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makes everything happen. Adam Mousley. I'm gonna do what you all think I'm gonna do, which is what's out and I'm not even After the Clippers suffer their worst defeat and franchise history, they lose by fifty one to the Dallas Mavericks with a final score of one twenty four to seventy three. Welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm Atam Maslin to eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy or get to me on
Twitter at follow Adam ay if you haven't already checking on Adam. How's he doing? What's going on? Perfectly calm dude. In the same way that we don't react too much to regular season victories, like when the Clippers won by fifty last season, had their biggest victory in franchise history to the Atlanta Hawks, We're going to be consistent and not do the same thing when they're on the other side of a beat down like that, And that's what it
was from the outset immediately in this game. They had five points with just a couple of minutes left in the first quarters, So they scored five points
in the first ten minutes of the ball game. Now, no Kawhi Leonard, a twelve thirty start, no Marcus Morris, but there's really no excuses to come out that flat, to have a performance like this, especially coming off of two great victories regular season victories granted early in the season, but games where they faced versity and they were able to close out the Lakers and
then the Denver Nuggets on the road. It's shocking and surprising really because of how they were playing and to come out with a poor effort like that to start off the game. And everyone in Clipper Nation we all talk about the twelve thirty starts. They have been notorious for getting off to slow starts in these twelve thirty at home afternoon matinee contests, and they are unique to the
Clippers because they're third at Staples Center. When it comes to scheduling, they're behind two other teams in the building, and to have a home game that early is rare for most other teams. But considering how many they've had over the years, at some point you would think they'd get some rhythm with these twelve thirty starts. If they're happening all the time every year, at some point, you would think they would adjust to them. Obviously did not happen
in this game. It doesn't help when you don't have Kawhi Leonard. It doesn't help when you're working through a new offense with a new coaching staff, and in some ways, and I'm not trying to make excuses, I'm trying to reason through how something like this could happen where you lose by fifty one and have your worst loss in franchise history while having maybe your best roster in
franchise history. Some of those guys weren't playing in the game, but they had enough firepower out there to compete still at least, and to be down fifty at the half. That hasn't happened in the shot clock era to any team that's brutal Now, Is it indicative of how this season is going to go? No, it's not. The Clippers are much better than this.
And if there's a point of the season where you want to get a game like this out of the way, if you have to suffer a defeat like this to this level, you would like it to be in the first couple of weeks of the season, not towards the end when you're building momentum towards the playoffs. So if I can take any positives away, those would be a couple of them. And it's hard. It is combing the desert and
spaceballs right now trying to find positives. But one of my buddies on Twitter, and if you don't follow him, he's one of the best Clipper follows. He's at Clippers twenty four seven and he means it. He's all about tweeting about the Clippers before and after games. And he put it well and he said, you can't say, don't overreact to the Clippers first two games and the regular season doesn't matter, but then act like the third game of
the season for the Clippers is everything. Pick one, because I see a lot of hate coming in on the Clippers. In fact, fifty down has been trending for the last hour and a half. That applies to this game. It's in reference to that, and I see people going after Paul George, but the same people didn't credit the Clippers at all in the first two wins of the regular season. Just be consistent, make it make sense.
As the phrase I'm saying by the millennial and I'm one of the millennials goes, so, if you're gonna overreact to every game of the regular season, yes, overreact to this one. If you don't and we don't hear, then it's wise not to put too much stock into a huge loss like this where everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Being down fifty at the half, of course, it's embarrassing, it's shocking, and it's unacceptable.
And I know this Clipper's roster and the mental makeup of this team this season, and with this new coaching staff, they're going to take that to heart and they are going to respond and bounce back from a performance like this.
