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Breaking down today's action with the pre
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La Clippers, They're locking in every
game every night. Adam Osland. The

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Clippers fall for their fourth time in
their last seven games. They lose at

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home one twenty three to one to
seven to the Sacramento Kings. Welcome back

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into Crypto dot com arena. I'm
Adam Oslin. Coming up, we'll get

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to your post game box score.
You also hear from the head coach and

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the players after this one. But
first back over to your radio voice of

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the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carlo, we talked about it during the broadcast,

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but this Clippers team just waited too
long to engage. And then you

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take on a Kings team that was
also due from the outside, and it

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just seemed like first team to start
knocking down three pointers and the Kings hit

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a lot of critical ones. Was
gonna win this ball game? Yeah?

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I mean, let's be honest,
Kawhi Leonard kept him in the game in

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the third quarter, kept them close, kept them around. And you mentioned

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it when he comes out, how
did the Clippers stay alive He came out

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of the game, Clippers didn't stay
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back in it. Big credit to
Harrison Barnes. He had some tough threes

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late. Even Malik Monk got into
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Year, and he lived up to
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The Kings hit tough shots, but
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them were in transition, and twenty
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I think that's where this stands out
in this one. Kings with twenty five

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points off these sixteen turnovers for the
Clippers. Adam, that is now thirty

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seven turnovers in the last two games
for your LA Clippers, and you're just

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not gonna win games doing that.
And the Clippers got worse in that area.

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Is the game moved along just six
turnovers in the first half, they

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had ten in the second half.
So you're in an uphill battle. You're

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trying to get back into a ball
game. And his self inflicted wounds keeping

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you from doing so. Yeah,
they this is a talented team and a

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team with a lot of and a
team that can do incredible things down the

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stretch if they have that defensive focus
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can have, that they are capable
of. And so for the Clippers,

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I think it's all in between the
ears right now. And I think that's

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why I love Tyler making them practice
the next two days, because hey,

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we're just not there. They're just
something happened post Grammy trip where this team

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has fallen off for a little bit, and has it been the team we

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saw when they got that win in
Boston where they're able to take care of

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business against Detroit and Washington. I
mean, think about how different those games

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are. Detroit and Washington then the
Memphis game, and those are the same

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caliber of teams. Those three teams
are abound at the same place in the

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NBA, but it looks so different
when the Clippers were on that Grammy road

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trip. I think for the Clippers, they have to do a mental recheck,

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do a little reality check, look
at the man in the mirror,

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and figure out who do you want
to be for these next twenty six games

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and find a way to get back
to who you were. Oh look,

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not the main mirror. Terrence Man, by the way, on a bright

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spot for this team. Terrence Man
another stellar performance. The offensive rebounds,

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six or seven from the field,
fourteen points. When this team turns things

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around, you just look at terrace
Man having that leap that we were expecting

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earlier this season happening now. That
will be huge for them. Yeah,

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yeah, one hundred percent. I
mean four assists, six rebounds, fourteen

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points. He has been excellent.
This is the first Clipper lost the last

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fourteen games when te Man scores in
double figures, and they just didn't have

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the support elsewhere, especially off the
bench. I mean, Norman Pal's not

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off the bench, so he gets
in the starting layeup. You only get

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sixteen points off the bench, and
the Clippers need a little bit more support

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from that second unit, and I
think Terrence Man fills some holes for you

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with the starting group. Six for
seven and this one still like him to

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be a little more aggressive. Felt
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but his emergence has been excellent.
Norman Palell, who missed the last game

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with an ankle injury, but didn't
miss a beat tonight twenty one points,

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five for nine from three. I
thought he was great for the Clippers down

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the stretch. It is interesting at
him because you look at this box score

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and you feel like the support from
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didn't play night from Paul George has
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Kawhi continues to be excellent, but
hardened and Paul George, whether it's a

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little bit of fatigue, whether it's
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find a rhythm late in the season, those guys have to step up for

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the Clippers. Yeah, well,
we've seen over the past couple of weeks

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now, even going back to before
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road trip, when this Clippers team
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big three, they're very beatable out
there. And as consistent as Kawhi Leonard

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has been, James Harden and Paul
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a little bit up and down.
Even in this one. James Harden four

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thirteen, just twenty points, Maybe
a little bit of fatigue, but again,

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the All Star break, it's not
coming. It's in the past now.

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It just happened, and they got
seventeen games coming up in March,

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so they have to figure this one
out. It starts Wednesday against the Hallways

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showdown team in the Los Angeles Lakers. Tip time here Crypto, with the

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Clippers being the technical home team,
will be at seven. We'll have your

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pregame show starting at six. Carlo, my guy, great calls. Always

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see you here on Wednesday. Thank
you, Adam. Can't wait to see

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you Wednesday. Get some good rest
and hopefully Clippers come back locked in if

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there's ever a game to refocus,
I like the Lakers on the other side,

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it's a good call. On the
other side of this break, We'll

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get to your final box score right
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The LA Clippers continue their hunt for
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get that Lario b. Don't miss
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the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers
just three and four since the Grammy road

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trip. They lose tonight to the
Sacramento Kings at home one's twenty three to

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one oh seven. Welcome back into
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Oslin coming up, we'll preview Wednesday
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Right back here, of course.
But the Clippers ended up shooting us forty

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eight percent from the field, but
eight of twenty seven from the outside,

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and the Kings give up forty percent
shooting from three. The Clippers only attempted

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twenty seven of them. I thought
the Kings were a little bit better than

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their reputation with their defense along the
perimeter, but the Clippers didn't put a

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lot up. But again, sixteen
turnovers, ten of them coming in the

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second half. When you're trying to
make a comeback when you're down eighteen,

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that is your being your own worst
enemy. Having so many turnovers, it's

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just almost impossible to come back when
you're that careless with the basketball. Those

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sixteen turnovers by the Clippers overall led
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Clippers points in the paint sixty two. That's a good number, Kings

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with fifty four. But the Kings, they eventually got hot. It had

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a ton of silencers. They were
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a run. It was first Kevin
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in that third quarter, hurting hurting
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was Malik Monk in the fourth quarter. Mitchell hit one hit a couple actually

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one of consequence. Even Harrison Barnes, who was left wide open, went

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four of seven, had twenty two
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a bonus is just seven of seventeen, still had fifteen boards and twelve assists

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with those seventeen points, but they
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him offensively. But you get de
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Barnes with twenty two, all five
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figures, and then Milik Monk with
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Clippers they only had sixteen points off
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in the first half, had a
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but three of ten eight points.
Daniel Tye got the opportunity tonight. It

