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Clippers respond in a big way,
well, a big victory. They went

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one forty to one fifteen over the
Wizards here at Crypto dot Com Arena,

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and it really wasn't even that close. The starters were out midway through the

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fourth quarter. Welcome back in.
This is Clippers Talk. I'm out of

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Maslin. We got your radio voice
of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez here tonight.

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It's a special addition at Clippers Talk. But it is not like one

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of those Star Wars special editions.
Didn't like those. You heard the music

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there. I thought Rogue one,
Rogue One's fantastic. Okay, I'm talking

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about those special edition episode four,
five, and six. Oh okay,

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they're bad. I actually own what's
called Okay, maybe I don't own it.

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I've heard of something called the despecialized
editions. I haven't heard of this.

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Look it up on lote. It's
pretty interesting. Okay, you might

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have to go to the dark.
All right. We got Chuck Mackler on

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with us from clips in after tonight. With the news coming out that Russell

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Westbrook fractured his left hand, Chuck, what was your initial reaction to the

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unfortunate news with Russ. I think, you know, everyone's was probably pretty

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similar as you just feel bad for
Russ. Right, this is the best

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team he's been on May I don't
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to ever, you know, probably
his best shot at winning a RAG lately

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for sure. So you just feel
gutted for Uss, especially on you know,

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such a special night for him,
and and things like that. And

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then my thought immediately went to,
well, obviously this is no a chance

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for Bones Highland, but now we
have a this is a big rotational hole

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to fill furthest the rest of the
year, right, Like I think everyone's

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seen the figure, like six weeks
or something like that is the usual timeline

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somewhere for people coming back from a
hand fracture. So bum for Uss.

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And you know, thankfully Bones is
young, so his legs will be fresh

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because we're gonna need him starting Sunday. We've got kind of a roundtable conversation

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here. Carlo Jimenez, your radio
voice of the Clippers, is with us.

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We got Chuck Mockler on the phone. Nobody pressed the panic button or

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anything like that, or just bring
it together a little bit of the Clippers'

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brain trust, if you will,
to try to work through what they're gonna

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have to figure out now without Russell
Westbrook. But Carlo, we talked about

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it a little bit earlier. Bones
is somebody that can at nite and be

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a spark for this team. We've
seen it before and you're gonna need it,

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because, as Chuck knows, it's
March. We're here. We're here.

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It's no more talking about it.
We are in March. It is

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March first, and there's gonna be
tired legs. There's two three games in

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four days coming up. Both include
Milwaukee and Minnesota. So it begins now

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for the Clippers. Who is gonna
be that energizer who was going to fill

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that role for Russell Westbrook. Bones
Hyland with his offense, seems like a

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perfect fit for this Clippers group.
Charles, what did you think of the

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performance from PG thirteen? It just
felt like, Oh, he didn't miss

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any time. He just hit the
ground running. Yeah, he hit the

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ground running, not as you know
I from three. It was a little

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rough. He did only get six
attempts up, which which isn't what he's

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usually gonna take. But no,
he looked spry, he was moving really

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well. He got six boards too, which I think is also kind of

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a really encouraging thing for the Clippers. Rebounding has been kind of rough recently,

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so PG being back feeling good enough
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go in there and get the boards
was good to see. But we're gonna

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need the scoring, you know,
come Sunday and Monday. But encouraging signs

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from Paul George and more encouraging signs
from Terrence Man too, which was awesome

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to see. Terrence Man is four
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a different player offensively. We know
all the intangibles and everything he brings and

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being that connector out there with starting
unit. But I believe he's been in

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double figures his last four games.
Coming into this one. He was averaging

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almost eighteen his last three games.
Another efficient game for Man. Yeah,

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six or seven from the field,
twelve points. Clippers continue to improve now

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at fifteen to two when he scores
in double figures. You want to talk

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about guys who when they have good
nights, usually things work out for the

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Clippers. Terrence Man is one of
those guys, and I thought it was

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interesting at him when I asked ty
Lou pregame about you know, what has

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he done to turn the corner?
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He's great. He's being aggressive on
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out in transition. And we saw
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mean climbing that imaginary ladder and rocking
the rim. So I think, you

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know, Terrence Man can continue to
play like this. What a spark that

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would be for the Clippers, considering
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he was for the most part struggling
to find a rhythm offensively. If he

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could be a ten plus point a
night guy the rest of the year,

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look out if you're a defending team
trying to match up with the Clippers that

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put back dunk he had off the
Kawhi. This, I believe in the

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third quarter was special. He just
has more pop. And there's been some

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murmurs that and Chuck, I think
maybe you've heard this too, but he's

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still that ankle injury was more severe
than people realize. You know, he's

