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Clip got your fall. It's time
to react to La Clippers basketball. This

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is a playoff edition of Clippers Talk
Reaction and Analysis hosted by Adam Aslay.

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You know he's feeling good. Take
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iHeart radio while and now your host.

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He makes everything happen, Adam Ausley. I put my team on my back

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like I'm Paul George. You in
my life? I was the baby.

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Was Paul George smooth? Tonight in
Game five, he drops thirty seven.

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The Clippers win in Utah for the
first time in four years with the final

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score of one nineteen, So one
eleven over the Jazz. Welcome into your

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Clippers post game show. This is
Clippers Talk. I'm at am maslin to

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eight seven seven five two zero eleven
fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven

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fifty is the phone number coming up
here on the show. We got game

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audio from Paul George after this massive
performance, I don't want to hear any

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more playoff peace stuff, pandemic peace
stuff, wayoff peace stuff ever again.

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When the Clippers backs were against the
wall, the collective backs of this Clippers

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team without Kawhi Leonard. Paul George
may have just had the best performance of

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his professional career. Has thirty seven
on twenty two shots, went to the

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free throw line, knocked down ten
of eleven, including some clutch ones.

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Late had seven of his thirty seven
in the fourth quarter, including a big

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time and one over Royce O'Neill.
And oh yeah, he led them in

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the rebounding department with sixteen boards,
three offensive rebounds and played forty minutes.

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Just an otherworldly performance from Paul George, who stepped up in the Clippers darkest

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hour when they needed him most.
He came through tonight. The Clippers win

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Game five. They're up three games
to two in this best seven second round

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series, and they're coming back to
Staples Center and the Cavalry is going to

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meet them by way of the Clippers
Nation having that place completely full for the

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first time in almost a year and
a half. Staples Center is going to

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be fully loaded with nineteen thousand screaming
Clippers fans, with them having their chance

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to close out this second round series
and get to the Western Conference Finals for

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the first time in franchise history.
There is more work to be done,

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and we're hoping for the best with
Kawhi Leonard in that right knee. But

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this was one of the biggest wins
in franchise history. They hadn't won in

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Utah since the playoffs back in twenty
seventeen when they won Game six there to

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force a Game seven with CP three
on the team still. Blake Griffin got

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injured earlier in that series and they
would go on to losing seven. But

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this team, We've been talking about
it all season long. They are a

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resilient bunch. They just refuse to
lose no matter who is out there,

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and there were some great performances without
Kawhi Leonard. Terrence Man is in the

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starting lineup. Give coach lew All
the credit for that move. And how

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about the move by Terrence Man in
the fourth quarter he went kJ Kevin Johnson

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on Rudy Gobert. That's what that
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the ninety four playoffs and Kevin Johnson
attacked the rim with Achim Elijah On defending

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it and threw it down on him. Terrence Man just went after the best

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shot blocker, the best rim protector
in the game, who just won his

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third Defensive Player of the Year Award
and Rudy Gobert and Terrence Mann threw it

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down and got the N one and
would hit the free throw to put the

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Clippers up seven. But the Utah
Jazz we're not going away, and Paul

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George had to hit that N one, that law jumper over Royce O'Neill.

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It was clutch and it gave him. I believe his seventh point of the

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fourth quarter had thirty points headed into
the fourth. Just a spectacular performance from

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Paul George. All the haters,
all the detractors, the weight and the

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pressure that has been on his shoulders
and the jokes that have been getting off

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from people on Twitter over the past
year with him, and this season was

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his revenge season. But it wouldn't
have mattered if he didn't show up big

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in the playoffs. And he has
last three games now thirty one points,

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thirty one points, and thirty seven
points tonight without Kawhide Leonard on the court.

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Paul George is a certified superstar.
Don't ever doubt that. Again.

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He also had five assists. Yes, he had five turnovers, some bad

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ones on the fourth quarter. Playmaking
is something he's still coming around with,

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but he has has been so much
better this season. He has had to

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run the point a ton and he
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this game. And there was some
spectacular ball movement in that fourth quarter where

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the ball ended up in the hands
of Reggie Jackson. Action Jackson my player

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to watch tonight. You know,
Reggie's gonna put him up when he's getting

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even more shot attempts because Kawhi Leonard's
obviously not out there. This guy has

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a green light all the time.
So without Kauhai, I figured, okay,

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it's a Reggie Jackson type game.
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back in Game two, he helped
spearhead that twenty one point comeback that would

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come up just short, but he
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of that one. He finishes with
twenty two points in this game, but

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he had twelve of them in the
fourth quarter. And when the Clippers went

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cold, and I mean ice cold, three and a half minute scoreless to

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start the fourth quarter, it was
Reggie Jackson that got them on the board.

