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Last time that check just fine,
shine on my neck, Clippers fall Brett,

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last time that first time in a
couple of weeks. They lose in

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Cleveland to the Cavaliers, their first
loss on this seven game Grammy road Trip

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one eighteen one o eight was the
final. I'm Adam Oslin. You're listening

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seventy. You can also get to
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But join the show right now for
a little Clips and Double Dip. Is

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our friend Chuck Mockler from Clips and
Dip? Chuck, where was this game

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lost in your eyes or mind or
whatever? Searching for answers right now?

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Yeah, exactly. I I'm not
entirely sure. I'm honestly kind of torn

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between Kawhi Leonard being really the only
guy who could find any kind of rhythm

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out there. I gotta put a
lot of the you know, if we're

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going to go that run, I
got to kind of point the finger a

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little bit at Paul George, who
isn't one hundred percent we know he's not

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one hundred percent. It's just a
matter of how not one hundred percent is

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he And just kind of the lack
of focus there was the Calves. Really

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there were parts of this game where
the Calves really could have pulled away from

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the Clippers and they just didn't.
And the Clippers had a couple opportunities,

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especially late, to make things happen, but it was just quick bad decisions

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too. It was possessions ending really
early, you know, through through a

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bad turnover or something like that.
So I think it's one of those two

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things. Yeah, I mean,
it was still a tight game. The

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Clippers made it interesting late after they
were down double digits in the fourth quarter.

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They weren't exactly going quietly into the
night. To quote a what was

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that Bill Claxton to quote the yeah, ID four baby, come on.

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But look, it was a five
point game down the stretch. Kawhi Leonard

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was still playing well. It was
a four point game after a mere coffee

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got a two pointer. They were
fighting, they were battling. They just

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didn't execute well enough, and there
were so many little mental miscues and errors

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out there that were frustrating to watch
from a team that has been really sound

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in a lot of different little areas
that you need to be to win a

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championship. Just some of those habits
didn't show up in this one. To

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meet Chuck, Yeah, and it's
it is hard to do that for every

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single game, right, The Clippers
have played so well lately that I don't

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know if we were due for something
like this, but yeah, there was

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lack of executions is a great call. There was just yeah, the Cabs

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are a great defense, right.
We do need to give credit to the

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Cabs. They use their size really
well. It really bothered the Clippers pick

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and roll rhythm and things like that. But yeah, there was just no

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room for a lot of airs tonight. And unfortunately there were hard with I

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think the most turnovers he had he's
had in a couple of games combined.

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So I think at that point,
you know, James Harden raises the floor

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so much for the Clippers and the
ceiling, but when he's not playing well,

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the Clippers tend to maybe go the
way of him a little bit.

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It was Bill Pullman rip Bill Paxton, one of my favorites ever. Just

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want to correct myself there, This
is a game where with out of Eats's

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Zoobos it really stands out. It
really shines a light on how much he

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is missed. And I hope people
understand that because you know a lot of

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people were saying, hey, they're
fine. See they have Plumbley and Daniel

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Ties. They can make up for
his production out there. You can't.

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No one guy can. And he's
their best route rebounder, their best rint

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protector, their biggest guy. He
was sorely missed against Cleveland. Yeah,

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and I know people might look at
this game and say, oh, the

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Clippers really need more size. You
do have to remember that Zoo was gone,

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right. Tyson and Plumbley are so
good when you can tune them and

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use them as kind of a one
two punch to see what's going to work

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when you have the stabilizing presence and
literally the size of Zoo against the larger

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team like the Cavs. So,
yeah, it hurts. We hope that

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reevaluation goes well for him and he
can come back one hundred percent. I

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also kind of maybe hope PG system
the next to games so he can get

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back to one hundred percent too.
Yeah. I think, I mean,

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you're not winning a championship if he's
not right. If he can't be himself.

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So at what point do you strike
that balance of knowing the regular season

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is important. Yes, you're trying
to be a top three seed, but

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also knowing that to win it all, you got to have these guys healthy

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and you can't have this lingering groin
injury just continue to bleed into games.

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I don't know if they're just trying
to get to the All Star break and

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maybe that would be enough. But
with the next couple of games coming up

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against lesser opponents, that is an
opportunity where if Paul George isn't feeling right,

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he certainly didn't look right in this
game, it may be time to

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sit him. I also felt like
there was just a really wacky whistle in

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this game, just so many that
it took guys out of their own rhythm.

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I mean, Daniel Tice gets called
for the foul with his face.

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Uh. And I'm not saying it
was a bad whistle against the Clippers because

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that technical foul on Max Strus for
handing the ball too aggressively to the official.

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I would be livid if I was
a Cavaliers fan over that call.

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It looked like nothing, but it
didn't help. But just felt like the

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game was jumped up even more against
a team that's that good defensively. Yeah,

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I mean everything went wrong for the
Clippers. That was kind of out

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of their control a little bit,
right. The Cows were playing great.

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Mobile came back and looked really good
in his limited minutes. The Clippers didn't

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win his minutes, I think,
but he was still a problem for them

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that they had to account for and
whatnot. And yeah, it just no

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rhythm. That's what really I keep
coming back to for anyone on the team.

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Norman was started the fourth grade.
He hit a three right to open

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that but he scored ten in the
first but was quiet in the second and

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third just you know, Paul George
fouled out. Like these are all things

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where there was no rhythm to be
found in the middle of the game at

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all. How cool is Kawhi Leonard
though, I mean, come on,

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how awesome is Kawhi Leonard? The
dunk on Zara Allen, but the three

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pointer to me on Donovan Mitchell in
the far side corner, falling to his

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left back into the left chuck.
That was insane. Yeah, that didn't

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make any sense. And that three, I think was a nice microcosm of

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his game as a whole. Right, Kawhi is doing these unreal things.

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He's making things happen. He drags
the Clippers to not getting blown out to

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night. Really, that is what
Kawhi did. Unfortunately they couldn't get any

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help. You know. It was
just a little too late for some other

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guys. But yeah, Kawhi continues
to be a top three player in the

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NBA. We love it. Kawhi. Leonard tried his best, but the

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Clippers would fall by ten. He
had thirty. They lose one eighteen to

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oneh eight in Cleveland to the Cavaliers. He is Chuck Mockler of Clips and

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diff We got a new YouTube coming
tomorrow, Chuck. Thanks for the double

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dips to night here on Clipper Stock. My friend Yep, thanks for having

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me up. Clips coming up next. Back to your phone calls. Eight

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sixty six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number Clippers dropped to

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thirty and fifteen on the season.
We'll update you on the Western Conference standings

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that's still to come. We will
not go quietly into the night. Yeah,

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it's a good, good line,
good speech. Does the movie hold

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up now? Probably not, But
it might be in so bad it's good

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territory, or at least watching it
near the fourth of July, it's still

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fun. I'm at am Auslin.
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