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All right, what's going on?
Clippers fans? Welcome to Clips and Dip

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Live. I'm gonna vamp a little
bit at the top here to get some

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people some time to come on in. It's just me and Adam today.

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Adam, how are you doing.
I'm good Will, thanks again for coming

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on last night doing a little clips
in Double Dip on a five seven e

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LA Sports on Clippers Talk. That
was a fun time. As we continue

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to mull over the fact that Kawhi
Leonard is not in the MVP conversation,

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we could talk more about that too, coming up a little bit because I

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found some more damning evidence of media
malpractice. But uh yeah, we've been

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having some fun with it. Just
try to bring attention, try to bring

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some positive light to Kawhi Leonard.
If nobody else is gonna do it,

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we're gonna do it here on Clips
and Dip some other positive stuff in the

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Clippers realm Clippers currently have the best
offense in the NBA and speaking of our

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should be MVP leader, Kawhi Leonards, he also had some interesting things to

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say about the Clippers lack of defensive
effort. You kind of rarely hear Kawhi

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sort of go in on an aspect, but these comments actually got me kind

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of excited. So we will show
that audio here a little bit later in

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the episode and talk about that as
well. We're also going to talk about

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just the historic season with two,
I mean, with four Hall of Fame

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players all together, but two of
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in the same season. Adam,
I hope you did some research on whether

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that's been done before or not.
Didn't have to. Everybody else already told

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me they told you, okay,
great, great, great. And then

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we'll also talk about Emir coffees continued
great stretch of play and how the Clippers

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will wrap up on this Grammy road
trip. All right, Adam, where

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do you want to kickoff? Do
you want to talk a little bit?

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We talked a little bit postgame about
that win versus the Pistons, but why

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don't we just jump off there now
that you've had a little bit more time

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to stew on it. Do you
have any Do you have any thoughts on

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that win over the Pistons? Just
some wild swings in a ballgame where the

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Clippers could be down fourteen and I
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like as opposed to past years,
that eventually they were going to figure it

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out. We just kind of saw
that in DC the game before. We're

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in that third quarter they outscored them
forty to nineteen and pulled away and got

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up by twenty nine. And then
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fourteen in the first quarter, they
cut into that league rather quickly as Russell

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Westbrook came into the ballgame and helped
turn things around, and I thought had

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one of his best games as a
Clipper. Oh so I do I have

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to go back to hating on him
now to fit this false narrative because I

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was just praising Russell Wallbrook. Andrew
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If you're listening to this audio not
watching us live, which should be,

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that's over at YouTube dot com Slash
at Clippers podcast. But Andrew wanted

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to know why Adam hates Westbrook so
much? Why do you Adam? He

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said, he's kidding, so he
knows that's not the case. But I

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don't know if he's kidding about Amir
Coffee starting, we'll talk about a mirror

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and how good he's been too coming
up here. But just the fact that

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the Clippers could pull it together get
up by twenty. So a thirty four

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point turnaround happened in that ballgame,
it still was too close for comfort late

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more on that with the Kawhi Leonard
comments postgame. But I think you've had

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the most amount of confidence in this
particular Clippers team in the two to one

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three era of being able to weather
storms. And look, they've had plenty

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of comebacks. Obviously, they've had
the most twenty point comebacks over the last

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five years of any team historic comebacks
down thirty five, second biggest comeback all

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time in DC couple of years ago
against the Wizards, and obviously even before

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two point three, the thirty one
point come back in the playoffs. Can

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I say something about that, though, Like, at least in terms of

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the regular season, this is not
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And I'm not saying that in a
pejorative way or a negative way.

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This team just should really never be
getting to those lows, to those points.

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And it's it's great to see them
like have these big swings and turnarounds,

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but for the most part, you
don't expect them to go down big

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like that, And it's it's not
even it's not even just because of the

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talent level, right I do think
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lot of things earlier in this run, But right now, I feel like,

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with how cohesive the whole squad is
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that team anymore that goes down deep. Not that I don't think that they're

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capable of a comeback when when it
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it as much and it's not gonna
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the last four years. No,
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they had some of those games when
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and they never should have been down
double digits to the extent that they

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were. But you're right, there's
more faith in this team being a dominant

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team. They are the hunted now
and they're playing like a team that knows

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they have the talent disparity in their
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But they still have had slow starts
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with Paul George back, But there's
a level of belief and confidence now that

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they're gonna figure it out. Pretty
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this game's going to be over.
They're gonna slam the door shut. It

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took far too long, probably in
that Detroit game, because it was still

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within the range of possibility. I
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with three minutes left. For four
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but hey, they just beat Okay. See recently they just almost won

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in Cleveland. They gave them about
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did on Monday when they were taken
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starting to uh, I don't know. Obviously they're the worst team in the

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NBA and all that, but they're
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But the Clippers, look that performance
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to get there, I thought overall, Paul George was very good in stemming

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the tide in the fourth quarter,
where he had ten of his eighteen on

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I think eight of sixteen shooting.
So a lot of positives still for me.

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Do you want to see them pull
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themselves? Of course, and that
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Kawhi Leonard because this is a guy
who is chasing perfection and knows what it

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takes to win a championship and doesn't
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to see any bad habits out there. So do we want to play this

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audio now? Will? Yeah?
Yeah, let's get into it. So

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yeah, after Poe game, after
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some comments and I don't have Charles
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we have the hope I don't let's
hope I don't mess this up. Currently,

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law Murray is the only beat writer
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know of covering the Clippers intimately like
this after for whatever reason, the La

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Times didn't think the hottest team in
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and let go of our friend Andrew
Grife and that is upsetting to me to

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no end. But here was La
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Kawhi Leonard. And then you know, as far as this particular game goes,

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you guys were down fourteen, was
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and everything, like, what do
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to you know, you go to
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The man is so you know,
man man early start game by game,

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yep, they game so like just
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the Pistons, I know, it's
about y'all. What can y'all do to

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lock in to start games a little
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it's between our you know, our
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in the defensive game. We gave
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twenty something points, So yeah,
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been winning games off time of even
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I mean, it's just a lot
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uh you know, just slow pace, you know, and you know when

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it starts with our defense. But
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slow pace. You're starting off slow. So we have to see who we

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want to be. You see what
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just fore like these last games are
just when based off talent, we need

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to be winning after the execution,
playing hard throughout all forty eight minutes,

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and then they talent take over and
the turns that we do, and then

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I would say that then you got
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the fit's a mental trip to start. It's got to be a mental trip

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that ended day. Yeah, for
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two to teams. I've been playing
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on to Miami as neighbor, it's
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stay focused, get some rest,
and then be ready to lock in.

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They do what we need to do. That all right, go ahead,

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the stream now or if you missed
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he thinks that this team has at
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where this team is coming up short
and starting slow, he said, starts

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between the ears, and it's really
the defensive end. And he did mention

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too, how the offense has stagnated
at times. They've they've just gotten into

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ISO stuff and they've they've really been
able to lean on their talent in a

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way in a way that he doesn't
think is with the mindset of of what

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they're trying to do and what they're
trying to achieve and somebody mentioned it in

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the comments, but if you if
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But this is like one of the
most sort of in depth or like

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long winded I guess answers that you're
ever gonna get from Kawhi. So I

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love seeing this personally. I think
that's about as encouraging of a leadership off

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the court moment as you can get
from Kawhi Leonard to get that lengthy of

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a response for him to elaborate to
that end, and he's spot on,

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and I I think it might be
strategic. Kawhi is probably not going to

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be the guy to go up to
every player individually and tell them this,

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but if he puts it out he
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fist bump and then you know,
hey, we're gonna lock in tonight.

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There's friction here, but it's an
easier, more efficient way, as Kawhi

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Leonard's all about efficiency right now,
to get a message out to the entire

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locker room that we can't get by
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about execution. Because of the playoffs, you're playing talented teams in the seven

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game series consistently that's not good enough, starting games slow, and him saying

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it's between the ears. It's a
level of focus they need to have,

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they need to be locked in.
That is very telling. That's stuff that

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Clipper Nation has asked for from this
team. It was just great to see

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Kawhi Leonard just articulate it so perfectly
there as their best player on the team

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during a stretch where they've been this
good still and he is demanding more out

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of them. That's what's most important
to me. I like that this isn't

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the this isn't like sort of like
the backhanded locker room comment, like we

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didn't hear this doing the six game
losing streak, you know what I mean?

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This comes off a lot differently in
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when the team is winning and I'm
assuming vibes are pretty good in the locker

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room just with how good things have
been going, and you're still like you're

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still trying to get people to this
mentality. It's still very clear what your

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goal is and where your head is
at, and like Kawhi acting as that

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leader looking from the top to bottom
for everybody else to lock into that mindset.

