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What's going on Clippers fans. I'm
Chuck Bockler here with Adam Oslin. We

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are clips and Dip. That's kind
of another weird live bonus episode, I

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guess. But we're talking the Lawrence
Frank end of season press conference, which

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how did you feel about it?
Well, there's a lot to kind of

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go over. Terrence Man had an
interesting tweet after things just happened. We'll

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get into all that more, but
how do we feel I suppose we can

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pick it apart here now that it
just ended about ten minutes ago, and

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we can dive in and give you
guys our feelings on some of it going

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off the clothes from Lawrence Frank,
we could just start in kind of the

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order you put it in here,
Chuck, which I think is how it

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went down. But on how the
season ended, he said, there's disappointment

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obviously season ending and falling short of
our goal. Also a great sense of

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pride and how our group competed.
I feel bad for our fans. I

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feel bad for Kawai and Paul George, our team, our staff, Steve

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Bomber, because we feel like we
let our fans and that group down injury

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suck. They suck, but they
happen. I feel for our fans who

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have been with us every step of
the way. We have to be honest

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with ourselves. We have to look
in the mirror. It starts with me.

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We have to get back to honoring
and respecting the regular season. We

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have to compete harder, more consistently, and we have to earn it.

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Everything has to be earned. We
have to compete harder every single night.

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We owe it to ourselves, we
owe it to our fans. The last

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twenty eight years, the NBA champion
has been a top three seed. You

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have to earn it. The regular
season matters. I take that as an

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encouraging sign that they're looking at the
regular season and understanding where they came up

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short and just not having any consistency
out there, and at times it looked

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like there was a lack of effort. You didn't know which team was scoring

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to show up. Yeah, this
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fans were kind of frustrated about that
quote. I do like that he said,

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we have to get back to honoring
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will it change, We'll see.
I thought one of the other things he

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said was what I don't want to
do is let the injuries or how we

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fought in the postseason mask a disappointing
regular season. I thought that was pretty

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telling. Yeah, yeah, that
is revealing there and a lot of people

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were saying that. Clippers fans were
saying that, like, yeah, this

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is great, but the regular season
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ways. Not fun, man Like, just it was not a fun regular

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season the Clippers basketball. It was
less fun than when Paul George and Quay

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were fully out right. When I
was going through the season to recap before

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Game one against the Sun and putting
together highlights to build up the height for

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the postseason of what went down in
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a dozen games that I felt were
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Clippers. Felt Kawai's return that was
fun. The comeback on the Calves late

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early in the season, the norm
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point fourth quarter, The Kawhi game
winner in Charlotte, the Paul George game

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winner against Houston early in the season, but it was Houston and it took

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a game winner to beat him.
The Memphis comeback something born out of this

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night. That fourth quarter was special
for them. The comeback late against Detroit

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where they shouldn't have been down but
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bring it into overtime to eventually win
in the last three and a half minutes

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was incredible. All the Kawhi dumps
against the Spurs, the betumb three to

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send it into overtime against the New
York Knicks, and Madison Square garden Man

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against the Suns right before the All
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was out all of a sudden in
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the end of the year, the
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be the Lakers. All the wins
against the Lakers were highlights, but right,

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yeah, we're talking about about a
dozen games when typically when the Clippers

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are winning, you know, closer
to fifty games, there are just more

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enjoyable highlights. And a team that
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even just going back to last year, with a team without Kawhi Leonard all

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season long, a team that was
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I thought there was just more fight
consistently during the regular season. Yeah,

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I mean, it's just I don't
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the same conversation as Clippers fans the
last like three years in terms of regular

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season stuff. So how does that
change that we'll talk about this more when

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we do, like a full episode. We're just kind of reacting. I

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thought this season was distinctly well a
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a turn for the worst of the
last couple of seasons weren't. I didn't

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feel like that necessarily the last couple
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had all these comebacks of course that
were fueling the fan base, the twenty

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point comebacks, there was a grittiness
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times this year, and that's why
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again in the postseason. They certainly
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to Lawrence's point, they got to
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It can't just be in the postseason. The regular season does matter,

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and that was something we just didn't
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Yeah, I totally agree. Do
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or the roster stuff whatever you lead
chuckle. He talked the injuries, you

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know. He said Kawhi has to
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ACL reconstruction. He also mentioned there's
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terms being load management, which is
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Kauai is actually hurt, despite some
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guess, but Kawai has actually hurt. I went off in my NBA in

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LA report that I do every day
for AM five seventy today, I may

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have hell, yeah, I have
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that were acting like they were just
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when the guy has a torn meniscus, which apparently they found out about after

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game two. Morn Frank was asked
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was interesting. I'm sorry for that
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after game two, you know.
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and PG. I think anyone kind
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It just makes sense. He also
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why wouldn't he be back? Of
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coach. Their contracts lineup. I'm
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excellent regular season, you know,
but if you look at out his contract

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lines up with Kawai and pg's extensions, the Clippers weren't going to move this

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kind of core three before they gave
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Well, okay, so to both
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Lu. If you go away from
Coach Lu, who are you bringing in

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this better? That has to be
the question. Whenever someone wants someone gone,

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who do you replace him with?
That improves things? There are drawbacks

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in blind spots that every head coach
has. I'm on Twitter all the time.