I feel for the Timberwolves already on Tuesday, because they're gonna get the Clippers locked in and focused and playing at their best, hopefully with Kawhi Leonard back, who obviously was out today after what happened was six minutes left in the game Friday in Denver where he had a elbow to the face, an inadvertent elbow from Serge Ibaka as both guys were going for rebounds. Had to get eight stitches. Facial laceration is what they're calling it. That's the medical I'm
cooler than you and know more about science way to put it. But it was a scary situation. He doesn't play. And the other part of the perfect storm to this, the other half, or the other side of it, is Dallas was owing two and they hadn't looked good. They lost big to the Lakers, and Luca don Chich is the favorite, the odds on favorite to win the MVP this season. You knew they were going to play well this well? No. Did I know the Clippers were going to play
this poorly? No, No one could expect that. It's confounding to see a team like this lose by an amount like that. But if it was going to happen, it was going to be early in the season. It
was going to be a game without Kawhi Leonard. It was going to be a game without someone else like Marcus Morris, who we haven't seen yet in the preseason or in the regular season, and they were going to be playing a team that was highly motivated, like the Dallas Mavericks, who have a superstar, the Slovenian superstar in Luca Danchich who finished with twenty four points,
and Josh Richardson who's been a Clippers killer. He had eighteen in the fourth quarter against them in Philadelphia last season and was the difference in that ball game when the Sixers got that victory over the Clippers on the road. But the Clippers they lose by fifty one. And you're trying to rationalize this and explain how it can happen, and that's all I'm here to offer you. There
are no excuses to lose by this amount ever. But like I said, if it was going to happen, it was probably going to be early in the season. Like this, it just makes more senses. They're still implementing new players, a new system, and their best player was out for the game. But the twelve thirty start stuff. At some point it just has to stop. Not the scheduling of games at that point, but the Clippers coming out so flat dent. They've had too many games scheduled at that time,
and it's going to be happening this season too. It's the reality of the situation. So at some point they just have to get used to it, and I think they will. This was also one of those games where maybe it was a good thing there weren't fans in the stands, or maybe that has an effect. You're not getting up. You don't have the same amount of energy because there isn't the same amount of energy in the building with
fake crowd noise. That fake crowd noise was still chanting defense. When the Clippers were down by as many as fifty seven points, they would go on to lose by a franchise worse fifty one points to the Dallas Mavericks. I did, at least like what I saw early in the second half when the
starters came back out and immediately went on a ten oh run. Didn't make a difference ultimately, but they at least came out in the way they should have to start this ball game off with the right energy, the right spirit, and the fight to try to get them back into it a little bit. It didn't hold, and the starters didn't play heavy minutes in the second half as you would expect in a blow out like this, but at least coming out of the gate to start the second half, they made a little
bit of a run, a little bit of a push. But losing by fifty one is losing by fifty one. There's no way to dress up a loss like this is it looked like a team that late they were just playing for pride. It's just young guys out there getting buckets, trying to show something for their head coach. It is now a point where you know you're desperately trying to figure out how a game like this happens. I'm in that position too. But we're gonna hear from Toronto Loo coming up. We're gonna
get to your phone calls. In fact, we'll take when right off the bat, because I know this guy's gonna bring some positivity to the broadcast when we desperately need it. It is Morris in Long Beach, Morris, he Adam. Forgive me, but I'm not tripping. Listen. I want to call you after that Denver game, but it got kind of late. I've never seen so many assists in all my life. I've been watching basketball a
long long time. I think the Clippers had like thirty baskets and twenty five six sists, so we know what they can do when they hit the floor. You know, come on, let's be honest about this. When they hit the floor to day against the Mavericks, you know, to win without they sails, you know, the number one player without you know, they're worried about this guy, and it just felt like they was handicapped a little
bit. But I don't care what they're hand on Twitter. This is the team right here, and I'm going buy what they did against the Lakers who won the World championship footnote and Denver. So these guys here a good team, good team. They caught the Clippers at the right time. But man, these guys can play when they get their four team together. I can see what Tayron los only having them do the ball moves faster than your feet.
And that's the kind of team we guys. They used to be known for their for their grits on defense, but now they're known for past and then I'll tell you look it up. Everybody who hear you ain't never seen a ratio like that. And know you're talking about what nobody as long as by fifty ain't nobody had a ratio like that either field goes to as sins either check it out, look it up, and they've been a lot of ten million games played, so we know what's sending this in this team.
