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What is going on? Clippers fans? Welcome to season two, episode fifty

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eight of Clips and Jim. I
am Chuck Buckler, joined by Adam Austin

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and William Updyke. Because today we're
gonna be talking, I mean, the

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horrible brunchback to back that's coming up. We're gonna be answering some Clippers fan

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questions. We got a brand news
segment to start the show off with.

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But if you're new to the show, welcome. If you've been with the

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show, thank you. You can
listen to us anywhere you find pods.

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Find us on YouTube, over at
YouTube dot, complash at Clippers Podcast.

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Before we get into this brand news
segment, how are my co hosts doing?

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Guys? The Clippers are kind of
up and down right now. Will

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how are you doing on this sunny
Friday evening in Los Angeles. I'm doing

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pretty good. I'm doing pretty good. No idea what to expect from this

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weekend. Really not looking forward to
it, man, And that is not

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a phrase you hear me say on
a Friday and very often that I'm not

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looking forward to the weekend. So
you know, things are a little up

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in the air Clippers wise, but
I'm doing great, man, I'm doing

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great, looking forward to a couple
of early games. I guess, Adam,

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how are you today? I'm good. I know what you expect from

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this weekend is mister t set in
Rocky three pain. Now it could be

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for the other team, it could
be for the Clippers. We're gonna find

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out together. It's great, it
could be both. Yeah, they got

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the back to back with daylight savings
in the middle of it. We're going

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to get into all that in just
a few but first we have a brand

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new segment here on Clips of Deep. If you're watching on YouTube, you're

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gonna love this. If you're listening, you're also gonna love it because of

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how expressive Adam is when he breaks
down some film. Adam, what are

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we watching? What segment are we
in right now? Well? I don't

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know. We kind of impromptu did
a little film session last time out.

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Chuck and I here on the YouTube
and people seem to enjoy it. I

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had a good time with it.
Now, obviously it helps if you're watching

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on the YouTube channel. We appreciate
all the new listeners, all the new

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viewers, the subscribers here. So
I guess I'm calling it and Will's Name's

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great Adam song. This may be
more illuminating to what we're doing here.

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I'm calling it the high five five
clips from the last game high as in

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highlights here. So the Clippers were
able to come back against the Houston Rockets

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down by twenty after putting up seventy
eight points in the second half of that

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last game, they completely turned things
around offensively. It was one of their

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more impressive offensive showings in some time, especially when you consider when Shuck and

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I were previewing that game, we
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their last ten or last fifteen games
or post All Star Break? What were

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they, Chuck twelfth defensively? Yeah, they were better defensively than the Clippers.

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They were twelve Clippers or fifteenth?
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Houston is seventh defensively, damn,
which is kind of shocking. It shocked

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me too. I didn't see that
coming, but as I shared the screen

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here, I think you guys are
seeing what I'm seeing and not one of

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my dating app tabs that's open right
now on your desktop. Can you use

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dating apps ondusktops? I don't know
about on dating apps, but well,

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uh, plenty of fish. We
have the technology in many ways now Christianmingle

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dot com. I'm on right now. Uh no, is this farmers only

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or so? The Clippers were able
to turn things around even though they were

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still down heading into that fourth quarter. And let's start with this first clip.

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There's some bad clips, there's some
negative stuff, there's some positives here.

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Five clips for you. First one, a little miscommunication on the defensive

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end by the Clippers, something we
have seen far too often post the Grammy

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road trip. Shengoon just picked up
his dribble. He's going up in the

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near side short corner against Mason Plumbley, but because he's been cooking, Paul

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George comes over to double. He
realizes, oh, Shangun just picked up

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his dribble. Mason Plumby can take
it from here. But on his way

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back because Norman Powell came over to
cover for PG on Thompson, there's a

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little misque here between Paul George and
Norman Powell going out to guard Dylan Brooks

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on the right wing. It ends
up when the easy Chngoon bounce past to

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Thompson for the dunk. Watch PG
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George here on this because I believe
he knew he was gonna get back on

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Dylan Brooks and Paul George had to
get back to his man and Thompson.

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Yet still a little bit of bickering
there after the play. I guess to

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some degree you like it because it
means they care, they're tried to get

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better in that area. The next
one's obvious. It's one of the best

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plays of the ball game. Is
James Harden here after we saw that three

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pointer there from Paul George top side. He's got Fred Van vlied against him.

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Now, when you lose a bit, a little bit of speed,

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as James Harden has in his career, he's had a lot of hamstring injuries.

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He's what thirty four going on thirty
five now, but he's still got

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enough and he was showing it off
in this game. He was getting downhill

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a little bit more. What you
gotta do is start the motor and rev

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it up a little bit further out
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If he's even with his defender,
he's leaving no longer the case. So

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he starts a little bit further out, blows past Fred Van Vliet, and

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this is one of the best passes
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It's James Harden. It's something he
does. But while Mason Plumbley thought it

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might be going to him, he
collapsed the defense to the point where he's

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got four guys on him. And
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they've been really good, holding teams
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opponent points in the paint per game. So this is what they do.

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They're overly aggressive. Plus the fact
that James Harden has already scored once getting

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to the basket, kicks it all
the way out to Kawhi Leonard. Here,

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not only do we have Kawhi wide
open, but look at Mason Plumley

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here. He gets a little hip
check in on Jabari Smith Junior, just

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giving Kawhi a little bit more time
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So some of those little things a
little veteran savvy play there by Mason

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Plumley Like seeing that. Now we
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here. I'm calling this a good
recovery and this is an entire sequence here

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as at leads to our next play. But This was big some transition points

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for the Clippers. But before that, we have a little high pick and

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roll from the Houston Rockets giving the
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medicine. Sheng Goo's gonna set the
screen here on James Harden. It's Jalen

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Green with the basketball. Mason Plumbley
shows a little too much coming to his

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right. We know his limitations defensively, as James Harden's going high on the

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screen to try to stick with Green, which is not gonna happen obviously.

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So here's Mason plumb Lee just out
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Jalen Green said, I'm not going
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then run into Kawhi Leonard, even
though he could have given it up to

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Smith Junior. Instead, he gives
it back to she Goon. He's going

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the other way. Mayson Plumbley's behind
him. But here's a nice recovery by

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the Clippers on the defensive end.
They completely collapse the paint here. Sheng

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Guon's wried about an offensive foul against
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to recover. Here on the back
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the Clippers got numbers, they're going
the other way. Sh Goon's complaining on

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the other end whether it was a
foul or not. You know, if

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you're a Clipper fan, you're not
feeling bad for anyone. Clipper's got five

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on four. Here, you gotta
give it to your ball handler. So

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here's Norman Powell to James Harden.
Harden with the basketball and he sees that

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Dylan Brooks is still has his back
to Kawhi Leonard here. Now give it

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to your big dogs. Kawhi Leonard
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Brooks has to recover and overreacts on
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got it to Mason Plumbley there down
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way for a big man get to
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collapses the paint once more. Look
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looks to his left looking like he's
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the point where Green gets spun around, and instead Kawhi gives it up to

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Paul George on the far side corner
for a wide open three pointer. Just

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a beautiful pass and one of Kawhi's
two no look passes in the ballgame.

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One more for you here in are
high five and this is kind of any

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things on a low light here.
This is more bad defense by the Clippers

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here after Kawhi got that in one
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Okay, so here's Fred van Vliet. Paul George is on him.

