The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame reaction has just begot Kawhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range. This is Clippers locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead on your hope for LA Clippers basketball. And now your host, you, sir, are a bad man, Adam Ousley. Clippers lose a heartbreaker late in Milwaukee. They fall one oh six to one oh five to fifty four points from Janasadna Kompo in the Milwaukee Bucks. Welcome in your post game show coming
up, we'll get a second half highlights. We'll get to your postgame box score. You'll hear from the head coach in Toronto lou and the players. But first back out to Milwaukee and back to your voice of the Clippers in Noah Eagle. So no, yeah, the Clippers don't score the last three fifty one of the ball game. Kawai and Paul George go over eight down the stretch, and after leading by twenty one in that third quarter, they
just kind of unraveled in that fourth. Yeah. No, this game to me was lost in the third quarter though, Adam, and you heard me say it when it happened. You cannot close that quarter like that. You had all the momentum in your favor, you had a twenty one point lead. You have to keep the foot on the gas. And this is the problem and has been the problem with his team now for the last couple of
years. They struggled to close quarters on a high note. Whether they're from coming from behind, trying to get back, or the other way around, it just always seems like it unravels for them. They almost just lose that concentration for a split second, and when you look up and blink, you say, what happened here? And I just think that, you know, Kawhi Leonard had been playing so well, this was a tough night form. He played forty minutes. He went seven of twenty six. However, Norman
Powell was there to pick up the slack. He went nine of sixteen off the bench thirty one minutes, twenty six points. Paul George had sixteen. Marcus Morris played very well in his return with sixteen zubots with another double double. The pieces were all there for them to win this game, but the third quarter to me feels like where this one was lost. And I think that's the lesson. And again, we had seen progress from this team.
And look, this is a really good Milwaukee team that's second in the Eastern Conference there right on the heels of the Boston Celtic because they've now won six in a row thirty five and seventeen overalls. So it's not necessarily a bad thing. You lost to this team. That's not you know, you can lose to a really good team. That happens, it's how it happened. It's the deja vu feeling. It's not learning from those mistakes throughout the year.
It's all the little things that added up for the Clippers. And then, you know, I think that the lack of size really showed, especially when Zoobots fouled out. I mean, Jannis had twenty of the twenty eight points from Milwaukee in the fourth quarter at fifty four nineteen. I mean, what are you supposed to do with that if you don't have the size to
counteract it. He was unbelievable, and it just compounds things. When you're not hitting shots, you can't set your defense and Jannie is just diving down the lane and causing havoc. It's crazy, exactly, and that the recipe for success with this Milwaukee team is especially live ball. They want to get
out on live ball. They might not be necessarily super high and fast break points in the NBA there twentieth, but when they can get on the ball, at least without you fully set it just it completely changes the complexion of the energy that they can play with. It changes what you can do defensively and everything in between. And the Honest took full advantage when the Clippers went
cold offensively. That's when he really changed this game, in my opinion, and so starting the third quarter late, and then he finished it most certainly in the fourth be Honest with fifty four and the Clippers lose by one in Milwaukee to the Bucks. Final score one oh six to one oh five in favor of the Bucks. Clippers. Next ball game coming up on Saturday in New York against the Knicks. Tip time for that one is at four pm.
We'll have Clippers countdown for you starting at three no eagle. My friend, great call. As always, safe travels. We will talk to you on Saturday, Adam. I appreciate you. Back home. Can we can we get ditty in the building. I'm coming home, can't wait all right, Clippers lose by one in Milwaukee. We'll break it down with second half highlights from Noah Eagle next right here on the Los Angeles Clippers radio Shade Baby kind of Oh weak? Did week did to kick Dick? I'm not shot
the wax. Clippers lose by one in Milwaukee and loses twenty one point lead to Jannasdenakopo and the Bucks as the Greek Freak finished with fifty four and would finish off the Clippers doing all the scoring late for the Milwaukee Bucks. Tough one Clipper Nation, I get it coming up. We will have Clippers stock on AM five seventy LA Sports eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six to nine eight seven two five seventy Before we get second half
highlights. You know what, let's pause ten seconds for station identification here in Los Angeles Clippers Radio network. This is LA Clippers Basketball AM five seventy KLAC Los Angeles, ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeart Radio station. Clippers had a fifteen point lead in the first quarter, but by the half they were just up by seven. In the third, though, in his return. Marcus Morris had himself a game all right wing. Three is
right down the middle. It's Marcus Morris with his second three of the night and the Clippers go back up by double digits just thirty seconds into the second. It's fifty nine forty nine. Leaves it more so on the left, double pump, big one dribble pull up floaterer. It's good Marcus Morris.
Sandwich between the fenders has fourteen. Here's Yannis driving, made a long stride to the remedy somehow just guides it in over Zubox, George shut corner nearside one dribble pull up short, missed it rebound, Oh, sup Box forces it in verfl a fits and soup Box corraled the board and then he went
up hide. I'll slam at home for more. It's against Connet, facing up with the right hand, drives down the left alley, spins to his right, fades from eight and he's got another Marcus Morris cup boom six teen points. He's got nine in this third quarter, and it's seventy nine to sixty three. La Marcus Morris and a Vita Zubats doing work in that third quarter. Marcus had nine points. Clippers led by as many as twenty one was seven minutes left in the third, but entering the fourth they were up
by just one. Norman Powell though, and gave him a burst off the bench to start things off in the period. A paw down the right alley, squeezing up in in off the window. Norman Powell at eighteen a bee line to the bucket for two, and the Clippers lead eighty nine eighty Lobbott nearside corner, Powell driving middle, get to the basket. Corkscrows today and with the right Norman Powell at twenty ninety one eighty two LA ten to fifteen to go of the fourth, up ahead, it goes to the left wing.