And if we're gonna do any trading everybody wants, We're gonna trade you Adam for Harden? Is that all right? They trade coaches with players, don't they. You're gonna have to give up a lot more than just me to get James hard enough. Sorry, there do you do? Merry Christmas Abbey hall of this to you and your family. Here's the good thing when I say you get a game like this out of your system early on in the
year, it's also a lesson learned. And ammo for Tyron Loo moving forward to get their attention immediately and say you have to have the right mindset to start the game. And if you can learn this lesson early in the season, because that's what the regular seasons should be used for, learning these lessons and adjusting, and then you get to playing your best basketball by the end of the regular season and hopefully you're hot going into the playoffs. But this
is one of those lessons. It's a teaching moment that can certainly be beneficial down the line for the Clippers. I'm not even gonna go to silver lining blessing and disguise type stuff yet, but it can be a lesson they learn from and we'll see, and I expect them to immediately come out with more punch and more fight and a better spirit and more energy out there Tuesday night when they're taking on the timberwool back at Staples Center. Okay, coming up,
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Why Leonard is a destroyer of worlds? Right now on the official home of your La Clippers. Don't you wort it? Don't you want it? Ye see, you have a start of pay free, so I had to wait for the beat to drop there Like Jersey Shore Clippers lose one twenty four to seventy three at home to the Dallas Mavericks. That would be a fifty one point loss. That would be the worst loss in the history of the franchise. Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
We'll get to your phone calls. You can also get to me at follow Adam a on Twitter. You'll hear from PG thirteen coming up. We'll get to Torontolu in just a moment, but first let's get to Mitch in New Jersey, who normally keeps it positive. We need some positivity here, Mitch after a loss like this. How are you, Oh Adam, how are you doing? I'm sorry, Nick, happy being healthy? You and your family? Same to you and yours? What's up? I mean not
over? Do I get to see the clips on TV? Adam more, It was horribly I liked seeing the young players being the game for different reasons. Do you think they can go trade for a point guard? Betley's great on defense rebounds, but I wish it has something that could shoot really lead the team. I know he's pretty good, and we don't have a lot of assets because we need who are you talking about their? Mitch Beverly I wish they had another point guard throwing. Let's see what the young Let's see
what the young players have. And also one thing, why are the clips where any's blacking force? I liked him it blue, even the red was better. And then the abs. I thought they were playing the Celtics. I mean, when is the green coming? Who who choose it? Be youthful? I've been had. This was not the positivity I was looking for. Mitch is going so far to go after their uniforms in this game, which I love. They're the inverted San Andreas ones from last season, where
they were white with black lettering. Now they're black with white lettering. Those are their city edition uniforms this year. Everybody has a ton of different styles now and different colors that they mix and match. They're not quite the Organ Ducks, but this is pretty standard around the league. And I happen to love the uniforms they were wearing now look good, feel good, play good didn't exactly happen, but we'll see that won't be the last time they wear
those. Thank you for the phone call, Mitch. Clippers lose one twenty four to seventy three to the Dallas Mavericks. At Staples Center. Coming up, you'll hear from PG thirteen, But first I do want to hear from the head coach, Tehron Lou post game. I know it's hard to come back from that kind of deficit, but is there something you could pinpoint early
in the game that you could attribute the slow start too. I think a couple of turnovers are only think got them out in transition, got a couple of easy baskets and then you know, we've missed some shots and they got out and transitioned on us early and just have a lot of pop tonight,
you know, on both sides of the basketball. So you play a team like this, who you know, has a point guard like Luca who can dominate the game in different ways, and they have a lot of shooters around them, and if they're making shots like they were tonight and you're not, you're not defending, you're not making shots, it's gonna be a long night.
Thanks to moving over to justin, Hey, coach, is this an instance of one of those game tapes that you preverbbly burn or just don't really go over or is this something where you can kind of go into the nuts and bolts and fine little things to fine tune and now I thank you throw it away. Just getting back to what's been working and you know how we've been working and working on. Like I said tonight, our guys didn't have a lot of pop, you know, didn't have a lot of pop on
either end for the floor and you can see it. We'll go to Andrew Bright. He tight with with Paul. You know, he's been responsible for
quite a few turnovers early in the season. I guess, what do you want to do for intermy what do you want to see from h In terms of tightening up his handle, I know he contributed to some of those early turnovers just being just being decisive what he wants to do, you know, not thinking, I guess and just be aggressive and then making everybody play like he's been doing, you know, just are We just can't have a chill out of turnovers when you know we're kind of like indecisive what we want to
do. So we'll clean those up and you know, I say it's early, and you know he'll he'll understand where peoples are on the floor. Will we give him the space to play and we'll get better at that. You guys that obviously made a lot of great progress to the first two victories. Does this feel anyway like a step back, like you're gonna have to kind of rebuild from from a loss of this caliber? Or do use it? Do you look at this as like just an exception that you just throw away?
