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Now witness the firepower of this fully armed

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and apparitional battles station well with the
full squad or squadron in this case,

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the Clippers win one o eight to
one oh one over the Golden State Warriors.

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Welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm at
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the show, we'll have Tone Mayor Bazarrely

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on from clutch points. You'll also
hear from the head coach, Shron Lou

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and Marcus Morris post game, as
well as some other players. After the

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Clippers, for the first time this
season, had Marcus Morris back and he

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started off three for three. He
fit back in seamlessly. It looked like

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he didn't miss a beat from the
way he played really his last fifteen games

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of the season, when he got
very comfortable inside the bubble with this Clippers

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team after starting off not shooting the
ball great when they first brought him in

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from the New York Knicks. But
he was good in this one. Two

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of six from distance, four of
nine from the field, had twelve points

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in just eighteen minutes, and it
was good to see Muke back out there

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on the court after he missed the
first eight games with knee Sorenus in his

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right knee. But the Clippers overall, they didn't play their best game.

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The full power is yet to come. There's a process going on right now.

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They're adjusting. But when you can
win a basketball game when you have

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more turnover then assists, well it
tells you just how talented this roster is.

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They had twenty turnovers to nineteen assists. As good as they had been

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this season moving the basketball, they
did struggle mightily. There was more isolation

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ball going on in this one.
It looked almost like there were a lot

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of guys playing together that hadn't played
together so far this season, which was

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the case PG returns after missing last
night's game. Kawhi Leonard, for the

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first time in three and a half
years, plays the second game of a

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back to back, plays both games
of a back to back, and he

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looked good out there. And remember
he was coming off that devastating quadracept injury

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and he hadn't played both games of
a back to back since April fifteen of

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twenty seventeen. This is a big
development here. We didn't see it at

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all last year with the Clippers,
but this was something you talked about before

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the season with head coach Ron lew
He expressed that he was feeling good and

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he wanted to play more back to
backs. It's still going to be dependent

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on how he feels. That injury
was very serious, but he had twenty

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one points in thirty five minutes,
not a huge game. Same with PG

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thirteen, who was just five of
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But when you combine those two guys
points and their output there, they

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combined for forty two. But the
big deal out of that was they had

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thirty one of their forty two points
in the second half. They had the

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Clippers first sixteen points of the third
quarter, the two one three connection,

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and in fact, we saw Paul
George hit Kawhi Leonard for an alley oop.

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I don't think we saw that play
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last year when they only played fifty
games together on the court. So that

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chemistry is coming, that continuity is
building, and when you can win when

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you don't play your best basketball,
that's not a bad thing. It just

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tells you how talented and how loaded
this team is. And they're gonna eventually

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mesh and I think there's gonna be
a lot of opportunities for blowouts of this

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season once they do come together completely. But still, there were some really

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good performances in this one. And
I've gone too long without talking about Saint

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Nicholas Batoum, who went baboom with
two three pointers down the stretch, clutch

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shots. He had thirteen points,
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He's shooting over forty five percent from
three. There were a lot of

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people, I'm not going to name
any names, but they weren't so sure

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about this signing. It was the
last player to join the Clippers this off

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season. That was Nicholas Batoum.
They had good luck with that last year

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with Pat pat Patrick Patterson, he
came in late, made an impact for

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them, shot thirty nine percent last
season. Nicholas Batoum might do him one

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better with all the different ways he
can affect the game. This is a

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special player that's a veteran that's finding
himself again in the right situation with a

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team that's going to optimize his skill
set. That's what sold him on joining

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the Clippers. And he had five
boards in this one, didn't have an

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assist, did have a steal,
but it was the timing of those three

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pointers late and guys finding him and
looking for him late, just like they

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did in the game with PG thirteen
dishing it to him against the Phoenix Suns

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for the biggest shot of the ball
game. There's some type of clutch gene

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factor going on with Nicholas Batoum that
you'll like to see out there. He

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is that glue guy. He's compared
himself or he is trying to be inspired

