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Parents bad as pure once again,
he's Clippers Talk. I got calls on

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Clippers Talk, immediate reaction and analysis
to today's game. That's what he's capable

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of, hosted by your pre and
post game voice of the La Clippers,

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Adam Osler. Just like looking at
the sun, you don't stare at it.

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It's too risky. You get a
sense of it, then you look

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away. Alright, all right.
The Clippers then go blind. They hold

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on after leading by as many as
thirty nine, they win by four over

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the Phoenix Suns one thirteen to one
O nine. Welcome into Clippers stock.

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I'm Autam Moslin eight six six ninety
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nine eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number coming up you're gonna hear

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from the head coach and the players
post game. I believe PG already spoke

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with the media. We are efforting
that audio for you now. As bad

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as the Clippers were in that fourth
quarter where they were outscored by twenty two

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points and Ish Wainwright had a twenty
point quarter, like he's Paul George where

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in his first game back against the
Utah Jazz, and that twenty five point

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come back. He had that twenty
point third quarter. The Sons made it

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interesting. They didn't quit, and
we talked about it early in the fourth,

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you know, with eight minutes left, Clippers only up by nineteen.

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Now it was thirty nine. They
shaved twenty points off that lead. If

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it was the other way around,
we'd be saying the Clippers still have a

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chance on this one, and the
Suns most certainly did even without their big

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three, DeAndre cp three, Devin
Booker Crowded didn't play in this one either,

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and they made it dicey for the
Clippers where they had to run through

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the table a little bit. Robert
Covington Roco came through with the big three,

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as did Isaiah Hardenstein, who I
don't know if he hit his first

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three in the first half as a
Clipper in this game, but he did

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hit one in the first half.
And the Clippers led by twenty nine at

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the half, and we're playing spectacular
basketball, especially considering they just reimplemented Norman

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Powell back in and for the first
time he played with Paul George. And

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that's when the Clippers made their big
run. In that second quarner, they

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went on a twenty one to oh
run as The Phoenix Suns didn't score in

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the second until it was a Landry
sham At three pointer and it came at

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the six fifty six mark, so
they went over five minutes without scoring.

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Clippers held them to nine points in
the second I believe that's the best mark

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they've had against an opponent all season
long. Holding them to thirty one in

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the first half certainly was, and
it was the worst first half the Phoenix

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Suns had all year. Now,
they didn't have their main guys, but

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the Clippers were just getting guys back. And to see Norman Powell come in

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late in the first quarter, he
drives towards the basket, shows that ability

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to get downhill to put that pressure
on rim. His first bucket is a

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layup and then he hits a couple
of threes and he started six of six,

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had fifteen points in that second quarter, had seventeen points in the first

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half, finished with twenty four points
in just twenty three minutes. That is

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a huge takeaway from this ball game
that Norman Powell not only did he come

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back, he came back and hit
the ground running. He was back to

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playing like Norman Powell, who is
one of the better second or third options

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you can have in this league.
For the Clippers to have him as a

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third option, a two way player
like this who fits in the mold of

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Paul George, of Kawhi Leonard,
somebody who wants to play defense, made

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his mark in the league playing defense, and then the offense came to him,

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just like Kawhi Leonard. Paul George's
offense came a little bit earlier,

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but he was still under the wing
of Danny Granger and guys like that in

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Indiana. But Norman Powell is a
bucket. He can score at all three

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levels. He makes it look easy, and he has that burst, He

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has that juice, that athleticism to
get to the basket and get easy shots

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and put pressure on the defense.
Where he attempted ten free throws. Paul

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George eleven Clippers don't win this game
without getting to the line. Well,

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they attempted forty four free throws total. They hit thirty five of them,

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and in the fourth quarter they were
not scoring many buckets. Katie Newton,

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our producer here, noticed this.
Midway through the fourth they had only hit

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three shots. It was the free
throws. That was keeping them around and

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keeping Phoenix just enough at bay.
But they outscored the Clippers forty eight to

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twenty six in that fourth quarter.
So there's something to be learned from this

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game. As well. As the
Clippers executed in that first half, they

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had a letdown in that fourth quarter
now that starters weren't in the backups were

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and they struggled. They had just
to slew a turnovers after they really took

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care of the basketball in the first
half, just seven turnovers in the first

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half. They had ten in the
second half, leading to twenty six points.