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On NBA Twitter specifically, I see
heat fans complaining about Eric Spoelstra.

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I see Warriors fans complaining about Steve
Kerr. Yeah, the best coaches in

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the NBA can never do enough right
for their fan base, and there are

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legitimate complaints. I think to this
season one of them specifically. Yeah,

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yeah, we'll get into that,
but who's better? Is Nick Nurse a

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better coach than him, is that
the area you would go, Nay,

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I don't have the guitar. I
don't want that man coaching basketball. Okay,

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who's a better postseason um best of
seven coach than coach lou? Who

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is better in a best of seven
series that you would rather have? Sure,

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but we can we can see the
worth of him even without his guys.

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You can see how he's outsmarting the
competition. And therefore, what's more

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important than that if you're gonna go, if you're gonna if you're trying to

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win a championship, what is more
important than having the best in game strategist

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in the most pivotal moments in a
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for the shortcomings of coach lu,
I think his strengths, the good with

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Coach lu far outweighs the bad,
And the front office recognizes that. Certainly,

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Yeah they're not. And it's like
you said, like, who are

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we going to pick up a lot
of people assume that whenever Tyler's tenure with

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the Clippers is over, that Dan
Craig Wood step in. That's like been

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kind of the succession plan that's been
grumbled about. But we're not gonna know

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for a couple of years. I
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We're not talking about an older coach
that you're getting ready to pass the torch

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to somebody else beneath him and the
coaching staff. He's a young head coach,

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right, That's a good call.
Yeah, getting better. So let's

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talk the roster. Lawrence talked about
wanting He named Eric Gordon and Mason Pumley

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specifically as guys they want to bring
back. I think that makes total sense.

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I would be very happy if they
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come back for Clue Clippers. Right
like that was Yeah, a lot of

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people upset at that. I think
Mason Plumley more of a need than Eric

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Gordon. I like Eric Gordon.
I like both his short tenure, this

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time with the Clippers, but obviously
he's still a fan favorite by being drafted

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by the team. I like him
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Powell? Yeah, there is some
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if you can find a way to
bring him back, because he is

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one of those guys I feel like
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He is someone who could be a
regular season innings eater. I believe

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he's been relatively healthy over the last
five years, even though he's getting older

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and he had some major knee issues
with New Orleans. I never thought he'd

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still be playing at this high a
level at this point. But someone who

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can stretch the floor, can hit
deep three pointers from the outside. That

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is a need for this team to
open up driving lanes for hopefully Russell Westbrook

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if he's able to come back.
And that was another guy that Lawrence Frank

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talks about. They seem to all
be on the same page regarding Russ Not

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shockingly, it's not a shock at
this point. If you're shocked that Kawai

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and PG and Laurence Walt Russell Westbrook
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watching the Clippers after their season is
over. Yeah. He had a great

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quote about, Oh, shout out
your boy Greg, he's on the stream

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right now. I hope he's doing
well, you know he said. Russell

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Westbrook said, Hey, what do
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give you? When you come in
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highly adaptable. The role we described
to him at the start was totally different

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at the end. Obviously, that
makes sense Kawai and PG were gone.

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The issue with Westbrook, though,
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the Clippers have to get under the
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mid level exception, I believe.
If not, it's literally just a minimum

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that they can offer him, which
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know if he takes a man or
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for the tax player at mid level. That's what it was last season.

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Yeah, I think there's something important
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want all these guys back. Is
it realistic to be able to get all

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of them back? No, it's
not. Some of them over outperform the

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contracts and we're due for a bigger
payday and are going to take that.

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And you don't hold against them.
A guy wants to go out there and

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get his money. You say,
okay, that's great for your family.

