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What's going on Clippers fans? Welcome
to season two, episode sixty four of

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the Clip and Dip. I am
Chuck Mockler with William Updyke and Adam Oslynd,

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who you can follow on x at
follow Adam A. We are coming

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at you live over on YouTube.
We're also going to have this as an

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audio format, So thank you to
everyone hanging out on the stream, and

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thank you to everyone who's going to
be listening to this later. One thing

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I wanted to point out just quick, if you watch the show on YouTube

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and you maybe want to hear us
do quick recaps after games. We do

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those with Adam on the radio,
and then we put them out as audio,

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So if you've been missing some of
that content, feel free to listen

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to it. What's up to people? In the chat? We're gonna talk

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about a lot of good stuff today. The Clippers might be starting to turn

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a corner. We got some Pac
div talk, which I know Adam and

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Will are really excited about. And
then there's been a bunch of scuttle but

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about Paul George's contract. So we're
gonna get into all that. But first,

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Adam, Will, how are you
fellas doing after the Clippers rattle off

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to gritty wins. It took a
lot of guts, which is like something

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which which is something that we just
haven't seen from this team in a while.

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I feel like the most disappointing thing
has been the way they've sort of

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crumpled in the face of adversity.
And I think this one both in that

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Sixers game, which Adam and I
talked a little bit about how it looked

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like it was going to be more
of the same and they were able to

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turn it around, and then in
that Orlando win, I mean that was

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like that was a hard fought road
wind, you know, like going back

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and forth, not an easy win. I gotta give a ton of credit

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to coach lou He called him out
for being soft. We said that was

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the best part of that game against
the Pacers. What he said postgame about

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the team, he uh, I
don't know. I think when you're that

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self effacing sometimes when you have a
realization like that, when you just confront

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the truth and tell the truth.
And that is something coach who has talked

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about forever. That's why guys like
playing for him. He tells them the

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truth. He's not gonna double speak
and that to me, I don't know,

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when you see two gritty victories after
that, there's got to be a

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connection there. They were called out, they were challenged by their head coach,

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and I think that has a lot
to do with what we see in

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the fourth quarter, lost two games. Does this give anybody like some reassurance,

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because I think there was some concern, not necessarily here, but in

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the general Clippers sphere that maybe TYLERU
was losing a little bit of a handle

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on the locker room. Do you
guys feel Do you guys feel any reassured

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in that or was that something you
were never really worried about in the first

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place. I was worried about it
because when the two stars, when two

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star players are saying something and then
the coach is saying different, it always

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feels like there's maybe some friction there. But I am relieved of those feelings

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strictly because there was a clip from
practice of Tylo make a half court shot

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and people cheering and having a good
time, and that to me, I

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was like, Oh, we're good
now, Like I think like, I

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think, well, I also like
what Adam said, Tyler will talk to

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you about what's going on. Like
it's not gonna he will talk to you

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about what he expects and what he
needs from you. And this was in

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between the two wins. This was
after, you know, the great fourth

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quarter we saw from Kawhi against Philly. It was the practice in between that,

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but that you know, as like
the cheesy as it is, I

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was like, that made me feel
good. I was like, oh,

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yeah, they're having fun. They're
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in the in the trenches, on
the nice plane that they're traveling in.

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But that which is great because they
hate playing at home. I've made same

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too, But no, I feel
I'm feeling better. I'm obviously not you

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know where I was at some points
in the season with how good this team

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is playing. But I'm feeling I'm
feeling good. Yeah, I think in

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the manner they won these last two
games. They were the exact archetype for

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the games they were losing and to
see them come through late Kawhi having an

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off night shooting wise in Philadelphia,
the two and ones, the block at

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the end, Paul George really carrying
them in the first half of that fourth

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quarter with eleven points the first seven
minutes, and then what happened last night

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with both of them. Again,
your superstars pulling you across the finish line

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in a really tough environment against a
young, physical Orlando Magic team. It's

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not like both teams they played Wilton
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You know. It was a well
played game down the stretch that felt

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like a little bit of a playoff
type tune up. And that's what this

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team needs right now with nine games
remaining. I think both of these games

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two of the best victories of the
season considering where they were at, with

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how down things were, and with
how close they are to being in the

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postseason. Yeah, there was I
mean this these last two games really proved

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the the Clips go as far as
Kawhi Leandard's gonna take them to some extent

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theory because he just decided those games
were over. Paul George was great in

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the fourth quarter too. I loved
I mean, we got to talk about

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Adam. I feel like you gotta
be hyped on Zoo's last game. People

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are there's been chatter and the Clippers
were now about like, oh, when

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things are going poorly in the half
court, maybe given maybe shoot the ball

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down load a big Zoo what a
concept. The guy was a beast yesterday.

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He was my player to watch going
in just because of how physical and

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big Orlando could be. You knew
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I also felt like Mason Plumley was
solid in his minutes. He had some

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bad moments against Mo Wagner, but
he had some really good moments in that

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game too, one of his better
games overall over the last month. But

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Iviatz Zubos had a couple of monster
dunks in that game. Was so physical.

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Love seeing it from Aviatza Zubos,
especially because he didn't get off to

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a good start in the first quarter. It was the second quarter, that

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second stint from him where it seemed
like early on he was getting into it

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the refs. He puts that stuff
aside and he just let his play do

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the talking, and he was a
force. Uh for Shizzle Badizzle with a

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great comment on here, what have
like some of this good process like ten

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to fifteen games ago, but better
late than ever. Yeah, you know,

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we gotta we gotta take what we
can get at this point, it's

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crunch time. What about this?
Though? There's something to be said about

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peaking at the right time. Yeah, exactly, they're on the up switch.

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They flipped the switch. Now that
we don't know if they fully flipped

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the switch yet. Well, Paul
George certainly flipped it back off or something.

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Yeah, he's toggling it. What
do we think is the most encouraging

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sign from these last two performances?
Might be a chance to perhaps show some

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of these the good things from these
last two performances. Wink wink, adam,

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Oh, do we have a high
five? I think we have.

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I was told that we maybe have
a high five. We can do a

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little high five. Here is five
highlights from yesterday's game in Orlando. I'm

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good with that, and most of
these highlights are also good. Are you

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guys seeing the screen correctly? Okay, we're good to go here. So

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this was the first possession of the
game. Sound is off by the Clippers.

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Hey, it's my fault. After
giving up an easy bucket to Gary

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Harris as James Harden just closed in
on him a little too quickly, let

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him blow by him for the little
floater. Here's the Clippers first possession.

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You'll notice right away here you got
James Harden way up on the left wing.

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Of Eatza Zubos comes over and sets
a little off ball screen for Kawhi.

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Leonard on his men and Ben Carroll. Kawhi makes a little tight curl

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rounds here. James Harden finds him. Now the baskets wide open, but

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Gary Harris pops off of his defender
and Terrence Man, or his opposition in

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Terrence Man heads towards the basket.
Caw I sees that it's well contested enough

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that he goes, Okay, I
know I got a man open, I

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know we have numbers, kicks it
back out to t Man. What I

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like about this is Man looks over
to Paul George, who's also opening the

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near side corner. You got Franz
Wagner here having to make a decision,

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and it gets him to stop coming
straight to Man and he goes towards PG

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just a little bit to get him
off balance, and Terror's Man, who's

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been shooting forty five percent from three
in since January first in the New Year,

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takes and makes that shot when he
could have given it up to PG

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thirteen. And by the way,
guys, I don't know, I feel

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like those people who gave up on
Terrence Man might have been wrong about his

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three point shooting. I don't know. Sure, seemed like it was a

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good idea to keep him in the
starting lineup and eventually he was going to

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progress to the mean because that's exactly
what we have seen forty five percent from

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three since January first, we're talking
about over thirty games here. What I

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like about that too, is a
a lot of motion. I feel like

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sometimes we we don't see a lot
of motion. Uh, And they get

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into it early in the shot clock, which gives them a little bit more

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time to work. You know that
Terrence doesn't have to huck up that shot

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at the last minute. We don't
have to like bail something out like they

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They got into the offense more quickly, which is something Tyler has said again

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and again. And I love the
fake. I cannot describe how psyched I

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was because that's confidence. That's a
confident move by Terrence. That's well he

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loves a fake. Well sure,
yeah. On the other hand, yeah,

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he knows that peopleill probably buy it
on him. But that well,

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that's of it. Ben has been
the issue. Yeah, that has to

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That move shows confidence, which is
exactly what we need from guys. Yes,

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he's a starter, but you know
the other role play guys need to

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feel confidence. I was really I
was hyped to see that. I mentioned

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Big Plumb. I felt like he
had a pretty solid performance overall in limited

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minutes, granted, And we have
a play from him and Norman pal here.

