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Hashtag Clippers come back again. They
were down fourteen. They go on to

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win one twelve to one oh two
over the Chicago Bulls at home on the

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front end of a matinee home back
to back while losing an hour as they

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take on the Bucks tomorrow. Welcome
back into Clippers Talk here on the Patriot

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Am eleven fifty. I'm at a
Mosland eight seven seven five two zero eleven

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fifty is the phone number. But
joining the show right now is big Chuck

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Mockler, even coming back just like
the Clippers did on a win by this

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team. It's it's a rare It's
a rare appearance from Chuck Mockler after a

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win, but we will take it. Charles, thanks for doing this,

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Hey, thanks for having me a
bit of a I mean, I don't

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think not totally unexpected walkey' sorrd for
the Clippers, but it's good to get

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to win with what's what they have
to do tomorrow. Yeah, they were

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down by eleven in the first quarter, they were down by eleven at the

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half, they were down by fourteen
early in the third, but they surged

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ahead. I felt like it was
their defense that ramped up got them into

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their offense, which they did started
executing much better. They ran high pick

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and roll. It's like they have
this way to beat teams that is fairly

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simple, and sometimes they just go
away from it for whatever reason. But

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would James Harden being the master of
the pick and roll and throwing these between

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the league passes to Aviatza Zoo boss. When they utilize Zoo like that,

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they're a really tough team to beat. Yeah, it was great to these

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Zoo have the second half that he
did. For sure. He went to

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five for five on the second half, which was huge, and he looked

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you know, I thought he looked
a little skinnier maybe lately, just maybe

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a few being sick and whatnot.
But you know, the team was still

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kind of talking about him getting back
to game shape and whatnot. Just under

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twenty five minutes today. But I
mean plus eighteen, you know, plus

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nine us doesn't always tell the full
story, but I think it told that

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helps tell the story of how valuable
Zoo was today, especially in the second

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half. Yeah, finished with sixteen
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He had the first two buckets for
the Clippers, and they kind of

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went away from him and just forgot
about him for a little bit, but

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they executed near the end of that
third quarter. It was him. It

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was James Harden just abusing Nikol bussa
bitch out there. I'm just glad of

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beats. The Zubats is still in
the starting lineup, and you know,

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Daniel Tice isn't quite there yet.
Good off the bench, and I did

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like the fact that this was another
game where you see what Mason Plumbley was

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able to do on Wednesday, and
it was still Daniel Tye's turn, and

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I thought he was solid out there. But if both these guys can stay

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ready like this where one of them
will be used in a ball game as

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the backup, I think you're good. I think you're solid. Yeah.

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The Clippers center rotation was such an
issue coming into the season, and they

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really did do a great job to
solidify it. It's been a little wonky

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as of lay. You know,
Tye not the best shooting night tonight or

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this afternoon. Excuse me, but
you're right. If they can kind of

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pick their spots and be able to
contribute when they're called upon, the Clipper

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will be good. We're also,
i think all hoping that Zee's minutes for

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games goes up in the playoffs,
every one of the main guys this minute

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is going to go up. I
really hope that Zews does as well,

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or maybe get shifted more towards closing
games, but still quite a few games

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ago before then, Charles pie Face
just hit me up on x at follow

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out of May. Maybe I'm gonna
throw this one to you. I'm just

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gonna pass it off. He said, where was Plumbly this game? And

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why don't they pair Tyson plumbly when
going against lengthier teams? Why don't they

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do it? Joke? I don't
think he very plumbly against lengthier teams because

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the offense becomes an absolute nightmare.
We know that type can shoot and will

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shoot, but that doesn't mean that
the space thing is necessarily going to be

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better and defensively, I don't know
if Tys can hang with a lengthy athletic

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four. Where are you having issues
with guys like Kawhi Leonard and Paul George

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doing that. I don't think Daniel
Tyson can do any better a job there,

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and they Plumbey has just not been
very consistent lately, so there's a

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lot of weird discourse around the center
rotation. The answer is just playing Zoo

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Moore and then sure I do agree
against bigger teams, maybe Mason Plumby should

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come in and get the run instead
of Daniel Tye. There's just no reason

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for those two people to ever be
on the court together. Good answer,

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pie to the face. That's what
they call him, pie face. So

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Bolese Hyland goes three of three from
distance. He may have got the poor

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shooting out of him. He may
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I felt like the way he was
turning the corner last game and get into

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the basket was big. But now
the three point shot is starting to come

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back. This is somebody who can
pull up off the bounce and knock them

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down from the outside at a high
volume and with nice efficiency when he's in

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a groove. I think he may
be getting there now. Yeah, he

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was on the floor with Norm a
little bit tonight, which is always a

