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everything happen, Adam Asley. The
Clippers hand the Utah Jazz just their second

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loss since January seventh, and that
is music to Clippers fans. Ears.

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Welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam
oslin to eight six six nine eight seven

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two five seventy. Eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy is the

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phone number. Coming up here on
the show. You'll hear from head coach

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Toronto lou You'll also hear from Marcus
Morris coming up this segment post game and

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the rest of the players after they
get what might be the biggest win of

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the year. Considering the Clippers were
healthy, we didn't know who would be

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back for this game. A lot
of guys were questionable, but Nicholas Batoum

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was back in the starting lineup,
and so were the two one three connection

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in Kawhi Leonard and Paul George,
who was on minutes restriction, still played

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twenty seven, still had fifteen points, and the Clippers were able to do

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something only one other team has in
the last month and a half. That

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would be the Denver Nuggets. But
this Utah Jazz team had won twenty of

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their last twenty one games and just
beat the Clippers by eighteen Wednesday night.

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Different Clippers squad. It matters who
you have out there on the court.

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People always say a win is a
winner, a loss is a loss.

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Those are just lame Ben mallor sports
cliches that he would go after because there's

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not a lot of truth to it. Who you beat, who you play

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out there, who's actually wearing a
uniform matters. And the Utah Jazz even

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had Mike Connolly back, a Clippers
killer, so they were fully loaded.

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He played twenty five minutes, had
sixteen points, had nine of them in

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the first quarter to match PG thirteen, who had nine of his fifteen in

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the first quarter. But the Clippers
were playing some really good defense early on

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and really holding the Jazz to a
one hundred and twelve. Yeah, they

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had the huge fourth quarter because Donovan
Mitchell went off, but overall they played

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some really good defense Donovan Mitchell just
made some really tough shots late to keep

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them within striking distance when it looked
like the Clippers who were up thirteen with

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just a few minutes left. I'll
try to find out exactly how many minutes.

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But Marcus Morris hit two big time
three pointers in the fourth. He

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had ten of his seventeen off the
bench in that fourth quarter. And what's

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interesting is the Clippers went ice cold
from distance from three for about well a

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quarter and a half now about two
quarters actually of gameplay time on the court

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from the six minute mark. In
fact, I put this down on paper

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because I couldn't believe this since the
Clippers are the best three point shooting team

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in the league. The Utah Jazz
take a lot, they attempt forty two

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of them, and they do make
a lot. They hit thirty eight percent

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or so from distance, even a
little bit over that. But at about

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the six minute mark of the second
quarter, the Clippers went ice cold.

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They would miss their next eleven threes
until Marcus Morris hit one with I want

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to say, about four minutes left
in the fourth quarter, and then he

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hit another. He hit two three
pointers within two minutes after the Clippers as

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a team had missed eleven straight.
I said it coming back from the break

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to Noah Eagle, but I was
like, they were due and the very

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next possession. This is not a
stroke of genius, maybe a broadcaster's jinks

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of anything. Maybe I was just
playing the odds. They were due after

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going that long without making a three
pointer, and it was Marcus Morris who

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stepped up at the four four three
mark of the fourth and hit a huge

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three to put the Clippers up by
seven. He would hit another. Patrick

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Beverley would then hit one after a
great pass from Paul George who used his

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pivot foot, turned back around and
saw Pat Bev in the corner. You

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got to guard that guy. He's
also shooting over forty percent from distance on

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the season. He's been a forty
percent three point shooter basically the last three

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years since he's been healthy with the
Clippers, but from December on the last

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couple of years he turns out to
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And this season started in December,
so I'm interested to see how things turn

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out for Pat Bev. He's been
a marksman from the outside, so he

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hits two three pointers for them and
the Clippers were up one O seven to

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ninety five. In fact, they
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up thirteen or two and a half
minutes left. But she knew the

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Utah Jazz were not going anywhere because
Donovan Mitchell, if you watched the Bubble

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last season, he did some historics
in that series where they were up three

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games to one against the Denver Nuggets, just like the Clippers, and the

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Nuggets came back on them, gave
them confidence the next time they were down

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three one. But he put up
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He and Jamal Murray, who coincidentally
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and they're winning Cleveland. He and
Jamal Murray put on a show in that

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series. And it's not like it's
the first time we've seen that from Donovan

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Mitchell, because in his first ever
playoff series against Okac and Paul George and

