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Breaking down today's action with the pre
and post game voice. If you're

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La Clippers, They're locking in every
game, every night, Adam Osland.

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The Clippers strike first. They hold
it down here at home and win game

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one, one oh nine to ninety
seven over the Dallas Mavericks without Kawhi Leonard.

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Welcome into your post game show.
I'm at a Moslin coming up on

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the Patriot Am eleven fifty. We
will have clipperstock for you if you want

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to get on early eight seven seven
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seven five two zero eleven fifty.
But first we head back over to your

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radio voice of the Clippers in Carlojmenez. The Clippers did enough to hold on

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late, and it was that first
half where they were up big and cruising

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with all those three pointers falling from
the outside, Carlo, that really helped

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the Clippers build up that eventual lead, eventual win. Yeah, it really

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was the opening the jump by at
the opening gate that gave them the cushion

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to be able to hang on at
him. I felt like they did a

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fantastic job in this game of making
sure their shots were timely, of making

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sure they hung onto the basketball,
of really making things tough early on on

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Kyrie and Luca. I think getting
back on the defensive end, Adam,

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how many times did we see Dallas
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I mean, not much at all. They had a lot more in

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the second half than the first half. The Clippers did an excellent job from

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the jump, focusing on the things
that Tyleru talked about, and it felt

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like in this one they got it
done because of the focus they played from

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the start. Not to mention Big
Zoo. You brought it up with Terrence

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Man post game. He had a
double double at the half, he was

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dominant, he had he was in
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just love the fact that they got
him a little bit more involved than we

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have seen in some time. They
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advantage in his favor. He took
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This is what they need all series
from Big Zoo, one hundred percent agree.

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I mean, he played Gafford and
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it's really unbelievable because we talked about
making sure he plays and when he plays

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thirty more minutes a game. The
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He plays thirty plus today and he
dominated and Klibo was what they went

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to to try to stop him.
Really a last resort for Dallas. If

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if Vita zu Watts continues this play, the Clippers should have a great,

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great finish of this series because when
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stop everybody else with the Clippers,
we mentioned Paul George struggled a little bit

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with the shot eight of twenty twenty
two points, but eleven of them came

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in the fourth quarter, and I
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out of a timeout. Huge buckets
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Paul George was able to step up
when they needed him to. It was

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big. He was really really big
the shots out of the time out finding

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his teammates. I thought at him, he had a stretch of defense at

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one point in this game where he
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by going vertical. That was excellent, held them from getting those fast break

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points. As good as he was
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defensive end, and for the Clippers, that's where it started in this game.

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Fifty eight points in the first half
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and that's how they got this done. Russell Westbrook off the bench gave

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the Clippers a spark as you would
expect. He's got that playoff intensity in

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a regular season game, so I
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Finals level intensity out there. He
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defense he was playing, aside from
the highlight dunks, he had a nice

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lob from James Harden to him.
I just love that he took up the

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challenge of staying in front of his
man, no matter if it was Kyrie

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Irving or Luka Doncs out there.
Yeah, it really felt like the bench,

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especially mean even makes them Plumbley had
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everyone gave full effort on that side. There was only a couple times in

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which Luco was left all alone,
the Clippers thirty three points to get to

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on twenty six shots. You'll take
that every single game did finish with thirteen

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rebounds to lead the team as well. It was a great win man of

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Clippers because they executed. They executed
exactly what they wanted to do. Tyler

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said, this is in a feel
out game. I want to win this

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game, and that's what they did. They came in with that strategy,

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they won the game. Now the
chess pieces are gonna move a little bit,

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the strategies will continue to ebb and
flown. What does Jason Kidd draw

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up for his group. I'm sure
he's already thinking about it. But for

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the Clippers, a great way to
punch first in this series against Dallas.

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You mentioned it, but that move
from Maxi Kleeba playing a lot in the

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second half. I wonder if they're
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it after the ballgame, but just
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even more, make him guard on
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moving forward in this series. Should
be interesting. Game two right back here

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at Crypto dot Com Arena on Tuesday
night, we'll be tipping off at seven

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pregame shows starting at six as the
Clippers strike first and get the victory one

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O nine to ninety seven in Game
one over the Dallas Mavericks without Kawhi Leonard

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Carlo Jimenez. Great playoff called by
you, my friend. Let's do it

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again on Tuesday. Oh yeah,
let's go. Clippers come through, hot

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shooting, stellar defense, and they
were able to counter every punch from Luca

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Dongons and Kyrie Irving in the second
half. They win one O nine to

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ninety seven. Second half highlights coming
up next here in her postgame locker room

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show right here on the Los Angeles
Clippers Audio Network. Fack to more of

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the NBA playoffs on the LA Clippers
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again, no Kawhi Leonard. They
come through with a one nine ninety seven

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victory over Luca Dodgers and the Dallas
Mavericks in Game one of this best of

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seven, the first round series.
Welcome back into your Clippers locker room show.

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I'm at a Moslin Coming up on
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will have Clippers tack for you eight
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eight seven seven five two zero eleven
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second half highlights. The Clippers led
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It was fifty six to thirty at
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Clippers had given up in a half
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and they did so against Luka Doncic
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so because Big Zoo had twelve and
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He kept it going in the third
tend to shoot Man find Zoo the upload

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the finish eight a Zuo bots with
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to work. We're gonna gets to
the smaller Kleva Muscles is waging in the

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paint. Turns ready hook shot over
the top of the ram and n George

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has been delivering all second half deep
on the left side, crosses over fly

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to the ram up flake effort.
Two batts is there to finish. On

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the recycle. Zubos stumbles, finds
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the baseline, flips it up a
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another finish. Twenty points for Zumbats
a super size double double with fifteen

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rebounds. Big Zoo was a monster
in this ball game. He had eight

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and five in the third quarter alone. The Clippers entered the fourth up eighty

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seven to sixty four. Things got
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would take him home. Swings the
pumpley back door Georgie's alone. He dump

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to it two hands, Oh tyl, want to play golf. George danced

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his left elbow jumper bottoms four in
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George in the right wing, rises
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Forty seconds left. George straight away
pulls up for two and banks it

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in Paul George with a toe on
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its twenty two points in the fourth
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to win by a final score of
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one over the Dallas Mavericks. Game
two is right back here Tuesday night.

