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hosted by your pre and post game
voice of the LA Clippers, Adam Osler.

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I'm sure you, Bubba please,
will be playing basketball in Pelican Bay

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when I get finished with you.
Yeah. The New Orleans Pelicans had the

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Clippers offense lopped up in Pelican Bay
as they scored US eighty nine points and

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lose one thirteen to eighty nine in
New Orleans to the Pelicans for the fifth

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straight time. Welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslins. Eight six sixty

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nine eight seven two five seventy.
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seventy is the phone number coming up, hoping to hear from the head coach

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in the players after. Quite frankly, I don't like saying that, but

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it saves me from saying other things
right now. A disappointing loss for the

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Clippers coming off their magical twenty five
point comeback. They had one two in

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a row. They had some renewed
spirit out there in that second half to

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be able to come back down twenty
five was seven minutes left against a team

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with Nikola Yokich, just a third
time all season any team had come back

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down twenty five or more, fourth
largest comeback in franchise history. You got

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the thirty one point come back in
the playoffs against the Golden State Warriors,

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the twenty eight point come back against
Boston, the twenty seven point come back

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against the Memphis Grizzlies in the first
round of the playoffs back in twenty twelve,

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and what happened Tuesday night. So
we thought there was a chance that

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it would bleed into some better play
offensively after they had a miserable first half

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Tuesday night, which is twenty eight
points into them putting together a more complete

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game on offense. In New Orleans, it's been a house of horrors there.

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It's been an unbelievable one sided rivalry
right now, if you want to

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call it that. And the Clippers
only had thirty four points in the half

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after having just twenty eight in the
first half Tuesday night. Tonight, just

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thirty four, and they once again
had nothing going for them offensively, and

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it pretty much ended up that way. Some of the stats are skewed.

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They got things going a little bit
in the second half. They had it

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to within thirteen five minutes into the
fourth quarter after being down by twenty four

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heading into the fourth quarter, but
they were down nineteen points at the half,

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and New Orleans pretty much kept them
at Bay Pelican Bay. They did.

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They were good enough defensively, even
though they are twenty fifth in that

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area on the season. This isn't
the Denver Nuggets, who were middle of

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the pack defensively. This is a
bottom ten defense, and the Clippers scored

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eighty nine points and had just thirty
four in the first half. New Orleans

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also just twenty fourth offensively, yet
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The biggest difference between this game and
what we saw Tuesday night was the

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Clippers played forty eight minutes of defense
against Denver. Denver only had forty one

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points at the half. In that
game. The Clippers kept themselves alive gave

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themselves a chance to come back because
they leaned on their defense. New Orleans

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had fifty three points at the half
and a thirty four point third quarter.

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The Clippers shot fifty five percent in
the third quarter after being down by nineteen

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at the half, and they still
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That's disappointing is the defensive side of
the basketball. It's more so about effort

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than scheme or who's available. And
we just saw them play forty eight minutes

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a brilliant basketball, really defensively Tuesday
night, holding the Denver Nuggets to eighty

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five points a very good potent offense, and on the season, Clippers have

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the fourth best defense. Otherwise the
record would be a lot worse than twenty

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one and twenty two right now.
But this is game forty three and we're

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still seeing this up and down play
from this from this Clippers team. And

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I can accept some of it because
of all the guys who have been out.

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That of course, is the biggest
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And the Clippers are still seven and
ten in games without both Kawhi Leonard

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and Paul George this season, and
of those seventeen games without both of them,

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Nicholas Batuma's miss nine, Luke Nard
is miss seven, Reggie Jackson has

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missed four, and Marcus Morris has
missed two. They've had eighteen different starting

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lineups. Only team with more,
I believe, is the Los Angeles Lakers,

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with twenty one, but they've had
one of their big three available for

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the most part this season. Clippers
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now Paul George has been out for
sustained period of time and we don't know

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when he could return. We don't
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We don't know when Luke Kennard could
be back. He's been in health and

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safety protocols for I wanted to say
over twelve days now. We're hoping for

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the best with those guys, but
to act like the calvaries on the way

