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Last time that I check checks fine
chains on my neck, it was no

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smile on my brett. Last time
that I tech Clippers win one twenty to

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one eleven over the Dallas Mavericks in
Dallas, they won ninth straight fourteen of

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seventeen. And you're listening to Clippers
talk, I'm out of Moslin. Eight

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six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. We'll get

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to your phone calls in just a
bit. We got some postgame audio two

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from the players. But now Chuck
Mockler is on for a little Clips in

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Double Dip. Chuck, how you
feeling after nine straight victories and the Clippers

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at worst are going two and three
on this brutal three game road trip,

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I am feeling, I mean,
is as good as I think we possibly

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could have Slipper fans? Right.
We talked about it one of our last

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episode of Clips and Dip with with
Will Uptike there as well, that if

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they got this win, you know
over like so they started off strong,

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right, which which we absolutely love
to see. But they get this one

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over Dallas, and it was like, this is the first night of the

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back to back, coming with a
fighting spirit of puncher's chance. Things went

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well and then really didn't go that
well, but they locked it in the

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last five minutes, so I feel
fantastic. Whatever happens tomorrow's kind of house

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money. I hope the process is
good. I hope the result is a

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win. But if we see some
tired legs, it's another away game.

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I don't think any would be too
disappointed if they don't get the win tomorrow.

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Have you heard anything. I've been
scouring Twitter and x to see if

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there's an update on Kawhi Leonard.
He was holding his left hip before he

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went to the free throw lines at
the very end, and also Paul George,

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with him being out tonight, what
their availability could be tomorrow. I

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haven't say anything about Kawhi. A
lot of people are saying it looked like

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he took a knee as a hip
or something like that. So nothing on

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that yet. Paul George, I
mean, I hope his stomach is better

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or whatever is happening. Norm Powell
was out there borderline. This was a

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I think a diet slew game maybe
for Norm Powell if you look at his

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fourth quarter especially, but I think
PG you'll be back and again if guys

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have to miss tomorrow. Not the
end of the world, right, They

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got these two other wins and this
three and four, this is it wouldn't

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be the worst thing. Maybe for
a bit of a rest day tomorrow for

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two one, three. Yeah,
I mean, you don't want to give

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a game away when you've won nine
straight. But they also have Boston coming

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up back home in an afternoon start
on Saturday, so no rest for the

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weary. I guess we'll see what
happens tomorrow. Kawhi Leonard has played all

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twenty seven games so far for the
Clippers. They are now seventeen and ten

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on the season. But there was
a little subplot to this one because now

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the Clippers own the tiebreaker head to
head against the Dallas Mavericks. That could

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be huge coming into play later on
this season. Chuck, Yeah, I

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mean, as as always, we
are locked in some kind of death struggle

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with the Dallas Mavericks. Actually we
have a tiebreaker over them, and we're

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tied with them in the standings.
Like this was as important of a victory,

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you know, except for maybe the
one after that loss to the Nuggets

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that the Clippers needed this year,
and they went out and got it,

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so you love to see it a
game and a half out of second with

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the tiebreaker, and weirdly enough,
it's the first time I believe we play

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the Thunder tomorrow, so that could
be important too. But the tiebreakers,

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huge guys showed up when they needed
to. This was almost an adversity win,

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even after being up twenty with If
you've seen how this Clipper's effort has

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gone through games before in the two
to one to three era, you've seen

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these games kind of go the other
way what feels like more awesome than not.

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So it was nice to see it
go the right way. Now we

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are in the midst of humility season. But earlier today I did ask the

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question, you know, this could
be a big spot for Russell Westbrook and

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James Harden if they don't have Paul
George. Weren't sure if Norm Powe is

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even going to play at that point. Those minutes haven't been great, but

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they weren't tonight. In fact,
they probably won them the game. Those

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two together in fourteen minutes were a
plus sixteen out there. Have they found

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something shuck or is it just matchup
dependent? And it worked out so that

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against Dallas, I think it might
be matchup dependent. I also think you

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might not totally be committed to humility
season yet, but we'll see how that

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plays out. Are you an investigative
season? What is this? Hey?

