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Clippers Lose 127-97 to Philly

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Clippers Talk with Adam Auslund after the loss to the Sixers 127-97

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Parents man is pure on once again, he's Clippers Talk. I got calls on Clippers Talk. Immediate reaction and analysis to today's game. That's what he's capable of, hosted by your pre and post game boys of the LA Clippers. Adam Oslay Now, Philadelphia came into Los Angeles and didn't show the Clippers any further. That we love as they win once twenty two to ninety seven

over your LA Clippers. Welcome into Clippers Stock. I'm Adam oslin to eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number coming up here on the show. You're gonna hear from coach Loupo's game. Also hear from the players after their fifth straight loss, longest losing streak of the season for the Clippers, which is seven

games remaining before the play tournament. And yes, it looks like they are locked into that eighth seed and we'll be taking on either the the Timberwolves or the Denver Nuggets in that first play in double elimination if you're the seventh or eighth seed. But you want to see the Clippers being a little bit of a better rhythm than this going into the postseason. Am I that concern?

No. We saw what happened at the end of last year against Houston and an ok S towards the end of the end of the season, and we saw what happened with the Clippers down OZ two against Dallas against the Utah Jazz. They have coach lou He makes the right adjustments. He gets things pointed back in the right direction quickly. One of those things has to be Luke Nar who has struggled the last five games. It's no coincidence the Clippers have

lost five in a row with Luke Kennar shooting like this. He's seven up twenty four from three his last five games. That's under thirty percent on the season. He's hitting forty five percent of his threes. Of players at that high of a volume from distance, he's at the very top. And we just watched him for the last ten fifteen minutes. Put him up post game,

not by himself and a ball boy. It was Isaiah Hartenstein who was graven rebound, shagging balls and making passes to Lukennard and trying to get his teammate back in rhythm. Pretty cool, I can say, I've been to I don't know, two hundred three hundred games here at Staples Center post game. Big brother Jake Warner has been to a couple of thousand. I've never

seen anything like that. I say Staples Center because I've been to more games there Crypto dot Com Arena now, But I've never seen a teammate come out here and try to get his fellow padre in rhythm like we just saw with Isaiah Hartenstein and uh Luke Nard. I've never seen that before. I've seen Landry Shammit come out and someone else on the t rating staff or an assistant coach throw the ball over to him and try to get him in rhythm from

three when he was struggling. I've never seen a teammate do it like that now. These two had a special connection early on in the preseason in training camp. It was just there from the get go. We see it throughout the year. But recently, Luke Nard, he just hasn't been putting up the volume of shots were used to seeing. In fact, he took just five in this one. Four of them were from distance, and he went one of four. That one he hit was in the fourth quarter. Clippers

were down, big down by twenty eight. It felt similar to what we saw against the Utah Jazz recently, where they were down by as many as forty one and for the most part, for the full forty eight minutes, they were out of the ball game. They were out of this one early. It was thirty five to nineteen after the first quarter and the Clippers went into those one of those offensive funks where they went three minutes and fifty seconds

without scoring. And against the Philadelphia seventy six ers team like this with some prolific scorers the possible MVP and Joe lmbiid, and they had just added a former one in James Harden, they can bury you in a hurry. And as bad as the Clippers were from distance eight of twenty five as a team, Philly was fifteen to thirty five in the last four games coming into this one, and that was the previous longest losing streak of the season four straight.