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by players like bors Dio. When
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he wasn't as talented as he was
with the Phoenix Suns. He wasn't as

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explosive, but he just kept them
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then he also brought up someone like
Andrea gad Allah, who sacrifice scoring for

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winning. When he came to the
Golden State Warriors. In fact, he

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was moved to coming off the bench. Steve Kerr made that move and they

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brought in Draymond Green and the rest
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So what Nicholas Batoon provides is someone
who is just selfless out there and just

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wants to do all the little things, the dirty work and the stuff that's

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necessary to win games. I talk
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offense. Even though they weren't great
tonight and the level of passing wasn't up

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to snuff or what we've seen so
far this season, they were still good

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enough when it mattered down the stretch, and defensively, I thought they took

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a step forward. The Golden State
Warriors had been averaging thirty one points in

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the fourth quarter. Steph Curry had
been really good, getting ten of his

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thirty two points per game in the
fourth quarter, and they had one four

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or five coming into tonight's contest,
and with four minutes left or from the

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four minute on till the final buzzer. The Clippers held Golden State to just

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four points total. It was something
they weren't able to do against San Antonio

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yesterday. Remember this is the second
game of a back to back, and

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the Spurs ended up scoring thirty one
points in that fourth quarter. The Clippers

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were okay offensively against San Antonio,
the problem was their defense failed them.

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Not tonight. They really ramped up
the defense late. There were some interesting

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lineups. We saw Luke Kennard with
the starters late and then they went back

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to Patrick Beverley, who once again
came up with a big three pointer,

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just one of five from distance after
tying a career high with six may threes

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yesterday. But that one was in
the fourth quarter, right before Nicholas Batoum

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would hit back to back three pointers, and the Clippers had to face some

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adversity early in the fourth. They're
up six going into the fourth quarter,

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and within a couple of minutes they're
down six. The Warriors went on a

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twelve zero run to start the four
and I believe took their first lead of

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the ball game on a shot made
by Andrew Wiggins, who had an efficient

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nineteen points for them. But Steph
Curry, who was coming off a sixty

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two point game followed by an efficient
thirty point game, he goes just five

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of seventeen for thirteen points, one
of six from distance. That's Pat Beverly.

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That's team defense, and that's the
strategy that's been used by ty Low

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against Superstars, where he likes to
mix up his coverages. Don't continue to

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give them the same looks because Superstars
will figure that out and eventually beat you.

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But they have a lot of good
perimeter defenders and Steph Curry had to

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face them tonight, scoring just thirteen
points. A lot of it though,

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was Patrick Beverly. This is a
matchup that he relishes, that he looks

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forward to their friends. They're boys, and even though Pat was just two

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of eight from the field, just
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impact on the game with just his
defense and hustle plays and having three assists.

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Somebody else who played a little bit
better in this one, even though

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he still only got up two shots. But a Visa Zubats was two of

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two and ten minutes. Problem was
he was in foul trouble. I thought

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there were a couple of tikie tack
fouls that went against him, but sweet

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Low Williams found him with a nice
dish. And also Serge Ibaka, who

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was my player to watch. He
had just three points in five rebounds yesterday

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on one of seven shooting. You
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He had a three pointer in the
third quarter. He finishes with twelve

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points and fourteen boards. And oh
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Why does my box score only say
one block? We had at least

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three a block us by Noah Eagle. Three calls like that tonight. They're

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gonna adjust this. But Paul George
comes through in that third quarter where he

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has eleven points when he only had
I think five in the first half.