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wasn't Mason Plumbley soaking up some of
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Tys was nice four or five,
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else scored off the bench. Now
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Okay, Paul George is out tonight, and that means Norman Powell, who

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normally is their leader in bench scoring, one of the best in the NBA,

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at that he's in the starting lineup
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been off the last couple of games. Been some regression there from A Mer

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only took two shots zher of two
when he had been uber hot over the

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last month and a half now and
PJ Tucker just attempted one shot. Got

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some minutes out there again it was
just five, but the Clippers really couldn't

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find any answers when the Kings were
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The Clippers couldn't answer those, and
eventually, oh, that's how you end

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up with the loss of one twenty
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twenty three to one oh seven here
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Kings. They've lost three of their
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their last seven. They're three and
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Your Los Angeles Clippers, and they
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would win earlier. They're now a
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to play left between those two.
Coincidentally, currently, if the playoffs started

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today, the Clippers would be locked
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Sacramento Kings, who moved up to
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them. They're the six seed,
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the Lakers, the Clippers will see
on Wednesday. They're seven to three in

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their last ten. They have been
playing much better basketball overall the last couple

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of weeks. They finally settled on
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their next to Austin Reeves, dil
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lost late in Phoenix earlier today in
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the first half on the game four
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too little, too late. That's
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both teams looking to get right,
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Always feels like an inflection point when
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the Clippers. They were in attack
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currently looking for answers. They are
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games as they lose tonight to the
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No. PG thirteen going into this
one, but Norton Powell was back and

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I thought played well overall twenty one
points eight of sevenventeen shooting was in the

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starting lineup for PG thirteen instead of
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The first two times or the first
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Paul George had missed hit five three
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ones that gave Clipper Nation hope.
Here one in the far side corner where

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I don't know how he had any
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Norm Pound in the starting lineup,
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step up more because that bench scoring
tonight. It dwindled down to just sixteen

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points total, basically what Norm Powell
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but just three of ten shooting.
Daniel Tyes four or five, eight

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and six. I thought he played
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was Mason Plumbing getting minutes the last
couple of games tonight. Daniel Tye got

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it in, got the backup center
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All of them came in the first
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possession where he'd eat up Dearon Fox, something fierce who couldn't shake him,

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but still somehow stuck the jumper over
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down the stretch. I felt like
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against them, drawing fouls because all
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But it was the three pointers that
we talked about post game with Carlo Jmenez,

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your radio voice to the Clippers.
Three points silencers by this King's team

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whenever the Clippers had it to within
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it there three or four different times. Were in this uphill battle, mostly

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because of their own doing, with
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sixteen for the game, leading to
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when the Clippers made their runs,
the Kings would hit a big three,

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they would turn the tide back in
their favor. It was Kevin Herder of

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the third quarter, Malik Monk in
the fourth, Harrison Barnes hit a clutch

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three point in the near side corner
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Maybe on Mitchell hit one two,
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good amount of time here. I
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earlier today and I was hoping things
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had a day off, pulled out
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Last five minutes, James Harden came
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Kawhi's Kawhi, Terrence Man big put
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that game, if the Clippers play
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And that's pretty much what we saw
tonight. Carlo and I were talking

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about it early in the on on
the Ball game. In fact, he

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said, am I still in Memphis
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going to Sacramento, just like with
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the Clippers turnovers and that being they're
undoing, but also just not getting up

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a lot of three pointers against a
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the outside. That's been the King's
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of it was good defense, but
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shots. There was a possession I
believe out of a timeout or wasn't just

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Terrence Mann turning it down a shot
this one along the perimeter. Emir Coffee

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didn't take it. Eventually, James
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missed it. I think it ended
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He had a lot of them make
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layup to go. So indecisiveness by
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even while I've mentioned yes the numbers
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and that's likely going down after tonight, and that is alarming for a team

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that wants to be a championship contender
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span they've been second offensively. That's
what's been carrying them. In the first

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six games. Coming into tonight out
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have been twenty third on offense.
That's a little bit shocking. But it

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looked the part tonight. They were
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a team with a plan, which
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was still out there. He is
a system. He had eight assists,

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he had twenty points, but only
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Paul George thought he had to get
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pointers. So he hasn't looked the
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that guy for that long to get
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he's not playing well. You see
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what we're seeing offensively from this Clippers
team as a whole. As good as

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Kawhi Leonard is, who can ISO
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attempt in isolation out of anyone this
season. I think it's something like one

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point three points per shot attempt in
isolation. It's crazy. Kawhi still looks

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stellar on both ends. Another steal
and a dunk tonight. He took eighteen

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shots, only made seven of them. Has been in kind of a low

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key funk from three, but he's
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twenty points in thirty five minutes.
This Clippers team just hasn't looked connected defensively.

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It started there. Now it feels
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Early on, they went to a
Vita Zubats first play the game, just

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like they did against Memphis. Like
that get Zoo going early. But we

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talked about it throughout the broadcast.
Vita Zubots is four four, five of

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six and they're not going to him
enough. He only ended up with nine

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attempts. There was an advantage there. Granted he picked up his second foul

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in the second quarter. They had
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utilizing big Zoo. The offense didn't
have a flow to it. He can

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be a bailot guy for you.
Dump it into a Viza Zubats and let

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him go to work, because he
has gotten the best of Demante Bonis,

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believe it or not, many times
going back to when Demontes was in Indiana

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and I Viza Zubats had some really
good possessions against him, especially early,

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frustrated him. At one point Sabonis
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maybe we uh highlighted that a little
bit too much and Demantes got a little

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bit of payback against us because he
ended up going seven of seventeen overall seventeen

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points, fifteen boards, twelve assists. He's just that good. There's no

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such thing as a broadcaster Jakes,
all right, there's not. I don't

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believe in it. But it was
dearon Fox in the fourth quarter, who

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they couldn't stop and they couldn't defend
without fouling. And then those timely three

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point shots from the second Mento Kings
and a Clippers team that wasn't playing with

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desperation or urgency or a great spirit
out there energy wise, until they got

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down eighteen. Then things click clicked
in they looked like the Clippers. But

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I've said this before, I think
that is a bad habit. I think

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that's a habit developed over time,
because they've had more twenty point comebacks than

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any other team over the last five
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even going back to the year before
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leading them. If you want to
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you want to be a championship team, you have to put teams away.

