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Last time, Chuck Chus Flippers Wine
one twenty seven over the Portland Trailblazers at

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Crypto dot com arena. I'm Adam
Oslin, welcome back into Clippers Tuck eight

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six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. We'll get

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back to your calls the very next
segment. We'll also here from Kawhi Leonard

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postgame. But first for a little
clips and double dip, let's bring in

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Chuck Mackler from CND pod so Chuck
two themes tonight. Clippers to me looked

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like they were playing down to their
competition again, and they also weren't choosing

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the path of least resistance to win
a ballgame, which was just Hey,

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I don't know feet of eatsa Zubats
who had fourteen points on seven of nine

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shooting in the first quarter. Do
you feel the same way? Or am

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I being overly harsh and I should
give more credits to Portland because I mean,

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they did have good victories over the
Cavaliers and Pacers on the road recently,

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but they were missing three starters and
if the Clippers lose this game,

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to me, this would have been
worse than what happened against Denver. Oh

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yeah, this this the would have
got away from us. It would have

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been a total nightmare. On our
on our pod the other day, Will

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and I were just talking about how
the taste, the bad taste of that

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loss was kind of out of our
mouths so happy that there wasn't a new

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one to replace it tonight. But
I think you're definitely right about the first

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part. This was another instance of
another team really playing harder and refusing to

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let anything about the Clippers intimidate them. The Clippers were slow on the defensive

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end to open this one, which
gave the Blazers hope, which also coincided

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with an absurd shooting night from them
as well. I did see you kind

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of go a little crazy about Zoo
on Twitter, which was funny to see.

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But Susan playing so well, Yeah, I think it makes sense to

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feed him when the offense is getting
slow, and that means we're hard to

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initiate the pick and roll more when
he's out there. We should. It

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felt like the Clippers needed to kind
of spam that a little bit more in

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this game to get things going.
All I'm asking for is you have this

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clear advantage because Portland doesn't have DeAndre
and they don't have Robert Williams. They

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have Moses Brown. Clippers should be
familiar with him. If that's their best

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option to stopping of Vitza Zubots.
You gotta give him the rock. You

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got to make him feel comfortable like
he's a star. Sometimes, when you

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have a mismatch like that they did
in the first quarter, the game plan

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was there. That's what's perplexing to
me. They just went away from it

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after it worked. Yeah, I
think part of that, I don't really

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know. It was a little confusing
it sometimes. The other part that I

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mean at least helps was the fact
that Kawhi Leonard was there tonight. He

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did it really in all three levels, which maybe that played a part in

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it, But I definitely got to
help more than hurt. And if we

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had to trade that for maybe more
as you buckets, I think we'd all

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take that situation right there. Kawhi
was phenomenal again tonight, ends up with

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thirty four points, an easy thirty
four on just nineteen shots and a couple

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of big ones in the fourth quarter, a layup, a jumper, knockdown,

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clutch free throws. All that talk
about Kawhi's he's still the same guy

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he was for that three month stretch
last season, which first of all,

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holding him to that standard. I
mean, that's some of the most absurd

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shooting splits you'll ever see in the
history of the NBA. You can't do

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that. But ability wise, to
me, it's all still there, and

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that is the most important thing right
now for this team that Kawhi Leonard is

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still a number one option on a
championship level team. Is that what you're

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seeing? Yeah, the number one
option on both ends. By far,

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I was on I think this very
show when we kind of talked about,

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you know, these early rumblings of
this concern quote unquote over Kawhi, and

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we basically said, well, let's
not be surprised when the Clippers turned a

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corner and that also coincides with Kawhi
Leonard, you know, getting out of

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that funk or whatever people thought it
was. We've seen him the last two

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nights. We've seen it during this
eleven game stretch, excuse me, this

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twelve game stretch. Kawhi is still
very much Kawhi. I thought James Harden

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had a nice ballgame. Those threes
he hit in the third quarter were necessary