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I think is. I mean,
I just don't know what else you

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want from him as a leader.
I think it's also an important time of

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the season where you can have some
of those dog days right before the All

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Star break, before the Sprint starts
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more consistently and trade moves come into
play. This is a time where you

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can have letdowns and let ups,
and that's probably what happened early on in

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Detroit, and he's trying to kick
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not let this team complacent out there. He's always talked about going back

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to what happened in the bubble when
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Nuggets. Afterwards, the one thing
he stressed was we have to get smarter.

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We have to be smarter out there
on the court. He's always looking

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to refine things, to make things
better and to chase perfection. Like I

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said, hoping to catch greatness,
I think is the old line, and

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that's that's Kawhi. When you come
up with the San Antonio Spurs, you

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know what it takes. You know
what a championship team looks like. And

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I think going back to training camp. He knew this team had it in

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them. He's got to kick him
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and
you know with the with the heart and

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an addition, I mean, this
is like, this is the most talent

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that they're ever going to have.
And we still don't know what free agency

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holds and what next year holds.
But to see how locked in he is

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to right now, I think is
incredible. Yeah, yeah, man,

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it's no, it's it is one
of my favorite quotes coming from him.

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And all season long, he's also
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and Timarazarli he's still in that stretch. By the way, he is still

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in this hot streak last twenty seven
games. Kawhi Leonard at fifty seven make

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it fifty eight percent you could round
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percent from three And they're asking him
about this and this is over a month

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ago now, and he's like,
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bigger than a stretch. And then
with him getting that new contract extension postgame,

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he's talking about taking this team to
new heights. I think some people

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were skeptical, Oh, Kawhi is
playing back to backs, and he's playing

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more now because you know he and
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he got the contract, and he
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this team of championship. I think
he knows his legacy to some degree can

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still be enhanced, and it would
be because it would just be Lebron James

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as league guys to win with three
different teams I think in the history of

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the NBA, and he could do
it with two teams that have never won

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a championship. Obviously the Cavaliers had
with Lebron, but the Lakers had.

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They had the second most of Boston
when he won, So it's like ho

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hum for those fans. Bringing a
championship to the Clippers would mean everything,

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and Kawhi Leonard wants to get them
there and everything he has been saying has

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been on point and exactly the type
of stuff you want to hear from your

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leader. Who doesn't the soft spoken, laconic guy. He's so stoic out

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there, and for him to go
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just think after a win is really
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understands what's left of the window,
right. I think if we look back

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to twenty twenty and how things kind
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was probably a collective idea that,
you know, if it doesn't happen this

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one, we have a lot of
we have a lot more kind of cracks

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at the apple, right, And
I think seeing how things have gone since

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then, how unpredictable things are,
how how quickly the landscape competitively of the

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NBA can change, I think there's
probably a pretty real realization internally about you

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know, what the rest of this
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George And I think what we've seen
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stepping up to that challenge and everybody
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I don't think it's this dramatic,
but if this was to be the

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last dance, like the absolute you
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had, that they've ever given themselves
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if things go as they as we've
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this season, what could be their
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Oh yeah, And I think coming
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agreed universally this look like a last
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of this this experiment. Now Kawhi
is under contract, and he came out

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postgame and said, you know,
he believes that pretty much everybody else is

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coming back. What's Wayne Jenkins saying? Here? Will wayn Jakins says,

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KWHI is pretty clear first team All
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it feels like he may end up
on the third time with some prs some

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of the guys get despite him being
an All timer already. If he's not

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a first team All NBA forward,
I am gonna throw my computer through through

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the window. Is First Team positionless? Now? Is it still forwards?

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Is it like the All Star Game
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it was positionless now? Okay,
so he'll have a better chance, I

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guess right in that scenario. Look, nobody has been on top of us

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more than me and Big Will.
We have been screaming to the high heavens

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that Kawhi Leonard need to be in
the MVP conversation. And I think it's

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somewhat media malpractice that he hasn't been
so far. Like they are dropping the

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ball. The National narrative is not
being shaped around how good Kawhi Leonard has

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been over this stretch of two and
a half months where the Clippers have been

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the best team in the league.
And when you take into account everything,

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the fact that he's double teamed constantly
and he's still putting up these fifty eight

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percent from the field, fifty one
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free throw line shooting splits speaks volumes. The fact that he's playing all world

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defense and they are ten points worse
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the floor should speak volumes. And
then you factor in all the winning going

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on with this ball club. What
else do you need? And I heard

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this earlier today from Justin Russo.
I was listening to the Sports Ethos podcast

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with Brandon Marcus and Basketball Reference.
Now, Grant, I don't know how

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they calculate this, but they have
what's called on their site, and we're

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talking about Basketball Reference dot Com here
number twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four

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NBA MVP Award tracker. They have
top candidates and they say it's based on

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a model built using previous voting results. Players must have played in at least

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seventy percent of the league wide average
for team games to qualify. So I

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don't know about this whole previous voting
results thing, but they do not have

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Kawhi Leonard top ten in their NBA
MVP Award tracker on Basketball Reference dot com,

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And we talked about it last night
on Clippers Talk. But Kawhi Leonard

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is tied for seventh or eighth in
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by tied, I mean he's back
with a bunch of guys who are plus

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ten thousand, so you'd have to
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dollars. His odds are that far
down that is unconscionable with how good he

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has been. Yeah, I I
the only whisper I've really heard about Kawhi,

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and the MVP conversation was on like
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I can't remember if it was Bontemps
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that's the only one. And even
then it was, you know, it

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was it was sort of a it
was definitely a dark horse sort of a

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candidate, which I don't know.
It's difficult. I feel like to get

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past some of the narrative stuff.
And even though I think Kawhi has done

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a lot to change all that's been
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this last four or five years,
I just don't know that it's I don't

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I don't know that it's enough for
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perspective, not from mine, obviously, but yeah, it's it's gonna be

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interesting. So we're getting some injury
report news. It looks like Zoo is

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gonna be questionable for tomorrow. But
I think this is a good time to

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Coming up, we're gonna talk a
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I have an apology to make.
We'll also talk about a mere coffee.

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We'll also talk about, you know, the last two games remaining on

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this Grammy road trip a little bit
more in depth. We talked about him

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the other day with Charles Monkler two. But the Clippers now have I saw

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this one hundred and twenty two points
per one hundred possession offensive rating, which

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is an all timer, although that's
not on the season. Still, we're

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looking at I think since November seventeenth, since the Clippers reconfigured the starting lineup

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inserting Terrence Man. Now, they
obviously had games where Paul George's missed a

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few Kawhi Leonard has missed a couple
of vitzas zu bots, and we do

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have an update on him as people
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But you look at a seam questionable
zus, which is amazing considering we

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thought post All Star Break at best, just get him back with the seventeen

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games in March. Shout out Chuck
Mockler. H this Clippers team yes,

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since November seventeenth, since they've been
on this wild winning streak with twenty nine

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victories to just eight losses. They
have an offensive rating of one hundred and

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twenty fing two. The James Harden
effect is big with this ball club right

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now, and they're just humming.
But you listen to Kawhi Leonard in those

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comments in the last segment, he
said he still felt like they're going through

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the motions and getting by too much
on talent than execution, even on the

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offensive end. So there's still room
to grow. That's what makes this team

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really scary. They can still get
better. Believe it or not. They've

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only played with James Harden for about
thirty five games so far. You know

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this is still a team that's going
through that adjustment period, learning curve.

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And now when they get Paul George
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yesterday, maybe that's part of the
reason they struggled early on. It still

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takes some time, and I just
want to see them get Big Zoo back,

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be whole, and get some of
those rotations locked in before the playoffs.

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I
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Questionable for this team, but whatever. That's a conversation for another time for

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how this this team sometimes does some
of the injury designations. Do you think

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that they were, like, do
you think he comes back into the starting

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lineup? Do you think you have
to work him in behind Mason? What

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are you doing here with big Zoo? This is in the in the long

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shot chance that he actually is ready
to go sometime on this grammy roadrip,

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which I actually still don't see.
But let's just go from there. If

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if he is above questionable to probable, where do you slot him in.

