardian James Harden. I don't
remember that guy's name, but iffrom the gate they like were pressuring us,
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pressuring us, and we responded verysoftly. And then I don't know
the first quarter they were up thirtyfour to twenty nine. I don't think
the first quarter was their problem,Okay, but to start off the game
like they Yes, we started offvery well, but we didn't. We
don't keep it up because we startedoff the game thirty four to twenty nine.
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You're right, but later on they'repressuring us. They're going full court
press on the Clippers, and ourresponse later on was just to let them
walk up the court and uh,take off time off the clock, like
there's no there's desperation from us tolike try to really get back into it.
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It was going on the whole thewhole night, honestly, and then
like the fourth quarter lineup to startoff the lineup, I don't understand what
that was like. That was areally bad lineup and it wasn't like the
only shooter that was out there wasHarden and Norman. Then it was all
like Tucker Zoo, I believe,and hey, I've been preaching preacher till
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the choir. I said that offtop tonight. I said it when it
happened honestly. Yeah, our identityright now is soft, Like I don't,
I don't. Everybody punks us,Adam, everybody's funking us. Philly
punked us, Indiana punked us,and our last home game before the Hawks
punks us too. So it's like, we gotta we gotta get a backbone
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and start like getting us together.I agree, Ryan, they're breaking right
now. Teams are breaking the Clippers, will That is what we're seeing.
They get down earlier in the fourthquarter and it looks like they're just quitting.
They're just saying, here we goagain. I don't believe that's the
case, and some of that wasjust a bad lineup, but it can't
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keep happening. We'll take a quicktime out. I appreciate the phone call,
Ryan. We'll come back. We'llhave Chuck in Will on to that
night. Yeah, you might killBill Song. Clippers lose one thirty three
to one sixteen, we'll have theentire brain trust. I don't know if
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I could say that, but thecore three from Clips and dip on next
to try to reason through this,figure out what's going on with the Clippers.
I'm Mena Oslin. You're listening tothe Patriot AM eleven fifty. LA
Clippers basketball is on the two onethree era continues. You're listening to the
LA Clippers on the LA Clippers AudioNetwork. Clippers have lost six of nine.
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They lose one thirty three to onesixteen on the second or the back
end, I mean back to backat home this time to the Indiana Pacers
who broke them early on in thefourth quarter. Welcome back in. I'm
out of Mosland. We got themusic, So I think that means it's
basically turning into a complete episode ofclips and dip. We can only have
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one on no, I've ah yeah, all right, it's Chuck's night.
Anyways, Chuck or as yours myfriends, if you want to complain about
the Clippers, talk about what's goingon, the fact we couldn't get Will
on too. At the same time, whatever you uh, steer this Clipper
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ship right now. God forget I'mjo I'm just tired man, right like
I think tonight, none of itever felt real, if that makes sense
when the Clippers were kind of playingwell, because when the Clippers are doing
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one thing well, they're never doingall things well right now specifically or not
even right now and the last youknow, half of the games they've played
this season, it seems so I'mjust tired. I kind of feel like
we're floating in the middle of thewater waiting for this to just be over,
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or maybe that's what I'm getting fromthe players a little bit again,
just just defensively, Like people talkedabout how last time we played the place
as we put up one fifty,Well they put up like one forty five
and didn't have most of their teamhealthy. So to think that this Clippers
team is going to be able toget to championship level defense is really hard
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for me to believe in right now. And yeah, I hope we see
something different on Wednesday. Right wehave a chance to avenge that bad loss
for the seventy six ers, sothat would be nice, But there's a
really long way to go to getif it's even possible, anywhere close to
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a team ability and mindset wise thatlooks ready to challenge for a second round
appearance in the playoffs. Especially howI feel right now, Yeah, it's
well put. We're seeing a mixedmessage from the players and the coaching staff.
We're hearing no identity from two playersnow. First it was Paul George,
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Now it's James Harden. Coach Loudisagrees with that. I don't know.
Are we looking at some schism betweenthe players and the head coach.
I don't want to believe that,But the message continually is not being received
out there and they are not doingwhat he is asking. I don't understand
it, and they can't even agreeon if they have an identity at the
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moment. It's just it's bizarre.Are I think the skin them? I
think is kind of what you justsaid, right. He's asking them to
do certain things and they're not doingit. We don't know why they're not
doing it. And the things he'sasking them are not seemingly out of the
questions of things you would ask verygood basketball players who want to win a
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championship. Get back in transition,defense, stop shot watching. You know
know who the low man is.Let's play with purpose and intent like he's
not, you know, asking themto set screens for Zoo so he can
take a step back three like theseare normal things to ask for. These
are intangible to ask for a team. The only guy on Cole on the
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team who any of us probably believecan actually flip a switch because he's the
only one who's done it, isKawhi Leonard, and maybe everyone else thinks
they can flip a switch too,or something like that. But the schism
is the head coach is asking themto do things and they're not doing that,
and I don't understand why. That'swhat's frustrating. I don't understand why.
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I think a lot of us arepast the point of being mad and
more so just baffled or apathetically dumbfoundedat why these guys just can't try harder.
I don't like to not A lotof things are able to be reduced
down to one side tried harder thanthe other side. But if you watch
the Slippers team, they are nottrying. They're not giving their full effort
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team, and that is confusing.I've heard before from people say in the
regular season, you can have awinning record by the end of the year
just by playing harder each and everynight, and I feel like we saw
that with teams in the past,with some of the Doc Rivers teams,
the twenty seventeen to twenty eighteen team, the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen team,
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and the team without Kawhi the entireyear from two years ago, and Paul
George was just thirty one games.Because those teams all played really hard for
the majority of the time. Andyou could say it's too old. You
could say it's the March schedule.You could speculate whether or not they care
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or not right now. You couldsay it's too many bad habits, too
many maybe agendas, personal agendas,all the above. There is so much
wrong with what's happening with this team. I don't know where to start anymore.
It's just brutal. But I couldstart with this. They're twenty ninth
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defensively now since the Grammy road tripafter tonight. They were twenty six heading
into tonight. Tonight was so badwhen especially when the dam broke in the
fourth quarter, they dropped multiple spots. That's over twenty five percent of the
season where you are twenty ninth defensively, Chuck. They came into this year
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saying we want to be a Timefive defense. The identity that they said
they were going to have was goingto be a tough defensive team that can
spread the floor. I none ofthat is coming to fruition right now.
Are they only better than the Pistons. Is that who's thirtieth pulled up right
here. They're also thirteenth offensively duringthat time, which really isn't good enough
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when you're twenty ninth defensively. It'sUtah. It's utah over their last twenty
one games, their thirtieth, butover the Clippers last twenty two games,
where they're ten to twelve post Gamyroad trip, they are twenty ninth.
