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Time for a postgame. Look,
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Breaking down today's action with the pre
and post game voice. If you're

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LA Clippers, They're locking in every
game, every night, Adam Osland.

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The Clippers dominate the Sacramento Kings here
at Crypto dot com Arena. They win

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one nineteen to ninety eight. They
sweep the home back to back. Welcome

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into your postgame show. I'm Adam
Oslin. Coming up. We got second

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half highlights, your postgame box score. Clippers Stock on m by seventy LA

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Sports if you want to get on
early eight six six nine eight seven two

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five seventy eight six six ninety seven
two five to seventy. But we are

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rejoined by your radio voice of the
Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carlo, the

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best performance of the season, front
to back by this Clippers team, and

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it started in that first quarter.
And once again, its started with Kawhi

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Leonard. Kawhi Leonard sent the tone
hunting shots he didn't miss after the first

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quarter at him, he didn't miss
a shot and he finished with thirty one

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points tonight. I mean, he's
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It was like he was playing two
K perfect release every time string green

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green beans, you know what they
say. It's like he's seeing through defenders

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right now, like he's Superman,
which he seems to be. With the

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shot, He's just looking right through
him to the rim, and with pinpoint

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accuracy, everything is falling for the
claw. He has thirty one on eleven

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or fourteen shooting last seven games.
Now, he is shooting sixty two percent

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from the field and is shooting fifty
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Clippers are thriving longest active winning streak
in the league at him. For a

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Clippers team that lost six in a
row, you sent it. They gotta

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figure out how to win games later
in the season to come up for the

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makeup for those losses. They're doing
that right now. An excellent job taking

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on the challenge and an excellent job
rising to the challenge. I mean,

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you think about coming into tonight a
Sacramento team that dominated the Nets in their

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last game on the back end of
the back to the back they knew they

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were going to have to play strong
and come in here and make an impact,

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and so they made that tonight and
really had a great job sending the

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tone from the get go. I
mean, the Kings started the game kind

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of back and forth, but ever
since the first couple of minutes, the

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Clippers ran away with this thing.
Clippers went one, nineteen to ninety eight

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over the Sacramento Kings. And while
we have a moment, let's pause ten

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seconds for station identification. Here on
the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network, this

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is LA Clippers Basketball AM five to
seventy KLAC Los Angeles, ninety eight seven

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KYSRHD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio station
paper Jake Corner and Katie Newton keeping the

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broadcast in line. As always,
we took a couple of guys off the

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bench for our players to watch in
this one, and I thought Russell Westbrook

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and Norman Powell both performed very well. Russ just making an impact with everything

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he's doing right now. He was
a plus twelve out there. The numbers

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aren't staggering, but I felt like
he impacted winning and keeping the momentum for

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the Clippers. Yeah, and he
was an energizer from they can't go.

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I mean a guy who came in
sat the tone felt like he got those

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couple of offensive rebound scream towards the
crowd, even asking the crowd to get

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into it a couple times at him
bringing his hands to the air saying,

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come on, let's kime behind me. And then they gave him a restper

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chant. At the end of the
game when he was on the Becks Russ

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just like that, he pointed to
him, he acknowledged the crowd love it.

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It was fun to watch. That's
his role on this team. That's

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what his role is, and he
continues to show that he's accepting of that

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role and playing it to the most
effort that he can. You mentioned it

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at a break Russell Westbrook shot section
was great. He turned down a corner

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three. What do you doing?
Said? He drove to the rim,

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where he's been great this year,
finished with the right hand. The Clippers

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played their style of basketball and yeah, yes the Claw had thirty one points

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tonight, but outside of that,
at him, this is an ordinary night

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for this Clipper team. PG thirteen
didn't play the second half and the Clippers

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took a Sacramento team that finished top
three in the West last year, and

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Boat raced him here at home.
That is something we'll be monitoring. Paul

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George left with left groin soreness,
didn't play in the second half. As

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Carlo mentioned here. Russell Westbrook finished
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I thought Terrence Man also helped set
the tone. Knock down some three

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pointers, hit a couple of them, but that play on the out of

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bounds, causing the Sacramento Kings to
call a timeout. That is just hustle

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and heart and Terrence Man afterwards,
knowing that he caused them, even down

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thirty, to have to call a
timeout so they didn't have a five second

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call on them, he let out
a primordial scream. That's what his game

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is all about, the intangibles,
the little things that help you win,

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and why he's so good at it
is because he prides himself on that so

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much. He comes into games trying
to make the little play, trying to

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fight the rebound, trying to in
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he can. It's not about scoring
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doesn't need to be. He continues
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and of this offense. Clippers win
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They'll be back here on Thursday,
taken on the Golden State Warriors tiptime once

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again at seven thirty. We'll have
Clippers countdown for you starting at six thirty.

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Carlo fun time tonight. Good to
be here with you, A great

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call. We'll see you on Thursday. Well see a Thursday where we'll face

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the Draymond Green lest Warriors. I
think so yeah, don't expect him to

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be there. Miss Cleo doesn't have
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Clippers win one nineteen to ninety eight
over the Sacramento Kings here at Crypto dot

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Com Arena. Second half highlights coming
up next right here on the Los Angeles

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Business Perform Pleasure Clippers All Business Tonight. They win one nineteen to ninety eight

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on the second night of a back
to back here at crpper dot com Arena

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over the Sacramento Kings. Welcome into
your postgame show. I'm Madame Oslin.

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This is Clippers locker room. Still
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meet at follow adam A. Let's get

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the second half highlights. Clippers led
by as many as twenty nine in the

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first half. It was seventy forty
eight twenty four minutes in and after Kawhi

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had seventeen points in the first half, will he almost outdid that in the

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third quarter alone. Leonard drives by
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folder up and in Gohi with nineteen
fakes the handoff drives, the lane goes

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up and one Leonard to the rim. Leonard right Obo side step into the

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paint. He smells flood in the
water. Does he want to go up?

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Right? In and quarter? Troo
Westbrook rimes box, Eurostat picks it.

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Leonard weft corner a three yafie do
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with fourteen points in the third quarter. Carlo Jimenez on the call there and

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he was perfect from the field,
just unstoppable and thirty one minutes had thirty

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one points, was a plus twenty
one. Clippers led ninety nine to seventy

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heading into the fourth. They would
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eight victory thanks to Xavier Moon,
Kobe Brown, a Mirror Coffee, and

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Bones Highland getting into the act late, complete domination and just a dismantling of

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the Kings. Tonight here at Crypto
dot Com Arena, by your Los Angeles

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Clippers coming up next, final box
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Clippers Audio Network. LA Clippers basketball
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You're listening to the LA Clipper.
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You know, one time k Dot
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I tried to get to him.
I just want to say, what's

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up? Yeah, that wasn't happening. Wasn't him? Security stepped in as

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they should. They don't know me, but it's Kim's with Lamara. I

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had to try one of my favorite
songs playing here. Clippers win one,

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nineteen to ninety eight over the Sacramento
Kings at Crypto dot Com Arena. Welcome

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back into your post game of the
Locker Room Show. I'm Adam Oslin.