Jackson pounce pass Powell left wing. Three is up head good. Norman Powell nails another. He's got twenty three ninety four eighty seven. Here's the problem. The Clippers led by six. After our Kawhi Leonard jumper from thirteen feet out with three fifty two left in the fourth quarter, it was one oh five ninety nine Clippers. They would end the game with just one hundred and five points. They went scoreless for almost four minutes to end it.
Meanwhile, Jannie Dennikopo took over, hit some clutch free throws late, and Milwaukee Bucks would win one oh six to one oh five, coming back down fifteen, coming back down twenty one on the Clippers, and coming through with a victory at home. Coming up next, we'll preview Saturday's game in New York against the Knicks. Clippers lose one oh six to one oh five to the Milwaukee Bucks, and you're listening to Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network, Sweet
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Clippers Talk. Here's Adam Oslin. Nothing runs like a deer or buck and Jannas Denni Coupo ran his points total up to fifty four and Milwaukee came back down twenty one. Was seven minutes left in the third quarter to win one oh six to one oh five over your Los Angeles Clippers. Welcome into Clipper Stock. I'm Atam Oslin. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Lines
are lighting up. Must be a good subject. Clippers must have lost a heartbreaker. Hold on if I told you to do so, we'll get to you. Plus Chuck Mockler will come on from Clips and Dip. We're looking for postgame audio from coach Lou and the players after this one. We're efforting that audio. But this one stings like a jellyfish, and I'm not going to recommend how to get rid of that sting. And that was the thing from friends. It doesn't make sense, the urination thing. It's past ten
o'clock. I can say it here, but for a Clippers team, and I brought it up in a tweet. Maybe I shouldn't have, but I brought it up on the air as well. They couldn't let what happened in Philly happen again. They led that game by twenty against the quality ball club, one of the top teams in the East, with Joel Embeat on the floor and James Harden, and they let it get away from them back in
December, I think it was. And they led this one by fifteen in the first quarter, and they led by twenty one in the third, and they don't score in the last three minutes and fifty one seconds, and during
that time, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George went oh for eight. I'm having some day ja vou, not just with that Philly game and the Clippers giving up a big, big comeback after playing some of their best basketball this season, but also from the twenty twenty one season where midway through the Clippers weren't closing out ball games, and one of the those games was against Milwaukee, one was against Brooklyn then when they had James Harden, Kyrie and Kevin Durant
and there were these issues that arose latent games in the last five minutes of all games where they couldn't put teams away. Now, if you're looking for a silver lining, they cleaned it up and they were one of the best teams Layton games in the playoffs when they needed big shots. Tonight, though, it wasn't happening, and there were shots that missed everything from Kawai and Paul George late. So I understand a little PTSD right now from Clipper Nation.
It's a brutal way to lose, because I thought we were going to see progress from a team that learned from that mistake on the road during the six game losing streak against Philadelphia, which really set them down on that path because that was I believe game one all of that road trip, and I thought they were developing better habits. They closed out against Atlanta when they made a run, they closed out against Chicago when they did as well. But
Milwaukee's thirty five and seventeen. Now they're a different breed. They have championship pedigree. They have something the Clippers don't, which is just that experience in an NBA Finals game where there were some close contests back and forth. Remember they were down two Oho in that series to the Phoenix Suns. They had to step up and they had that experience there that they have pulled in and
are still I think calling upon when they need it most. And by experience, some of it is just Jannasadena Kompo being otherworldly and one of the greatest basketball players in the history of the game, who I believe scored there's one three point play, there's a bucket seven. He scored the last seven points of the ball. Well, the Clippers Stars were missing everything. Jannis went on his own seven oh run to end things. The Clippers were up by
six with three fifty two left. After Kawhi made a really tough push shot. It was one oh five ninety nine. They would not score again almost four minutes or they just go over and they had some decent looks, couldn't get him to go. Paul George missed everything on a three pointer, and you could say, Okay, the Clippers Stars played this bad and they still had a chance to win. That's one way to look at it, because
Kawai and Paul George just went thirteen oh forty two from the field. That's thirty one percent combined, and somehow they had a twenty point lead in this one, twenty one. Norman Powell great again, twenty six off the bench, had a fifteen point second quarter, but I don't believe he got a shot off late. It was pretty much all Kawai and Paul George, who
never had a consistent rhythm. They had their moments, their spurts here and there, but Kawai started three of nine and Paul George had eight points of the half, finished with just sixteen, took just sixteen shots. Kawhi at least put up twenty six but made just seven of them, made one three pointer, and you can make the argument they lost the game by not closing
out quarters. First, they're up by fifteen with a few minutes left in the first quarter, and Milwaukee goes on a six zo run and it's a nine point game heading into the second at twenty four to fifteen, and the Clippers end up going I want to say, five minutes while scoring just four points from the end of the first into the second, and then their offense erupted. Why because Norn Palcott fire. They scored twenty eight points in the
