Third quarter Nuggets lead to six.

I'll look at the nice dish Nicola Yokich, Jeremy Grant Yokich a triple double before the third quarter ends.

Nuggets an eight point lead going to the fourth and I will say this as clearly as I can in the fourth quarter with their season on the line, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George combined for zero points.

That's George missing a corner.

Three more offense.

Kawhi Leonard No good.

Four minutes and change remaining Clippers Air down 15 points, co.

I know they're gonna get in offensive rebound.

They're gonna work it around.

The ball is gonna find George again in the corner and take a look at this shot off the backboard.

Doc Rivers can't believe what he is seeing on The Nuggets.

Smell blood in the water and they take advantage.

2.5 to go.

The lead is 15.

Jamal Murray.

He would score 40 on the night stay with the play because it's a microcosm of the last three games Co.

I stacked up.

Denver's defense is good.

It's going the other way.

Leonard and George combined for 24 on the night again, zero in the fourth quarter and the Denver Nuggets with one of the great stunners in recent NBA history.

And maybe further than that the party is on in Denver.

They're moving on to take on the Lakers next.

But I think internally way we've always felt, um, things is not a championship or bust year for us.

Way can only get better.

The longer we stay together and the more we're around each other, the more chemistry for this group, the better e think that's really the teller, the tape of the season.

We just didn't have enough time together.

I'm the coach and I'll take any blame for it.

But we didn't meet our expectations clearly because we had, uh in my opinion, we would still be playing.

And look gives the Nuggets all the respect in the world and there's no question they deserve it.

But this was more of the same for the Clippers, who are now Oh, and eight all time with a chance to reach the conference finals.

They've got 50 seasons without doing it.

Jalen will join us later in the hour.

Timmy Legs and Kendrick Perkins have gotten up early with us here, and we just heard Paul George say this season wasn't championship or bust for us.

That's certainly not the way a lot of people on the outside looked at it.

Timmy, I see you shaking your head.

I'll start with you.

What do you think?

I think that's silly.

The MBA doesn't work that way anymore.

You put these teams together with a very tight window because you're talking about guys that air star players coming together to join up to win immediately.

Everybody knows that.

That's the logic around the N B A.

That's the way the MBA looks now, Um, if you go with guys that you drafted in their home grown products the way the Nuggets have, maybe the windows a little bit different.

But when you talk about star players, you know, entry free agency and ending up in the same place together, you're going there to win right away.

So for me, that's just trying to deflect some of the, you know, colossal failure that this season is for the Clippers.

This is the deepest rotation in the n B.

A.

They were a team that on paper, was the favorite to win it and to go out the way that they did.

Losing three straight games to a Nuggets team and two of which you had a double digit lead in those games is an epic failure.

There's no other way around it.

I know that they're going to try to soften this somehow to make it seem like this is some long term project, not the case.

Greeny, the N B A doesn't work that way anymore.

Thes air, tight windows and the window on the clock starts Day one.

When you put these guys together, Big Burke, I can hear you breathing heavy size over there.

What are your thoughts this morning?

Is this the same Clipper team that had a pep rally preseason and talking about that?

They're not the little brothers to the Lakers anymore.

The same Paul George that demanded the trade out of Oklahoma City to go pal with a star in CO I Leonard in l.

A.

And saying that they're bringing Clipper Nation back and that the expectations are high and that they're they're competing with the title with the five power that they had, and now you're telling me is not a championship of bus team.

I don't wanna hear that nonsense.

We all saw what we expected out of Paul George last night, and that's what he's doing close out game.

He shoot a career low at 38% from the field, 20 to 22% from the three and greeny that shot that he shot from the corner that hit off the side of the glass.

I had to duck way in my house from from Houston because I thought the ball was about to hit me.

So I'm not trying to hit that Patrick Beverly talking about check ball and, you know, before the before the bubble started, check ball.

Not only check ball, you're gonna be doing this in the South side of Chicago at the park because you didn't bring nothing to the table, but a whole lot of barking.

The Clippers was barking.

They were talking a lot of noise.

They were talking like they have been here before and I said this before the season started.

It's only one guy besides the coaching staff that actually have championship experience.

And that was quite Leonard.

And he wasn't a guy that wasn't talking at all.

Yes, he had a bad game last night, but he was tired.

He was tired of carrying them.

He had to carry them through the Dallas Siri's.

He had to carry them majority through this Siris on his shoulders where he had to go, Uh, Jamal Murray.

And it took his legs from Look, this is this is one of the all time, you know all time bus seasons, bus teams, ever.

They front runners.

And there's nowhere around.

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