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Coming up on a M five to
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Get on early eight six six ninety
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six ninety seven two five seventy after
the Clippers hold the Kings to forty two

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percent shooting from the field, nine
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at one point Sacramento missed sixteen straight
three pointers. Dearon Fox almost non existent

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in this game, five of sixteen, just fourteen points. Demontes a bonus

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just fifteen. Keegan Murray was set
seventeen. Nice night for him. Kawhi

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Leonard, though led all scores,
he had thirty one points. Paul George

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didn't playing the second half. Left
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We'll give you an update coming up
on Clippers Talk with the Clippers shoot fifty

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two percent from the field, eleven
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thirty eight percent. I see you, Jake Warner, see walking here at

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the Crypto dot Com Arena. Clippers
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They have won ten of thirteen since
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to Terrence Man, who was asking
for that all along. This guy right

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here, all right, I won't
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Outside of Los Angeles, we are
leaving you until Thursday, Clippers hosting the

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Golden State Warriors without Draymond Green.
I'm sure tip off at seven thirty pregame

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at six thirty in LA. Coming
up next, it's Clippers Talk. This

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has been LA. Clippers basketball really
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a moment, all cease and long
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time on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Hello Clippers fans, if you're gonna

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home for the Clippers. They were
in attack mode, Adam Osley, the

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Clippers dismantled the Sacramento Kings here at
Crypto dot com arena. They went one

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nineteen to ninety eight and they sweep
the home back to back. Welcome in

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the Clippers talk. I'm out of
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two five seventy eight six six nine
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number coming up on the show.
We got Will Updike on from CND pod.

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You'll hear from Coach Lou and the
players after this one. Couldn't be

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more impressed with the Clippers in this
victory. I even got to call myself

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out now because last night I was
a little bit frustrated. I thought that

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would take something out of their legs
having to go the distance with Kawhi plan

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almost forty minutes. Paul George was
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It took everything to win by five
over a Portland Trailblazer squad missing their three

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stars, and I wondered what that
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Well, this team looked energized,
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of back to back so far this
season. We saw it against the Lakers

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in their first night or second night
on a back to back. They played

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well in that game, lost in
overtime. They didn't look tired, they

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didn't look lethargic out there. We
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held them to eighty eight points on
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the Pelicans. They played well enough, close enough to make it a game

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against the Golden State Warriors on the
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they beat Sacramento in Game one up
North tonight, though the most impressive performance

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of the season by the Clippers,
just complete domination, Sacramento looked discombobulated out

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there. They looked like a team
that hadn't played together. That's how bad

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they looked. Offensively, the Kinks
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going back over a year now.
They shot forty two percent from the floor,

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nine of thirty six from the outside. They missed sixteen straight three pointers

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at one point they were coming off
a game and maybe it's the law of

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averages where they hit twenty five to
three pointers last night up North, that

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gold won center against the Brooklyn Nets
tonight, who they shoot just twenty five

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percent from three after setting a franchise
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last night. Tonight, they shoot
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looked disorganized, and the Clippers were
smothering with their defense. Some of it's

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poor shooting, it's an off night, and maybe the basketball gods giving one

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back to the Clippers after Portland hit
nineteen three pointers last night here and they

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knocked down every open look they got, So maybe the Clippers were due for

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an opponent to actually have a cold
shooting night. But I think some of

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it had to do with their defense. I think a lot of it had

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to do with the Clippers perimeter defense
and just playing faster, beating the Kings

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at their own game. I know
the Clippers only had seven fast break points,

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but they were getting into their offense
quickly. That's what coach lou likes

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to see. But it starts with
Kawhi Leonard, who is on another level

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and otherworldly shooting streak right now.
Last seven games, he's at sixty two

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percent from the field and fifty six
percent from three. He has thirty one

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on fourteen shots, two of three
from the outside, eleven of fourteen from

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the field, and everything is falling
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Maybe he's not taking that many three
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high percentage from the outside when he
takes them. It just looks like he

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can't miss off balance left handed.
Since that runner up against Utah in a

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game where he had forty one on
Friday night, it just seems like Kawhi

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Leonard can do no wrong offensively.
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not he's still that guy, He's
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He is him. And I'm gonna
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little bit bold, but it's accurate. I think I've been watching him closely.

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This is the best he has looked
since the ACL. Now, I

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know he had that three month hot
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outside last season, but I'm just
talking about movement wise. I think this

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is the best Kawhi has looked since
coming off the ACL. He looks quicker

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on his feet, he's playing great
defense. He's right now looks like he

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should be in the running for first
team All Defense, back where he's been

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in his past. A two time
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San Antonio Spurs. He's taking up
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by thirty, Kawhi was not having
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calling guys out, he was chirping, he was barking for as much creep

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as he gets for not talking.
Kawhi is very vocal on the court if

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you watch closely. And then when
the young guys came in late to put

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this one away, it was awesome
to see he and Russell Westbrook in the

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huddle, both of them talking to
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who played twenty five minutes, a
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Good leadership there, but it started
with a Kawhi layup in transition, then

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in a jumper late in the first
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three pointer. Near the end of
the first quarter, he had a beautiful

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pass to Daniel Tice for a dunk
when the defense and all that attention comes

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his way. He has been finding
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basket, but then a jumper as
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In the second quarter, he blocked
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away out of a timeout, then
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a no look passed to a Vitza
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for an and one layup in the
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thirty one points, had a nice
little push shot, a steal where he

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just ripped it away. Free throws
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Oh, it is Kawhi's night done. Yes, that's how it is

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done. That's how you get rest, you put your team up. End

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of the third ninety nine to seventy, Clippers led by as many as thirty

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three. Kawhi is back to be
in the number one option. Now.

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Some concern with Paul George didn't play
in the second half, was out with

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left growing soreness. Don't know the
severity of it. Looking for an update

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from coach lou we'll hear from him
coming up. Obviously, you never want

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to see that. And with the
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their stars and how unfortunate it has
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Yeah, you got a little PTSD. I'm sure tonight. The hope

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would be that they saw they were
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they figured they could close this one
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That's the hope that it's nothing too
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concerns just with the minutes load on
these guys recently. Paul George played forty

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one last night, just fifteen because
you only played the first half tonight.

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Didn't seem like there was a certain
play where he came up lame it just

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the third quarter started and Norn Powell
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Clippers win one night team to ninety
eight over the Sacramento Kings, who looked

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like a team that just didn't have
an identity. They didn't know what hit

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him, and that's shocking to see
from a Kings team this connected, that

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has been this good over the past
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do. As bad as I thought
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and Kawhi Leonard went after a post
game, they were the team playing

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five guys on a string against Sacramento, and tonight they only gave one quarter

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the fourth after it was as Iron
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the Clippers up by as many as
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performances. Aviatza zubats I thought really
made an impact in that third when he

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dunked on Sabonis again, he got
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Pacers. He dominated him up north
last week on the King's home court.

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The Big Zoo had a nice hook
shot in the second quarter. Didn't have

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to play heavy minutes, just a
twenty two, but Terrence Man hit two

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three pointers. Good to see it's
coming. It's coming around. The three

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point shooting had ten points. And
what he did in the third on I

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think it was late third quarter on
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to use a time out because they
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them because they couldn't get the ball
in because Terrence Man was terrorizing with his

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defense and he let out a scream. Afterwards, he was pumped. It

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was a big play. It just
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were playing with all night. Even
when they were up by thirty, they

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just kept coming. Great to see
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him knock down a couple of three
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reverse. I want to say it
was a beats to Zubats who found him

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might have been Daniel Tice, But
Terrence Man starting to look better and better.

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And this is what's crazy with this
new starting lineup. Man hasn't even

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gotten close to playing his best basketball
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He had fifteen seven assists, some
quick hands leading to a steal on

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somebonus early on. Harden going left
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back steals in a layup early on. But he's great at going left.

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That's where he's most comfortable driving,
obviously, but he also went right and

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finished with the left hand on a
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to Tyson the third for an easy
one. Daniel Tye was excellent. I

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thought a nice kind of bounce back
game from him. Didn't play bad yesterday.