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Russell Westbrook, he was the best
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series that the Utah Jazz would win
in six his rookie season and people were

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starting to compare him to Dwyane Wade. Well, in the second half,

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he had twelve points in the third
quarter, countered by Kawhi Leonard who had

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twelve of his own. But Donovan
Mitchell had just six points in the first

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half, and he doubled that in
the third quarter alone with twelve. And

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he had seventeen points in the fourth
quarter and hit one of the toughest shots

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I've seen all season, outside of
what Zach Lavine did against Terrence Man early

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in a first quarter at the end
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Chicago about a week ago. But
he hit a shot, a three pointer

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to bring them, I want to
say, within three again, with Marcus

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Morris draped all over him, playing
perfect defense. He had a hands in

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his face. It just didn't matter. That was with eighteen seconds left and

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it was one ten to one oh
seven Clippers. Kawhi Leonard knocked down some

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big free throws, as did Patrick
Beverly. I actually liked the fact that

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they had to face adversity late,
not just from the Utah Jazz, but

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that looked like a clear, clear
path foul, and for whatever reason,

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the Clippers didn't get the call even
though they reviewed it. Even though Pat

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Beverley was behind the defense, Donovan
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and Pat Bev was behind him,
so I'm not sure why that wasn't a

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clear path foul. Two shots on
the ball for the Clippers, but they

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prevail. Anyways, they overcame a
lot in this game and beat what was

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the hottest team in the NBA that
had twenty one games. Slay the Dragon

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like it was sleeping beauty. And
I hope people stopped sleeping on this Clippers

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team and start to give them a
little bit more respect tonight because this was

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a nationally televised game. As Noah
Ego pointed out, So Kawhi Leonard getting

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twenty nine in his return that puts
him on notice. Back in the MVP

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conversation, I hope people are talking
about Donovan Mitchell in the MVP conversation.

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It's not right. They're just going
off of star power and what happened last

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year. Luca Donchich's name is still
there over those two guys. That doesn't

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make sense. They're still under five
hundred the Dallas Mavericks, but the Clippers

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will take the win regardless. It's
Clippers versus everyone. They're not worried about

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the national attention, but it was
just good to see this team be whole

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for once, even though guys were
on minutes restrictions. I felt like Nichols

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Batoum contributed. He had a couple
or at least one steal that he was

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credited for in the second half that
turned into a really nice play I think

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to Lou Williams and then to Reggie
Jackson got out in the open court for

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a bucket. But just seeing this
team start to come together, played together,

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and it's not easy to do that
when you have guys like PG thirteen

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and miss the last six straight games. Kawai had just missed a couple.

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Pat Bev had been in and out
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Nicholas Batuman missed the last two games, was in concussion protocol. And that

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those key players, along with Marcus
Morris, they put together a really devastating

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lineup late, a small ball lineup
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Quinn Snyder and head coach Ron Lou
who will hear from in a little bit,

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they were having a chess match.
It was interesting. It was Queen's

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gambit out there, King's gambit in
this case, and they were going back

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and forth with different rotation moves.
But the Clippers late were playing Pat Bev,

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Nicholas Battum Kawai PG, and Marcus
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death lineup, a sign of things
to come because those were all two wake

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us. Everybody there can get buckets
on one end, can neither hit three

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pointers like Nicholas Batoum and Pat Bev, who also has been getting to the

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rim. But then also you have
two of the best isolation players in the

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game, and Marcus Morse who has
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I think he also hit a jumper
in the fourth. Paul George, who

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had nine points on the first quarter, finished with fifteen, so he had

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six more points in the fourth.
Two of them were on some really tough

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step back jumpers over Bob Danovich.
All right, before we break here,

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we'll take a phone call Jose and
Southgate. You're on Clipper stock after they

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win one sixteen to one twelve over
the Utah Jazz with Adam Oslin. What's

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up, Jose, what's up?
Adam? Thank you again for the post

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game. And I heard him in
the pregame talking about thirty minutes away from

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stable center tip off. That's how
I knew after I was for sure going

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to call you because I knew you
were excited just for this game. That

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guy I was, I was all
jazzed up. Huh yeah, I know

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you did? I know you we
down the big best. What do they

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called? Oh yeah, the U
saw jazz Man after I saw were the

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futty thing is left? Quite?
Letting up play that bullyball with English and

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then Paul George shoot that ball out
to Beverly and then quite with those two

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rebounds. That's what I called.
I mean, what happened every what happened

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after that, I knew we were
going to win. Let's go, Clippers,

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Thank you, Adam, Clippers.
And I'm calling it right now because

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I probably won't be able to call
it after we beat the Left on Sunday.

