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In the case of Kawhi Leonard,
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I don't care. I think the
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on a nine er run looking for
Mark Terrence Man all the way to the

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ref left. You layup and I'll
put back camp by Leonard, Clippers on

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an eleven old run, Man,
you better retire that sound drop up eleven

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five? Did we have to play
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fifty percent from the outside twenty to
forty from distance? I see you,

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Zach o'caldy. Clippers win in Chicago
one forty six to one, eleven over

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the Bulls. Welcome back into Flippers
Dock. I'm in a Moslin. Let's

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get out to our friend Jacque Mockler
from Clips in Dip Fame. After a

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ballgame where Paul George put up a
stat line that only Nikola Jokic had before

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in NBA history, there's two guys
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assists, five boards, one steal, one block on eleven of twelve shooting

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Nikola Jokic and PG thirteen Paul George. So we can start there, Chuck,

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was that the most encouraging sign you
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just Paul George getting his offense on
glued. Uh. Yeah, the efficiency

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was great to see. I you
know, hattops to Paul George for what

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he did tonight after I think after
a lot of us are going to be

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disappointed about the game before this one. But I still don't love the field

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goal attention if I'm being honest.
Obviously James Harden isn't there, which makes

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getting shots, you know, more
difficult, but I still would to like

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to see more than twelve attempts.
I guess he didn't necessarily need them because

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he was so efficient. He had
twenty eight on twelve attamps. What do

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you know? I'd want more attemp
because what happens when the efficiency isn't there,

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right, Because that's what we've been
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to be there. This is something
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So TVD on if he plays tomorrow, I think he probably will,

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but I hope to see it again
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was more regressive to start this game, which I think everyone was excited about.

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Yeah, he had fifteen points in
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Lou We heard from him earlier,
but he also said the Clippers are going

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to emphasize getting the ball back in
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season and have him run more pick
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know, without James Harden, it's
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him running high pick and roll for
so long. Now this is the first

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game he has missed as a Clipper
tonight. Though it was Bones Highland running

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it, it was PG, it
was Kawhi, And I think that's a

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good thing overall, to just have
more looks and more of a varied attack

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out there. Chuck, Yeah,
I think the varied attack, I totally

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agree with you there it's going to
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in Paul George's hand more will be
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depending on what the turnovers look like, there might be some adjustments there.

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But Bone Tiland was phenomenal tonight,
the skeleton key your guy making.

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I think this is his best case
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which is going to have to be
a discussion if he hopefully keeps playing

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this well, because he was phenomenal
tonight. He threw in a couple passes

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the zeros, he couldn't quite handle
it. I thought you maybe should have

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gotten a handle on so he would
have had even a few more ass But

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yeah, half off the bone's career
highs and what's this am steal tonight?

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The exact kind of thing the Quippers
need on a back to back, you

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know, with this March schedule.
I complained often about him being out of

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the rotation. I understood it to
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Russell Westbrook, but considering how different
of a player he is than Russ and

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being able to spread the floor like
he can where I think now he's nine

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for his last fifteen from three or
something like that, when everybody was worried

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about his shooting, Oh you'd missed
fifteen straight. Is he the same guys?

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The volume, Yeah, it's all
still there. He just needed to

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get some reps. Like as you
said, I think he's making a pretty

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damn strong case that you can't go
in a playoff series and not get him

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some run somewhere. Yeah, he's
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it's just a small amount of minutes. The way that he plays is designed

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kind of his play style is perfect
for we need a couple buckets, we

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need something like that. You know, there's there's one hundredth that's going to

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be used for him. Got to
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you know, obviously, I think
that's one of the harder things to figure

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out when you're already a guy who's
not necessarily known for his defense and you

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have time off. That's gonna be
something that I think probably takes the longest

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to come back, and that might
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But yeah, I'm I'm looking forward
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Bone playoff game, I think,
and it's gonna be a lot of fun.

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I think he can swing a series. Can you imagine Bones going up

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against his former team and the Denver
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want to th the Nuggets to be
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finals. Uh okay, let's talk
about Norman powl here, who I just

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saw this. He had his fiftieth
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bench. He leads the NBA in
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have him top ten in six Man
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odds, which is crazy and wild
and uninformed. Norm also hit big shots

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in this game eighteen points, only
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there. I don't know where they'd
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good he's been. When we started
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Norm could be trade bayed at some
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uh what this say? They have
a surplus of shooting and he's too small,

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and now it's like, man,
Norman Powell is unbelievable. What a

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professional. Yeah, he's kind of
a new lou right, Like he's known

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for going out there and getting buckets
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that in a bad way. Norman
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of getting talked about about down elbow
he took and how it's completely changed,

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like it's crazy, But no,
Norman has been fantastic. He came into

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the season talking about wanting to be
an All Star and we talked about this

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on Clippers on Clips and did We
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But if you're if you're also maybe
six ten of the year. That really

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helps the Clippers, and he's worked
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He doesn't ever get too down,
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and he very much does that.
So yeah, it's he's going to be

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huge in the playoffs as well.
The Clippers have a lot of scoring on

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the bench. How surprised and relieved
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very next game. I think I
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he had backspasms in twenty twenty one
and came back the very next game,

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and he looked great tonight against Chicago. Yeah, he was getting anything he

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wanted. It didn't matter at all
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say that every single time about when
Kawhi Leonard plays well. His his full

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game was on uh on display to
night. Offensively, he just you know,

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he got those mid range spots.
He made this happen. He had

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a chunky stat line. Yeah,
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So other than the turnovers, it
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Do you think he goes tomorrow?
Do you think he's gonna get the back

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to back I'm gonna say Yes,
I'm trying to be optimistic here, just

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based upon how he looked tonight,
and I just think backspasms can be something

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different, like once they settle down. Just like last time, he was

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fine, he was good to go. So we'll see it. I mean,

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it depends how he feels coming out
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depends how he feels when he wakes
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be optimistic with it and that maybe
both of them can go considering the magnitude

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of that game against the Pelicans.
That's the biggest game of the season right

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now, right, Chuck, yet
again, I feel but this is the

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real one again, Minnesota. Yeah, right, that's how it goes.

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But when you you know, when
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games that they didn't, this is
now, you know we're in a very

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important game season. Yeah, I
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process to build. I've said that
I want to see them build good process

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in this month, hopefully winning at
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they're on that path right now.
Tomorrow obviously the win is important, but

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good process against the larger team will
be very important. The long run too

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well put. He is Chuck Mockler
of Clips in Dip. You'll find us

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on a YouTube later on this week. But the Clippers are in New Orleans

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tomorrow taking on the Pelicans, who
are three games behind them but lead the

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head to head season record two games
to one, so they beat them tomorrow.

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If they can take down the Clippers
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who then we really start sweating.
But the last time the Clippers were

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there, they played one of their
best games of the season. They completely

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dismiss antled the New Orleans Pelicans,
so hopefully they got everybody ready to go

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on the second night of a back
to back. Chuck, thanks for joining

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me here with the little Clips and
double Dip here on Clipper Stop. My

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friend, Hey, thanks for having
me. Let's go Clips