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What is going on, Clippers fans? Well is going on? I don't

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know. Welcome to an impromptu episode
of Clips and Dip Season two, episode

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forty six. Impromptu because the Clippers
just had their best regular season win I

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think since the Wizards that come back
against the Wizards with the Luke Canard four

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point play and everything. There was
no zobots. The Clippers win this game

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in absurd fashion, one fifteen to
ninety six. And I'll tell you what,

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it wasn't that close, U,
it was not. I don't know.

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We're live on YouTube right now over
at YouTube dot comm slash at Clippers

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podcast. Will how are you feeling
after whatever? The hell? This was

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absolutely ecstatic. It's it's so interesting
that both of these games, it's so

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hard to take any thing away,
but this is I mean, the Clippers

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just given on. They were on
the second night of a back to back,

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and how late they got into Boston. It's just absolutely incredible. I

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I talked a little bit last night
with Adam and I wasn't completely ruling out

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the win, but I did not
think it was going to be like this.

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No, we're waiting for kind of
the final breakdown for per quarter stuff.

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To come in, but the Clippers
in the third quarter justted. Celt

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took care of business on a different
level. Man, That was it this

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game. Like the Celtics shot horribly
in this game. So did the Clippers.

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Were They were both terrible to start
though from three? Yeah, I

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mean they both ended ten to forty
from three. Both teams were ten for

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forty from three. It was horrible, both teams missing their starting center.

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I don't know, it's like this
one is I don't know. This feels

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fan. This is the best win. This is the best win of the

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season by far, bye by Miles, by leaf. It's not close.

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It's not close. This felt different. And these teams always play each other

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like for the most part, you
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this year, but these teams generally
play each other pretty close. These are

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usually pretty exciting matches to watch,
and have been throughout the two and three

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era actually even going back to the
year before. But this this was on

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a different level. I talked yesterday
with Adam about what they need to do

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well and set the defensive tone,
and I thought, like the defense really

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from both sides, but especially from
the Clippers to start this game, was

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playoff like. That was kind of
it was playoff level. Yeah, And

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the way that they answered the bell, right, Jason Tatum came out and

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scored seven straight points for the Celtics
to open the second half, and the

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Clippers just rolled with it. They
said, Okay, great, We're gonna

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answer every single bucket that you managed
to get. He felt a little comfortable

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early to start this game. You
know, he's had good games against the

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Clippers before. But the defensive intensity, like you mentioned from Kawhi to start

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this game, Paul George looked great. Daniel Tyson hasts to get a shout

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out. I thought, yeah,
he had a great game, best game

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of the Clipper of his Clippers career, I think for daniel Tye. He

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shot eighty eight percent eighteen and seven. Some of that was in garbage time.

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But the rebounding in this game,
the rebounding numbers make me really happy

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from the Clippers in this game.
Listen to the amount of boards guys got.

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Kawhi seven boards, Paul George six
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Harden eight. You had Daniel Tye
with seven boards too. Every single

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bigger guy was contributing in the paint
to grab boards, which is what everyone

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was concerned about, which makes total
sense. The Southern knock with the Celtics

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team, you know on the Clippers
size, but everyone was crashing the boards

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tonight. It was yeah, this
is again, this is a different win.

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This is a different kind of win
than we're used to seeing from the

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Clippers. On the second night of
a backpack they got it at two am.

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Could not be happier with I mean, not to be too negative,

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right, but like these are the
kind of games that we've expect kind of

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got getting dumped on us. So
that throughout times in this two and three

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era, like a really big matchup
and and you know it kind of fizzles

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out and this team like they overcame
stuff too. Like it's it's not like

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the like we talked about three point
shooting not being red hot, James not

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super efficient, still great out there. Yeah, everything is just coming together.

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And I loved what we got out
of the role players. Terrence Man

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and a Mere Coffee really stood out
to me. They were both great.

