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Time for a postgame. Look,
it's your LA Clippers. This is Clippers'

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locker room breaking down today's action with
the pre and post game voice. If

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

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win one sixteen, so one oh
three over the Denver Nuggets here at cripper

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dot com arena as they improved a
two to one here in the preseason final

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game coming up on Thursday, they'll
run it back against Denver here. Welcome

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into your postgame show. I'm Adam
Oslin. Coming up, we'll get your

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post game final box score and you'll
hear from Chuck Mockler of Flips and di

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It. But first let's get to
Carlo Jimenez, your radio voice of the

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Clippers. So Carlo, in that
first half, Clippers got off to a

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slow start defensively and offensively, but
then it looked like out of a timeout,

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Paul George took it upon himself to
start to take control and just be

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more aggressive out there. And an
aggressive Paul George is my favorite. Paul

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George agreed Adam, and the Clippers
needed that. I think they were looking

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towards Kawhi and PG to try to
set the tone. Obviously, you come

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in and Denver's not playing their top
six rotation pieces. It's a little bit

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of a like, oh, we'll
probably sleepwalk through this game, and that

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wasn't really the case. We went
to our first time out and it was

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a thirteen to eleven lead for the
visiting Denver Nuggets, and Paul George says,

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I'm sick of this. It's time
to go to work, and he

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went to work twenty three points eighteen
minutes, coming off just a three point

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performance a week ago. When Paul
George is aggressive, boy is it fun

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to watch. After going one of
nine last Tuesday, he goes nine of

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thirteen from distance. Was on his
bully stuff. Maybe not exactly as he

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would put it, but we love
to see it going really hard to the

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glass finishing and then also knocking down
shots from the outside. Kawhi Leonard started

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zero for three, but then once
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his shots from the three point land
where he hit four of them on last

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Tuesday night in Seattle against the U
to jazz I. Just like the fact

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that we're seeing a fresh, healthy
Kawhi Leonard with bounce in his leg so

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he can get those deep threes to
fall early. Yeah, a guy again

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never really forces the game, lets
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the middle of that second quarter,
you're thinking, well, Kawhi is taking

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two shots and hasn't really contributed in
this game. And then he's like,

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let me remind you for a second, don't forget, I'm Kawhi. Leonard

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berries two threes. Part of that
run where the Clippers made five of six

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after starting just one of nine from
downtown. Out of the shooting today wasn't

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exactly where you want it to be
from the three point line, but from

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the field was excellent for the Clippers. Really great to see. Yeah,

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fifty six percent from the floor for
your Los Angeles Clippers. Nicholas Patum got

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the start, we talked about him, player to watch for me. Finished

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with six points. He knocks down
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But he's someone who just seamlessly fits
in, no matter if he's with

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the starting unit coming off the bench
with the second unit. Nicholas Patum just

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kind of is that, as they
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That just helps this machine run.
Yeah, and I'm really interested to see

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what plays out on Thursday, because
head coach s Toron Lou has talked about

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the three guys. So you get
Terrence Man in his start two points in

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an assist. You Robert Covington in
his start eleven points, two steals,

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four blocks, he was plus eleven. And now we get a Vitza Zubats

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in his start and he goes for
or excuse me, not of Vitazubats Niko

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Batuman his start and he goes for
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So you look at those numbers at
him and you think who stands out?

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Feels like Covington stood out, but
there's not much separation between the three starts.

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Does tylu reward Robert Covington and give
him the fourth start on Thursday?

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Does he say, hey, Terrence
Man played well today off the bench.

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Does he get the start? I'm
really intrigued to see who gets that starting

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spot on Thursday, because I feel
like, if I was a guessing person,

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that that's gonna be the front runner
to start at the four. Robert

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Covington making an impact really down the
stretch of this ball game, playing with

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the young guys, had that reat
steel and then was rewarded for an easy

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layup, but has some like to
say, quickest hands in the West,

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no doubt about it. He was
excellent in the passing lanes, and that's

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really what makes him so dynamic.
Maybe his on ball defense isn't what it

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used to be at his age,
but the ability to still affect the game

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on the defensive end in his eleventh
year, it has been impressive. One

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more for you here, Carlow.
We gotta talk about Bones Highland. I

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believe he had ten points in the
third quarter alone, finally gonna knock one

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down from the outside after starting I
think o of eleven in the preseason from

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three. Once that shot fell through, there was even a different level of

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energy and juice in those legs from
Bones Highland, who can just make things

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happen for himself or first teammates,
Like we saw what that great pass to

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Viza Zubats. You're right at him. He was excellent at finding his friends

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in white. Four assists to go
along with his twelve points, and really

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the ability to get the defense to
collapse in on him and then dump it

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off. It really reminds me of
the way Russell Westbrook attacks the rim.

