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Arent's Madness two on once again,
he's Clippers Talk. I got calls on

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Clippers Talk. Immediate reaction and analysis
to today's game. That's what he's capable

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of, hosted by your pre and
post game voice of the La Clippers,

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Adam Osler. You know they say
live by the three, and the living's

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easy. Sometimes Clippers win one seventeen
to ninety eight over the Sacermento Kings after

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they go twenty one oh forty three
from distance. That's forty nine percent from

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the outside. Welcome in to Clippers
Suck. Coming up. We'll get your

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phone calls eight seven seven five two
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zero eleven fifty you'll hear from the
head coach and PlayStation p PG thirteen Paul

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George after another dominating victory where it
looks like the Clippers are playing their best

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basketball the season and are as healthy
as they've been all year at just the

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right time and Paul George and just
five games now has been unbelievable, especially

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from three, and especially with the
playmaking. Twelve assists in this game tied

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a career high. Last time he
had twelve assists last January against who else

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but the Sacramento Kings. He had
twenty three points, had fourteen of them

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in the first quarter, and went
six of nine from distance. He's been

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shooting about fifty percent from three in
the five games since he returned. I'd

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say the elbows feeling much better now. Look, it was a worry the

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terminology Tommy John came up. People
wondered, U seel injury, What could

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happen? Just need some rest.
Three months later, he's back and it's

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good, maybe better than ever.
Defensively, he's been a juggernaut. Had

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two more steals in this game,
but the passing was something to behold from

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Paul George, who consistently would create
firms self with a three pointer and then

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find someone else for a three.
But there was a pass early on into

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it Vitsa Zubots and over the shoulder
pass that was beautiful. Then he found

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Norman Powell for a three pointer.
After he hit one, he hit another

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three, then found Luke Kennard in
the first half or a three pointer,

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found Zubots for another wide open dunk. Late in the second quarter when they

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came over and doubled him, tried
to get the basketball out of his hands

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while it did, but he found
the open man. And this is such

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a key part to his game because
if there was one area he could still

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improve in, it was his passing
and just quick decision making with the basketball.

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And he has the right team to
do that with now and the right

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head coach, and Jauncy Billebs was
huge for him last year as well.

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Now he's up in Portland obviously their
head coach. But he's come a long

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way in his three years as a
Clipper, on his twelve year career now

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with his passing ability, his playmaking
ability, and just the vision has certainly

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gotten better from Paul George. I
remember there was an old Madden game where

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I think it was two thousand and
six and people didn't like this new addition

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to it. But you could have
that first person position or that first person

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view from the quarterback position and it
would kind of show that spear, that

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cone of vision. Depending on how
good the quarterback was, that would tell

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you how wide of a scope he
has to look at. So if you

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were Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or
Drew Brees or somebody like that, you

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could really see the field. If
you'll weren't as good as a pastor,

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and Michael Vick at that time wasn't
it'd be a lot smaller. Paul George

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is seeing the court. He's seeing
more options now and that creates a lot

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of assists, even if it's not
coming from him. Hockey hockey assists as

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well. The ball was hopping.
There was a play in that third quarter.

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Noah Eagle made note of it.
But they went from inside, They

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went from outside inside to Vita Zoo
bots He kicked it back out and eventually

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but Toom had it on the far
side corner, swing it back inside for

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an open down for Big Zoo.
Just a passing clinic by the Clippers,

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who had twenty nine assists with their
forty two makes and didn't get to the

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free throw line much. I don't
know if they did at all in that

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first half. I think all fifteen
of their free throwers were in the second

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half. But when you're shooting that
mate threes at that high or right,

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you're not gonna draw as many fouls. That's okay. If you're hot from

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the outside, let them fly.
They did. Paul George attempted nine on

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his own. Marcus Morris got up
eight struggle a little bit from the floor

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of just four of thirteen for his
eleven points. But I mentioned Big Zoo.