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He just didn't stand out, didn't
pop his performance. Daniel Tize four

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of eight, eight and three and
was just really active out there. He

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had a dunk off that hardened feed
in the second, a block on the

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other end, I think on some
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his own miss and a nice feed
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played one of his best games since
coming off the bench too. Just everything

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Russ did very impactful. He had
a great save on a Kawhi turnover on

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a play where Kawhi just threw the
ball away and somehow Russ got to it

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before the Kings did as it was
about to go into the backcourt. He

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had a put back dunk in the
second a little fade away. And the

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best play though, for me from
Russ was in the third quarter he turned

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down a corner three for a layup
where he just bullied his man on the

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block and got it up and end
win one, nineteen to ninety eight.

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Let's get to a call before we
break here, Howie in the eight one

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to eight, how are you're on
Clippers South without a Maslin? Hey,

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buddy, so good game is a
good win for the Clippers. I just

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don't want to take this game too
much out of context. I mean,

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look at the reality of this game. You got two teams coming off back

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to back. I mean, yeah, that was not Fox and Monk was

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out if Monk was in foul trouble
early. I mean it was a great

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win and everything, but you know, you got two teams off back to

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backs, and I'll tell you what, Howie, The Kings look, Howie,

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the Kings look whooped. So your
point is both teams had an even

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playing field. They were both coming
on the second night of a back to

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back. Yeah, that's that's yeah, that's that's true. That's that's a

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correct statement. But the Kings look
whooped. Until I was there, the

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Kings just look whooped. Man.
Fox didn't look like Fox. Monk wasn't.

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Let me tell you. I mean
Fox and some bonus played less minutes

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last night against Brooklyn, who they
put away early. Then the Clippers with

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Kawhi and James Harden. If anyone
should have been tired and had tired legs,

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you would have thought it would be
the Clippers. It didn't happen.

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I think there's something to that.
Maybe that conditioning during training camp has been

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talked about a lot. Guys are
feeling good early in the season because they

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were put through the ringer two a
days, three a days, running a

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ton during training camp and it has
paid off. I just don't want to

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downplay this victory, Howie, And
on my parade with the first call my

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goodness, now come on man,
you know, you know me. I

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just think also, the Kings don't
match up good with the clip Clippers are

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a lot deeper than the Kings too. That's in my opinion. I think

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the Kings don't you know, it's
basketball is a game of matchups. I

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just don't think the Kings match up
good with the Clippers. Clippers are a

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lot deeper than It's a lot easier
to say that now, right, it's

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a lot easier to say that now. I think a lot of people can

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bring into this season. I didn't
hear much of that. In fact,

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I would have thought the opposite because
of how quick and how young the Kings

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are, that it would be a
bad matchup for an older team, and

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like the Clippers just saying how I
gotta keep it fair. Yeah, by

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the way I see it now,
I just think that they're deeper. And

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I mean it was a good win. I mean, the Clippers are on

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a roll. It's great to see, you know, and and Kawhi is

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playing unbelievable And I just hope all
the Kawhi bashers will apologize in the past

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two years saying you know that Kawhi
sitting on the bench, he doesn't want

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to play and all this blah blah
blah. So you know, like goal

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Clippers man, that was a big
win, all right, how I appreciate

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the phone Bring Bring on the war
Bring on the Warriors. Warriors coming on

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Thursday. Thanks to the phone call. Howie Kawhi Leonard has played all twenty

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three games to start off this season. Knock on wood as we did get

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some bad news regarding Paul George and
that left groin soreness didn't play in the

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second half of this one. Clippers
didn't need them. They showed off their

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depth. Guys performed at a very
high level tonight against the Sacramento Kings,

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especially on the defensive end. More
Clippers saw coming up right here on a

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Sports every Clipper game all season law, they didn't stop playing hard. You're

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listening to the LA Clippers Audio Network
streaming on the iHeartRadio Lab. Clippers win

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one, nineteen to ninety eight over
the Kings on the second night of a

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back to back here at Crypto dot
Com Arena. For the first time this

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season, Clippers swept the back to
back. They played great tonight. I'm

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not going to diminish this effort by
the Clippers. I think Howie in the

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eight one to eight's a little bit
off with his analysis there. There's a

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reason the Kings looked this bad.
Another team out there made them play like

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that. Some of it was bad
shooting. Sure, you missed sixteen straight

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three pointers, but that was happening
after the Clippers were already up big.

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They just outplayed them. They outworked
them, they out talented to them.

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Clippers said sixty two points in the
paint, led by as many as thirty

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three. Impressive victory. And here's
the update on Paul George. Looking at

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to mayr Azari at clutch points on
X, Tyleru says, no update on

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Paul George, but he could have
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So it sounds like they were being
overly cautious. That is best case

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scenario, Clipper Nation. If this
was a playoff game, it sounds like

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there'd be no doubt Paul George would
have been playing in the second half.

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When you're up twenty two with the
half, you should be able to handle

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things from there without him. With
how good this Clippers team is, they

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did. Let's go to Lenny and
Corona. My guy, Lenny what's up

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here on Clippers? Stop with Adam
Aslin Adam anybody, Hey, my voice

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is a little messed up. I
get a little bit excited when we're up

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prety over a good team. So, uh, I have to agree with

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you. The reason why they played
like they did to night Sacramento. We

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took the heart out of him.
We we took the heart out of that

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team. That's what happens when you're
playing as good as we played tonight.

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That that's simple. It wasn't.
It wasn't if they weren't playing good.

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It's we We just they were.
They were in a they were messed up.

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They didn't know what to do.
We we took the heart out of

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him in the first quarter. We
looked good to night. I mean,

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what can you say? We look
really good. Kui is back, like

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you said, he looks as good
as he's looked since his injuries. He's

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he looks great. I remember Robinson
handing David Robinson handing the baton to to

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Uh to Duncan, and Duncan giving
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he was on quite quiet. Look
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she was on it. He was
he was, he's teaching him, he's

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being a mentor, and I love
it. We look we look, we

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looked, and we're not at our
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we were three weeks ago. But
I think we're still going to get better,

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and I think the team to beat. I just can't wait to have

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a great finals Western Finals against the
Lakers and smash them. As can't wait.

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We look like the team to beat. What do you think, right,

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Lenny. I like the phone call. I like the optimism. I'm

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gonna let it marinate a little bit
more here Denver. There's still the champs

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until somebody knocks them out in a
seven game series. But right now,

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Clippers have the longest winning streak in
the NBA, five straight. They've won

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ten to thirteen. They have certainly
turned a corner with James Harden, and

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I agree with you, there's still
room to grow Offensively. This was a

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team coming into this one shooting thirty
seven percent from the outside, top ten

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from three, but they can be
better than that. They have been in

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the past. They've been top three
pretty much every year with coach lou from

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distance. They have the shooters to
do so tonight they shot thirty eight percent

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from the outside eleven of twenty nine. I think they can improve there.

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I think James Harden is still he'll
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minutes. He's still getting comfortable.
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I can't stress this enough. Some
of you were so fixated on him being

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called the dribbler by the guys at
TNT and the isolation ball that he has

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played over his career when he was
the primary option, that you haven't paid

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attention to just what a masterclass he
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great facilitator he has been, especially
over the last few years since he's adjusted

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his game. He doesn't have the
same bursts that he used to, but

405
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the passing's better than ever, and
I don't think he gets enough credit for

406
00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.119
that. He's one of the best
passers of his generation. He takes care

407
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of the basketball, just two turnovers
and had seven assists. I just want

408
00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:59.079
to make sure he gets his flowers
in that area of his game, because

409
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I was telling telling people from the
beginning, I think you're gonna be surprised

410
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with how seamless James Harden can fit
in now they started off on one five.