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More on that plus your final box
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basketball the first round of the NBA
Playoffs continue Sick to more NBA Playoff basketball

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right here on the LA Clippers Audio
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one. They win one O nine
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Here at Crypto dot Com Arena.
Welcome back in I'm ouda Moslin. This

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is your Clippers locker room postgame show. Game two comes up on Tuesday night.

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Tiptime is at seven. We'll have
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The Clippers ended up shooting forty six
percent from the field, but what saved

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them was going eighteen of thirty six
from the outside. Dallas just ten of

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thirty three from three after they started
two of eighteen in the first half from

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distance. But the Clippers stayed hot
from three throughout it and it was those

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timely three point shots in the second
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time the Dallas Mavericks and Luca Donstris
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Clippers also out rebound in Dallas forty
five to forty one. Thanks to Big

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Zoo, he had fifteen boards four
offensive rebounds, finished with twenty and fifteen,

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leading your Los Angeles Slippers James Harden. He had twenty of his twenty

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eight points in the first half,
went eight of seventeen from the floor,

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but six of his eight makes were
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fourth quarter as Paul George hit a
few of them. He had eleven of

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his twenty two points in the fourth
when things got a little bit scary against

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the Dallas Mavericks team because he never
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they have Luca Donsons and Kyrie Irving. It was Paul George stepping up.

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Had seven straight points overall off shooting
the night eight of twenty four of twelve

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from distance, but stayed aggressive and
hit timely shots as well. Leading the

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Dallas Mavericks. Luca Doncis thirty three
points, right about his average on the

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season. Guyriy Iring had thirty one
win eight of eight in that third quarter

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with twenty points, but the Clippers
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one oh nine to ninety seven in
Game one again Game two right back here

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at Crypto on Tuesday night. Tip
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Los Angeles. We were leaving you
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Hello Clippers fans, if you're gonna
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want to do, you do.
Welcome the Clippers your first chance to react

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your host on your home for the
Clippers. They were in attack mode,

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Adam Osley. Did we just witness
your Los Angeles Clippers flip the switch?

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They go on to win one oh
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in Game one without Kawhi Leonard.
Welcome back into Crypto dot com. Marena,

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I'm out a Moslin. This is
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get on eight seven seven five to zero

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looking for postgame audio from Coach Lou and

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the players. Well to start to
this twenty twenty four playoff campaign by your

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Los Angeles Clippers. We found out
just about an hour before, make it

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two hours before the ballgame from Coach
Lou himself at Kawhi le would be out

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with inflammation in his right knee.
And the one thing that I kept thinking

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about over the last week, with
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Willie, won't he be able to
play? And then over the last forty

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eight hours or so most reporters were
saying he was going to be out,

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kept thinking, you just got to
get one at home. If you can

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get the split here at Crypto,
you can give Kawhi Leonard almost a week

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longer to recover before Game three takes
place in Dallas on Friday night. And

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the Clippers have already accomplished that much
winning Game one. But now you got

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to get greedy. Big brother Jenk's
been telling me this team can go up

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two to oh in the first couple
of games here at home, and with

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the way they played in the first
half, setting a franchise record of only

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giving up thirty points in a playoff
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fifty six to thirty on Dallas twenty
four minutes in. I believe him,

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Yo, Big Bro's onto something.
This Clippers team was dialed in, locked

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in. You could see it immediately, and that's where I start to think

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something has changed. Maybe they have
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a lot of those laps is the
last couple of months defensively where they were

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a bottom three defense for a period
of time, a long period from February

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through March. Perhaps they found themselves. I said it in a William Wallace

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like rallying speech in the opening segment
of our pregame show. But typically when

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the Chips are down, when their
backs are against the wall, this Clippers

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team comes out swinging when they're facing
adversity, like not having one of their

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superstars. It seems to always be
when they play their best. It then

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requires you to have a certain level
of urgency and effort out there because your

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margin for error has shrunk without Kawhi
Leonard. So they came out, they

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looked focused, They got the ball
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in this game, in this series, Big Zoo. They featured him like

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they should. He had ten and
four in the first quarter, five of

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six from the field. James Harden
started hot eleven points on the first quarter,

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four or five shooting three or three
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the other part of the game plan. I was hoping they would attack,

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go right at Kawhi, go right
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Daancish, go at them. Without
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have to step up and make sure
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where they could get gassed on the
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pull through in the second half.
They started to play better. It's expected.

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They're great. They're gonna get hot. Kyrie Irving had twenty points on

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the third quarter on eight of eight
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they played their best half of basketball
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It has to be considering the opponent, considering the stakes. To execute on

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both ends to that level was meaningful. The Clippers got hot from the outside,

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and Dallas struggled early on. They
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half from distance. The Dallas Mavericks
a top five offense. They've been even

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better than that really since the trade
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guys they acquired had off nights.
PJ. Washington was pretty good. Some

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of his defense against Paul George was
special. I was impressed. I've heard

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that since he got away from the
Charlotte Hornets. It is a organization that

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is going through some turnover again and
that perpetual rebuild. Well, he had

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eleven points, a couple of threes, seven boards. But the defense on

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Paul George I have heard about since
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team him getting into the starting lineup. But Daniel Gafford was just one of

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four in fourteen minutes with three points
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and came back and looked pretty ineffective. And if he'sa Zoo, bots can

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do that to you. I don't
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it. Big Zoo is like that. He's an elite rim protector that has

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moves on the offensive end. If
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little bit and against this Dallas Mavericks
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X factor. If Big Zoo has
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this series even without Kawhi for now
open he's back game two, who knows,

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maybe he's not back to Game three
or four. But getting the split

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here at Crypto and winning the opening
game and giving yourself from some momentum and