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Russ had that little sort of rough
stretch from the first quarter into the second,

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and ty Tye subbed in Terrence pretty
quickly. There, and Sharrett shot

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off that when Terrence got subbed in, what did he get? He got

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a dunk and then a steal or
a steal and then a dunk, like

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it was immediate impact. We do
have to talk about this X Bongo Project

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in the chat. Also, this
is a live edition. If you're listening

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to the podcast, thank you so
much. We appreciate it. If you

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want to hang out with us on
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will go live over on YouTube just
kind of out of nowhere. It's very

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fun YouTube dot Cole Blush at Clippers
podcast X Bongo Project is saying, what

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can you say about that Russ technical
dunk? It was bullshit? Right,

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he should not have I thought it
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little soft. But I think you
have to consider the context of like he

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didn't hit in the face though like
he did, he did hang on the

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rim a little bit, and the
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I'm true, that's true. Don't
stop. You don't need a baby.

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These guys. Yeah, we're gonna
they're big boys out there. We're gonna

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talk about everyone who was great,
but Zexus, Howe pointed out James Harden

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with nine, eight and seven plus
thirty six. Lmao. James Harden was

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two for eleven in this game,
didn't make a three and was still plus

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thirty six. His gravity, though, and the way he was able to

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penetrate the paint was still I mean
just immensely that immensely valuable. And he

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took that knock on his ankle too, both angles. Yeah, yeah,

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he like came into the game with
a knock and then landed on was that

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Jalen Brown. Yeah, Jalen Brown
with the reach in the landing space,

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which Jalen Brown I thought was pretty
chippy to start this game. I'm not

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saying that he's dirty or anything like
that because I don't think that, but

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like he was definitely he was definitely
physical early. He was looking to set

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a tone. He didn't get called
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which kind of drove me crazy because
yeah, that was bullshit. I

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hate the push in the back,
like you know you're in the area,

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you have no idea it's coming.
And again, I know the intent wasn't

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there. He wasn't trying to do
anything bad. It was just clearly a

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foul and probably should have been called. And I think I'm feeling a little

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bit sensitive about Kawhi because he didn't. He's not an all star starter,

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and I feel like you and working
yourselves into furies. He's not always getting

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the superstar calls and it's bs no. I agree. If you're new to

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the pod. Adam Oslin who works
for A five seventy and is doing the

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post game right now, if you
want to go listen to it, help

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him out. Uh is our other
co host. But what we're just doing

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the live today, David Naga said, Jayalen Brown is upset because Paul told

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the vaccines work four game. Thank
you for that, David Daggie, that

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was very funny. One last thing
on Harden, if this was if you

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didn't know exactly what Harden brings to
the Clippers and what makes the Clippers so

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much better with James Harden, today
was the example. Today was the game

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to watch and say, this is
the man directing traffic. Like you mentioned,

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his gravity, his decision making is
fantastic. He's making Mason Plumley look

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like he's played a lot more basketball
in this starting lineup than he has.

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And Mason Plumley was great today.
But the reason Mason Plumley's great and it

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goes four to four, A large
part of that is because James Harden is

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helping him look good, so which
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Is it's pretty remarkable, even at
this stage in his career. Seven

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to one assist a turnover ratio for
James Harden tonight. Someone mentioned in the

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comments as well, fame O whatever
that is, mentioned that the Clippers took

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care of the ball on this one. Evan turnovers for the Clippers of this

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one, which in a game where
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game wasn't This is such a weird
game to try and contextualize a little bit

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too, I think. But we've
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of Paul and Kawhi and then we'll
try and contextualize this, I guess,

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But what did you like from Kawhi
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didn't I like? He had twelve
what twelve of our twenty six points in

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that first quarter. He was just
a huge tone setter. Yeah, it

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was just incredible, and I thought
in the third two he was a huge

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reason that we pulled away. He
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I mean I always make the comment
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He was, let's wrap this up, I'm ready to go home. That

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spin on Pretcher and then dunking on
late Cornet, it was like, this

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is over. The game is over, everybody, Let's run the clock.

