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Clippers went one eighteen to one oh
two here at Crypto dot Com arena.

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Happy Halloween. I hope you didn't
get any whoppers or mounds bars. Maybe

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blessed with Reese's. That's what you
need. Some sour patch kids. I

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might be looking at some've been in
Jerry's ice cream. Lator don't I deserve

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it? Carlojmenez said I did,
and he called a hell of a game

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tonight. Carlo made it a Halloween
special for everyone here at the crypton listening

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on the radio. We appreciate you, guys. All right, let's get

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to him. Chuck Mockler is joining
us from CND. We did a podcast

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an emergency one earlier today. I
mean early. It was like eight thirty

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or nine am. I still haven't
recovered from that. I need naps now,

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okay, But Chuck, it was
fun earlier today talking an hour about

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James Harden and then seeing him in
the arena tonight. He's already got a

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jersey waiting for him. I know
the trade is still yet to be a

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Maybe there will be another earthquake and
then it will be although I hope not.

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But uh, let's talk about this
Clippers victory winning by sixteen after one

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of the worst opening quarters I have
ever seen in my seven years here with

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the ball club. How'd you view
it? I mean you nailed at what

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were they won for eleven or something
like that. Oh for eleven is start

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four in the first quarter? Yeah, it was bad basketball on both sides.

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I can't believe they ended up scoring
one hundred and eighteen points after what

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we saw in that first quarter.
But I mean, I said this on

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Twitter, but if if you sat
through that first quarter, you were rewarded

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with the best third quarter we've seen
in a long time, especially from Paul

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George and Russell Westbrook combined. That
was when the Clippers really put all that

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offseason talk, I think in front
of everybody who was watching the game,

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and said, we did come here
to you know, right some of the

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wrongs from last year with how we
play in these games and you know,

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bounce back from certain performances. And
it was great to see Paul George in

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that third quarter had fourteen points after
having ten in the second quarter and was

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just so silky smooth with it.
Tonight. Tonight's one of those nights where

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I say he looks like a six
eight steph Curry at times with the handle

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the shooting ability, went six of
nine from the outside and just make it.

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He made it look stepfordless. You
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that. You can say that all
you want, but yeah, PG was

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great thirty two minutes too, which
is nice to see. He played the

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whole third, which if you watched
the third, that made total sense with

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what he was doing. So happy
he got that extended rep in the fourth,

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and you know, Tyler said,
we were gonna, you know,

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they were gonna see how you know, Kawhi and Paul George felt, and

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then well, you know they'll judge
from there. But I have a feeling

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Paul George is gonna want to keep
his hot streak going, and I have

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a feeling Kawhi Leonard's gonna want to
bounce back from his potentially worse in game

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of this whole year, even you
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season. Yeah, we'll see what
happens their first back to back. I'm

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intrigued. They both played just under
thirty three minutes. Bones Highland the same,

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Russell Westbrook the same, just under
there. Speaking of Bones, he

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hit their first shot like in a
night where oh, I don't know the

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Clippers are er for eleven to start, Bones was still just fearless, like

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he was still putting them up and
feeling like that next one is going to

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go in. That's one of the
things I love about him and Bones having

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seventeen on Halloween also seems fitting.
Yeah, I mean it's funny looking.

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I'm looking at the first quarterbox square
right now and Bones and makely Clippers to

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make shots in that for a quarter. So hey, we needed that fifty

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percent from him. But he's I
mean, you know, he's what.

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He's the skeleton key to this team, as we I think said out the

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other day on Clips and Dip like
this, this young energy is great to

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see. He's gonna get more playing
time at least right now. We think

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there's still some in limbo with these
lineups, but he's doing everything he can

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to make a strong case for more
minutes even when James Harden gets on this

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team. I thought Russell Westbrook had
a hustle play in that second quarter that

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just kind of embodied who he is
since he's put on this Clippers uniform and

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really who he's been in his entire
career outside of that stint with the Lakers,

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but he jumped out of bounds and
saved a ball that was about to

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go out of bounds, laid out
for it a little bit, and then

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on the other end Paul George had
that crazy circus shot where he couldn't draw

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the foul but ended up getting it
to go. And then a possession or

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two later, Russ was setting up
the offense and made sure to get it

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to a Viza Zubats on the low
left block who got a layup. I

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just he was started one for seven
and then went seven of nine for sixteen

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points in that third quarter alone.
But he was first looking to get other

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guys involved and make those hustle plays. And I think his spirit is something

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that Clippers haven't missing since Pat Bev. Yes, that's been great. He

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had. There was one rough possession. You know, you don't like to

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see the zero four from three,
but at the same time there was only

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four. Well not that big a
deal, but you're right, I mean,

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this is he's doing everything we've needed
since Pat Bev has been done right,

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Like this is actually you kind of
got to buy into this now.

