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What is going on? Clippers fans, Welcome to season two, episode fifty

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two. I believe, but I
think you will. Of clips and dim,

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We're coming at you the day after
the Clippers beat the Warriors in a

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crazy game. There's been a lot
of weird stuff happening this week, so

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we just wanted to do a little
quick hitter send everyone off on a nice

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little all star break. Hang.
If you're listening, thank you so much

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for listening. If you're watching over
on YouTube dot com slash that Clippers podcast,

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we appreciate it. Like I said, I'm Chuck Mockler, will updike

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an Adam Oslander here. Will you
look great? Adam? You look exhausted.

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I shouldn't be because I took about
a three hour and nap earlier today.

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It's that doesn't even qualify. That's
like a slumber, that's no longer

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a nap and quickly. I do
want to apologize to Brandon Mark of the

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Sports Ethos, who like texting me
right apparently as I fell asleep and I

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wake up, text him back and
be like, I'm sorry, man,

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I was taking a nap. I
feel like he's not gonna believe me because

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napsund's supposed to be three hours.
I think that I was just like,

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you know, shoving them off or
whatever, giving him the run around.

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Hey, let's do lunch. Uh. I had a big nap. Yeah,

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I had a big nap earlier.
Yeah. I'm ashamed of myself.

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But you know what, guys,
it's been a it's been a long week

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and now it's been a weird week
the Clippers. There was some PJ.

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Tucker stuff, will how would you
category? How would you kind of break

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down your week of Clippers? This
was chaotic, like fine, oh man,

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so many ups and downs. It's
been a it's been an emotional roller

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coaster. It's tiring me out.
You know. I was thinking the other

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day, I haven't hit a nap
in the workplace in a while. That's

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something I should probably get back on. Anyways, Yeah, I find that

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broom closet a terrible loss. What
I thought was a very indicative win of

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the Clippers character this season, and
it's all kind of been completely overshadowed by

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I mean, rightfully so, an
injury to Kawhi Leonard and less rightfully so,

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just some PJ. Tucker draw I
don't I'm unsure why this is getting

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so much airspace. I mean that's
fair. I napped through it. Yeah,

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So for those of you who somehow
missed it, PJ. Tucker and

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Bones were set home, as reported
by Shobs, which is such wild phrasing.

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We're dealing with grown man, I
don't I think there's some I don't

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know. Set home feels like they
had to go to their room. Yeah,

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it feels weird, but it's because
of frustrations and like early, you

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know, they're they're gonna give them
some time off and and all this stuff.

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Adam loves getting sent home more time
than that. The Bones the Bone

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stuff kind of makes sense, right, Like he was playing well, he

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left a team that was a contender
to get more time. He came and

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was getting that we trained for James
Harden. That that sucks, that that's

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rough for Bones apparently I know that. He laughs. Well, you know

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what I'm saying. He wanted to
leave, right Apparently from some he hasn't

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been super chill in the locker room, just like reporters wise when it comes

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to talking and stuff from scuttle.
But but the PJ. Tucker stuff is

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it is wild. It's getting so
much I know, we're talking about it,

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But Adam, do you have any
hope that, like, what is

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the resolve here? Wells sometimes with
players when it comes to minutes and playing

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time out there, and obviously,
for whatever reason, and I'm not going

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to I'm not absolving him of the
blame at all. He thinks differently of

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himself than the Clippers do at this
point and has to probably come to grips

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with his basketball mortality when you're in
the upper thirties. He's thirty eight years

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of age. He is the second
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But he did come in and immediately
get playing time, and then coach

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Lou said it came down to either
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once guys got healthy. That may
have set unrealistic expectations. I'm not blaming

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coach Lou. I'm just trying to
understand where he's coming from with this.

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And if you thought, hey,
I was just getting bounced by Terrence Man

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to be in the fifth starter,
I could have been getting thirty minutes a

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night. Maybe that's why, for
whatever reason he's like this, I think,

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come on, man, I think
that was like a very diplomatic thing

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to say, not like his time
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productive. I maybe the idea behind
it, either being Terrence Man or PJ,

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was that PJ sucks so much.
The only way we can make him

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playable on the floor is if he
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and Paul George and a Viza Zoobots. Okay, that's the only way.