411
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Why they were playing him next to
Russell Westbrook in the backcourt. That

412
00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:18.799
doesn't empower James Harden to be at
his best. If they hadn't done that,

413
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:21.240
who knows what their record would be
right now. But maybe you have

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to go through those going pains sometimes
to get to this point where they've now

415
00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:29.519
won ten to thirteen. But James
Harden can still score with the best of

416
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them. Had multiple forty point games
last time he saw him in the playoffs

417
00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:38.720
with Philly last season against Boston.
But I don't think he's getting enough credit

418
00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:47.559
for how he's turning down shots and
playing team basketball and making everyone around him

419
00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:53.799
better and sacrificing in that way.
He hasn't played much, isoball. He's

420
00:31:53.839 --> 00:32:00.000
not dribbling out the clock, he's
moving the basketball. He is a cis

421
00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:04.599
them. He said it. It's
true, and I said the entire time.

422
00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:07.119
The Clippers will be at their best
when they run it through James Harden.

423
00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:10.880
Well, what have you seen now? There's some people that are still

424
00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:16.799
upset. They just don't like James. It's unfair. How about grade him

425
00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:22.359
off of the way he has played
as a Clipper to this point and understand

426
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:28.359
what he can do by just setting
the table out there. Beat the Zubots.

427
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:30.839
Is playing some of the best ball
of his career, maybe the best

428
00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:36.200
stretch during the regular season. Since
this new starting lineup came together in the

429
00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:39.920
last thirteen games, that's not a
coincidence. A lot of that has to

430
00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:45.240
do with James Harden, Marvin and
downtown Los Angeles. You're on Clipper stop

431
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:49.160
without a Mauslam, what's up,
Marvin Hey, and had a great game

432
00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:53.839
as we last night. That was
more like a Clippers playing the doper rope

433
00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:58.119
against the Portland Trailblazers. But then
I was like the more like a Mike

434
00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:05.839
Tysons versus Michael Spinks first round knocked
out against the Sacramento Kings, which that

435
00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:10.960
was to be expected, and to
our surprise it did happen. And then

436
00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:15.000
this sets up, like Carlo mentioned, the stage for this Thursday, Romul

437
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:20.640
and the Jungle against the Golden State
Warriors. So yeah, they played more

438
00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:25.559
minutes yesterday, but they built endurance
both mentally and physically, and that prevents

439
00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:30.079
them from being charm and soft,
especially against the Golden State Warriors. So

440
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:32.720
Greig Games, thank you, Adam
Ted Marvin. Now, you called it

441
00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:37.160
last night. You felt like they
would come out with this same energy they

442
00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:43.759
did. Great call by you.
Now, when it comes to Paul George

443
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:47.960
in those heavy minutes, the accumulation
of those may have led to this injury.

444
00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:52.160
We don't know. It could just
be a minor tweak. It sounds

445
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:55.000
like he could have played in the
second half. I'm glad they didn't push

446
00:33:55.039 --> 00:34:00.519
it. They were up by twenty
two. But what I'm saying is you

447
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:05.279
do have to monitor minutes this early
in the season still, And coach lu

448
00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:09.199
brought that up yesterday saying, you
know, we don't want to push them

449
00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:13.920
too much, but we also need
to win games right now. So there's

450
00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:17.119
that balance they have to strike.
But you win like this and Kuhi only

451
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:22.599
has to play thirty one and they
aren't as taxing of minutes because they led

452
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:24.719
throughout most of this game. They
were up thirty two to twenty four in

453
00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:30.400
the first open things up winning the
second quarter by fourteen. Clippers just dominated

454
00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:37.639
completely. Josean Downey, you're on
Clipper stop with that. Mazzle Adam great

455
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:45.440
Green showing out man. I gotta
say that the Kings looked off because the

456
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:50.039
Clippers did something that they normally don't
do, and they took it to the

457
00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:53.079
team this time instead of letting that
let the other team take it to them

458
00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:57.800
and to open up the game.
And I think that made the big difference.

459
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:00.000
Yeah, and there was tired legs
on both sides. I don't know

460
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.880
who that caller was. I said, oh, you know, the Kings

461
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:06.239
are coming off to back to back
and that's why they looked tired. I

462
00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:08.880
mean, I would think we would
look more tired because we're older and they

463
00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:14.719
played half minutes last night than Sacramento
had to. Yeah, yeah, I

464
00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:16.960
agree, and I just I think
the difference was that they took it to

465
00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:23.199
them defensively, they didn't They had
some some lapses, but it was nothing

466
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:28.760
like yesterday, like they were contesting
threes. They were contesting uh any ball

467
00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:30.960
that came to the middle and and
uh it was. It was great to

468
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:36.440
see Zoobac. I mean I would
have liked to see him get a little

469
00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:38.280
bit more touches, you know,
get that confidence of you know, again

470
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:42.119
have a good game against the bonus
in the middle. But I mean him

471
00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:45.760
working on the glass and you know, being able to switch around. There

472
00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:47.480
was a couple of times that day
that the switch did pull him out and

473
00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:51.559
he was able to handle himself,
And I thought that was really great.

474
00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:54.840
And I think you're on point with
Russ I mean his energy. I mean

475
00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:58.679
he was in everything. It seemed
like in the second quarter when he came

476
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:02.000
in and he was in everything,
every rebound, every challenge, everything,

477
00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:06.840
And that's great to see, especially
him being able to control the ball,

478
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:08.440
I mean being able to take care
of the ball too. That was big

479
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:13.360
two when he would come in.
Yeah. I appreciate the phone call,

480
00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:16.639
Jose. I just can't emphasize it
enough. You know a lot of people

481
00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:22.159
were coming at me when they started
zero to five with James harden See,

482
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:25.119
I told you it's not gonna work. No, what's not gonna work is

483
00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:30.079
him in the starting back court next
to Russell Westbrook. I said from day

484
00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:34.239
one, that is fundamentally flawed.
Now tonight, those two in their minutes

485
00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:37.360
against Sacramento won those minutes. They
were that good. But I think this

486
00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:42.119
was the first time where they played
really well out there on the court together.

487
00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:45.320
But this starting lineup with Terrence Man
next to him, who, by

488
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:51.679
the way, loves being the point
of attack defender, which they need because

489
00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:54.119
you don't want Kawhi and Paul George
having to chase guys around early in the

490
00:36:54.119 --> 00:36:59.239
first quarter. You wait till later. Then you put Kawhi and Jamal Murray

491
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:04.239
and Steph Curry in these guys when
you have to. But if you couldn't

492
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.400
see the vision, I don't know
what to tell you. It seemed obvious

493
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:12.400
to me. James Harden is a
pick and roll master. He's bringing out

494
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:15.280
the best in a Viza Zubats.
He's bringing out the best in Kawhi Leonard,

495
00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:19.000
now, who has been on this
tear, it took him some time

496
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:23.199
to adjust. He's there now.
He found his rhythm, he found you

497
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:27.719
found the way he can fit in
is the number one option next to James

498
00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:31.800
Harden, and that's what has been. Kawhi is taking the most shots consistently

499
00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:37.239
over the last couple of weeks.
That's where it has to be because that's

500
00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:39.639
what's going to take in the playoff
to win. Before we break Mark in

501
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:45.960
Huntington Beach, Mark here on clipper
Stock without amusel Hey, I think some

502
00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:50.199
of our listeners have either bad memory
or selective memory. I remember last year

503
00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:52.320
when we got Westbrook and we went
on to five with him and me being

504
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:55.559
in the sports fars on my clipper
gar see it's Westbrook again and this and

505
00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:58.960
that. I said, wait a
minute. We lost two or three of

506
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:01.320
those games like one best. Yeah, that wasn't Westbrook. Same thing here

507
00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:05.679
with Harden. We weren't yelling and
he didn't. He wasn't in shape like

508
00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:08.199
Westbrook was compared. You know,
he was game ready when we got Westbrook.