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Jabari Smith Junior comes over, James
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screen on Paul George and they're going
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It's Jabari Smith Junior just faking out
the screen. James Harden's way out

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of position here still, but both
guys are so he gets a wide open

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three pointer when the Clippers are up
by five. This was a huge shot

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to get the Houston Rockets right back
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They just have to tighten things up. There. Not enough communication you see

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here James Harden looking at Paul George. I think Paul George was in the

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right on this one. But there
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Some stuff the Clippers can work on, some positive things as well. There's

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your little film breakdown here on clips
and Tip. That was the first Atoms

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High five. We did it,
the first officially licensed one. The Clippers

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play the Bulls in Bucks this weekend. Oh we got all, Adam right

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here? What if we did this
one? Do? How do I change

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that? This is not the way
right? Well? Yeah, nay,

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yeah, leave it all right?
So the Clippers play the Bulls at one

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on Saturday, then they get to
enjoy daylight savings time before playing the Bucks

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at twelve on Sunday. I don't
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play two games in less than twenty
four hours, but it doesn't feel like

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it happens very often. This is
horseshit, right well, this yeah schedule,

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absolutely absolutely. I mean it feels
like we're getting every single last one

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of these either terrible brunch games or
a rough as hell old back to back

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thrown at us in our final year
booking in Crypto dot com arena. So

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I'm so ready to be done with
this. Man, I'm like I got

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senioritis with this brunch game ship.
Yeah, I'm just drilling holes in the

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piece of it right now, Adam, You're gonna be at both of these

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games? Correct? How are you? How are you? No? I

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can't. I can't. You know
why because they're early games, because what

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the Kings play later tomorrow and the
Lakers play later on Sunday night? So

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I get kicked out because I wouldn't
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they're breaking stuff down right after the
Clippers game is over. That's a long

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process and undertaking for the Those are
crazy nights. If you've ever been able

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to watch them start that process,
it's pretty terrifying just in terms of how

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much stuff has to actually get done. The Lakers have a game on Sunday

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night. I think they have Who
are they playing? Is its? No?

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They play the Timberwolves on Sunday on
Oscar Night. Well, it's like

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weird, seem weird? I don't
know, I guess. And the awards

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a mostly consistent team in the league
because the Oscar should be held at Staples.

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No. Absolutely, Uh, all
right, we're gonna do our Oscar

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picks later in the show. But
we got to talk about uh, Clippers

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versus Bulls. The Bulls are five
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We're shooting just under thirty five percent
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per game. They only score in
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looking at where their points come from
bottom ten and percentage of points from paint

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buckets and bottom five and percentage of
points from the three point line, So

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their buckets are coming from the mid
range. Adam, is this kind of

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a case we don't really know zoos
availability, So let's say zoos available.

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Is this a case of like you
kind of clamp down all tomar and things

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become seemingly infinitely easier for the Clips. Yeah, that's something the Kings were

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not able to do when Chicago came
back on them down twenty two. Zamar

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got cooking. But this is an
interesting matchup because recently who did they do

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it against? The Bulls have thrown
out Vucevich and Andre Drummond. They've gone

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uber big, and I wonder how
the Clippers are going to try to counter

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that. Are they going to go
even smaller? That's something Robert Flaum said

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on two or three Hoops recently,
like are they going to try? I

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don't know. Daniel Tice next to
Mason Plumber or Visa Zubats, PJ.

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Tucker has had plenty of those opportunities. Next to one of those bigs with

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Daniel Tye has not gotten one.
It's just so yeah, I mean he's

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been shooting more, he has,
he's been making less love taking those shots,

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but he is taking that. No, that's fair. Yeah, I

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don't know, it's if Zoo doesn't
go, I'm way more worried about this

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game. Vooch's averaging twenty two to
twelve since the All Star break, which

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is quite a bit of points.
Will It seemed like they were just like

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worried about Zoo having headaches and stuff
like that, Like where's yet with the

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Zoo timeline? The entry report will
probably come out in a couple of minutes

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here, But I'm worried if you
can't go, Yeah, yeah, certainly.

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I mean I don't know. I
talked a little bit about that post

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game, and like, I luckily, I mean not luckily. It's still

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not great, but it's like an
illness situation because I thought what the originally

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said on the broadcast was that he
was having some issues mobility. It was

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worded weird. Yeah yeah, and
they said like he wasn't moving well,

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which I think exactly right. Yeah, you're automatic like so he's hurt or

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something. Like that, whether soreness
or tightness or something. Yeah. Yeah,

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being like a physical illness is definitely
different. I wonder if he was

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just having a migraine something. Dude, that'd be brutal. Kobe fights another

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guy who could maybe light the Clippers
up a little bit in terms of a

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guy who's fast and from point of
attack. He's also playing forty minutes a

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game this season or since the All
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minutes a game, which makes me
think, like, if we're not putting

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Damar in action on defense, let's
put the guy who's gonna have to play

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ninety five percent of the minutes in
this game, let's have him running around

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out there. I don't mind that
DeMar Derozen by the way, has been

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averaging twenty seven over like his last
fifteen to twenty games. Now, I

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just looked Chicago's last ten games.
They're tenth offensively. Now, they're twentieth

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defensively during that time, but they're
tenth offensively the last ten games. They've

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been playing much better. No,
Zach Lavine doesn't seem to matter. This

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team still has enough I guess,
potent offensive players to scare you. So

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you can't take them lightly as actually
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back, you would hope best case
scenario is what the Clippers put them away

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late in the third quarter. Is
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it this scenario? Yeah, Well, I mean, their their shot profile

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is super weird too, right,
So that offense like had like you know,

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it kind of revolves around the mid
range. So how the Clippers opt

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to deal with that, I think
we'll say a lot about the game,

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and if they're they're able to throw
them out of a rivet like Rhythm Tomorrow

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especially, it definitely gives them a
much better shot. Uh. But on

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the other end of the floor,
it just depends on what version of the

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Clippers offense we're going to see.
You know, you showed some some highlights

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there, but I feel like there's
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recently. You know, Tyler certainly
talked about how slow they are to get

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into everything, and this is a
recurring theme, Like this isn't even the

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first time that he said something like
this. Zach Lowe, who is like

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one of the one of the larger
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on a fairly regular Basis constantly brings
up the quote where early on in James

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Harden's tenure where Tyler said, we're
just walking around on offense, and it

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feels like that has kind of been
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So yeah, I like, I'm
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but I would really like to see
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Adam and I talked about this a
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and yes, after being on the
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swings or double digit swings, it's
nice to get the win in. I'm

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now looking for like some more sustained
good play from this team, because it

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just when I actually look at the
calendar, it hasn't been that long,

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but it feels like quite a long
time since the elation of the Grammy road

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trip. Yeah, the process,
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like, let's get the process in
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this is a defense. It's going
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Harden and Kawi have not been shooting
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From three, Kawhi is at twenty
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Hardens obviously taking a lot more than
than Kawhi, but I mean, I

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hope they can. It goes back
further with Kawhi, it's it's been kind

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of under the radar, like his
last fifteen games, he hasn't shot it

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well from three after for so long
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three. Going into that game against
the Houston Rockets, they were what thirty

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five percent their last eleven games post
Grammy road trip. Now they ended up

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shooting I think forty one percent from
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into that game the thirty four and
a half percent from three. So they

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actually finally in the second half when
they got hot and what were they at

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like sixty five percent or sixty percent
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they had seventy eight points, Like
they got unlocked and it was just high

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pick and roll, and coach lou
said postgame, he basically gave out the

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numbers like when we get into our
offense within the first twelve seconds of the

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shot clock, we're one of the
top three offenses when we don't. We're

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one of the worst offenses in the
league. It's that simple. Get so

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it's almost encouraging that it's not necessarily
a talent thing or somebody they're missing.

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It's just play faster, not necessarily
in transition. Just play faster within the

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half court, get to the pick
and roll faster. That shouldn't be that

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difficult. And it's contributing to this
at this point, Like does this team

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feel that they've they've seen enough,
they've they have done enough that they can

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kind of like rest a little bit
for lack of a better term, Like

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I I'm just unclear because you know, like I said, we've been saying

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the same things. Tyleru has certainly
been saying the same things. You know,

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there's not much more he can do. Uh, you know, Yeah,

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we have Kawhi giving you know,
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Like, I'm just not sure this
like lethargy is really stemming from I

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don't know if it's sort of an
in game and in game rest thing where

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like, you know, there's some
tentative miss with being in indulgence of the

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season and trying to maybe keep a
little in the tank. For UH to

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finish out the year and head into
the playoffs. But it's not a conference

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where you can afford to rest,
and certainly not for this Clippers team,

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with how up and down they've been
and how I mean, you don't want

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to fall lower than four. I
feel like at this point the ceiling for

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anything above that feels pretty much closed. But you don't want to fall any

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further. I think they'll stick it
four. Yeah, I'm not worried about

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them. They're three and a half
games up on the pills. Look,

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I think they're gonna be at four. But I do I agree that it

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feels like we're in the switch flip
territory. We're in the switches down now,

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and then they're gonna flip it up
when they want to really start getting

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don't. I don't know, but
I see what you're saying with that.