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After they did such a great job
in that second quarter turning over the

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Phoenix Suns over and over again.
First it was Roco, then it was

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Paul George with two steals, then
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were capitalizing on all these turnovers.
They turned those eight turnovers in the first

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half to sixteen points during that five
minute stretch where the Phoenix Suns went scoreless

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and the Clippers went on that twenty
one to oh run. It was the

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defense, suffocating defense, the type
of defense that makes Clipper Nation want to

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call them hashtag wingstop because with all
these interchangeable players, and guys who are

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positionless players, especially on defense,
like Roco, Marcus Morris, Paul George,

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Nick Batoum and Normal and Powell Now
and Terrence Man had a mere coffee.

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It's unbelievable. I've never seen a
team with this much versatility, with

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this many two way players, Guys
that can beat you in a multitude of

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ways, Guys that have very few
weaknesses. Now, some guys find their

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roles like being three in D players
like Robert Covington. They don't have to

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be ISO scorers like Paul George.
Not everybody's a superstar like that. He

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has no weaknesses in his game.
But what I love about guys like Robert

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Covington, and he said this yesterday
at practice, he brought up the fact

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that I can take the burden,
the scoring burden off the shoulders and the

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defensive burden off the shoulders of Paul
George. Especially I shouldn't say the scoring

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burden that's going to be on Paul
George, but what he does defensively makes

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the game easier offensively for Paul George. Because Roco, he embraces taking the

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toughest assignment. He wants to guard
the opposition's best player, and Paul George.

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I don't know how many times he's
had teammates like that with the Clippers,

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Yeah, because he's played with Kawhi
Leonard a Ton. But to have

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Roco accept that challenge, to have
Batoum accept that challenge. Norn Powell can

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guard one through three at an elite
level and at times can guard four and

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five and emergency situations when he needs
to. Terrence Man at times has guarded

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all five positions out there and has
been successful. A Mere Coffee We've talked

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about him being in that mold of
Nick Batoum and Robert Covington, A three

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and D type of player who has
some wiggle. Can you get to the

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basket too? Remember that three week
stretch this season where I want to say

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it was mid January, A Mere
Coffee was their best player. He was

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the most consistent player out there.
To have this much versatility paired up with

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a coach that is willing to tinker
and find the perfect positions that will make

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his squad successful, that is just
hand and glove, the right fit and

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this Clippers team, their versatility is
one of their strengths, as is their

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resilient nature. But are we a
little bit concerned with what happened in the

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fourth quarter? Maybe we saw what
happened against the Bowls. They were up

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by sixteen, they let that one
get away late. You don't want to

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be a team that can only come
back, but teams come back on you

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as well. You want to make
sure you close teams out. Now.

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They had done that the last couple
of games against the Pelicans and then in

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Milwaukee. But tonight they got a
little bit of a scare from Phoenix,

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ended up not getting burned. They
still win by four, final score one

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thirteen to one. On nine,
we'll take a quick time out here on

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Clippers stock. We'll come back.
We'll get to your phone calls. I

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see TGS and Morris are online eight
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eight six six ninety eight seven two
five seventy. I'm out a Moslin.

