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Clippers season ends on a sour note
once again, Kawhi Leonard unavailable and that's

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how another playoff run ends. Clippers
lose Game six one, fourteen to one

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on one in Dallas to the Mavericks, welcome back into Clipper Stock. I'm

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at a maslin. You're listening to
the Patriot AM eleven fifty eight seven seven

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five two zero eleven fifty eight seven
seven five two zero eleven fifty is the

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phone number you hear the music.
We got Chuck and Will on one phone.

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We're gonna make this work. Two
guys, one phone. It can

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be done. All right, Let's
start here with Will because he picked up

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first and I did call his phone
number. Not a lot of pleasantries tonight.

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I know everybody's down and defeated.
We've been getting a lot of calls

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about it. But Will, I
just want to get your reaction to the

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situation with PJ. Tucker starting tonight. How surprised you were? I had

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low murray on pregame as it was
an and it was mouth agape. There

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were no words, just the move
how it played out. Is that the

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reason they lost the game? How'd
you see it? All? Right?

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So I want to say that I
was not surprised by this. As soon

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as I heard that there was going
to be a change in the starting lineup.

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You know, I said this month
ago, PJ. Tucker, you

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sucked. You should start him because
there's no other way to hide him.

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Then there's no better way to hide
him than around your best players. But

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look, if there was going to
be a change to the starting lineup,

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it was either him or Russell Westbrook. And I think that from what we've

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seen so far, PJ fits the
mold a little bit better for what they

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needed. To me, PJ.
Tucker is not the reason that they lost

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this game. It was once again
the same thing that we've seen dro series,

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was that their offense really failed to
ignite. I will say, though,

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we got another consistent performance from James
Harden, who I mean surprisingly,

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I gotta be perfectly honest with you, I did not expect this coming into

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the series. But was really their
best performer offensively. Yeah, I mean

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he was five of sixteen, but
sixteen points and thirteen assists to one turnover.

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It's not great that that ended up
being their best player tonight, but

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he probably was. He interveats the
Zubats. I think were the two best

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players this series, their two most
consistent guys throughout. Paul George did not

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finish top two. In my book, I didn't say it was perfect.

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You never heard me say it was
perfect. No, you're right, You're

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right. It's just it's the best
of the worst because it wasn't a good

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series all around for a lot of
different players. When you talk about so

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many guys struggling offensively, collectively,
this team really struggled. But I know

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Chuck's the bigger fan of PJ.
Tucker, so I do want to hear

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from him regarding him starting tonight.
Charles, how'd you feel about PJ Tucker?

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Were you surprised? Shocked? I
did tweet out something that was kind

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of sarcastic, kind of jokingly.
I said, it's either gonna be Norm

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or Russ or dot dot dot PJ
Tucker just a guess, even though I

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gave like three of them. That
was the joke. I was pretty much

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going with every guy I could have
been. So how'd you feel about it,

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Charles? I think I bummed out
to say that I wasn't super surprised,

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but I was still confused, if
that makes sense. Because the Clippers

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it seems like starting PJ. Tucker
Tylu wanted to lead in the defense,

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which is you know, missing Kwi
Leonard is obviously worse. You mean,

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because they've actually been better on that
end than on offense this series. So

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it didn't make that much sense.
Yes, thank you. Yeah, that's

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no, I'm just interpreting that now. I'm not projecting. I'm interpreting.

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But you're right, right, that's
that's been the issue. Like Will said

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to, the offense has been kind
of rough and inserting p. A.

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Tucker into the lineup is not a
way to make the offense any better.

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But yeah, he did hit one
three. He also looked terrified underneath the

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rim when he did hit the layup, but it took him like a weird

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pump fake. But having to start
PJ. Tucker in game six in a

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do or die game is what happens
when Kawhi Leonard is hurt, And it's

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what happens when the rest of the
roster partly gets neglected and partly isn't playable

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in the playoffs. Yeah, that's
I don't know, I'm still a little

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raw about the whole thing. Yeah, well, go on, I mean,

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Paul George this could have been his
last game as a Clipper. I

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said to Will, I think in
this series. Yeah, definitely James Harden.

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I think James Harden and the Visa
Zubats were their top two players in

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this series. Yeah, that's hard
to argue you didn't. I mean,

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doesn't Zoo have the most field goals
even made, just total? I think

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I don't know who tweeted that out
earlier today, but you have the most

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field goals made. Obviously on the
way better percent because they're so close,

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but it was out of here.
It was a goofy season and or sorry,

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it was a goofy playoffs. Rotation
wise, Daniel Tye not getting any

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minute at all is after how he
played during the regular season and saved them

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in a tough time. After Mason
Plumley went down, everybody was wondering who

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they're going to pick up, and
Daniel Tye like he gave them more than

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they could have asked for this year. And outside that fourth quarter in Game

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four, Mason Plumbley was brutal in
this series, and maybe part of it

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was because he was on the floor
with Russell Westbrook and those lineups just did

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not work, and Russell Westbrook's shot
did not work. Six, No,

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make it. I want to get
to be the accurate here because the stands

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are going to come after me.
Eight for forty two to the last five

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games. That is that might be
an all time record, you do,

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Yeah, that's that ideal. It's
tough. Uh. You know, Russ

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isn't the reason they lost. Ultimately, the reason they lost was just Paul

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George, Kawhi Leonard not being there, was Kawhi not being there, and

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I feel like everything gets compounded more. But the Russ performance, it's very

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difficult to see what he positive and
he has the backseat driver and Will right

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now is killing me. Come on, yeah, I mean, hey,

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uh, he's laming Paul George.
I don't know if that's fully accurate.

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Running me down George Paul's box scores
through those games, through those six games,

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okay, okay, fair? Would
you say he had two good games

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total in this six game series?
Generously yet too good? You're giving him

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game one and obviously game four.
Yeah, So what do you think happens

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with Paul George this summer? Now? Will George Paul, I don't know,

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man, I think that Steve Bomber
pays him because he opened a new

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stadium. But I would say let
him go to Philly and let him see

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what those fans think when he has
those performances. It's tough to stand behind

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him after this series because I've given
him a ton of love for what he

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did in twenty twenty one being able
to lead them to the Western Conference Finals

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without Kawhi Leonard. But it's three
years ago. Now, two games out

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of six is in saying yeah,
And we thought they had a real chance

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at least when they initially brought in
James Harden that hey, one of two

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and three goes down, James Harden
next to whoever is left could be enough.

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Eh, didn't happen. I appreciate
you guys in the work we've been

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able to do together in our second
season with clips and dip and you guys

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coming on with me on clipperstock and
doing some double dip all year long.

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It's been rough, but I feel
like, I really genuinely feel like we've

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done a decent job. We did
our best, We did a decent job.

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Adam has been a wonderful season.
It was a it was a horrific

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ending one that none of us wanted, but we're excited to talk about it

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on Sunday. Thanks for having us
on Clipper Talk. Thanks everyone who called

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in to you know, let's go
clips Chuck, Chuck Buckler and wilheff Tyke

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