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What is going on Russ list Lissman. I think that's kind of all what

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we're thinking about right now. Welcome
to episode fifty six fifty six point one

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of Clips and Dip. I am
Chuck Mockler. We're doing the weekend hang

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Will Updike Adam Osland at Clippers Pod
on Twitter if you want to follow us

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there. We're hanging out Adam.
We talked about the Wizard's game last night.

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We're going to talk about the Russ
injury, the looming back to back,

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what we think the Clippers are going
to go in March. But will

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you you didn't you weren't talking with
Adam last night. How are you feeling

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with the Russ news? How did
it fail to see he's unfortunately broke fractured

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his hand. Man. Uh,
it's super hard, especially with the guy

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that needed to fill so many men
and had that crucial role of sort of

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bringing energy to the team. So, you know, firstly wishing to you

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know, a quick recovery and health
for him, because he is definitely someone

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that the Clippers will need, you
know, moving forward. It does big

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questions about, you know, what
this means for the rest of the rotation,

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how some other guys could kind of
could get going or get opportunities,

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and what that could look like for
them and how that changes potential rotations moving

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forward even into the playoffs. So
yeah, we'll see. Yeah, twenty

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two minutes a game that they got
to find now with Russ out did not

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mean the thumbs up losing twenty two
minutes a game, right there, Adam

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Bones Hiland got some run last night. For those of you who missed the

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Clippers beat the Wizards, Yeah,
smoked, thank you. How are we

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feeling about Bones? Obviously, I
think it's hard to judge last night because

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it was a you know, get
in there and go and incredibly on the

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shortest of notice. But what are
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general? It's kind of a different
player than Rous. Yeah, I mean

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those were the first somewhat meaningful minutes
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he's played in the first half of
a game, and I know he didn't

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either last night. But going back
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before they brought in James Harden.
But remember we've talked about it. In

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the first four games he had seventeen
or more three times. Bones Highland absolutely

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looked the part of where he was
in the preseason, what they were saying

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about him during training camp. Everyone
on the Clippers said the one guy that

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impressed them most in Hawaiian training camp
that they saw progress and develop was Bones

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Highland. I mean Nicholas Batouma was
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Clippers. Obviously, now with Philadelphia, this is somebody and we hope for

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speedy recovery from Russ because it's gonna
be really difficult to replace somebody that's been

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kind of an innings eater for them
and missed a reliable He hadn't missed a

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game all season long. He was
the only Clipper who had not missed a

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game. So it's big. You
mentioned those twenty two minutes, But what

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we saw last night in sixteen minutes
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I was encouraged with the passing.
He had seven assists to one turnover,

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and he had a couple of passes, the lobb to Kobe Brown,

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the wraparound pass underneath the basket to
Brandon Boston, who gave him some good

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minutes as well. Granted it was
in consequential garbage time, but these were

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guys that looked better. And if
we're going to criticize when they're bad during

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garbage time, I guess we also
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fair, completely fair. But Bones
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taking care of it, bringing up
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Clippers need, that something Russ has
always brought. And look, I've been

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talking about trying to get Bones Hihland
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I did not want to see it
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do think with March sixteen games remaining
now, they needed a spark. They

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needed somebody to give them a shot
in the arm. Terrence Man with his

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play over the last four games,
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just having some young legs and a
guy who's what twenty three years of age,

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who's legitimately young on this team should
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energy in back to backs with all
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Balts Highland could be perfect for that. Now you mentioned where he's at and

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missing those shots just one for seven
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You get your first run in a
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it. I do think he's a
guy that can catch fire quickly, that

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can be one shot hot. And
this is someone who doesn't shy away from

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taking shots. We're talking about a
guy who when he's on the floor next

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to PG and Kawhi, he doesn't
defer, he doesn't just try to give

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up the basketball. He makes the
right play, but he's looking for a

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offense too, and that's something the
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with. He puts pressure on you
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think some of the numbers were ran
last summer about bones Hyland by the Lob

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of the Jam and they were talking
about how many attempts he gets up from

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three per one hundred possessions and it
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Paul George type of stuff from three, like, he puts them up,

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and he does it at a high
volume and a high efficiency, and he

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can off a bounce. This is
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set that has a ton of potential
for this Clippers team. So overall it's

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awful. It sucks for us.
The word you use last night on clips

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and double dip with myself and Carlo
Jimenez, who was a Curtis Pock with

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me. You said gutted, you
said gutted for us, And I think

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that's where we're all kind of at
right now. Choe uh will do you

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think you got me on the train
of kind of being against the like six

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minute shifts for Harden to open in
the game. That's got to change now,

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right, Like we got to imagine
that Arden is gonna be in I

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mean this at least on Sunday and
Monday, and to start the game a

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little longer. Well, yeah,
both both with the shortage and the number

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of games. I think it's kind
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shift look like for for this starting
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up going to, which you know, with how many games there are and

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how look like there's no way around
it. Sometimes they're gonna need to cut

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out wins and sometimes they might drop
a couple and it's gonna be like,

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all right, we gotta we gotta
play this like it is one of the

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most important games of the season,
just to not fall too far down in

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the standing. So I think that's
really interesting to see how they'll change that,

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because I don't see Tie going away
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first to put bones Hiland and just
to keep with that regular rotation, unless,

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of course, that is just sort
of an unspoken thing where maybe they

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don't want James to get, you
know, nine minutes a run in his

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first shift. I'm not sure,
but I would assume that we'll see longer

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sort of uninterrupted stretches all of that
starting unit. And I would guess that

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the that would change things to Russ
being the defenct or not to Russ too

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norm rather being the de facto sort
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so many because that shift does let
hard and do things like you did last

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night, which is basically play the
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go off or something like that.
And if Fianna has a question, did

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they ever say how long Russ will
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believe is the timeline, isn't it? Yeah? And like there was that

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that twitter NBA doctor who everyone likes, who does do a very good job,

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said like six weeks or something that
sounds about time. So yeah,

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that sucks. That would mean basically
he's out the rest of the regular season.

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Their final game of the regular season
is April fourteenth, so a month

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and a half. It's around then, uh Adam, how would you feel

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is from Izzy shout out to everyone
hanging out in the chat as well.

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Throw some questions and we'll put them
on. How would you feel if the

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turnover issues and transition defense improved with
Russ out? It might there are ways

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to lean into offense now with spreading
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out there with Bones Highland. What
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that Russ defense, the rebounding obviously, and there's a little bit of an

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issue. One of the reasons we
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I think is because you can't have
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not you would not lean into having
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the same time because defensively, your
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suffer, just because both those guys
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story coming into training camp, part
of it was Bones put on eleven twelve

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pounds of muscle and he has some
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impressed with his defense overall last season
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we heard a lot of things from
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checks out defensively. We didn't see
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against the Phoenix Suns, and for
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defensively on that end. As long
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live with it because of what he
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this throws in a few different wrinkles
lineup wise. We mentioned him and the

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fit next to Norman Powell being problematic, but what if all of a sudden

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they brought Norman Powell in with the
starters for Terrence Man because of that,

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So you don't have Powell coming off
the bench with Bones Highland. Or what

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if Bones Hyland is struggling and it's
not working, then do you bring Terrence

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Man off the bench and maybe start
a mere coffee so Man runs the second

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unit as the backup point guard if
Bones just isn't there yet. There's a

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lot of things to think about here. I hope Bones, you know,

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takes the bull by the horns here
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and I think he's that guy.
He's him. He can do this like

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I think bones when the kids says
built different, like he's one of those

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guys. He's special. He has
a lot of ability out there. We

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talked about it when they first got
him, having some of those Lou Williams

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traits with the pick and roll,
just his frame, but not afraid of

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taking and making tough shots. He's
got a lot in his bag. And

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the other The other thing about him
going back to last season was he was

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actually shooting better I think from the
outside than where he was within ten feet

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of the basket or something like that. His problems were he wasn't finishing well

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at the rim. Well, he
worked on that. We saw it changed

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in the preseason. We saw it
changed in the first four games this season.