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He had ten of their first thirteen
points in the fourth. The Clippers

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would finish with twenty seven points total
in the fourth quarter, Utah had twenty

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eight, and the Clippers made just
enough big plays late, got just enough

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big time rebounds, and Reggie Jackson. I mentioned the ball movement. It

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started with Paul George who found Nicholas
but Tum in the quarter corner, who

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swung it over to Marcus Moores,
who then hit Reggie Jackson for a critical

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three pointer when Utah was making their
run. Marcus moorees, by the way,

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let's not forget he stepped up really
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he's had back to back great shooting
games three or four from distance, ten

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of sixteen from the field, has
twenty five points after having i want to

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say, twenty four last game where
he went five of six from distance.

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In Game four back at Staples Center, Marcus was great. Had ten of

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those twenty five in the first quarter. The Clippers got off to a hot

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start, but nobody could match what
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ten threes in the first quarter alone. Bogdanovich started six of six from distance

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and the Clippers were still only down
one after twelve minutes. They survived the

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onslot. The barrage of three pointers
coming from the Utah Jazz they were doing

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something special. They had seventeen threes
at the half. They were ridiculous from

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the outside. They could not miss. In fact, they would started seventeen

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of thirty from three, but they
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the final twenty four minutes in the
second half, where they would go just

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three who of twenty four in the
final twenty four minutes of this game and

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the third quarter. In the fourth
quarter, the law of averages snap back

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in a wicked, brutal way for
the Utah Jazz, where they would go

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just three of twenty four in the
final twenty four minutes. They finished twenty

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of fifty four from three, that's
thirty seven percent. Meanwhile, the Clippers

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went sixteen of forty. The Utah
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The Clippers survive. They're coming back
to Staples Censor up three two in front

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of nineteen thousand raging Clippers fans that
are waiting for them, with a chance

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to get to the Western Conference Finals
for the first time in franchise history.

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Paul George came through with thirty seven. Clippers win by eight in Utah in

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Game five, with the final score
one nineteen to one to eleven coming back.

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We'll get to all your phone calls. Jose and Southgate who called me

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at the half and proclaimed that the
Clippers would win down five and a half.

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He had faith. Jeff and Tarzana's
online. We got mores along beat

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Sean and Inglewood. More Clippers stuck
coming up next. Eight seven seven,

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five two zero, eleven fifty.
I'm Adam Oslin and this is the Patriot

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AM eleven fifteen, which I'm about
the Clippers, the LA Clippers and the

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Utah Jazz. You're listening to playoff
basketball on the LA Clippers official home.

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George foulon extended on the fourth side
against on a couple of chat steps for

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George, he's going one on one. Paul rise Over the topic, got

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the foul call, he put it
in. Paul George, the eighteen footer

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is true and a three point play
for PG thirteen tonight. The man has

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been rated r. When you say
playoff pe, you better mean it affectionately.

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After what Paul George just did.
He has thirty seven and the Clippers

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pull off a Game five victory in
Utah without Kawhi Leonard welcome back in the

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Clippers talk after they win one nineteen
to one to eleven in Utah, first

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time they have won there in four
years, and they do so without the

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Claws. Somehow, some way,
they scratched and clawed their way to a

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victory in this one, and the
law of averages finally went in their favor.

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After the Utah Jazz hit seventeen threes
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hit just three in the second half. Marcus Morris finished with twenty five reg

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Reggie Jackson had twenty two. Twelve
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He went at Rudy Gobert. Clippers
have not shied away, as Noah

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Eagles pointed out, from going at
the stifle tower. But how about Terrence

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Man after what happened at the end
of Game five last series against the Dallas

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Mavericks where he shied away from taking
a lay up late that could have won

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that game. That was a redemption
dunk. He had the end one over

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Rudy Gobert with three minutes left.
Tonight, Terrence Mann says, I'm not

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gonna be afraid this time around.
I'm coming right to the basket against the

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best defender rim protector in the league. In Rudy Gobert, Terrence Man was

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fearless. And this Clippers team,
they've done it all season long. This

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is what they do when you count
them out, when it seems like things

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are falling apart. Tyler and this
coaching staff and they're superstars, they just

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rally. The role players step up. It was a complete team victory,

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as it always is, but especially
tonight without Kawhi Leon are different guys stepping

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up. Luke Kennard hit a couple
of big three pointers in this one.