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After Norman got one to go and
transition, here's Mayson Plumb. We

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is Westbrook comes over to set a
screen on Cole Anthony. I believe it

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is for Norman Powell to come over
here and catch a little dribble handoff from

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Big Plump. Plumb rolls to the
basket and you know, Norman Palell going

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right is lethal. That's what he
wants. So he's going downhill in a

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hurry. Moe Wagner's in drop.
He's got to get back. He follows

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him all the way there. And
for as much as people say, well

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Norman Powell is just a score,
he's not that good of a playmaker.

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Look at this nice wrap round he
has after he draws two to Big Plump,

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who eventually gets it to go here
like that little spin move from Mason

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Plumbley too. But that was early
second quarter. The Clippers had just won

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the first quarter. I think by
what four to two points and they got

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a little bit of spark there to
start the second. Yeah. I like

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this comment by Wilbert Beltran, which
we're probably gonna talk about. He said

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they need these kind of plays.
Yeah, I think you will. They

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need these kind of plays in Temple
on the fourth. Too many droughts in

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the fourth. I think they're building
up up to getting better at that.

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Like, I agree that the forces
have been a little rough obviously recently they've

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been better, but they've still been
thin margins. The Clippers have gotten some

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of these, you know, good
things have happened on so I'm hoping the

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legs come back a little bit there
too. I agree with that Wilfer,

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speaking of rewarding your big men.
How about it beats the Zubots here with

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this block, the beast was unleashed. He doesn't fall for the same fake

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that Mo Wogner just gave a little
bit earlier in the quarter to Mason Plumley,

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which led to a blowby for an
easy dunk from Mo Wogner, who

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almost won the game single handedly for
Orlando in that fourth quarter, but now

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beats the Zubots is back in.
He just doesn't fall for it whatsoever,

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a little dribble drive bolb block comes
up with it as the old Bill Russell

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play. Now the Clippers have some
numbers, and because he blocked his man

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in Mo Wagner, he knows he
can beat him down the court. And

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if you do beat him down the
court, you got to reward the big

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man. So old George has it. Here on the left wing, it

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was Joe Ingles who probably should have
got back. You love seeing that against

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the BEASTSA Zoo bots here Pg.
Thirteen with a nice bounce pass, Big

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Zoo the recipient defense to offense,
that was all Big Zoo right there.

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I think that's one of my most
encouraging things is the defense to off How

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many defense to offense plays we saw
yesterday, That's how the Clippers are going

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to have success. Yeah, just
their defense won that game. They've gotten

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like they've gotten back into form there, which has been missing for a long

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time. So it's good to see
that it still is there. Just need

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to see some consistency totally. They
went for being twenty ninth their first twenty

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three games post Grammy road trip defensively
to jumping up two spots last night go

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to US ten games left. We
keep going two spots, we're gonna be

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right near that top ten. Pretty
yeah. To twenty seventh, after holding

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New Orlando Magic down to just nine, missing the bottom three in and the

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bottom three. Now here comes the
negative playboys instead of ear muffs. If

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you want to put blinders on,
that's fair. Here Russell Westbrook throws a

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bad pass he was looking for Terrence
Man, I don't know what's happening here.

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As the Clippers were trying to speed
things up. It's taken away by

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Sucks. So the Clippers. This
is your classic okay transition defense play by

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the Clippers. How is it going
to look after a live ball turnover?

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Kawhi doesn't exactly get on his dogs
and hustle back as fast as he could.

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Russ is smiling almost here, you
could see, because he knows how

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bad of a pass that was.
But now the Clippers are scrambling. The

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thing is here. It's not an
advantage right now for the Orlando Magic.

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It's three on four because if Viatsa
Zubos wasn't even all the way down the

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floor yet and engaged on the offensive
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somebody has to pick up his man. I believe in Wendell Carter,

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who's gonna get back late here.
But the Clippers still have the numbers,

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the balls and Sugs hands gives it
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him. Now here's a problem.
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Man Caro is in the corner here
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towards Suggs. Meanwhile, Russ is
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up as these two are looking at
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and Aviza Zubots. Suggs gives up
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him, and he gets an easy
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And now you see once again some
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Zubots. And to be honest,
I think this is probably on Kawhi Leonard

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because watch the Viza Zubots here.
He comes up to contest this shot by

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Suggs. He sees what's going down, but Kawhi jumps over ben Caro's his

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man. Kawhi I think was trying
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mistakes. But Big Zoo was all
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contain. So just one of those
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now for well, really all season
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the process of that transition defense,
they didn't end up closing it out,

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but it does look better than what
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was just Zoo being in position early. But I mean, I agree,

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unfortunate result, but at least you
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wasn't a complete giveaway. And we've
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Kawhi conversating more about defensive miscues lately, which can be bad, but I

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think it is good. I think
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yelling at each other and more yelling, well conversing, if that makes sense.

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So I'm hoping that we see that
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guys don't care when they're bickering with
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they just move on and act like
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what happens when you're not trying to
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to the biggest shot of the ball
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a high note here, and this
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was Kawhi Leonard. Obviously he got
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He got multiple guys off of him. First it was Ben Caro,

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then it was Franz Wagner. Then
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who's a good defender but just too
small against Kawhi. But now it's Paul

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George. What's interesting about this Clippers
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seven, there's ten seconds left here. This ends up being the dagger,

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But Joe Ingles was subbed out for
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there for defensive purposes. You're trading
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in on the final possession as the
inbounder. But Jonathan Isaac started on Kawhi

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Leonard on this play, but it
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I believe it was James Harden the
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just goes in a straight ISO mode
here, guys, they basically clear out

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for him. James Harden's gonna come
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is the type of stuff you're gonna
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their best. Everybody wants a ton
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o's drawn up play at the end
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series, most of the time,
the team is well prepared and knows what's

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going to happen. So it's gonna
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sorry, have you watched many game
seven they're typically very low scoring for a

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reason. Now, this move though
by Paul George, there's a couple of

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things that need to be observed here, because, first of all, physically,

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we've talked about how much better he's
been shooting this game. Notwithstanding he

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was three for thirteen before this shot
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his last four in the fourth quarter, and his defense was really good for

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the most part all game long.
I felt like he gave a great effort

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on that end. But the athleticism
and the move he makes here just shows

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you the groin the knee is feeling
good. Look how deep he gets into

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it with the shove off here on
Isaac one of, if not the best

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defender in the league win healthy.
He is that elite on that end.