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getting back to that athleticism that we've
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that was nagging on him a lot
longer than I mean, I think

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any of us kind of expected right
when it happened in real time. I

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remember everyone kind of being a little
concerned that he was kind of right back

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into it. But yeah, he's
looking fully healthy. His cuts have been

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great. He's been making the right
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ball. James Harden also his I
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you would use for James Harden right
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but he is getting downhill a lot
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against the most you know, stalwart
of defenses, but Harden being able to

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get into the paint really helps the
Clippers offense, even when the pick and

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roll or with the pick and roll
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special. He had twenty one points, but a little bit more burst from

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him. I felt like this was
one of the better games from Daniel Tyson,

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Mason Plumbley with out of Iza Zubats, they were more physical out there.

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I felt like Big Plump gave him
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quarter. What did you see from
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I mean I thought he was able
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I thought he played within himself for
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night and he finishes with a double
double. That's huge for the Clippers off

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the bench, and I thought he
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It's something the Clippers give them credit, averaging sixty points in the paint their

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last two games, and that was
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six games and six five losses stretches, they were dominant in the Payton nine

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in and nine out, So to
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positive for the Clippers. Charles,
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The backup Big Tonight just filling in
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They were awesome. Daniel Tye starting
games. He's been really efficient and

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he's kind of surprising you. Daniel
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feel like when he's efficient, and
I don't mean that disrespectfully towards Daniel types,

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but you look up and it's kind
of like when Jamichael Green used to

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come in for some random spot starts
for the Clippers and he'd be like six

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of seven or something like that,
where you're like, Wow, like this.

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This was a great way to kind
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because that is the shakiest part,
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Plumbly, I love what Carlos said
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he only tried to run the break
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Sometimes he gets a little point plumb
happy out there. But no hats

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off to them. We talked about
them need to be better on the pod

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than they are. And hopefully Big
Zoo can go on Sundays and battling not

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fever this whole week. So hope
he travels with the team and hope he's

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hied field. Obviously against Minnesota,
it would be huge to have a Vitza

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Zobots back. Last time he was
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and there's twenty one point loss here
at home. But plumbly, a

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little baby hook in the fourth quarter, I thought, some good defensive possessions.

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Daniel Tye had a huge dunk in
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pointer in this one, and he's
been showing that ability. He hasn't taken

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a lot, but he has been
efficient so far from the outside. Carlo

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and I think it's it's just the
threat of that that opens things up for

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the Clippers because now when Daniel Tye
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Gobert can't be in a deep drop, right. You can't be five feet

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into the paint because if you pick
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has to come out from the top
of the arct something tight. Lu talked

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about pregame about Anthony Davis SA the
Clippers found a lot of success against ad

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because Tys pulls him out of the
paint, forces him to play away from

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the rim, and the Clippers can
get a lot more buckets underneath the iron

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so uh in that ability, his
ability to hit threes with consistency just gives

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you so much more flexibility in the
offensive end, and we've seen it the

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last two games. Lastly, here
Chuck looked like Kawhi Leonard just had a

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little bit of a mean streak in
him tonight with some of those dunks he

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had. The way he yammed on
Kyle Kuzma to end the first half after

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Kuzma caught Daniel Tice at the rim, that was nasty. I believe he

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had four dunks in this one,
and there was just a little bit more

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pop out there. I don't know
if he was upset personally about what happened

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against the Lakers on Wednesday night,
but this was more of that a man

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possessed Kawhi Leonard. Yeah, well, I can't imagine he felt good about

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what happened on Wednesday night, so
this is fair. Probably came in with

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a bit of a chip on his
shoulder and really wanting to get into the

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road trip on the right foot,
right, because it's not just the back

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to back. They also played the
rock for you know that three and four

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in Houston. So Kawhi and Harden
not having to play the fourth just because

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of how well they were playing in
the first three quarters is awesome. And

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yeah, I hope Kawhi is a
man possess because when that happens that he's

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the Clippers pen multiple games in a
row. I guess I was alluding to

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some of that chatter that people were
talking about, Oh Lebron James got the

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best of him. It's like,
guys, how many games straight did they

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win against Lebron? And how many
times did Kawhi Leonard get the vessel Lebron?

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How quickly we forget. We'll never
forget. Chuck Malkler, No,

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the best Chuck. Are you sleeping
okay? Because March is here? Are

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you? I feel like you're talking
about the nightmare and now it's it's a

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arrive. It's not a nightmare if
you don't sleep, Carlo, that's something

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you'll learn smarking old macho man Randy
Savage line, I'm living in a nightmarels.

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Thanks for coming on post game tonight, my friend. We'll talk to

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you on the YouTube tomorrow. Yep, thanks for having me. Let's go klips