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Nicholas Batoum hit three three pointers.
He had four steals in the game.

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The small ball has worked. Welcome
back in two Clippers Clippers talk, I'm

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out of Maslin all right, Jose
and Southgate get things started, all right.

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I don't I'm gonna thinks by saying, Liz, I'm so hyped up

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right now, So I'm gonna get
this in before you come me up because

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I'm going too long. Who man
first two one hundred wins. It's the

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law. And I don't know if
I heard White, but Emmy nominated or

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Emmy Award winning, No eagle,
thank you, thank you at a w

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a all right clipping nation you hear
me right, Oh my goodness, hey,

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like you said, shout out the
Canard, shout out datum. But

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it came down to Terrence Man being
a man and revenging himself. And then

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Regie Jackson Man, I told my
foremaker. He texted me at six am

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breaking me the news about playing and
I took my Sheety Cash's home and I

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wore him the whole game, just
for Regie Jackson. And then on top

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of that, it came down to
play off key. My girl heard me

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whining. She thought we lost.
No, it's because Peg made the shot

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and one Adam Adam culture at half
time and you answered, thank you for

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that, and this is why you're
ready. Let's go Plappers. Thank you,

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Jose and South game somebody else who
I want to highlight. He played

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seventeen minutes, went two of five, but he had his five points at

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the end of the third quarter.
Paul George was out of the game.

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The last two minutes of the third
quarter. Patrick Beverly would hit a three

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pointer. He had a floater over
Rudy Gobert. Patrick Beverly was huge.

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He has had a bad foul in
the fourth quarter, but the positives completely

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outweighed the negatives with mister ninety four
feet. He has helped change the direction

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and the trajectory of where this series
was going. After the Clippers were down

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two games to none and they are
trying, they are on the precipice of

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history because they could be the first
team to come back down two during a

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single playoff run multiple times. Nobody
else has done that before. Let's go

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to oh Man. There are a
lot of calls online and I haven't screened

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them all. Here we got up. There we go, Morris, A

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long beach. Morris, what's up? Yeah, my brother? I looked

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like I'm looking at some day Javu
in the NBA. Here. Remember back

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in the day when the Big Redhead
beat Doctor Jay. They were up to

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love and the Big Redhead came back
in one fourth straight. You might be

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kind of young to remember that,
but this was the best Clipper game I've

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ever seen in my life. I'm
gonna tell you why. I was telling

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my wife, we need to call
Adam Silver and that guy Undone if we're

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gonna have to drug test him.
This guy, I couldn't believe they got

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thirty points on ten shots. And
the guy that called you that said the

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Clippers gonna win, win the game, they happed. I agree with him

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after what I saw and those guys. The Clipper was only down by five,

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I said, baby, because they're
gonna win the game because these guys

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can't go. They can't shoot like
this for forty eight minutes in the National

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Basketball Association. And then if you
talk about the winner at Game five,

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where we win Game five normally wins
the series, I'm gonna tell you something

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right now, Adam, nobody can. This seems as unbelievable, man,

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I mean, they just do.
They keep talking about how the Clippers had

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got depth, right, everybody took
the Clippers are deep. The Clippers are

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deep. Tonight we saw it.
It wasn't no rhetoric. It was the

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real deal. Holy tonight, we
saw it. They are deep. And

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I tell you right now, don't
bet against him. Let me calm down.

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Talk you lad, Thank you Morris. This was their stiffest test when

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you're talking about how deep they are
the bench, the depth on this team,

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to not have Kawhi Leonard, who
has been right there with Kevin Durant.

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They've been, I guess, jocking
back and forth for who's been the

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best playoff performer so far in the
twenty twenty one NBA Playoffs. He goes

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out with the right knee injury.
We find out that news earlier today,

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and this Clippers team finds a way
to win. Anyways, let's go to

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Sean and Inglewood. Sean, what's
up. You're on Clippers stype without Muslin?

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Hey, Adam, First of all, Clipper Nation, are you not

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entertained? Are you not entertained?
You go at him? But you know

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what I called it at the beginning
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Houston, I said, Clippers and
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they will win because they have the
best bitch and Paul George was the best

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player on the floor. And they
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is what they had to do.
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and they moved the ball good.
It was just a good win all over.

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And then the defense and the last
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I'm telling you, I'm proud of
my guys. Proud of my guy.

