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Kawhi Leonard. He's bringing the and
one logo back that old apparel company after

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multiple and ones late to give the
Clippers the victory. Plus a block on

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Kelly Ubre, game saving block.
Clippers win in Philly one o eight to

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one oh seven. Welcome back in
the Clippers stock. I'm at a Moslin.

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Before we get to will Updyke,
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AM five to seventy KLAC Los Angeles
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and iHeartRadio station. Well, well, to me, this was the blueprint

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for the type of victory the Clippers
needed in this time of need, where

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they were reeling, where it looked
like they were letting go of the rope

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and letting season get away from them. I prefer this over a blowout victory

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in Philly. Honestly, you need
to learn how to win these type of

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games again and be reminded what it
takes to compete possession to possession. What

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say you, Oh, I agree
one hundred percent. Look, even if

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you're optimistic, I don't think that
this game had the potential to be a

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blowout game. Like, while it's
been critical of the Sixers and their level

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of competition versus the Clippers, you're
playing a team that's very good at home

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and you know, still still above
the play in team in the East.

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Like, I don't think that there
was ever the possibility that this wasn't going

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to be a back and forth game, barring some sort of like crazy shooting

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anomaly or something. I think this
is what's exactly what they needed. I

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agree with you one hundred percent.
Look, this is the first time I

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feel that they've actually overcome some adversity
in a few weeks, not just you

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know, not just battling back in
the fourth, but overcoming terrible shooting performances

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from both Kawhi and Paul George.
And I don't fault either one of them,

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obviously, you know, you don't
have that much control over whether the

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ball's going down or not. But
the way that they were able to stay

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committed to the game, and especially
stay committed on the defensive end, I

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think that this was one of the
This is the the most encouraging win I

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feel as though we've had in kind
of a while. If the Clippers do

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go streaking. This is the one
we'll look back on and say the season

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flipped here, something was born tonight. Let's hope, I really hope and

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that's the case, because I don't
know how you can't be inspired after the

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play from Kawhi Leonard late, who
went at his former teammate and Nick Matoom

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for an and one with the left
hand after having one with the right hand.

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After Philly continued to make tough shots
on the Clippers. I was extremely

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encouraged by the fact that Kawhi didn't
settle for jumpers. He got to the

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basket late. And part of the
reason it happened was because the Clippers went

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small and they spread the floor.
Coach Lou pushing the right buttons, Kawhi

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Leonard executing out there. Yeah,
yeah, it was. It was just

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absolutely great to see. And they
tightened things up on the fast break in

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this one too. I mean,
you know, it's contradicting what I said

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earlier. I guess some outlier shooting
performances from Kawhi and Paul George, and

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maybe this one is a little easier
to put away, but I still like

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that they got in the trenches and
dug this one out and you know James

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Harden in his return game too,
not perfect, just forty percent from the

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floor, but still fourteen assists,
sixteen points. I mean, it's not

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if you can get If you can
get that much out of James and a

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game like you got from Kawhi and
Paul George, I feel very confident when

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the Clippers are at But like I
said, it's aside from the box scores,

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really just that I thought the termination
to win was there in a way

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that I haven't seen this team execute
in a while. Like they were just

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they were really dialed in, and
even if they weren't stopping everything, it

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just it looked a lot tighter out
there. It wasn't perfect, it wasn't

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pretty. They didn't play their best, but that's exactly the recipe for winning

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playoff games. They often end up
like this and you're just a few plays

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better late. But you mentioned James
Harden. I thought he carried them in

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the first half with eleven and six, with getting up eight shots on the

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first half. When people have said, you know, in the past and

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some of these moments the crowd is
on top of him, he just goes

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into a shell. He continued to
take shots early and often, which I

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thought was very big for him in
this ball club to not just cower because

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they're booing him relentlessly in Philadelphia like
pretty much no other city can, and

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Jame Harden just absorbed it and played
through it. Yeah, I mean,

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look, that's what he needs to
do. And while I do think this

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role is complimentary to him in that
he doesn't have the same amount of scoring

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burden thrust upon him that he that
he has for most of his playoff career,

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I mean, certainly since Houston.
You look at the nets and then

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the seventy six ers, he doesn't
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that he had on those teams.
He is also much older, but even

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still, just presenting somewhat of the
threat completely changes the dynamics of how a

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defense can approach you out there and
opens things up for everyone else and lets

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him really exercise what I think is
the most genius part of his game,

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which is really like his eye for
the floor in his IQ for passing the

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ball. He is still an all
time scorer for sure, one of the

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best of his generation, but with
being a step slower, being you know,

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aggressive as he can can help open
up what I think is the best

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part of this game. He was
diamond out there. He had some unbelievable

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passes fourteen assists to one turnover.
I think he got Kawhi his first bucket

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that passed between two defenders. That
was That was a special performance from James

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Harden. It may not look like
it, only sixteen points, six of

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fifteen, shooting three of nine from
the outside, but he really set the

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table offensively, and with the Clippers
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I think they were three for fourteen
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He kept them well within striking distance. They're down for then PG starts

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to really get it going in the
third, really got it going, of

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course in that fourth quarter early on, and to me, that was the

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test. They were down by nine
a minute in to that fourth quarter,

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about forty five seconds in. And
what have we seen the last couple of

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games, the last couple of weeks. When that has happened this Clippers team,

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it would just break their spirit,
it would break their will, would

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just give into it. They would
forget that they could have a run of

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their own. And Paul George knocked
down a three pointer, a big silencer

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run type of moment there. That's
how I saw it. Will Yeah,

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no, I agree. Look at
the beginning of that fourth quarter, things

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didn't look locked in. Right off
to that Sixers were looking to extend the

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lead. You know, I was
clenched. It felt like the exact same

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position we've been in all like we've
been in multiple times. I really want

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to give credit though, to Paul
George, who I have been pretty critical

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of over this last stretch of games. I feel like when he looks disengaged,

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it's really really obvious, but he
was feeling it in Philadelphia to night,

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and it was absolutely huge in that
fourth quarter in getting some momentum going

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back in our direction. They also
two one three. They led the Clippers

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in rebounding. They combined for nineteen
boards. They had six offensive rebounds.

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There were a few highly athletic explosive
rebounds from each of them in the second

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half where they really had no business
getting those boards and showing that hey,

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the Clippers can rebound too. In
fact, they ended up with eleven offensive

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rebounds to ten for the Philadelphia seventy
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five in the opening quarter, and
it looked like the same old thing with

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the Clippers not putting together a better
effort in the rebounding department, and it

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took their stars to do the dirty
work there. So that's big to me

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too. Just getting the victory in
this manner. I think it's huge for

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this Clippers team. But time will
tell. They're in Orlando on Friday.

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Tip time for that one is at
four. We'll have pregame at three.

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Will Updyke has been our guest from
Clips and dip here on Clippers Talk.

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Will thanks for a little double dip
here, my friend. Absolutely my pleasure.

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Let's go clip