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What's going on? Clippers fans,
Welcome to the Live. Welcome to the

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Clips and Dip Game five postgame Live. I'm Chuck Buckler, Will Upte's gonna

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be here. Adam Awson is going
to be here. But we have a

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Clippers podcasting O G. Joseph fry
Award, whose name is currently burn it

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all Down. Joseph, Let's get
your thoughts on what happened in the Clippers

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one twenty three ninety three loss to
the Dallas Mavericks. The floor is yours.

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If you came in here early,
welcome, this should be a good

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time. We you know, we
really lost this game in the margins.

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I feel that we were right there. I mean, here's all I gotta

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say. And it's gonna surprise no
one, but I feel like we were

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sold this bill of goods that a
certain addition was supposed to help with our

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energy intensity and mental toughness, and
I feel like we haven't really had any

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energy intensity or mental toughness since Pat
Bev left. And it really bothers me

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that I keep watching this team make
the same mistakes over and over and over

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again, and I feel like at
this point there is no curse the Clippers

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are just bad at this, Like
they're just flatly bad at this. And

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whether it's the stench of sterling or
the crippling fear of Balmer and Frank and

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I scared Will off, well,
I still get a handgun because he doesn't

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know what's going to happen. I
just like, I mean, it's just

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it's insanity. We're watching this team
devolve into the same team that they were

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in twenty nineteen, where the coach
is totally stubborn and unwilling to make hard

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decisions. And you have even seen
the quote. Did you see the postgame

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quote about Oh? I believe it
was just texted to me that they need

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to get him in better positions to
succeed offensively. I mean it's like,

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dude, it was two for seven
at the rim tonight. Here's the deal,

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And I think he's now also the
reason we lost tonight's game, though

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probably no dog shit, dog shit. Yeah, I mean, you're not

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gonna win when those guys are bad, But you're also not going to win

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when you continue to hand the keys
to a guy who's one of the worst

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playoff performers of all time, is
one of the least efficient playoff shooters like

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of all time and is a guy
that you consistently game plan like, this

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is still the thing, Like I'm
not over it. From the time that

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they him, we watched them that
whole season and the season before in LA

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and the seasons before that, we
watched them target Russ for his inability to

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make sound decisions and make baskets.
We watch them target him over and over

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and over again in big games,
crunch time games, whatever. It is

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too great success. And then we
we tobiased this whole situation where we were

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like, but what if it works
for us? And it's just it's this

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insane cycle that the Clippers continue to
put themselves in where they trust the wrong

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people. They they're looking at things
from the wrong angle, and it's like

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they very clearly are not run very
well, and the decision making of this

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team is clearly not championship level and
any level is what you're saying, exactly,

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At any level this we were sold
this bill of goods that we were

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like the best run team in the
league combined with the deepest pockets in the

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league. There was a period where
the roster looked fantastic. Yeah, now

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it does not, but was it
managed well? Correct? Every time,

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every time we've ever had the deepest
roster in the league, we've gone like

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forty three and forty I mean that's
impossible, but we've gone forty three and

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thirty nine. Yeah, But like
when the guy taking up thirty three of

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your payroll, it plays in what
percentage of available games and misses four consecutive

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years of the playoffs? Like,
but this is this is you know what

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I mean, Like you can't predict
that, this is this is what what

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I'm talking about. And and it's
like we paid him. I mean,

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granted, the thing doesn't work without
Kauai no matter what I mean. That's

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just flat lay the truth, Like
there's nothing they're going to do without Kauhi.

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And we paid him after he played
like a month and a half healthy,

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and we're like, yeah, this
is gonna last. And then like

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we just we gave him the money
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But he's so incredibly unreliable and I
love PG, but what the fuck?

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But like this is who he is, This is who Paul George is.

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This is just like this is what
we get. And then where did the

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aggression go? What aggression. What
player on this team actually brings productive aggression

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any day? And what aggression?
He was in the middle of a shooting

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streak, But he he gets that
when he's in the middle of a shooting

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streak, if he's not shooting well
more often than not. You see what

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happened tonight? When did he When
did he make his first three tonight in

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the third quarter? Uh? Oh, we got Adam Oslen. This has

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to be brief too, because he's
in the stadium. What's up? Adham?

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Can't let Maxi Kleebig get going like
that? To Will's credit, he

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brought him up. Guys, that's
where the game started to unravel. Joseph

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goes through talks about a post game
too. Are you it wasn't the six

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straight gambles by Russell Westbrook on defense? Are you sure it wasn't that gambles

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by Russell Westbrook on defense, the
one by Mason Plumbley. They all led

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to wide open threes from Maxis Cleva, who obviously can knock him down.

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We know that he just hadn't been
taken that many. Sometimes it's down shots,

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but you give him wide open ones
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He gets confident. Obviously the game
spiraled. You can't have performances like that

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from Paul, George and James in
the game five like this, do you

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have no shot? And Russell Westbrook
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in this series. Just got to
put him in the right spots, though,

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Adam. Just got to get him
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not the right spot in the mid
range, not the right spot wide

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open in the corner. Also not
the right spot. But we're gonna get

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there. We're gonna find that spot
to get Russ going. We're you gonna

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find it. I was calling for
bones Highland by the star of the third

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quarter. Yeah, he made it
free tonight. Get him in there.

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In games people talking about his lack
of size and defense. It's like,

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well, if Russell Westbrook also isn't
playing great defensively, what is this issue?

