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Welcome to episode two excuse me not, Episode two, Season two, episode

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twenty eight of Clips in Dip.
We are part of the two and three

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Hoops Empire, the producing fantastic content
as always, go check that out,

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love the jam the Pod. Robert
Flahm just wrote a great article about where

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the Clippers are at right now.
I am Chuck Wackler. With me is

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William Updyke usually with us as Adam
Oslin. We gave him a day off

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and we got the boot. Okay, oh okay, I wasn't aware of

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the boot, but we we thought
we gave him the day off. Apparently

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he might have the boot, but
I we're just kidding out. Joy enjoy

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your day. We we're having a
great day, Adam. But yeah,

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we're talking today the Clippers five and
seven stretch, how we're feeling after some

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good progress, some steps backwards,
a couple steps forwards. There's a James

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Harden interview that some people are upset
about. We got a bunch of fantastic

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Clippers fan questions to answer, and
then we're previewing the unwinnable battle that the

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Clippers face against the Nuggets. We're
gonna talk about how they can maybe get

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a win against Denver. We've seen
them get over this slump. Let's let's

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go this mile high slump. Will
How are you doing? How are you

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feeling about the Clippers right now?
How's your weekend? I was in Las

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Vegas. Oh yeah, yeah,
here's what you're going was certainly more more

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eventful than mine. Uh, you
know, I'm feeling all right about the

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Clippers. I feel I think it
was expected that we would drop one to

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the Warriors. I just didn't know
which one and and the way they won

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it. It is good anytime you're
seeing this this team execute down to the

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wire, right Yeah. I think
that those games are saying more to me

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now than you know. The blowout
victory is certainly earlier in the season,

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or even the one against Dallas.
I'm I want them to begin anse sort

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of reps in clutch minutes, in
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able to come together and there's like
a there's a better there's more pressure.

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I just feel like it prepares you
a lot better, even if they're not

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always the prettiest of wins. That's
a really optimistic way to look at it,

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because I don't want to be in
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because usually means things are going right. But I like that positive look on

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it. I also, when you
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an unorderlined, unprecedented stretch of consistent
games from PG and Kawhi. So we

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might as well get this practice in
when they're all healthy and they're available,

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because I don't think they're gonna play
all eighty two games. I hope they

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do kind of actually maybe not,
but eighty two seems heavy. Man.

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Yeah, I don't want that to
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But the Clippers a rough five and
seven stretch, they go three and two

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over it. We find ourselves at
nine and ten, holding down that coveted

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ninth seed. Horrible loss of shortthanded
Denver great win versus the MAVs. Maybe

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stole a win, maybe executed well
down the stretch versus Wards. Maybe a

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little of both three and two over
this. Five and seven is not that

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dis eh, it's kind of disappointing. You thought they were going to go

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four and one. I think I
think the Nuggets game you look back on

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and you say, we left one
here. Yeah, I don't know how

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you can pretend, you know,
like I, yeah, if they were

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healthy, I think three and two
would be good. But we left one

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on the table. But that's not
crazy. It's a tough it's a tough

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stretch. Yeah, crazy stat.
I saw today the only team in the

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league that's top eight in point differential
but under five hundred in the league,

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which is crazy. Yeah, but
I do gotta say, I mean,

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those are kind of freak blowouts.
Like I don't know how much there's a

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couple we don't know how much stock
to put in that. There's a couple

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big ones. There's there's two wins
by over twenty forty and twenty five,

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and then one win by nineteen.
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I was looking at today, seven
point eight points. Yeah, that's not

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good. That feels worse. That
feels worse. I don't know. I

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guess it was somehow. Maybe its
because I thought we were getting blown out,

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not blown out, but like just
really destroyed during that losing streak.

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Seven losses by single digits? Are
the Clippers better than the record? Right

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now? Did that five and seven
make you feel better or worse about this

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team than when it started? I
mean better than when it started, for

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sure, but the expectations got pretty
low there, I mean about as low

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as they could possibly go to still
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no, I think we've seen some
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play had been this way at the
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think they'd maybe be good for like
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if the trade happens sooner. Yeah, that's really what it is. Complete.

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It's not like a complete turnaround for
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a top four uh team in the
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now, even if the trade happened
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Yeah, I can see what you're
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better than our record, yeah,
and a little bit barely. Yeah.

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I'm not saying we're light in the
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the records. I like that positivity. Man, I'm with it. I'm

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digging it. That's that's nothing in
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starters during this stretch, because this
is the starters have kind of they've just

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been good. Over these five games. The Clippers starters were plus twenty in

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net rating, so you can't ask
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But we got to talk Terrence.
Let's do it. Things aren't going

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well for Terrence. Shooting from the
outside, it's not good. It's still

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sub at some point this season.
Is he still there? He currently is

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sub twenty percent. Let me check
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this is not seventeen percent shooting seventeen
that's true. That's one of those things

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though, because I asked Adam this
when I when I was on Clipper to

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Auk after the win, and you
know, Terrence had the ankle injury to

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start the season. He was out
of the starting lineup like a day after

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being announced that he would in fact
be it starter, to the rejoice of

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Clickers fans, And I was wondering
if some of something was going on there

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because our co host, Adam he
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and stuff like that. That's stuff
that just just look at it on Twitter.

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Man, I don't know it's a
good stuff. But so I asked

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him, like, do you think
something has physically changed, because it's just

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like the differential is so high from
what we know him to be as a

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three point two. Is there something
physically wrong? Uh? And he said

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he didn't notice anything significant. So
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It's in that category of things that
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bad. Have to be better than
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There's no way it could stay that
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he was like shooting I don't know, if he was shooting like twenty eight

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percent, I'd be like, I
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the margin. That's reason to me
for a regression, reasonable worry. That's

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a reasonable worry. Yeah. So
it's like reasonable worry. And then this

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is so bad there's no way it
could sustain. It can sustain when it's

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that bad. It's like the three
point shooting the first Nico Petunia. I

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feel like we had some like there
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and he specifically was not exactly lighting
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Man. I think three point shooting
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I'd be way, I'm less worried
about. Okay, Yeah, that's the

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thing. If it's if his cutting
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like, Okay, well something is
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for Terrence. But yeah, it's
the shooting again, seventeen percent. It's

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not good. And while his offense
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Terrence uh is still better than the
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It's not a knock on Russell Westbrook, but him and the starters remnus twenty

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two point six. So a pretty
big swing for for that ant No,

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goddamn man, Adam's gonna clip that
when he comes back from his two days

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off and have my mentions on fire. Is his spot safe during this slump

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we saw norm with the starters in
the second half of the Warriors. I

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like, which is something we've talked
about before. Yeah, I like the

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adjustment. I like. I love
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when they because teams aren't respecting Terrence
from deep right now again because he's shooting

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seventeen percent, but Norman is shooting
quite the opposite. He might be shooting

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seventy one percent from three. It's
not but it's close. But I don't

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think. I don't think. I
think for me to start like I think

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if anything. Terrence won't get banged. I think it'll be the gore tot

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start or something like that. He'll
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But jostled Where am at with Norm
starting? I think it's a bit too

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much. Just it's like, you
know, the you got the shake,

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great ice cream or the whip cream
on top, great chocolate syrup. Sure,

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okay, but then there's a whole
ass oreo stuff in the top of

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it. It's like, that's just
that's too much stuff. And that's how

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that's how I feel about Norm and
the starting lineup. It's like we've just

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kind of figured out the balance of
how these guys can play offensively together,

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right Like we're still trying to figure
out how this is gonna works initiating what

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who's off ball? I think adding
Norman is it's too many cooks, whatever

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you want to call it. It
is a too much situation. Be it

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a Sunday, Yeah, did that
happen to you recently? No? But

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I was just thinking about it,
Yeah, so much. And then sometimes

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it's a chocolate purouet a straw,
You're like, this is too much.

