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You can also get to me at follow Adam A. I thought the Clippers in that first quarter, while being down four, played great, and that tells you something about this Utah Jazz team, and it tells you something about how beat up the Clippers are right now. It's not just Reggie Jackson, who it was a valiant effort from him and the Clippers, but he played twenty five minutes, had fifteen points, I thought played okay, even though he was six of sixteen, but given how he was moving out there,
he was trying to attack. He led them with nine assists. But he's had a lot on his plate recently, a lot has been asked of him, and you can tell he took himself out of that third quarter early. He just looks gassed. He's playing through I'm guessing a thigh contusion. I don't know what they're calling it, but he got in need in the thigh pretty bad. Monday night postgame, they were talking about him like he
was out of a Rocky movie, and Reggie liked that. He was like, oh, rock he always wins, right, That's how it works for the most part. Yeah, But the Clippers lose this one by twenty one, and it's just too much to overcome. Not having Paul George, still not having Nicholas with Toomb, obviously no Kawhi Leonard, and running into a team that has now won eight straight hottest team in the league, and they are averaging during those eight victories one hundred and twenty five points. That's what
they're scoring per game. They're the best offense in the league right now, and it's not that close. Utah is running on all cylinders, just like they were last year in the regular season, and there's added motivation because of the way the Clippers took them out in the second round. Last year, the Clippers beat them without Kawhi Leonard. That wasn't supposed to happen. The
series was tied at two. Going back to Utah for that Game five, Paul George, I want to say, had thirty nine played out of his mind. Marcus Morris made plays, Terrence Mann dunked on Rudy Gobert, and
they embarrassed the Jazz to lose the Clippers without Kawhi Leonard. That is part of their motivation coming into this season to respond and show that because they were the best regular season last year in the league, the number one overall seed, it was a fluke and coming into this one, you knew it was
a big game for them. It was circled on the calendar. And when Jordan Clarkson missed that three pointer in the fourth quarter and Rudy Gobert had the tip jam, there was a little more oomph to it, a little more meaning to that we're here, we're the better team, and you can say if you're a Clippers fan, Okay, great, you beat us without our three most important players. But I'm telling you that's what the Utah Jazz are
feeling like right now. I like the fact that the Clippers when they took down the Phoenix Suns the other night, Marcus Morris was asked, did this feel like a rematch of the Western Conference Finals? And he was like, no, this was just a regular season game. But I'm not so sure
it was for the Jazz because they got something to prove. And Donovan Mitchell had twenty seven but nineteen of those points in the second half, thirteen of those in the third quarter, and was able to hold the Clippers back or hold them at arms length when if they were making a run in the fourth quarter, and the Clippers had it down to seven early in the fourth and I say a Hartenstein had seven of his fifteen points a Clippers high fifteen points
for him early in that fourth quarter. I thought he was fantastic out there, even though he had a turnover. And coming into this game, my blueprint for success was going to be the Clippers had to create more turnovers and obviously have less themselves. Didn't happen. They had sixteen the Jazz ten. Even more alarming than that, off those ten turnovers, the Clippers had one made basket. It came in the fourth quarter. It was random Boston off
a beautiful pass from Reggie Jackson who threw it down with two hands. I believe that is when they cut it to seven. But to only have two points off ten turnovers, it just underscores the fact that the Clippers have struggled so much in transition all season long, and that is what has bogged down their offense to a degree, because while they been playing faster and with more pace, when they're getting turnovers, they're not taking advantage of them. I
believe they're bottom three right now in transition points. They ended up with just four fast break points. Utah had eleven and Utah had sixty two points on the paint to the Clippers just fifty. But the Clippers were down just six at the half. Utah got up early in the third quarter. They were up by as many as seventeen thanks to Donovan Mitchell. And here's a bright spot. Marcus Morris had a seven or had seven straight points for the Clippers.
