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The game is over. Paull George
money in the pain, but the postgame

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reaction has just be goot Cowhi Leonard
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This is Clippers locker row, a
recap of today's game and a look ahead

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on your hope for La Clippers basketball
at now your host, You, sir,

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are a bad man, Adam Ousley. Clippers winning street comes to an

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end at the hands of the Orlando
Magic as they went in downtown Los Angeles

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one thirteen to one oh eight.
Welcome into your post games show. I'm

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Adam Oslin coming up. We'll get
your post game box corn. You'll hear

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from the head coach and the players
after this one. But first we get

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back out to your voice of the
Clippers in Noah Eagle. Clippers started slow

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defensively, and they ended the game
slow defensively as well. Noah Eagle.

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The Magic scored at or shot sixty
percent in the fourth quarter on the Clippers.

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Yeah, you can bind the first
and the fourth quarter of the Magic

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scored seventy of their one thirteen in
those two and the second and the third

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the Clippers held them to just forty
three. And that's what wins you games

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forty three points over two quarters versus
seventy points over two quarters. It's the

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main difference. Look, we've been
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how much and how important it is, and look, they were missing a

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big piece with Kawhi Leonard. Certainly
on the defensive end. What he brings

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just in terms of his on ball
defense one on one is huge. But

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his help, his ability to get
into passing lanes quickly, fill those up,

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intercept passes, get to the rim, do everything that you gotta do.

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I mean, it's all important,
and so not to have them out

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there, things get thrown out of
whack, no doubt about it. So

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look, the Clippers will get back
on track. I have no questions and

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no concerns. This is just a
tough one to drop because of obviously the

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ramifications of the standings and everything else
that goes with it. So every game

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is meaningful, right, and every
game feels somewhat like a playoff game,

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And this is a tough one to
drop concerning you feel like the Clippers probably

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had this in their hand up by
eight going into the fourth quarter, but

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not having Paul George in there to
start the fourth hurt them, and then

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not having their other closer out there
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Yeah. I was saying it on
Twitter early on, but you let

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a young team get confident early and
gonna stay in the ball game all the

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way through and they can find a
way to beat you, And that's exactly

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what Orlando did. Yeah, exactly. You just it's a young team that's

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also playing with confidence right now.
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we've seen that in the past where
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don't they're not that confident. They're
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this is a team that's playing with
confidence. And Mark el Foltz looks

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like a new basketball player to me. At him, he's just he's just

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great right now. He's done everything
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I know that ban Caro has been
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Franz Wagner is averaging almost nineteen points
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know, yeah, huge three for
Franz, But Wendell Carter has been a

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good player for them. But Mark
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game. If it wasn't for Mark
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table. Orlando does not come close
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he deserves a lot of praise.
I think the Magic deserve a lot of

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praise. I think Jamal Mosley deserves
a lot of praise. But overall,

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a tough loss for the Clippers.
There's no way getting around it. Now

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you've got to bounce right back.
You've got a game tomorrow night. I

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don't have to wait much longer to
get right back on the saddle, and

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we'll see if the Clippers can write
the ship, get back to what they've

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done a defensive end against one of
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They just dealt with fifty from Steph
Curry and won that game. Can they

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do the same if Damian Lillard has
one of those days? That's the question

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for tomorrow. Averaging thirty three on
the season, Clippers and Blazers tipping up

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in Portland Ya tomorrow night at six
pm. We'll have Clippers count Down your

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pregame show starting at five No great
call. As always, we'll talk to

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you in it's twenty hours. Is
that it's twenty ye can't wait it out.

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I'm what are you talking about?
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in already eight six six nine at
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to your post game box score next
right here on the Los Angeles Clippers where

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you do network Clippers loose one thirteen
so one oh eight two of the Orlando

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Magic in downtown Los Angeles. Welcome
into your post games show. I'm Adam

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Oslin, coming up on AM five
seventy LA Sports. We'll have Clippers talk

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for you in just a little bit
here eight six six nine eight seven two

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five seventy eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy, or you can

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get to me at follow Adam a
on Twitter. Clippers give up fifty percent

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shooting to the Orlando Magic. They
only went ten of thirty one from the

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outside. But it was that fourth
quarter where they scored thirty nine points.

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The floodgates opened and the Clippers had
no answer. They couldn't get stops defensively.

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The Magic shot sixty percent fifteen of
twenty five from the field in the

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final twelve minutes of this one and
outscored the Clippers by thirteen in the final

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twelve minutes. They were led by
Marquel Folds. He had twenty eight on

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ten of seventeen shooting. Wendell Carter
Junior had twenty seven and twelve. Franz

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Woudner a huge three pointer over Robert
Covington. He got twenty points, two

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of seven from the outside, but
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Overall, Mantero with twelve points on
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bench, Cole Anthony with some big
ones as well. He put in eighteen

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points in the second unit for Orlando. As for the clip first Paul George

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led them with thirty, had a
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his thirty points, had a big
third quarter with fourteen, hit a big

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three pointer, tried to keep them
around late and the Clippers were hanging in

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there. The problem was they were
just trading buckets. They couldn't get any

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stops on the defensive end. When
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of urgency after a slow start scoring
wise, in that fourth quarter, it

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didn't matter because their defense has never
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this one. I do want to
have a tip of the captain Robert Covington.

