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Welcome back in. This is Clippers
talk. I met a moslind after they

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win eighty nine to eighty eight in
Minnesota. This is not a Clippers rewind

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segment from nineteen ninety seven. Uh
yeah, look at that score. It's

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it's amazing. The Clippers were their
lowest scoring game of the season and it

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comes in a victory. Welcome back
in. If I threw you're on hold,

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stay on, hold, we will
get back to you here eight six

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six ninety seven two five seventy eight
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For instance, I think I just
threw Lenny on hold, Lenny, hold

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on, We'll get to you.
But first, will Epdyke of clips and

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dip fame will Uh how much wind
did this win put in your sales with

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the Clippers finally beating the Minnesota Timberwolves. Oh man, it put a heck

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of a lot of win. But
I gotta tell you, we're coming up

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against a pretty strong Waves just tomorrow
and having to take on the It can't

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celebrate this one too hard, which
is unfortunate because it's one of the best

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statement wins. Now. I know
we didn't exactly dump it on them,

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but this is one of the best
wins of the Clippers season. It is

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without a doubt, especially because Minnesota
was talking a lot of junk and now

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I'm posting Benjamin Button gifts on X
talking about the Clippers actually looking younger in

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this game down the stretch. Anthony
Edwards only had two points in the fourth

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quarter, and it was a defensive
indifference type of play by the Clippers giving

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him that dunk, while Kawhi Leonard
had eight points in the fourth, including

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that and one out of the ATO. I think that's probably the biggest shot

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of the game, aside from those
free throws late. But great to see

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the Claw and the Clippers once again
step up in crunch time. In clutch

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time, oh absolutely. I mean
I also talk Norm Powell's name in the

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bucket for clutch shots, the way
he was ending quarters, not to mention

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the run that he went on there
in the second. I mean, we

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just absolutely needed that spark. Obviously, no Russell Westbrook in this one,

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and Norm got us back into what
seemed like a losing effort of a game,

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just pluggage lethargic to start, really
really tough one for this Clippers team,

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but thanks to Norm Powell, we
were able to turn it around.

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You know, I talked a little
bit on the podcast about what it could

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possibly mean for James Harden if he
got a little bit of extended burn with

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the starting unit instead of you know
that sort of six minute subout. My

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hypothesis thus far is not proved correct. He did not make a shot in

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this one, but the Clippers were
still able to overcome. And I liked

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over all the way that the that
we saw some more staggering of the stars.

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I thought that was effective in this
one. Yeah, we saw Paul

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George and Kahi Lennarn being staggered a
ton and PG. Thirteen. Look,

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he struggled, but during two of
the most key runs by the Clippers,

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the sixteen oh run in that second
quarter where I think he had two three

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pointers, and then the big three
pointerer he hit in the fourth over Karl

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Anthony Towns. Some timely shots you
could say from him along with just elite

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Paul George Defensive Player of the Year
when he finished third back in twenty nineteen

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type of defense on that end.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I mean

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that's the like, look, I
some of this was cold shooting. You

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know, you have both teams under
forty percent from the floor, both teams

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under thirty percent from three, so
it's a mix of both. But I

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think defensively, there was a lot
to like from this Clippers team in you

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know, a defensive performance that we
haven't been seen as of late, and

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you know, with sort of lower
minutes from a Viza Zubat and down Russ,

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who is you know, a pretty
key player when we switched to the

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smaller lineups, I liked. You
know, there's there's nothing to not like

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about that defensive performance from the Clippers. Sure, there were some lasses here

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and there, there were some easy
buckets given up, but overall, it's

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just a really really strong effort on
that end of the floor. And while

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the store, well, while the
scoring took a bit of a backseat,

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I mean, if you're coming out
with the wing, you'll take it,

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no doubt. I thought, you
know, of Vitzas Zubas, obviously it

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wasn't his game out there yet,
a floater, I think it was in

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the third quarter, but they weren't
even looking for him at times, and

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I was kind of hoping they would
because it would get him even more engaged

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defensively, just getting into the ball
game. A little bit, and it

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might have helped out, you know, James Harden getting easier one if they're

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running the pick and roll more effectively. But you got to give it up