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and that can give them a shot
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on the mend and they're coming back. We don't know that. We don't

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know if they're about to turn the
corner and play more consistent basketball because they

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have more consistent lineups out there.
What's been consistent is the fact that the

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Clippers I've been a bottom five offense
all year long, and I never would

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have aspected that even with this many
injuries because of the way they played offensively

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last year where they also had injuries, not to this extent, but it

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led the league in three points shooting
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game in the first half two for
eighteen and choked up just looking at that

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box score where they were that bad
from the outside. They were miserable Tuesday

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night from the outside. They've finished
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better, but on the year,
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Now that is slightly above average.
More physicality allowed out there in the NBA,

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more teams playing harder defensively because they're
allowed to, and the new Wilson

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ball has I think created some fuzzy
math with the percentages from the outside like

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we haven't seen a few years,
but teams have been adjusting to it,

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and the Clippers have as well.
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had a fifteen games stretch recently where
they were shooting thirty eight thirty nine percent

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from three, which is a lot
closer to what we saw all of last

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season. But it's such a big
part of their game, the drive,

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kick swing, turning down good shots
for great shots, and we just haven't

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seen enough of that consistently all year. And yeah, would you have to

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rely on Reggie Jackson being more of
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I think that's affected him. He's
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Outside of that fourth quarter he had
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night. He's been shooting about thirty
percent the last five games and he had

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another tough one two for eleven,
one of six from the outside, just

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five points. A Mere Coffee who
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It's so many ways for this team, and it's not just about the scoring

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with him, but after having twenty
one points and eighteen points in lead them

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in scoring wellieve it or not,
the last two games, but that also

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tells you no one has scored more
than twenty one points now the last three

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games. But a Mere Coffee had
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He was just two of seven with
this scoring. He's still had five

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assists, he's still had a steal, he's still had six boards. But

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it's come to that point where they
need more scoring from him, and that

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says something about the state of the
team and just where they are offensively and

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where they are with bodies available to
coach lou to try to get the scoring

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up. Putting up eighty nine points, it's just tough to look at after

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just having eighty seven against the Denver
Nuggets, after having still just one oh

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six when they took down the Hawks, that's not great. One oh eight

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before that against the Grizzlies, eighty
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and other loss were putting up just
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So they've been consistent, unfortunately in
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Thank goodness, the defense was there
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there tonight in New Orleans, Clippers
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fifteen was the score after one,
and I think New Orleans had it to

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being up nineteen in that first quarter. Clippers came out flat and I don't

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know if there was enough ball movement
and Guy's attacking. They only had twenty

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eight points in the paint. Pelicans
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I don't know if this is a
franchise low, but they only had

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six turnovers leading to four points.
That was something else that saved the Clippers

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Tuesday night when they were down twenty
five to Denver. Denver had twenty turnovers

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in that game. That got the
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and they actually really took advantage of
them. Tonight. The Clippers had fifteen

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turnovers in New Orleans, took advantage
of that with twenty three points. Josh

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Hart getting behind the defense, and
nobody's slowing down the basketball. That happened

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a few different times. So yeah, not a great performance, say the

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least not great, Bob. Clippers
lose one thirteen to eighty nine. Coming

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back, we'll get to your phone
calls eight six six nine eight seven two

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five seventy. I don't know what
it is the last time they beat the

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Pelicans was a year ago to the
day, January thirteenth of twenty twenty one.

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They've lost five straight to this team
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they had zion for one of those
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baller. Of course, you just
hit a game winner the other night from

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three. But for every reason,
the Clippers have trouble in New Orleans and

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against the Pelicans in general. They
lose by fourteen. They'll make it more

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than that. It was by twenty
four season, down by as many as

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twenty eight. More. Clippers stock
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back to more LA Clippers Basketball Act
Defense the offense for the Clippers on the

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official home of your Los Angeles Clippers. Stuck up in the spot making club.