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He was much more comfortable among the
trees and getting it to go in

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traffic, getting layups to go.
So I felt like coming into this year

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he was I used the unfortunate phrase, I'm not even gonna do it now.

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It is a saying, it is
a phrase. It's also something in

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finances, not just in cards.
I guess on the come and that's why

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I watch MSNBC all the time,
you guys know. Oh yeah, we

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knew that it was n We knew
that it was not just in the cards.

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Yeah, we had some alternate routes, but it felt to me like

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he was due for a breakout season
and he has an opportunity now to show

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everything he's been working on over the
past year. Yeah, the first person

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off the bench thing is going to
be interesting. Rock Fous saying, rather

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start coffee, put Man to the
bench. But Man, as we are

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going to see, especially against I
think the Bucks is the point of attack

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guy to start games. He's defending
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A mere coffee is good at defense. But there's the wingspan thing, and

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Terrence are just comfortable with him being
the point of attack guy. And that's

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I mean, we shouldn't change a
part of the starting lineup that doesn't need

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to be changed, right, we
don't. Yeah, my if aw somebody

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who's taking up significant minutes, my
first thought isn't let's make another change.

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Personally very good. I mean that's
just me, But I do think it's

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real. If Bones struggled, you
might have to bring Terrence Man off the

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bench run second unit. I don't
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having a mere coffee as the point
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the Terrence Man. I think they're
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do like this point though, because
he's been playing phenomenally, so I think

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if you bench Terrence Man after this
run, talk about someone's confidence being messed

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with throughout the year, well,
it's out of necessity. It's out of

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this emergency situation because Russ is out. This isn't because of poor play.

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It could actually give him more minutes
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the second biggest ball handler on this
team besides James Harden. I'm just saying

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I don't think we should switch the
starting lineup. The starting lineup is very

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good, and then I don't want
them to have to I'm saying, if

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Bones Island struggles and he can't do
it, who's the second best primary ball

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handler. I mean, how many
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possibly getting Man, because I mean
it's time crunch, right I hope.

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Yeah. I'm like, I mean, he's, like we said, he's

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gone from zero playing to now maybe
the backup point guard. So like I

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think five games because they're coming pretty
quickly. Right. We got three and

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four days coming up, so I
hope he can pick it up quickly.

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Some other things that happened in the
Wizard's game. Paul George's back look great.

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He looked the best he has in
over a month now. Timing wise,

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he got to the basket his first
couple. The athleticism was there,

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the pop. He was very decisive
with getting to his spots, getting them

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up quickly. He wasn't playing with
his food, playing with the basketball,

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dribbling over dribbling. That performance by
PG thirteen was very encouraging. It's weird,

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but every time he has come back
from injury, that first game he

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always looks fantastic. Going back to
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was coming off shoulder surgery, I
think it was against the Pelicans and he

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had thirty six or thirty eight or
something like that. Yeah, it was

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good to see the Will and I
were hanging out and reading the kind of

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pregame quotes about the injury, which
I don't know if the full answer on

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Tylu on PG, I believe this
was pregame was you know, hopefully right

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now he's in a good place.
We did all the necessary things we had

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to do to check the boxes.
He's feeling pretty good. Hopefully not a

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thing that lingers on for the rest
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know. It's basically a day to
day situation. We're not one hundred percent

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sure if he's going to play in
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which I don't think should be super
surprising, right, Like he's coming off

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a week off because of knee soreness. It's day to day playing him two

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games in a row. I hope
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conference game, but I don't think
it's that crazy to think that he wouldn't

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play both games. Like it wasn't. I don't know, will you and

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I were kind of bummed, but
I wouldn't say shocked. Yeah, yeah,

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I with it being day to day, I would assume that means that

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he's not playing in back to backs. But we'll see. He did look

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a lot better, you know,
the first time he's crossed the twenty point

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barrier in what feels like a very
long time. But no, it's good

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to see him back out there.
But I would assume how many games played

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is even at right now? Well
whatever, I mean, it seems pretty

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clear that he wants to get to
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they're going to do their best to
get to that spot. But I would

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expect to see him, you know, sort of in and out of the

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lineup to manage that. Yeah,
I mean, and I think that's what

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we all want. And Matt,
what matters is April, yeah, right,

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not March. Not March. I
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to This is a good point by
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in Norm earlier to play with the
starters and then tea Men and Bones back

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in together. I think that could
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like the point is, you may
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to be playing heavy minutes together.
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two. You'll be trying to out
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but defensively they're going to suffer on
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the point of attack. So I
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spot on. Shout out Steve Rodriguez, thank you, William Blast some other

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stuff from the Wizard's game before we
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offense great, the Big three absolutely
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for me personally, didn't exactly instill
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but the few times that the Wizards
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know if striking might even be too
big of a word just because the team

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was so bad, but like it
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it postgame and stuff like that,
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we just have to wait for them
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Adam, what did you think?
Because I was like, yeah, we

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got the win, but it was
there were just some moments where it was

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like, eugh, like this isn't
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Because it's not just that they've been
bad with it, but the book

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is out on that and teams are
zeroing in, so they're putting an emphasis

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always on getting down the court.
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at the fastest pace in the NBA
this season. They at least were over

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the last month, so it was
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to get down the floor, and
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I think it was early in the
third quarter where coach lou actually called

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a time out after some poor transition
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He was upset understandably by seeing that
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They talk about it. The message
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has to get through. Because Jordan
Poole got a couple of really easy ones

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against the Clippers last night. It
got better after that time out in the

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third quarter. But against the next
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same thing with the Milwaukee Bucks and
Minnesota Timberwolves. At least here and there,

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picking your spots win to beat up
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That and the rebounding. Thankfully we
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because the Wizards are and I mean
this in no hyperbole, the worst rebounding

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team in the league, the worst
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I still like, my brain can't
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I'm like, how are you nine
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at their last fourteen games, though, the fourteenth straight that they have lost,

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it is one of the worst schedules
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they play one team that's not like
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it's insane. Rockfel's talking about it. Well, how can we make the

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rebounding better? Are we just?
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bed that we've made for the rest
of this season and just hope that Zoo

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being back makes us that much better. I think to the regular season to

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a certain extent, I think that
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ironed out a little bit more once
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in the postseason. Is why,
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even bigger point of emphasis, you
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all on the line for that.
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struggle, and it's you know,
only gotten worse this season because of some

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of the size and then losing probably
your best rebounding guard isn't gonna help for

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this upcoming stretch. So that's it's
gonna be difficult. Chuck. We talked

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about it a little bit post game, but I felt like this was one

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of the better performances with no Big
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and Daniel Tice. I think Big
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really like some of the defense he
showed actually in that third quarter, because

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remember before the fourth quarter against the
Lakers with those back to back turnovers,

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he was actually having one of his
best games of the season. So he's

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had seven I would say quality quarters
over the last couple of games. Now,

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yeah, William Blast is asking how
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right now it's in definitely it's around
six weeks probably. That's that's what everyone

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kind of saying. There's like levels
of fractures. So he's also broken this

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hand one other or two other times, Like he's broken like yeah, like

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it's that's not the first time.
Yeah, he's got some fingers, it's

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not, you know, thankfully r
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one of the reasons why people talked
about his shot kind of going to he

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had broken hands. And as someone
who was an apologist for Aviatz the Zubat's

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first year on the Clippers when he
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I can't imagine what it's like to
break both of your hands and then try

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and relearn how to play basketball.
Yeah, he's basically out into the playoffs,

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which is brutal. Adam, was
there anything else from last night?