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Yes, that's the only way.
He was cracking this lineup in the in

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the starters. It's absurd. And
if that's what he thought, Like,

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if that's what he thought, I'm
sorry man, Like I I guess I'm

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we didn't make you any promises,
though we had to take on bad salary

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in the James Harden trade. It's
not even like we we had this handshake

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deal that was like, oh yeah, come over the Clippers. You take

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a little discount, you're gonna get
some playing time. Like I just don't

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get what we're doing here. That
and my keyboard man, you're flipping out,

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dude, I just don't get it. The question, so the toe

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Mayors has been with all the PJ. Tucker stuff. He wrote an article

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for Clutch Points that came out I
think yesterday, Yeah, real bombshell on

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Valentine's Day. But he said,
like, and it's just you know,

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he talks about like I didn't ask
to be traded here and things like that,

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and it's like, well, I
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like that doesn't really I don't.
I it's just kind of a rough

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read I guess from like Will and
Adam kind of what you were saying of,

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Like, you're he's thirty eight.
He's been on the Bucks, the

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seventy six ers, and the Clippers
right like this, this is a contender

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list that's growing that and he he's
been a key piece recently on teams that

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are contenders. Even with him being
in this advanced stage of his career,

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he was getting big minutes, so
that has to be factored in too.

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You may not think he should have
been getting big minutes with those teams,

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but he was just very recently was
yeah yeah. And he was also find

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seventy five thousand dollars today for requests
publicly requesting a trade, So things are

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not coming up. PJ. Tucker. It feels like, can we be

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like they let it slide on the
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like they were like, dude,
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Yeah, I don't know. And
and T Mayer also said in the article,

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let me make sure I get this
quote right. I'll mess with I'm

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not basically saying like, it's not
like there's not really expectation that he's going

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to return to the rotation, but
Bones maybe like he might need some burn

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in March. We've all talked about
this if he's on the team, and

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it's like, I don't know,
like him being he's obviously unhappy, and

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I know that he hasn't there's some
great quotes from Terrence Man talking about how

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PJ hasn't you know, he has
an effect of that locker room stuff.

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But there's still a lot of games
left for things to like fester. I

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guess yeah. And I know this
is coming from a guy who just took

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a three hour nap, but I'm
gonna say, don't sleep on PJ.

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Tucker, don't sleep on Bones Highland
being productive at some point in March.

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I still think it's going to happen. I don't think it's over for either

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of these guys. When you have
Chuck has pointed out rightfully so for six

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months, the Clippers having seventeen games
in the month of March, and what

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we've just seen from this team,
when they're worn down, you are going

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to have to have fresh bodies coming
off the bench. Brandon Boston had a

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big opportunity yesterday against the Golden State
Warriors. He didn't play great. I

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think that was trying to prep him
for it could have been future opportunities in

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March. I don't think it's over
for him either, but he didn't necessarily,

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you know, take advantage of it
to the extent. I'm sure they

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were hoping he would to say,
Hey, this guy could give us ten

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minutes, fifteen minutes here and there
during this grueling schedule. So I still

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think Bones is gonna get run and
I think PJ. Tucker in the right

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matchups, can help this team.
And I would not be shocked if they

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went big at some point with him
for a little bit. I know coach

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lew said yesterday, you know,
he's seventy five years old. He could

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ride off into the sunset. He's
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Tucker from what we saw earlier in
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went to fully completely unplayable wash type
of he says in the articles, like

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all I can do. I did
like the part he is like, all

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I can do is stay in shape. That's all I can do. I

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watched that last game against Minnesota on
Monday night. He went through a more

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extensive pregame shoot around that I had
seen him do in a while. I'm

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gonna say that he takes a little
longer warm up. What do he take?

