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You tip your cap to the competition. They were unreal when they had to be to get back into this ballgame, and the Clippers certainly certainly weren't good enough down the stretch. Once again, when the game got close on the fourth.

It started with Devin Booker, who had a season low fifteen on opening night. He goes for forty here tonight against the Clippers, really hitting every shot, shot, fifteen free throws nearly. I shot the Clippers from the free throw line got downhill eight assist to go along with his forty points and five rebounds. Impressive showing from the book and Adam. The story remains the same for the Clippers. Late turnovers kill them once again.

talking about in there and all the jump shots. I was joking pregame or excuse me as we started this postgame, as I'm trying to go back to the pre game right now, as I feel like this is just putting us in a world when with a shooting performance like that, but guys don't always do that in the layup line when they're just trying stuff for verse layoffs. Putting spin in English on the ball fifteen of fifteen by a

jump shooting team to start a quarter is otherworldly. And the Clippers got blitzed and ambush to start that third quarter. And once the Phoenix Suns got the lead, you said it, but it turned into an uphill battle for the Clippers in the fourth. Once they got that six point lead, it felt like a significant cushion, felt more like double digits against a Clippers team that was having trouble scoring.

While I agree that the offense was uber impressive for Phoenix, probably next level, I don't think they do that again all year long. I don't think if you're the Clippers can say, ah, well they shut the lights out late. I mean, you had a twenty one point lead, you were close down the stretch, and once again just crumbling

a little bit late. These early games where you're in clutch time and you're facing another team that's gonna add those experiences build you up a little bit for later in the year, for playoff time, for wherever the Clippers are down the stretch trying to fight for a position to make it to the playoffs. But at some point, Adam, the Clippers got to figure out how to execute late down the stretch. You hope to see that against Oklahoma

City they'll be facing coming up here on Saturday. But opportunities for the Clips to maybe change the tides a little bit here and into it don't.

fourth quarter. It was a tight ball game. It was another good test in clutch time, and once again they came up short against the Phoenix Suns again and some of those same mistakes keep happening and creeping up, and their defense got sliced and diced at times down the stretch too. The Phoenix Suns ended up with thirty four points in the fourth as good as they were with the thirty nine and the third quarter. Thirty four points

in the final twelve minutes is also impressive. And if you're a Clippers fan, well, you're saying that just can't happen against our defense. And it was guys getting wide open shots while it turned from them being contested shots at one point. By the end, the Clippers defense was a little bit out of source.

and time again. The Clippers do get back on the defensive end, Phoenix twenty one fast break points not the worst in the world.

zero to three to open up this new arena. Clippers like oh but twenty one point lead Phoenix with an incredible shooting performance in the third quarter starting fifteen to fifteen. But the Clippers had their chances late and they simply were not good enough when it mattered. Most Clippers will try to get back up off the mat to take on the Okase Thunder, the number one team in the West in the regular season last year, and they only got better with some of the pieces they brought in

tiptime for that one. Same time, seven thirty Saturday night is when we'll have your pregame show. Carlo Jimenez, great call as always, we will talk to you on Saturday.

sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. There's a lot of overreaction happening right now in the chat on YouTube, and then I understand why the Clippers blew a twenty one point lead. How it happened though, is what I'm more interested in. They gave it up after leading by eighteen in the first half because the Phoenix Suns shot the damn lights out as they are starting to go off. Here it into it Dome. I'll

flip the laptop around. If you're watching on the YouTube live side. I mean, can anyone find me a team that has started a quarter fifteen to fifteen in NBA history? Can anybody find me that? Anybody in the chat you think those shots were all uncontested? They were not. Plenty of them were well guarded. It didn't matter. Phoenix when they get hot, it is different. It is incredible. That's

something I've never seen in my life. Fifteen straight makes in the third quarter, and I want to say seventeen possessions because they had two turnovers that didn't end with shots being attempted in the third Devin Booker ends up with forty and hit some big ones in the fourth quarter when the game was close, when the Clippers had

their opportunities still to salvage a victory. After a team put on a shooting performance like nobody but mistakes down the stretch, A couple of bad turnovers by James Harden bad three pointer by him, so miscommunication defensively. He and Chris d we're talking about things. After a possession late in the fourth quarter, Coach Luke call time out. They were working things out this man, the lights are really

going out. Okay, now they're back on here. I'm gonna need this little selfie cam er rig light here to light our way here on the postgame show. We're not done yet. We got plenty left to go. There's a lot of reasons the Clippers lost this game, and you can certainly point to the fourth quarter of just not being able to out execute their opponent once again and not being at their best when their best is required, and Phoenix just playing to their talent level knocking down shots.