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It was such a weird game to
try and take stuff away from. I

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tweeted this out right, but it's
like they collapse on Wednesday against the Lakers.

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Then you beat a team you're absolutely
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It's hard to take anything super away
from that game. I guess I'll say

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this, they played with the right
type of energy. Aside from a few

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miscues as you would expect with transition
defense, for the most part, they

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played up to their ability against the
team that's this down right now. Kyle

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Kuzma had his moments, but the
big three for the Clippers. You saw

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Paul George with eleven points in the
first quarter, and then you have James

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Harden with twenty one points in that
second quarter, and then Kawhi with fourteen

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points in the third quarter. The
big three were really good, and it

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looked to me like they were upset
with what happened against that Lakers game,

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as they should be. Kawhi Leonard
with three or four dunks, two of

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them one over the top of Kyle
Kuzma and the second quarter another one about

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the three minute mark in the third
quarter in traffic where he just turned the

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corner and threw it down. There
was a little bit something extra there from

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a team that knew they let one
get away up twenty one in the fourth

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quarter against the Los Angeles Lakers,
and Kawhi was moving fantastically. James Harden

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showed a little bit more burst like
we saw against the Lakers too, So

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maybe they're coming out of this funk
of just looking a little bit stagnant out

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there offensively because they moved the ball
really well. There was a possession and

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I think you even retweeted it after
I tweeted out Chuck on the Clippers pod.

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But there was some beautiful passing from
this team along the perimeter like we

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haven't seen in a while. And
they shot about forty one percent from the

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outside. I think they were at
fifty six percent from three in the first

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half when the last eight games going
into that game last night, the Clippers

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were shooting just thirty three percent from
three, which is alarming for a team

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that has been first or second all
season long when it came to three point

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shooting. So some of that alone
just going back in their favor, and

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I'm sure some of it is just
wonky shooting and shooting variants they were due,

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but that can cure a lot of
what has ailed them recently, just

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getting back to knocking down threes,
which they should. They have the personnel

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and they've been one of the best
teams all season along there. I didn't

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realize they were at thirty three percent. They's shocking, right, that's crazy

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for them. Yeah, Well,
if the Clippers would have won by fifty,

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would you have felt better or do
you feel exactly the same about this

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game no matter who it was because
it was the Wizards. Yeah, I

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mean, it's the way like it's
the Wizards and it's you know, you

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wouldn't be thrilled, like you would
be kind of upset if it was a

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close win just because it is the
Wizards and it would have meant that the

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defense was really really bad. But
yeah, it's it's kind of where this

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team is at right, especially if
they want to stay in that top three

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top four kind of thing, like
these wins are expected, and so you

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hope to see something good and certainly
not expecting to lose a player. But

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I was talking earlier about how Bones
could be sort of a shot in the

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arm for the Clippers, and I
think just overall, the absence of Russ

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is going to kind of put everyone
on notice, because we've heard time and

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time again how we feel like this
team, you know, internally kind of

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feels like they're not always locking in
and they're sort of relying on talent,

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and so when you have a big
piece of rotation go down, it kind

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of gets it in everybody else's head, and it kind of I think that

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it makes you have to like buy
necessity, approach the game with a different

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level of attention to detail and sort
of a different mindset. And that's been

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like one of the trademarks of this
team in this era, fighting through adversity

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with guys being out. This is
what they do. This is typically when

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they are at their best. So
I love that point. Will. I

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do think it gets your attention more
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And I think you saw some of
that last night in the second half

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where they made sure to pour it
on and get the starters out midway through

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the fourth quarter as much as you
can say, oh it's the Wizards.

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Look, they almost beat the Lakers
night before, which ot they've been in

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some of these games, so to
blow them out to that extent, I

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do think there was some encouraging signs. But obviously we're gonna find out a

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lot about this team in the next
two wonderful transition Adham, we're gonna talk

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about the upcoming for a living folks. I don't know why it's given the

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thumbs down at him. I did
not mean to do that. It's obvious

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day we're gonna talk about the hardest
back to back of the season until the

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next one. I assume if you're
listening to this pod, because we're all

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All right, welcome back in to
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some great background stuff going on.
Adams trying, He's not He's not getting

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anywhere with that though. All right, So we talked about the Clippers take

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getting the win over the Wizards.
Now we look ahead to just an absolutely

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brutal back to back. We take
on the Timberwolves and then the Bucks.

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Rough kind of Sunday Monday there.
I guess let's start with the Timberwolves,

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because the last time this team we
thought was in a posi like, in

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a position to really make a statement
or have kind of a big win.

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That is not the way things went
down against the timber Wolves. That is

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not the way things went down against
the Timberwolves. I want to address something

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in the chat real quick though.
From Alfredo Rodriguez. My question is the

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fear of Tucker PJ. Tucker joining
an opponent the Clippers cannot defeat, the

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reason why they won't buy him out
to the point they're bowing out of the

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buyout market. No, PJ.
Tucker is refusing to waive his next year's

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eleven million dollars, and so if
the Clippers bought him out for the twenty

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whatever million dollars, they would not
be able to try that contract, don't

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be able to do anything. It's
not even about the money. It's it's

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just the cap hit. Like you
know, with second Apron stuff and everything,

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having a cap hit of eleven million
dollars. You know, the eleven

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million dollars in and of itself doesn't
really matter, but the cap hit certainly

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does. I'll say this for PJ
last night. You know, he doesn't

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play at all in that ball game. After turning it down the shot against

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the Lakers and getting a real opportunity, he was up cheering guys on.

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He was calling for that review that
coach Lu challenged at one point. He

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was still engaged with the team.
He wasn't making a stink. So I

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think that's all you can ask right
now. And by the way, who

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knows these next two they're going up
against two big teams. He knows about

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Giannis Den and Kompo. They don't
have Russ. And now that means if

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you do have PJ out there next
to Plumb, well, you do have

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still three other shooters most likely next
to them. We've talked about it but

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it's not like he's been putting the
best position yet in some of these lineups.

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00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:42,039
They need to surround him with shooters
to really give him a fair shot.

407
00:27:42,079 --> 00:27:45,759
But I understand they're trying to get
other guys minutes right now too and

408
00:27:45,839 --> 00:27:48,759
keep them all involved, so we'll
see what happens. Yeah, last time

409
00:27:48,759 --> 00:27:52,680
we played the Wolves, they forced
the mid range on us. This is

410
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,000
what bigger teams do. We're probably
gonna hear about this a ton the pre

411
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,279
game for Brian seeing all those people. We just gotta hope, like Kawhi's

412
00:27:59,319 --> 00:28:03,279
built to beat that, right,
But I mean, I hate to harp

413
00:28:03,319 --> 00:28:04,559
on it because I feel like I'd
bring it up like every other episode,

414
00:28:04,599 --> 00:28:07,319
but Harden's got to hit these mid
range shots if we're gonna have a chance

415
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,519
to beat the Wolves. I'll say
this though, as much as they're giving

416
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,519
up the mid range, it's just
like, well, they're not doubling.

