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Adam Oslin and this is Clippers Talk. After they fall one oh six to

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one hundred two the Utah Jazz.
Coming up on the postgame show, you'll

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hear from Robert Flam a Clippers analyst, rebably, a basketball analyst, a

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brilliant mind. We bring on periodically
here on the show, and you'll hear

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from the head coach to Ron Loop
post game after the Clippers look like they

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were going to be played off the
court by the Jazz, but instead they

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come back late when they were down
by twenty and no one this season has

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come back down twenty in a basketball
game so far, but the Clippers almost

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pulled it off. It was just
a one point game after a Paul George

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three late in the fourth quarter while
he struggled from the field mightily, you

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could say, overall, and the
Clippers did as a team after starting three

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for eighteen. Paul George hit three
three's in the last three minutes of the

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fourth just to give them a chance, just to give them an opportunity to

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somehow pull a game off or pull
a game out when they had no business

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winning in Utah with the way they
were playing, shooting thirty percent thirty one

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percent to be exact, in the
first half, when the Utah Jazz had

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hit I think ten three pointers at
the half, and they hit four more

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in the third quarter, and all
of a sudden, they were up by

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twenty, and I thought the Clippers
might say, Okay, let's pack it

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up, get ready for Phoenix.
That doesn't happen with this team. That

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isn't their makeup, that isn't their
character. And Kawhi Leonard early in the

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fourth quarter, entering the fourth the
Clippers were down nineteen, Kawhi Leonard all

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of a sudden, out of nowhere. And we've seen this many times where

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it feels like he's just zeroing in
with his shot, he's just calibrating his

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scope. The first three quarters and
he couldn't hit anything either. The Clippers

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as a team missed a lot of
easy shots. But when Kawhi Leonard is

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missing easy eight footers, eight foot
fadeaways, he's missing shots in the mid

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range. When he's a mid range
master, you know something's off, something's

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just not quite right. But then
to start off the fourth quarter, all

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of a sudden, he and Sergeerbacca
had a nice two man game going,

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but Kawhi Leonard had a quick six
points. Sergear Baca also had a nice

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hook shot in the fourth and Patrick
Beverley, who had himself a game,

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hit a big three point shot as
well. They had all the momentum on

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their side, and the Utah Jazz
looked like they were getting or the pressure

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was getting to them. The Clippers
finely got it close enough where it seemed

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like the impossible was possible. And
by the way, Patrick Beverley I mentioned

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how good he was tonight. He
was a plus in a game they lost

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by six points. Somehow he only
had six points. You know, it's

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bigger than the numbers with him.
But defensively in the second quarter, when

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the Clippers held the Utah Jazz to
just twenty points, it was a lot

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of Patrick Beverley in there it beats
the Zoobots as well. The problem is

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the Clippers had two really bad quarters. To start things off in the first

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half in the first quarter and then
to start things off in the third quarter.

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They would give up thirty one points
in the first quarter while just scoring

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nineteen. They would give up thirty
three points in the third quarter while scoring

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just twenty three. They came out
flat to start both halves. But it

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was still good to see them show
some fight when even my friend Farbotes and

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Shari said, I'm willing to call
this one. It's over early in the

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fourth quarter. The Clippers that we've
seen this in the past. The Clips

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come back on you. A couple
of years ago, they had seven comebacks

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in the regular season when they were
down fifteen plus points or more. This

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is a different team. But to
do this to Utah Jazz team, and

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of course you'd rather get the victory, it's a loss, and they got

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off to such a slow start.
They came up short. But the Jazz

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had just lost last night by eleven
at home to the Phoenix Suns, who

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the Clippers are going to see on
Sunday. You knew they were gonna be

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hungry and it's one guy who keeps
eating against the Clippers. Mike Conley Junior

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thirty three points and really hit a
dagger three pointer in the fourth quarter to

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put them up six when the Clippers
were scratching and clung their way back into

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it. But he hit seven threes. Remember last season, Mike Conley really

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shot poorly, especially the first half, trying to fit in with this new

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Jazz offense. Some people said he
lost to step, but he still would

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light up the Clippers. He's a
Clipper killer for whatever reason. As a

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whole of the Jazz, they hit
fifteen three pointers. The Clippers not bad

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there, they hit thirteen. Really, the difference was the Clippers stayed in

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the game by playing aggressively and getting
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twenty one of their twenty four free
throws, while the Jazz made just nine

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at the charity stripe. And even
though Paul George was six of twenty two,

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had twenty five points and half of
his makes were in the fourth quarter.

