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Last time checks, it was five
chains on my neck. It was no

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smugle mind. Clippers hit just two
field goals in the last six minutes.

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And for those talking about Aviza zoobots, this comes from La Murray. At

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La Murray, the nu covers the
Clippers for the athletic for the first ten

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forty eight of Zubots minutes off the
floor. In the second half, the

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Clippers outscored the Denver Nuggets by twelve. Then the Nuggets outscored the Clippers by

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ten the last half of the fourth
quarter. Something I've been talking about,

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but don't tell me there's no logic
whatsoever to playing without Aviza zobots. The

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spacing was there, and they outscored
the Nuggets by twelve in his first eleven

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minutes off the floor in the second
half. You hear the music, you

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know what it means. It's a
Clippers or Clips and double dip episode Here

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on Clippers Talk with Chuck Mockler from
CND. Chuck, thanks for doing this.

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Are you encouraged or are still overly
discouraged because the Clippers lost six in

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a row now five straight with James
Harden. I think I'm still on a

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discourage trade. If I'm being honest, Adam, I think I'm still not

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super excited about the team tonight.
I guess you know, they lose to

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the champs. It was how they
were gonna lose right because of a size

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issue, you know what I mean. We talked about how the Clippers looks

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good offensively when they were small.
The offense was there, but it's also

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kind of a what's outscore them on
the other end and not really stopped them

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situation. The Nuggets had twenty points
in the paint in the fourth quarter alone,

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which is a little tough to deal
with. But I don't know.

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I you know, we play a
team that they should be able to get

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a win against on Friday, in
the Rockets. But it's just tough to

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be three and seven. Rockets have
won sixth straight. Be careful what you

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wish for. They're playing very good
basketball right now, and the Clippers will

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have gone seventeen days remove from their
last win when Friday comes against the Rockets.

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That feels like as close as you
can get to a must win this

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early in the season. I saw
this from La Murray as well. Coach

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Lou apparently did not believe the Clippers
got the same calls as the Nuggets did.

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When the Clippers were driving to the
basket tonight, did you feel like

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they were getting a tough whistle out
there? Yeah, it was a little

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goofy. The game started off,
there was a couple of possessions that started

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on defense. I thought they kind
of let zoo, you know, go,

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I guess, play physical defense against
Jokich to kind of start this game

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for the first like four minutes,
and then they really clamped out on everything.

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I thought the WHI was definitely,
I don't know about definitely, the

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free zone disparity is tough to see
thirty two to twenty four in favor of

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the Nuggets, and the Clippers have
kind of been on this other end so

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far this year. But I mean, I think it's a whole whistle.

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I think you're playing against a team
that does a good job of getting foul

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calls, and I guess they did
a good job of it tonight. I

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wish this wasn't something we had to, you know, may point our fingers

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at because of the lost, but
it doesn't help things. Yeah, James

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Harden did score twenty one. He
had that surge near the middle towards the

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end of the third quarter, and
for the most part, if there's something

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to be encouraged about is the fact
that he looked more like James Harden,

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right. I mean, ultimately,
for this Clippers team to get on track

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and to look like a dominant elite
team and turn this around, they need

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James Harden to be great. And
I thought we saw enough flashes of that

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to say, hey, they'll get
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They just still got to develop that
chemistry totally. If you look at

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James Harden's shot chart tonight for the
Clippers, I think he made his first

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bucket as a Clipper inside zero to
three feet to night. I mean three

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of them, the first three he
made in his tenure here, so you

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love to see the three level scoring. He had a mid range bucket.

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He had like some threes too,
Like that's what you want from James.

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And he also so there's a pass
he found Norm with for a three pointer

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that is I think it was the
second quarter or something like that. But

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like we saw glimpses of what James
Harden can and really really needs to bring

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to this team. We just kind
of need everyone to do everything right at

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the same time, which I do
think is a time issue, you know,

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just a more time together issue and
not necessarily something to be super worried

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about. But again they are still
three and seven, so the winds need

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to come pretty quickly. The main
subject tonight on Clippers Talk was of Vitza

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Zubots not returning to the ballgame,
at least playing significant minutes late in that

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fourth quarter. Were you screaming at
the television saying, bring a Vita Zubots

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back in. We need more size
because I thought overall, I know he

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was two for eight, he missed
some bunnies early, but I thought his

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rebounding and he was just a force
in the pain. I thought he was

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great well, And even if you
don't love Zoo, you still I think

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one I'm out there. Your other
option is like Paul George has no help,

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or you know Norm Powell or even
PJ. Tucker, Right like TYLERU

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brought Tucker out for the last two
minutes and then it looked like he was

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going to close the game and then
brought Norm back in, which I guess

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I had more of an issue with, maybe because I kind of assumed he

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wasn't going to bring you in.
I don't know if that's a good thing

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that I assumed that or not,
but it is a It is something to

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kind of scratch your head out when
it comes to needing a stop versus getting

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a bucket. But I think if
you've watched his Clippers team under Tylero,

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you kind of know in those situations
he kind of leans towards get a bucket.

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So I can see where Tyleru was
doing it from his end of the

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logic puzzle. But I think I
agree with most people who maybe wanted to

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see doing there for the last little
bit Kawhi learn was five or fourteen,

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just fifteen points, and he's been
very up and down, mostly down since

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the trade, since that game against
the Lakers where he was out of this

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world with those eighteen first quarter points, had thirty eight overall, scored all

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their points in overtime. They lost, but Kawhi looked spectacular. Do you

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have any concerns right now with Kawhi
Leonard uh just struggling to this degree where

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last couple of games five or fourteen, six of sixteen, he's got a

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seven to sixteen game in there,
that to me a lot of it just

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you look at the attempts. It's
not enough like he's a rhythm player too.

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Yeah, he is a rhythm player. You're totally right about that.

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I you know, I think he's
one hundred percent. We came into the

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season, you know, before this
hard and trade guys were playing a little

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bit faster. He's from the eye
tests and things like that, and Kawhi

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was getting up there. But it
is a bit of an older team and

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learning the new system. I think
things when they don't look as good that

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loss in you know, maybe losing
that little quarter of a step, it

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looks a little more pronounced, you
know, when you're in the mix of

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a six game losing streak. But
I think he's going to bounce back.

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I don't. Let's not pretend like
we're going to be shocked when the Clippers

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going around in a con times with
Kawhi playing very well. That's a good

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point. He is Chuck Mockler at
Chuck Moffler on x He is one of

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the three hosts of C and D
Clips and Dip. We will have the

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Triumphant trifecta tripod whatever you want to
call it tomorrow on YouTube for you guys.

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Chuck, thanks for staying up late
tonight. Yep. Hey, here's

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to getting a win soon please.
Yeah. Clippers fall one eleven to oneh

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eight in Denver. This is the
last segment, right, No more?

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Well, I'm worthless coming back after
this. We'll finish off with some phone

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calls. I'm at a Maslin and
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