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You can't just wait to engage when
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seeing that from them, and there's
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For teams with these high expectations is
used for developing good habits, and the

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Clipper still have some bad ones.
They need to rid themselves off. So

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yeah, no PG thirteen. That
hurts. But the Clippers had enough firepower

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to win this game tonight, and
they just have looked a little bit lethargic,

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a little bit gassed, And I
wonder, and I speculated after the

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last game, even in a win
against the Memphis Grizzlies. Did they ride

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the highs a little bit too high
going six to one on that Grammy road

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trip, Because as much as it
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and they pulled it off, I
don't know, is there's some residual effect

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going on, some lingering issues of
just a team that's a little bit tired.

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They're an older squad and they have
yet to recover from that. I

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tried to temper expectations at the time. As exciting as that was best Grammy

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road trip ever, Clippers playing the
best basketball ever, it was still February.

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It still is also concerning. They
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to be dealing with this level of
adversity right now. Look, there's time

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to figure it out, of course, but games get more condensed. It's

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gonna get harder. They have Minnesota
twice and Milwaukee twice coming up. They

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have the Lakers on Wednesday. They're
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It's a quote unquote rivalry game,
however you want to put it.

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The Hallway Series, these two teams
always go hard, and maybe Carlo Amenez

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brought it up. It's the perfect
situation and the perfect time to take on

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the Lakers to find yourself, because
they've been great against them, going back

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well a decade, but even more
recent history. They had won eleven straight

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before the Lakers won the first two. This season, Clippers won the last

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one. Maybe that wakes them up. I would have thought a game against

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OKC for the tiebreaker would have woke
them up. I would have thought a

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game against Minnesota here at home would
have woke them up. Something is off

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with this squad. The consistency is
just not there. It started defensively,

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but now offensively. This team can't
just fall back on that. And maybe

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it goes back to what Kawhi Leonard
said. We've been getting by too much

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on just talent. It needs to
be about execution. We'll see if that

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changes. Wednesday is a big one
coming up. You're gonna hear from coach

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lou We'll get to your phone calls. Eight six six nine eight seven two

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five seventy eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy is the phone number

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Kadie Newton taking your calls. Bekind
rewind no, all of if it's on

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the podcast, you need to hear
what I just said again. Uh.

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Coming up next, more clipperstock live
from Crypto after they fall one twenty three

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to one oh seven to the Sacramento
Kings. They're just three and four in

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their last seven games coming out of
that Grammy trip. You're listening to a

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five seventy LA Sports. The LA
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They still want to get that LARRYO
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season long. This is the La
Clippers Audio Network. It's not all bad

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news Clipper Nation. Yes, they
lose tonight once twenty three to one oh

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seven to the Sacramento Kings, but
Carlo Jimenez is still in the house and

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we're taking your phone calls here.
Thanks for doing this, Carlo. Oh

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anytime, anytime Clippers talk a little
bonus time here. Let's start with John

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in Woodland Hills. John, you're
on Clipper staff with Adam Oslin and your

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radio voice of the Clippers, Carlo
Jimenez. What's up, John? Yeah,

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Hey, great call, Carlo.
Awesome And Adam. I know it

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was a struggle for you as a
longtime Kings fan too, you know,

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to be indifferent tonight or you know, impartial, But I Honestly, I'm

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amazed how easy it is. I'd
love this Clippers team. I don't even

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think. I don't what's the line
from Don Draper in the Elevator, I

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don't even think about you. That's
how I feel about the Kings. Now.

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They're an ex that you forgot the
name of their name. Yeah,

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man, but the Kings. The
Kings have the X factor Sabonis and the

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Aaron Fox. And I have to
say in observing the Clippers for the last

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couple of months, Kawhi Leonard got
his extension and Harden did not get his

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extension. Had an extension, so
that's not an issue. He can't get

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paid till this summer. James Harden
cannot get paid till this summer. He's

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a true free agent. There's no
extensions extension, wants something earlier. He

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wants a commission extension eligible. Jonathan
It's literally there's literally no way to pay

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him. Broker Off is not walking
through that. Well. The effort,

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the effort has not been there from
James Harden overall in the last ten games.

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And that's for sure. Even though
he was a hero in Memphis,

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he has not brought it When they
need the Clippers needed him. So if

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he's disappearing like he did with the
Sixers and brook and Brooklyn before here,

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we should understand why that is.
Does he not feel that he's worthy?

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Is it the regular season? Is
there's no playoff Harden? We've never seen

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a playoff harder before, So why
would he not step up when Paul George

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was out of the next Why not
the hole? There's no playoff Harden because

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he lost to the greatest team I
think of all time in the Golden State

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Wars with Kevin Durant. Let me
just mythbust that for a second. He

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has had fifteen playoff series in his
career where he's averaged twenty five points or

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more. To act like James,
Harden has only had down moments. I

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mean, just last season is a
perfect example. He has multiple forty point

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games against the Boston Celtics for Philly. I promise you they get multiple forty

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point games with this Clippers team fully
loaded, they're probably winning that series.

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Good luck, Carlo. You want
to weigh in on this because to me,

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it's a guy who looks a little
bit tired. He's been burning the

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candle on both ends. I mean
We've talked about how this Clipper team hasn't

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looked the same since that Grammy road
trip. In those final two games,

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he played eighty one minutes on a
back to back. He played forty two

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the first night, thirty nine the
next night. I'm no math major,

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but that's a lot of minutes and
back to back games. I think the

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guy's a little tired. I think
these two days will do him well,

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and I also think for the Clippers
it's just about finding a renewed focus.

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But Harden still finds a way to
affect the game every single night, and

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he did that tonight getting to the
free throw line. Yeah, Harden gave

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them a chance. I can I
just make one more point before I go?

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Yeah, John, I I just
think that Tyron lu playing PJ.

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Tucker was a huge mistake. Coffee
was a zero tonight. But Coffee needed

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to be the coffee that we know
he needed, and because of those minutes

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from PJ. Tucker, Coffee really
was not in the system at all.

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He was, he literally was.
He was a zero the entire night,

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John John, PJ. Tucker played
five minutes a mere Coffee played twenty.

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They lost PJ. Tucker's minutes by
one. I don't think he was the

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reason they lost the game. Yeah, well he hadn't played it three months.

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I mean, why would they play
PJ. Tucker at all? Because

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he's likely going to be needed at
some point in the playoffs. And I

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appreciate the phone call, John,
Let's do it again on Wednesday. I

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just there's a lot of calls coming
in here, and we got I want

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to get to everything. Mike in
La, you're on Clipper stop with that

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of Amazon and Carla Jimenez. Mike, what's up? Well, I think

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it comes down to having a team
that is both old and small. I

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mean it just, you know,
the rebound, the offensive rebounds kill me.

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It just is so frustrating. And
as far as you know, Harden

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goes, I mean, yeah,
obviously Harden is just tired. I mean

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he's been you know, you said, burning the candle on both ends.

