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lose one twenty two to one oh four to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Star Wars
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Uh not enough do or do not? Tonight? It just didn't seem
like the Clippers play with a lot of purpose out there, enough focus,
enough energy, And we rarely ever say that. It's happened once earlier this
season, really a couple of weeks ago against the San Antonio Spurs, and
that was coming off a loss to SGA, who hit a huge three pointer
to beat them in Okay see, and we thought, Okay, the Clippers
are going to respond, Wait till they get back home. They got San
Antonio coming in. I think they were also on a back to back after
just playing the Lakers. Minnesota, same situation tonight, and they beat the
Clippers by eighteen points. And they looked like the team that was spry,
that was waiting, and I know they lost late to the Lakers. They
wanted to get that bad taste out of their mouth. But I thought the
Clippers would be riding some of that momentum they had after the big victory in
Brooklyn on Saturday. Instead, this turned into a big letdown for them.
Noah Eagle talked about a postgame emotional letdown. Physically, they were drained in
that game. But look, they played a ton of young guys tonight and
until the fourth quarter, with a brief spurred there from Xavier Moon and James
Ennis, gained the Clippers to within twelve and a three pointer by Keon Johnson.
I just didn't see this team playing as hard as we're accustomed to seeing
them. And that's a rarity and a little bit shocking to see, to
be honest, because the Clippers rarely ever lack effort and energy, and when
they have, it's because well, they're an older team. Okay, some
young teams take advantage of that. They played a lot of young guys.
Now, they had a lot of self inflicted wounds, turnovers at inopportune times.
It started out in the first quarter where they had I want to say,
eight of their twenty one leading to thirty one points for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Timberwolves best in the league at generating turnovers from their opponent. We knew
that coming in. No Eagle brought it up, and the Clippers played right
into their hand. And they're good at capitalizing. Two thirty one points scored
off twenty one turnovers, and they had fourteen of those in the first half
when the Clippers were down by eighteen and a half time, ever, were
down by twenty heading into the fourth quarter, and they held Minnesota to twenty
one points in that third That should have been the turning point. And before
I get back to my rant, let's pause ten seconds for station identification.
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station. I'm gonna break up my flow. Clippers only scored nineteen points in
that third quarter when their defense showed up, and they did out of the
half after giving up over sixty points in the first half. They couldn't get
anything going offensively, just nineteen points in the third to twenty one points for
the Minnesota Timberwolves. That's when they could have made end roads. That's when
they could have gotten back into this game. We've seen it before. They
were down twenty against Minnesota on the road earlier this season. Granted, yes,
different guys were out there for the Clippers and they won that game by
twenty, but maybe this was not enough. Be quick, don't hurry,
because the Clippers some of those turnovers just brutal, Just a lack of concentration
and focus out there. Turnovers that just can't happen against any team in this
league, but especially We know what Patrick Beverly is made of, and maybe
this was his revenge game against the Clippers. You want to say he went
for I know he at least tied his career high with twelve assists plus eleven
points for him. A couple of steals got the flag Grinton in his favor.
But you knew he was going to get his guys up for this one.
You knew they were going to compete even without Carl Anthony Towns and D'Angelo
Russell. I know who the Clippers are missing. It's substantial, it's crazy,
but the Timberwolves. They were without their two top guys. Anthony Edwards
goes for twenty eight hits, five to three pointers, and they just looked
to have more juice, more explosiveness out there, more activity, more energy
and what the Clippers, having so many guys out and so many young guys
plan, I would have thought that wouldn't been a problem. And when you
shoot fifty percent from the field and lose by eighteen, it was probably because
you didn't get enough shots up because you kept turning the ball over, you
didn't have enough possessions. And that's what the Clippers did twenty one turnovers.
Yeah, they got seventeen themselves and turned that into twenty four points, but
a lot of that came late during inconsequential time, they put up a thirty
nine point fourth quarter of the Clippers. Minnesota still at thirty seven, but
it wasn't as close as even the final score showed. I believe Minnesota led
by as many as twenty six and Marcus Morris returned to after what they did
in Brooklyn, it's just a little bit deflating. I'm sure Clipper nation tonight
to see them come out and lay an egg against the Minnesota Timberwolves, who
were the team that should have been gassed coming off a late loss to the
Lakers last night in the same building, surely would motivate them. But you
would stand that punch early and you eventually fight back and get back into it.