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He's not always looking to throw it
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of looking for his big men to
slide under seal and hand it off to

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them for an easy dunk. And
it feels like Bones Highland, whether on

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purpose or not, through Osmosis,
has kind of done the same thing through

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this first three preseason games. Hey, you love to see that continuity.

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Russell Westbrook's out of the game,
but you got a guy who plays in

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a similar style in Bones Highland who
then comes in and picks up the baton.

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He is Carlo Jimenez, your radio
voice of the Clippers. After they

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win one sixteen, so one zero
three here at Crypto dot Com Arena in

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preseason game number three. They run
it back a half hour earlier. On

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Thursday night, tiptime is at seven. We'll have Clippers countdown their pregame show

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starting at six. Carlo was a
pleasure to hang out in person our first

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game here at the crypt with big
brother Jake Warner. Oh, the vibes

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through the roof flow it off.
Love it. Carlo will talk to you

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all there, all right, I'll
talk to you Thursday. Adam. Let's

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get another one, huh. Why
not take advantage? Stack up wins whenever

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you can get them preseason or that
Clippers are victorious. They went by thirteen

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over the Denver Nuggets. Tonight more
postgame next year an your Clippers' locker room

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This is LA Clippers Basketball. You're
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you got a smile on your face
after the Clippers win one sixteen to one

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oh three over the Denver Nuggets and
preseason game number three for your LA Clippers.

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Welcome back into your post game show. I'm Adam Oslin. It's just

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preseason, so no Clippers talk yet, but you know when that happens,

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will be giving out the number.
We'll be taking your calls an hour after

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a postgame. But tonight we will
have Chuck Mockler Charles Mockler on from Clips

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and Dip. But let's get to
some second half highlights here at the half,

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Clippers starters opened things up at the
end of the first half. In

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that second quarter when they came back
out on the court, Nicholas Batoon with

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Kawhi, Paul George of Vitza's Zubots
and Russell Westbrook. And so it was

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a nine point lead for the Clippers
twenty four minutes and at sixty to fifty

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one, and that was it for
PG. Thirteen. He did great work

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tonight twenty three minutes eighteen or twenty
three points in eighteen minutes Kawhi Leonard just

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seven points and seventeen minutes. They
took the rest of the night off with

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Bones Highland in that third quarter when
he took over left wing, Highland open

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three. There it is yah see
Bones Thiland his first three of preseason sixty

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three fifty one. He's one for
ten Hiland orchestrating at the top halts to

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handle with the right hand near wing, wants to work against Ganki ten to

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shoot a little dance, A step
back mid range shay. How about that

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from Bones Island a mid range shimmy
and shake for two eighty one sixty seven

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flippers up fourteen back to Highland.
Ball in his left pockets. He looks

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at the Rami blocks at three six
to shoot Bones. Gotta get busy.

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Here comes Highland. Here O steps
right handed, layup up and in Bones

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Highland, Moon walk into the rim
eighty four to seventy. Clippers lead by

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fourteen two minutes ago. In the
third Bones Highland with ten points on the

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third quarter alone, Clippers led ninety
one to seventy two heading into the fourth,

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and it was coach lou going deeper
into his bench. How about Xavier

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Moon with that ability to close out
games. We've seen it in the G

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League, We've seen it in the
Summer League. We saw it tonight here

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in a preseason game against Denver.
Martin at the high point, holds above

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his head, flips it Moon left
angle right in front of the Denver bench

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into the lane. He goes right, his right handed layups scoop, shot

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is up and end Xavier Moon Levet's
hitting through the deap fence and putting it

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home ninety seven seventy nine, Flipper
advantage nine to fifteen to zero. Fourth

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quarter quotes A Moon left wing underneath
the Kobe Brown shovels back to Xavier Moon

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pulls up on the base line.
Savior Moon back to back buckets Clippers ninety

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nine, Denver seventy ninety Moon right
wing, catch it, shoot three.