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While four does seem the most likely
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it's becoming more and more concerning to
me because the Nuggets are coming for

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that one seed. Guys. Now, with Kat out for the Minnesota Timberwolves,

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the Nuggets have lost one game post
All Star Break. They gave it

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up in a big comeback by the
Phoenix Suns as they probably were looking ahead

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to that Boston game that they ended
up winning last night, and they're humming

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now like they have locked in this
Nuggets team. They know they have three

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games left against Minnesota. They are
a game back of them, Minnesota's gonna

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be without Cat, and they're only
a half game back of the OKC Thunder.

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I think there's a real good chance
the Denver Nuggets end up with the

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one seed, which means you do
not want to be four, because then

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you'll get them in the second round. That is very true. Clips are

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two games out of the three seeds, so not inconceivable that they could get

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the three seed. But you know
what, that would have really helped getting

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the three seed. Beat the Bulls
at one pm on Saturday. How have

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we felt about Bones as the backup
point guard. He got some time with

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Paul George out there. We did
see him and Norm a little bit in

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that game against the Rockets, and
Bones of the fourth quarter lineup was kind

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of rough, but they were trying
to buy PG a little bit more time.

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I gotta hope those are on point. Tyler with the serious rotations would

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be nice to see uh on Saturday. But what are we grade in Bones

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so far as it's still kind of
an incomplete It's such a big role to

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hop into with so much time off, But I want it to be a

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little better, don't know, I
like incomplete and con it's just I mean,

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he's a plus contributor in the four
games since Russ went down. Oh

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he's been. Sorry, he's been
a plus contributor in two of the four

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games. Uh, he is.
He was a slight negative in the win

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over Houston and the game at Milwaukee. Both of those make sense though contextually

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with the Clippers. Yeah, going
down early and then you know, choking

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up a lot of points. So
you know, that's not that that that

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wild. It's kind of net neutral. Yeah. And that lineup again to

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start the fourth quarter, what was
it? Bones Harden Howell man was They

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didn't have PG out there, they
didn't have Kawhi Leonard. It was tough

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defensively, that's just okay. It
was Bones, plumb hardened a mere man.

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That was the starting line. The
Bones had a couple of really nice

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downhill attacks in the layup, though, turning the corner on his defender and

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showing off the speed and athleticism and
things were just not used to seeing at

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times with this Clippers team because they're
older. It was kind of it was

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very refreshing to see. I thought. I thought for the most part,

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he's I would say he's been solid, Like he has not been a glaring

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negative or as much as yeah,
they could have used Russ at times against

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the Rockets, at times against the
Milwaukee Bucks. Bones hasn't stood out in

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a bad way. He hasn't gotten
huge minutes yet. Until the Rockets game,

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they were completely staggering him and James
Harden. When James was on,

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he was off vice versa. So
I'm okay with it. I think bringing

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him along slowly like this makes a
lot of sense because he was out of

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the lineup in rotation for just so
yeah, physically, he's got to get

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back. We know he's young,
but it's still it's different when you're playing

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in an actual game. Lot Murray
brought up a thing about Bones as interesting

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too, is kind of he's got
a little bit of the catch and shoot

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hesitation that James Harden had when he
first got to the Clippers. His quote

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was getting both actually shoot it and
not hesitate or need to bounce into it

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has been a thing going back to
Hawaii for training camp, But as we

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all learned a month later, the
catch and shoot comfort is a relatable struggle

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for some guys because bones and PG
together can be a fun thing. That

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there's something a little bit there.
That was a thread from Elik Clipper's film

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on Twitter, But there's something there. Real quick? Are we getting the

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lick back versus the Bucks? Are
we going to beat this Bucks team on

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twenty three hours in between time with
daylight savings? You know they're going to

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be partying for daylight savings? Isn't
daily savings? Doesn't it happen at the

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night on Sunday? I don't know. People are buating Monday, so it

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technically Monday morning. Yeah. Wait, the time doesn't change, does it?

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No, it changes Sunday morning at
three am. It happened. It

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happens at like two am or three
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morning. Here, we don't need
it anymore? Oh I disagree? You

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love it? Yeah this schedule?
Oh no, I thought you meant daylight

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savings. Oh I did mean daylight
savings. I don't like losing an hour

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or whatever, but I like it
being lighter out later. Also, you

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know who doesn't do daylight savings or
daylight spendings Arizona? You want to be

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more? Do you want to have
more policies like Arizona? I really do

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not, Adam, are they getting
the look back? First? The Bucks

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probably gonna be a healthier Bucks team
this time. Yeah, Johannis is likely

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to play now. The Bucks just
got blown out great thirty five Golden State

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Oarders, but they're taking on the
Lakers tonight at the time of this recording,

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so they're looking to get there like
that, and they're no Lebron in

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that game. That's confirmed. See, I'm telling the Lakers now are just

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like whatever we're we can't get above
ninth, so we might as well just

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prioritize health and just be as healthy
as possible for the play and which is

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smart because they're not going. Yeah, they're not getting out of that.

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But I I hope the Lakers still
challenge them tonight and make them earn it.

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I guess I want them to lose
in the end. As always,

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I don't care if they're playing Denver. I don't care if they're playing okay

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See or Minnesota. I can't help
myself. I can't root for the Lakers,

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even when it would benefit the Clippers
for them to win. So it

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it's kind of dependent on what happens
with the Clippers against Chicago and how difficult

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that game is, and it could
be very difficult. And it's also dependent

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on what the Bucks do against the
Lakers. But they're going to be waiting

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for the Clippers, so that's obviously
no good. I think they got a

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good chance of winning that game on
Sunday. Like I said, I think

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it's what's the weekend fair? That's
a diplomatic way to say that. Who

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is No, I do not think
they went on Sunday. I'm just gonna

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go out. I hope they do. That's a tough game. I wish

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I wish it was flipped. Who
is our Kawhi Leonard Player of the game

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picks for both games? One player
for both games, who's gonna have a

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who's gonna have the best brunch weekend
of their life? And daylight savings time.

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Mmm. We haven't talked about any
of the backup centers, but they

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might be incredible. They're going to
be incredibly important this weekend. If he's

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plumb at a hell of a second
half against third quarter that was major.

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Oh oh oh, we got the
injury report. Kawhi entered, Paul George

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and James Harden are all questionable for
the game against Chicago. Kawhi with left

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growing soreness, Paul George with left
growing soreness. James Harden with a left

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shoulder strain. If these guys some
crystals, folks, all the left side,

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what's going on? What side is
your walling on? Can I forget?

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What side do you see you on? That doesn't feel good? Right?

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Do we have to start over now? We don't have to the season?

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No? I mean, well,
I'm going highway. Yeah, that's

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that's a big bones game. Now
mere coffee is my pick? What the

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fuck do we do? If all
three of those guys are out, Kobe

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Brown tied chances all three? That
makes you feel better? Does that make

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you feel better about Sunday? Chuck? Maybe? Because they'll play someday.

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Sit them all, Get the young
guys, some run against the Bulls.

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We'll lose by thirty five. We'll
beat the Bucks. It feels like they're

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looking at Sunday. They're looking towards
Sunday a little bit. Yeah. Maybe,

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we certainly hope so, but it
feels like they are. Maybe Big

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Zoo Okay, Big Zoo wasn't on
right, Hey, Big Zoo not on

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there. Maybe the two days of
rest, big Zoo is back into form.

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He can go heavy minutes and battle
against the bigs from the Chicago Bulls

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tomorrow. All right, that's fair. I'm gonna go. Uh PJ.