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He fall in the sleep you want
to fall with the old Peakstein the

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Creek Tchin Clippers only took one hour, but it steels like nothing cool about

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it. They lose in New Orleans
and the Pelicans one thirteen to eighty nine,

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a team that has been eight thorn
in their side. Clippers losing by

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twenty four. We're down by as
many as twenty eight, coming off a

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two game winning streak, big time
victories against Atlanta against Denver, down twenty

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five. But we've seen this pattern. Clippers get a big win against the

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Nets on the road, they come
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They beat the Celtics before that in
Boston, lost to the Raptors after

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that. So couldn't get make it
a three game winning streak. And yeah,

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you want to say the Pelicans are
scheduled loss just because they have some

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juju, some some weird voodoo.
They're used on the Clippers every time they

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play them. Just give them credit
that they play well. And they are

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bad matchup for the Clippers without their
wing help, as no Eagle pointed out

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earlier, without guys like Kawai and
Paul George Brandon ingram feasts. Jonas Valanciunas

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didn't have his thirty seven points but
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set the tone early and finished with
eighteen and and I reading this right sixteen

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boards. Clippers were outrebounded fifty seven
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the offensive rebounds. In that category, the Clippers, they've struggled there all

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season long. It's it's more than
a pattern, it's more than a trend.

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We're more than halfway through this season. It's hard to just write off

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some of these things now and say, oh, it's an outlier, it's

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just one of those nights. Now. It's just a tough stretch with so

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many guys out, And they could
use Isaiah Hartenstein a bad way and Luke

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Kennard and those two alone whenever they
can come back, could be the difference

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the Clippers getting back above five hundred
in the near future. But right now

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they're twenty one and twenty two.
Clippers lose one thirteen eighty nine in New

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Orleans. Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm ata Moslin eight six six nine

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eight seven two five seventy is the
phone number, Javier and Lhabra Heights your

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first up tonight. What's up?
Javier? Hey? What's up? Adam?

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Adam had a question here if Paul
George doesn't come back, because you

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know there's there's rumors out there today
he's not coming back this year, and

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if that happens and then Kawhi doesn't
come back, I would I would,

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you know, honestly, I would
some of these veterans and just shoot for

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next year. I mean you could
get something for you know, younger players,

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for Morris Bledso and Ibaka. I
mean, that's gonna help us for

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next year. I mean it just
we cannot. I mean with all those

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two players, Paul George and Kauai, there's no way. Even though let's

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say we do make the playoffs,
we're not gonna we're not gonna get out

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in the first round now with two
you know, we need to two players.

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So I'm just thinking at the trade
day line, we should be sellers.

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I mean, we just well just
shoot for next year. I mean,

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let's see what happens. First,
we don't know that that is the

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case with Paul George. It was
reported by far about Essen Shari. He

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said he spoke to multiple sources within
the Clippers, and Paul George has not

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been reevaluated yet. I'm quoting him. While there is a chance he could

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potentially miss the season due to surgery, nothing can be determined until at least

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his next evaluation. So I think
a lot of people are just trying to

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be first instead of trying to be
right. They're making educated guesses that,

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well, if it is the UCL
and he has to have Tommy John,

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yeah he would be out for the
season. But we don't know that to

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be the case the case yet.
So I appreciate the phone call, Javier.

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We got somebody else online here.
We'll screen your call in just a

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bit, but let's go to Morris
in Long Beach. Morris, you're on

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Clippers Talk. You know we need
that positivity tonight. I want to say

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too, if the reason why the
Clippers have a problem with the Pelicans and

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they've been fooling with their gumbo at
them, if they let that gumbo alone,

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they'd be all right. And you
know, we're halfway through the season.

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I'm gonna tell you something. The
NFL has got the playoffs going now.

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Nobody remembers the regular season, nobody. I want to give us a

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shout out to the NBA for weathering
us through this these legal aerosol passages and

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giving us these games and some entertainment
and whatnot to doing a pretty good job.

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You know, a lot of things
aren't a successful with disappointing convinces.