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to Daniel Tice and coach lou for
sticking with him down the stretch and at

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least having the illusion of spreading the
floor because he's a forty three point shooter

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so far this season. He went
oh four in this game, but they

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had to honor his shot from the
outside and it worked just well enough,

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I guess offensively. Yeah, look, I mean, oh, I mean,

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it just shows you the tactician that
Tylu is because it kind of defies

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reason to me, especially when Rudy
Gobert is not on the floor, you

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think you'd like to have bigger body
out there, someone like dude can very

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reliably finish. You could kind of
lean on him in some of those stretches,

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especially because shots weren't following down.
He talks about Paul George Harden and

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their rough sort of offensive outing,
but hey, he seems very committed to

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his vision of what he wanted to
do. We didn't see minutes from Mason

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Plumbley, Like we said, very
limited zoom in it but it worked,

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and I think, you know,
having one extra shooter out there on the

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floor, and this is not this
is not a diss on Rots or anything,

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but having one extra shooter in those
lineups does make things a little bit

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easier from a spacing perspective. Although
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They didn't. They did get so
many open shots, though I'm interested

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to see on NBA dot Com leader
how many open threes they missed, because

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I felt like Paul George and James
Harden must have gone like zero five on

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open threes, and some of that
was created through that spacing. They just

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weren't able to capitalize on it.
But I thought a mere coffee was also

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fabulous. Defensively, I thought Bones
blended in very nicely during that run to

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start the second quarter. He didn't
get in the way. He took three

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shots. He took one on Rudy
Gobert where he had a nice move on

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them. He couldn't get to go
either, but you can see the confidence

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there from young Bones Highland. But
Terrence Man good defense with the starters two

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of three with six points. I
just got to think that this Clippers team

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has to gain a lot of confidence
coming out of a victory against a team

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that really I'm sure the Minnesota Timberwols
is gonna say they had no business losing

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that game. But the Clippers defense, it just shows what they're capable of

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on that end when they lock in, oh yeah, one hundred percent.

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And you know, speaking of man
and coffee, like their defense is gonna

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come in very clutch again. They're
gonna be leaned on heavily second night of

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a back to back. You know, they're the youngest, some of the

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youngest guys on the team, so
they're gonna be expected to carry a heavy

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load again. On Bone. Look, I know, if you're looking at

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the box score, it didn't really
jump. It's not gonna burn your eyes

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out or anything. But like really, all Bones have to do is be

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able to help that team tread water, get the ball to the hot hand,

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and keep things moving. And I
you know, he had two assists.

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Like he wasn't great, but he
was you know, like he wasn't

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making mistakes. He was able to
get the ball to norm a couple of

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times, who was the best scorer
on the floor during those stretches. So

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overall, I mean that's still a
pretty solid performance. Like, we don't

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need Bones to I mean, of
course there's a timing place, but I

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would say in a general scenario,
we don't need Bones to bear a lot

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of the offensive burden from a scoring
perspective. Really, he just got to

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go in there, take care of
the ball, not make mistakes, and

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like I said, just keep things
moving for this Clippers offense. Yeah,

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that's well said. And he did
have the first to assists to three point

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shots made in that second quarter to
get the run started started. And assist

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to Norman Powell coming off of what
he did in the first quarter, and

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assist to Paul George. It was
his first make that assist by Bones Highland.

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So to your point, was getting
guys good looks out there, and

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I think the offense, you know, it's gonna come for him. It

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will. He's too good on that
end. I'm just waiting for that Bones

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Highland explosion game with him back into
the lineup now. Of course, Will

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Updike only comes on during victories and
the Clippers would win by one eighty nine

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to eighty eight. Your final in
Minnesota. Yeah, it's not time travel.

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They really want a game scoring just
eighty nine points in the year twenty

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twenty four. Will we'll talk to
you soon. I know we got a

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YouTube I think coming up on Tuesday, my friend, thanks for doing this.

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Here a little clips and double dip
here on clipper stock. Absolutely thanks

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for having me. Let's go quick. We'll take a few calls before we

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get out of here. Clippers again
win by one in Minnesota. Lenny and

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Inglewood. You're on clipper stock without
a Mauslein. Quickly, Lenny,