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Four shots? Funny check? Pretty
good, that's pretty good. That's

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the tease. That's the teas for
this episode. So let's all right,

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we don't know what's gonna happen with
PJ. Tucker. He got an extra

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day off. Hope, we hope
they're doing okay. The Warriors game was

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so weird, he was We've had
a string of weird games. Tylu has

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been on fire lately. First of
all, the bit about PJ. Tucker

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being seventies hilarious, and then,
for the first time as a coach,

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Tylu Panela gets ejected from a game. The Clippers get fired up, and

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they beat the Warriors for their gritty, like one of the greasier wins of

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the season for the Clips again three
and zero in the cubit series dating back

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to twenty twenty one. I don't
know if that was mentioned in the post

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game. I'm begging that this continues
it into it. I had it in

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the pregame, damn it. I
said they could get to get to three

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and zero if they win today.
There we go a lot of weird stuff

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from this game. I don't know, Adam, what was your favorite part

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of this game. There was a
bunch of weird points. Other than ejection,

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which was wonderful. There were so
many big plays. You mentioned it

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being a gritty, gutty, resilient
type of victory for this Clippers team,

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probably the best of that nature since
I could bypass last season since the kawhi

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Las year in twenty one and twenty
two, because I don't remember many of

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these at all last year, especially
to this extent. But I'm gonna say

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my guy, big Plum went big
nasty almost Corlis Williamson out there. He

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was upset. I thought he had
his best game, maybe since coming back

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from the injury, maybe just his
best game of the season. I'd kind

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of called him out a little bit
on the last podcast, saying, hey,

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big Plum has to be better than
this. He was. He had

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a couple of really nice passes out
of the high post. He was physical,

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and he got screwed. Those fouls
by drama on him. One should

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have been a flagrant. One should
have just been called a foul, And

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I sympathize with Coach Lou. How
do they not review that first foul by

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Draymond Green and give him a tech
for asking them to review that because it

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could have been a flagrant on a
guy who got called for a foul earlier,

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Mason Plumbley when he was the one
who had the bridge of his nose

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cut, And you're not gonna review
a foul on him when it starts bleeding

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again. Maybe that means he got
hit in the head. I thought.

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I found that shameful by the officiating
crew, honestly, Like Coach Lou was

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completely in the right and that's why
he was going off to the extent he

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was postgame. But Mason Plumbley kind
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Along with Coach Lou being ejected like
that, I don't think they win this

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game if Coachlee doesn't get ejected.
Honestly, they weren't playing with that fire

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manager, fire him up. Coach
Lou Panella is an all timer by U

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Chuck. I love that he was
out there kicking dirt around, kicking around

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the bases, throwing around backward.
You never see that from him. And

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when a guy who rarely ever gets
that upset, gets that angry, it

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holds more weight. It tells the
team it's not just oh, this is

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typical of our head coach. This
is what he does. No, no,

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no, no. This was somebody
trying to fire up his squad and

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it worked. I think it was
also justified because he was just naturally that

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mad when you're getting screwed like that. But it was beautiful to see,

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and there were so many key plays
in the game that a lot of them

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get lost in the shuffle, like
that Terrence Man three to end the third

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quarter to bring it to within eleven. Now I think Pods hit a three

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to start the fourth quarter right away
because they were up by fourteen at one

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point. But there were so many
just little plays by Russell Westbrook getting into

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the teeth of the defense and getting
among the trees and creating extra ortunities,

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knocking it off multiple Golden State Warriors
to create an extra possession for the Clippers.

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Obviously, what Norn Powell did King
of the Fourth was incredible. Paul

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George started going to the basket more
was having a miserable shooting game once again,

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and I still thought stepped up before
he fouled out. There were just

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I don't know. It was one
of those games where you felt like,

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oh, this team has that heart
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Even though they have a ton of
talent. When the chips are down,

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they can also find a way to
win. Yeah, Will what are

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you going with what was always one
of your peak moments for this weird win.

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Yeah, it's Tyler in the tunnel
actually again losing it, totally freaking

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out. Yeah. James Harden also
like, uh, this is again yet

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another example of why you get James
Harden to run the show when guys like

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Paul Georgia and foul trouble and QUI
it's out. He was absolutely fantastic and

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we needed every bit of it.
Becauseteph Curry had forty one points. He

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got hit with a hard foul too, like on a on a ten from

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three that was like it was like
a half court. It was a so

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unnecessary, And once again, what
about a mirror coffee coming back into the

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game when PG fouls out knocks down
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Brian Seeman one of his best calls
for a mirror in a big moment

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on the season, which is saying
something because he's got all the emir puns

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of course, but big free throws
that were made down the stretch, Golden

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State fouling down six with like forty
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hack of Russ. I guess it
was Klay Thompson, who's I don't know

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if it's coincidence, but he's not
starting tonight. Pods is starting for the

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Golden State Warriors. Yeah, that's
like becoming an incredibly toxic situation. It

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seems like did you see the bench
reactions to the Clay foul. I was

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watching some clips of it, and
the whole bench, the Warriors bench,

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is just like, what the fuck
are you doing? Man? Like now

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he's joining the bench because of something
like that. But that was a team

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who won five straight with some really
good victories on the road in Philly,

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the Phoenix when we've talked about blowing
out Utah on the road like that.

