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All right, p Nipsey Hustle on
the anniversary of his death, Clippers win

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in Charlotte one thirty to one eighteen
over the Hornets. I'm Adam Oslin,

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welcome back in This is Clippers Talk
here on the Patriot Am eleven fifty when

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the Dodgers are on a five seventy. This is where we will be coming

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up. You're gonna hear from Paul
George's postgame after he dropped forty one,

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his season high on the Hornets.
But first joined the show is Chuck Mockler

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from Clips and Dip for a little
Clips and double Dip. So, uh,

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Chuck, were you more impressed with
Paul George and what he was able

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to do or did you see warning
signs because the Clippers weren't able to close

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out the Charlotte Hornets at least an
impressive fashion after being up nineteen in the

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fourth quarter. Charlotte just wouldn't miss
I think right now, I have to

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I have to be more excited about
Paul George's forty one. Right he looked

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aggressive, and he was aggressive after
he had a slow start, which is

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really encouraging. I do agree there
were some signs maybe that still need to

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get fixed, but that's part of
this brutal schedule, right Like, they

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ended this month strong, so hopefully
it continues against the depleted games. Clippers

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went ten and seven during March Madness, the odds of marsh they finished with

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a winning record. They win by
twelve and Charlotte over the Hornets. Now,

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Chuck, there's been a guy who's
been carrying the flag for Big Zoo

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for some time and asking the Clippers
to get him to basketball a little bit

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more. Now a lot of people
are saying the same. He had twenty

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four and twelve season high twenty four
points, I should say, seven of

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eight shooting. Sure seems like there's
another way to win ball games that's a

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lot more efficient and a lot easier. And that points on the paint problem

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the Clippers have had. He can
rectify some of that. I don't know.

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It just seems like if he'sa zoobots
might want to get the basketball a

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little bit more. I mean,
I totally agree with you. That first

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quarter from Zoo was maybe the best
first quarter we've seen from him all year.

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He's looked a lot more confident with
the ball in his hands, fun

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into a bucket which I think was
this most impressive move offensively tonight. But

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you're right, and maybe this is
the Clippers going back to things that were

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more successful earlier in the year.
Right when du was closing and looking at

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are confident on the floor, the
offense was, you know, using that

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picking roll a lot more. So
maybe they are just trending back to,

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you know, the good mean that
we saw earlier this season. It was

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Kawhi Leonard taking them home a little
bit late, Paul George obviously with some

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runs, silencing shots too. But
when it got close, when it was

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down to six or seven points,
Kawhi Leonard hit a three pointer, then

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he got a floater to go.
It's the third straight game where he has

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showed up big late in the fourth
quarter. Just seems like he's trending in

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the right direction to be ready for
playoff. Activated Kawhi Leonard here, chuck

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uh. Yeah, he's been absolutely
unbelievable on this road trip. I still

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keep replaying those two and ones he
had against the seventy six ers because they

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were just like the epitome of gritty
and you do feel confident when he's playing

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like this, right, Will Updyke
said it on our pod what two episodes

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of we are just one in saying
Kawhi Leonard run away from another Western Conference

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finals. It looks like Paul George
is hitting the upswing two. Hopefully Harden's

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finger situation isn't so bad that he
can't, you know, catch from this

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momentum as well. What did you
hear on bally regarding the finger It happened

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at practice earlier today where he had
that little splint on it. We know

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he's been dealing with the shoulder injury, but he didn't even want to take

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shots in this game. Yeah,
they said, I believe they said it

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happened to shoot around. He was
just, you know, he mishandled a

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pass or something like that and it
just jammed up on him. But yeah,

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seeing the splint wasn't super encouraging.
I think he fired off a three

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right as the second half started in
this one, so that was kind of

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nice to see. I guess maybe
him just testing it out, but thankfully

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the passing was still there. But
yeah, hopefully it doesn't become anything too

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crazy. I don't think it will. No one seemed too concerned based on

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what you know. The broadcast was
letting on so I have good news and

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bad news here. The team right
behind the Clippers now they do have the

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tiebreaker again, but that team is
the Dallas Mavericks. They are currently in

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the five spot after Luga dropped forty
seven and gave Houston their first loss in

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what three weeks since the Clippers last
beat them. They hadn't lost, They

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had won eleven in a row,
Dallas Clippers. Is it destiny, Chuck?

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Is it going to be Round three? I don't know if it's I

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don't know if destiny is the word
I would use if the Clippers end up

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playing the Mavericks, you know,
for the third time. But I mean,

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I don't know. This could go
either way. Tomorrow. I could

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wake up and be absolutely terrified of
this matchup, or I could kind of

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feel like I do now, which
is on paper, it seems like it

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does match up well for the Clippers. They do have history on their side,

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at least when it comes to you
know, Kawhi Leonard being elite offensively

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and defensively, something that you know, the mas maybe don't have them there

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making superstars. So I don't know, man, it's definitely nervous making even

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if you are confident about the matchup. Yeah, I'm with you on that.

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I mean, obviously they have big, gaping laws, you could say,

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because they're a bottom ten defense on
the season. Of course, the

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Clippers aren't that far from that right
now after the dip they've had the last

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couple of months. But I would
feel much more confident matchup wise with them.

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Defensively, however, it's Kyrie Irving
now there too. You can pick

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on him on the other end,
of course, but Kyrie Irving is going

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to make some of the most impossible
shots, just like Luka Doncic. I

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mean he already did one time this
season against Kawhi Leonard where you had the

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block and then pulled it back and
got the layup to go. It was

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just insane. I don't know,
I'm talking myself into Dallas, and then

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I'm going back to saying, no, maybe it should be the New Orleans

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Pelicans. Maybe that would be easier
for the Clippers. But right now,

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it's about that good process for this
Clippers team and they still need to win

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ball games, right one hundred percent. They are trending up right that we

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are on a bit of an upswing. We've seen longer periods of you know,

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being locked in on defense and getting
paint touches, which is another sign

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of effort on the offensive end.
So they play, you know, a

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shorthanded Kings team, and then they
play I believe the game after that is

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the Nuggets. So that game against
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you know, we're gonna learn a
lot about that team. Yet again with

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that that matchup blooming, that'll be
on Thursday when the Clippers were return home

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to Crypto after hopefully sweeping this four
game road trip. But the Kings game

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is not going to be easy on
Tuesday night. They're desperate for a victory.

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They are battling right now with a
couple of guys going down. He

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is Chuck Mockler of Clips and Dip
Charles. Thanks for joining me here for

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a little clips and double dip on
Clipper stop. My friend, Hey,

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thanks for having me. Let's go
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