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Clippers have lost six of nine.
They lose one thirty three to one sixteen

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on the second or the back end, I mean back to back at home,

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this time to the Indiana Pacers who
broke them early on in the fourth

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quarter. Welcome back in. I'm
out of Mosland. We got the music.

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So I think that means it's basically
turning into a complete episode of clips

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and dip. We can only have
one on no, I've ah, yeah,

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all right, it's Chuck's night.
Anyways, Chuck or as yours my

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friends, if you want to complain
about the Clippers, talk about what's going

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on, the fact we couldn't get
Will on too at the same time,

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whatever you uh, steer this Clipper
ship right now, Okay, I forget.

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I'm I'm just tired, man,
right like I think tonight, none

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of it ever felt real, if
that makes sense, when the Clippers were

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kind of playing well, because when
the Clippers are doing one thing well,

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they're never doing all things well right
now specifically or not even right now.

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In the last you know, half
of the games they've played this season,

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it seems so I'm just tired.
I kind of feel like we're floating in

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the middle of the water, waiting
for this to just be over, or

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maybe that's what I'm getting from the
players a little bit again, just defensively,

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Like people talked about how last time
we played the places we put up

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one fifty, Well they put up
like one forty five and didn't have most

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of their team healthy. So to
think that this Clippers team is going to

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be able to get to championship level
defense is really hard for me to believe

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in right now. And yeah,
I hope we see something different on Wednesday.

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Right we have a chance to avenge
that bad loss to the seventy six

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ers, so that would be nice, But there's a really long way to

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go to get if it's even possible, anywhere close to a team ability and

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mindset wise that looks ready to challenge
for a second round appearance in the playoffs.

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I feel right now, yeah,
it's well put. We're seeing a

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mixed message from the players and the
coaching staff. We're hearing no identity from

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two players now. First it was
Paul George, now it's James Harden.

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Coach Lou disagrees with that. I
don't know, are we looking at some

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schism between the players and the head
coach. I don't want to believe that,

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but the message continually is not being
received out there, and they're not

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doing what he is asking. I
don't understand it, and they can't even

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agree on if they have an identity
at the moment. It's just it's bizarre.

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I think the skin them, I
think is kind of what you just

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said, right. He's asking them
to do certain things and they're not doing

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it. We don't know why they're
not doing it. And the things he's

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asking them are not seemingly out of
the questions of things you would ask very

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good basketball players who want to win
a championship. Get back in transition,

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defense, stop shot watching. You
know know who the low man is.

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Let's play with purpose and intent like
he's not, you know, asking them

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to set screens for Zoo so he
can take a step back three like these

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are normal things to ask for.
These are intangible to ask for a team.

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The only guy on Cole on the
team who any of us probably believe

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can actually flip a switch because he's
the only one who's done it, is

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Kawhi Leonard and maybe everyone else thinks
they can flip a switch too, or

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something like that. But the schism
is the head coaches asking them to do

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things and they're not doing them,
and I don't understand why. That's what's

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frustrating. I don't understand why,
Like a lot of us are past the

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point of being mad and more so
just baffled or apathetically dumbfounded at why these

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guys just can't try harder. I
don't like to not A lot of things

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are able to be reduced down to
one side tried harder than the other side.

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But if you watch the Slippers team, they are not trying. They're

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not giving their full effort seam,
and that is confusing. I've heard before

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from people say in the regular season, you can have a winning record by

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the end of the year just by
playing harder each and every night, And

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I feel like we saw that with
teams in the past, with some of

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the Doc Rivers teams, the twenty
seventeen to twenty eighteen team, the twenty

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eighteen twenty nineteen team, and the
team without Kawhi the entire year from two

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years ago Paul George was just thirty
one games because those teams all played really

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hard for the majority of the time, and you could say it's too old

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You could say it's the March schedule. You could speculate whether or not they

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care or not right now. You
could say it's too many bad habits,

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too many maybe agendas, personal agendas, all the above. There is so

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much wrong with what's happening with this
team. I don't know where to start

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anymore. It's just brutal. But
I could start with this. They're twenty

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ninth defensively now since the Grammy road
trip after tonight. They were twenty six

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heading into tonight. Tonight was so
bad when, especially when the dam broke

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in the fourth quarter, they dropped
multiple spots. That's over twenty five percent

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of the season where you are twenty
ninth defensively. Chuck came into this year

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saying, we want to be a
top five defense. The identity that they

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said they were going to have was
going to be a tough defensive team that

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can spread the floor. I none
of that is coming to fruition right now.

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Are they only better than the Pistons? Is that who's thirtieth? Pulled

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up right here? They're also thirteenth
offensively during that time, which really isn't

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good enough when you're twenty ninth defensively. It's Utah. It's Utah over their

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last twenty one games, their thirtieth, but over the Clippers last twenty two

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games, whether they're ten and twelve
post Grammy road trip, they are twenty

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ninth. Right above them is the
Lakers. They're twenty eighth, but they're

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actually finding ways to win games because
their second offensively over that span, Like,

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you can win still being that bad
defensively if you're really playing great on

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offense, and the Clippers are just
out middle of the pack with this talent.

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Yeah, it's a combination of I
think Robert flam had a tweet of

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something like that. Theopers I have
a deadly combination of old slow, a

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little small, and not enough shooting, which right now we're seeing the downsides.

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We're seeing that play out right.
This team was what twenty six and

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ti I went twenty six and five, had an incredible run. I don't

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know what that team. I don't
know how that happened based on how things

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have gone since the Gramy roach.
If it makes no sense that that happened,

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if you like had a time machine, I don't know, but they'd

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have to find something. They tried
to small ball lineup tonight and offensively it

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was great. But you know,
defensively, it it seeds rebounds, it

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it seeds points. So, Charles, what was the line up to start

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the fourth quarter? Often? I'm
pretty it wasn't it. It was PJ

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or hold On, it was.
It was Russ Hardened, norm A Mere,

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PJ, dj Zoo, three non
shooters out there, Like, how

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can we say they don't have enough
shooting? I mean, I'm speculated.

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Even back when they lost six games
in a row, I remember bringing up

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specifically, I don't know if you
can win being slow and small, which

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the Clippers were. It could be
one, but I don't know if you

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could be two. I said that
way back then. But then in thirty

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one games, I mean we're talking
actually over fifty games where they were the

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number one three point shooting team in
the league. How can we say they

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don't have the shooting. They may
not have had to start the fourth quarter,

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but they over half the season they
were number one and three point shooting.

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I don't. I mean, it's
it's a personnel issue, right.

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The shooting was great because our four
shooters were five or whatever. It is.

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It's just not deep. That's that's
what I think Ales and the Clippers

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right now too, right if you
have to, if you have lineups,

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to even have a lineup with three
non shooters is hard to the modern NBA.

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But that's you know, that's the
way the trade had the Yeah,

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there's so many issues. The open
threes thing, I do believe is going

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to turn around. That should turn
around. That's been crazy, right,

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Well, this is a nice tease
for I don't know if we're doing a

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live or YouTube or whatever tomorrow.
Tomorrow for sure, Yeah, but we'll

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have you guys covered at Clippers Podcast
on YouTube. Myself, Chuck and Will

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Updyke. Charles, thanks for doing
this tonight, a little double dip on

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Clipper stuff, my friend, Hey, thanks for having me. Let's go clip