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Last time that I check check,
it was five chains on my neck.

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It was no smile on my breath. Last time that I check sent sent

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a set and a Senate quartermeal.
No sweat last time that check. What's

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up now? Christmas music? Clippers
lose by thirty seven. At home,

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they fall one forty five to one
oh eight to the Boston Celtics. It

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would have melted any snow if we
had some here in so Cal. After

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they went twenty five for fifty three
from three. They attempt forty three per

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game typically. Uh, that's second
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twenty eighteen. Twenty nineteen they attempted
forty five per game. I want to

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say, of course, when you're
that hot, you're gonna get ten more

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up deservedly, so twenty five to
fifty three, forty seven percent from the

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outside. Boston Celtics went big over
the Clippers. Welcome back into Clipper Stock.

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I'm at a mouselin eight six six
nine, eight seven two five seventy

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is the own number? You heard
the music? Wasn't that Christmasy? I

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liked it. We got Chuck Makler
on now of course because of it.

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For a little clips and double dip
here on Clippers Talk, Chuck, you

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were there in person? What was
it like? Man? Was it any

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different? Am I missing something?
Well? I guess the only difference is

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I couldn't change the channel where I'm
sure from your perspective because maybe put something

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else on. But no, this
one, this one was tough. What

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made it even tougher was just the
amount of support that the Celtics had in

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the building. This is I'm not
throwing shade at Clippers fans at all.

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Celtics fans travel well, but there
was a moment early in the game where

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they had two really tough offensive rebounds
and the crowd just sounded like we were

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in the middle of Boston or something
like that. So I guess that was

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a little disappointing that the Celtics fans
got to see their team win in such

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fashion at stables. I got to
ask you this, and hey, yeah,

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credit the Boston transplants. It was
probably an early Christmas present to get

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to see their team at this game, and maybe they'll be there on Monday

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as well. But did it sound
like this live when the Clippers were missing

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shots? Because to me, this
rim being miked almost sounds like you're playing

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pong short one more time, Kamie
more time shortly what it felt like that

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the whole game, it just other
than Paul George to start this one,

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it was just kind of a nightmare
for all the Clippers. I mean,

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I'm sure you've gotten some calls about
it, but Terrence Man really didn't do

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anything to help his case. To
keep starting zero for ten is just brutal

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and something you really don't expect.
So I keep saying we're not going to

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see more performances like this, but
I don't know. Look, I don't

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want him to be taken out of
the starting lineup, but at this point,

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it's getting difficult to defend, and
I wouldn't be shocked if it did

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happen. I don't know how that's
going to help his confidence if he's removed

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after winning the starting job, and
really, uh, it was a long

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time in many ways, and now
he's not taking advantage of the opportunity.

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And that's what's so frustrating. Right
now. He's in with the worst shooting

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funk of his career at a time
when they need him and he needs to

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prove that that starting job is his
and it's cemented in stone. Yes,

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it was tough to see today,
and a mere coffee also was a little

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bit invisible out there, which is, you know, a recipe for disaster

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when the Clippers are down. Kawhi
and a mirror and Terrence are both kind

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of non factors that combined one for
thirteen from most two guys. I was

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interested, And maybe this's just had
to do with timing of the game or

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something like that, but I really
thought Tyleru was going to open the second

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half with Norm Powell in or one
of a mirror or Terrence Man. But

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I just wasn't in the cards tonight. Norm. He again just another kind

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of innof no one really show.
It was just brutal all around. I'm

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exhausted even looking at the box for
after seeing it, you're just like,

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oh yeah, this one looked as
bad in the box score as it did

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kind of on the court. Hey, I've been talking for it for an

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hour, talking about it for an
hour. You could talk about it for

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ten minutes. Damn it. Chuck, all right, this will be my

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gift Christmas. You know I do
want to say no, go ahead.