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Go ahead, Sean, this one's
for you. Throw your sword into the

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crowd. That's basically what the Clippers
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They were in the lions den,
and they survived without Kawhi Leonard. They

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had won there since twenty seventeen in
Salt Lake City. What a victory?

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All right, coming back, I'll
screen some of these phone calls. I'm

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all discombobulated. What a win.
Paul George thirty seven points. What's some

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respect on his name? Mark Clippers
stock next right here on the Patriot amble.

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This is the second round of the
NBA Playoffs. Why Renard, I'm

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your official home of La Clippers basketball. Jackson will be the cattle. Let's

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get it's a man nearside corner,
Pump thick and drive on, go Bear

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with seven shoot back to Jackson knocked
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corner three on the nearside and hits
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oh three, ninety seven. Jackson's
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by six. Reggie action Jackson,
big government with the bailout. Just a

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ridiculous park on some of those shots
from the outside from reason. He has

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twelve of his twenty two in the
fourth quarter, and the Clippers win in

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Utah one nineteen o one to eleven. In Game five without Kawhi Leonard,

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Paul George finishes with thirty seven Welcome
back into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Aslin

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to eight seven, seven, five, two zero eleven, fifty lines.

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They're letting up. Must be a
good subject. Let's go to who we

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got your Kevin in Culver City.
Kevin, you're on Clipper's tale without Aim

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Aslin. Adam, what is up? Brother? Great win? I tell

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you you're a great host. You
kept the passion in there, and I'm

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gonna let you try. I just
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all, I didn't hear any playoff
Pete Champs in Utah to night. Yeah,

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put some respect on his name.
Like Birdman said, Paul George must

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have been listening to this show.
He's doing everything I said. Go to

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the basket. The mid range game
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great and opened everything else up.
And the reason I'm so hard on this

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guy is because when he puts his
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and he just says, I'm a
dog and I'm a score. He's one

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of the best players in the league. He was the best player on the

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court tonight with Donovan Mitchell, and
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I'm so proud of him. I'm
so proud of this effort and RP Kobe

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Bryant. That move he had to
win the game. The and one was

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Kobe Bryant. It was picturesque.
It was perfect poetry in motion. The

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post up, he had the mamba
shake, the little jump shot the mid

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range that was Kobe, and he
worked out with Kobe and you saw it

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right there in this game. He
had the mamba mentality. And I'm so

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proud of Paul George. That was
the best Clipper game I've ever seen.

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That was one of the best playoff
performances I've ever seen. This is a

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great Utah team and Paul George stepped
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All you Clipper fans in here,
Morris Jeff and Tarzana Jose, respect

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Paul George and to call these other
shows and let these guys know, these

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talking heads, Paul George is a
real deal and this Clipper team is a

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championship team and we're not backing down. This is the type of effort we

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needed to see. I'm so proud
of Clipper Nations. Stand up and Solucia

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Clippers and stand up proud. What
playoff peat it tonight? What an effort

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and what a great team win playoff
Adam cheer, stand up? And what

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a phone call? Oh, Zach, I'm sorry I could do that again.

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Respect on my name, Zach L. Cowley pulling out all the stuffs.

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He's got the sound ready for you. We had the Russell crowe are

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you not entertained? Last segment?
That was for Josean Southgate or Sean and

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Inglewood Moore's the Long Beach. I
can't remember. We've had so many calls

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tonight after this big time Clippers victory. Let's get to one more. Bill

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and Irvine. Bill, what's up
here on Clipper Shop without must I'm standing

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up in the studio like j the
brick, what's up? Thanks for taking

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my call? That one color was
alluding to Bill Walton against the Philly six

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ers and seventy seven. But it's
great to really finally have a Game five

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that rings so loud and true.
Bill, let me tell you something.

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This was the first Game five the
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I believe first time, right,
because you start, you start with

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Sam Castille smiling up and saying,
what eight second violation? You know,

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they after Phoenix eliminated Lakers and the
Clippers, You're right, and then against

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Oklahoma City with the two turnovers by
Chris Paul, You're right. It's it

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feels so special and they're going home
and you know for game six, whereas

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before they go home and have an
impressive win on it a losing seven bill

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strong memory there, my friend wait
to go. Also speaking of memories,

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Rip City or Clutch City. Yeah, the same year they beat Utah,

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Phoenix and Houston. You had that
great play that you were talking about with

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the kJ. So it was ninety
five when kJ dunked on a chemolize unless

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they played two years in a row, unless those two teams played in that

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round. But I'm pretty sure because
they were down, their fans were booing

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him. They were down in Houston, two out to Phoenix, and they

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also won the last two against Utah
the best out of five. But yeah,

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kJ was something special. I got
to see him play against Magic back,

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you know, when like the ninety
after after the I forget which after

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the Magic return in ninety five six. Actually it was after eighty seven.

