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What's going on? Clippers fans,
Welcome to season two, episode seventy two

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of Clips and div I have Chuck
Mockler not in a car this time.

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We are joined as always, Adam's
got to go off his chair. Adam

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Osen is here, Will, Ifnike
is here, We're all three back.

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We're gonna preview whatever the heck is
gonna happen, uh for Clippers MAVs Game

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five. We're gonna relive some of
the insanity from Game four thanks to a

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high five from Adam Oslind himself.
I'm gonna talk some bench stuff, some

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Kawhi, Leonard X Factor, Player
of the game options. But before we

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get into that, thank you everyone
who's joining audibly. Thank you everyone who's

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watching us. We do it on
both platforms. You can find us on

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YouTube at YouTube dot com, slash
at Clippers podcast and podcasts. I believe

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right if you get your pods.
Before we get into the nitty gritty,

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it's hot in Los Angeles again.
I think we hit eighty two, which

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is great. Will. How are
you doing. How have these these kind

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of two days off been after that
crazy game? For you? Oh man,

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it's been so neat that that game
for like, that was. That

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was insane. That was that was
almost too much for me to handle it.

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Uh, it's been good though.
I'm glad that it's summer. I'm

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already like hot and sweaty as hell, so that is uh, you know

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that's great, just real, real
comfortable. But you know we can't get

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comfortable as Clippers chance. We got
a best of three ahead of us.

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Adam, how are you doing,
my man? I'm okay, I feel

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all right. I'm at least happen. Do you just wake up from a

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nap? No? I didn't.
I was actually here on time. Time.

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Lord, I'm good. I'm just
glad they didn't come back down thirty

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one after I effing played the thirty
one point comeback in our Clippers rewind segment

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in the pre game show where they
came back as the Golden State Warriors.

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I was sweating it, boys.
I was thinking, people are gonna say

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I'm responsible for this. I texted
Brian Seaman. He got a good laugh

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out of it. We could all
laugh afterwards. But all's well as well.

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I guess in this case, I'm
just picturing people going, who's responsible

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for this? And then there's an
angry mob outside your door. Yeah,

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that was close that. Uh.
I'm just so as Will said, I'm

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just so happy it didn't happen.
That would have been these two days would

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have been horrible, especially after Paul
George in the first quarter already gave the

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uh yeah, little shoulder thing that
PJ. Washington did against them in Game

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three, saying I'm standing on business. Yeah the uh Paul George has never

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really put his foot in his mouth
before. So thankfully that didn't happen.

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I guess yeah, so I did
like uh. PJ. Washington's response to

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that. Today he was asked about
it and he was like, it's the

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playoffs, like you just he did
it. I did it. Then he

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played well and he did it.
He was kind of like, I like

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it. Like, do you remember
that time that CP three did the shimmy

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on Steph? I think it was
when he was with the Rockets, and

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Steph had to own it and be
like, you know, shimmy on guys,

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I get shimmyed on. I guess
now too. It's only fair.

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Sometimes it's not a bad response.
Sometimes you give this shimmy, sometimes you

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get shimmied on. I believe is
the is the old saying, we're talking

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game four, what should we do? Will should we jump into this Adam

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Osland High five edition? Oh?
Yeah, yeah, we knock it out

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before we talk the like that you're
asking me on Adam. Yeah, well

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he's he's got to do the technical
stuff. What do you think? Well,

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are we about that high five life
right now? I'm thinking it's time

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for high five? All right?
Five highlights from Game four, one of

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the craziest, wildest playoff games that
the Clippers have been involved in, and

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that is saying something. Actually,
we'll start things off with some defense here

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from James Harden on Luka Doncic,
who I do think it's worth pointing out

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since we've talked about how Kawhi Leonard
has looked banged up when he was playing

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in this series, especially in Game
three, Luka Doncic does not look right

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coming out of Game three with whatever
was going on with his knee. He

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called it stiffness. More on that, but James Harden actually, on this

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play, you think it's an easy
iso here for Luka Doncicic. He has

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the matchup he wants. He's showing
off the handle, moves to his right.

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James Harden stays with him, goes
between the ladies again. James Harden's

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right there, and that's a very
well contested shot. In fact, it's

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the only one he made on James
Harden in the ball game. He was

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one for six going off the matchup
data against the Bearded Wonder and that's a

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great defensive effort from James Harden.
I love the Bearded Wonder. Yeah,

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when are we gonna get a large
essay from Twitter accounts about how good everyone

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else's defense has been. Luca played
good defense for one game and we got

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like inundated with how good he was
a defense and now he looks like a

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traffic coneigan. To be fair,
he's hurt, that's sure. He's definitely

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here, But so is Kawhi when
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too, and everybody says Luca locked
him up. So we'll try to be

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consistent with it. So an interesting
play here pinned down screen from Avitza Zubots.

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This is later in the first quarters. They're trying to get Paul George

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going, and boy did they.
He scored his many points in the first

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quarter as the Dallas Mavericks, with
sixteen of them. You catch a pin

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down screen here from Vitza zubots Is. George gets the basket on a bounce

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pass from James Harden Curls, doesn't
settle for the jumper here, doesn't try

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to fade away Daniel Gaffers waiting for
him. PJ. Washington's all over em,

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excuse me, Dereck Jones Jr.
And just goes right around him.

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Is Luca dont just got the hell
out of the way on the right block.

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And this is when he can use
his size. He's huge, he's

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six' nine. Get to the
basket, get some easy wants to go

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before you get those crazy threes that
were well contested by PJ. Washington and

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you stunt on him like that or
whatever you want to call it. This

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is what James, this is what
Paul George is very much capable of.

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He can play much bigger than he
does, and I think he needed to

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in that game, and coming off
just scoring seven points in Game three,

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it was a quick way to just
get him in a rhythm. And I

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just like what coach Lou was thinking
there and Vistas Zubas helping him out with

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that screen. Nothing. Yeah,
I mean, that's that's the solid one

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I'll finish. Should he have fed
Aim here though in the corner going?

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Should have fed him here? The
best question was it the wrong read?

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The best question after that half that
Paul George had he took. Look,

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he made a lot of shots.
I thought he could have fed him.

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Let's see here, let's review Will
was Will right about that collapses the defense?

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He could have kicked it out.
I'm a little more concerned with Paul

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George getting go that Namir coffee.
I feel like, if he doesn't get

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it going, they're probably not going
to win the ballgame. But yeah,

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I can understand that too. I
Meir was willing to that's me. Here

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is a bad shot here from Russell
Westbrook in the mid range on the far

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side. He just drops in.
He's trying for the fade away here.

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Russ is four for his last twenty
four from the field. Going back the

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last three games of this series.
Now, it has been rough for us

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on the offensive end. I've liked
some of the defense, some of the

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extended possessions due to rebounds, but
he has taken some brutal, ill advised

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shots. This would be one of
them on two defenders. Let's see,

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there's fifteen seconds left on the shot
clock. I'm not sure what's going on

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here. So Russell Westbrook misses this
one doesn't get to go. And here's

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some poor transition defense from your Los
Angeles Clippers. Terence Man hits the floor.

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He would have been a guy trying
to slow down Luka Doncic. He's

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been magnificent all series long. This
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career. And that's also saying something. Terrence Man has been really good,

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but he's taking his defense to another
level in this series. When people were

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saying, you know, his point
of attack defense on the season, it's

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been pretty good, but not spectacular. Well, maybe this is playoff Terrence

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Man. He also can ramp things
up come playoff time because he hasn't been

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playing defense this good this consistently all
season long. But the Clippers here and

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as I mentioned, James Harden with
the nice defense early on on Luka Doncic

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here, he needs to get back. PJ. Washington is coming and Luka

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Doncis is gonna find him. Norman
Palell calls it out. James Harden looks

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it's way too late. Here,
an easy lob from almost half court to

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PJ. Washington. But you can
at least see James Harden with the shameface

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there, scratching his head knowing that
that was in fact on him in that

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situation. So Clippers, obviously,
as they have improved greatly in that area

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in the playoffs, there's still work
to be done there. Yeah, And

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I mean it was spurned by a
really really bad Russ decision. And I

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think that those have been some of
the more difficult things. It's just the

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IQ at times, like we just
know that he's better and he's seen more

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to not sort of be making these
these types of mistakes. His plus minus

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would be so much better. He's
still like plus thirteen or something insane.