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He had eleven points in twenty three
minutes and three steals, four of

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seven shooting, after not playing since
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a couple of weeks ago. Now, I believe Vita Zubas had sixteen and

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sixteen on his twenty six birthday plus
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Missed some easy ones early on as
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start. They were down twelve two, they were down eleven in the first

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quarter. They battled back. They
had it too within one, and they

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were up heading into the fourth,
but they would lose one thirteen to one

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oh eight to a hot shooting Orlando
Magic team as the Clippers defense just did

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not step up, couldn't get stops
late. They lose by five. The

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five game winning street Clipper Nation was
hoping for not to be it stops at

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four, but they get right back
after it tomorrow. More on that game

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coming up in Portland. We'll talk
about that next here in the postgame show

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on the Los Angeles Clippers Ready doing
Network. Clippers fall to the Magic at

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home. Final score one thirteen,
one oh eight in favor of Orlando.

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Welcome back into your post game show. I'm Adam Oslin. So we mentioned

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Clippers on a back to back,
so no Kawhi Leonard in this one.

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We expect him to play against the
Portland Trail Blazers tomorrow night. Blazers have

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lost five straight. They just lost
to the Boston Celtics at home one twenty

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six two one twelve. But Damian
Lillard, having an unreal season, of

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course, had the seventy one point
game. The Admiral David Robinson asked,

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seventy one point scored and he's getting. We're thirty per game, an efficient

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thirty three, another high scoring guard, just as know what Eagle mentioned earlier,

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just like they faced against Steph Curry
recently, who dropped fifty on the

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Clippers grand The Clippers came through the
victory Wednesday night, not to be tonight

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or today as they were trying to
go for five in a row and sweep

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the homestand now they go up North
for one and then come back home on

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Tuesday. But tomorrow night in Portland, it tips off at six pm.

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We'll have Clippers cauntdown for you.
Is starting at five outside of Los Angeles,

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we are leaving you until then.
Coming up next though five seventy LA

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How about the magic track Orlando no
joke? They win one thirteen to

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one oh eight over your Los Angeles
Clippers without Kawhi Leonard. Welcome in to

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Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslin.
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seventy eight six six nine eight seven
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you'd like to get on coming up
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Mockler on from Clips and Dip.
We'll get to your phone calls. You

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also hear from Coach Low and the
players after this one, quite frank Clipper

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Nation. This is the worst loss
of the season. And I said that

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the last time out against the Orlando
Magic, but that was in early December.

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The Magic after that went on a
winning streak. They've had the eleventh

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best record in the NBA. I
believe a couple games over five hundred since

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being the Clippers back on possibly December
seventh. It was that game was lost

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in overtime with Kauai. This game, now with just eleven games left in

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the season without Kauai, and the
Clippers did it to themselves. They got

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off to a slow start, as
we have seen so many times before Afternoon

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Delight. Not exactly when the Clippers
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on the weekend Saturday or Sunday early
start. They seemed to just come out

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sluggish, this was no different.
They were down twelve too early. Turnovers

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came in bunches. Paul George had
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He didn't have one in the second
half. That's a good sign. But

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coming off two games where he only
had collectively two turnovers to have six in

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the first half of this one,
that's tough to explain. I know the

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ball was in his hands more because
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Russell Westbrook out there, I thought, had a really good end to

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the first quarter, but after that
didn't have a great ball game. He

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helped bring them back though, at
the end of the first quarter with under

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three minutes left, he went on
his own one man six point run and

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had eleven points and three assists in
the first and after being down by as

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many as eleven, the Clippers had
it to within one at thirty one thirty

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after one. But I said this
early in the second quarter. I tweeted

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it out at follow Adam, may
you give a young team life like this

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and confidence and they can beat you. And the magic never went away.

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As the Clippers started to open things
up. They had a four point lead,

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a six point lead. I want
to say. It was an eight

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point lead heading into the fourth quarter. As they started to separate themselves,

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or so they thought the Magic would
battle back. They let them get hot

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from the field with a thirty spot
or thirty one in the first quarter,

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and the Magic never really went away
on the offensive end. They kept scoring.

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They felt comfortable out there. The
Clippers physicality was lacking that I thought

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we saw for the most part during
this winning streak. Obviously the game against

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Memphis where they gave up fifty one
in the third quarter notwithstanding, but after

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that it looked like they flipped a
switch on the defensive end against the Raptors,

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against the Knicks, I thought they
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Steph Curry is just that good and
it doesn't matter sometimes, but for the

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Magic to stick around consistently and yes, beat down by eight heading into the

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fourth quarter, where it looked like
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eighty two to seventy four with PG
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fourteen, doubling up his first half
production with just seven having fourteen, and

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the third I thought the Clippers were
going to make their move. Step On

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the opponent's throat as they started to
wake up in this afternoon start and possibly

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win this one by double digits.
Magic came out firing though in the fourth,

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and the Clippers came out a little
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end one to start the fourth quarter. Clippers weren't doing a lot of scoring,

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and the Magic ended up shooting sixty
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Had some huge shots answered every bucket
as the Clippers finally had a sense

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of urgency at least offensively, and
Paul George had some big shots and a

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big three pointer, but each shot
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punched right back. They weren't afraid. Why would they be. They were

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in control throughout a lot of this
ball game. They started off hot,

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they closed well too, and everything
the Clippers threw at them they had an