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Your Twitter's public? No, I
think it's situational. I think TYLERU.

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We talked about the players a bunch
during the stretch. Obviously, Kawhi Leonard

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has been at MVP levels if you
look at both sides of the ball,

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which people should maybe do more when
looking at this thing. But Tylu has

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been fantastic over this run. Like
we've said, I think those minutes are

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you know that plus minus is helped
by if Kawhi is out there with his

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level of play. Anyone sharing the
floor with Kawhi is getting a nice boost

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in the plus minus, which is
good to see. But Tyler's been pulling

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the right strings at the right time. So credit to tied Or in this

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run as well. I'm a to
your guy Daniel Tice, who knocked down

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two more three pointers in this one. As the Clippers continue to play team

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basketball and find the open man,
and he's not hesitating, he's putting them

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through. Yeah, he made his
first corner three this year in this game.

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For the Clippers. He got his
first one and we needed it.

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Yeah, he's been good to see. A lot of people have been asking

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over on Twitter and whatnot. There's
been some rumblings of like, what's going

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to happen when Mason Plumbley comes back? And I don't really think we know

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because I think Daniel Tyson might be
outplaying expectations a little bit. For the

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Clippers. He's been good. We
kind of knew what he was going to

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bring in terms of the short role
and stuff like that, but everything's just

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been elevated, you know, by
a nice percentage from what maybe the coaching

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staff expected. So tough decisions for
Tyler maybe in that era, in that

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regard, but right now Daniel Tye
has been I mean as good of a

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margin signing as they could have made. Something else has been brought up that's

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been a little bit of scuttle butt
around the water cooler is whether or not

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a mere coffee should be starting over
Terrence Man. I think it's kind of

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nuts considering how good the new starting
lineup has been. Why would you want

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to go away from it? If
you think Terrence Man making shots is his

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best attribute? I don't know.
What to tell you, because that's just

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a bonus when he's actually knocking him
down. They've been this good from the

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field from the outside. In that
new starting lineup with him cold, I'd

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shudder to think what could happen if
he gets on a heater. Yeah,

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I don't think changing the starting lineup
in the midst of a ten game winning

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streak is ever a good idea,
especially when Terrence Man has been there for

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the entirety of that win streak.
It's not like a Mere Coffee came in

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and took Terrence Man's place and then
they went on this run and Mere Coffee's

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played phenomenal. It's the story of
the Slipper's career. When the Clippers are

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in a pinch, Amir comes in
and does great things. But no,

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I do not think there should be
a starting lineup change. I think we

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should try, and for one,
the Clippers can keep things going kind of

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as they have been, and there
hasn't been any huge reason to change.

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So it's amazing now that there's a
semblance of continuity, people want to upend

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it, like what right, Yeah, the grass might be greener, but

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it's also pretty green right now in
the middle not only is this a ten

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or nine game winning streak. Excuse
me getting a little bit of ahead of

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myself, but we're just seeing the
potential of what the Clippers team can be.

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You know this, They're gonna probably
drop a couple games later in the

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season. They're gonna be frustrating,
but we need to have Clippers fans remember

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what we're seeing right now with this
level of play, what this team can

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be, because I don't think they're
at their best yet, but we're really

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close to seeing them, you know, go up into the right where they

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need to be to ultimately be real
contenders. Yeah, the grass is very

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green right now. They're using that
Scott's long cair with the guy from Game

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of Thrones who looks like Justin Turner. Feed it. It's been that good

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for them. He is Chuck Mockler. Follow him on x at Duck Mackler

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m O C K L E R. Chuck. Thanks for doing this tonight,

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Love you, bro. No,
it's been a tough week. We'll

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hang out soon. Yes, absolutely, a RP little dude, and let's

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go clips. Let's go Clips,
Clippers, make it nine to a row.

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