Right above them is the Lakers.They're twenty eighth, but they're actually finding
ways to win games because their secondoffensively over that span, Like, you
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can win still being that bad defensivelyif you're really playing great on offense,
and the Clippers are just out middleof the pack with this talent. Yeah,
it's a combination of I think RobertFlamm had a tweet of something like
the Clippers I have a deadly combinationof old slow, a little small,
and not enough shooting, which rightnow we're seeing the downsides. We're seeing
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that play out. Right. Thisteam was what twenty six and tie or
what twenty six and five had anincredible run. I don't know what that
team. I don't know how thathappened based on how things have gone since
the Grammy roach if it makes nosense that that happened, if you like
had a time machine, I don'tknow, but they have to find something.
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They tried to small ball lineup tonightand offensively it was great, but
you know, defensively it it seedsrebounds, it it seeds points. So,
Charles, what was the lineup tostart the fourth quarter? Often?
I'm pretty it wasn't it. Itwas PJ or hold On, it was.
It was uh Russ Hardened, normA Mere, PJ, whej Zoo,
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three non shooters out there, Like, how can we say they don't
have enough shooting? I mean,I'm speculated. Even back when they lost
six games in a row, Iremember bringing up specifically, I don't know
if you can win being slow andsmall, which the Clippers were. It
could be one, but I don'tknow if you could be two. I
said that way back then. Butthen in thirty one games, I mean
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we're talking actually over fifty games wherethey were the number one three point shooting
team in the league, how canwe say they don't have the shooting.
They may not have had to startthe fourth quarter, but they over half
the season they were number one andthree point shooting. I don't. I
mean, it's it's a personnel issue, right. The shooting was great because
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our four shooters were five or whateverit is. It's just not deep.
That's that's what I think Ales andthe Clippers right now too. Right,
if you have to, if youhave lineups, to even have a lineup
with three non shooters is hard inthe modern NBA. But that's you know,
that's the way the trade had to. Yeah, there's so many issues.
The open threes thing, I dobelieve is going to turn around.
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That should turn around. That's beencrazy. Right, Well, this is
a nice tease for I don't knowif we're doing a live or YouTube or
whatever tomorrow. Tomorrow for sure.Yeah, but we'll have you guys covered
at Clippers podcast on YouTube. MyselfChuck and Will Updyke, Charles, thanks
for doing this tonight, a littledouble dip on Clippers stuff, my friend,
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Hey, thanks for having me.Let's go clip coming up next,
we'll close things out. Big brotherJake Warners here, he's got some positivity
for us. Clippers loose and Iwon thirty three to one sixteen at Crypto
to the Indiana Pacers. And you'relistening to the Patriot Am eleven fifty.
They want to bring a banner withthem to the into it dull more LA
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Clippers Basketball on the LA Clippers AudioNetwork. The Clippers have eleven games left
in the regular season to figure thisout. Starting on the road in Philly
on Wednesday, could start with justone, one win, one moment.
Sometimes it is that simple to findyour spirit, to find your identity.
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Sorry, Coach Lou, I don'tlike saying anymore. Either your personality,
your philosophy, whatever it's going tobe, it's going to have to start
on this road trip before we getout of here. Ryan in Burbank,
you're on Clipper stock without a maasinall right, Adam, Adam, I
heard you. I heard you talk. Can you were you were laughing to
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keep from crying. I feel likethat's every Clipper fan right now. It
is it is. It is baffling. How did this team go twenty six
and five? How was this happening? Like what? There's no way that
this team is this bad. It'sjust not possible for how well did they
played in this Are they trulling?Nots Adam, that what's happened? They're
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just they're truly this new thing.Don't worry, guys, we got I'm
so it makes no sense. Iknow. The maniacal laughter is all I
have left straight jokering it. Whoknows if I call one Jake before we
get out of here, straighten meout. It's Big Brother Jake Warner,
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the fakeful, awsome Big Brother Jakepodcast and the podcast one network. With
some optimism. Please, absolutely overthinkingis the biggest waste of human energy.
Trust yourself and make a decision andgain more experience. There's no such thing
as perfect. You cannot think yourway into perfection. Just take action.
Take action. Now's the time.Be decisive. God. There were so
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many turned down easy looks at therim for tougher looks. It was like
they were being too unselfish tonight.I appreciate Jake, Appreciate you brother always
man. Before we get out ofhere, big thanks for Big Brother Jake
Warner, Clippers Organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, no Ego, Carlo
Jimenez on the call, our producerKatie Newton back in the bank, Chuck
Mothlam for coming on until Wednesday.A three point thirty worth the pregame show
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Clippers in Philly taking on the sixErs. I'm at a massa. We'll
talk to you that Why was doinghis thing and all they want to do
is win. In La, Iwin. I thought they gave everything they
had. I'm very proud of them. This has been Clippers Talk, the
official postgame reaction of the LA Clippers. God Bless Paul George. Are you
not? It's a change. Don'tmiss an episode all season law. Go
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fall once again, this time onethirty three to one sixteen to the Indiana
Pacers here at Crypto dot Com Arena, where the Clippers got blown out in
another fourth quarter where they just lookedgoa went into the fourth quarter trailing by
just eight when they were down bysixteen less than two minutes into it.
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Welcome into your Clippers postgame show.I'm Adam Oslin coming up on the Patriot
Am eleven fifty. We will haveClippers stock for you. Eight sixty six
make it eight seven seven five twozero eleven fifty eight seven seven five twos
year eleven fifty is the phone number. Right now. We are rejoined by
your radio voice of the Clippers inCarlo Jimenez. Well we keep saying it,
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Carlo, We hope this is rockbottom. We hope this is the
worst of it, but there's elevengames left in the season right now,
and it just looks like a Clippersteam early on a fourth quarters that isn't
mentally tough enough to hang in thereonce they get down and fight back.
Yeah. I mean, you're onthe second game of a back to back,
but so is Indiana, right,so both teams are playing with tired
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legs. It felt like Adam theClippers just struggled to start fast in all
three fattists of this Bowl game.The beginning of the game, Indiana goes
on the lead, then the Clippersclimb back. They take an eight point
advantage. Indiana starts the second quarterstrong. In the fourth quarter on an
eight to zero run, the Clippersstarting quarters have been tough. I know
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you're trying to preserve legs come playofftime, and know it feels like the
only thing set in stone right nowwhen the Western Conference is playing New Orleans.
But the Clippers have to figure outa way to play a little bit
more consistency come before the end ofthis one. Again, You're not winning
an NBA championship in March. Youhave to play right. Comes to April,
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and you hope this feel out periodright now gives you an opportunity to
figure out what you need to dowell, what you need to work on.
