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What is going on Clipper Nation.
We are hanging out live after the Clippers

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get an incredible win over the MAVs. We're gonna let people trickle in.

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You can hear the vibes behind me
right now. The Clippers win. They

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beat the MAVs. A fantastic performance
from Zubac Harden with twenty in the first

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half. This was the Clippers got
everything they needed to beat the MAVs in

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this one, and the Maps look
woefully unprepared. I would say the MAVs

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defense looks not real after game one. I don't know. They didn't know

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what to defend. They didn't know
how to defend. We're getting a bunch

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of lets goes in the chat.
We're fiend pretty good. Alan Ning two

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Bucks appreciate it. Didn't see this
coming. The level of domination in that

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first half was incredible from the Clippers. Buying time without Kawhi Leonard is incredible.

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I don't know who's y'all's player of
the game. It's hard to not

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think about James Harden in this one. He carried the Clippers. Paul George

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did not have the best game.
We will talk about that in a bit.

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Thanks for hanging out. Everyone.
This is Clips and Dip. I'm

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usually joined by Adam Osen and Will
Updike. They might pop in, but

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we're all feeling fantastic. This is
the live edition. Hang so if you're

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listening to this podcast later, thank
you. We got a bunch of votes

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for Zoo in the chat. We
got a bunch of votes for Hardening the

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chat. Russ was phenomenal in this
game. A lot of good stuff all

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around from the Clippers again everyone,
we're gonna talk about norm a little bit.

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That was interesting. Uh oh h
we got vacation Will and the house.

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Let's go clips. How's it going? McDon did? What's going on?

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Basking in this wind? People are
excited? How's the vibe up in

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Oakland? Oh man, it's huge. It's huge. Actually, uh,

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it was really big for people with
player prop bets. Uh. But this

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uh it wasn't exactly a clip bar, but we got the vibe going.

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I mean the was the visa zoobots
being able to stay on the floor,

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huge performance. I loved what I
saw defensively from the Cliffs. I thought

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the rebounding was a special, especially
clutch uh and I thought they used their

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size of their advantage in this one, and of course just insane performances from

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Paul George and uh and James Harden. Uh. You know, we we

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bought we bought Kawhi another week of
rest. Yeah, we worst case scenario,

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we bought Kawhi another week arrest,
which you gotta feel good about it,

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and he might need We have no
idea, but yeah, man,

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this was I could not first,
the Mavericks scoring eight points in the second

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quarter was unbelievable. We're not gonna
see bullshit like that again. So it

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feels great to take advantage of something
like that and actually went because it got

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a little shaky, but but they
pulled it out. You're playing Yeah,

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you're playing a really good team like
I I you know, I don't want

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to say it wasn't a choke or
anything like that, Like you're playing a

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really good team. These games are
gonna come down in the wire. This

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was about as decisive of a victory
as you could hope for in a game

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one, exactly in a playoff setting
like this. They didn't you know,

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it was never single digits, It
wasn't super close. It was a lot

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easy because we're all Clippers fans.
But yeah, I mean in a twenty

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twenty four playoff game. This is
as big of a victory as you can

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get, right, Like, yeah, overall good chaotic Russ Like, a

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lot of things went right, a
lot of things went right for the Clippers,

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So Clippers fans would definitely feel good
about this one. Still a lot

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of series left, still a lot
to be seen, But like I said,

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in the absolute worst case of scenarios, they still bought Kawhi Leonard a

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week, you know what I mean, Like you could worst case scenario,

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you could drop two more and you
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at that point, have Kawhi Leonard
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And I mean again no clarity on
on Kawhi. Don't stop asking us

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that we're not gonna get that.
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I also love we talked a lot
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been playing well. Zoo did not
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Zoo played him off the floor in
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I think this is one of those
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feel like we're way too confident in
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don't get me wrong, and Mas
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I think that people were underrating Zoo
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up this level of play like this
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has to make you way more confident
in the you know, the absolute worst

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case scenario where Kawhi Leonard is not
able to return. If Zoo can stay

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on the floor, man, that
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for the Clippers, a massive,
massive way. And shout out to Tayloo

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for trusting Zoo. Right, We've
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kind of throughout the year, but
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was physical early, he was scoring
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teammates, credits to Paul and Harden
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mean that's the thing too, right, Like it has to be across the