417
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,599
They still have really good man to
man defenders that aren't exactly just letting you

418
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:26,279
walk into those shots with guys guarding
Kawhi Leonard still very closely. Yeah,

419
00:28:26,279 --> 00:28:30,559
but I mean hard and still so
far this year like the worst percentage of

420
00:28:30,599 --> 00:28:34,960
ten years from completely fair, U
will what are you looking for? Are

421
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,599
we gonna go small again? Like
we've gone small against the wolves? But

422
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,880
I don't, you know with Russ
is that cog and things like that,

423
00:28:42,039 --> 00:28:47,680
so it's gonna be odd. I
think, well, I mean I think

424
00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:51,000
that, yeah. I do think
that ty will probably play with some small

425
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,559
ball again as well, just depending
on the performances that we're able to get

426
00:28:55,599 --> 00:29:00,680
out of Tyson plumbly certainly and how
that looks, I think you may go

427
00:29:00,759 --> 00:29:03,640
small. And I actually think that
that's kind of where PJ would be best,

428
00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:07,880
is not even next to another center
at all. But if we opt

429
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,759
to go small, had him at
the five, I mean, he's at

430
00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:15,200
the stage of his career right now
where he's not he's not really a four

431
00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:18,279
anymore. He's like kind of a
he's like kind of a stretchy five.

432
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,160
I guess it, like that's that's
just where his skill set is at.

433
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,119
So I think that that could be
effective for him if ty Lu does opt

434
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:33,559
to go that way. I'm just
curious, like I'm just curious how we

435
00:29:33,599 --> 00:29:36,960
can slow this team down because to
me, that was has been like the

436
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:41,799
biggest sort of that's what's made the
Timberwolves look the most beatable to me,

437
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,440
right, Like, I don't feel
like their offenses or at least shouldn't be

438
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,759
on the level of what this Clippers
team can can put out. So can

439
00:29:48,799 --> 00:29:52,240
the defense be better than what we've
seen? Can can we build off off

440
00:29:52,279 --> 00:29:56,240
of the win against the Wizards?
That's what I'm gonna be looking to see.

441
00:29:56,279 --> 00:30:00,240
That's gonna be the biggest one.
Things have unraveled, especially in that

442
00:30:00,319 --> 00:30:03,160
last game, which I think was
a little bit more representative, just because

443
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:04,559
they had to beat to Zubox,
who was still in a minister restriction.

444
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,440
We were hoping he's back for the
game on Sunday. That's vital obviously,

445
00:30:10,039 --> 00:30:12,799
But they unraveled midway through the third
quarter. It was a one point game

446
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,039
after Russ hit a three pointer,
but then he had a really tough stretch

447
00:30:18,079 --> 00:30:19,960
to end that third quarter, and
the Clippers were all of a sudden,

448
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,279
I think, down by seventeen heading
into the fourth. Like they were right

449
00:30:23,319 --> 00:30:26,440
there, they were up by four
at the half. They were playing much

450
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:32,599
better. Ant got going, Karl
Anthony Town's got going at especially in both

451
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,920
third quarters, has really burned the
Clippers to start the second half. In

452
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,559
the paint too. Lat Murray tweeted
out, the Clippers have been very good

453
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:45,079
at making his shot difficult from the
outside. He was seven for seven in

454
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,200
the paint last game against the Clips, so when he gets into the paint,

455
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,359
it's kind of an issue for the
Clippers. And we still don't know

456
00:30:51,359 --> 00:30:53,240
if Paul George is going to play
in this one. Yeah. Well,

457
00:30:53,279 --> 00:30:57,559
that paint scoring was he was huge
for the Wolves. I think they outscored

458
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:02,200
us by like twenty points in the
pan, sixty four, sixty four to

459
00:31:02,279 --> 00:31:04,440
forty two in favor of the Wolves, and we lost by it. Yeah,

460
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:10,000
twenty, so yeah, yeah,
And there's no real update on Zoo

461
00:31:10,079 --> 00:31:11,920
right. It's just kind of like
he's been battling the fever for the last

462
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:18,960
week and he hopes to be there. Yeah, little baby Toms will be

463
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,160
fine. Baby. Carl Tart autam, I don't know if you were you

464
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:26,920
you missed this part on the live
after the Lakers game, But Carl Tart

465
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:33,640
blamed Zoo for getting sick, uh
for the for the Clippers losing. Uh.

466
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,079
I don't know why. I don't
know why you would choose to do

467
00:31:36,119 --> 00:31:37,599
that. Why would you choose to
get sick? He doesn't have enough built

468
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,559
up antibodies. What's wrong with him
washing his hands? You know, uh

469
00:31:42,519 --> 00:31:48,160
peel like Howard Hughes. Yeah,
how come dude, Zuo Hughes. That

470
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:53,279
would be crazy zeus zus Yeah,
Howard Zoos. I'm home. But he's

471
00:31:53,279 --> 00:31:56,000
okay, because I was a little
bit surprised that he wasn't able to go

472
00:31:56,119 --> 00:31:59,960
last night. So I think that
speaks to the sickness going on right now.

473
00:32:00,599 --> 00:32:02,599
Yeah, hopefully he's not too down
with the sickness and he can travel

474
00:32:02,599 --> 00:32:09,680
with the team for the game on
Sunday and Monday. Yeah, what else

475
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,319
are we kind of looking for in
this Timberwolves. It's so funny because we've

476
00:32:13,359 --> 00:32:15,559
played him. I mean, we're
gonna play him again in like a week

477
00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:22,400
and a half right after this.
So pick on Mike Conley please. It's

478
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:27,680
not that he is a bad defender. He's just undersize and he's the best

479
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,599
option to go at. It's that
simple. Because they're that good defensively.

480
00:32:31,319 --> 00:32:35,599
They are elite. They've been like
this all season long. This this is

481
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,519
some Johnny come lately. All of
a sudden they turned to corner defensively.

482
00:32:37,559 --> 00:32:44,039
They have been consistently the best defensive
team by a lot and the personnel's there.

483
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,440
This is a better team surrounding Rudy
Gobert than what he had in Utah.

484
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:52,279
They have better defensive personnel around him. It's not just him. They

485
00:32:52,319 --> 00:32:54,920
got guys all over the place that
can slow you down. Yeah, this

486
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,200
is an interesting point from Wayne Jenkins, which is actually kind of nuts.

487
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:05,319
The Clippers are one and a half
point favorites, which they're away, which

488
00:33:05,519 --> 00:33:08,799
like really which really doesn't make any
sense. Uh, don't take that bet.

489
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:13,960
I don't know. That seems kind
of nuts. Right, Well,

490
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,400
how would how could you will if
you had to argue that the Clippers are

491
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:22,440
one and a half point if you're
this house, this betting manor how is

492
00:33:22,519 --> 00:33:27,799
updyke betting manner pitching that the Clippers
are one and a half point favorites?

493
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,799
Why? I mean, especially because
the Wolves just lost in overtime at home

494
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:37,319
last night to the Sacramento Kings,
They're gonna be more upset. It could

495
00:33:37,359 --> 00:33:44,480
be more of an issue going into
their That's true. I like where we'll

496
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:45,839
well, let me put it,
let me place a bet with the updyke

497
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:51,480
betting manor all right, so who
is our I mean, is it just

498
00:33:51,519 --> 00:33:53,599
the Kawhi Leonard Player of the Game
award now because we need k Like,

499
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:59,400
we can't not pick Kawhi, I
feel like for this game because this game.

500
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,279
I talked about this on one of
the episodes we did. It's like

501
00:34:02,359 --> 00:34:07,759
kind of annoying sometimes, but at
some point you need your number one guys

502
00:34:07,759 --> 00:34:10,519
to just be your number one guys
and go hit the shot against it.

503
00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:14,639
Like, and I know we try
and not reduce things that much on this

504
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,400
show, but in a game like
this where it's so tight and we're down

505
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,400
a guy, you know we're working
in a new point guard or whatever it's

506
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:27,119
going to be, we do just
need the big three to be efficient and

507
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,719
go up. Like Kawhi has been
solid the first two games against Minnesota,

508
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:36,559
Paul George James Harden have not been
good enough so far against them period.

509
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,119
They have to be better, So
hopefully Paul George is able to go.