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But you can see the how spry
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them a little bit of shoulder fake
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think gave him just enough separation when
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But my god, this is just
the arc on that ball. To

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get that up, there's nothing you
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you have these two guys on your
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shot makers and takers in the league. And it was great to see Paul

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George have that confidence at the end
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He's not looking for anybody else.
It's complete tunnel vision here to have

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that much confidence with the game that
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the way he back pedals too,
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I love that Paul George confident back
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It's funny. If you go to
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bit, it almost looks like Zoo's
calling for the ball in the corner,

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which would be so funny. Watched
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He's not calling for the ball,
but I would love it if Sorry,

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but he couldn't see it. I
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don't know if he's commuting to someone
with the I don't know if he's calling

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for spacing here with hard to create
a room. Yeah, this is just

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now as a bonus. I don't
love what happened here at the very end

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the Clippers ended up. It's just
a quick honorable mention or dishonorable. Uh

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both Paul George or excuse me,
both Kawhi Leonard and Terrence Mann. For

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whatever reason, Chase sugs here for
a second. Kawhi recovers and eventually sees

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his man, Franz Wagner is going
to get basketball up here on the left

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wing, but he does hesitate.
They first come over to Suggs, then

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he bounces back. His brother Moe
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shove, but he got back in
time. He was completely off balance and

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that shot really had no shot.
But stuff to work on. There's a

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lot That's the other part is like
there's a long ish way to go for

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the Clippers to get the championship level
basketball. What do you guys want to

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pick as your most encouraging thing over
these two games? Will what were you

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most like? What I like?
I like what Wilbert is saying here in

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the chat. PG has started the
process of crashing the glass better and it's

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helped our defense close out possessions much
better. And I want to say the

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rebounding from both Kawhi and Paul George
has been elite lately, and it's one

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of those things. It's one of
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Like you know, some of the
best in the league. Is that they

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can do dirty work as well as
get things done on the offensive end.

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And seeing that, seeing that like
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Like in a playoff series, if
we have the unfortunate game where two

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out of the big three aren't connecting
offensively, what can keep them in this

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game is what can keep them in
those games is some really sound rebounding.

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Yeah, I think that was Paul
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of the year was yesterday, which
is great to see, Adam, what

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were you most encouraged by? No, the rebound is a great point.

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Clippers are five and oh. When
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in a game, I think there's
something like eight to oh. When you

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expand that out to James Harden,
we're also Terrence Man getting double digit boards

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in a game. So, I
mean it's been clear all season. Obviously

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it's been an issue for this team
rebounding wise, but these are very fixable

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things. It's mostly just effort.
There was a rebound that Paul George got

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in Philadelphia, I think in the
fourth quarter. Oh my god, Yes,

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it's the best rebound of the year
by a mile. That was on

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the highlight reel like that that deserves
on a highlight reel. I wish.

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Yeah, I was looking forward on
the NBA dot Com recap of that game,

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but they didn't include it in there, but it was it was special.

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A strongly word an email to include
more to board highlights. So then,

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uh, yeah, I think it's
hard to not pick you know,

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the the rebounding and the defensive lockdown
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I think individually, Paul George getting
paint touches was really, really really encouraging

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to see because he doesn't do that
very often, but when he does again,

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that shows confidence, that shows him
knowing what he needs to do,

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which is muck things up against the
rockets. He did it too. He

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was putting his head down. They
needed a bucket. He went straight to

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the paint like it's It's nice to
see Paul George rounding in the form too,

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because he really helps the Clipper ceiling
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just the fact that they had to
fight in battle in these games. Paul

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George early in that fourth quarter against
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they get down five, a five
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That is exactly what had been breaking
the Clippers will the last two home

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games, and even going back further
than that, teams making a run to

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start fourth quarters, they get up
double digits and eventually the Clippers break.

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Paul George came back right after that, they're down nine and hit a clutch

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three pointer, just isoed on the
right wing, put it between his legs

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a couple of different times and fired
it. He hit another one when they

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were down seven. He hit a
bunch of timely shots eleven points in the

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first seven minutes of that fourth quarter
against Philly before Kawhi Leonard could get to

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that point where he has the and
ones going on late. So those are

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kind of those silencer, those run
stopping shots that you have to have to

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just show that fight that we're still
in this Yes, runs are going to

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happen. It just seemed like they
forgot about that for a period of time

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this season with this Clippers team,
with the way they weren't responding, the

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way and the way that Paul George
kind of all season has even despite some

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some of his worst games, been
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is also like, you know,
that's also pretty reassuring. He's toggling the

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switch. That's what we've been saying. Okay, has the this is this

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is a Saturday afternoon stream, not
the Saturday night stream. Uh is the

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fund meter before we start talking about
the upcoming schedule a little bit because they

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do play Charlotte tomorrow and then there's
some kind of scary uh the MAVs might

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end up being the first round opponent
again. Will has the fund meter moved

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or do you are we are?
We are you not as I'm encouraged,

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but I'm not back in the hopium
then ordering another round. You know,

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Yeah, it's it's not a complete
one eighty or anything, but it's it's

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trending in the right direction, and
you know, it's it's just the good

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process and it just obviously wins saw
that any locker room problems, any issue,

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I mean, like if you're winning, but just the the way they've

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looked on the floor. H And
as I said earlier, facing adversity,

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I'm having a lot more fun with
that. It's not fun to watch a

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team that feels listless. It's it's
not fun to watch a team that you

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know is gonna that you know is
going to crumble, like when the pressure

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is on them, they just kind
of fold. So it's trending in the

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right direction. I would say,
it's like it's maybe the amount of fun

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as like a pizza a pizza party
that wasn't well planned at work. There's

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like everybody only everybody only gets one
piece. There's pizza, and there's there's

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pizza, but it's kind of like, hey, guys, there's pizza in

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the breakroom. It's not like everybody
is like hanging out. It's not blocked

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out on the cow. Yeah yeah, Adam, where's your fun are you?

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Are you still waiting to flip the
one, lady, you know,

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flip the one to eighty? I
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they don't look like a championship team
still yet we need them to hit a

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different team. I would like,
I know they can't. These last two

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victories, the way they won those
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lot of the time in a playoff
series. It's not pretty. The Clippers

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had seventeen turnovers versus the Orlando Magic. They got up by eleven in that

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third quarter, and they just gave
it away multiple times down like we have

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seen and they still just figure it
out eventually as long as you're seeing because

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Kawhi Leonard said postgame the last two
games, basically, teams aren't going to

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lay down against us. We have
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They're going to be trying to win
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the other team has great players as
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this. So that's all it is. And I think that's something that you

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know, it's rudimentary. It's obvious. But sometimes when you lose five straight

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games at home, and Paul George
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of sleepwalk into games. You basically
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that energy. But on the road, they've had to figure it out immediately.

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They've had to start faster. They
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the Orlando Magic. And I did
say as a positive going into or going

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out of our last show, that
you know, maybe being on the road,

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being in the foxhole together can help
this team. So I don't know,

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these these are really important games.
These are important type of victories.

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This Clippers team just was able to
get one hundred percent. Someone in the

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chat pointing out that their nine and
seven record is pretty crazy. With this

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March ten and seven is very much
on the table. We're gonna talk about

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the Clippers upcoming schedule and some PAC
DIV talk. If you're listening to this,

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there's gonna be some ads and then
schedule talk in three two one.

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All right, So the Clippers are
rounding out the very last game in the

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hillacious March schedule. They still have
some games left ahead of that before we

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can before we can finally get to
the dang playoffs. Charles, Let's just

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start this off with sort of the
March. Where are we at in March?

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March benchmark? We're at nine and
seven, ten and seven still on

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the table. Given the way things
looked at times on the court, were

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00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,920
we maybe a little reactionary given that
the ten and seven is still in play?

406
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,440
What do you what do you guys
think where you at on this?