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Exactly? A game? Was this
the tough game that you expected at

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him as the driver of the tuck
wagon. I mean, he at least

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got him a few extra possessions.
He's got to take that lager. I

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didn't think he was terrible. I
didn't think he was terrible with how bad

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it? No, he had a
Ben Simmons like moment. He has to

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take that shot when he's right underneath
the basket. But I don't know,

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maybe we do see some PJ.
Tucker and Mason Plumley guys outside. The

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fourth quarter of last game has been
brutal this series. The last game outside

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of that really rough. The game
really turned. The game really turned when

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Tye turned to tweedled the and tweedled
them to end the first half. Why

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didn't why didn't he just roll with
the starters just to close out the quarter.

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It was a minute and a half. He gave all the moment the

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first quarter with the lead, just
literally first quarter lead. Adam of the

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game and handed it old. Adam's
producer on Twitter just had to tweet,

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we're back, Adam, and that's
why we left. From shout out producer

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Katy s got out producer Katie.
She's fantastic at her job. Shout out

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to Adam Austlin. If you're new
to the pod, thanks for hanging out.

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He usually is our third host.
He hosts pre and posting for the

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Clippers. Josephry Warner is here just
for some old feelings. Hid My wife

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sleeps on the couch telling her I'm
never going to podcast again, and I

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continue to sneak on to clips and
dip. You know what's annoying to me

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about this game, There's a lot
of things. Not a single guy over

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fifteen field goal attempts, Yeah,
that is crazy. Paul George and with

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compared to Russell Westbrook, Paul je
had thirteen. Not a guy didn't even

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have fourteen field goal attempts. Paul
George had thirteen field goal attempts. Harden

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had twelve. He hit two of
them. Russ had eleven. He also

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hit two of them. Well,
George only taking two more field goal attemts

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than Russell Westberg in twenty twenty four
is like the most fucking baffling thing.

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But that's the twenty twenty four Clippers. That's that's the formula. Man is

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is Russ comes in, plays twenty
two minutes and takes fourteen shots. It's

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the most insane thing. He's shooting
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Like, why is this guy high
volume? I know what lineup you're talking

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about. It was that plumbly Russ. I put this in notes. He

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pulled Terrence and pulled Zoo and they
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Terrence Plumb, and it was awful. It was so bad, mostly

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because probably had the worst defensive game
he's had all year. He's he's he's

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totally I mean, inept defensively in
the playoffs. It's unbelievable. It's been

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so bad. Like what could you
do though? Like, would you just

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short do you just shorten the rotation
to six guys? Why? Why not

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playing? Honestly? Hold on?
What about the guy who's played in a

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Western sorry, in an Eastern Conference
finals before. I'm not saying he's good,

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but why not try daniel Tye?
Did he like did he kick ties

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pet chihuahua once? Like? What
is going on here? Where daniel Tye

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can't even look at the floor?
Yeah, we can't try it. We

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can't try it. Yeah, I
mean, I I just think I think

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they had success in Game one,
and I think Tie had like really cueued

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into liking the size mismatch, even
though like offensively it hasn't worked for long

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stretches of time. I mean,
they went scoreless for what like seven minutes

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almost in that third quarter? Yeah, uh yeah, and he can at

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least space the floor, I know, he's not Charls is gonna criticize the

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volume, which is not incorrect,
but he can theoretically space the floor more

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than the other options. Or you
know, just play competent defense would be

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nice. That's really all I'm asking
for. You don't need to shoot threes,

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You just just be where you're supposed
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it's like, I don't know if
the Clippers go smaller because they've been

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game planning for this whole thing to
obviously never play small. Yeah, it

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is the other part. They also
just they can't. They can't go small

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without cool. It just doesn't.
It doesn't. It doesn't even it's quiet.

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It sucked all year. It's not
even like it's worked this year.

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It sucks. It hasn't been good
since Nick Patuma's been down the small ball

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lineup. At one point, the
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lineup came in and it was like, oh, the lineup that cannot defend,

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has never been able to defend this
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and we're down twenty, like Tyleru, I understand. So the thing that's

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also difficult about Paul George and Harden
shitting the bed. I know we've talked

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about it. If you've just how
could no one dribble tonight? How they

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forgot how to dribble? Like everybody
forgot how to dribble? It was I

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feel like I've never seen that from
multiple players, Like crazy pills, the

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Norm, the Norm, Sorry norm
pill, because you were saying crazy pills,

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the Norm. No reason charge in
the third where he like lost the

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ball and then like waltzed into a
dude and and just forearmed him. And

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that was what happened tonight. I
don't know. Back to the sorry quick.

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Back to the thing for the people
watching. We haven't been talking much

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about Paul Jordan's hard yet because they
were dog shit And the thing that sucks

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when they're so bad is then they
can't hit shot. So Tylu has to

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be like I have to throw things
at the wall. It's not that TYLERU

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was like, we were playing good
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They were playing horribly, and then
Tyler had to be like, I

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guess I'll try and make a Moscow. I guess my only defense is like,

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what what the fuck do you do? If Paul George and Harden's that

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bad, like truly, like what
what is there to do? Let's let's

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go to Joseph Bones Highland. Literally
just try it. The guy has already

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had a microwave game in the playoffs. Yeah, he's already had a microwave

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game in the playoffs. The dude
spaces the floor, has speed, like,

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can do the things that you theoretically
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and they just he just doesn't like
them. It's like very blatantly obvious that

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what is happening right now isn't working. The Clippers only won two games where

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the MAVs had maybe the worst shooting
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and the Clippers had two outlier three. They made eighteen threes on over right.

