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Clippers follow the regular season finale here
at Crypto dot Com Arena for the final

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time here in downtown Los Angeles.
They lose one sixteen to one oh five.

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It's time for playoff basketball, though. Clippers will be taking on the

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Dallas Mavericks right back here next weekend. Coming up, we'll hear from big

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brother Jake Warner on his memories here
in downtown Los Angeles as we celebrate twenty

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five years here with the Clippers in
this building. But joining the show right

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now for a little Clips and double
dip on Clippers stock is will Updyke.

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Well, let's get right into it. Your best memory of a Clipper game

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here at Crypto dot Com Areno formerly
known as Staples Center. Ooh man,

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that's a tough one. Christmas Day, Lakers, the past, the pad,

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that's steal. I think that might
be. I think that's up there

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with my favorite. I like that
Clippers were down double digits. It was

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a classic late and I love Patrick
bever So. Any new Rakles, anything

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that I don't know, an epiphany
or a revelation you have had when thinking

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about this outcoming series against the Dallas
Mavericks right now? Will you know I'm

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it's great that we got some rest
for all the key guys. And you

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know, I'm assuming given from what
we've heard, which has you know,

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been a little bit shrouded in mystery, but Kawhi Leonard is going to be

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good to go. But what I've
really like from these last couple of weeks

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is just the extended burn that we've
gotten for some of these role player guys.

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I mean, I feel like I'm
here Coffee is really pop, which

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she's done all season long, but
just getting even more minutes, even more

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comfortable. I think it's great seeing
Terrence out there able to sort of run

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the show, you know, top
TOI your talent between these two teams,

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both pros and cons. But it's
going to be really, really difficult.

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I do in my mind the Clippers
still do you have a bit of a

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depth advantage. It just depends on
how they're going to be able to work

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through rotations. But getting everybody into
this sort of playoff form, getting the

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best out of you know, your
your roster as deep as as deep as

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that ends up being, whether at
ten guys or it goes all the way

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to two or what have you.
Getting those guys really up to speed and

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really comfortable in games. I think
is great preparation for the playoffs. And

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obviously harden Kawhi and Paul George had
extensive experience there. I mean Norm Powell

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as well, So not as much
concerned with them, Glad that they glad

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that they got some time off,
Glad that we were able to do that

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to end the season. We didn't
have to necessarily fight and claw to secure

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the seed that we the best seed
that we could get. Daniel size finish

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was sixteen points and ten boards in
this game. I thought he looked really

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fresh and spry out there. How
do you see the backup big man rotation

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shaking out and being used against the
Dallas Mavericks will Man. I think that

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is such a huge question mark because
so much of this series I think could

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really depend on how much Viza zu
Beck is going to be able to play

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out there on the floor. You
know, if Zo can assert himself and

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be good for you know, thirty
thirty plus minutes a night. I think

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then I think next up in the
rotation, it'll probably I want to say

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that they'll go with Tys and or
PJ. Tucker for some looks as good

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as Mason Plumley has been. I
think that Tye is going to prioritize a

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little bit, a little bit of
the spacing and some of the versatility at

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the five, as we have seen
him do kind of throughout the season.

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Quickly here final question, things kind
of worked out for the Clippers. On

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the final day of the regular season. Denver did not get the number one

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seed. They're in the two three
with Minnesota. Should both those teams win

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their first round matchups, they would
be matched up against one another. It's

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okay, see waiting to find out
who the A seed's going to be.

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Okay, see at the top of
the West. Just what do you observe

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here? Because it seems like this
is not too bad of a path.

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We don't want to get ahead of
ourselves. The Dallas Mavericks are brutal and

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they can easily win this series if
the Clippers are not on their game,

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and even if they are. But
was nice to see some of the West

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and actually things kind of work in
the clippers favor for once here. Will

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Yeah, I mean I gotta agree. Look like you said, we just

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can't. You just can't think about
the second round right now while it's nice

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to know that Denver won't be waiting
right around the corner. Nothing matter,

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but this series starting on what I
believe will be Saturday. That's just getting

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four wins against the Mavericks is really
the only thing that matters. And as

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I said, like, well,
it'll be great to not be staring down

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Denver immediately after that. I just
can't really think beyond this series right now.

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And the Clippers shouldn't be either.
I'm with you. We have talent

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like Dallas does and that new reloaded
front. Shae's MVP it might mean that,

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It might mean that, or it's
Luca or I don't think it's gonna

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go to Yokis now because they finished
second, and there's just fatigue with giving

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him his third regular season MVP after
coming off the finals MVP last year.

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You know how it worked well.
I mean, if Shaye won the MVP,

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I would be I would be over
the moon. I would be over

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the moon for him, Yeah,
no doubt. And then I'd like to

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see the Clippers take them on in
the second round, should they be lucky

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enough. Will Thanks for doing a
little double dip here, my friend.

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I appreciate it absolutely. Thanks for
having me let's go clip, Let's go playoffs,