509
00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:12.400
So you know, I said,
just wait a couple of weeks and

510
00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:15.800
everyone said okay, okay, I
said, And now here we are,

511
00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:20.639
and tonight was same as last night. They last night, I was going

512
00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:22.840
to call in and say, if
they keep up this intensity, we're going

513
00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:27.599
to have a six six seven record
or two out of three all the time.

514
00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:30.760
Because last night's intensity and I could
see it again tonight. I can

515
00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:36.800
remember I watched the game at Bjay's
Brewery down here on Main Street and Huntingdon

516
00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:40.400
Beach, and I gotta get Petrolls
down here. He doesn't ever come down

517
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:45.760
here, but anyway, you know, and he goes to Orange Orange and

518
00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:49.559
your rhyme, but he doesn't come
to my where I lived ten minutes away

519
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:52.079
from the play. We lost touristop
will be there eventually. Don't worry about

520
00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:54.000
it. Keep going, Mark.
Yeah, well, well I'm going to

521
00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:57.480
see him. I'm going to see
him Friday at Tarantia Hill golf Course and

522
00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:01.199
remind him anyway. But tonight,
I can remember seeing several times two or

523
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:06.519
three Flipper White Jersey's going for the
rebounds. We were going for the rebounds.

524
00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:09.280
We were going for this, and
Harden he was dishing just like Joe

525
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:13.039
Imbleed, only we had three of
them. He get dished to, so

526
00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:16.400
you know he can get to that
big guy, whether it's Tye or Zubac.

527
00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:20.559
I saw all of that coming together, and then man on his defensiveness

528
00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:25.039
like that, Like you mentioned that
out of bounds play and he should have

529
00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:29.280
yelled because that was a great play. Made him waste of time out.

530
00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:31.320
But yeah, no, very good. They keep up this intensity, we'll

531
00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:34.280
win two out of three. I
don't care who the hell we play,

532
00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:37.719
all right, Mark, I appreciate
the phone call. Clippers. Gotta keep

533
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:43.760
it going. They're still thirteen and
ten. They still are digging out of

534
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:47.079
that hole when they lost six straight. But they got two more here at

535
00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:54.840
home this week Golden State Thursday,
the Knicks on Saturday, get greedy win

536
00:39:54.960 --> 00:40:00.599
both of them, find a way. Clippers had the depth to do so.

537
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:05.880
Was good to see Bones Highland get
some run late Exavier Moon, Kobe

538
00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:08.480
Brown played twenty five minutes, knock
down a three pointer. Look to be

539
00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:13.559
a little bit more in tune defensively. Some of those mistakes along the perimeter.

540
00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:16.559
He's got to clean up, obviously, but it's coming. The seasoning's

541
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:22.079
coming for that young man. Clippers
win one nineteen to ninety eight over the

542
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:24.679
Kings. Coming up next, we'll
have Will Updike on from Clips and Dip

543
00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:30.519
podcast. You're listening to AM five
to seventy LA Sports. LA Clippers Basketball

544
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:36.199
is on the two one three Era
continues. You're listening to the La Clippers

545
00:40:36.199 --> 00:40:40.159
on the LA Clippers Audio Network.
Madame Oslind Welcome back into Clippers Talk.

546
00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:44.840
We got a little clips in double
Dip action. You hear the music.

547
00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:49.480
Will Updyke of Courses on tonight.
Because the Clippers won big. I think

548
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:52.920
that's what's in his contract. They
can't just win. It's gotta be a

549
00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:58.280
big victory, right Will Oh yeah, it's gotta be a stomping And it

550
00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:01.800
was. This was to me well, their most impressive front to back four

551
00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:08.239
quarter victory of the season given the
opponent tonight. Yeah, absolutely absolutely to

552
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:12.920
be able to come out and dominate
like that and then stick with it,

553
00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:16.280
I mean really putting this game away
for I mean, not a full four

554
00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:19.840
quarters, but we'll give them the
benefit of the doubt that they could have

555
00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:22.039
done it for a full four quarters. But I was really impressed by the

556
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:25.440
way that they came out on the
second night of a back to back because

557
00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:30.599
I thought something that they did really
effectively was use a little bit of pace,

558
00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:32.800
be able to kind of change things
up a little bit on this Kings

559
00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:37.599
team and really flip the script on
a team that likes to use pace against

560
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.760
the Clippers, and when they were
able to get into a sets, I

561
00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:45.360
thought those were some of the few
times we saw some defensive breakdown, but

562
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:52.239
overall, just a great win.
Kawhi Leonard I was watching him closely when

563
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:57.039
they were up by thirty in the
third quarter. He got on Norn Powell

564
00:41:57.119 --> 00:42:00.920
and I think Terrence Man had some
miscommunication on a play where they gave up

565
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:05.840
an easy bucket. Mind you,
they are up thirty and Kawhi wasn't having

566
00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:10.039
it. He demands perfection. He
knows there's bigger things in play. He's

567
00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:15.719
looking at the long game, long
term wise. He wants this Clippers team

568
00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:21.480
to be focused. And there's Jason
perfection and I just love that from him.

569
00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:23.880
And defensively, when he had that
rip away near the end of the

570
00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:28.039
third quarter that almost ended in a
dunk, he ended up getting fouled,

571
00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:31.320
went to the free throw line.
That was spurs Kawhi defense that was just

572
00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:36.360
nasty. The octopus defense where it
feels like the guy is guarding you with

573
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:43.599
eight arms. Yeah, I'm not
sure what Like Kawhi is hitting just an

574
00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:49.360
insane stride right now, and I
don't know what fully is clicking, But

575
00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:52.639
I mean, I know you keep
having a bit where you're talking about is

576
00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:57.639
he okay though? But physically he
is, Like what is going on?

577
00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:00.360
Like I haven't seen him at this
less so early in the season, And

578
00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:05.440
I don't know if it's just I
think that, you know, maybe it's

579
00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:08.639
just the time on court with like
actual time to gel. We hear all

580
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:14.559
the time that this team just due
to the schedule and and everything, that

581
00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:16.480
they don't get a lot of time
to practice, that they have to work

582
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:20.800
out a lot of these things on
court. Is that what we're seeing here

583
00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:25.159
is just it is just this extended
run of play for kawhis Does it just

584
00:43:25.280 --> 00:43:29.119
have him in this form this early
in the season, Like, what what

585
00:43:29.159 --> 00:43:31.199
are we witnessing? Hit? Yeah, I mean it's the first time since

586
00:43:31.239 --> 00:43:36.920
the twenty sixteen to twenty seventeen regular
season where he's played this many games straight.

587
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:40.400
So it's kind of uncharted territory over
about a six year period now.