407
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:45,119
I don't know if we were reactionary
because the way that the games were being

408
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:51,160
lost was just brutal. It was
rough. They weren't like losses where it

409
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:52,799
was like, oh, it hit
the rim three times on the last second

410
00:28:52,799 --> 00:28:59,599
and we barely lost that one.
They were discouraging losses for sure. I

411
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,720
don't think. Uh, And yeah, we got down a little bit,

412
00:29:03,759 --> 00:29:07,480
but I think you know, those
were those were immediate live reaction postgame pots.

413
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:08,920
So what do you need to do? Uh? But no, I

414
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:15,359
think they looked rough. They looked
really rough. I still they're trending towards

415
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,920
ten and seven in March. That
seems very possible with who they play tomorrow.

416
00:29:18,039 --> 00:29:22,240
No disrespect to the Hornets, but
but I would love to see them

417
00:29:22,319 --> 00:29:30,400
absolutely. Uh, just decimate the
Hornets. Uh, that would be great

418
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,519
to see fourth quarterrest for two,
one, three, Then I would feel

419
00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:37,519
pretty solid about the ten and seven. But if they struggle, and it'll

420
00:29:37,559 --> 00:29:38,400
be like, all right, we
still got along, we got the ways

421
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,519
to go, Adam where you at? Did we react too hard? I

422
00:29:41,559 --> 00:29:47,599
don't think we overreacted. Did coach
lou overreact with Things were dire, They

423
00:29:47,599 --> 00:29:51,799
were circling the drain. They were
playing like a team that didn't want it

424
00:29:51,839 --> 00:29:56,279
anymore, and they were about to
give up, not just home court in

425
00:29:56,319 --> 00:29:59,559
the first round, which could still
happen, but it looked like they could

426
00:29:59,559 --> 00:30:03,319
fall into the playing Uh, they've
steadied the ship to some degree. They

427
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:08,640
still have to win. I would
say, if you go six and three,

428
00:30:10,119 --> 00:30:11,720
there's a real good chance you're going
to have that four seed in the

429
00:30:11,799 --> 00:30:17,200
last nine games. Yeah, there's
a real good shot at that. But

430
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:22,359
it's about process and the way you
play. It's not just about wins and

431
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,799
losses. When you're trying to build
good habits a little bit though, it's

432
00:30:26,839 --> 00:30:30,000
a little bit about wins. Look, even if the process is bad,

433
00:30:30,039 --> 00:30:34,599
in a win, I'll take the
win. You'd rather win ugly than lose

434
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:40,440
pretty I understand that, but we
want to see a team that's trending the

435
00:30:40,519 --> 00:30:42,960
right direction, not just to win
in the first round series or have home

436
00:30:44,039 --> 00:30:47,519
court there, but to have a
chance to be a contender and make a

437
00:30:47,559 --> 00:30:52,240
real run at this thing. So
those last two that looks like a team

438
00:30:52,279 --> 00:30:59,680
that's ready for big moments. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Do we

439
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,079
want what do you want to see
in Charlotte? Will? Do you want

440
00:31:02,079 --> 00:31:06,839
to see just complete decimation? Yeah? I'd like to see this one get

441
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,359
put away early. I mean,
the Hornets are just in a rough state

442
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:15,000
as far as like health and availability. Yeah, I would like to see

443
00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:17,759
the Clippers. I would like to
see the Clippers show up for this one

444
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:22,200
early, you know what I mean, like because this team has a tendency

445
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,920
to play to the record, not
to not to the team. So it'd

446
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,720
be nice to see them sort of
with the foot on the gas early and

447
00:31:30,759 --> 00:31:36,640
with the foot on the throat laid. They're also playing right after they play

448
00:31:37,079 --> 00:31:42,480
Charlotte, They're playing Sacramento, who
has recently been decimated with injuries. Kevin

449
00:31:42,519 --> 00:31:48,599
Herder and Malik Monk now just out, which is a shame for them.

450
00:31:48,839 --> 00:31:53,039
Oh Lolo contreres with a nice take. Herder is done for the season,

451
00:31:53,119 --> 00:31:56,559
right, it's I think it's season
and any shoulder injury. Yeah, and

452
00:31:56,599 --> 00:32:00,200
then Malik Monk has an mc l
s brain, I think, what's the

453
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:05,599
news? So that's tough for them. Whila Contraa still believes in the team.

454
00:32:05,759 --> 00:32:07,119
If they end up in the four
seed. He thinks they think that

455
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:13,599
they can make it to the finals, which is you know, that's fair.

456
00:32:15,279 --> 00:32:17,119
The schedule. So they got Charlotte, they got the Kings, and

457
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:21,559
then they have a Nuggets Jazz back
to back. What would what would?

458
00:32:22,319 --> 00:32:27,079
This is a nice path before the
Nuggets game, right, You get teams

459
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,799
where you can keep building good process, hopefully stack some wins, because a

460
00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:34,680
win against the Nuggets this late would
feel pretty damn good, correct, Adam,

461
00:32:35,039 --> 00:32:37,640
That's gonna be a good game.
I think the most important thing pertained

462
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,519
to that game. Obviously the Clippers
need to win, but they need to

463
00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:45,039
win not just for themselves. They
need to keep the Nuggets from getting the

464
00:32:45,079 --> 00:32:50,119
one seat. Therefore, you don't
have to take them on in the second

465
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,279
round if you're lucky enough to advance. That's what I'm worried about right now.

466
00:32:54,319 --> 00:32:59,839
And the Nuggets got run last night
badly by the Minnesota Timberwolves, who

467
00:32:59,839 --> 00:33:04,200
they see one more time. So
it's very possible they don't end up with

468
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,960
the one seed. If you can, you can help your own cause a

469
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,759
little bit there by taking them down. And yes, confidence wise, that

470
00:33:09,759 --> 00:33:13,559
would be big because that would have
that would mean they won the last two

471
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,079
contests against the Denver Nuggets this season. Damn yeah, and I can I

472
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:23,640
literally cannot remember the last time that
happened. Will what are you looking for?

473
00:33:23,799 --> 00:33:25,960
Kind of in this run up to
the Nuggets game? It is a

474
00:33:27,079 --> 00:33:29,960
nut we have the Nuggets Jazz back
to back, but it's Nuggets first,

475
00:33:30,079 --> 00:33:34,759
thankfully. After these couple of games, I mean, just more of the

476
00:33:34,759 --> 00:33:38,440
same getting into the offense, Quicker
really fighting on the glass for those boards.

477
00:33:38,519 --> 00:33:42,880
Especially with how small this team is, it's time to start. It's

478
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,319
time to start taking those small ball
lineups in minutes really really seriously, uh,

479
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:51,119
because we need to have we need
to have these rotations a little bit

480
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,319
more ironed in. And I know
that that it hasn't It hasn't always been

481
00:33:53,319 --> 00:33:59,559
easy with some of the inconsistent play
from Tys and Plumbly, But anytime we're

482
00:33:59,599 --> 00:34:04,279
going all I need to see yeah
in PJ, of course. I just

483
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,640
I need to see the same commitment
on the glass as we've been seeing in

484
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:12,360
these last few games, because I
don't know, I don't know what to

485
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,079
expect from from plumb Lee or tice
In in a first round matchup with if

486
00:34:16,079 --> 00:34:19,159
it ends up being the Pels.
I, you know, like, I

487
00:34:20,559 --> 00:34:24,199
don't imagine that we'll play big with
a big outside of Zoobots. I think

488
00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:28,559
that we'll probably opt to go small. And I think the habits that they

489
00:34:28,599 --> 00:34:32,760
build in those lineups right now are
going to pay dividends later. Should have

490
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:37,639
listened to Dark Knights Vibes, should
have trade for Andre Drummonds signed Boogie.