Late in the third quarter, they had it to within twelve going into the fourth. But Marcus Morris' second straight twenty four point game in five out of their last seven games. Now he's gone for twenty or more. But I don't even know if it's about the box score as much as just how he's moving out there and how he looks. He's been the number one option obviously with out Paul George out there, scoring wise, it's him and Reggie
Jackson, and move looks like New York Knicks Marcus Morris. It looks like he's enjoying the extra touches out there with the basketball, like I was due for this. I wanted to get some more shots up. It's interesting because he was asked about that after their victory over the Phoenix Suns by sixteen Monday night, and that record of them being eighteen and two when he scores twenty or more now eighteen and three since he's been a Clipper when he scores twenty
or more. And he was asked that question by I think Law Murray of the Athletic and he said, well, I means I should probably get the ball a little bit more, and he was laughed at off and said, no, I'm just playing my role, doing my part. I'm paraphrasing a little bit there, but he has been phenomenal the last couple of weeks for this Clippers team after he kind of had to ramp up strengthen the knee. But he's moving as good as ever on offense, and he's been a difference
maker. But and he wasn't early in the first quarter at eleven. It was twenty four points. But Clippers played that well early on where I want to say they started five of eight from three or five of a seven from distance, and Utah was really struggling from the outside, and the Clippers still were down four after the first twelve minutes, when Marcus Moore's had an eleven
point first quarter and Luke Kennard had a ten point first quarter. In those twelve minutes, the Clippers gave up thirty five points somehow when Utah was not shooting it well from the outside. All right, Before I get back to my ran here, let's past ten seconds for station or dentification here on seventy Early Sports. This is LA Clippers Basketball A five seventy KLAC Los Angeles, ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeart Radio station didn't have to
do in the network part there. But the Clippers were that good offensively and they were still trailing. In fact, at the half, Clippers were eight of sixteen from three. They're shooting fifty percent in the Utah Jazz. I want to say they were well under fifty percent, because they started two of seven in that first quarter and things turned around in the second half, where after the Utah Jazz started off two of seven in the first twelve minutes,
the rest of the way they went thirteen of thirty from three. That's forty three percent. No one takes more three pointers in the league. No one makes more three pointers in the league. And the law of averages was eventually in their favor and not in the Clippers, because in the last two quarters they went two for fourteen from three after starting eight of sixteen in the first half, and we knew there would be some regression. It was drastic,
though, and it was consequential. And the Clippers and those bad turnovers, and they had a lot of them, a lot of miscues at the wrong time. They're sixteen turnovers turned into eighteen points for the Utah Jazz. Clippers were stepping in it a little bit getting in their own way, and you just can't give the Jazz that many more possessions through turnovers. And that's why
it was my key coming into this one. If the Clippers were going to pull off a victory like this shorthanded it against a Utah Jazz team that is searching, that is playing maybe the best basketball in the league right now, they were going to have to take care of the basketball and be sound in that area. They simply weren't. But I don't fault the effort. I
don't fault the hustle. The execution wasn't always there, and I think they ran out of talent and gas late where Tyler called off the dogs or waved the white flag late when the Clippers scored just six points in the last six minutes and they lose by twenty one in Utah. Let's start things off here with Morris and long beach. Morris, you're on Clippers stock without our Maslin, how are you are? You're doing good? Adam, Listen. Then
I'm excited about the Clippers. I'm gonna tell you. I remember when they were one in four, right he opened up the season. Why, I don't know if people can remember that they were one in four and look pretty bad, look pretty bleak. Now today they lost to the Utah Jazz and they're still in the fifth spot. There's still in the fifth spot. The Clippers are a playoff team now if they can get these boys back. And