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Kawhi Leonard has eight point points in
the fourth quarter. The Superstars were just

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good enough and their defense set in
late and they would get the one away

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to one oh one victory over the
Golden State Warriors. Well take a quick

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break here, you know what,
kill the music. I'm sorry, that's

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my bad, Zach. Let's get
to Morris in Long Beach. Morris,

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you got a good name. Marcus
Morris showed up for you tonight. I

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wish I had his contract, but
I'm gonna share something with you. Tonight

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belongs to coach Tyrone Lou. I'm
serious. You know, when you're coaching

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the best in the world, you
know, it's just tough to get some

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credit. When you planning with the
best in the world, it's tough to

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get some credit. But tonight Tyrone
Lou showed Heathen coach, and I'm gonna

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tell you why your boy Curry need
to be drug tested. This guy's been,

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like goodness, hundred straight shot sixty
points in one game. He's rolling

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like a trojan. Tonight. When
I looked at this game, I'm like,

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what's wrong with him? There was
nothing wrong with him. You're right.

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The Clippers had a lot of turnovers, They didn't play their best game

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offensively, but when it came to
fending that guy, they took the ball

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out of his hands and they did. They pretty much took him out the

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game. What do you mean twenty
three points ten and says that's not big

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for a guy like him, And
I could see it. I'm telling you,

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Adam, I could see the defense
that they set up for this guy.

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And Morris Morrise, you're giving him
too much credit and not enough to

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the Clippers. He only had thirteen
points and five assists. Steph Curry,

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Oh Lord, have mercy, But
I'm telling you what I saw this coach,

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Tyron Loudy, But who's ever responsible
for the defense. They won this

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game to night because you know this
guy can go off. You know,

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Wall went off to night for Washington. These guys in the NBA, they're

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ridiculous. But when you look at
this game to night at him, it

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was like, wait a minute,
they have something for this guy. And

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I never thought anybody would have anything
to slow him now, but tonight the

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Clippers they slowed him. And you're
right on another observation you made. They

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didn't have their best game, but
they had enough runs in him, and

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that's what the NBA's all about,
right about runs. They had enough runs

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in them to win it. But
they had a the good defense. I

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mean that defense was nice. When
Curry came past that half court thing,

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it was almost like they were knocking
on the front door offins. I was,

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heky, how are you doing?
And so I'm gonna give some quidit

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to the coach to night because I
could see that the defense is with win

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this game for them. I mean, you could really see the weddinglight.

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Sometimes when the guy goes off like
you see George's Like George went off for

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thirty nine points the other night.
George win that game, Morris, thank

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you for the phone call. Great
phone call. As always, we're up

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against it there, I'm sorry.
Plus even before we get out, let's

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radar stat for the Clippers that helped
them win this game. They were perfect

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from the free throw line. They
went twenty five for twenty five. The

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last time an NBA eighteam made at
least twenty five free throws while remaining perfect

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perfect was the Chicago Bulls. I'm
back in twenty nineteen, marking ends on

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that team. I mean, who
even knows Zach Lavine was there then?

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But it ain't pretty, it ain't
sexy. Making your free throws, though,

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can help you win ball games.
Clippers win one o eight to one

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oh one in Golden State over the
Warriors. Coming up next we'll hear from

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Toma Razzarli from clutch points. You're
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season long. I'm their officials. Why

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letters sends it back home? But
the Clippers still not come in here.

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Clippers win with their full squad with
a final score one o eight to one

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oh one over the Golden State Warriors. This is Clippers talk. I'm out

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y. It's Tomair Azari who covers the

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Clippers for clutch points. Tomair a
clutch performance once again by Nicholas Batoum.

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He hits the two three pointers late. The Clippers pull away with some good

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defense. But could anyone have expected
play to this level from Nicholas Batoum so

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far, even himself? Maybe?
I don't know. I mean, I

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don't know. I thought he was
a good pick up. I did not

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expect anything like this. I think
I think his play in Charlotte's the last

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couple of years, or just injury
history, just a bit of unluckiness there

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really made us forget how good he
was. You know, the other day,

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I called him, you know,
the French Army Knights for the Clippers.