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You're listening to Clippers stalk. You're
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it it didn't go it back.
I'm a hawk, s Sam, you're

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listening to Los Angeles Clippers basketball.
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but sky scraping jam. This is
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I don't know, but today Slippers
hold on no bucket from the doll

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no small. They win one thirteen, so one O nine after leading by

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thirty nine, but over the Phoenix
Suns. I'm out a Moslin. This

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is Clippers Talk. Eight six six
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talks a little bit about Norman Powell and

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his return. Understandably, he was
fantastic tonight six of ten, but started

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six of six at fifteen points in
the second quarter, finish with twenty four

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and twenty three minutes. But Paul
George had ten points in the first six

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minutes of the first quarter. He
finished with nineteen and got to the free

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throw line over and over again.
But the high level passes that he made

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tonight, the kickouts he made just
his playmaking, and we've seen it since

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he's returned. And we should also
say congratulations of Paul George. He reached

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the fifteen thousand career point mark.
There's only one hundred and forty four players

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who have ever scored that many points. There are sixteen active players right now.

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Fifteen thousand points congratulations of Paul George. But it wasn't a scoring that

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wowed me in this one. It
was a kickout pass to Norman Powell in

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the first half, underneath the basket, one to Marcus Morrison the third quarter,

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a pass ahead to Terrence Man getting
in transition his vision, and that's

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something they worked on since he's been
a Clipper but a lot last year,

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that playmaking. That is the one
area that he could still improve in,

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and he's good. He's definitely not
flawed in that area. But he can

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also raise his game with his passes, with his dishes because they load up

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on him all the time, and
the Clippers have shooters everywhere and guys that

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are unselfish players that are looking for
the basketball that are also making the game

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easier on Paul George, and he
knows that and he wants to reward those

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teammates, and he did so tonight. He was a plus thirty one.

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That was the plus minus high for
any Clipper in this game. They led

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by as many as thirty nine.
They win one thirteen to one on nine.

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Let's go to Morris and Long Beach
to start things off here. On

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Clippers Stock Morris, what's up.
It's amazing how three guys can change the

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destiny of a team. I'm talking
about Paul Covington and Paul George. Unbelievable.

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And I'm gonna tell you something.
I don't care what happened in the

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fourth quote. I saw the game. I don't care who's the Clippers played

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tonight. It didn't make no difference
wherever the Clippers players. They were gonna

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lose. They were gonna lose with
these guys. These guys are ready to

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play right now. I mean the
other day, it was the Milwaukee game.

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It was the Milwaukee game. I'll
never forget this. They showed the

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camera on Tyrone Lou. I think
I shared this with you, and Tyrone

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Lou looks like he found a whole
lot of money but didn't want to tell

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nobody if he knows he's got a
team now. I know he's got a

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team now, and I think the
NBA recognizes it too. And you do.

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Like the pretty Gold breaks people's hearts, the boys heart. Sometimes somebody

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gonna get their heartbroken in the first
round. You watch what I'm sharing with

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you. I'll talk to you later. Double all right, Morris to get

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there. The Clippers have to win. Well, they win their first playing

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game, that would be the seven
eight matchup, they'll be in the eighth

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spot. It looks like they'll be
playing Minnesota, but it's not concrete yet.

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But if they won that, they
would become the seventh seed. If

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they lost that game and they won
the next one against the winner of the

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nine ten playing they would become the
eighth seed and take on the Phoenix Suns.

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So a big game and a variety
of ways tonight for the Clippers.

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Tags and Walnut, you're a Clippers
stock without Aim Awsome. What's up,

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Gray, Adam? What's up?
Great to see Norm back on the court.

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You can almost play devil's advocate whether
you wanted to bring him off the

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bench or start them to bring him
off the bench. He can, you

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know, help you know what really
matters, Tags, those closing lineups,

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that's what matters most, or the
lineup to get you back into a game

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if you're down, and Coach Lew's
gonna find those combinations and rotations. Yeah,

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I agree, It's just we used
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had that habit of getting down early
on in the with our starters sometimes.

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So I guess he could always plug
in Norman if he wants a little earlier.

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But I was just gonna talk about
a Roco when we lost Pat Bev.

