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Last time that Chack chs fives on
my neck. Clippers win one twenty seven

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to one oh seven in Toronto over
the Raptors. I'm meda Moslin. You're

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back in on Clippers Talk. Clippers
have now won twelve of their last fourteen

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ball games. You want to go
back further twenty one of their last twenty

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five, oh even even further twenty
six of their last thirty three games since

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the new configuration with the starting lineup
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eight six six ninety seven two five
to seventy. We'll get back to your

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phone calls, but first it's big
Will Updyke from Clips and Dip doing a

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little double dip here on Clippers Talk. Well, what's up? My friend

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Adam Gadam gonna talk to you another
Clippers win? So I gotta hop on

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that is in your contract. I
mentioned it earlier. I was wondering,

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you know, is it gonna be
Will? Is it gonna be Chuck?

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Oh? The Clippers won. He's
got the W in his name. It's

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in this contract too. It's got
to be Will Updyke tonight. So were

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you impressed? Did you have did
you want to get greedy a little bit

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because they could have put the game
away earlier. Or do you just take

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the win and run with it and
head to Boston. I think it's definitely

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the ladder. I think that you
take the win, you run with it.

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There were some things that, like
we talked about going into this game

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that the thing that's been troubling about
the Clippers, even on this insane tear

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that they've been on, is the
defense hasn't been at the level that we

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know it can be. And I
thought tonight things were a little different.

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Holding the Raptors sub one ten,
which is kind of what I was hoping

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for going in. They were able
to pull that off. We saw some

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great effort, especially from Paul George, who had an off shooting night but

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had some great contests around the rim. Same thing with Kawhi. So that

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looks a lot more buttoned up.
And I mean as far as like the

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minutes, it's still like other than
Harden, who was at like thirty five,

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nobody really had anything more than So, you know, I think it's

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about best case scenario. You know, you would hope that you would hope

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that Toronto doesn't sort of come back
into the game in the fourth, But

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I mean, you know, what
are you gonna do. You're on the

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road, they're at home. They're
not gonna let you take the win.

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Yeah, they weren't going away.
I appreciate the way they fight. I

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think they have a bright future.
Of course, I love Darko after that

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rant. But you mentioned James Harden. He ends up at thirty five minutes,

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but his first triple double as a
member of the Clippers, and was

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just throwing absolute dimes out there.
He had one turnover and we was trying

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to lob it over the defense to
Kawhi. But outside of that, thirteen

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assists is just that one turnover,
twenty two points, ten boards. I

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don't think you could have expected anything
more than what he has given this team,

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and he is one of, if
not the biggest reason why they're having

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the best stretch of basketball in the
history of the franchise. Yeah. No,

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absolutely, the addition. I mean, I just don't know how you

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could question the trade at this point. I think that that has largely been

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silent. It's definitely a new chapter
for James. And you know, I've

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talked about it. We've talked about
it, like I know that there's some

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animosity towards him in the way that
he left his last couple of teams.

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I think if you were looking at
those situations, I think that it's more

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than understandable. And I think with
the fit that he's got here, you

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know, obviously we'll have to see
how it goes in the postseason. But

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assuming things go well, man,
I hope, I hope to lock him

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up this summer and keep him here
semi long term. Yeah, And what

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happened with the last couple of teams
is what happened in the past and with

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the last couple of teams. And
it takes two to tango, and there's

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two sides of the story. And
he's been fantastic in this on this Clippers

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team and in this Clippers locker room. I felt like it was a nice

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response from their big men. Mason
Plumbley was very good in this game.

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Daniel Tice was good, and both
of them really struggled against the Lakers on

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Tuesday. Will Yeah, no,
that that is a great point. They

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were between them, they recorded what
seven boards or something. It was very

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it was it was not a good
performance. This one was great and they

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were both super They were both super
efficient offensively too, which is another thing,

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another credit to James. I mean
it is I don't know, man,

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it is otherworldly, like how he
is in the pick and roll and

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how he can elevate the play of
any big it's you know, just the

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idea of getting Big Zoo back is
wild. But in his absence, it

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was a great night from from Plumbley
and Entice, and I'm glad that both

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of them sort of kept the minutes
low. Mason was sub twenty five,

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almost had that weird knock on his
knee like when a body went flying.

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But uh, they're gonna have They're
gonna have their work cut out for them

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tomorrow. So I'm glad that they
both put in a great performance tonight and

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we were able to keep those minutes
low. So the Clippers over this stretch

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where they have won twenty six of
their last thirty three games, offensive rating

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is number one at one hundred and
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Their defensive rating is number eleven,
and if you just take out a couple

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of games, it's like top five. You take out the two games without

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Kawhi in Okasee and then back home
against the Boston Celtics where they got blown

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out. They're doing it on both
ends, they really are. It has

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been so special to watch. I
know there have been some slippage defensively,

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but again you take out two games
and they're right there with the best teams

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in the league, as they're one
of them now. So what do you

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think needs to be emphasized in that
game in Boston tomorrow? Will outside of

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just having everyone healthy hopefully yeah,
outside of having everyone healthy, just defensive

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way, we need to see more
of what we saw in this game,

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especially early going in going into TV
Garden and getting a win is gonna be

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really really difficult to sell. Pics
have only lost in once at home all

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season. But I think if they
really set the tone defensively, which I

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know is it's such a big ass
on the second night of a back to

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back, especially you know, like
I've already commended Quiet, Paul George and

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you know, certainly Tyson and Plumbly
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But I think if you were able
to go to and know through this hellish

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back to back, I think that
that would be something really really special.