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since Portland wasn't missing. They started
five to five from the outside and ended

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up going I think ten of sixteen
or something like that from distance in the

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third. But Harden also has been
closer to taking double digit shots, you

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know, more consistently now over the
last couple of weeks. And while people

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have said, well, you know, the russ stands and God bless them

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whatever, they're talking about Russell Westbrook
sacrificing with his minutes. But I think

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you can make the argument that James
Harden has been sacrificing with shot attempts and

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has never complained once when he has
taken single digit shot attempts so far with

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this Clippers team. And he was
seven to fourteen, twenty points, seven

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assists, three turnovers. A lot
to light there. Yeah, it's good

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to see him being more aggressive and
feeling more uncomfortable in the moment that big

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folk flint play he hit earlier in
the season, you know, I think

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really helps you know, games like
tonight, you know where you want him

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to be more aggressive and he can
remember that he is still one of,

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you know, the alphas on this
team and we need him to be good

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or at least aggressive throughout the game, but especially late, So yeah,

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it was it was good to see
he made three threes the whole game,

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and two of them were in that
third quarter, so yeah, very big

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there from James. Didn't like the
Norm technical late in a game that close,

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but yeah, he did play some
important minutes. At times Portland was

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hunting him out on the defensive end, but it ended up six of nine

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two or four from the outside sixteen
points. He's shooting over around forty five

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percent from three now on the season. I don't know if we could have

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asked for much more from Norm,
which has been him actually getting off to

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a quick start so this year,
which flies in the faith of what he's

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done throughout most of his career.
Yeah, the normcore lineup was great for

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those of you unfamiliar with it,
that is Norm Powell with James Harden,

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Paul George Kylindar, and Avita Zubats. But yet his start to the season

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has been much needed, especially when
you look at the Clippers record and things

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like that. But Norm did get
a little singled out on defense in that

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lineup. But I just kind of
mentioned there, so that'll be something to

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monitor the closer we get to the
playoffs, some things that be slow down

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more in the half court. But
we've needed every single one of these main

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threes that Norm this year. So
I think he had twelve in that one

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quarter or something like that. But
he's been great off the bench. We've

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talked about how you know, he
talks about how he wants to be an

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All Star and stuff. We would
all settle for Norm being six Man of

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the Year. I think we'd all
be okay with that. So let's hope

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this streak from him continues. Who
do you think gets extended minutes or some

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run off the bench unexpectedly, maybe
tomorrow in this home back to back,

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someone who didn't play much or somebody
who just didn't play at all. Yeah,

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looking at the minute, someone just
tweeted the to US minister a little

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rough on this one. Yep,
now what we expected to see. I

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think it's probably gonna be a mirror. And maybe Brandon Boston. He's coming

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back. He had a great game
of the league the other night. He

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postrized someone, which is awesome to
see come it off the injury he had.

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So I think I'm probably one of
those two. I'm not sure if

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PJ. Tucker's minutes are in the
cards yet, but I wouldn't be surprised

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if it was Brandon Boston Junior to
meer coffee. Okay, I like that.

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There's his player pick CND listeners.
He is Chuck Mockler a little clips

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and double dip tonight here on Clippers
Talk. So, Chuck, I guess

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Will's coming on tomorrow unless the Clippers
lose, because I thought it's in your

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contract to come on when they lose, and in Will's when they win.

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But he didn't come on tonight for
whatever reason, even though they did win.

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It's all convoluted mess, but we
make it work either way. And

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I think what a YouTube on Wednesday? Possibly, Yeah, something like that.

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It's the holiday season, thinks a
little chaotic, but people, we'll

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have something for people out there.
For sure. I'm getting healthy, baby.

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The comeback is on. Let's go, let's go heavy minutes for me

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this week? All right, thanks
Chuck, Yeah, thank you, quick

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time out here, our clipperstock.
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calls. Eight sixty six nine eight
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eight seven two five seventy Clippers win
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the Blazers Clippers. We'll see Sacramento
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