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Her early. Clippers are victorious in
game one of a two game mini series

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up north against the Portland Trail Blazers. They win tonight, one sixteen to

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one oh three. I, Madame
Oslin, this is Clippers talk. We

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got a little clips and double dip
for you. Though. Here you hear

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the music, it's will Updyke joining
because the Clippers won. And he eventually

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picked up his phone, Well,
how are we doing? I'm doing good,

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doing good. Uh, you know, a lot of a lot of

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people on the line when the Clippers
are are pulling out these these crucial,

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crucial victories against a stout Portland Trailblazer. Hey, I don't like the sarcasm.

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You know they just lost to the
Atlanta Hoffs on Sunday. Was it

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not a decisive victory by this Clippers
team tonight? It was definitely a decisive

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victory as well it should be.
And I, you know, I don't

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mean to get down on the team
if this is just it's one of those

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unfortunate matchups where it's kind of darned
if you do, darned if you don't.

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A win is expected against a short
handed Land Blazer's team, and a

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loss would be merely unfathomable. But
that being said, there was still some

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stuff to like in this one continued
twenty point plus games from the two one

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three connection. I thought an inspired
James Harden performance despite some of the turnovers.

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Still with fourteen assists, you know
there was a lot to like this.

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When and Paul George continues his this
five game streak of twenty plus points,

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He's shooting over fifty percent from three
over this stretch, he is looking

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to be re entering his rhythm and
hopefully hitting a late season peak. Last

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ten games, he's getting twenty four
points on fifty two percent from the field

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and forty four percent from three.
Seems good. I like the word you

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said though. There inspired inspired play
from James Harden when he started cooking that

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second quarter four to three pointers were
made, but also the way he was

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auditioned and diamond and looking for big
Zoo. Thank god, sorry, I

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I needed to see him get up
almost ten shots in this ball game after

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he got just one attempt against the
Atlanta Hawks on Sunday. They forgot about

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Zoo nowadays ever been one of off
the guys. I'm gonna say, but

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nothing comes out with they forgot about
Zoo sometimes I don't understand it, and

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I feel like that's when the game
really turned that high. Pick and roll

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finally with James Harden and Visa Zoobots. Am I wrong? Well, no,

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you're not wrong at all. And
the thing is, it's like it

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really unlocks the both of them.
Like we know how beneficial James Harden has

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been in a Viza Zoo for Viza
Zoobots, especially offensively. But let's not

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deny the inverse of that. I
mean, it helps Harden's game as a

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facilitator. It makes things easier for
him. He gets more in the flow

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of the offense, and I think
that that helped his personal scoring because he's

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got the juice he's going. So
it's it's one of those mutually beneficial things

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that just have to get back to
good to see it in this game.

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You know, like I said on
the Clifton did podcast last time we all

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chatted, was this is an easier
stretch of the schedule. This is a

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time where it's you know, you
can kind of get back to your good

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habits. You know, you can
kind of lick some of the wounds that

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you know you've accumulated over this long
season when we're in kind of this hard

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part where every time there's a there's
a bit of a hard foul, or

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every time someone's on the ground you're
worried that they might not be getting up.

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This is a great opportunity for this
team to round back into form,

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and you know, if we see
more of what we saw tonight, then

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I'm going to be very very happy
with with with where this team is at.

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There was definitely a level of concern
when Kawhi Leonard was shaking that left

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wrist and just trying to work through
it there, but postgame coach lou said

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he's good, so hopefully he's good
enough to go on Friday. Although they're

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still taking on Portland. I don't
care who's available. You just have to

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win that game because the Clippers have
the depth, and they showed it off

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tonight. A mere Coffee was out
there. No Terrence Man, no Norm

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Powell, A mere Coffee in the
starting lineup, and when he looks for

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his offense. I just love the
way he just kind of facilitates his way

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or Vanessa is his way into fitting
in with this team. What he's in

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the starting lineup, he just performs. He steps up a mere coffee.

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You know, he's starting to come
out of the funk that he's been in

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over the last couple of weeks a
couple of weeks too. Well, Oh,

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absolutely, absolutely, And you know, when but Tom was on the

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team, we know that he was
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But I would be very surprised if
some mere Coffee wasn't taking some notes too,

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because he's he's sort of formed himself
in the mold of a similar glue

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guy, albeit a couple of inches
shorter. But he yeah, he absolutely,

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he is the embodiment of sort of
the stay ready Clippers, what this

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team has been. I mean really
even preceding the two and three era,

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he is right there. The three
point shot wasn't completely going for him tonight,

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but hey, he knocks down one
more and that's a completely different conversation.

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He looks great tonight. Somebody who
didn't look too good that I feel

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like we got to talk about your
man skeleton, key Bones Highland. He

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is not looking too hot after a
great performance in Chicago. He got pulled

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early in that second quarter, I
think for Brandon Boston when the Clippers started

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to go on a run with PG
and Harden out there with Big Zoo.

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I don't know what it is the
last two games. It's strange, uninspiring

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play from Bones Highland. After how
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I don't know. He just doesn't
seem to be fully there the last two

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games. The energy, the spark, he was over four, he had

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a turnover, you know, zero
two assists. But yeah, Bones Highland,

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I don't know what it is right
now, but he doesn't look right.