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They were peaking, they were feeling
great about themselves, and I thought there

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was an opportunity for them to put
foot to the throat of the Clippers earlier

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in the game, and they never
were able to fully pour it on.

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Yeah, they lost. The Clippers
lost the field goal battle. We talked

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about that pregame, and the Clippers
lost that by almost twenty but it didn't

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matter, thankfully, because they were
so efficient on choosing. Part of that

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was Zoos. You had a double
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He was assertive, like he made
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or tied with the best plus minus
with Harden, which is not a coincidence

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that Harden brought that up. But
yeah, this was a great game for

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you to go. Had to get
some rest with two he got I think

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twenty eight minutes, and I was
thinking to myself when coach lu got ejected

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and Carlo and I brought this up
on the broadcast, but it was like,

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oh, does Dan Craig, does
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on a visa zubats, because maybe
he does it and he's gonna get some

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extended run, and this was the
most he had played. He almost got

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to thirty minutes, and he was
a big part of the team that made

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that big run in that fourth quarter. You're right, Visa Zubats was looking

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as good as effort. This is
a team that they do match up pretty

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well against, where I think they
just throw far too many issues towards the

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Golden State Warriors for them to cover
up for all those problems they have against

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this Clippers team, there's just too
many holes. There's some chatter there's a

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growing contingent that is saying maybe after
the All Star break, at some point,

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the Clippers should try a mere Coffee
in Terrence Man's place in the starting

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lineup. I brought this up a
few weeks ago, where I'm I don't

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know if that. I hope it
doesn't happen. It makes the bench pretty

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small. I'm not part of the
growing contingent. I'm not part of this.

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I'm reporting my boots on the ground
over here. But it makes the

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bench unit a little goof here fit
wise, I think, and I think

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people are, look, it's fine
if a mere Coffee is getting more minutes

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as the closer with this team.
I think that works, especially in a

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comeback where you need offense. But
what Emir is doing, our boss,

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Lucas Hahn has brought it up many
times. He's being a defensive innings eater

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to start off games and saving the
legs of Kawhi and Paul George, and

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that is very, very important and
imperative to this team. He's a better

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defender I think still overall than a
mere coffee. I think he's more versatile.

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I think he's had tougher defensive assignments
he was on and when he only

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had six points in the first half
in that recent game on Monday night,

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he played pretty darn good defense for
the most part. So I'm not giving

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up and he was my player to
watch because he was turning down shots well.

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I think he got up five to
three pointers in that game against Golden

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State. He only hit one that
won to beat the buzzer, six at

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the end of the third quarter that
wanted to beat the buzzer. But he

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at least was finally being more aggressive
and knowing that, Okay, there's no

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Kawhi Leonard in this game. I
have to take more shots. He has

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to take more shots. Regardless the
last six games before that one, he

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had attempted just one three pointer per
game. A guy who was shooting fifty

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percent from three to twenty twenty four
was taking just one three pointer per game.

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So some of it is on him, and I don't think it's outrageous

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at this point for people to bring
this up. But I still feel like

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his best utility is just being a
defensive specialist to start off games right now,

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Yeah, I think that's a fair
call. How are the vibes feeling

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right now? Gala? Danilo Gallinari
was reported per Pat Bev to maybe be

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coming to the Clippers or the Bucks, which Lucas Hadden pointed out was funny

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because Pat Bev is on the Bucks, so it was probably gonna be the

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Bucks. Gala went to. He
ended up signing with the Bucks. Doc

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is gonna play him a lot,
which I think get sick. Good good

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luck Bucks fans dealing with Doc Rivers
in this whole situation. Well, does

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that change anything? Are you feeling? Obviously we feel better after the win,

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but overall, have any of your
concerns or anything changed about the Clips?