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He was on the receiving end of
some great passes and did the most

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with them and bodied some Sacramento kings
in this one while he was going to

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the basket for some huge throwdowns.
I always like to throw out that Shaquille

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O'Neill shack logo from the old rebox
shoes he had where he's just swinging his

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legs up like Chris Dudley still there
in front of him, kicking him up

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like that when it eats the Zoo
bots is having those big jams that he

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tends to have. But fifteen and
twelve from him, he got a double

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double in the first half. I
mean he just dominated, didn't play big

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minutes, just played twenty five and
Norman Powell just played twenty two. He'd

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been less than he did the other
night. It's all they needed and he

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gets an easy twenty points on eleven
shots. That is uber a fishing play

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from Norman Powell. He was my
player to watch. I wanted to see

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what he did in the second game. Back his fifth game now as a

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Clipper, Paul George his fifth game
back. Norman Powell just five games now

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as a Clipper, and he's shooting
over fifty percent from the outside and the

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Clippers uniform over fifty percent from the
field in the Clippers uniform, and puts

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that applies that pressure to the rim, just gets easy buckets because he gets

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those easy layups. But remember he
started four or four from the outside,

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then he got downhill, then he
got some fouls in his favor and went

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four or five from the free throw
line. And that is an element that

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the Clip could improve it. Their
free throw attempts overall have been down on

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the season. I want to say
they've been bottom five. They don't get

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enough easy buckets that way. Norman
Powell cures what ails them in that area,

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as does Paul George. He only
took two free throws on this one

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because he got up so many threes, or people will say he gets a

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rough whistle most of the time,
but we know that to be the truth.

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But still the Clippers in the second
half helped put the game away,

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help stay up on the Kings in
this one. In a way they weren't

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able to put away the Phoenix Suns
in their backups. The other night where

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they made that big run outscored the
Clippers by twenty two points in the fourth

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quarter Wednesday, and the Clippers thirty
nine point lead, well, they only

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won that game by four in that
third quarter. It was back and forth,

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and then the Clippers closed it.
Well, they won it thirty three

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to twenty six, and the three
point shooting came to an apex with Terrence

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Man hitting one with about him minute
left, which put the Clippers at a

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thousand and twenty eight may threes on
the season, most ever in the history

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of the franchise. Rodey hood when
making a thousand and twenty nine right afterwards.

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But that's how hot they were from
the outside, and anybody who touched

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the basketball and put up a three
pointer saw it go down, including Isaiah

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Hartenstein, who's five for his last
seven now from the outside. Is this

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some new development? We knew he
could shoot it, but eight for his

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last fourteen now in his last six
games. He's gotten the green light from

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coach lou Maybe it wasn't just his
passing that he picked up from Nicola Yokich,

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it's also his shooting from the outside. It's always looked great in his

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form. He hasn't taken many,
hasn't had many opportunities. He's getting them

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now. And look, I don't
know if that's gonna be his bread and

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butter or what they're gonna go to
all the time with Isaiah Hartenstein's at the

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least, but to have that part
or to have that tool in his bag,

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there's a toolbox. To have that
in his bag of tricks, that's

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that's huge for this team. That
is something else we didn't really realize.

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That's a revelation. Isaiah Hartenstein can
really shoot it from the outside. We

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knew we had great touch with the
floater. It kind of makes sense a

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guy like that also just good form. The shot looks good when he puts

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him up and went two of two
from distance to tonight, and he's taken

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i want to say, multiple threes
or has made multiple threes in his last

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three games now, which I would
say is a record for him on this

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season with the Clippers. So he
finished with ten points and the Clippers just

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they're just peaking. They're just primed
for that game Tuesday, and we know

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the opponent now, so Minnesota Timberwolves. They'll be in Minnesota against Carl Anthony

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Town. Speaking of big men who
can shoot it from the outside, Anthony

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Edwards and who plays big, and
Patrick Beverley, who we know all too

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well, changer in Minnesota this season, got that team pointing in the right

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direction. Going to be a huge
game because if the Clippers win that they

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would avoid the Suns in the first
round. They win that, they take

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on Memphis, the two seed.
Be careful what you wish for. Memphis

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is very good. They destroyed the
Pelicans earlier today with John Morant back.