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answer for down the stretch and Paul
George hits that three point to bring him

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within two with a minute left,
and Wagner steps up and makes a tough

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three in the face of Roco to
put the Magic backup by five. With

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forty seconds left, Paul George drives
gets a layup. It's a three point

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game. With thirty seven seconds left, markl. Foltz answers with a layup

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of his own. Eric Gordon has
a layup, Clippers down by three or

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twenty four seconds left. Folts gets
found on the other end intentionally. It

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makes both free throws. They would
go on to win one thirteen to one

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oh eight. Pretty inexcusable loss.
Though this late into the season, I

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could care less that Kawhi Leonard was
out. Of course, that affects the

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ball game, but I believe the
strategy here was the Shippers can still get

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this one without Kauai, and they
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Portland Trailblazers on the road tomorrow.
Right, that's kind of what we're all

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assuming he's not playing back to backs
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at least one more. And I'm
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production from Kawai. It's worked.
The way they've managed him and his right

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knee coming off the ACL, he's
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the argument maybe he's been the best
player in the game. He Yokich,

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Ambide, Yannis, all those guys, I've been that good and Kawhi has

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been in that category best three point
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into a damn splash brother. But
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Although arresting Kawai against US, okay, we'll come out. We thought we

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should have beat Phoenix the other night, and they went a close one tonight

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against the Clippers, and they battled
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never really found any footing when they
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yeah, holding Orlando seventeen points coming
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were much better at the beginning of
the third quarter than to start off the

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game in the first. Marcus Morris
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nine points in that third quarter.
As I mentioned, Paul George had fourteen

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in the third. But those six
turnovers they were costly. They were down

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by two in the first half.
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early on because of the turnover issue, and then late because they just weren't

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very connected on the defensive end.
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They've been in some of these games
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I don't know if the Clippers played
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they just for whatever reason, needs
smelling salts to start off games on the

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weekend, these early afternoon starts.
I thought, outside of Russ in that

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first quarter and Terrence Man in the
backups when they came in Roco two,

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they just were da a little bit
lifeless out there. Same story. We've

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seen this movie before with this team
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again. But with twelve games left
now, eleven games left after this one,

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would just thought if it was going
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the Orlando Magic, it would have
didn't brutal, brutal loss because they're just

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a couple of games up and the
loss column on the team in the eleven

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spot. I'm not sure if it's
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I'll update you when the standings coming
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today eight six six nine eight seven
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two five seventy. Hey, I
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he made the most of them.
Twenty three minutes, four seven shooting.

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It was his first game since he
played up in Sacramento. Had eleven points,

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three steals. He made a big
impact Franz Wagner, though, I

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mean stared him down with that three
pointer, got it over Roco's outstretched arm

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with under a minute left. That
was a big time shot and the Clippers

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just too disconnected on the defensive end. And yeah, I see some of

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the tweets out there, Terrence Man
only getting eighteen minutes. He played early

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in the fourth quarter. I want
to say once again, he played through

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the end of the third, early
into the fourth, but then was taken

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out when Paul George came back in. And I don't think Terrence Man got

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back into the ball game late.
It seemed like they could have used some

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defense. Russ was out there,
Eric Gordon was out there. Eric Gordon's

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played really well in closing lineups.
But outside of that stint the end of

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the first quarter, Russell Westbrook fourteen
points, yeah, nine assists, but

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six turnovers, five or fourteen from
the field wasn't his day. So I

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look, I'm reading some of the
tweets. I can't ignore him about Terrence

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Man getting more time out there.
He and Robert Covington were both the plus

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six in a game they lost by
five. That's tough, But I just

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don't have many excuses for a team, even without Kawhi Leonard in a game

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like this, with what's at stake, with a dozen games left in the

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season, for losing this one today
at home after having two days off,

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I would have thought they would have
came out stronger. They would have closed

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stronger, certainly, but you can't
let a team catch a rhythm and then

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all of a sudden try to turn
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It's hard to do sometimes. Orlando
was comfortable, they were in sync,

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they were sharp. They had a
lot of turnovers. Still, Clippers somewhat

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took advantage of it, but they
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Clippers in this one finished with fifteen
turnovers. I want to say eleven of

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those came in the first half,
so just four last twenty four minutes.

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That's much better. Orlando had six
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the first half, but they showed
a lot of resolve. Clippers up eight

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heading into the fourth quarter. I
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at stake, you put this one
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nine eight seven two five seventy eight
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So have the Clippers turned that proverbial
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thought they were gonna get this once
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They had the best player on the
floor talent wise, and Paul George he

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get thirty but six turnovers. They
started to regress to some of those issues

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they've had after having I want to
say the last two games just fifteen turnovers

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total. They had fifteen and this
were alone. More Clipper stock. Next,

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during a five seventy l sports Clippers
was one of the most disappointing losses

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of the season. They fall one
thirteen and one oh eight to the Orlando

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Magic at home. The winning streak
ends at four. Welcome back into Clippers

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stock. I'm atam oslin eight six
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six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. Clipbers shoot

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forty six percent from the field.
They didn't have it going from the outside.

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Just six of twenty two Orlando though
fifty percent from the field, they

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go just ten of thirty one.
And they did hit four more threes and

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shot a little bit better, but
that fourth quarter Clippers could just couldn't stop

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anybody. Orlando got whatever they wanted. And sometimes when a team is already

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in rhythm, it doesn't matter if
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They're still gonna stick shots like that. They're professionals out there. Both teams

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had fifty eight points in the paint. That's a good number for the Clippers.