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bit of a you know, adventure
defensively, but both of those guys ended

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up playing pretty solid. Wasn't super
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from this pairing. Yeah, bones
can do it off the bounce, which

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is great. I didn't. I
can't remember if he had to catch and

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shoot three in this one, but
that's gonna be something to kind of look

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for for bones too. He has
a similar thing with hard maybe being a

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little you know, not comfortable doing
that yet. But he did exactly what

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the Clippers are going to need him
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play around fifteen minutes, not be
a complete sieve on defense, and then

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be a fish on offense. He
was efficient as possible today, which was

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a really long way to help the
Clippers. But yeah, he's rounding into

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form a little quicker than maybe we
thought. And that's probably because, you

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know, he is the youngest contributor
on the team, so it is my

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time to sell the young legs out
there. We hashtag skeleton key. How

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dare you any? He had three
steals in this one. Paul George also

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had three blocks and two steals,
eight assists of three turnovers, twenty two

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points, eight of sixteen shooting.
Really, four of his last five games

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have been very solid overall from all
George. He also is starting to get

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back into the type of rhythm and
timing he was in before the knee injury,

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before the growing issue, before that, but his defense also on Damar

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Derozen when he was trying to pick
on Norman Powell early in that first half,

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when he was just going after him
left and right. I think Paul

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George and his defense was nice in
this game. But finding the touch now

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also, Yeah, he had a
couple of lapses on d but you know,

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it's noon game. Whatever. Yeah, finding guys to this afternoon was

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really cool to see from punters nine
as sifts, which feels like the most

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he's had. We did a very
long time, and it's just not usually

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his game. So he was playing
with good awareness today. He did pass

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up with three at one point and
go in for the lamp and he converted

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it, which was really cool to
see. He did not have a good

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shooting afternoon. Who knows if he's
going to play tomorrow, but we hope

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it's a little better on Tuesday.
But yeah, he's for all the noise

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around PG lately, he's done a
good job of he's ramping up well yeah,

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basically, well I'll take a gate
of sixteen, but I'm with you.

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I like the fact that he actually
turned down that three and went to

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the basket and did that eurostep around
Vusavish there last one for you. I've

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been talking about it. I've been
really hitting on it, probably more than

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some people would like. But is
it not ridiculous? You play two games

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in twenty two hours? Are you
kid? Me? And its Milwaukee tomorrow?

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How did the Clippers deal with this? Yeah, it doesn't really make

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any sense. I want to give
a hat tip to Brian Steman for calling

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out on the broadcast kind of about
how that goes against the NBA protocol with

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how often you can actually play games
close to each other. So it's I

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don't know if it's unprecedented. It
might be unprecedented. I can't remember the

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last time an NBA team had two
games in less than twenty four hours.

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It feels like we're like a third
tier soccer team or something like that with

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how much basketball they're because also they
play again on Tuesday. This is a

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three and four for the Clips,
so we hope they're whoever plays tomorrow.

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I hope they get some good rest
today and tonight. I'm we don't know

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what's going to happen with Paul,
George, Harden and Kawhi. I maybe

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don't want them to play. I
think it's totally fine. I don't think

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anyone would blame them for not playing. I hope you don't, because again,

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two games in twenty two hours.
I just don't know if there's any

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days to go off of on this
one. Honestly, Yeah, I'm not

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going to blame him if guys don't
play in this one. It's absurd because

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if somebody ended up getting hurt,
the storyline will be how these games were

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smashed together and how that never should
have happened. Hashtag NBA cares not like

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what is going on here? This
is just the ultimate just laps by the

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NBA in scheduling. It's unbelievable.
Chuck Machler, Chuck Mockler of Clips in

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Dip Fame, we did one for
you yesterday on the YouTube. Some of

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what we talked about kind of came
to fruition in this ball game, although

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we didn't even know who would be
available after a bunch of guys were questionable

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yesterday. So we'll see what happens
tomorrow against the Bucks and who's able to

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give it a go. But Charles, thanks for doing this a little Clips

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and Double Dip here on clipper Stock. Thank you, Hey, thanks for

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having me here here's again in the
maybe surprise win tomorrow. Yeah, they're

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gonna need it. They're gonna need
guys. I mean, maybe that's why

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Jordan Miller and Kobe Brown were getting
some run at the end of this game.

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Maybe was like, hey, get
ready, get your feet wet.

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You could be playing tomorrow, PJ
Tucker, you two, and I'm guessing

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Mason Plumbley will be playing. He'll
get the go against Ianis Denn Koopo,

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the bigger defender Daniel Tice today against
Chicago. So it's kind of interesting stagger

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there. I like that