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But you know, I guess the
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wine bottle openers, so I don't
think he's that. But no, look

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for to him has been tremendous for
the Clippers so far. I mean he's

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done literally whatever they've meaned, whether
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the three or the two's playmaking,
rebounding, scoring. I mean, the

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guy has literally been a Swiss army
knife, you know, is he's done

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everything for them. It's incredible.
I asked him the other day, like,

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hey, do you think people forgot
about how good you were? And

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he just smiled, So I think
he was. He was kind of ready

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to get this, you know,
moved past Charlotte and come to to La

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to sort of show off what he
can what he can do, and we're

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seeing it before very eyes. It's
part of the reasons that Marcus Morris approached

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TLU today and said, hey,
you know, I'm willing to come off

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the bench. You should bring me
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really getting it done. I think
by net rating, this starting unit is

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probably top two or three right now
the entire NBA. So yeah, this

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unit is really getting done, and
Nick Patum has been a huge, huge

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part of it. I would argue
he's been the third best player all season

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already. No argument for me.
I'm partial to Saint Nicholas Patum. But

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you mentioned Marcus Morris Senior there.
He had twelve points in his first game

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this season, hit his first three
shots, he looked good. I mean,

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they've talked about how much he's practiced
with this Clippers team and how much

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he's been around the team, and
he fit right in right away. But

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how do you see his role coming
off the bench, Because the one thing

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we were talking about here on Clippers
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he does come off the bench,
he could be featured more. He could

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get more shots because it's less likely
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So just before you you know,
I hopped on here. We just finished

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talking to Marcus and he said,
you know, when we asked him about

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the decision to come off the bench. What he said was it, Hey,

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look, the Clippers rewarded me this
offseason by by you know, getting

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me what I've earned, but also
they did me a solid So I'm a

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team guy. I'm willing to do
whatever they want. He said he didn't

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want ty Loo to feel awkward about
approaching him to come off the bench or

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anything like that, and so he
just went up to t luin today,

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I want to come off the bench. And so what this does is,

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like you said, it allows him
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Because let's face that, the starting
union has a lot of offense as it

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is, whether you put the two
men in there or whether you Marcus in

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there, they have a lot of
offense. And so I think what we're

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really looking forward to hear is that
maybe a bit more playmaking is what's been

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missing from the starting lineup before Batoon
and said that the Batoum's there, it's

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it's it might get tricky if you
mess with this. I think Marcus saw

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that and saw that, Hey,
look the second unit hasn't been able to

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score the ball as well this season, So let me just come in.

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Let me get a two man game
with lou Will in there, with Luke

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Kenard, with Big Zoo defending the
paint and try to create something else of

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that. I think that's really intriguing
because I don't know if I will be

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willing to say he's a sixth Man
of the Year candidate, but I mean,

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look, if Marcus Morris is out
there defending his butt off, you

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know, knocking down three is creating
offense for the Clippers with the second unit.

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I mean, I don't know what
the ceiling for this Clippers team is

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because they can be really, really
good, but it all depends on health,

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for one and really just jelling together. Because we see the first unit

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of gelling, but I think we've
seen some something missing from the second unit,

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and I think Marcus is that missing
now. So we'll see. There's

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gonna be a lot of games to
sort of figure this out. This was

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the first of many, hopefully,
you know, hopefully everyone stays healthy,

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and I'm really looking forward to see
what they could do. Yeah, perhaps

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Marcus Morris can kind of fill that
void with the second unit in a familiar

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role where he's more the focal point
on offense like he was last season with

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the New York Knicks. Who was
he and Julius Randall getting it done for

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them, Nicks continuing to get it
done earlier this season. Somebody we haven't

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talked about at least enough to night, Serge Ibaka. He bounces back,

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he had just three points and five
boards last night, comes right back and

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leads them with fourteen rebounds plus twelve
points, a big three in the second

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half. But Surge has also made
this starting unit even better than they were

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last season, and they had a
really good net rating then too. I

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mean that was to be expected.
I mean, Surge is an upgrade in

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terms of the spacing provides, not
over zoobas necessarily, but just it's a

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different, different play style. Now
you can space the floor out completely,

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you can play five out often,
you can defend pretty much all five positions

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really well. And so I think
Surge, I mean, Spurgs had an

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uncharacteristic game last game against the Spurs. You know, Tylo talked to us.