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I think you the team is shooting
for six and one on the Grammy road

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trip. That was what coach Lou
wanted to see five and two at worst,

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is that the mark Well, I
mean, if you pull off this

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back to back, you you're you're
sitting pretty But yeah, so defensively,

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it's defensively they need to maintain the
same intensity. It can't be like we

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saw against the Lakers, and I
think it will deal with Boston's side a

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lot better than that. Definitely two
different styles of play, but win wise,

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you know, I guess that's kind
of thought of the Celtics says no

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disrespect, but like Clippers light so
I always enjoy that matchup. I feel

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like these two teams they I mean, I know we have the blowout fresh

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in our minds, but generally these
two teams, it's it's not a dual

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game. So if the execution can
stay at the same level, certainly hard

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in managing the turnovers so well,
like it improves the team so much in

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that regard, better than they've ever
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I think that that will definitely help
limiting mistakes and more intensely on a defenseive

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then control the things that you can
control. If guys go cold, you

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know, if we get a couple
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who Pau seems to be in a
little bit. He's had a couple of

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inefficient games after a season high offensively
that you know that stuff comes and goes.

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You can't control it. Hard areena
to to stay hot in But if

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you execute well and continue to keep
things up on a defensive end, I

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don't think it's impossible for this team
to put away a win. I like

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the confidence we've had some from callers
to tonight. One more for you here?

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Will you heard my rant about it? I want to let you run

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because I like what you said yesterday
on Clips and Dip with Kawhi not being

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voted in as a starter in the
West, and you look at some of

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the player voting. I mean,
Kobe Brown, no disrespect, but he's

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a rookie. He's played about twelve
games this year and he got multiple All

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Star votes. Giannis's brother got multiple
All Star votes. The players aren't taking

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this seriously at all, and it
can affect guys' money and their careers.

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It's just wild to me. Yeah, I mean, look, man,

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this isn't like, this isn't just
for show, right, Like you said,

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this affects people, legacy, This
effects It's like, what go you

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know some of these people if they'll
make the Hall of Fame. And I

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just feel like it's so unseerious to
not have Kawhi Leonard, who is having

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one of his best seasons I'm sure, not the number one team in the

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West, but the fourth best team
in the West, who have been incredible

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over the last stretch of games.
And for the player vote thing, like,

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I is it animosity because you don't
you know, you don't enjoy playing

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against him? Is never an enjoyable
experience. I I just don't know.

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I really I don't understand. I
can I can understand the fan vote thing,

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right. The Clippers, for whatever
reason, Uh, they don't appeal

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to the casual fan the way that
some of these other forwards who made it

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above Kawhi certainly do. But from
the players and the media and stuff,

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I just I think it's I think
it's ridiculous. I kind of think it's

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a slap in the face. And
Kawhi has done He's met every criticism this

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season that that that's ever been brought
up with him. Oh he's not available

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enough he's been avail for all but
what two games. I mean, it's

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it's unreal. Oh he you know, he doesn't take things seriously in the

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regular seasons. Watch the effort he's
putting in on the defensive end this year.

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I mean, he is putting away
games, regular season games with playoff

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level defense, and like, I
just it just it's baffling to me.

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I really don't understand it. And
like luckily, Kawhi is not the guy.

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I mean, he's non plussed by
this, Like this is not It

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might even be a relief for him, you know, to not have to

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be a starter in the All Star
Game. But like you said, in

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terms of like legacy and recognition,
I you know, obviously I'm biased as

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a Clippers fan, but I think
it's kind of asdinine that that Kawhi didn't

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get that not. I mean,
he's a top three player in the NBA

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this season. Gotta be. Individually, he's definitely having I think a better

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season. It's close with KD.
But when you account for his defense,

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it's really not and it's obviously a
better individual season Thann. And then you

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take into effect or to account that
the Clippers are now third in the West,

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Like, what are we talking about
here? It's just it's wild.

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Yeah, all right, I'll stop
complaining about it now, Will. I

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had to put you on the case. Thanks for doing this tonight here on

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Clippers Stock with a little double dip. I don't know if we'll be talking

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to you tomorrow. I guess they
beat Boston. That'll be the situation.

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Win in Boston. Baby, I'm
gonna be back on here gloating. Okay,

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I love it. Thank you.
Will absolutely coming up next your phone

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calls we'll hear from coach lou post
game. Clippers win by twenty in Toronto.

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Final score once twenty seven to one
oh seven in favor of the Clippers.

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Yeah, they're the being town tomorrow, taking on team with the best

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record in the league, team that
has only lost once. Sit home.

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I'm out of Mosland here listening to
Clipperstock here on the M five seventy LA

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Sports. What