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Of those six, he did go
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line. He did have six steals, four assists, eight boards. What

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else can you do for the ball
club when what you do best in scoring

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in this case is what PG thirteen
probably does best. But he does a

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lot of things well. But how
else can you help the team when shots

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aren't falling. I thought he did
other things. He had a lot of

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steals in that second quarter when the
Clippers were getting back into it, But

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overall, there was a lid on
the basket. It was that Folger's cup

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lid that I believe Donnie's remains were
in in the Big Lebowski. Is there

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rops around here? It was brutal
to watch at times. Shooting wise,

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they still ended shooting under forty percent
from the field. What's interesting is they

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shot almost forty percent from three.
They were better from the outside than they

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were from distance, or excuse me, they were better from the outside and

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they were from two. In the
mid range, they couldn't get the easy

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ones to fall. Paul George missed
some layups, a dunk at one point,

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and I believe it was in the
second quarter, and then Kawai tried

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to put it back in and that
wouldn't fall either. It was unbelievable.

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But I still like to see the
heart and the toughness and that never say

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die, never give in never give
up attitude from the Clippers, even in

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a loss like this. They lose
one oh six to one hundred to the

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Utah Jazz Clippers, now four and
two on the season. Eight sixty six

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nine eight seven two seventy eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy is

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the phone number. If I sound
a little bit different than normal, full

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transparency, I'm maybe in my car
somewhere in Burbank through the power of technology

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making this happen because I'm feeling a
little bit under the weather myself, as

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many people are right now. Don't
need any sympathy, but just so you

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know, if it doesn't sound as
perfect, mister perfect as usual, that

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would be the reason why. But
I know Kevin Figgers has my back back

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in Burbank. Nicholas Batoon, by
the way, had two amazing plays,

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heady plays in the ball game while
he was just one of four, like

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everybody didn't shoot the ball well,
but he pulled the old Jamal Crawford and

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now the Lou Williams move where you
get fouled on a three pointer. So

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he got to the line and went
six for six, so twice he was

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able to bait guys veteran move into
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Still finished with nine points and played
and it was actually a plus zero in

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a game they lost by six.
So overall, the backups didn't give them

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what they needed the way they had
played the last two games for the Clippers.

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When they won by twenty three points
against Minnesota, when they won by

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twenty three against Portland on Wednesday,
Vizza Zubots was good. Lou Williams was

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feeding him a little bit and finally
found his shot late in the game when

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he was going to his left.
Where else would it be. He's money

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from there and had five assists.
I want to say most of them were

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too a Viza Zubots who had six
of his twelve points in that third quarter

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and was getting active in the paint
as well, but Lou Williams was finding

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him. That's a nice connection that
we're seeing build right now at this Clippers

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team, and that's what the early
season is about, building off of things

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and learning these lessons and hopefully they
can learn to get off to quicker starts,

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because this has been a little bit
of a bad trent and you from

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Tehran Loo in just a little bit
here but just nineteen points in the first

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quarter for the Clippers really hurt them. And then to come out flat again

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in the third quarter. That was
their undoing. They put themselves in too

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big of a hole. They were
ice skating up hill a little bit.

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Clippers lose one oh six to one
hundred to the Utah Jazz. Will take

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a quick break, We'll come back. My friend Robert Flom, big shot,

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Bob Flom, Clippers analyst, He'll
be on with me. This is

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Clipper stock without a moslind on AM
five seventy. LA sports every moment all

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season long on their officials. Why
letters sends it back to home? But

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the Clippers still not come in here. In Game six of the regular season,

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the Clippers would fall by a score
of one oh six to one hundred

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to the Utah Jazz. This is
Clippers stock. I'm at a moslind eight

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six six nine eight seven two five
seventy eight six six nine eight seven two

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five seventy is the phone number.
When it looked like the Clippers were about

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to evaporate like the Clemson Tigers against
Ohio State, they came back down twenty

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in the second half. They were
down one with just a few minutes left,

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but Utah would make just enough shots, and Rudy Gobert had a couple

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of killer and ones at the basket
of flip shot or reverse layup where he

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was fouled. He missed the free
throw, but it was still a huge

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shot for them. He was making
his money for them tonight, as was

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Mike Conley Junior with his thirty three
points in just thirty four minutes. Coming

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up, we'll get to your phone
calls, he'll hear from the head coach

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to Ron Lou But first I want
to get to my friend Robert Flam,

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who's on the East Coast and staying
up late to come on with me here

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on Clipperstock. Robert, bless you
throw out your Twitter handle immediately, please,

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so my Twitter handle is at rich
home Flam uh and uh yeah,