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belief that even without Kawhi Leonard you
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beat this Dallas Mavericks team. The
defensive effort by the Clippers overall, they

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just came after Luca and Kyrie in
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Terrence man on Luca and a mere
Coffee who got the start in place of

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Kawhi Leonard, something I predicted.
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they could switch and also switch with
Paul George. So there were three different

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guys that are good defenders that they
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broke whatever rhythm they were trying to
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thirteen. You can't hold him down
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slippage on the defensive end, and
it eroded a little bit by the Clippers

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being that connected as they got into
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But they were so good to start
it was enough. Well, they

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have to be even better in Game
two. Likely, So Dallas is not

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gonna shoot twenty two percent and a
half the rest of this series. I'm

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just gonna say that right now,
probably not going two of eighteen from three

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and a half the rest of this
series. What happened in the second half

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was more indicative of who they are. Great Clippers defense combined with Dallas clanking

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some shots that they usually make.
But there can be nerves. Guys can

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get tight in a game like this
when you're down twenty that quickly, every

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shot seems much more important, and
I think it was getting to the Dallas

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Mavericks. They were looking for a
ten point play to get back into it

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and it wasn't happening. So the
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half. As I get choked up
just looking at that box score. For

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a long day, we're working through
it here with my voice. But in

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the third quarter, it was back
to Big Zoo, something I kind of

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demanded, get back to your principles. The reason you got up by as

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many points as twenty tenn points in
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was detonating, and it's that physical
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the Clippers have struggled throughout most of
the season with points in the paint.

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Big Zuo doesn't struggle there, get
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with eight more points in the third
quarter alone, and the Clippers are able

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to absorb another early run by the
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that was about timely shooting from distance. Look, the Clippers shot fifty percent

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from three eighteen thirty six. That's
not necessarily sustainable ether, but the timely

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threes when it's down to a twenty
point game, after Luca hits a three

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and Terrence Man out of a timeout
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I think Paul George maybe he was
trying to work himself out of that

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shooting slump by going to the basket
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not get to go down. Felt
like maybe he was looking for Birdman somewhere

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because that was the mode he was
in twenty thirteen. VG thirteen tried went

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on Maxie ball, went out of
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But in between there and the third
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Zoo locked up Luca on a possession
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progress, that's growth from your big
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on the perimeter. And I think
did a pretty damn good job overall,

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did what he could. It's gonna
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times where it's one on one matchup
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Zoo more than held his own.
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this ball game and hit some timely
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to eighteen early in the fourth quarter. Wasn't just about his defense, but

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a huge three. He had two
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but his playoff time, and he
knocked him down. It was good to

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see. My concern the fourth quarter
was they had five turnovers. I said,

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if Dallas is gonna get back into
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to have some miscues, they're gonna
have to help them. They did,

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unfortunately, but the Clippers did enough
and overall the for the energy level and

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the execution right where they needed to
be for Game one of this twenty twenty

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four playoff campaign by your Los Angeles
Clippers. Before we break here, let's

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get to a phone call. I
believe we have Jose and Downey here on

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Clippers Stock on the Patriot, AM
eleven fifty. Jose, what's up,

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hey, Adam? How you doing? Man? Man? It's almost like

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we foresee this coming about Zubac being
the big difference, asking for it all

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year long, and I'm glad that
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deliver. I mean, he just
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That's the longest stretch of his career, so he was trending this way.

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But I knew with this matchup against
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took advantage of it tonight today.
Yeah, and you know what, and

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I want to say, man,
George did really well manned that defense.

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You can see he was yelling at
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win the switch and and that's what
we needed from him. If we didn't

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need the scoring in that first half, we needed him to set the temple.

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But man Harden Zoubach Westbrook offensively in
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third quarter, they did their thing, and Paul George when we needed that

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scoring when it was getting a little
bleak at times, he either drove,

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made the right pass or hit a
timely shot and never let up on the

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defensive rebounding, the offensive rebounding.
I can't say enough about this guy right

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now. Yeah, impactful plays there. Paul George did it all on both

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ends. He had a rebound where
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quarter for it. The type of
hustle and heart you expect in a playoff

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game, but it's just a different
game. In the playoffs. You see

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guys picking up point guards ninety four
feet trying to wear them down. That

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accumulation over forty eight minutes of what
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We saw it from both sides.
Impressed by the Clippers though, winning in

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the fashion they did, especially but
without Kawhi Leonard to take Game one one

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O nine to ninety seven. After
the entire story over the last week with

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this time off has been will he
won't he play tonight? At least they

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did not need him to take down
Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks. We'll

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take a quick time out here.
Eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty

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eight seven seven five to two zero
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want to get on here on Clippers
Talk. The Clippers get Game one one

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O nine to ninety seven over the
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Tuesday night. We'll talk about that. We'll get back to your phone calls.

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I'm out a Mosland. We're live
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Prior to this group coming together.
It could have been a distraction with everything

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being asked about Kawhi Leonard the last
couple of days to players to coach Lou.

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But the focus level was there.
Guys were locked in. You could

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see it from the outset eight seven
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seven seven five to zero eleven fifty
here on the Patriot eight m eleven fifty.

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If you want to get on,
let's go to Don in La.

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My man, it's Don. What's
up here on Clippers? Well, it's

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a good time to have a conversation, right, I know, right,

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hey, it's uh. I love
what I saw today from the Clifts.

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Man. I know we had a
little stets back in the regular season,

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but that's behind us that we're here
now. The regular season's about building good

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habits and we know that. Now
it's trying to maintain them, not only

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from a player standpoint, from USTO
or coaching standpoint, and I love what

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I saw from to Lou, you
know, taking the necessary time out,

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you know, regrouping the guys and
making sure things don't get out of control

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and continue to manage the game so
they work from all the guys man offensive

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Firecar guys just locked in. Like
you said, I think the flip the

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switch, and I think the guys, especially everybody thinking about you know,

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Kawhi, it is ka Whi that
they forget about big zoos, you know,

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twenty and fifteen, five guys and
double figures and man, yeah,

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we were just we were just balling, locked in defensively, I want to

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say. I think the last time
and played the Mass back in December,

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we had seven guys in double figures
and Paul George was at one of them.