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Let's get nasty. Sixty six percent
from the field, and a game where

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the Clippers only shot forty four percent
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second best on the team, two
steals, two blocks. Again, he's

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doing everything so well on both ends
of the floor. Totally Paul. I

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thought Paul had a little bit of
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his percentages aren't that bad. Finished
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a he had like kind of a
classic Paul George turnover early. He got

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stripped at one point. But threes
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only ten made threes by the clips, he'll go to three six agreed,

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No, he he turned it around
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you know, he's always going to
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Yeah, and the threes. I
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Six. Yeah, I guess just
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James James doesn't really have it going. You would like to see Paul maybe

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score a little bit more. But
like, what what you want me to

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take away? Yeah, you know, I'm trying to put some thorn with

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these roses because it is like,
I mean, this is just it's a

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hard game. It's unbelievable. Right
now, this is what. This is

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the third streak of five or more
wins for the Clippers this season. Yeah,

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what you were saying, let me
pull it up. I'll have to

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pull up the schedules and results.
But I just and also PG only twenty

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two minutes. Let us know in
the chat. But like, have the

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two point three era Clippers and can
you, like during any other stretch have

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you thought of them as this dominant
like maybe in twenty twenty. Yeah,

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but I mean not like it just
it's different. It looks different. So

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yeah, right now we have oh
it's not that. No, So they

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have the nine game This is the
third five at least five game win streak

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for the Clippers in this season.
They had the niner, they had a

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five and then this is five again, so this is unprecedented territory. Chaizong

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mentioned in the chat killed the season
transition to night after forcing their on turnovers

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too. That was a thing that
was a big difference to me in this

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game was the Clippers would get a
deflection and then sometimes in years past,

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on the second nd of a back
to back, something like that happens,

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and maybe they don't get back as
fast enough. That happened one time early,

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but then every other time that they
had a chance in transition, they

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were running, they were ready to
go. Like I think I can count

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on one hand the amount of times
I've said the Clippers don't look like the

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team that played yesterday when they know
this is one of the times this is

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maybe the fifth time that that's ever
happened. So they're they're making good on

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every single thing they said in the
offseason so far. Yeah, yeah,

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love it. People are saying maybe
best stretch in twenty twenty one, maybe

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small stretch in twenty twenty one.
I think that's fair. This is what's

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smart, though it is different form
of dominis now with all that off ball

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and ball movement, that's the issue. The Clippers were so good individually,

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but systematically it never really felt as
dominant as it should be. Yeah,

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even when they have, even in
twenty twenty one, I mean they had

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such an efficient half court offense,
which you know is a good indicator for

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the playoffs when things slow down.
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always struggled with the Clippers offensively is
they didn't have a lot of ability to

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sort of like change tempo or or
do a lot of other things. Like

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we would see a lot of like
possessions where you know who the ball is

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going to and you know that they're
going to kind of grind down the shot

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and you know who's going to end
up with the shot. Which was fine

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because you know they were you know, they were dominant and still still killing

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it. But seeing this completely different
look, it just, yeah, it

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just feels so much more cohesive,
so much more tangible that this is I

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mean, this is a legit contender. Yeah. I sorry, we got

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a bunch of people in the chat. Thank you to everyone coming in.

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Also, by the way, hanging
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YouTube. If you're listening, it's
gonna be available in podform two. If

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you want to force your coworkers to
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We're talking the Clippers complete shellacking of
the Boston Celtics, thanks in part to

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an incredible third quarter thanks in part
two. You know, a bad shooting

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game from the Celtics, but it's
not like the Clippers were lighting it up

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from deep in this one. They
also only made ten threes. I don't

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know does this game. So we
talked. We talked about pretty much everyone

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who. We talked about Tye,
we talked about Terrence, We talked about

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Harden a mere coffee. I think
someone I think I saw his name in

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there in the chat. Also,
JJ the boy. I'm ready to get

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hurt again. I'm fully in on
this Clippers team now. I'm I'm in

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the hopeium Den. I am,
I have my spot, I have my

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like, this is it. I'm
ready now, I am fully, fully,

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fully ready. Now punch me in
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So someone asked in the chat earlier, where you know Clippers two games

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in the Grammy road trip right now. We talked about this a little bit

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on the pod. We know the
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one. I think you and I
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Yes you said, I think you
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Adam. Okay, okay, our
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destroying, So five and two we
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you think it's time to maybe reassess? I don't know. Five and two

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is really good in a seven game
road trip, they're playing seven games in

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eleven days. They end on a
three and five. Their next is their

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next two games is that when we
get Wizards Pistons, because they I think

