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Clippers lose Game two in Phoenix by
a final score of one twenty three to

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one. On nine, I'm out, I'm auslin. You're listening to Clippers

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stock here on the Patriot Am eleven
fifty. Back to your phone calls in

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just a bit here at eight seven
seven five two zero eleven fifty plus we

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will hear from Russell Westbrook. But
right now, let's get out to Chuck.

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My Cliff from Clips and Dip pod
does it with myself and Will up

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Dike. I believe they were doing
some live streaming earlier and we got a

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podcast coming out on the off day
tomorrow. Chuck. Where was this game

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lost for you? I mean,
I hate to say this, but it

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was lost in the role players.
Right you look at Nico and Bones and

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Norm they don't make a single three. I don't know how many games the

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Clippers win with those guys don't make
a single three. So I think you

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gotta tip your hat to Phoenix.
They got what they needed to get.

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You know, their big three went
off, plus Tory Craig, he did

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his thing, and that's what they
needed. The mid range mass won this

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game, and we just gotta hope
the role players you know, shoot better

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in front of a raucous home crowd
on Thursday. Yeah, And one of

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the warning signs to me is just
that the Clippers only score one hundred and

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nine points. They're not hitting three
pointers so far to high rate in this

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series they need to be. They're
not getting big performances from Norman Powell or

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Terrence Man or Nicholas Batoum standout performances
from guys. When you're down, Paul

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George, you just have to have
it from at least one guy. Russ

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was good with twenty eight, but
Phoenix, this isn't abnormal. They can

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hit these shots. They can make
these shots, and they can put up

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one hundred and twenty three points.
There's gonna be games where you have to

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hang with them offensively, and they
just haven't shown that they have enough scoring

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punch so far. Really to me, in the first two games, well,

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it's been tough, right, you
know, Terrence went three for three

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right for what he attempted. It
was literally perfect. But I think Ty

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had had a bit of walking rotations
in this one. I didn't like a

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lot of the decisions that Eric Gordon
made from deep but I mean, if

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you take a step back because you
know I'm both of us. Obviously,

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we watched every Clifford's possession with the
eyes of a hawk. We split two

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games away, which is exactly what
you're supposed to do if you're the road

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team. We kind of have the
advantage coming back in front of his home

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crowd at Crypto on Thursday. But
I think they're going to get it worked

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out. I don't think there's another
night where we get this poor of results

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from our role playing guys. It
does hurt to waste such an efficient Westbrook

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night. I think a lot of
us and I was skeptical the rest trade

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when it happened, but since then
I've been converted to being a believer.

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But there might be a regression coming
up. He's had two I mean,

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he had one wildly efficient game tonight
and we lost, and he had a

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very inefficient night game on and we
won. So there are some question Marshall

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the Clippers as to what really drives
a win. I guess from the playoffs,

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but I also think the Sums are
still kind of throwing things at the

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walls to see what sticks. So
we got to help the intensities high when

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we come. When we come back
to LA because I would love to see

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the Thumbs having to battle back from
the double point, double digit deficit in

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the first quarter. Yeah, the
crowd can definitely carry them and help some

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of that outside shooting. I think
just the roar of the crowd in downtown

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Los Angeles. I don't know what
the Splits are home and a way.

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Obviously they haven't been a great home
team this season, but I do think

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Clipper Nation is going to show up
in a big way. Now. You

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mentioned they're throwing stuff at the wall, and we did see coach lug extremely

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small in the fourth quarter with Norm
russ Man bones in Kauai. Do you

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think he was just trying anything and
considering they weren't getting stopped even with more

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defenders out there, he was just
trying to load up on the offensive side

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and hoping they can go on and
run. Well, I was just saying

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this, so Will and I are
actually live on YouTube right now. I'm

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taking a quick break from it,
but we were just talking about this.

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So when you're when you're a wing
heavy team to start the season like the

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Clippers, right, you would assume
that Marcus Morris, I don't care what

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people think about him and Robert Covington. Again, I don't care what people

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think about him as a player that
they're gonna get some time on the playoffs.