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So Legia basically sticked out to Wise
and Paul essentially, you know.

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And on top of that, our
sixth man of the year hoped to had

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a bad game. That's a good
point. The Clippers can still play better.

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And Mere Coffee had a big six
points. I would say he hit

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the first shot of the game,
a three pointer, and I think one

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more in the fourth quarter. But
normOn Powell was off and that does not

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happen very often. Two of six, just five points. I thought his

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defense was pretty good, though there
was a possession where he was one on

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one against Luka. Doncic accepted the
challenge. That's what you see come playoffs.

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Just the playoffs show you the difference
in skill set because guys are giving

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you maximum effort every possession out there, you see the separation and talent level.

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And I thought Norman Powell that was
raptors. Norm Powell that we saw

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some of, but he can get
it going. I thought Mason Plumbley also

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overall, gave them good minutes.
He had early on a steel as soon

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as he got into the ball game. I want to say he had a

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putback either early in the second quarter
or early in the third quarter. But

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we were wondering, who's the backup
big. They've been playing Tye, they've

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been playing Plumbley, they played PJ. Tucker in this series. I came

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in thinking it was going to be
Daniel Tice the first guy off the bench,

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But what happened was Gafford goes out
and it was Derek Lively out there,

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who's seven to one. So I
think they wanted to match height with

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HEIGHTE longsword longsword, and they brought
in Mason Plumbley. I thought he was

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good. I thought he was solid, one of his better performances of the

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season, where still felt like for
a long time he just wasn't right coming

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off that knee injury, but verry
good to see Mason Plummey in a good

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sign to see him being effective out
there in a playoff series like this where

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he ended up with I know it
was just two points at that put back,

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but five boards in twelve minutes,
you'll take that. And the defense

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was solid enough. There was a
play in the second half or a couple

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of them where Dallas got the switch
and he was on Luca. He was

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able to corral him enough deep on
the right wing to where help could come

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and they eventually got the ball out
of his hands. That's all you can

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ask for. I think in that
situation a precarious position to be putting Mason

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Plumbley on Luka Doncic, who looked
a little bit at times, almost like

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he was laboring out there. Big
brother Jake Warner brought it up and he's

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got a little bit a pad on
the nylons on. I wonder if he's

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dealing with something, because I believe
he had a knee injury towards the end

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of the season. Now he was
still playing great, didn't play the last

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two games for the Dallas Mavericks,
but Luca looked to be laboring just a

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little bit. Could be nothing,
or it could be something they're hiding.

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They don't want to give the opposition
any intel on that. Again, he

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still ended up with thirty three points, right at his average, but it

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took twenty six shots to get there
and just four of twelve from the outside,

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and didn't have the fifteen assists,
didn't have ten assists, he had

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six, So he was more one
dimensional. Something we've been talking about for

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a while now. That's how you
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I don't know how you defend some
of those shots he was making in

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the third quarter. You wonder if
those guys caught a rhythm that they can

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take into the start of game two
or not. Hopefully not. We'll see

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Sean in Inglewood. You're on Clippers
suck without a Mileston after they win one

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or nine to ninety seven in game
one over the Dallas Mavericks, Hi Sean

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Heya, I was very proud of
the way they started the game with a

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purpose and they emphasized getting in front
and stand ahead. I really liked that.

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So that's one of the things that
say I think they went coast to

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coast. I don't know. I
don't think Dallas ever led. Yeah,

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they let Sean awesome, awesome.
I really liked that everybody played with energy,

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and as you mentioned, we didn't
really get a good game from Coffee

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or a Powell, and I also
didn't think that. I think Terrence Mann

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turned down a bunch of shots that
he could have took or normally would take

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in the first half. He had
eleven of US thirteen points in the second

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half and went three of three from
three in the second half, so I

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liked the bounce back performance by him. He also had a really bad whistle

416
00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:49.720
going his way. He was on
the floor multiple times, and I don't

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know how some of those weren't fouls. But I was pleased overall. When

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you're doing as much as he has
to do defensively as the primary defender against

419
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Luca don sometimes your offense can get
lost in the shuffle. But he was

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looking for it in the third and
fourth quarter. Yeah, I noticed that

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myself, but overall, very good
games. Zoo was fired up as he

422
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should be, and as another caller
mentioned, almost on every time out they

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scored, they came back, they
ruled it back in when Dallas was making

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their runs, and of course Dallas
has to be thinking, Man, they

425
00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:32.839
beat us like that without Kawhi,
you know, so they they are not

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the best defensive team, so that
the Clippers should just keep taking it to

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them. And I love the way
they handled Daniel gafferd I really loved they

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00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:46.319
made him I have to defend Zoo
and they got him into the foul trouble

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area. I mean, I did
foul trouble earlier and that was really important.

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So thumbs up all the way to
the Clippers. Let's do it again.

431
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It's fifteen more to go, all
right, Sean, I like it.

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It's a good point. Rafford had
two fouls early in the first quarter.

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They had to bring in Lively.
Eventually they went with Maxi Kleba.

434
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:08.880
They went small with the center position, wondering if that's a chess move,

435
00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:13.799
and early one that Jason Kidd probably
didn't want to have to play that was

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in his back pocket because it eventually
led to the Clippers going small at the

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very end of the game. But
what it can do is is bring a

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beach zubats out to the perimeter and
take him and his rimp protection away.

439
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So just one of the first wrinkles
we really saw, but it's because Gaffer

440
00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:35.960
was overall ineffective and he did get
banged up. He left and went to

441
00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:38.359
the locker room in the second quarter
and rolled his ankle out there. And

442
00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:43.279
Derek Lively's been dealing with a lot
some personal issues, death of his mother,

443
00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:45.960
sad situation going on, miss a
ton of games at the end of

444
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:50.720
the year, also because of a
right knee injury. Had a great rookie

445
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:54.359
season, but timing wise, he
didn't look right to me out there in

446
00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:59.160
his nineteen minutes, just one of
three, because we've seen what he's capable

447
00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:05.200
of. Lone regular season game where
Dallas beat the Clippers. They had Derek

448
00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:08.760
Lively for that one. So they
have guys that can obviously play much better.

