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first you hear the music. You
know, it's a clips and double dip

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on Clippers Talk. We got Big
Chuck Mockler on the phone. Chuck got

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a call earlier that there was some
concern about the defense. And I know

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it wasn't always pretty tonight, but
I'm giving the Raptors some credit the quick

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decision making. They were tough to
guard out there. They were really in

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tune. How did you see it? Yeah, it kind of felt like

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a perfect storm, to be honest. Uh, you know, we talked,

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came out a little bit on the
pod. This Raptors team was like

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I think they had there were the
fourth highest scoring team over the last four

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games. We did that pod before
their last game, so the offense was

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you know, I guess it's hard
to prepare for, but the Clippers didn't

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look super interested in playing tough or
discipline d to open this game, which

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did coincide with a team that was
well coached, had a great plan B

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for Pascal Siakam not being available,
and they do absolutely deserve some credit.

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They they played really fast. I
mean, if it wasn't for a mere

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Coffee playing some good one on one
defense really late in this game, it

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would have been you know, pretty
interesting with the Clippers and mounting that ball.

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Yeah, I just see this is
a good test and good challenge and

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something on tape that the Clippers can
now focus in on. You see a

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team that plays this fast and this
connected, whether in transition or in the

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half court. I just I can't
say enough about how Toronto looked, even

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though yes the clip looked a little
bit lacks of days at Coole. We're

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sleepwalking at times. But Terrence Man
got him off to that quick start as

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he had I want to say,
seven points in the first quarter alone,

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went three of three knockdown a three
pointer. He's now thirteen of his last

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twenty one from the outside, and
the starting lineup with Terrence Man is now

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shooting fifty four percent from the field
and forty four percent from three in over

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the last twenty one games when they've
been whole. But it's just great to

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see Terrence Man bounce back, find
his shooting stroke and figure it out.

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Chuck, we all wanted to give
him that time. It was his big

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opportunity to be in the starting lineup, and he's starting to make the most

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of it. Yeah, he was
absolutely huge tonight. He was five or

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five from the field and he you
know, he made good decisions watching Paul

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George, you know, swing it
over to Terrence, which I think that

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was for his second or third three. It was great to see that.

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You know, I think if you
for some reason him been off the Terrence

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Man trade, seeing Paul George,
you know, have the confidence to get

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it to him in the corner and
then him making it is I don't know

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what else you want to see from
Terrence Man at this point. He's fully

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back. He was doing everything else
really well other than shooting. Now the

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shooting is here. He's yet another
guy kind of taking you know, an

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elevated step right now in terms of
what he's bringing to the team. And

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we needed it, and we needed
Zoo too. Z you shot. He

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was six of eight. Him and
Terrence kind of kept the Clippers, I

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don't want to say in the game
because they were never you know, like

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I don't think they were danger of
you know, falling super far behind.

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But he's they certainly you know,
helped us keep it as close as possible

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while PG kind of figured it out
early, you know, and that was

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going on. That's a great point. Paul George went over in the first

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quarter and t Man, inter Beats
Zubats combined for thirteen points. Clippers trailed

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by just one at twenty nine eight
heading into the second, and that's because

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Kawhi Leonard had a quick nine points
in the first quarter, ended up with

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twenty nine. Both he and Paul
George finished with twenty nine points. But

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on a night, in a day
where Kawhi Leonard inks the three year extension,

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it was great to see him and
Paul George come up clutch late in

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the ball game when they needed to
be against the Raptors, and especially cool

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to see Kawhi Leonard play this well
in his first day on a new contract,

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and we heard from a postgame he's
still focused on bigger things out there.

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Chuck, Yeah, I mean all
these guys are. It's this is

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a game where this is a game
you have to win if you have real

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championship aspirations, especially out night where
the Nuggets lost and they got some standings

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helped too. And they're gonna have
another tough game against Memphis, right Like

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Memphis is their backs are against the
wall with the tough injure that going on

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over there, but they play hard. There are another team that plays hard

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without a a key guy in the
lineup, So we're gonna I think we're

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going to see it again on in
that game. I think it's in Memphis.

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We're at the point where we're expecting
the Clippers to put these teams away.

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We don't really think it's gonna be
that shaky tonight that maybe got tested,

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but they still came through. The
stars came up when they were supposed

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to come up. Norm came through
very late, but we really needed it.

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But that was important too. So
I'm yeah, I'm feeling good about

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this team. And like you said, it's great this happened on the contract

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day and postgame him saying that he
sees that, you know, pretty much

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everyone else is going to be back
next year, so it's good to be

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a Clippers fan right now. I'm
counting on Russell Westbrook to have a big

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bounce back performance in Memphis because in
a game that was played at this tempo,

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in this speed, you would have
thought Russell Westbrook would have thrived,

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but he just missed too many gimmes. I counted three or four miss layups

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that ended up in transmission transition buckets
going the other way because the Toronto Raptors

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would have numbers and make quick work
at the Clippers defense in transition. But

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overall, I thought the bench and
Norm Pal of course coming through with seven

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of his thirteen points in the fourth
quarter and just the minutes Daniel Tice gave

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them, especially in that second quarter
with back to back blocks, leaning and

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transition points for the Clippers, it
sparked them a little bit. The bench

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had their moments. Yeah, that
was the really chaotic part of the game

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that happened to shake out in favor
of the Clippers. I think the Raptors

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had a block too, and then
the Clippers had you know, a couple

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alleyups. Paul George had that huge
dunk where he kind of shoved off of

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them, which it was huge at
the time, but that was when the

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Clippers couldn't really have you know,
three good possessions in a row. They'd

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have two and it would kind of
sputter. But yeah, that was it

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was a huge stretch from the bench
to kind of bring that energy. There

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was another time, kind of later
on in the game. I think Mary

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J. Barrett was bringing the ball
up, but don't was really stopping the

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ball. He was about to get
the half court Daniel Tights stopped the ball

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and it kind of mucked up the
Raptors offense just enough to where the Clippers

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ends up getting a steal. So
the bench did a lot of little things

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right in this game, and that
is a thing you need when you are

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a team, a championship aspiration.
So it didn't go super well, but

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the things that did go well I
think show how good the Slippers team could

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be. What if all is you
know, coalescing quickly? Last one here

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for you. You mentioned that dunk
by pg. Thirteen. He also caught

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a lob where he really got up
for it. It was impressive, but

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he had a block early on,
but fifteen points in the fourth quarter,

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and they have no chance in this
game without Paul George the hot shooting the

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three threes he would end up hitting
in the fourth. He was fantastic in

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the second half, in particular where
he had twenty five of his twenty nine

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points. Yeah, two of seven
heading into the half. It was you

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know, obviously this team goes as
far as the stars take them, and

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Paul George wasn't taking them very far
in that first half. And then he

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really turned it around. He saw
you know, he sees the Kauai contract.

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He's like he knows he's back.
So it's good to see Paul George

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playing well. And we we didn't
really talk about Harden, but shout out

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to James Harden for some very clutch
assists here and there and just kind of

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the overall captaining of the offense tonight. Yeah. Eleven assist of three turnovers,

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Paul George, by the way,
six of nine in that fourth quarter

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for those fifteen points. Chuck appreciate
it. Missed you earlier today on the

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cnd episode with the breaking news on
Kawhile Henard. But I know we got

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more episodes coming up this weekend on
the YouTube with you and Will Updyke and

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myself. So thanks for doing this
tonight, a little clips and double dip

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here on clipper stock. Thanks for
having me. Let's go clips coming up

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next quick time out, we'll get
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two point twenty over the Raptors.
They head to Memphis on Friday. I'm

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