But when it feels like at themat times, the Clippers are kind
of hitting their head against the wall, making the same mistakes and new ones
are emerging at the same time.I'm not sure how you fix this,
but the Clippers have an opportunities nexteleven games to figure it out before it's
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too little, too late. Look, we know the guys care. We
saw early on in this ball game. I think this was late in the
first half or early third quarter KawhiLeonard get into it with the Vitza Zubos
on a miscoverage defensively or Kawhi hadto help out and get the block,
and he immediately said something to aViza Zubos. These guys want to fix
this. Yep, there's obvious frustrationout there. The problem is there's talking
about it and then there's doing it. And that is something coach lou has
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stressed over the last week. Andthat sense of urgency simply has to kick
in. With eleven games left,where the Clippers are free falling down the
standings to the point where they canfind themselves in the play in, which
would seem unfathomable if we go backjust a month ago, given they were
in a position to possibly be thefirst Clippers team ever to have a number
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one seed. That's not happening.A top three seed is really out of
reach at this point, and they'rejust trying to hold on to the four
spot where they're currently tied I believewith the Pelicans, who have the tiebreaker
over them. So this is concerning. This is def con one. We're
not gonna sugarcoat this, but wedo know the message has been there from
coach Lou, and that is what'sbeen interesting the last couple of weeks,
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last couple of months. This Clippersteam, for whatever reason, they're not
receiving it and it's not playing outon the court right now. Listen,
you talked about a pregame and itmight come down as I think we see
a lineup change next couple of gamesat some point, like because ty Lou
understands he's you're talking talking about adjustments. This is a coach who made an
adjustment to win three to one downto Golden State in the finals, something
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no other team has done. Heunderstands it. Sometimes in the season you
have to make brass decisions. Ithink the question becomes for him, Adam,
do at one point if you knowyou're locked into the four or five
matchup, or do you want toshow your hand? Do you want to
make that adjustment? Now feels likethe Clippers kind of have to because the
pressure is coming. You look atthe rest of the standings. Phoenix sits
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at eight, you play them twomore times, You play Sacramento once,
who sits back of you at six. The Clippers have to figure out a
way to turn this turn this around. The Rockets are surging right now.
They're probably not gonna catch the Clippers, but that could be a first round
matchup if the Clippers fall one morespot. At some point, the Clippers
have to make a brash decision.They have to to do something out of
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the box. And I think that'scoming right now because they got to iron
out some of these issues before Aprilfourteenth comes. Yeah, I don't think
they have the luxury being able tohold stuff back till the first round playoff
series because they may not have one. They may be in a play in
situation, which will really be worstcase scenario for a team that has looked
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tired at times. You were expectingto get that week off as the playing
games are going on before the startof the first round. But things are
too close on the standings right now. Sacramento's right behind them, Dallas is
right behind them, The Phoenix Sunsare right behind them. Every team in
the Western Conference outside the Golden StateWarriors are playing better than the Clippers over
the last ten games. Clippers arefour and six over the last ten.
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Every other team outside the Golden StateWarriors tied with them in that area also
four and six. Their last tenhas been better than the Clippers. It's
really the wrong time for a tailspinlike this, but we're hoping the wake
up call comes. That's all wecan hope for right now, because this
Clippers team looks night and day differentthan what we saw a month ago and
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certainly two months ago. Here,Carlo, Yeah, and I think I
really appreciate you pointing out the playwhere Leonard's pointing at Zubots, where Zubots
later in the game had a conversationwith George, like there's care out there.
This isn't an apathetic team that doesn'twant to figure it out. I
think for a while they were hangingon to the confidence of knowing they could
turn it on. But clearly theyfeel the pressure, they feel the heat.
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They understand that they've been a subfive hundred team the last twenty two
games. So for the Clippers,how can you turn it around? You
did it when you lost six ina row. This is worse maybe than
that six in row. I mean, you haven't lost six in a row.
But the Clippers don't look like thesame team they were the standard that
they set. Can you iron outsome of these kings? Can you?
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Can you figure out ways to dowhat ty Lou is asking for? And
how does he get that message acrossto them? Like Ty said, Adham,
they're practicing more. I mean they'recoming back from road trips, they're
having practices, they're having walked throughs, they're watching a lot of film.
Ty said, they're watching more film. Clearly that's not getting to their head.
So what out of the box wayare you gonna get the message across
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us? I am intrigued these finaleleven games because you've got to imagine,
Adam, something is going to changewith how this team is operating, right
now, No, I think you'reright. Desperate times call for desperate measures,
and coach Lou said a few lossesago after the Atlanta game that he
may have to do something different.That was over a week ago. Now
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if guys aren't responding to this formof coaching, so I'm with you.
I think we're going to see somemore drastic changes down the stretch, which
you would not expect. With elevengames left, some lineup shuffling possibly,
whether it's the starting lineup, benchrotations. I don't know at this point
as we were scrambling here to findanswers with what's going on with this Clippers
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team. We'll talk about it movingforward. We do have Clippers stock coming
up on the Patriot AM eleven fiftyeight seven seven five to two zero eleven
fifty eight seven seven five to twozero eleven fifty is the phone number.
Maybe something in their favor unexpectedly.It's counterintuitive, but maybe this team going
out for the next four on theroad can help them band together here Carlo
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and find themselves twenty two and twelveat home, twenty two and fourteen on
the road. Don't love that homerecord right now. Clippers fault tonight one
thirty three to one sixteen to theIndiana Pacers. Carlo, we'll talk to
you on Wednesday with the Clippers inPhiladelphia, taken on the seventy six Ers.
Tiptime is at four thirty. We'llhave pregame at three thirty. Save
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travels, great calts tonight as well. Thank you, Adam. Can't win
a championship now, Clippers got tengames to figure it out. Let's go.
Clippers trying to look for answers.We'll see if we have any.