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Game one, the MAVs maybe shot
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four, the MAVs shoot, you
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from three as a team. That's
the other thing. This could have been

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so much worse. Rights have been
the better team. To say worse,

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it could have been worse. The
MAVs have flatly been the better team in

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the series. They've they've been better
coached, they've been better prepared they've had,

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They've had better performances from their from
their from as, from their role

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players, saying I just wanted to
listen. You know, I think Joseph

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was spitting there. I don't want
to cut them off. Joseph was saying

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that the Mavericks have roundly been the
better team throughout this series. I gotta

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be honest, I don't even think
tonight, I don't even think the Dallas

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Mavericks. That's how bad this performance
was from the Clippers. Dallas in the

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first half was five of twenty one
from three. Historical evidence deep in the

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final you thought Dallas was good tonight. No, I'm saying they've been better

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this whole series. They've been the
better team. They're up three too,

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so I guess they are. They've
been better coached, They've they've had better

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performances from their role players, They've
gotten better consistent performances from their stars.

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They've been the better team. Adam, What do we do about George?

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What? What can be done?
Do we just have to hope they make

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shots on them? I don't even
care take shots. You have to take

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shots fo you actually have to put
him up? Can I say one last

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thing. A Viza Zubots is four
or four in the first quarter with eight

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points. He takes four shots the
final three quarters total. That's just I

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thought. I thought that they were
going to get back to it, like

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it was clicking so well. I
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It's the story of the two and
three er in some ways to me,

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Love you guys, love you Bye, buddy man, I don't care take

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shots beautiful. Yeah, the man
is a wordsmith. My wife is awaken

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and it's going to murder me,
so I have to leave the well.

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That was fun. Little pop in
from Joseph Ward. Yeah, will you

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came in in the middle of a
hurricane. You and I were just in

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a lift together. We weren't really
speaking because it was a difficult game anything

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else, Like what how are you
feeling? How are we looking? How

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are we trying to frame going into
Friday? I mean, I just feel

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like we've been saying the whole thing
all like the same thing all series,

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Like you need to get easier baskets, you need to get a Viza Zubots

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involved early and often, And this
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said, I don't sometimes shots don't
go down, Like, I don't know

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what you do with that with you
know, with Harden and George. I

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will say though that the field goal
attempts were both too low. It's like

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too evenly spread. I think that, like both of those guys just needed

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to get into a rhythm. When
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point as, some shots went down
and we started getting a little bit of

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momentum, I don't know what to
tell him to do, like you,

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he's got to kind of shoot through
it. And this was a game where

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early we were getting some really great
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Uh. And Terrence man has been
great defensively in this series. He's been

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so good that when the MAVs were
on offense, they were putting two guys

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on Terrence damn near at half court, like to screen him off a Luca,

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Like two fucking guys, like so
much so that they ran into him

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in that like in that moving screen
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it was shitty. It was not
ideal. Yeah, shitty, that's fair.

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Yeah, man. They they were
carrying the Clippers for a while fans

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are getting real existential. They carried
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the Clippers were down in the first
half. Right, that's what what I

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mean by this game could have been
so much worse. Yeah, And it's

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also so funny that, like the
you know, the cliche is role players

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shoot better at home, and it's
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Yeah. Yeah. The thing happened
that we discussed on the pregame pod

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a little bit, which was a
mere Coffee got a lot more looks in

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this game. Yeah, because again, a mere Coffee has yet too,

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including tonight, excuse me, make
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this series. He made one tonight. He has not made more than two

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yet, which is tough. It
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mirror. He's a prove it guy. He's a guy that you see.

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He's a he's like they don't know, like, hey, have your have

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your thirty point game of mirror,
but you're gonna make us of course.

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I mean, it's it's the same
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like, yeah, there are shots
on the floor that you sometimes concede

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and I you know, I think
that that was the shot on the floor

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that they at times had to be
comfortable with. Yeah, I don't,

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it's not ideal. I don't.
I don't know what to say. He

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did have a lot higher volume though, in this game than than I think

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any other game in the series.
So yeah, that's something. No one

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made more than two threes. What
an absolutely brutal and the the thing that

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was frustrating is like there were cracks
when this game started. Oh yeah,

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the MAVs had an advantage in offensive
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attempts after the first quarter. And
that's wasn't a huge It wasn't a huge

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advantage, but you could see,
you're, like, there's some tendencies happening

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here. They got a lot of
dunks. Yeah, the Clippers started the

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second half with three turnovers in like
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or something like that. Like there
was nothing was tight about this game.

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There was no None of the screws
were tight. I used to have a

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very old wagon that I put together
myself, and it was a nightmare.

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It broke instantly. And because none
of the scrouds were tight, like you

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have to like I just I know
I said it earlier, but like weird,

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I don't know, man, they
would flow as shit after two days

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off. Like I know I said
it earlier, but like I don't get

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how everyone forgets to dribble tonight,
Like like you forgot how to do that,

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And I mean, I guess the
obvious answer is, like, you

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know, it's it's been a tough
series. It's been a it's been a

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physical series ever since Game ever since
Game two, when the maps really ramped

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up, the physicality got lively more
involved, especially there. But if they're

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tired now, I mean, the
rest is only getting shorter. So you

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know, I don't know what you
do with that. Eric Pugh asking bench

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Rush for bones, what if Bone
ships the bed again? Then he ships

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the bed again. I mean,
don't we have enough sample size of Rush

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shitting the bed to say to throw
caution of the way Everyone the bed other

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than Terrence and Zoo tonight. So
it's like, I don't know, what's

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one more person. I know this
sounds this, but like I don't know

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what if he should if he's if
he's starting to ship the bed, if

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he's prairie dogging in the bed,
Tyler will pull yeah. Oh, of

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course he will have the least amount
of leeway of any player on the entire

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roster the Zoo. He will not
Yeah, Tyler will not hesitate. Yeah.