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Do what you gotta do. You
never want to pooh pooh someone for doing

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that. But it's also a negotiation
strategy that's already starting really with him saying

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we want these guys back. Of
course they want them all back. What

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they want to go into the negotiations
and good faith and they want to express

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how they feel about that player.
And you know, we've heard stuff in

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the past. With last summer it
was about Luke Canard and we're not trading

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Luke Cannard. Well, it ended
up eventually happening. Things change. We've

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seen this front office with Blake Griffin
building around him six months later. Things

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change. So to win at the
highest level, you have to be shrewd

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and be willing to make tough decisions
when the facts change out there. And

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I command Lawrence Frank and the front
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being flexible and not too rigid or
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okay, we've made a mistake,
they will cut bait with the guy,

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or maybe it's not a mistake,
but they feel like they have to

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bring in someone else, or they
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more towards the future with how they
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make bigger moves. So there's a
lot going on here than just oh well,

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that means the Clippers are going to
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them back, and there are a
lot of hoops they're going to have to

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jump through to make all of this
happen. But I think there are legitimate

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reasons to want the guys that they
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the most part, they performed well. I thought Mason Plumley was a specially

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good in that post season playoff series. Playoff plumbly seems to be a thing.

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We've seen it from the other side
when he was with the Portland Trail

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Blaze, just against the Clippers in
twenty sixteen. He raises his level of

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play in the postseason absolutely. All
right, we got about ten minutes or

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so here, we gotta talk to
Terrence Man quotes because that had some of

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the fan base a little upset on
Terrence Man. Lawrence Frank said, I

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trust explicitly and tie. Tie makes
the lineup's decisions and choice. Terrence is

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versatility personified. He showed that he
can take the tough defensive matchups. He

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can start, come off the bench. I think t Lou did a very

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good job with Terrence. What are
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get into what Terrence Man said on
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over. Maybe it's related, maybe
it's not. Who knows. I acknowledge

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coach lu had a really difficult job
to manage personalities and a lopero room and

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playing time for everyone out there on
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Terrence Man could have been handled better? Yeah? Probably. I just don't

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understand how a guy can at one
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and then later on he's in the
starting lineup and then back out of

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it after the trade deadline. It
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was up and down, and they
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or they don't know exactly how they
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something Toronto Lou expressed, expressed,
explicitly expressed. He said it, yeah,

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and it's weird because it feels like
I think this was two one three

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hoops who just tweeted this out,
but they were kind of talking about how

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like ty sees Terrence is like a
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Terence is skill set. When it
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all seen, you know what I
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in his hand when he wants to
get four word. Um, So I

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think that's kind of a disconnect.
But Terrence then tweeted out in all capital

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letters not long after this press conference
was over LMAO, which, if you

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follow Terrence man, he's a great
teammate. UM. He's had multiple situations

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of like, hey learned from this
veteran point guard. Um, and then

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he kind of gets his role change
and everything like that, Like where are

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you at on the LMAO tweet?
Oh, we don't know. He could

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have been watching Seinfeld reruns or anything
like that. Who knows what he could

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have been speaking to if he was
referring too, Like, That's what I

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think is crazy. He's like,
Terrence isn't a tweet guy, right,

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Like, he's not usually a social
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is ominous a little bit. If
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press conference, then I'm sure he
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what we're in for from this tweet. I don't know if that's a fact

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or not, but I know a
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it that way, and guys want
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there on the court, and I
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Man that has been there for so
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I think he's one of the top
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team, one of the guys that
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regardless of if his offense is working
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typically he is. People don't realize
this, Terrence Man is now a career

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thirty eight percent three point shooter.
Everyone's always like, man, he's shooting

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better from the outside this year.
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this for a while now. He
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I'm sure most of the numbers would
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you're going to get those on a
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hitting them to his credit. So
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diverse. You have to find ways
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the issue is Coach lou vieused him
as a wing, then you've got to

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take away some of the other wings
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him in a position where Terrence Man
is more of a necessity each and every

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night, because we know what he
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don't know, or whatever reason he
doesn't have or seem to have the full

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trust of coach Lou. And again
he came out and was asked early in

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the season, what's Terence Man's role
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I don't know, So I'm only
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I think that's an exact quote from
coach Lou, so I'm not trying to

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read into anything there. He said
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I'm hoping that his role on this
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And maybe it's because of roster construction
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that were causing that lob jam,
keeping Terrence Man out of the lineup.

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Yeah, it's I also just checked
he'd literally he did say I don't know.

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He said, I don't know.
I do know. He said,

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I don't know, and I do
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Okay. Yeah, And maybe one
thing like you mentioned, like Lawrence

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talked about how not having PG and
Quiet impacted some of the five out lineup

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stuff, and that's fair. Yeah, we said that it's hard to do

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wings. You can't do wing stop
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Paul George. There is no Wingstop
without them. The entire blueprint for that

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starts around them. So this YouTube
live is getting interested a fucking idiot?