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It was eighty It was like eighty
a when Magic and Kevin got into a

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scrap after they got their rings.
They both got kicked out because they they

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like each other, but they were
basically real competitors. Game. Yeah,

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I think with the excitement of everyone
stepping up in Kawai's absence, I'm hoping

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that. I know it's every other
day, but let's say the Clippers get

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it done. I hope Kawai might
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Sunday in Phoenix. Unless I'm dreaming. Well, Bill, you might have

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to pinch yourself because tonight's victory for
the Clippers must have felt like a dream

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for Clipper Nation after this morning going
through that nightmare. While we have a

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moment, let's pause ten seconds for
station identification. Here on the Patriot AM

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eleven fifty, This is La Clippers
Basketball AM eleven fifty KADIV, Los Angeles,

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an iHeart radio station. Let's talk
history for a second. Paul George

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is the first player in franchise history
to have at least thirty five points,

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fifteen rebounds, and five assists in
a postseason game. He also had a

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postseason career high for himself sixteen boards. Marcus Morris Senior had his postseason career

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high twenty five points tonight, and
Paul George joined Kevin Durant is the only

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two players this postseason to have at
least thirty five points, fifteen boards,

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and five assists. Everybody was talking
about earlier today how they need to see

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Paul George do what Kevin Durant did
last night carrying the Nets to a victory

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over the Milwaukee Bucks. A PG
did it and then some what a spectacular

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of their performance and he's dealt with
so much throwing his way. He talked

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about it after that early victory in
the season where Nicholas Batoum hit that corner

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three in Phoenix where they got that
victory over the Suns. It was a

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big one and if they could get
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the Suns in the Western Conference finals. No love lost between these two teams.

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But Paul George had I think three
eight in that game was huge,

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had to assist to Nicholas Batoum,
and he said, if I have to

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go through the fire this season because
guys are calling me out all the time,

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on the court, so be it. I'll go through the fire.

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And this Clippers team, they may
be taking the longer route, not exactly

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the path of least resistance, being
down two zero in back to back series

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here, but the heart and just
the effort they played with tonight, Clipper

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Nation, you got to be proud. Let's go to Greg and Vince Eura.

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My bad, Zack, Greg,
what's up? You're on Clipper's side

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without amazin. Hey, Adam,
the last time I called was after the

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second loss, and I hammered you
for talking about tired legs. Do you

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remember that you did? Yeah,
And you know I still maintained that they

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didn't have tired legs. But Adam, I asked you, has any team

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lost the first two games in a
series and then one and then gone on

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to the next series in the lost
two games? And you said, well,

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I'll check it out. But it
turned out that nobody has ever done

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that. But here we go,
Adam. The Clippers are way out to

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break that record. And it was
a great game tonight. And I'm just

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so happy that playoff Paul came through. Aren't you Playoff Paul? He was

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amazing. He came through when they
needed him most tonight, not just having

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thirty seven points and doing it on
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This Clippers team has gotten so scrappy
on the defensive rebounding end because they're constantly

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playing small. They did it last
round against the Dallas Mavericks. They're doing

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it against Rudy Gobert, and he
made him pay for a while. There

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was a point where he had three
straight offensive rebounds. He turned that into

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six points. But the Clippers have
had to out hustle and out work teams

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and get to those fifty fifty balls
during these playoffs because Avizza Zoo has Avizza

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Zoobas hasn't played as much just eight
minutes tonight, and they still don't have

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search Abacca, who's gonna be out
for the season. We're still hoping for

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good news when it comes to Kawhi
Leonard in that right knee. I don't

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have an update for you yet,
but coming back, we'll get to CG

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and Alhambra, We'll get to Keith
and Marvin as well and Jeff and Tarzana

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is still online more Clippers talk.
After they win in Utah one nineteen to

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one eleven, they're coming back to
Staples Center with Clipper Nation, back to

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the eighteen thousand that we used to
know and love to see at Staples Center.

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It's gonna be fully loaded, a
packed house Friday night for the first

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time and almost a year and a
half, you're listening to Clippers talk.

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I'm out of Moslin and this is
the Patriot. The quest for the Larry

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O'Brien is off for them to get
to the Promised Land for the first time

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in franchise history. You're listening to
La Clippers playoff basketball on their exclusive hold.