last seven minutes of that second quarter. They had a six point lead I believe it was at the half, and they came out focused, just like they did in the first quarter early on with the nine three lead. I believe it was. But to start things off in that third quarter, guys were hitting shots. They got Paul George involved, Kawhi Leonard and then Marcus Moose who had a really good ball game. He had nine of his sixteen
in the third. They got a beats, the Zoo Bots involved, and just magically, it seems like their defense gets better when Big Zoo is actually getting touches on offense and going to work and going at Yannis some and I thought he played great, fouled out, had some tough calls against him. Well, you don't score on one end, you don't get to set your defense as well on the other. It allows Milwaukee to get into transition and
that's where Yannis flourishes. He's too good at slicing through the lane when he gets an open run at it. And that's what we saw a lot in the fourth quarter because the Clippers weren't hitting shots, and I thought Big Zoo did all he could and Yannis still at fifty four see once had six offensive rebounds. The Clippers were so good in so many areas, but they're two superstars. Kind of let them down, Not kind of they did, gotta
be honest about it. They combined to shoot thirty percent oh for eight at the end of the game. They just needed to hit one shot. They couldn't get one. They didn't get to the free throw line either, walkis and the bonus. It was an unraveling and a collapse by the Clippers being up twenty one seven minutes left in the third quarter. You have to find
a win away to win that ball game. But just like the first quarter, they had about a fifteen point lead with minutes remaining to end the third and they end up just leading by nine heading into the fourth, just like they were only leading by nine heading into the second. So that's what I mean by deja vu. And they had a foul at the very end of the third quarter. It was tickie tack. It was on Nicholas Batoum and Wesley Matthews went one of two from the free throw line. But instead of
being up double digits, they're only up nine. This one is gonna be tough. The team just has to bounce back. Obviously, with twenty seven games left, they can't dwell on it. They got a day off, They're gonna be in New York. They're taking on a good Knicks team is playing much better basketball, and they were earlier in the season. They beaten good teams lately. But Kawhi was just seventeen, Paul George with just sixteen, and the Clippers let go one once again after we thought they had turned
a corner in this area. Look, they only turned the ball over seven times, but a couple of them came at the wrong time. It's just in opportune times. They had two turnovers early in the fourth Paul George was one of them, and then Reggie was just an inexplicable turnover where he turned his back to his defender, wasn't looking at him, and eventually it went out of bounce last touched by him. It was. It was a head scratcher. It was tough to watch. I get it, Clipper Nation,
I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of frustration. Let's start with Rick in Los Angeles. Rick, lead things off. You were the first one to call in after the Clippers lose by one in a game where they had a twenty one point lead. Well, the good news is. I guess I'm not waiting that long. I'm not as frustrated as a sixtus. I was what I first called it, but Sima down now. Yeah, well so it's not you know, when you watch these guys, it's not that complicated.
What happens at the end of the third quarters and dress all throughout the fourth quarter and in other games where they though the lead, they stop moving. They just stop moving. They start playing one on one ball, they start playing hero ball. I think Tyler is one of the best coaches in the NBA. He made no adjustments. He just let him do it. Well, let me push, let me push back a little bit, and I'll let you go. Yeah, you can talk some more. But this
stuff does happen all the time with every team. Late in games, most teams with superstars are playing through them. There's not a lot of ball movement. The difference was the Clippers just went unbelievably cold, with both their guys going oh for eight down the stretch when they just needed to make one shot. They hit those shots that they were hitting earlier. And we're not talking about this. It's some of this offense is standard typical. You play through
your stars late. You live and die with them. I'm not saying I like it all the time, and there could be more ball movement, but most teams do it. I mean, Jannis scored all their points, their last seven points for Milwaukee. Yeah, it happens. It's not just the Clippers. I'll just say that. But keep going. Yeah, so it's
not just the last possessions. You don't get to the last possessions if you start, if you're if you're continuing to pass the ball the whole game, I mean, you look at I'll always use Golden State as a great example. They played through everybody. They're always passing the ball. There's not just one guy that they look towards. So the Clippers stopped passing the balls off the first time they've done it. Everybody stands around. They watch Paul George,
they watch Kawhi Leonard. I know what it is to be on and to be off, and shooters know when they're on and they're off. Kawhi was off. He wasn't missing just long and short. He was missing left, he was missing right. He was missing long in English missing He just hit a shot with four minutes left. Rick, he just hit a shot with four minutes left. No no, no, Rick, no, no, no. I get a pushback. He acknowledge it, and then we
continue on. He just hit a huge shot. Rick respond to that, Yes he did so, he so he hit a shot, so he should go you know what, but I was cold earlier. So now I'm gonna stop shooting, even though I just hit one. Now I'm gonna stop. No no, no, no, no no. What's the logic that he hit one shot? One shot inside the lane? But but he's but the offense stood around and part played one on one ball and even at the end of the game on that last play, he didn't look for any of his
teammates. He the play was called for him. He's missing left and he's missing right. The play was called for him, Rick, Yes, it was called for Why he's the superstar in the team. He's gonna take the final shot. This is not abnormal. You merring up the Golden State Warriors. There are times they do the exact same thing with Steph Curry. They got a lot of guys to go through and I remember historically what was what was a great play with Michael Jordan. They us Scotty Pippen as a decoy.
