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Last times fine Clippers fall late in
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One O nine one oh five was
the final with the t Wolves. Get

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in the w Welcome back into Clippers
Talk. I'm out of Moslin eight six

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seventy. We'll get back to your
phone calls. But first a little Clips

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in Double Dip with Will Updyke,
one of the hosts on Clips and Dip.

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It's a podcast, it's also a
YouTube live sometimes. Will, thanks

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for doing this tonight. Yeah,
absolutely, thanks for having me. Were

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you encouraged, dismayed? Concerned about
Zoo? Where do you come out after

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a loss like this with the Clipper
did kind of show a wrinkle with that

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small ball lineup late that almost got
him a victory. So I'll put it

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like this, if you had told
me before this game coming in that there

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would be no Zoo, I would
say, ooh, that's pretty tough game

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to win. You would say,
no Zoo, Harden and Paul George combined

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to go nine of thirty three or
whatever. I would say, that's probably

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a game. The Clippers lose in
an ugly fashion. So I think for

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them to make that late rally,
it definitely showed a lot about this Clippers

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team. I also got to say, this game to me kind of said

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a lot about where the Timberwolves are
asked. Their defense is really solid.

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I thought they did a great job, especially early, getting the Clippers out

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of rhythm. But the Timberwolves team
offensively has a lot of issues. The

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turnovers are going to be an issue
having a center who can't make free throws,

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I guess unless it's clutch time,
I think it's going to be massively

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difficult for the Timberwolves to make a
deep run with the small ball lineup.

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I wasn't feeling it. I gotta
be honest, I don't understand the point

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of going with a small ball lineup
if that lineup also can't face the floor.

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I think that rusted a lot of
incredible things this game. I think

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some of this decision making, especially
late, was a little bit questionable,

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and I don't know, maybe it
would look different if Zoo or I know.

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I mean, if you're keeping it
small, I don't. I don't

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really see that as a winning formula, so you're not buying it. Even

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though they took that seventeen point lead
down to three points. You still think

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it's a one off type thing that
doesn't have a lot of meaning moving forward.

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I mean, what did you think
of the final possession of the game,

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like what like what you know?
What did you think of the like

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the erroneous A couple of erroneous fouls
that put Rudy Gobert back to the line

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when and he finally got in a
rhythm. I mean, I agree with

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you. And there was something that
like they were able to pick up some

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momentum, and I just thought that
there were I just thought there was a

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lot of inconsistencies from the Clippers in
this one, which makes it hard to

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take away a lot. Like,
like I said, overall positive, this

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is an encouraging loss, but I
thought some of the defensive effort at the

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start of the at the start of
the game and to start the second half,

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I thought that that's actually really where
they fell behind. I mean,

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the shot making was tough. It's
really hard to have, you know,

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to be down a starter and then
have two other starters who are you know,

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massive parts of your offensive games have
the games that they have, So

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I think it says a lot about
the Clippers that they were still in this

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one, right, they were still
able to almost grit one out. But

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I just think their their margin of
error was a little slimmer than normal,

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and I didn't really think that they
were putting the clamps on them, like

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we know this team can do for
the full to the full forty eight.

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Yeah, I hear you. It's
tough to say what the takeaways could be

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or how some of this stuff could
look moving forward. And Russ definitely had

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his up and down, mixed bag
type of game. I'll give them credit

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though. The thirteen assists to three
turnovers, we'll definitely take that. It's

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just I wish I wish you would
never try to lay it up again at

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this point. I wish you would
just dunk it because he still has the

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springs. Just go up and dunk
it each and every time. You might

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even draw more and ones that way. What do you think, Well,

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yeah, absolutely, I mean he's
right there. I just I don't see

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why not. And the thing is, like, look, I think that

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Russ did a lot of good.
I think that he does a lot of

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good on this Clippers team, But
those like blown opportunities at the rim,

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I just don't get how that's so
much of your shot diet, right,

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it has been for his entire career. Yeah, if you don't, if

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you still at this point somehow don't
have the touch around the rim, you

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better throw that thing down, buddy, Like, I don't know what else

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to tell you. Yeah, And
he had another miss layup where it's basically

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a turnover led to a three the
other way. It's just when you're when

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you smoke a layup going that fast, the other team's gonna have numbers and

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they seem to always capitalize in those
situations. But I like the aggressiveness overall.

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I like the intent at least,
but just pretend everybody's ready. Gobert

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like the two dunks he tried on
him in this game, Yeah, that

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was I love that. First.
I think that it's important. I think

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that it's important for this team that
you know, has finally found a rhythm

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and and identity. But you know
what I like more than effort is result.

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Yeah, and I think that we've
I think that there's a decent sample

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size about some of these results that
we've seen throughout the season, And I

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just I don't know that going small
with a guy who I mean, at

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least you look at the Timberwolves defense
already a very strong defense, have one

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guy who's essentially a non factor out
there for them, You're making it too

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easy. I'm sorry, like you're
just you're making it too easy for the

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best defense in the league already.
I think them, you don't have to

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make their job any easier. They're
already really good. I think the more

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interesting lineup to me because of Russ's
deficiencies from distance, even though he did

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knock down to big three pointers in
the fourth if Terrence Man was next to

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that four with two pin three hardened
and Norman Powell, because I'm assuming you

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keep Russ in because of his rebounding
acumen, Well, Terrence Man brings that

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too, but he also so cuts
the basket, sets more screens, and

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has shot it much better from the
outside for his career. Like that might

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have been the small ball five I
would have tried, but look they had

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it to within three weeks minute left. Oh sorry to jump over you.

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I'm just like the terrace minutes him
being sub twenty, I mean didn't necessarily

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fill out the box score, but
I thought he looked productive out there.