449
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And the Clippers aren't gonna shoot fifty
percent from three the entire series.

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Now, can they do what Dallas
did the first three games against them in

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twenty twenty one, where they shot
fifty percent from three? Literally the first

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three games, just extraordinary shooting that
had the Clippers down in the series two

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00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:30.840
games to one. I don't know
we speculated whether or not the Clippers were

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due for a three point onslot because
they've missed a lot of good looks the

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00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:43.480
second half of the season where they
were leading the league in three point percentage

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and dropped to being I think fourth
or fifth by the end of the year,

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just because they had like a late
season swoon. I guess you could

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say from beyond the arc, where
they just weren't the same and the looks

459
00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:57.000
were there. If you looked at
wide open three pointers, they were shooting

460
00:34:57.039 --> 00:35:00.119
thirty four percent on wide open looks. It made no sense. How about

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00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:06.400
James Harden those six threes, nasty, his twenty points in the first half

462
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and really stepping up in the moment, And I thought this was an interesting

463
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:17.239
comment from him. Earlier this week, leading up to the game, he

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was doing a media session. He
was asked about the playoffs, and instead

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00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:27.519
of dodging the question where he's obviously
had down moments, he took it head

466
00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:31.400
on. James Harden said, look, I've had some not so great moments

467
00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:37.599
and some great moments, and hemost
definitely has. It's been hot and cold.

468
00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:43.840
He was hot. He ended up
just eight of seventeen. But when

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00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:46.039
six of those are made three pointers
and you get twenty eight points on just

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seventeen shots that is very efficient plus
eight assists to one turnover. He's the

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00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:59.599
catalyst, the straw that stirs the
drink. As Brian Seman would say,

472
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another key to the series, James
Harden has to be great without Kawhi Leonard.

473
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For now, he just does it. Beats the Zubots. He continues

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00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:13.599
to play like this Clippers are in
good shape. James Harden continues to be

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00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:19.840
aggressive, looking for his but also
getting everybody else involved and getting them touches.

476
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That's the recipe for this Clippers team
to not just compete, but to

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beat the Dallas Mavericks, even if
they don't have Kawhi Leonard. And one

478
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of my other keys was Russell Westbrook. Felt like it was a good matchup

479
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:40.519
for him because size wise and with
his athleticism, he's another guy you can

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00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:44.880
throw a Luca at times. We've
seen it in the regular season and Kyrie

481
00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:49.360
Irving and his defense was really good. He had a couple of deflections early

482
00:36:49.400 --> 00:36:53.000
on in the first half, hustle
plays from Russ that I loved seeing out

483
00:36:53.039 --> 00:37:00.119
there. Good defense on Luca.
He had a nice layup transition, was

484
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:06.239
in control more when he was getting
downhill, but the lob from James Harden

485
00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:09.360
in the second quarter had everybody out
of their seat here at Krypto dot Com

486
00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:15.599
Arena. And then to boot a
couple of three pointers and a big one

487
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:22.920
in the fourth run stopping silencer threes. That was a common thread in the

488
00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:29.079
second half by the Clippers. Every
time Dallas was starting to chip away,

489
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the Clippers would get back with a
three pointer against him. Good to see

490
00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:39.159
clutch shots. Big shots. Again, I don't think they're shooting fifty percent

491
00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:44.679
from three the rest of the way. So what are areas you can improve

492
00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:47.039
in? Well, they only had
thirty six points in the paint. That

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00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:52.840
can go up. Nor and Powell
can play better, Russ can have more

494
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:58.199
than thirteen, and I think Paul
George and we know we can go for

495
00:37:58.280 --> 00:38:04.719
thirty plus just eat twenty from the
field. But fourth quarter mastery when he

496
00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:09.239
had to be great, when they
were looking there's somebody to be a stabilizer

497
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:13.800
out there without Kawhi Leonard, I
had somebody Athal out of May get to

498
00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:16.840
me on X and say, this
is where we really miss Kawhi. Who's

499
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:22.760
gonna stop these Dallas Mavericks and put
together a run and make a couple of

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00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:28.480
shots in a row. Paul George
that dunk out of the time out on

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00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:30.559
the back door cut with a pass
from Mason Plumley. When I thought of

502
00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:34.440
eats the Zubas was gonna come back
into the game, but that's a patented

503
00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:40.400
pass. Plumbly with the dish to
PG thirteen, who was hunting a dunk

504
00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:44.159
earlier in the game, finally got
it. Then he got in the mid

505
00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:49.079
range. Then he got a three
pointer that pretty much iced the game,

506
00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:53.480
along with a big Terrence Man.
I would say three point dagger, But

507
00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:58.400
I was a little bit worried at
times the Clippers were settling too much for

508
00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:04.360
threes and out running offense. It
worked tonight, but there are times where

509
00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:07.840
you can't just always rely on the
long ball. We know that with this

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00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:12.559
team they get a little three happy
sometimes when they're not falling. Don't let

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Dallas off the hook by settling for
long jump shots. All right, quick

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00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:21.760
time out. Clippers win one oh
nine to ninety seven in Game one here

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at crypto dot com arena of this
best of seven first round matchup against the

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Dallas Mavericks. We'll come back.
We'll get some more of your phone calls

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at eight seven seven five to two
zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two

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zero eleven fifty. You can also
get to me at follow adam a looking

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for postgame audio from coach Lou as
well here on Clippers Stock on the Patriot

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AM eleven fifty. Back to more
of the NBA playoffs on the La Clippers

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Audio network. Clippers Mavericks continues now
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app. Clippers hot shooting eighteen to
thirty six from the outside and they win

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one o nine to ten ninety seven
over the Dallas Mavericks in game one of

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this best of seven first round matchup. Welcome back into crypto dot com arena.