491
00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:39,480
I mean, it's not like Boogie. How many damn centers do we need

492
00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:44,320
on this roster? Five? We
need five centers on the roster. It's

493
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,000
very clear. As Boogie played in
two years, I think there might be

494
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,880
a reason that he hasn't. He
looked pretty done with the Clippers in twenty

495
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,599
twenty one. Dark Knight Vibes,
why so serious unless he was matched up

496
00:34:55,599 --> 00:35:04,039
on who was it on the side
where Boogie was just Dario? Oh yeah,

497
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,360
Starch was on Boogie sometimes and that
was that was a good time.

498
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,079
Yeah, the rebounds, I think
is what a lot of people are gonna

499
00:35:12,079 --> 00:35:15,480
be looking for from the two one
three guys, because that's effort. And

500
00:35:15,559 --> 00:35:19,920
Loud Murray brought up a good thing
on Twitter. Paint touches or effort to

501
00:35:20,519 --> 00:35:22,480
getting paint touches on offense is an
effort thing too, right. I think

502
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,519
a lot of times you associally the
effort with just the defensive side of the

503
00:35:27,519 --> 00:35:30,239
ball, but getting to the paint, which Paul George has done more of.

504
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,880
And James Harden who did get forced
into the mid range a little bit

505
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,800
against the Magic and that was not
going that well. I'm excited to see

506
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,800
how he looks getting downhill. Oh
my god, Scott Tran, thank you

507
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,119
for reminding me. I don't think
we've actually talked about this on the podcast

508
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:51,599
yet, but they're giving away stress
balls at the game against the Nuggets on

509
00:35:51,639 --> 00:36:00,679
April fourth, which has, like
Simpson's level, possibilities of hilarious give away.

510
00:36:00,199 --> 00:36:04,159
I hope things go well and those
stress balls stay in the seats.

511
00:36:04,199 --> 00:36:08,480
But man, giving away projectiles at
sports games, I always think it's such

512
00:36:08,519 --> 00:36:13,920
a ball. It's not strange at
all. Wayne Jenkins, no, tam

513
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,360
An minutes on the fourth quarter last
night was strange. Guess what they did.

514
00:36:17,159 --> 00:36:21,639
They went to the Power Rangers.
They're starting to go back to it.

515
00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:23,760
All of a sudden they realized,
well, I don't know if you

516
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:28,760
wanted to hide it from teams and
realize there's just no way because you have

517
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,159
to win games right now and you
couldn't hold that one that close to your

518
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:37,079
chest. But they're going back to
Power Rangers as they should now. They

519
00:36:37,119 --> 00:36:43,119
went almost six minutes in that fourth
quarter last night without scoring a point.

520
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,199
That seems like an outlier though,
right, and that's not the Power Rangers.

521
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:51,199
Yeah, no, And that wasn't
all with the Power Rangers out there.

522
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,000
But the Clippers. I think where
did they end up with fourteen points?

523
00:36:55,159 --> 00:36:59,400
It was it was still a brutal
scoring fourth quarter. Because of that,

524
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,559
they ended up with fifteen points in
the fourth, but they held the

525
00:37:01,599 --> 00:37:07,559
Magic to twenty, so you were
okay there, but they still Yes,

526
00:37:07,679 --> 00:37:10,360
they have things to work on.
You can't have scoring droughts that deep in

527
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:15,719
a fourth quarter, but they had
their best when it was required from two

528
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:22,559
point three. Do we think there's
been some chatter amongst Clippers Twitter people,

529
00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:27,679
do you think there's gonna be a
Norm change to the starting lineup at some

530
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,360
time in the playoffs. Some people
want that because the offense is incredible with

531
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:36,719
that lineup, but there's some chatter. I'm not saying I agree with it,

532
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,400
but it is. He's very good. He had a defensive play in

533
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,719
that game. I forget if it
was on ban Cao. It was really

534
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:49,159
out of the ordinary, like a
fantastic defensive play by Norman Powell, or

535
00:37:49,199 --> 00:37:53,599
he just stood somebody up completely against
Orlando. He's another guy that's capable.

536
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:59,000
A lot of these guys have individual
switches. Well, I'll say with this

537
00:37:59,039 --> 00:38:04,000
Clippers team, where it's in them
to rebound, it's in some of them,

538
00:38:04,079 --> 00:38:07,559
like Norman Powell, to play much
better defense. And when that time

539
00:38:07,639 --> 00:38:09,800
comes, when there's more of a
sense of urgency and desperation because of the

540
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:15,679
playoffs, I think the team has
been counting on that those switches to be

541
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:19,760
flipped and they will be just like
they were in Game one against Phoenix last

542
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:23,679
year. We've seen Norm flip some
Norm's defensive reel. This year, there's

543
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:29,000
been some nice stuff. He's okay
at playing free safety. He can pick

544
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,960
off an air and pass he weirdly
has had some decent challenges at the rim

545
00:38:34,039 --> 00:38:37,280
this year when he's had to like
slide over. So yeah, I agree

546
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,880
that there's a switch there. Will
Do you think Norm's gonna end up in

547
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:45,119
the starting lineup at some point?
No? Why people say the argument I've

548
00:38:45,119 --> 00:38:50,679
seen is because the defense for the
starting lineup. This was the argument I've

549
00:38:50,679 --> 00:38:55,760
seen about advocating for this. I'm
repeating the information was that the defense isn't

550
00:38:55,800 --> 00:39:00,679
exactly lighting the world on fire for
the Clippers starting lineup. Having Norm in

551
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:04,599
the offense would just make the offense. That's still a pass for me.

552
00:39:04,639 --> 00:39:08,199
It's kind of like we talked about
this earlier in the season. I think

553
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:14,199
that Adam pointed out in the High
five. But I think like the tendency

554
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:19,360
to make Kawhi have to do too
much in some of these like less than

555
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,840
stellar defensive lineups isn't great. And
it's the same thing with Zoo, It's

556
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,840
the same with PG. There's only
so much communication you can do, There's

557
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:30,199
only so much ground you can cover. If you got two guys out of

558
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:35,360
five who you know and Harden has
Harden has flashes, you know, he

559
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,280
like he just has his limitations as
a defender. Yeah, he always will.

560
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:45,039
So I get the idea, and
I love Norm I want him to

561
00:39:45,039 --> 00:39:46,599
win six Man of the Year.
I think he's good where he's at.

562
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:51,159
I don't see his starting lineup change, you know. We just kind of

563
00:39:51,159 --> 00:39:52,599
talked about the rotations and stuff and
what we want to see in these upcoming

564
00:39:52,639 --> 00:39:57,039
games, and I don't see his
starting lineup change as being like, what's

565
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,719
the different maker right now for the
team? Not not to me personally.

566
00:40:00,039 --> 00:40:04,480
Yeah, I think people are missing
the point. The reason they have Terrence

567
00:40:04,519 --> 00:40:07,400
Man in the starting lineup is so
Kawhi and Paul George don't have to guard

568
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:12,559
the other team's best player until the
fourth quarter. After Kawhi hit that shot

569
00:40:12,639 --> 00:40:15,920
over Suggs with thirty five seconds left, he died up Ben Carroll and they

570
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:20,440
got the turnover where Bear Carroll.
Ben Carroll tried to kick it out to

571
00:40:20,519 --> 00:40:24,360
Suggs and it was a no look
steal by James Harden, who wasn't looking

572
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:28,440
at the play but had his hands
up in case he did. That went

573
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,800
off of him and he ended up
with the basketball. That's what you want

574
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:36,760
to see. You can't asking Kawhi
Leonard and Paul George even in a playoff

575
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,239
series, to guard the other team's
best player for forty minutes, which is

576
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:43,400
how many minutes they'll be playing in
a playoff series. In a playoff game,

577
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,000
Yeah, it's not sustainable. You
have to have somebody else be a

578
00:40:47,119 --> 00:40:52,960
really good point of attack defender.
And I think Terrence Man is good enough.