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They've been over fifty now. I
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games when it comes to scoring in
the paint went on the season, they're

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probably still around forty five per game, but the turnovers coming back to haunt

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them, and just a poor defensive
performance, especially down the stretch when they

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needed their defense to carry them.
No you go mention it, it's time

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to get stops. Clippers never did. And even when their offense and they

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showed up big and I don't know
what their scoring output was the last eight

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minutes of the ball game. I
should look that up because I know they

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started to catch fire. They started
to make a lot of shots. But

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they're just trading buckets out there all
right, Javier and lahabber heights. You're

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on Clippers. Stop without a Moslin
Javier, start things off? What's self

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bad? I'm thinking to take him
at call a game. This game unisusable.

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How can you lose two times to
Orlando? I mean at this point,

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I mean, I keep telling you
all year, Adam, why do

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you play Marcus Morris in the fourth
quarter? You said it yourself. They

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kept scoring and scoring. You had
he had Tyler? Who had Marcus Morris

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Russell Westbrook playing the last on six
minutes. Those two guys do not play

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defense, Adam? The game who
not play defense? You should have had

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in man, you said a couple
of good points. Man play what eighteen

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minutes? Clubbington played twenty three?
Why and if you know they're scoring a

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substitute he at Westbrook out of the
game and get Moors out of the game.

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More Scott three rebounds Adam three two
or from the free throw line because

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they miss freetros. Marcus Morris should
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I mean, this is ridiculous.
I mean, when is Tyler going to

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see that? I mean looking too
when they were I don't know what they're

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A minute in the half left and
they were down by three. He called

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him out. He said, it
will play for Russell Westbrook. He's driving

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the name. I mean, I
was like, what am I scene?

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I mean, honestly, Adam noa
eagle. He's got to call it a

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coach. I mean, he's calling
the game objectively, like we're not going

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to speculate about coach Lu and what
he could have done or should have done.

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There were some curious moves out there. Yes, I thought Russ getting

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thirty seven minutes Terrence Man just eighteen, and I'm sure he got asked about

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it post game. I still trust
coach Lu to press the right buttons at

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the right times in the key moments
of the most pivotal games. But I

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get your frustration to Javier. There's
eleven games left and Russ after that stint

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late in the first quarter where he
really turned things around for the Clippers and

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was huge there, he struggled in
when you need defense down the stretch.

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Yeah, he and Marcus Morris were
in there. Robert Covington came in for

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a visa zu Bots as they went
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But and I don't think it was
just them two getting picked on. I

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mean, Vizza Zubots had shots made
on him, that's the thing. Orlando

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was making some tough shots as well
late. That was part of this.

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But you give a team good looks
early, then when you try to stop

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them late and play better defense and
stay closer to your man, sometimes it

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just doesn't matter. They caught a
rhythm. It's too late. Mentioned in

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Jersey, you're on Clippers stock without
Am Austin. Hey, Adam, how

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are you doing? Hey? How's
everything? I'm good? Match? What

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did you think of the ball game? Oh yeah, Landa's got some bigs.

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Yeah, you know, but they're
gonna be a lottery I bet.

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And I wouldn't be surprised if they
get Frenchman. Not a base is nice,

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so heavily the team, right though, we get the I thought we

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get this win. I hope we
get the third seed or four to six,

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because I wouldn't want to say Phoenix
in the first round. Well right

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now, that's how it's set up. They'd be against Phoenix in the four

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or five matchup. That very well
could happen in the first round. I

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think I don't think the run is
gonna be hundred sent healthy. And you

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know Chris Paul, you know how
he's in the playoffs as we know,

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would be wanted to put Plumbly with
Zoo back in the fourth quarter and led

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George and kwiren comes when he comes
back tomorrow from his day off. Yeah,

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I don't know if that would help
much, Mitch with some of the

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shooting that's going around this league.
I don't I don't know if Plumbly on

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on Franz Wagner would have helped there. Yeah I say this, I mean

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all I'm shocked at Cole Anthony is
on the bench. Well, I remember

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false boy. They really raved about
him, and I'm being so charactic in

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Philadelphia. He was the number one
pick in the draft. They raved about

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him for a reason, and he's
turned things around. And it's good to

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see a good young player finding himself
now in the league. Had issues early

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on none selling this one with his
twenty eight points on ten of seventeen shooting

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against the Clippers. Let's see Damien
in La Damian, what's up your on?

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Clippers? Stop without'im awsin triple A? Man, Oh my brother,

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how you doing this? Was I
wouldn't normally say it was a tough loss,

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but I probably have to go with
a little bit of an irresponsible loss.