So, I mean, you just if your guy's not shooting Will, he's not shooting Will. But I don't want to go just to the one possession. They stop passing the ball. They do this a lot. The Clippers do this a lot. They all stand around and it gets everybody else cold. You're not in transition. You're doing that. He's what you say. Happened. You start missing shots. Now the other team is just scoring. They have a set defense. We're not that great. I get set
defenses. We're great moving the ball. When we're just standing around one on one, we're just not good. And you would think by now we would know that. It's not. It's not complicated. You watch it. I heard all your comments. There's your I mean, I know you're pushing dot com because it makes interesting radio, but I know you agree with almost everything I'm saying. No, neither do I agree with that part either. Rick. I'm sorry, my friend. I'm not just pushing back to make interesting
radio. Rick. If I pull tape from the fourth quarter, guys aren't just standing around. There is still some movement out there, whether or not they executed well enough. Sometimes it's just to make or misleague. Do I agree with some of it. Yeah, they need to be better. Obviously, they have to execute down the stretch. But Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, those are superstars. They simply have to make shots and be better like
that. A lot of that is just on them, the thoughts. But something shouldn't be lifted to play one on one ball, move the ball around. There are two of the greatest is players that ever lived, and that's what happens typically late in games all the time. Okay, Rick, I appreciate the phone call. I can't keep going around in circles here like I agree to an extent, But it's also just great players have to make high degree of difficult shots all the time. This is what the league comes down
to. Latent games. Hero Ball happens every single game that comes down to a shot here or there in close ball games. It's not abnormal. It's not just the Clippers. And if one of those shots go we're having a completely different conversation. I agree to it with you to some point, to some degree, sure, and I think if the Clippers are looking for a more traditional point guard, if the right deal is there, they got to consider it just to get those two guys to their spots more easily. That
makes sense to me. All right, one more call before we break here. That was long first segment. Letty an Inglewood, Letty, what's up they Adam? Look, man, Rick made some good points. And I'm just gonna say this, dude, as this team is constructed, this is not a championship team, Lenny. You go back and forth every week depending on if they win or lose. Every week you do. I've spent from the beginning that they had to give that Reggie is not a championship guard.
They need a guard. They need a guard. They need a guard. That offense at the end was coathetic. Man, they didn't score. I mean every time that the national media comes around and saying these guys are good, they just put on a performance. Like, Adam, we've only beaten one contending team, and that was Boston before they had Robert Williams. We've lost everybody else. We've been destroyed by Denver Clippers, Philly, Philly whooped
our tail. I mean, no, no, no. The Clippers were also up by twenty on Philadelphia in Philly, like they were up by twenty one on Milwaukee in this game. So to say, like they're just not on their level when they're up by twenty plus. I don't think that is the truth, Adam. Let me say this world today, on your on your on your radio station five seven, they had a drop that was that was as clear and as one of the funniest and most revealiing valve I've ever
heard. It was a coach saying, only losers talk about we were up at halftime. Yeah, it's Mick Cronin. Guess what, they were up by twenty one in the third quarter. Nobody cares about that, Adam. No, no, no, no, you care because they have to win that game if you're up by twenty one, Lenny. But Adam, we are losing. We haven't beat the Bucks in about ten games. We we haven't beat the Bucks since Pat Beverly was here and Montres Harrold was here.
I think I think we can't. We haven't. We haven't been We were not letting. It's factually incorrect, my friend. I'm sorry, but it's factually incorrect. They don't. They don't played twice a year. You think they've lost ten straight to the Bucks. They just beat them April of last year, was okay? Jeanice wasn't playing brouh Okay, that doesn't even count.
I don't know. I don't know who was playing that one. But they beat them, marshal because because once Groco at forty and Jeanice kept was cheering him from the sidelines, were Kawai and Paul George playing Kauhi and uh no that weren't Look look, no, Kawai wasn't playing. Well, here's what I'm saying, man, we're about if we think we can't win six seven games in a row. I mean, come on, we're not going to go into the playoffs against the best of the best and all of a
sudden it's all gonna just magically fall in place. They just won six of seven. They just won five in a row. What are you talking about, Adam. I'm telling you, bro, I've been watching basketball for a long ass. That's great, But you can't say we can't win this man games in a row and then they just did. We're not gonna win it with this team. I'm and I'm telling you what I think. I think Tyler is almost duded on purpose to prove he needs another piece, all right.
I think they almost because because the strategy at the end was ridiculous. I don't know what that was. Okay, I think I agree with you. They might need another piece. I appreciate the phone call, lady. They might need another piece. I think that's real. I think if we're being honest about it, they might be a piece away. But tonight's ball game. You're up by twenty one, just like they were up by twenty on Philly. You have to find a way to win, and you're clothes
have to close. That's on him. They gotta be better. Clippers lose one oh six to one oh five in Milwaukee, as Yannis has fifty four and twenty of those points came in the fourth quarter, by the way, and he scored the last seven of this one. Or after goods start here on Clippers stock eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy more Clippers stock next right here on am by seventy ol sports a game if it don't mean nothing? What is game?