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They are tough, they have some
youthful exuberance. They have a lot of

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great athletes on that team. Very
good rebounding team. That's been a struggle

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for the Clippers, although tonight they
outrebounded the Sacramento Kings forty eight to forty

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two. And Sacramento's way down I
mean down, I mean it is down

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bad. I'm from there. For
them to go sixteen straight seasons without making

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the playoffs is unbelievable. With the
trajectory they were on in the early two

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thousands with Seaweb, Mike Baby and
Floody and those guys Payers Stoyakovich, and

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they have made the playoffs since two
thousand and six. Now and they just

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can't figure it out. They can't
get out of their own way. I

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didn't like the move moving Haliburton,
a guy at a premium position in the

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league right now. I loved him
onto Sabonis, but Haliburton, He's getting

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about eighteen a game with Indiana,
and you need cards. It's a guard

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driven league. But the Clippers know
that you need versatility as well. They

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have all of that. Rocco also
had a big throwdown. He hit a

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three pointer as well, had eight
points in this game, but caught a

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big lob. I want to say
that was from Isaiah Hartenstein in the first

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half, one handed throwdown, showing
off his athletic ability out there. And

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the Clippers just playing a really solid
basketball. Maybe a little bit of a

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let up in that second quarter after
they held sacrament Or just sixteen points in

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the first quarter. They gave up
twenty nine in the second. But getting

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off to good starts. Now,
we've seen that consistently during this Dare I

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say it's five game winning streak now? Want to make sure I get this

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right. It should be easy enough
to do now, four of their last

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five, five of their last six, and it could have been sixth straight

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with that loss obviously, where they
let one get away up in Chicago against

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the Bulls in overtime where Paul George
hit his minutes limit. Morris in Long

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Beach, you're on Clippers stock with
Adam Oslin after Game eighty one. Morris,

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what's up? Well, I'm really
excited about the Clippers are now playing

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with the league and not playing from
behind. That's a wonderful thing. Now,

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let me tell you what they're saying
on TV. On TV, what

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they're saying is nobody wants to play
the Clippers. They're calling them a veteran

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team. And let me tell you
what use they're saying on TV. They

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give them tyround Lutheran props. Now, I've been watching basketball a long time.

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I've never heard of a coach,
you know, in the middle of

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the pack getting talked about the coach
of the year. But you gotta look

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at what this brother they had to
work with for a year and it is.

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It was quite impressive. Now,
I'm gonna tell you something, when

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the Clippers get to the Western Conference
Final, Kawhi Leonard is gonna through the

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Clippers to play. He's gonna want
to be on the floor and check this

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out. You remember about forty years
ago when Lakers was Kareem was out and

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this rookie came up and came in
there. Yeah, that young buck and

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did all that. We'll see that. That's the Clippers. See, we

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don't have to have our best player
anymore. Tyrone Lou, I'll never forget

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this at him, I'll never forget
this. This is when Covington went off

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and he was waiting on his drug
testing. I think he had like eleven

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three they maybe the drug testing,
but Tyrone Lou had a look on his

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face, and I'll never forget this
look. It's like he discovered something that

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nobody else know about, and I
think we're starting to see it. Okay,

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you take care of yourself, out
of your behavior. Thank you.

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Morris eight seven seven five two zero
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know Groco was a very good player, but everybody who comes to the Clippers,

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especially an older guy at that trand
he's thirty thirty one, they just

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seemed to be rejuven Happen with Nick
Batoum, happened with Reggie Jackson, Marcus

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Morris to some extent, Although who's
playing great basketball with the New York Knicks

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is the number one option before he
came over. But guys, they've even

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young guys like Isaiah Hartenstein, they
find themselves. It's just this environment,

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this winning environment. But guys truly
rooting for one another. There's great chemistry.

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They have a great clubhouse or locker
room, however you want to put

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it, and everybody enhances the abilities
of the guide next to them with the

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way they play out there on the
court. That unselfish basketball Clippers win one

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seventeen to ninety eight. Coming back, we'll get some more of your phone

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calls. I see if a couple
of people on hold all screen you.

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During the break, we'll hear from
Paul George and Coach Lou. Game eighty

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two is tomorrow against the OKAC thunder
back at the crypt. I anam Moslin,

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Back to more LA Clippers Basketball Act
Defense the offense for the Clippers on the

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I own did not know what I
really won. Now, but don't kill

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me. Amazing shoot for the star
and now he gotta go on. Gotta

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go on. I ain't got time
to wet time. I got a Clippers

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believe that's that's right. All I'll
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game of the twenty twenty one twenty
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home tomorrow taking on the Okay see
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got your pregame show and I have
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for Tuesday's seven eight playing matchup.
They'll be in Minnesota, taken on the

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Timberwolves. All right, let's go
to quickly Mitch in New Jersey. Mitch,

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what's up your on Clippers talk?
And hello, teams. I will

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we getting quality back, and it's
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the Suns, I even Memphis has
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back. Why is it that seven
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seven place ten eighth night. I
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one now, because what happens is
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the winner of that game becomes the
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play ten to see who becomes the
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wouldn't have deserved it. Oh okay, now I see it's quite coming back.

