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Clippers lose in New Orleans to the
Pelicans one twelve to one oh four,

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as Zion Williamson had thirty four points
made eight straight buckets at one point.

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Leppers tried just about everything. Their
offense really ran out of steam late as

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well. Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm in a moslem. We'll get

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back to your phone calls. Eight
sixty six ninety eight seven two five seventy

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Morris Tage. Just hold on.
First, we got Chuck maclron from Clips

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and Dip. Chuck, what's the
biggest warning sign to you regarding this Clippers

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team right now, aside from just, you know, the losing, give

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me something at a more granular level. Well, I don't know how much

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granular this what I'm about to say
is other than the losing, but you

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and I talked about it for ninety
just barely ninety seconds before I came on

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here. It's the defense, right
like this team had a bit of a

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defensive identity for a little bit,
but right now that you know, TYLERU

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talked about it at the end of
this game, about how Zion took over.

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We've seen guys like Ant, you
know, takeover against the Clippers.

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There's a defensive issue right now.
If guys are able to quote unquote takeover

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this often against this team. And
yes, we were shorthanded, Terrence was

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hobbled, you know, you know
all that stuff. But the Clippers got

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and I'll say it, I will
say it, the Clippers got good stuff

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from three J. Tucker tonight and
still we're not able to get a win.

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He played the defense they needed and
things like that. But for me,

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it's got to be the defense.
I think it's fair at this point

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twenty games, I mean since February
first, they are twenty fifth defensively over

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a twenty game stretch, and I
thought there were moments they played really good

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defense. The first half. It
was a low scoring affair. Both teams

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had to earn everything. But you
start to load up on Zion and was

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dangerous or what makes this new Oral
as Pelicans a dangerous team to me is

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because they're so balanced, like they
could score on the interior, but they're

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also a really good three point shooting
team. So when they did try to

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give more attention to Zion, understandably, they also got picked apart along the

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perimeter and big shots were made by
the Pelicans. It's just you see guys

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like Marshall and Murphy. He's become
a Clippers killer. Even though CJ.

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McCollum has eleven points and Brandon Ingram
has thirteen, they still lose this game.

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And also to me, we talk
about the defense, but offensive execution

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late they had four points in almost
the last five minutes. The Clippers of

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this one shot. Yeah, yeah, it's it's just something you know,

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and it is fatigue, right,
like I don't because of how the schedule

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makers did the Clippers, those of
us who talk about the team do have

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to mention it because it is not
easy to play five games in seven,

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ninth or whatever. This was back
to back, obviously never easy. The

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Clippers are I think, what eleven
and one against teams on the second hand,

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but back to back. But there
was tired legs you shot with this

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with the shot selection. You mentioned
the low scoring output towards the end of

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this game, and some of the
shot selection was just guys looking tired,

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right, And I'm not here to
blame guys for looking tired. This is

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a brutal schedule, but we're not
in a position where there's any real moral

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victories from the Clippers right now,
right like the Clippers need when it does

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seem like we're on a path to
play the Pelicans in the first round,

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be that with home core advantage or
not, is you know, yet to

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be seen, but we all got
to hope that it lines up. So

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the Clippers do have home court advantage
in this first round. They also have

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another five and seven starting April fourth
against the Tenver Nuggets. So yeah,

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want to close out the season.
Basically. The one thing that has really

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set alarm bells off with me,
one thing that has kind of crystallized with

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me and just my thinking about how
this team has been constructed in one of

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their flaws, and I hope it's
not a fatal one, but they don't

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generate enough shots. They just they
have a steady diet of jump shots.

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They have two of the best ever
in that area, but late in games,

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who's that guy that can get to
the basket and get a bucket?

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They don't use aviatza zoo bots.
He still only had seven shots. Coach

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lu said before yesterday's game that they
were gonna try to get him more opportunities.