510
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:44,360
But I think we talked about this
before. You're looking for answers with the

511
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,800
Clippers team that now is four and
five their last nine games. They improve

512
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:52,599
after last night, but a team
struggling that much offensively going into last night,

513
00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:55,880
they were bottom ten offense all of
a sudden last eight games. We've

514
00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:00,079
talked about it if James Harden isn't
at his bed, And I said this

515
00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:04,199
earlier in the season. I think
it was after his first game against the

516
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,639
Lakers. But while we say,
well, he's the third option on this

517
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,599
Clippers team and in a playoff series, that kind of mitigates some of the

518
00:35:10,639 --> 00:35:14,440
lows he has had. You don't
have to worry about it as much on

519
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:19,280
this Clippers team, but when you're
running the offense, you know, saying

520
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:24,599
that guy that starts things off,
that sets the table is third offensively isn't

521
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:29,920
quite true. Like he may be
the third best scorer for the third most

522
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:34,639
important scorer on the team, but
he has to get them into their offense.

523
00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:38,559
He has to be a prototypical traditional
point guard out there, and especially

524
00:35:38,559 --> 00:35:44,079
in big games like this against Minnesota, where they can't be stagnant, where

525
00:35:44,079 --> 00:35:47,119
they can't slowly walk into their offense, they have to be better with making

526
00:35:47,119 --> 00:35:51,760
those quick decisions. And I think
that was part of the problem during this

527
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,760
down portion of the season. They
just haven't been getting into their offense quickly

528
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,119
enough. Coach lu said, we
look slow out there. They're waiting too

529
00:35:59,199 --> 00:36:04,639
long hasn't been as good either attacking
right away or passing before the double comes

530
00:36:04,679 --> 00:36:07,800
as well. He's got to be
sharper there, will you agree? And

531
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,480
with Scott trand, if we get
PG in thirteen we got last night,

532
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:15,679
we got a good chance of winning. Yeah, yeah, I'm hoping Pg's

533
00:36:15,679 --> 00:36:17,719
a little more efficient. And again
all of us want that he probably will

534
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:23,960
be if he plays in if we're
fully healthy. Any I think the Clippers

535
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,760
can do it again. We just
need the top guys to be the top

536
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,760
guys. And now we move on
to the game right after the one against

537
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:38,639
the Wolves, we're playing the Bucks
and Clippers. Old friend Doc Rivers has

538
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:43,559
the Bucks on a five game win
streak. They've beat They've run a gamut

539
00:36:43,559 --> 00:36:46,239
of teams they've beat. They beat
the Wolves, they beat the seventy six

540
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,239
ers, they beat the Hornets twice, and then they beat the Bulls.

541
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,239
So they're showing that they can beat
either end of the ability spectrum. Right

542
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:58,800
now. Giannis had forty six,
sixteen and six in his last game.

543
00:36:59,199 --> 00:37:04,760
He's been on kind of a terrorizing
stretch. I'll open this up. Who's

544
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:13,000
like, what are we doing with
Giannisa? Why on him to start Uh,

545
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,000
I think it'll be by committee,
like you'll see Zoo. If Zoo's

546
00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:20,239
available, he'll be on the honest
sum. If Paul George is available,

547
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:25,039
he'll be on the honest mere Coffee
Terrence Man, Uh, maybe even PJ.

548
00:37:25,159 --> 00:37:29,639
Tucker in that game. He's obviously
practiced against him plenty. He knows

549
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,440
him very well. Uh. The
last five games you mentioned, the five

550
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:37,320
game winning streak, they have the
best offense or the second best offense,

551
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:42,320
and the best defense in the league. The Milwaukee Bucks so as predicted.

552
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,519
Of course, by the time the
Clippers get to them, they're gonna have

553
00:37:44,559 --> 00:37:46,719
figured things out. But they haven't
had a true test. You mentioned some

554
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:52,360
of the teams they've been beating,
they haven't been the top level competition overall.

555
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:59,000
Overall overall, two of them are
pretty close. Rock Thalk says,

556
00:37:59,079 --> 00:38:02,000
let let them get a big lee
to let Doc embrace the force with no

557
00:38:02,159 --> 00:38:07,000
Zoo. That I mean, I'd
be close to that. Yeah, And

558
00:38:07,039 --> 00:38:09,719
I think we kind of talked Terrence
being the point of attack guy. He's

559
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:13,559
gonna be on Dame to open up
this one night. Have to imagine we

560
00:38:13,679 --> 00:38:16,280
Clippers routine. They kind of put
Damian Lillard in hell with multiple looks.

561
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,199
But I think they'll be asking Terrence
to start that off. I mean,

562
00:38:20,199 --> 00:38:24,199
there's still Middleton out there. There's
there's a lot of He's He's back,

563
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:28,400
right, I believe, Yeah,
let me check. I think he played

564
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,159
in their last game. Let me
double check. Man. They held Chicago

565
00:38:31,199 --> 00:38:35,519
at ninety seven points. They did, they did not. He was DNP

566
00:38:35,639 --> 00:38:38,519
last game. Okay, that's the
thing though they were a bottom ten defense.

567
00:38:38,679 --> 00:38:40,599
Part of the reason people were wondering, why, well, they have

568
00:38:40,679 --> 00:38:44,719
this great record, how can you
fire the head coach. Defensively, they

569
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:49,079
weren't there at all. They weren't
playing, and apparently the head coach wasn't

570
00:38:49,119 --> 00:38:52,159
listening to the players and how they
have always played defense and what has made

571
00:38:52,199 --> 00:38:53,559
them one of the best defenses in
the league, and how they won a

572
00:38:53,599 --> 00:39:00,760
championship. So that didn't help Adrian
Griffin. But they're even Dame. I

573
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:05,360
saw highlights last night. Somebody cut
together how he's been playing defense during this

574
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,320
winning streak. He looks different on
that end when you have less on your

575
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:12,920
plate offensively, because he had to
do so much with the Portland Trail Blazers.

576
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,920
Oh, you're playing next to the
honest Chris Middleton at times. Well,

577
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,800
now you don't have to give as
much offensively, you can use some

578
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:22,599
of the energy on defense. So
he I mean, he still looks good

579
00:39:22,639 --> 00:39:28,480
out there when he wants to play
defense. Yes, I'm hoping we can

580
00:39:28,519 --> 00:39:30,760
make him so frustrated on offense that
he doesn't want to play defense, because

581
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:36,000
that sometimes is a little bit what
happens with Dame. Well, his efficiency

582
00:39:36,039 --> 00:39:39,920
is already kind of struggling this season
as he you know, kind of pivots

583
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,519
into this new role and tries to
figure that out. So I think that

584
00:39:43,559 --> 00:39:47,239
definitely does help the Clippers out.
But yeah, Giannis is an issue that

585
00:39:47,639 --> 00:39:51,119
we've never really figured out in the
two and three era. I mean,

586
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,800
luckily, it's not like we played
him that much, so it has never

587
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:59,880
been a huge issue. But I
think one of the big things for the

588
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:05,920
is like just having a cohesive defensive
scheme. Like I I've, like Adam

589
00:40:06,079 --> 00:40:09,360
said, like wondered why they were
firing their coach even despite doing so well.

590
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,079
But I guess there was just no
communication really on the defensive end,

591
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:19,320
and it didn't seem like there was
any cohesive plan or steps in place to

592
00:40:19,599 --> 00:40:23,639
uh to try to remedy that so
we know docs doc can do that?