Now it's five. But during those four coming into this one, the Clippers were shooting just thirty three percent from the outside. They went from being just about a top five three point shooting team on the season to being a

bottom five team. No coincidence there either there's a connection. This team relies on the three ball, as many do now, but it's a symptom of when they're playing their best basketball, because when they're hitting threes, typically they're getting open threes, they're making the extra pass, they're getting a lot of assists that way, and they just haven't done enough of that offensively during this

five game losing streak. I'll say this, the effort was better overall than it was in Utah and weren't down forty one, and I thought it was some tough breaks that went against the Clippers tonight, but they had some really bad turnovers early on that were sloppy, careless misques that I think got the Philadelphia seventy six ers in rhythm early. And you don't need to help a

team like this, a team that's top three in the Eastern Conference. You give the ball away early, you make offense easy for them, where the Clipperers gave them two fast break dunks in the first four minutes and it's just

snowball from there. And that can happen against a team with a dynamic duo with James Harden and Joe l Embiid and I thought Tobias Harris, our old friend, played very well, taking advantage of miss matches when every other smaller man on him went right at Reggie Jackson, he ended up with and he didn't play big minutes, just twenty four, but he had twelve points. Nobody really did. Joel Embie got his twenty seven and ten in just twenty

seven minutes. James Harden played thirty four, had twenty nine, but he had twenty five at the half, fifteen of those coming in the second quarter. And once again, the Clippers could not close quarters all night long, and the first quarter to buy his Harris hit a three pointer to end it, and the second quarter, after the Clippers started to find their offense a little bit, Philadelphia closed that out well and they were up by twenty one

at a half. And then James Harden, who again had twenty five at the half, he only had two points in that third quarter and Philly somehow extended their lead to twenty two heading into the fourth. Maxie hit some big shots for them. Thy Bowl hit a three pointer. He only shoots thirty three per sent on the season. It felt like Philly just couldn't miss,

similar to what we saw in Denver. They shot fifty percent from three Tuesday night against the Clippers, but the Clippers were in that game down two with about three minutes left. Tonight, they didn't make enough noise. They had it to within ten, I want to say, at one point the third quarter, but then Philly stepped on the gas once again and they left the

Clippers in the rearview. Clippers lose one twenty two to ninety seven eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number, Jack and Santa Monica, Zack your first up tonight on Clippers Talk. How are you? Yeah, I just have a question. One two, three six Ers from ten nine. All right, a barely. The Sixers just won the championship for the first time in forty

years. Look, so the winner go the Spoils. And I've probably had some prank calls coming my way at some point after you know what, I'm not going to get into that tonight. Let's get to a Clippers call. Though. I know Tom in Hollywood. I pray Tom in Hollywood. I know you're a part of Clipper Nation, right, I promise that I am.

Yeah, I just wanted to talk actually a little bit about the sort of post deadline, post All Star break kind of vibes and mood of the team, because it feels like since we let Ledsoe go though an incredible trade and I agree with most of the move, it feels like there's not as

much of a spark and an energy in the second unit. I feel like he was really an underrated player for us, and it feels like the way in which he ignited a lot of those comeback, both on the defensive end and putting pressure on the offensive end, has been kind of missing from this squad system. Well, we love Eric Bledsoe was a Clipper twice around, but you make that move every time to bring in Norman Powell and Robert Covington.

I remember Norman Powell and played three games and then got hurt. Hopefully he's on the mend. He's out of the walking boot. He was doing some shooting at practice the other day. But they started four and oh out of the All Star break. They started off hot. Outside of this five game skid, they were playing some really good basketball. I don't know if

that's the issue. I think I just think like the big win streak that we had was essentially against just the Rockets and the Lakers, and then as soon as we started to hit better opponents is when we really started to kind of lose our rhythm. It's the other side. Some of that is fair. I'm just not sure it's a bench unit issue. I think it's an injury issue. I think it's a taxing issue on guys who aren't used to

having this level of workload with Mark Morris, with Reggie Jackson. And I appreciate the phone called time I do, but I think I think they did the right thing obviously making that move, and it's gonna pay dividends down the line when Norman Powell can come back. We saw a glimpse of what he can do. He's special. If you watched him with Portland, this guy is your third option offensively. His ability to get to the basket as a

slasher is really underrated. And he's someone who, like Kawhi Leonard, kind of started slow offensively in his career and you know him from UCLA and the Bruins failed to North Carolina to night, but he started off slow offensively and he made his impact as a defensive player with the Toronto Raptors and that defense remains. So he's another two way player for this Clippers team, which is imperative and crazy with the versatility they're gonna have in the different lineups they can

throw at teams. I've never seen a team lean into versatility like this, but it makes sense because this is where the modern NBA is going, the switchability where you have multiple guys who can guard one through five. And I'm not saying Norm Powell's gonna be guarding pigs, but he can guard one through three effectively. He's long plays, tenacious defense, pick of Destiny's style.