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The Clippers are, okay, So
but when now we getting into the second

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season, I'm gonna take what's gonna
happen in this playoff because this is weird,

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weird year. You remember that year
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I think Baron Davis was part of
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team took down a sixty seven win
Mavericks team back in the first round in

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two thousand and seven. Okay,
I'm not saying that's what we're gonna do,

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but I am saying you're gonna see
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Believe it or not. We always
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health but it's really serious now.
Because Phoenix can run into something, go

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all of us can run into something. So we gotta take a look at

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you know, what things look like
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and stuff like that. So you
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a lot of good teams, a
whole lot under five hundred. So we're

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gonna keep our heads up, hopefully
good health. And your first caller that

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I was talking about trade, you
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to give him some props now if
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two. Nobody wants to be a
general manager. I'd rather be a fan

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than a general manager. And that's
the truth. You've got to be ruthless,

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daring. You're be a general manager. You're a general manager. You

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gotta get that some thought. Though. He's right. We could take those

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two guys you know who are hurt, they're not worth anything to us now

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and let somebody else bank on their
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something right now for this year.
So that's that's not just something we've got

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to consider. We're gonna be fair
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Adam. All right, Morris,
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if it gets that dire with their
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back front office. They will leave
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eye on the future while still living
in the present. And Lawrence Frank Executive

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of the Year for the twenty twenty
season. He's brilliant. Jerry West,

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Trying Rad and Mark Hughes, Michael
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comes to the front office of the
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heavily in those areas and it's paid
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concerned. I'm not worried about it. They'll make the right moves if that

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time comes. We're not there yet, and so I just I don't want

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to get too far ahead of ourselves
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what's up here on Clipper stock with
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doing what you I'm good, Joshua. Tough loss for the Clippers. What

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do you think of the ball game? Yeah, well, I'm a lifelong

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fan of Clippers. I'm sixteen years
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really wondering why we continue to us
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in those big moments in those big
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we're starting to see here, if
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of Kauai and when are we looking
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thank you for the phone call.
I don't think Kawhi knows when he could

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come back right now. It's about
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healthy enough. It's still early in
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say, at best, we're talking
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what a lot of the people are
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contention. And there have been some
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ahead of schedule, and we knew
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back in October November, and then
Chris Haynes came out with a report a

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couple of weeks ago. And this
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far about essent. Shari really had
that first for SI now and the bleacher

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report that Kawhi Leonard was ahead of
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know, I really took from and
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at Media Day talking about how the
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for taking less money this last offseason
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taken the Supermacs contract this upcoming summer
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play, and having that money secured
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and going back out there earlier.
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in that direction for Kauai, but
we just don't know how his body's going

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to respond to the treatments, to
the rehab, to the surgery. He

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had a serious injury partially torn acl
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this is a long term investment for
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you don't want to rush anybody back
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your point, Joshua was talking about
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It's felt like that this season.
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but they do seem to get up
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be a bad habit, so can
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bad habits, and they're gonna be
tough to break. But we've seen this

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Clippers team bounce back. We saw
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Atlanta Hawks team, and then came
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one in San Antonio, who has
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this season. And they're a team
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and the hall of famers they used
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hall of fame coach in Greg Popovic. And they play hard, they play

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smart, they don't beat themselves.
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adam oslind to eight six six nine
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the phone number. I just tweeted this

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out at follow autam Ay. But
in the new year, I want to

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say, it's seven games so far, and Reggie Jackson is in a deep

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shooting funk. He is thirty one
for ninety five, that is thirty two

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percent from the field outside of that
fourth quarter he had and it was heroic

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for the Clippers to come back down
twenty five Tuesday night. He just hasn't

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found any rhythm with his shot,
Clippers overall and shooting funk. It's not

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just him. Marcus Morris recently has
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I just saw this from if it
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came back from health and safety protocols. He was on a tear. In

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fact, he had scored twenty or
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thirteen until the last three games,
it was my player to watch because I

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was thinking, Okay, he hasn't
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or more in such a long time. He was due. But after making

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forty one point six percent of his
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from protocols, his last three games
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So sometimes you know baseball hitting is
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I think it's happening with the Clippers
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he's your number one option, you
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defense can load up on them and
make life even tougher, or they can