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floor, Like there has to be
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can help you get easy buckets for
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easy buckets. I will say in
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like this looks like a much different
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the way they were dialed in,
the way the rotations look like this

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is look. I know that we
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season long, but if if this
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switch flipped, I'm all in,
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They did. They proved me wrong. I hate the flip the switch mentality,

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and we were hoping it would and
they they looked completely different than the

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MAVs. I hate the MAVs.
I don't know what Jason Kidd was showing

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them on tape, but like they
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the clips run all day. Harden
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off the weak side, Like,
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have a lot of work to get
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now, and I'll have to look
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don't get me wrong, I'm I'm
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this one. Right now. I'm
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not seeing the quick change that gets
that gives the MAVs the upper edge in

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this one. Obviously you have the
individual play of Kyrie and Luca. I

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mean those two guys alone. That's
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to turn a series around. Sure, I'm not seeing the on the on

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the fringes of the rotation. I'm
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this this fundamentally changes this series.
Especially as I said, if it beats

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the Zoobas can stay on the floor, that I mean, I forget about

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it. Like I mean, if
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one, they have by far,
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better defense, and maybe not the
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that much of a drop off,
you know what I'm saying. Totally.

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It's even they look better coached.
As you've talked about, Jason Kidd is

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a bad coach. MAVs fans have
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from from Some people are on,
some people are off. I don't know.

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I love to like talking. They
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put PJ. Washington on Harden at
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in front of Harden. Harden was
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quarter Harden was running directly around Luca
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put Luca and Kyrie in action a
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They were like, we we know
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a'll do this shit. So like
we love to see that they spanned the

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right stuff. It was a great
Tyler game. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely,

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I'm excited to see. I mean
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that it's like, you know,
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two. It's it's kind of more
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can be a bit of a dangerous
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you're the winning team. But uh, there was no Again, I'll have

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to like relook at the table stuff
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lot of things went right for the
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game where there was something that was
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wow, we can't we really can't
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know, maybe maybe James Harden keeping
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could see you having questions with that. I think that's absolutely fair given what

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we've seen before. But overall,
I mean, like just just a great,

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just a great, great game one. Yeah, it could not have

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gone better. I think we did
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but I don't think we should be
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well in the first half without Kawhi
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who was a little bad today,
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PG got two quick fouls and was
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But that's why we have hardened.
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Yeah, for sure, he wasn't. He wasn't perfect. I mean,

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I guess that's one thing to look
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what maybe we saw one of Harden's
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but we haven't seen PGS. Yeah, that's yeah, and we still got

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the up. You're totally right,
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people have been talking about Terrence Man
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this game. He did exactly what
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man, he gets under that dude's
skin. Yeah, he was active

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on the boards. He had four
offensive reboards, which was rebounds, which

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was tied for most on the team
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threes like he passed up a couple, which you don't like to see.

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But again, I would agree if
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I think that things are maybe even
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I got it. I get some

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money going, got some money going
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I'm be going. We'll see on Monday.

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All right, now you can see
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Jimmy g thank you for bringing this
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Norm had an odd game, right, He played thirty minutes. He only

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had six shot attempts. Two of
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something that Tyler's gonna get figured out. It's great that that feels like one

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of the major things Tyler has to
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play Norm. Everything else, for
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they were physically guarding Luca early in
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so great call, Roger. They
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Norm's tricky, they know what he
can do. So normally having two three

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point attempts and Russ having four is
it usually the split you want. But

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it's someone we got and it happened
to work out. Harden took eleven threes

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in this game, which is exactly
right where you want him to be.

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Yeah, Jimmy Williams, no,
Tys. I firmly thought that Tys maybe

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was going to have the line on
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Tyler opted to stay big for the
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worked right. Like Mason Plumley,
someone was just saying that, yeah,

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Mike Dang saying that the second half
Parliaments were a bit dicey. Yeah,

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that's what we've come to expect.
Mason Plumley sometimes plays like he wants to

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be Tony Roten, but today he
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I love that Tyler did today.
Everyone there was a time out late in

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the fourth and everyone wanted Zoo to
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the ato where Mason tould me got
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PG is doing a backdoor cut with
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the big who can make that pass
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with that kind of thing. Ty
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then subbed Zoo back in. So, like Tyler was phenomenal on the margins

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in this game. I love the
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to do something. Yeah, when
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is something I would assume they do
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because he's not make the best decisions
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to punish that. So great call, Roger, We're probably gonna see that

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happening. Johnny Blaze saying, let's
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not feeling super good this morning when
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But I do want to show something
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it right now. Thank you l
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piece of content out there. This
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is what you come to clips and
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corn dog. Thank you, l
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O l wtf Eric. Yes,
corn dog Harden, we got it.