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We are alive. I met up
Adam Ousland coming up. We're looking

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for coach Lou postgame audio, but
we do want to get back to your

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00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:19.079
phone calls at eight seven seven five
two zero eleven fifty. Before any of

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that, though, let's pause ten
seconds for station identification. Here on the

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Patriot eight eleven fifty. This is
LA Clippers Basketball AM eleven fifty k EiV,

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Los Angeles, about and iHeartRadio station
Marvin in downtown Los Angeles. Marvin

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you're on Clippers stock without a Moslim
Hi, Marvin, Hey, Adam or

530
00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:44.280
shall I call you Peter R.
Thomments. Could I have some faith and

531
00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:46.280
believe in the Clippers miracles? Like
oh, Michael will say, do you

532
00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:50.519
believe in miracles? Yes, even
though there's one game, but at least

533
00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:52.360
it's just the tonk So when,
if, and when Tawi comes back.

534
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:57.880
Anyways, this is a great game
for the Clippers. Let's go, Clippers

535
00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:00.519
take it all the way for the
rest of the series. You just said

536
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:04.400
that we're gonna be competitive. I
give you that, so let's go.

537
00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:13.199
Let's do it with I'm out racking. Thank you incredible. I don't know

538
00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:15.760
this is a Rackham type of show
here, Marvin, but we appreciate the

539
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:20.840
phone call. Nonetheless, yeah,
I thought they'd be competitive even without Kawhi

540
00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:24.800
Leonard. They were. They won
the ball game. You gotta get greedy,

541
00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:30.400
though, Now try to win game
two because right now you're just holding

542
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:35.400
serf winning at home. It's almost
expected. Now. The Clippers were the

543
00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:37.880
underdogs in this game, don't get
me wrong. If you were checking out

544
00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:43.480
the betting lines at all, but
without Kawhi Leonard, if he was out

545
00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:47.559
for the entire series, and Paul
George said yesterday expect him back at some

546
00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:52.679
point. I've kind of been feeling
the same way. No insider information,

547
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:58.119
just the way it was talked about
last week with Lawrence Frank and the way

548
00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:02.199
he's been progressing in practice. I
would guess i'd lean towards he's back at

549
00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:07.840
some point. But you gotta take
advantage of an off shooting night by the

550
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:13.079
Dallas Mavericks or an off shooting half
like the Clippers were able to do.

551
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:20.519
That's the difference in the ball game. Tagus in Walnut Dagus you're on Clippers

552
00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:22.840
staff and that of Mawson when they
win without Kawhi Leonard in Game one,

553
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:29.320
that's right, what's up at him? A great win. You guys talked

554
00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:32.159
a lot about what I was gonna
say, but some subtle points I thought

555
00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:36.800
that, you know, in the
first half with Zoos dominating the inside,

556
00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:39.440
not only did he dominate, but
then we were able to get a lot

557
00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:46.920
of offensive boards through Terrence Man and
Westbrook. It just like I think Luca

558
00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:52.719
was guarding Terrence for a while,
but he's not gonna be the best guy

559
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:55.880
to box out in Terrence Man's activity. Even though I thought he passed up

560
00:42:55.920 --> 00:43:00.000
a lot of shots in the first
half. He took him in the second

561
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.159
half, So there's no on that
point. There's no reason for him to

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00:43:02.679 --> 00:43:07.199
pass up shots. He's been lights
out for a while now and we saw

563
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:10.480
that in the second half. But
I definitely think that we got to keep

564
00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:15.480
attacking the inside. Even with this
trade that Dallas did today. We saw

565
00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:20.719
how much that helped get all those
easy baskets, and that's gonna help us.

566
00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:23.199
Like we've been talking about the easy
shots we saw in the second half,

567
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:27.480
I think they got a little bit
away from Zoo. Paul George was

568
00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:30.199
kind of grinding it out, and
he was. He took a lot of

569
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:32.920
tough, contested shots. I would
like to just see Zoo get some more

570
00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:37.760
touches again in the second half like
he did in that first quarter. But

571
00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:43.159
overall, great win and we'll just
keep it going. I agree more from

572
00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:45.039
Zoo. I'm telling you, one
of these days, I'm coming up with

573
00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:50.480
that dre parody they forgot about Zoo. It happens far too often. There's

574
00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:53.840
an easier path to victory. It's
playing through a viza Zoo boss. Now,

575
00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:58.679
he had a good third quarter and
Dallas ended up going small and that

576
00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:00.800
affected his game, I think a
little bit. But a great point regarding

577
00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:05.639
Terrence man in four offensive rebounds.
By the way, he went four for

578
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:08.119
four in the second half. It's
not like he wasn't taking any he was

579
00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:14.440
missing some gimmes, but in the
second half he was perfect. But you're

580
00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:17.239
right, that's what he has to
do, crash the glass. And the

581
00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:22.719
Clippers ended up with ten offensive rebounds
to nine for the Dallas Mavericks, and

582
00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:29.920
they got up seven more shots than
Dallas, winning that possession battle. Mitch

583
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and the Jizzy. Mitch, what's
up? You're on Clippers South with out

584
00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:38.079
of mauzl Hi, Mitch, I's
going him great, great gang, let's

585
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:42.599
see get let's tea a little bit
in the fourth quarter where it's nice to

586
00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:45.079
see it to have four guys I
think on the banjic stuff for a lot

587
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:51.360
of teams, and would you say, I've never seen a combo they started

588
00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:55.960
a lot together talking about Harden and
Westbrook three different teams. I don't know.

589
00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:00.239
That's never happened in the NBA.
I know, and nowadays with the

590
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:05.119
free agency and the trade hap is
a lot. But to see these guys

591
00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:07.920
come to go in teams, and
it's nice that they get to hear for

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00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:13.599
us now and hopefully he's goin next
game. I'm sorry I didn't give you

593
00:45:13.599 --> 00:45:17.800
a chance, no match. It's
an interesting point when you're talking about Hall

594
00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:23.159
of famers moving from team to team
like that, from OKAC to Houston.