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Maybe let's go. You're gonna lose
your voice? Is that a prediction

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already? You bring up those two
offensive rebounds by Kawhi Leonard late. He

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had five points on the fourth All
five came at the free throw line,

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and those two offensive rebounds you mentioned
the bully ball bully in the sandbox,

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as Noah Eagle would say, they
were huge they were critical. At least

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one of them was on Rudy Gobert. He was in the vicinity. Terrence

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Man also early in the fourth quarter
had a huge offensive rebound that he put

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back over Rudy Gobert. So after
Rudy had that twenty and twenty three game

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Wednesday night, just eight and fifteen
tonight, Clippers held him in check and

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they won the rebounding battle. Remember
the Utah Jazz were a plus eleven on

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the boards in the second half Wednesday
night. Tonight, the Clippers outrebounded them

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forty five to thirty eight. They
had eleven offensive rebounds to the Utah Jazz

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having six. And this squad is
fully loaded again and hopefully it stays that

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way going into that matchup, and
I hope KD is ready as well,

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and we get a real test again
between quite possibly what could be a finals

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preview in the Clippers in Brooklyn.
Nets. More on that, plus you

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will hear from the head coach Toronto
Lou I know I promised Marcus Morris this

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segment. We'll get to that too. Eight six six ninety eight seven two

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five seventy eight six six ninety eight
seven two five seventy is the phone number.

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Clippers win one six teen to one
twelve over the Utah Jazz, and

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you're listening to Clipper Stock with Adam
Moslin here on AM five to seventy LA

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sports two point two seconds remaining.
Beverley's gonna get bound baseline for sight,

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get it in, George, corner
jumper on the way, O Paul George.

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The boot shot goes. PG thirteen
finds nothing but Ninelon from just inside

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the ark. He's got nine points
and the Clippers go into the second quarter

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with a thirty one twenty three lead. Noah, you go on the call.

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PG thirteen hit that to end the
first quarter. Had nine of his

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fifteen points in that verse. Welcome
back, Paul George, Welcome back Kawaii,

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Leonard and Utah, Welcome back to
the Elkhom. The Utah Jazz took

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a one sixteen to one twelve loss
to your Los Angeles Clippers after they had

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won twenty of twenty one. They
had lost just one game since January seventh,

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and we're on I want to say, a nine game or ten game

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winning streak coming into this game,
and had just beaten the Clippers by eighteen

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Wednesday Night but that wasn't the real
Clippers. They didn't have their full squad.

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And when they do, and when
the usual starters are there, all

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of a sudden, it makes the
bench even better. And tonight the Clippers

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bench outscored the Utah Jazz bench forty
six to thirty. Sweet Low Williams had

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nineteen, Marcus Morris had seventeen.
Those two have been working very well together

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recently. That has been a combination
that has been brewing for a while.

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Now. I know you wanted to
talk about a mere coffee there because I

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mentioned the brewing. But he got
in I think at the very end of

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the game and the last or the
end of a quarter somewhere, because he

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played less than one minute, so
they just listed as zero minutes there.

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Terrence man I mentioned that put back
he had on his own offensive rebound that

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came in the fourth quarter. It
was a big energy play. Those were

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the only two points he had,
but they were big and the Clippers had

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just eleven turnovers after having eighteen Wednesday
night. Was my key to the game.

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Sometimes you bring the squad back together, guys are out of rhythm,

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the timing's off. No, no, no, no, these guys took

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care of the basketball. Kawhi Leonard
had four assists, Sergebaka had four assists.