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You know. Again, the things
that cost the Clippers the game were

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things that were easily you know,
like easily fixable. But really in the

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second half, man, the energy
just dropped off. You know, I

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was in the building, and the
energy just dropped off, you know,

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defensively especially, but just didn't seem
like they were attacking. It seemed like

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they got away from what was working. I know that the Clippers, you

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know, they tend to have problems
with a lot of these younger teams that

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are playing quote unquote unconventional basketball,
newer brands of basketball. I know that

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these guys were big and lengthy tonight, you know, and it definitely gave

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us a little bit of problem,
but it wasn't overcomable. What I want

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to see in those type of circumstances
is the Clippers to start using their brains,

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you know, and to start using
their basketball acumens and getting in there

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and just playing head games with these
guys. We let these teams play with

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us, and it just doesn't make
a whole lot of sense. Why,

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you know, I get the competitive
nature, you wanting to man up with

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the guy, but we don't need
to do that. We play so much

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harder night in and night out,
you know, with these teams that are

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sub five hundred than we really need
to. I don't know what are your

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thoughts on that, Damian. I
appreciate the phone call. I just want

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to see them come together and some
of what they've practiced and have shown us

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the last three four games during the
win streak manifest itself out there on the

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court defensively, because coming into this
one, during the four game winning streak,

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they were still just seventeenth defensively,
they were second on offense. Clippers

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put up one oh eight. That's
still not a great number. They have

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scored I want to say one hundred
and twenty five or more five times coming

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out of the All Star break,
so six or twenty two from the outside,

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it's going to do that. But
if your defense is what you lean

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on and what you hang your hat
on, shots can come and go.

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It's a make or mis league.
But if you were ly on your defense

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and your effort to be there every
night, they're gonna win ball games.

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And this was a very very winnable
game up eight hitting into the fourth quarter

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that they let get away from them
with Orlando going off for thirty nine points

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in the fourth. Sometimes you can't
just decide when you want to start playing.

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Oh, we got off to a
slow start in the first quarter,

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but we turn things around. We
could do the same thing later. Sometimes

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those bad habits catch up with you. It's happened a lot this seasons to

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the Clippers. It happens again against
Orlando. They lose one thirteen to one

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oh eight. Coming back, more
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seven two five seventy eight six six
ninety seven two five seventy. We'll have

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Charles Mackler on from Clips and Dip
next right here on Clippers Stock on NAM

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five seventy only sports. The Clippers
got one defensive stop in the last four

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minutes and thirty six seconds against the
Orlando Magic. They gave up thirty nine

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points in the final twelve minutes and
they lose by five. Final score Orlando

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one thirteen. You're Los Angeles Clippers
one oh eight. Welcome back into Clippers

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Stock. I'm at a Moslin still
looking for some postgame audio. Did find

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a few little bites online. We'll
try to bring that to you. We'll

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get back to your phone calls,
but first let's go to Charles Mockler from

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Clips and Dip, who said he
was only coming on now during losses since

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Will's only coming on during wins,
and one you know to they ended up

417
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being a loss for the Clippers,
a surprising one, one of the more

418
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discouraging, disappointing ones, just because
of the run they've been on the opponent

419
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and the sense of urgency that just
has to be there at this point of

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the season. Charles, would you
see it the same way? Because I

421
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feel like both losses to Orlando were
two of the worst losses of the year.

422
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And respect the Magic, they played
well, but the Clippers defensively just

423
00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:29.519
fell apart. The seams. Yeah, it was pretty unbelievable to see them.

424
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You know, they played so well
in the third quarter I think was

425
00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:34.720
Thanky Squard seventeen or something like that, and then in the fourth I just

426
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evaporated. I thought the rotations were
a bit wonky late, which I'm sure

427
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we'll talk about in a sect.
But you're right, these two Orlando Magic

428
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losses with two kinds of completely different
teams have just been a stain one has

429
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already kind of a close to being
dirty season. So I mean, thankfully

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get Kauai back tomorrow against the Blazers. But this was a tough game from

431
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.960
I think it's Tailu perspective for sure, and speaking to that, I've had

432
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:07.039
some calls on it already. But
this was with just eighteen minutes played,

433
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:11.640
the fewest amount of minutes Terrence Man
had played in the games since February twenty

434
00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.640
fourth. He was a plus six
out there. I thought we might see

435
00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:19.480
him late, but they stuck with
Russell Westbrook and Eric Gordon in the backcourt.

436
00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:25.039
I think Eric Gordon's played really well
in closing lineups. And to his

437
00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:30.720
credit, Russ has already said postgame
that this was on me tonight. He

438
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.279
didn't feel like he had a great
game, even though he had a great

439
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.799
end to the first quarter and switched
the momentum and got them back into it,

440
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:41.640
but overall he was struggling and ends
up playing almost forty minutes. So

441
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how would you have gone about maybe
divvying up the minutes there? Well,

442
00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:49.720
I mean it's just more Terrence Man, right, I think, didn't I

443
00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:53.119
mean Russ played the first thirteen minutes
of this game, which made sense.

444
00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:56.799
Like you said, he had a
great end to the first quarter, but

445
00:31:56.880 --> 00:32:00.839
then it just kind of again fell
apart as the Clippers have kind of been

446
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:02.319
doing as they're trying to fit all
this stuff together. So it's just more

447
00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:06.519
Terrence Man minutes. I mean,
I love seeing Robert Covington out there,

448
00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:12.640
but again we're just we're at games
seventy. I think or sixty nine are

449
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:16.039
fairly close to those numbers. But
like we're still figuring things out right,

450
00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:20.119
We're still seeing these closing lineups and
Russ on the closing lineup. You know

451
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that's going to happen in the playoffs. We just hope that it is the

452
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opposite of how it went tonight.
He and Marcus Morris we're out there later.