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that's the mid It's like this the
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Calves, Wizards, Pistons. I'm
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not gonna be surprised if they lose
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I mean, it's but also it's
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tonight. No, right, this
game didn't go down to the wire the

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Clippers. It was over after the
third quarter. Yeah, the Clippers didn't

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have to do a lot, if
that makes sense. I know they played

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fantastic, but like offense, like
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and all the same page that it
didn't look that difficult if they were expending

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a lot of effort on the defensive
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to back, it was Yeah,
it was unreal locked in where it was

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effortless. Yeah, like, so
the kas game is going to be difficult,

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but that Wizard's pistons in there,
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but I I still think five and
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I'm still incredibly happy. Oh five
and two is, yeah, it's great,

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but six and one is also.
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we said, you said that the
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I fully agreed with, and now
it's like, okay, I guess I

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don't want them to obviously lose more
and lose a game they shouldn't on this

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road trip, but it just still
is a little less. Yeah, we

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need to talk about a mirror.
David McCann had this. Emir's is a

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proper good player. Now. Great
to see very British praise from David McCann

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for a mere coffee. Amir looks
he's out playing his contract by a whole

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lot. He goes he didn't make
a three tonight, which is fine,

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but he's been on fire. Prior
to this game. I think he had

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shot seventy four percent in his last
thirteen games. Unreal what he was shooting.

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Look, I mean for a team
that we know has had their issues

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drafting and certainly in the two and
three era, hasn't had a lot of

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developmental minutes or sort of road to
develop guys on your roster to build internally,

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I mean a mere Coffee is a
huge success story both himself as a

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player and you know it's one of
the brighter spots for this for this organization

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from a from a developmental perspective,
I mean, he is a loan success

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story, one of the few.
Was it too seasons ago when he played

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in the Summer League and we were
like, this is the year that Amir

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has to show out. He had
kind of a whole home setting. He

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got ejected from a game and we
were like, what is the team?

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He had a rough offseason this off
season. He did not have the easiest

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offseason. Also real quick. David
mccannus from Ireland not England, very different.

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Thank you for the comment, Dave
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Uh No, same thing, Like
it's just the development is incredible. The

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way he's bought in. It's yeah, I don't know as wild. And

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he's clearly physically done the work.
He's worked on his shot, His finishing

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looks great. Yeah. I just
don't know what more you could ask for.

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And he is now every year he's
been with the Clippers. He's been

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with the Clippers, I mean since
twenty twenty, right, so he's been

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with this team for kind of a
long time. He's kind of a vet

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on this version of the Clippers,
a vet. Oh yeah. And it's

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nice for guys like this is a
great example for Bones Highland to see.

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To see, hey man, sometimes
I think Bones the ceiling is higher than

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a Merrors. But sometimes it's like, hey man, this is how this

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is a team where you actually will
get the playing time when it's your time.

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If you do what you're supposed to
do, you are actually going to

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get your time. We might have
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have, but that's later. That's
we're talking about all good things now.

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So he talked about a mirror.
Norm Palell not his best game. Norm

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Palell did not have a good game. Norman Russ were the two. If

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he's not sinking it from three.
You know something's up, you know something's

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wrong for the Clippers. Yes,
there's dude. There's been something happening though

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with Norm over the last like three
or four games where he is putting in

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a level of effort on low post
defense specifically that we have not seen him

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do before. He's challenged a couple
of shots at the rim kind of sporadically

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over these last couple of games,
which is just a surprise to see from

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a guy like Norm. Yeah,
he had a really tough defensive board today

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that like kind of helped push the
pace. Like something's different with how he's

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playing on the defensive end. I
think it's like when you see Zoo get

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a little pep and a step or
something like that. Like, Norm looks

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like there's a been a shift and
focus on defense, which is in a

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really good way for the Clippers.
So he was great on that aspect tonight.

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But yeah, Norman Russ not their
best nights. You know, only

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seventeen minutes for Norman this one,
yes, and then only fifteen for us.