He is great on that end. And yeah, Eric bledsoe good clipper and I thought he did some really good things and had some unfair criticism go his way this season, so I appreciate the phone call and showing him some love. I know Justice Winslow is playing some good basketball also with the Portland Trail Blazers right now, but getting Norm Powell and Robert Covington, who continues to

impress as a Clipper. And he was missed for i want to say, five games for personal reasons, and that was a big loss when you're down this many guys already everybody becomes critical to the cause. Now, hopefully the Calvary's on the way. We'll see coming up if coach lou gives a status update on Paul George, who obviously practiced for the first time a couple of days ago since December. But also we watched him shoot around in pregame warmups.

He looked good. He looked like Paul George to me, but it's different in game reps. You can't replicate them. So we'll see if the Clippers have some help coming on the way, We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back. We'll get to that postgame audio. Clippers fall once twenty two to ninety seven. Here at home and Crypto dot Com Arena to the Philadelphia seventy six ers. R Clippers stalk next right here on five seventy

eight spot LA Clippers Basketball continue safe time shot down the stretch. This is the official home of the Los Angeles Clippers. Clippers lose one twenty two to ninety seven at Crypto dot Com Arena. Welcome back into Clipper Stock. I'm at a Maslin eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy is the phone number still to come. You're gonna hear from the head coach in Sharron Lou. We'll see if there's an update

on Paul George. But first let's get out to Colin in La Colin. You're on Clipper stock without on Moslam. What's up, Figure Adam. I just want to give a quick shout out to Tylu. Fantastic coach. The way he runs the players, the way he operates them and gets them fired up, it's absolutely uh inspiring. It's really good. It's great. If you're a leader out there, you should follow that. But more importantly, I want to talk about Kauai and Paul George. And I know they're hurt.

I know things are happening in the Clippers nation that we don't like to happen. I'm just wondering if, if what Kauai does, how how much he takes care of himself rather than taking care of the Clippers per se. I know Paul George is hurt, but that man is a thermonuclear warrior and we'll fight through any injury to make it happen for his team, you know. And I just don't see that same fire coming out of Kauai. There are you looked in his eyes? Do you say something to you? How

do you How do you judge how much fire he has? He didn't have the game phase. He didn't like it. I don't know. I just I know. I know what battling through injury is like personally, and I know that sometimes you feel eighty five percent and it called back. He's coming back from an ACL and he's your franchise player. You really want him to come back too soon, you know. I don't know. I think I think he's saving himself for the future. That's what I think. I think

he needs to buckle down. He needs to buckle down like Paul George does. Colin. I appreciate the phone call. I've seen Kawhi Leonard play with a dinged up knee throughout the playoffs in twenty nineteen on his way to winning Finals MVP once again, this time for the Toronto Raptors. I've seen him play through pain in the biggest moments. We're talking about an ACL here. It's a significant injury. If he can come back, he will. I'm

confident with that. This is someone who already took less money then he would have made this offseason. If he had waited, he was still under contract for one more year. He opted out. He wanted to secure some money. Why because he said, I want to play. If I have money secure, I don't have to worry as much if something else happens. That's what he was getting at. All right, Kawhi Leonard's a warrior two and Paul George, both of them not a warrior. Golden step here with your