453
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:31.000
Eat Zoobots was out there. He
was subbed out for Robert Covington very

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late there as they went a little
bit small, and Orlando did hit some

455
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tough shots and some big shots.
But my point throughout this has been,

456
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well, you let a team that's
a young team gain confidence, find a

457
00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:47.160
rhythm, and then even when you
start to dig it your heels in defensively,

458
00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:51.559
sometimes it just doesn't matter they're already
into the flow of the ballgame and

459
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they are going to hit higher degree
of difficulty shots like we saw with that

460
00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:59.160
shot from marcol Fulls from three with
under a minute left. Yeah, I

461
00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:02.079
mean markol full was so empowered that
he got his career high I think today

462
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if I'm not mistaken, So you're
totally right. These young teams feed off

463
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the energy and when you you know, let them do kind of whatever they

464
00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:15.039
want and start to feel it that
this is what happens. It felt like

465
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:17.240
Cole Anthony had sixty five points to
night at one point. He seems to

466
00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:21.759
always kind of hurt the Clippers,
and then Vager just had the confidence that

467
00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:23.839
that's three late to push it to
five, like around less than a minute.

468
00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:28.160
Lester, it was just a backbreaker, and you know, they felt

469
00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:30.720
that they could do that because the
Clippers allowed them to building that they could

470
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:34.880
do that. I thought over all
of the Clippers had a tough defensive ball

471
00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:38.119
game where guys just weren't communicating at
the level we had seen them over the

472
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last three at least, and Mason
Plumley didn't have a great game as well.

473
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He had a really bad turnover off
a rebound or an inbounds pass late

474
00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:55.000
in this one, I did feel
like I think a Viza Zubots on his

475
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twenty six birthday, finished with sixteen
and sixteen, a couple of box He

476
00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:04.759
had a couple of miss cues early
on where he missed some easy ones and

477
00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:07.800
gained a few offensive rebounds. Because
of that, I thought he was okay

478
00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.760
out there in this one, but
not quite as dominant as we have seen

479
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:15.360
recently. Yeah, it's a bit
of a bummer to see him not you

480
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know, be it, I guess
one hundred percent of what we've seen recently.

481
00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:21.320
But he was one of the better
guys for the Clippers. I know

482
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he was a little you know,
rough in the paint early, but we

483
00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:27.159
need all the help and get on
the board and that was good to see.

484
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And defensively, it's just night and
day between him and Mason Plumbly,

485
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and you know, dude doesn't handle
the ball as much as Madson Plumbly,

486
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which felt like a lot today.
We did get to see that fantastic no

487
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look behind the back but to him
in the corner, which was fun,

488
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but maybe a little less point plumb
moving forward, it seemed a little bit

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unnecessary, but effective Nonetheless, I
liked seeing it out there. Paul Georgia's

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00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:53.760
seven points in the first half,
he really struggled. I think he started

491
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:58.519
three for ten from the field.
He erupted though in that third quarter and

492
00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:01.800
finished with thirty. Felt like he
did his part, certainly on the offensive

493
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end. He was helped keeping them
close within distance as Orlando couldn't miss anything

494
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:09.920
in that fourth quarter, Paul George
was knocking down shots on the other side.

495
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It was at least good to see
him play at his best in the

496
00:35:13.639 --> 00:35:16.880
second half of this one. Yeah, this was shaping up to be a

497
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:20.840
really, really bad Paul George GA
maybe the worst one of the seasons.

498
00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:24.000
But yeah, he did what he's
supposed to do as the superstar or today

499
00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:28.960
the number one for the bloopers about
Kahi Leonard. So you know, late

500
00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:31.840
Paul George was awesome. Early hustle
restlook was great. It would have been

501
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:35.360
nice we could have gotten both of
those at the same time. Yeah,

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and that's you know, leading me
into my next question. I asked the

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question. You know, we've we've
talked about this a lot, and I

504
00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:44.719
think we both thought they had turned
a corner after that victory over the Golden

505
00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:47.119
State Warriors four straight. But then
in the manner they won where they were

506
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playing more consistent basketball out there,
not just individual basketball, but as a

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00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:57.199
group. It seemed like they were
really starting to develop more of an identity

508
00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:00.800
in knowing who they were on both
ends. No Kauai and this one of

509
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:05.199
course, but it looked like just
a little bit of a step back from

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what the Clippers were currently building.
Yeah, I would agree with that,

511
00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:12.880
and I think it was kind of
expected, right. We added a guy

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who's going to be getting twenty five
minutes a game pretty late into this season

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and now have to figure out how
it works. So it wasn't always going

514
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to be you know, four and
one and things like that, like there's

515
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:23.760
gonna be some tough stretches. We
just hope, we have to hope that

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00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:29.920
there are two games as opposed to
four or five. He is Charles Mockler

517
00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:34.519
from the Clips and Dip podcasts now
on YouTube as well with myself and William

518
00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:37.079
up deck. Charles, thanks for
doing this, unfortunately after a loss where

519
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:39.800
you will only be coming on then, so hopefully we don't talk for a

520
00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:44.760
couple of weeks, right, Yeah, I gotta renegotiate this deal. I'm

521
00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:46.199
not sure who spoke for me at
a meeting, but I was not there

522
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:50.760
for it. So maybe I'll talk
on a win. Hopefully will probably shouldn't

523
00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:53.440
have been made your agent. That's
a good point, all right, Charles

524
00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:58.119
appreciated my friend. Yeah, Ma'm
we going at him coming up next.