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Well, it's great news that he
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listed as questionable. It makes me
think much differently about the injury where I

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thought it could have been, you
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he's dealt with it over the past
couple of seasons. So that's really positive

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news right there. Because as we
talked about, beats Zubats, I think

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is their fourth most important player.
I think he'll be back in the starting

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lineup even if he's on a minute
restriction. They put him back out there,

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even if he's only at twenty or
twenty five minutes, just to soak

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up some of that time in the
front court, and then you got decisions

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to make with Mason Plumley and Daniel
Tice and who plays more there. Nobody

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can make up for the loss of
Big Zoo. We've seen that play out

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there have just been We talked about
that just last night. We're like the

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I mean, these bigs have been
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best is to fill in what is
a I mean just a massive cravasse that

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has to be figured out for this
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at the game against the Cavaliers,
against the Lakers, even against the Wizards.

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I mean when the Clippers have made
a lot of their runs, they've

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been going small. They've just been
leaning into offense. Kawhi Leonard's playing the

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freaking five out there. But don't
give me a love for that. In

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the MVP voting. They've been holding
it down by going small. That has

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been one of their best options.
Meanwhile, Vitza Zubats was finally closing out

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games this season. That's how good
he has been, especially since they brought

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in James Harden, and there's been
that great pick and role connection with those

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two. So they're missing not just
back line defense, one of their guys

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that was thriving offensively and really coming
into his own having his best stretch of

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his career. You can't take it
lightly or downplay the fact that a Visa

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Zubats has missed this time and the
Clippers have still kept things going without him.

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all time heights with him, So

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I think when he comes back,
he'll be in the starting lineup. And

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maybe it's just a matchup dependent thing
when it comes to Mason Plumbley and Daniel

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Tye. If you're taking on a
team that's a little bit bigger, you

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want more size, it's Mason Plumbley. Otherwise, maybe Daniel Tice has earned

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more reps because he's been that good. He really has, and he continues

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to contest everything regardless of if he's
gonna get dumped on or not. Yeah,

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I think it just depends on how
you run those rotations, what Zoo's

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minutes load looks like, especially at
the beginning, I think think could determine

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a lot about who's next up.
You know, at the five, who's

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gonna get those more of those minutes
and more of that trust. But having

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the versatility I think is great,
Like we We talked last night about the

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center rotation, which I think is
one of the deepest in the Western Conference,

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if not in the entire league.
But we actually got a question here,

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Adam, do you think we need
to trade for a bigger wing to

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play the small ball five? Where
are you at on that we already have

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assuming a Visa Zubots returns to Hell
three healthy rostered centers. I do think

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there's one more phase or facet to
this team and this roster that could be

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unlocked if you had a guy who
could not only play the small ball five,

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but could be used as a four
next to a Vita Zubats, next

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to two, one three in James
Harden. That does interest me. Obviously,

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the prototype or the archetype would have
been somebody like Nicholas batoum Moroco.

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Those guys are gone. The trade
was the right move to make. If

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you could pull in someone like PJ. Washington from Charlotte, and I know

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he's not the outside shoot you're looking
for, but rim runner athlete, vertical

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threat, that would be big for
this team. People talk about Dorian Finney

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Smith a lot, but it seems
like take a lot like, well,

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do we need another wing? Who
can't really shoot from the outside, if

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he can guard multiple positions that look, I'm not saying this is a need

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for them to win the championship.
They have this glaring hole on this team

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and if they don't feel it,
they don't have a shot. I'm just

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saying, can you strengthen a strength
still? Can you can you figure out

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some of those flaws that could be
exposed in stretches in the playoffs where you're

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then kicking yourself and saying, damn, we should have gotten that guy the

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trade deadline, and we didn't,
and we missed, and we waited to

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see it get play out in the
playoffs because one of the things that coach

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lew has always said is, you
know, we've never had a chance with

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Kawhi and Paul George fully healthy to
complete a playoff run to figure out what

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we're missing. But as we talked
about earlier, with the sense of urgency,

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with this team needing to win now, with Kawhi being thirty two and

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Paul George thirty three, I don't
think they have the luxury to just go

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into the playoffs without trying to prep
for things that just could you know,

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be issues that could arise. They
got to try to figure out what you

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know, could be a problem even
though they're on this winning streak, just

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continue to try to refine things and
get better. Yeah, well, there's

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also not an issue with redundancy,
you know, with as we see right

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now with Tucker on the roster still
right like, it's not really hurting anything

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for him to not be in the
rotation. It's currently not really hurting anything

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for Bones Highland to not be in
the rotation. So I guess, depending

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on the asking price, I am
all or grabbing another wing certainly, how

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I mean, I guess it just
depends on how big of a factor you

407
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want them to be into the DNA
of what this team already is. Like,

408
00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:15,720
I think something like a Jeremy Grant
or something like that is maybe too

409
00:30:15,759 --> 00:30:22,880
big of a move for me,
because I feel like you're fundamentally changing the

410
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,400
core, like the core of sort
of what this team is once again,

411
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,480
and I don't know if that's the
right move, especially given how things have

412
00:30:30,559 --> 00:30:33,640
gone so far. If that's the
approach that I want to take at this

413
00:30:33,759 --> 00:30:38,400
point in the season, that's a
great point because as much as people have

414
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:44,480
been clamoring for continuity, you finally
have some of it, you don't want

415
00:30:44,519 --> 00:30:49,599
to completely upend that with a drastic
move that really changes how this team plays

416
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:55,920
next to one another and you go
through another losing streak just figuring out minutes,

417
00:30:56,079 --> 00:31:00,960
rotations, lineups. It can create
issues. It can create more problems

418
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:07,599
when this team finally looks like the
chemistry is there, they're gelling, they're

419
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,920
meshing, they're playing at this really
high level. If you bring in a

420
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:15,400
guy that's all of a sudden gonna
be in the starting lineup when the starting

421
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,519
lineup has been phenomenal with Terrence Man, you know that that could change things.

422
00:31:19,599 --> 00:31:23,720
That could lead to some downside as
well. Yeah, and I'm not

423
00:31:23,759 --> 00:31:29,000
saying that there aren't better players in
the league than Terrence Mann or anything like

424
00:31:29,039 --> 00:31:30,960
that. It's just for me,
it's a little bit of an if.

425
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,160
If it's not broke, you don't
need to fix this situation. I mean,

426
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:40,599
basically, every year that we've had
a healthy Kawhi and Paul George going

427
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:45,960
in to like to go into the
playoffs, we've made a big mid season

428
00:31:45,079 --> 00:31:51,160
move and it would be nice,
It would be nice maybe if that wasn't

429
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,599
the situation this year. It's all
I'm saying, especially because I think I

430
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:59,559
think one of the most one of
the more interesting things about Denver and their

431
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:05,440
champion and Chip run is just how
I mean the Aaron Gordon move was was

432
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,039
was a larger move, but like
they have this continuity that I think really

433
00:32:09,079 --> 00:32:14,319
did help them get over the hump. Obviously they have the talent, and

434
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:19,359
Jokic has and Murray and their game
together has improved, but that happens with

435
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,799
continuity, and that happens with some
consistency in the in the guys around them.

436
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,359
So yeah, it is kind of
one of those things that I am

437
00:32:28,559 --> 00:32:30,640
envious of for some of the other
teams when you know when they have that

438
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:35,480
sort of thing, and even Denver, you know, who knows if they

439
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,319
were able to keep the entire championship
roster together where they slot in the West

440
00:32:39,359 --> 00:32:43,480
right now, right like, would
they be just running away with it again

441
00:32:43,759 --> 00:32:46,759
like they did last season. Well, and it goes back to what Kawhi

442
00:32:46,839 --> 00:32:52,119
Leonard said earlier, getting by on
talent, you only want to do that

443
00:32:52,279 --> 00:33:00,400
in select situations. It starts with
execution and that ties in to build up

444
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:05,759
that chemistry I saw. Okay,
Jeremy Mormon says we need a role player.

445
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:12,839
But I saw this from Ramas Street
who says the thing is, Kawhi

446
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,880
gets doubled eight times a game and
it's only gonna go up during the playoffs.

447
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,319
I don't really trust PG and Harden
to knock down shots on a consistent

448
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:28,720
basis. Whoa, whoa, whoa
what it's It's like, if you can't

449
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:36,039
trust those guys high from the outside, who do you trust? Yeah,

450
00:33:36,039 --> 00:33:38,079
what's what's the move? Then,
Ramas Street, So you do want to

451
00:33:38,119 --> 00:33:40,920
take one of those guys out of
the starting lineup or trade one of those

452
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:45,200
guys somehow? Come on, what
are we doing here? They're either gonna

453
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:49,480
win with those guys or yeah,
they're not gonna peak and reach their championship

454
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,279
aspirations. This is the squad,
this is who they have. You have

455
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:59,240
to trust those guys. And I
still feel like Paul George's run without Kawhi

456
00:33:59,319 --> 00:34:02,680
Leonard in the twenty to twenty one
NBA playoffs somehow gets overlooked. People still

457
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:06,319
say like, oh, playoff p
and stuff, and it's like, guys,

458
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,920
the last time we saw him have
to lead a team, he got

459
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,599
him to the Western Conference finals for
the first time in franchise history. What

460
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:17,679
are we talking about with multiple huge
ball games of forty points in game fives?