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George rightaway boots, twitch right crossover
and splits a double team. George

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inside kick out Man, full fake
hump, fake drive, middle to the

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ram Hoh terrets Man slams over Gobert, cutting in a foul. The kid

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is fearless and the three time Defensive
Player of the Year just caught another body

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inside. Terrence Man a big play
late in the fourth quarter with a chance

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for three. Tupac would have turned
fifty today puled. George almost had fifty.

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He finished with thirty seven and the
Clippers one nineteen to one to eleven

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victory over the Utah Jazz. Terrence
Man had that big time play on the

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stifle tower would convert the and one
and the Clippers just continue. I don't

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want to say shock the world because
Clipper Nation knows what this team is all

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about. This is what they do. When the Chips are down, they

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find a way to pull out a
victory. They did so again without Kawhi

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Leonard Marcus Morris had twenty five Reggie
Jackson had twenty two, twelve points in

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the fourth quarter when the Clippers offense
was really sputtering. They had multiple shot

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clock violations, but they did just
enough to pull out a victory in a

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Game five, and they're up three
games of two in this best of seven

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second round series. CJ and Alhambra, you're on Clippers stock with Adam as

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and what's up? CJ. Hey, Adam. In the immortal words of

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James Brown, this is a man's
world, and Terrence rocked it. Terrence

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rocked it. This kid is the
future, and I loved everything that he

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did. The second thing is that
there are a lot of haters out there,

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especially guys that are in the AM
dial one forty north of you,

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that we're saying that PG needed to
do it all by his damn self and

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he didn't, and I take umbrage
with that because we need the Marcus,

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need Reggie, and they stepped through
and our ex factor in Nicholas Patum.

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We also need to marinate in the
fact that in the first half the Utah

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Jazz probably played their best postseason game
ever and we still withstood all thanks to

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defense. So you know, I
know, a couple of nights ago,

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I swore that I wasn't going to
call back. Your producer wants to throw

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on that snoop dog bite, But
you know what this game brought me in,

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brother, I am all about the
Clipper nation. I will never die.

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I will never stop to exist.
Adam, you and Noah Eagle are

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doing it like you can. Thank
you, brother CJ. I'm glad you're

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back. I hain't no fun if
the Clippers can't happen. Hey, that

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Snoop dog bite, that's okay,
because he said this Clippers team was better

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than the Lakers, and he actually
was on board back in twenty nineteen when

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he saw the Clippers come back down
thirty one of it or Colorina against the

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Golden State Warriors. So even though
he's a Lakers fan, he might I'm

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not gonna say get converted. But
it's hard not to root for these Clippers

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with the guys on this team,
they are extremely likable. And how can

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you not root for Paul George?
Like what is wrong with people just attacking

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him out of nowhere? And Paul
George just shook it off and played maybe

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the best game of his career considering
the stakes, considering all the pressure on

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him, and his CJ brought up
everybody saying he has to do it all.

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He didn't. That's just not possible
against this Utah Jazz team. Not

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one guy is going to be able
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them thirty seven points, sixteen boards, five assists and that and won late.

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And it was Kobe Bryant esk And
that was his mentor. That was

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his favorite player ever growing up here
and here in southern California. That was

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his guy. And uh, that
was a great call. Earlier we had

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a caller point that out that that
was a cool moment. Definitely some mamba

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mentality tonight from PG thirteen Marvin in
Downtown Los Angeles, you're on Clipper stop

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with Adamson. Hey, Adam,
what a great Clipper win? Props to

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Tylo and also palled George and Team
Man for setting it up. It was

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also great TC two a tea man's
sensays who been in a back burner,

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Pat Beverly, and also Rajon Rondo, who I'm sure had had some influence

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on Team Man defensively and offensively to
up his game. And last, if

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we end up going I don't get
ahead of myself, but if they end

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up going to play the Suns and
c P three is still out, let's

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hold back on Kawhi Leonard until he's
he's back, Like Kawhi Leonard gets some

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rest, gets some acupuncture, quarterson
shots, and also I'm astage with a

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championship ending. That's all. Thank
you, Marvin, appreciate the phone call.