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Was there anything that you saw that
maybe like led to an indication of why

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you think we didn't see as many
minutes from him, especially late in this

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one. I don't know if they
just wanted to ride the hot hand because

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they started making that run with Russ
and he just decided to stay with that

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and go small. But I thought
he was chasing around Aunt early and got

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that turnover when they were trying to
find Anthony Edwards. I think it was

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Carl Anthony Towns that threw it over
his head and out of bounds. He

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got into it with Rudy Gobert.
I don't know if he was being a

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punished for that, even though Gobert
missed those free throws or what. I

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think it was just you know,
odd man out in this particular game.

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Hopefully not too much to read into
theirs Terrence Man has been. They're thirty

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three and what twelve now in the
last forty five games that Terrence Man has

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started. That is over half a
season's worth of data. Aside from the

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numbers, and as you mentioned,
you look at the box score, it's

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not that impressive. But typically Terrence
Man is always a plus. He always

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ends up blending in with stars and
being a really good connector out there somebody

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else. I felt like, you
know, we talked about him on the

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podcast with Chuck Monckler yesterday and I
thought, Mason Plumbley, this may be

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a game for him, but I
didn't know if EATSA Zubots would be out

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and therefore he definitely was going to
get minutes. He played sixteen, he

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had eight points. They won his
minutes. He was a plus three out

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there. I like what we saw
from Big plumb in some of those meaningful

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minutes. Finally here will Yeah,
I mean that was really reassuring. He

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was part after that, like after
a rough first quarter of getting this team

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back in it, and really overall, you know, you have to like

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the bench effort against against what the
Timberwolves have. It goes to speak to

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the depth overall. But seeing Mason
Plumley where he was, I think he

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finished four or five from the field
really really good to see. Uh.

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You know, it's such a it's
such a jump from what we had seen

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previously, right like strictly garbage time
minutes and you know, kind of kind

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of up and down. It's about
what you would expect from a player coming

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back from from missing so many games
and just trying to slowly work his way

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into game speed. So that was
super That was super super reassuring, especially

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because I I didn't love Tyson's game
in this one, so I was glad

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that we had another seventh Twitter.
I guess maybe that led to some of

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the small ball things as well,
is you know, you have to keep

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Plumbley's minutes and check Tys wasn't super
effective like we you know, we have

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seen him in other games. This
just wasn't his backup, so I wonder

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if that sort of went into that
too. But having having Plumbly back and

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ready for some real rotation minutes,
I mean, that could be major,

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especially if it's Vita Zubos cast.
Thing is anything more serious than you know,

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a single game or two. Yeah, I saw an update from law

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Murray who joined me pregame on Clippers
Countdown. Apparently the calf started to bother

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Big Zoo on Friday. He tried
to go, couldn't get it to work.

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But it's the same one that gave
him issues last February in Phoenix for

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a ballgame, so it's worth monitoring. It's a little bit concerning, I

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guess, uh, I mean kind
of to me is always injuring. It

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is always a worrysomeone, right,
and you start to think of Kevin Duran

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and what happened with Golden State Warriors
and all that, and yeah, so

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I don't mind him. Yeah it
was a big game. Yeah, it

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would have been a big game for
Vita Zoobots. You still aren't even at

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the midway point of the season,
and with all the wins they have been

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banking recently, I think it's okay
to not push it too much with a

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guy that I think he's one of
their top fore most important players at worse.

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To me, oh, easily,
easily. And I mean, you

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know, like I said, this
isn't like a this isn't a bad this

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isn't a bad loss. I mean, I think Minnesota has only lost two

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or three times at home all season. Yeah, two times at home.

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They're fifteen and two. We're hoping
to see or the sixty and two now,

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I guess after beating the Clippers,
uh one more for you here will

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How big is that game looming on
Tuesday against SGA and the OKC thunder who

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the Clippers have seen before, but
they didn't have Kawhi Leonard obviously in Okay

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See. I mean it's it's absolutely
massive. I think like of these teams

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that are you know, this year, having their resurgence, their you know,

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their surge to the top of your
Okacs and your Minnesota Timberwolve. To

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me, Oka See now seems like
definitely the more real of the two teams,

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especially we've talked about previously, like
they have all the ammunition in the

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world to go out and get something
else if that's something that they want to

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do. That's the only bummer to
me about the about the late game surge

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is it kind of felt like even
in that surge that we didn't quite have

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enough to get over the hump.
So you you know, I don't know,

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it's it's a tough call, right, Like, I think it would

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have been nice to maybe get the
UH, get Kawhi and some of the

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other guys a little bit more rest. But I understand fighting it out too

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and Nail. I think that that's
winning process. But this game, this

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game is huge. This game is
huge, and like these tests, you

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know, you're not gonna you're not
gonna pass one hundred percent of the time,

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but you would like to see out
of this UH, out of this

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brutal kind of to two games.
The Clippers get one out of the two,

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right, like they need to make
up some sort of grounds too.

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I mean, if they want to
ascend anymore in the in the standings,

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and certainly if they want to stay
passed. Uh, they you know,

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they gotta keep They got to keep
things going. They got to keep in

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this rhythm that they've been in.
I just wonder if it's a big enough

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game to get big Will Updyke at
Crypto on Tuesday night. I just wonder

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these things I don't know, and
we'll say, oh oh baby, let's

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go clips and Dip crew and attendance
for that one. Clippers lose tonight by

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four in Minnesota to the Timberwolves.
Will Updyke has been our guests here with

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the little Clips and double Dip on
Clippers Talk. Will, thanks for doing

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this is always my friend. Absolutely
thanks for having me with j Clip quick

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time out here. We'll come back, get to your phone calls eight six

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six nine eight seven two five seventy. We'll also hear from Coach lou postgame.

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In our final segment, Clippers lose
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