461
00:34:20,079 --> 00:34:25,639
Yeah, same reaction as Will's whoa, whoa, whoa. Those are

462
00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:30,760
the dude you're rolling with? Those
are those are absolutely the dudes you're rolling

463
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:36,920
with. And sure if if if
Harden and PG both have if they combine

464
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,199
in playoff games where they're both really
inefficient from the field, Yeah you might,

465
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,960
you might lose that game, you
might drop that game, But I

466
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:49,480
think that A, what are your
other options of the same high level talent?

467
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,400
And B I think I'm still willing
to ride out those odds. And

468
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:57,079
we talked a little bit about this, Nicky Duncant and talked about some of

469
00:34:57,159 --> 00:35:01,719
Kawhi's sort of issues in the double, how his his efficiency sort of goes

470
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:06,159
down somewhat. But I think and
you and I talked about this like,

471
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,360
it's not gonna be it's not gonna
be a picnic to try and double Kawhi

472
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:14,639
in the playoffs. Like this team, this team is going to be able

473
00:35:14,679 --> 00:35:20,760
to hurt you anytime you're sending two
defenders at Kawhi. Yeah, I'm not

474
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,400
that overly concerned with it. We
talked about that video. I just feel

475
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:30,039
like there's a reason that they're the
best three point shooting team in the league,

476
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,760
and it's about getting teams out of
rotation because of all the talent on

477
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:37,280
the floor and when you double,
they are finding the open man for the

478
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,519
most part. And yes, they
can still work on that. But people

479
00:35:40,519 --> 00:35:44,239
are coming back at me saying,
yeah, it wasn't just Paul George.

480
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,440
Of course, it wasn't just Paul
George, but he was the best player

481
00:35:46,559 --> 00:35:52,000
that teams were game planning for each
and every night once Kawhi Leonard went down

482
00:35:52,519 --> 00:35:57,920
and had historically great numbers throughout that
playoff run he had. I don't know

483
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,679
if we can pull this stuff up, but I think think you was first

484
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:06,480
in points scored through the first couple
of games of the NBA Finals. Like,

485
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,360
what are we talking about here?
And people are bringing up the bubble.

486
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:15,360
Yes, a lot of fluky stuff
happened in the bubble. Paul George

487
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:16,920
was not good at the end in
the Denver series. You know who else

488
00:36:17,039 --> 00:36:22,320
wasn't Kawhi Leonard in that game seven? Like do we ever expect that to

489
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,119
happen again? No, he came
back, had the Game six on the

490
00:36:25,199 --> 00:36:30,199
road, forty five point game against
the MAVs, and then Paul George more

491
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,840
than held up his end of the
bargain, taking this team to New Heights

492
00:36:34,039 --> 00:36:37,480
afterwards. I think that playoff run
is so much more indicative of what this

493
00:36:37,559 --> 00:36:39,639
team really is than the twenty twenty
year. And I'm not here to make

494
00:36:39,679 --> 00:36:47,039
excuses Clippers blew what was a golden
opportunity, obviously a weird situation. I

495
00:36:47,079 --> 00:36:52,840
think if your thoughts of Paul George
and the playoffs are still in that Denver

496
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,960
series, or your thoughts of Kawhi
Man, we've moved pretty far past that,

497
00:36:57,079 --> 00:37:01,840
pretty clearly in the playoff series that
we've seen them in sets. Moses,

498
00:37:02,159 --> 00:37:07,119
you're talking about old stuff, so
it tracks. But he's saying Kawhi

499
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,000
played four out of the six games
in the Jazz series. We are aware,

500
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:14,280
and it was two to two,
and the Jazz were supposed to win

501
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:19,400
that series and had the best overall
record in the league that season, and

502
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:23,119
Paul George was tremendous in that game
five on the road when they just found

503
00:37:23,159 --> 00:37:27,199
out Kawhi Leonard, who flew with
them on the plane, wasn't gonna be

504
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,039
able to go. Man. A
lot of people want down on Paul George.

505
00:37:30,079 --> 00:37:34,440
In the chat right now, Jeremy
says, Paul George just needs to

506
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,039
needs to have a remember when I
can do a game, feel like we

507
00:37:37,039 --> 00:37:39,840
haven't seen one for a while.
I mean, the efficiency hasn't been what

508
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:45,880
it was. He's hard. The
guy's been dealing with a groin injury.

509
00:37:45,199 --> 00:37:50,440
I think I think it's one of
those things that's he's just gonna have to

510
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,440
get back to one hundred percent.
I would guess that he's at like eighty

511
00:37:52,559 --> 00:37:58,199
right now. So let's talk about
that. Because last night postgame, law

512
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,840
Murray again spoke with Paul George about
his health and where he was at,

513
00:38:02,199 --> 00:38:08,119
and he basically said that this growing
injury arises throughout the season at some point.

514
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,039
He's always had it, he gets
through it, he comes out on

515
00:38:12,079 --> 00:38:15,360
the other side. So it's common
for him. He's been dealing with this

516
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:22,679
for years. But remember last season
he went through a rough stretch and then

517
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,079
started to feel really good and looked
healthy and you could tell, and then

518
00:38:25,119 --> 00:38:29,519
of course against OKC what it looked
like he had all that bounce back and

519
00:38:29,599 --> 00:38:32,400
had the three sixty dunk in the
half court. He gets injured, but

520
00:38:32,519 --> 00:38:37,599
this is kind of the wave that
you ride the roller coaster with Paul George

521
00:38:37,639 --> 00:38:43,000
and his health during a regular season. So it's been happening in a chat

522
00:38:43,119 --> 00:38:45,559
right now. Sorry to interrupt you, Adham, but Russe the Villagers said

523
00:38:45,559 --> 00:38:49,840
Paul George had a streak of seventeen
straight twenty point games weeks ago. Thank

524
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:55,239
you very much. Of course I
don't like his icon of Russell Westbrook throwing

525
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:59,920
up a brick and calling himself for
Russ the builder there. But yes,

526
00:39:00,199 --> 00:39:05,679
yes, Paul George. Remember you're
the one who hates Westbrook. How dare

527
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:07,719
you? How dare you? Paul
George was the one in the first three

528
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:12,960
weeks of this season that was playing
better than Kawhi Leonard Kawhi eased his way

529
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,639
into this season. Paul George,
we were saying MVPG. That's what we

530
00:39:16,639 --> 00:39:20,639
were saying to start off this year, and it's not the first year a

531
00:39:20,679 --> 00:39:23,360
Clippers uniform we have said that where
he's got off to really good starts.

532
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:29,840
So Paul George said he was dealing
with this growing injury. It's happened before,

533
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:31,840
and it sounds like he knows how
to manage it and get through it.

534
00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:36,559
So that made me a little bit
less concerned about what's going on right

535
00:39:36,599 --> 00:39:38,559
now, and just the fact that
he played in that game against Detroit,

536
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:43,639
which I think was a little bit
unexpected and looked pretty damn good. He

537
00:39:43,679 --> 00:39:46,800
still has some bounce and I feel
like he's still like, while the team

538
00:39:47,039 --> 00:39:51,800
hasn't been super locked in defensively,
I still feel like he has some flash

539
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,920
moments every game where you're like,
oh wow, Paul George is still still

540
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:59,760
doing it on both ends. Not
the most efficient offensively, but what I

541
00:40:00,039 --> 00:40:02,639
I don't have his like just fourth
quarter numbers right in front of me.