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play off of him, and so
there aren't guys that are open that there's

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an extra man available to you because
somebody's getting double teamed. And that's been

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a problem I think a lot so
far those Clippers. When you have somebody

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with the gravity of Kawhi Leonard or
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it makes life easier for everyone else. When those guys are gone, everyone

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else is getting less open. Looks
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coach post game Toronto, lou after
the Clippers losing by twenty four in New

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Orleans to the Pelicans. Here he
was speaking to the media. I don't

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know, I wish I had to
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good. They know who they go
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are like I said, they played
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with paced. If you turned the
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and I think, you know,
Hard does a good job of pushing

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that ball and creating havoc, especially
in transition. So you know, we're

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not scoring to basketball you shoot,
you know, thirty eight percent and twenty

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nine from three. You know,
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so they's gonna take advantage of that. Outside of that, just defensively,

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you know, I thought we try
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work tonight. You know, on
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try to blitz, try to zone, and they just kind of had it

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going. So we didn't have a
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starting unit, you know, three, four, eleven, fifteen, so

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you know, I'll started un to
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You know, started the game,
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I just didn't have a lot of
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is? Uh? I mean,
this is a standard rest game and for

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the rest of the month, you
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but it just looks they looked slow, looked pretty old tonight, and

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she didn't have a lot of pop, you know, and so that that

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happens, you know, we,
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thought. Our young guys came in
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lead and gave us opportunity to get
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when our starters from start to finish, they went to the advantage of

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us. It looked like the stints
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and lineups, they were rather extended, like get the first unit a long

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run in the third quarter and then
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lead down at thirteam, but they
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you know what you don't want to
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that person they can get us back
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a twenty point game, you know, when everybody to come out, you

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know, it's hard to get him
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to see if we can you know, cut into that lead at all.

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a few shots and the game kind
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to play in the first half the
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fools to play and just giving him
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see from you today? Oh,
because you know with a mirror he was

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on a minute restrictions, so we
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playing forty three minutes out of the
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opportunity to play. You know,
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good things and to like have some
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a meaningful game. You know,
I probably did a good job. So

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you it wasn't really fair because it's
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you get his feet with but I
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was Coach lu post game after the
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and the Pelicans. I love the
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many as nineteen in the first quarter
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put in the backups. He went
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every possible combination for the Clippers to
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that juice. Some of that energy, a spark, anything to get them

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back into it. Jason Scrubb was
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Orleans, and we heard this Tuesday
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game, if you could see it
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coming back on them, if they'd
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reputation of coming back and you can
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well, while the Clippers were driving, have all the confidence in the world

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in situations like that. But he
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team that had won four straight against
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lose against the Clippers. The pattern, this trend. Clippers just gotta put

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their foot down and stop it.
I don't know what it is about New

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Orleans, but I think that was
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kind of scratching their head and wondering
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stock after they lose in New Orleans
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to the Pelicans. Last time they
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Clippers just have to find a way
to bounce back like they have done

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their game under five hundred, twenty
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San Antonio Saturday tip time at five
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starting at four thirty. Spurs won
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one, sixteen to ninety two.
Clippers won the first matchup this season one

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oh six to ninety two San Antonio. Maybe fifteen and twenty six, but

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right now the Clippers cannot overlook anyone. Before we get out of here,

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I do want to thank the Clippers
organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seamen,

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Ralph Lawler, big brother, Jake
Warner Or head engineer in downtown Los Angeles,

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and Katie Newton here in Burbank.
Happy birthday, Katie, thanks for

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giving me the M and MS.
I don't know why I got the president,

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but it did. And still Saturday
at four thirty with Clippers Countdown,

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Clippers in San Antonio, Madam Mossel, We'll talk to you them. This

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has been Clippers Talk. They accepted
the challenge, your first post game opportunity

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to talk LA Clippers without a Mossley. It's what we've always seen from him.

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Tune in next game for all the
action on the official home of your

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LA Clippers, and I just absolutely
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out goodbye and check out the Clippers
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