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He's giving a shake and a paper
cup for God's sakes. I don't know

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where you're getting these desserts at the
map. I'm not at the Mault shop.

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YouTube, YouTube dot com Slash at
Clippers podcast. I think you're right.

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I don't know if I totally follow
the metaphor specifically that you used. But

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the offense is fantastic with Norm out
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the defense has been really rough in
the small sample size that we've seen it.

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The defensive rating is something I think
it's in like the one twenties.

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But you don't want to start the
game because the team with the stars is

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still started very well, So I'm
not sure if that happens. And this

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goes into something that I think is
the bigger issue is the bench, because

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the bench for the Clippers is all
over the place right now and we don't

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know what's gonna happen. And Justmorrh
points, yes, uh, Westbrook and

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Harden cannot share the floor together.
That that can't. Are you asking me

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or no? I'm that's a statement
of fact. That's a statement of fact.

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But when they shared the floor over
these last five games, they were

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minus fourteen point eight together. This
isn't a knock on either of them.

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This is just simply stating that they
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that's like that that passes the smell
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I just I guess you could still
have hoped that they could gel that

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out. Look, they could figure
it out, because obviously the emphasis has

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been figuring out things on the offensive
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you know, sort of the defensive
consistency that we've gotten in the good games,

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in these wins. So there's reason
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that's another one of those law of
averages things that maybe the time with them

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could get a little better as they
figure out the fit. But to the

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eye, it has not looked like
something that's really worth exploring. To me,

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again, I do not coach the
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say uh so, yeah, yeah, it is not not looks good.

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And they're part of like some I
can't remember who said it on Twitter,

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but they called it like a security
blanket lineup that Tye runs. Sometimes it's

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Russ Harden pg Kawhi and then Zoo
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work. They did that with Zoo
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it was minus sixteen. Obviously a
very small sample size, but not

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a good one, not a good
small sample, So that kind of needs

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to get figured out. And ty
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half verst the Warriors. Is there
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a thing? Is that a stupid
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you're not wrong. I mean it's
it's like it was saying, if

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they want to try to make the
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like it is one of those things
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it just begs the question of is
it worth it? And I guess that's

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how I feel about ten different starting
lineups. I don't know that it's necessarily

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bad. I think if you're second
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get shuffled around. I would say, optimally you even thrive in that environment.

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really see that. It's another one
of those things I just don't really see

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the value of, like tens,
Like what are you taking away from ten

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different lineups in the first half.
Yeah, in twenty four minutes of basketball,

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like what Yeah, and obviously they
you know, they can't tell us,

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but it'd be nice. Well,
and like Tyrol the hot hand when

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it mattered, right, Yeah,
oh yeah, he kept hardened in late

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versus the Dubs, which was good. He brought Russ in later than that,

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which was nice because we needed the
rebounding and the defense. So that

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was a good call. But yeah, I just, I just, I'm

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just And people are gonna we're gonna
talk about it in the next segment a

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little bit. But people have asked
about bones and stuff like that. I

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don't think that's gonna happen because because
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many guards, and we need size. We still need size. Tye has

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been good, but we're still it's
a little he's not like that. Yeah,

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he's not that much of a room
to turn at times. He's not

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really I'm gonna need to check his
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eye test suggests that the rebounding isn't
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You're steiling guys off the stuff.
Yeah, he does the dirty work.

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He has put in the effort.
The rebound's been okay, I shouldn't say

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that, maybe just lately that I
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But I feel like this is it's
it's really only a concern given how long

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we're out Mason. But I think
I think Mason helps that second unit too

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for whatever reason. Yeah, he's
huge for whatever reason. Like these past

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few regions. Yeah, these past
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kind of thrived when they've had like
a plan making actual big man. Yeah,

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for sure. And we don't know
when what's going on with Mason.

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I don't. I haven't heard anything
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the sprain. Yeah, and we're
playing a big team against the Nuggets again,

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so we're really going to see,
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with there. But yeah, something
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What do you want to see?
Man? Like, So, who's

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your yeah, rundown run down?
You're sixth man and you're five, well,

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so I mean sixth man. I
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to be norm And then I think
it's got to be norm too. And

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this isn't a again not a knock
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nor so in your opinion? Is
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mid in that mid first, in
that mid first period, Norman for PG,

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you move Terrence down to the you
keep Terrence at the two? Yeah,

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okay, or moved Terrence to the
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actual number. I'm not worried about
the actual number, because the defense is

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the point of attack. Defense if
it's norm right next to Harden gets a

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little rough, I know. But
that's why you still have Kawhi and Zoo

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out there and Terrence. Yeah okay, yeah, I like that idea.

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And then Norman played the whole second
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and Kawhi is gonna I think they're
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Ty has talked a lot about PG
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normally that is the Kawhi shift in
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team, is you play the full
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second, start the full third,
not necessarily play all the way through the

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third, but you know right as
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would be my first of it and
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then I think harden out russ In
is an obvious sort of thing. Yeah,

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finish out that quarter, then you
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Zoo's got to get subbed out before
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can't run Zoo the whole first.
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bench when they're at their most bench
with you limit the time, yeah,

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and you want to limit yeah,
just limiting the most bench time, Yeah,

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most bench time. It's weird that
we're talking about death being an issue

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with this Clippers team, right because
we can run that for the last four

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years. It was just like I
thought this team was the deepest, and

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you know, we gave up,
We gave up a lot, We had

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to let you know, we had
to lot let ss walk to make things

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work. But there we are.
It's just weird how that's weird, how

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we're back in the same position.
Well, and it makes it, uh,

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it makes it hard because it still
feels like we're kind of going game

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to game. Yeah, there's been
improvements, obviously, it's not you know,

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three and two hour like we talked
about a pretty good over this five

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and seven. We just had left. You want to see it put it

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like stacking more wins. You want
to see like, yeah, a little

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more process wins and stuff like that. And it's not how many straight would

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you need to see it to be
on this? How many good process games

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wins? I don't know if I
can. I'm good on I'm good on

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process. We don't. I don't
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I think this at this point,
you have to do both, man.

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I mean, so that's what's different
process it wins. Yeah, I mean,

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hey, i'd love to see,
Yeah, twenty of those, No,

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I need to I want to see
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it's already almost twenty games in the
season. I need to see like five

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in a row of games where it's
like, yes, we did everything right

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and we lost. Those games happen
like, you know, not play a

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perfect game and lose, but do
everything the way it's kind of supposed to

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be done for forty eight minutes.
That five games like that means forty four

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minutes. Yeah, I agree with
you one hundred percent. And you know

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we said we were feeling a little
bit better about the Clippers. It looks

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completely different if they dropped that second
Warriors game. Oh yeah, I was.

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Yeah, it really does. But
yeah, I see what you're saying.

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What's the biggest leap right now is
at the bench, But it has

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to be the bench. The starters
are like plus twenty six together. Yeah,

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the starters are starting with. Starters
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have to figure out is, like
I do, I do still think they

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have to get fourth quarter fourth quarter
stuff figured out because the offense just watch

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your love your touch. It's like
a movie because that just has to get

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figured out. Like the fourth quarter
offense is still it's better, but a

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lot of the ball movement and stuff
that we like kind of tends to go

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away. People kind of call you
up. It gets back into that same

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thing. Yeah, I'm actually looking
up before we get to the next I

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want to look up. I don't
know. Clippers score thirty two point three

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in the in the fourth that's not
bad. Oh it's up to thirty two

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point We're six in the league.
Pretty good, it'd be better. Sure

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could be fifth. Uh if it's
not top five, it doesn't really matter

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to me. You're we're right there. It's so close to mattering. Uh,

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James Harden interview which didn't teach us
a whole lot about James Harden, which

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is totally fine. All that coming
up after these ads. They've been a

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little loud for some people. If
that's been your case, go ahead and

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turn it down. Clippers questions and
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three two one, Hey, welcome
back into Clips and did you're tune into

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a special duo episode Adam oslind got
the day. It's just it's just me,

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just just just me, William Well
one man. Uh so we talked

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a little bit about what you know, what's going on with the book,

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is how we're feeling after this,
uh this California State stand and now I

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guess some stuff about Harden as well
as just some Clippers questions from you the

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fans. Thank you so much for
someon was in Charles, you put this

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note in here? Where do you
want to leave us in with this?