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Oh yeah, Yeah, And I
mean, you know, like, like

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you said, Adam likes, he's
had some He's like, we know about

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the energy he has. He's had
some solid things on the defensive end.

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Offensively, still something they've got to
figure out. And if he's not scoring,

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which is fine, we don't really
need him to. He just has

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to be making good decisions with the
ball in his hands. That's that's it.

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Yeah, And a lot of these
misshots aren't even of the layup variety,

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which we know he's had an issue
with he's taking bad shots. Three

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pointers long. Two's a fade away
there. It's just he's playing outside of

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himself a little bit too much more
on Rusk coming up here. But we

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do have a nice set here that
gets a little uh pick and roll action

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between James Harden and it beats a
zoobots. Here's hard on the far side

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corner, gets an off ball screen
from Terrence Man. Luka doncis just playing

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way off of him, and now
you get the dribble handoff from Big Zoo.

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It beats the zoubots. Derek Lively
has to get up here. He's

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got to fully hedge this. He's
at the level, but they're trying to

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trap him. It's him and Kyrie
Irving. He lets James Harden get around

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him while beats a Zubos is gonna
roll towards the basket. Here, dude,

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easy bounce past inside. It's Luka
Doncis. He's not gonna be able

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to defend that. Yeah, and
what's he gonna do fallum like, maybe

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give give them the ad one I
would say that's probably just let that would

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go. But it's a nice set
play by the Clippers. As they were

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rolling at this point up fifty one
to twenty four. It was we got

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one more here in the high five. As the float goat showed up late

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in this bar game. I actually
used to say that all the time for

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Isaiah Hartenstein, who had a sane
floater. He was like seventy percent.

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It was crazy. But it was
James Harden first picking on Luka Doncic with

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these floaters. He got two on
him initially, and then he got two

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on PJ. Washington and in between
Maxi Kleiba had to suffer his wrath with

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these floaters. I'll move to the
second one on Luka Dncic here. The

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first one was impressive. It was
a little acrobatic move to get to it

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by James Hardness. Coach Lee was
imploring him, apparently, get to your

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floater, Get to your floater.
It's there. You don't need to pass

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the basketball. It's your time.
First we see Paul George run a little

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ghost screen. He gets over to
the right hand side and Derek Jones Junior

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follows him the entire way. Good
defense by him, but James Harden is

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now isolated against Luka Doncic. One
of the things that changed in this game

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was in the last six minutes,
Russell Westbrook was off the floor, so

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you had a little bit more spacing
at the end of this game, as

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opposed to what we saw at the
end of Game two where it was just

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brutal and they were completely sagging off
of Russ And that play in fact,

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where Luka Doncic was able to hang
with Kawhi Leonard, part of that was

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because Kawhi was looking past him and
Maxi Kleiba was just hanging out shadowing as

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well because his man was Russell Westbrook
and you just let him hang in the

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corner. Now, the difference is
you got Norman Powell there and even terrace

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Man is seven to fourteen so far
in this series. From three, Zuo's

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hanging out in the dunker spot,
Maxi Kleiba's in at the five. They're

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going small, they have been.
But watch James Harden here get to his

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floater as he can easily get by
Luka Doncic, who just I'm telling you

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guys, he does not look right
at all. He also was grimacing a

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lot in this ball game. I
think it's affecting both sides of the basketball.

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But Maxi Kleiba is so far back
in the drop. I understand it

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to a degree of itta. Zubots
could easily catch a lob here, but

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PJ. Washington is trying to front
him, and it's just barbecue chicken like.

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You can't let a guy get that
easy of a floater. And that's

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what Dallas Mavericks fans were so upset
with late in the fourth quarter, with

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Jason Kidd not putting back in Lively
or Gafford here as James Harden cought a

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rhythm and just easily was able to
detonate with the float game. Here's the

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one with Maxi Kleeba for a little
bit of a bonus here in the high

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five. He's got to beat the
Zubas if he wants them here. It's

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too easy. It's far too easy
here. So that ultimately was the difference

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in the ballgame. Five floaters in
the fourth quarter when he was shooting thirty

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seven percent from five to nine feet
during the regular season. Unbelievable. They

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gave up the shot, they gave
up I guess the thirty one point comeback.

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They weren't able to complete it because
of James Harden late. Yeah,

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it was such a stark difference from
those earlier matchups against the Timberwolves in the

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season when the Timberwolves were giving James
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were. They're like, fine,
if this is open, if you want

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to, and he just wouldn't take
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he first was getting used to the
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So he just continues to get better
at things that help the Clippers out,

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which, like, again, that's
off to James Harten. This has been

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a fantastic tenure for him all around. Four like four I would say,

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really pretty exceptional games from him that
like when we needed him in a big

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way, and he's really stepped up
so far. He's been their best player,

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right, best player in the series. Yeah, both teams. I

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think you can make that. I
think it's yeah, it's too it's either

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him or Kyrie right now. And
I would give the slight edge to James

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hard And I'd say because he helped
win two games without Kawhi Leonard. Yeah,

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and he's a Clipper. I didn't
believe these these things, these reactions

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are are getting me. You saw
the thought bubble. The jig is up.

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You want to down that think a
wonderful high five as always reliving that.

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You can live out on YouTube if
you want to watch it. And

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Adam does a great job of calling
it out audibly too. My barber listens

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to it. God damn, my
barber listens to our pose and he still

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enjoys the high five. Shout out
Silver Lake Barbershop, where Adam needs to

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go. We got to get Adam
over there. We got to get the

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whole crew. Got to get the
whole crew. It's a clippers barbershop.

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What are you guys trying to say
you need to go to the barber shop

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when you get an aircut. I
go to my own fades and blades and

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Burbank. I don't know, never
heard of it. Great name. You

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should maybe start that business. So
getting into game five tomorrow, Kawhi Leonard.

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For those of you wondering he didn't
practice, Uh, he's already been

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ruled out the way the schedules set
up. They play tomorrow, they play

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Friday, they play Sunday. I
don't think he's coming back the rest of

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the series. It shouldn't be a
huge It sucks, but it shouldn't be

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a huge surprise. The word though, is still at least from we've heard

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that. We've still heard that there's
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So I guess that that is positive. I I really don't. I really,

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I really don't know. But he
can't be out there at sixty.

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It's just it's not gonna work.
From what we saw from game two to

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game three and the steep decline he
had with his movement, it was shocking.

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Really, it was scary to have
to see him out there in pain,

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not wanting to drop down after that
Alue dunk because he was afraid of

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landing on his knee. My god, that to me is the moment where

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Lawrence Franke said, Okay, enough
he may want to play, but sorry,

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we got to protect players from themselves. I just I don't know anything.

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It's pure speculation. Of course,
it's just inflammation for a month.