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I feel like if you had to
find a replacement, Roco would be

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almost that fit at what Pat Bev
gave. I mean, they both play,

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like you know, with their hearts. They both played great defense,

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excellent defense. They both make those
timely threes and and what's underrated is that

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they always end up to end up
finding that loose ball, Like if you're

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up one and you miss and they're
like ten seconds left. You know,

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Pat Bev would always find that loose
bawn. Roko does the same thing.

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So time the offensive rebounds too,
Yeah, he always finds those. And

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those are game winning players that Pat
Bev used to, you know, provide

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us. And you can see that
in Roco and it. And the good

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thing is is I'm pretty sure we
have his bird right. So it doesn't

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hurt to have an owner with deep
pockets and pay him a little bit more

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and keep him a Clipper for a
long time. But I'm hoping that Roco

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makes All NBA Defensive team. This
here, what do you think he should

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ninety steels, ninety blocks, he's
been a menace. He's been even better

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as a Clipper. It's hard to
make as much of an impact with that

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Portland Trailblazers team because there were just
too many holes on the defensive end.

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There are too many leaks. He
can't cover them all up. It's a

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whack a mole. And as good
as he is on a team like that,

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if you only have one good defender
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it's hard to make as much of
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team, they play five guys on
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the majority of this season. Now
there's been some slippits recently. Coach Lewis

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talked about that, but since Paul
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the tone on that end. And
he had three steals and two blocks in

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this one. The Clippers had nine
has a team. Hardenstein had a couple

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of great blocks in this game.
Speaking of coach lew we'll take a quick

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time out, we'll come back.
We'll hear from him. After the Clippers

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hold on. They were up as
many as thirty nine. They win one

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thirteen to one on nine over the
Phoenix Suns and then there were two just

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two more games, game eighty one
and eighty two, both of them coming

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up this weekend. When don't you
know what this Clipper schedule this season?

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They would end things off with a
back to back against Sacramentum and against Okay.

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See, they still have an opportunity
to finish this year above five hundred.

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They have the current record. They've
had ten straight seasons of winning basketball,

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but trying to get to eleven.
I heard from Zubot's post game with

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Noah Eagles say that there's a goal
of nurse and then they'll have an opportunity

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to do so. Coach lew up
next year on Clipper Stock on Amp five

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seventy ELI Sports, Timahawks Slam.
You're listening to Los Angeles Clippers basketball,

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ram Us Sky scraping Jam. This
is the fish a home of your LA

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Clippers. Don't like it, don't
glam playing in the hell. Money to

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pay down for my dog that's locked
in the bang when you hit the break

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to you whip money. Come on, Clippers, make it three in a

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row. They win one thirteen to
one on nine over the Suns. They

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led by as many as thirty nine
and they were close to having a five

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game winning streak. They've won four
or five. That lone loss came in

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overtime against the Chicago Bulls in a
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Paul George wasn't able to play an
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tonight. Norman Powell returned on one
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In twenty three minutes he had twenty
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the field. And it's just so
smooth with it, like Paul George effortless

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makes it look so easy out there, getting shots up and getting by defenders.

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And I can't stress this enough of
how much he's in the mole of

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a clipper. Well, he won
a championship with Kawhi Leonard in twenty nineteen

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in Toronto, and they've got a
great culture there too, and those guys

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play both ways. But he hung
his hat on his defense to start his

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offense came around and now he's got
a bag. He's got a bag of

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tricks. He's got a lot of
different moves he can beat you with.

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And to be playing off of Paul
George now and we're still hoping, obviously

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for Kawhi Leonard, but we don't
know he was at practice but was just

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shooting around by himself early before practice
yesterday. But this team, they're building

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things the right way. The team
building by this front office has been damned

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near perfect. I think they're the
best front office in sports. MAT's with

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the best owner and the best head
coach in the NBA. And now they

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got the roster if they can't get
healthy. I said this on Twitter.