Coming up here on your postgame lockerroom show on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio
Network. LA Clippers Basketball is onthe two to three Era Continues. You're
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listening to the LA Clippers on theLA eight Clippers Audio Network. Clippers lose
one thirty three to one sixteen hereat Crypto to the Indiana Pacers, after
losing here to the seventy six Ersin a similar fashion where they pulled away
early in the fourth quarter just yesterday. Welcome back into your Clippers post game
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locker room show. I'm Ada Oslin. Coming up on the Patriot AM eleven
fifty. We will have Clippers talkfor you eight seven seven five to two
zero eleven fifty eight seven seven fivetwo zero eleven fifty. Remember when the
Dodgers are on AM five to seventy, we will be on the Patriot AM
eleven fifty. Just another listless startto a fourth quarter, which is really
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where this game fell apart. Therewere some moments the end of the third
two where the Clippers had it closer, a little bit of momentum, and
they gave them some shots to PascalSiakam. But you get down sixteen at
are minus eight in the first minuteand forty six seconds of the fourth quarter,
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that's game. It can't happen.You can't allow them to double the
lead in less than two minutes tostart off the fourth. And look,
I thought there were some issues there. We'll talk about it on the Patriot
AMLM fifty with Clippers talk. ButI was surprised to see three non shooters
on the floor and no Kawhi andno Paul George to start that fourth quarter
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zoobots, Russ and PJ. Tuckerbasically through not shooters. Right now,
well, we have a moment.Let's pause ten seconds for station identification here
in Los Angeles. Clippers are yournetwork. This is LA Clippers Basketball AM
eleven fifty k EV Los Angeles andiHeartRadio station. We'll take a quick time
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out. We'll get into the boxscore. We'll get into Clippers stock as
well. Clippers lose one thirty threeto one sixteen at home to the Indiana
Pacers, and you're listening to theLos Angeles Clippers Audio Network. They want
to bring a banner with them tothe into it dull more LA Clippers basketball
on the LA Clippers Audio Network.The Clippers lose one thirty three to one
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sixteen to an Indiana Pacers team thatshot seventeen of twenty eight from three,
and it was better in that throughoutmost of the game. Actually, that's
sixty one percent. They have beenshooting thirty five percent from three their last
ten games. Tyrese Haliburton over hislast fifteen was at twenty two percent from
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the outside. He goes six ofnine from three. Clippers finding new ways
to lose. But I'd say thishas been a trend too. Teams have
been shooting much better against them overthe last month or so. Clippers are
ten and twelve since the Grammy roadtrip. When everything seems to be turning
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on its head. And this teamis finding a new rock bottom each week
in every ball game. It seemslike unless they're taken on the Portland trail
Blazers, and that good will theybuilt up there is gone. Right now.
You lose this back to back athome, you're now in the five
spot in the West. You don'thave home court in the first round.
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You're flirting with disaster of falling allthe way into the plan. Unbelievable.
Welcome back into your postgame locker roomshow. I'm out of Moslin. After
the Clippers let go of it earlyin the fourth quarter, just didn't seem
mentally tough enough to withstand being downeight, then they're down sixteen, when
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they're down by as many as twentythree, the game's over. The same
thing happened yesterday in the fourth quarterthe game they were down five in they
were down by nineteen about three minuteslater. The Clippers are just imploding at
the moment in free falling. We'lltalk about it next on the Patriot AM
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eleven fifty eight seven seven five totwo zero eleven fifty is the phone number
eight seven seven five to two zeroeleven fifty. Outside of Los Angeles,
we are leaving to you and twoWednesday, when the Clippers are in Philadelphia
taking on the seventy six ers again, second time in a week. Tip
Off at four to thirty pregame atthree point thirty outside of LA. We'll
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talk to you then in LA.It's Clippers Talk next. This has been
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were in attack mode. Adam Ousley, It's like there's rock bottom fifty feet
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a crap. Then me. Ifyou thought I was hot last night after
that Clippers loss, I'll get readyfor this episode of Clippers Talk. I'm
Adam Oslin. Welcome in to thePatriot AM eleven fifty. When the Dodgers
are on AM five to seventy.This is where we will be. Eight
seven seven five to two zero elevenfifty. Eight seven seven, five to
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two zero eleven fifty is the phonenumber after the Clippers collapse in another fourth
quarter where they just were doa completeimplosion. Seen it far too many times
over the last two months. Theyare now in the five spot in the
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West. The Pelicans had the tiebreakeron them, and the Clippers are flirting
with disaster of falling into the plan. I hope Morris is online, who
just yesterday was saying, Hey,you guys are acting like we're a playing
team or something like that. Well, you might get your wish or be
careful what you wish for. Itmay happen. That's how dire things are
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right now for the Clippers. I'mnot trying to be hyperbolic. I'm not
trying to hype this up for ratings. I love this team, I love
Clipper Nation. I want them tosucceed, and it is hard to watch
what we've been seeing over the lastcouple of months. You go from winning
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twenty six of thirty one ball gamesto now being ten and twelve in their
last twenty two post. It's aGrammy broad trip where they I guess it
peaked, went six and one.What happened? I keep asking this question.
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It's starting to lead to a lotof speculation with this team. I
see it everywhere on Twitter, Ihear it on phone calls. I've thrown
out the theory that the reason they'reso inconsistent with their effort is because for
so long they had gotten away withit. They could be down big,
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they'd come back, they'd flip aswitch, they'd turn it on. So
it developed a bad habit of beingoff for possessions, for quarters, for
games where they just don't bring itconsistently enough, not for forty eight minutes
at least. There's one theory.Some people have attached themselves to it.
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Their greatest strength, their resilient nature, more twenty point comebacks than any other
team, has now led to theirbiggest weakness because they think they can pick
and choose when they want to tryhard and adhere to coaching. I don't
know what else coach lou was supposedto do. Now I'll have a slight
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criticism. Maybe it's not a slightone, but the message is clear,
take care of the basketball, rebound, get back on defense, and stop
giving up so many open, wide, open easy layups. When it comes
to transition points, it continues tohappen. A lot of people told me
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Russ is coming back, that'll fixall this. I said, Uh,
the issues are a little bit biggerthan just one player at this point.
Love what Russ brought tonight. Noone guy's gonna save this team. It's
whack them with the amount of problemsyou're seeing out there. You fix one
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another starts, you get a stop. You can't score, you score,
you can't get a stop. Theyonly had ten turnovers tonight. I'll give
them that. They shot fifty fourpercent from the field. There was six
of twenty from the outside. Twentyis a very low number of takes from
three for them, and that's shootingthirty percent. You want to know what
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the Indiana Pacers shot. This isdisgusting. Ear must for the kids.
Seventeen of twenty eight from three.That is sixty one percent from three.
They shot better from three than fromtwo. It's near impossible to win a
game with a team that hot,I said, going into the fourth quarter,
it's somewhat impressive they're only down eight. But here's where the game got
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away. From them and has beenmaybe going back to what happened against the
Lakers up twenty one in the fourthquarter and let going or letting go of
the rope, I should say thatthat may have been the first instance of
this. But for whatever reason,the Clippers are breaking and falling apart to
start fourth quarters. They go fromdown eight more than manageable with twelve minutes
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left to down sixteen a minute fortysix into the fourth. But I will
say this, I didn't understand thatlineup. I don't understand how you start
the fourth without both Kawhi and PaulGeorge and with three non shooters on the
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floor. It was a Visa Zubatsnext to PJ. Tucker, next to
Russell Westbrook, next to James hardand Norm Powell, more non shooters than
guys who can get it to go. The floor spacing was miserable. We
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watched us turned down a three,came out a great option not his game.
For PJ. Tucker to then takea three in the near side corner
in their first possession of the fourththat would go over the backboard and basically
be a turnover, not a liveball one. But yeah, Bruss would
miss one. Then the Clippers goscoreless. They're down sixteen. Indiana doubles
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the lead in a minute forty six. I go back to the Lakers game
because that was a lineup I didn'tunderstand to start that fourth quarter. You're
up twenty one and they got blitzedand we're minus twelve in less than three
minutes in that fourth quarter. AndI just have seen this trend yesterday.