And the Clippers they had it to within twelve early in the fourth quarter,
but it didn't last, and Minnesota would answer all their runs. Anthony
Edwards hit a three pointer, Pat bev that flagrant play. He had a
five point possession basically a five oh run by Patrick Beverley, and the Clippers
just offensively, defensively, discombobulated, out of sorts, really out of their
element in some ways because so many guys. You know, we have a
lot of guys right now that we're seeing on this Clippers team that haven't played
together. And you can account for some of the turnovers because of that,
but some were just careless passes, passes you can't make against a team that
is hunting for those turnovers. That's what they do best, I believe.
Noah Eagles said it's the ninth time this season Minnesota has gotten twenty or more
turnovers from the opposition. They're handsy, they get after it they get deflections,
don't make it any easier for them to get going offensively, because not
only does it take away the Clipper's offense, you lose possessions. Those live
ball turnovers turned into easy points for the opposition in transition. Fourteen fast break
points for Minnesota, it's four for the Clippers, sixty four points in the
paint for Minnesota. They were attacking and there were some good performances. I
mean, Sir Gebaka looked looked good seven h seven seventeen points, but didn't
make a dent with the score. Xavier Moon, he looked good early in
that fourth quarter. Justice Winslow went for his season high fifteen Xavier Moon's career
highs thirteen. Now, but how many of those points were meaningful in a
game where they were down big early? Petrol's money was no, no,
no, no much. Clippers lose one twenty two to one oh four.
Tough one, tough one to rationalized coming off the victory they had. You
can say it's a let down, but I would have thought it worse.
They lose a close fight to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Losing in this fashion.
We'll hear from the head coach coming up, Brian Shaw still in for coach
Low but losing in this fashion, it's just a little surprising. Let's go
to Javier. Javier, what's up your own Clippers sock with at Amazin.
Let's up at him. What's going on with the with the Clippers playing at
home? I noticed they've been with the last what four or five games,
they've been losing by what more than twenty points? I mean the last games
they won at home, I believe it was December the thirteen, and all
these losses have been really bad at them. I mean they're playing at home.
You would think that, okay, we're playing at home, sleeping their
own home, their own bed. But they come off flat. I mean,
is this the coaching or I mean they're not prepared when they start the
game because I mean, as a season ticket holder, I mean that's not
that's not good basketball. I mean, especially doing in front of your owners.
Here. They're not trying to come out flat like that. And they
did compete against the Denver Nuggets recently at home and almost won that one.
But you're right, they have struggled recently. The loss of the San Antonio
Spurs that I referenced earlier. To me, that was the most disappointing loss
of the season. This is right up there with it the loss to the
Nets. You can understand James Harden went off and he's been in a groove.
But it's it's a little bit perplexing, but some of it's understandable because
of how many guys have been out and they're trying to find rotations and they're
trying to find that that energy in that spark. It couldn't find it tonight.
They just they could not find one guy to ignite this team outside of
Xavier Moon early in that fourth quarter, and it was too little, too
late. Yeah, I mean, it just you know, and and like
I said, I'm not the last times I called Eric blets. I mean
he's back to Eric blackso again. I mean the first what two quarters are
the Clippers had nine turnovers? He had six out of the nine. I
was like, he had some bad turnovers, Reggie Reggie Jackson had some bad
turnovers. But Javier, you can't just go off of one game. He's
also nominated for Western Conference Player of the Week, so I think he's been
pretty good overall. Yeah, no, yeah, you're right. I mean,
it's just that, you know, maybe because I'm looking at Moon,
like you said, maybe the fourth quarter is there's a fourth quarter, but
look at Moon. He played twenty twenty six minutes, a little bit more
than than Blasso, and he had zero turnovers. But I mean, as
you said, maybe it's the fourth quarter and it's already that you know,
teams are almost over. But you know, we just we just got to
play better, I don't think, because you know, we got Scenics on
Thursday, and then Mephis on Saturday, and then Atlanta and then and then
Denver. They gotta win this home games and they gotta win after This was
a big game tonight, also considering January and the games that are coming up,
and you just gotta have games against certain teams in Minnesota's not a bad
team. They're gonna at least going to be right now. They're in the
playing tournament and they've had a ton of guys out in and out. No
cat no DeAngelo Russell. As I mentioned earlier, but this was one where
you circle and said, Okay, they're coming off of back to back.