Who got game? With the game? In life? Behind the game, behind the game. I got game, she's got game, we got game, they got game. He got game in my bag. But I just can't remember right, I'm wedding my doing, whatding my doe? I'll get that strike. I'm going me, I'm going me. I'm them in life right, nine man, and this is what I'm gonna Clippers lose one oh six to one oh five in Milwaukee to Yanna Us in his fifty four and eighteen. After the Clippers led by twenty one and the third quarter, they
can't hit shots late. Kawhi Leonard and Paul George came up short. Their next game coming up in New York against the Knicks on Saturday. Sam in Orange County or On Clippers stopped with Adam Ozla. What's up, hey, Adam oh Man? Tough, tough loss tonight. I know I'm gonna keep it real simple. I know that the talk has been for a long time that we need a troop point guard, But how much is a troop point guard going to actually help in games like this? I mean, we just
didn't make shots down the stretch. You know, our stars sadly did not make shots. We went like almost four minutes without making a basket, like in those moments, like, how how much can a point guard? Well, I'll tell I'll tell you how it could help and I'm not sure they need one, but I think it's something that is likely being considered because your stars get more taxed when they also have to bring the ball up every time
too. And if they can just get in their positions where they're most comfortable and somebody can feed it to them, it makes the game a lot easier. Because they did look gas down the stretch. When you're missing shots like that, it's usually heavy legs. Yeah, there's one way that is a good point. I mean, because you know, like in those moments, like in the clutch, like obviously, like it's gonna be Kauhi, it's
gonna be PG, it's gonna have the ball in their hands. But I do agree to some extent that in those moments it would help to have like a true point guard. No disrespect to Reggie or drawn, but I think we could use like another another guy that could, you know, get them some easier looks, you know, help with that fatigue, you know, down the stretch. So I don't know, it's just the moments like this, like hey, you know, they just didn't make shots. What are
you gonna do? I don't know if a point guard could have helped that tonight. Yeah, I appreciate the phone call, Sam. The difference is between guys like John Wall and Jen Rondo, who they tried before and and Wall has been out now for a few weeks that abdominal strain. But I think they'd need somebody who can play and score off the ball, who can
be a catch and shoot threat out there. And that's the difference between somebody like ra Gen Rondo just not a great shooter from the outside John Wall throughout his career, that's not one of his strengths either. That's the type of guy that people have been bringing up. But it comes down to stars having to make shots late, and Kawai and Paul George simply weren't good enough in this one. I think we have to be honest about that, Mike in La Michael's up, Adam, you know, I was gonna express a lot
of sentiments at the previous color expressed. I guess my hope is that the front office doesn't take this loss so much to heart that they go out and acquire a quote unquote traditional point guard at any cost, meaning you know, yes, there are you know for you know, I agree with the point you made that yes, a you know, a a point guard. We can also play off the ball, but can help bring the ball up and preserve you know, kawhis and pg's legs a bit would certainly, you know,
would certainly help. But I mean, I think if they're if if they decide to then just you know, go all in and give up a ton of assets for you know, Mike Conley or Kyle Lowry, that that would be disappointing because I don't see guys like that moving the needle. Much as you know, you pointed out this, this game ultimately came tonight as disappointing and as as you know, heartbreaking as it was, and it was, you know, anything else better. Okay, I appreciate the phone call.
Yeah, Sean in Inglewood, Sean, what's up? You're on Clipper stock? Hello, Adam, And thank you for letting me talk to a second. And I gotta say you were trying to rook on the cup of my guys tonight then, which guys. I just want to see the guys that called them previously to me, But well I'm not gonna if you're gonna talk about the Clippers can't have a winning streak and they just had one I'm gonna jump in like, I'm not gonna let that that slide. I'm sorry,
there are some facts here. I come in peace bro okay, But I actually want to say that all of you made really good points, So let me do tie that into what I want to say. The good points that you made is that, hey, they didn't lose their leads against Atlanta and Chicago. And then the other callers said, hey, yeah they beat Boston. Well guess what all three of those teams have in common. They don't have a dominant big man. They have okay big man sort of like
under tessancy. But when we got against in Bed and when we get against Yannas, they eat our lunch. And why because, as I said before, Tylou plays the same pattern every time, and it's like that, what's the definition of insanity? You do the same thing expecting different results, and when you get towards the end of the season, people say, well, we need an eight man or nine man rotation. Well, guess what. You may have a guy on your team that can be an integral part and
helping you win the game that you're playing right now. But hey, I'm going with this nine man rotation I can't change it. Well, you need to shake it up to win the game that you're playing. What rotation? What was the five man lineup you wanted to see? Sean? Well, I just want you said that the guy's legs, we're getting weak on them. Guess what you're weak when you're six eight sixty seven and you're playing guys three four inches talling you every night? Who did you want to see out
there? I'll ask the same question, asking your question. Answering the question is that, hey, you can put your big the other big th in the spell and get these guys arrest instead of staying with the same rotation. Because you're you're playing Milwaukee, you're not playing Chicago or Atlanta at this time. Who did you want to play? Sean third time? Or you're out? Who did you want? Who's the five man lineup? Bring brown air
and bring Mussa dear Bronte in for a second. Bring the guys in there, have a little height, just to shake it up just a little bit. That's all I'm saying. You don't try it though he never tried it at all. Try it before. You just keep doing the same thing all the time. He keep losing the same way because you get tired in the fourth, Sean, did you see the game against Cleveland where he had zoobots, Moses Brown and Musa Diabate out there and see that's what I'm talking about.