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We have now through a series of
some decisions, removed two of those

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wings from the playoffs, which is
killing the Clippers I think right now.

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So I think I never want to
see the Clippers going out small again.

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It was a nightmare. I know
the postgame Tylo said it was good defensively,

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but he's also made a control with
the media, which I do respect.

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I think some fans should maybe respect
that too. But like this is

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what happens when you make change,
it is too late, like we saw

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with the Batoum starting for Marcusloris,
and that maybe should have happened with more

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than six or seven games left in
the regular season, and then with not

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playing Robert Covington at all, where
you just even if putting Robert Covington in,

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would still be throwing something at the
wall to see what sticks. But

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I hope whatever pieces Tyloo throws up
the wall next game, if he has

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to are bigger than the small ball
five he put out tonight. Well,

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I gotta be honest. I predicted
that Roco would play at some point in

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the first two games, and it
hasn't happened yet. And it's a little

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bit more surprising because Nicholas Batoum is
one for seven so far from three,

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Like, I'm surprised he hasn't gone
to Roco or didn't tonight, considering the

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amount of guys that were struggling from
the outside and trying that. But you

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know, maybe I shouldn't be it. He hasn't played much this season.

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Do you point that out many times? We'll see what happens as we move

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along here. But Kawhi Leonard finishes
with thirty one. He was still efficient

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eleven or twenty from the field,
three or five from the outside. I'm

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a little bit concerned because we've seen
a history of this. It happens throughout

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playoff runs where a guy can get
worn down as a series goes along because

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so much has asked of them without
Paul George and if another guy is inconsistently

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helping out. In tonight, it
was r Us with his twenty eight points,

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but they still needed more shooting out
there, especially when Kawhi is being

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doubled and he's finding the open man. And he did have seven assists.

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He was very good passing wise.
I want to say he had five of

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those in the first half. But
I'm a little bit concerned that Kauai as

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the series goes along, there's just
so much on his plate that I wonder

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if the efficiency is still going to
be there, because it has to be.

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Really, they have to have Kauai
shoot fifty percent from the field to

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hang with the Phoenix Suns. I
think you're right, but I think one

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thing we can take solison is a
Kawhi went about his rehab exactly like he

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wanted to, and the results been
there so far, and we just kind

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of have to put a little bit
of hope, which if you're a Clippers

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fan, you hopefully have a little
bit of that leftover that he can still

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be efficient up until we get PG
back, hopefully for either Game seven or

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the next round. But I think
what's interesting too is you look at those

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minutes totals for the Suns and the
team. I mean, Kd's averaging more

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minutes than Kawhi. I think same
with Devin Booker, like we're pushing this

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team. This Sun team is doing
everything they can through these two games to

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not be down OZ two and they
only split them right, So at some

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point the bench guys are going to
step up. And at some point,

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yes, Kawi's efficiency might dip a
bit, but it's not going to dip

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into you know, horrifying territory,
if you'll let me have that one.

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So we just got to write it
out. We absolutely need to win game

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three in La to really put the
pressure on though, no doubt he is

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Charles Mockler of Clips and Dip.
You guys got the stream going right now

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at a Clippers podcast on YouTube with
Will up Deck. Yes, we're on

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it right now. All right,
get back to work. I appreciate you,

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Charles, thanks for doing this.
Let's go clips. We'll take a

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quick time out, we'll come back. We'll close things out with your phone

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calls and you'll hear from Russell Westbrook. After the Clippers lose one twenty three

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to one oh nine in Phoenix to
the Sun's Game three coming up on Thursday,

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huge swing game, pivotal, critical
game three. I mean it's usually

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safe for a game five, but
no, Clippers gotta find a way to

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come out and recapture the momentum after
losing this one in Phoenix, and they

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did make the Suns work for it. You're down just six with three minutes

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left. After it looked like the
Suns could have ran away with it.

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Clippers were there, but they couldn't
cross the finish line tonight. More Clippers

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Clippers last game too,