404
00:29:15,359 --> 00:29:18,279
Tucker, He's probably gonna get some
run in these matches if these guys are

405
00:29:18,279 --> 00:29:22,160
out. Is gonna be is your
Kawhi Leonard player of the game. Yeah,

406
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:27,519
he's gonna He's gonna average point seventy
five and two and we're gonna need

407
00:29:27,559 --> 00:29:36,559
it. Uh No, I'm gonna
go. Uh it's Norm. Norm's gonna

408
00:29:36,599 --> 00:29:40,160
go. Norms. Why doesn't Norm
get arrest? This is bullshit, that's

409
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:45,240
true. Norm has a giant scar
on his forehead after being elbowed harder than

410
00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:48,839
anyone's been. Oh, this is
something I brought up and I wanted you

411
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,319
guys take before we get in the
Clippers fan questions. In your memory,

412
00:29:52,359 --> 00:29:56,880
has there ever been a season where
the Clippers as a team have collectively bled

413
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:03,200
this much? Oh? Wow?
Oh that there will be blood. There's

414
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,480
a lot of blood. I mean
Norm was leaking jersey coming back. I

415
00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:12,200
think Terence took a cut, Like, didn't he get elbowed in the nose

416
00:30:12,279 --> 00:30:18,200
last game? He did? I
think we got a break like it's pretty

417
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,599
close other than on Austin Rivers Old
faithful season. Yeah, it's tough.

418
00:30:22,279 --> 00:30:26,440
All right. Well, let's answer
some Clippers questions after this break. Now

419
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:30,279
we got the news that Kawhi,
Paul George, and James Hardener questionable.

420
00:30:30,519 --> 00:30:41,559
That's a good time. I guess, I don't know. Man, all

421
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,000
right, we'll coming up after these
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422
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,240
Clippers fans questions. If the AD's
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423
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424
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and then Clippers questions coming up in
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425
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and did we just got handed some
very surprising injury news right at the break.

426
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If sometime you're tuning into this mid
episode, you're insane. Thank you,

427
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:14,440
But uh the Clippers will be down, uh j Kawhi, Leonard and

428
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:19,680
Paul George they are all questionable.
Uh yeah, they might be down.

429
00:31:19,759 --> 00:31:26,480
Those guys there, we don't know, maybe all of them. But anyways,

430
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:32,119
Uh, we took some of your
Clipper questions over on over on Twitter

431
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:37,119
dot com. That's at Clippers Pod. Yeah, let's let's get into it.

432
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,599
Daniel Press wants to know what does
a successful March look like? Charles,

433
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:47,079
as the resident march expert, what
good march look like? To you?

434
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,079
Good process is what I want to
see the most of as the Clippers

435
00:31:51,119 --> 00:31:52,759
close out March. That kind of
goes back to what you were saying against

436
00:31:52,759 --> 00:32:00,440
the Bulls. Is that what you're
saying? Yeah? Maybe now, record

437
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:07,440
wise, anything over ten and I'm
pretty astatic that's a good seventeen game month.

438
00:32:07,039 --> 00:32:13,759
Three games over five hundred essentially sure, anything over ten or ten or

439
00:32:13,799 --> 00:32:17,079
more I'm okay with. But the
process is what I want to see.

440
00:32:17,079 --> 00:32:21,119
We have not seen good process in
a minute from the Clippers. And if

441
00:32:21,119 --> 00:32:24,920
they can stack that for the back
two weeks or whatever, A, they'll

442
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:29,920
get wins because it's very rare that
they would lose with good process, and

443
00:32:30,079 --> 00:32:32,680
b will feel a lot better going
into April where they do get a little

444
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:37,240
bit of time to rest. But
I just want to see good process.

445
00:32:37,279 --> 00:32:40,559
I want to see Paul George back
to more consistent. See when it comes

446
00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:45,160
to shooting, I'm not worried about
Kyle Leonards three point percentage that's going to

447
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:50,640
come back up. Hope Bones can
get more comfortable in his role because that's

448
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:54,039
going to be maybe an issue in
the playoffs as well. Right like Russ,

449
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,160
the reports are very optimistic right now, it feels like, but we're

450
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,039
not going to know for a while. Yeah. Ten plus wins and good

451
00:33:02,079 --> 00:33:08,319
process the last two weeks, That
to me is a successful March diplomatic answer

452
00:33:08,759 --> 00:33:14,079
week week? What do you want
me to say? Play sign? You

453
00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:15,720
know what they should want to sign? Kai Jones? That's what you wanted

454
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:21,519
me to say. You wanted me
to join the Kai Jones conspiracy crew?

455
00:33:22,559 --> 00:33:24,799
Lo, I mean we got a
we got a question coming out later about

456
00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:29,240
one of your favorite quippers, Jason
Preston. Yeah, who maybe needs to

457
00:33:29,279 --> 00:33:31,440
be tossed in the next Do you
think he'll get run in this bulls game?

458
00:33:32,119 --> 00:33:35,839
Anyways? Adam, where are you
at on March? What do you

459
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,640
want to see? What are you
hoping for? Give us your bold record?

460
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:45,680
I mean I picked eleven and six, but I think twelve and five

461
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:50,839
are above would be successful because I
gauge it by staying in the I gauge

462
00:33:50,839 --> 00:33:53,039
you by staying in the hunt for
a top three seed, and I think

463
00:33:53,079 --> 00:33:58,400
twelve and five are better will do
that for this team, because while Denver's

464
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:02,759
rising Soda without Karl Anthony, Towns
could fall back a little bit, Denver

465
00:34:02,839 --> 00:34:07,160
has the easiest schedule of the top
four remaining. It doesn't see, but

466
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,039
I thought, okay, see,
he had one of the easiest schedules.

467
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:16,199
Uh, well, it's not as
easy as Denver's basically top of the top

468
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:21,639
three teams remaining. Okase, he's
at fifteen, Denver's at twenty two.

469
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,920
Minnesota is at twelve. All of
a sudden, they got because of those

470
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:30,280
three games left against Denver, they
got two against the Calves, two against

471
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,000
the Suns, two against the Lakers, one against the Clippers. Obviously,

472
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:37,039
they still got a game against Golden
State Warriors. There is a chance that

473
00:34:37,079 --> 00:34:42,199
the t Wolves could backslide here,
and that's who the Clippers could maybe jump

474
00:34:42,599 --> 00:34:46,440
to get the three spot. I
don't know, could be interesting unless Ant

475
00:34:46,559 --> 00:34:52,000
is blocking the living s out of
everyone to win games in the most dramatic

476
00:34:52,039 --> 00:34:58,000
fashion possible. He's great. Uh
so, yeah, I think twelve and

477
00:34:58,159 --> 00:35:02,239
five or better would be very successful. But I picked eleven and six.

478
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,360
I'm kind of regretting what they're three
and one so far? Uh yeah,

479
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:14,800
I think so yeah, will what's
your successful? Will my week successful?

480
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:29,880
You just let's see thirteen and four. Damn, I mean that would be

481
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,239
a very successful march. This is, this is, this would be like

482
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,599
lights out. They've achieved every single
expectation for me. I don't you know.

483
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:44,280
It's more of a hope, I
guess than a prediction. That's I

484
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,119
mean hope verse prediction. That's a
that's an incredible run in this month.

485
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:51,840
Uh yeah, My prediction is probably
closer to when you said chuggling ten,

486
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:57,320
seven, eight, something like that. Not everyone has as rose colored glasses

487
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,760
as you, you know, not
everyone's as and everyone can as positive.

488
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,760
Not everyone can believe in the Clippers
as much as you do. Just looks

489
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:10,679
like more of a violent Yeah,
all right. Passing Paisa, though assuming

490
00:36:10,679 --> 00:36:15,880
an Italian person who's very good at
distributing the basketball said, do you guys

491
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,960
think that the clips tendency to start
slow is sustainable in a playoff context?