Yeah, he had five people not even playing. That's why he used I mean, I did see it. And guess what I did see? That was a positive. There were times defensively that Cleveland couldn't even get a decent shot in the paint because you had two guys having each other's back. I'm saying, show something different, make the other team adjust. Don't always adjust to their team. But honestly, and I'll be honest with you,
and I think Tyler was a decent person. I met him when he was a player eight back, when I don't think he's dagative of a coach. I really don't. And I've seen it time and time again where mistakes cost us losses. So people are calling in talks about we need a point guard. Yeah, we could use a point guard. We do need a second backup big Well, that's a fact. I agree with you there, Sean, all season long. I appreciate Moses Brown and his effort, but he's
young. He doesn't have the seasoning. Neither does Musa Diabat. That has been a glaring void on this roster. And Zubots fouled out. And I thought a couple of those calls and the one was challenged. You know, Tiki tack tough calls on him against the honest. He did all he could. But the point of you know, Yannis and Ebid eat our lunch. Yeah, they do that to everyone. Yannis just had fifty against New Orleans, just had forty one against Indiana, and Bead's been averaging thirty six points
the last two months. Nobody really has answers for these guys, or Nikolayokich. It's tough. And the Clippers were still up by twenty one. It was seven minutes left. That's that's what's difficult to swallow about this loss. Uh, let's see who else do we got here? Eric in Torrance? I believe it is Eric. What's up? You're on? Clippers stop without him? Awesome? Hey, Adam? How anybody? Yeah? I listened to all these call everybody calling in. Yeah, I know it's frustrating lost
tonight, but I don't play a little referee. I guess a little bit in the middle of everybody, just be peacemaker, and you know, ultimately it comes down to like everybody's everybody's calls got the same kind of thing. You can't blame. It's not the coach, it's not one for the players. Everybody's got a little bit of responsibility in this thing. You know, it's not just one person. You're not going to blow up the team and do everything just because they lost by twenty. You know, they've we've been
on both sides of this. We've you know, we've come back and on many teams before our teams in the you know, last year's season, I think we had a bunch of comeback wins. This season, we've already had a couple. So that that's the NBA basketball that Yeah, like their last game where they came back down nineteen on Chicago, Yeah, absolutely so so. But what my point is, though, we need to get dribble penetration at the end of the game. We can't have jump shots settling for jump
shots, you know, at the last six minutes of the game. This is ultimately the problem with the quality of the shots that we're getting. It's not the it's not the you know, quite going one on one. That's fine, quite and go one on one, but he needs to get to the hole. He needs to be aggressive and get to the hole. And I don't know if they're scared to get hurt. Maybe that's what it is, injury, whatever it is, you know, maybe they you know,
whatever it is. But we need our stars to be stars when it's time to be a star, like Paul George needs to get to the hole, not throwing up air balls quite and Letter needs to get to the whole. And I'm not saying that, you know, like he got into the pain a couple of times and missed a couple of turnaround jump shots. But even those that needs to get to the hole, all the way to the rim, get a foul, get to the line, get some free throws,
get some points on the board because we need points. We need points where at the end of the game when you're in a drought, that's what your superstars are there to do. They're there to get your points. That's what they do that, you know. And and tonight I also felt like Norman Pale had it going and you know, that's a little bit on tie. I thought Norman Pale should have been in there instead of maybe marks uh more
senior instead of more senior. You know, take senior out let Norman Powell be in there, let him have the ball, put in his ball in his hands. He was just you know, slicing into the lane whenever he wanted to. He could just go into the lane whenever he wanted, just right around his man. And then that's what creates our shots. That's how we get our shots. Understand, Like we get open shots because we get dribble penetration. That's how we got to where we got a fifteen point lead,
twenty point lead. That's how we got that where we got. If we just keep doing what we're doing for the whole game, then we would win the game. It would be so very simple. It's you know, it's not that, it's not a big formula. And that goes to all the callers before everybody Rick, you know, everybody's called, they're all everybody,
you know, they're all angry. But Eric, Eric, would it blow your mind if Norman Powell was in the game but didn't take a shot at the last four minutes and sixteen seconds, Yeah, it probably was. I didn't even realize that if he was or not. I didn't know, you know what I mean, I'm just saying, well, there you go to have a touch, So I would have liked him to have at least a touch on the ball, unless you know that's that's fine, But if
you're going after coach, why is it Norman the game? He was like, we gotta get our facts right before we start criticizing. No, I didn't realize that. Sorry about that. Yeah, no, no, And you know I said, I'm just trying to be you know, we're all the same on the same team here, so it's like, you know, I'm not trying to throw bricks and anybody at the coach or at the players at all. I mean, you know, Kawai and PG obviously didn't have
it going tonight. They you know, they they had sixteen and seventeen between the two of them. Norman Powell had twenty six. I mean, and Eric, I appreciate the phone call, man, I let you go for a while. Call back in on Saturday, my friend. I appreciate it. We'll say a quick time out. We'll get back to your phone calls eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy. A lot of passion on the phone lines tonight. But yeah, Norm Powell wasn't the ball game late and post gave me out this quote. He didn't question PG and Kawai shots, he said. I told Kauai. I told p the shots he's missing, those are the ones that he works on. I've seen him make those countless times. That's why I'm not really tripping if I get the ball or not. Man, I've seen him make that one from the corner, fading mid range to send us to
the Eastern Conference Finals. You just gotta live and die with those things like that. But those guys know they're going to adjust. Next time they're in that situation. I think it's going to be a different result. That's the thing. You complain when they missed those shots. But when Kawai makes it, it's one of the biggest shots in NBA history, like he hit against the Philadelphia seventy six ers. That's what That play was very similar to the
one he missed late. In this one, Norm referenced he was on that Toronto team as well. So a tough one, but contextualize it a little bit. I don't expect those two guys to go over eight down the stretch in the last four minutes. They just had to hit one of them. Didn't happen tonight. More clipper Stock next year on the M five seventy ol sports now Set you Down, Set you down a game a game every series. Last time that I check, it was five chains on my neck.