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So it's also like credit to Tylo
Tylou did a great job. You

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know, when things were going on
with Russ, he brought in Terrence that

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worked out like Norm was had kind
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Everyone literally everyone but two guys had
such a complete and perfect game. Well,

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now that you bring that up and
some agreed, West Jenkins or Wayne

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Jenkins, I agree with this take. Westbrooks Tech was a joke. It

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was. And now that we've talked
about coffee, Like so, Joseph,

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he wants to know who will get
out of the rotation when Zoom gets back

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in four weeks, and I'm just
wondering where you're at right now, Like,

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what do you think are the Clippers
top eight guys? I have to

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go top eight. I'm gonna start
with the Joseph McGee question first, which

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also this sounds like Joseph Ryan Award
using a fake name, which would be

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really funny. I think it is
Daniel Tice out of the rotation. I

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think the Clippers like to play with
a big big they're a smallish team right

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now and things like that. I
think it might be Tye. Tyson has

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been very good. This isn't a
knock on Tye at all. But I

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don't know who else is, right, Like, who is it? Yeah,

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I don't know, it's a hard
and again sk sk is saying Tyson

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has been great. I totally agree, but like who else is missing time?

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Everyone else is playing so good in
the role is really needed. I

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think it'll just be matchup. It's
gonna it's gonna be dependent, which is

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a good problem for the Clippers to
have, especially given some of their their

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size problem. Yeah, and they're
like size some of their size deficiencies with

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the excess of guards. Yeah,
this is a really funny comment to me.

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Uh, one team was missing their
most important big but great job by

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the Clippers pushing through that adversity.
The Clippers were missing their most important bigot.

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Both teams were missing their starting center. So this is an interesting comment.

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Roger Afonso, I think they will
go nine deep. I think that's

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kind of fair. Like I don't
know who's your who's I'm I'm buying time

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right now because I don't know who
to say that my top I can't do

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a top eight. How about that
I wouldn't do a top eight. I

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think I agree with Roger. I
think we should do nine right now.

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Okay, so nine all right,
so obviously just the starters, and I'm

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including Zoo in that, not Mason
currently. Okay, yeah, so the

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starters nor, Wow, this is
harder than I thought I was gonna.

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It's really hard, honestly. Okay, this game might be coloring it,

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but I might. Damn, this
one's really hard. Okay, So I

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might go Norm Mason Coffee, Lord
Mason Coffee, and then I'll be and

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then you know, Russ. If
we're going top nine, Lorm Mason coffee,

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Russ. Sorry, I'm just looking
at who am I leaving out?

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I meet a mirror? Oh right, no, you said coffee, more

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Mason coffee. I mean you're leaving
out Russ. Has Russ is in the

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top nine. This is the top
nine. I don't know if he's in

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my top eight right now. No, And that's no shade. The Clippers

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just look literally ducking shots. Oh
God, will don't come from me,

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right, that's a bad thing about
Russell Westbrooking. You're walking in zig zags

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on the sidewalk. I hear a
curse in the wind. Yeah, William

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blast And the quote says Tice too. It's tough. It's kind of a

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toss up. I think on the
margins it is matchup dependent, though I

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think Tyler is gonna do some matchup
dependent stuff with that because it is flow

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right. We saw that tonight,
we saw effectively. You know, fifteen

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minutes is not a lot of minutes
for us. He's averaging twenty three minutes

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per game on the season for the
Clips. I know that maybe I thought

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that was that looked a little high
to me when I actually looked it up,

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But that's effective. That's a pretty
short leash in a game where the

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last seven minutes or so were garbage
time, right, So we're seeing TYLERU

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kind of play with just some guy's
rotation and it's a little more like quick

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decision. Now now that we've had
this continuity, Tyler can make these changes

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quicker. So I think we might
see some of those games where like randomly,

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it'll be like, oh, Tyson
didn't play the first three quarters,

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and then it's like he had a
little session, you know, he had

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like a little shift on the fourth
or something after ty saw something happen.

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But they credit to Tyler and the
game too. He had the guys fucking

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prepared. That's something that we haven't
really talked about a bunch is the Clippers

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look prepared for every single game this
year. They don't look like anything's really

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you know, like because sometimes you've
watched the Clippers team and you're like,

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how did this happen? How's this
happening? They're prepared, They were prepared

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for Jason Tatum to come back and
them they knew what they were supposed to

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do. If like a run happened, it was fantastic. There was a

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moment in that first quarter where Tyler
took a he took a time out pretty

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early. I think it was a
one possession game. I want to say

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it was seven to nine Celtics lead, and the team looked notably different after

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coming out of that timeout and went
on that run that I mean, you

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know, basically, we can leave
fifteen minutes early from this horrible city.