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Now, what is what is going
on? It's just it can't so implement

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from my a doctor, but just
from my brief googling, you're not a

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doctor, shift doctor chap in the
building, Well we should we should contact

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doctor Shapp. He's talked about it. He's curious about it too. From

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what we've heard, as he was
describing it is basically, when you have

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as many knee things as Kauai has
had, there's not a lot of cartilage

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left. It's bone on bone,
and he kind of has the knee of

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someone who is very old, right, Like if you think about how this

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works, he's having inflammation, like
this is what happens when you have old

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knees. But the thing is it
happened like that. It didn't progressively happen

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Towards the last month of the season. It was everything was fine and then

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it wasn't. And I think doctor
Shapp talked about that too. That's what

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makes this so perplexing. And for
it to be inflammation typically information and swelling,

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to my knowledge, is your body
alerting you that there's some injury going

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on, but they can't seem to
get it under control and there's no structural

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damage. You know, everybody's baffled
by it right now, but we're hoping

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for the best. What else can
we do? I mean, yeah,

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I think at the end of the
day, what it comes down to is

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he did not look ready in Game
three. He did not look like he

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should be on the floor. So
we're just gonna have to operate him the

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assumption that it is not ready to
go and we have no idea when it

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was basically exactly what I feared.
Everybody talking about, oh, who'll be

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back for this game? Well,
him being back for game two, that

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wasn't the hurdle to clear. The
hurdle to clear was how he was going

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to respond after playing his first game
in over three weeks, and apparently,

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according to Kawhi, Leonard himself didn't
respond the way they wanted it to.

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And obviously you could see it in
game three it was just oh, man,

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Yeah, that was a guy who
had his powers taken away, and

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that's that's hard to watch totally.
Yeah, it was. It was brutal

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For the other side, Tim Hardaway
Junior had a setback in their scrimmage today,

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so he's out for Game five.
He's already been ruled out, which

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is interesting. Their lineup gets shorter. We talked about this a little bit.

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The schedule's getting a little hectic.
Are how are we feeling about the

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fatigue levels? I know, we
just talked about Luca, who I was

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perusing some MAVs fans areas. They're
very worried about his health and stuff like

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that does it feel kind of even
though like between these two, I know

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we're an older team right now,
but like the Clippers haven't been run out

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at any point. They haven't looked
like they've been too slow. Well,

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this is the second two days off
in the middle of this series they have

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gotten. Going to Dallas, they
got two days off. Now back to

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LA they've gotten two days off.
But Luca he ended up playing forty six

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minutes in that game too. Yeah, and coach Lou was kind of joking

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about that at one point, with
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But you look at James Harden.
He played thirty nine minutes in game one,

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forty two, forty four, forty
last game. I gotta say though

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he has looked very good. I
mean, one of the most encouraging signs

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is what we just saw. He
was able to attack and get downhill with

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those floaters. Has he been playing
extended minutes and he still had enough Jews

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to get by guys. It wasn't
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He got by PJ. Washington.
He got by Maxi Kleiba too. So

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I'm not saying I'm not concerned because
I am, because there's that cumulative effect.

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They add up the accumulation of minutes
over time. But it, Yeah,

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I guess to your point, it's
felt like both teams have had to

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go deep into playing their stars a
heavy dosage of minutes right now. I

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mean the travel is a little bit
rough. I like, I think that

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that to me. I think that, to me is like a little bit

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more concerning. If it was just
a regular like day arrested between without travel,

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I think that's not really that big
of a deal. But yeah,

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yeah, the you had to traveling
there with older players, I mean,

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I hope they're I hope they're bringing
their compression socks, that's all. Hey,

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that's that's a good call. Uh, Copper Tone, are you rocking

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them right now? Is our sponsorship
possibility? Is that okay? Copper Tone

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sunscreen? What was the thing copper
top? No, that's dura cel.

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Whatever the hell it was like up
there with the power balance stuff. When

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it came to gold, wasn't gold
to gold to sos are a thing?

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Yeah, Brett and Jerry Rice used
to wrap it in some commercial back in

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the day. I don't know the
healing powers of copper for any for any

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copper I remember what you're talking about. Yeah, for any copper magnates watching

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this. Uh, we will wear
your pseudo science bullshit product if you pay

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us to wear it. Yeah.
Absolutely. The Paris of the West is

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it was once uh capital of the
world at one point it was, and

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butte Montana had the most millionaires per
capita at one point in the world.

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All right, this is moving on
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one. All right, so we're
back in on clips and dip. We

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just re relived the craziness of game
four. That was a wild one.

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Now we're gonna look ahead some more
to game five and you know, I

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mean, I think what it comes
down to, top performance wise, is

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what can we expect from PG and
Harden. I mean, hopefully Harden can

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continue to be as consistent as he's
been throughout this series. But Adam,

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what the hell, what what do
we expect from PG in this Like this

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series, he's been so up and
down, they're like there there have been

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some highs. Certainly, you know
the game, the first half of Game

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four and the insane uh insane shot
that he hit in the fourth quarter.

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I thought Game one he was like
pretty exceptional defensively, but otherwise, man,

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he was kind of a quiet Game
two and a stinker of a Game

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three. Yeah, And there's definitely
a connection to him being in foul trouble

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in games two and three specifically,
and I do think to be fair,

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he wasn't getting a great whistle.
Do you have to fight through it?

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Yeah? Can you belabor that?
No, you can't let that get into

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your head. But if he's not
out there on the floor, he can't

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gain a rhythm and can't get his
timing going. And sure enough, him

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staying out of foul trouble in that
first half did the trick. And then

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he was guarding Kyrie and Luca Moore
in the second half of Game four.

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Once you know you got fouls to
give at that point, since I think

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he had zero fouls through the first
twenty four minutes, that makes things a

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little bit easier for you to play
that aggressive brand of basketball. So more

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Terrence Man and e Mer could help
out Paul George, could get Paul George

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gone if they're willing to take on
some of those defensive that's been part of

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the trick, right, I mean
both of those guys. There's three guys

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in the starting lineup right now with
a mere Coffee in for Leonard that can

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guard two guys in Kyrie and Luka
Donasis. There's three different guys you can

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throw at him. But Emir and
Terrence Man are more than capable of taking

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up that challenge to start off the
ball game and letting Paul George just ease

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his way in offensively then eventually maybe
flip the switch a little bit in the

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second half with his defense and big
possessions and things like that. And I

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thought he had some good ones in
late in the fourth quarter, even with

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the Dallas Mavericks going off the way
they were in Game four. But I

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wonder what it does for him confidence
wise, hitting that shot, which might

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have been the toughest shot of the
playoffs so far. He talks about it

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today on podcast Pez It was insane. Apparently Kyrie Irvings's dad was like,

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oh, and he's seen a lot
of amazing shots from his son, So

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that's quite the compliment. But you
hit that shot in that moment, that

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was the biggest shot of the game. As good as James Harden was,

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he was the best player in the
fourth quarter. The biggest shot of the

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game was right after Kyrie being gets
that crazy layup to go over three Clippers

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who were there with double clutching it
and maneuvering the ball around and somehow not

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getting blocked. They go up by
the body control is insane, like it's

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it's unreal. Yeah. Yeah,
they go up by one after being down

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thirty one, and you start to
think that the Clippers may break and I

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like feeling it again. I feel
like I'm stressed over Yeah. Uh,

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it was a nail bier type of
game. But I don't know if any

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team that has given up a lead
that significant, anything around twenty five points,

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twenty to thirty points, because we
know there's only been two thirty one

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point comebacks. The Clippers have done
one of them against the Golden State Warriors.

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They've had one happened to them,
but then they ended up closing out

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the game. Anyways, I just
it's gotta be rare to actually not let

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them complete the comeback after that top
hole grind because I think, as your

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shot so big, because I that
mention is such a big thing, like

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something like that. I mean,
you can settle back in, you know,

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you know, like it's okay,
like we got this. And I

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really liked Tylu going into that fourth
quarter, like they went on a run,

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they came back, We win this
quarter, we win the game like

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that. You know, it's that
simple. You don't have to dwell on

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you know, you don't have to
dwell on the thirty one points or whatever

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you were up. That's at this
point it does not matter. All that

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matters the next twelve minutes. And
I thought that they were able to really

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lock in and focus in on that
and close out the game. And I

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mean it was a nail binding fashion, but like hell, I mean like

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hell of a game. So probably
the best game of the first round.

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Yeah, it was either that or
the game too with the Murray shot,

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or the Game five with the Murray
No. But that's that's exactly my point.