No, just an exception. I mean it doesn't take away from what we've been doing and what we've been working on and how we're trying to get better each night. And like I said, you know, it wasn't a lot of a lot of fight, a lot of pop tonight, and you know we'd know how that the next game we have time for one more, we go to Miriam. Does having playing it in an empty arena when you fall so far behind, does that hurt more? Just sort of lacking that
energy in the building. It could have no excuse though, I mean, you know we are to play the same way and be able to adapt, So I just think we got to a slow spot early and it's just kind of slow ball from there. There was head coach harnlu after the Clippers suffer their worst defeat and franchise history. They lose by fifty one, with the final score of one twenty four to seventy three in favor greatly in favor of
the Dallas Mavericks. Some of what he talked about there was clearing the mechanism a little bit, turning the page, throwing away the game tape, maybe kill it with fire. But he's not going to be dwelling on this. And he also talked about how this is the exception. It doesn't take away from what they did the first two games, and it doesn't This is not going to define their season. This lost to the Dallas Mavericks. They are
going to move forward and they're going to still learn from this. There are always lessons to be learned, of course, and Tyron Lou was stressing about how they have to get off to a better start than that, especially against the Dallas Mavericks team that caught fire early. As they say, it's a make mis league, and Dallas was making a lot and the Clippers were missing
a lot, and that's how you get a disparity like this. Plus something else that goes into a perfect storm of bad from the Clippers standpoint is the fact that while the Clippers have had teams circled on their revenge tour, Dallas had them highlighted for this game because Dallas suffered their worst defeat in franchise history and the playoffs to the Clippers by forty three in that game five last year
between these two teams in the first round. So you knew they were going to come out with the right focus and mentality and willingness to do whatever it takes to get back a little bit of revenge on the Clippers, and they got back and then some. But this is a regular season game, not
a playoff series. I don't think the Clippers were satisfied just because they beat the Denver Nuggets in Denver the other night and that makes up for losing a three one series lead, and Dallas is going to feel the same way about this victory, I think ultimately coming up next. Though. You also heard a question there about PG. Thirteen and the turnovers going on with him. Even though overall and two of his first three games he looked magnificent, he
did have a four turnovers tonight. He's had fifteen so far in his first three games this year. He's adjusting to playing more of that point forward this year. You saw he also had nine assists last game. He's being more of a playmaker out there. He's looking for guys. So, as Noah Eagle would point out early in the season, you have more turnovers. That's understandable. That's to be expected from every team, and especially probably from a
player who's adjusting his style of play a little bit. But he is very capable of being a very good playmaker for this Clippers team. I'm excited to see more of that in the weeks to come. Coming up next, you're gonna hear from PG thirteen after the Clippers lose one twenty four to seventy three to the Dallas Mavericks. This is Clipper stock. I'm out of Mosland, and this is AM five to seventy l A sports is LA Clippers basketball.
Kowhi Leonard is a destroyer of worlds. Right now on the official home of your La Clippers. Round that sight all times Today. Clippers lose one twenty four to seventy three at home in their first official home game of the season to the Dallas Mavericks. It is their biggest loss en franchise. His three welcome back into Clippers talk. I'm Adam Oslin to eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy. We heard from Tehron Loop post game, last segment, and this was something he talked about pregame actually with your Voice of the Clippers, Noah Eagle. But one of his keys to the game was not letting the Mavericks get into transition where they ended up having twenty eight fast break points. A lot of that was in the first half when they were up by fifty at the half. And
I just saw this stat. Twenty percent of the Mavericks possessions started in transition. Today they had an offensive rating of almost one ninety on those possessions. That means if they were doing that over and over again through one hundred possessions, yeah, they would have scored one hundred and eighty eight points, scored one twenty four. Yeah, small victories, Clippers lose big. And here was PG thirteen post game who did lead them in scoring in limited minutes.
He had fifteen points wins. And here was Paul George speaking with the media coach little reference. You guys didn't have the pop coming into this game or through throughout the game. How do you ensure as one of the leaders on a team that you developed this pop for Wednesday night. I mean, I take full responsibility. You know, it's a tough game coming from Christmas. You know, I enjoy my Christmas Day. I enjoyed my Christmas Day yesterday.