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who you should follow if you're a Clippers

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fan, makes the best Clippers art, so follow him for more corn dog

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Harden. Yeah, this is uh. I mean we have to talk about

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have been, but the MAVs looked
unprepared for this game. I understand I

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have some bias here, but if
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you can't tell me that this team
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Clippers were gonna throw at them.
Without Kawhi Leonard right, like, I

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just I don't know. Maxi Kleba
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not guard him. He cannot shoot. He was one for five. Dante

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Exen was one for four. Like
Gafford took a bit of a knock.

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He only played fourteen minutes. It's
dicey, right, like. We looked

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at the tape of the clip of
the MAVs defense and it has some flashes,

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but today that's all gone. I
am Chris Tucker burning the money in

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rush hour. This is fake.
I think this is fake. Jimmy g

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I agree. The Bigs looked shambalic. That is a perfect way to describe

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this. Yes, this is Johnny
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new players were nervous or a factor
for not having playoff experience? No?

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I think it's because they're coaching is
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And Jason Kidd against TYLERU is a
pretty lopsided matchup for the Clippers. MAVs

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fans will agree with me on that
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It's okay, thank you, Alfredo
rush hour too, Uh, I

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believe it was rush hour to the
money burned Red Palo with some heat.

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Thank you, Pali. He was
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Yeah, Robbie Lewis, it was
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also, you know, we do
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on Luca. It was physical,
it wasn't too crazy. The Clippers found

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a lot to end this game,
which I think was mostly fatigue that it

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was not a well executed game very
late. But again, I just think

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they retired j Bow's dropping some clues
in about twenty minutes. We're going to

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drop the other keyword to win the
Steve Balmer boblehead so ja or two out

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of the three there, Lou.
Someone said Lou wasn't lying. Yeah,

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great call, neighborhood clip. Lou
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was planning for the sering. It
is a cold ass quote. I loved

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this game. This I don't think
surprisingly, this was my favorite game of

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the Clipper season. I didn't expect
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twenty six at half without Kawhi.
I didn't think they would totally roll over,

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obviously, but this was as good
as we hope for. This looked

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like a completely different team than the
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season. You know, we have
to acknowledge that they were very bad to

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kind of close this season out.
So yes, Roger, we were the

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It was ugly to watch, but
at that at the same time, right,

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that's kind of how you get rest. Like it's a little bit how

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you can buy these guys some rest. They were barely getting it up over

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half court. I was watching this
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was very fun, but we were
a little concerned at the end. They

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looked really low. But I don't
know. I think Will pointed it out

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great. It's hard to be upset
in a lot of stuff from this game.

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I just yes, yes, yes, high screens for Hard so we

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can get to the paint. It
didn't matter who's in front of Hard.

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We have we've seen the burst a
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step just enough to get past guys
tonight and again, Luca and Kyrie getting

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put in defensive actions very early in
this game helped the Clippers late. It's

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fantastic. I'm seeing a bunch of
quotes from Richard Jefferson in the chat.

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I haven't I've just seen these proliferated. What is this man talking about?

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I don't know if the team that
loses ever has the advantage. Hot take.

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I don't think the team that loses
Game one has an advantage? Am

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I crazy? Roger? Chill out? We're just shut up about that.

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I don't think the Clippers. Okay, let's not get super crazy here.

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I don't. I don't think the
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I would love that. It's just
the playoffs in twenty twenty four against

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an offensive juggernaut that is the Maps, which is crazy. Nothing else is

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new. You know, we've we've
all been there before. Yes, Scott

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BOSSI incredible name. If you have
direct reports, love that for you.

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This absolutely does help the Clippers.
We talked about pace a little bit in

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some of our playoff previews which you
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to, and the Maps don't play
super fast, but they play a lot

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fashion than the Clippers do, so
that was really good to see. Yeah,

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some of this is a little unsustainable, right, like without Kauhi.