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He's in burning the candle on you
know, seven ends. I mean he's

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been, uh you know, been
been worked and running into the into the

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ground. I think this would be
a great time to get bones uh the

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minute, if if they can,
and just you know, let hard and

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recover a little bit. But the
rebat. I mean the lack of five

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in you know, outside of you
know, a couple of centers is what

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I is ultimately, I think going
to keep this team from advancing super far.

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In the play, Mike, you
said something interesting there. I brought

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this up before. You can be
slow, you can be small. I

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don't know if you can be both
and ultimately win. Now. I still

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think because the Pista Zoobots is back
and playing much better, it's not really

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applicable to this Clippers team when they
want to play bigger. Look, Kawhi

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can play power forward in this league
in the modern era, right, Carlo?

404
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I mean, this is a guy
who is as physically strong as anyone

405
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:57.640
out there. Who's the dude he
sent flying the other day like the front

406
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row and they weren't sure what happened, he said, Trey Lyles flying today

407
00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:07.480
too, it looks like someone literally
hitting a brick wall. I mean they

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call him the terminator and all that, and a robot. But I don't

409
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know, Carlo, how do you
think? What do you think about that

410
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just being a little bit undersized,
being a little bit older and not being

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an issue right now? I don't
know if being older is an issue,

412
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:22.000
I think a little bit undersized.
Maybe they were plus eight in the paint

413
00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:26.119
and only minus two on the boards
today, So are you a smaller team

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but you still score more points in
the paint. That doesn't seem to be

415
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an issue. I think for the
Clippers it really comes down to those turnovers.

416
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I mean, he had sixteen and
then getting back on those turnovers.

417
00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:41.279
We saw the play. I think
the play that kind of epitomizes this game

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is Kawhi Leonard getting back on defense. The King's getting three offensive rebounds and

419
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still scoring the basketball. The effort
is just not there. I mean,

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you can't turn the ball over and
have one guy get back on the defensive

421
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end. That is a great point
and recall on your part. It happened

422
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earlier in the first half. It
was Dearon Fox on a one on one

423
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fast break against Kawhi Leonard, who
got the stop and nobody else got back.

424
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It was him versus what four Sacramento
Kings players. That is inexcusable for

425
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:17.359
a team that knows one of their
weaknesses is transition defense and for guys to

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let up in a situation where it's
Kawhi Leonard guarding Kadaron Fox I'm gonna take

427
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him to win that battle, and
he did, so you should have another

428
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guy there to grab the board.
That was just mind blowing difficult to see.

429
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One. One other thing that I
just wanted to note is Paul George.

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Obviously he didn't play to night,
but you know, I mean clearly,

431
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I think you know, whatever,
you know, injuries he's had had

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been having an effect on him lately
because he just has not looked good at

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all. And you know, earlier
this season, you you know, had

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one wings when he looked very explosive
and you know, very very athletic,

435
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and he didn't age you know,
a toun over the course of a few

436
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months. No, I agree with
you, Mike. I think Carlo does

437
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as well. He was legitimately their
best player the first month of the season.

438
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It was actually thirty points a game. He was better than Kawhi Leonard.

439
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:14.880
It was the game up in Sacramento
where Kawhi dunked on Javo McGhee where

440
00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:18.279
things started to turn around. That
was right after the loss of the Denver

441
00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:23.440
Nuggets with Reggie Jackson and DeAndre Jordan
who beat the Clippers. That one we

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00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:26.160
shouldn't talk about, Mike. We
appreciate the phone call. Let'll talk to

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00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:30.400
you on Wednesday. Thank you,
guys, Javier and Lahabra hyatts. Okay,

444
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:32.960
I got to put a time limit
here, thirty seconds. Everybody,

445
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:37.200
please, I want to get to
all your phone calls. Avier, Oh,

446
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:40.319
real quick, Hey, how you
doing, guys? Real quick?

447
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:42.799
The last couple of callers, they
just mentioned what I wanted to mention.

448
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:47.359
The Clippers, you know, a
little bit older, and it seems like

449
00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:49.720
every fifty fifty ball they don't grab
the rebound, they don't get the ball.

450
00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:52.119
They don't. I don't know why. They don't know how to box

451
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:55.440
out. I've been telling you just
add them for a while. They need

452
00:31:55.519 --> 00:32:00.000
to box out what I para wid
he used to say, rebound wins championships

453
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:01.960
doesn't read that well. You know
what, pat Riley didn't have to deal

454
00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:07.079
with guys taking thirty footers. The
long rebounds in today's game completely change just

455
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:12.039
the math on how to get a
board. Dennis Rodman might have problems at

456
00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:16.839
times because it's just completely different.
Yeah, that's it. I know you

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00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:21.359
guys. Thank you guys. Carlo, you want to weigh in on that.

458
00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:25.720
Yeah, I just think this team
has shown they can they can have

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00:32:25.839 --> 00:32:29.720
effort and they can show effort,
and we've seen them when when they were

460
00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:32.440
at their heights, they were making
those plays. I don't know if they're

461
00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:37.759
not making those plays now. I
mean, we saw Vitza Zubats pool dive

462
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.920
into hardwood today. I mean two
hundred and forty pounds head first swords of

463
00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:46.920
basketball right into the hardwood. I
just feel like this is a team that's

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00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:51.440
shooting themselves in a foot in their
foot a lot, and so sometimes it

465
00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:53.960
feels like they aren't trying. But
I don't think there's a lack of trying.

466
00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:58.000
When it comes to going for fifty
fifty balls. They're on the floor,

467
00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:00.720
there's no doubt about that. And
the offensive rebounding advantage was in favor

468
00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:06.119
of Sacramento. It was fourteen to
ten. It wasn't huge, but as

469
00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:08.960
you mentioned earlier, the turnovers I
think were more consequential in that second half,

470
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especially with ten of them, and
the Clippers ended up getting up nine

471
00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:16.200
less shots than the Kings, who
were shooting better. Overall, you can't

472
00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:20.400
win a ballgame against a team you're
giving more shots too. That's also shooting

473
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:22.799
a higher percentage. And you want
to talk about effort. They had seven

474
00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:25.279
offensive rebounds in the first quarter.
They finished with fourteen, So clearly the

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00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:30.599
Clippers focused in and honed in on
not allowing so many O boards down the

476
00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:31.960
stretch. Well, take a quick
time out, we'll come back. We'll

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00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:36.880
get back to your phone calls.
We still have Chuck Mockler coming on hits

478
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Clippers tuck after they fall one twenty
three to one oh seven. Here at

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480
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00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:55.920
You're listening to the LA Clippers Audio
Network streaming on the iHeartRadio app. The

