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Welcome back. In the Clippers talk, we got a little clips and double

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dip with Will Updyke. Now,
Will I want to start with Big Zoo

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because we've got a lot of calls
on it. Rightfully, So, since

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November seventeenth, with the new starting
lineup, he's at thirteen and a half

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points per game, he's at ten
boards per game, he's shooting almost seventy

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percent from the field, and just
looking like a new man and a made

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man, as I like to say, out there, because they're involving him

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much more now and they respect and
trust Big Zoo. Oh, I mean

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he was absolutely huge. Look he
turned into that double double guy that we

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always knew was in there. He
just needed the right point guard to un

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locket and defensively like what he does
cannot be overstated, and he played.

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He played use of Nurkic off the
for tonite and the Suns were completely out

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of moods. They had nothing else
to do. They tried to go small,

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just and just shoot the Clippers out
of the building. Didn't work.

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The defense was too good and the
Clippers were shooting the Sun out of the

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building themselves. The efficiency to night
was overall insane, but the level that

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Zoo has gotten to. Really,
I mean it not only raises the floor

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for this team, but if you
don't see it, like elevating the ceiling

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or smashing the Clippers through whatever ceiling
has been holding them back, you're missing

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it. You must be in the
shadow of Big Zoo and you're blinded.

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The sun is blocked out. I
thought Kawhi Leonard in a much he had

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bounced back performance, did it on
the defensive end those four steals in the

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fourth quarter, and it was him
and Daniel Tye kind of working in unison.

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But Kawhi's defense on Kevin Durant in
the third quarter only gave up three

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points when he had twenty in the
first half. Tone setter leader, guys

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get in line and they follow him. They're just a different ball club whenever

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they have Kawhi Leonard. And I
know you can say that's obvious, but

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to me, it's more than the
numbers. There are intangibles. There's an

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attitude there, there's that safety blanket
of having Kawhi Leonard out there. Just

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I thought a great defensive howarts from
him? Yeah, I mean one hundred

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percent. Like look, I feel
like the big criticism has always been at

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this Clippers team in the two and
three era. Oh there's not a leader.

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There's no leader. They don't have
that vocal voice in the locker room.

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Kawhi is the silent leader and he
always does that. He had a,

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you know, a rough game against
the Lakers, not his best performance,

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not the level that we've seen him
at so far this season, and

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tonight, you know, struggled a
little bit offensively, kind of got it,

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started things going in the right direction. But defensively he can always pick

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that up. That is one of
those things that's always going to be in

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his backpack pockets. He's got the
motor. You know, he's he's played

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the most consecutive games I think he's
ever played as a Clipper. Like he's

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he's locked in. He's looking great, and I mean, you know,

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this team goes as far as Kawhi
carries them, and right now it's looking

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like he's ready to do a lot
of heavy lifting. I thought Paul George

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also was a tone setter in the
first quarter, just Punk and d book

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I think he had I want to
say, three of his four makes in

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that first quarter were on Devin Booker
ten points, just like in Phoenix.

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He gets up for this matchup and
the Clippers followed him as well. Oh,

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I mean one hundred percent like Paul
George offensively, I mean on both

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ends before really, but offensively,
he is so smooth with it. He

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was another one of those guys like
the Sun's just offensively. They had no

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answer for him. There was just
nothing then. There was no way to

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really slow him down. And yeah, he's been absolutely great. I think

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this is one of those matchups he
circles on the calendar. You know,

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the Sun's gotten the better of the
Clippers and two playoff series. I don't

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see that happening again, even with
this fully amped up stuns. I mean,

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as long as the Clippers are healthy, I wouldn't have seen them losing

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those two series if they had Kawhi
Leonard for all of them, and Paul

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George was missing all of it last
year too. Terrence Man ten of his

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last eighteen makes from the outside.
Now, I think that's over the last

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four games. Kawhi Leonards spoke about
a post game, so you just gotta

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keep shooting the basketball, making those
open shots. Everybody has slumps. It's

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about fighting, keep shooting and keeping
shooting out there. Unquote. I just

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love that Terrence Man was able to
work through this shooting slump because everything else

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he does is so important. The
shooting is almost like a bonus at times.