Los Angeles Clippers. These guys are tough superstars and they want to get back out there. This is what they do, this is what they were born to do. Let's go to sid In La said, what's up, yo? I'm honestly Pete bro I just walked out into the game and Reggie Jackna had what one, two, three, four five? All Right, you know you get a new name on Clippers talk and you start to wonder,

said the kid. Certainly acting like one right now. Clippers fall once twenty two to ninety seven to the Philadelphia seventy six ers, and yes, their fan base runs deep. They were here against the Lakers on Wednesday. They showed up in full force tonight against your Los Angeles Clippers, who had an uncharacteristically bad off shooting night and they lose big. They were down by as many as twenty eight. We'll take a quick time out, We'll come back.

We'll hear from the head coach into Ron Lou. You're listening to Clippers stock here on the M five seventy l A sports. Y'all know me, still the same o che but A been loki by most of these cheese. No LA Clippers basketball continue, same time shot down the stretch. This is the official home of the Los Angeles Clippers. West side. Still the best side. But the Clippers fall to the Philadelphia seventy six or tonight one twenty

two to ninety seven. Oh, come back in the Clippers stock. I'm at a Moslin eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number coming up. We're still looking for player audio, but right now I want to hear from the head coach and Toehronto Lou post game after this one for like a better word is is this team just kind of running out of gas right now? He looks like it, don't there now? Yeah, it looks like it a little

bit Yeah, it's like a team missing it's three primary scores. He has been tough on us as of late, but you know, we can't feel sorry for ourselves, and you know, I just gotta keep, you know, plugging away. You know who's over match tonight. You know that's a good team over there. And take them away from those guys and you know they play well, and considering what happened in Philly, they had on their mind that they wanted to come and prove a point and so they play well.

We didn't play our best game. You know, Marcus and Reggie struggled for us a little bit tonight, which hurts us. You know, if they're not scoring a basketball, and like I said, mess about it. Here said the talk of the locker room was just keeping your spirit tie. Yeah, is it a little tough to do that with Utah, Chicago, Milwaukee coming out the tough stretch for us. You know, we've been through it before. We had seven games where it looked like it was it was

gonna be tough to win. We won four out of seven, so we still got a chance, like I said, chances to continue to play well. We got our guys some rest tonight, so we gotta be ready to bump the guys minutes up starting on Tuesday and getting ready for this last little plush. So when Marcut's not playing the second half, Nico limitted minutes, got Reggie out. Now we gotta start be able to push our guys forward

their minutes starting on Tuesday. Uh, for a lack of a better phrase, I mean, while you guys that get blown out, like, is that the positive is Marcus only played for fifteen minutes, Reggie was at twenty seven, Nico twenty two. Yeah, I mean that's you kind of just take it out as the positive, like you're still able to keep their minutes

down. You didn't get the result you want it. Yeah, but we've we've been doing it the last six seven games, just trying to keep their minutes down and knowing this this last stretch starting with Utah, that we gotta start picking them minutes up, getting ready for the playing and you know, hopefully the playoffs. So guys have gotten the arrest, you know, we got three days off going into the next game, so they can get more arrest and then you know, we got to crank it up, and so

they had it going. It was a tough game. You know, we had some chances to kind of cut the lead a couple of time, we got some some rebounds with steals, and then we turned the ball back over, didn't make the right play, and then a game just kind of got away from us. And like I said, they they played well. When a game does get away from me like this, say, a hard to kind of find those silver linings, Uh, yeah, it is. I mean, you know, it was a matchup problem for us all night,

and we understood that. But just offensively, you know, I thought we got some good shots early and we just didn't knock. We just didn't make them, you know. And so when Reggie and Marcus getting their shots and they're not they're not going down, like I said, it's hard for us to win. And that's you know, it sucks cause if it's puts a lot of pressure on those two guys to to be able to score, which they've been doing for us throughout the course of the year, and just you