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Clippers are three and four since the
Grammy road trip, and some fans are

483
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:06.839
having a little crisis of faith going
on tonight Clippers fall once twenty three to

484
00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:08.599
one oh seven. Here at home
to the Sacramento Kings. You're back in

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00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:10.920
on Clippers stock. I'm at a
maslin. We will get back to your

486
00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:15.679
phone calls. Don't worry about that. But first, Chuck Mockler from Clips

487
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:17.280
and Dip. He was in the
house. We took a picture. Put

488
00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:24.360
it at Clippers pod on X Charles. What's most alarming to you right now,

489
00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:32.360
with this Clippers team and their poor
play, it's tough to choose kind

490
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:38.039
of between just I guess the looking
older factor, you know, against the

491
00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:39.920
Thunder, I think it's easy to
look old. It's a very young,

492
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:44.760
good team. But even tonight that
was just you saw kind of the Clippers

493
00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:51.639
age that and I guess of the
rotations, I'm not really sure how much

494
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:55.719
to buy into the consistency of what
the rotations have been these last two games

495
00:34:55.760 --> 00:35:00.719
going forward, right you know,
we had a weird whistle against Terrence Mann

496
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:04.239
in that game against the Grizzlies where
things got odd have been Paul George's out

497
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:09.559
tonight. The decision to start Norm
was a little interesting, especially because if

498
00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:14.639
you look at kind of what the
bench scoring is without Norm Powell. So

499
00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:17.039
I think it's between those two things, but I guess I'll choose the kind

500
00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:21.719
of age one. They have two
practices before the Lakers game on Wednesday,

501
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:24.280
and then March starts, so we're
gonna learn a lot about how old this

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00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:30.360
team plays versus how old it really
is. Honestly, no matter where they're

503
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:34.400
at games against the Lakers, they've
always got enough for In the two Pine

504
00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:37.320
three era even before that. So
yeah, I do think it's gonna be

505
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:40.719
telling. It's gonna be a big
contest to see. I don't know if

506
00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:45.239
it's gonna be a measuring stake opportunity, but just to see where they're at,

507
00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:47.280
maybe physically, if they can't get
up for that game, if they

508
00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:52.000
don't run around and look like they
have a little bit more punch out there

509
00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:54.360
or pop, as coach flu likes
to call it. Yeah, I wonder

510
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:58.639
if this team is a little bit
worn down, and it just seems like

511
00:35:58.679 --> 00:36:00.760
it coincides with the Grammy trip.
You go six and one there, that

512
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:05.639
was the goal they pulled it off
and ever since then. And I just

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00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:08.159
looked up the numbers last seven games. Now they're three and four and they're

514
00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:15.119
twenty third offensively and twenty fourth defensively. I could buy twenty fourth defensively,

515
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:20.159
twenty third offensively is somewhat shocking to
me. And some of the offense tonight

516
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:24.239
most have been especially in the first
half, it just looked really funky out

517
00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:30.079
there. They were not creating great
looks at all. Yeah, I don't

518
00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:32.000
know if I'd use the word funky
because I'm trying to keep I like to

519
00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:36.360
use that word in a positive light, but I do, I do agree

520
00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:40.159
with what you're saying. A lot
of the game. You know, our

521
00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:44.239
other host, Will Updike and I
were up in the press box for this

522
00:36:44.280 --> 00:36:46.639
one, and you see it come
kind of from like a sideway bird's eye

523
00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:50.400
view, a little bit like an
angled bird's eye view of us. And

524
00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:52.960
what you saw, what we saw
a lot of tonight was guys clearing out,

525
00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:59.320
Kawhi going to work and then plan
B right like and then it's kind

526
00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:01.320
of, you know, we hope
offensive rebounder or something like that. So

527
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:07.199
particularly tonight, there was a lot
of standing around and watching, and you

528
00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:12.280
know, we didn't get a strong
shooting performance from James Harden from deep He

529
00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:15.239
was two of ten from three,
and a lot of those you know,

530
00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:20.039
were off the dribble or you know, maybe assisted in things like that.

531
00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:23.000
So the offense is, as we've
said the last couple of seasons, at

532
00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:27.599
various points, kind of stuck in
the mud. Right now, Kawhi is

533
00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:30.760
making things happen in the mid rage, which is where teams are moving the

534
00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:35.880
clippers because it hasn't been going well
and other guys are having trouble adjusting and

535
00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:39.159
moving off the ball. We saw
some good off ball movement from Terrence when

536
00:37:39.159 --> 00:37:42.920
he was sharing before with Russ A
little bit tonight, I believe. But

537
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:45.039
when Kai's out there, we need
guys to play like Kawai isn't out there

538
00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:52.159
when Kawhi is out Yeah, I
think that's a really good point. Kawhi

539
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:54.360
still looks good. As much as
we talk about an old team, Kawhi

540
00:37:54.440 --> 00:38:00.000
does not look like that. Since
coming back and missing that Golden State Warrior

541
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:04.719
game, he has had punch,
he has looked explosive out there. He's

542
00:38:04.760 --> 00:38:08.679
had a lot of dunks, so
he should have gotten felt calls on Terrence

543
00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:13.360
Man has been a bright spot the
last two games. There was carry over

544
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:16.599
from that Memphis game because Terrence was
actually looking for his shot at times.

545
00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:21.760
That and one he had in the
fourth quarter in the key that was big,

546
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:24.679
and that is one of the encouraging
signs right now for this team.

547
00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:30.119
Totally fourteen six and four from Terrence. I would be hard pressed to,

548
00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:35.199
you know, think that the Clippers
have a bad record when Terrence has a

549
00:38:35.239 --> 00:38:38.679
stat line like this, right,
this is what this is maybe what we'll

550
00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:42.800
need from Terrence Man in the playoffs
on a consistent basis, and you know,

551
00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:46.800
a twenty point game every now and
then. If things go this way,

552
00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:51.440
I don't think it will continue too
bad like this, Paul George is

553
00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:54.039
gonna come back get some help.
But you're totally right. It did carry

554
00:38:54.039 --> 00:39:00.920
over for Terrence. Man, he's
really you know, it's been a bright

555
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:04.679
spot. There has been a lot
since the All Star breaks, so we

556
00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:07.920
got to hope this keeps up.
But he was doing all he could to

557
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:10.480
try and help the clips today on
both ends. What's your level of concern

558
00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:15.199
with PG thirteen and the left knee
soreness? Because we talked about our eclips

559
00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:20.119
and DIP days were running together.
I think it was yesterday we had the

560
00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:23.039
live going. Yeah, it was
like, man, I know, I

561
00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:28.119
know, and they're already stacking up
and I'm getting forgetful, and I did

562
00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:31.159
feel like he needed to rest,
he needed to sit down. He did.