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It happened just yesterday to a teamfrom Philly without Joe lmbid. The Clippers
are in the game down five,and they end up losing the fourth quarter
by nine points. And it reallywasn't even that close. Let's see.
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Oh, they ended up losing thefourth quarter by nine points tonight and it
really wasn't even that close. Phillywent up on them as the Clippers went
three minutes scoreless. By twenty afterClippers were down by just five. What
are they doing to start fourth quarters? What's baffling is they have one of
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the best clutch time records in theleague this season. When the game is
within five in the last five minutes, they can't even get it to within
five. They're getting blown out tostart the fourth They're getting slacked within two
minutes. Yes, you can losea game that fast in today's NBA.
I remember I had Sean and Inglewoodsay like, well, just try this
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lineup a little bit. What howcould it hurt? Well? They went
big, I guess, with BeatsaZubats and PJ. Tucker, another non
shooter and Russell Westbrook and they gotambushed and the game was over. They
put in the Powell Rangers lineup,it was too late. Kawhi came in
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earlier than usual, about the nineminute mark of the fourth. Paul George
came in after the first time out. I'm not sure why he wasn't starting
the fourth quarter. I don't understandthat. So yeah, there's a blame
everywhere with this much going wrong.And as I mentioned, people are starting
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to wonder, Okay, are theytoo old? Maybe? But I see
him ramp up and play with moreenergy sometimes when they're down in a fourth
quarter, meaning what they have morein the tank later in a ball game.
I would think if they're old,as we have seen at times in
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the middle of a fourth quarter,once they're down big, ah, they
turn it on, going a twentyone to ohero run against Brooklyn. So
I don't know if I buy that. People are wondering do they care?
I don't know what everybody feels.I saw Kawhi Leonard getting into it with
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the Viza Zoobots after a play.I think it was early in the third
quarter where Kawhi had to cover forBig Zoo, blocked the shot and then
immediately had words with the Viza Zobotsfor being out of position. Apparently seems
like they care enough. They're bickeringout there. He got into it Paul
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George too. Is that holding guysaccountable enough? I don't know. Seem
like they cared earlier in the season. They just stopped now does that make
sense to you? Is there scheduletoo tough? In March? Seventeen games
in thirty one days? Did theygive everything in the Grammy road trip and
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emptied the tank? And they're justtoo old? They're just too tired,
a little bit gassed. Coach whowas admitted to some of that. But
you can't give into that fatigue mentally, you can't. And I don't know,
I've seen enough energy out there.But now there's seven and seven in
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March, three games left to go. Do they have too many bad habits?
Yeah, I think so. Theyhaven't just built up bad habits over
this season. They've built it upin the two and three era, and
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they're really coming back to bite them. Kawhi Leonard said even when they were
winning that they were relying too muchon talent and not enough on execution.
Now the talent looks tired, maybeold, and they can't fall back on
that foundation of having that great executionto carry them. Some have brought up
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are there too many agendas going on? Guys wanting minutes? Bones, PJ?
Tucker being sent home? PJ?Basically, how do I put this
airing grievances in order to get moreminutes to the media. That's what happened.
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How else can I put it?That's literally what happened. He complained
to the media early on the season. He complained after he was already sent
home and disciplined, and he's gottenback into the rotation because of it.
He's been decent here and there.But I don't know if that's great rewarding
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the guy for that, or agood example to young guys like Bones Highland
who got his opportunity. Harden wasout a couple of games, was great
against Chicago and then Harden came backand it just seemed like Bones was checked
out. I don't know why thebody language wasn't there. I know we've
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gotten to a point where we're judgingfacial expressions and the way guys carry themselves
on the court and shrugging their shoulders. But hey, you lose six of
nine, you're ten and twelve whenyou're trying to win a championship post Grammy
road trip, that's where it leadsother guys they got contracts up. Is
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that part of it human nature?It could be some guys pressing, some
guys not can't get on the samepage, can't be in sync, can't
win ball games. Let's start thingsoff tonight with Mike in la here on
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Clipperstock on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. So Mike, hey, and you
know, at a certain point yougot to say that when you have a
team that is the oldest team inthe league, possibly also the smallest team
in the league. I have saidthis before, Mike, I said this
a few months ago. You justyou can I know, you can be
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slow, you can be small.I don't know if you could have a
roster construction with both and win inthis league and they are both well they
are both and you know, itwas just a matter of time until it
caught up. Basically, I think, you know, I mean, you
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see, it's not like you know, I mean, you know, could
the players played better? And Imean Kawhi and Paul George are playing more
than they've ever played in the season, you know for us, Hey,
some speculator, maybe the little measurementbefore, if that's what was going,
maybe they need it, maybe they'replaying so much. But I don't buy
that either, because Paul George hasbeen on a heater the last three weeks.
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Kawhi has still been good. Likethey're not connecting with everybody else,
they're not playing together as a cohesiveunit, but individually they don't look that
tired to me. Paul George hasbeen playing much better over the last twelve
thirteen games now than he was forabout a month and a half, and
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they're losing. That's true. Soit is, Yeah, throw a dart.
I don't know what it is withthe team, right you know,
we're trying to figure it out.Mike. I appreciate the phone call,
my friend. Let's do again onWednesday, Let's take a quick time out,
we'll come back. We'll have Ithink Chuck Mockler is on tonight Clippers
loss, so he comes on withtheir losses because it's a really bad loss.
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And then sometimes it's will Maybe we'llhave them both on. I don't
know. Clippers lose one thirty threeto one sixteen. Strength in numbers.
You gotta stick together, I'm hoping. And this could be the optimist in
me, the glass half fool guy, which is so me. But maybe
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a road trip is the best thingfor him. Guys in the fox hole
together, I don't know. Itwasn't the Grammy trip. That's what he
got next next four on the road. More Clippers stock coming up right here
on the Patriot EM eleven fifty.Every Clipper game all season long, they
didn't stop playing hard. Listen tothe La Clippers Audio Network streaming on the
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iHeartRadio lap. The Clippers were infirst place when they got back from the
grimmery road trip. Twenty two gameslater, they're in fifth. Not a
rockstar, not so much at themoment. Clippers. They lose tonight second
nut of a back to back,one thirty three to one sixteen to the
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Indiana Pacers. They were also ona back to back, by the way,
and actually had less time to prepare. I know, their younger team.
I don't care. That's not anexcuse for this. The Clippers were
in the game down three and ahalf, down eight, hanging into the
fourth quarter, and then we're justcould put kab Louie done collapsing again,
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not rising to the occasion at all. Coming up, we'll have Chuck and
will Updyke on. Plus we'll hearfrom coach lou postgame. It's that type
of night. Need both of theseguys. But first, Javier in the
Lobra heights, Javier, what's uphere? On Clipper stoff with that amazend
what's up item? Thank you fortaking my call again. You know what,
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that line up in the fourth quarterwith Russ, Tuckber and Zubak,
that was ridiculous. You don't putthat line up in the beginning of the
fourth quarter. I mean that thatthat's just my mind boggling. I agree.