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But now I don't know how you
stop this starting lineup when Terrence Man

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is going from the outside too.
Yeah. Absolutely, it's just another weapon.

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It's another feather in the cap.
And I think the great thing about

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the shooting thing. I mean,
obviously he's scoring, which is is cool,

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but I think that he has he's
gotten that confidence back. We're seeing

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less of an indecision. He seems
a lot more sure of himself on the

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floor, which you know, we
know he has the skills that we know

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he has the tools to play at
an elite level. We've seen it,

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Frankly, we've seen it. We've
seen it gets them to a Western Conference

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final, So you know, it's
good. It's good that he's getting the

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offensive part of the game going,
because even through that slump, I thought,

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you know, I thought demands to
remove Terrance from the starting lineup were

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rash at best, absolute insanity at
worst. So it's it's good to see

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him turn that round. And it
was bound to happen, right we know

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what he is. He's a high
thirty percent shooter. You know, kids

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seem forty if you will. So
it was bound to come back. It's

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law of averages. You just got
to shoot through it. Three or six

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from the outside. I seen it. Little half baked reference there for you.

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One more here, Daniel tis fantastic
run in that fourth quarter he Kawhi,

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James Harden all kind of working together
to open that game up. He's

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been amazing. I still think they
got to reintegrate Mason Plumby at some point

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just because of his size. He's
the much better rebounder and finisher at the

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rim. But Daniel Tice in the
Clippers time of need, I don't know

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where this team would be without him. Yeah, absolutely, Entice, another

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guy. I gotta give credit to
you for playing through. He started out

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one for three, the hands flicked
a little rough, it was like a

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little wobbley. And then yeah,
in that fourth quarter he lit it up.

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And he and you know, James
Harden have a great connection. It

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just type has been great. So
this is in no way disparaging him.

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I think he's been an absolute,
an absolute great piece, and he has

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definitely helped the Clippers turn things around
on this on this tear that they've been

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on as of recent But you know, watching James Harden out there with Tys,

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you just I mean, you've got
to kind of marvel at the possibility

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of a second unit with James Harden
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I it's boggling my mind. It
just seems like it would be so devastating

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and very difficult to slow down having
an actual seven foot are out there to

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back up due. I think it's
gonna be great. And Tys I still

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think has a place in this rotation
and come playoff time. You know,

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he's an interesting piece. He's another
move that you have. And with the

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Clippers getting a little bit smaller across
the wing, I like this sort of

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versatility that they have at the five. I think it's interesting. I think

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it's something a little bit different and
with the shooting that they have to go

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around it, there really isn't a
super wrong combination. And I think Tyleru

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has been it has been kind of
dialing in the lineups a little bit.

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I like this game that you know, we saw very minimal of Westbrook and

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Harden on the floor together it was
like it was like maybe a minute it

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was. It was not very many
possessions. But he's getting these things figured

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out, and it's not just the
closing lineups, like he's figuring out how

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to maximize things throughout a forty eight
minute game. And I mean, it

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looks really good. It feels like
such a turnaround from from last night,

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which which really felt like a pretty
big disappointment. And it wasn't necessarily a

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step backwards, but it didn't feel
like the Clippers that we've seen since they've

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turned things around in the Harden era, playing them out like it's the Golden

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Globes. I'm sorry, Well,
we had to do it. We gotta

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get out of here. Clippers win
one thirty eight to a little eleven over

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the Phoenix Suns will Opdyke of Clips
and Dip. We'll have a YouTube for

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you tomorrow before we get out of
here. I'm sorry, Mark, I'm

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sorry, Jose, I'm sorry others. I couldn't get to you on the

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phone lines calling on Wednesday. I
do want to say thing Clippers organization,

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Ralph Lahler, Brian Seeman, Noah
Igo, Carlo Jimenez on the call,

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our producer tonight until Wednesday at six
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