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That's why I was the biggest shot
at the ball game because all the

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momentums with the Dallas Mavericks and he
hits a silencer shot that the degree of

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difficulty. It's an all time shot. I'm hoping that has some carryover for

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him, a performance like that coming
up big like that, not that he

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hasn't before in playoff games, especially
as a clipper, but I just want

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to see him start fast. Not
necessarily you know, twenty six points in

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the first half fast. I don't
expect that, but just get around fifteen

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points in the first half, maybe
in game in game five back at home,

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because he should get like a hero's
welcome after hitting that shot and saving

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the game. Yeah, be on
pace for thirty. I like that.

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We've talked about PG bumping it up
to like twenty seventh, to be on

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pace for thirty and that half,
and that would be phenomenal. Are we

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calling that one, uh Pg's backboard
revenge? Yeah, I feel like there's

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a famous clip. I love that
him getting robbed by the backboard, and

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then there's one where he got like
where he goes at it. Yeah,

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I think they want to count the
bubble, so I think. I mean,

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00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,559
of course, I'm just saying,
yeah, the shot has to have

403
00:27:52,599 --> 00:27:56,000
a name. It's that good.
I think I like that the backboard that

404
00:27:56,039 --> 00:28:00,000
he shot over in Dallas. I
think was that backboard from the bubbles cut

405
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,279
and so there was definitely some kind
of uh, you know, renewed anger

406
00:28:03,319 --> 00:28:07,440
there. I think that makes a
lot of sense. We were talking about

407
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:12,039
the James Harden floaters. A lot
of fans are upset that lively MAVs fans,

408
00:28:12,319 --> 00:28:15,640
Clippers fans were loving whatever Jason Kidd
was not doing at that time.

409
00:28:18,319 --> 00:28:22,400
There's gotta be my guess. Here's
what I hope happens is. I think

410
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:27,880
that Jason Kidd is gonna overreact to
those floaters and maybe tell guys to pinch

411
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,839
up a little bit to take that
space away, and we're gonna see I

412
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,880
hope again, this is what I'm
hoping we're gonna see. Remember how Zoo

413
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,960
looked on those plays. He's gonna
fill that space. Hopefully we get some

414
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,359
good rust to fill that space when
they share the court, and Harden is

415
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,480
good enough that if they have a
counter for his floater, which is gonna

416
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:48,119
be pressed up more in the paint, He's gonna be able to find guys

417
00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:52,720
cutting. So I'm really hoping that
we get an over adjustment from Jason Kidd

418
00:28:52,759 --> 00:28:56,680
on that and Harden can continue to
be the best player in the series and

419
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,880
maybe get a little more distribution versus
scoring. Not that I don't like this,

420
00:29:00,559 --> 00:29:03,079
but if the easier scoring is there, James Harden will find it.

421
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:08,519
I'm hoping if they adjust to it. All it means is Lively or Gafford

422
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,680
step up too far to where then
it turns into an alley oop to of

423
00:29:12,759 --> 00:29:17,720
eats a Zubos. That's a predicament
that puts you in when you can't stay

424
00:29:17,759 --> 00:29:19,759
in front of your man in that
situation. With how good James Harden has

425
00:29:19,799 --> 00:29:23,039
been historically in his career, I
know what he shot with the floater this

426
00:29:23,079 --> 00:29:27,200
season, but that's what always made
him so devastating. Is it a floater?

427
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,119
Is it a lob? That's what
he did all the time with the

428
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:36,480
Houston Rockets working with Clint Capella.
Yeah, dude, I mean because other

429
00:29:36,519 --> 00:29:37,920
than that, I mean, I
don't know how else you counter. If

430
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:42,319
you're Jason Kiddy. Just let it
happen again. I hope that the law

431
00:29:42,359 --> 00:29:48,039
of average sort of evens out he's
on the season, which it might,

432
00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:52,200
but I don't know. The other
thing is guys were playing so close up

433
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,799
on him because they didn't want to
give up the three. That's why he

434
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,480
was able to get around them so
easily. It's not that all of a

435
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,240
sudden he fe on the fountain of
youth. The way they were playing him

436
00:30:02,599 --> 00:30:07,160
just allowed him to get that step
on defenders, even PJ. Washington twice.

437
00:30:07,039 --> 00:30:11,880
Yeah, I do like that he
might have found the fountain of youth

438
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,160
though, because he looks great.
Oh, he definitely saved something for the

439
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,359
playoffs. I think that's confirmed at
this point. He has shown way more

440
00:30:18,359 --> 00:30:21,599
burst in this first round series than
we saw in the month of March.

441
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,079
Like he's already had more blowbyes probably
in this first round series in four games

442
00:30:25,279 --> 00:30:26,599
that he had total in the month
of March, where it looked like he

443
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,119
was really regressing and looked tired out
there, which is crazy because his minutes

444
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,720
are still super high. His total
minutes the end of the season is going

445
00:30:33,799 --> 00:30:37,799
to be unreal for the Clippers.
In game rest, in game rest,

446
00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:44,839
the great ones do it. Oh
Man. We talked a little bit about

447
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:49,200
a mirror too. Briefly, Will
on a vegeta to find a mirror in

448
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,680
the corner there. We've talked about
Terrence Man has shown he can hit shots.

449
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,599
He's what seven for fourteen this thumb's
down. It's gonna be the death

450
00:30:57,599 --> 00:31:03,359
of me. More shots, not
high enough volume. Huh. He's seven

451
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:08,720
of fourteen from three so far.
He said today that there's no way they

452
00:31:08,759 --> 00:31:12,200
make me score in the paint,
knowing he's going to continue to get open

453
00:31:12,279 --> 00:31:15,559
threes rather than paint opportunities. I
think we're all pretty okay with that,

454
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,039
with how he's been shooting the ball. But do we think the ball is

455
00:31:19,079 --> 00:31:23,519
going to funnel more by design to
a mere coffee. He's only made to

456
00:31:23,799 --> 00:31:26,640
the most field goals attempts he's made
in the game. This series is two,

457
00:31:27,839 --> 00:31:32,000
so I feel like the MAVs are
going to do their best to rotate

458
00:31:32,039 --> 00:31:34,519
everything over and try and get a
mirror to be the one to either make

459
00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:38,559
a decision or try and make a
shot. He wasn't the guy on the

460
00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:44,400
court with that Powell Rangers lineup without
Kawhi Leonard at the end of that game

461
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:49,400
four, it was Powell, it
was Man, it was Norm it was

462
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:57,079
big Zoo. What else am I
forgetting here? Powell? Norman Zoo wasn't

463
00:31:57,079 --> 00:32:07,720
a mirror. Paul George, who
could forget Yeah, that's that was the

464
00:32:07,799 --> 00:32:12,119
last six minutes. The biggest adjustment
at the end of that game. The

465
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:17,319
reason why it worked for the Dallas
Mavericks in games two and in Game three

466
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:23,000
Russ stands ear muffs uh is because
Russell Westbrook was out there on the floor

467
00:32:23,079 --> 00:32:29,319
and they just completely decided not to
guard him. That's how they were able

468
00:32:29,359 --> 00:32:34,200
to pack the paint. The difference
was they have to respect Terrence Man enough

469
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,920
and then also having Norm Powell out
there, who's been much better the last

470
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:42,680
two games. Now he seems to
be finding his groove and you can't leave

471
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,160
Norm wide open. It doesn't matter
how there's there's no there's no way you're

472
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:51,079
leaving a wide open Norm Powell shot
on the like he could be one for

473
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,279
eleven in the game. I just
don't think there's any way that you're just

474
00:32:53,279 --> 00:33:00,160
sagging off. No that they came
into this series knowing his reputation, what

475
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:01,880
he had been doing all season,
and keying in on him and taking him

476
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:07,039
away because they knew how important he's
been to this Clippers team all year.