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If you guys lock it up,
it is probably what happened. William Blast

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says he will keep Daniel in rotation
even if his minutes are less. He's

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played too well to bench him like
bones that. Yeah, like that's the

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other part. Everyone's playing so well. No one is really the weak link

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for the Clippers right now in a
way that like, oh your costs on

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us games? They haven't lost very
many games. Yeah, yeah, and

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it might have been a snub to
knot for me to not have Tyson my

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top eight. It's so hard,
yeah, because you can't. But so

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that's why I think plumbly, because
I think they're gonna want to play with

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size, yeah, in the playoffs, especially right Like we saw some of

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the small ball against Minnesota, which
was interesting. We saw it. Rust

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played some center the other day and
stuff like that, which I think we

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might use to get by the regular
season when Zoo is out, say for

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four weeks or six weeks or whatever
it's gonna be. But I don't know

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if we're gonna be going small in
the playoffs unless it's like a we need

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something. It might be like a
weird thing to close out a quarter or

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something. But I mean, overall, I've got the impression. I mean,

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it seems pretty clear that Tyleru was
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the the wingstopall kind of kind of
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you know, that's a pretty reasonable
prediction to think that likely Mason. You

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know, Mason would see a little
bit more time in the playoffs with a

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more traditional size. Also, just
like with how we how James Harden's passing

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has opened things up for the bigs. It's really nice when shots aren't falling

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to be able to just toss it
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Mason. You know, we've seen
Tys do it at times, but

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obviously you know he'll struggle a little
bit more there. But what he brings

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on the defensive end, you know, I don't know, it's a And

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this is like the wingstop situation felt
like a good problem to have for the

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Clippers, but it felt actually good, it actually worked, And I think

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one of the problems with that was
it was like a lot of a lot

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of guys who had kind of overlapping
skill sets. And now we have guys

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who like worked like they were together. Not that those teams didn't didn't work

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together, but everything gels together really
well. But there's also kind of a

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hierarchy of roles, if that makes
sense, that I think leads to a

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little less confusion, a little less
like muddledness on the floor. Yeah,

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guys on what their job is like. Parents used to have to play four

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positions in a week. That's a
great point. Parents would play center one

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game, and then he'd have to
start at the two, and then maybe

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he'd start at the one like parents
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a role and he's been fantastic.
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So we want to get to a
question here booz onco I'm so sorry.

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I'm really bad at I'm really bad
at pronouncing it. But they want

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to know, in your point of
view, does something happen during the trade

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deadline? Man, My question right
now is what do you want what?

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Seriously, like, you just saw
this team. We just saw this team

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blow up Boston, Like, what
do you want what? In your mind?

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When Zoobots is back, do you
think this team is missing? Because

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I'm not saying that it's perfect.
There are moves to be made on the

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margins, for sure, but like, what do you really want and what

416
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are you really willing to give up
channeling your internab right now? The god

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damn it that I don't know,
So we got I think we both just

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saw this comment. Yeah, like
this feels like the play like this,

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this comment from Junction I want to
play that doesn't what the bed and garbage

420
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time? Like, I don't know, dude, I don't know. We've

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never been in this territory. I
personally have never had this level of belief

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in a real sense with the two
and three era Clippers. So I don't

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know what we can trade to make
me believe in this team anymore, or

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that can give me an example of
how good they can be and how lucked

425
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in they are. The biggest issue
with this Clippers team has always been treating

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the regular season seriously and not letting
their focus slip in games where it shouldn't

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slip. They've answered that incredibly well
to start this season. We're halfway through

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the season and they're playing their best
basketball as an in this era. You

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know what I mean, I have
no idea what could make this team better.