When they did start to get some open ones in the fourth quarter, they were slicing and dicing the Clippers defense a little bit then. As good as they were in the third, where there's not a lot you can do against that shooting, in the fourth there were things that could have been done, and the Clippers weren't good enough defensively. They broke By the end of the fourth,

there were three straight open threes. Ryan Dunn missed two of them, and then they finally got one to go with Royce O'Neill, which was the biggest shot of the game and the dagger in this one as the Clippers fall one twenty five to one nineteen at home and into a dome where they start off zero to three in their new arena. More Clippers postgame coming up next right here on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio networkers, and then they finally got one to go the biggest shot

from the dagger this one. At the Clippers fall, I thought the hell I was, I love this team.

at least in the chat are melting down. Hey call in eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. I got a challenge. Can anybody tell me what the all time record is for most consecutive made shots to start a quarter?

a tough one, the toughest so far. Clippers were in control until they weren't until the Suns just put pedal to metal and then hit the nitrous fasten the furious comeback in that third quarter in an unreal shooting performance, and then the Clippers not good enough in the fourth again, mental mistakes, miss cues, poor execution on the offensive end on real Clippers fault of two and three. We're getting back after it against the OKC Thunder Saturday night, right

back here at the Dome. This was game two of a five game homestand tip off for that one is at seven thirty pregame at six thirty outside of Los Angeles. We are leaving you until then, but coming up next here on AM five to seventy LA Sports and our Clippers off on the YouTube side, we got Clippers talk with calls coming up much the bags.

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and three. I said initially I would sign up for five and five in the first ten games, and then people start to say, hey, they can go eight and two, they can go seven to three. And I saw the warning signs after those two wins over the weekend that James Harden looked gassed. And that is the story to me, aside from what Phoenix was able to do in that third quarter, which was historic, which was I think probably unprecedented.

I don't know. I'm asking you, can you find any team that has started a quarter hitting their first fifteen shots. Can you find anyone that has done better than that. I've never seen anything like it. I don't remember the Golden State Warriors doing that, even with KDI and the Phoenix Suns just did that tonight into it Dome while shooting against the wall. By the way, for some reason, they've chen both times to shoot towards the wall in the second half in both games. Here this was just

game three into it Dome. The Portland Trailblazers went the other way, but the Clippers ended up with some of the same mistakes down the stretch, bad turnovers, a couple by James Harden, a bad three by James Harden that I felt was too early in the shot clock and unnecessary, felt like a bit of a hero shot. After Booker missed a three out of a timeout, I think he was just trying to tie the ballgame right away as they were down by three. He did hit one to tie it at one oh five to one oh five.

Counter argument, I get that the Clippers were just up by one though. When Harden came back into the ballgame at the six fifty five mark of the fourth quarter, the damage was done. Guys, an eighteen point lead down to two in a quarter after the Suns start fifteen or fifteen when the Clippers weren't missing either to start the third, and then the Suns just said we're even worth leaving like they met the Clippers to start things off.

In the third quarter, both teams were knocking down everything back and forth, and then the Clippers started to cool off and the Suns just kept going. I mean, I don't know what to say about that. Fifteen straight made shots. You can't do that in an open gym. Most of the time, they did it against defense. A lot of those shots were contested. Grace and Allen missed their first shot at the quarter, and I think it came was it the two minute mark? It's honestly impressive. Am I

upset because the Clippers lost tonight? Of course I am. You also witness history and I'll never see that again lifetime. Their first miss came at the two forty two mark of the third. I mean, just unbelievable. Shooting three pointers. Roy O'Neil hits two, Nurkic hit one. I believe Durant Booker, what are we talking about here? Usif Nurkic, who wasn't shooting well from three, they're trying to get him in the groove. But what did they start from three? Seven

of seven in the quarter? Kay, I watched guys warm up pre game all the time. Fifteen in a row is not easy. It tells you about guys like Steph Curry, who could hit like ninety in a row or whatever the record is with him at practice. But oh my goodness. So we'll get to the chat here. Moe Hassen said, we're over using Harden. They're trying to win games. What do you want to do? The only other guy out there who can create a little bit is KPJ is

Chris Dunn somewhat doesn't obviously have that wiggle. How do you create advantages when James Harden isn't out there? Tell me how Nolran Powell also went cold in the fourth, which really hurt them. He missed, I want to say, his first four shots of the fourth. We had eighteen points coming into it. He had some buckets in that third quarter to try to stem the tide, to hold back the flood of just unbelievable shooting by the Phoenix Suns.