I pointed out during the ball game, I couldn't believe they were going
with three non shooters to start thefourth quarter against the team with shooters everywhere.
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That was matchup hunting and picking theClippers apart, and I mean they
just got out of score thirty twoto twenty seven, and the third you
have to get back into it.Yes, you need stops, and if
that's the logic, well more defendersin there. But you also have to
continue to score and find that balance. And I just I didn't understand that
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one. I mean, I kindof another thing to I disagree with Carlo
or Cliper announcer. They said theClippers do care. How did they care
if they allow one hundred and thirtythree points? I mean, I mean
one hundred and thirty three points anddid the same thing yesterday. Well,
the Pacers are historic with the amountof points they scored per game and shot
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sixty one percent from three tonight,so I can see how it would happen.
But I mean I would have hopedthe Clippers scored more than one sixteen
if that's the case. Yeah,I mean, at this point, honestly,
Adam, I don't think the playersare listening. I mean a couple
of things I brought up during theyear contract like you said, and I
brought it up too. Paul Georgewants an extension, Hardy wants to get
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paid. I mean it's just everythingjust a snowball. I mean it just
and I told you about Tyler louMan. He just way overrated, but
you guys like him. And lastthing is you're going to get a car
right now, Adam from Morris andLong Beach. He's in the ever Team's
fine, we're good. We're gonnaget to them one season. You just
watched. I mean, I don'tknow, I don't know why you got
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to get the guys called. Butanyway, thank you, Adam, Thank
you Adam, Miss Cleo over here, Javier and Larbra He's right. Morris
always wrong about one thing in Inglewood. Now, Morris, you're on Clippers,
stop without im ausn't ingle what hey, Adam, I'm gonna tell you
what's going on with the Clippers rightnow. It's very obviously everybody. When
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you get to the fourth quarter,Kawhi gotta be on the floor. It's
straight up. You got to goto the start the first fourth quarter,
the first four minutes of the fourthquarter. You got to play that like's
the last four minutes. Well,well, Morris, what happened? Because
he's never done that in the twoand three era, He's always played the
entire third quarter, and he comesback in around the seven minute mark of
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the fourth. Why why did itchange now because we're losing right now?
Well, but but what but whyif it worked before for so along,
why are they losing now because otherteams have favored us out? Man,
these guys are professionals. That guygot to start the fourth quarter. The
face of the team is playing defense. We're not doing that right now.
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He's got to start the fourth quarter. Look, Morris, I brought this
up yesterday, but you know thatI said, maybe that's a change you
make, But I don't think that'ssolving everything with this team at all.
Even when he got back in thePacers extended their lead. I think you
talk about the team, Let's talkabout the Let's talk about the Clippers.
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Let's talk about the clipp Let's talkabout the Clippers patients. Well, the
Clippers were playing the patients tonight andthey were up against fire straight up.
And you're right when they started thefourth quarter, when they started that,
well, with that lineup, withthe defensive lineup, you're right, And
you know you're right about this.They were looking for matchups and they took
advantage of them. They being thefaces but if the Clippers start Kawhi in
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the fourth quarter, I'm sorry,man, he got to go over forty
minutes a game now, I meanthe playoffs of all, but he started
for us. The playoffs have alreadystarted for us. He is. Everything
is gonna be alright, you betterbelieve it. But we're gonna have to
start Kawie in the fourth quarter.At them, Morris, you keep shifting
the excuses from one day to thenext for this team. I think we
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need to have a higher standard forthe Clippers. That's what I'm saying.
We're making. We make an observation. Well, I hope they're gonna be
all right, and I hope you'reright. But before it was you know
they're gonna get the number one seed, then it's hey, they're still not
in the play in, so celebratethat. Well, Morris, guess what.
They are dangerously close to being inthe play in. So where do
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you shift the argument? Now they'regonna win. I don't care what none
of these people are saying. Iknow what this team can do. I've
seen these guys doing their best.Now they're going through it right now,
you guys gonna bail ship with themto get tough. Let's finish out there,
but we're gonna talk about what's actuallyhappening and not just say everything's fine
right now. Kawhi got to startthe fourth quarter and we gotta go win
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with a defensive mindset as the samethey've been told worse. I love you,
but they've been told that for monthsthat they needed to start with more
physicality and defensive mindset, and themessage is not being received. I appreciate
the phone call. Speaking of themessage, let's hear from the messenger in
coach lou postgame after the Clippers loseone thirty three to one sixteenth. I
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think this could get spicy. Didn'thave one? Do you guys have one?
Or as a done somewhere? Whosaid? Who? You said?
Well? Now, James Hawden mentioningthat you guys didn't have an identity?
You guys have had one? Whereis it? Well? Can we start
with this? Identity is with youshut the door first? Don take you
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shut that door, please, sir? So identity? You know, for
us, it's gotta be toughness,which means physicality. Mentally, have physical
toughness. A high powered offense.We can score a lot of different ways.
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And we got to have a defensivemindset. And so right now,
do we have an identity? Ithink, yeah, we're soft. That
could be an identity if you wantto call it that. Like we got
to be tougher mentally and physically,But we do have an identity. When
we were twenty six and five,we had a great identity, you know.
So you can't pick and choose whenyou want to lead. You can't
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pick and choose when you want tohave identity. You can't pick and choose
when you want to do things theright way. And so just do the
right things every night and everything elseto fall in fall in order. And
so I guess we do have anidentity. We got to get back to
that, you know, because we'vehad it. You know. But when
you lose games, it's easy togo the other way, and we're not
going to do that. And I'mnot gonna let our team do that.
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And you know, I'm tough minded, and so I've been through everything and
so of these guys, and sothe only way we're gonna get out of
is playing hard for forty eight minutes, doing things right every single night,
every single possession, not two outof five, not two out of six,
not every time. Just do theright thing and you would be able
to get out of this rut,you know. And so, yeah,
we have an identity, but rightnow our identity has been shaken because we're
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not winning. You know, we'renot doing things the right way consistently.
And so when you don't do that, you're gonna lose. You know,
you're gonna lose games games you shouldprobably win or you think you should win,
and you're not gonna play as goodas you think you should play.
And so I thought the first quarter, I thought we were great. I
thought we really did some good thingson both sides of basketball. And then
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can we sustain it? Can wedo it for forty eight minutes and not
just one quarter or two quarters ortwo and a half quarters. Can you
sustain it every night? And that'sgonna be our mindset. James also mentioned
that this is the first time inhis career has been part of a team
that this late new season, therereally isn't an identity, is I mean
building off that is it's the firsttime you've seen this late in the season.
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A group of players have said thereis no identity to your team.
Yeah, I don't know what they'retalking about. I just answered the question
for you. But does it frustrateyou when you hear the guys say that?