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Well can we can we read it
and have some fun with it? Then?

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Yeah, Ken Place, who watches
all of our videos but hates everything

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I have to say. Instead,
stop with the constant whining team. Man

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is gonna not be happy with season
ending like all of us. Negative Chuck,

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non positive Chuck is on a role
complaining pathetic. Yeah, it was

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a nightmare of a season. Man, parents should have played more. You

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jip shit, stop watching us.
You know what this Ken think they're in

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the second round? Yeah, Ken, Ken's waiting for PG to go ahead

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and lace those up. The president
of Basketball Operations is acknowledging it was a

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difficult season. I think it's fair
to paint it in that light, which

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is all Chuck is doing well.
I hope to uh one of the other.

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Uh. This is Lance the Legend
on our YouTube live. He says

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the issue and only issues your two
best players can't stay healthy and will never

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be healthy. Well, Lawrence Frank
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Basically, um, we traded for
Paul and signed Kauhi is the quote

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as a free agent, It wasn't
for one or two years. Every year

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you have those guys, it gives
you a chance, and I think people

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are down playing that fact that with
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They are that great, they are
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and not many teams can say that, you know, this is a roster

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that if they can be healthy,
they have enough talent out there to win

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a championship, as opposed to a
lot of teams in this league where they

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just don't have a talent. It's
a non starter to talk about them being

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a championship contender. The Clippers at
least have guys that when they're on the

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court can't perform at the highest level. I understand the frustration with them not

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being on the court enough, and
they want to be there too, so

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they're doing everything they can to be
out there. And I think there is

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something to be said for bringing in
two of the best two way players of

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this generation and still having a window
because they're on your squad. That is

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saying something. Michael Penia wrote a
great article and the Ring are kind of

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about it, advocating to not blow
up the Clippers, which I don't think

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will blow it up. Dike isn't
here, but I don't think they were

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ever going to actually blow it up. It's not what I don't think Steve

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Baumber wants to bottom out with a
new arena, Like it's just not going

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to happen. He's expressed that.
He said that recently at an Intuit Dome

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conference or pow wow or whatever however
you want to put it. He was

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on stage talking about how, you
know, we always want to be competitive.

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There could be reload type of years, but he's not ever looking to

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have a hard reset. And again
the saying is the best advantage in sports

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is great ownership. I think you
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So regardless of how this season win, you're in good hands with Steve Baumber,

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who has hell been on getting this
franchise to the first championship. Yeah.

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Penia's article basically wrote like they just
have to wait for injury luck,

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which I'm not going to sit here
and pretend that that feels good. That's

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very frustrating to hear as we've been
waiting for that for every year except for

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the bubble year for the most part, which is which is frustrating. I

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think everyone can acknowledge that. But
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It's just not like I think,
you know what I mean. It's

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it's really hard. I'm not saying
that it's easy to be okay with that.

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He also suggested we should hire Nick
Nurse, but I don't know.

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I don't want to do that.
But we just got to wait it out.

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It's a hard thing to ask fans
to do. But there's huge changes

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coming. The only players they mentioned
that they wanted to bring back specifically of

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the new guys were Plumbly, Westbrook
and EJ So, like, I think

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Rocco's gone. I think Morris is
gone. I think there's gonna be like

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some pretty major turnover. I also
think Lawrence frank was some of his comments

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today was pointing to the fact that
this was bigger than injuries with how the

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regular season went, because combined,
I think Paul George and Kawhi Leonard ended

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up at what one hundred and six
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the most during a regular season,
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So there were bigger issues going on
there than just injuries, and Lawrence

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Frank pointed that out, which I
find encouraging. They're not ignoring the elephant

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in the room of how bad this
regular season really was for them and how

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much they underachieved and underperformed. Yeah, Christopher Newnes says, need more tea

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Bone. I was surprised Bones wasn't
Highland and Bones wasn't Highland. Bones wasn't

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mentioned in the presser because I think
he signed. Yeah, that's true,

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he signed. I just thought he
deserved a shout out. Bones was great,

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Lawrence Frank. It was after the
Lakers game right where he went into

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the locker room and apparently said busy
fin Bones, that's what we need.