593
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:29,679
Is Claimian still with them? Oh
I don't know. Actually that's a great

594
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:34,760
call. Let me check why didn't
we pick up a Why didn't we trade

595
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,159
for a Yana Stopper? Has anyone
asked Lawrence Frank Konkome we didn't trade for

596
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:44,920
Yanna Stopper? Or Yo could stop? You know Daniel Daniel Ties has experience

597
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:49,079
against Yannis too, being in the
East for so, like, I know

598
00:40:49,199 --> 00:40:53,719
there is no Yanna Stopper. Obviously
I get the joke. Check here's the

599
00:40:53,800 --> 00:41:00,079
Yana stopper. He's still Rex Klaimian
still sorry, sorry, I'm still of

600
00:41:00,119 --> 00:41:04,039
Bucks assistant coach. Oh that makes
sense. Yeah. The best thing that

601
00:41:04,079 --> 00:41:07,440
Clippers can do in that game is
hit shots, so they can set their

602
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:13,280
defense like Lebron James Giannis getting out
and running in transition, that's when you

603
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,679
have a problem. That's when all
of a sudden you have to resort to

604
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:20,440
trying to build a wall and then
he finds open shooters. If Giannis is

605
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,920
going downhill, you're in trouble.
So the Clippers offense just has to be

606
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:28,960
there the next two games. Hit
shots sets your defense on the other end,

607
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,119
I thought one thing they did well
against Ad was the ball denial early

608
00:41:32,159 --> 00:41:36,599
in the game on a d anytime
the ball was passed to Ad. He

609
00:41:36,639 --> 00:41:39,239
did get fouled a couple times before
it got there, but they let Anthony

610
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:43,920
Davis know that even just getting the
ball is going to be difficult for you.

611
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,480
So when the ball's out of Yannis's
hands, I hope we see the

612
00:41:46,559 --> 00:41:51,159
active hands in the passing lanes and
like, if we're gonna get PJ out

613
00:41:51,199 --> 00:41:54,159
there, use a couple of fouls
or something on Giannis to make it difficult

614
00:41:54,159 --> 00:41:59,440
for him just even receive the ball
before he really gets a chance to go

615
00:41:59,519 --> 00:42:04,800
downhill. Because this is a Buck
team that is very well constructed, they

616
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,119
take a bunch of free throws,
which worries me. Uh, that's not

617
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:15,920
super ideal for the clips, But
I don't know how confident, How confident

618
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:20,440
are we going to and o over
this this back to back? Well,

619
00:42:20,519 --> 00:42:25,079
I can see where I would love
a split. Sign me up for a

620
00:42:25,119 --> 00:42:30,719
split at this point, and I
think my third split would be it would

621
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,880
be great to get one on the
Timberwolves, like especially the way that we've

622
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:38,000
looked against teams above us or I
mean, how even close to us recently

623
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:43,039
in the in the Western Conference stands. Getting getting a win over the Timberwolves,

624
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,719
to me, is more than makes
up for, like for say,

625
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:50,519
a loss to the Bucks. Yeah, loss of the Bucks were just like

626
00:42:50,599 --> 00:42:53,960
rested everybody, I would be a
kind of hilarious. I think a win

627
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:59,519
over the Timberwolves would also boost morale
just seeing the standings and knowing that they

628
00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:02,280
still have a chance to get the
top seed or a top two seed when

629
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:07,440
it's gonna be really difficult. Right
now, I've already been I'm not conceding

630
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,239
that they can't get a top three
seed because they still can. There's still

631
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:14,480
plenty of time left. Marching are
very difficult. But the one thing I

632
00:43:14,519 --> 00:43:20,039
already started thinking about is, you
know, if Okase jumps Minnesota and they're

633
00:43:20,119 --> 00:43:22,199
the one seed and the Clippers are
the four, that means in the second

634
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,840
round they could get Okay see,
which I think is preferable, not great,

635
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,400
but preferable to Denver or Minnesota in
the second round, when then you'd

636
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:35,559
have to play the other one in
the Western Conference finals, because if you're

637
00:43:35,639 --> 00:43:38,599
four, if Okac is one,
that means Denver and Minnesota would take on

638
00:43:38,639 --> 00:43:43,199
each other and take one another out
in the second round. So that's kind

639
00:43:43,199 --> 00:43:45,079
of where I am with things right
now. But I don't think you need

640
00:43:45,079 --> 00:43:49,079
to give up on having a top
three seed. Things are still close enough,

641
00:43:49,119 --> 00:43:52,159
and you still have two more against
Minnesota, so you win the next

642
00:43:52,159 --> 00:43:55,159
one, that tiebreaker could still be
in play with beating them that final time.

643
00:43:55,599 --> 00:43:59,960
That's a good call. Yeah,
I'm I'm hoping for the same split.

644
00:44:00,079 --> 00:44:04,280
I think most people are optimistic that
that happens. Who's your player of

645
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:10,960
the game in the Bucks game,
Adam, I think I'm gonna go I've

646
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,239
talking myself into it. Is a
wacky player of the game, Daniel Tye.

647
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,559
I can see him getting the backup
minutes against Giannis if he could slow

648
00:44:23,639 --> 00:44:30,360
him down. In all, you
play one good quarter against Yannis and slow

649
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:34,559
him down just a little bit so
he doesn't have forty or forty five in

650
00:44:34,639 --> 00:44:38,000
the ball game like that can be
enough. You get the game. You

651
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:44,079
get the game ball from that.
Yeah, yeah, I've highlighted five good

652
00:44:44,119 --> 00:44:49,280
seconds of defense. Before I get
five good minutes a defense against Giannis by

653
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,599
Daniel Tye, I'll be happy.
I gonna take like six charges. He's

654
00:44:52,639 --> 00:44:58,480
just gonna get destroyed. I mean
that is what he would do. He's

655
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:00,480
gonna get dunked on and take six. But it's all gonna it's all gonna

656
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:04,360
be good will. Who is your
Kawhi Leonard Player of the game pick for

657
00:45:04,559 --> 00:45:14,639
the Bucks? Ternis man. I
like that we need a young guy.

658
00:45:15,039 --> 00:45:16,679
I like to go with a young
guy on the second night of the back

659
00:45:16,679 --> 00:45:21,360
to back. They got the they
got the legs, they got the legs.

660
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:27,000
Yeah, I am going way.
I'm gonna go with Paul George.

661
00:45:27,599 --> 00:45:30,159
Paul George needs to be a lot
of people. Are you think so?

662
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:32,679
Do you think he plays the second
game in the back to back? I

663
00:45:32,679 --> 00:45:37,199
guess if he plays the whole take
yeah, like you no, you stick

664
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:42,119
with that? Yeah, Paul George
is gonna go for thirty and forty in

665
00:45:42,159 --> 00:45:45,599
those two games, and then he's
gonna rest. Against the Rockets, they

666
00:45:45,679 --> 00:45:47,519
play a three and four. It's
a lot. That's a lot of travel.

667
00:45:49,119 --> 00:45:51,920
Uh. Friendly reminder for everyone,
the game against the Timberwolves is at

668
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,760
twelve thirty tomorrow, not in our
stadium, but it's still a brunch game,

669
00:45:54,920 --> 00:46:00,800
which I honestly am more offended by
scheduling wise, those brunch games are

670
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:05,440
ours. They're the Clippers. There
no one else's no one else gets to

671
00:46:05,519 --> 00:46:09,119
do this. We suffer. We
see we suffer alone. Coming up,

672
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:13,800
we're gonna be talking the March Record
predictions. There's a Twitter user who is

673
00:46:14,639 --> 00:46:19,280
infinitely more optimistic than I am when
it comes to March. We're gonna talk

674
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,800
about that. If you're listening to
this, the ads have been loud for

675
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:23,079
some people, So if that's been
the case, here you go ahead and

676
00:46:23,079 --> 00:46:28,400
turn it down. I'm talking overall
March Record after these potentially very loud ads

677
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,960
in three two one. Hey,
it's Clips and Dip. I'm men A

678
00:46:31,039 --> 00:46:35,480
Mazle and we got Chuck Mockler and
Will Updyke in a live here. But

679
00:46:35,639 --> 00:46:38,400
you may be listening to this in
podcast form later on. This is episode

680
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:44,440
fifty six of season two. Coming
up. In this very segment, I

681
00:46:44,519 --> 00:46:47,639
believe we'll offer some positive thoughts about
the Clippers. But also we have a

682
00:46:47,639 --> 00:46:52,719
new giveaway that uh just popped up. But before that, Chuck and I

683
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:58,559
talked about it last time out.
Is it time for those March predictions.