I can't believe that happens. I just there's a scene in Boondocks sayings the original who would watched the sequels or guys like I can't believe that just happened. That's how I felt watching the Phoenix Suns. I mean the Clippers are right there with them to start third quarter. Beats a zoobos a dunk right away. Here we go. They're getting him involved and one he punishes KD Booker thirteen foot jumper beats a Zoobos gets a floor to go.

Booker thirteen foot jumper beats a Zoobos layup Booker twenty six foot three James Harden jumper, Kevin Durant three pointer. It's seventy nine sixty two. They're still up seventeen. They were only up by eight. They were up by eighteen to start the second half. They're still up seventeen. And coach lou had the wherewithal to call a timeout after they cut into it by one point. He said that

was enough. Ten eleven of mark full timeout. He didn't like this shooting exhibition and the Clippers letting too many shots fall for the Phoenix Suns. And I don't know what you do on some of them, but credit him. Coach Luke called the time out. What are you supposed to do? They come out of it. James Harden misses a three. Uh oh, here come the Suns. Tyas Jones floater. Nurkic hits a three now. Norman Powell answers was one. I told you he tried to stend the tide. James

Harden missed two pointer. Kd pull up thirteen footer. James Harden gets it ripped by Ryan Dunn, who was really good in this game, but missed some open threes late and was taken out. Devin Booker two point shot. KPJ comes in for Norman Powell and this is a big moment. Norman Palell I should mention who went cold late? Well, he took a shot and I think was bleeding. I don't know if it's the nose. I don't know what it was. He left the ballgame. Kevin Porter Jr. Came in,

Nurkic layup. Kevin Porter Junior missed three. Didn't like that shot. Devin Booker then hits a three. Hey, it beats the Zubots. Hits a shot to make an eighty four to seventy six, but they were up eighteen. Now it's an eight point game. KD three Harden tries the answer with a three. Five point game. Ryan Dun dunk i Phoenix had thirty nine points in that third quarter. The Clippers opened this game scoring thirty seven in the first. They were great to start.

If you think all that was horrendous defense like those shots being wide open would not account for a team going fifteen to fifteen. They could all be wide open, and that still wouldn't happen on you. That's how fluky this is. And they weren't all wide open, guys, trust me. I liked the energy the Clippers came out with initially in the third quarter. Offensively, they were really clicking in.

They were matching them shot for shot to start. Royce O'Neil five for six from three, A rookie goes crazy from three in Ryan Dunn, who lit up the preseason. This is someone, guys who at Virginia made twelve three pointers total in his college career, twelve of fifty one. Our producer Zacho Qualley found that his senior year is where he did most of the damage. Seven of thirty five total his senior year, his last year of Virginia. Tonight alone, as he got the start Noe Bradley Beal,

he hit four threes. He hit seven his senior season, his last season in college, he hit four tonight and missed a couple of open ones. Still late, I'll give you the defense eventually broke the fourth quarter defense they were trying to blitz. They were trying to run guys off the line, and as someone else mentioned it here, the ball movement from the Phoenix Suns. Was perfect to find the open man each and every time when they had that advantage, that man advantage, just the Clippers were

bringing in a double all right. It was insane. I just never see anything like it. Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy is the phone number, Alan from Silver Lake. Allan, you're on Clipper stock without a mals and what's up?

all I ask. That's why I said five and five in the first ten games. You sign up for that, but now you feel like you let a couple get away from you more than a couple. Three. They could have been Phoenix opening night. They should have definitely beat the Blazers last night in a game where they missed their last five free throws and he turned it over four times in the fourth, and then tonight you're up twenty one. So it is painful. Right now, we'll take a quick time out and I will feed you in

chat because I know you couldn't hear the call. But he was asking me when I was asking everyone else rhetorically kind of just well, where do you go if not Harden? People are complaining about James Harden. It's like he has the third highest usage rating at the age of thirty five. He's not Sga who's twenty seven. He's not Luka Dancic, who's twenty five. He's thirty five. He shouldn't have to be doing this much. But as the cars they've been dealt, Kawhi is still out. They're trying

to make things happen. Maybe Jordan Miller next game. I don't know, because they need more juice and somebody else who can create offensively. We don't know if he can. But at this point, Slippers have lost two in a row. They haven't won yet. It into a dome. Desperate times sometimes called for desperate measures. Hey, it's still just game five in this regular season. Let's not blow things out of proportion. As the Joker once said, more Clippers talk on your postgame show coming up next.