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He said he felt like they kind
of settled for threes too early in

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that game, which allowed the Spurs
to get long rebounds and runouts in fast

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break. And so I think what
we stopped today is that the Clippers really

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attacked the pink to start the game. They had their dribble drifts to the

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basket. They created. Out of
that, we start Surge knocked down on

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early through from that, and I
think, you know, I think sometimes

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this team had to settle. But
I think also this team just is still

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really trying to figure out how to
play with one another, and Surge a

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big part of that. He can
knock. He can give you five throughs

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a game. He can also,
like you did today, give you,

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you know, a couple of baskets
inside and fourteen rebounds. So I think

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it'll depend on night to night basis
what they get. Obviously, the last

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night three point performance was not good
enough for the Clippers, but I don't

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think that's something we'll expect from Searge
on a day to day basis. I

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think we'll expect, you know,
he's been good for about twelve sixteen points

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a game, a good eight to
nine rebounds a game, and probably a

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blocker to the game. So again, this team is really still learning to

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figure out how to play with each
other. It is still early where this

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is sort of the start of a
new season now with Marcus Speck, because

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now you have two full five man
lineups that you want to roll out of

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the post season hopefully, I mean
type probably won't roll out of ten guys,

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but you know, start it starts
now. How do they work with

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Marcus in the second unit? How
does that work with PG in the second

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unit? When you you know stagger
Kawhi Pg's minutes. Where does storage come

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in with Zoo. There's a lot
to figure out. I don't really envy

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Tyler's job right now, but the
Clippers are in good positions, so we'll

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see how works up. I think
he's the right man for the job with

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all this versatility. He's kind of
a mad scientist, like like a dark

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room guy they call, you know, an offensive coordinator or a Mike Mart's

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type in the NFL. That's that's
what Tylu t Lou reminds me of a

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little bit something else we learned earlier
today, and it raised an eyebrow when

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I didn't see Kawhi Leonard on the
injury report last season on back to backs,

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we would see injury management, and
he's out for the game. He

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plays both games of a back to
back for the first time in three and

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a half years. What can we
expect from this moving forward. Is this

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the new Kauai? Is he feeling
healthier? How has this look do you

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think throughout the rest of the regular
season. So I think that coming into

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his first sequel, his only season
with the Raptors, obviously he had the

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knee slash, you know, quad
injury that he was managing, and so

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they had a strict no back to
back minute restriction kind of limit for him.

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I think this one kind of unnoticed. But he also went underwent some

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kind of off season procedure coming into
last season, which was his first with

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the Clippers, and even though they
said he was on d percent healthy,

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he was clearly not. He was
still working through if he was resting back

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to backs. And so this season, I think, you know, he

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MPG have said this, this was
the first real off season that they had

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healthy and able to work on their
games. Even though it was short,

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they were healthy. They were able
to come into training camp healthy, work

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with their new teammates healthy, and
just get a good feel for each other.

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And so, you know, Tyler
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Hey, Kawhi approached me and said, I feel good this season. I

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want to play more games. I
want to be able to be out there

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on the court more and Tyler said, hey, no problem. If you're

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good to go, you're good to
go. Obviously, they had to clear

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with the with the medical staff and
you know, the sports science team to

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plan out his season, but Tyler
said, they'll take it on a back

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to back basis, you know,
each one separate, but for now it

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appears at kawhi Olsen slaying back to
back said he wants to, you know,

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get into better rhythm, play better
with his teammates, and just get

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a better steel for it. So
I think for now we'll be seeing Kwai

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We're seeing this where a team stays
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last four minutes, and the Clippers
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A. But first I do want
to hear from the head coach and somebody

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we just talked about with Toma azarrely
from clutch points, but the way that

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he's mixed and matched lineups, I
just love the flexibility that head coach Toron

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Lieu has already shown through just nine
games so far this season. But here

