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Clippers fall once twenty one to one
hundred at home to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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Welcome back in This is clipperstock.
I'm in a Maslin eight sixty six nine

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five seventy is the phone number right
now. We are joined here with the

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little clips and double dip on Clippers
talk because we got big Chuck Mackler on

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Chuck. Where was this game lost
by the Clippers? Oh man, I

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mean I probably what two minutes into
the second quarter or something like that,

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or the third quarter. Excuse me, no, this this is such I

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mean, you know, this is
an Understandably, it's tough to watch this

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team, you know, kind of
get pushed around by a bigger team,

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right, Tyler talked about in the
post game presser. You know, the

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guys need to execute better in the
offense with a big team like the Timberwolves.

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In the execution you know, it
wasn't up to stuff tonight, obviously,

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but this this is a great Timberwolves
team, this team, you know,

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this one especially, it was like, okay, it's a little more

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real I guess than that I initially
thought from them. But I don't know

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where this game was lost. I
don't think there was a guy you know

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that they could have traded for that
makes this game will win or anything like

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that. But you know, you
gotta hope PG shoots thre than thirty one

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percent. You gotta hope Zoo goes
rather than forty percent. Terrence was a

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little rough tonight. Norm wasn't right
like I don't know. It may have

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been the physicality, but the execution
also wasn't there. To me, it's

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still about getting better internally if Itatza
Zubots has to get right. Mason Plumbley

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still doesn't look right to me.
He just has not been good enough and

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didn't play in the second half.
They went to Daniel Tye instead to no

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avail. This Clippers team ended up
losing by twenty one, but as you

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mentioned, that third quarter is where
things got away from them. A forty

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to nineteen win in the third quarter
by the Timberwolves, that's just too much

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to overcome against a team with this
good of a defense that plays like it.

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You can see it out there.
They are fantastic on that end.

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That is their identity. They're basically
a bottom ten offense and it did not

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matter at all tonight. Holding the
Clippers to one hundred and putting up one

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hundred and twenty one on them.
But you know, I'm still wondering if

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at some point we see PJ.
Tucker out there. We've had a few

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calls on it tonight. I'm not
saying it's the cure all. I'm just

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wondering if that size issue can be
remedied at all by better play from the

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Clippers and also somebody who just hasn't
had an opportunity in a while, and

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Coach Lou said he's going to give
it to him at some point. Yeah,

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this was a game. You know, you see the kind of what

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the backup center play was tonight.
I mean, all of the centers.

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It was a little rough tonight.
But you know, Mason only played nine

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minutes, but it was it looked
a little rough. Tys came in for

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a very limited stint and couldn't get
anything going either. So you would think,

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you know, if the Slimpers are
going to commit to going small,

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which didn't really work tonight unfortunately.
I mean maybe, yeah, like you

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try and especially against the bigger team
like the Timbrels, you maybe give Tucker

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some run because he's gonna need it. Right, this is DNP thirty six

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or something like that, and if
he's gonna play, it kind of has

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to happen soon. He's the second
oldest guy in the league. You can't

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just really pop off the bench and
then be asked to play super physical minute

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if it gets to that point.
But once a ma interstriction for Zu gets

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lifted, Tyler, you talked about
that being a pain. You know,

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he's kind of trying to play him
in these six minutes stance. That'll make

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things look a little bit better.
But yeah, I don't know. Tough

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going to nice size wife. I
thought it was a bit of the Russ

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roller coaster. Tonight gave him some
really good minutes in the first half,

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a struggle in that third quarter,
the miss dunk, a couple of miss

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layups where he was just going at
Rudy Gobert with reckless abandon. I appreciate

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the effort, but the execution wasn't
always there and ended up with a three

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pointer. I think Walker had one
on the other end, or maybe it

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was Kyle and Anderson. A lot
of guys did not perform to their capabilities,

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but Norm Powell not being right in
a game like this where I think

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he had twenty four last time in
Minnesota, and aviatsa Zubats still not looking

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right timing wise. Maybe it was
just a recipe for disaster, because this

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Timberwolves team is too good and you
have to have everyone really be at their

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best, and the Clipper's got a
couple of guys who are banged up right

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now and just don't look right.
Yeah, Norm, you know, I

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don't know. I kind of excuse
Norm a little bit. If you saw

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what happened on Saturday. It's kind
of a little surprising he was playing today.

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He didn't look all the way there. Yeah, Russ, in the

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beginning, it worked great, right, I think his first two touches he

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got an and one and then got
another foul. But then the ball started

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finding its way to him behind the
three point line. Kind of a little

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bit by design, it seemed,
you know, the Clippers went small and

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they let a really big team kind
of just play free safety, which we've

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seen the Heat do right when Russ
is out there time. So that backfired.

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But I also kind of got it. We haven't really mentioned Harden.

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He had kind of a tough game. He had a tough what was it

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the second quarter on Saturday. But
the shooting percentage in there from him but

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felt a little ISO heavy sometime,
which is, you know, credit to

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the world defense for being able to
disrupt that. But if there is gonna

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be that much IFOO ball, you
do hope he shoots better than thirty eight

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percent. Yeah, a lot of
guys again struggled in this ball game,

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and overall collectively, the Minnesota Timberwolves
were just a much better team. They

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look to be more connected, They
know who they were a little bit more

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out there. That identity isn't grained
now, it is crystallized with them.

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I mean, they've been the number
one offense going back to I think the

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first week of the NBA season and
it just hasn't stopped. Still felt like

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there were some positives there from Kawhi
Leonard going at Jaden McDaniels. Some he

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looked a little bit more comfortable against
the length of Jaden McDaniels than the last

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time around, who is a nominal
defender. Yeah, I mean the two

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dugs by Kawhi to end that first
quarter were pretty incredible. First the left

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and then the right things were great, and then the end of the half

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was great too. But yeah,
no, The battle between McDaniels and Kawhi

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was really incredible to see. You
saw McDaniels strip Terrence Day at one point,

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just when he was being a little
careless with the ball. So yeah,

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Kawhi did look a little more comfortable
against the length and some of the

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other guys. So maybe they can
follow see next time. But yeah,

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I mean that's all we can really
hope work. I think we play him

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two more times. One of them
is a Bucks Timberwolves back to back or

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something like that. But I think
we get the Timberwolves. Yeah, I

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know, I think we'll get the
Timberwolves first in that one. So there's

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two more chances, and let's hope
they you know, show up, show

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up a little bigger next time.
So how important do you peg that game

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Wednesday night up in Golden State against
a team that has won five in a

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row, that is playing much better, that maybe has found themselves, especially

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with that victory over the Phoenix Suns
with the Steph Curry game winner last game

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before the All Star Break. How
big do you think that is, Chuck,

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I you know you don't want to
go. Yeah, I'd like to

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win a Pacific Division game before the
All Star Break. That would feel good.

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I was talking to yeah, exactly, especially with kind of how they

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played tonight. So you want to
go in to the All Star Break as

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healthy as possible and playing as well
as possible, somewhere between those two things.

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And if they get a you know, a solid win, I guess,

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like you said, a Warrior's team
that's been playing a little bit better,

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I would feel pretty good about it. Let's just get out of this

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thing and the guys can relax for
a while before next month's schedule starts.

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Clippers fault tonight one's twenty one to
one hundred to the Minnesota Simberwolves. Here

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at crypto dot Com arena, he
is Chuck Mockler of Clips in Dip Fame.

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Chuck, we'll talk tomorrow on the
YouTube, my friend, thanks for

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doing this tonight. YEP, sounds
good. Thanks for having me.