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It's so difficult, and I feel
like you know we have we've we've

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have less of these sense since things
have been going well. But it's a

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question I have a lot with this
Quiver's team is like which this blowout loss

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or like a grid out win ultimately
says more about like who this team is,

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what they are, where they are. And I'm right now kind of

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on the side of that's a big
I feel like that's a big win.

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Down Kawhi and just being down double
datas in the fourth quarter and still still

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turning it around like that, that
to me says a lot. And maybe

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that's you know, glass out full
overly optimistic, But I'm feeling pretty good.

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Honestly, I'm feeling like to not
go down zero and two into the

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All Star break, like I'm taking
it after the incredible Grammy trip, you

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know, we have one real stinker
of a performance. Like, I'm feeling

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pretty goodair Adam, I uh,
I definitely feel better about this team because

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it's one more kind of check mark
in types of wins you can get during

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a regular season that you can build
confidence from and remember and draw from later

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on when you are down big.
It's not like they hadn't already come back

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down twenty two against the Golden State
Warriors with that Paul George game winner over

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Klay Thompson, but without Kawhi Leonard
to do it, without Paul George in

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the last three minutes, for them
to do this, it felt more like

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an old school two to one three
era type of victory by the Clippers where

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something could be born. I don't
know, but hey, I was telling

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you, I was tagging you on
Twitter. Sometimes I forgot to retweet that,

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but I was the Only thing I'll
say is the lost Monday Night to

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Minnesota and the win over the Golden
State Warriors. I don't know if there

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are a lot of parallels given the
opponents in both those games. This wasn't

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the Clippers beating a bigger squad last
night. It was them beating a team

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that they match up really well against
in the Golden State Warriors, because they

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play small. So it plays into
the Clippers' hands a little more so.

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Those alarm bells that I have about
size issues with this team in certain matchups,

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and we're talking about one of the
bigger teams we've seen in years,

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in the Minnesota Timberwolves. Those haven't
gone away from me. Just because of

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last night's three by the Clippers.
I think that's I'm in the same boat

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right, Like, there's obviously still
they got to hit their mid range shots

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against the Wolves. Repelicans are going
to be a nightmare no matter what.

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But yeah, it feels good to
not be to be on a two game

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pre losing streak before coming back to
what is now the most important game for

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seeding against the Thunder, the first
game back from the All Star breaks.

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So yeah, vibes are okay ish, They're better than they were before the

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Timberwolves loss. I think we can
all agree about that, or after the

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Timberwolves loss. That's a perfect rallying
cry type of victory considering what happened earlier

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in the day, Coach Lou having
to talk about PJ Tucker, happy to

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talk about Bones Highland not having Kawhi
Leonard, Oh here we go again,

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Paul George not playing well, fouling
out late, and they still found a

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way to win. That's that's about
as good of a vibes when as you

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can have heading into the All Star
break. Speaking of good vibes, we

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are gonna close this episode out by
picking the winner for the Bibblehead. Adam,

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can you please show the Bibblehead the
Vitza Zubats standing basketball head. I

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don't know does this head move at
all? You know, I'm not gonna

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open it, so I don't know. That's what's up. We have some

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comments I'm gonna read a couple of
them here again. If you miss this.

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We have giveaways sometimes and if you
leave a comment we like, we

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will pick it and you will win
and giveaway. This one is from Starman

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Hove. This is a little poem
that he wrote. They wrote Clips and

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Dip, a podcast for the ages, A tale of three buddies telling tales

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of Clippers players, the ups and
downs. All things are retold, Adam

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keeps for from the new, and
the old names are forever for all alike.

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Unless you're in a podcast with William
Updeck, noise is so loud they

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can drive you all mad. Thank
god for Chuck and his warning of loud

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ads. Gather here, little clip
plants and hear me say. We love

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Clips and Dip and wish it to
stay forever. Intense ending, but very

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much from Starman ho I like that
one, very good. This one I

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like you guys are gonna know what
I like this one. This one is

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from Scharcilicio Sharsilsio first time for me
that it was a relief to see Kawhi

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and the injury report. Give that
dude as much rest before they have to

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run the gauntlet in March. Fantastic
comment points out very obvious issue, which

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is March. March us out there. I told Chuck this after the last

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pot off the air, but I
was like, you know, the other

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night, I couldn't fall asleep and
I was right where Chuck had been for

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months thinking about March. Finally really
right around the corner, all right,