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You put this in here. So
James Harden didn't interview with the Athletic and

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it didn't if you miss this,
I wouldn't be surprised if you missed this.

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There weren't any bombshells. Really in
this interview, there wasn't anything scandalous

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or anything like that, you know
what I mean, Like it was just

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kind of more of the same from
James Harden. There was a couple of

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things that concerned people who didn't who
just already didn't like Harden anyway. When

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he was asked, is was it
clippers or nothing else? You know,

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after he was done with Philly,
and he said, it was about trying

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to get a situation where I could
get paid and obviously have a chance to

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win at the highest level. These
last few years, I sacrificed so much,

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whether it's role, whether it's financial
that at this point it's over with.

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I just want you to be able
to move forward and still have the

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opportunity to make some money and obviously
win at the highest level. So some

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people were mad that he mentioned making
money so many times. He did just

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a quick breakdown, he does save
money more times than he says win.

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So sure, yeah, you're like
that tweet, that's like something wish.

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I wish I could drop the body
language chart because something was he slanted?

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Where was he that was his posture? He says that Darryl Moray offered him

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a max and then basically said psych
which that would suck. That would be

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a pain in the ass. That
one. I do think. I do

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think there's simp that you you are
on James Harden's side on that. Uh

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yeah, I don't think he's making
that up. Sure, yeah, I

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mean, especially on record on the
athletic he's not. I don't think he's

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making that up. That's some you
know, that's a pretty you're putting on

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that the athletic tampering happens. These
conversations, you know, are are ongoing.

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You know, it's a year round
thing. You obviously know when a

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player of his caliber is going to
be up, you know what they're expecting

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to get. And maybe there was
an understanding. I don't know, maybe

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like maybe there was a misunderstanding.
But after he turned down the initial payday

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when he could have resigned, what
was that two seasons ago when he took

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it, when they first brought in
PJ. Tucker and he took the pay

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cut, So yeah, that would
have been too Like I think that would

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have been two seasons no way to
find out, wonderstand. I mean,

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I'm not gonna do it, sorry, guys, But like I don't know

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you would think that you're only making
a move like that because you know,

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you're like, you know you're going
to be taken care of. Yeah,

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And I think, yeah, I
agree with that. And my thing also

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with with just this whole thing is
like if if you read this and you

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weren't, like if you were shocked
about how much he talked about money,

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I'm not really sure what you were
expecting. I'm not a huge James.

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The man has left. The man
has left over one hundred million dollars on

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the table. Yeah, dude,
it's so much money. And he's always

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clearly been a contract thinking guy.
That's not a knock he that's he who

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he is as a player, Like
he thinks about his next contract. And

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I'm not saying it's a good or
bad thing, but we just didn't learn

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anything new about James Harden, you
know what I mean, Like it just

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kind of reinforce if you didn't like
him, This reinforced way he didn't like

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him. If you're a fan of
his, you were like, well,

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this is yay, classic James.
Yeah, comes with it. I mean,

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you know, at the bare minim, it comes with the territory.

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It is bold though it does make
me think, like, all right,

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man, if you want to make
a bunch of money on your next contract,

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which I don't think is in the
cards right now because it's not with

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the Clippers. It's not with the
it's a it's not with the Clippers.

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So this when it comes to the
winning at the highest level part, this

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is that part. The money part
is next year. This year is win

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at the highest level. The money
part is not this year, because some

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will give him a bunch of money
next year. I think, I think

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probably if he does well. I
mean, I think between I think between

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the valuation of him in the league
right now is unduly low. You know,

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you look at this situation and you
know, at the end of the

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day, they can say they were
holding out for picks or whatever. The

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seventy six ers had no other offers, they had no better offer. So

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my thing is is if the Clippers
go out early first second round exit,

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James Harden flames out in a couple
of the games, I don't know what

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that future is going to look like
around the league. I'm not saying that

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he's gonna be He's not a men
guy. He's not done. But they're

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certainly not gonna. I mean,
there's not going to be huge offers out

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there. I would not imagine,
or maybe people just aren't willing to give

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up an asset, but they will
give up. The money just certainly depends.

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And then you know, with his
desired destination, Houston look a pretty

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damn good. I don't know why
you were at this point even bothered.

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Yeah, it's just one of those
things. It's one of those things to

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consider, like the value must be
pretty low, and so he could be

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getting himself into a mutually beneficial situation
regardless of whether he stays here or not.

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Yeah, it's I don't know.
I hope he plays well enough and

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the Clippers go far enough he gets
a bunch of money next year, because

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I don't think it's going to be
from the Clips. So you want him

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gone. I don't want him gone. I want him I want I want

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the Clippers to win a chip and
James Harden helps to contribute, and then

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then you say see you later.
Well, and then he gets signed for

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way too much money. Then someone
gives him like a bunch of money and

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he's like and everybody's everybody's kind of
happy. It's good. Yeah, like,

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if you're listening to this and you
don't like James Harden, the best

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case scenario is that he balls out
with the Clippers to the point that someone

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overpays him, and then we say, all right, thanks, thanks James,

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Thanks James. Hey great James.
Well, we got some questions from

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Clippers fans taking it back to Twitter
Tuesdays on the old podcast we used to

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do, Anthony Luci asked, just
read the interview with James Harden in The

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Athletic He said he is no longer
in a place where he wants to sacrifice.

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Well, he was talking about getting
paid and competing at the highest level

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for team cohesiveness this year. Do
you think that that mindset helps right now?

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So, I think this is a
bit of a double edged thing.

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I think, you know, as
I just said, he is in a

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spot where it is advantageous for him
to perform in his absolute highest, regardless

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if that means sacrificing, regardless of
you know, whatever it is. But

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at the same time, does this
mindset make its way into the locker room,

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does this mindset make its way onto
the bench? And that to me

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would be somewhat concerning. I say, remains to be seen. I do

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feel like he's made sacrifices, whether
he's calling them sacrifices or not. I

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do think we've seen that, and
we've seen him it even be bad for

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him at times where he's being too
deferential, right, we need him to

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be more aggressive, we need him
to be this. I am the system.

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I'm not going to sacrifice. I
want my money player because that is

406
00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:18,319
advantageous for both of us. So
it doesn't do anything for me negative,

407
00:28:18,519 --> 00:28:21,599
Like it's it's just to me,
this is James, Like, this is

408
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,559
James being James, and this is
hard. This is part of what you

409
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,559
accept, you know, when your
team gives up a first round pick to

410
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,960
him, and that is that.
That is what it is. Yeah,

411
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,799
he's not the way the league is
now. Also, every guy understands this

412
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:42,440
mindset. I think of wanting to
get paid as much talking you're talking,

413
00:28:44,119 --> 00:28:48,119
it's just this one. I can
never fall the player for You're talking about

414
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:53,400
generational wealth like you're building, Yeah, like in a span of what of

415
00:28:53,559 --> 00:28:57,599
like one decade if you're lucky,
you know, And I just don't think

416
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,559
that. And I don't think I
they to do with cohesiveness. He's not

417
00:29:00,759 --> 00:29:03,839
like telling players to get shipped out
to help his chances, you know what

418
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:08,160
I mean, Like he's not I
mean yeah, and him we're not like

419
00:29:08,359 --> 00:29:12,440
great yeah and like yeah, Like
I said, him being negative doesn't help

420
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:18,759
a payday, right exactly. See, it's all working together. Russ's legacy

421
00:29:18,839 --> 00:29:22,160
depends on this year. Kind of
Uh, James Harden really needs to get

422
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:26,400
a payday PG. You know,
there's a lot, there's a lot.