Today just popped up on me a little too fast. I'll take full ownership with that of coming out and being prepared to play today. Be a different situation come next game, and uh, you know we'll be ready. Make sure our group will be ready. Thanks Canty, you go ahead. How do you maintain this steam together as one of the leaders, and how do you process this laws even though it just won a game? So you guys can continue of playing ass first two games. I mean, it's not
that bigger to do. Yeah, we got our boats kick today, but you know it's it's one game. I think we'll just take what we need to take away from today and go to the next one. We wasn't ready today. We wasn't prepared, not from the plan, but just from us being ready to go. And that's on me, and so you know we'll be ready for the next game. You know, it's one game. It's not like we lose. We get three ls learning about fifty points. We'll move over to uh, Andrew. You go to Drew, Paul, there
are a couple instances in that first quarter of them. I'm guessing you'd like to have back a couple of passes that get intercepted and they lead to quick points. What do you feel like you have to do when you evaluate yourself to cut down some turnovers the season? I think, just just you in the possession. So all I gotta do is just value to possession, you know, and and you know, just sometimes having more of a aggressive mentality at all times. It's just what I gotta just carry into every game.
Thank you're going to Miriam Well, hey, Paul, uh, wondering if if playing an arena without fans and having no energy, like the lack of energy is especially weird when you're down that far. And then also just kind of looked at look serious, were still kind of trying to work with the kids on the bench. What'd you see from that? Yeah, I mean it's still a ball game to be played, and it's still our duties to help the younger guys, you know, try to help them learn something in
the situations in there in the minutes that they were playing. It's all about building. We understood that you know we didn't. We gave a poor performance, but the young guys still have a lot to learn, and it was more so about helping. There are always things you can learn regardless of the final score, whether or not you won by fifty or lost by fifty.
And that was Paul George there showing some leadership, saying I take full responsibility right off the bat for that poor performance and said we'll be ready Tuesday night. Come Tuesday night, we'll be ready. And he's right. It still just counts as one loss in the standings, not three, just because you lost by fifty one. So they will be more prepared and they will be ready from the outset. I truly believe that Tuesday night and hungary to get
into that contest with the Minnesota Timberwolves. More on that coming back. Also hear from a Vizza Zoobots post game after the Clippers lose one twenty four to seventy three to the Dallas Mavericks. This is Clipper stock. I'm atam Oslin and you're listening to AM five seventy ls bores. Tough one for the Clippers as they lose by fifty one with the final score of one twenty four to seventy three, with the Dallas Mavericks getting the win at Staples Center. It
is the worst loss in franchise history. The Clippers had just twenty seven points in the first half. They were down fifty after twenty four minutes. It is pretty unexpected, unbelievable. But this team will bounce back. And it's just game three of the regular season. You heard from Paul George earlier taking complete and full ownership for this loss. You'll love to hear that from your superstars. And here was Big Zoo of Viza Zubots, who off the bench
had ten points in just sixteen minutes. Here he was postgame speaking with the media. Coach lu said that this was one of the games where you kind of just burned the game tape and don't really look at it. Uh what would you look at though, if you had to look at this game tape and things that the team could have done differently or anything like that. Pretty much everything, Uh, you know, from the start, from the start of the game, we didn't have the right energy. We let them uh
do their place like they're like it's a walk through, you know. We didn't uh, we didn't make it tough for them were they to pressure them. We just let them do whatever they want and they made all their shots, but they didn't make anything with defensively. Offensively, we would probably have to look at uh, you know, pretty pretty much every every possession. We'll go over to Jonathan he Zu. You know, without saying too much, what was the message that coach gave you guys coming out of halftime?
It seems like it leads you guys tried to play with you know, a little bit more energy. So without saying too much, like, what was the message that he gave you guys, just to you know, play play hard and keep working well. We're working in a practice, just trying to get better at the stuff we were working on. I told you after last game when they went into Denver and got a nice victory over a Nuggets team
that was pushing back late. They got it to within eleven points after being down by as many as twenty four, and the Clippers held on without Kawhi Leonard that you have to enjoy the process and the journey throughout the regular season, and this is a part of that. And you're here to beat the subots talk about how we did everything wrong we'd have to look at every possession of that game tape. But they are going to adjust. This is not
the norm for this Clippers team. They're too good, they're too talented, and they're going to show that off. I believe Tuesday night, when they regroup and come back and come together with the right mindset and energy from the tip, it will not be a twelve thirty tip. By the way, on Tuesday, that will be seven pm. That means we'll I've Clippers countdown
for you starting at six pm. Before we get out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawlor, big brother, Jake Warner, our head engineer out at Staples Center. Back here, our technical producer was Ceazy calling ye Colin, thank you. Until Tuesday, when the Clippers will look to respond after losing by fifty one to the Dallas Mavericks, They're taking on the Timberwolves, and we will
have Clippers countdown for you starting at six pm. I'm ata moslind We will talk to you then we'll be ready