588
00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:45.639
Or maybe he's finding things out about
how he feels now at the age of

589
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:50.440
thirty two playing all these games,
what works, what doesn't. He's obviously

590
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:53.400
caught a rhythm. There was that
adjustment period at first bringing in James Harden

591
00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:57.960
and just where he fit in and
how he was going to get up his

592
00:43:58.079 --> 00:44:01.000
usual amount of shots. It's all
I'll come together now, But Will what's

593
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:06.599
your level of concern with the Paul
George injury. It sounds like it's best

594
00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:09.239
case scenario at least where if it
was a playoff game, if it was

595
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:13.079
a closer game, even during the
regular season, he might have been able

596
00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:17.440
to play in the second half.
Yeah. I just wonder too, what

597
00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:22.599
the calculation was with it being the
second night of a back to back,

598
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:28.480
I think, you know, level
of concern is still relatively low for me,

599
00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:34.719
but we'll see. Obviously, I
mean ending the streak of his availability,

600
00:44:36.199 --> 00:44:38.280
does you know it raises an eyebrow. I don't know that it goes

601
00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:44.360
to like full level sweating concern yet, but it is something to consider it,

602
00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:45.920
and he did look. The thing
about it is too is like he

603
00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:51.079
didn't look. He looked a little
out of sorts. I thought on the

604
00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:54.880
court tonight as well. The last
couple of games forty one minutes yesterday,

605
00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:59.920
thirty seven minutes against Utah, thirty
eight against Denver, thirty eight against gold

606
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:02.679
State, thirty seven against Golden State, forty against Sacramento in the win up

607
00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:09.480
North, He's been taking a heavy
burden when it comes to minutes and up

608
00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:15.679
until this point, I would say
tonight is the night that Kawhi really took

609
00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:19.559
the torch from Paul George from being
the best player to start off this season.

610
00:45:20.039 --> 00:45:22.960
But over the last two weeks,
I think Kawhi has been the guy

611
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:27.760
again. He's the number one option
and I'm not saying there's any issue there

612
00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:30.199
between those two in a pecking order. We know how Paul George feels about

613
00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:35.639
it. But it's good to see
that. Okay, Paul George not quite

614
00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:38.519
shooting the same way he was to
start off the year, But now Kawhi

615
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:43.719
hits the ignition and he starts to
get it going. But somebody else who

616
00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:46.960
I don't think he's gotten enough credit
for how he's playing in terms of his

617
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:52.960
passing. James Harden, to me, has sacrificed shots to make this team

618
00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:57.360
better by just being a facilitator out
there. And I'm not sure enough people

619
00:45:57.400 --> 00:46:00.519
were familiar enough with that part of
his game will at just how elite he

620
00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:05.400
is in that area. Oh.
I mean, if you're not familiar with

621
00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:09.079
that part of his game, I
think you gotta you gotta pull the rock

622
00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:14.360
up over over top of where you're
living or whatever. Because this has been

623
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:19.679
like the I feel like this is
the cliche thing of the James Harden experiences.

624
00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:22.719
He comes to a new team,
everybody is excited and then they're like,

625
00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:24.920
oh, wow, he can pass, and it's like, yeah,

626
00:46:25.039 --> 00:46:29.440
no, that's actually why he was
an m VP. That's that's that's why,

627
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:35.079
that's that's why those rackets teams made
Western Conference Finals, That's why the

628
00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:37.400
seventy sixers were as good as they
were. That's part of the reason,

629
00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:40.519
Joel indeed one m v P.
Yes, the man is is a very

630
00:46:40.679 --> 00:46:47.320
gifted passer, and I like how
much more aggressive that he's getting offensively,

631
00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:52.079
but within the flow of the offense. Right, He's not looking to take

632
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:55.119
away from that part of his game. He's not. He's still reading the

633
00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:59.760
court looking to get his teammates involved. But we see him a lot more

634
00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:04.119
of going to the rint. We
see him a lot more aggressively shaking off

635
00:47:04.119 --> 00:47:07.760
the defender, just creating more space, and I think that that has been

636
00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:13.880
huge and it allow him to be
even more teams harden right to continue to

637
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:20.519
pass that way and just set things
up on ball is Will Updyke follow him

638
00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:24.599
at Will Updyke on X of Clips
and dip Fame. I think we got

639
00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:30.000
a YouTube coming tomorrow, Will Up
against the Clock tonight. Wish we could

640
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:31.599
do this for a little bit longer, but I got to take a break,

641
00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:35.960
my friend. We'll talk to you
tomorrow, all right, all righty,

642
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:37.920
sound good with thank you? Then? Clippers win one nineteen to ninety

643
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:42.360
eight over the Kings. Here at
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644
00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:45.440
preview Thursday Night's game next right here
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645
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Sports every Clipper game all season,
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646
00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:58.960
You're listening to the LA Clippers Audio
Network streaming on the iHeartRadio WAP when one

647
00:47:59.079 --> 00:48:02.360
nineteen we ate over the Sacramento Kings. Here at Crypto dot Com Arena.

648
00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:07.000
Thursday, they're back taking on Golden
State third time in the past two and

649
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:12.199
a half weeks. Before we get
out of here tonight, I want to

650
00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:16.559
bring in the fake philosopher Big Brother
Jake for some positive moments with the fake

651
00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:21.039
Philosopher Big Brother Jake podcast on the
Podcast one Network. By the way,

652
00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:23.199
thank you sir. What's up my
friend man, Living life? Baby nice

653
00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:27.519
win tonight. I see you,
I saw you dancing, I saw you

654
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:31.679
see walking the Crypto Little Victory,
Little Victory then wasn't good with the clothes

655
00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:36.920
tonight? All right, you've worked
too hard to let a season of darkness

656
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:42.159
convince you that there's no light at
the end of the tunnel. Ooh ooh

657
00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:45.360
seep. Like three pointers that the
Clippers made all night long, I mean

658
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:50.480
you're not lying. Nope, they
knocked down eleven of them. They go

659
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:53.079
on to win by twenty one.
And yeah, there's a lot of people

660
00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:59.519
a few weeks ago that would have
never thought the Clippers would rip off winning

661
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:02.679
ten of the thirteen, which is
what they've done over the last few weeks

662
00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:07.960
now. Just took a small adjustment
in the starting lineup and a little more

663
00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:14.400
familiarity out there. It's coming together, Clipper Nation. It is. Get

664
00:49:14.440 --> 00:49:21.079
behind James Harden with this crew talking
to you, Sean and Inglewood. I

665
00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:23.199
don't believe he ain't calling in still
just because they keep winning, you know

666
00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:27.119
what. I'm fine with it,
but don't expect to get back on as

667
00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:29.639
soon as they lose and then you
call in all of a sudden, all

668
00:49:29.719 --> 00:49:30.639
right, before we get out of
here, I do want to think the

669
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:36.679
Clippers organization. Brian Seeman, Ralph
Lahler, Carlo Amennez on the call.

670
00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:40.679
Noah Egle birthday. We happy birthday, know Egle. Katie Newton back in

671
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:45.760
the bank, our head engineer here, big brother Jake Warner holding it down.

672
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:49.679
Clippers win by twenty one over the
Kings, thanks to the callers,

673
00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:55.880
the listeners. Miro of ae W
who joined us earlier pregame. Maybe you

674
00:49:55.920 --> 00:50:00.119
got to give him some credit for
this victory. Very cool. We'll put

675
00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:04.760
that interview on the back end in
the podcast on Clippers Talk. I'm out

676
00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:09.400
a Oslin talk to you six thirty
Clippers Warriors on Thursday. So why he

677
00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:13.599
was doing his thing? All they
want to do is win in La I

678
00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:16.079
win. I thought they gave everything
they had. I'm very proud of This

679
00:50:16.119 --> 00:50:22.280
has been Clippers Talk, the official
postgame reaction of the LA Clippers. God

680
00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:24.559
bless Paul George. Are you not? It's just changed. Don't miss an

681
00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:30.239
episode all season law Go to wherever
you podcast and subscribe today. We love

682
00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:31.639
the show. I got you on
the iHeart Radio. You guys are great.