563
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I'm hoping because he gets four days
off then between the last time he

564
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:38.920
played in the Lakers game on Wednesday, that he'll be back for that one

565
00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:43.960
because he's always been very good against
the Los Angeles Lakers too. But where

566
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are you at with his play and
if it's just eye test that obviously he

567
00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:51.679
must be banged up right now because
he's just not the same guy he was

568
00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:57.239
even just a month ago. Yeah, I think my level of concern is,

569
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:00.639
I guess, to put on a
scale from one to ten, I'd

570
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go, I don't know, six
point seven out of ten. The fact

571
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that it's a knee now, We've
got the groin earlier and then now the

572
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:12.920
knee is really just just why I
guess I'm over five there. But we

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00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:17.440
need him to be the best number
two or one B or whatever however he

574
00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:21.079
wants to phrase it. We all
know that he has to be the second

575
00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:23.719
best player all the Clippers when it
comes to scoring the basketball, and some

576
00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:27.519
nights may be called on to be
the first. So I hope he's at

577
00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:30.000
one hundred percent. He's going to
come back against the team that's really physical

578
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:35.480
to play. We assume that he'll
be back for that Wednesday game with the

579
00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:38.639
four days rest and everything like that, But I mean, it's a tough

580
00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:43.559
matchup to come back to. But
he does always play the Lakers well in

581
00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:45.760
the grand scheme of things. Yeah, we just got to see, what,

582
00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:50.159
you know, the playing schedule for
Kawhi and PG is for the back

583
00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:52.960
to backs to close the season,
because that's going to be a huge part

584
00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:54.639
of it too. Kawhi is having
to do a lot of work even when

585
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Paul George is out there, especially
on the defensive ends. Paul Dridge has

586
00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:00.719
been good, but you know,
Kawhi and does what he has to do.

587
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But without Paul George, that's an
even the harder task. And I

588
00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:07.840
thought you saw it catch up with
him a little bit tonight, just again

589
00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:13.559
because it's so hard to do.
So I hope I'm being overly concerned and

590
00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:16.559
it's not as big a deal because
the Clippers need Paul George to be the

591
00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:21.119
second best player on this team when
it comes to score last one for you

592
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:23.079
here, Chuck, you talked about
lineups and rotations, and guys, we've

593
00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:27.639
been seeing PJ. Tucker got five
minutes in the first half. He was

594
00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:31.239
a minus one out there, one
really good defensive possession against Aaron Fox where

595
00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:37.000
I was impressed. Fox still hit
it because he's that good. But just

596
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:39.360
what have you seen from the big
man rotation that you like that you don't

597
00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:43.360
like? Where would you like to
see them go with this? Because tonight

598
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:46.800
it was Mason Plumbley out. It
was Daniel tyskin the opportunity. Yeah,

599
00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:51.079
I guess the only thing I like
from the Clippers Big Man rotation is meets

600
00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:57.519
the zoobots and nothing else. Right
now, I don't know what has happened

601
00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:01.159
to Plumbly. Entice Tyson did go
you know, four or five if you

602
00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:05.719
just look at the the box score, But defensively, there was just no

603
00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:13.760
containment from him or any real uh
you know, actual stops being put up.

604
00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:19.119
For the most part, Plubly getting
the DNP was surprising. I'm a

605
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:22.119
little concerned that we haven't really totally
got this rotation figured out this far into

606
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:27.880
the season, but we just needed
to be better, right like if that's

607
00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:31.119
if that's being in the better positions
defensively, you know, PJ. Chucker

608
00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:36.280
did get those five minutes, and
hey, he was out there, so

609
00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:39.639
it seems like maybe that those dnps
start up again. But we we just

610
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:42.880
got to figure out which two guys
are gonna be balanced for the spot,

611
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:45.639
because that's that's really what I would
like to see, and I hope it's

612
00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:50.360
between Plubly and Times. What about
the possibility of Bones Highlands somehow getting into

613
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:54.480
this rotation. What about the possibility
of Bones. Why not he could have

614
00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:59.679
been used tonight right Like we needed
scoring off the bed. He's scoring off

615
00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:05.280
the bed. I understand the defensive
liability of having him and Norm Powell out

616
00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:08.159
there at the same time, if
you could somehow stagger them. And I

617
00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:10.760
wasn't even sure Norm was going to
play, so I thought maybe this would

618
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:15.239
open up an opportunity for Bones.
But it just semes seems like they're gonna

619
00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:19.800
need a shot in the arm.
They're going to need someone to get on

620
00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:22.239
a run and catch lightning in a
bottle while other guys are regressing. Terras

621
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:25.880
Man has provided some of that,
but they need more juice out there in

622
00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:30.320
athleticism for an older team. All
right, he is Chuck Mockler. One

623
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:35.159
of my favorite things about this day
now is just the fact that while I'm

624
00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:38.119
talking to Chuck, I tweet something
out, and while he's talking to me,

625
00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:45.559
he likes it in real time.
Charles, thanks for coming on Clipperstock

626
00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:49.920
tonight for a little double dip.
Yep. Excited to do the pond tomorrow.

627
00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:52.400
Let's go Clips. Let's go Clips. Coming up back to your phone

628
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:55.760
calls after they lose one twenty three
to one oh seven here at home to

629
00:43:55.800 --> 00:44:01.000
the Sacramento Kings. They're three and
four in their last seven games since the

630
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:05.400
Gurmy road trip. A connection there, I don't know. I don't know

631
00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:08.480
how you can't look to that a
little bit right now. But we'll hear

632
00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:10.960
from the head coach too, and
get back to your phone calls. Next

633
00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:15.760
you're on clipperstock on M five seventy
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634
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:19.880
hunt for a larryob. They still
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635
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636
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637
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638
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641
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ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los
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642
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good song, better than the Tony
Braxon version even Oh Big bro am I

643
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:05.880
wrong? Oh okay, okay,
you grimace like okay, yeah, yeah,

644
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:08.360
Tony brass version uh okay, before
we get out of here, a

645
00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:12.400
couple more phone calls than you're gonna
hear from big brothers Jake, Warner,

646
00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:15.000
Jose and Downey. You're on Glipper
stop for out of Mauslins after they fall

647
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:19.719
one twenty three to one oh seven
to the Kings, Ise, Hey,

648
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.800
what's upppening? You know what,
you guys have been on target about the

649
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:28.639
energy and just playing slow. I
mean, I felt today was one of

650
00:45:28.639 --> 00:45:30.360
those days that they kids, they
could have really tried to beat down the

651
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:37.199
middle with a really using Zoo.
There's quite a like many plays where he

652
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:39.119
had the smaller player on them,
and instead of taking advantage it, they

653
00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:44.480
just started passing around to go for
that three and we got tired legs or

654
00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:47.119
you don't have the energy, Those
are all gonna be short shots. I

655
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:52.280
mean, you gotta you gotta use
what's that your advantage? And if you

656
00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:55.719
know, if Zoo has a smaller
man pinned down, gotta get the ball

657
00:45:55.760 --> 00:45:59.559
in there, gotta get the ball. Give these guys some rest, then

658
00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:01.440
maybe little those shots of land in
the fourth. You know, if they

659
00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:05.559
have to take less shots, you
know, I wonder if they almost need

660
00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:08.519
a refresher course on who Avitza Zubats
is. I'm not saying it's like Kevin

661
00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:12.559
Durant, Do you know who the
hell I am? It's not like that.