492
00:36:20,159 --> 00:36:22,159
I understand that the boys are long
in the tooth, but I don't think

493
00:36:22,159 --> 00:36:30,360
we can rely on comeback. Wonderfully
worded question, Thank you. I don't

494
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:31,880
want them to be slow starting in
the No, it's not sustainable. I

495
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:36,920
don't think if I don't want them
to be down double digits in the first

496
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,480
quarter of every playoff game. You
know, we talked about flipping switch,

497
00:36:39,519 --> 00:36:43,119
and as much as I like,
I hate the idea of that, and

498
00:36:43,159 --> 00:36:46,320
it's kind of become like a cliche
thing. I do expect the play to

499
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:52,360
look somewhat different, but you know, we might see in a series like

500
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:57,119
Game one or two, sort of
those slow starts I think between ty Lu

501
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,079
making some adjustments to the lineup and
just guys, you know, knowing at

502
00:37:01,079 --> 00:37:05,800
that point, you know, you're
not really seeing a whole lot new from

503
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,280
your opponent. It just kind of
comes down to the possession battle. I

504
00:37:08,559 --> 00:37:13,039
would expect things to look a lot
differently, but you know, let's not

505
00:37:13,119 --> 00:37:17,719
forget this team's this team's best playoff
run so far came when they went down

506
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:25,920
two in every single series, So
you know, it's it's not unprecedented that

507
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:29,519
they would drop a game or two
due to this kind of style. But

508
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:34,280
I don't think it would be a
consistent through a seven game series if it's

509
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:43,599
one year hoping to put away.
So I'm not so concerned about them starting

510
00:37:43,639 --> 00:37:50,440
slow in the playoffs because earlier today
I had this thought regarding this issue because

511
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,400
since February first, they're twenty second
in net rating in first quarters and Clippers

512
00:37:53,440 --> 00:38:00,320
it's been bad. But remember last
season they were even worse in first quarters

513
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:06,119
throughout the entirety of the year,
where the Clippers actually started off much better

514
00:38:06,159 --> 00:38:10,559
in that area. This season through
the first couple of months, and then

515
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:15,719
Game one hit against Phoenix and we
all were like, oh, they did

516
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:21,039
flip a switch. They look completely
different. They are energized, they are

517
00:38:21,079 --> 00:38:24,400
playing hard every single possession. Now
I think the same thing can happen.

518
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,519
I think this is just an older
team that is going through the motions at

519
00:38:29,559 --> 00:38:35,480
times in the regular season because it's
long and daunting and unforgiving, especially in

520
00:38:35,559 --> 00:38:37,440
March. That's a good Yeah,
they're an older team. Long in the

521
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:45,440
tooth, is not wrong. Like, they look completely different against Phoenix from

522
00:38:45,519 --> 00:38:50,400
possession to possession. From the opening
tip. Remember Russell Westbrook was dog and

523
00:38:50,519 --> 00:38:53,239
KD he had like a stealer block
on him. Right away. They were

524
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:59,559
completely engaged and it trickles down from
Kawhi, who is the ultimate person.

525
00:38:59,599 --> 00:39:05,159
We try to be able to use
this perhaps risky strategy because we've seen him

526
00:39:05,159 --> 00:39:12,920
do it and do it very well. Alex Webb was the Zoo benching precautionary

527
00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:16,960
or will this ultimately lead to a
change at center in the starting what?

528
00:39:20,159 --> 00:39:22,440
Adam, why don't you go ahead
and take this one, big fella,

529
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:32,239
I've reached oblivion. I don't know
where I'm at right now. I can't.

530
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:37,800
I can't take any more of this
talk. We heard it last season

531
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,400
when they first brought in plumb by
the anti Zoo people. Oh, they'd

532
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:45,159
be better with going with Mason Plumbley. Actually, look, he has the

533
00:39:45,199 --> 00:39:50,639
reverse dunks. For the love of
Pete Guys, Aviza Zoo Bots is one

534
00:39:50,679 --> 00:39:53,920
of the top five rimp protectors in
the league. Can we stop with this

535
00:39:54,119 --> 00:40:00,079
nonsense? Do I have to pull
the off numbers defensively from this Clippers team

536
00:40:00,559 --> 00:40:05,559
when it Viata zubats is on the
floor and what he means to them defensively.

537
00:40:05,639 --> 00:40:07,559
It's been like this for years.
We have to stop. I know

538
00:40:07,639 --> 00:40:14,000
he fumbles the basketball here and there. That stands out to you much more

539
00:40:14,199 --> 00:40:16,800
than all the times that guys shy
away of going to the basket because of

540
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:23,360
Vitza Zubats is there apparently so this
season. On the court, they're a

541
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:27,960
one to ten defense. Off the
court, they're a one point fifteen.

542
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:34,199
It's been more dramatic than that at
times, though they obviously recently have had

543
00:40:34,199 --> 00:40:37,639
some slippage on that and collectively as
a team, but they're still over five

544
00:40:37,679 --> 00:40:43,360
points better per one hundred possessions defensively
with the Viatza Zubots on the floor,

545
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:47,679
I can't do it anymore. I
love Big Plumb. You know this.

546
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:53,679
He and Daniel Tice are not close
to the interior defenders that Iviza Zubats has

547
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:57,920
been. In fact, he's one
of the best in the league. When

548
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:04,360
will it be acknowledged? Well,
on this pod, we've certainly never given

549
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:10,639
Zoo any praise. Here is that
Carl's story about having a Zoo jersey but

550
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:14,800
not wanting to frame it because it's
not signed, so he would just have

551
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:19,519
an unsigned frame Zoo jersey. It's
very funny. No. I saw someone

552
00:41:19,559 --> 00:41:22,960
on Twitter saying that maybe the Clippers, if they played the Timberwolves in the

553
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:27,920
playoffs, should start Daniel Tice,
which while I do agree that Daniel Tye

554
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,440
has a place against the Minnesota Timberwolves. It's not at the very beginning of

555
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:37,239
the game, you starting center like, Yeah, Zoo was the starting center.

556
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:42,679
He's been the starting center like for
the entirety of his tenure. It's

557
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,960
for a reason. I mean,
of course, there have been questions about

558
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:50,599
his ability to close out games.
You know, that's been the biggest development

559
00:41:50,639 --> 00:41:53,760
we've had this season, is the
trust and the ability for him to be

560
00:41:54,119 --> 00:42:00,320
a big enough offensive threat to be
in those positions late in games. We

561
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:04,719
already know what he can do defensively
and the way he's been able to improve.

562
00:42:05,559 --> 00:42:07,639
So, like I said, I
mean, this is a bit.

563
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:12,079
This is like in all caps,
what was the question market an exclamation point?

564
00:42:12,119 --> 00:42:15,320
I just don't I'm sorry, I
just don't see it at all caps.

565
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:22,400
What I like that. I'm going
catatonic. I can't handle anymore.

566
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:29,239
All I see is big Zoo being
their best protector of the rim, and

567
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,480
that's what you need, guys.
He's a defensive stalwart in that area and

568
00:42:32,519 --> 00:42:36,840
it has been his entire time with
the Clippers. I posted this stuff and

569
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,559
follow out of me before. What
what do you want not to mention his

570
00:42:40,639 --> 00:42:45,360
pick and roll prowess when he and
James hardwore humming and they had it going

571
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:53,960
when the Clippers were at their best. And I'm sorry, I'm just because

572
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:58,679
the gun out, the gun feels
like it's maybe coming out. No,

573
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,599
this is like the weapon where the
gun is like, you got the gun

574
00:43:01,599 --> 00:43:07,480
in his mouth. Well, what's
the next question, Let's get off the

575
00:43:07,559 --> 00:43:08,400
zoo. Well, when you were
here, I had to get I had

576
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,559
to bring at him out of the
depths of his bere At one point,

577
00:43:10,599 --> 00:43:15,920
he was really digging himself a hole. Right, I love Jael Tye's effort.