477
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,160
So yeah, I don't think guys
are gonna be able to ditch that game

478
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:14,079
plan assignment, especially because he's bounced
back now he looks like himself again.

479
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,519
So to me, that's what it
comes down to. Coach Lewis talking about

480
00:33:17,519 --> 00:33:22,559
spacing, getting our spacing right,
It's like, well, if Russ is

481
00:33:22,559 --> 00:33:25,319
on the floor, it's really hard
to do that. Sometimes It's just is

482
00:33:25,319 --> 00:33:30,000
what it is. Like. You
certainly can't have him Anna Visa Zubots out

483
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,599
there Layton ball games and expect to
have a lot of success. Zoo wasn't

484
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,839
clogging the paint because he was just
outside enough on the baseline in the dunker

485
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:43,200
spot to give James Harden room and
to be a threat to catch that law

486
00:33:43,279 --> 00:33:47,720
at the same time. So I
love what they found there laight in game

487
00:33:47,839 --> 00:33:52,640
four, that to me does have
some legs to it that will make as

488
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:57,599
you mentioned, Chuck Jason Kidd have
to adjust. Yeah, the counters are

489
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,640
going to be interesting because I thought
for I still, I mean, obviously,

490
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:05,079
Tyler's I think been the better coach
this series given what he's had to

491
00:34:05,079 --> 00:34:07,280
deal with absence wise and everything like
that. Jason Kidd has had some pretty

492
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,719
okay counters right, Like it's we
haven't Oh, I think Game one to

493
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,519
game two I thought was like I
thought was impressive. That's bigger you guys,

494
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:16,719
I mean, yeah, if you
listen to this pod. You know

495
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:21,000
how much it hurts me to have
to say that the man wears clear glasses.

496
00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,320
He did put his hat on.
He put his hat on straight for

497
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:30,800
for game two, and you know
what typically captain Wait, was it backwards

498
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,920
for game four? Oh? Good
question. I can't remember. I didn't.

499
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,559
I didn't see thatss I heard it
was sideways. Dude, if he

500
00:34:38,599 --> 00:34:43,599
came out with the sideways, I'm
like, oh no, well what about

501
00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:46,599
this two hats, one forward,
one backwards. That way you're covered any

502
00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:52,880
occasion. Yeah, I hope.
I think a mer's you know, they're

503
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,679
not going to make a mirror take
like fifteen shots or something like that.

504
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,880
But if a mirror can keep him
honest with the ones that they give,

505
00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:04,719
it, shoot a respectable percentage from
three like uh, I mean three or

506
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,679
seven would be great, or like
two of five. I don't think he's

507
00:35:07,679 --> 00:35:12,159
gonna have seven attempts. I hope
not, but that percent you know what

508
00:35:12,199 --> 00:35:15,840
I'm saying, Like that percentage area
like around like the four you know when

509
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,199
you only like it would just and
I hope that for a mirror, because

510
00:35:19,199 --> 00:35:22,159
he's had you know, it's been
up and down for a mirror in these

511
00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:27,360
playoffs, he has twelve points total
in the four games now. He only

512
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,280
played twelve minutes and eighteen minutes in
games two and three, But in the

513
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:35,280
games where he's gotten the start without
Kawhi Leonard twenty five minutes in game one,

514
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,400
he had six points, two three
pointers in there. Twenty three minutes

515
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:43,239
in Game four only had four points
of one from the outside. He had

516
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,719
a mid range jumper, which he's
really good at when a mirror gets into

517
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:50,599
his back with that little turnaround from
ten feet out, that's money for him.

518
00:35:50,639 --> 00:35:53,960
It's been like that all season long. So I hope he's aggressive out

519
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:58,039
there. And that's another one where
he really holds on it too. In

520
00:35:58,079 --> 00:36:00,280
the air. I fucking love that, Like the stylistically, I love the

521
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:07,559
way that shot looks for him.
Yeah, that's the NBA logo. Some

522
00:36:07,559 --> 00:36:09,639
some are saying that, yeah on
the year. Wow, I didn't realize

523
00:36:09,639 --> 00:36:13,840
this. Yeah, you're totally right
out of the years list. From ten

524
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,280
to sixteen feet he's shooting fifty,
which is always going to be easy.

525
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:22,840
That's really great jumper, Like that's
great. Yeah. So yeah, I

526
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,840
think is going to be a bit
of a focal point for them to try

527
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,920
and funnel stuff too, And I
have confidence that I just hope it happens

528
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,400
early, you know what I mean. I hope he can get feeling a

529
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,679
little comfortable early because because he does
have room for the late game heroics.

530
00:36:34,679 --> 00:36:37,800
We have seen him make important shots
to quell runs from other teams. We've

531
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:42,119
seen him kind of stopping a little
bit. Totally, guy who was like

532
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:47,960
undrafted first year in an NBA rotation. The guy is so unfaced by big

533
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:53,119
moments, like he just has whatever
that mentality is. Gopher, that Gopher

534
00:36:53,159 --> 00:36:59,599
blood, that Minnesota Gopher. Absolutely
I liked his demeanor after Game three he

535
00:36:59,639 --> 00:37:01,960
was at about being down two games
to one. He was like, well,

536
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,280
we knew it was gonna be a
tough series. This is what it

537
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:09,000
is. So he didn't seem rocked
by any means. And as you mentioned,

538
00:37:09,079 --> 00:37:14,000
he's been good in his career in
late game situations. A friend of

539
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:21,639
mine would say, coffee is for
closers. Yeah, him first, then

540
00:37:21,679 --> 00:37:28,400
Brian Seman. Sure, I have
faith in the mirror if he's in the

541
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,400
ballgame late, but I would like
to see them go right back to the

542
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:34,840
lineup that worked in Game four and
make the Mavericks have to make a decision

543
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,840
on whether or not they want to
have one of their big men back in

544
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,239
the ball game, because I think
there are still buckets to be made.

545
00:37:40,559 --> 00:37:45,000
All they did was spread out the
floor and let James Harden go to work,

546
00:37:45,199 --> 00:37:47,880
and then that threat of Aviatsa Zubos
there, that's it because they had

547
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:52,880
shooters out there that had to be
respected. That's how you get your spacing

548
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:58,320
right. So I think they found
something. Let's hope they did. Coming

549
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,960
up, we're gonna be talking some
bench versus bench stuff and then wondering what

550
00:38:01,039 --> 00:38:05,679
happens if the three point shooting isn't
the best that it's been all season.

551
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,599
During Game five, we got some
loud ads coming up for those on audio.

552
00:38:08,639 --> 00:38:10,360
If that's your case, go ahead
and turn it down. We got

553
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:15,559
ads and then bench on bench and
normal shooting percentage talk in three two one,

554
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,840
welcome back in It's clips and dip. I'm got a Moslem. It's

555
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,159
episode seventy two of season two.
We got Chuck Mackler, we got will

556
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:28,039
Updike, we got a two to
two series in the four or five matchup,

557
00:38:28,079 --> 00:38:31,199
which tracks everybody thought it could be
a coin flip at least it's supposed

558
00:38:31,199 --> 00:38:39,320
to be and the Clippers everybody to
be fair, sure not ninety percent of

559
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:46,519
the media my bad. They had
a double sided uh two face coin Yeah,

560
00:38:46,599 --> 00:38:52,159
and making their own luck. But
this Clippers team, as good as

561
00:38:52,199 --> 00:38:54,519
they were in Game four, there
were a couple of outliers. I would

562
00:38:54,559 --> 00:38:59,360
say, you can't necessarily just punch
in. Oh, James Harden and Paul

563
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,920
George are both going to get thirty
three in Game five, So where else

564
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,880
do those points come from? We've
talked about amere coffee a little bit,

565
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,639
and we've also talked about the three
point shooting and how hot it has been

566
00:39:08,639 --> 00:39:14,960
in their victories, which also is
not sustainable. They basically the Dallas Mavericks