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This was great with Kawhi. Obviously
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Zoo thing is sustainable. I think
Zoo is is what we saw tonight is

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sustainable from Zoo. If he's not
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bigs, Zoo should play forty minutes. I don't think that's crazy. He

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was playing phenomenal b wes. These
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shot great. We shot fifty percent
from three. There was though a plus

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twenty discrepancy for free throws for the
MAVs, so that's insane. We hope

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that evens out a little bit.
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lot of good stuff to say.
Sorry getting a bunch of messages. Zoo

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was a legit offensive option here.
He was. Yeah, he was also

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aggressive. He hit Cleveland with the
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Thank y'all for hanging out. This
has been phenomenal. I'm doing a

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quick ad break for the audio listeners
because we're gonna make this pod coming up.

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We're going gonna be talking more about
how great the clips were versus the

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MAVs. But first an audio break
and we're back. Thank you. Yes,

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uh chuch in four twenty and they
didn't really let go of the gas

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pedal. The only time that it
looked gross in this one was kind of

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in the fourth when we just it
was just offensive stagnation, which you are

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gonna get stretches of in a playoff
game. Right, We're not gonna we're

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not gonna win most of these games, you know, by thirty or anything

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like that. This is a great
point, Chunk Sampson, djj uh Derek

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Jones Junior is the only Maverick who
looks interested in playing dedicated one on one

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defense against the Clippers. They switched
him onto Harden and PJ. Washington on

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kawh on Paul George. You're totally
right, Chunk, and that's when things

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got a little weird. But you're
right. When Kawhi comes back, they're

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not gonna have that back, and
they're going to continue to get the switch

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by trying to get Luca onto Harden
or whoever has the ball onto Luca or

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Kyrie, because those guys had to
work from the second that the that the

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jump ball happened. So you absolutely
love to see it. Eric and Eric,

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if you rewind it, like five
minutes, we were just showing corn

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dog Harden and people loved it.
What up, Eric, This is huge.

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Yes, so this was also nuts. Kyrie had twenty in the third,

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which is a bit of an outlier
but not totally unexpected from a guy

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like Kyrie. But we didn't freak
out. The Clippers didn't freak out.

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They kept going down low, they
kept getting to zoo. They were ebbing

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and flowing with what the MAVs were
giving them, which was a whole bunch

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of Kyrie buckets on the third.
But they didn't freak out right, like,

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no one completely lost or anything like
that. I was wondering. TYLERU

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took a great time out in the
second quarter when things were just like off

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and weird, he took a time
out. The lead wasn't you know?

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It was just like a nice like
let's get set and remember where the hell

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we are. David McCann asking who
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For those of you knew to the
stream, we always try and pick

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a player of the game, but
we made it so you can't say Kawhi

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every game because we would need that. I am torn. I think I

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have to go. I think I
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Harden played thirty nine minutes, which
is exactly what you need. He

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had twenty in the first half.
He obviously tailed out in the second half

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of this one, but he was
phenomenal. I'm giving it to Zoo two.

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It's co Kawhi Leonard player of the
game. It's it's hard to pick

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between those guys, and you love
when you're big and your point or players

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are the game. There's there's not
much better for the Clippers. Usually the

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Clippers are winning if Harden and Zoo
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If Kawhi is available, do we
see him for game three? If he's

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available, I would assume we see
him for game two. I know,

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people, you know we could the
Clippers could have split this kind of no

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matter what. Even with Kawhi here, they have the split for sure.

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I might be being selfish. I
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play. I don't think he is
based on the reports we've heard. If

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he's able to go into play him
a little bit, get him used to

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that before he has to fly to
Denver or to Dallas or whatever, and

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we'll be okay. I think this
is also a fair point. Roger,

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like, I'm not against this idea. Like if we can give him more

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rest, which it does seem like
he needs. I'm not trying to pretend

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like it seems like he's really gonna
play in the in game two, it

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seems like he needs more rest,
So I wouldn't be I wouldn't be mad

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at that either. Yeah, shout
out to everyone not falling for Luca.

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Pump Fakes very impressive. I thought
Terrence Man was gonna be culpable of that,

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but it is what it is.
Some people in the chatter saying Coffee

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looked raw at times, of course
he did. He's not supposed to start.