423
00:29:29,559 --> 00:29:32,960
Next question we have from agent Alvin. He said, is the starting line

424
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,480
up the best line up on the
team? If so, how come we

425
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:41,799
never close games with it? Ever? Great question, a really good question.

426
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:48,160
So I think part of this has
been terrences up and downs, and

427
00:29:48,279 --> 00:29:55,759
then yeah, I think no matter
what, you can almost just forget about

428
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,920
the vices Zubots being in a closing
line Now has he Has he done it

429
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,559
more than like once this year,
even through this stretch of play, which

430
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,200
I know that you know, the
Clickers went three and two. It wasn't

431
00:30:06,279 --> 00:30:10,599
ideal. Zoo was having some of
his best games and he was not in

432
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:14,319
the closing lineup. And I'm not
gonna fault that for every single one of

433
00:30:14,319 --> 00:30:18,960
those times. But I do not
see him as being as being a part

434
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,359
of this closing lineup. You disagree, Yeah, no, I I I

435
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:29,200
think that is the that's the simplest, that's the most that's the simplest answer.

436
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:30,960
I think you're right. Like Zoo, it's been how many years.

437
00:30:32,039 --> 00:30:33,680
I mean, like, dude,
it's just I'm sorry, it's not happening.

438
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,559
I don't make these calls. Yeah, I mean in Zoo, in

439
00:30:37,599 --> 00:30:40,599
his last five games, he's been
insane. Ye had twelve and seven on

440
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,400
one hundred percent shooting, and he
closed one of those games. Am I

441
00:30:42,519 --> 00:30:47,599
wrong? He had three blocks and
two of these games he went seven for

442
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:48,920
eleven, seven for twelve, nine
for fifteen. Man, Yeah, he

443
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,079
had some good he had some great
plays, but he's never gonna close.

444
00:30:52,359 --> 00:30:53,960
He's yeah, he's playing like the
best the best stretch and it's still not

445
00:30:55,119 --> 00:30:59,359
happening. And you know it is
high like switchability like and closing matchup dependent.

446
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,640
But we always talk about like wanting
more traditional sign I don't know,

447
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:07,839
it's the same thing that it's mixed
messaging from every like avenue when we when

448
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,640
we talked about what this team intends
to do and then terrors like it's just

449
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,759
the it's just the up and down
shooting. I certainly understand wanting to have

450
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,319
Morman closing lineups. I think both
of us were at is that you know,

451
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,559
Norm is the six man, He's
the guy who is probably shouldn't run

452
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:27,680
with the starters to start, but
should be getting the most minutes likely on

453
00:31:27,839 --> 00:31:32,440
the team of anyone off the bench. Yeah. With at least James Harden,

454
00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:36,720
Kawhi and PG you can get anyone
else. So that kind of starters

455
00:31:36,799 --> 00:31:38,759
right there too. Yeah, and
then and again, just from a pure

456
00:31:38,799 --> 00:31:44,000
team functionality perspective, TI like switchability. That's why Terrence is out there and

457
00:31:44,119 --> 00:31:47,119
things like that. And he likes
it late because it makes offenses have to

458
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,799
think more and weird stuff like that
if it's working. So fair question,

459
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,920
but I think will you also nailed
it to when it's like just more of

460
00:31:53,039 --> 00:31:59,160
the game by game kind of stuff. Yeah, well, what's the next

461
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,319
question? We got? All right? So blank Slay wants to know has

462
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:07,200
Tyleru really learned his lesson this is
this quote on going small or is Daniel

463
00:32:07,319 --> 00:32:10,680
Tye now his hybrid of a small
ball lineup to keep Zoo on the bench

464
00:32:10,799 --> 00:32:15,599
in the fourth quarter? Will Tyleru
try to get away with playing tys Burke

465
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,519
versus Jokic. Wow, there's a
long question. I was expecting it to

466
00:32:19,599 --> 00:32:23,039
be Charles. Why don't you jump
on in Just let's just address this first

467
00:32:23,039 --> 00:32:29,480
point first. Has Tie learned his
lesson on going small? Uh No,

468
00:32:29,759 --> 00:32:32,200
I don't think that will ever be
I think we're going to see that again

469
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:39,000
at some point. It has.
There's been some unseious lineups. I guess

470
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:45,720
the thing that I'm the most happy
about is that there hasn't been many minutes

471
00:32:45,759 --> 00:32:52,759
of them. Yeah, when you
play, you know, like I know

472
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,279
that's not necessarily good. I just
think anytime you're running three guards in this

473
00:32:55,359 --> 00:32:59,319
league, it's a small lineup,
and I know those aren't generally are closing

474
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:05,079
lineups, but it's still bleeding points
in the middle of the game is brutal,

475
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,759
and that's what gets the still small. And I don't even think it's

476
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,640
Yeah, I don't even think it's
just a fourth quarter things. As you

477
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,960
were, well, the starters,
the starters are plus twenty. Yeah,

478
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,359
there's not a there's not a beginning
of the game issue. Yeah. So

479
00:33:16,519 --> 00:33:19,960
I don't know. I don't know
if he's longing less about knocking small,

480
00:33:20,759 --> 00:33:24,400
he's not playing Tyson. I don't
think that will happen. Yeah, is

481
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,559
this all a big scheme that keeps
it to keep Zoo on the bench in

482
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,880
Q four? In Q four,
what if ty talks like a startup?

483
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:37,079
Dude, that's what question? I
know. But what if like we all

484
00:33:37,079 --> 00:33:43,160
to get better in Q four.
I don't think it's a conspiracy to keep

485
00:33:43,279 --> 00:33:45,720
Zoo on the I don't think no
matter who's out there, who's probably on

486
00:33:45,799 --> 00:33:49,559
the bench. Yeah, I just
think that is what it is. That's

487
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:53,119
just how it goes, which sucks. But I think he'll go small again

488
00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:55,519
and we'll probably be frustrated by it
again. We just have to hope what

489
00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:00,000
we just have to hope it happens. It not. In the playoff,

490
00:34:01,079 --> 00:34:05,200
Young Gabo says, why do we
see a mirror have a really solid outing

491
00:34:05,319 --> 00:34:08,880
than not play anything after? What
dude, it's just I'm sorry, it's

492
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,400
too many. You could play themall. We can't both complain about how this

493
00:34:13,559 --> 00:34:16,599
team plays too small and then also
be like, but Ameir needs more minutes.

494
00:34:17,119 --> 00:34:21,360
Well, I think the idea here
is you give him uh Pj's minutes

495
00:34:22,559 --> 00:34:27,519
Kobe already has and he's also significantly
smaller. Well, and Kobe's Kobe's playing

496
00:34:27,559 --> 00:34:30,559
poorly. Kobe has been very bad
at basketball, adressing that. Wait,

497
00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:35,320
let's address it. I was wrong. He's been horrible lately. I can't

498
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,480
pretend. I can't sit here.
I love him, I think he could

499
00:34:37,519 --> 00:34:45,679
be good, but he's been very
bad lately. Just give uh, give

500
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:50,159
Amir those minutes. I don't the
a mere song of them. How many

501
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,400
minutes are we even talking about here? It's been like thirteen fifteen, hasn't

502
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,800
it. I don't know. Let
me well, let me find the Russo

503
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:04,039
line up data. But I'm I'm
not saying like at I'm not burning down

504
00:35:04,159 --> 00:35:07,840
Kobe Brown island rot your oh he
brought your rush shift to get back the

505
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:12,280
same. I'm not burning it down. He's just been really bad lately.