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You didn't think that Russ's energy was
going to change the team. It's absolutely

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made a difference. Other guys are
feeling it. Bones gets to learn from

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Russell Westbrook and stuff like that.
So and with who we're playing tomorrow,

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it's going to be interesting how he
follows up this performance tonight. Now,

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I believe Russ had that huge block
early on on Man Carro also a bit

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of a tone setter. As bad
as the Clippers were in the first quarter

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or the magic, they weren't much
better. They only scored eighteen points.

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You mentioned Kawhi Leonard struggling and maybe
he'll want to get things back tomorrow against

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the Lakers. But this is a
team that has beaten the Lakers eleven straight

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times. It's been different guys doing
it. It hasn't just been Kawhi and

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Paul George out there for all of
those games. It's kind of a remarkable

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winning streak. Not going to be
easy on the second night of a back

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to back, But just what are
some of the things you're keying in on

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seeing from this Clippers team in their
first back to back opportunity. Well,

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going for the Battle of Los Angeles, Well, we obviously, you know,

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we hope more of the same from
Paul George and Kawhi Zoo played twenty

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two minutes tonight. I think they're
probably going to lean on him for more

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tomorrow, so I'm hoping Zoo can
kind of I think at seventeen and thirteen

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last time we played the Lakers,
So I'm not saying this should be a

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bounce back game for Zuo. He
didn't have a bad game by any means.

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She just only took eight shot still
grabbed nine boards and had a pretty

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assertive block late in this one.
But I think he's gonna be key early.

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We hope that his physicality without Fallon
can be there. Bones starting is

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going to be interesting to see again, you know, the Lakers are a

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bigger team. And then off the
bench, I don't know what his mits

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are going to look like in a
game against the Lakers, but Kobe Brown

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has the highest plus minus of anyone
on the bench for the Slippers and I

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played nineteen minutes. Winning basketball is
what he does and maybe fouls too much,

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but he might get some run,
I don't We We definitely need to

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start a little hotter. I will
say that then we did against the Magic.

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But Kawhi is going to be motivated. I think he's gonna set the

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tone defensively early and we're gonna get
those Russ hustle plays. I'm hoping that

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the energy isn't you know, too
big for for some of these guys where

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they're playing a little too tight from
just being so you know, focused on

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getting the twelfth win or something over
the Lakers. But it'd be great to

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go to and on this back to
back. But I wouldn't be happy or

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excuse me, I wouldn't be super
upset if we if we end up splitting

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with good process against the Lakers tomorrow. Right now, it looks kind of

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like a schedule law given the guys
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due to the trade with James Harden. Just anything else you want to say

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about James Harden that we didn't cover
earlier today, Something during this game that

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made you think about, okay,
he can help in this area with the

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Clippers. Well, we watched Russell
Westbrook have an absurd third quarter tonight and

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Paul George in a game where Kawhi
Leonard went three of eleven, and we

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just the Clippers just added another guy
who can do things like that when two

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of the stars aren't having a good
night or one guy's not having a good

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night. We got a floor razer
if you were upset about the off court

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stuff. At this point, we
just have to go with it. We

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have to move forward and hope for
the best. This is his last best

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shot at a ring. This is
you know, some people say two three

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one of their last shots at a
ring. So hey, it's it's all

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or nothing, so let's let's go
for it. He is Chuck Mockler.

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Follow him at Chuck Mockler on X
and you can watch him on YouTube.

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You on the cn D live feed. We did today talking about James Harden.

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We'll have another episode coming up,
I believe on Thursday. Charles,

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thanks for coming on Clips and Dip
for some double dip tonight here on Clipperstock.

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Thanks for having me