he's talking about eight percent of the lineup. Didn't make it tonight. We're not just talking about eight percent of the lineup because in basketball, while you can say one player makes up twenty percent of the five guys out there, it's different because there's usage rating, There's how much that guy's going to be controlling the game, how much the ball is going to be in his hands, how much, how much he can affect the game because of that,
And we're talking about superstars and Paul George and Kawhi Leonard being out and then Nicholas Batoum, who's the glue guy who connects everything else. So it is so significant. More is it can't be overstated. Well you better believe it. And you know what, they're still competitive. They're a playoff team now. This is December. This is December. If these guys can stay in
this same position mid February March, they got this. I'm telling you if any other team in the NBA suffered with the Clippers are suffering, they wouldn't be in the fifth spot. They're doing a great I remember, like I said, when they were one and four, I was kind of holding my head down. But they listen, they got a good team. But when I played basketball as a kid, the guys they had the best players. They want same thing in the NBA. So when they get their players back,
these are some guys, some little tough guys you're talking about. When they get their players back, they're going to be very competitive. And like I said, the police canna be looking for folks when they realize the Clippers and stole something, because that's exactly what's gonna happen. Let everybody get healthy, get to miss February or early March, gets the rhythm and watch what happened. Because I'm impressed that they're in the fifth spot right now with all
these things has been happening to them. You got to be impressed to Adam, go ahead and there I'll talk to you, Lave. You know I am Morris and from your lips, the basketball God's years hopefully with the Clippers being able to get healthy, and yes, if they are in the fifth spot by the end of January. That would be a huge accomplishment because the rest of the way going into today, at least the Clippers they have the
second toughest schedule in the NBA, Lakers the first toughest. Then it's the Kings and Milwaukee Bucks behind them too, so they don't get much easier. Now. I got an opportunity against the Okay See Thunder coming up on Saturday, who just had one of the most devastating, gut punch type losses you can have, where DeVante Grammer the Pelicans hit a seventy footer to beat them tonight, So they're gonna be hungry, and that was after SGA just hit
a ridiculous shot. They're gonna be hungry on Saturday. You can't overlook anyone, but it always comes down to health. The Clippers have the depth, but it can't shine with this many guys out as much, especially against a team like the Utah Jazz tonight. It's just asking too much to take down a Jazz team on the road with all the motion motivation I mentioned earlier, and with the guys out for the Clippers, they lose one twenty four to
one oh three in Utah. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back. You'll hear from the head coach in Toron lou Clippers have still won five of seven, four of their last five game games and they are still in the five spot if they get the tiebreaker over the Lakers for summers. Oh yeah, they beat them. Heavy head girls out here. More Clippers stock coming up next with rain of what and five tiers. I'm coming in upstart real loud, but don't run up. We got do they run and done?
We still right dear time a hawk slam. You're listening to Los Angeles Clippers basketball. He goes all the way to the ram Us Sky scraping jams. This is the official home of your LA Clippers. Up in the baby n I could projects even I could collect shoot designed it. They went one twenty four to one o three. They're putting up one hundred and twenty five a game during this eight game winning streak of theirs. They take down the
Clippers tonight in Utah. Welcome back in the Clippers talk. I'm out a moslin eight six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number before we hear from coach Lu postgame.
Tegis in Walnut, and you know what, before I get to Tagius and Walnut, I want to say something about Eric Bledsow who had twenty one, started six for six, had thirteen points on the second quarter alone, goes four of five from the outside, eight of ten from the field overall, and that outside shooting from eb Okay, that's Elton brand. He always gotta associate that with him, just like LT. I'm sorry it's not with Danny
Thomas. But Eric Bledsoe bled the last twelve games. Now, I believe he is shooting forty five percent from three after starting off the season's Noah Eagle mentioned way down there at twelve percent speaking of the law of averages and progressing to the mean, like the Utah Jazz did what they're outside shooting tonight. But Eric Bledsoe, Yeah, he's been so much better and he's been great coming off the bench. A perfect move from head coach Toronto Lu Tagus.