The Clippers are coming into this one riding high off of their biggest victory of
the season, an upset of epic proportions against the Brooklyn next team they had
no business beating. You would have thought there would have been some carryover effect
there. But you know what we've seen this this season. I've said it
before. At times, the Clippers have been consistently inconsistent. Some of that
is just the nature of the league right now. You've seen it everywhere,
which is why the West is so beat up and teams are so close in
the standings outside of the top three. But just like I mentioned with that
San Antonio loss, coming off that loss against SGA in ok Se, you
thought the Clippers were going to come out and play like their hair was on
fire. They didn't. They lost bad to the Spurs tonight. Coming off
the big victory, you thought that would bleed into tonight's contest. Didn't happen.
They say the NFL's a week to week league. NBA's a night to
night league. Right now, you don't know what you're going to get from
teams because there's so many new players. But obviously not a great performance by
the Clippers. They lose one twenty two to one oh four. More Clippers
stock next, I'll screen your calls during the break. I think we've got
more sentagious on hold. I just you know regulars. You can you can
tell by their phone call at this point, which is nice. Clippers lose
by eighteen to the Timberwolves. They'll get back after it in Phoenix Thursday.
More on that game. Audio from Bryan Show too right here on Clipper Stock
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I follow Adam a coming up. Charles Mockler from Locked on Clips will be
here. We also postgame audio from Brian's Shaw disappointing, discouraging loss for the
Clippers tonight, coming off of What Happens Saturday Night. It was the best
of times, it was the worst of times. He really thought that could
get them rolling. We're still looking for that. Something was born out of
that game, type of contest, type of victory by the Clippers, maybe
so far this season, or maybe we're just looking for guys to get healthy.
And it's that simple. But forgive this torture and analogy on Star Wars
night. You know how tired that trope has been of them blowing up the
Death Star over and over again. They carried it into the seven, eight
nine sequels, which were terrible. But you know, I still love Star
Wars, but I gotta watch the despecialized edition of the originals, which if
you know, you know, you can find those somewhere. It's same story
with the Clippers. We've seen this over and over again where they've played down
to their competition at times. It looks like, now are you playing down
that much Minnesota. They had some of their guys, even without D'anzelo Russell,
even without Karl Anthony Towns, but they didn't they didn't have their identity,
and that's Pat Bev and you're gonna play hard and you're gonna compete every
night. When he's on your team, you don't have a lot of these
letdowns. But the Clippers, They've lost to the Pelicans twice this season.
They've lost the Sacramento twice. I mentioned, Okay, see the loss of
San Antonio. Recently at home they lost bad one, sixteen to ninety two.
They have at times look to play down to their competition. They've also
played up. That's what happened in the Brooklyn game. They got up for
it. And that's how you have letdowns like this. It's it's hard to
rationalize something as inexplicable as a loss this bad of a loss to the Minnesota
Timberwolves. But I think the Clippers may have an issue there with I don't
know if it's a we think we're flip the switch team or we can turn
it on or get up and find the Clippers come back magic that we have
all the time. And it doesn't matter if we get down. But they've
been consistently inconsistent. They've lost us to some teams they shouldn't have and you
can look at the individuals who were in those games, and there's different lineups
and it's going around the league. But these are the games are going to
look back upon if the Clippers don't end up or we expect them to in
the standings at the end of the season. Games like tonight, every game
doesn't matter, every victory doesn't matter. Joel Embiid was talking about this recently
and every win matters when they were celebrating against the Brooklyness and he and Katie
got into it a little bit. But the Clippers tonight one twenty two to
one oh four loss in Minnesota, and they were down by more than that
and it was over pretty much early in the fourth quarter. Let's go to
Tagious and Walnut. Tagious her on Clippers, stop with that and also,
what's up? Yeah, I'm happy New Year. Happy New Year, my
friend. Yeah, you sound under the weather. It's just my voice.