567
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:20,000
so far in this series teams well
teams. The Clippers are shooting only fifty

568
00:39:20,039 --> 00:39:23,760
percent in the restricted area. That's
the lowest of any team in a playoff

569
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:28,519
series right now. The Mavericks are
trying to their best to take away the

570
00:39:28,639 --> 00:39:31,440
restricted area and it's worked for the
most part. Now the Clippers, they've

571
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,719
been able to knock down some of
those open threes because they're selling out to

572
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,119
stop drives. Coundn't stop James Harden, but because they're trying to take away

573
00:39:38,119 --> 00:39:43,880
easy buckets at the basket that does
give up more threes, and the Clippers

574
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:45,760
for the for two of the games
and their wins, have been able to

575
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:51,239
knock them down. But the bench
that could be very much needed. With

576
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,199
what Norman Palell has been doing.
We talked about him the last couple of

577
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:59,840
games. That bench matchup is going
to be critical, especially as guys tend

578
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:02,599
to get more tired as the series
goes along. These starters that are playing

579
00:40:02,679 --> 00:40:07,800
heavy minutes, it could be a
bench player that swings a game five or

580
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:13,079
six or seven. Here, Yeah, who do we think? Who are

581
00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:15,559
we feeling? You know? On
the MAVs side, right, they're running

582
00:40:15,599 --> 00:40:21,360
lively. Kliba in Green. Kliba
looked good, Cleiba. I like,

583
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,800
I think if it's anybody, it's
gonna be Clebla. He was good at

584
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:28,199
Game two and then just neutralized for
the most part out of that. We've

585
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,880
really kind of figured out how to
deal with him, which has been great.

586
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:32,719
But I think he might be right
well if he can stretch that floor

587
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:38,199
for them and provide some big body
defense. If he can, that's this

588
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:45,360
shift for the Clippers bench. I
thought Dante Exum would have been a guy

589
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:51,239
in this series that really would have
helped out Kyrie and Luca, because he

590
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,559
has all season long, he's been
kind of a safety valve. He shot

591
00:40:53,559 --> 00:40:57,159
fifty percent from three. It was
on low volume, but it's because he

592
00:40:57,199 --> 00:40:59,679
was knocking down a lot of open
shots. He was getting a lot of

593
00:40:59,679 --> 00:41:01,960
open sh with those two guys next
to him. But he also hit some

594
00:41:02,039 --> 00:41:07,559
critical shots. Against the Lakers.
He had I want to say he had

595
00:41:07,639 --> 00:41:10,440
seven threes or six threes in the
ball game to beat them. He had

596
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,880
a game winning shot against the Houston
Rockets. I thought, with how good

597
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:19,039
of a season he had had,
especially because defensively he's played really good there,

598
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,079
he would be the guy, if
any to burn the Clippers in this

599
00:41:22,199 --> 00:41:27,079
series coming off the bench. But
so far, he's been, for the

600
00:41:27,119 --> 00:41:30,920
most part, ineffective out there.
Just he's only taken a couple of shots

601
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,000
per game. He took four shots
in Game one, one in game two,

602
00:41:34,039 --> 00:41:37,559
only played six minutes twelve minutes in
Game three. I think that was

603
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,599
really his opportunity and he went over
four because he only got two minutes in

604
00:41:40,639 --> 00:41:45,119
their last game in Game four.
So I'm thrown for a loop A little

605
00:41:45,159 --> 00:41:50,079
bit by not much Dante xam being
used by Jason Kidding the series, but

606
00:41:50,559 --> 00:41:55,280
it tracks he hasn't played well.
Interestingly enough, Dante exem per Telmerizari was

607
00:41:55,400 --> 00:42:00,559
the MAVs jersey today at Clippers practice. Have you been following this on social

608
00:42:00,599 --> 00:42:04,880
media? First couple of days it
was Luca obviously, and then it was

609
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,880
Cleveland. Today it was exhum which
I was like, is this games been

610
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:13,559
ship? Like? What for?
But yeah, I thought that was interesting.

611
00:42:14,639 --> 00:42:17,679
Lively is very much trending up with
MAVs fans. They want to see

612
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:22,199
Lively in there to try and combat
some stuff. Will Are you thinking he's

613
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:28,800
maybe number two behind Cleveband right now? It just seems like it just seems

614
00:42:29,039 --> 00:42:31,039
like he's gonna lean into offense a
little bit more because that's what we've seen

615
00:42:31,079 --> 00:42:36,679
throughout the series. So I think
Cleveland makes a little bit more sense there

616
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:43,239
too. Yeah, I honestly think
I don't know, it's close. I

617
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:47,039
think Lively's probably been better, but
I mean he's a big it's just different

618
00:42:47,639 --> 00:42:51,159
that what we think he's been better. That's not what I'm saying. I

619
00:42:51,159 --> 00:42:53,679
think, like, if someone is
going to like swing this game five to

620
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:58,920
me, I see it as means
someone like Cleveland, I will take that

621
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:04,199
to the bank. But black of
the week when Kliba didn't play big minutes

622
00:43:04,199 --> 00:43:07,480
in game three after what he did
in Game two with him playing small ball

623
00:43:07,559 --> 00:43:12,440
late, I think that surprised the
Clippers some. Now it was because Derek

624
00:43:12,519 --> 00:43:16,239
Lively and Gafford had ten alley oops. I think they caught in game three,

625
00:43:16,559 --> 00:43:22,440
but still that we were anticipating more
of that small ball. We got

626
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,199
more of it in Game four,
but the Clippers actually took advantage of it.

627
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:29,199
So it's almost like they learn from
what happened the end of game two.

628
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,519
They're able to counter that strategy.
Now with Maxi Kleiba as the five

629
00:43:32,559 --> 00:43:37,119
for the Dallas Mavericks so well,
Dallas have to go back to having one

630
00:43:37,159 --> 00:43:42,039
of their true bigs out there late. I think that's the big question mark

631
00:43:42,079 --> 00:43:45,239
whether or not they stay big late. Now. Yeah, they're in the

632
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:49,159
same You know think Clippers fans talk
about all the time, which we don't

633
00:43:49,159 --> 00:43:53,119
care who starts, who's finishing this
game for them? I thought we talked

634
00:43:53,119 --> 00:43:57,639
about this Elvan on the postgame pod, the drive time pod. Quite literally,

635
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,800
we haven't talked about it, but
off to Mason Plumbley for that Game

636
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:06,800
four. He did a lot of
good shit in that game. I mean,

637
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,760
he's been really spelling his minutes well. So I hope that continues,

638
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:15,199
because if he has to come in
for any extended time, that's when things

639
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:19,599
are a little worried. But short
dose plumb, micro dose plum has been

640
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,280
exactly what the Clippers needed these last
couple games. Well. I mean I

641
00:44:23,519 --> 00:44:29,039
heavily criticized him after games two and
three. I thought he was pretty bad

642
00:44:29,159 --> 00:44:32,039
in those games, even in limited
minutes. He was still pretty bad.

643
00:44:32,599 --> 00:44:37,280
In Game four. He had a
great stint in that fourth quarter. He

644
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:42,159
had he caught that lu from James
Harden, he had a tip in and

645
00:44:42,199 --> 00:44:46,719
then he also had a pass to
Russ for a layup. His defense was

646
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:52,079
solid. He had to guard Kyrie
at one point on the perimeter. He

647
00:44:52,159 --> 00:44:55,440
did lose that battle, sure,
but yeah, I'd sign up for Mason

648
00:44:55,480 --> 00:45:00,000
Plumbley continuing to play the way he
did at the end of Game four,

649
00:45:00,159 --> 00:45:01,119
or if they could get that out
of them, and maybe that's why you

650
00:45:01,119 --> 00:45:05,679
stick with them, and I was
wrong. Instead of going back to Daniel

651
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,840
Tye or trying something else with PJ. Tucker. They just felt like Mason

652
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:15,039
Plummey at some point he's still their
best option and he'll give them good enough

653
00:45:15,039 --> 00:45:16,559
minutes in one of these games,
and that could I mean, I don't

654
00:45:16,559 --> 00:45:20,400
know if they win the game without
him. Honestly, it's fair. We

655
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:24,039
can't go small. It's not very
good like we need and Tyler's game plan

656
00:45:24,119 --> 00:45:29,599
is very clearly size at the five
when kind of available for the most part.