Will it be a perfect call? How are you okay, Adam? Today was an encouraging loss. Just thought that defensively, I think we were kind of out of position often in the sense where it seemed like we were always chasing Donovan Mitchell and when he gets downhill that's when trouble begins. And when he got downhill, it seemed like he could pass it and bog Don was
open and he would drain threes. And I think that in the playoffs you saw last year that they weren't chasing him as much and they were entight team to shoot the three point three three point shot, and then today it seemed like they were chasing him and then he went downhill. I think when you're playing Mitchell whence, you kind of want him to shoot the three, even though he can make it. Rather live with that, that would be nice,
But he can take pretty much anyone off the dribble. It's very difficult to try to dictate how he's going to play on offense, if he's being aggressive, if he's doing what he can as the shorter d Wade. As we were talking about with Noah Eagle pregame, there's not a lot you can do to contain him. But I do think one of the things they encourage last year and what helped her in the series around against Utah because they were down oh two. That's another reason that Utah Jazz felt like they let one
get away. And I'm sure that's added motivation and fuel to the fire for them coming into this season. But the Clippers, they started to give up twos and not threes against them because they remember they started off really hot, just like Dallas did from distance right right. So I was gonna have a couple other points. One. The second thing I was curious about is he
used a challenge early on. Let's say in the second quarter and you're successful, do you have another use that challenge later on again in the fourth or are you one and done? Wanted on? You don't get to keep it even you're successful. It's something that could be changed later on. And I'm pretty sure about that. I'm no Mike Perrer or anything, but I believe that is the case right now. And these rules are they've kind of been
fluid or changing every off season, you know. Yeah, Okay, that would kind of explain why, you know, Luke Tyloo is always reluctant to use early on. Okay, remember he did the one day night on that charging call that was reversed and got free throws for Reggie Jackson. He had that sense of emergency against the Phoenix Suns to use it. It's kind of weird too, You're right, but you're still kind of penalizing in a way.
But Yeah, And the third thing I'm gonna ask you was, is it possible that I don't know if they can right now during the regular season, but somehow that they can reach an agreement with Hartenstein to keep them for a long term contract or something. I don't know. I don't know the salary cap situation. Maybe we'll have Eric Pinkas on a point to know if they could give him an extension already, because I know Clipper Nation wants him
to return. Yeah, he's been amazing. You can't say enough about Isaiah Hartenstein the way he has played. He had one of my favorite plays of this game was in the fourth quarter. He had a miss over Gobert, but he defended the outlet pass from Gobert to Clarkson and Gobert ends up throwing it out a bounce's. It was the hustle from Hartenstein to not give up even though he had just missed that ended up being a turnover for the Utah jass. He also had a block in the fourth and he had a big
throwdown and one in the fourth quarter. He had seven of his fifteen points, a Clippers high for him in this one. Clippers lose though by a final score one twenty four to one ZHO three. Let's hear from the head coach post game. Let's get some insight into what coach Lu the Mastermind thought about this twenty one point to feed unfortunately from his squad. Oh, you know, we never we thought our effort like you said. You know, the guys competed, they played hard. You know, they're a good team,
and they beat us. You know, I didn't think we necessarily beat ourselves. But the room, you know, the margin for air was very slim, and we understood that going to the game. But like I said, our guys competed, they played hard. You had a couple of comebacks and then they answered the bell with every big shot. So tip your caps and those guys they played hard. I mean, they played well. Like
I said, we competed, and we just we just didn't. We didn't do it enough tonight tide the way that Marcus and we started still hot, and then Elsie say half they'd be really cool. Were they even seeing crunch of shots, did you Like I thought Marcus was kind of you know, harder. I thought they started tilting on his post ups, started bringing the extra guy defending when he had the iceles. But you know when he s he scoring the ball the way he was, you know, they were trying
to make it tough on him. Luke. I still thought he had some good shots he just didn't make. So you know, it happens. You know, he's not gonna be you know, make every shot every game, and we understand that, but just keep taking the shots. And he did that. And like I said, those guys played well tonight. They deserve to win the uh's. Like he just had an extra year today playing in