506
00:35:12,639 --> 00:35:15,679
He's been bad lately. No put
him on the wing, but I don't

507
00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:21,280
know if it's gonna happen. He
also like like like, I like the

508
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,679
appearance. The appearance that they were
talking about is ten minutes. He was

509
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:28,079
two for three, he had three
boards, like it was really good,

510
00:35:28,199 --> 00:35:32,719
but like, we're not getting that
efficiency every time. But I wanted him

511
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:37,440
to play over PJ. Tucker.
He's not I wish that would happen.

512
00:35:37,079 --> 00:35:42,159
I'm on Adam's side. Adam's not
here, Adam's gone, but he was

513
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:45,119
on team play a mirror and he's
right. I mean, I'm on the

514
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:51,000
team playing mirr. But I just
understand why he's sounds like I just understand

515
00:35:51,039 --> 00:35:53,199
why he's not. I just feel
like he's the antithesism everything that we've been

516
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:57,440
saying. Why does Tide play too's
fall? Why do we sometimes have three

517
00:35:57,599 --> 00:36:00,320
four guards out there on out there
in a lineup? Those are just give

518
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,280
him Kobe's minutes. Give him Kobe's
minutes. That's all I'm saying. Again,

519
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,360
though, I'm just saying, you're
that's very small. That's a very

520
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:12,639
small lineup. Well that's because the
roster is poorly constructed, right, Okay,

521
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,679
so we're working with what we got. You got average Joe's in the

522
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:22,559
crowd given the too small to that
line too small? All right, what

523
00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:27,559
did Pedro ask us? Let me
bring it back this guy. See,

524
00:36:27,639 --> 00:36:30,159
I make these breakdowns for those of
you, for those of you knew to

525
00:36:30,199 --> 00:36:31,760
the show. I make the breakdowns, and no one reads that. I

526
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,639
always read them. I just have
it face. I was looking at some

527
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,280
stats. What stats, Kobe Brown
minutes, all right, they're not good.

528
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:44,440
Pedro Munos wants to know, why
do you think? Why do you

529
00:36:44,519 --> 00:36:47,840
think is Tie so reluctant to play
Terrence Mann more minutes? I'm sure that

530
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,679
is what's messing with his confidence to
shoot threes and be more aggressive offensively.

531
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,880
This is interesting because to me,
it's like chicken or the egg. Where

532
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,559
are you at on this which came
first? Is is Terrence not getting enough

533
00:37:01,559 --> 00:37:05,280
minutes because he's playing poorly? Or
is he playing poorly because he's not getting

534
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,519
enough minutes? I mean, he's
playing the second most minutes per game of

535
00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:14,480
his career other than when he's start
other when he started thirty three games in

536
00:37:14,519 --> 00:37:19,679
twenty one twenty two, Like he
should have started thirty four games at this

537
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:24,360
point in the season, with the
roster the way it's constructed and with his

538
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:28,760
shooting slump, I think you could, honestly maybe say you could be surprised

539
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,559
he's getting almost twenty seven minutes a
game. That's not I love Terrence,

540
00:37:31,599 --> 00:37:34,920
but like the shooting hasn't been there, the stars have been really good.

541
00:37:35,039 --> 00:37:37,840
He's doing what he needs to do
to open games and help the starters be

542
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:42,480
good. And we were just like, again we were just talking about size

543
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,559
and all that stuff. Whose minutes
is he taking? Right? Like,

544
00:37:45,599 --> 00:37:49,679
whose minutes are you going to give? That's not going to rock the boat

545
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,880
more to Terrence when he's shooting so
poorly, Like that's the thing. If

546
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,920
Terrence was lighting it up, I'd
be like, yeah, shoot him a

547
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,880
couple more minutes, But he's shooting
really so and how many more minutes or

548
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:06,639
do we want? Like I think
that this is not a minutes driven thing,

549
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:12,079
right, Terrence has had to once
again completely recalibrate where he fits into

550
00:38:12,119 --> 00:38:15,599
this offense. And he's not gonna
get a lot of looks. And when

551
00:38:15,599 --> 00:38:17,760
you're not getting a lot of looks
from when you don't have it's not even

552
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:22,119
looks, right, it's you don't
know on a play by play basis very

553
00:38:22,199 --> 00:38:25,320
often when the ball is coming to
you. And so if you don't even

554
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:29,320
know that, I can't, like, I can't expect you to perform at

555
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,639
a consistent level. But you did
even a season ago, because even then

556
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:36,679
you had some time to tie things
in pre pre trade deadline, you had

557
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:38,079
an idea of what the team was
gonna be, what the offense was gonna

558
00:38:38,079 --> 00:38:42,400
look like and this year you had
your benefit of actually having a camp with

559
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,760
your stars healthy, but you still
went ahead and made and made a huge

560
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:49,320
change. So I don't know that, Like it's not just a minutes thing

561
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,599
for me with Terrence. I do
think it's an opportunities thing. And he's

562
00:38:52,679 --> 00:38:54,480
lower on the pecking order, and
how you figure that out? Zoom We've

563
00:38:54,519 --> 00:38:59,920
seen Zoo be very effective in games
offensively, then he is still gonna be

564
00:39:00,079 --> 00:39:02,559
really low on that pecking order.
It's kind of an afterthought to figure out

565
00:39:02,599 --> 00:39:07,199
how he fits in that offense when
when you know, push comes to shove.

566
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:12,360
So I don't know. I don't
know that the I don't I don't

567
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,119
know that the confidence is gone.
I just think it's different. And once

568
00:39:15,119 --> 00:39:17,719
again he's had to change and he's
the glue guy now, like he has

569
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:23,360
to be so many things. Something
is going to suffer. And I think

570
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,880
that, like like I said earlier
in the show, the shooting is so

571
00:39:27,079 --> 00:39:30,960
bad, you have to believe it's
gonna bounce back. How can you possibly

572
00:39:30,039 --> 00:39:35,480
believe that he's gonna shoot seventeen on
the season. Do you want to make

573
00:39:35,519 --> 00:39:37,880
a bet? Do you want to
make a bet that he won't shoot seventeen

574
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,599
percent from the season. Yeah,
all right, one hundred bucks. I'm

575
00:39:40,639 --> 00:39:44,039
not going to know. I'm not
going to about one hundred dollars. I'll

576
00:39:44,079 --> 00:39:45,440
bet you. No, I'm not
gonna bet anything. If Adam was here,

577
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:50,159
he would bet you because he has
to get revenge for the terrence on

578
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:55,760
the John walbet Bud's clips are us
asked when Clippers go after Kuzma at the

579
00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:00,559
deadline with the twenty thirty first and
norm in coffee or is that not enough?

580
00:40:00,679 --> 00:40:04,719
Sorry for bad English if you see
this, No bad English, no

581
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,960
problem at all, a great job, Buds are us. No, they

582
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,760
would not do that that I would. I would cut my own head off

583
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:15,280
if the Clippers traded a twenty thirty
first round pick for kayle Kus. Yeah,

584
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,039
yeah, this is a great question. We appreciate the question. I

585
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:23,440
think that Kuzma, I just don't
think he fits. He just doesn't Fitch,

586
00:40:23,559 --> 00:40:29,280
He's not a smart basketball player.
Ty Lu and Kawhi Leonard would would

587
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:35,400
throw him off the roof of the
building. Kyle Kuzman is not He's a

588
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,840
good basketball player. I'm not saying
that, but like, I just don't

589
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,639
I don't know. I don't think
that a first round. I don't even

590
00:40:43,639 --> 00:40:45,599
know how much does he make with
that salary even work well? Like,

591
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,800
and in this situation where we're still
keeping James, because that's another guy,

592
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,119
Like, what value does he really
provide without the ball in his hands?