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thank you for having me on tonight. Robert. You gotta comfort me because

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I'm actually in like some back alley
in Burbank, which is not the scariest

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of alley's to be in, but
it's dark. I'm in my car,

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the car's off with my computer and
my hell et lit on my phone probably

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make it look like I'm doing surveillance. Outside these people's suburban homes. They're

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probably thinking I'm the Wet Bandits or
the FBI or something like that. So

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comfort me a little bit, because
did you at least like that the Clippers

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were able to get back into this
game when they could have packed it in

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early. Yeah. Absolutely. You
know, in the NBA, it's it's

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a common saying about a moral victory
where you lose but you show a lot

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of stuff. It's it's a loss
thing can be a little happy with.

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I think it's it's usually kind of
cliche, and there are times where it's

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not always applicable, but I think
tonight's game is a real good example of

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when that is. Actually the the
Clippers had a very offshooting night. It

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happens in the NBA sometimes guys just
don't make shots. They were playing well

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on offense, they didn't have many
turnovers, they were moving the ball,

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the shots just didn't fall. And
on defense, they had some stretches where

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they looked absolutely dominant, some of
the best defense you've ever seen from the

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Kawhi Leonard and Paul George Clippers.
And yeah, I mean they brought back

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in eighteen point lead to one in
the late second quarter, and then the

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Jazz got the lead out again and
they brought it all the way back down

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to a couple in the late fourth
quarter. And you know, again,

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as you said, the Jazz made
just enough shots, but the Clippers effort,

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their execution, their heart was really
on display to night. Honestly,

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it was. It was a good
performance. They didn't win, but I

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think Tyler seemed very happy after the
game, and I think all the players

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can walk away knowing that they really
gave it. They're all. I think

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it was a fine loss. Paul
George. A lot of people are going

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to see the box score and see
he went six for twenty two and grown,

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But I thought, overall, considering
his shot wasn't falling, he played

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a really good game in every other
aspect and then came back with those big

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three pointers late. Yeah. Absolutely, Paul George was a monster in this

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game. I think, you know, he at one point was two for

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fourteen. He handed six for twenty
two and made those late threes. As

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you said, the shot was not
falling, but he had six steals,

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and honestly he might have been even
better defensively than those steel numbers indicate.

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He was really everywhere, both on
ball and slowing down Donovan Mitchell an off

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ball and getting those steals and pushings
the ball at the court and on the

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night when the Clippers shots weren't falling, getting those skills and getting out in

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transition was huge for actually getting them
some points. So yeah, I mean,

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I think he played really, really
well. He also had eight rebounds

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for assists. You know, he
did have five turnovers. It's been an

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issue with George this year as his
turnovers have crept up. But it's really

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hard not to be pleased with how
he played. And another knock is that,

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you know, when his shot hasn't
falling, he doesn't always go to

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the rim. And today he did
get eight free throws. He made all

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eight of them. He did have
those late three, so and again sometimes

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shots don't fall. Paul George is
a great shooter. He's gonna make sauce

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tonight. They weren't falling. But
everything else about his game was pretty excellent.

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Overall. The starting lineup has been
tremendous. The ball movement has been

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great, and some of that a
lot of that can be credited and attributed

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to Nicholas Batum and the way he's
fit in with this team and with the

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rest of the starters without Marcus Morris
there. I was talking about this earlier

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with Noah Eagle. Is there a
possibility that Marcus Morris comes back and maybe

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comes off the bench so because he
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a possibility is a good way to
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did just say Marcus Morris four years, sixty four million dollars contract. Nicholas

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Patum very well respected veteran, but
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like contract does come into play more. It's also a very popular teammate,

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very well respected as as kind of
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come off the bench behind the team. I think maybe when he gets back,

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he's missed so much time to say
him into things, he might come

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off the bench for a little bit. But I see that the Clippers at

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full strength, when the games are
really matter, will probably start Marcus marks

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and play him a lot. I
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made that you know, his scoring
and his ability to create shots is more

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useful on the bench than he is
the starting lineup, and that Patom's rebounding

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and is passing in his defense is
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on the second unit as well,
which is kind of the Lou Williams Show

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as it were. So I think
there are some arguments he made that Patum

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could start over Morse, but I
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situation and the contracts and the players
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don't think it will happen too much, but it would be interesting if it

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did. I think there's some real
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positive decision if that's what something Pyloo
goes with. I'm just gonna put that

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question into the category of Adams thinking
crazy thoughts because he's alone in his car

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somewhere in Burbank and there's just a
couple of street lights outside, which remind

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me of the Clippers street lights over
spotlights. They lose the tonight one oh

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six to one hundred to the Utah
Jazz. Robert Flom is my guest here

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on Clippers Talk. Robert, what's
the best thing you've seen out of head

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coach Toronto LUs so far this season
and the way he's handled this roster.