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I was gonna say this is the
burn the tape game. I think you

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tweeted this out this one. It's
you know, two losses in a row

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is tough. We talked about on
our last episode yesterday. I have clips

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and dips so that to remember where
this team was at right. There was

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no Kauhi in this one. The
twelve thirty start makes things crazy. The

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Celtic shooting was already crazier than it
usually is, and the Celtic defense is

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very real. I don't watch a
lot of Eastern Conference basketball, but seeing

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that in person, it was a
nice little lipless test. I guess for

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ninety percent of the Clippers to go
against a burn the tape game, just

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kill it with fire, maybe like
put the virus in the computer where the

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game is being logged on the server
type of game, because I don't know

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how you know, there's not VHS
tape anymore or anything like that. But

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you know what, Paul George is
pretty good. I felt like he should

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have taken even more shots because he
was so hot early on, and to

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start the third quarter. The first
two minutes he didn't touch the basketball or

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take a shot. That was a
little bit frustrating, But twenty one points

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on nine of seventeen shooting. I'm
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Yeah, I mean he showed up
early. Right at first, this game

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became a bit of a Paul George
Jason Tatum duel, which was gonna be

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exciting if if everyone else kind of
picked up the slack. But we just

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got killed, you know in the
bench minutes that was that was brutal.

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But yeah, I mean, credit
Paul George still made me feeling under the

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weather. But I mean, you
know, twenty one on fifty three percent

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shooting. He yeah, like the
game just didn't flow like it really needed

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to, I guess, But I
agree, I would have been happy if

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he would have taken sixty shots from
this one. It's sounding more like the

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No Words game. That's what it's
turning into right now. Do you think

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there's something big picture wise with this
team right now? There's anything more concerning

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than just them losing by thirty seven
then losing that last game in Okasee.

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Do we should we not overreact too
much and this team is still trending in

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the right direction? Is my question. I think what we saw is I

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mean, unsurprisingly yet again, I
don't know how many times I've said it

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on this podcast. The team goes
as far as Kawhi Leonder and Paul George,

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So when one of those guys is
out, things are gonna be even

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harder. We know James Harden is
great. I would have liked him to

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see him be a little more aggressive
in this one, you know, just

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kivin who was out and whatnot.
But I don't think there's anything super big

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to take away. They went up
against a team that you know, they

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were shorthanded as well too, but
that's a really good Celtics team. I

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think, what if Clippers fans want
a game to maybe look at to maybe

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blow out of proportion, and I
mean that in a respectful way. Is

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what happens on Tuesday against the Hornets. Is Kawhi gonna go? How are

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they going to come out after losing
by just under a cool forty to the

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Celtics? So I would I'm I'm
weirdly looking more ahead to that game and

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seeing the response from this team.
Any body language expert type stuff. With

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Kawhi Leonard on the bench, was
he getting up and looking, you know,

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like he wasn't moving around too gingerly? I'm just wondering, Chuck you

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were there. I didn't have I
didn't have my Kawhi binocular Lumby, but

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he didn't look like he was moving
too gingerly. We gotta something about Mary

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that come on, get those binoculars
going. There was no wak. I

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didn't see him using a walker or
anything like that, So I think I'm

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hoping he's good for Tuesday. All
right. He is Chuck Mockler of Clips

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and dip Our, roving intrepid reporter
today at Crypto dot cavrita at Chuck Mockler's

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where you find him at Clippers Pod
is where you find C and D.

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Chuck. Thanks for doing this one
today especially, I really appreciate it.

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My friend, Hey, thanks for
having me. And good luck with the

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callers. Yeah, yeah, good
luck at him, good luck with that

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eight six six ninety eight seven two
five seventy eight six six ninety seven two

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five seventy. If you want to
see how I fare against you after a

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game where the Clippers lose by thirty
seven to the Boston Celtics, still seventeen

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and twelve, I'll update you on
the Western Conference standings coming up here.

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Clippers next game Tuesday against the Charlotte
hornets still at home at Crypto tip off

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at seven thirty. We'll have Clippers
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