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Savior Moon rips the cores time out
Denver one oh two eighty two. Here

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comes Moon all the way to the
ram. Davier Moon get up, throw

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it down with two hands, check
his sneakers for springs. Moon with a

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flesh one fourteen ninety six Clippers lead. Carlo Jimenez on the call, Katie

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Newton with the highlights. Xavier Moon
with nine of his twelve points in that

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fourth quarter. Clippers go on to
win by thirteen final score one sixteen to

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one oh three in preseason game number
two for your LA Clippers. They're two

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to one on the preseason with Game
four coming up right back here Thursday night

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against these same Denver Nuggets. Although
maybe we'll see Nikola Jokicic, maybe we'll

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see Aaron Gordon, Jamal Murray,
Michael Porter Junior. More of the usuals

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we'll see. But coming up next, Juck Mockler from the Clips and Dip

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podcast will join me here. Clippers
win one sixteen to one to oh three

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a Laryob. They still want to
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welcome back in It's your Clippers postgame
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live from Crypto dot com Arena after
the Clippers win one sixteen to one oh

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three over the Denver Nuggets in preseason
game number three. Ooh, we just

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wanted to make it more highly anticipated. Our next guest, who's about to

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come on? Enjoy that silence?
Now a little nipsey hustle as in our

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final segment. Here once again,
it's the return of Chuck Mockler from Clips

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and Dip, this time after a
win. I don't know if he wants

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pat himself on the back since he
and Will were in the building tonight.

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Chuck, where do you want to
start? Oh? Do you want to

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start with Kobe Brown? How good
he looked? Or do we want should

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we talk about something maybe a little
more meaningful? Were you not the one

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in control of at Clipper's pod Twitter
account that said Kobe Brown just had a

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rough stretch and then I tried to
old takes expose you should I be doing

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a lot lately. I was in
control that his first couple of minutes did

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not look super solid, which I
don't think is a huge prize to anybody.

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But I love how he bounced back. He was the only bench guy

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that than Kenyon Martin or Terrence Man
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You know, the three blocks are
nice, but he's still got some He's

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got to get use some movement at
the NBA speed, I think. But

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I think the main thing we can
all be excited about tonight was Paul George

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looks completely ready for the season.
I think he is the guy who most

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looks just ready to hit the ground
run in and Zoo looked good too.

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But what do you think of PG
tonight? It was everything we could have

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wanted. Well, it was especially
impressive because he goes one of nine a

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week ago. Obviously he wanted to
right that wrong. But I don't think

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he had his first bucket the first
six minutes of the first quarter. Then

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all of a sudden he took over. So all of his damage with those

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twenty three points may have come within
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of the first into the second,
where He was absolutely lethal, but also

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he only took one three he hit
it, but he was getting to the

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basket. He was getting to his
spots. He and Reggie Jackson were dueling,

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going back and forth a little bit
early on the ballgame. Reggie was

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going at him and Kawhi like he
was taking things personally. I think Bonones

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Hihland had a little something extra for
his former team in the Denver Nuggets.

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Reggie may have had something for the
Clippers. But then Paul George took control

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of the ballgame really midway through that
second quarter, when the Clippers starter started

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to open things up. Yeah,
him and Kawhi got started a little bit

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kind of at the same time,
which probably isn't a coincidence, But yeah,

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I love what you said about the
one to three point attempt. It

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was three level scoring, you know, for the most part for Paul George.

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No assists and no turnovers. You
know, I'm not really worried about

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that. In the preseason they were
trying Nico with the four, So the

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assists are going to come, and
I mean hopefully the turnovers aren't too crazy

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this year, since Russ has had
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set things up. But no,
I mean, you know, two,

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one, three. For a brief
period, we're both playing very well.

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Kawhi seemed like he was kind of, you know, getting up to speed

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in this game a little bit.
Not a bunch of shot, not a

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bunch of shot attempts or anything like
that. But you know, plus fourteen,

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it's hard to be upset with Kawhi
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time, as long as we're coming
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because on the flip side, I
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threes and knocking him down because last
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start from the outside you could tell
his legs weren't there. Oh, it's

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all there right now. I know
he only took five shots, but those

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two three pointers. And I was
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his movement look like. When his
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last season, He's moving faster.
It's noticeable. He's noticeably leaner. Two.