578
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,119
Have you also seen how many times
he gets dunked on? My god,

579
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,880
he can't protect the rim like I
beats a Zoo boss. He's way

580
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,119
undersized, all right, clips er
Die says during the Grammy road trip,

581
00:43:25,159 --> 00:43:30,079
this team looked like probably the best
Clipper team ever. What do you feel

582
00:43:30,119 --> 00:43:32,719
is the reason for decline between how
the team had played during the road trip

583
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:37,400
and post All Star break. Do
you feel like we can get back to

584
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:43,519
that Grammy road Trip form Grammy Road
Trip? Uh, yeah, I think

585
00:43:43,559 --> 00:43:46,079
they can. I think that coincided
with Zoo being out for a little bit

586
00:43:46,199 --> 00:43:50,960
and with Paul George having an injury
too, like it can come back.

587
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,519
We talked about just a second ago
kind of Zoo starting in that trust being

588
00:43:55,559 --> 00:43:59,599
there. It feels like he's gonna
have to rebuild some more of that trust

589
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:01,639
than maybe I want him to have
to rebuild, if that makes sense.

590
00:44:01,679 --> 00:44:06,360
The Zoo, the leash on Zoo
is shorter than any other player when it

591
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,320
comes to what's happening on the court, and think really good things are happening.

592
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:13,880
When he was closing for the Clippers, so I think I was losing

593
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,760
his damn mind. So I think
when Zoo is able, when Tylu is

594
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,280
fine with whatever Zoo is doing to
the point that he's closing again, we'll

595
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:28,760
see the Clippers closer to that point. But this kind of a lot of

596
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,639
this does kind of hinge on bones
a little bit and how he's starting to

597
00:44:31,639 --> 00:44:36,480
look because the Clippers were all every
single person on the Clippers was playing phenomenal

598
00:44:37,039 --> 00:44:39,960
during that stretch. So I think
they can get back there. But I

599
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:44,039
think it's been Tiki Taki injuries and
guys in and out of the rotation kind

600
00:44:44,039 --> 00:44:47,480
of story of the Clips Clips issues. Yeah, I'm curious to see,

601
00:44:47,519 --> 00:44:52,559
like whether it comes this month or
whether it's you know, early next month

602
00:44:52,639 --> 00:44:58,639
leading into the playoffs. I expect
them to have another dominant run like that.

603
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,599
I expect them tune it up and
like really string together some wins in

604
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:07,199
a in a way like it's they're
not gonna I just don't see them doing

605
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:12,280
this sort of back and forth play
to finish out the rest of the season,

606
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,800
like you know, taking tagging injuries
and tiredness and lethargy or whatever.

607
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:21,719
Be Dan. I think that we'll
definitely see one of those. It's just

608
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,719
a it's just a question of when. And I guess, you know,

609
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:29,159
it does beg the question where the
Clippers peaking too soon? And I still

610
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:34,079
think no, I don't think that
they reach their pinnacle yet. Uh.

611
00:45:34,119 --> 00:45:37,480
And while we're in a bit of
a downswing, it it feels like,

612
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:43,039
you know, there is the potential
to turn that around. So I think

613
00:45:43,039 --> 00:45:45,639
we're gonna have another dominant stretch like
that. I'm just not sure it's gonna

614
00:45:45,639 --> 00:45:52,079
be this hoalacious month or to start
out April. Second time you said lethargy,

615
00:45:53,119 --> 00:45:58,320
Well, I mean that's just a
good word. Adam. Are you

616
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,320
out at this? Are you out
of the Catatonics. Can you smell and

617
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:09,159
see again? I'm spiraling. I
just like how there's this thinking that you

618
00:46:09,199 --> 00:46:14,519
can pick and choose sometimes when you
peak. It's almost like in NFL,

619
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,159
oh score too early, man,
you guys are idiots, like you could

620
00:46:17,199 --> 00:46:21,519
just pick and choose when you want
to score sometimes or when you want to

621
00:46:21,519 --> 00:46:25,280
peak. In this case in the
NBA, the Clippers definitely got up emotionally

622
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:29,440
for that road trip. They wanted
to go six and one. They did

623
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:31,840
go six and one. They proved
something to themselves. I think the dog

624
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:37,320
days have hit since then. I
think there was mental fatigue coming off of

625
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,360
that. I think not having a
beach Zubots close to being the same guy

626
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:46,400
is having an effect on this team
right now. They need him to be

627
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:52,840
in the place he was back in
December, and it's just natural to have

628
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:57,039
a little bit of a letdown.
Now. Last twelve games post Grammy road

629
00:46:57,079 --> 00:47:02,639
trip, they are twentieth off defensively
and they are nineteenth defensively. But if

630
00:47:02,639 --> 00:47:09,239
you're looking for positives over the last
five, they're seventh offensively and they're sixteenth

631
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:15,440
defensively. They're trending upwards. They're
trending back to where they were. I

632
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:21,639
think they's still that team. I'm
not overly concerned about it right now because

633
00:47:21,639 --> 00:47:25,519
we've seen while it's been a weird
week and a half where for their last

634
00:47:25,559 --> 00:47:30,159
five games either had them blowing a
double digit lead or them coming back from

635
00:47:30,159 --> 00:47:35,000
a double digit lead. I still
think it's all there with this team.

636
00:47:35,079 --> 00:47:37,960
I like that it's all there.
It is there. They know exactly what

637
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:44,039
they gotta do. Venice s two
K asks what are your thoughts on Jason

638
00:47:44,079 --> 00:47:47,840
Preston Loki averaging a triple double in
the G League? Jock your favorite player?

639
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:51,880
You should answer this one. I
think it's great for Jason Preston.

640
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:57,559
I don't care about the G League. I've seen him in NBA games.

641
00:47:59,599 --> 00:48:05,039
Yeah him, he looks like he's
gotten way more like Jordan Miller. He's

642
00:48:05,119 --> 00:48:07,519
killing it in the G League.
Jordan in the G League he is,

643
00:48:08,119 --> 00:48:15,159
so should he be starting for the
Clippers now? Mister Jason Preston also looks

644
00:48:15,199 --> 00:48:19,280
like he's just grown as a human
being, Like size wise, he was

645
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,920
so small and had the foot is
you know, like, I'm happy it's

646
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:30,679
great. I hope he makes it
onto the squad and gets significant minutes in

647
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:32,480
the NBA level. I still think
there's something there with him. It's just

648
00:48:32,679 --> 00:48:36,519
wasn't gonna happen on this Clippers team, obviously, especially once you bring in

649
00:48:36,559 --> 00:48:40,719
James Harden commercials for him. I
hope he's in more commercials, be cool.

650
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:45,519
I don't know. All right,
A couple more questions here, Little

651
00:48:45,639 --> 00:48:49,000
Son says, if he can get
a shot back to his career average,

652
00:48:49,039 --> 00:48:52,840
is there any chance of Bones sticks
in the rotation when he puts someone else.

653
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,039
We're just gonna say Russ, it's
fully healthy. He's looked so under

654
00:48:55,039 --> 00:49:00,119
control, and that's been conspicuously missing
from the non Harden. It's basically,

655
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:05,760
if Russ comes back, his Bone's
still going to have time in this rotation.

656
00:49:07,519 --> 00:49:10,079
I think that depends on the bos, but I mean there's certainly the

657
00:49:10,119 --> 00:49:15,079
potential there. I think that,
you know, I everyone on this podcast,

658
00:49:15,119 --> 00:49:20,320
and you know a sub section of
Clippers fandom is really in on Bones

659
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:25,000
and sees a lot of the potential
there. You know it going from not

660
00:49:25,199 --> 00:49:30,400
playing to you know, fifteen plus
minutes is essentially what he'll average while Russ

661
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:36,840
is out and less things are going
terribly wrong, not Saturday. Maybe it

662
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:38,519
is a tough it is you know, that's a bit of a tough road

663
00:49:38,559 --> 00:49:42,599
to hope from not from not playing
at all. So it's I think it's

664
00:49:42,679 --> 00:49:47,440
natural that it hasn't looked super like
I guess he is an individual scorer,

665
00:49:47,519 --> 00:49:52,559
hasn't looked super smooth, you know, defensively never really been his thing.

666
00:49:52,679 --> 00:49:57,719
He has the physical tools, though, and I think even with more time

667
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,679
and communication on the floor, that's
one of those things it can be improved.

668
00:50:00,679 --> 00:50:04,119
That's one of those things that can
keep you in tay Lou's rotation.