542
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:06,559
But if if he had played the
rest of the game like that fourth quarter,

543
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:10,400
I think it looks a lot different. Man Ramas Street the last two

544
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:15,760
games from hard and screams bad vibes. It's like, Okay, let's ignore

545
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:22,079
the other thirty plus games with James
Harden having some of his most efficient nights

546
00:40:22,079 --> 00:40:25,599
and having a four to one assist
a turnover ratio. Like, guys,

547
00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:30,840
enjoy what's happening right now. Please
enjoyed the journey. This is literally the

548
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:35,760
best that Clippers have ever played in
the regular season. This is the most

549
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,159
dominant they have ever looked in franchise
history. Look, I think that's what

550
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:43,519
I think that's why people are worried, right, I think that's why people

551
00:40:43,519 --> 00:40:45,239
are worried. This is a fit, Like this is a franchise, this

552
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:50,280
is a fan base. People get
a little upset with being comfortable, right,

553
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,559
Like we're we're always waiting for the
other shoe to drop. And I'm

554
00:40:53,559 --> 00:40:57,719
not saying that that still won't happen, but like, this is the most

555
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,920
for real this team has looked.
This is the most dominant this team has

556
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,880
looked. And the fact that they
not only look this dominant, but they're

557
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,519
still not pleased, They're still not
satisfied. They're not like, Okay,

558
00:41:08,599 --> 00:41:12,599
let's put our feet up, we
got a good little lead. We like

559
00:41:12,599 --> 00:41:15,280
where we're sitting in the West.
Let's coast into the All Star break,

560
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:19,000
get a little bit of extra rest
and come back at it like the way

561
00:41:19,039 --> 00:41:22,559
that they, at least Kawhi is
wanting this team to approach things every night.

562
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:28,679
I'm just feeling I'm feeling the most
confident about I think that I have

563
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,760
throughout the entirety of the two and
three run. Oh no doubt, They've

564
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:38,960
never asserted their dominance to this level
where they can just flip a switch and

565
00:41:39,039 --> 00:41:44,239
destroy you and have one good quarter
and win a game by twenty. Yeah,

566
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,079
never like that. Yeah, that's
a game I feel like is the

567
00:41:47,079 --> 00:41:51,880
perfect example. Like that game.
It was ugly, it wasn't a great

568
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:53,639
win, but it was still a
big win. Like it was still a

569
00:41:53,679 --> 00:42:00,159
massive turnaround that I think. I
mean, I think in other times two

570
00:42:00,199 --> 00:42:02,639
and three era, it's a nail
bit er win and maybe we still get

571
00:42:02,679 --> 00:42:07,079
it out, maybe we drop it
on the road, but it doesn't look

572
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:12,519
you don't get those twelve like a
twelve oh run followed up later by a

573
00:42:12,599 --> 00:42:15,320
nine to zero run. You know
that sort of stuff. And we're talking

574
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:20,480
about a team that has beat the
best of the best outside of Minnesota,

575
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:23,920
who they didn't have zoobots against and
still only lost by four. They have

576
00:42:24,039 --> 00:42:28,800
proven they can beat Denver. They
have proven they can beat Okay, see

577
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:34,320
Boston. They've beaten Phoenix multiple times. They have beaten heavyweights. They haven't

578
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:39,159
just loaded up against the cream puffs
in this league. They have beaten Dallas.

579
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:43,280
They have beaten the Lakers, who
look to have their number earlier in

580
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,960
the season. Of course, there
was no Lebron in that one, but

581
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:52,000
I I just people who want to
live in that it's only all that matters

582
00:42:52,079 --> 00:42:54,360
is the playoffs. All that matters
of the playoffs is missing a lot of

583
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:59,159
fun during the journey to get there. You also got a built there,

584
00:42:59,199 --> 00:43:02,960
buddy. You gotta build there like
it doesn't just start like it's not.

585
00:43:04,519 --> 00:43:07,719
It's not a story of two teams, right and generally teams that we think

586
00:43:08,119 --> 00:43:12,679
throughout the regular season are gonna flip
the switch. What happens to a lot

587
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,760
of those teams they go home early
like it's just what It's just the nature

588
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,639
of how things go. This is
a part of that. We can't predict

589
00:43:19,679 --> 00:43:22,079
what the playoffs are gonna be.
Still, we still do not know.

590
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,239
We don't even know what the matchups
are gonna be. So I think that

591
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:30,719
right now we gotta we gotta enjoy
sort of the forest for the trees junction

592
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:34,519
is coming through with something. They
said, seeing the Clippers not taking their

593
00:43:34,519 --> 00:43:37,159
foot off the pedal against Boston tells
me everything I need to know about the

594
00:43:37,159 --> 00:43:43,119
twenty three twenty four Clippers. I
love that. And they said that was

595
00:43:43,159 --> 00:43:46,079
a measuring stick game. They wanted
to see where they are at. That

596
00:43:46,199 --> 00:43:50,599
is what coach Lu said postgame.
They got up for that game. They

597
00:43:50,639 --> 00:43:52,880
wanted to flex their muscles and show
how dominant they could be. They were.

598
00:43:54,719 --> 00:44:00,199
Yeah. Andrew also coming through with
some hopefulness for and Harden. Turn

599
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,920
it back on. Andrew said,
look at man, he couldn't hit a

600
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:07,679
shot and is now shooting lights out. Now is not the time to panic.

601
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:12,719
Couldn't agree more. Couldn't agree more. Andrew rama, Street's killing me.

602
00:44:13,199 --> 00:44:16,320
Let's be honest. Who else do
you trust besides Kawhi. Let's not

603
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:23,800
be comfortable. We need a banner
into it. What's the alternative? You're

604
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:28,679
bordering on a timeout right now.
You're bordering on a timeout. It is

605
00:44:28,679 --> 00:44:30,159
a it is a future. It
is a future that we have here.

606
00:44:30,519 --> 00:44:35,519
Come on, put them in the
corner, chicken little right now, it's

607
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:40,920
just coffee. Let's use that as
a Seconday. Let's let's talk coffee.

608
00:44:42,039 --> 00:44:46,280
Yeah, a mere coffee. Guys. We talked about the ridiculous numbers and

609
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:51,599
the true shooting percentage and all that
stuff. But if you just look back

610
00:44:51,679 --> 00:44:57,079
now in his month in January,
and then the seventeen points uh he had

611
00:44:57,159 --> 00:45:01,719
yesterday against Detroit this time coming off
the So you want to talk about flexibility

612
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:07,719
and adaptability, and having a guy
that performs the exact same way no matter

613
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:09,800
how many minutes he gets out there, He's gonna be efficient with them.

614
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:13,400
He's not gonna make a lot of
mistakes. He could be in the starting

615
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,360
lineup, he could be coming off
the bench like he did and played twenty

616
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:21,239
four minutes and ended up with excuse
me, fourteen points against the Pistons.

617
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:27,559
He had seventeen in the start against
the Washington Wizards. But mister reliable,

618
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,960
he has become that. We say
that all the time with Big Zoo,

619
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:36,320
But in his month of January,
a Mere Coffee shot sixty five percent from

620
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,840
the field and fifty two percent from
three. Yes, it's on low volume,

621
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:43,880
but in some ways that makes it
more impressive when you don't know how

622
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,320
many shots are gonna get. You
may only get three, four, five

623
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:51,320
shots in a ballgame, and you
take advantage of all of them when the

624
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,679
pressure is on because there's so many
guys on this team trying to get on

625
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:57,960
the court. A Mere Coffee has
just been fabulous. I can't say enough

626
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:02,119
about him. The professionalism. A
guy who was lost in the shuffle completely

627
00:46:02,199 --> 00:46:06,360
last season after he had a really
good twenty one to twenty two season,

628
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,840
and I thought, earn minutes and
he is back, and then some Yeah.

629
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:14,199
Look, I think that Coffee,
to me is one of the best

630
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:17,360
stories of the Clippers' internal development.
As hard as we get on this team

631
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:24,119
about their drafting, about their ability
to you know, hone and develop young

632
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:29,840
talent, you have Terrence Man,
who I think I don't credit him as

633
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,239
much to the development team. I
credit a lot of that to Terrence because

634
00:46:32,519 --> 00:46:37,559
I don't feel like his plan was
particularly that well developed. He was constantly

635
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,360
like guessing as to what position he
was going to be able to fill.

