Clippers fall in to the Pacers on the road 129-111

your phone calls. Looking for postgame audio from coach Lou as Well. I just posted this on X I have been saying it in the postgame show here. But everybody wants to overanalyze this, or some people do, and they want to turn this into something it's not. It's just where's your heart? Where's your motivation? This team doesn't care. I didn't see a team that laid down at all. I saw a team that had four key guys in this game without Kawhi and Norm Done, dj Emir and

Bogie go two of twenty two from three. That's what I saw. That's not an effort thing. That is a talent disparity thing. That is, I don't know, you're not as good without your best player in Kawhi. A lot of people pre game tried to tell me they're better, there's more flow to the offense without Kawhi. It's like, well, yeah, he's there's more flow to missing odds, there's more passes that lead to missing shots. Without Kawhi. You realize he's one of the best ISO players in NBA history, So yeah,

there's going to be some of that. He led the league in points per possession in isolation last season. How many people came in here and told me pregame that, oh, it's a good thing Kawhi isn't playing in this game. That was shocking to me. What wasn't was the result. Or you have James harden I eatsa Zubats and not much else, not enough help somebody else had to have an out of body experiences. Brian Semu would say, for them to take down a Pacers team that has now

won sixteen of their last twenty one games. They're one of the best home teams in the league. They just beat Memphis at home. They can run you out of the gym. They can play a multitude of different ways on the offensive end. And people are talking about there's a lack of effort out there is coach lou motivating them. I just don't know what you're watching. That team didn't quit. They got it down to thirteen or fifteen points in the fourth quarter. They kept playing. They tried how many

different lineups. Early in the third quarter, they tried to go small, then they went back to Aviatza Zubats. They tried to go small again around the eight minute mark of the fourth. They tried everything. Guys couldn't hit shots, and you're not gonna get as many open shots, even though they got some. But you're not gonna get nearly as many open shots without Kawhi, without Norm Powell and

the gravity of those guys. That's how it works. So for everybody complaining about Kawhi, Leonard in the offense lately when they have an offense seprating coming into this game of one p seventeen when he's on the floor and like one oh nine when he's off the floor, they're infinitely better there. They're better defensively with him on the floor too. All the numbers say it like, I'm sorry,

your eye test isn't very good. Maybe get you know, some wind decks on the goggles whatever you're using to measure how good a team is offensively with Kawhi versus without Kauhi. I'm glad we have the numbers and the team actually goes off of stuff like that and not just well, Kawhi tries to ISO too much, like, yeah,

he's one of the best ever. And for as much as he has struggled so far in his sixteen games back, for how inefficient he's been according to some, he still is shooting forty six percent from the field and thirty eight percent from three while having the minutes increase. Going into ISO mode to act like this team is better without Kawhi is nuts. And I've been hearing too much of that lately, including pregame by some of you that

are in the chat. Now. It's wild to me, you see a game like this where you know, I think the Clippers win this ballgame with Kawhi or Norm or both. They could have won still if guys just didn't have as Brian Seaman would say, if they just weren't miserable from three and just bad from three, they might have won the game. Two of twenty two from a mer done DJ and Bogee, I'm worried about a game like

this from Bogdanovic. I hope you got it out of his system because I've been saying he's going to turn things around with his shooting from three as a Clipper, and then in a game where they really needed him to get it going, he's one of eight from three. I said, I would have started him. I understand the

move of not doing that. They started James Harden, Chris Dunn, A Mere Coffee, Derek Jones Junior, and Avitza zubots I asked Law about it pregame, I said, is it crazy to want to start Bogie in this game to add some firepower when there's so much missing right now without Norm, without Kawhi to the starting lineup, he said, And this is a fair thought process to have from the coaching staff. You want to try to have more continuity with bench lineups and keep Bogey next to Ben Simmons. They had

played well together. I suppose they at least had played a lot of minutes together. I don't know if the plus minus have been very good so far, but I get it. You're trying to bring consistency to lineups and rotations. But I'm starting Bogdanovich in a game without Norm, in a game without Kawhi in the starting lineup. Is that

why they lost the game? No, because maybe he shoots the same or maybe he feels like he has more confidence and more of a green light because he's needed, and that's why he's been inserted into the starting lineup. He went four to thirteen overall, one of eight from three eleven points. I just didn't see a path to really win this game without Bogie getting it going. And from my perspective, I put him in the starting lineup. I'd put him in over a mirror DJ probably a mirror.

