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a little nipsey hustle as in our
final segment. Here once again, it's

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the return of Chuck Mockler from Clips
and Dip, this time after a win.

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I don't know if he wants to
pat himself on back since he and

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Will were in the building tonight.
Chuck, where do you want to start?

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Oh? Do you want to start
with Kobe Brown? How good he

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looked? Or do we want should
we talk about something maybe a little more

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meaningful? Were you not the one
in control of at Clipper's pod Twitter account

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that said, Kobe Brown just had
a rough stretch and then I tried to

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old takes expose you should I be
doing a lot lately. I was in

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control that his first couple of minutes
did not look super solid, which I

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don't think is a huge prize to
anybody. But I love how he bounced

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back. He was the only bench
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to not have a negative plus minus. You know, the three blocks are

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nice, but he's still got some
He's got to get use some movement at

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NBA speed, I think. But
I think the main thing we can all

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be excited about tonight was Paul George
looks completely ready for the season. I

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think he is the guy who most
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And Zoom looked good too. But
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I it was everything we could have
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it was especially impressive because he goes
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he wanted to right that wrong,
but I don't think he had his first

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bucket the first six minutes of the
first quarter. Then all of a sudden

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he took over. So all of
his damage with those twenty three points may

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have come within about a ten minute
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the second, where he was absolutely
lethal. But also he only took one

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three he hit it, but he
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getting to his spots. He and
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forth a little bit early on the
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Kawhi like he was taking things personally. I think Bones Highland had a little

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something extra for his former team in
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something for the Clippers. But then
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midway through that second quarter, when
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Yeah, him and Kawhi got started
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same time, which probably isn't a
coincidence, but yeah, I love what

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you said the one to three point
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you know, for the most part
for Paul George, no assists and no

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turnovers. You know, I'm not
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they were trying Nico with the four, so the assists are going to

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come, and I mean hopefully the
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has had some more time to gel
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no, I mean, you know, two one, three, for a

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brief period, we're both playing very
well. Kawhi seemed like he was kind

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of, you know, getting up
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not a bunch of shot, not
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like that. But you know,
plus fourteen, it's hard to be upset

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with Kawhi in the preseason kind of
any time, as long as we're coming

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off of a healthy training camp,
especially because on the flip side, I

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like when I see Kawhi Leonard taking
more threes and knocking him down, because

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last season he got off to such
a slow start from the outside. You

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could tell his legs weren't there.
Oh, what's all there? Right now?

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I know you only took five shots, but those two three pointers.

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And I was watching him intently pregame
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when his pregame workout as opposed to
what I saw last season, He's moving

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faster. It's noticeable. He's noticeably
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here. But when Kawhi says part
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better vibes at training camp because the
guys see him at one moving with

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more agility out there, that's a
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loaded heading into a season knock on
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about you know, who do you
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that's the best and everyone else on
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and Kawhi and they've been able to
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far. And Tyler was talking about
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he's making you guys run. They
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this training camp. They did look
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It was kind of wonky given the
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you know, they were playing some
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and stuff like that. But this
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up, but right now, not
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a whole tonight. But still,
you know, you gotta be happy with

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what you saw. We saw some
great stuff on the break from Russ,

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he found Nico for a corner three
that was just I think, like picture

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perfect. What what Clippers fans kind
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stuff like that. And I thought
Nico did okay as the starting for I

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think it's hard to rotate, you
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in a row. But Nico did
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hit multiple threes, he grabbed boards. It was a quiet night for the

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most part. That's exactly what he'd
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as the starting four. Yeah,
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basketball players. I think one of
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far out. He also got off
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and a three point shot was hit
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just below forty percent. I thought
he looked good. He showed a little

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bit of bounce on a player where
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swat a shot. I don't know
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yeah, he showed that the hops
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got a lot of wear and tear
because he's playing every summer with France.