579
00:40:52,639 --> 00:40:55,840
Yeah, I mean, yeah,
that's totally fair. And it matters

580
00:40:55,880 --> 00:41:00,920
again as always with the Clippers,
who's closing, that's what we're gonna see.

581
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,079
Sometimes it might be Norm, right, who knows? And a lot

582
00:41:04,079 --> 00:41:06,719
of people in the chatter bring out
the very good point that the bench gets

583
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:12,840
real weird offensively if you start Norm, there's not a lot of long range

584
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,360
punch. Yeah, you need you
need his shooting, like you you you

585
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:21,000
need his like you need his north
south movement like you just you need Norm

586
00:41:21,079 --> 00:41:24,800
on the on the second unit.
You like to have you like to have

587
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,719
him with the starters. But like, that's what closing lineups are for.

588
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:30,000
That's what the power rangers are for, you know what I mean. It

589
00:41:30,039 --> 00:41:34,760
doesn't doesn't have to be it doesn't
have to start the game with that,

590
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:39,719
you know, it should really be
like a like not necessarily a poll in

591
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:44,519
case of emergencies, but like a
lane change or a tempo change that you

592
00:41:44,559 --> 00:41:47,360
can offer like it shouldn't It shouldn't
be the standard if that makes sense.

593
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,960
Hey, what about Alfredo Alriguez here? Did you see that? Yeah?

594
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:59,519
Put the lineup question on the chat? Will Could we get a Westbrook Hard

595
00:41:59,519 --> 00:42:04,320
and George Leonard starting lineup again with
Westbrook att Center Man Coffee Pals Fifth,

596
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:08,239
No, we can. I love
that you're throwing this out here, though

597
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:14,840
I do I appreciate the ingenuity.
So also lost in everything this year,

598
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:23,880
we haven't talked about this in what
feels like ages the Clippers. The Clippers

599
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:30,280
have a pretty good shot to win
the Pacific Division for the first time in

600
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:35,440
ten years since twenty thirteen twenty fourteen. They have one game versus the Kings

601
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:37,599
or three and a half games behind
them, and then two versus the Suns.

602
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:43,760
They are four games behind. When
are you guys getting to the parade

603
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:49,760
when I'm not sure what time Balmer
has anything set up, but I'm hyped

604
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,920
we won the division. Let's go. Division play should matter more, it

605
00:42:53,000 --> 00:43:00,400
should matter more. It'd be Yeah, whatever I think making the division less,

606
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:05,280
I think making the division we have
them. I think making the division

607
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,079
more competitive to me is more interesting
than the end season tournament. But yeah,

608
00:43:08,159 --> 00:43:15,679
who cares about that? And then, uh, Jeremy Mormon the question

609
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,679
does the playoffs really matter? Thank
you, Ray. I'm sure Ricky Chew

610
00:43:17,679 --> 00:43:23,679
will have a banner photoshopped immediately,
probably after listening to this Jeremy Mormon asking,

611
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:30,559
does eventually matter when it comes to
playoffs? Yes, Uh, guys

612
00:43:30,559 --> 00:43:32,119
can't play for it. Guys cannot
play forty eight minutes. And like,

613
00:43:32,159 --> 00:43:37,679
even with the staggering that we have
with Kawhi and Paul George and Harden,

614
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:43,119
you still want two of those three
on the floor in all times. Uh

615
00:43:43,159 --> 00:43:46,239
so, I yeah, I don't
know it matters, is what I'm saying.

616
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:51,679
I'm not saying that your first two
guys off the bench are huge.

617
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,719
They gotta be good. Yeah,
that's very meaningful to your playoff success.

618
00:43:54,840 --> 00:44:00,920
That's why many feel like Denver may
be more vulnerable BECAU because they lost a

619
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:04,719
couple guys this offseason. That's why
we don't want to play campaign again ever

620
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:09,760
in the playoffs. Speaking of maybe
opponents, we might not everyone to play

621
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:14,159
again in the playoffs. Last episode, we talked about how the Clips might

622
00:44:14,159 --> 00:44:17,679
fall to six, which doesn't you
know, seem super crazy. But now

623
00:44:19,039 --> 00:44:27,920
the Mavericks are starting to creep up
to five looking very good. Where are

624
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,840
we at unfeeling? So the Clippers
have eliminated the MAVs each time we've played

625
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:34,960
them in a series. It is
not always the prettiest, it is not

626
00:44:35,159 --> 00:44:40,079
always the easiest, but they win
the series. Where are we at on

627
00:44:40,159 --> 00:44:45,840
maybe MAVs Clips round three? Are
you guys? I'm I mean, I

628
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,559
guess I'm ready in the long run, but those series are always terrifying.

629
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:52,159
It's one it's one of the few
teams that can't use a size advantage against

630
00:44:52,159 --> 00:44:58,599
the Clippers. Adam, how you
feel about this matchup? You seem high.

631
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:04,159
It's scary, but so is Zion. I was watching that Pells Bucks

632
00:45:04,199 --> 00:45:08,519
game on NBA TV the other night
and just watching how inept Giannis and Brook

633
00:45:08,599 --> 00:45:15,840
Lopez were with trying to contain Zion
Williamson, And I'm thinking about the Clippers

634
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:21,559
trying to slow him down. He's
just He's an unsolvable problem type of player,

635
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,719
and I don't know what you're doing
against him. I don't know what

636
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:30,119
you're doing against Luka, Doncis and
Kyrie Irving now together, So they're one

637
00:45:30,159 --> 00:45:35,599
game back of the Pelicans and they're
in the same division. This is why

638
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:42,599
divisions matter. And whoever, yeah, whoever wins that Southwest you know,

639
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:47,719
will likely be the four of the
five seed. So it's it's concerning,

640
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:52,039
especially they just won went back to
back games in Sacramento. Luca last night

641
00:45:52,119 --> 00:45:58,079
was pointing at Vodie Debac, former
front office president of the King, saying,

642
00:45:58,079 --> 00:46:01,159
you should have drafted me at the
end of that game last night.

643
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,719
It's fair at the drafting Vagley.
I mean, yeah, he's not wrong.

644
00:46:13,559 --> 00:46:21,880
I don't want to see this mask
taken. Luca strikes enough fearing you

645
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:28,199
in late game situations, him and
Kyrie after the left handed push shot he

646
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,679
just made over Nikola Jokic to win
that crazy game. And Kyrie is one

647
00:46:31,679 --> 00:46:35,920
of the most clutch players of all
time. And they're peaking at the right

648
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:37,360
time too. We were talking about
the clips maybe peaking at the right time.

649
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:43,000
The MAVs have been on longer lately. Yeah, yeah, Sadly,

650
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:49,039
their schedule much easier than the Pelicans. They have the twenty first toughest schedule

651
00:46:49,039 --> 00:46:54,000
remaining the Pelicans is tenth. Phoenix
still has the toughest and they've been reeling

652
00:46:54,000 --> 00:47:02,320
a little bit. Sacramentos at the
fifth toughest, So trailing the Celtics right

653
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:07,119
now too, with about ten minutes
left in the third. Now you're in

654
00:47:07,119 --> 00:47:09,480
this unenviable position where you're like,
I want the Celtic I want the U

655
00:47:09,639 --> 00:47:13,760
Pelicans to lose, But wait,
do I I want them to stay ahead

656
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,639
of the Dallas Mavericks. Like,
you're not going to be able to manipulate

657
00:47:16,679 --> 00:47:20,079
any of these statics. At the
end of the season, no team is

658
00:47:20,079 --> 00:47:23,199
going to be able to be like
I choose this matchup. Things are just

659
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:29,559
too tight right now, it's too
close. Yeah, yeah, that's a

660
00:47:29,559 --> 00:47:31,840
good call, and it's going to
change. So every You're right, everything

661
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,920
it's going to change. Up until
the last day of the season. They're

662
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,320
not going to know their playoff opponent. Yeah, probably until the last day

663
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:40,719
of the season, the last day. There could be something that is going

664
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:45,639
on. But before that there's not
a clear picture at all. I wonder.