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And it's like schematically for the Clippers, schematically speaking, everything was in

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mud. You mentioned this when we
were watching the game. But Paul George

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was initiating the offense to start this
game, and it made no from the

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from the first possession, this offense
was off, like like why was Paul

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George initiating the offense? Like why
was he doing it so much? We

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know about Paul George's handle, and
like, yes, he has a nice

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handle for a small forward. Uh, he does not have a handle where

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you need him to be initiating the
offense over the guy that you traded every

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wing that you had to initiate the
offense. Like, I just it doesn't

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make any goddamn sense to me.
And it's not good for him either,

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Like it's not you know, he
can do that in limited spurts, but

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like Paul George initiating the offense is
like not what's exciting about Paul George's game?

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Get the guy fucking shots, have
somebody else do it. Just have

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him put up shots. For God's
sakes, we didn't see did we see?

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I don't think we saw any small
small pick and roll tonight, which

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has been successful for the Clippers in
this series. Terrence Man, this is

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the screener has been good, Like
there are ways, like there's not big

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things to have done, but it
felt like Tylo was off this game,

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and that coincided with everyone other than
Terrence and Zoe being off. We're gonna

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take a quick audio break because we're
gonna do this for an audio podcast too.

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Ads coming up in three two one. Hey we're back. Thank you,

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Trey. You're right. Trey young
Een says James supposed to run the

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offense. I don't know why Paul
George is doing that. It was weird.

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It well, it's not a new
thing. Like they they do get

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into these ruts. And I don't
know if it's Paul like asking to call

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a shot or whatever, but like
at this point, as a thirty four

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year old man, he's got to
realize that, uh, maybe that's not

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the best position for him. Can
he do it? At times? Sure?

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Is that his forte not to set
the tone for the game? No,

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and that I mean, like that's
the thing I feel like that's been

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kind of frustrating is this game aside
because this game was the Clipper's worst defensive

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game as well, Like it was, yes, dog shit, they were

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terrible. I mean that was the
huge That was just the huge difference in

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this one. But the offense for
the Clippers, they have really not been

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able to take the lid off of
this one for a full forty eight minutes.

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Like we've seen it in stretches and
quarters, but it hasn't been what

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it was throughout even the majority of
the regular season. No cohesion, especially

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tonight, there was no idea right, There's just no rhythm. There was

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no rhythm to the offense. Like
the ball wasn't snapping, you know what

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I mean, Like there just wasn't. I don't know, Wow, Like

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I don't know if we're gonna do
a pod tomorrow. So I guess we

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have to quasi look towards Game six. What adjustments can you even make?

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We obviously know the Paul George James
Harden need to make shots and just like

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like we've been saying all series,
like get easy baskets, just get into

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the stuff that worked. You know
what worked in Game one? And no,

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it won't have the exact same results, but like get Zoo attempts,

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like, let's you know, mix
it up, man, get Zoo more

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than eight attempts, especially when he's
made seven of those attempts. Like Zoo

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found Terrence for a corner three out
of the short roll, and it looked.

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That was the highlight of the Clippers
offense tonight. It was very early

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in the game. Yeah, it
was a pick and roll with Harden and

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Zoo. Zoo got in the short
roll, they crashed, Terrence was wide

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open. It was a perfect read. It was a perfect play. That

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was it. That was the extent
of the well run Clippers offense tonight.

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Totally, and we need And the
thing that was frustrating for me is that

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that happened in the beginning of the
game, So there's that can have a

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domino effect. It wasn't random,
So game six we need that type of

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thing to happen. It's E've been
saying the damn shit, like the same

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ship this whole time, Like I
don't know what else to tell you,

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Charles Gardner, wonderful name. Uh
glad they got to beat down. I

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mean, yeah, an interesting way
to look at it. Maybe that's what

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they needed. How many times do
we say that during the regular season?

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Good lord, h yes, you're
right, Charles. Well, at least

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there's one smart Charles in this chat. God damn it. No, no,

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Kahi bionic leg I like that.
There's a YouTube neighbor named a gay

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actor named Michael Douglass in the chat
right now. I don't know. Yeah,

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so game six PG and Harden take
shots? Is that the baseline?

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Yeah, somebody said in the chat
earlier, and I fully agree. Paul

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George is the number one with Kauhi
Gon, how are you gonna not take

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twenty shots in a playoff game?
Chuck him? I would love if we

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get a PG Chuckham game and like
and from ty lu and like the offense.

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Likewise, don't have him initiating,
like, don't have him initiating,

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don't have him going off the dribble, uh to start a possession, you

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know what I mean? If it's
a breakdown and it comes to that,

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uh, and it goes into a
one on one thing, sure, but

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the thing is is, like that's
just so exhausting. I don't know,

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you know, I don't know how
it's sustainable. I don't know what they

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think it's sustainable. And I did
look tired already tonight, after two days

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off, Victor vic Is asked,
will Kawhi play in Game six? Absolutely

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not. Kawhi will not play in
this series. Absolutely again, he will

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not play in this in this game, in this series, it's still day

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to day. They talked about that
today. Oh yeah, and like it

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should the Clippers get out of this
first round series. I'm not saying I'm

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not closing the door completely, but
he's not gonna play in this He's not

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gonna play again in this series.
Yeah, and he should because he's not.

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Humber sent himself. Strado's asking Chuck
Backler equals Chuck the Condor. No,

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I just spise Chuck the Condor.
Exceptly he gave a World War One

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veteran of what Willie wants. And
that is like your one hundredth reference to

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that on this podcast. I don't
want people to forget that it happened.