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Guys who don't usually start and then
they start in a playoff game are

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gonna look raw. Sometimes. I
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player, he's gonna play better as
the series goes on. And I think

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it did get to him a little
bit right, Like he made half his

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threes, which is great. He
still had three boards. You gotta watch

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the fouling. But hopefully he only
starts maybe Tuesday, and then he can

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go back into his regular role off
the bench. The Uh, well,

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I just wanted, Oh yeah,
no PJ minutes, no tuck Wagon.

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Uh I can't No one's really said
anything about that yet, but I thought

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it was very funny and I thought
it was a great. Another reason why

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it was a masterclass by Tyloo is
a PJ. Tucker didn't play. They

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went with an eight man rotation.
Russ nor Mace worked out. Every single

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one of those guys was plus.
I haven't talked about Russ a bunch so

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far. Jimmy Williams, we swear
sorry one sec. Oh yeah, everyone

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go ahead and rock out to this
music that Jimmy Williams played. It's fantastic.

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The Bobblehead's gonna be there, Jimmy, we swear. Adam sent it

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off. He should be in this
chat soon to answer for his his crimes.

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I don't know, but yeah,
Russ. Russ was great in this

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one. The three point attempt in
the fourth I didn't love he made it,

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but it was like a very lucky
Oh he made it. That's great.

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But everything else other than that was
was fantastic. The four turnovers are

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rough, but anytime you get a
sixty percent shooting game from Russ and he

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has force and two steel like he
played good defense on Luca. Russ.

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He came in. He hyped the
crowd up. He got into a couple

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of little TIFFs and was bringing the
crowd to it to shout out Russ.

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He was phenomenal off the bench.
Yeah, Steve, I think I think

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that's a fair assessment. They were
getting after him. You want to see

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him be better. The twenty shot
attempts is good. He still got up

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twelve three point attempts. But the
early foul trouble was rough. The refs

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were all over the place in this
one. They were wonky. It was

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bad mostly just for one side,
just for the Clippers. I'm being selfish

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about that, but it's true.
Wayne, I agree. I think they

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were just gaming norm out. They
knew what what was up with norm Oh

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we have some We have the Clippers
content powerhouse in the chat right now.

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Jake Burns I think just came out
with a new playoff shirt. Go buy

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Jake Burns's shirts. Also, I
don't know about clips and five Jake.

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I would love that. B West. We did not like Plumbly Overtice.

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I personally not like that, but
it worked. Take on the zoo Bots

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altercation. I loved it. Like
that's good shit from Zoo. You want

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Zoo to be play a little meaner. Zoo looked pissed off today, which

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was great. I absolutely loved it
that that energy is needed, right,

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like why not PG tried to end
maxic Lee was life at one point in

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this game, Scott Tran, thank
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blocked so hard and then Zoo got
the ball back and just went right into

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it. So that was great.
Ash Wednesday Norm. That is a wild

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h nickname, Sorr. I'm just
checking the court real quick to see what's

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going down. All right, we
got a couple more minutes. I'm feeling

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great. What do you all want
to see in game two? On the

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chat? I don't more of the
same obviously. I know we've kind of

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talked a little bit about Kawhi coming
back or not, but they did buy

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him some time, which is great. Yeah, Michael, the reffing was

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super crazy. Sorry, one sick. More buckets from Norm. That's really

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where I'm at too. Yeah,
so we got more buckets from Norm and

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we got Zoo going for another twenty
and ten. I love that. I

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I yeah, I want to see
more from Norm. I want to see

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how Ty can gain that. I
think we're gonna see more Norm maybe coming

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in once we see the MAVs kind
of doing more of that double stuff,

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which is great. It was really
bad shooting from the maps today, and

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I agree it is retribution for what
they did to us in twenty twenty one

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Games one and two. But they
were you know, if they were thirty

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percent, they got thirty three off. Yeah, man, I don't know.

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The Clippers won the possession battle too. They had seven more field goal

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attempts, which, if you listen
to the show, is something I'm kind

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of weirdly obsessed about because that is
how the Clippers lose. Yes, fear

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the beard. I don't know if
they're sweeping, yeah, Chunk. I

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thought that the pg ISOs came from
a place. I didn't like them either,

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but I thought they came from a
place where he was like, I

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want to get going, give me
the ball and let me make something happen,

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which I like better than just being
like, go for it, y'all.