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he was post games speaking with the
media. What was that experienced, Like,

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obviously there's a lot of you know, emotion ahead time, but what

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that would actually be like to play
on this kind of extraordinary backdrop. Did

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it feel odd? Was it on
players minds? Could you tell? I'm

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not sure you have to ask them. I mean it was on my mind

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a little bit, you know,
throughout the course of the game, and

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just you know something we just got
to get through. And it was a

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tough game like tonight, just you
know, Ka's first back to back in

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a while, you know PG,
you know, missing the last game and

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you know, playing tonight, so
he was a little bit rusty, you

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know, welcome and Marcus back tonight, who was really good in the first

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half. So you know, just
trying to play with different lineups and you

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know, just trying to figure it
out. Now now that Marcus is back

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on, the rotations are gonna be
a little different, and so we're just

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trying to figure it out as a
team. Yeah, how do you just

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kind of sketch out Marcus's usage?
Is this? Is this kind of gradually

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bringing him back to a point where
he'll eventually start Right now, we're in

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a great place. And the crazy
part about how they and Jews that Marcus

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came to me and said, like, listen to lou like me coming off

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the bench, It's gonna be great. You know, I think Nick provides

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that passing that we need in the
first unit, and you know, spotting

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up and shooting the basketball, and
with me and Louke coming off the bench,

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it's gonna be a tough, tough
matchup of guys coming off the bench,

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he said, So they could use
my scoring off the bench. And

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we try to look at that tonight
if you notice, you know, we've

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been staggering PG and Kawa's minutes and
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So we're just trying to figure it
out, you know right now, you

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know, it's the first time we
had everybody healthy, and you know,

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I try to call about six players, and guys didn't know where to go

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on the floor. That's to be
expected when you're playing with different lineups and

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Marcus first game back. So we're
just gonna keep working at it. You

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know. It's good to keep winning
games while we just trying to, you

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know, figure it out and get
through this process. And now we will.

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Hey, Tyk and guts on the
wink. You just along the lines

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of Marcus, what does it say
about a guy who just signed a big

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deal in the offseason, just came
off starting from for you guys in the

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playoffs to be willing to come off
the bench, but not only that,

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but approach you and say, hey, I think this is what works best.

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What do you make of that?
I mean, I just think it's

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a veteran who wants to win and
whatever it means and whatever it takes to

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win, that's what he's about.
And so it was good just to see

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him do that. And that takes
a lot of care to to make that

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call. You guys helped Steph to
I think five of seventeen shooting tonight.

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Uh, you pretty much explained what
you guys wanted to do pre game by

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giving him a different coverages do you
feel like you covered him the best of

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your ability? Yes, we did. And you know, our philosophy is

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just we wanted to try to take
the best player out because we know Steph

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and go like Si for sixty like
he did the other day. So we

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want to just make sure that we, you know, trap them, We

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keep a body on him, you
know, be physical with him. And

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with that being said, other guys
are gonna, you know, have good

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games. I thought Pascal was really
good in that first half, and Wiggins

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got a game, he got a
pretty good game going. But were you

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trying to take out the best player? Other guys are gonna get opportunities,

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and they stepped up and had a
good, decent game. TI. I

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saw that both teams took a knee
before the during the national anthem, which

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was pretty powerful. It was learning. How did you guys come to that

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decision as a team, And did
you guys talk with the Warriors pre game?

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And yea, yeah, I had
a discussion with Steve and we talked

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about it and we all wanted to
be on the same page and we was

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able to do that. So that
was powerful, I mean a lot.