that second Union. How do you feel like just he was able to have success giving the steps the games he shot the ball, well, they try to go under, you know, they were leaving him a couple of times. He made four threes, four out of five. And I just thought his pace was really good, you know, especially in transition, getting up the floor, you know, attacking the basket, you know, in our two point guards, you know, having seventeen assists, so that was huge
for us. And like I said, his pace has been really good for us all season. But like like I said tonight, I thought he had an extra gear. Coach, you created some separation in the third quarter, and it finished really strong. What do you pay at getting will? They got stops and he was he was able to get out in transition and get some easy ones. I thought, defence, we in that third quarter,
we wasn't We wasn't as sharp as we were. I mean, they'd had sixty some points in the first half, but I just probably wasn't as sharp in that third quarter, and we wasn't scoring and we wasn't getting stopped, so they was able to take advantage of early and then we kind of called up, you know, down the stretch of the third quarter. Downa Mitchell coming came to life there in a second half. What do you feel like committed the introducer Probably me didn't git some soon enough. He had already got
a rhythm. But I thought, you know, with their shooters, and we can just play a two on two like we did in the first half, it would be fine. But like I said, it's a great player. He took over the game and we should have you know, I should have put the bits on him a little sooner, but that's what he does,
and so he played well and brought him home. So I'm almost feel bad because I remember Saturday he had practice and I mentioned the team it's one of the great job to spend help battling, and it really hasn't been the case pretty much since that practice. Like, is that a discern for yours or how do you feel? Like? Uh, the the team is defending in terms teams have been defending. They've been defending. Well, you know, we compete. Like I said, this is the number one offensive team
in the league, and we understood that going into it. And they may play cause they run good stuff. Quinn does a good job of running good stuff. They running with pace and then they know where this spacing is gonna be and where guys are gonna be at. So you know, coming into them tonight's game, we didn't have a lot of room for air and we understood that. I thought, we've made some mistakes defensively and they they made
us pay for it. There was Coach Loup post game after the Clippers lose by twenty one in Utah to the Jazz, who are the hottest team in the league right now, and they won eighth Street. It with some style points to boot, putting up one hundred and twenty five a game during this winning streak. Clippers lose one twenty four to one zero three. Their next game is coming up two days from now. That is a huge post. That is a blessing. The Clippers actually get two days off once again.
Hopefully Paul George Nicholas Patomb can return. Righty Jackson get some rest. We'll talk about that game in OKAC and we'll get the more postgame audio next right here on Clipper Stock on AM five seventy l x four. Somebody help me tell me way to go from here, because even can try to LA Clippers Basketball continue safe time shot down the stretch. This is the official home of the Los Angeles Clippers. Roll out, road Out, roll out, rot
getting out. It's all a roll. Clippers lose one twenty four to one out of three in Utah to the Jazz. Welcome back into Clipper Stock. I'm out of Moslin. Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number we're looking for
postgame audio from the play. But we heard from coach Lew last segment, and one of the things he brought up was that CounterPunch that Noah Eagle and I were talking about in that fourth quarter by the Jazz whenever the Clippers were making hey and they had it down to eight with nine oh six left after the Brandon Boston throw down. The only two points the Clippers got off of you touch as turnovers, all ten of them. It was ninety eight ninety.
Clippers were still right there. But then Jordan Clarkson hits a two footer. Isaiah Hartenstein has a dunk and and one converts it. Clippers are within seven. But then Donovan Mitchell hits a three pointer. Clippers back down ten. Reggie Jackson at two pointer, Donovan Mitchell a two pointer I turned into
an and one, Clippers are down eleven. Mitchell was incredible of being that mister reliable when they needed him most in the second half with nineteen of his twenty seven points and helped stem the tide when the Clippers were trying to make
runs late. It was there, as coach Lew said, they competed, they played hard, did they play perfect or the right way the entire time in the second half, now, but they gave themselves a shot down seven with eight minutes left, an opportunity without Paul George, without Nicholas Batum to still possibly take one from the Jazz. But they make an eighth straight instead. Nobody's been hotter. Clippers lose one twenty four to one, ZHO three.