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I think he took three shots yesterday
and seven today. He had at

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least one easy one that he got
to go on and put back on his

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own miss in the fourth quarter.
But Norman Powell has juice getting downhill,

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but the problem is he's small and
it's tough for him to finish around the

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trees. Kawhi and Paul George don't
attack the basket as much, certainly not

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as much as they used to.
Like to me, that's a real void

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missing on this team right now that
just gets exploited more when you see a

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team like Zion on the Pelicans,
just you know, being a battering ram

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downhill. Yeah, the Clippers kind
of go to play when they need a

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bucket, right and you know,
give the ball to Kawhi and clear out

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let him do it thing, which
we trust when it's Kauai because you know

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it is Kawhi. But there isn't
a set, you know, it's not

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like, oh, the Clippers are
running the Spain pick and roll so well

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and this is our thing or something
like that. It still does to like

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a little bit of a wild card. We love the pick and roll with

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Sue and James Harden, which has
been from all of the Clippers, and

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that we're going to see that spammed
a lot in the playoffs, but you're

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right. When that's not working and
when the court shrinks from the playoffs,

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sometimes you need a quote unquote easy
bucket or something like that. But that's

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gonna We're gonna have to rely on
kind of you know, well executed set

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plays, which is something we haven't
seen a lot from the Clippers. Where

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we have, it's been phenomenal.
But I totally agree with you Harden getting

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some reps and hopefully he doesn't miss
too many, if not any more games

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to really get this ironed out.
Because we've seen this team be elite and

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offense right like we've seen them do
these things, they've just removed themselves from

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that good process so much and have
half a month from why I said I

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wanted the Clippers to win ten games
in March and have good process the last

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two weeks, I'm pretty sure there
are five and four right now with two

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weeks left. So if that was, if your measuring stick was similar to

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mine, we're gonna have to see
some really encouraging things from these next two

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weeks. One thing I will say
that has been encouraging the last two games.

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Paul George, he played forty one
minutes. He knocked down some really

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tough, just high degree of difficulty
three pointers back to back shots in that

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fourth quarter. There was a Jose
Alvarado three right in between those. But

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making tough shots again, playing within
himself, but being more aggressive. He

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attempted twenty one ten to twenty one, three of nine from the outside.

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I mean, the last two games
from Paul George, there is something there.

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Looks like he is turning a corner
now one hundred percent. I was

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on here yesterday. You checked me
a little bit because I was like,

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hey, I love the efficiency,
I just wish it with more shots,

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and you were like, he put
a twenty eight on twelve shots is pretty

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good, and that was phenomenal.
I would say I'm more encouraged by his

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twenty one field goal attempts tonight because
that is what we're going to see in

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the playoffs. Kawhi, Paul George, and James Harden's field attemps are all

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gonna go up. It's great to
see Paul George wanting that opportunity in the

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regular season right now, and he's
also filled the statue in other places.

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He had five boardon six sis tonight. Right, like he was doing a

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little bit of everything. Defensively,
you know, second game, move back

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to back against a really a giant
team that always gets to the problems.

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He wasn't as sharp as he totally
could have been. But offensively, I

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think it was Jamal Christopher who said
on Twitter Clippers the Power user that the

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Clippers ceiling is kind of dictated by
Paul George, right, Like which Paul

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George, we gonna get if we
get twenty one field goal attempt Paul George,

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I feel a lot better about the
Clippers. Yeah, and like you

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mentioned, six assists, just two
turnovers. They're running more pick and roll

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with him, of course right now, especially because no James Harden, he

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took care of the basketball over.
I just his activity level the last couple

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of games has looked a little bit
different out there. He looked more comfortable,

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looked to be in rhythm. But
unfortunately the Clippers fall in New Orleans

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to the Pelicans. They get back
after it, back home against the Atlanta

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Hawks coming up on Sunday night.
In between now and then, I believe

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we will have a YouTube coming up. Do we have a YouTube live coming

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up tomorrow? Chuck Okay exciting stuff. Maybe I'll give away another sticker.

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People seem to be after that.
It's a big deal, Katie. Our

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producer here is give me a dirty
look like a sticker. What are you

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going to give him a gold star? No, it's a sticker of the

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new Clippers logo. Okay, just
some respect. We need it, Katie.

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Let us. Let's let us have
something right now. Katie will be

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able to respond a little bit here. Clippers lose tonight once twelve to one,

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O four. He is Charles Mockler. Charles, we'll see on the

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YouTube tomorrow. My friend absolutely go
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