593
00:40:52,159 --> 00:40:58,880
He has taken he has taken steps, he's working defensively, but it's still

594
00:41:00,639 --> 00:41:04,159
it's just to me, it's just
not that clean of a fit. I

595
00:41:05,079 --> 00:41:07,320
you know, obviously he can be
somewhat of a threat off ball. He's

596
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:12,679
just another one of those guys that
I I think if you're evaluating the fit

597
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,199
objectively, like, let's say we
keep hard in next year. He make

598
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:20,079
twenty five million dollars a year this
year, Yeah, so would you want

599
00:41:20,119 --> 00:41:25,679
to give up norm in order well
and Coffee and then essentially and then essentially

600
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:31,440
because it's twenty five million dollars,
we gotta like Norman Coffee's what like seventeen?

601
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,960
Yeah, I think you're you're you're
pretty short there. Yeah, Like,

602
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:37,840
I don't think it's possible. And
the upgrade, and the upgrade is

603
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:42,760
essentially what you're saying is we have
the same we'd have the same starting lineup,

604
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:47,280
except put Kyle in the Terrence Man
spot and for that, for what

605
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:51,239
we're giving out, that to me
does not seem like a significant Okay,

606
00:41:52,159 --> 00:41:55,519
yeah, Norms at eighteen. Yeah, and then we'd still need to find

607
00:41:55,639 --> 00:42:01,840
seven, so it'd be Mason and
the first round pick. No, see

608
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:06,679
you at the bottom of the La
River. I'd be my feet. What

609
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,920
are these graphics of mine? Never? Does it mine? Where it doing

610
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,760
the thumbs up? If you're watching
on YouTube, you're seeing some great graphics

611
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,280
or not. Sometimes it happens.
Thank you for the question, buds for

612
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,519
us. All right, now,
we got some spicy questions. Love it,

613
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,119
We got some spicy questions. I'm
gonna get into this clip. This

614
00:42:23,199 --> 00:42:30,440
nuggets outro. Uh. Daniel m
asks will Russ. I believe he's referencing

615
00:42:30,519 --> 00:42:36,679
Russell Westbrook. Will Russ be on
the team post trade deadline? Yes?

616
00:42:37,519 --> 00:42:39,519
I think, yes, I think
for sure. I think if you,

617
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:49,039
I don't know, I don't know
what. Uh he's not on a large

618
00:42:49,079 --> 00:42:52,880
contract. He's making three and a
half million dollars. Yeah, yeah,

619
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,519
you can't. You can't really give
up a men for a man. He

620
00:42:54,559 --> 00:42:59,119
would have to be attached to a
bigger deal. I don't know how teams

621
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:04,519
value him. I mean, and
a half million dollars you're valuing it.

622
00:43:04,599 --> 00:43:07,800
That's a very nice. If you're
getting Russell Westbrook on your team for three

623
00:43:08,079 --> 00:43:14,639
it's solid, it's good. But
I just don't know, he's not like.

624
00:43:15,119 --> 00:43:20,960
I don't think they're not trading Russ. I don't even think. And

625
00:43:21,079 --> 00:43:23,639
I think I said how I feel
about how some just some of the decision

626
00:43:23,679 --> 00:43:25,639
making and how he's used on this
team. I don't think they should trade

627
00:43:25,679 --> 00:43:35,480
Russ. Yeah, for all the
campaigning publicly that Paul George and Tyler did

628
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,159
the day after the deadline, the
same day that Lawrence Frank gave his reasons

629
00:43:39,199 --> 00:43:43,719
for what they did at the deadline, the way they publicly campaigned for Russell

630
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:45,840
Rustbrook, if you traded him off, if they do what they did last

631
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:50,679
trade deadline, Remember when Lawrence Frank
was like, We're all these guards are

632
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,639
gone. Now you cannot use all
these guards. If they do that with

633
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:59,239
Russell Westbrook, then I think the
Clippers actually have locker room. Then I

634
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,119
think it's like, oh shit,
Oh, I mean, there's no way,

635
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:05,079
there's no way things could go.
There's no way they deal them.

636
00:44:05,159 --> 00:44:07,159
I don't think unless he says he
wants to be moved. Yeah, because

637
00:44:07,199 --> 00:44:12,800
I don't think. I don't think
you get it past the stars. I

638
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,559
think that's a hard sell for Tyler
as well. So I think he's definitely

639
00:44:15,639 --> 00:44:22,559
on his team post great and if
he's not, man that will that will

640
00:44:22,599 --> 00:44:25,920
be a lot things will be very
interesting. All Right, Well, what's

641
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,039
this next one we got? Because
this one, for some reason reminds me

642
00:44:29,079 --> 00:44:32,519
of something you would ask in what
way? I don't know read the question,

643
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,800
Husker Drew says. I know there
have been positive signs as of late,

644
00:44:38,159 --> 00:44:40,960
but when did they kick the tires
on the two and three era and

645
00:44:42,199 --> 00:44:45,320
blow it up like Brooklyn did the
KD Kyrie era. There has to be

646
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:51,280
some reason they're keeping Brandon Boston Junior
and Bones Highland, et cetera, even

647
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:58,360
though they're not in the rotation preparing
for the rebuild. Look, I think

648
00:44:59,159 --> 00:45:05,039
I think there were are probably one
year past too far on the blow up

649
00:45:05,119 --> 00:45:09,280
two and three things. At least
with a maximal return, we are getting

650
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:16,239
fully healthy season. What look at
the contracts. No one's under contract.

651
00:45:17,119 --> 00:45:22,159
Yeah, we like that. That's
what I'm saying last season would have been.

652
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:23,800
But like that's what I'm saying,
Like last season would have been optimal.

653
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:27,840
I just don't know what. I
just don't know what the value was

654
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,719
in the market. I don't think
that it was. It was positive,

655
00:45:30,599 --> 00:45:34,360
absolutely, That's what I mean.
Like this question, it's like not now,

656
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:37,960
I just think it. Yeah,
I think it might be too late,

657
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:43,760
and I think, who are all
up? You can do? You

658
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,519
could do the worst kind of rebuild, which would you let a bunch of

659
00:45:46,599 --> 00:45:51,760
people walk for nothing? Maybe you
can get a like maybe if you're letting

660
00:45:51,800 --> 00:46:00,360
there we go, if you're letting
the three of Westbrook Harden HANDPG ego,

661
00:46:00,559 --> 00:46:02,239
like, maybe you can work out
a sign and trade with one of them.

662
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,079
I'm hoping that you're so keeping Kawhi
in the same areas not gonna happen.

663
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:13,760
There's it's they're not blowing it up
there. They just and you look

664
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:15,960
at the nets. You look at
the nets too, and I mean they

665
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,519
had the benefit of both those guys
were or I mean at least KD under

666
00:46:20,599 --> 00:46:24,159
contract right like that. That's what
I mean. It's just it's impossible.

667
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:30,519
I mean, I yeah, I
don't know. It'd be a nightmare if

668
00:46:30,559 --> 00:46:32,960
that happened. For as frustrating as
things are right now, would you if

669
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,360
you're a fan listening to this,
would you honestly rather go through a rebuild

670
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,039
with the way that this team And
I'm not saying this would be the full

671
00:46:40,119 --> 00:46:44,960
thing. What about this team's drafting
would give you confidence that they would put

672
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:50,119
together a winner with draft capital.
I mean, I'm just my thing too,

673
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:52,960
is like, let's say let's say
we decided to go nuclear. We're

674
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,679
like, we're not gonna wait until
these contracts are up on the books and

675
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,400
rely on a sign and trade.
We're gonna trade everybody. We're gonna do

676
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:02,679
fire market sale at at the trade
deadline this week? Who is bidding on

677
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,599
these guys? Right? And I
don't mean that as a negative against anything.