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And thanks tick My Cool, Thanks
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hopeful he has not been ruled out, at least for the postseason. There's

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a chance the reason he took less
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signed the Ultimate Supermax this offseason part
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He said it at the media pressor. I'm just pulling myself some tea.

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I know it could have sounded weird. He just uh. He said it

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at the media pressor before this,
before the year started. Kawhi Leonard came

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out and said right away he wants
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Obviously he can take more risks with
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one hundred and eighty million dollars and
we're all hopeful that he's able to come

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back and he is healthy, but
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want him to be Kauai when he
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Let's go to oh special guest here. It is Lee from Courtside Clippers.

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Lee. What's up? You're on
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the Patriot Am eleven fifty? What's
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just want to say you do a
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remember my dad used to always turn
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cool to actually be on here.
I just want to ask you what your

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thoughts are on the upcoming postseason rotation, like are you starting norm and are

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you going with this same starting line
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and who do you think it's coming
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say because with coach Lou, I
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though he's been playing Reggie Paul,
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as the starters. You just never
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Another wrinkle that he could throw at
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have not seen for some time now. They played all three of their games,

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they went three and oh against them
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that right, Lee? Yeah?
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That one was a lot of people
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I would know how much you can
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a lot to take from. What's
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they played each other and back to
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when the Clippers came back down twenty
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turnaround of the season. You would
think there'd be more familiarity. But with

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how good Minnesota has been over the
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and how different the Clippers look with
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and Robert Covington, it still feels
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I'm gonna have to say it's an
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to be the starter. But to
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as who closes and how those rotations
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cord a quarter. It's not a
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Rocco and Norm should close at all
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put that with PG and then it's
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game who's not. But I guess
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games in Minnesota were from it seems
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teams are playing different. Obviously,
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roles. So I'm excited. I'm
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been cooking recently. You've been playing
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So we'll see, man'll they'll be
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knows the Clippers so well, and
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he helps guys get into positions defensively, and he could sniff out plays.

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But it's the Captain Mouse game.
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coming too. So I'm expecting some
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gonna be fun. I like the
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is going to be very successful for
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teams to play hard at the end
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for, and that's a good thing. All Right, we'll take a quick

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We got postgame audio that was leave from

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Courtside clips. Follow him at Courtside
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luminaries speaking of Jamal Christopher from the
Lab the Jam. The pod will be

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on next. Clippers win one seventeen
to ninety eight over the Sacramento Kings in

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game eighty one. Game eighty two
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tip by three per game at the
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you tell him? Feeling great?
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on the Patriot ableven fifty, she
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them. LA Clippers Basketball continue sack
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the official home of the Los Angeles
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I kick you? Can I kick
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Hellosena Cliverer stock here on the Patriot
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me. I follow adam ay or
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five two zero eleven fifty eight seven
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did from court side clips and I
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times. Three of them came in
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the back to back where the Clippers
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one oh four to eighty four,
and then again on November thirteen. They

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won the first three games there and
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digits in all three of the first
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though, they ended up losing in
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oh four. But Clippers were without
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it was still Eric Bledsoe on that
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was playing some really good ball up
in Portland, by the way, it's

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good to see, and that was
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he was really one of the clippers
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about three weeks. Clippers tonight,
though they're led by PG thirteen, he

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has twenty three Norman Powell has off
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pointers after hitting twenty three and twenty
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five of their last six and it
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without that loss to Chicago. Clippers
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but needless to say, they are
playing their best basketball as they get ready

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for Minnesota Tuesday in the play and
Tournament. In that seven eight matchup,

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Clippers will be on the road for
that. Before we get to Jamal Christopher

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from the lob of the jam the
Pod. Let's hear from Paul George postgame

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went eight fourteen, six of nine
from three for those twenty three points,

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plus tied a career high with twelve
assists. And these were some beautiful passes,