636
00:46:40,639 --> 00:46:44,559
But for a mere Coffee like to
be around the team as much as he

637
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:47,599
was not getting the playing time and
immediately be able to step up in the

638
00:46:47,599 --> 00:46:52,159
way that he has been, I
think that is a testament to how they

639
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:57,559
can develop players internally. Not saying
that it always happens, but we know

640
00:46:57,639 --> 00:47:00,480
that they have the ability and these
are the kind of play. Look,

641
00:47:00,639 --> 00:47:04,960
if the Clippers have any window beyond
this year, which I'm not saying that

642
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,360
they don't, we just don't know
it's gonna be because of guys like a

643
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:15,880
Mere Coffee. It's gonna be because
of these players, highly overachieving their contracts,

644
00:47:15,159 --> 00:47:20,239
highly overachieving what they've been asked to
do, and step up on a

645
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,960
night to night basis. I mean, we didn't talk about it in our

646
00:47:22,639 --> 00:47:27,239
in our recap of the Pistons game
at the top here, but the bench

647
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,000
was incredible. The bench was incredible
in that game. And that's what you

648
00:47:30,079 --> 00:47:35,280
need to I mean, both to
get in those wins when you're on the

649
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:37,440
road, when you're on these on
these grueling sort of trips. Certainly what

650
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,599
you're gonna need in the month of
March, but in the grander scheme,

651
00:47:40,679 --> 00:47:44,960
the longer scheme, it's also what
you need to keep your stars at your

652
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,440
best if you want to extend a
title window. And we'll talk about the

653
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:52,119
Russ milestone in just a second here
speaking of the bench, but I heard

654
00:47:52,119 --> 00:47:54,800
this stat on the lob of the
Jam of the podcast earlier today in their

655
00:47:54,840 --> 00:48:00,519
post game recap after the Clippers win
into Detroit. Lucas Holland had it a

656
00:48:00,599 --> 00:48:05,920
mere coffee from three to ten feet
out on the season is shooting seventy two

657
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,320
percent. The next best guy on
the Clippers is a Vitza Zubats at sixty

658
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:15,039
one percent from three to ten feet
out. He's making everything. He's a

659
00:48:15,079 --> 00:48:20,880
three level scorer right now, three
pointers in transition, getting to the basket.

660
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,880
You have a ton of confidence with
him in transition for a team that

661
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:29,639
hasn't been great in that area of
getting easy buckets in traffic. But also

662
00:48:29,679 --> 00:48:34,039
he's got this little turnaround MIDI that
he's had going at a really high rate.

663
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:38,760
Uh yeah, absolutely, we're getting
some Carter Corone in the Chad said,

664
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:42,000
Coffee is the type of due that
could win us a playoff game.

665
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,360
Yeah. I mean I don't know
that he would single handedly swing it,

666
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:49,480
but he is definitely the guy that
can get you over the hump, Like

667
00:48:50,039 --> 00:48:54,599
just having that's a luxury to have
a guy that can stay ready and you

668
00:48:54,760 --> 00:49:00,480
know exactly what he's going to bring
you. He could be out for weeks

669
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:02,679
and you put him into the starting
lineup, which is what happened when Paul

670
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:07,360
Georgia originally went down with the groin
issue, and he just performs like there

671
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:13,480
aren't that many guys that can play
a role at this Hi have a level

672
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,920
that give you that certainty that a
mere Coffee does with his Clippers team.

673
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:22,400
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, what's
Lob City saying here Bob City coming through

674
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,400
with something spicy. They said,
Coffee may have been our option at the

675
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:30,559
backup wing position the last two seasons, but never got a chance over Batom,

676
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:35,519
Roko and Morris. They added,
he's definitely playing better than all those

677
00:49:35,559 --> 00:49:40,079
guys right now. I don't think
he's quite the versatile defender that Batum and

678
00:49:40,159 --> 00:49:45,079
Roco could be, because we've talked
about it, but he has been very

679
00:49:45,079 --> 00:49:46,880
good. He has been yeah,
yeah good. I mean, we'll hold

680
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:51,280
him to a high standard there comparing
him to those two guys. It's there's

681
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:55,400
no shame and not being quite as
versatile as Nicholas Batoomb who's been guarding all

682
00:49:55,440 --> 00:50:00,000
five positions for a long time.
But he's still good. He can still

683
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:04,719
guard guys one through four and you'll
take that every day of the week.

684
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,840
I love. I was screaming for
a mirror. I even pulled some of

685
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:13,000
the video and put it on XT
that follow out of May earlier in the

686
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,559
season when the Clippers are going through
that losing streak and I was like,

687
00:50:15,559 --> 00:50:19,239
what about a mirror? Where's a
mirror at and freaking out a little bit,

688
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:23,119
why aren't they giving him run?
Even I couldn't have projected that he

689
00:50:23,159 --> 00:50:28,679
would get to this level where he
is a staple in the rotation and a

690
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:31,480
guy on this team friendly of a
contract. So when people say, oh,

691
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:36,159
he's playing himself into being a trade
chip, it's like, are you

692
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:42,079
really gonna get equal value or close
to for somebody who's what making four million

693
00:50:42,199 --> 00:50:47,159
per year and can provide this much
quality depth to your squad than a mere

694
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:52,400
coffee? I don't think so.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean we're getting

695
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,000
a lot of love for Batoma in
the chat right now. I mean you're

696
00:50:54,039 --> 00:50:58,960
not gonna get You're not. I
don't think you're gonna get any two larger

697
00:50:59,039 --> 00:51:02,519
Nip patumb Clip fans than than than
us right here, other than of course

698
00:51:02,559 --> 00:51:08,199
Spencer. But yeah, I don't
know. I still think given what you

699
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:13,159
did, what you got back in
the hard and trade, I think you'd

700
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:17,079
do that trade ten times out of
ten. Yeah, so I mentioned Russell

701
00:51:17,119 --> 00:51:21,199
Westbrook. Well, why don't we
take a quick time out. We'll get

702
00:51:21,199 --> 00:51:24,760
to Russ talk. A career milestone
for him last night in a game they

703
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:29,559
won where he performed spectacularly. It
really got them pointing back in the right

704
00:51:29,599 --> 00:51:32,440
direction. But first we got a
few ads coming your way. Sometimes they

705
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,920
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706
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:42,159
everyone's years, so you may want
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707
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,679
one, all right, we're back. If you're listening to the audio,

708
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:47,400
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709
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:51,840
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710
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:53,960
we appreciate it. Anyways, out
of where do you want to kick off?

711
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:58,079
Here? We got we got some
interesting stuff. We got two Clippers

712
00:51:58,519 --> 00:52:04,199
reaching the twenty five than point milestone
in the same season. I don't know

713
00:52:04,199 --> 00:52:07,480
what do you want to get it
to, Well, why not highlight Russ

714
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:13,119
who got there last night? And
also it felt like he turned the game

715
00:52:13,159 --> 00:52:17,079
around. When you talk about a
lethargic, sleepwalking like effort that the Clippers

716
00:52:17,119 --> 00:52:22,599
had early on in the ballgame where
they were down by fourteen points in the

717
00:52:22,679 --> 00:52:28,400
first quarter to the Detroit Pistons on
the road. It was twenty to six

718
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:31,760
and at the five forty two mark
Russell Westbrook entered the game for Terrence Man

719
00:52:32,159 --> 00:52:37,960
immediately got Mason Plumley a bucket right
afterwards. Then Kawhi got a driving layup

720
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:43,239
off the Russ assist. He was
shot out of a cannon, as he

721
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:47,400
always is, but it was just
the perfect scenario for him to shine and

722
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:52,840
show how he contributes to this team, because that's a game that I don't

723
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,119
know, maybe they lose it without
Russ. I don't know if I'd go

724
00:52:55,239 --> 00:53:00,280
that far, but they certainly don't
get up by twenty and completely turn the

725
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:04,880
game on its head if they don't
have a guy like Russell Westbrook coming off

726
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:08,239
the bench with that energy. Oh, agreed, agreed, Yeah, that

727
00:53:09,679 --> 00:53:14,079
Look, it's more about the efficiency, right, He's always gonna bring the

728
00:53:14,199 --> 00:53:16,519
energy. He's always gonna like that
you can count on. That's a constant.

729
00:53:16,559 --> 00:53:20,440
And even that I do think is
good and it's important, and it

730
00:53:20,519 --> 00:53:23,039
is a tone setter, especially with
the bench, you know, like you

731
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:27,239
gotta like like guy's sort of got
to be un notice. They got to

732
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:31,360
bring the energy, especially given the
pace that our starters can can can play

733
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:35,320
with at times. I like that
the second unit can kind of change things

734
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,320
up. It's just a question,
right of of what version of Russ are

735
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:40,480
you getting. Is he taking good
shots? Is he able to convert around

736
00:53:40,519 --> 00:53:43,920
the rim? If he's not able
to convert around the rim is he is

737
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:47,400
he able to collapse the defense enough
to kick out to a teammate. So

738
00:53:47,639 --> 00:53:51,039
it's just gonna be those things.
And and honestly, some of it is

739
00:53:51,079 --> 00:53:53,039
within him. Some of it is
going to depend on on how they're choosing

740
00:53:53,079 --> 00:53:58,000
to defend him in that second unit. So there have been ups and downs,

741
00:53:58,159 --> 00:54:01,719
but I will say, like the
consistency, like professionalism and character and

742
00:54:02,039 --> 00:54:06,480
I mean, like you know,
grit and effort. I do think that

743
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,880
that is consistent and that has been
Yeah, it's it's one of those intangibles

744
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:14,480
that's you know, to go back
to the to the old Clippers. It's

745
00:54:14,519 --> 00:54:21,199
it's unstatable. He brings some of
that Patrick Beverly type stuff that this team

746
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:25,159
has needed over the past couple of
seasons with intangibles. But he was making

747
00:54:25,199 --> 00:54:29,199
his layups, made a lot of
them last night, knocked down a couple

748
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,039
of threes as well. As I
was looking over him in January because I

749
00:54:32,159 --> 00:54:37,960
just noticed an inordinate amount of layups
being missed and smoked by Russell Westbrook,

750
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:42,079
where when he misses them going that
fast, that is a turnover. That

751
00:54:42,199 --> 00:54:46,119
is a live ball turnover for a
team that suffers with their transition defense.