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So I agree less less io Is
likes he's hot, but I think

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today I think it was him trying
to get back into a bit of a

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a bit of a rhythm. Eric. Were we saying you want to see

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Kai Jones minutes because it would mean
another blowout. Yes, he was inactive

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today unfortunately. Yeah, the chi
Hive is upset. I guess Yeah,

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the end of the game. I
think this was running out the clock,

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the basketball version of it, which
is very ugly and gross. I think

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they were tired. I will say
I do think one thing that is in

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my brain looking at game two is
how we look fatigue wise. Is how

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the Clippers look legs wise. You
know this is an older team. Getting

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Kui back would be great, but
they just ran an eight man rotation in

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a playoff game, which it's heavy
minutes, right, Terrence played thirty eight,

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just under thirty nine, Harden at
thirty nine, pg at thirty seven.

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So we're gonna see how everything looks
in game two. I'm still confident.

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I feel good. Ty obviously got
him into great shape and a great

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place to be during this week of
practice for ninety percent of the Clippers.

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But yeah, I uh, I'm
I'm interested to see how the legs look

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in game two, and I'm interested
to see if we can get mav or

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get norm a little more locked in
for this one. So that would be

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great to see Wayne Jenkins saying Chucker
minutes incoming only if it's the same situation

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as Kai Jones, if it's a
blowout, just so a blowout neighborhood clip

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saying what would have liked to see
them go to zoomore down the stretch up

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with jig. Totally agree. They
did that for some good stretches in this

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game, right Like they were like, oh, we need to go easy,

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let's get Zoos some buckets, and
they got them some buckets. So

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that was fantastic to see. I'm
trying to get uh, We're gonna pull

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up some there's gotta be some postgame
quotes coming up that I'm gonna try and

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pull up here. Oh, I'm
gonna go ahead since we're almost ending soon.

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If you have two of the keywords
we've been giving out keywords to win

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00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:11,359
a uh the Steve Vamber bobblehead.
The third keyword, which you may have

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00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,279
already heard from our last giveaway is
do do because that is what the MAVs

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were in the second quarter. So
if you can remember the three keywords that

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we have, go and listen to
our last two episodes. I just dropped

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the third it is do do.
You will get a Steve Laumer bobblehead.

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A lot of questions in the chat
about Tys. I thought I thought Daniel

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Tye was a better option. A
IUMI got it. IUMI wins uh.

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Iomi find us on Twitter or email
us at Shavings Podcast at gmail dot com

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00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,799
and we will get it to you. J Bo's you were very close,

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00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:55,319
but Iomi got it. Hey what
up, William Blast? How you doing?

447
00:31:55,359 --> 00:31:57,640
I hope you had a good time
watching the game. So yeah,

448
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sorry, back to the Tyson stuff. I don't know, uh Plumb if

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we need it, I mean,
Ty's gonna make that change. But plumbly

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for his nervous as he makes me
personally and some other Clippers fans, wasn't

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completely horrendous. Five boards had a
steal, had had the assist of Paul

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George, which I talked about.
He's the one big who can make that.

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But going with size, the MAVs
also went small at one point in

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this game. When the Clippers stayed
big. That leads me to believe that

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they will continue to stay large in
this series. So I think if Plumb

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is just playing poorly, we'll see
Tye. But he wasn't playing poorly enough

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00:32:31,759 --> 00:32:38,119
to warn it. Now PG got
locked up. That's all the MAVs did

458
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,599
right. Yeah, and the early
foul trouble was rough too. He couldn't

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get into a rhythm at all.
My co host Will was on recently.

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Uh, he was just saying that
he thought he played well. I feel

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like we can bully the MAVs from
b West. I agree too. Zue

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bullied the hell out of Gafford.
Zuo bullied him straight off the jump in

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this one. It looked like Wizard's
Gafford out there, So it was good

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to see percent chance of Balmer ruining
his shirt while cheering one hundred and ten

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percent chance, Jenny John one hundred
and ten percent chance of that happening.

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Have a good one, ALFREDA.
Rodriguez, he's signing off. Other than

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the opening quarter, it was great. He lost some guys off ball.

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Another person whose defense was really good. Russell Westbrook's off ball defense was fantastic.