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some of the best passes I've ever
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thirteen game. The elbow's fine.
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time rehabbing it and really just strengthening
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you know, all the muscles around
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You know, it feels pretty good. And I think just overall,

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just been trying to take each possession
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just trying to make the best play
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ball to make the right place.
Really, because of the amount of weapons

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you guys have on the team,
do do you feel like being a playmaker

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will allow them to get going and
kind of ease a little bit of workload

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on you as far as being a
score goes. Uh yeah, I mean,

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honestly, you know, I love
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playmaker more so the score. You
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it's just so versatile and we got
so many you know, guys like

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shoot the ball well that you know. I feel like with this team,

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my ability to score is opening up
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it just makes the game easy.
Year when I can find, you know,

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guys for easy baskets. The Uh
you knew now, you guys have

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known for a couple of days that
you're definitely going to Minnesota for this play

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in and obviously you have a lot
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that team the games in November.
Uh what are you how are you preparing

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uh for Tuesday night? I mean
honestly, it's just been a get when

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we get their situation. But uh, you know we we know them well,

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they know us well. You know
it'll be a tough game going into

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Minnesota. Uh, but you know, it's it is what it is.

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You know, we got a job
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and you know, having fun being
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come back, now, uh,
what's what do you feel like? There's

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been uh the most encouraging thing uh
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like just how you've been able to
fit in with these lineups, the first

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unit and the second unit. I
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We've been clicking again. They've been
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the right plays, you know,
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me, have have allowed me to
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p play compole, and you know, I feel, you know, they're

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playing with me. You know,
it's it's it's not a situation where I'm

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out there and I'm trying to create
stuff like they're. They're creating the moments

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and you know, I'm just able
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I definitely just been trying to play
a little faster, push the temple and

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play with a little bit more pace
PG. You guys, a lot of

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the guys have talked about how much
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on this franchise since you've been here. But after making that run last year,

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is it a little weird to have
to go through Pat Beverley to get

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to a playoff spot, to go
through who Pat? I'm not going through

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at we're going We're going through the
t Wolves. Is not a Paul George

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versus Pat Beverley matchup. This isn't
a you know, Pat Bev versus Clippers

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matchup. You know, we we
gotta go through the Timberwolves and the timber

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Wolves have to stop the Clippers.
You know, So I'm not even gonna

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make that the narrative. That's not
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The fact of the matter is both
of us are trying to win, to

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to lock a spot up. There
was Paul George post game had twenty three

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points on six of nine shooting from
three. He's twenty one to forty from

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distance since he's returned in his five
games. Clippers win tonight one seventeen to

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ninety eight over the Sacramento Kings.
It's their final back to back of the

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season because it's their final game of
the season. Tomorrow they remained at home

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against Okay. See, I mean, whatever is tip time? Six thirty

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s VERSU counts n A five thirty
coming up next. We'll get you Jamal

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Christopher from the Lob, the GM
the pod right here on Clippers Talk on

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the Patriot Animal eleven fifteen lessons,
the network thing too. You know what

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fourteenth during the break for me,
I've had a maslines this Clippers talk of

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the Patriot call you dog. That's
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me. Now. Funny thing about
talking behind my back is that it just

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keep coming back back to more LA
Clippers Basketball Act Defense The Clippers on the

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official home of your Los Angeles Clippers. Every time. I've building everybody as

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go up Clippers one, and they
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the Sacramento Kings. Your Clippers are
victorious in game eighty one. All right,

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Pete Kvery Bryant Clippers. Next game
tomorrow, last game of the regular

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season, they're taking on the Okay
see thunder. More on that note,

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though, with our next guest,
as the Clippers get ready for Tuesday night,

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they'll be in Minnesota. I didn't
even mean to do that. They'll

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be taking on the Timberwolves. Tip
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also at six thirty. I'll confirm
it though. But first let's bring in

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our guests, Jamal Christopher from the
Lob, the jam the Pod. He's

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an analyst, he's an artist.
They say, don't trust to man with

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two first names, but I trust
his analysis always. Jamal, thanks for

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coming back on Clippers stock. How
you been? I'm great, man,

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Hi am great? How are you
on this Saturday night? My brother?