662
00:46:13.159 --> 00:46:16.039
But he and James Harden were so
in sync in the pick and roll

663
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:20.519
and it was the best version of
a Vita Zubats we had seen before he

664
00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:22.639
went out for those ten games or
however many it was with the right calf

665
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:28.079
injury, and now he's getting lost
in the shuffle when he can be a

666
00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:32.920
weapon you go to, especially in
a game like this, Aviza Zubots is

667
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:37.400
playing hard, he has energy,
he's got young legs, and he looks

668
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:42.239
to be fully healthy again. He's
not on a minute restriction. Find him.

669
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:46.920
That's what's a little bit confounding.
You have an offense a system with

670
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:51.920
James Harden in the high pick and
roll that, as coach Lu said,

671
00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:54.079
before you run it sixty times,
you're probably getting fifty five good looks.

672
00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:59.239
And they didn't go to it enough, and they didn't go to Zoo enough.

673
00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:00.920
When he's hot, he starts five
of six in the first half.

674
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:04.920
If there's a guy out there that's
three or three that's five of six.

675
00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:10.159
I'm gonna feature him much more.
He only ended up with three more shots

676
00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:13.840
in the second half, that is, and one of them I think was

677
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.400
an offensive rebound and I put back. Yeah, I'm sorry, you got

678
00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:22.039
me going there, Ose. I
appreciate the phone call, my man.

679
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:24.280
Let's do it again on Wednesday.
All right, all right, man,

680
00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:30.760
Damien in La I saw you at
the game. Wasn't able to say,

681
00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:36.000
Hi, Damien, what's up here
on Clipperstock? Adam? What's going on?

682
00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:38.840
Triple A? Man, it's my
birthday, Broddie oh Man, happy

683
00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:43.800
birthday. And I'm sorry about the
loss. Thank you. Yeah, Man,

684
00:47:43.880 --> 00:47:46.719
it's okay, man, But you
know I had to call in,

685
00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:53.239
bro, because today I'm just proud
to say that. You know, I

686
00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:58.320
got myself into a new place,
and you know we're moved in the whole

687
00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:00.360
time you've known me, Bro,
I've been homeless. Man, I've been

688
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:05.679
living out of my car, doing
deliveries and everything, trying to get myself

689
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:07.800
right, trying to get a credit
score and all that type of stuff.

690
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:10.039
You know, I'm a musician,
Bro. We live off of cash,

691
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:14.679
you know. So when the pandemic
hit, it hit me hard. When

692
00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:17.880
the pandemic hit. It hit me
hard. I could have, you know,

693
00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:22.559
taken some shortcuts and done some things, but I just decided I was

694
00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:25.719
going to live my life, you
know, and meeting you and the crew,

695
00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:31.719
big bro, you know, Carlow
and of course no ego man like

696
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:37.000
that. Really, that really did
a lot for me. Having the Clippers

697
00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:39.119
as my team did a lot for
me. And I know that there's a

698
00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:42.840
lot of people out there in Clipper
Nation right that are going through it.

699
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:46.360
I'm hearing it. I'm with all
of y'all, and I just need for

700
00:48:46.440 --> 00:48:50.559
y'all to know that, Yo,
I got a story too, and this

701
00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:52.800
team is special to me because of
that too. I was you know,

702
00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:58.159
I just thought, Adam, I'm
straight together and extra fifty to sixty dollars

703
00:48:58.239 --> 00:49:00.400
a month, and I'm gonna get
my tickets, you know, and I'm

704
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:05.360
gonna come see you guys, because
it's important, you know. Like that

705
00:49:05.519 --> 00:49:07.119
was my escape, bro. Like
that was the only time I could ever

706
00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:10.360
get out of my car, you
know what I'm saying, other than when

707
00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:15.159
I was doing you know, the
gigs that I had. Other than that,

708
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:16.760
I was just doing deliveries and I
was sleeping up in this mug,

709
00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:22.280
you know. But three years later
we got the credit score up. We're

710
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:24.840
over seven hundred. We moved into
a really nice spot, you know what

711
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:30.400
I'm saying out there towards San Diego, you know. And nothing had to

712
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:32.679
change, bro, Like I still
got my tickets. We're still at games.

713
00:49:32.679 --> 00:49:37.159
I'll be there on Wednesday. And
you know, from the bottom of

714
00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:38.079
my heart, Bro, I just
had to say, thank you, big

715
00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:44.039
Bro. I know you're listening.
Thank you. No Ego, if you

716
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:46.559
get to hear this, thank you, Carlo, thank you. Carlo has

717
00:49:46.599 --> 00:49:50.719
been putting his foot in this call. Man. We gotta have to spell

718
00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:53.800
him in as with him, because
he's putting the him in it right there.

719
00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:59.119
And I just appreciate all of y'all
man for accepting me and giving me

720
00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:04.039
the courage to start. And I
appreciate you bro go clip Damien. I

721
00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:09.559
appreciate the phone call. It's inspiring. And we got to take a picture

722
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:15.079
Wednesday. I mean, we haven't
talked enough recently here on Clippers Talk and

723
00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:21.320
happy birthday, my friend, and
the progress you have made and hanging in

724
00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:23.920
with this team here in Clipper Nation
and Clipernation is family. I mean,

725
00:50:24.840 --> 00:50:30.199
we stick up for each other.
We got each other's back. So Damien

726
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:35.159
as always appreciates you. Bro.
Let's hear from Tagus and Walnut to close

727
00:50:35.199 --> 00:50:37.880
things out tonight before we hear from
people to Jake Warner, what's up?