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I reference that at work. It's
your Alamo. Yeah, we gotta hope

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a mirror is better in game six. Oh. I like this tray point.

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Really, James Harden has been the
number one option this series if you

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look at it, PG really the
second and we won two games with it

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like that, And I agree,
And I think that Paul George is better

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off the ball, and he has
been this series. And James Harden,

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except for tonight, has been the
most consistent player for the Clippers throughout this

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series. Before tonight, he was
the best player in this series. Yes,

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there's a link in the chat.
Friend, who else to see Chuck

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the Condor giving a one hundred and
four year old World War Two victim a

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wet Willie screen. We have people
discover it for themselves. I don't want

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to force it on anybody. Yeah, I do you think there's Do you

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think Clubley's done? Do you think
he gets a shot? To see how

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he looks on Friday? Quick turnaround? Again, it's a very quick turnaround.

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He's gonna get a shot. I
mean, like I just like I

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said, like, we're in a
bit of a rock and a hard place.

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Is as far as the rotation goes, it's already eight guys. Do

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I think there are other guys that
at this point in the series, you

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or I guess we went deeper tonight, but uh, it's average to be

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eight guys. Do I think that
there are other guys that you might as

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well give a look. Yeah,
I mean, I guess it would depend

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on the game plan. But if
you're seeing the same thing when two guys

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come in, maybe it's time to
stop bringing those two guys in. At

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least that's all I'm gonna say.
At least together PJ. Tucker played tonight

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He's gonna get run on Friday.
Honestly, I wasn't mad at that.

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I guess that wasn't either. I
was mad at everything else, so I

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didn't have room for it. Like
I'm I'm thinking karate defense, which worked,

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yeah, well, And I kind
of feel like that's the the real

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whole reason he was brought in.
I mean, I know he for some

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reason thought he was coming in for
a different reason, but to come in

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and be he had the hardest adjustment
of anyone in that trade, I know.

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But like for him to come in
in short stants and be an irritant,

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I actually like that. It just
depends on what the lineup is around

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him, because again, oh plubly
no Russ hopefully, because those that trio

405
00:31:19,839 --> 00:31:26,599
being together, I was like,
that was insane. Yeah, I agree.

406
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:33,480
Could he work on the floor next
to Zoo no, because now there's

407
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,880
two non shooters. Now now,
now, now it's exactly what But you

408
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,759
have to guard PJ. Tucker in
the corner. I don't think you do

409
00:31:40,799 --> 00:31:45,279
anymore, dude. And is he
gonna get enough run to like punish you

410
00:31:45,359 --> 00:31:48,799
for that? He's gonna make one
him? Him making two threes is his

411
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:56,680
maximum value offensively? Right? Two
made threes is PJ. Tucker's. That's

412
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,480
fine though, that's all you need, but I can't that's all you need.

413
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:05,519
If he hits two threes in twelve
minutes, I think that you're winning

414
00:32:05,519 --> 00:32:12,839
those minutes. I'm sick to my
stomach, oh thinking about that. This

415
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,240
is a great point. Yeah,
no matter who was on the court,

416
00:32:15,279 --> 00:32:19,039
Jeremy Mormon, there were five non
shoots. Yeah, that's a very good

417
00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:22,640
point. That got me. Thank
you, Jeremy, You got us,

418
00:32:22,759 --> 00:32:31,240
Jeremy. Yeah. Russ, boy, Russ has to be better. He's

419
00:32:31,279 --> 00:32:38,000
gonna be evidently given more chances.
Terrence needs to get more minutes and Zoo

420
00:32:38,079 --> 00:32:42,279
needs to get more minutes. I
don't know what to say when Zoo plays

421
00:32:42,319 --> 00:32:47,039
twenty five minutes and Terrence plays thirty
one. Play these guys forty minutes.

422
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,359
I think you have to. I
mean they're the youngest guys on the team.

423
00:32:52,799 --> 00:32:58,880
Uh yeah, they get regular rotation
minutes. I mean the you know,

424
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:04,079
the fatigue was definitely a factor,
and I think that maybe it changes

425
00:33:04,119 --> 00:33:09,559
a little bit. Like Terrence got
rocked, like I said, ankle doubble

426
00:33:09,599 --> 00:33:14,240
screen Like that was is that when
he had the ankle because he came up.

427
00:33:15,119 --> 00:33:20,759
Yeah, yeah, they were like
they were getting really physical Terrence to

428
00:33:20,839 --> 00:33:23,880
keep him off of Luca and Tiki
Taki calls a little bit in this game,

429
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,359
But I don't even care about the
whistle like that was, Like,

430
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,359
I mean, it has been shitty, but it's like that's not the reason

431
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,880
we lost the night. I'm I'm
actually blaming the rest for this one.

432
00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:38,480
This is all the refs. They
rigged this thing to get Luca, to

433
00:33:38,519 --> 00:33:44,440
get Luca in longer. We need, yeah, Mace to not go one

434
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,839
for six. Let's hope we see
some small, small pick and roll.

435
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,920
Let's hope we see some of that. Let's hope we see more of just

436
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,319
hardening zoo and roll like this almost
famous plant. Because I think that that's

437
00:33:54,359 --> 00:34:00,200
the thing with Russ is like movie
stuff in the chat. He can't he

438
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,519
can't play without the ball. But
I think the thing that also kind of

439
00:34:04,519 --> 00:34:07,880
sucks is he can barely play with
the ball. Yeah, oh shit,

440
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:14,800
Adams still here? Oh no,
are you letting him in? Or am

441
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:20,760
I? I got it? He's
back? Done with Clipperstock? Oh are

442
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,039
they gonna kick you out? Are
you the last person other than the Red

443
00:34:22,039 --> 00:34:32,519
Shirts in the stadium? Jake Warner
and Yo? Yeah, hoping this is

444
00:34:32,599 --> 00:34:37,559
not the last time we're here.
So how are you feeling about We were

445
00:34:37,599 --> 00:34:40,000
just doing a quick you know,
how are we feeling about Friday? What

446
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,199
do you think needs to happen other
than Paul George and James Harden making shots?