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But Nicholas Batoum, I still think
can be a very valuable player on this

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Clippers team. But you mentioned Russell
Westbrook there. He finished with seven assists

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in just one turnover, and while
he found Nicholas Patumb for that three pointer,

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he wasn't ten on getting the ball
to a Vita Zubots, as were

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the rest of the Clippers early on. He had eight points in the first

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quarter alone, but Big Zoo had
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I think on one possession. Like
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was just dealing with Yeah, I
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to Seattle had some of those backspatties. I wouldn't have been surprised if it

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was some travel fatigue stuff. But
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great to see them getting Zoo touches
early since he you know, didn't get

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as many as he wanted in the
Seattle game. You know, hands,

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Zoo's hands at this point are what
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he can catch the you know,
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to him. But he was aggressive
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and some of these guys playing hard
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what it is about a Viza Zubots, but DeAndre Jordan seems to play harder

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against the Viza Zoobots than any other
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nice to see him get a really
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in twenty twenty three, it's going
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nice for him to get you know
that kind of banging around old school post

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play. I think, yeah,
get him up to speed quickly. DJ

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did have eight to nine. I
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replacement or something with the Clippers,
and he took that personally. I don't

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know. So one of the more
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and performances was Terrence Man. To
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huge thirty nine point game or anything. It was just eight points, seven

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boards, but all four of his
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step back, yeah, Like that
is an element to his game that he

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has shown here and there. But
to see all four of his makes four

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to six shooting be that part of
his bag. That's a big deal to

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me. Yeah, I mean year
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they're working, I'm all for it. We already know how good he is

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at getting to the basket, making
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just one more thing he can do. He's not the most you know,

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versatile scorer or anything like that.
He's good at what he's good at.

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He doesn't really branch out, but
this is the kind of like nice

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little mini branch he can add to
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one more thing when he's on the
floor. I'm not totally sold on him

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being this for you. I would
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that's where the direction the tee,
you know, Tyler wants to go.

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But him on the bench, if
he's playing like this and kind of you

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know, a bit of the alpha
dog on the bench that I would look

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forward to a bench, you know, a Terrance excuse me, a Terrence

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led bench. Yeah. I just
like the fact that he was hunting out

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that spot on the floor, like, get me there, I'll take care

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of the rest. That could be
exactly baby Kawhi, the old Spider Man

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meme from I don't know if I
was into the universe across the universe,

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I forget the first one okay by
our friend Phil lord H. What more

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for you here? Both Island finished
with twelve points but for assists, and

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he got a three warn to go
after starting off the preseason over eleven from

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the outside. Then the juice in
his legs just getting downhill, trying to

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finish or setting up a vitza Zubots
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it. And I was watching him
closely on defense there was a play where

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he was absolutely trying to fight through
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That effort was there, and we
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Clippers uniform. Yeah, Bones,
I mean, the effort is there.

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You know. There was that quote
from the Denver GM about you know how

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Bones had to go because he was
what doesn't defend a kind of a me

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guy or something like that. Bones
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just like Russell Westbrooks. There's some
players where a chip on their shoulder

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had a tiny bit of something and
I think that Bones has that It's a

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little chaotic when he gets to the
basket, it feels like he jumps and

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then tries to kind of make a
decision. But everything else, I love

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the effort on defense. He puts
his chest in the guys. He's trying

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to make a difference on that end, which when you're as skinny as Bones

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is, is a big part of
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know, the turnovers not what you
want to see, but again it's preseason.

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Wonky start him on the bench kind
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thing. I wouldn't be mad if
Terrence is there to kind of help out

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some of the defensive issues because the
bench without you know, a super strong

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defender out there is, you know, something that might have to get figured

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out. But Bone just had a
good preseason. Really excited to see what

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he does in two days. He
is the Kobe Brown super fan. Chuck

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Mockler what self appointed? I mean, this is this is something you've been

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on for a while now, and
I'm here for it. We love Kobe

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Brown. I love the fact that
what's the up The thing is, I

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think he could get more minutes than
Mussa Diabatte did last year. I think

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more total minutes, will see more
for Kobe Brown. I think there's a

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I think there's a narrow path to
it. That's all I'm hoping for.

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I feel like some goalposts are being
rearranged at the moment. But that's fine,

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that's fine, that's cool. We'll
be on with Chuck Mockler tomorrow.

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We'll have a new Cliffs and Dip
podcast. Look forward on YouTube at Chuck

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Mackler's where you can find him on
X Chuck, thanks for doing this tonight

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post game. Hey, thanks for
having me. Adam