665
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,320
All you can do is control,
you though, you know, like

666
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,159
as long as they as long as
they hold down for you know, at

667
00:47:52,599 --> 00:47:58,360
least maintain home court for one for
one round of a playoffs. Uh.

668
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,679
I mean that's all you can really
do. You know, you can't control

669
00:48:01,679 --> 00:48:06,800
the standing outside of that. We've
seen them flip flop before, you know,

670
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:08,639
get maybe a little cheeky with some
end of season stuff. They don't

671
00:48:08,679 --> 00:48:14,559
have that opportunity now the game,
it's not gonna happen. So the good

672
00:48:14,599 --> 00:48:19,320
news if you played Dallas, they
have what could be a fatal flaw,

673
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,880
which is their defense, just like
the Sacramento Kings, where they've been bottom

674
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:27,599
ten all season long. Now,
the Clippers have been really bad since the

675
00:48:27,679 --> 00:48:31,320
Grammy road trip defensively, so I'm
sure they're looking their chops seeing their offense

676
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:35,679
against this Clippers defense. But we
know, and the last two games have

677
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,639
proven it. The Clippers do have
the potential to play like a top ten

678
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:45,559
defense on any given night because of
personnel they do. I just checked to

679
00:48:45,599 --> 00:48:49,199
see when the Clippers played to end
the season. The last game of the

680
00:48:49,199 --> 00:48:52,639
Clippers season, and this is so
fitting, is a twelve thirty game at

681
00:48:52,639 --> 00:48:59,079
home against the Rockets, who are
playing very good. So that's gonna be

682
00:48:59,119 --> 00:49:04,559
interesting part of a five and seven. That is interesting because the Rockets what

683
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,760
they are right there with the Golden
State Warriors. Yeah, they're trying to

684
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:14,840
get in the plan now. Jalen
Green is like elite, It's like figured

685
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:20,000
it out. Coming up, we're
gonna be talking. There was a lot

686
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,280
of Paul George contract talk this last
week or so, and we haven't really

687
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,679
talked about it. So we're going
to talk about it. If you're listening,

688
00:49:27,079 --> 00:49:29,400
there's gonna be some ads that might
be loud. Those are coming up.

689
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,639
After these loud ads, we're talking
Paul George contract. In three two

690
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:38,239
one, welcome back in It's Clips
and Dip episode sixty four of season two.

691
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:43,079
I'm met a Manslim, We got
Chuck Mockler and Will Updike. Is

692
00:49:43,119 --> 00:49:45,199
it Clips and Dip Live. If
you missed it, you're listening to this

693
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:49,440
in podcast form, as we make
sure to put it up that way too.

694
00:49:50,599 --> 00:49:53,760
Previewed a little bit of the rest
of the Clippers season with nine games

695
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,519
remaining, talked about what needs to
be done against Charlotte, one of the

696
00:49:57,559 --> 00:50:00,760
worst teams in the league, which
is pretty much just play here brand of

697
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:05,800
basketball get off to a quick start, but there are some off the court

698
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:09,480
topics as we look ahead. Because
Paul George up to this point has not

699
00:50:09,519 --> 00:50:15,800
gotten that contract extension. It's been
an up and down season for him.

700
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:20,039
I think it's fair to say at
this point things are trending back upward,

701
00:50:20,039 --> 00:50:22,840
which is great. He's been very
good. I know he's shooting percentagels very

702
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:27,440
bad up until the end of that
game against Orlando, But coming into that

703
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,400
one, he was shooting something like
fifty four percent from the field and forty

704
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:36,280
five percent from three over his last
thirteen to fifteen ball games. So he

705
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:40,400
had been looking much better, more
spry, more bounce, more pop,

706
00:50:40,679 --> 00:50:44,920
just looking like Paul George again.
I know he missed a dunk. I

707
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,159
know he tried to dunk on someone
and he missed that dunk again, and

708
00:50:47,199 --> 00:50:52,119
he has missed a few of them
this season. But I like the confidence

709
00:50:52,119 --> 00:50:54,000
in his body is to know that
he can take a play like that or

710
00:50:54,039 --> 00:51:00,119
try to at least attempt that highlight. So the contract situation, there was

711
00:51:00,159 --> 00:51:05,559
a rumor out there regarding the Philadelphia
seventy six ers, Chuck and some people

712
00:51:05,679 --> 00:51:09,519
some reporting on it. Yeah,
it was called the worst kept secret that

713
00:51:09,639 --> 00:51:15,559
the seventy six ers really want Paul
George. The prevailing idea is that because

714
00:51:15,679 --> 00:51:19,400
this was Keith Pompeii, right,
yeah, the Sixers guy. Yeah,

715
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:23,519
the Sixers guy. The the idea
is that they would offer him a MAX

716
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:29,719
because you don't have to have MAXI
all this money yet all. Anyway,

717
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:31,159
the way that it works out is
they could give Paul George a full MAX.

718
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:35,440
They have an insane amount of cap
room coming up this yeh, Like

719
00:51:35,599 --> 00:51:38,119
they will be I think one of
the top five or top three teams in

720
00:51:38,199 --> 00:51:42,800
terms of available cap space. Yeah. So it's like, if you can

721
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,480
get Paul George to pair up with
Joel embiid get a healthy run, it's

722
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:52,440
not a crazy idea for them to
offer Paul George the MAX. But there's

723
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,440
a lot of stuff that needs to
happen for that to happen. Like Paul

724
00:51:55,440 --> 00:52:00,360
George has a forty nine million dollar
player option that he would opt out of

725
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:05,079
and then sign this contract with the
seventy six ers. But the Clipper I

726
00:52:05,079 --> 00:52:08,880
think the Clippers are just gonna sign
uh Paul George because Eric Pink has put

727
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:14,559
out an article that if the Clippers. The way that everything's structured is if

728
00:52:14,599 --> 00:52:17,760
the Clippers don't sign Paul George,
they can't replace him with someone who makes

729
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:21,920
as much money as him. We've
been telling people this for a while,

730
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:25,000
like they're tied to these guys.
Yeah, so yeah, I don't know.