447
00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:49,559
So maybe some more small, small
pick and roll. I think leashes

448
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,480
have to be shortened. Rotations have
to be shortened. If Russell Westbrook comes

449
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:57,719
out misses his first three shots and
looks erratic out there, you gotta pull.

450
00:34:59,039 --> 00:35:01,360
And if you have to play PJ
Tucker some I don't. You may

451
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:06,119
have to throw stuff at the wall
and see what sticks. That's what Tyler

452
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:07,920
was doing tonight. He had to
because the shooting was so bad, like

453
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:15,039
it was. Yeah, I don't
know, but it's the starting lineup.

454
00:35:15,159 --> 00:35:21,079
Just play forty minutes. I don't
understand how beats Zubas can't play forty minutes

455
00:35:21,159 --> 00:35:24,599
in a playoffs thirty lay twenty five
to I know, and some of that

456
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:29,440
was because they pulled everybody with like
seven minutes left in the fourth quarter.

457
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,639
But he wasn't gonna get past I
think thirty three minutes, even if he

458
00:35:31,679 --> 00:35:35,480
played the entire fourth quarter. I
don't think he's played more than thirty three

459
00:35:35,519 --> 00:35:39,639
minutes in a game in this playoff
series. And the guy who is backing

460
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:44,880
him up, in Mason Plumbley,
has been good to about five minutes of

461
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:49,320
this series, the start of the
fourth quarter in Game four. Yeah,

462
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,199
and you can't play beats to zubos
more. I don't understand it for the

463
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:58,920
life of me. It's so frustrating. He's twenty seven, he's not in

464
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,920
foul trouble. Well, what what
does he look that gassed out? There

465
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:06,800
is seventy percent of it eats the
zoobots still better than Mason Plumbley at one.

466
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:12,639
I think, so that's the I
mean honestly, yes, but yeah,

467
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,440
why why can they not just I
don't know, it's do or die,

468
00:36:15,599 --> 00:36:21,280
so like lay it all on the
line. I mean, have you

469
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,000
played forty minutes. We may find
out a lot about who coach who truly

470
00:36:24,039 --> 00:36:29,159
trusts in game six and who he's
gonna ride or die with. Do you

471
00:36:29,199 --> 00:36:32,679
think what's your over under on Russ
minutes? Not asking you to bet,

472
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:39,440
but just you know, just speculate. I think I don't know fourteen.

473
00:36:40,639 --> 00:36:45,480
You played fifteen tonight. He's been
and coach who was asked about him post

474
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:49,960
game and he said he's got to
put him in better positions. They're not

475
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,159
getting stopped. So Russ isn't getting
out in transition enough. But he went

476
00:36:54,199 --> 00:36:58,960
too for seven at the room tonight. There's just right. There's no way

477
00:36:59,199 --> 00:37:04,440
to excuse way this Russell Westbrook and
the version we've gotten over the last four

478
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:09,239
games in this series. I'm sorry
Russ stands six. There's no way to

479
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:15,639
rationalize that is, but the energy, I'm sorry. And we need Paul

480
00:37:15,679 --> 00:37:19,239
George and James Harden to figure out
whatever the hell they need to figure out

481
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:23,400
between now and Friday. Coach Lou
also said postgame that James Harden is allowed

482
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:27,880
to have a bad game, and
I think he's right. He's the best

483
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,519
player. Paul George, this is
at least his second really bad game right,

484
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:37,039
I think he's had one good game, if we're being honest, he's

485
00:37:37,079 --> 00:37:42,239
had fine games, and he's maybe
had two good games in this series.

486
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,360
I think Game one. In Game
one, I think Game one he was

487
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:50,079
good. In Game four he was
good. And other than that, I'm

488
00:37:50,079 --> 00:37:53,320
not saying he was terrible. They
weren't terrible games with their men games well,

489
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,519
two terrible games. You need him
to be a thirty point scorer who's

490
00:37:57,519 --> 00:38:00,440
good on both ends. You need
him to be. He's been for what

491
00:38:00,559 --> 00:38:05,679
he's supposed to be and for what
he seemingly wants from the Clippers after this

492
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,800
season, which is a big old
contract. He has shown that he is

493
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:14,440
not worth of close to the max
in this series. It's too inconsistent.

494
00:38:15,119 --> 00:38:20,119
This is this was the perfect storybook
way for PG to say, I give

495
00:38:20,119 --> 00:38:22,079
me this money, I can do
this shit. James Harden has done that,

496
00:38:22,159 --> 00:38:29,960
except for tonight. Paul George has
been up and down. I thinks

497
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,719
probably been the second best player in
the series for the Clippers. They don't

498
00:38:34,199 --> 00:38:37,239
they don't recognize that. They don't
use him like he's playing as well as

499
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:45,559
he has been. They don't explore
that option. And I probably got enough

500
00:38:45,559 --> 00:38:50,079
hair though I could pull some out
still and be Okay, that's what I

501
00:38:50,119 --> 00:38:52,960
feel like doing. He was my
ex factor coming into this series and he

502
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,760
comes out and has what twenty one
and fifteen in Game one. Yeah,