If you're a Phoenix Sun hitting fifteen straight shots to start the third quarter, there have been good third quarter teams in my lifetime. The Golden State Warriors, with or without KD were phenomenal. They would flip the switch. I never saw them start a quarter making fifteen straight shots. Did the Clippers still fail to execute late in the type ball game? Yeah? Would it have been a type

ballgame if Phoenix didn't hit fifteen straight shots? No, But you still got to criticize the Clippers for late game execution. It was poor. Now, some of their shots good looks. Norm Powell had his chances, and I'm wondering he had his bell rung something fierce. He had to leave the game if that, you know, was part of it. He missed three straight at one point in the fourth quarter. Too straight a runner he normally hits a baseline jumper that led to a Terrence Man rebound to Derek Jones

Junior for a layup. You can blame all these different things for why the Clippers lost tonight, But can we at least start with the Phoenix Suns hitting fifteen straight shots in the third quarter, can we at least start there Suns fans trolling in the chat. You can spam her. I give you permission. In fact, we're gonna doxst her right now. Okay, her phone number is I'm kidding. It's our friend Brianna. She's a Phoenix Suns fan and she is having a lot of fun tonight apparently watching all

of this. Darryl and Palm Springs. I'm guessing a Clippers fan. Save me, Darryl, save me, my friend. How you doing.

which was the second option. He was wide open. That to me, is not on coach lou I. There should be some criticism for lake game execution to go around, But I don't know, Durell, it's it's it's hard to point at just one guy. A lot of things had to go wrong, including a team making fifteen straight shots. Would you agree on.

like something was taken from them. And that's what's great about being a fan. You're passionate. I also think, you know, you might look back on this night later on and be like, damn, Phoenix really hit fifteen straight shots, Like what do you do? What do you do against that? No can defend, no can defense nothing. It's you still lose a game late. I understand that part of it.

And they had their chances. Harden misses a free throw that would have brought it to a two point lead with one zero six left instead of it being a three point lead. But Roy Soneio then knocks down a three pointer. He was open on that shot as the Clippers were scrambling, and I fully admit their defense was not good enough, especially late in the fourth quarter. I don't know if that's tired legs. I don't know if

that's game plan. I don't know if it's just feeling defeated because everything you have tried has not worked against this Phoenix Suns team that just hit fifteenth straight against you in the third for thirty nine points, and they had thirty four points in the fourth quarter as well. And I'm sure there were some of those impending doom like thoughts. So Clipper Nation, I totally understand where you're coming from tonight. But the wild stuff of sis saying, hey,

can we trade hard for books? Straight up? Guess what Phoenix isn't doing that. Devin Booker is like twenty seven the trade this guy for this guy and just the nonsensical stuff. It's probably not that helpful. Night Light tonight, Jayden said no trades needed because this team won't do anything this season, but to just make sure the Thunder don't get their pick. I mean, they got to stay in front of the Houston Rockets. We'll see. It's funny. Just two days ago, all I was hearing about is, man,

if this team had Kawhi, they can beat anybody. This team is gonna stay over five hundred without Kawhi. And now after two losses. Everyone in here is turning the other way and panicking. You can't be a prisoner in the moment. You can't be too locked in. You gotta put things in perspective. Yes, these are demoralizing losses, Zacho call you say, and they're panicking like Laker fans. I don't like hearing that, Sack. I know kliper nations better in that. I am pointing to some people in here

who are absolutely lashing out after a tough loss. Get it out of your system. Hey, we're doing Clippers Talk after dark. Later, maybe there will be more reason and logic and rationale than cooler heads prevail. Right now, it's ugly. We'll take a quick time out. We'll come back here. More of your phone calls in eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy eight sixty six, ninety seven,