683
00:50:31.719 --> 00:50:37.679
Thank you for joining us for another
exciting broadcast of LA Clippers basketball.

684
00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:45.199
Clippers and Kings tip off just thirty
one minutes away here at Crypto dot com

685
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:49.760
Arena. Welcome back in the Clippers
condown. I'm out of Oslin. Coming

686
00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:52.880
up, we'll get to your drive
around the league and back to Carlo Hemenez.

687
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:55.960
Well, we have a moment.
Let's paus ten seconds for station identification

688
00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:02.039
right here on the Los Angeles Clippers
Audio Network. This is LA Clippers Basketball

689
00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:08.039
AM five seventy KLAC Los Angeles ninety
eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and

690
00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:14.119
iHeartRadio station. All right, Clippernation
coming down off the top rope and onto

691
00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:17.039
the hardwood. Is quite literally the
biggest member of Clipper Nation who happens to

692
00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:22.760
be a Bulgarian wrestler who's a three
time United States champion in WWE before moving

693
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:28.079
on to the hottest league in the
game now with ae W where he's held

694
00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:31.519
that TNT championship proudly. He's the
best man and the best fan when it

695
00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:37.039
comes to your Los Angeles Clippers.
It's wrestling superstar, Clippers super fan Miro

696
00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:40.880
joining me here on Clippers Countdown pre
game as we get ready for Clippers and

697
00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:44.719
Kings. Miro, it's a pleasure. Thanks for doing this. What introduction.

698
00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:47.000
Thank you so much. You got
it. You favorite champion though,

699
00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:50.519
But I'm not mad at you,
all right. Look, we can't have

700
00:51:50.559 --> 00:51:52.159
that here. There's enough steel chairs
between the two of us. I can't

701
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:55.039
have you getting upset with me right
now, right, So let's start with

702
00:51:55.079 --> 00:52:00.440
your fanship with the Clippers. What
made you gravitate towards them and then being

703
00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:02.840
your team that has your allegiance.
I was a big Shack fan always have

704
00:52:02.960 --> 00:52:07.679
been, and when he came to
town with Miami, you know, I

705
00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:10.039
wanted to come and watch him.
So the Clippers were here, and I

706
00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:14.519
came and watched them once, then
came again, watched Shack second time,

707
00:52:14.639 --> 00:52:16.559
and I would looked around and was
like, man, you know, Clippers

708
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:20.480
need more support. And I didn't
have a team at a time, and

709
00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:23.880
they watched and appreciated the struggle and
the hustle that they're going with. I'm

710
00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:28.280
like, this is my team.
Okay, So the underdog type of mentality,

711
00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:31.639
street lights over spotlights, I like
that. I like that was there.

712
00:52:31.880 --> 00:52:37.280
So that's about five six in that
range. Was there a particular player

713
00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:40.199
that was your favorite on that Clippers
team? Elton brand was there at the

714
00:52:40.239 --> 00:52:45.119
time. You had Corey mcghetty out
there. I loved col mcghetty, clearly.

715
00:52:45.159 --> 00:52:47.280
Everybody loves Corey, you know.
And then Baron Davis came in,

716
00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:52.760
and you know, I love him. But everything changed by once Lop City

717
00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:53.920
came to town. You know,
I feel we were to talk of the

718
00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:59.760
whole NBA and we were such an
exciting team to watch. And I don't

719
00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:05.719
think Slipper fans often realize how privileged
we are to watch such a great basketball,

720
00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:08.920
no doubt. They've had eleven straight
winning seasons. That's the longest stretch

721
00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:13.559
over this period of time in the
NBA. Still trying to get to the

722
00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:16.440
top of the mountain. This year
could be the year, samra are you

723
00:53:16.519 --> 00:53:20.480
balling me? Can you dunk?
How much basketball do you play? I

724
00:53:20.519 --> 00:53:22.239
played, I played in high school, played before that, you know,

725
00:53:22.360 --> 00:53:27.920
studied old shack moves and I applied
it heavy on the court. I'm not

726
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:30.440
trying to front you in the post. I'm gonna have to use all six

727
00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:32.440
fouls. That's my thing. We
might need you tonight. I mean the

728
00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:35.960
Clippers are on the second half of
a back to back. If they start

729
00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:37.719
running out of guys, we might
have to throw you in there. Daniel

730
00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:42.079
Tye, Daniel tis Man, he's
my man. Go to great signing.

731
00:53:42.119 --> 00:53:45.400
You know. I love player to
coming off the bench and hustle and go

732
00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:47.440
hard like we talked about, Like
he goes out for the rebounds on the

733
00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:51.440
defense. He shoots three. So
if we need a big guy, I

734
00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:54.199
love Daniel Tye. Especially with Mason
Plumby being out. You know, he's

735
00:53:54.239 --> 00:53:59.119
a great substitution. So I can
tell you have been keeping up with this

736
00:53:59.159 --> 00:54:01.079
team very close, so because Daniel
Tice has only been here for about three

737
00:54:01.079 --> 00:54:05.000
weeks, but he has made a
huge impact for the Clippers. He knocked

738
00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:08.079
down a three pointer last night and
their five point victory over the Portland Trailblazers.

739
00:54:08.559 --> 00:54:12.760
Tys is nice. They call him
Tyson, Tys baby as well.

740
00:54:12.800 --> 00:54:16.639
He's got his own plethora of nicknames. But because you're called the redeemer,

741
00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:22.760
the Clippers have felt that redemption a
little bit. After starting zero to five

742
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:25.480
with James Harden, they've now won
nine of their last twelve ball games.

743
00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:30.920
Have you noticed this team starting to
gel out there and come together with a

744
00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:32.719
bearded wonder? Has you got a
nice beard yourself there? Benkie, thank

745
00:54:32.760 --> 00:54:36.199
you. I always thought it was
a matter of time, you know,

746
00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:38.760
with so many good players on this
team, Hall of Fame players, that

747
00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:43.320
it just doesn't make sense for them
not to gel right, And it's all

748
00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:45.960
about, you know, getting together
practice because there's so many games you know

749
00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:49.199
that they need to play in at
the same time, catch to get in

750
00:54:49.239 --> 00:54:52.360
practice. So it was a matter
of time, and it showed that it's

751
00:54:52.360 --> 00:54:54.079
been working. You know, Russ
coming off the bench now and you can

752
00:54:54.119 --> 00:54:58.400
see every time he gets off the
bench to get in, people are clapping

753
00:54:58.440 --> 00:55:00.719
and cheering because he's selfless, you
know, and that's what we need.