669
00:50:05,119 --> 00:50:07,760
Yeah, it's it's he has the
keys right now. I mean, like

670
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:14,119
he really has an opportunity here,
you know, for for better or for

671
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:20,239
worse, to carve out I mean
more than to demand a spot in this

672
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,719
rotation. So I'm I'm really eager
to see what he's able to do with

673
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:28,760
it through this month. That's exactly
it. And I think it could come

674
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:32,800
down to if his three point shot
turns around. If he finds that,

675
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,760
then coach lu can say, oh, there's utility with him as a playmaker,

676
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:42,000
as a ball handler and spreading the
floor from the outside, which is

677
00:50:42,079 --> 00:50:45,559
obviously very different than what Russ breaks. That's what I think could end up

678
00:50:45,559 --> 00:50:49,519
getting him minutes. Even when Russ
comes back. Yeah, there's gonna be

679
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,800
yet another guard crunch uh and more
tools for we need more shooters in the

680
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:58,840
playoffs. You look at the rotation
and the three point shooters. It's a

681
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:07,000
little tough after like norm and that's
yeah. Jonathan Ang asks, given Paul

682
00:51:07,079 --> 00:51:10,079
George's recent performance being very inconsistent,
what do you think his contract value is

683
00:51:10,119 --> 00:51:15,719
worth? He is definitely not a
max contract player because of his inconsistencies.

684
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:19,800
I tweeted this out during the first
part of that Rockets game. Will and

685
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:25,320
I had spirited discussion about it.
Well, I think less than Kawhi is

686
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:30,440
what I think. Why took what
three for one fifty four? Three for

687
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:35,280
three for one nine point eight,
So let's call it three for one fifty.

688
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:43,159
I think he's top top, top
of the ceiling. Three for one

689
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:47,840
fifty. It's really tough. It's
just really tough because we don't have the

690
00:51:49,199 --> 00:51:52,440
assets to make a trade. But
I want to timestamp that also, wait,

691
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:54,400
sorry, so I don't get completely
frozen. Takes as of Friday,

692
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:58,239
March eight, five, forty one
PM, three for one hundred and fifty

693
00:51:58,559 --> 00:52:05,079
dollars. That's yeah, fifty bucks
a year. Yeah, and the free

694
00:52:05,119 --> 00:52:08,960
agent class isn't particularly good, so
he does have a little bit of leverage

695
00:52:09,039 --> 00:52:14,880
in that department. I think,
though, if he's looking for much more

696
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:19,840
than three for one point fifty,
that to me would be a let's talk

697
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:23,000
in the off season conversation. I
think if I'm if I'm the front office,

698
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:27,400
because I could see maybe a little
bit more, like I could see

699
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:30,519
maybe more money on a one in
one or something like that, but like

700
00:52:30,559 --> 00:52:37,559
a like a commitment of more year, like max years, max money.

701
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:43,960
I don't know that I've seen enough. And like it's hard too, because

702
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:47,039
it is a value proposition, like
Kawhi has already kind of set the market

703
00:52:47,119 --> 00:52:52,039
value, and it's gonna be really
difficult to argue for much more than that,

704
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,079
especially you know, when we have
to keep I mean, when we're

705
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:59,880
you know, likely the intention is
to keep James Harden, who's gonna need

706
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:02,119
to be taking care of as well. That's a lot to be taken care

707
00:53:02,159 --> 00:53:05,719
of, given what happened and fil
I mean, and and you know,

708
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:07,119
I mean, like, look,
it's not the Clipper's fall, it's it's

709
00:53:07,119 --> 00:53:09,639
nobody's fault. But the guy's left
a lot of money on the table he's

710
00:53:09,639 --> 00:53:14,920
gonna be you know, he he's
not gonna take I don't I don't foresee

711
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:20,199
him taking a big discount unless this
team wins a championship. But for Paul

712
00:53:20,199 --> 00:53:23,079
George, like, yeah, if
if three for one point fifty, maybe

713
00:53:23,079 --> 00:53:28,239
three for one sixty isn't getting it
done? That to me, if I'm

714
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,559
the front office, I'm like,
Okay, well, you know we're interested.

715
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:34,199
I think we should touch base again
in the office. Circle let's circle

716
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:45,400
back, I mean less circle back. Yeah, h adam uh. Obviously

717
00:53:45,679 --> 00:53:50,079
Kahi set the market. He didn't
get the max. He didn't want the

718
00:53:50,119 --> 00:53:52,280
mask, apparently because I'm sure he
could have got it, but he took

719
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,960
less and try to keep the team
together. So I feel like that should

720
00:53:55,960 --> 00:54:00,519
be what everybody's trying to do.
Right. You want to win, you're

721
00:54:00,559 --> 00:54:02,679
back home, you get the perks
of all that. You grew up a

722
00:54:02,679 --> 00:54:07,000
Clippers fan. I would like to
point out though, speaking of turning things

723
00:54:07,039 --> 00:54:12,280
around, Paul George in three of
the last four games now is getting twenty

724
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:15,719
four points on fifty one percent shooting. Over his last six games, he's

725
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:21,280
shooting like forty three percent. Three
people are like missing that parh lately.

726
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,719
Yeah, it's just look at the
Rockets game. He started one for six,

727
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:28,880
he had two points in the first
half, he goes six for his

728
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,519
next nine and has nineteen in the
second half, include two huge three pointers

729
00:54:32,559 --> 00:54:37,199
in the fourth. And that's what
he's coming out in consistencies, dude,

730
00:54:37,199 --> 00:54:39,960
Like that's what people fans are especially
so frustrated. But it's like he's coming

731
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:45,199
out of it. He was.
He's a little banged up, so and

732
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:45,960
I think, you know, like
at the end of the day, like

733
00:54:46,119 --> 00:54:49,760
we take the ups and downs,
Adam. I like that you point point

734
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,159
out that he is back on the
swing because I do feel like he draws

735
00:54:52,159 --> 00:54:54,880
a lot of heat from Clippers fans. But like, if you're talking about,

736
00:54:55,039 --> 00:55:00,920
like how many Killer playoff series does
Paul George have to as a Clipper,

737
00:55:00,679 --> 00:55:05,159
I think you'd be hard pressed for
me to agree to more than one.

738
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:13,880
And he's played in five total.
Just not not a lot of body

739
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,440
of work. He was good against
Dallas in that first round too. No,

740
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:20,760
but he had that all games I
had like thirty and we lost.

741
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:28,039
Why was unrealist? Why was it
unreal? I'm just saying overall, like

742
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:31,000
he had a good series, like
the first time round against Dallas, he

743
00:55:31,039 --> 00:55:37,000
had a solid series. Two it
was the last clos four games against the

744
00:55:37,039 --> 00:55:42,239
Nuggets were good. There were some
good there were a lot of good games

745
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:46,280
in there. There were I'd say
he's had two or three. You because

746
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:51,440
like the the Utah series, you
got a Utah series for sure. The

747
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:52,840
Phoenix series without Kawhi, you got
to give him, I don't think so.

748
00:55:54,920 --> 00:56:00,679
You don't think he didn't miss that. That's series goes that series,

749
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:07,039
it gets extended by at least another
game. I mean he extended it in

750
00:56:07,119 --> 00:56:12,679
game five in Phoenix to get it
to a six game Like, I think

751
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:15,960
the overall that was a good series
without Kawhi, especially when you consider the

752
00:56:16,039 --> 00:56:20,519
rebounding he was doing and everything else. Okay, i'll go I'll go as

753
00:56:20,599 --> 00:56:27,079
high as two point five. So
yeah, the three for one, that's

754
00:56:27,119 --> 00:56:32,719
how we should have go. Just
like that's not yeah, there that's the

755
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:37,519
KA I think right, Like it's
he's the one who's saying, what I

756
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:42,719
want to get as much as you
can get, as much, should want

757
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:45,679
as much as possible. Right,
that's not he has to have made more

758
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:50,960
probably on a shoe deal than why
Right, Like the PG it is like

759
00:56:51,039 --> 00:56:55,079
one of the was like one of
the biggest shoes. It was the most

760
00:56:55,079 --> 00:57:00,360
worn shoe a couple pgs ago.
Right, it wasn't like the three the

761
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:05,440
most warm shoe in the NBA by
NBA players. I believe it wasn't it.