I may have got too excited Saturday night in that Clippers victory, and once
in a while, every couple of years it wears on me those back to
backs, but I'll be all right, Okay, Yeah, it's just a
tough game. I mean when we were kind of like, when we were
not scoring, I was like, it would be nice to have someone off
the bench like Lucan or Hartenstein, but toomb or even Brandon Boston. I
was just like, if we had one of those guys, it would be
nice. But you know, it is what it is right now. I
guess the good news is hopefully by we don't play until Thursday, and then
hopefully we can get a couple of guys back before then or the weekend.
And I think a lot of guys have entered protocols, so hopefully that means
within a few weeks we have everyone healthy. I was just gonna say,
do you during the preseason, I think I was kind of excited seeing Jason
Preston play and then he got injured because he looked pretty, you know,
good during the preseason and now he lost all that development time. Do you
think they'll keep Xavier Moon, especially if you know since PG is gonna be
out for some more weeks. It looks like he can handle the ball and
he plays good defense, so I think he would be a good guy to
dash during this time. What do you think? Yeah, Xavier Moon has
looked good so far in limited minutes. But you know, considering what he's
being asked to do, I think he's performed very well. And they've needed
someone else in the backcourt right now because of everybody that's been out that you
talked about. But the starters in this one, Bledsoe and Reggie Jackson combining
for just six points. The starting backcourt that was that was strange to see,
especially coming off the games that they had. But yeah, Xavier Moon,
he has been a bright spot for sure. It's good too. More
at Long Beach. What's up, Morse? Hey, you know, I'll
tell you something. People forget that. I think this was the fourth game
Adam that the Clippers played against Minnesota and they beat him here the three?
Is that correct? New York? Correct? Okay, So you know,
it's kind of hard to beat somebody over the head every time you play him.
And I want to say this, Ibaka showed up. I was impressed
with his game. Ibaka sard you back. He showed up. Glad to
see his game is coming back to, you know, getting together, and
I was glad to the coach when when the Clippers were down, tips were
down, the coach, we're looking for somebody do something, Okay, And
and and your boy came in there, and a moon came in there,
and he was doing something a little late, you know, a little late,
but he came in and he showed that he could do something. And
I think the nice problem, Adam, was the guards didn't show up.
The guards didn't show up. These guys ask, like you said, six
points those guards for six points in a quarter. Uh, somehow we gotta
give them credit, Give Minnesota some credit. Somehow they took our guards out
of the game. But you know what, we're gonna get back on the
saddle against Phoenix, and we're gonna ask some problems with Phoenix, Adam,
if we're gonna be honest, if we don't get Isaiah back, if we
don't get Isaiah back, if we don't get or uh, what's our starting
center's name? If Unabaka, Yes, yes, we're talking about Visa zoo
box my bat and you're talking about Obaka earlier, du Bax back. Now
we need Zoo back back or Isaiah back. One of those two. If
we get one of those two back, Okay, we got a shot against
Phoenix. Without them, we're gonna have a problem with Aden. But you
know something, everybody's going through this and I think you check this out.
I think Bolton lost again, didn't they They did? They lost to Memphis.
Memphis is playing really well though. Yes they're okay. Thanks Son,
I'll talk to you to keep your head him now, all right, Morris,
thanks for the phone call. We'll see if we have an update on
Hartenstein from Brian's shop post game. But yeah, you're starting guards getting six
points and having nine turnovers, three more turnovers than points. It's a recipe
for disaster. You could just look at that number and say, okay,
I could see how tonight went this way. Clippers lose one twenty two to
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Locked on Clips will be here, but first, as promised, I want
to hear from b shop post game. After the Clippers lose by eighteen to
Minnesota, I guess I just gotta ask, what did you think kind of
went wrong? I mean, obviously a lot of stuff didn't go right,
but didn't feel like just starting the game, it just seemed off a little
bit. Yeah. Well, one of the things I didn't talk about before
the game was a lot of times when you come back from the East Coast
to the West coast, and I know they used to call it a trap
game, uh so to speak, you know, but I don't want to
make any excuses. From from the very beginning, our energy wasn't there.