678
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:08,960
If anybody is bidding on them,
it is a team that thinks they

679
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:13,679
are a contender. So very likely
let's say they are, even if you

680
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,480
get a ship done, thunder picks
they are, these are middling. These

681
00:47:16,519 --> 00:47:20,920
are middling picks unless you want to
do a deal with Funning and they can

682
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,800
basically do whatever they want right now. Yeah, I don't know if this

683
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,559
is going to happen, So yeah, like you're you're not in a situation

684
00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:30,960
for getting good picks. This team
doesn't draft that well, I don't.

685
00:47:32,519 --> 00:47:37,719
I I like things about the idea
of a rebuild. I just ripped one

686
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:42,079
year too late. And I don't
think at this point it's it's really an

687
00:47:42,119 --> 00:47:45,440
available option. No, and I
don't think Balmer do it either. Coming

688
00:47:45,519 --> 00:47:49,159
up, Thank you for the questions. They were sent into at Clippers pot

689
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,639
over on Twitter. You can send
them there. You can send them to

690
00:47:51,679 --> 00:47:55,239
at Clippers podcast on YouTube. Coming
up, we're talking Clippers versus Nuggets.

691
00:47:55,320 --> 00:48:00,239
Very briefly, we got ads coming
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692
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:01,079
that your case, go ahead and
turn it down. We got ads coming

693
00:48:01,159 --> 00:48:06,800
up in three two one. All
right, we are back and we are

694
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:12,559
talking the impossible problem. Excuse me, my phone is going off. We're

695
00:48:12,599 --> 00:48:20,840
talking the impossible problem, the unsolvable
equation. Uh huh. Clippers versus Nuggets.

696
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,880
It's happening on Wednesday. Jamal Murray
tweaked an ankle in his return,

697
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:29,719
which sucks. He probably will not
go. No injury report yet for the

698
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,320
Clippers, but those that's been pretty
chill, both teams coming off multiple rest

699
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:40,920
will what the hell do we have
to do to beat the Nuggets? Get

700
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,880
more shots up? Okay, get
more shots up, move the ball.

701
00:48:45,119 --> 00:48:51,880
I think, yeah, I think
if we stagnate offensively, this one is

702
00:48:52,039 --> 00:48:55,840
over and quick. Even if the
Clippers are playing like the defense that we've

703
00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:00,239
seen them play that we know can
bail them out of games, uh,

704
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,679
it will not be enough in this
one. So I would say, it's

705
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,079
really you know, this is I
talked about, you know, liking some

706
00:49:07,199 --> 00:49:13,199
of those close games, liking I
mean liking a comeback said, and this

707
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,559
to me is like, this is
the exact pressure could be. This is

708
00:49:15,599 --> 00:49:20,679
the exact iron sharpening iron thing that
we say cliche Alian sports, like,

709
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,679
this is the time to beat the
Nuggets. This is the time to like

710
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:28,719
make true on all these promises that
we've made, make a leap forward with

711
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:30,639
the little baby steps that we've seen
so far. But it's been a little

712
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:32,760
it's been a little wibbily. It's
been a little one step forward, two

713
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,639
steps back, et cetera, et
cetera. Now is the time to really

714
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:42,599
lock that in. You want the
perfectly made Sunday, No, you want

715
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,920
no whole oreos inside. And when
I was a kid, I would get

716
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:50,159
the Sundays at Dairy Queen I would
get I would get the mint flavor,

717
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:55,039
which feels really it was like mint
syrup on top of it's a Sunday man.

718
00:49:55,199 --> 00:49:59,679
That's not It's always been an ice
fam Oh my badd Okay, I

719
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:05,920
didn't. I was talking to Chief
Chief. Yeah, what the hell is

720
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:12,440
this? Agreed about the stagnation.
The Clippers are twenty fifth and assists per

721
00:50:12,519 --> 00:50:15,119
game. We know that that's not
going to change overnight. But hey,

722
00:50:15,199 --> 00:50:19,400
let's not be bottom five against the
Nuggets. Let's average more than the bottom

723
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,800
five team against the Nuggets for assists, because that's how we're going to have

724
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:27,000
to win. Offenses usually get help
when you make the defenses try and make

725
00:50:27,079 --> 00:50:30,679
decisions. I've heard that and sometimes
sounds like it's for cowards, though I

726
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:37,000
say, one on one yourself,
use me clear out. Please. No,

727
00:50:37,199 --> 00:50:39,320
we don't need we don't need a
mountain of that. We also need

728
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,920
to try and keep the Nuggets off
the line. They shoot. They shoot

729
00:50:43,079 --> 00:50:45,840
the third fewest free throw attempts per
game. The Clippers. A lot of

730
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:50,159
people have been talking about kind of
shocking how little they're getting to the line.

731
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,920
Well, Jamal Murray is not there
to drive and all that good stuff.

732
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,800
And it's weird too, because anytime
we say that we play the Clippers,

733
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:59,440
I'm like, yes, you get
a lot of calls. I don't

734
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:04,480
know what I'm not complaining. I
mean I would come I complained. I'm

735
00:51:04,519 --> 00:51:07,400
complaining about against this team. I'm
not thinking that Sanigan's on the league.

736
00:51:07,599 --> 00:51:10,880
But well let's go. Look,
you're not gonna call something as serious as

737
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:15,320
Shenanigans on the NBA without without due
evidence. Yeah, I mean, but

738
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:20,159
we're giving the Clippers are giving up
three and a half more free throw attempts

739
00:51:20,199 --> 00:51:22,880
per game to their opponents than the
Nuggets usually get themselves. So we're already

740
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:27,679
kind of behind the eight ball with
that. So we hope that gets figured

741
00:51:27,679 --> 00:51:31,239
out. And we saw this in
the Warriors game. Paul George and Kawi

742
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:35,920
need to be good from the jump. Paul George was rough in that first

743
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,639
half against the Warriors. He totally
redeemed himself. Yeah, I was gonna

744
00:51:38,679 --> 00:51:43,800
say, I said first half.
I said, first half. But against

745
00:51:44,119 --> 00:51:47,239
this Nuggets team, a poor for
Like, it's not like the Warriors were

746
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:53,719
fully healthy against the Nuggets team.
If we fall asleep defensively, good luck.

747
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:58,480
Yeah. If we're on. If
we're on defensively, and Paul George

748
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:00,800
shows up with the defensive intensity we
saw on the second half of that Warriors

749
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:06,320
game. We don't have to have
all three of the Big three score twenty

750
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:08,840
plus like we can afford. Yeah, we can afford one of them to

751
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:14,239
be, you know, half a
terrible game. And I still think that

752
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:15,880
we can. I still think that
we can get through to the defenses at

753
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:22,599
that. Yeah, you still have
that, But the other two guys still

754
00:52:22,639 --> 00:52:24,199
have to go off. Like twenty
two people have to go off. Yeah,

755
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:28,199
two people have to score at least
twenty five points. You have to

756
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:30,599
put up points in this one.
There's just no way you're slowing them down.

757
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:35,920
No, it's not. It's just
not going to happen. What are

758
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:42,039
we hoping Jokic is held to He's
averaging a pedestrian twenty nine, thirteen and

759
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:47,039
ten. God, if we keep
it within two points, if we go,

760
00:52:47,159 --> 00:52:51,000
if he's up at thirty one,
fifteen and twelve, I guess I'm

761
00:52:51,079 --> 00:52:59,239
fine. Thirty one, fifteen and
twelve. He's playing incredible win in that

762
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:05,760
game. Maybe they want to like
he's gonna get his This isn't a not

763
00:53:06,039 --> 00:53:09,239
like Zoo did play some solid defense
the last time that he played against him.