So yeah, I don't always agree with coach Lou. That's okay, he's getting paid the big bucks for a reason. I have a complete casual compared to him. I just that's what I would have gone with. Is that why they lost the game? I don't know, Bogie. He had plenty of opportunities and he didn't shoot it well. Then you can make the argument, well, there's less pressure on him coming off the bench, so that could help him. Actually,

there's different ways to look at it. But they did lose the game because they couldn't shoot the ball well, and in a situation like this, they had to have somebody else shoot it well from the outside and they couldn't get it. It's James Harden getting you thirty one points on seventeen shots. He has an uber efficient night, six of thirteen from three eleven assists. It's if he'sa Zubats having twenty two only six boards. But I think a lot of that is because he was guarding the

pacers on the perimeter a lot. He got caught in cross matchups. Haliburton caught him a couple of times where he had to defend him from three and they were well defending threes, and it didn't matter. When Hallie went on that run. What was that near the end of the third quarter he had eleven straight points. He put him up ninety to sixty nine. He got a friendly bounce, he got into it with the Clippers. It seemed to fire him up more. He was talking some trash after

a layup. I thought that the Clippers tried a lot of different combinations. I commend coach lou On that they tried just about everything. And guys were just ice cold. Guys that aren't this bad from three, not close to it done and DJ going oh of ten from three is just brutal in a game like this. So the Clippers didn't get well. They got an outlier shooting performance I would say, not in a positive way, though not somebody catching fire who was playing above their heads, a role

player that has a big night, which is what they needed. Instead, it went the other way, role players who stepped down instead of stepping up. And I'm not saying the effort wasn't there. It was guys were playing hard, they just missing shots. They couldn't find it. It's frustrating, I get it. It's also completely understandable that you'd lose a game like this in Indiana was shooting like that without Kawhi Norm Powell,

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at least one of those guys is available tomorrow. And hopefully James Harden, who was playing late into that game and hit a three pointer, was crept under by Nie Smith and rolled his right ankle and grabbed at it for a second. Hopefully he's okay and can still go tomorrow. He played thirty five minutes. We'll get to your phone calls when we come back. Eight six, six nine, eight

seven two five seventy. I'm Oudam Mosland and you're listening to Clipper stock on here on a M five to seventy e Sports.

possession there. It's not great, and I Viza Zubos went from looking to be gaining a real rhythm there and looking to be unstoppable. He had eight points in the second and just made a hook shot over three guys and just went through Thomas Bryant for another one, and they go away from him six straight possessions. That is brill Yeah.

like they weren't that good. You know, the Lakers were not that good. It's just it's it's alarming the big losses I guess they had against what I consider I think pretty mediocre teams.

up by twenty two against Indiana. And that has been a disturbing trend where seven times already this season with twenty six games left, the Clippers have let go of the rope a little bit, or they've letting go of a lead where they have been up seven times this season by ten plus points and they have lost those games. And last season they only had that occur seven times. So they got twenty six games left to go, and you can say that, yeah, they've lost a lot of

games they should have won. I think that's fair to say. There's something else that is interesting. To put it kindly, that is a little bit worrisome. The Clippers have been down double digits in every game in February, including this one. Obviously, that cannot continue. I appreciate the phone call, though, jose Let's go to Kyle in Brooklyn. Kyle, what's up? You're on Clipper shot with out of.

interested in this. Like I said, we're post trade deadline. We're figuring things out. Like I'm finding littler things to focus on. So I've been focusing on Simmons, who's been very interesting to me. He's been so good, and this was the first night where I was like, Okay, I'm seeing some of his head get into it. And it's interesting watching a player who is so fluid and natural.