You know. I talked about the fact that we have to, uh because
our margin for error is so slim, we have to be the team that
plays the hardest. We didn't do that tonight. They played a lot harder
than we did, and in the first in the first half, we didn't
take care of the ball, and that was one of the things that we
emphasized because they are so good at uh, you know, points off turnovers,
turning teams over in and converting them into points and so you know,
they got they ended up with uh, eleven offensive rebounds. That's that's okay,
we could have been able to manage that, but twenty one turnovers,
you know for thirty one points. That was the main reason that we kind
of started to descend and uh, and then our energy level just wasn't with
especially with the first group, wasn't there. You know. I commended our
second unit guys, uh because they came in and played hard and actually even
the fourth quarter got it down to twelve. But then we just could never
get to get over the hump. Talking about the bench universe second, like,
obviously there wasn't a lot that one, right, but what were the
positives beyond even just the bench unit themselves. Well, I mean they the
one thing was the energy level between the between the second unit and the first
unit. And you got guys in that second unit that are playing for their
lives. You know, you got three, three, four guys whatever,
three guys on on a ten day contract, you know, so they're they're
leaving it all on the floor, and you know, we we just as
pros. You know, we gotta come out and we gotta do our job
every single night, and some nights you just don't have the energy. And
tonight we didn't have the energy. I guess the best thing about it is
it only counts is one game, regardless of how many points we lost by
and how bad it looked. So you know, we have a couple of
days in between games, you know, where we can learn from you know
what happened tonight, and we group and get ready for the next game.
Really, Eric has said how much he enjoys having the ball in his hands
and running the offense. What did you think about the partnership with him and
Reggie back together again in the starting lineup. Well, you know, it
was it was really good. I thought it was the the not tonight,
but I thought in the Brooklyn game, I thought it was the best that
had been all season long. Tonight it didn't look so good, you know,
And and like I said, the energy wasn't there. Blad got some
you know, a a bunch of turnovers in the in the first half,
and it's just trying to find that balance, you know. So that they
can both feel comfortable out there on the floor and feel like they're contributing it,
you know, contributing in their own way. And I probably should have
done a better job of, you know, getting one of them out earlier.
And it's kind of letting one run one unit and the other one run
the other unit. But you know that's on me. But we got to
continue to try to search for ways to to get them to work well together
and and and sharing the responsibilities of running a team. There was b Shop
post game after the Clippers lose one twenty two to one oh four to the
Minnesota Timberwolves, talks about that lack of energy, said Minnesota played harder,
Our starters didn't get it done. They just didn't have the energy out there
tonight. And yeah, there's some trap game. It's a trap charl Wars
night. That could have been an issue as well. Clippers lose by eighteen.
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It's Charles Mockler with us. Charles, Happy New Year, my friend.
How are you happy New Year? You know I'm I'm doing okay.
The Clippers are five hundred and twenty twenty two, so let's just roll with
it. I hear for you. It's new year. Knew me save me
though a little LaMelo ball reference there. That's good man me and that's that's
also the Clippers rebounding right now? Fair enough. I haven't even gotten to
that yet. Tonight they did give up eleven offensive rebounds. They were outrebounded
by nine. What do you assubute what looked like to the novice somewhat of
a lackluster effort out there tonight, coming off the victory Saturday too. I'm
so you know you play in Brooklyn again as full of a roster nets team
as you can, given everything we're dealing with will Tellson safety in the NBA.
Then you fly back and then you got to play the Timberwolves. I
guess I blame fatigue would be the biggest thing. And the fact that in
Clips were down nine guys and half a coaching staff. You're you're probably gonna
split these games. We just happened to win the really really hard one and
then look absolutely disengaged and really floppy in the theoretically you know, easier one.
Yeah, specifically Reggie Accident and Eric Bledsoe had a rough one. They
combined to go two of twelve from the field and scored just six points while
they had nine turnovers after they had fabulous games, obviously, especially during crunch
time against the Brooklyn Nets Saturday night. But look, I'm looking for positives
here. Clippers do get Marcus Morris back, and I feel like somebody who
hasn't been talked about a lot this season hasn't played big minutes, but has
recently when they've been down centers. I think Justice Winslow has and he went
first season high fifteen points, is really starting to get in a groove here
with this Clippers team. It looks to have more confidence, maybe just in
some of the injuries he's dealt with in the past. Maybe he's just pushing
through that. Now he knows he's healthy again once again, and that can
make all the difference in the world. Yeah, he's definitely on the up
swing, which has been awesome to see. You know. I don't think
we ever expected him to shoot seventy percent from the field, but he did
tonight versus Timberwolves, which is off. I think it's great that he's playing
well, but I think it's also kind of a testament to how rough Serge
Ibaka has been. When we're down, so many guys and coaches are like,
well, let's just have Justice played the five, because Surge can't,
you know, really go for it right now. He was great offensively tonight,
but not defensively. So Justice has been great. He's playing up to
his contract now, which was a little difficult because he's not on a minimum.