762
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:09,360
I think it was pre the crazy
Kobe crunch. But yeah, I

763
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:14,760
don't know. Well, thank you
everyone for the questions he gave me.

764
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:17,960
We got these from Twitter. No
really know how to segue out of that.

765
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,239
Sometimes you just need a little pause. Uh, thank you everyone for

766
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,079
the questions on Twitter. You can
send us questions. Most of the time.

767
00:57:25,199 --> 00:57:29,800
Over at clippers Pod, we're not
answering anything about kai Jones, So

768
00:57:30,039 --> 00:57:36,960
go yell at seventy six reporters tell
Adam about it. On Oh, Carl

769
00:57:37,039 --> 00:57:40,440
says he would love. That's not
even my cross to bear like. I'm

770
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:44,400
more about the zoo. Carl says
he wants to go on the radio at

771
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,679
some point. He's too scared to
call, he said, but he would

772
00:57:46,719 --> 00:57:51,920
love. Does he go on No, he doesn't want to go in as

773
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:58,960
a caller. And now we're having
he wants he wants the celebrity treatment.

774
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:01,960
We can see what I said.
I said I'll hook him up with the

775
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:06,599
hotline and everything, but he starts
talking bad about Zoo. He's gonna be

776
00:58:06,599 --> 00:58:14,079
tru We're gonna have double dips all
weekend for you. We hope your weekend

777
00:58:14,239 --> 00:58:17,000
is relaxing and enjoyable. We hope
you love Daylight Savings as much as Will

778
00:58:17,079 --> 00:58:21,960
Updyke does. But we're gonna have
the double dips. Adam, what are

779
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:25,000
the double dips? Well, that's
when one of these guys comes on with

780
00:58:25,039 --> 00:58:30,039
me post game. When your Clippers
post game call in show, it's called

781
00:58:30,079 --> 00:58:34,119
Clippers Talk, one of them will
come on for a meaty segment. Usually

782
00:58:34,199 --> 00:58:39,159
unless we're up against the clock.
What will was the last participant? Uh,

783
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:47,719
it's a big deal. It's a
fun time. Sometimes I really need

784
00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:57,880
them after losses, especially after I
ludgends with negativity by callers, with negative

785
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:00,039
stuff from callers. You know,
I need a little bit of positivity.

786
00:59:00,159 --> 00:59:04,599
So hopefully we don't have to do
that this weekend. Hopefully they take care

787
00:59:04,639 --> 00:59:08,719
of business twice. Get PJ.
Tucker in there. Average point seventy five,

788
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:13,480
A couple of boards will be good. If the Clips do something crazy

789
00:59:13,559 --> 00:59:16,599
or something weird happens, we will
go live but only if something weird happens.

790
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:21,599
This is a horrible brunch matchup.
It's gonna be some rough basketball Saturday.

791
00:59:22,519 --> 00:59:30,320
Name he scores more than ten,
one of us will be live for

792
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:38,239
sure. I will demand that.
And then we're gonna have an episode out

793
00:59:38,239 --> 00:59:43,559
on Monday with the matchup against the
Wolves happening on Tuesday. So a lot

794
00:59:43,559 --> 00:59:46,480
of big games. No Karl Antony
Townsen that one. But we thank everyone

795
00:59:46,519 --> 00:59:50,559
for listening and watching. Will Where
can these people who are listening, if

796
00:59:50,559 --> 00:59:52,880
they or if they're watching and they
want to listen, If they're listening and

797
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:57,599
they want to watch, where can
they go for that? If you're listening,

798
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,480
you can do that wherever you listen. If you wanted to rate and

799
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:05,000
review us, you can do that
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800
01:00:05,079 --> 01:00:07,039
help us out. We really love
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801
01:00:07,039 --> 01:00:09,000
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802
01:00:09,039 --> 01:00:14,280
Slash at Clippers podcast. We come
at you, I don't even know,

803
01:00:14,559 --> 01:00:21,079
at least three times a week,
so it's a good time. Adam,

804
01:00:21,119 --> 01:00:22,239
do you want to do one positive
thing? We've been really you've been

805
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:28,440
having to do Adams high five?
You got any positivity in you. Yeah,

806
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:32,400
I got something positive for you.
Guys here Ofviatza Zoobots is not even

807
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:37,559
close to rounding into shape yet.
Maybe he will this weekend. Maybe the

808
01:00:37,639 --> 01:00:43,159
illness that he's been dealing with is
almost through him. Because guys, we've

809
01:00:43,159 --> 01:00:47,440
talked about it before. He's the
fourth most important player on this team.

810
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:53,239
At worst, they need Avitza Zoobots
to get healthy. I bring you more

811
01:00:53,239 --> 01:00:59,960
good news. Do you know what
players are shooting against him within six feet

812
01:01:00,519 --> 01:01:05,400
of the rim? Would you like
to take a guess off Eatsa Zoobots this

813
01:01:05,519 --> 01:01:12,719
season rim protection wise, opponent field
goal percentage Chuck thirty nine point eight,

814
01:01:15,039 --> 01:01:28,079
Will thirty six point even, Well, he's only behind of guys that have

815
01:01:28,719 --> 01:01:32,440
been stalwarts and have played enough minutes. Christaphs Porzingis, who's at forty nine

816
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:37,039
point three percent within six feet of
the rim, and Rudy Gobert, who's

817
01:01:37,079 --> 01:01:43,880
at forty eight point What was the
I'm sorry? What was the question again?

818
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:53,039
Eats is sorry only giving up?
He's only given up forty nine point

819
01:01:53,119 --> 01:01:58,800
seven percent. That's his opponent field
goal percentage within six feet of the rim.

820
01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:02,480
He's in good company next to two
other elite guys. He is third

821
01:02:04,159 --> 01:02:09,559
in that area so far. Mason
Plumbley's at fifty seven. Daniel Tye,

822
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:15,960
I'm looking forward right here, a
couple of pages out. It's above it.

823
01:02:15,719 --> 01:02:21,360
So can we stop with other people? Should be starting over beats the

824
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:27,079
zoo bos. There's not much more
important starting center that you need, very

825
01:02:27,079 --> 01:02:31,440
good point. Within six ft of
the rim, he's top three. Man,

826
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:36,199
we got the top three. Baby, he's kissing the top two.

827
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:43,440
He's right there. He's freaking elie. I mean, if he's number two,

828
01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:46,800
should he even be starting? Why
wouldn't we simply start the best rem

829
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:52,679
protecture. We need that positivity.
You're gonna get that positivity on the double

830
01:02:52,679 --> 01:02:55,480
dips. Who's gonna crush this week? He's a weekend and the whole week

831
01:02:55,519 --> 01:03:00,480
he's gonna hold vooch under twenty two
and twelve. He's gonna stymy whoever the

832
01:03:00,559 --> 01:03:02,599
damn bucks are gonna throw at him. It's gonna be a good weekend.

833
01:03:04,239 --> 01:03:07,239
Uh. I'm gonna run right through
that. Only we're gonna run through.

834
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:12,159
He's gonna run through that. Daniel
Tice is giving up sixty two at the

835
01:03:12,239 --> 01:03:15,440
rim within six feet. Zoo Box
is at forty nine percent. But who

836
01:03:15,519 --> 01:03:21,920
is that guy that said they just
against them against Minnesota. Adam's gotta go,

837
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:24,679
Adam's gonna go dunk his head in
the bowl of ice water. Uh,

838
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:29,440
we're gonna get out of here.
You know the end of Space Honesty,

839
01:03:29,519 --> 01:03:31,280
where you're seeing all the colors rushing
at the screen, that's when we

840
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:37,039
started that, right after the high
five. We'll be back with the full

841
01:03:37,119 --> 01:03:38,639
crew on Tuesday, and as always, let's go clips