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I mean, I'm not Paul George
and three points shooting good as the Clippers,

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but I'm good. I'm good.
Are you surprised at all with just

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how good Paul George has been since
returning, just hitting the ground running.

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He and Norman Powell very much so, Man, very much so. I

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don't think I was pessimistic with the
clip person undown the stretch, but the

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optimism wasn't as great because I just
didn't I personally just didn't know how Norman

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Pye and Paul George would look when
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honestly, with Paul George, it
almost looks like we're getting beginning of a

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year. Paul George at the end
of the year, he looks fresh,

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he looks spry. I think he's
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been back. He's not missing any
threes. I mean, it's it's incredible

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how he's looked. And same with
Norman Pope. He's shooting, shooting the

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crap out the ball. Man.
It's it's very it's very assuring to see

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both of them play like that after
missing so much time. Man, it's

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awesome. The Clippers seem to have
gotten back to their basics now with those

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two back. I've said this before, I'll sit again, but post All

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Star Break, now they're the best
shooting team from distance, and that's what

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they were obviously all of last season
shooting forty one percent from the outside,

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They've been close to that. They're
about forty percent now from the outside post

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all Star Break. How much of
that is just coach Lou and getting these

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guys primed and back to their roots
for what they're gonna need to do that

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drive, kick, swing and get
to the Painter Diet trying type of philosophies

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for playoff basketball and to be successful. Yeah, I think anybody that's followed

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the Clippers Hi Lou took over as
head coach, that's the philosophy right on

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offense and paint and spray, get
two feet in the paint, kick it

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out and let it fly. And
quite naturally, it's very hard to do

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that when your best shock creator in
that regard is Reggie Jackson. No disrespect

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to Reggie Jackson, he's done a
great job keeping us a float all year.

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But it's a difference when it's Paul
George who can put two on the

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ball and then that create Tolton looks
same with Mormon Powe and then yeah,

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they can just let it fly.
So now as we as we head towards

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the playing in Minnesota and hopefully heading
towards the playoffs, you kind of see

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the Clippers are leaning into that philosophy
of this is us, this is us.

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We let it fly, we puncture
the defense, kick it out,

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and we shoot threes. And I
think I can't remember which game recently,

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Marcus Morris post game he said it. He was like, he said,

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I told Tylu that it's time for
me to get in the playoff mode and

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cut out the long twols and start
making and start making all of those twos.

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Three and so that really is his
team A Paul George since he's come

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back, I think it's like eight
threes a game, and they're usually good.

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We got Isaiah hardest thing joined in
the party now from three, so

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you know, it's it's really good
to see that the Clippers are able to

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get back to who they are offensively
and kind of like create that balance because

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they've been that guy. They've been
that team defensively all years. His offense

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has been a struggle, so it's
nice to see that come around. Great

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defensive performance tonight, holding Sacramento to
ninety eight, who is understandably struggling.

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The Kings are, but the Clippers
handled their business, especially in that first

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quarter, holding them to just sixteen
points after giving up just nine points in

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the second quarter Wednesday to the Phoenix
Suns. You mentioned Paul George and just

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how lively he looks out there.
He's got that juice right now, maybe

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a blessing in disguise that he got
some rest. You never want to see

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a guy get injured. But do
you think there's something to him getting away

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from the game and getting that bird's
eye view and seeing how he needs to

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be that playmaker because some of the
past is obviously in this game, tying

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his career high with twelve assists,
but he's just seeing the floor so well

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right now. Yeah, I think, I think to an extent I would

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agree with that. I think in
general, though, as the seasons go

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on, Paul George, that pretty
much is the trend. I remember last

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year he started the season out just
throwing the ball all over the place,

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and ty Lu kept saying, like, keep going, keep going, because

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when it's playoff time, you and
Kahi are going to be the one making

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the plays, and we need these
rests now and then come play all time.

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Last year Paul George was the one
making the plays, and he was

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making great decisions. I think this
year, ironically, it was the same

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thing, even though he got hurt
to start the year. He's making good

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plays, but he also was like
being very careless with the ball, just

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throwing it all over. And now
you kind of get to the end of

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the season, he's making great decisions
with the ball and these passes are fantastic.