It was no smartle clippery one just to fall by one, to be honest, and then a coupo in the Milwaukee Buck hes fifty four and they lose one oh six to one oh five in Milwaukee. Welcome back on the clipper Stock. I'm out of Oslin eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six to ninety eight seven two five seventies of the phone number. We'll get back to your phone calls coming up, But first you hear the music. You know it's Eclipse in double dip segment this time joining me on
the Super sup for secret Guess hotline. That would be Charles Mockler. All right, Charles, been a rough one tonight with the phone calls. I get people saying there's no ball movement whatsoever, that we're the only team that does hero ball at the end of games. I would just push back and say, like, they just hit one of those shots and they win the game. And these are great isolation players that are going to have to hit
those shots. That's kind of what they're paid to do. The Kawai and Paul George can't go over eight in the last four minutes of a ball game or you're going to lose a close one. How did you see it play out in the end? Well, I mean, the people who are angry about the lack of ball movement are not wrong, you know what I mean. I was getting frustrated by that. It was looking good in the beginning of the game because the shots were falling right, But you're right, I
mean, Kawai DG. They're on this team to make up for when guys like the Toomb go over three or Reggie goes three for nine or something like that. You know, like, this was a really rough game from a process perspective. I think that's what most people are frustrating about, which I
totally get. And kawaig threw up some interesting shots, you know, there was there's a couple of i'd say probably like of Kawai's attempts you were okay with, and then maybe the other fifty there were some question marks is when they were happening, the process to get there and all that kind of stuff. Like it was. It was one of those games where if the Clippers would have won, it would have massed some of the process issues I think,
and maybe some of the interesting lineup decisions late in this one. Yeah, and speaking to that, you know Norman Powell was in there, but he doesn't get a shot off late. Of course, he backs his guys post games saying, yeah, I've seen him make those shots all the time. Sure, and when they make them, there's not even a thought sometimes that's a bad shot because great players make high degree of difficulty shots all the time. And Kawai just made one to put them up six who with three
fifty one left in the ball game. But you can speak to some of the lineups and what they had to go with late because of Vizza Zubots was out, who I thought played great in this one, and they actually featured him a few different times and got him some looks and he made the most of them. And even in a game where he fouls out against Yannis and Yannis has fifty four, I'm like, dang Zoo. You did all you could. You did great out there, Like I want to give him a
pet because I thought he played well. But yeah, what would you have liked to see down the stretch in terms of just rotations and what that death lineup could be for this team to close out a ball game. Yeah, I mean, you know, Reggie being in a little later in the game. I think some people were a little upset about we have heard kind of Tyler you talk about. You know, Reggie does make big shots, and
he made, you know, a big ish shot in this game. I think Arond the third Cory, which was nice, but no Luke Kennard at all is interesting. I know there's a lot of guards to juggle and things like that, but a complete DNP is a little you know, and I don't want to say shocking, but I don't think anyone had that on their Clippers bingo board right now, which would be you know, canar getting a DNP in a game where the Clippers shoot okay from deep you know, thirty
six percent on the night, but maybe Terence Van being in late. He didn't have the hottest shooting night, but there, you know, you look at his plus minus numbers, those were Solids who was effective when he was out there with the right guys. Hey, he hit both threes he took and they were very true. Yeah, we needed though, so like and then again, you know, the Bucks kind of tried to give us this
game, right That Jannis turnover late was inexplicable. I think everyone was kind of I was shocked there wasn't a foul call, just based on how kind of a Clipper's luck goes. You know, but in a game where the Clippers hold me have seven turnovers and hold a team to one oh six, you know, if you told me at the end of the night that the Clippers were going to only have seven turnovers and hold the Bucks to one oh six, I'd say, oh, so we won by twenty five, right
like that. That's an incredible feat on the offensive and defensive side of the ball against the team with a great offensive rating so far in the Bucks. But it was the rough process tonight. I think we kind of came down from the mountain a bit on the high that we were writing, but just a little more ball movement. You know. Obviously some role players could be better, Nick, but two over three not his best performance. Reggie turned on the late but you know, Norm can't do all the heavy lifting.
I guess would would be another one of my points from this game. Yeah, Norm was so good once again. He had fifteen points in the second quarter. He had fifteen in the first half, just like he had twenty in the first half the other night. He's provided just an unbelievable spark off the bench. He's making a great case for being six Men of the Year
for this squad. But you know, some of the other guys and I talked about this also, and I want to get your opinion on this, because you know, on a night like this, it felt a little like what happened in twenty twenty one with the Clippers and how they couldn't close out games through the first half of the season and then they got much better at it. But there was this call to bring in a point guard and they did in Gen Rondo, and it worked in the regular season and it didn't
ironically in the playoffs. There was no playoff Rondo to be there for them. But I brought it up the last couple of games when things got tough and Dicey laid against Atlanta against the Chicago Bulls and you're looking for easier shots. It might be a route they pursue bringing in one of these guys that we've been talking about lately that are rumored to be or the Clippers rumored to have interest in. How do you feel about it after a game like this.
I don't think it's a one game sample. I hope it's not a one game sample size. You know, it's the front office base. No, But that's why I'm saying Atlanta Chicago like it's it's happening. You know, it's a pattern. You're right. My thing with so the potential targets right now, it's down to basically what Fred van Vleet Mike Conley. Those are kind of the two names that have been floated around and the not so
secret kind of trade talks. I think with van Fleet, if you can try and make it happen without giving up both Tarrents in the first and I'd be more upset to give up Tarrens, I guess than the first round pick. But I think something's going to happen. I think, you know, you talked about the first half of the season, right We've seen this half with the Clippers. It feels like the first half of the season for the Clippers started about seven games ago with kind of how they handled the actual first
half of the season. So you've kind of talked about on the podcast like wanting a big swing, and I think you're going to get a big swing from this front office and we'll see how it goes. But at this point, I don't I don't think anyone knows what the full answer is because we're in a world where we weren't really sure, you know, I guess weren't really expecting to have this much issue. A guard right like we still have on Wall is going to come back, and Luke's getting DMPs and we're still
figuring out the minute. So I think we're going to see something big. I'm also being blamed because I brought up as things that could go wrong in this one, that what if Kawhi Leonard doesn't have a great game, So apparently I jinxed them by pointing out analysis of what could happen because somebody's been on that much of a heater. Eventually, they're going to cool off.