684
00:46:58,599 --> 00:47:01,800
We're one game in now, sixteen
left to go in the next thirty days.

685
00:47:02,559 --> 00:47:07,639
Chuck, you are the proprietor of
March Madness in the Clippers version.

686
00:47:07,679 --> 00:47:12,280
Do you want to give us your
prediction first? Sure, I will give

687
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:16,559
the Twitter user uh Tabiola Rossa eighty
nine, who I think listened to Will

688
00:47:16,599 --> 00:47:20,480
He listened to you and I on
the lockedow on clips days. He said

689
00:47:20,639 --> 00:47:25,440
fourteen and three for the Clippers in
March. He's off to a good start.

690
00:47:25,559 --> 00:47:29,119
Hey he's Yeah, I'll tell you
what. He's off to a good

691
00:47:29,119 --> 00:47:32,239
start. I don't know if I'm
at fourteen and three. I don't know

692
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:39,639
if I'm that fifteen. Yeah,
I'm thinking I set eleven and six on

693
00:47:39,679 --> 00:47:45,800
Twitter, and I'm gonna amend that
to twelve and five. I think twelve

694
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:50,800
and five. It's a very difficult
schedule. There's four sets of back to

695
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:58,760
backs or something like that. I
know, Will, I know, I

696
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:00,760
think, and I'd be happy with
five. I wouldn't be pissed off at

697
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:06,800
twelve and five. That's a great
record over seventeen games in March JJ the

698
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,079
Boys saying seventeen. I'm not saying
seven. I mean there are one thousands

699
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:15,159
so far right then in March seventeen
to oh you cowards. But twelve and

700
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:21,599
five I think is realistic, even
maybe quasi a little bit optimistic, Adam,

701
00:48:22,039 --> 00:48:24,199
which is gonna be like the December
to remember from that team back in

702
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:28,920
what twenty fourteen or twenty thirteen.
Oh yeah, where are you at at

703
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:34,119
him? I'm gonna take what you
originally said and go eleven and six,

704
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:39,199
which I also think is a very
good record considering how tough the month is

705
00:48:39,199 --> 00:48:44,079
for this team. It's the three
and four, the back to back,

706
00:48:44,119 --> 00:48:49,519
and then the Houston Rockets after that. So just judging by the schedule and

707
00:48:49,599 --> 00:48:55,039
now things being up ended with Russell
Westbrook being out, I would take eleven

708
00:48:55,079 --> 00:48:59,920
and six. I would this is
one of the toughest months in the history

709
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:05,639
of Clippers basketball. I'm sure it
has to be. Luckily they got a

710
00:49:05,639 --> 00:49:07,840
team that we hope is built for
it. But you know, they got

711
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:12,880
to get the split at least in
the next two uh, and then win

712
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,079
in Houston. I think just to
get off to a good start here.

713
00:49:15,159 --> 00:49:19,519
What that would put them at three
and one, yeah, three four,

714
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:23,760
three and run in the first four
I would love that. That would be

715
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:28,559
great. And then they just have
you know, Bucks, Bulls, Bucks,

716
00:49:28,639 --> 00:49:31,199
Timberwolves, Portland, Twise Portland.
So the best thing they got Portland

717
00:49:31,199 --> 00:49:36,880
twice, they got Charlotte. Orlando's
good now, so you can't overlook that.

718
00:49:37,119 --> 00:49:43,760
Like the Hawks, Hawks without Tree
Young. Yeah, so there's cargo

719
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:52,519
twice. They actually actually actually eighteen
enough. Somehow they're squeezing out an extra

720
00:49:52,599 --> 00:50:00,760
victory. No game, I'm gonna
stick with eleven and six. Will What

721
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:04,079
are you going with? Adam is
not optimistic? He picked worse than me.

722
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,440
That's not bad. It's what difference
I picked twelve and five can make

723
00:50:07,519 --> 00:50:14,519
all the difference you picked against you? Well, where are you going?

724
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:29,239
I'll be I'll be optimistic. Uh, thirteen and four, thirteen and four,

725
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:34,599
same time, Wow, serendipitous Loo
get into existence, third hand up

726
00:50:34,639 --> 00:50:39,079
his ass. Thirteen and four puts
the The Clippers are two games away from

727
00:50:39,079 --> 00:50:44,960
the three seed right now. They
go thirteen and four. I'm liking how

728
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,000
their positioning may be. Take just
when you pull up that schedule. When

729
00:50:47,039 --> 00:50:50,920
you pulled up that schedule, the
timing is super brutal. I can pull

730
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:52,280
it up again. Give me one
sex so so yeah, let me reshare

731
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,320
so, go ahead and enhance on
that. Go ahead and learn that up

732
00:50:55,320 --> 00:51:01,719
things use the highlighter as well.
Like it's a super rough start, and

733
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:06,079
then I mean you have some tough
games in there, obviously the Pels,

734
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,320
but there's some teams where they should
be able to stack up some wins.

735
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:15,039
This stretch right here, that stretch
right there, I mean, it wasn't

736
00:51:15,039 --> 00:51:19,320
that for having to play Milwaukee in
Minnesota and back to back games twice wouldn't

737
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:23,880
be that bad. It wasn't for
just one of the most brutal schedules ever

738
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:32,639
be a Hornets Kings Philly. Is
mb going to be back by then?

739
00:51:34,519 --> 00:51:38,559
Oh yeah, that's going to be
around the time that he could be available.

740
00:51:39,119 --> 00:51:43,000
Yeah, I'll tell you what,
I don't want to face some bead

741
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:51,039
and his return to them its restriction
probably, Yeah, asking that isn't be

742
00:51:51,159 --> 00:51:54,679
playing for those till the games,
no idea. I couldn't tell you.

743
00:51:54,800 --> 00:52:00,480
Probably based on Clipper's luck, right, we can assume it will probably be

744
00:52:00,519 --> 00:52:05,199
in one of those games. Clippers. Look, the real problem is it's

745
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,679
not just how difficult this schedule is, is that they have the most difficult

746
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:14,280
schedule left, likely because of March
over the three teams that are above them

747
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,320
in the standings in the West.
Right, That's what makes it so difficult

748
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:22,440
to get back in and why this
little rut they've been in could be proved

749
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:28,639
to be very consequential. Alan Kneeing
is saying Will's overly optimistic. That's the

750
00:52:28,679 --> 00:52:30,679
first time someone said that on this
pod. People say that about me all

751
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:36,320
the time. Do we need as
just too much? He's too much array

752
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:38,519
of sunlight? Sometimes? Oh yeah, should we do? What's the what's

753
00:52:38,559 --> 00:52:44,559
the updyke fun check one game into
March. I think I'm having lot of

754
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:46,840
super amount of fun right now.
Yeah, I'm not really having too much

755
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:52,159
fun. It is won by like
twenty five guys. What's the problem.

756
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:55,679
Hey, there were some losses in
that game. Junction says, I think

757
00:52:55,679 --> 00:52:59,760
a lot of success this month depends
on the Zubots getting back to form.

758
00:53:00,039 --> 00:53:05,519
Could not agree more played gigantic teams
this month. It's gonna be very important.