525
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Back to your phone calls. Eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy

526
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:04.599
eight sixty six to nine eight seven
two five seventy is the phone number.

527
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Clippers winning streak ends at four games. They lose one thirteen to one oh

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eight at home to the Magic got
himself on tomorrow night. It's like they'll

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00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:16.079
have Kawhi Leonard back up in Portland
against Dame Dollar and the Trailblazers. We'll

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00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:20.159
talk about that. We'll get your
phone calls next. Looking for more postgame

531
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quotes right here on Clippers stock on
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532
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followed by five to the Magic one
thirteen to one oh eight at Krypto dot

533
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com arena. Welcome to Clippers Talk. I'm ata Moslin Clippers Now on the

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00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:39.280
season drop two as I update the
standings and refresh here. Thirty seven and

535
00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:44.480
thirty four still in the five spot, but now a game and a half

536
00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:47.519
back of the Phoenix Suns who are
in the fourth spot. Just a game

537
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:52.440
up on the Dallas Mavericks, who
have the better conference record, which would

538
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:58.079
be the tiebreaker as they tied the
season head to head series. I believe

539
00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:02.119
two to two, so so much
to play for. Eleven games left,

540
00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:06.719
and the Clippers are taking on thirty
one and thirty nine Portland Trail Blazers who

541
00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:08.840
are on the outside looking in,
you know, on the play in tournament.

542
00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:12.880
Currently welcome back in the Clippers talking
about him as to eight six sixty

543
00:38:12.920 --> 00:38:15.760
nine eight seven two five seventy Morris
and long beach Morris, what's up?

544
00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:19.639
Hey, let me tell you that
man, I ain't trip and look at

545
00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:22.199
listen. We didn't have our studd
We didn't have our stud tonight. That

546
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:27.480
the number one defensive player in the
Western conferences, Kawhi Leonard. You know,

547
00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:30.760
yeah, yeah, I understand all
that, Morris. But the magic

548
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:34.639
of twenty nine to forty two.
You're at home, you had two days

549
00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:37.840
off? Yeah no, no,
I'm sorry. Listen. We're playing professionals.

550
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:40.039
We're not playing the Lincoln High School
Tigers. Listen, that's fine.

551
00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:45.159
They also have professionals who are stepping
up in place of Kawhi. You want

552
00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:47.960
to make that argument, No,
no, no, look at it.

553
00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:52.559
He is the anchor of this team's
defense. Okay, they're not gonna lose

554
00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:57.280
when this guy's playing at him and
people just calling up they have decided the

555
00:38:57.320 --> 00:39:02.320
clip If you go ahead and give
them a a clipboard and say draw off

556
00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:06.960
a play, they couldn't do it. So I'm not going to second guess

557
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:12.800
the coach man that guy. We
can't Morris, how many points is Kawhi

558
00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:16.639
making up for in that fourth quarter
where the Magic scored thirty nine on them?

559
00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:21.199
You know what, they might not
have gotten thirty Believe me, not

560
00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:24.719
only would the defense presidents have been
even have scored this Adam. It hasn't

561
00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:29.159
changed. Whoever got the best players
win the game. Kawhi Leonard is a

562
00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:32.639
stud and of course he's one of
the best players in the game, as

563
00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:37.320
is Paul George Morris. Here's my
point. I think the Clippers had enough

564
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:40.119
to beat the Orlando Magic today,
did they not? They were up by

565
00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:44.639
eight head against the fourth quarter.
Can we be honest about that? They

566
00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:45.960
did? Yeah? Okay, yeah
they did, they did? Yeah.

567
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:49.199
They did. They did. I
ain't gonna kid about that. They they

568
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:52.280
did, but I noticed too.
I know that Kawhi Leonard is important to

569
00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:55.039
this team. Of course, that
they had in the defense they showed against

570
00:39:55.079 --> 00:39:59.280
Golden State, that's the Clipper defense. That's the one they got. So

571
00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:00.760
they got to look they didn't have
it to date. They didn't have it

572
00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:04.000
to the obviously, but they got
to look at him, so it'll be

573
00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:06.360
triples, so they would one.
And when I lost one game in the

574
00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:08.079
last five, they're gonna be okay, And you know what that I'm I'm

575
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:10.840
gonna get you some props because even
when I have my doubts, you know,

576
00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:14.519
you still have confidence in this team. And I got faith in the

577
00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:16.239
Timber management. I believe they know
what they heck they're doing. And I

578
00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:21.320
know this, when Kawhi Leonard is
on that floor, that's a different basketball

579
00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:23.840
team, straight up. Okay,
the minute you're getting the call Adam behavior

580
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:29.280
though, thank you, Mars,
I believe in all those things as well,

581
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:32.679
and the Clippers are going to bounce
back from this. But Kawhi Leonard

582
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:36.599
wasn't on the floor in the third
quarter either, where the Clippers only gave

583
00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:40.400
up seventeen points. They had enough
talent out there to win this ball came.

584
00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:45.679
I'm just not gonna make a lot
of excuses for this one because it

585
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:47.880
is a brutal loss at the end
of the season where you would hope everybody,

586
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:51.960
no matter the squad, has their
attention out there, no matter the

587
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:55.679
star time. There's eleven games left, first half of way back to back,

588
00:40:57.559 --> 00:41:00.440
or we expect Kawhi to be back
up in poor tomorrow for the Clippers.