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And then and did did you guys
talk about it as a team before the

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game at all. Yeah. I
talked to it to the guys, most

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of the guys individually about it,
and so we all wanted to be a

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solidarity. And you know, I
tech Steve and he says, gonna let

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me know, and we talked about
it and we came to a conclusion that

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we wanted to kneel before the anthem
and we did it. Collect The players

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are no longer in the bubble,
but the social justice movement is still going,

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especially in light of events today at
the Capitol. There was head coached

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tehront Lou post game after the Clippers
win one o eight to one oh one

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over the Golden State Warriors, who
they'll see again Friday. It's a two

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game series. We're gonna see a
few of these throughout the season. It's

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different and get you to it.
I think it's interesting. We'll see how

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the Warriors try to adjust. And
Steph Curry is certainly going to be out

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for blood after scoring just thirteen points
tonight when he had sixty two his career

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high on Sunday. But the Clippers
just come at you in waves with defenders

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and Dan Craig, who's their defensive
coordinator. You could say, coming over

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from the Miami Heat, has done
a great job so far with this Clippers

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team, but it's only going to
get better as they build up that chemistry.

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Coming up next, we'll finish things
out with your phone calls at eight

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six six nine, eight seven two
five seventy more. Clippers talk right here

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on AM five seventy. LA Sports
Stagger Paul George is the official home of

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your LA Clippers. Don't miss a
moment of Clippers basketball all season long.

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The Clippers are three and oh coming
off a loss this season, they bounced

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back after losing by three last night
at home against the Spurs. They win

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tonight in San Francisco one o eight
to one oh one over the Golden State

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Warriors. Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm out of Moslin and while the

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Clippers who have been red hot,
they've been the second best three point shooting

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team so far this season. They
hit just thirty two percent of their threes

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tonight, but when you take into
account they were three of seventeen in the

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first half and they would hit eight
more in the second half. They did

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step up and knock them down when
they needed to, and I thought Luke

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Kennard hit a big three pointer in
the fourth quarter. It was him and

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Paul George getting the scoring started in
the fourth after the Clippers really came out

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flat entering that third quarter. Multiple
times in this one, they didn't close

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out quarters well at the end of
the second quarter, and then again at

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the end of the third quarter they
gave up twelve point leads and then they

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were down six early headed into the
fourth after the Golden State Warriors went on

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a twelve oh run. So Clippers
got punched in the mouth a little bit.

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They had been leading the entire ball
game, and then all of a

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sudden two minutes into the fourth and
you're down, and you got to find

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yourself on the road. And it
was PG thirteen with a three pointer,

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and then Luke Kennard and then Kauhai
re entered the game and had eight quick

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points, got into the mid range, got to the free throw line.

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There was a dangerous play at about
the five minute mark with him going into

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attack mode and Draymond Greene kind of
hooked arms with him like it was jose

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Can Saco and Mark McGuire doing the
Bash Brothers thing, and Kauai got supermanned

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and took a hard fall and his
Noah Eagle pointed out, it's a good

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thing he had that mask on that
might have saved him on that fall.

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He wasn't happy about it, and
it was either the next possession or two

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possessions later. He came down with
bad intentions and tried to throw it down

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and he was fouled again. But
the aggressiveness between him and Paul George in

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the second half. Immediately coming out
of the half, it was PG thirteen

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who was going towards the basket,
and then late in the game Kawhi Leonard

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was getting to the rim as well. Clippers win one o eight to one

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oh one over the Golden State Warriors. They'll see them again on Friday,

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still in SF. Before we get
out of here, I do want to

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thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seamen, Ralph Lawler. Back

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here in Burbank, we had Zach
Attack doing a lot. All the great

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music you've heard tonight, that's Zach
calling ye. Also one of the best

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people working behind the scenes hard here
at am five seventy. I think he's

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been here since eight in the morning. And Colin wants to excuse me,

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Zach wants to me to uh,
I guess pay tribute a little bit here

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to m F doom as we're getting
out, r I P m F doom

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and one more time since that's the
theme. Now, pray for Dre doctor

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Dre at a brain aneurysm yesterday.
All right, we'll talk to you at

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six pm. Same thing. Clippers
running it back against the Golden State Warriors

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on Friday. We'll have Clippers countdown
for you starting at six pm Friday.

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I'm at a Moslin. We'll talk
to you then. This has been Clippers

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