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Who's a more dangerous seventh and eight
seed you've seen? Okay, yeah,

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the Brooklyn Nets you could say that
as well. This season. It just

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so happens both of the most dangerous
teams at the bottom of the standings that

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we've seen because injury influenced records.
That's what it's been with the Clippers.

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But they're still forty and forty somehow. Paul George's only played thirty games,

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but Toomas missed twenty so games,
twenty or so games, same with Marcus

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Morris, Kawai hasn't Kway hasn't played
in the game all season, and they're

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still right now at five hundred with
a chance to finish this season over five

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hundred for the eleventh straight year.
Longest streak in the NBA. Let's hear

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from coach lu though post game Clippers
win by four over the Suns and downtown

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Los Angeles here, who's your head
coach? How do you feel like Norm

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made it on it tonight? He
made the day. He feels good,

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no injuries, the way you play
was good, and just see MBA attack

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the basket, make shots and just
have good to see him on the floor.

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Is there anything in particular as far
as who he was playing with that

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you felt particularly encouraged by or I
got to look at the film and check

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it out, but you know,
still kind of messed up because Luke was

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on the floor, so trying to
figure out our lotations once Luke get back.

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Luke gets back and so but like
seeing him on the floor with PG

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and Reggie, you know, a
little bit was encouraging and just not just

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gotta get him caught up on the
plays and just how we want to play

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when he's on the floor. But
you know, like you said, you

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can seek to score the basketball at
ease and get to the free throw line,

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get to the basket and make his
open shots and sot of just encouraging

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to see on the floor midway through
the third quarter. Even when you were

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guys were up by thirty nine,
there was a couple offensive possessions where you

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didn't look happy, like I remember
specifically Reggie through an alley with to PG.

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You were not happy with the set
that they ran, even though you

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know the lead dwindled. Do you
kind of look at a game like this

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where you won, but there's also
a lot of things that you can take

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from it to kind of preach to
the guys. Really, and I thought

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we played a hell of a game, you know. I just think,

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you know, we gotta do a
better job just running through the finish line,

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you know. And you know,
being up thirty nine point six,

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team's gonna continue to keep playing,
you know, Monty Williams, you know,

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coach of the Year on the job. He's done, So the guy's

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gonna keep playing. But you know, if we'd got our starters back in

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the game, of course, you
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But I wasn't bringing them back,
So you know, just play the

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right way. You know. We
we came out of time out three times,

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we ran the wrong play, was
in the wrong spots, you know,

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So those are things we got continue
to stay focused on even when we

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were up big big, So just
can never relax because you never know what

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happened. You know, we were
down thirty five and came back in one,

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and you know they were down thirty
nine almost came back and one you

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know as well. So you can
never relax in the NBA. You know

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these the players are too good,
the coaches are too good, and soon

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as you let your guard down,
things like this happened. So it still

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learn learning experience from that standpoint.
But you know, the first three quarters,

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you know, I d see some
good things. You know what our

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team can be. And now we
got to incorporated Luke and just kind of

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see what our rotation is gonna be
and what it looks like come Saturday.

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A couple of minutes, you ran
Nico, Rocco and pg together for a

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couple of minutes, and again,
what did you make of them? I

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can't remember, I not really can't. I know, I'm serious, I

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gotta watch it. I really don't
remember. But I wanted to get to

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norm pg Roll called Nico and Marcus
one time, but we didn't get a

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chance to get to that. But
what what tried out on Saturday? And

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just kind of see how it looks. How's Luke do you do? You

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know it is this gonna be like
a any idea? Aston just be a

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one game thing, I think.
And so he had two days off,

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and it had today, which is
three and then two more. So it's

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five days off and hopefully he feels
better about them. Okay, hey,

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coach, try do you think you
guys handled the physicality day prop tonight?