759
00:53:06,199 --> 00:53:10,119
I'm gonna I'm hoping that he was
out against the Wizards like I thought

760
00:53:10,199 --> 00:53:15,440
Paul George would be, because they
wanted to give him a little bit extra

761
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:20,639
rest they could afford to against Washington. Clearly it worked out that way because

762
00:53:20,679 --> 00:53:25,840
they knew he is going to be
maybe their second most third most important player,

763
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:30,639
that our second most important player for
like the rest of the season.

764
00:53:30,679 --> 00:53:36,320
Probably. Yeah, So that's the
that's my hope, that's my Ris Sunshine,

765
00:53:36,679 --> 00:53:40,480
silver lining optimism BS. I'm maybe
I'm on team Carl. He needs

766
00:53:40,519 --> 00:53:44,519
to keep washing his hands and needs
to keep drinking as much emergency as he

767
00:53:44,559 --> 00:53:47,960
possibly can in stage, not too
much, that's a good call. It

768
00:53:49,039 --> 00:53:53,239
don't take zinc on an empty stomach, zoo please. All right, let's

769
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:58,880
get into this giveaway. I believe
we have a giveaway for people, but

770
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,599
it's very complicated. We're gonna have
Adam explain it. It's not complicated.

771
00:54:02,039 --> 00:54:07,119
It's like how every video giveaway is
done. We have Is it a Russell

772
00:54:07,159 --> 00:54:14,559
Westbrook bobblehead from last night? Yes, Clipper's luck. It's unfortunate he gets

773
00:54:14,599 --> 00:54:19,920
hurt on Bobblehead night. We're hoping
for the best with Russ and a speedy

774
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:24,840
recovery. So we're gonna drive a
viewership and listenership up a little bit here.

775
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:30,639
This is how you win the bobblehead. We're gonna give away a keyword.

776
00:54:30,559 --> 00:54:37,719
There's going to be three of them. They're gonna be scattered throughout maybe

777
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:45,719
three of our next five episodes.
Today's keyword is heart. We'll say,

778
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:52,239
since I'm looking at Russell Westbrook here, today's keyword is hard. We're gonna

779
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:57,400
give away two more in upcoming episodes. Could be on a YouTube, could

780
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,159
be on a clips and double dip. You gotta be listen. When you

781
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:07,199
have all three, you put that
into the comment section on YouTube. If

782
00:55:07,199 --> 00:55:13,480
you're first, you win the bubblehead. Simple enough, it's that easy keyword

783
00:55:13,519 --> 00:55:21,519
one heart keyword one is heart.
Write that down heart heart h a RT

784
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:25,719
not h a RT. Correct,
Yeah, just double check in. I

785
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:31,960
don't know you really we do,
miss Isaiah Hartenstein. But somebody puts all

786
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:35,320
of these in the comment section and
we just hit him with the drink more

787
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:43,679
oval tine, the Russ bobblehead,
I do the Clippers and their bibbleheads.

788
00:55:43,679 --> 00:55:51,480
So the James Harden bobblehead is gonna
have seemingly like a real beard scenario on

789
00:55:51,639 --> 00:55:54,320
it. And then the brust one. You can take his shirt off and

790
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:59,599
put a tank. Ta's so weird. I just oh, he's a fashion

791
00:55:59,639 --> 00:56:01,519
east. He's a big fashion guy. So they want to stress them up.

792
00:56:01,679 --> 00:56:05,360
No, I get that, but
they made someone put abs on the

793
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:12,480
bottle ahead, which be accurate.
It's so funny that could be the next

794
00:56:12,559 --> 00:56:15,920
keyword. That's true. As we
were talking about benching the other day,

795
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:21,400
Carl Tart also says he could,
uh, he could bench more than chet,

796
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:29,000
which I think we believe. Oh
yeah see oh whoa junction saying you

797
00:56:29,039 --> 00:56:32,519
can take a shirt off heart is
right exactly. So that's the first word.

798
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:36,159
There's gonna be two more. Maybe
we'll do them on the double dip.

799
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,559
That might be too different. It's
no, no, no, we'll

800
00:56:38,599 --> 00:56:44,639
problem. There's a good chance that
you never know. But it's within the

801
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,239
entire clips and dip ecosystem. So
it could be through a double dip.

802
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:50,679
If you're listening, we'll give away
a keyword. It could be back here

803
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:53,239
on a YouTube live. It could
be on a YouTube podcast version. You

804
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:57,159
just gotta be watching, you gotta
be listening. I'm gonna write these down

805
00:56:57,159 --> 00:57:02,480
so I don't forget. It could
be skyt We don't know. It could

806
00:57:02,559 --> 00:57:07,800
be clips and dip were written in
the wind like the lion king thing that

807
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:13,679
smells out sex like there we go
exactly like that. We mentioned the double

808
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:15,199
dips. Will what are the double
dips? What are we talking about?

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We're gonna have them after these back
to backs A Double Dip is when either

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myself or Charles joins Adam over at
a five seventy who Adam brings you Ukorean

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post game every Clippers game If you
didn't already know that, he does so

812
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with heart. Hell, yes,
we're gonna be with you guys after both

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games. Nothing up here, all
in here. There's nothing up here from

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us. Smooth brains, big hearts. Bro smooth brains, big hearts can't

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lose, is so and will?
Where can people find if they maybe want

816
00:57:54,039 --> 00:57:57,000
to, if say they're catching us
for the first time, they want to

817
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:59,360
hear some of our audio episodes?
Where could they do that? Yeah?

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So you can check every episode of
this podcast and the aforementioned Double Dips over

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on our podcast feed wherever you get
your podcasts, Clips and Dip. We're

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on you know, Apple Podcasts or
Spotify. If you listen there, you

821
00:58:09,719 --> 00:58:13,039
should leave a little rating or review
for us. It helps us out.

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But you can check it out on
any audio podcast platform. You can also

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uh check us out over on YouTube. That's at Clippers Podcast. We're actually

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live on this one right now.
So if you've been hearing where are all

825
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these great comments coming from? From
these smart clips and dip listeners. It's

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happening over on YouTube. You could
be one of those smart listeners interacting with

827
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the show. So thank you so
much to everybody who's been listening, who's

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been watching. We really appreciate it. And yeah, let's let's let's get

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at least one win out of this
back to back on how about that,

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fellas, Let's get at least one. I was gonna ask for the Adam

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positivity, but I think Will just
brought it. Will is what's called overly

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positive this episode. Yeah, I'm
out of a job, Adam's out of

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a job. Needs to tune in
next week to see if Adam uh gets

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his job back. I guess for
this one small part of the pond,

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unless you have something you'd like to
rebut with your positivity at him, I'll

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fight positivity with more positivity here.
Paul George, Guys, as much as

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we were down on him and talking
about how he should take maybe a game

838
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off here and there, took two
off and it looked like it worked.

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What a difference taking a couple of
games off makes. The way he shook

840
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Lancery Shammitt, one of our favorites
in that Paul game and went by him

841
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for a layup, and just the
confidence he had leaning into his shots and

842
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shot making and tough shot making,
but just getting there quickly, quick strike.

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Paul George is one of my favorite
versions of Paul George. I think

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we found out very quickly that the
injury isn't something that is going to take

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away part of his abilities or part
of his powers out there, and he

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can still get back to his peak
of his powers by the time the playoffs

847
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start, because last night, if
that's an indication and he can build off

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of that. Even if he's getting
more rest here and there, Paul George

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is still Paul George. We found
that out last night. We found it

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out last night. Fantastic positivity from
both of the two other co hosts.

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I was negative this episode, not
usually how it goes, but it's rained

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in La, so weird things are
happening. We thank everyone for hanging out

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on the stream, thank you for
listening, and yeah, we'll be back

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with the Double Dips in a full
episode Tuesday or something like that. As

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always, let's go clips