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jams. This is the official home of your LA Clippers. Shifted til he got it, feeling so gifted guy, you get so class five fall one three in Utah for the Jazz. Welcome back on the Clipper Stock. I'm gonna eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy or hit me up at follow Adam a Marcus Morrise. Another twenty four point performance, and he has been on one when they've needed him most, basically since he talked about it.
Had you get in better shape coming off the knee injury, strengthened the knee, and in now five of his last seven games, going back to the Lakers victory where the Clippers won one nineteen to one fifteen on December third. All right, I made it seem like I had to think that one back, But no, I got the game log in front of me, I didn't know that Marcus Morris had twenty one in that one. Twenty one against Sacktown, twenty against Boston, and then twenty four against Phoenix Monday night,
and then the twenty four outing tonight against the Utah Jazz. Had eleven of those points on the first quarter and has just been so smooth with it in the mid range. And no one should be surprised by that. But after getting off to a rough start this season where he played the first couple of games, then shut it down, then played three games where he didn't look like himself, but really, ever since that Lakers game and he gets
up for big games, Marcus Morris has looked like a different guy. The only stinker you could say he's had during this stretch is the one for nine outing against the Orlando Magic the twelve thirty start, and we've heard from the Morris brothers before they don't like those early starts. Nobody does. The Clippers
have to deal with them the most. But for these primetime games and against the Utah ja As, knowing that there's no Paul George out there and Nicholas Batoum and Reggie Jackson looks gassed, Marcus Morris stepped up again with twenty four points, and that is a really encouraging sign because coming into this season, one of my keys was Marcus Morris has to play like he did in New York, where he was the first or second option all the time next to
Julius Randall and was shooting an efficient forty four percent from three that year and getting twenty a game, and that's why the Clippers traded for him. He was there half a season and then they pulled him in. But his role has obviously been less in play next to Paul George or Kawhi Leonard or both. But he's gotten a lot of opportunities with Paul George being out five games
now and Marcus is certainly taking advantage of this. And it's good to see a guy get back in rhythm like this, and the Clippers hunt for him, look for him, and get him the basketball in his sweet spots in
the midpost. That's kind of what we've been waiting for because that's an element to his game and something outside of Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, not many other guys have on this team where you can just give it to Marcus and he'll get you a bucket or he'll at least get a good look over anybody. He can generate shots like that, and we saw it Monday night where he was hitting some really high degree of difficulty fall away jumpers, and we
saw it early on on this one too. So as long as he can stay in this groove, and it's not going to be every night, of course, but to know that Marcus Moore is at any point could go for twenty and the Clippers are eighteen and three. When he gets twenty or more, it's a big deal. His scoring is huge for this team. It's
invaluable, as is his defense. But when he's scoring like this, when he's shooting the ball well, and he's shooting forty four percent from three in December forty six percent from the field, this Clippers team can be that much tougher when Paul George gets healthy. Hopefully on Saturday, two days off Clippers in OKAC. Saturday tip time is at five pm. We'll have Clippers countdown for you at four pm. But hopefully the Clippers can get healthy. And
Marcus Moore's did say postgame they are still finding their identity. He said, we're getting there. And we've talked about the stay ready Clippers and that resilient team and that nature and it's still certainly in the DNA of this squad, but it's still thirty five percent of the way into the season and it's hard to have that fully formed well you don't have enough guys out there and that continuity, the continuity that the Utah Jazz have been blessed with so far this
season. They're winners of eighth straight. They take down the Clippers one twenty four to one oh three again. Clippers next game coming up on Saturday. Tip time from OKAC was that five. We'll have Clippers countdown in their pregame show starting at four before we get out of here. I do want to
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