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That plays a role here. But
when Kawhi says, part of the

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reason he thinks there's better energy,
better vibes at training camp because the guys

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see him at one moving with more
agility out there. That's a huge deal.

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We're talking about Kawhi fully loaded heading
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Yeah, and I mean think about
and you know, who do you want

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your guys to practice against? And
that's the best and everyone else on the

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Clippers has to practice against Paul George
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that for an entire training camp so
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of his quote unquote favorite drills that
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running a hell of a lot during
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little tired today to start this one. It was kind of wonky given the

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fact that Denver sat everybody, so
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kind of you know, unknown quantities
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vibes and training game were fantastic.
Right now, we don't know if anything's

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gonna happen to maybe shape this roster
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most convincing performance from the team as
a whole tonight, but still, you

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know, you gotta be happy with
what you saw. We saw some great

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stuff on the break from Russ.
He found Nico for a corner three that

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was just I think, like picture
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this new running offense and stuff like
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as the starting for I think it's
hard to rotate, you know, a

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new starting for three games in a
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He connected plays, he hit multiple
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a quiet night for the most part, exactly what he'd have to do if

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he does end up as the starting
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seamless league, makes the right basketball
players. I think one of those threes

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he knocked down was from pretty far
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slow start from beyond the arc and
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Last season still ended up just below
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good. He showed a little bit
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to get back on defense and swat
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player was on offense. Yeah,
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I know he's got a lot of
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summer with France. But Nicholas Batoum. I still think can be a very

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valuable player on this Clippers team.
But you mentioned Russell Westbrook there. He

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finished with seven assists in just one
turnover, and while he found Nicholas Patumb

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for that three pointer, he wasn't
ten on getting the ball to a Vita

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Zubots, as were the rest of
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points in the first quarter alone,
but Big Zoo had three blocks. He

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had two of them I think on
one possession. Like he was very active

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for a guy who was just dealing
with backspassives. Yeah, I think that

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plane ride from my from Hawaii to
Seattle had some of whose backspasses. I

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wouldn't have been surprised if it was
some travel fatigue stuff, but no,

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Zoo, man. It was great
to see them getting Zoo touches early since

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he you know, didn't get as
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You know, hands, Zoo's hands
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to be. We just gotta hope
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five percent of the passes getting thrown
to him. But he was aggressive.

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It also feels like you talked about
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against the other team. I don't
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but DeAndre Jordan seems to play harder
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in the league. So it was
nice to see him get a really you

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know, if you're playing Downrey Jordan
in twenty twenty three, it's going to

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be mostly just physical, so it's
nice for him to get you know that

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kind of banging around old school post
play. I think, yeah, get

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him up to speed quickly. DJ
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if he feels like Zoo is his
replacement or something with the Clippers and he

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took that person. I don't know. One of the more underrated uh I

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guess aspects to this ballgame and performances
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not that he had some huge thirty
nine point game or anything. It was

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just eight points, seven boards,
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Ways we're a little step back,
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to his game that he has shown
here and there. But to see all

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four of his makes four six shooting
be that part of his bag, that's

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a big deal to me. Yeah, I mean, year five, if

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you're adding new things and that they're
working, I'm all for it. We

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already know how good he is at
getting to the basket, making defenders have

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the second guess, you know,
just one more thing he can do.

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He's not the most you know,
versatile scorer or anything like that. He's

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good at what he's good at.
He doesn't really branch out, but this

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is the kind of like nice little
mini branch he can add to just make

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the defenders have to think about one
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I'm not totally so on him being
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that, but I don't know if
that's where the direction the tea. You

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know, Tyler wants to go.
But him on the bench, if he's

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playing like this and kind of you
know a bit of the alpha dog on

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the bench, that I would look
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a Terrance excuse me, a Terrence
led bench. He yeah, I just

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like the fact that he was hunting
out that spot on the floor, like,

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get me there, I'll take care
of the rest. That could be

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Yeah, exactly, Baby Kawhi the
Old Spider Man meme from I don't know

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if I was into the universe,
across the universe. I forget the first

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one okay by our friend Phil lord
h what more for you here? Both

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Stiland finished with twelve points but for
assists and he got a three warn to