They don't frustrate me. I meanit's frustrating to watch too, as
much as they talk about to play, and it's it's frustrating to watch at
times, like I said, Andwe're better than that, and we've shown
that, and so you know,we just got to We just gotta do
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our jobs one through fifteen and thecoaches, we all just got to do
our jobs. Do your job wellwe asked you to do and once you
don't do that that we can adjust. Or when you do that it doesn't
it doesn't work. We can adjust, you know. And so we definitely
have an identity. But I'm tiredof hearing that word. So just start
keep talking away with the players.I have an identity, and I know
what the identity of our team is. Coach, you know you've been talking
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about forty years. Well, thatwas strong. I liked hearing that from
Coach Lou. I believe in him. He's the right guy. He's turned
this around. If they're going toI think he's a leader to do it.
He came out straight up and said, our identity right now is soft.
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How can you argue with that?Morris A long beach. Englewood might,
but we're not gonna sugarcoat it here. That's what the Clippers are playing.
That's why they're in this position whereyou have players saying they don't have
an identity and a coach saying theydo. So guys are on the same
page and they're splintering. I reallydo think an upcoming road trip with everybody
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together could be just what they need. Doesn't mean it's for sure turning anything
around. You gotta do the work, do your job, as coach lu
said, But maybe he's coming atthe right time. I don't know.
I'm desperate for anything right now too, with this team. Ryan and Santa
Anna. Ryan, you're on ClippersTalk without a maslin as we're desperately searching
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for answers here, Ryan, what'sup? Hey, Idam, how's it
going? Yeah? This is uh. We got punched in the face and
uh yeah, it started off likefrom the very beginning of the game.
I don't know the guy, buthe was guardian James Harden. I don't
remember that guy's name, but iffrom the gate they like were pressuring us,
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pressuring us, and we responded verysoftly. And then I don't know
the first quarter they were up thirtyfour to twenty nine. I don't think
the first quarter was their problem,Okay, but to start off the game
like they Yes, we started offvery well, but we didn't. We
don't keep it up because we startedoff the game thirty four to twenty nine.
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You're right, but later on they'repressuring us. They're going full court
press on the Clippers, and ourresponse later on was just to let them
walk up the court and uh,take off time off the clock, like
there's no there's desperation from us tolike try to really get back into it.
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It was going on the whole thewhole night, honestly, and then
like the fourth quarter lineup to startoff the lineup, I don't understand what
that was like. That was areally bad lineup and it wasn't like the
only shooter that was out there wasHarden and Norman. Then it was all
like Tucker Zoo, I believe,and hey, I've been preaching preacher till
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the choir. I said that offtop tonight. I said it when it
happened honestly. Yeah, our identityright now is soft, Like I don't,
I don't. Everybody punks us,Adam, everybody's funking us. Philly
punked us, Indiana punked us,and our last home game before the Hawks
punks us too. So it's like, we gotta we gotta get a backbone
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and start like getting us together.I agree, Ryan, they're breaking right
now. Teams are breaking the Clippers, will That is what we're seeing.
They get down earlier in the fourthquarter and it looks like they're just quitting.
They're just saying, here we goagain. I don't believe that's the
case, and some of that wasjust a bad lineup, but it can't
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keep happening. We'll take a quicktime out. I appreciate the phone call,
Ryan. We'll come back. We'llhave Chuck in Will on to that
night. Yeah, you might killBill Song. Clippers lose one thirty three
to one sixteen, we'll have theentire brain trust. I don't know if
(43:35):
I could say that, but thecore three from Clips and dip on next
to try to reason through this,figure out what's going on with the Clippers.
I'm Mena Oslin. You're listening tothe Patriot AM eleven fifty. LA
Clippers basketball is on the two onethree era continues. You're listening to the
LA Clippers on the LA Clippers AudioNetwork. Clippers have lost six of nine.
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They lose one thirty three to onesixteen on the second or the back
end, I mean back to backat home this time to the Indiana Pacers
who broke them early on in thefourth quarter. Welcome back in. I'm
out of Mosland. We got themusic, So I think that means it's
basically turning into a complete episode ofclips and dip. We can only have
(44:24):
one on no, I've ah yeah, all right, it's Chuck's night.
Anyways, Chuck or as yours myfriends, if you want to complain about
the Clippers, talk about what's goingon, the fact we couldn't get Will
on too. At the same time, whatever you uh, steer this Clipper
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ship right now. God forget I'mjo I'm just tired man, right like
I think tonight, none of itever felt real, if that makes sense
when the Clippers were kind of playingwell, because when the Clippers are doing
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one thing well, they're never doingall things well right now specifically or not
even right now and the last youknow, half of the games they've played
this season, it seems so I'mjust tired. I kind of feel like
we're floating in the middle of thewater waiting for this to just be over,
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or maybe that's what I'm getting fromthe players a little bit again,
just just defensively, Like people talkedabout how last time we played the place
as we put up one fifty,Well they put up like one forty five
and didn't have most of their teamhealthy. So to think that this Clippers
team is going to be able toget to championship level defense is really hard
(45:52):
for me to believe in right now. And yeah, I hope we see
something different on Wednesday. Right wehave a chance to avenge that bad loss
for the seventy six ers, sothat would be nice, But there's a
really long way to go to getif it's even possible, anywhere close to
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a team ability and mindset wise thatlooks ready to challenge for a second round
appearance in the playoffs. Especially howI feel right now, Yeah, it's
well put. We're seeing a mixedmessage from the players and the coaching staff.
We're hearing no identity from two playersnow. First it was Paul George,
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Now it's James Harden. Coach Loudisagrees with that. I don't know.
Are we looking at some schism betweenthe players and the head coach.
I don't want to believe that,But the message continually is not being received
out there and they are not doingwhat he is asking. I don't understand
it, and they can't even agreeon if they have an identity at the
(46:58):
moment. It's just it's bizarre.Are I think the skin them? I
think is kind of what you justsaid, right. He's asking them to
do certain things and they're not doingit. We don't know why they're not
doing it. And the things he'sasking them are not seemingly out of the
questions of things you would ask verygood basketball players who want to win a
(47:21):
championship. Get back in transition,defense, stop shot watching. You know
know who the low man is.Let's play with purpose and intent like he's
not, you know, asking themto set screens for Zoo so he can
take a step back three like theseare normal things to ask for. These
are intangible to ask for a team. The only guy on Cole on the
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team who any of us probably believecan actually flip a switch because he's the
only one who's done it, isKawhi Leonard, and maybe everyone else thinks
they can flip a switch too,or something like that. But the schism
is the head coach is asking themto do things and they're not doing that,
and I don't understand why. That'swhat's frustrating. I don't understand why.
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I think a lot of us arepast the point of being mad and
more so just baffled or apathetically dumbfoundedat why these guys just can't try harder.