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You brought up Coach Lou earlier there, and there were people here at

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this station going after him a lot
after the Clippers were down two OHO to

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the Dallas Mavericks, and I'm sure
some people were doing it again when they

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were down two OHO to the Utah
Jazz. But what I love about Coach

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Lou is his flexibility, and he
just soaks up all the information early on

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in a series and then just start
suggesting and tightening things up and finding the

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right matchups and finding the right rotations
and the right groups out there. And

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for Terrence Man to not play hardly
at all, at least he was playing

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inconsequential minutes in the first two games. To then him starting without Kawhi Leonard

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tonight, I think it says a
lot about t. Lou. He is

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willing to give a guy a chance. And the impact that Terrence made Man

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made in this game, they don't
win it without him. He was in

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there during crunch time down the stretch
and the Clippers win one nineteen one to

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eleven. So to me, Coach
Lou deserves all the praise throughout these playoffs.

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He's just been the king of adjustments
and finding the right matchups and that's

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what he was here to do.
And some people were mocking them, say,

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where are those adjustments. They're not
happening yet. Well, Dallas wasn't

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missing from three the Utah Jazz.
They weren't missing from three of the first

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couple of games. They weren't missing
from three in the first half tonight.

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Sometimes you're out of team's mercy if
they get hot from beyond the arc.

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In this league nowadays, with all
the great shooters, but the Clippers have

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taken things into their own hands with
the way that they have gone small and

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that's turned things around for them.
But I just can't say enough about coach

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Lou And here he was postgame speaking
with the media, right, Reggie obviously

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asserting the complimentary of what Paul did
today. You obviously before the games that

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this was not all on Paul,
but thirty seven points sixteen rebounds, knowing

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the reception he gets with his performances
good and bad throughout the year, what

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did you make of his statements night? That was a big statement. I

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mean, just also in the words
it really doesn't matter like they just trying

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to make up anything, you know, But man, he's a great player.

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Like I said tonight, you know, he carried us. He had

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to step up in the first half
he really you know, he really dominated

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expensively. And then second half he
made some great passes. We didn't knock

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down shots every time, but he
made some good reads as well. And

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I thought, just you know,
like I said, having those rebounds was

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was key because as a stretch with
Goldbery really hurt us on the glass.

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But for PG half sixteen, you
know, rebounds that was hum So there's

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a total team effort. Man.
Like I said, I'm five of our

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guys. We've been any situations before, you know what, guys had to

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step up and be ready to play. And every guy that played tonight contributed.

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And that's a team that we have
mentally tough, mentally strong, and

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we just keep fighting to the end. Last year, you guys went through

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stretches where the lineups were all over
the place, there were injuries, and

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it seemed like that was something that
hobbled the team's potential of the lack of

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continuity. Why this year you guys
seem to have gained strength from not playing

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with regular rotations and playing shorthanded.
Why why is there such a difference this

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year? And even I mean,
I don't know. We just wasn't afraid

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to try new things. I mean, we tried a lot of different guys

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with a lot of different positions,
a lot of guys got a lot of

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time playing with each other when guys
were out, and we just had to

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find ways to win. Sometimes it
was ugly, but we had to do

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it. And I just think when
guys being out this season, playing a

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lot of different combinations, a lot
of guys with a lot of different positions.

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That's really helped us, you know, and like I said, with

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Kawai going down, you know,
for guys to step up, playing out

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like we had Team Man playing the
five today, you know, so guys

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to step up. We just plugged
guys in. We just continue to keep

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playing all we played the right way. We played together, and we had

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that tough toughness about us and we're
gonna be fine. And we move over

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to Mark mcdina. That's I get
a sick and rats on the wind.

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You touched on Pig's performance, but
were there any leadership moments that jumped out

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to that Paul showed whether it was
you know, after you guys learned the

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news about Kauai's injury, or team
meetings and the huddles, what sort of

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things jumped out to with that.
I mean just this morning, you know

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before Shooter and I said, t
I got us, and he said the

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same thing after the games and just
thank you for trusting and believing in me,

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you know, all season long.
And I said, man, come

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on, he's serious, like he's
been phenomenal. So like I said,

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he did that tonight. Marcus was
great, said the tone really, you

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know, offensively, you know,
Team Man's big play down the stretch,

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Veggie's two big threes down the stretch. You know, we all just you

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know, stuck together and we found
ways to win. And that's what you

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gotta do when you when you want
to compete for a championship. There was

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Coach lou post game. He talked
about Paul George making a statement there to

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start things off. I mean,
he is caught so much flak, so

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many unnecessary strays all the time.
He misses any shot and people start trending

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with playoff p It's really been unbelievable
the amount of criticism and scrutiny and I

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think undeserved that has been on Paul
George since what happened in the bubble last

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season. He's responded, he's become
stronger because of it. And I just