595
00:45:23.519 --> 00:45:29.760
Now both of them here with the
Clippers. He may be onto something there.

596
00:45:30.039 --> 00:45:32.639
You know. I could see Lebron
has brought guys with him here and

597
00:45:32.679 --> 00:45:37.039
there at different stops, but they
weren't necessarily Hall of Famers. He did

598
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:43.400
bring Wade to Cleveland for one season, but yeah, I'll try to look

599
00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:52.119
at that. Kevin Love, Uh, yeah, I appreciate the he is

600
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:57.039
although he only was at one stop
with Lebron. He didn't play with him

601
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in Miami. You play with them
the second stint in Cleveland. One.

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00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:05.199
Thank you for the phone call,
Mitch. Let's hear from Morrison, Inglewood,

603
00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:08.280
Morris, what's up here on clippersock? Hey? Check because the pundits.

604
00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:14.119
Listen, the pundits had George and
Harden losing to Luca and Kyrie.

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You heard what they were saying.
People forgot who was coaching. They were

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talking about who wasn't played. They
forgot who was coaching today. That's why

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they called him the kyropactor. I'm
gonna tell you something. The guy they

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put in some work and I don't
know, but the bookies were saying that

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the Clippers were underdog, and I
think he said that the Clippers were favored.

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But I'm gonna change something right now. This is this is Clipper time.

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This is their time, this is
their time. We've been losing too

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long. We win it. This
is the year. The Clippers are gonna

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do it. And if I'm gonna
teach them. They started rolling when they

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were twenty six points behind in that
Cleveland game, when he was twenty six

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behind in that Cleveland game, and
they came back and won. Ever since

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then, they've been another team.
They ain't been the same team. A

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lot of teams have changed, but
the Clippers have changed for the better.

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And in the playoffs, two things
changed. Number one. Number one,

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they get physical. The referees that
you played short punching each other, they

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let you play okay, And the
Clippers can't play physical, and the game

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slows down. You all going these
some isolations. They're bill perfect to win

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it this year. Adam and my
crazy I don't do nobody to say they're

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gonna win it this year. So
I'll see you on Tuesday night, Okay,

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when we pick up game two at
home. Talk to you later,

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Morris. I'm with you. It's
all there. They're just missing one guy

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right now that will put them over
the top. And Kawhi Leonard him being

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out for now. You're right the
odds makers. Because of the uncertainty surrounding

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Kawhi Leonard, things swung to Dallas
being the favorite in this series. But

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I like what I saw tonight.
This Clippers team looks scrappy. I'm telling

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you. It brings out their identity
of being that resilient team when they're down

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a guy. It happens like that
with them. Ryan and Burbank, you're

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on Clippers staff with out of Mawson, Hi, Ryan, Adam oh Man.

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This this I loved. I loved
everything I saw about. I've been

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calling from the jump. Luka Kyrie
combined for six four Clippers still beat him

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by double digits. It's not about
Luca and Kyrie for the mass, It's

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always been about their role players.
When their role players took us to seven

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those first two games to shout over
fifty percent from three. I don't see

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anything on this mass roster to me
from this game that I'm going, oh

639
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yeah, we're gonna be real worried
about that guy coming in. It's all

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about Luke and Kyrie in this series, and we know they had great second

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halfs of this game. Of the
game, the Clippers regressed a little offensively,

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That's okay because they were so hot
for the first half. You held

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a playoff team to eight points in
a quarter. Eight points in a quarter.

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Yes, some of their offensive you
know, stuff will come back for

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the Maps. Regressive issues will come
back. They'll hit a little bit more

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from three. But is anyone worried
about PJ. Washington? And I mean

647
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gafferd looked absolutely outmatched by Szubac,
who completely killed him in those first two

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quarters. I just I don't know
a lot of matchup things that kid can

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solve in this particular series. I
just think kylu is gonna run circles around

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him. Again. My prediction for
this was Clippers and six. We may

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get Clippers in five year at them. I'm not exaggerate, and I really

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think the Clippers are just a much
better built team than the Mavericks when it

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comes to this particular matchup this year. All right, I appreciate the phone

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on the optimism there, Ryan,
I don't necessarily disagree. I just think

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a lot of these guys are capable
of much more than what they showed today

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for the Dallas Mavericks. You give
the Clippers credit, but when a team

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scores only eight points in a quarter, that is a rarity. No matter

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how good your defense is. That's
a little bit fluky shooting. And both

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Luca and Kyrie Irving being cold for
a half also, Isn't that sustainable?

660
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I just great, kid, don't
get cocky the old Han solo line.

661
00:49:49.719 --> 00:49:53.519
The Clippers were good. They got
the coaching advantage with coach Lou, of

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course, but I still expect Dallas
to hit first and start much faster on

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Tuesday night, and the Clippers just
have to be aware of that. We'll

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take a quick time out. We're
looking for coach Lou audio. We do

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have audio from James Harden postgame.
Clippers win one O nine to ninety seven

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in Game one of this best of
seven first round series over the Dallas Mavericks.

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And you're listening to Clippers talk,
you're on the Patriot Amblem fifty streaming

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Clippers basketball the first round of the
NBA Playoffs continue Sick to more NBA Playoff

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basketball right here on the LA Clippers
Audio Network. Clippers winning Game one one

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O nine to ninety seven here at
Crypto over the Dallas Mavericks, and they

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do so without Kawhi Leonard big Zoo
played to his size twenty and fifteen.

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A player to watch for the game, my player to watch for the series.

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This is the way as the Mantalhrian
line. Cos I'm Adam Moslin.

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You're listening to the Patriot am eleven
fifty. James Harden Great out of the

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Gate, had twenty points in the
first half, finished with twenty eight.

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Here it was postgame on the Evil
four Letter. We know how offensive power

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those guys are over there, so
we can't ease into games. We gotta,

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you know, be a physicality team
from the beginning game. We did

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that. They are great teams.
You know how easy they can score a

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basketball, so we wanted to make
it as different as possible. I think

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we did that for four quarters.
And James, this is your fifteenth straight

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playoff appearance, but the first with
this veteran Clippers team. What did you

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think of the overall effort tonight,
especially with five players in double figures?

