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Clippers win one thirty one to one
to two over the Jazz. Here at

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Crypto dot com arena, I'm out
of Oslin. Welcome back into your postgame

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show. This is Clippers Talk.
Coming up, we'll hear from a Beatza

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Zoobots postgame. But joined the show
right now is Chuck Mockler from Clips in

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Dip. It's a little double dip
for your post game here, Charles.

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Was tonight viewed as good process by
you? Or do you think this Jazz

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team was so inept that the Clippers
didn't learn anything about themselves, Because I

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would say the fact that they got
up for this game after what happened yesterday

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there could have been a letdown.
Far from it. No, I think

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this game was good process, I
really do. I think this game is

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maybe what people thought the game and
I think it was against the Blazers was.

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I think that's that's how I feel
about this game. You're totally right.

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This could have been a little slow. I think everyone kind of assumed

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the Clippers were gonna win, but
they came out and did exactly what I

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wanted to see him do, which
was sense of urgency. You know,

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they lost guys in transition, a
little bit, but it wasn't anything super

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crazy. But the offense was clicking, you know, at one hundred percent.

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They were focused. They wanted to
make this game easy on themselves,

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and they did that by playing hard
to start it. They hit their first

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eight shots, and at the half
they were shooting sixty eight percent from the

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field. It was their best field
goal percentage and a half this season.

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They also were eleven of nineteen from
the outside. One of the things I

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was thinking of just during the game
was, you know, I was surprised

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that James Harden was still out there
late in the ball game. Then I

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thought to myself, he must be
feeling pretty good. He looked pretty good

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the last two games. I would
say overall, he has moved better,

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he has been more aggressive. Not
many things more important for this Clippers team

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than James Harden looking more like himself
again. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest,

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I'm a little I was surprised too
that he was out there, but

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I think you must be right.
I was. I'm a little shocked at

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how much basketball he's been able to
play for the Clippers. I don't mean

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that like I thought, you know, he would be in and out of

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the lineup or anything like that.
But but he's been an absolute workhorse for

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the Clips. And yeah, I
mean, he wouldn't be out there if

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he didn't want to be out there, so they must feel good about it.

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And yeah, we'll see what happens
on you know, the twelve thirty

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game. Who knows this, Maybe
we get some guys resting there because it's

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an Eastern Conference team or something like
that. I don't necessarily want to see

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that, but I keep thinking that
they're going to give him some rest.

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But he's chugging along, and you're
right, he built a little bit of

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good process last game and really came
through tonight just with the aggressiveness and what

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you want to see. Dallas also
won earlier, so they're putting pressure on

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the Clippers to continue to win to
hold on to that four spot. The

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Phoenix Suns as well, thought Terrence
Man, who started eight of eight.

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His only miss was a three point
or a wide open shot, maybe two

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wide open and gave him too much
time to think about it. But he

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led them a score with nineteen and
was just resilient or I should say relentless

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in attack mode getting downhill and get
into the basket, which is a part

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of his game that I think a
lot of people thought we'd see more of

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this season. He's obviously been better
from distance since January first. But I

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don't know if it was just seeing
the Utah Jazz at the opponent that he

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likes to play well against. But
I'd love to see more of Terrence's man

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cutting to the basket also down the
stretch here. Yeah, I wonder if

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it was just seeing red which is
you know, I'm not mad at that

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if that's what Terrence's default is when
we played the Jazz any time, but

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now watching him get deep in the
paint as the game went on, right

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like this wasn't something that he did
a little bit and that kind of stopped.

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It was throughout the game. Harden
seemed to enjoy it too, because

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he was finding him kind of whatever
possible. So Terren getting into the paint

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something we all want to see.
There's good process happening. I'm still you

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know, we're gonna learn a lot
again about this team with that back to

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back against Poenix. But if they
can take everything they did in this game

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carried over against a much better opponent, although one that's still kind of slipping

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in the Calves on Sunday, I'm
gonna feel a lot better than I think

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we were all feeling. I mean
that I know we were all feeling,

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say a week ago. You know
what's interesting to me about them taking on

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Phoenix twice down the stretch here.
I know the Clippers are looking for wins,

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but if they did slip up against
the Suns all of a sudden,

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they could be facing them in a
first round series instead of the Dallas Mavericks.

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We've been talking about Mavericks versus Pelicans, but right now it's the Mavericks

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and Phoenix Suns who are the closest
to being the Clipper's opponent in that four

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or five matchup. How would you
feel about another rematch against the Phoenix Suns,

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Chuck, I don't know, man, I don't know if I can

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even think about any of these more
possibilities. I think you said on the

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pod the other day, we can't
control any of this, and it is

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pretty stressful to run through all the
machinations of what has happened against the MAVs

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and the Sun so far in the
playoffs. So I think I'm going to

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try and just chill on that and
let the chips fall where they may.

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But I guess I feel okay about
it would be my answer right now.

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We talked a little bit about it
on the Live yesterday, but PJ.

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Tucker got the start again tonight,
and maybe it's about I've heard conjecture that

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he just doesn't want to move around
too much of the second unit right now

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and have a little bit more continuity
out there. But what are your feelings

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with PJ. Tucker and just how
he played against Denver and then also he

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played tonight knocked down a three pointer
and just moving forward and how he can

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be useful for the Slippers team.
Yeah, I think it's going to be

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the specialty case, you know,
against Denver where you have him on Jokic,

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you have hedging and all that good
stuff that we saw. The Clippers

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really committed pretty hard to ended as
good a job as you're going to do.

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I guess a player like Jokic,
so I think you have some space

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and some utility for sure. You
know, when he plays, he seems

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to be more engaged in things like
that. I'm sure you know, practice

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is a little easier when he's a
little more into it. So it's going

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to be a small use case.
I think with Kawhi out, it's nice

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for Tyler to find how some of
these wrinkles are gonna work, you know,

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in the postseason in smaller doses.
Also, the last couple of games

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we've got, you know, the
Russ roller coaster is well known, but

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the good version of Russell Westbrook that
can really help this team. And I

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think that is kind of a template
of how he needs to play in the

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playoffs for the Clippers to get the
most out of him. But eight of

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eleven in this one seventeen points going
downhill, caught another lob from James Harden

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at the basket that got the crowd
up, also was able to knock down

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a three pointer. Seems like Russ
has turned a corner a little bit.

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The last couple of games back from
that left broken hand injury. Whos dealing

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with, Yeah, as these guys, you know, maybe it's harder to

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getting a little bit better, right
as these guys, these older guys kind

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of take these knocks that take the
fewer games to maybe get back to where

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we want to see him, you
know, just comfortability wise. So credit

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to res He's been solid and I
liked that the Clippers, you know,

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they're not losing the efficient rest games, because anytime you get the efficient res

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game, you should hope the team
wins. So he's been great. He's

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been great getting the crowd up into
it. The Clippers were in a little

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bit of a skid. I think
in the third quarter it was like an

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eighteen to eight run or something like
that, and he had a steal under

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the dunk, which I think helped
level it into that a little bit,

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which was cool to see. That's
a great point, a nice little momentum

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play there by Russell Westbrook to keep
things pointed in the right direction for the

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Clippers, who would eventually win one
thirty one to one two. Here at

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Crypto over the Utah Jazz, he
is Chuck Mockler of Clips and Dip Charles,

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I believe what do we have a
YouTube coming up tomorrow? Yes,

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we should be doing well. Sounds
good, my friend. Thanks for coming

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on tonight for a little clips and
double dip here on Clipperstock. Thanks for

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having me. Let's go clips