752
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:51,880
So I can't stress enough how badly
he needs to get those to go.

753
00:54:52,639 --> 00:54:54,760
And I was looking through the first
two and a half months of the season.

754
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:59,519
Through the end of December, he
was shooting sixty percent within five ft

755
00:54:59,519 --> 00:55:02,119
at the rim, which is good
enough. It's solid, it's not amazing,

756
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:07,239
but it's good enough. You'll take
it. In January, Russ was

757
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:12,960
shooting just fifty three percent within five
feet of the rim. But then last

758
00:55:13,079 --> 00:55:16,800
night, New Month, And sometimes
it's that simple for guys New Year shooting

759
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:21,639
wise, for Terrence Man clean slate, and all of a sudden he's at

760
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,079
fifty percent from three when he was
struggling so much. Sometimes I don't know

761
00:55:24,119 --> 00:55:29,559
if it's superstition or just guys feeling
like they have, you know, a

762
00:55:29,599 --> 00:55:31,360
new lease on the season, you
could say, a new lease on life.

763
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:35,719
With some of the percentages and some
of the things that we're working against

764
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,599
them, they can write the ship. Maybe that'll happen for Russ now in

765
00:55:38,639 --> 00:55:42,880
February when it comes to some of
these layups and some of these gimmes in

766
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:46,159
traffic that he's been missing recently,
because last night he was much better in

767
00:55:46,199 --> 00:55:52,840
that area, and to cross the
twenty five thousand point threshold and to become

768
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:57,920
just the twenty fifth player in NBA
history to do so. It would be

769
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,960
a layup from Russell Westbrook in the
four quarters, So congrats to him.

770
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:07,800
It's an all time milestone and rare, rarefied Air and company to be a

771
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:12,880
part of in the NBA now.
And I love that it happened in a

772
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:16,599
Clippers uniform. It happened earlier this
season for James Harden in a Clippers uniform.

773
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:21,880
First time ever in NBA history,
two players, same season, same

774
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:25,559
team got to twenty five k,
So pretty cool. Yeah, it's it's

775
00:56:25,599 --> 00:56:31,559
wild, man. I it's hard
because you know, I'm still so much

776
00:56:31,559 --> 00:56:37,079
in this season, but having four
Hall of Famers on the same team is

777
00:56:37,639 --> 00:56:46,039
just wild and like first ballot,
like true blue Hall of Famers is pretty

778
00:56:46,039 --> 00:56:51,360
incredible. And for them to both
hit those milestones in the same season is

779
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:55,800
it's wild man. It's and and
I think that there's a feeling of I

780
00:56:55,840 --> 00:57:00,079
think that's another one of those things
that has helped. Obviously you have the

781
00:57:00,119 --> 00:57:05,840
talent, but I think everyone's kind
of championing everyone else in a way that

782
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:09,679
I don't know that this team has
always had that if that makes sense.

783
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:13,800
Yeah, no, that's a great
point. No one else I've noticed.

784
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:17,000
It's different this season over the last
couple of months. If you just go

785
00:57:17,079 --> 00:57:22,199
back the last two games in DC
in Detroit. Now. Part of it

786
00:57:22,239 --> 00:57:24,800
is because those teams are so down
right now, at the bottom of the

787
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:30,079
Eastern Conference, at the bottom of
the league. But there has been more

788
00:57:30,239 --> 00:57:35,920
buzz and chance for the Clippers on
the road than there ever has been to

789
00:57:36,039 --> 00:57:39,199
my knowledge. And it's because think
about it, Hey, what do we

790
00:57:39,239 --> 00:57:43,480
want to do tonight, Oh,
for twenty five bucks, we could get

791
00:57:43,519 --> 00:57:46,920
into the Pistons game and see four
Hall of Famers on the other side.

792
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:52,280
That's what it is like. They
become traveling at home now. I just

793
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:58,880
mean even from non Clippers fans,
gotcha with them being on the road right

794
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:02,320
now, there's a draw element to
just being able to go and see your

795
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:07,519
local team in Detroit or DC.
They're down right now, but you can

796
00:58:07,559 --> 00:58:10,800
go see four Hall of Famers were
probably pretty damn cheap. Yeah, yeah,

797
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:15,000
totally. And there have been some
Clippers fans it sounds like that have

798
00:58:15,079 --> 00:58:20,840
been traveling very well because there have
been some chance recently in these arenas.

799
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:24,320
Look, I know it's because you
know we're playing well and and that's everything,

800
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:30,280
But the fan experience anytime I'm at
the stadium has been a lot different

801
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:34,679
this season. I think I've brought
this up before, but it's the best.

802
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:38,559
It's the best that it's been since
the Clippers lost to the Suns in

803
00:58:38,599 --> 00:58:45,280
the in the in the Western Conference
Final. Yeah. John Rengifo or In

804
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:49,360
Giffo said, I was at the
Wizards game. That is absolutely true.

805
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:54,360
Tons of Clippers fans awesome. Awesome
to see fans travel, Awesome to see

806
00:58:54,400 --> 00:59:00,840
them get this level of respect from
NBA fans of the opposition, in which

807
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:04,920
the national media would start picking up
on some of this, Tricia, I

808
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,960
do not usually go to road games. In fact, the only one I'd

809
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:13,000
been to was Game five last year
in Phoenix because we sensed it might be

810
00:59:13,079 --> 00:59:17,159
Noah Eagles last game calling it for
the Clippers, and Jake Warner, our

811
00:59:17,159 --> 00:59:21,960
head engineer, and I drove out
there late at night. We were literally

812
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,639
in Phoenix for less than twenty four
hours. We left. I think the

813
00:59:24,679 --> 00:59:29,039
game was on a Tuesday night.
We left Monday night after Jake works the

814
00:59:29,679 --> 00:59:34,480
Lakers game at Crypto at like midnight
we get in there at five or six

815
00:59:34,519 --> 00:59:37,880
in the morning in Arizona, we
leave after the ballgame at around ten that

816
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:44,119
night, so that's the only one
typically I'm back in Burbank. But this

817
00:59:44,239 --> 00:59:51,039
Clippers team, Yeah, everything's pointed
in the right direction currently, especially because

818
00:59:51,039 --> 00:59:54,880
of what we heard from Kawhi Leonard, where just there should be no letdowns.

819
00:59:55,360 --> 01:00:00,320
He is keeping the pedal to the
medal a little bit here, a

820
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:06,440
lot of positives. Uh. And
currently they've already had on this seven game

821
01:00:06,519 --> 01:00:13,400
road trip, their most successful Grammy
road trip ever will really they're four and

822
01:00:13,519 --> 01:00:15,280
one. They could lose the next
two, I think, and it would

823
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:22,199
still be the best hopes on the
road trip. That's what he's pulling for

824
01:00:22,519 --> 01:00:27,760
back to back losses, back to
back. I'm happy to take that l

825
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:30,440
if it comes to that, Okay, now I think it will. They

826
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:34,960
just have to split one of the
next two. Miami's not gonna be easy

827
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:38,079
tomorrow because they just got a victory
over DC last night, which I'm kind

828
01:00:38,119 --> 01:00:42,800
of happy about because they were on
such a losing streak that you don't want

829
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:45,800
them to get up for a game
too much against the Clippers, Like this

830
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:50,039
is the time we're gonna turn our
season around right now against the Clippers.

831
01:00:50,119 --> 01:00:53,679
Kin what the Cavaliers had extra motivation
there because they weren't in any national attention

832
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:59,360
because they didn't have that signature win
and they played fantastic against the Clippers and

833
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:01,079
they have been for a while now. But I don't want to see that

834
01:01:01,159 --> 01:01:07,119
with Miami and Heat culture tomorrow.
Yeah, what did they lose seventh straight

835
01:01:07,159 --> 01:01:13,199
something like that? It was It
was a rough It was unusual for a

836
01:01:13,239 --> 01:01:16,280
Miami Heat team, who the Clippers
also beat earlier this season at Crypto.