764
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:12,360
He got all his points off free
throws. What did he go like

765
00:53:13,639 --> 00:53:17,000
thirteen for thirteen or something. Crazy? Yeah, that was crazy. That's

766
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:22,199
an anomaly as well. I wanted
to be below average, but he might

767
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:30,480
get his Yeah, I don't like
it. I mean, I want to

768
00:53:30,519 --> 00:53:32,239
see him put up. I think
to let him, I think you kind

769
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:36,960
of have to let him go.
You think, so, what do you

770
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,559
mean let him go? Just let
him go off offensively, Just guard everybody

771
00:53:39,599 --> 00:53:45,519
else points wise, because he can't
go off if he's distributing. If he's

772
00:53:45,559 --> 00:53:47,679
it like, if he's distributing,
I'm worried because that means that's why I'm

773
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:52,960
surprised he said more than his season
average for assists. Yeah, I guess

774
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:58,280
you have to limit one of the
things. I mean, i'd rather him

775
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,199
had your little digit assists and you
can put up forty points. I mean,

776
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:05,159
he's going to be getting absolutely roasted
on the other end if he's doing

777
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:09,960
that much off. Yeah, that's
true. Yeah, hold him to hold

778
00:54:10,039 --> 00:54:14,000
him to nine assists, tenn asists, I guess, because he's not.

779
00:54:14,079 --> 00:54:20,159
He's just under ten nine nine,
and then we get the win. It's

780
00:54:20,199 --> 00:54:22,840
that easy. If we put up
points in the offense, doesn't that,

781
00:54:22,079 --> 00:54:24,079
Like I said, you still got
to score, you get. I mean,

782
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:29,519
this team could have their best defensive
outing all all season and it wouldn't

783
00:54:29,519 --> 00:54:31,039
be enough if the offense is as
bad as we've seen it. If we

784
00:54:31,079 --> 00:54:34,679
see a five minutes scoring draft.
If you know, this is a big

785
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,920
Tylu game for that, and because
the starters have been good, so this

786
00:54:37,119 --> 00:54:40,880
is a really big test for Tyler's
bench now because the Nuggets are going to

787
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:45,119
be obviously they're gonna be missing Jamal
Murray. Most likely, they're going to

788
00:54:45,159 --> 00:54:49,800
be as healthy as they have been, much healthier than the last time we

789
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:52,559
played. And that wasn't our lineup
issue as an effort issue. But this

790
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:57,760
game, the lineups are going to
be highly and they should be highly scrutinized

791
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:00,960
after all the days off and whatnot
that the Clippers have had. And I

792
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:06,519
would be shocked if they show up. If they show up lethargic or I

793
00:55:06,639 --> 00:55:09,519
am going to be lived, I
don't know. I well, how about

794
00:55:09,559 --> 00:55:14,159
this, I don't know if I
would be shocked, But I'm not saying

795
00:55:14,159 --> 00:55:16,480
I'm going to be shocked. Yeah
I would. I'm going to be furious,

796
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:21,400
furious, Yeah, no, if
they if they come out slow.

797
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:25,199
Hey, that's let's hope for a
big second half. Player of the Game

798
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:30,679
picks the most important part of the
show. Who are you picking for Player

799
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:34,320
of the Game, PJ. Tucker, don't do this to me. Okay,

800
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,199
wait, we do we I have
to do something. I have to

801
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:42,159
mention one thing. There's a PJ. Tucker quote going around from that Hardened

802
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:45,199
article that says something like there's not
enough basketballs in the world for that team

803
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:52,360
in reference to the Clippers. Not
a big deal. This isn't a quote.

804
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:53,800
It's not like a dig at the
Clippers. Some people are taking this

805
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:59,360
as like a dig at the Clippers. It is. It's not that it's

806
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:07,519
not a big deal. It's also
it's not untrue right now, there's a

807
00:56:07,599 --> 00:56:13,320
lack of a we got some ball
dominant guys. We just do. Also,

808
00:56:14,679 --> 00:56:17,480
an aggregate account put out a tweet
that was like he hasn't scored in

809
00:56:17,599 --> 00:56:22,519
so many games or whatever, but
included two dnps. Don't include dnps in

810
00:56:22,599 --> 00:56:24,719
that you missed the boat on this. That's just a mean tweet. Yeah,

811
00:56:25,039 --> 00:56:29,159
just a mean tweet. So you're
picking PJ. Tucker though, No,

812
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:36,960
my playing the game. I'm gonna
go I'm gonna go Terrence, and

813
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:38,639
I think, yeah, it's just
I think that it's time. I think

814
00:56:38,679 --> 00:56:43,440
we see a plus forty percent three
point shooting performance. Still maybe not cracking

815
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:45,800
double digits point wise, but he
doesn't need to. He knocks down say

816
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:50,719
two out of three three's, and
does everything else that we know Terrence to

817
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:54,079
do. I think that could end
up being big enough to help the Clippers

818
00:56:54,119 --> 00:56:59,480
over the humping. What will be
if won a hard fought game. So

819
00:56:59,559 --> 00:57:06,880
you're thinking, like, like a
seven eight four stat line from Terrence four

820
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:08,920
seems really high. If he could
get to seven eight, if he got

821
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:13,000
seven eight and two, I would
be very pleased seven eight and two and

822
00:57:13,119 --> 00:57:16,599
like plus plus nine yeah in a
six point win. Yeah, I like

823
00:57:16,719 --> 00:57:27,960
that idea. I'm going I'm going
Norm, man. I think Norm's gonna

824
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:32,119
start second half again, and I
think he's gonna light it up. Love

825
00:57:32,199 --> 00:57:36,159
it. I think we're gonna need
him to light it up, but I

826
00:57:36,199 --> 00:57:37,519
think he's gonna do it, and
I think we're gonna we're gonna get the

827
00:57:37,559 --> 00:57:44,000
dub. It's time, right,
it's time. It's time to beat the

828
00:57:44,079 --> 00:57:46,840
Nuggets. Something has to change.
Come on, like the greatest movie of

829
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:52,760
all time. Something's gotta give.
Yeah, debatable. We'll talk about well

830
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:57,960
if Adam's second greatest movie. I
can't hardly wait wait waits to beat the

831
00:57:58,079 --> 00:58:02,880
Nuggets. Man, I'm bummed Adams
not here for this part. All right,

832
00:58:04,639 --> 00:58:07,400
we already addressed Kobe Brown. We're
gonna be back on Thursday with a

833
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:10,000
tripod and potentially a guest. I
haven't told you guys about that yet,

834
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:15,920
but Rod Benson is coming on on
Thursday. Fantastic played for cal played overseas

835
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,719
nos High Level Ball also has a
book coming out. We're doing a double

836
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:23,199
dip on high it's called High Level
Ball, and then in parentzes z no,

837
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:27,400
it's not called that, and then
we're doing a double dip. I

838
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:32,599
think Adam's not here to say that
we can or cannot, but neither confirmed

839
00:58:32,639 --> 00:58:36,800
nor deny. However, I've just
been handled a piece of paper with some

840
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:43,079
horrifying information that confirms it, so
we will be there. Adam's also not

841
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,079
here to say anything positive about the
Clippers heading out. Will you can you

842
00:58:45,199 --> 00:58:47,679
take this before we get out of
here and tell people where they can find

843
00:58:47,719 --> 00:58:52,559
us, or yeah, yeah,
look, the Clippers are gonna The Clippers

844
00:58:52,559 --> 00:58:58,119
are gonna end this streak of constantly
being owned by the Nuggets. Just this

845
00:58:58,239 --> 00:59:00,679
time they're not going to get their
pants pulled down. We're going to see

846
00:59:00,679 --> 00:59:05,320
two out of the three of two
one three plus hard and look very good.

847
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,039
Look there's a lot to like.
You know that, there's a lot

848
00:59:08,119 --> 00:59:13,800
to like, and it's only just
begun. Speaking of which, if you've

849
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:16,039
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852
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853
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:34,400
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855
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It is. Thank you so much. We will talk to you'all on

856
00:59:42,039 --> 00:59:45,599
Thursday, Double tip on Wednesday,
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