And Drew Holiday was amazing at times, and I was so glad to see that he got into the All Star team because he's one of the most underrated players out there, but his defense early on getting into Kawhi Leonard. Okay, so they're taking on the Knicks on Saturday. We got twenty seven games left in the season. How are you feeling about that one in the sense of urgency that we got to see from the Clippers and what's the good process
that you're looking for? The good process that I'm looking for is a very easy Why let's get back to drive kick swing instead of just you know, one swing and firing at three or no swings and firing at three. So I want to see drive kicks wing. I'd love to see some kind of I don't know if clarity is the right word, but different guard lineups, you know, like John Wall's not we don't really know when he's coming back. Tyli Study's close, but we got to get something figured out with that.
I hope we see Terence start again, and I hope we see Luke Kennard a little bit, you know, Like I'm not worried about Kawai and PG. You know, in terms of this being a you know, a big issue going forward. Guys are gonna have cold nights, like you said, But I want to see drive kick swing. I want to see more of the same from Zoo because he played great tonight. He was a big
reason why this game was a one point game. And yeah, and I hope I see more than six minutes from Robert Cummington would be another thing. I hope I see. He is Chuck mo Cler from the Clips and Dip podcast. We'll have a tripod for you tomorrow night with William Updyke on there as well. Chuck, thanks for doing some Clips and Double Dip tonight. Absolutely, here's to a win against the Knicks. Yes, Clippers fall one oh six to one oh five in Milwaukee. To Jannie who has fifty four
in the Bucks. Coming up next, we'll get your phone calls eight six six ninety seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. You're on Clippers stock. I'm the Los Angeles Clippers ready a network all these days getting unders their one says yeah, sad mac Miller's songs, sad night for the Clippers. They let go au twenty one point lead, they
lose one oh six to one oh five in Milwaukee. Gianness, then a Kompo will come back in the Clippers Talk final segment, Please be brief. Let's start with James in Utah. James, what's up? You're on Clippers stock with a dam Austin. Hey, Adam, I just called them. You actually just brought it up, but you saying I think it was about ship clips and dipp about what are we gonna do when Kawaiet doesn't have that
twenty five and nearly double double game and stuff like that. So in my opinion, Paul George and the rest of them, they've got to help him out. Yeah, and then those scoop free throws that PG missed obviously huge. Yeah. So I mean that just I was just listening to the game, and when he missed those shots, I was like, I feel like we're gonna lease by one now. Okay that that is a great point. James. I appreciate you listening tonight, answered the podcast. Yeah, I
forgot to bring that up. Paul George shot ninety percent from the free throw line. You want to talk about the miss shots and the degree of difficulty of those shots. What about the missus at the free throw line? Those guys have to come through there. Zach in Santa Monica, Zach Hearon Clippersock. Hi Adam, long time listener, first time caller. Hey, don't make it the last time, Zach. I want you to call him back on Saturday. Oh well, well I will do. I will make this
a habit. But yeah, you kind of It's hard to be brief, honestly with all my thoughts. So I just want to say I don't always agree with you, but you do a fantastic job on this, and I hope you stay for the long run. I'm here as long as they want me, Zach. I love it the best job in the world because we get guys like you calling in, call in on Saturday. Okay, Zach, you want have to be brief at all there? All right, sounds good? All right? Uh Bill in mission, Bahill, Bill, what's
up? You're on Clipper's Talk. All right, thanks for taking the call. You know, when you look at some of these plays tonight, there are a lot of four point switches during the you know, both both leads they had, you know, you have like Hawaii Missus dunk you know, you know where they passed inside of the last second in and they were just like they came out and hit it three. I think of that. But what I'm wondering is they were mentioned on the broadcast with the league the Clippers
could use another big What do you think of that? You know, like when Zuba goes out, they have the tune, you know they do you think they need another big? Bill? I think if there's one lock during the trade deadline, it's the Clippers picking somebody up. I don't know the
stature of them. I mean, they're gonna be big, but I mean in terms of their place in the league and their player profile and and we're not talking about a superstar, I don't think, or anything like that, but somebody to give them good minutes off the bench to give Zubots some relief. Who's been awesome all season long. I do. I agree with you, Bill. You can call them on Saturday too, Phil, thanks for the phone call. Hartenstun was a Clipper, wasn't he He was? Nicks
aren't using him that much. They're going to see him on Saturday. Thanks for the handoff on the t's their Bill on the phone call to close things out more as a long beach to night on Clippers talk. Oh we're and some positivity now I know we are, Marris right, we gotta be well, let me let me jails something. They're talking about the trade. Listen, the best trade the trip to the cripples to do right now, it's
for John Wall to get healthy. The reason why people were talking about the John Wall about the Clipper was going to do it this year when because they had Kawhi Leonard and because they had Paul George. He got those brothers, because they got John Wall. If they can get John Wall back to where he was and watching him, we got this, which you know every time I listen to the game, I'm abdominal pain. The nominal page. Look, this guy's gonna need some lips. He's gonna need some reps if they're
gonna pull this off. So if they're gonna trade for some list traces, good health. Okay, you guys, I see the next name me yug Nicks. They going down, Morris, thank you for the phone call. I don't know. He's thirty two, he's coming off and to kill his injury. He's played forty games the last three seasons coming into this one. I don't know if we're ever going to see Washington Wizards John Wall again, unfortunately, but here's to hoping that he gets healthy and the Clippers can stay
healthy the last twenty seven games. They lose one o six to one oh five in Milwaukee to the Bucks. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Noah Eagle, Brian Seamen, Ralph Lawlor, Paye brother, Jake Warner, head engineer, Kay Newton, our producer who will start a segment with on Saturday, Katie's Corner of curious questions
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