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Paul George led them with five assists. Did have that turnover late,

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but the Clippers would step up,
they would hit their free throws. They

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hold on to win by four over
the Utah Jazz with the final score one

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sixteen to one twelve. Welcome back
into Clippers stock. I'm at a maslin

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Jeff in Tarzana. How are you? Yeah, I'm here, I Adam,

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what do you got? Jeffy happy? You know? It just goes

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to show you, Adam, never
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players. I've got a question for
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you have the answer to it.
What's the Clippers record when Paul George and

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Kawiet play? Because I was sharing
another RADI a station saying well, it

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doesn't count for that other team in
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So I was making the comparison.
What the Clipper record is when both of

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those players play or only one of
them plays. I got that for you,

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Jeff, I do have that for
you. How dare you question me

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like that? They're sixteen question.
Okay, fair enough, they're sixteen and

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three now on the season, when
PG and Kawuhi are in the lineup,

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when they have this starting five that
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and Patrick beverfully next to the two
one three connection, they're now eleven and

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two on the season. But that's
sixteen and three. That puts them on

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pace during a normal right eighty two
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It's a ridiculous winning percentage. Okay, yeah. The other thing. The

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other thing is, you know,
you notice what kind of slow they have,

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and they probably have more assists when
Paul and Kawai played. But here's

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here's the thing. None of these
teams, no matter how good they are,

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are gonna win when you have one
of year starters out. You know,

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even you get a team like Brooklyn, which the Clippers playoff Sunday night,

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they're not gonna They're not going to
be a championship team if they don't

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have those three guys running, which
they have. Do you not agree with

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that? No, That's why they
call it a players league, and you

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have to have superstars to have a
chance to win. You have to have

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at least a couple of them.
Well, here's what I think. I

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think the Clippers are one guy short, and I think it'd be very smart

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to go after Andrew Drummond, big
thirst. Thank you for the phone call,

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Jeff and Tarzana. I don't know
he's making a big chunk of money.

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It would take a lot to get
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you'd have his rights where he'd be
a restricted free agent after this season or

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not. He is a great rebounder. But I like the big men they

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have with Sergiobaca and with a Vizza
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those two players have because Sturge can
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He got it on Rudy Gobert early
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no, it could have been a
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second quarter, early second quarter.
He took Rudy Gobert out to the three

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point line and hit a three on
him attempt at five. But the point

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is he's a threat there and Rudy
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up the paint for everyone else.
So that's just so valuable to have a

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stretch five like that, who can
also go out there block shots. He

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can guard it on the perimeter a
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Vizza Zubots has just been a beast. He didn't have a great game scoring

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wise, only took two shots,
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He was the only one that had
gotten to the free throw line in the

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first half. I believe the Clippers
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They were both by Vizza Zubots,
so they finished taking twenty free throws

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in the second half of an interesting
cold game to say the least. Okay,

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I lied, We'll take a quick
break here. Well I'm back,

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you'll hear from coach Tlu Clippers win
one sixteen to one twelve over the Utah

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Jazz. Well, it ain't no
fun if you don't have all the Clippers

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playing. It's at least a lot
more fun. Love to see what the

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bench had done the last week or
so, and they had put together some

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strong victories, including beating the Miami
Heat. But now against a team like

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the Utah Jazz with all that firepower, with all that defense, the Clippers

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needed everyone. They're old slogan.
It takes everything kind of does. They

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hold on to win by four more
clipper Stock next eight six six nine,

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eight seven two five seventy eight six
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This is clipper Stock, you'reina in
five seventy la sports take the path that

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he tried to get it to him, but instead it's taken away by two.

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Top ahead. Williams Kids Projectson streaking
to the Rabbits for the right handed

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land and Clippers lead by seven on
the defense to offense. See I knew

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that play happened. Nick Matoum had
the steal and they got in transition quick

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there and the Clippers overcome one of
their coldest streaks from the outside. We're

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from the six forty three mark of
the second quarter till the six eleven mark

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of the fourth quarter. They didn't
hit a three. They missed eleven straight,

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but they came up with four timely
ones late. Marcus Morris had two,

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Pat Bev had two, Clippers hold
on to defeat the Utah Jazz on

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the final score of one sixteen to
one twelve. Welcome back into Clipperstock.

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Kawhi Leonard finished with twenty nine points. He also tried to yam one on

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Rudy Gobert where they called an offensive
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I didn't think there was much there. I thought that was part of his

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follow through on the dunk attempt,
but the Clippers overcame that too. He

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did have a really nice hook shot
over him in the first half. Lou

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Williams also, this is something that
we've seen going back to really last year

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in the bubble. There was a
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from Sweet Lou Williams since last season
the end of last season, and he

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had a swipe and score, as
Noah Eagle would say, in the first

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quarter. Finished with nineteen points.
Ninth straight game now he's been in double

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figures. That's a big time development. Was really struggling early in the season.