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Unbelievably, it's going to take that, you know, quarterback quarter game by

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camp game. We can't get satisfied
for winning the first game, you know

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what I mean? So tomorrow we
watched film, get better, see what

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we can get, we can correct
and be ready to go for even better

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00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:58.039
game too, And you get this
win even without Kawhi Leonard, who's expected

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00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:01.719
back in this series. Where is
the confidence level at heading into game two?

690
00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:05.559
We believe in each other, you
know what I mean. So obviously

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we miss Kawhi, but you know, we still got to win games,

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and we did a really good job
of tonight, so I was ready to

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game for Game two. Congratson on
the one oher series lead. James James

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Harden their post game again twenty eight
points, eight assists to just one turnover,

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and made six to three pointers for
the Clippers and some big ones to

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00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:27.159
open this ball game up. Clippers
hold on to win one oh nine and

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ninety seven, something I thought might
happen when everybody was, I don't know,

698
00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:36.760
overreacting a little bit with how the
Clippers were playing myself at times too.

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But I continue to remind people that
they were inconsistent heading into that first

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round series against the Phoenix Suns as
well last season, and then immediately snapped

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into a mode where they were playing
at a different level. Effort wise and

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energy wise and attention to detail wise. Were the Clippers were really good in

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00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:04.599
the first half, got a little
bit sloppy at times in the second half,

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00:53:06.199 --> 00:53:14.199
gave up some open looks. But
for the amount of discussions being had

705
00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:17.079
in conversations at the end of the
season and talking about, well, the

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Clippers just don't have it. You
can't play like this come playoff time,

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00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:29.280
guys, Flipping a switch is real. A playoff environment is different, it

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00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:34.639
always is, and this team has
always been built for a playoff series.

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An older squad that looked like they
had tired legs at times. It's just

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one game, but you could see
the difference out there. The Clippers were

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fully focused and I'm proud of the
way they played in Game one without Kawhi

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Leonard, extremely holding a team of
thirty points in the first half eight points

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in the second quarter. Coach lu
didn't say postgame there are no bad wins

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00:53:57.639 --> 00:54:00.480
in the playoffs, but also stressed, quote, we got to do a

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better job getting to the free throw
line. However you want to take that,

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that's interesting. That's another way the
Clippers can improve. In Game two,

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00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:15.840
I mentioned just having thirty six points
in the paint, they only attempted

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thirteen free throws. They do need
to be more aggressive. Thirty six three

719
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pointers taken on a night where you
hit eighteen of them, fine, it's

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great, but it's about three above
what they normally attempt from the outside,

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and you want to continue to play
with force and punish teams in the basket.

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There was a play by James Harden
with about the five minute mark of

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the fourth quarter where they had just
hit another timely three point shot. But

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I wanted to see them win this
game with some good process down the stretch,

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with making Dallas continue to have to
defend, and Harden went down the

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00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:57.400
left alley and by the way,
his burst and movement very different than what

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we saw the last two months.
I'm not shocked, trying to tell you

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00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:05.199
guys, I'm not that worried.
Once Game one starts, then you can

729
00:55:05.239 --> 00:55:08.639
start to judge where guys are at. But he forced the issue and drew

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a foul and got to the free
throw line. Need more of that.

731
00:55:12.599 --> 00:55:16.519
Dallas got up twenty more free throw
attempts than the Clippers. I thought there

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were some touch fowls being called on
the Clippers in the second half, and

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a little bit of a bad whistle
that they got in this game, which

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I guess is encouraging. You can
win a game where a team takes twenty

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00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:32.760
more free throws than you handily,
by the way, but Tyler w also

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said we can and have to be
better, and they will be. They

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at least need to be Tuesday night, because I know Dallas will play a

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00:55:45.679 --> 00:55:49.920
better ball game. Some of those
role players will step up, somebody will

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00:55:49.960 --> 00:55:53.280
get hot, and Luca and Kyrie
are not going to start that cold in

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the first twenty four minutes of a
game. It's just not that repeatable,

741
00:55:58.480 --> 00:56:04.199
not that sustainable, not that really
bowl. So adjustments will be made,

742
00:56:05.159 --> 00:56:08.360
some progression to the mean in some
areas, regression in others, But overall,

743
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I like this Clippers ball club one, the way they played. Big

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00:56:12.960 --> 00:56:17.800
Bro Jake some positivity before we get
out of here. Big Brother Jake Warner

745
00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:23.440
from The Big Brother Jake Podcast Podcast
one network. He was very confident heading

746
00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:28.880
into this one. Yes, sir, here's what I got to tell you

747
00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:31.880
all today. A lot of people
won't celebrate you until your wins feel big

748
00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:37.800
enough, but you don't need their
approval. You get to celebrate yourself today.

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You get to be proud of every
step you take and every sacrifice you

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00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:44.880
make. And once you see this
for yourself, you'll realize that you never

751
00:56:44.920 --> 00:56:49.079
needed other people's permission to be proud
of how far you've come. I like

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00:56:49.159 --> 00:56:52.760
that any win in a playoff series
is a good winner. Got that right.

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00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:53.920
Before we get out of here,
I do want to thank big brother

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00:56:54.039 --> 00:56:58.920
Jake Warner, a head engineer Clippers
organization, Ralph Lauler, Bryant seem to

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00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:00.920
know it, Ego, Carlo and
Metis on the call, Kay and Newton

756
00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:02.480
our producer k Fig I'm out of
Maza. We'll talk to you on Tuesday

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00:57:02.519 --> 00:57:06.880
night. So why he was doing
his thing? All they want to do

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00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:09.679
is win LA win. I thought
they gave everything they had. I'm very

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00:57:09.719 --> 00:57:15.440
proud of them. This has been
Clippers Talk, the official postgame reaction of

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00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:19.000
the LA Clippers. God bless Paul
George, Are you not? It's a

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You guys are great. Thank you
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