657
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:32,199
Yeah, with no Kauwai, I
just don't really see how we can

658
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:37,159
go. I don't see how we
can go super small. Yeah, for

659
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,239
extended period. It's just well,
it's like we've talked about it, because

660
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:44,599
we can't use Russ at the five, Like the spacing is just it's too

661
00:45:44,639 --> 00:45:47,199
wonky. They can't stop anybody and
scoring is really hard. So it's like,

662
00:45:47,199 --> 00:45:52,280
well, if you can't stop and
the scoring isn't really smooth, probably

663
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,159
not the best lineup. And then
it's still it's a bit of a gamble

664
00:45:55,159 --> 00:46:00,119
on what we're getting for Russ's nineteen
to twenty four minutes tomorrow. We don't

665
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,920
really know what's gonna happen. He's
been good, as we said it,

666
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:07,880
pretty much everything other than shooting the
ball, So we just have well and

667
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,679
some of the decision making, Like
I wasn't expecting him to like light it

668
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,920
up offensively or anything like. He's
just got to make the right decisions with

669
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:22,000
them all in his hands and that's
oftentimes not a fadeaway with fifteen seconds left

670
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:27,239
on the shop. Yeah, I
think that's fair. So happy they have

671
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,559
the break. The two day break
is huge for this team. Tylu coached

672
00:46:30,599 --> 00:46:32,239
really well. You know, they
gave him a thirty one point lead.

673
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:36,960
Whatever, it's the playoffs, crazy
shit happens. Did you guys feel like

674
00:46:37,679 --> 00:46:40,599
it was so much a collapse or
just Kyrie Irving got really hot. He

675
00:46:40,639 --> 00:46:44,679
had forty points. All forty of
his points came in the last three quarters.

676
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,840
I didn't feel like they were playing
that bad when Dallas was coming back.

677
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,000
Yeah, I didn't feel like it
was like a fall apart. I

678
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,000
mean, I know that's like the
narrative and that's how everyone phrased it,

679
00:46:55,280 --> 00:47:00,920
but it didn't look like it.
Obviously every time it's a little bit of

680
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:02,480
a column an, a little bit
of calm b but I think to just

681
00:47:02,519 --> 00:47:07,000
say that the Clippers blew it as
it's definitely underwriting how exceptional Kyrie Irving was

682
00:47:08,039 --> 00:47:13,559
during that stretch, like he took
the reins and rocked it. The rotations

683
00:47:13,559 --> 00:47:15,519
weren't weird. It's not like we
were playing like PJ. Tucker. It's

684
00:47:15,519 --> 00:47:21,000
not like Ty was making insane decisions
during this, Like it was just Kyrie's

685
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,880
do this three games now where he's
just had a quarter or an extended time

686
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:28,679
where he's just not missing anything.
He's that good, Like I just I

687
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:30,599
don't know what to say like that. There's times and it doesn't matter how

688
00:47:30,599 --> 00:47:35,000
well you can test him, like
he's gonna score. I know what to

689
00:47:35,039 --> 00:47:37,000
say for those people who are like
you know, Kyrie's had a couple of

690
00:47:37,039 --> 00:47:42,079
really bad playoffs series is last two. He's not as good as you guys

691
00:47:42,119 --> 00:47:45,519
think. Yes, yes he is, and he was more than due and

692
00:47:45,679 --> 00:47:47,519
he was ready for the moment.
And Kyrie has been You already brought it

693
00:47:47,599 --> 00:47:52,559
up. But that that shot over
three defenders, I mean like around,

694
00:47:52,639 --> 00:47:57,119
not even over like around the three
defenders, like threading the needle with Some

695
00:47:57,199 --> 00:48:00,000
of the threes were unconscious too.
Also, Paul old George had a rear

696
00:48:00,079 --> 00:48:05,079
view block on one of his threes
late in the fourth quarter, a huge

697
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:12,239
play because it was probably going in
and we haven't. We'd be remiss not

698
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:20,760
to mention before we pick our Kawhi
Leonard Player of the Game inaugural X Factor

699
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:24,880
m VP Picks of the night.
If the threes aren't falling at a fifty

700
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:30,000
six to sixty one, right,
let's feed Big Zoo. We haven't even

701
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:35,280
mentioned Big Zoo on this pod yet, but that's something I'm looking forward to.

702
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,079
Another thing the tyler can maybe prep
them on. It's like, hey,

703
00:48:37,079 --> 00:48:40,599
if we don't have these for not
hitting these crazy contested shots, let's

704
00:48:40,639 --> 00:48:46,119
hopefully get some touches to Big Zoo
because again, easy buckets, not doing

705
00:48:46,159 --> 00:48:53,679
everything the hardest possible. I was
told work smart, not don't work.

706
00:48:53,840 --> 00:49:00,519
Don't work hard, work smart as
a young man's the Clippers with the greatest

707
00:49:01,159 --> 00:49:07,079
of all time. Yes, make
Zoo work. Yeah, there you go,

708
00:49:07,199 --> 00:49:12,440
makes zero all the work with Zoo
to work. He wants to,

709
00:49:12,639 --> 00:49:19,119
he's there, he's there to Carlos
said. Carlos said he caught him in

710
00:49:19,119 --> 00:49:22,599
the elevator. Uh. I think
it was before Game four and a visas

711
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:24,960
and he was like, they're gonna
need you in this one. He's like,

712
00:49:25,079 --> 00:49:30,400
I know there needs you to be
aggressive. And you know he picked

713
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:35,719
his spots. Uh, they still
did not feed him nearly as much when

714
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,760
the comeback was happening. To me, that's even more of a big spot

715
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:43,480
to get to the basketball. Slow
down the game a little bit, punish

716
00:49:43,559 --> 00:49:47,639
them with physicality, and make them
work defensively so they're not getting in transition

717
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:51,800
or flying up the court as much
because they're taking the ball out of the

718
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,039
basket every time or out of the
on the sideline or baseline. A visa

719
00:49:55,119 --> 00:50:00,159
Zoo bots has to be feature more
in game five, go back somewhat to

720
00:50:00,199 --> 00:50:02,559
eighty percent of maybe what we saw
in game one. Yeah, I like

721
00:50:02,639 --> 00:50:07,719
that all right, now's the time
for the most important part of the pod.

722
00:50:08,039 --> 00:50:12,880
Who we'll go with? Adam First, Adam, who is your pick

723
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:15,840
for the Kawhi Leonard Player of the
Game, X Factor, MVP Pick of

724
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:22,960
the Night. I'm not going Daniel
Tice again. You can't feel like he

725
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:27,199
probably should have played Game three over
Plumley, but then fumbly redeemed himself in

726
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:31,719
game four, So who cares?
I will go with. I'm gonna pick

727
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:37,400
Norman Powell, Norman Powell Storm and
Norman back home because the first two games

728
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:42,079
where he played bet poorly. He
wasn't home. I want to see role

729
00:50:42,079 --> 00:50:45,920
players are supposed to play better at
home. Yeah, that is usually.

730
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,400
No, I'm trying to figure out
what his home and away shooting skills are.

731
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,480
He scored eleven points total in the
first two games at home. He

732
00:50:55,480 --> 00:51:00,800
had eleven points in Game four alone. He had twenty one in Game three.