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If you have an apology for Sweet
loew Williams, eight six six nine

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eight seven two five seventy is the
phone number. But I do want to

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hear from the head coach to Ron
Lew. Another masterful performance by him and

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the coaching staff to get guys back
in sync right away. As the Clippers

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were healthy again with their usual starting
five, they win by four over the

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Utah Jazz. Here was t Lou
postgame? First off, was that the

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longest forty seconds you've ever experienced as
a head coach? Else? Uh,

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Secondly, you've talked a lot,
obviously, I'm not gonna rehash it about

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playing the pick and rolls two on
two and you want to just drive people

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on the float range. How do
you feel the team to deny because Utah

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took forty four shots in the paint
but only thirteen in the restricted area.

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Yeah, I mean, I gotta
look at it, but I thought our

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defense was pretty good, you know, until the heroics of Donovan Mitchell down

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the stretch, you know, and
you got going up thinking that third quarter

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were started making some shots. But
you know, I thought Pat Beverley and

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you know in PG, you know
we did a decent job when that first

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half and second half you got going. That's what great players do. So

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overall, you know, the fifth
death thought we were pretty good, you

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know, Alexai, it's to the
last LEXI forty seconds or whatever it was,

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you know, the games, but
you know we'll winning for it,

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thank you, sir. Next up, lot that that small lineup when they

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first got on the floor for that
fourth quarter of the team hadn't made any

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threes in the second half, and
then Marcus broke the seal with those back

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to back threes. Is is that
would you consider that a bed rock to

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that lineup working if you're going to
close games out small? Yeah, I

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mean I think you know, it
helps us defensively as well, you know,

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on being able to switch one through
five with that unit on the floor

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then also opens up the floor for
our drivers like PG and Kawhi to get

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downhill and then we got space in
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it's usually better force the defensive because
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mean, it made some tough shots, you know, they scored a few,

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but you know, overall, I
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what we're trying to do defensively out
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and better. But the offensive,
like I said, with Twin making two

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of those threes and then they put
go Beer on the path their path made

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two threes, I'm gonna really open
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We'll go next to oh it Ty, what did you think of how Kawai

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and PG looked in their first game
back and how big was Kawai's rebounds in

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that finalment in the offensive glass rusty, you know, probably were they were.

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They were pretty rusty hailing the basketball
time and you know, and that's

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that's that's always gonna happen, you
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but you know, I love the
way to competed, you know a public.

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Their compartitive spirit was great. But
overall, just as far as the

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floor game, I thought it was
just a little rusty, as far as

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the speed of the game, making
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that's gonna come back for sure.
Was it hard for you to keep five

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minutes down? He played a thirty
eight tonight? Well, kawa wasn't on

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a restriction. So the other guys
you've seen him play a lot of those

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are the guys there was only restriction
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jugging those guys in and now maybe
sure you you meet the minute the

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minute of restrictions. So we did
it and I was able still come out

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with a win. Thank you.
Thanks, We'll go to fire by eight.

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Coach, congrats on the win.
Thank you. At one point I

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heard Lou Williams say on the mic
dubbed portion of ESPN that he did not

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want to lose to the same team
twice, and they really it just seemed

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like they were extra motivated. Is
that something that you've seen in this weird

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season where you're playing teams back to
back like this, where guys are extra

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motivated when they faced the team two
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mean, then you know, the
best team at a NBA right now,

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you know, record wise, So
you know, we knew that they won

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twenty one or twenty one, twenty
two coming in tonight, and we understood

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that, we knew that we got
you know, got our guys back,

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and that we wanted to win this
game. And the guys went out and

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do the hell of a job.
Clippers improved to eleven and five at home

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at Staples Center, and I make
it twelve and five. They beat the

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Lakers there. Game one. Clippers
win tonight over the Utah Jazz one sixteen

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to one. Twelve. I don't
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are the best three point shooting team
by percentage this season and they go just

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ten of thirty. But when they
needed them late, they got them to

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drop. Marcus Morris and Pat bev
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in that fourth quarter. Clippers led
by fifteen with two and a half minutes

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left in the second, and the
Utah Jazz chipped away. It was just

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an eight point lead for the Clippers
going into the half, and we thought,

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oh, this looked like the Brooklyn
Nets game where they made that run

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going into the half and then came
out and had the huge third quarter.