I don't like to not A lotof things are able to be reduced
down to one side tried harder thanthe other side. But if you watch
the Slippers team, they are nottrying. They're not giving their full effort
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team, and that is confusing.I've heard before from people say in the
regular season, you can have awinning record by the end of the year
just by playing harder each and everynight, and I feel like we saw
that with teams in the past,with some of the Doc Rivers teams,
the twenty seventeen to twenty eighteen team, the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen team,
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and the team without Kawhi the entireyear from two years ago, and Paul
George was just thirty one games.Because those teams all played really hard for
the majority of the time. Andyou could say it's too old. You
could say it's the March schedule.You could speculate whether or not they care
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or not right now. You couldsay it's too many bad habits, too
many maybe agendas, personal agendas,all the above. There is so much
wrong with what's happening with this team. I don't know where to start anymore.
It's just brutal. But I couldstart with this. They're twenty ninth
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defensively now since the Grammy road tripafter tonight. They were twenty six heading
into tonight. Tonight was so badwhen especially when the dam broke in the
fourth quarter, they dropped multiple spots. That's over twenty five percent of the
season where you are twenty ninth defensively, Chuck. They came into this year
(49:59):
saying we want to be a Timefive defense. The identity that they said
they were going to have was goingto be a tough defensive team that can
spread the floor. I none ofthat is coming to fruition right now.
Are they only better than the Pistons. Is that who's thirtieth pulled up right
here. They're also thirteenth offensively duringthat time, which really isn't good enough
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when you're twenty ninth defensively. It'sUtah. It's utah over their last twenty
one games, their thirtieth, butover the Clippers last twenty two games,
where they're ten to twelve post Gamyroad trip, they are twenty ninth.
Right above them is the Lakers.They're twenty eighth, but they're actually finding
ways to win games because their secondoffensively over that span, Like, you
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can win still being that bad defensivelyif you're really playing great on offense,
and the Clippers are just out middleof the pack with this talent. Yeah,
it's a combination of I think RobertFlamm had a tweet of something like
the Clippers I have a deadly combinationof old slow, a little small,
and not enough shooting, which rightnow we're seeing the downsides. We're seeing
(51:07):
that play out. Right. Thisteam was what twenty six and tie or
what twenty six and five had anincredible run. I don't know what that
team. I don't know how thathappened based on how things have gone since
the Grammy roach if it makes nosense that that happened, if you like
had a time machine, I don'tknow, but they have to find something.
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They tried to small ball lineup tonightand offensively it was great, but
you know, defensively it it seedsrebounds, it it seeds points. So,
Charles, what was the lineup tostart the fourth quarter? Often?
I'm pretty it wasn't it. Itwas PJ or hold On, it was.
It was uh Russ Hardened, normA Mere, PJ, whej Zoo,
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three non shooters out there, Like, how can we say they don't
have enough shooting? I mean,I'm speculated. Even back when they lost
six games in a row, Iremember bringing up specifically, I don't know
if you can win being slow andsmall, which the Clippers were. It
could be one, but I don'tknow if you could be two. I
said that way back then. Butthen in thirty one games, I mean
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we're talking actually over fifty games wherethey were the number one three point shooting
team in the league, how canwe say they don't have the shooting.
They may not have had to startthe fourth quarter, but they over half
the season they were number one andthree point shooting. I don't. I
mean, it's it's a personnel issue, right. The shooting was great because
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our four shooters were five or whateverit is. It's just not deep.
That's that's what I think Ales andthe Clippers right now too. Right,
if you have to, if youhave lineups, to even have a lineup
with three non shooters is hard inthe modern NBA. But that's you know,
that's the way the trade had to. Yeah, there's so many issues.
The open threes thing, I dobelieve is going to turn around.
(53:04):
That should turn around. That's beencrazy. Right, Well, this is
a nice tease for I don't knowif we're doing a live or YouTube or
whatever tomorrow. Tomorrow for sure.Yeah, but we'll have you guys covered
at Clippers podcast on YouTube. MyselfChuck and Will Updyke, Charles, thanks
for doing this tonight, a littledouble dip on Clippers stuff, my friend,
(53:29):
Hey, thanks for having me.Let's go clip coming up next,
we'll close things out. Big brotherJake Warners here, he's got some positivity
for us. Clippers loose and Iwon thirty three to one sixteen at Crypto
to the Indiana Pacers. And you'relistening to the Patriot Am eleven fifty.
They want to bring a banner withthem to the into it dull more LA
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Clippers Basketball on the LA Clippers AudioNetwork. The Clippers have eleven games left
in the regular season to figure thisout. Starting on the road in Philly
on Wednesday, could start with justone, one win, one moment.
Sometimes it is that simple to findyour spirit, to find your identity.
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Sorry, Coach Lou, I don'tlike saying anymore. Either your personality,
your philosophy, whatever it's going tobe, it's going to have to start
on this road trip before we getout of here. Ryan in Burbank,
you're on Clipper stock without a maasinall right, Adam, Adam, I
heard you. I heard you talk. Can you were you were laughing to
(54:37):
keep from crying. I feel likethat's every Clipper fan right now. It
is it is. It is baffling. How did this team go twenty six
and five? How was this happening? Like what? There's no way that
this team is this bad. It'sjust not possible for how well did they
played in this Are they trulling?Nots Adam, that what's happened? They're
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just they're truly this new thing.Don't worry, guys, we got I'm
so it makes no sense. Iknow. The maniacal laughter is all I
have left straight jokering it. Whoknows if I call one Jake before we
get out of here, straighten meout. It's Big Brother Jake Warner,
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the fakeful, awsome Big Brother Jakepodcast and the podcast one network. With
some optimism. Please, absolutely overthinkingis the biggest waste of human energy.
Trust yourself and make a decision andgain more experience. There's no such thing
as perfect. You cannot think yourway into perfection. Just take action.
Take action. Now's the time.Be decisive. God. There were so
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many turned down easy looks at therim for tougher looks. It was like
they were being too unselfish tonight.I appreciate Jake, Appreciate you brother always
man. Before we get out ofhere, big thanks for Big Brother Jake
Warner, Clippers Organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, no Ego, Carlo
Jimenez on the call, our producerKatie Newton back in the bank, Chuck
Mothlam for coming on until Wednesday.A three point thirty worth the pregame show
(56:06):
Clippers in Philly taking on the sixErs. I'm at a massa. We'll
talk to you that Why was doinghis thing and all they want to do
is win. In La, Iwin. I thought they gave everything they
had. I'm very proud of them. This has been Clippers Talk, the
official postgame reaction of the LA Clippers. God Bless Paul George. Are you
not? It's a change. Don'tmiss an episode all season law. Go
(56:28):
to wherever you podcast and subscribe today. Well ut the show I got you
on the iHeart Radio. You guysare great. Thank you for joining us
for another exciting broadcast of LA Clippersbasketball.
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