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Call me delusional, That's fine.
Six forty eight pm, January twenty

431
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seventh. We just smacked it on
the Boston Celtics with out of eats Zubats

432
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on the second end of a backpack
they got in at two in the morning

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today. I don't know what can
make this team better. And that's I'm

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sure that's glib. I'm sure tomorrow
gonna wake up and say we're still a

435
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little small against the Lakers zoos out. I don't think adding a center make

436
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any sense. We're gonna roster four
centers. No, I don't get that

437
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we're gonna switch out one of the
two really great backup centers we have,

438
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Zubats, Tyson Plubly is the best
three centers you can possibly have on a

439
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team for this team, for sure, this team, I don't think there's

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any team that has three centers as
good as those three guys. Should the

441
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Clippers maybe consider making a trade to
get a little bit worse this? Have

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you considered that perhaps their swag is
too different? They smoke too tough,

443
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too bad? They might be who
what do you see like? I don't

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I know that was kind of a
long ran. I don't usually lose my

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mind, not like that. I
guess, but like this team is just

446
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I don't know, I don't know
what makes him better. Like I don't

447
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know what size we add on the
wing. You know what I would be

448
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what size were adding on the wings? Someone to take PJ. Tucker's place.

449
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He's been d n p'd, so
we don't even need that guy,

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and they're still playing the best basketball
in the league. I would actually,

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I would actually feel really good about
standing pat, Like if this was the

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first year that it was like,
we don't need to make a move to

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improve this roster. All we need
is continuity and to keep playing the way

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that we're gonna play. I think
that that would be kind of a new

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chapter for this for this Clippers team
in the two and three era. And

456
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I mean personally, I like,
I think that's a little exciting, is

457
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it not. You look at these
teams like the Nuggets that you know,

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obviously they didn't retain everybody over the
like after the championship run, but like

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they have so much continuity, and
that's been one of those things that like

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the Clippers have never had. They've
never had the luxury of that. So

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I as much as we love trades
and I like the idea of like a

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margin move or something in theory,
like it would be kind of cool if

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we were just we're good, right, Like yeah, And and if you

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want to trade the twenty for those
of you also wondering, Will and I

465
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are just in the same house right
now. It's just really funny. You

466
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might know it's the same cat if
you want to do a big trade,

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like someone uh Seth g who has
been following and engaging a bunch with the

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account. We really appreciate it something, thank you, he said. Jeremy

469
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Grant. I gotta like Jeremy Grant. We love Jeremy Grant. I just

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you have to give up so much. The twenty thirty pick is so far

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out. It's a long way out, and I don't and I know that

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it's it's the all in year and
everything like that, but we did that.

473
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We got James Harden. If this
team looks so much better with this

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version of all in after getting hardened, I don't know. I don't know.

475
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It seems difficult and I understand.
Like the common theory, right is

476
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like if you're having a season,
this is good, you might as well

477
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put all your chips in. But
like, what if the pot's not getting

478
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any sweeter. Yeah, I like
that idea because I and that point about

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Denver's really good too. They're a
consistent team. The main guys have been

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there. A lot of people people
saying team stand Pat, Cody Jacobs,

481
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team stand Pat. Yeah, also
saying Cody Jacobs, if it's not broken,

482
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don't fix it. This team is
really good. They're gonna have some

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rest coming up ish for the All
Star break before heading into a really hard

484
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part of the schedule. I know, if you listen to the show,

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you know that we joke about March
a lot, but seventeen games, a

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fair a large percentage of their schedule
happens in like a month, So we're

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gonna really see kind of really what
the team. We know what the team

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can do. We're gonna see what
they're really made of in March. We're

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we're getting a lot of Blake stuff
in here. And I like, I

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love the idea. I I don't
know that I see it like for the

491
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vibes. What vibes, I don't
know, your own personal nostalgia vibes,

492
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I mean for my own personal lies. That's what That's what's important. Trance

493
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Addict not try addict saying, stay
put in their opinion. I like that.