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saw this. Paul George scored thirty
seven points on twelve of twenty two shooting,

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with just one of the attempts coming
uncontested. Meanwhile, he held Utah

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Jazz players to four of thirteen shooting. Just a spectacular all time performance for

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PG thirteen. All Right, speaking
of an Ald Timer, let's go to

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Jeff and Tarzana. I said,
ald timer, not old timer, Jeff,

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what's up? Let me tell you
something I haven't. I've been a

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Clipper fan since they played at the
Sports Arena when they had Charles Smith and

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trying to think of the other the
other guy that played Lloyd Vott. I

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could not be happier with this team
as they played tonight. This shows class,

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00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:23.280
dignity and charm. Steve Bamber ought
to be the happiest he's been since

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he made all that money in the
stock market. I have been a Clipper

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fan. I've taken abuse for years
and years, and I said at the

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start of the year, Adam,
if you remember me correctly, that this

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is a team that could win the
championship. And until Doris Burke gave the

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Clippers the nodding that they were the
best team, or she said she thought

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they were the best team, we
have nothing but heard bad things about the

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Clippers and everything. And I am
so happy to be a Clipper fan.

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And I hope Kawai can come back
to play. I don't know how how

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serious this injury is, but you
know the Sons are not going to have

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Chris Paul for a while, so
that should probably even enough. And Adam,

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you've done a terrific job on the
show, even though you've not been

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right about everything. Oh I'm not
perfect, Jeff. I just have to

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be more right than you at all. That will be the day. But

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I'm very happy to be a Clipper
fan and I am delighted to how they've

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been playing. And I really agree
with the gentleman that called I think his

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name was Kenny from Cliver City or
something about how the supports this team.

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And I don't think like other people
have stated on another station, I don't

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00:40:43.719 --> 00:40:49.039
want to give that station credit that
it's a Laker town A ninety five to

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three. Do you understand what you're
saying happened, don't you? Yeah?

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I think I'm picking up what you're
putting down. But Jeff, your faith

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is being rewarded this Clipper team.
You got to be proud of the way

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they played tonight. I appreciate the
phone call, Jeff. We'll talk to

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your Friday night, hopefully, because
you only call when there's a victory.

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Before we get out of here,
I do want to hear from the man

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of the hour. He deserves all
the love for what he did tonight.

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And this Clippers team overcoming the odds
once again. Here was Paul George postgame

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PG. What an incredibly hard fought
game this was tonight. This Jazz team

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would not go away. You had
six different players and double figures. Can

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you describe the resiliency that your squad
show playing this game without Kawai Leonard tonight?

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Yeah, this was I thought this
was our toughest match up this postseason.

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This was the biggest game of our
of our season, especially being down

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our best player. We wish Kawai
the best in the speedy recovery, but

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we knew coming into this we had
we had to play together. We had

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to step up, but we didn't
have to over lead to it. I

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thought everybody played their roles. We
did a great job. We played collectively

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and against this team you have to
you know, we've limited our turnovers and

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I thought that school was the keeping
up when you took a look at the

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first half, they shot lights out. Then in the second half you held

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them to just three made threes in
the entire second half. Defensively, what

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was the key there? Just stick
with it. I mean, I thought

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a lot of their threes were tough
ones. We didn't overreact. They came

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out hot. Good thing about it
was we was able to read that weather

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the storm. We came down.
We attacked him on offense as well.

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We just took their blows, We
took their punches. But I know we

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just thought they couldn't sustain that over
a full forty eight game. When you

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take a look at where this series
now is, you go up three two,

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you're heading home, you are one
game away from heading to the Western

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Conference Finals. What's it gonna take
to close this thing out at home?

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Put this one behind us, get
ready for you know, a rock and

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crowd back in La. Unbelievable opportunity
we got waiting for us back. We

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just gotta go into the midset that
we don't want to come back to Utah.

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Thank you, Hey, Mom,
may Dad. There's Paul George postgame.

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He said, coming into this one, the goal is to not have

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to go back to Utah after this
trip. So hopefully they're coming back home

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and they're staying there until the Western
Conference Finals, but that means they have

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to close things out in game six. Friday night tip time is at seven

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pm. We'll have Clippers count down
your pregame show starting at six pm with

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a packed house, a full house
at Staples Center for the first time in

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over a year. Before we get
out of here, I do want to

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thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawlor, and

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back here in the bank Zach L. Caul d until Friday night with the

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pregame show starting at six Madam Oslin, what a victory. We'll talk to

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you that this has been Clippers to
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