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Clippers lose game two of the doubleheader. They fall against the Bucks one twenty

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four to one seventeen. Welcome back
in the Clippers stock. I'm out of

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Mosland. We'll get back to your
phone calls here on the Patriot AM eleven

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fifty. But first, will Updyke
obviously didn't want to come on because you

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know, it wasn't a win.
That's not in his contract. So we

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have Chuck Mockler back with us second
straight day. Why not? The Clippers

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had to play too. Now it's
Chuck Mockler here, Charles. Were you

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it all encouraged by this loss,
even by the Clippers considering the guys they

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were missing, considering the team they
were playing. Him second game in twenty

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two hours, I think, weirdly, the thing I was most encouraged about

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was the fact that James Harden looked
so good despite playing so much basketball for

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the Clippers, just since he's been
on the team, right, So it's

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nice to see him still, you
know, getting downhill well and things like

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that. So he's he's in a
good place. Norm wasn't great from the

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outside, but we needed a big
Norm game the day, and we got

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his highest scoring out for all year, So it's tough to be super bummed

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on this one. But it's also
tough to be encouraged as a whole,

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just because we were missing so many
key guys and Zoo got into foul trouble

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early, which I think really,
you know, stifled what was going to

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be an even better game from him. Yeah, that was frustrating. All

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of a sudden in the third quarter
they decided to call it very tight,

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and I Vita Zubas picked up two
fouls right away, at least one of

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them I thought was pretty weak.
He played twenty six minutes, had eighteen

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points, six boards and assists.
What I will say about Zoo though,

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is and what I've been saying is
they kind of needed that refresher course on

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maybe who viats Zubas is because he's
really good on offense. Now, he's

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much better than he's ever been,
partly because of James Harden, and they

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need to go to him regardless of
if Kawhi and Paul George are there or

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not. This is how you can
open up a different dimension to your offense,

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which is what we were seeing in
December and January. No, yeah,

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I totally agree about the and the
defense late in games too. Right,

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Obviously this game is an exception,
but there were times when ty Lou

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was actually going with z to close
games, so the Clippers were able to

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close the size and you know,
limit some of the opportunities we've seen teams

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get against some Layton game. But
I thought Zoo looked great. This felt

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like kind of the last tuned up
game for him, you know, since

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he's been back with the illness.
Hopefully this this gets the leash a little

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longer on him from ty But yeah, that that push shot from a couple

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of feet further out than it was
last year has been great. And yeah,

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you know, credit to James Harden, but Zee's put in the work

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as well too. Yeah. James
Harden with thirty six minutes after playing thirty

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four minutes earlier in the game.
Day PJ. Tucker played twenty six minutes,

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and after taking just three shots in
about one hundred minutes of play,

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he got up nine in twenty six
minutes, had seven points, just one

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of six from the outside. He
was at least taking them. But I

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will say this, even though he
struggled shooting wise, overall, he had

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four offensive rebounds. He had six
boards, I don't know. I know

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he's taken a lot of income this
season, and some of it he put

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on himself with some of the stuff
he said on Instagram and to the media

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and not taking a shot when they
needed him to the last time we saw

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him. But I like what we
saw from PJ. Tucker. I still

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think there's utility there anything to like
from PJ Tucker in this performance. Also,

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Charles, it really was the willingness
to shoot right. If PJ.

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Tucker is going to be in a
position to succeed, which is going to

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be him with four other shooters around
him, you know, serving as that

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center, he does have to at
least get the shot off right. It's

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nice to see him do it in
a game that's very difficult for the Clippers,

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you know who's available wise, but
it would be great to see him

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do it, you know, if
he gets another opportunity when you know he's

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in maybe his best position to succeed
for a lineup that could maybe see some

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playoff minutes. But the rebounding was
great. There was some solid defense.

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But who knows what's gonna happen with
this rotation as we go forward, But

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yeah, there was some encouraging things
from PJ. He did not get ten

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points, so we don't we're not
doing a YouTube live. Little unfortunate,

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but maybe next time, I guess, I don't know. We'll see.

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They're taking on Minnesota on Tuesday night, another big team, but without Karl

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Anthony towns Now obviously and going to
the Smalls. Bones Highland was awesome.

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It wasn't just one side of his
offense this time. You know, a

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couple of games ago against Houston,
he was getting to the basket and getting

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layups, but no threes. Last
game out it was all threes. This

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time he was able to mix up
and show the versatility in his offensive attack.

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I love what we saw from Bones
Island. Yeah, he's another guy

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who's kind of ramping up, right. He feels fully ramped up from the

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illness. Bone Thailand is continuing to
get even better as he gets more opportunities

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since the Russell Westbrook injury. In
defense, he's looked passable, which is

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all he has to look on defense. Right, we know the offense is

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going to be there, the passing
has been you know, I think kind

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of a surprise or maybe just you
know, it looks so different because he's

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so young and twitchy. But the
defense this has also been perfectly acceptable.

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He's been trying, he's been in
the right spots, really held this trajectory.

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Keeps up for Bones because it might
help the Clippers next year. You

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know, we don't know what's going
to happen fully with that part of the

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roster, but yeah, all credit
to Bones and we hope nothing but more

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good things for the skeleton. Key
he is Chuck Mockler like the Clippers,

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with guys stepping up and filling in
admirably. No will Updyke because the Clippers

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didn't win this one, unfortunately.
They lost one twenty four to one seventeen

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to Milwaukee in the second of playing
two like Ernie Banks, within twenty four

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hours, Charles, thanks for doing
this a little Clips and doubled it for

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a quick one here on Clippers top
my friend, Hey, thanks for having

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me looking forward tomorrow Clippers take it
on Minnesota on Tuesday. We'll have a

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YouTube for you tomorrow. Clippers lose
by seven. They fought, they gave

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everything they had. Guys raised their
level of play, played above their heads

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in some areas, just came up
a little bit shortly