When you watch him play and then all of a sudden he's passing the ball literally a foot and a half to a player right next to him at the three point line, or he's passing up he becomes differential.

had a play where they're playing off of him. He's top side above the three point arc, and instead of being baited into taking that shot or just passing it right, then he goes from zero to one hundred straight down the lane and through a beautiful pass to a Visa Zoo Bots for an easy one. Like he created. That's a ridiculously easy opportunity for Big Zoo out of nothing. That was great to see. That's what it has to be if those two are going to be on the floor together.

like that. There was another time at the top of a three point on the left side where he deferred to Bowman who was a foot and a half two feet away from him. That doesn't help anything. It's like make a move, you know what I'm saying, Like there's there were a few moments where he felt uncomfortable. I hope we have the staff that's going to get to the eighty percent ninety percent of him I'm seeing over the last three games. It's like that is a hell of an athlete and a great basketball player.

some point this season. Clippers have five more back to backs after tomorrow's game, but law Murray was told that the door is open to Ben Simmons eventually playing back to backs. I'm Adam Moslin, welcome back. In Clippers lose one twenty nine to one to eleven in Indiana to the Pacers. Ryan and Burbank. Ryan, Yeah, about thirty seconds here. I'm sorry, my friend, but we got a ton of time.

I think that's the biggest thing moving forward. When that offensive lineup of Kawhi, Harden, Zoo Pale and Derek Jones Junior has been playing one of the best ratings in the NBA.

of changes everything. I don't know what some people were thinking talking about, oh, they'll be better without Kawhi, or my eye test says, you know, the flow's just much better offensively without them. Cool, They're not scoring more points per one hundred possessions without Kawhi. That's what batters at the end. Demetrius in Manhattan Beach, what's up, You're on Clipper sock Man.

station to waste your time in the listener's time. I mean, you got to have the eye test and know that you're talking about one of the greatest elite players this league has ever seen, and you want to have him for the playoff. Like me and you, Adam and certain people, we're not worried about Kawhi. We need him healthy. We know what he's going to bring during the playoffs. We need the rest of the board and in jubox. We know what he's going to bring. We know what power

is going to bring. So we need a total effort. We need a total effort. We got enough. Like you said, our starting five is to me, I love our starting five. I'll put our starting five up against anyone in the league. I think the rotation coming off coming off the bench with Simmons. I think actually made him. Man, he's looking pretty good. I mean, I mean, what can you expect.

I mean, the guy is he's feeling a little bit more happier now and he's playing the way he plays, and so you know, that's just where we're at now. But look, we got Jeff ben Gandhi, we got ty Lu. I mean, we got everything we need at him here. I don't want to hear the excuses from.

good health. Unfortunately, the injury gods have not been on their side over the last five six years, maybe since their existence with this franchise, but specifically with Kawhi Leonard and today more specifically with Kawhi and Norm Powell out against Indiana Clippers once twenty nine to one eleven. We'll come back, we'll close things out next. I'm outa Moslins and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network and AM five seven LA.

a team getting into their offense much more quickly. So I might have him on if he's wanting to come on again pregame tomorrow, we might have to talk about that. He had an interesting point here about James Harden. The stat for you. This was the first time James Harden lost a game in which he scored thirty plus points since October twenty twenty two with the seventy six ers, and he also asked James Harden postgame about how practices

have gone. James Harden said, Uh, practices have gone well, but the Clippers missing Kawhi Norman Powell quote makes it that much more difficult to win a game. What else do you need to know about this one? Hopefully they're back tomorrow, but sometimes it's not that difficult to explain

how a game like this happens. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, noa ego, Carlo Jimenez on the call people with Jake Warner, a producer here back in the bank, Daniel West, Thank you Daniel, the callers, the listeners, the chatters, appreciate all you guys. We'll do it again tomorrow starting at three Clippers in Detroit. Take it on the Pistons. I'm out a maazam. We'll talk to you this.