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He was engaged, he got a
steal, He wasn't caught lacking in

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the back door or anything like that. You love to see it. The

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Clippers did the thing where guys just
play fifteen percent better than usual it and

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it worked out for a win.
I agree, Roj. I do think

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there's maybe some overthinking going or something
like that. Also, we're getting some

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quotes just from the presser stuff Paul
George or sorry not Paul George. James

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Harden just said that he knew that
Kawhi was out for Game one a few

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days ago, so the guys have
known for a little bit that Kawhi was

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going to be out. Tyler mentioned
that the Clippers have to do a better

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job of getting to the free throw
line. However you want to take that,

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00:34:07,119 --> 00:34:14,239
it's a direct quote, which is
very funny. Yeah, I don't

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know. I like this quote from
Tyler. Uh oh, folks, we

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got Adam Osam live from the damn
stadium. What's going on, Adam?

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I don't know. Just a team
that, like I said, once Game

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one starts, just like I guess
the Phoenix Suns, you're going to see

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a different level of effort and energy
and they look great. That's about as

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locked in as you could I don't
know be in a Game one. Was

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the process good enough? Chuck?
Did you like that process? Babe?

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00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,079
Let's go I like the process for
sure. Of the game. We were

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00:34:46,119 --> 00:34:51,719
just talking some of the quotes from
TYLERU he mentioned the defense didn't do what

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we were supposed to do sometimes,
which you love to hear in a game

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00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:59,280
where the map shot poorly. They
scored eight points in a quarter and Tyler

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00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,519
still wants room for improvement. Obviously
there is, but I love how it

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00:35:01,559 --> 00:35:06,000
seemed like ty had the guy set
up for this game because they came out

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00:35:06,039 --> 00:35:09,119
hot. Yeah, they were well
prepared. I felt like there was slippage

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00:35:09,159 --> 00:35:13,480
and the defense slowly kind of eroded
in the second half. There was that

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00:35:13,639 --> 00:35:17,920
Luka doncics wide open three with a
miscue that led to a ty Lou timeout

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00:35:19,079 --> 00:35:22,559
in the third quarter. Yeah,
it was. It was noticeable, but

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00:35:23,519 --> 00:35:27,920
overall, not a lot to complain
about. I'm on my guy, big

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00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,119
Zoo X Factor player to watch the
series. He was bullying, he was

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00:35:32,159 --> 00:35:37,480
on his bully stuff. Absolutely,
that's what they need. That's the path

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00:35:37,559 --> 00:35:39,599
to win this series. A huge
series from Vich's Zoo box. That's what

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00:35:39,679 --> 00:35:43,840
it has to be. And he
even locked up Luka Doncers on a possession.

502
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,119
Yeah, no, he was.
That was as good as he's been

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00:35:46,159 --> 00:35:49,760
all year. We talked about how
hard it makes him better and everything like

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00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,800
that, Like this was Zoo dispelled
any notion that Gafford was going to be

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00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,760
able to stop him in this series. In the first three possessions, I

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think the first there was a time
in the first when it was three straight

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00:36:00,559 --> 00:36:04,000
plays to Zoo. One was Gafford
fouling him, and then the next two

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00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,320
possessions were two buckets like. It
was as good as it could be.

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I have a good show, Chuck, Thanks Adam. Let's go close.

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No answer for Zubac at the moment, could not agree more. I think

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I'm about to head out and go
bask in this win. Get a hot

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00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,119
dog, hot dog, hot dog
from outside. This is a great bit,

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00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,480
uh b West. He put up
Will like numbers adjusted to modern NBA

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00:36:29,599 --> 00:36:36,960
standards, per Adam Oslin. Adam
has some some interesting thoughts on Will which

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00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,480
we're all getting get into on this
series. I am about to head out.

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Thank you everyone for hanging out in
the chat. This was super fun.

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We're gonna do these after every game, win or lose. We're also

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going to be doing a standalone episode
out tomorrow with Will Updike, Adam Oslin,

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00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,119
and myself. Thank you Devian for
hanging out. Let's hope we have

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more vibes like this after the after
the post games, right like, let's

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00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,079
let's keep them all met um up. Talk as much shit as you want

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00:37:00,079 --> 00:37:07,760
at work on Monday putting this in
agreed Gregie tea man was getting clothesline from

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00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,440
hell and they just they just didn't
call anything. It was insane. Shout

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00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:15,639
out Tyloo for commenting that at the
end of his presser. But here's to

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00:37:15,679 --> 00:37:19,559
another CLIPS win. Talk your shit
tomorrow. It doesn't matter. If you

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00:37:19,559 --> 00:37:22,159
know a Mask fan, let him
know what's up, and as always, let's go