494
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Do we have anything else you want
to say? Like what, I'm

495
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so I'm still coming down from those
Clippers win at seven pm in LA feels

496
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much later than that, feels like
it's two in the morning. I'm so

497
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hyped up. I don't know anything
else we want to say. They're playing

498
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the Hawks or sorry, they're not
playing the Hawks. I'm out of as

499
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they're playing the Calves. Oh,
this is a nice little stat Thank you,

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Taz Vortex. Clippers are thirteen and
one with Terrence Man scoring ten plus

501
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:37,559
points. Hell, yes, love
it, Terence man. Um, this

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is a question I had. Who's
at the halfway point? Who's the most

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improved Clipper for you this year?
It's a hard question. Chat. Let

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us know who you think the most
improved Clipper is this year. I generally

505
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think it's it's like that. Well, it's it's interesting because I think we've

506
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always had this is the suspicion that
Terrence Man could do this in the starting

507
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lineup. So that's a big one. Everyone's saying zoo, which is also

508
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a good one. Like Zoo,
you know, we've always said that he

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has this double double potential. We've
been waiting every season for him to take

510
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a leap of this magnitude and he's
done it. But like, also cool,

511
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like we got a couple of Ka's. I think that's kind of funny.

512
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I could listen to the argument.
I could hear it. He's I

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mean, a top three, top
two player in the NBA, Like absolutely,

514
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David Days saying bots, I think
Zuo's a great one. We can't

515
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say James Harden, but James Harden
has improved the Clippers the most, yeah

516
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this year. But yeah, I
think I think Zoo's a really good answer.

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A Mirror and Zoo for me,
like you can pick either of those

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two guys, because a Mirror we've
seen flashes of it. We saw him

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play great in the January a couple
of seasons ago and stuff like that.

520
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But he's doing on a consistent level
and his defense has gotten so much better.

521
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So I think I have to go
Zoo just because he plays more.

522
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But it is a starter, And
like you know, I think we were

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kind of at a level where we
thought Zoo had maybe reached his ceiling and

524
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it wasn't. It wasn't a bad
ceiling by any means, but it wasn't

525
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the level. It wasn't like I
mean, he's an indisputable like he how

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many championship contenders? Could he be
a starter for? Like at playing at

527
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this level? You know what I
mean? Yeah, that's a good call.

528
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Yeah, man, what a great
problem to have. Who is the

529
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most improved Clipper. It's a difficult
question. Jaden Sanders is saying, Russ.

530
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,840
I don't know about that. Russ. He's been better this year,

531
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for sure, but I don't know
if he's gotten I don't know if he's

532
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improved as much as a mirror in
zoo. Wayne Jenkins saying Tyleru, which

533
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I think would a great take.
I think that makes a lot of sense.

534
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,239
Tyler has coached really well. He's
got the guys to buy in on

535
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the focus. After some heat from
the fans, I feel like, yes,

536
00:36:53,519 --> 00:36:59,719
people were talking about fire. I
was hearing fire Tyleru every day.

537
00:37:00,119 --> 00:37:05,679
Wild shit. Andrew Opilas says,
Chuck the Condor. He's so high,

538
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,719
he's already one mask out of the
year. How can he do any better?

539
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,360
You can't be any more improved than
that. I also don't I don't

540
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think he's a hyphe mask out of
the year. Sure, I'll tell you.

541
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The only mascout of the I recognize
is Monty from the University Montane.

542
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All right, well do we want
do we? We got to head out.

543
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I'm have to do the radio with
Adam in a couple of minutes.

544
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Do we have anything else you want
to say to these fans? We're doing

545
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,880
an episode with all three of us
tomorrow after football and stuff, but anything

546
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,079
else we want to send these fans
off with? What are you feeling?

547
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I don't know. This is just
the most real the Clippers. Look.

548
00:37:39,079 --> 00:37:43,840
I know that I think national media
and obviously Boston fans are going to add

549
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:50,239
a million asterisks to this win.
But this was real and what this team

550
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did, considering being on the second
night of a back to back, considering

551
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:59,440
the insane travel, considering the way
that we've talked ourselves into excuses for this

552
00:37:59,559 --> 00:38:04,119
team every single year. Like to
see them at this level and like actually

553
00:38:04,159 --> 00:38:07,719
making good on the promises and what
they've said, Like, this feels very

554
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:13,360
real right now, and I think
everybody should be should be super excited after

555
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:17,719
this dominant performance. I love that
that That's perfect. I have nothing else

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to add to that. We will
be back tomorrow. With the recorded episode

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with the full crew. Adam Osam
will be here too. He's hosted on

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AM five seventy. If you're in
La, go ahead and listen to it.

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I'm gonna be on that in just
a couple of minutes. Thank you

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561
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