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I thought we were good outside of
the fourth quarter. You know, I

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thought they'd got a lot of offensive
rebounds. You know, beyond Bo was

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physical his physicality in the fourth quarter. But the first three quarters, I

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thought we did a good job of
just you know, rebounding to basketball.

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They missed some shots, one scoring
nine points in that second quarter, so

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it's gonna be some offensive rebounds that
they get. But I thought physicality was

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We did a good job of helping
their physicality pretty well. What would you

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say you was concerned about the way
you guys finished to you need to finish

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to go across the tape. I
guess how do you do that? What

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do you talk to your players about
the last year we had in you know,

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they haven't played together a lot and
you know, I think you know

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with team Man, you know,
playing a point, they got him,

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pressured him a little bit, and
so we really couldn't run the offense.

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But we want to run the offense, and they got they did a good

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job of just getting into us and
I'm pressured us and so we didn't handle

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that very well. But you know, I mean, once you get normal

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PG or Reggie back on the floor, that could easily change. But we're

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gonna bring our guys back, and
they took advantage of that, and so

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you know, that's the learning experience
for our young guys as well. Continue

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to play through the game. You
can't relax, can't get comfortable, and

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like I said, you know,
Money's gonna you know, a hell of

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a job of building that culture over
there, and you can never give up.

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You know, you never know what's
gonna happen. And like I said,

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that's why he's my culture the year
this year. It's not just about

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learning from failures. You can learn
in victory too, and Coach Flew they

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are talking about them runs through the
tape. Don't be like Kenny Smith,

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be like c Webb on the NBA
and TNT. If you guys remember that

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moment, Clippers win one thirteen to
one oh nine. They went by four

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after leading by as many as thirty
nine on the Phoenix Suns. Coming back,

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We'll preview the final two games of
the season starting Saturday. Clippers speaking

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to see Webb and Kinks from the
crypt I'm out of Maslin. You're listening

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to a five seventy l A Sports. I'm the kitchen dadon come in time

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Hawks Slam. You're listening to Los
Angeles Clippers basketball. He goes all the

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way to the ram sky scraping jams. This is the official home of your

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LA Clippers. Clippers win one thirteen
to one on nine over the Phoenix Suns

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after leading by as many as thirty
nine. I'm out of Maslin. This

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is clip or stalk. I just
saw this quote from Norman Powell and came

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back and at twenty four and twenty
three minutes said it's regarding if they have

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enough time to build up that chemistry
quote. We have a pretty veteran team.

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To plug in me and PG and
get us back up to speed and

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healthy, I think is going to
be really easy, and mentioned the depth,

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reminding him in the firepower of the
twenty nineteen Toronto Raptors that won at

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all, and I think it's a
good lesson and what this Clippers front office

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has done with putting together guys that
fit. If you look across the hall,

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and I'm not trying to pile on
the Lakers do that in my NBA

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reports, but that's a different Adam. They had guys like Anthony Davis played

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forty games, Lebron played almost sixty. Westbrook played almost every game, and

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somehow it didn't matter. They didn't
even make the play it. Clippers are

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forty and forty and Kauai hasn't touched
the court. Yes, I mean figurably

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speaking, but Paul George has only
played thirty games. Norman Powell has played

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four and he looks this good.
And guys have come back and jailed that

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quickly. It's because they fit together. There's chemistry, there's games that mesh

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So credits at the front office and
coach Lou we're putting guys in the right

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position. Clipper's next game coming up
Saturday against the Kings and downtown Los Angeles

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tip time six thirty. We'll have
Clippers countdown at five thirty before we get

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out of here. I do want
to thank the Clippers organization. Noah Eagle,

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Bryan Seaman, Ralph Lawler, Big
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Agustinos, statistician, producer Katie Newton. Here in the bank until Saturday at

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five thirty with the pregame show.
I'm Adam Moslin, Furty more, Honey

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more, Limon, I'm gonna go
suck a lemon. Let's talk down Saturday.

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