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The thing that was sort of disheartening
to me, And again not to

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pile on him. He's a young
guy. He's in faced with a pretty

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difficult challenge there filling in while Harden
was out, But even in those minutes

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at the end of the game,
I know they're colloquially called garbage time.

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I just didn't like how disengaged he
looked. Because I understand that the game

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is in the bag, don't have
to play like it's the playoffs, but

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I would like to see a little
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disengaged, especially on the defensive end. It's one of those things that he

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just has to tighten up. You
just have to tighten up because you look

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at the team right now, especially
you know, with Norm being in the

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bench, and then obviously Parent's out
tonight, which is a bit of an

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anomaly. But you just you look
at the depth of this team outside of

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your starting five, and things start
to get a little carry and if he's

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one of the guys that you can't
rely on, I mean, this rotation

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shortens to I mean, hopefully if
Norm is there, you got I mean,

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optimistically, if Russ is back,
eight guys total. Yeah, I

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look, I don't want to speculate
too much. Shoul be a body language

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expert, but it just seemed like
since Harden was back the last two games

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and Bones was back to coming off
the bench, he hasn't looked right,

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I don't know, the same focus
hasn't been there. Disengaged also an appropriate

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word. But now let's talk about
your guy, PJ. Tucker. What

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did you think of his performance tonight? Here? Will h he was certainly

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there, no, I mean,
look, racking up seven boards. He

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rackediced seven boards and that assists you
know, didn't turn the ball over,

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didn't take a shot, which is
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you've talked tobout you I know,
that you are believe that that PJ.

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Tucker can have value in a playoff
rotation. I'm not gonna say I'm completely

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off of it, but you know, offensively, it's it's not great.

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I mean, you're looking at You're
essentially looking at a four on five and

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I he's got to he's got to
take the shots. And like luckily tonight

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against the opponent, it wasn't something
that was really gonna hurt up. I

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did like I did like his high
effort feel in the I believe it was

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in the third to kind of secure
this Clippers lead. But yeah, you

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gotta take shots. I just don't. I don't know what else to say.

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This is the NBA in twenty twenty
four. There's not a guy that

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can be out there on the floor
for twenty plus minutes and not take a

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shot. I'm sorry, Like Dennis
Rodman would have to take shots in today's

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game. You can't be out there
doing nothing. You can't do what he

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and Ben Wallace used to do.
You become a liability. Guys hunt you

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out too much, or they just
don't guard you at all. And it's

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fair to say they're playing four on
five at times on offense when Pj's just

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hiding in the corner and not taking
a shot. He's been better in that

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area recently, but twenty five minutes
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I did like his effort on the
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defensively. For the most part,
I still believe he can be a situational

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defensive specialist in a playoff series against
the right opponent. But we'll see what

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happens moving forward with the offense,
because it is something to be desired,

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and we're not asking a ton just
he has to take the shot that he's

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taken the last fifteen years that corner
three. Not many have been better than

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him. You know who is happy
to take a shot tonight, Daniel tight

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my man one from three tonight.
If he is somehow finding his three point

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stroke late in this season, that
is going to be an interesting wrinkle to

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watch for especially given the, like
I said, the shakiness of what this

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depth could look like in an actual
playoff rotation. Putting Chuck Mockler in those

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shooting splits he had for his career
on Daniel Tyson a body bag tonight going

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two of two from the outside,
Just how are you going to stop this

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guy? Last one for you here? Though, Chuck? Do you just

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want to see the exact same type
of ballgame from the Clippers on Friday?

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What are you looking for as we
move down the stretch here? What fourteen

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games left? I think now in
the regular season one that is good process

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in your mind, it's will.
This is will get the name right.

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I was just thinking about Chuck.
I'm sorry, I just bodied him and

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now I bodying myself Chuck on the
brain. Yeah, I want to see

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more of the same in this one, A comfortable leave. I liked that,

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you know, say what you will
about the opponent, you still have

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to beat the teams in front of
you. And I like the energy.

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I like the way the team did
get locked in. Still a bit of

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a slow start initially, but they
overcame it. I just want to see

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more of that energy, more of
that connectedness, and more of getting back

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to like I know this team says
that they don't have an identity, but

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it just it doesn't feel like that's
true, given you know, the nine

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game stretch that we saw, given
the sample side that we saw going into

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the All Star break, I just
think they need to get get back to

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basics, and I think a big
part of that is keeping hard and engaged,

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and I think along with that is
keeping Zoo involved offensively. It just

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opens things up for everybody. It
gets everybody easy shot. James Harden said

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that the biggest, the biggest thing
that he can do is stay aggressive in

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keeping his teammates engaged, not necessarily
always looking to score for himself, but

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getting into those double digit assist numbers. We know how good the Clippers can

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be when he's there, and he's
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So let's do that. Let's let's
generate good shots, Let's get some

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easy looks, and let's let's stack
up a couple of wins while we have

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a little bit of breathing room right
now in the schedule. Once again,

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not to bag on any of our
illustrious opponents over this next couple game stretch,

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Well said, he is Chuck Updyke, I mean Will Mockler, I

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mean Will Up Dyke of Clips and
dip pod. Well, we got a

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YouTube I think coming up maybe alive
this weekend or something, who knows,

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but thanks for coming on tonight doing
a little clips and double dip here on

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Clippers Stop my friend. Absolutely always
a pleasure and, as our co host

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Charles Mockler always says, let's go
clips, let's go clipper rist