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And then I think this might be
the last one. This one is from

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Alfonso Lopez seven to one five four
uh. My six year old son Rio

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has started his journey as a Clipper
fan and got his first bobblehead last Saturday

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at the Clippers versus Pistons game.
He ot his PG thirteen shirt and rooted

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for the Clips to a tough w
He would love to start a collection of

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bobbleheads. Already has a PG one. I know he wants to go to

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the Wizards game for the Russell Westbrook
one, and he also wants the James

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Harden one in April. But he
would be super excited to get the Zubab

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Wall regardless if he has selected or
not. I know he already has the

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Clipper love in his heart, and
that his first game against the Pistons,

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and he can't wait to go again. He especially wants to go next year

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to the inaugural season of the Into
It. I love the setup of I

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want he wants every single start.
Let's do it, you know, I

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collect them all. Yeah, and
then let me see if there's any more.

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If you guys saw any feel free. I don't really think we have

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a lot of people attacking me,
specifically in the comments for thinking that Daniel

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Tye should maybe not play with sabots. Let's hear what people have to say.

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I think that's about it. Someone
complimented my cat, but I don't,

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you know, I think we should
keep it to Clippers stuff. And

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then someone said the problem is Lawrence
Frank. So yeah, so we're going

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with the wonderful poem, show me
the wonderful poem from Starman hove uh shar

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Cilcio for understanding the IDEs of March, and then Alfonzo Lopez's child would take

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two for the bibblehead. Who are
you voting for? Will you go?

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Oh? Man? This is a
tough one. I'm torn between kid and

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poem. I'm gonna go with is
Starmanhyeah, I'm gonna go with starmanho it

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was creating. If I was not
expecting that, I am too so,

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Adam, your voter is irrelevant.
I apologize, but I'm also going with

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no I was. I was looking
up what oppostrician means, Adam, which

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would you have picked? Starman?
How have you win? Please get at

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us on Twitter. I'm ninety percent
sure you follow us on Twitter. At

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us and we'll get your address.
If it's international, I'll pay for it

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this time, Adam, who was
going to be your bick? The first

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one? There was a lot of
thought put into that poem. It was

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getting yeah, and it's one of
the nicer things I read on YouTube.

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Adam obsttrician because you're always delivering something
birth from the I get it. I

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get it all right. Well,
that about wraps up to slowly. I

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love that, Adam. I admitted
it. I had to come up my

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own receipts there. He's so sleepy. You forgot it about clovery for those

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of you, we hope everyone has
a great break. Well, where can

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people review us? Maybe for the
listening portion of Yeah, so if you

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listen to the audio of this show, you can get that wherever you get

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your podcasts. You can rate and
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Who knows up to you. You can

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also check the show on YouTube,
which is really I mean, that's how

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you get the full thing. I
think that that's how you get the full

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essence of Clips and Dip. And
that's over at YouTube dot com slash at

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at at clips pod and yeah,
thanks to all the new listeners and subscribers

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and to the regulars, Hey,
we appreciate you. We do. And

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addam one positive thing that Clippers fans
are going to think about for an entire

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week ish during this break. I
think they're one of the few teams in

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the league that could absorb something like
what's happening with PJ. Tucker and Bones

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Highland not affecting them because all the
guys still like each other, Paul George

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said postgame, they handled it like
men. We had a conversation. The

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players are not quarreling. PJ.
Tucker isn't calling for someone to be benched

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so he can play or anything like
that. At least I didn't read the

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full article, but I'm pretty sure
that he didn't say that. And then

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you see the camaraderie with their head
coach and how much love they have for

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him, and Tyler saying the perfect
thing waiting for them in the tunnel,

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high fiving everyone and saying thanks for
having my back. That was pretty cool.

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That was one of those moments that
I think we're gonna remember for a

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bit here, not just because they
don't have a game for a week,

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but this team they're playing for one
another, including their head coach, and

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that was one of the better wins
in the two pin to three era that

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we have seen. Hell yeah,
the clips Doula has spoken. We hope

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everyone has a great All Star break. Enjoy the game if you're gonna watch

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it, I might I thought it
was in LA this weekend, but we

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will see everyone next. We'll do
a preview for the game against the Thunder

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and they will obviously have a double
dip. But yeah, thank you everyone

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for listening, and as always,
let's go clips,