731
00:52:25,079 --> 00:52:30,599
Do you guys think that Philly somehow
figures out how to offer him a

732
00:52:30,639 --> 00:52:37,960
max without tampering which seems difficult.
But if four for was it four to

733
00:52:38,039 --> 00:52:44,199
twelve two hundred and twelve mil for
the max for PG so much is still

734
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:50,239
yet to be determined in this playoff
run. I think that would ultimately say

735
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:54,320
what his value could be. Now
it seems like with what Kawhi took,

736
00:52:55,239 --> 00:53:00,840
Paul George should be willing, not
willing, But a lot of people just

737
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:05,760
understood that as oh, so he's
gonna get a little bit less than Kawhi

738
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:09,159
Leonard and that's how these guys are
going to come back, Because remember postgame,

739
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:14,639
after Kawhi signed the contract, he
was asked about it and he said,

740
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:17,679
yeah, well pretty much everybody's coming
back. So it felt like a

741
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:22,480
foregone conclusion then. But then Paul
George has a couple of months of some

742
00:53:22,559 --> 00:53:27,440
really down play with his percentages.
Doesn't look like the same guy. Seem

743
00:53:27,519 --> 00:53:30,440
to be tied to the fact that
he had a left knee injury going on

744
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:34,679
a left groin injury, and now
it seems like that's proven by the fact

745
00:53:35,079 --> 00:53:40,599
with how good he's looked over the
last three weeks. But I just it's

746
00:53:40,679 --> 00:53:45,639
hard to go that far down the
road right now with PG and what could

747
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:52,440
happen when his legacy could be somewhat
defined by this upcoming playoff run. It's

748
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,639
a big one for everybody on this
Clippers team, including Paul George, and

749
00:53:55,679 --> 00:53:59,400
I think it's why both teams are
sticking to their guns, to be perfectly

750
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:04,159
honest with you, Like I I
know that Paul George wants the max,

751
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:09,039
or at least that's everything that we've
seen, you know. I don't think

752
00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:14,079
they've said it in so many words
like we'll see what happens when the playoff

753
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,360
playoffs come around, But I do
think that there's probably an understanding that for

754
00:54:17,559 --> 00:54:22,320
that to be on the table,
we're gonna have to see, you know,

755
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,119
some big ship has to happen.
Yeah, it's yeah, it's the

756
00:54:25,159 --> 00:54:29,159
Flatco contract, right, It's like, doude get to get us there and

757
00:54:29,199 --> 00:54:34,239
make things happen, and then we'll
give you a big old contract. Yeah,

758
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,840
I think, and I think.
I I think also at the end

759
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:42,119
of the day. I think Bomber's
gonna the new salary cap stuff makes it

760
00:54:42,159 --> 00:54:45,920
difficult because it is effectively kind of
a hard cap. It's screwsier. I

761
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:52,119
mean it's completely it's yeah, it's
completely a hard cap. We have a

762
00:54:52,159 --> 00:54:54,800
couple of people asking in the chat
about playing two centers at one time.

763
00:54:54,920 --> 00:55:00,960
Sorry for the hard pivot. I
was different people. It should be addressed

764
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:12,760
quickly. Every year, everything year
we've done this. Saif my guy they

765
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,760
have a center who might be the
best shooting big men in all time of

766
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:25,480
all time, next to Rudy Gobert
in Cat there's a huge yeah. And

767
00:55:25,519 --> 00:55:32,119
if he'sa Zoo, boss does not
give you a shooter Tyson Tyson Zoo is

768
00:55:32,119 --> 00:55:37,000
something that I've wondered about that PJ. Tucker is out of the lineup.

769
00:55:37,039 --> 00:55:40,599
It seems like PJ. Tucker got
us three minutes against Tyler. Was like,

770
00:55:40,639 --> 00:55:44,800
I guess we're done with this.
I don't think he's out. I

771
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,239
wouldn't yeah, I wouldn't rule him
out. I wish I know he's gonna

772
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:52,880
play playoff minutes. There's gonna be
somebody brought this up. I don't know

773
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:54,800
if it was Robert Flohm, I'm
gonna say it was somebody on two and

774
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:59,320
three hoops because I can't remember who, and that's who. Uh we are

775
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:06,239
a Philly Somebody brought up the fact
that the reason they've been trying PJ Tucker

776
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:12,440
next to Aviatsa Zubots is to get
ready for a matchup against Jokic, because

777
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:17,719
I brought this up before, but
the best way to play Jokish, the

778
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:23,360
Lakers kind of uncovered this last season, is to put a smaller defender in

779
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:29,000
front of him and have a big
man that can roam behind him. And

780
00:56:29,079 --> 00:56:34,400
Philly did some of that last year
with PJ Tucker and Joe Lmbid, and

781
00:56:34,519 --> 00:56:39,920
PJ was pretty effective against Jokich considering
it's relative to you know, playing against

782
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:45,159
the greatest player in the last few
years and it's likely gonna be the MVP

783
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:52,440
once again. It gave him some
small issues and maybe that's the reason they've

784
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:55,119
been trying PJ next to Aviatsa the
Zubas to prepare those two guys to play

785
00:56:55,159 --> 00:56:59,880
next to one another in case they
take on the Denver Nuggets. Wonderful see

786
00:57:00,159 --> 00:57:01,719
when they match up in a couple
games. Probably not would be my guest

787
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:05,599
because Tylu doesn't seem like he'd be
like, this is what we're gonna do.

788
00:57:07,199 --> 00:57:13,199
But that is a good point.
Yeah, the double center talk cloud

789
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:16,239
in my brain. Do we have
anything else that we want to have?

790
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:21,239
I'm feeling pretty good. Clippers take
on the Hornets tomorrow. We gotta imagine

791
00:57:21,239 --> 00:57:23,480
that'll be a win. I'm assuming
we haven't picked. However, I think

792
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:27,480
we can close this episode out.
Who is our Kawhi Leonard Player of the

793
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:35,880
Game picks for Clippers versus Hornets?
Adam, I will go with give me

794
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:40,760
a mere coffee. Oh coffee in
that if we're you don't want to assume

795
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:45,400
anything, but if the Clippers can
put themselves in a position to put a

796
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:50,800
team away early, maybe a mere
coffee gets extended run out there. We've

797
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,199
seen him also during closing time,
like against the Philadelphia seventy six ers,

798
00:57:54,199 --> 00:57:58,880
where he was great out there with
that pass to Kawhi cutting to the basket

799
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:04,239
by the way, mirrors trending upward
as well at the right time after some

800
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:07,880
down shooting after his really hot start
when he got back into the rotation.

801
00:58:08,679 --> 00:58:12,920
So good call, will you're Kawhi
Leonard player of the Game pick? I'm

802
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:16,840
going norm. Yeah, I think
that, Uh, I think that he

803
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:21,639
can be a big part of sort
of piling on this team, you know,

804
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:27,159
extending leads with that second unit is
gonna is going to prolong some rest

805
00:58:27,199 --> 00:58:30,719
time for Kawhi and PG and even
Harden and hopefully we get one of those

806
00:58:30,719 --> 00:58:34,639
fourth quarters where you know, they
they barely have to touch the floor.

807
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:43,719
Yeah, I think I'm going with
Russ because if there's one, there's a

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couple of guys who we obviously want
to be trending upwards towards the playoffs.

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Russ has got to be one of
them because he's gonna get some playoff time.

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So I hope he has a good
game and I hope he can make

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things happen. He might get some
extended run too, right, He's a

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candidate for a few more minutes if
things go well in this game. Yeah,

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so that would be that'd be nice
to see. I think we're gonna

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have a double dip for that,
Adam, do you want to tell the

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YouTube audience what the double dip is? And that is one of these two

816
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:13,880
guys comes on with me on Clippers
Talk, which is the official postgame show

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for your Los Angeles Clippers where we
take phone calls after the ball game and

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have guests on like these two fun
gentlemen, one of them will be on

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with me. We also post that. Then later on we extract that part

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from Clippers Talk and put it on
the Clips and Dip podcast. You can

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listen to it there too, absolutely. Ooh, will do you want to

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answer this? Oh? Wait,
will you do the positive thing this episode?

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Because we got a great question from
David Romo? Yeah, another moment,

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Yeah, like the thirty nine point
game. The answer is yes,

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there's your positive thing, We got
it. Will Where can these fantastic people

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listen to this pod and review it
if they felt so inclined? Yeah?

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So, I mean, first off, if you didn't catch this live,

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you can do that over on YouTube
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gotta check us out over there,
Please subscribe, like you can leave a

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comment and really help us out.
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835
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thanks for thanks for checking us out. We really appreciate it. Yeah,

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thanks for hanging out. We'll talk
to you all tomorrow and as always,

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let's go clips