503
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,079
I know they hit eighteen threes in
that game too, but a big part

504
00:39:00,079 --> 00:39:04,639
of that game was what if Viasa
Zubas did and what he showed he's capable

505
00:39:04,639 --> 00:39:07,840
of. And then do you think
that the like do you think that the

506
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:13,840
Lively adjustment has just been what's had
Tyler lou move away from that? I

507
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:17,239
don't think so, because even when
they have gone small still with with Maxi

508
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:22,960
Kleba out there, they don't look
for him. Remember the very end of

509
00:39:22,039 --> 00:39:25,000
Game two where all of a sudden, Paul George was getting downhill and he

510
00:39:25,039 --> 00:39:28,280
found a eat to Zubas for a
couple of easy ones, Like he had

511
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,159
eight points in the fourth quarter of
Game two, after long stretches of going

512
00:39:32,159 --> 00:39:36,079
away from him. That at the
very end there was a sense of urgency

513
00:39:36,119 --> 00:39:38,039
to get a beat of Zubats involved, because hey, he's the only guy

514
00:39:38,079 --> 00:39:42,159
out there getting easy buckets when they
were miserable and I think shot their worst

515
00:39:42,199 --> 00:39:45,719
field goal percentage of the season.
In game two and around thirty six percent.

516
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:49,800
Well, tonight they shot about thirty
eight percent. They weren't much better.

517
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,159
Four for four in the first quarter
with eight points, gets four shots

518
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:57,880
the rest of the way. How
is that possible? They hate easy buckets.

519
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,599
I feel like they hate to make
s and harder have the most resistance.

520
00:40:02,199 --> 00:40:07,679
Yeah, oh, this is an
interesting question. Jason Kidd made a

521
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:13,679
very quick adjustment in this game.
Zoo absolutely destroyed Gafford for the first three

522
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:19,800
minutes. Kid immediately put Lively out
there. I don't I'm not saying that's

523
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,159
what caused you to not get his
shots or whatever. Has been very good

524
00:40:23,199 --> 00:40:27,760
defensively. Yeah, like so they
had the counter there. I don't know.

525
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,679
I wouldn't be surprised if Lively starts
Friday. Why though, you don't

526
00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:36,159
even Dafford sucks, But you don't
need to change. You don't need to

527
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,960
change your starting line up. I
know you have you have the chick,

528
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,239
you have the advantage. It's three
to two, you're at home. You

529
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,039
don't have to change ship. We're
the team that has to change something.

530
00:40:49,199 --> 00:40:57,880
I don't like this. This sucks. I agree Dallas. Hey, why

531
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,239
should Dallas have to adjust? Is
the clip that are looking for answers.

532
00:41:00,519 --> 00:41:05,519
Yeah, all right, let's pick. I know we usually picked players of

533
00:41:05,559 --> 00:41:08,800
the game. What's our adjustment?
Which, hey, they've we all got

534
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:13,400
it wrong. I think last time? What is our adjustment of the game

535
00:41:13,679 --> 00:41:17,239
for Game six? It's the same
thing we've been saying all serious. Get

536
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:23,119
the ball to we eat to zubats
early and often also poll players who don't

537
00:41:23,159 --> 00:41:27,559
have it that night. You have
to have a sense of urgency. My

538
00:41:27,599 --> 00:41:31,920
friend Kevin Kennedy, former MLB manager
with the Rangers, with the Red Sox,

539
00:41:32,639 --> 00:41:39,159
I'd watch Dodger games with him,
and back when it was Donnie Baseball,

540
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:45,400
who I thought was a terrible manager. He would critique him during ball

541
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:51,159
games and explain some stuff to me, and he'd always talk about having a

542
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:58,639
sense of urgency, not just inning
to inning, not just out to out,

543
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,679
but pitch to pitch when your margin
for air is so slim, like,

544
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:08,239
that's how focused you have to be. And that's what it's going to

545
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:13,360
take for them to win Game six. Every possession has to be valued everyone,

546
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:20,280
None of this gambling on Maxi Kliba
and thinking that you can create some

547
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:25,480
highlight play that can rally the team
when they're down by two, when Maxi

548
00:42:25,559 --> 00:42:29,599
started to get it going, when
the gambling started. Coach Lou brought that

549
00:42:29,679 --> 00:42:35,719
up specifically post game. He knows
that's when the game turned. They go

550
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,400
from down two to down eight in
like two minutes, just giving up wide

551
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:43,760
open shots. This game did not
get away from them in the first quarter.

552
00:42:44,639 --> 00:42:46,000
It didn't get away from them in
the first three minutes of the second

553
00:42:46,039 --> 00:42:50,719
quarter. It was as soon as
Maxi Kleber got in and they gave up

554
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:57,239
open shots. And it's just an
undisciplined defensive team that I saw tonight.

555
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,840
Yeah, turnovers open the second half. It was absolutely insane. They went

556
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:04,800
six minutes, six and a half
minutes with how a made field goal in

557
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,000
the second half. They had guys
listening to this. This is crazy.

558
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:14,119
They had over a twenty minute period
in this game. If you add up

559
00:43:14,159 --> 00:43:16,039
all the runs that went against them
and how many times they went without a

560
00:43:16,039 --> 00:43:21,079
field goal, like going five minutes
without a field goal in the first quarter.