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I'm out a Moslin welcome back int your Clippers top post game final segment here. I believe Zach get in my ear if that is true. The Clippers had twenty one point lead and they end up losing by a final score of one twenty five to one nineteen to the Suns. Same mistakes. Late in bounds pass goes awry, just like it did against the Portland Trail Blazers. A miss free throw once again. Now I'm wondering if it might get in James Harden's head or if it's just

tired legs. He once again looked tired, had two bad turnovers in the fourth quarter, some ill advised shots were taken, some really good shots that were open shots were missed by the Clippers, and then the Phoenix Suns didn't miss in their first fifteen takes in that third quarter, that whole little subplot to all of this that was pretty meaningful, and that's how you end up two and three, and that's how you see this level of disappointment and frustration

from Clipper nation right now eight six six ninety seven, two five seventy mo in Anaheim, Mo. You're on Clippers Talk live from into it Dome. What's up? O?

Yesterday he had a second quarter bucketing transition. Like if the point here is to get off to a better start, I don't think they could have started much better than they did tonight.

He got that extra possession for them to Derek Jones Jr. For the big layup late. That was Terrence Man. He had. There was a crazy possession in the first half where Chris Dunn got too offensive rebounds, Clippers couldn't capitalize, miss some buckets, and then Terrence Man got one on the same possession, got it to Chris Dunn the far side

corner who knocked down a three pointer. Like, are you going to take away Man's confidence right now after he just had his best game of the season and bench him. He was good tonight. I don't know if now's the time. I'm not saying, you know, everything's on the table. You're two and three. You know what I want to see. Jordan Miller watched him again in a Stay Ready game pregame with Kobe Brown. Took some video of it. Mike

Kim saying eight points is not good enough. I just don't think they lost because of Terrence Man's lack of offense. Went four of eight, He did miss two threes. They were up seventeen, they were up twenty one. They scored seventy points in the first half. Terrence Man was playing a bunch in the first half, eh fifteen to fifteen in the third quarter. I'm about to fall out of my chair just saying that. Does anybody have the stat on this? Anybody? I've yet to see anyone bring it up.

Anybody ever started with fifteen straight makes in a quarter before Miles Johnson's saying hard and splits for this season, No, they're not good. Thirty seven percent from the floor, twenty seven percent from twenty five percent from three, thirty seven percent from the field, Believe it or not, that's up from where he started coming into this game. James Harden, I'm telling you he's having to do too much at the age of thirty five. You can say Harden doesn't

play defense. He has some good defensive possessions in this game. I can point to one early on and he had a really nice close out on a Tias Jones three pointer in the far side corner, like I can point to actual plays. People want to spin off narratives and just go off, you know, the I don't want to say the S word, the casual takes and the stereo hyping of players, But Harden's defense a lot of that time has been okay, and guys taking Harden off the

court is not the solution. You might score seventy points in the game without James Harden. He's doing everything offensively. It's wearing him out. It shows itself late in fourth quarters. He started off this game shooting much better. I think he started four to seven. He ended up shooting eight for nineteen. And some of his buckets late weren't very meaningful because the game was already out of hand. Like the Clippers ended up with twenty six points in the

fourth quarter, let me tell you something. They didn't have twenty six points in the fourth quarter. Norm Powell hit a three point or late when it was already one twenty three to one sixteen, didn't really mean anything. normOn Powell had a layup when it was one twenty one to one fourteen. The game was already over. James Harden had a lay up when the game was already over one twenty to one to twelve to twenty nine seconds left. So what is that? There seven points we can take

off the board that were not meaningful. So what they really had was nineteen points in the fourth quarter, and unfortunately what they have is another loss. Hear it into it dome. They start off the season zero and three at home Clippers paul A two and three On this young season, they get back after it against Okay. See Saturday Night tiptime seven thirty pregame starting at six thirty. Before we get out of here. I do want to

thank the Clippers organization. Ralph Lawler, Brian Semans, Noah Ego, Carlojmenez on the call, Big Brother, Jake Warner, our head engineer, hear it into it, Dulls, Mike Nodo, our head Hayden's engineer. Here at the end to it Dome, the callers, the listeners. Zach l called you back in Burbank, our producer tonight spinning it. Thank you, Zach. We'll talk to you guys Saturday night, but email. What's gonna happen on Clippers Talk on YouTube. I'm going after dark tonight. I'll be back

in my forty five minutes. Love y'all.