754
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:05.119
That's what the Clipper's been all along, and that's what we appreciate players like

755
00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:07.280
him. I love this analysis.
I mean, Brian Seeman might use you

756
00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:12.199
of Jim Jackson moves the seat over
a little bit later on on Valley Sports

757
00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:15.440
as well. Miro knows his ball. So let me ask you this,

758
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:19.280
let me meld the two worlds together. If you had to pick a tag

759
00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:23.880
team partner to take down Ricky Starks
and Big Bill in ae W, who

760
00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:27.840
you choosing off the Clippers bench?
You going with the biggest guy and it

761
00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:30.519
beats a Zubots or you going with
the guy with the biggest hands, maybe

762
00:55:30.519 --> 00:55:32.719
in Kawhi Leonard. Who would you
like as a tag team partner with this

763
00:55:32.719 --> 00:55:37.599
Clippers team. You might even like
Steve Balmer because he's got that big personality

764
00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:40.960
as well. I definitely get Steve
Balmer as a manager outside the ring because

765
00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:45.599
we need that support. But inside
the ring, man, you know,

766
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:49.159
nobody talks about Plumbley because I don't
know if you knew it, but he's

767
00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:52.519
Adam Copeland some kind of a cousin, Okay, so he may have that

768
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:55.920
professional wrestling blood in him, But
man Zoo is like from my part of

769
00:55:57.519 --> 00:56:00.440
the world, so I gotta go
with it. Eats a zubots Man and

770
00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:02.639
you. So last night he had
twelve in the first quarter. He was

771
00:56:02.679 --> 00:56:06.480
dominating, so he can do the
same thing in the rain. Big Zoo

772
00:56:06.599 --> 00:56:12.320
is an absolute beast. The NBA
is the greatest basketball league in the world.

773
00:56:12.360 --> 00:56:15.719
We know that, But what's with
aw and the way they're able to

774
00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:21.079
separate themselves because it's four wrestlers by
wrestlers. You guys know the game better

775
00:56:21.119 --> 00:56:23.519
than everyone, and it seems like
it just feeds into that cycle, that

776
00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:27.519
system that you guys have going there, and you guys are at the top

777
00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:30.599
of your game right now. What's
setting you apart in that league? I

778
00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:36.480
think it's just creative freedom. People
being able to bring their specifics about their

779
00:56:36.480 --> 00:56:39.440
professional wrestling, about their approach,
about their character. It's more of a

780
00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:44.840
like, you know, everybody's doing
their own thing instead of one combined under

781
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:49.239
one umbrella type of thing when everything
is the same formula. I don't know

782
00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:52.159
how to explain it, but I
feel like We're exciting. We're new.

783
00:56:52.559 --> 00:56:54.400
We've been on TV for five years
now, We've only been growing. We

784
00:56:54.440 --> 00:57:00.280
have three shows on TV in no
time. We're doing great rating. Thanks,

785
00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:02.840
So we're doing great. You guys
are hot right now. I gotta

786
00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:06.119
give it to you. What do
you like about this atmosphere? You talked

787
00:57:06.119 --> 00:57:08.480
about coming here in five and six
back when it was Staples Center now as

788
00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:13.840
Crypto dot Com Arenas we get ready
for the Intuit Dome next season. Aw

789
00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:16.320
might want some events in there,
I'm sure, But just being here with

790
00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:20.039
Clipper Nation, for a lot of
people, it just feels like home.

791
00:57:20.079 --> 00:57:23.039
It feels like an extension of a
bigger, larger family. It does.

792
00:57:23.199 --> 00:57:25.880
It does, but you know,
just looking up and looking all the banners,

793
00:57:25.920 --> 00:57:30.360
it's so fantastic. But somehow it
doesn't feel like our arena for some

794
00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:31.960
reason, you know, because we
all get the people get mad that we

795
00:57:32.119 --> 00:57:36.480
cover banners and dah dah da da
da. It's time to break this.

796
00:57:36.559 --> 00:57:39.960
We're gonna have the hottest, new, biggest, most exciting arena with the

797
00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:44.960
most exciting team and most exciting owner. I mean, we're the team of

798
00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:46.960
the future. I feel like everybody's
want to come and play for the Clippers

799
00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:51.159
because everybody wants to play in Ala
who want and a brand new arena,

800
00:57:51.239 --> 00:57:55.039
who wouldn't. I feel like this
became a destination franchise when Steve Balmer came

801
00:57:55.079 --> 00:58:00.920
here and then they acquired Kawhi in
PG. It's transformed Clipper Nation, has

802
00:58:00.920 --> 00:58:04.800
transformed the Clippers trajectory and where they're
going. And as you mentioned, the

803
00:58:04.840 --> 00:58:08.119
into a dome coming next season,
they will have their own home finally and

804
00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:13.000
that will make all the difference in
the world. That's something Steve Balmer has

805
00:58:13.039 --> 00:58:16.320
wanted for quite some time. It
kind of touched upon something there. Have

806
00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:20.840
you had to deal with some haters
because you're a Clipper fan, maybe on

807
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the Gram, maybe on Twitter,
maybe from the other side of the hall

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Laker fans. I mean, we
know it's out there. You talked about

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covering banners and stuff like that,
but we know it's very prevalent. There

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is a rivalry between these two fan
bases, whether the other one wants to

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admit it or not. Have you
had to deal with any fans because I'm

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sure nobody will want to mess with
you, maryl Yeah, you know they

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00:58:40.079 --> 00:58:44.000
always you know on Twitter, they
come come at me but I don't know

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where you're coming from. I know
you want a championship, but they haven't

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been that. They haven't been the
Clippers in how many games they wont?

816
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One recently they lost. You're thirty
or whatever, like you have no bragging,

817
00:58:54.119 --> 00:58:57.320
right, I mean, enjoy your
team. I love Lebron. Who

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00:58:57.360 --> 00:59:00.920
doesn't love Lebron? Sure, but
that's the only reason why I would watch

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the Lakers. Otherwise it's always Clippers, and people should come and experience this

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00:59:05.079 --> 00:59:07.039
man because especially next year, it's
gonna be a special, special place,

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very much so at the end to
it home. So Clipper's got some young

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guys on this team. You know
how to bulk up, you know how

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to put on some pounds when you
need to for a match. I'm looking

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at Moss of the Aabate, Brandon, Boston, guys like that. Give

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00:59:21.519 --> 00:59:23.719
me the workout plan. How do
we get these lean young guys to be

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a little bit bigger so they can
get to that big Sue level in the

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post protecting the basket. They got
to eat a lot of meat, a

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lot of rice, some potatoes,
you know, get a good workout for

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I'm sure that the training staff is
amazing and the Clippers Arena. I've seen

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00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:43.039
them right after the game. They
will go back and they'll work out right

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after the game, which I've never
seen before in my life. Oh,

832
00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:47.320
they put the work in right after. And seeing Kawhi and bg Ow these

833
00:59:47.360 --> 00:59:52.360
guys right after game, it's impressive
because these guys they probably don't have to

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00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:53.360
do that, but they still do
because they want to be on top of

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their game. And that's what it
takes. It takes a dedication, it

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takes the extra work. It takes
the extra you know, attention to the

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sleep, to the food, and
that's how we grow. That's how you

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01:00:04.559 --> 01:00:07.039
succeed in life, not just in
with your body. I mean I've been

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growing wider recently because of those things. A lot of meat, a lot

840
01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:15.840
of potatoes. Get back to basics. Listen to Miro from All Elite Wrestling

841
01:00:16.360 --> 01:00:22.000
at to b Miro on x on
Instagram is where you follow him in Clippernation

842
01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:25.519
if you didn't know, he is
a Clipper super fan. He is a

843
01:00:25.559 --> 01:00:29.920
big part of Clippernation. He comes
to the games. Was here tonight,

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myro, thanks for doing this here
on Clippers' Countdown. I appreciate it.

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01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:37.000
Very nice to meet you. Thanks
to far about Us and Shari for putting

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this together and hooking it up.
Coming up next as we got clippers taking

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01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:44.920
on the Kings. Yeah, let's
get that theme music roll over here.

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01:00:45.039 --> 01:00:47.239
Thank you, Katie. Twenty one
minutes away from Tip Bob. Let's go

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clips and there we go, There
we go, There we go. Get

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hyped clippers taking on the Kings.
Murals in the building tonight, Lord Slippers,

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countdown right here on Los Angeles Clippers, Body it u