561
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:25,239
If you go from all the quarters, they had a twenty minute stretch

562
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:30,639
and a forty eight minute game where
they had eight points and those were all

563
00:43:30,679 --> 00:43:36,519
free throws. Brutal, So as
bad as their defense was you know,

564
00:43:36,679 --> 00:43:43,400
their offense wasn't rescuing them. Both
sides of the basketball were miserable. I

565
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,960
just can't believe after the way they
won Game four, they put together a

566
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:52,239
performance this bad back at home after
two days off. I have my adjustment

567
00:43:52,280 --> 00:44:01,400
for game six. Flip the switch
back up. You take, you take,

568
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:06,679
you circle this, you say,
flip the switch. That's what we

569
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:10,599
have to hope for, which makes
me want to tear my desk out of

570
00:44:10,599 --> 00:44:15,960
my house and throwing It's fair.
You've been talking about it for a while

571
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:22,679
and I don't even look at this
game as as much as you needed Kawhi

572
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:27,199
Leonard in this game. And for
everybody saying maybe they're better without Kawhi right

573
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:31,920
now, maybe uh maybe he was
bogging down the offense. Things looked so

574
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:37,000
much more wide open. They had
the eighteen three point games without Kawhi Leonard.

575
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,719
Yeah, how's that working now?
Maybe it was just a very small

576
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:44,440
sample size. Maybe that's all it
was, because in a game like this

577
00:44:45,199 --> 00:44:49,599
where buckets were so hard to come
by, this is when Kawhi Leonard.

578
00:44:49,679 --> 00:44:52,280
Yeah, but this is when that
tough shot maker that you can just give

579
00:44:52,280 --> 00:45:00,599
the ball to and have him make
something happen really strengthens your squad. This

580
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:07,920
might be the funniest comment of the
stratos U s O b that that makes

581
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,519
my night a little bit better.
If I'm being thank you for that,

582
00:45:12,639 --> 00:45:16,320
Well, I think we can probably
get out of here, right, Adam

583
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:22,239
you spending the night And I don't
know, man, I'm just gonna stare

584
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:28,519
at the court for a while.
Do you know that part in Royal Tannebombs

585
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:34,199
which it starts to shave his beard? Absolutely? Do hey by Elliott Smith's

586
00:45:34,199 --> 00:45:39,159
play? Oh man, let's not
invoke too much Elliot Smith tonight. Look,

587
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:44,400
I think Game six is going one
of two ways. I wonder if

588
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,599
you guys agree with that. Aren't
there only two ways that it can go?

589
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:52,719
I mean, in context of the
type of wins or losses, They're

590
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:58,639
either gonna win a gritty ball game
and bring it back here for Game seven,

591
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,679
a tough fut a game where it's
close, or they're gonna get run

592
00:46:02,679 --> 00:46:07,360
off the floor. I want to
see it going one of those two ways.

593
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:13,400
Yeah, I see them winning a
gritty Do you don't think they go

594
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:17,239
up by thirty one? Again?
How do you go up by thirty one

595
00:46:17,639 --> 00:46:22,760
on their home court? They only
what I had to have taken two hundred

596
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:24,239
and twenty shots to go up by
thirty one to night. That's not crazy

597
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:28,880
to think happened on Friday. But
how do you do that in game four

598
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,559
and then come back and lose by
thirty at home? They have two different

599
00:46:32,599 --> 00:46:36,360
teams. We've seen it all season. They do not care for the fan

600
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:40,599
base, or they do not care
for crypto. I've been trying to get

601
00:46:40,639 --> 00:46:47,480
Cryptocomrena started like that line a Makrena
still hasn't caught on yet. Are we

602
00:46:47,679 --> 00:46:55,559
uh, I don't know. Are
we doing a double dip tomorrow? Wait,

603
00:46:55,639 --> 00:47:00,119
there's no game? Oh? Are
we doing a double dip Friday?

604
00:47:00,519 --> 00:47:05,880
Regardless? Regardlessgardless, we have a
little thing Adam, Will and I are

605
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,079
going to be at the thirty five
or in Pasadena on Friday for the game.

606
00:47:08,679 --> 00:47:15,559
Oh for real? Yeah, well
we're going down. Let's be together,

607
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Let's be in a community. All
be a community. Baby. All

608
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right. That about wraps up the
live. Thanks for everyone hanging Adam.

609
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:27,039
I know it's hard. Wait,
Will, where can people find this podcast?

610
00:47:27,599 --> 00:47:30,440
I mean you're already watching the best
praise check this Check this podcast out

611
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,960
over at YouTube dot com Slash at
Clippers podcast. You can also listen to

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00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,119
us wherever you get your podcasts.
If you listen on Spotify or Apple podcasts.

613
00:47:37,119 --> 00:47:42,880
Go ahead leave a review review Adam. One positive thing before we do

614
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jump into the road. There hasn't
been carryover from one game to another in

615
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this series, so what happened tonight
doesn't necessarily mean is going to translate to

616
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,760
game six. It could be a
completely different Clippers team that shows up for

617
00:47:55,800 --> 00:48:00,000
this game, a completely different Dallas
Mavericks team. There we go, that's

618
00:48:00,039 --> 00:48:04,480
all we needed. Here's to a
better game on Friday. Everyone gets some

619
00:48:04,599 --> 00:48:08,480
rests, let's have it's not stressful
Thursday and as always. Oh, also,

620
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:12,599
just one other thing. Greg's from
Pasadena. He's swinging by the thirty

621
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five. Or if you're in the
neighborhood or just feel like it roll through,

622
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:19,280
let's do this together. Yeah,
if the Clippers lose, are there

623
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,320
gonna be like free drinks or something? Is there some big ad from this

624
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,440
bar, because that'd be pretty cool. No, I love that idea.

625
00:48:24,519 --> 00:48:29,320
I'm not paying for it, but
uh idea, I don't know. Yeah,

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all right, bye everybody,