589
00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:06.320
Harold in North Hollywood, Harold,
you're on clipperstock. Hey, Anam,

590
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:08.840
how't are you? It's not Harrol. I will easily call. But

591
00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:15.519
you know, Morris's one pologetic Clipper
fan. I don't know where he gets

592
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:21.960
all at the We like we like
the optimism. It balances out because obviously

593
00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:24.000
there's gonna be some negativity at times, especially after a loss like this,

594
00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:29.159
and I'm sensing that's where you're coming
from. Well, that's fine, you

595
00:41:29.239 --> 00:41:32.440
know what. I'm ready to scream
every time you stay Well, we lost

596
00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:37.079
the game, but we didn't have
Kawhi Leonard. Look, Steve Bambers signed

597
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:40.239
him. The Clippers knew what they
were getting when they signed him. You're

598
00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:44.719
gonna have him play one day and
maybe in Clayton not play the next game.

599
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:47.000
And I look at you know,
I know I'm critical. I like

600
00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:52.320
Paul George, but he's very inconsistent. He might have a great game one

601
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:55.320
day. In the next game he
disappears. The great ones don't disappear.

602
00:41:57.039 --> 00:42:00.079
I mean I like to do supporting
cast they have. He doesn't. He

603
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:06.639
doesn't have many games where he has
disappeared. He's had one game, hey,

604
00:42:06.719 --> 00:42:09.960
Harold, Yes, Sir, Paul
George, out of his last at

605
00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:14.480
least twelve games here has had one
where he hadn't scored at least twenty.

606
00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:21.079
He's pretty darn good. He's an
All Star for a reason, so it's

607
00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:22.840
not like every other game you don't
know what you're going to get. For

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the most part, he's been getting
twenty five points per game over the last

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twenty efficiently. Oh no, I'm
been out putting him down. He's an

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All Star. Hey, can I
say one team I want? Go Bruins

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today against Northwestern. All right,
Harold, I like that. Go Bruins.

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Bruin Stock coming up later tonight with
Timmy Gates, hopefully after they get

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the victory. Jose in Downey,
Jose what's up your on Clipper Stock?

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Hey Adam, how are you doing? You know what? I think you

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guys said a lot of great points
in the earlier callers than in yourself too.

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I think one thing that stuck out
what you said was, you know,

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they're not going to be scared.
Nobody's gonna be scared of us,

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you know if we're not playing good
defense. And uh's something that shows up

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a lot, and it's it was. It was really frustrating out there because

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Anthony, I know he's a quick
guy, but he was getting into the

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paint in the fourth quarter like crazy
man, and I think that's what kind

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of did is up and being at
the game he was doing it on on

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Terian's man. I know we're thinking, why is he only played eighteen minutes?

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And I want to that's when they
took him mile when he went when

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Anthony went three straight times at Man
and scored. But I don't think that's

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the reason why you leave Man out
the whole time, you know, But

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it was frustrating. It was really
frustrating. Yeah, I get it,

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Jose, I'm with you there because
this is a team that has preached all

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season long. Come out with the
defensive mindset. I thought it was starting

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to happen. I thought they had
flipped that switch on that end that no

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matter who was out there, because
even if Kawhi Leonard is available, he's

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playing thirty five minutes, he's not
playing all forty eight. So there are

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other times where you still have to
find your defense without him. It can't

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just be about one guy, whether
or not you commit to playing great defense.

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The Clippers have the bodies and have
the guys with the capability to do

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that, I think, and they've
been poor when it comes to point of

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attack defense really all season long,
with just not accepting the challenge of staying

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in front of your man. I
thought there were some bad habits that were

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developed early on this year where guys
were too reliant on Aviza zoobots cleaning up

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for their mess on the perimeter,
because big Zoo is that good on the

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interior. But against teams, and
Orlando looked hungry in this one, as

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they had lost some close ones and
had challenged some good teams. They got

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over the hump against the Clippers.
Clippers got to get right back after it

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though. Tomorrow night up in Portland
again, Damian Lillard and the Portland trail

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Blazers. Not gonna be easy.
I did see this quote though, and

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I liked it. I can't play
it for you, and I'll find out

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why in a second. But Russell
Westbrook post game was asked if there's a

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level of excitement for this back to
back after a tough ball game today,

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he said, yeah, hell yeah. I can't wait to play tomorrow after

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that s I did tonight. Look
for us to bounce back in a big

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way. Look for the Clippers to
bounce back, hopefully with Kawhi Leonard.

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They fall one thirteen to one oh
eight to dates the Orlando Magic. Before

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we get out of here, I
do want to think the Clippers organization.

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Noah Eagle, Brian Seeman, Ralph
Lawler, big brother, Jake Warner,

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head engineer, Zachy o'caldy, doing
great work, fantastic work. And now

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he's going to Vegas. Vegas,
baby back yess safe travels, my friend,

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bring me something back. The callers, the listeners, I appreciate you

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guys as well. I guess what
happens in Vegas days in Vegas, so

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you don't frit me anything until tomorrow. The pregame show starting at five Clippers,

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Cheryl Blazers. I'm in a maslin. We'll talk to you then.

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This has been Clippers Talk, a
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