733
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:05,400
Some of those came during inconsequential garbage
time, but yeah, he was

734
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:10,039
four for sixteen from the field his
first two games at Crypto dot Com Arena.

735
00:51:10,559 --> 00:51:15,760
His home road splits are insane this
year. Uh, three point percentage

736
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:20,599
home thirty nine point three very good. Not nothing to see that there.

737
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,079
You want to know what it is
on the road? Forty eight on the

738
00:51:24,159 --> 00:51:28,039
road from three for Norm Powell.
That's it? Wait, sorry, I

739
00:51:28,079 --> 00:51:34,480
wasn't paying attention one more time,
Uh, Norm, For those of you

740
00:51:34,519 --> 00:51:39,599
who missed it, Norm Powell at
home this year shot thirty nine percent from

741
00:51:39,639 --> 00:51:49,079
three loser and away. Uh,
and away games he shot forty eight percent

742
00:51:49,159 --> 00:51:53,199
from winner. I guess we had
looked that up before the series. We

743
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:57,559
would have seen it coming. Uh. But no, he wasn't even shooting

744
00:51:57,599 --> 00:52:00,159
thirty nine percent from three at home
in the first two games, so he

745
00:52:00,199 --> 00:52:04,000
can be better. I think you
will be no more pal is my guy?

746
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,440
There you go? Well, who
is your Kawhi Leonard Player of the

747
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:12,559
Game, X Factor m v P
Big of the Night. Uh, we

748
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,679
just talked about it. I'm gonna
stay you know what I mean, I'm

749
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:17,079
just gonna go with Big, you
know, and I think that, Uh

750
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:22,079
it's an easy pick, but man, I would love nothing more than to

751
00:52:22,119 --> 00:52:24,480
see this, Like it doesn't even
have to be better than what we've seen

752
00:52:24,519 --> 00:52:29,639
so far. Just this level of
consistency from parted. Uh. He is

753
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,800
really like been keeping his hand on
the wheel, holding this whole thing steady,

754
00:52:34,079 --> 00:52:37,639
I mean, keeping things from really
falling apart. He's nothing I mean,

755
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:43,679
I mean that's about giving him as
flowers. I still almost feel like

756
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,159
it hasn't been enough, uh to
anyone who died of this trade. This

757
00:52:46,199 --> 00:52:51,360
is why you do it. And
you know, like I didn't think coming

758
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:53,880
into this playoff series that there was
like much you know, like I I

759
00:52:55,280 --> 00:53:00,119
I doubted how far we can go, obviously without Kawhi Leonard, And big

760
00:53:00,199 --> 00:53:04,000
part of that was I wasn't sure
how consistent we could get James Harden right,

761
00:53:04,079 --> 00:53:06,639
Like that's it's kind of a mark
on it, and that we don't

762
00:53:06,679 --> 00:53:09,880
know. You know, he's in
a different place now, and he's in

763
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:14,039
a different place. He's in a
different place now. It's a new look.

764
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,000
He seems happy to be doing it. I hope that, like you

765
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,760
know, with the shortening of the
schedule and everything, it doesn't mess with

766
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:23,000
anything. But I'm gonna say James
Harden because no matter what, we need

767
00:53:23,079 --> 00:53:28,559
him to at least be consistent to
get a win this one. Oh yeah,

768
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,760
you hate Russ huh okay? Oh
wow, No, compared to what

769
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:37,639
compared to Harden? Sure? Right
now? As of seven? All right,

770
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:43,039
so we got more, we got
hardened. Those were going to be

771
00:53:43,119 --> 00:53:46,760
my picks. So dig deep.
It's not too deep. There's only eight

772
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:50,920
guys that cheeves from it, and
that Paul George for like a cheat code,

773
00:53:53,199 --> 00:53:58,880
is it? Though? I mean
he did have seven he did have

774
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:04,320
a seven point game in game three. I'm gonna go. People are telling

775
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,159
me after game four, I'm not
even gonna say it. Go ahead,

776
00:54:07,199 --> 00:54:12,239
check, I'm gonna go. I'm
going big zoo. I'm going big zoo.

777
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:15,400
We know we need Paul George to
be great, but zoo with what

778
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:17,760
the legs look like after it's a
day after traveling, you know what I

779
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:23,320
mean. Like also because of that
effing no call. I was so pissed

780
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:27,719
when he went to the basket not
hit by PJ. Washington about five different

781
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:31,559
times. What the refs were doing
there saying we're gonna do all season slap

782
00:54:32,199 --> 00:54:36,920
yeah, I Honda. The ref
said, Okay, we're gonna let that

783
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,320
go, that physicality and just give
you the basketball instead. We'll call it

784
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:43,639
out on the Dallas Mavericks. We'll
call it like that for a makeup call.

785
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,559
The problem is officials in today's league
now you have to review things like

786
00:54:46,599 --> 00:54:51,280
that and when is that playing and
that obvious you can't give the Clippers the

787
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:55,199
basketball after that review. I was
furious about that no call. That was

788
00:54:55,360 --> 00:55:00,559
insane. That was probably the worst
call so far the series. I feel

789
00:55:00,559 --> 00:55:04,679
like he's been getting clobbered at times
all all time, like all season long.

790
00:55:05,159 --> 00:55:08,360
It was just like blatant right in
front of the referee, picture perfect.

791
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:14,159
Five fouls that happened all at once. Washington knew it, everybody knew

792
00:55:14,159 --> 00:55:16,519
it. He looked back at some
of those Timberwolves games, as great as

793
00:55:16,559 --> 00:55:23,239
they were defensively, there's like,
yeah, they were out of zoo,

794
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:29,920
it was crazy. Well, that
about wraps it up. We have to

795
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:31,800
we have to close out every episode
talking about how poor the refs have been

796
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:37,920
because they've been bad. They've been
very bad, equally bad though to both

797
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:45,960
sides, almost just across the board, just they've been inconsistent, but consistent

798
00:55:45,119 --> 00:55:49,519
enough with being inconsistent on both sides, I guess, yeah, there we

799
00:55:49,599 --> 00:55:52,639
go perfect. Yeah. I haven't
felt like it's been like stacked it.

800
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:54,760
You know, we're not We're not
really raf wings on the show. We're

801
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:58,719
not only talk about that the whole
time, But I don't feel that it's

802
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:02,239
been stacked against us. I mean, how many games have we seen across

803
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:07,159
this first round of the playoffs where
both coaches use challenges in the in the

804
00:56:07,199 --> 00:56:09,920
first like in the first quarter.
Yeah, it's nice your ship out.

805
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Yeah, the manic I'm tired of
the manic Pixie refs. I would like

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them to settle down and get their
ship figured out. That about wraps up

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this episode. This game Game five
Eve episode. I believe we're doing a

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live after the affair in downtown LA. We're all gonna be in the building

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come say hey if you see us, be a good time. There's gonna

810
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there's a bunch of games coming up. I don't know, it's gonna be

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fun. We got a bunch of
content coming out. Will If people wanted

812
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to tell their coworkers or loved ones
or not loved ones where to listen to

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this pod or watch us, where
could they do that? Yeah, tell

814
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your friends so your coworkers, tell
your enemies. Uh, you can check

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out this podcast wherever you get your
podcast. If you listen over on Apple

816
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Podcasts or Spotify, you leave a
little ring and review would really help us

817
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:01,000
out. Probably the best way to
consume us though, over on YouTube.

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That's YouTube dot com slashat Clippers podcast. But no matter how you view or

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listen, thanks so much for tuning
in. We appreciate you. We very

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much do Adam one positive thing to
send these Clippers fans out so they can

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enjoy their evening before we're all stressed. Tomorrow Clippers win the rest of their

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home games, they win the series. That's simple, best of three and

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two games. Could be a crypto
get it done, get it done,

824
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love it love. We'll be back
tomorrow with y'all the live Adam, have

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you covered on clippers Talk. Thank
you for hanging out and as always,

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let's go Clips.