728
00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:44.079
Tagous Hey, what's up Adam?
You know, when we were surging and

729
00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:47.559
had that winning street going, we
would quite often talk and say, you

730
00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:51.159
know what, are other teams gonna
do what like you got? They got

731
00:50:51.159 --> 00:50:53.599
to pick their poison? Are they
going to go hard in PG or quiet?

732
00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:58.480
And it seems like recently and during
these struggles, we're not saying that

733
00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:01.079
as often. And I've been trying
to kind of like figure out what's been

734
00:51:01.079 --> 00:51:06.119
going on. To me, there's
a few things. One, they're taking

735
00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:10.639
too long to get into their sets
and their actions very slow, and they

736
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:17.440
it's very predictable, and you can't
do that against elite teams because they're very

737
00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:24.039
good at defensively like these against Minnesota
Oklahoma, and when they actually pick up

738
00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:28.199
their pace, which you saw a
little bit of today, they look like

739
00:51:28.239 --> 00:51:34.719
a much different team. That's one
thing. Two, it's very like predictable

740
00:51:34.760 --> 00:51:39.599
as well, when we're posting up
Kawhi and we're not getting generating good open

741
00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:45.440
shots from the double team, and
quite often we're passing around the perimeter,

742
00:51:45.519 --> 00:51:50.079
but sometimes we're not seeing the dives
to the basket and that sort of thing.

743
00:51:50.199 --> 00:51:53.199
So I would like to kind of
see them, you know, play

744
00:51:53.239 --> 00:51:59.480
with purpose and whether they set the
screen roll, it's got to be much

745
00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:02.719
quicker and if Kawhi is you know, instead of having Qui posts up all

746
00:52:02.760 --> 00:52:06.639
the time in the first quarter.
I would like to see PG sometimes in

747
00:52:06.679 --> 00:52:08.800
the post and maybe Kauhi is on
the receiving end on some of the open

748
00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:14.840
shots. But the way that they're
playing right now is very slow, and

749
00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:19.360
they're not able to get that break
like when maybe they were younger to get

750
00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:22.559
those open shots like pig and hard
and it's a little bit harder now for

751
00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:27.079
them, understandably, so so I
would like to just see them pick up

752
00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:31.599
the pace. I think that will
go a long way and kind of reigniting

753
00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:37.480
what they had during that surge.
Yeah, a lot of good points there.

754
00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:40.360
Tage just as always one of my
favorite callers. They knew do need

755
00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:45.159
to play with more purpose and play
faster even in the half court. It

756
00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:47.280
doesn't mean playing fast means you have
to be in transition all the time,

757
00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:52.679
playing up tempo, just making quicker, more decisive decisions in the half court

758
00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:58.679
is really what's required from this team. And it's a little bit shocking that

759
00:52:58.719 --> 00:53:01.280
it's fallen off to this to agree
the last seven games, because for three

760
00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:07.320
months to the second best offense,
at times the best offense, and then

761
00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:10.039
all of a sudden, the last
seven games they're twenty third offensively. I

762
00:53:10.039 --> 00:53:15.360
could see the defense slipping even further
down the rankings, the offense to drop

763
00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:22.280
twenty one twenty two spots. That's
that's a little bit concerning, and I

764
00:53:22.360 --> 00:53:27.599
gotta think some of it is tired
legs when you're playing slower like that James

765
00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:31.159
Harden and those heavy minutes we talked
about with Carlojmenez earlier bringing it up that

766
00:53:31.519 --> 00:53:36.239
look guy played back to back games
where he was at eighty one minutes total.

767
00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:45.119
That has an accumulative effect that compounds, and those dogs are still tired.

768
00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:51.199
That's what it is sometimes, even
with an All Star break. I'm

769
00:53:51.239 --> 00:53:53.199
hoping they catch their second win soon. The good news is they do have

770
00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:57.760
two days off before taking on the
Lakers. Right back here at Crypto on

771
00:53:57.880 --> 00:54:01.679
Wednesday. Even better news, big
brother Jake Warner is gonna bring us some

772
00:54:01.719 --> 00:54:07.119
positivity before we get out of here, because he is the fake philosopher,

773
00:54:07.239 --> 00:54:10.880
the Professor Jake Warner Big Brother Jake
podcast on the podcast one network. What's

774
00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:14.519
up man? What an intro?
Thank you you got it? Bro.

775
00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:16.480
Shout out to Damien. By the
way, that's that's an aspiring story.

776
00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:21.960
Man. He's more of the fake
philosopher than myself. That was powerful to

777
00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:27.000
hear like this. Yeah, absolutely, But I do have some light at

778
00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:30.119
the end of this tunnel, and
it's not a train. Okay. That

779
00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:35.480
old Mike d'antni. I love it. That's the only thing I liked about

780
00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:38.320
him. But here we go.
When you stop chasing what you want,

781
00:54:39.079 --> 00:54:45.239
you walk right into what you need. So when they stopped chasing these victories,

782
00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:49.119
the walk right into him, madam. Okay, okay, feel I

783
00:54:49.159 --> 00:54:54.119
mean yeah, he won with the
universe. Get in tune and find their

784
00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:58.760
identity again. This team, all
right, buddy, had a well formed

785
00:54:58.760 --> 00:55:00.800
identity throughout most of the season.
You gotta get back to that. Don't

786
00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:04.119
get back to it. I'm not
worried at all, you know, I

787
00:55:04.159 --> 00:55:07.119
don't worry. If I worry,
you should worry. I'm not worry right.

788
00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:09.840
You keep us afloat here as always, Big brother, Jake Corner,

789
00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:15.199
big bro for a reason. We'll
see you on Wednesday too. Absolutely,

790
00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:19.440
before we get out of here,
I do want to thank the Clippers organization,

791
00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:23.159
Ralph olo'brien, Seeman, Noah Ego, Carla Jimenez on the call,

792
00:55:23.599 --> 00:55:29.239
the callers, the listeners, cad
you Newton back in the bank, our

793
00:55:29.280 --> 00:55:34.440
producer until Wednesday, with the Clippers
tipping off at seven pregame at six against

794
00:55:34.440 --> 00:55:37.000
the Lakers, right back here at
the crypt, I'm at Amazon. We

795
00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:40.079
will talk to you then. Ma
Whi was doing his thing. All they

796
00:55:40.119 --> 00:55:44.039
want to do is win in La. I went. I thought they gave

797
00:55:44.079 --> 00:55:47.000
everything they had. I'm proud of. This has been Clippers Talk, the

798
00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:52.800
official postgame reaction of the LA Clippers. God bless Paul George. Are you

799
00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:57.320
it changed? Don't miss an episode
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800
00:55:57.480 --> 00:56:00.639
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801
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:06.920
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