I think he's at like four million or something like that this year.
But he needed to step up the last couple of games, and he absolutely
has. Someone asked me earlier about Xavier Moon, and he gave them that
jolt. Initially with a seven oh run all by himself, and he had
nine points in the spin of about two minutes early in that fourth quarter,
Clippers had it to within twelve. But what do you think happens with him
moving forward now? Because he's looked good, he's fitting well, he has
taken advantage of his opportunity. Yeah, I mean it's I hope he gets
signed again. You know, that would be fantastic. I think it's just
one of the many story we're going to get from this weird NBA season where
it's like, oh, I had no idea who this guy was always really
good? Turns out I hope, I think. I think you're right.
I think he's found a role for sure. But I mean he'll be on
the team again, I'm sure, and hopefully he'll have another night where he
can put up you know, thirteen, four, four and four, which
is pretty incredible. Some people have said, well, the products have been
watered down right now, there's not enough stars, there's so many guys out.
But to me, I find intrigue and seeing guys get called up and
play their butts off because this is their time to shine, this is their
one opportunity, and it kind of has led to some of the randomness we've
seen the league so far this season, but it's also been interesting and fascinating
and someone, you know, it's it's a romanticizing sports type thing to watch
some of these rudies or however you want to put it, these guys that
can really play, obviously, but get their chance at this level. Do
you find it the same way? So I hear who I think finds it
that way. I find it that same way too. You do as well.
But we also watch at least probably eighty two basketball games a year.
That's just the Clippers, So I think there's a different level of appreciation if
you watched that much basketball. But if you think about it, this might
have been the first NBA game someone watched tonight. We was Clippers first the
Timberwolves on January third, twenty twenty two, and it was horrible from a
basketball perspective. So I think for newer fans it's probably not something they enjoy.
But I think for people who really just watch the game a lot,
I think they can find, you know, the benefit of what they're going
through. So the Clippers had twenty one turnovers. That was kind of the
story leading to thirty one points the Timberwolves are really good in that area.
Did you see it where it was more about just careless turnovers by the Clippers
or the Wolves, who are I think tenth defensively right now just that good.
How do you shake that out? It's a perfect storm. It's both.
I mean, you saw like there were a couple of passes where blood
so just threw it to the chest of someone in the Timberwolves uniform, you
know, like just nowhere near close to what they were going for. Some
of the effort on loose balls just wasn't there. It was exhaustion and the
combination of the Timberwolves being upset that they lost the Lakers the night before and
that both post can comments they were really mad they lost that game, and
it felt that, you know, this kind of effort wasn't inevitable from them.
Clippers looking like red meat to them, even though they don't wear red
very often anymore. Clippers lose one twenty two till one oh four to the
Minnesota Timberwolves. He is Charles Mackler again. He does it for locked on
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m c k L E. R. Charles, Happy New Year, Clippers
at five hundred. I don't see. I think it's surprised this once again,
and play up to their competition Thursday against the Phoenix Suns. My friend,
let's hope. So let's get through January and one piece and we'll all
be happy. Oh five hundred j where I would be that Clippers lose one
twenty two to one oh four to Minnesota again. Their next game coming up
Thursday in Phoenix tiptime seven pm. We'll have Clippers Countdown for you at six
pm before we get out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers
organization, Noah Eagle, Ryan Seaman, Ralph Lawler's big brother, Jake Warner
alright, an engineer in downtown Los Angeles, Big Brother Jake podcast Podcast one
Network, and the callers and the listeners tonight until Thursday at six their Clippers
countdown show. I'm Adams. We'll talk again. This has been Clippers Talk.
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