837
01:01:17,079 --> 01:01:22,199
They didn't have Jimmy Butler in that
ballgame, So not gonna be easy.

838
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,519
We don't know what the status of
Paul George will be now with a back

839
01:01:24,559 --> 01:01:28,559
to back coming up. I guess
would be he plays one of them,

840
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:32,000
you know, because it really does
seem like he's trying to get to the

841
01:01:32,079 --> 01:01:36,239
All Star Break. He knows there's
a lot at the end of the tunnel,

842
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:39,000
there's rest waiting for him. He
just has to push through this last

843
01:01:39,079 --> 01:01:44,880
stretch and help this team right now
and then he can hopefully get back to

844
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:50,719
one hundred percent. But yeah,
this Clippers team has been that good currently

845
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,599
on this Grammy Road trip that I
thought four and three would have been a

846
01:01:53,679 --> 01:01:58,000
very successful road trip. They're getting
greedy. They wanted to get to six

847
01:01:58,039 --> 01:02:00,000
and one. Coach Lou's put a
mark on it. He said six and

848
01:02:00,039 --> 01:02:05,159
one was the goal before they left
Los Angeles, which is pretty damn cool.

849
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:12,639
Yeah, absolutely, I do you
know, it's humility season still and

850
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:16,480
now is this where the big apology
is coming? I do have to make.

851
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:20,360
I don't know if it's a I
don't know if it's a big apology

852
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:24,639
here, but it's it's somewhat of
an apology and they don't happen that often

853
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:30,039
for me, because somebody last night, one of our listeners this is a

854
01:02:30,159 --> 01:02:36,440
half apology, a half receipt,
which no, no, no, no,

855
01:02:36,159 --> 01:02:37,719
no no. Well, okay,
maybe it's a little bit of both

856
01:02:37,719 --> 01:02:42,079
those things, but still it will
be a real apology. This guy,

857
01:02:42,199 --> 01:02:46,119
Francis Meek, who tends to be
very negative on X towards the Clippers,

858
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:50,280
and when they were down by fourteen, he already said, like, this

859
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:54,519
game's over, they're gonna lose.
They're back to playing down to their opponents

860
01:02:55,039 --> 01:02:58,119
and has said, like you know, it's the first quarter, man,

861
01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:00,440
like what are we doing here?
So he said, Okay, if I'm

862
01:03:00,559 --> 01:03:06,119
right, you have to make a
public apology towards me if the Clippers lose

863
01:03:06,199 --> 01:03:10,079
this game, because he quoted humility
season and I said, well, what

864
01:03:10,079 --> 01:03:14,760
do I get if you're wrong?
And he said, I'll apologize on Twitter

865
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:19,280
here, which he kind of did, but he put in the caveat after

866
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:22,840
the Clippers won that still shouldn't have
taken this much to be the Detroit Pistons

867
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:25,719
team. And at the time it
kind of bugged me. It was like,

868
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:30,199
you're putting this qualifier on it.
That's not really holding up your end

869
01:03:30,199 --> 01:03:34,559
of the bargain with this bet here. That's not honoring it to the degree

870
01:03:34,639 --> 01:03:37,480
I would have liked. But then
with Kawhi Leonard coming out and saying what

871
01:03:37,599 --> 01:03:40,000
he did postgame, I started to
think about it. It's like, you

872
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:45,559
know what, He's right, this
team they do need to demolish some teams

873
01:03:45,599 --> 01:03:50,760
here and there. So Francis Meek, I'm giving it to you. I

874
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:54,519
hope you'll still be a fan of
mine, even though I think he blocked

875
01:03:54,519 --> 01:04:01,519
me last night on Twitter. Because
I can be an opinion ad sometimes overly,

876
01:04:02,679 --> 01:04:06,599
I'm trying to do better in that
area though, so I apologize.

877
01:04:06,639 --> 01:04:11,119
I'm just very passionate about this team, as you can tell. Yeah,

878
01:04:11,159 --> 01:04:13,760
I mean, like, look,
I think it's a fair I think it's

879
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:18,079
a fair criticism to expect more against
the Pistons from this team. I think

880
01:04:18,159 --> 01:04:23,639
you know what we got from Kawhi, I think is the best takeaway other

881
01:04:23,719 --> 01:04:26,920
than a win you can get in
a game like that at the end of

882
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:29,920
the day. For me, you
know, it is a long road trip.

883
01:04:30,159 --> 01:04:33,760
If they do end up, if
they do end up at that five

884
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:38,519
and two mark at the end of
this whole thing, I just you can't

885
01:04:38,519 --> 01:04:42,800
ask for much more. You can't
ask for much more. It's a stellar

886
01:04:43,719 --> 01:04:45,760
road trip, one of the best
we have seen, one of the best

887
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:51,360
in franchise history. And as much
as Kawhi Leonard is calling for them to

888
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:57,639
continue to play good basketball and not
just get by on talent, it is

889
01:04:57,760 --> 01:05:03,440
nice to know that sometimes they can
that sometimes they're just so damn good that

890
01:05:03,679 --> 01:05:06,840
during the long eighty two game season, there's gonna be nights where you don't

891
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:12,079
play your best, where James Harden
goes one for ten and they can still

892
01:05:12,079 --> 01:05:15,239
be up by twenty in a ball
game. That's just stuff we didn't see

893
01:05:15,239 --> 01:05:19,960
before, it just felt like they
always had to play far too often at

894
01:05:20,039 --> 01:05:25,679
a B plus type level, even
just to beat some of the bad teams

895
01:05:25,719 --> 01:05:31,599
sometimes. And that's what is very
different to me about this season. Someone

896
01:05:31,599 --> 01:05:35,239
in the chat is asking any word
on the Clippers fixing our ugly ass logo.

897
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:40,639
I assume that they're just waiting until
in like until into it. We

898
01:05:40,719 --> 01:05:44,960
already know the Red Jerseys are coming
back. Well, I think we so

899
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:48,000
we covered you know, we covered
basically quis comments to the team. We

900
01:05:48,119 --> 01:05:54,079
covered the rest of the Grammy trip. Adam made his apology, which I'm

901
01:05:54,159 --> 01:05:58,039
kind of putting in air quotes because
there was also brought up in the middle

902
01:05:58,079 --> 01:06:00,280
of it, which I don't know
about all that, Adam, Is there

903
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:02,400
anything else you want to hit them
before before we get out of here.

904
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:10,159
Just excited to see this team hopefully
go five and two on this road trip

905
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:14,000
and then come back and I think
to take on the Pelicans later that next

906
01:06:14,079 --> 01:06:17,519
week. So I'm sure there's a
lot of built up energy and support with

907
01:06:17,599 --> 01:06:21,559
the fan base wanting to see them
back at Crypto. It's been forever since

908
01:06:21,559 --> 01:06:26,400
the Fellas were in town. It's
been a lot time. The boys are

909
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:30,599
back in town. The boys are
back in town exactly, so a lot

910
01:06:30,639 --> 01:06:35,960
more excitement to come, and then
the All Star Break and then March seventeen

911
01:06:36,079 --> 01:06:43,039
games. Where were you and the
Clippers March. Charles has been previewing this

912
01:06:43,079 --> 01:06:48,079
for y'all since October, so he's
actually not here today because he's trying to

913
01:06:48,119 --> 01:06:51,679
build a time machine where he can
go into the future. He doesn't want

914
01:06:51,679 --> 01:06:56,400
to wait. He can't even wait
just three more weeks to get to March.

915
01:06:56,519 --> 01:07:00,559
He wants to be there immediately.
So if you're wanting to watch out,

916
01:07:00,599 --> 01:07:03,880
that's why. That's why he's got
to worry about March. I think

917
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:08,719
that'll do it for us for today. Everybody, thank you for tuning in

918
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:10,880
if you're here on the stream,
if you're listening to this later, thank

919
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:14,639
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920
01:07:14,679 --> 01:07:17,800
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921
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:21,599
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922
01:07:21,639 --> 01:07:26,119
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923
01:07:26,119 --> 01:07:29,519
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924
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:32,239
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925
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:38,679
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926
01:07:38,679 --> 01:07:42,880
if you get the chance. It's
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927
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:47,239
quick positive thing on the way out. It beats the zoobots upgrade questionable boom.

928
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:51,519
Love it all right, Thank you
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