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Well, the coward Bob Schmidt is
running from the grinds and will not be

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joining me postgame after his Cavaliers blue
ate twenty six point lead to our Los

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Angeles Clippers. Welcome back in this
is Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Mosland.

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Paul George had thirty nine, twenty
three and the fourth and the Clippers came

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back down twenty six in the last
twenty minutes of the ballgame. Join the

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show right now is will Updyke from
Clips and Dip for some double dip here

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on Clippers Talk. Will you know
what, I won't read any of these

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text messages I was getting from you
and Chuck Macklin when they were down big,

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because I think everybody was feeling like, oh, it's another Matt Nation

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show exactly. That's what it was. I think the PG elite. Okay,

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I'm not gonna read that. Let's
talk about this Clippers team at how

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they were able to do it.
I mean, should anyone be surprised at

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this point? Hashtag comeback Cliffs.
They've been doing this for years. I

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know it can be frustrated sometimes,
and even Paul George postgame said it's not

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ideal, but to know they still
have it in them. It is meaningful

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in a game like this where you're
down big and they just showed some heart

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out there in front of their home
fans. Yeah, I mean, I

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agree, it was absolutely huge,
And honestly, they just kind of had

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to tighten up on the defensive end
and get out of their own way,

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you know. Like I think that
that's the thing that gets more frustrating,

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more so than just like the sheer
number of points they'll be behind. Is

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like, like you said, you
know, we've seen them do this time

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and time again, so it shouldn't
be surprising that they can come back.

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But we also see them time and
time again not really come out with the

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right defensive energy or mindset, and
just some sloppy play like when the turnovers,

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when you have what like eleven or
twelve turnovers at the half, I

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mean, that's you know, that's
just a recipe for disaster. Even though

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this one had some sort of the
hallmarks that we know to be a Clippers

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win statistically, right like Terrence Man
scoring in double digits, James Harden with

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twenty points even though he was on
a minute's restriction, like Zoo with the

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double double, Like there were all
these little things that like generally speaking,

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when we kind of hit these benchmarks, we win, but just due to

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the turnovers, like I said,
in that lack of defensive consistency, it

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was just, I mean, it's
a hard position to put yourself in.

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But all the credit in the world
for overcoming that adversity and actually getting over

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the hump and getting through that one. It. I got a little tense,

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a little nervous about the late game
execution when Paul George had that foul

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with under a minute left to go
to tie up the game on the Jared

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Allen free throw, But again they
came over it in PG more than a

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race to that mistake in the final
second of the game. I mean,

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twenty three points in the fourth quarter
in the arrayas shots he was hitting,

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but just kind of the will and
the drive he had to keep competing like

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that. That was a poor defensive
play. But then he had the block

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at the very end on Darius Garland
also to make up for it, and

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he just looks so much more explosive
out there. There was that back door

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cut from him, I think early
in the fourth quarter on the Mason Plumbley

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pass for the big throwdown. Paul
George is healthy again. I think for

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anyone thinking that, oh he's washed, what was happening over that two month

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stretch in January and February and him
looking just lethargic out there scoring I think

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only eighteen a game that's gone.
Now PG thirteen looks like he's back at

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the peak of his powers here will
Yeah, I mean I agree one hundred

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percent. And he talks about his
postgame, you know what, like about

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the when he was asked about the
minutes load in that second half and he

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said that he didn't see the point
in coming off and being on the bench.

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His body was warm, like you
know, he wanted to stay warm.

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His body felt good. So that's
really reassuring news for Clippers fans.

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And I think, you know,
I was, I was somewhat hard on

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Paul George during that stretches play,
not so much the lack of scoring,

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but just like what we were seeing
on defensive bendom of the floor is just

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was far below what we know that
he's capable of and what is necessary for

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this team to succeed. But you
know, it's easy to overlook that he

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you know, coming back from the
groin injury. You know, that's it's

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the injury that's five lines a lot
of guys, and it's not as smooth

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of a even if there's no you
know, full terror or anything. It's

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just it's not an injury that that
there's like a real clear timeline on when

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you're going to be back and when
your body is going to be good to

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go. And I think, you
know, seeing this late season spur from

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Paul George, I mean, I
think this is just exactly what we needed.

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You know, we talked about peaking
at the right time, and Paul

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George is doing that and the team
is starting to coalesce a little bit better

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together. I think it's impressive that
they've been able to stack up some wins

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even with the big dog out of
the lineup. You mentioned Terrence Man earlier.

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His last two games, he is
fourteen of fifteen from the field,

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with a couple of threes in there, and then just a relentless pursuit of

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getting to the basket. And that
is the Terrence Man that I love most

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when he's cutting to the basket,
when he's using his athleticism and showing off

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the pop he has as one of
the younger players on this team. To

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me, those are usually trademarks of
when you have a big comeback like this,

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Terrence Man is involved. It happened
again in this one. Also that

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big three point or late that certainly
helped. Oh absolutely, I mean Terrence

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has been great, Like we know
what he can do. It's great to

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see him have a confidence back battling
out there on both ends of the floor.

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I don't want to say as great
as Paul George was, this I

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feel like was also a remarkable game
for some of those role players. Norm

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obviously we know what he can do, but Man and Coffee both hitting huge,

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timely threes to keep the Clippers in
this one, and that lineup I

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thought was super interesting at the end. Two obviously hardened with the injury and

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no Kawhi, so it kind of
MUCKs things up. But Paul Joy George

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with with Terrence Man, a mere
Coffee, Russell Westbrook and Powell, I

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thought like that, it's so small
going against Jared Allen, but they were

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able to make it work. I
really applaud the I really applaud the rotation

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decision there by Tyler as well.
The Clippers were down by twenty six,

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they win one, twenty to one
eighteen over the Cleveland Cavaliers. He is

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Will Updyke. I believe we have
a YouTube live coming up a little bit

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later tonight with myself thirty PM and
Big Chuck and Big Will at five thirty

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at Clippers Podcast is where you're gonna
find it on YouTube. Will, thanks

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for doing this. We'll talk to
you then. Absolutely dog you. SAMs