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I think he's a fan. Yeah, Bones rules, he was great,

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But yeah, I don't know.
Also, for those of you wondering,

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um, we're not going to get
exit interviews like the Clippers. A lot

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of teams do like exit interviews,
where they don't do every player, but

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they do a pretty large group of
the Clippers don't, so la Awrence's exit,

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this is kind of what we're gonna
get. Last year we got,

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I think, but Tom and Morris
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got, and that just happened to
be after the playoffs. Jonathan Ing maybe

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English said this on our YouTube live, the team not taking the regular season

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seriously as a culture issue. The
team didn't have a guy that would be

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the culture center all year, and
it showed until Russ got signed. I

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do think there's something too that there
was something missing with Pat, with not

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having Patrick Beverley over the last year
and a half. The one thing I

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would always say about Pat bab was
he could turn a one out of eighty

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two meaningless regular season game into a
playoff like atmosphere with the edge that he

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plays with the competitive streak in him, and it would come out and be

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infectious for the rest of the squad
out there. And Russ certainly is cut

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from the same cloth in that way. Yeah, they got to bring him.

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I like, I'm happy we have
the front office we do because it's

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gonna take some finagling to get Russell. Let's put back on this team.

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Honestly, I think that's one of
the most comforting things about this Clippers organization,

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aside from Steve Vaumer, which is
the biggest thing they have going for

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them. I think this is one
of the best front offices in sports.

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Like they will leave no stone unturned. They will find a way to make

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this team better. And it starts
with staring at the face of failure that

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this season was to a degree,
and I'm not talking failure like jannest then

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and coopone explaining all that They're in
a different position there in Milwaukee, and

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I thought it was pretty interesting,
but I mean, they did fail only

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winning forty four games in this regular
season. It should have been closer to

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fifty. We were talking before the
year, acknowledging that Kawhi and Paul George

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were likely going to miss twenty to
twenty five games each, and we still

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thought with the depth on this roster
that they could be close to being the

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first Clippers team to ever win sixty
games in a regular season. They weren't.

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It did not turn out that.
Yeah, very true. Um,

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someone in the chat said, if
no rest and Pat Bevum, it's up

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Anthony c that would be sick.
I mean, but I'm just not sure.

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Look at it. The contract real
quick, and he went back to

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Chicago and actually helped turn a miserable
season around for them. At the end

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they started to really win some games. I know they lost in the play

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in they didn't make it into a
seven game series. But Pat Bev is

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certainly a winner. He has been
someone who typically always makes the playoffs.

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He would he would make that know, this was one of those rare years

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he didn't. He bet. I
mean he was a men contract, he's

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unrestricted. I think if that,
if no Westbrook bring obviously very different roles.

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I don't think Bev is gonna start
for this team if he's on this

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team, but bring him in for
the culture. I would love Bev on

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a minimum next year if anything.
Just yeah, Galvin eins the locker room

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and get people walked in your fave
five heads. I thought I was I

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thought I was going to shed.
He said, this organization is not as

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well run as people thought. One
hundred. I think Lawrence Frank acknowledging a

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lot of the same missteps this season
that the fans have been talking about,

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goes a long way with me in
this press conference. Well, I think

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that's that's meaningful. Yeah, the
proof is in the pudding. It's more

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about actions than words always. But
when they lost in the bubble, he

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said, look, we have to
realize what we did wrong. We have

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to look at this as a failure
and come back from this. We can't

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just sweep it under the rug and
act like it didn't happen when there were

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obvious failures out there and they're doing
the same thing now. Yeah, and

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they got rid of our coach,
ruined the bubble a situation for us.

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So yeah, a bit of a
I don't know. I don't know if

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it's a good newsday. It was
a little eye opening. It was nice

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to hear Lawrence Frank acknowledge that thing
failure because it was. And we'll just

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wait for this front office to make
whatever insane moves they gotta make. Adam,

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we both have to go back to
our regular jobs. Anything else you

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want to send these fans out with
before we go back to work. No,

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but I a little tease of what's
to come in this offseason. I

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still think there's a good chance the
Clippers go big game hunting and they go

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after Zach Levine or Bradley Beale or
Damian Lillard. And if that's the case,

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I would expect Terrence Man to have
to be included in one of those

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moves to bring in a third star
because I just think if you're doubling down

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on having Kauhi in Paul George,
you need to have a little bit of

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a safety blanket or a security blanket
during the regular season, whether that's Russ

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or Russ and someone else or just
that third guy to help support them during

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a long regular season and take some
of the the load off of two injury

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prone superstars. I think there's a
good chance that ends up happening. We'll

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see, we'll see, let's hope. So all right, thanks everyone hanging

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on the stream. We're gonna have
this out as a podcast episode two whenever

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we get around and getting that done. But hey, let's go clips and

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we'll be back with Tripod next week, right, yeah, and Ken simmer

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down now, all right, we'll
talk to everybody later. I have a

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good rest of your week and weekend, Clippers fans