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Clippers face the adversity, they fought
and they beat a fully healthy Jazz team

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even though PG thirteen was on a
minute restriction, just played twenty seven,

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fifteen points. This team isn't close
to reaching its ceiling yet and that's scary.

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And if you don't know, now
you know Clipper Nation coming up next.

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More Clippers talk here on a five
to seventy LA Sports Mounts pass on

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the near side office screens Williams left
wight three is a little bit long rebound

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Terrence Ban up across the trees.
Oh, we put it in for Gobert.

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Terrence Man all effort at Hart inside. If that's not a Pat Bev

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late fourth quarter winning type of play, I don't know what is. But

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Terrence Man has been following his leader
and Patrick Beverley and the way he plays,

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and that was a big one.
His only points in the ballgame came

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off that offensive rebound on Rudy Gobert. Clippers win one sixteen to one twelve

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over the Utah Jazz. Marcus Morris
finished with seventeen points, went three or

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five from distance. And I just
looked this up, and I know it's

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below his average right now on the
season, which is bad about forty seven

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percent from three. But in fourth
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percent when shots are at their toughest, when defenses are giving maximum effort.

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He's shooting forty three percent from three
in fourth quarters and hit two clutch shots

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with in two minutes of each each
shot from the six minute mark to four

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thirty something like that in the fourth
quarter. Here was Marcus Morris though post

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game on Fox Sports Prime Ticket.
Hey, thanks Brian U. I think

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this was the longest forty second to
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this was gonna be a heavyweight bout. You guys get everybody back. This

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is a team that was rolling coming
into this game. What kind of statement

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did you guys make taking care of
you taw tonight that's a good team over

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there. Uh. You know,
they've won twenty out of twenty one.

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We had the best record of NBA, and you know we mists on they

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get a win on our home court. They got his two games ago,

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and you know we four hard,
and you know that that was a long

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forty second but you know we came
out with a win and we're happy about

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it. Well, you guys also
went a long stretch in the second half

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without knocking down a three pointer,
and then in the fourth quarter you hit

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two big ones, timely three.
How did you that lift your team when

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they needed it the most? Uh, you know, just just just trying

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to find my way in there.
You know, Kay and MTGS do on

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a great job of penetrating U and
they can't guard them gods. So you

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know, just trying to stretch the
floor and you know, and knock down

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my open shots. I know you
said over and over again you're a hooper,

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but coming into this game, you
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You go three or five from long
range tonight, So how do you explain

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the career year you're having From beyond
the art? I dedicated to my sons

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man, you know, I'm just
I'm just out here playing. I'm having

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fun. Uh. You know,
we got a great group of guys,

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great coaching staff, and you know, I'm just knocking it down, man,

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and you know I'm just trying to
do whatever it take to help my

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team win. Well, it doesn't
get any easier for you. You guys

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get a date with Brooklyn on Sunday. What are you looking forward to in

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that matchup? No, those are
my guys over there, but we own

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one. That's all I can say. All right, thank you, Marcus

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Trying. There was Christina Pink on
Fox Sports Prime Ticket hanging with mister Hooper.

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Marcus Morris there, he had seventeen
off the bench. It wasn't easy,

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it wasn't necessarily pretty at the end, but forty seconds of hell turned

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into a heavenly victory for the Clippers. They take down the Utah Jazz,

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and right now there's just two and
a half games back of the Jazz.

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Clippers in that three seed. They
are a half game back of the Lakers

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for the two seed in the Western
Conference. You heard that at the end,

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Marcus Morris says, they owe him
one. When talking about the Brooklyn

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Nets. It was one of the
best games of the season in Brooklyn a

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couple of weeks ago. Hopefully KD
is healthy. Hopefully the Clippers come away

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from this one healthy and everybody's ready
to go again. Tip time for that

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game is at five pm Sunday at
Staples. We'll have Clippers campdown starting at

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four. Before we get out of
here, I do want to thank the

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Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Bryan
Semen, Ralph Lawler, big brother,

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Jake Warner or head engineer Staples Center, and back here in the bank,

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Zach Attack, Zach l Caldy,
all the good music. I told him.

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Put out that playlist like Ronnie Fascio
trying to bite a real chairman on

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the board. But still it's that
good. The highlights two until Sunday with

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your Clippers countdown shows starting at four
pm. I'm at a Moslin. We'll

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talk to you then and