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go after starting off the preseason over
eleven from the outside. Then the juice

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in his legs just getting downhill,
trying to finish or setting up a vitza

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Zubots for an easy dunk like he
he creates havoc and I was watching him

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closely on defense. There was a
play where he was absolutely trying to fight

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through multiple screens to stick with his
man. That effort was there, and

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we saw it at times last year
at a Clippers uniform. Yeah, Bones,

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I mean, the effort is there. You know. There was that

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quote from the Denver GM about,
you know how Bones had to go because

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he was what doesn't defend as kind
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Bones are the guy who plays with
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There's some players where a chip on
their shoulder has a tiny bit of

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something, and I think that Bones
has that. It's a little chaotic when

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he gets to the basket, it
feels like he jumps and then then tries

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to kind of make a decision.
But everything else, I love the effort

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on defense. He puts his chest
in the guys. He's trying to make

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a difference on that end, which
when you're as skinny as Bones is,

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is a big part of it.
It was good stuff. You know,

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the turnovers not what you want to
see, but again it's preseason. Wonky

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start him on the bench, kind
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I wouldn't be mad if Terrence is
there to kind of help out some

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of the defensive issues because the bench
without you know, a super strong defender

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out there is, you know,
something that might have to get figured out.

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But Bones had a good preseason.
Really excited to see what he does

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in two days. He is the
Kobe Brown super fan. Chuck Mockler what

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self appointed? I mean, this
is this is something you've been on for

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a while now, and I'm here
for it. We love Kobe Brown.

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I love the fact that what's up. The thing is, I think he

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could get more minutes than Mussa Diabate
did last year. I think more total

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minutes will do more for Kobe Brown. I think there's a I think there's

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a narrow path to it. That's
all I'm hoping for. I feel like

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some goalposts are being rearranged at the
moment. But that's fine. That's fine,

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that's cool. We'll be on with
Chuck Mockler tomorrow. We'll have a

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new Clips and Dip podcast. Look
forward on YouTube at Chuck Mockler's where you

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can find him on X Chuck,
thanks for doing this tonight post game.

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Hey, thanks for having me Adam
before we get out of here tonight.

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As we always have stacked shows for
it, even without Clippers Talk. It's

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my pleasure to reintroduce positive moments with
the fake philosopher, big brother Jake Warner,

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the Professor. He's in the building
as always, our head engineer here,

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podcaster, extraordinary and uh part of
the TM crew. What's up,

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Jacob? Oh man, it's good
to be back, Adam. You know

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how it is. Man, We've
been waiting for this. It's a long

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time. It's so good to be
back here in this building. Man.

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Good to see you. Good to
see Carlo tonight. Oh person, we

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had a lot of fun. He
killed it, man, he did a

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damn good job. Of course.
Well now it's your turn. You got

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to send us out the right way
tonight. All right, listen up,

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y'all, because this is important.
Nothing is permanent. Don't stress yourself too

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much because no matter how bad the
situation is, it will change. Only

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constant life is changed. That right, big brother, Jake Warner. Clippers

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win tonight one. I'm sixteen to
one oh three over the Denver Nuggets in

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preseason game number three. Before we
get out of here, I do want

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to talk about our friend Dennis Stegostino, who we lost over the last few

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weeks, our head statistician here.
I used to say, always statistician to

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the stars. He's always been among
them. We love Dennis Deegastino. We

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will miss him dearly. Tonight we
were broadcasting with heavy hearts, sitting next

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to some flowers in a jersey with
his name on them here on broadcasters Row,

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of course, a classy gesture from
the Clippers. But Dennis will be

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greatly missed. The goat in all
of his endeavors. Just a beautiful,

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wonderful man and a joy to get
to work with. Love you, Dennis.

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Before we get out of here,
do you want to thank the Clippers

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organization? Brian Seaman Ralph Lawler,
Noah Ego, Carlo Jimenez. There's a

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lot of them. I said,
Noah, where were you? Katie?

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Maybe I'm not giving you a thank
you. Oh, Katie Newton back in

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Burbank. Big brother Jake Warner,
our head engineer. Here at Crypto dot

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com arena, the listeners. We
will talk to all of you on Thursday

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night pre games starting at six Clippers
and Nuggets running back. I'm at a

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Mauslim. I'll speak to you about
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