know, tonight, it was a tough night for those guys. Offensively tired, Look, Luke headed right back out to the court to do some shooting with Isaiah. How was he doing? Like is he is he Is he healthy? Is he is he just like you know, it could be a little tired, you know. I think it's you know, worn down, especially the way he has to play and come up with a lot of screens, constant movement and you know him and Reggie and team man, they they

lead a team in minutes, I think. So you know, we gotta be smart for him making sure we can continue to you know, try to get his minutes down like we tried too in Utah. But he wanted to play in that second half. But we gotta be smart because you know, he's gonna need some rest to make sure he's fresh as well. So hopefully

he's three days he can can help him out. But you know, going forward, teams are trying to take him out, you know, and so he's not scoring in that second unit, it's hard for us to score the basketball. And you know, when he asked chances to take those shots he got, you know, open shots. He has to take those shots like because the way they're playing, you're not gonna get too many of them,

so just continue. Its a learning process for him having to find, you know, deal with his teams with double team and when he come off screens and they're physical putting their best defenders on the second unit on him. So this is a good learning experience for him. There was Coach Lupo's game after the Clippers lose one twenty two to ninety seven. Here from Crypto dot com

arena. This is Clippers tuck I'm out of Oslin after they fall to the Philadelphia seventy six years trailed by as many as twenty eight in this one, and coach lu said it. Philly did not forget about the Clippers coming back down twenty four on them and embarrassing them back on their home court earlier this

season. They were out to prove a point. Now, the good news is the Clippers have three days off and some of these vets who struggled, like Marcus and Reggie who combined to go five for twenty two and both of them started oh of six before they hit their first bucket. They're so crucial for this team right now, without Kauhi, without PG, without Norman Powell. When those two don't have it going, it's typically a tough night for

the Clippers to recover from that. It just is but a lot spit on their plate, and the Clippers do have three days off, so hopefully actually there is some rest for the weary. Here Clippers fall one twenty two to ninety seven. Coming back, we're looking for postgame audio from a player. I'm out of moslind and you're listening to Clipper stock here on AM five seven. LA sports all my life. I've been grinding in all my life. I'm married Teddy's guy. That's why i made My wife said that she's probably

right. LA. Clippers basketball continue safe time shot down the stretch. This is the official home of the Los Angeles Clippers. Clippers lose their fifth straight, this time to the Philadelphia seventy six ers. You're in downtown Los Angeles. They fall once twenty two to ninety seven, and then they're worth seven games left starting Tuesday night right back here against the Utah Jazz. As But you heard the schedule in our last segment. It was brought up to Coach

Lou The grind is real. They had the Utah Jazz, the Chicago Bulls, the Milwaukee Bucks, the Pelicans, the Suns, and then the Kings and the Thunder to close out the regular season. To close out the show, it's good to Jose and South Gate, though, Jose, what's up here on Clippers talk about him? You know, I had the playsure being at the game today, you could tell him out voice. Yeah, he said we shot like forty percent, but it looked like we shot fifty percent.

I don't know if it was a good loss or a bad loss. I don't know what sayings. They know that we're in the eighth spot. They're kind of playing like it. But I'd like to hear that Luke was out there because after the game games some shots up against you did look a little activity to during the game, So I like, I know if you don't know what's said, if the coach believes in his team, he believes in his team. And if believe in the team, now we should be

in a team. So you already know me, Adam flap dog Clipper, you're ge damn right. A little breaking bad quote there for you, Jose and south Gate closing things out the right way tonight. Clippers lose, unfortunately one twenty two to ninety seven to the sixers. Of their next game, tipping off Tuesday night against the Utah Jazz seven pm. Tip Noah Eagle on

the call. We'll have your pregame show starting at six. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawler, are head engineer, a superstar, big brother Jay Warner who's gone viral in a good way back in Burbank thanks to Zach o'quality and our producer Katie Newton. Until Tuesday and night starting at six with Clippers count Down, I'm atam Moslin. That's oxually that out things.

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