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But I think more than anything,
the time off he kind of got

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a lot of rests that that playoff
run that he had last year was very

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grueling. Then you come into this
year with no Kauai, you had guys

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struggling, and there was a lot
on his play to start the year,

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and so it's really it's really fun
to see a fresh Paul George. And

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yeah, you kind of hinted at
it. You don't want to see a

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guy get hurt. But we're heading
towards the most important stretch of the year

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and we have a top ten to
fifteen player who's fresh as ever, so

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it should be exciting at his best. I think he's top ten after what

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he did in the playoffs last season. It's hard. There are so many

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good guys in this league. When
you actually start to put together lists,

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it's really tough to choose, But
what do you think's going to happen?

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Speaking of tough choices with lineups and
rotations for coach lou even just coming Tuesday

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night in the playing game, who
do you think is going to be in

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that death lineup when the Clippers just
need to clamp down but also open up

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the floor offensively. Who do you
think Coach Low's gonna use. I don't

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know. If I had if I
had to guess, if I had to

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guess, Reggie, Norm pg Rocco
and Nico, I probably go with something

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like that in terms of a death
lineup. I mean, I think,

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in terms of the death lineup,
the three that have to be out there,

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in my opinion Paul George, Norman
Powell, and Robert Covington, and

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you kind of can work around the
other two. But yeah, those are

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some tough decisions, and it's a
good problem to have because the Clippers it's

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a death lineup, but they in
theory, could go like with nine other

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guys who fit the bill in terms
of being a part of that death lineup

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and being good enough to be a
part of the Clippers death lineup. The

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death of the team is just incredible, and that's even with alcoh Islander.

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So I'm interrested as well and seeing
how the Clippers clothes games. Who's gonna

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be their core eight to nine guys
in the playoffs because there's a lot of

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ways that coach Luke can go.
I'm interested in that. Yes, an

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embarrassment of Richards in terms of the
talent that the Clippers have, and I'm

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looking forward to this this upcoming playing
in playoffs final one four years Jamal,

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because you brought him up there as
one of the three must to have in

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any lineup at the end of games. But it's amazing that we're saying that

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about Robert Covington. I mean,
I thought he would be rejuved, I

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thought he would be good. I
thought this would be a perfect environment for

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him. But I never expected him
to drop forty three in a game and

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hit eleven threees and become one of
the most critical pivotal players on this team

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instantly. You know, somebody,
I feel like somebody does it, like

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every other day they go on my
Twitter and it's crazy. The game before

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we got Roco, they played the
Lakers. The Lakers and Robert Covington he

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was He had a very bad game
to put it kindly, and I was

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just like, yo, this dude
is treaty like he's not good. Like

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I was like, is he done? Like why he looked as bad?

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Yeah? Yeah, like against them
dudes, you know. And I was

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just like, man, I remember
Rocos supposed to be the three indeed guy

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and Da da da da, and
he just didn't look as good. And

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almost instantly the moment he got to
the Clippers, it was just like wow,

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Like I love this guy. He's
awesome. You know, he's making

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threes, he's providing occasional attacks for
the rim. The defense is incredible.

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He puts out so many fires.
He's guarding one through five. He's incredible,

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and he's like one of my favorite
Clippers now. And I honestly can't

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see him not being not just a
part of the playoff rotation, but a

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vital one, Like we really need
him to play and we need I think

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we need him to play a lot. Uh So, yeah, it's kind

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of crazy how that happened. I
didn't expect it either, but I'm glad

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he's a Clipper. Man. He's
fantastic, awesome. Uh, not enough

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00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:00.440
words can be said about his with
a Clipper, so far Man. He's

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00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:06.079
been phenomenal. One of my favorite
analysts. Jamal Christopher if not my favorite,

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00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:08.199
follow him at jam Christopher on Twitter. He does it for the Lab,

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00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:13.239
the jam, the Pod. Jamal, we go back always Now you

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00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:15.320
defended me once on Twitter or Brothers
for life. I appreciate you, man.

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Thanks for coming on always, brother
always. Man. Before we get

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out of here, I do want
to thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle,

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Brian Seamen, Ralph Lawler, big
Brother, Jake Warner, Producer Katy

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00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:37.039
Newton until tomorrow night for Game eighty
two, the final tune up before the

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play in on Tuesday in Minnesota that
also tips off at six thirty. Pregame

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show at five thirty. I'm at
am Oslin and let's talk to you then.

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