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I think there are two things.
One as you mentioned a little bit ago,

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is the ball movement. The ball
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year six games, you know,
throwing aside that MAVs loss is kind of

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a huge outlier, It's been a
better over the other five games than it

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was in any five game period I
think with this team last year under Doctor

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Verse. But I think the main
thing is really the experimentation. Tyler is

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willing to throw out different lineups,
different adjustments on game to game basis,

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and is both willing to ride the
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knows work well. So the past
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lot of minutes. Who's playing well? Tonight he played just three because he

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came in and that Clippers three guards
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end of the first court. At
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Jazz really built out their lead Mike
Conley was just absolutely attacking him and he

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never came back in. I think
that's something Tylo has been willing to do,

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is play Reggie Jackson twenty minutes one
game, plays three minutes the other.

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He recognizes when for some of these
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game, their type of night.
I think that's something you could see again,

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as with the Tube and Morris,
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discussing, maybe there's a night where
the Tube's passing is a lot more valuable

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than Morris's shock creation and he plays
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that experimentation has been really valuable.
He's thrown out all sorts of lineups.

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He's been very willing and capable of
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some offense on the court at all
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They had some bad performances, you
know that maths loss, but overall,

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I think they looked really sharp,
and I think Tyler has done a

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very good yea. They already had
in those back to back wins recently against

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the Timberwolves and Portland Trailblazers, they
had thirty or more assists in both of

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those games. They didn't have back
to back games all season last year where

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they put together thirty assists from game
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spectacular so far, as is my
guest Robert Flam big Shot Bob Flam.

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Follow him on Twitter at rich Homie
Flam. Robert. Thanks for doing this

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to night man. I really appreciate
it. I feel like I have some

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courage now. I'm glad to hear
that, Adam. I think you was

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always driving me on. Always a
pleasure. Clippers lose one six to one

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hundred to the Utah Jazz and Utah
their next game is coming up on Sunday.

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More on that in just a bit
plus you'll hear from the head coach

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to Ron Lu coming up and we'll
get to your phone calls at eight six

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six nine eight seven two five seventy
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seventy. This is Clipper Stock.
I'm at Am Maslins and you're listening to

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AM five seventy LA Sports. The
Clippers lose one oh six to one hundred

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in Utah against the Jazz. Welcome
back in the Clippers tuck. I'm Adam

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Oslin speaking to you somewhere in Burbank. It is dark outside, but technology

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rules all. I am speaking to
you from ay dark alleyway, and that's

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okay. I'm not scared at all
now. I'm actually more like the girl

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on Blair Witch Project. I'm so
scared right now? Who comes to car?

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All right, more on that coming
up. We'll get to your phone

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calls eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy. First, I do

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want you to hear from the head
coach Toronto lou after the Clippers lose by

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six in Utah of the Jazz.
Here he was post game speaking with the

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media. Hey there, coach,
what do you make of your team's performance

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in this one? Well, first
of all, I defensively, I thought

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we were really good outside in the
first quarter, though, they got downhill

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and a tactics and Rudy's dynamic roll
behind the defense put a lot of pressure

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on our bigs to really step up
and try to help, so they really

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walked down the lane. I'm a
lot in that first quarter. I thought.

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On the second quarter, when we
started switching and changing up our defense

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a little bit, it did a
really good job. You got down I

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think eighteen in that first half,
and we decided to switch a little bit.

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We got our starters back in.
They played a lot of minutes in

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that first half, and we cut
it to one and then end up going

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back to nine at the half and
then came out second half they went up

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nineteen, we came back cut it
to two or three. So I was

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just proud of our fight. You
know, we couldn't make shots, shots,

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wasn't following the force tonight, but
we just continue to keep defending and

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keep grinding. So I'm proud of
my team for that. It tight.

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Obviously, Gobert is such a presence
inside and he's always gonna be somebody's gonna

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deter drives and whatnot. But considering
you guys had so much success shooting in

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the paint this season, what kept
you guys from kind of replicating that tonight

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against that Utah defense. I thought
we miss some chippies around the basket.

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You know, Kawik got a lot
of great men range shots that he usually

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makes when he gets into the paint
area. But then we kicked it off

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the three when they double Kauaik PG
had three or four wide open threes,

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you know in the first half that
you know, they was leaving and I

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don't know why, but we weren't
able to knock down. So we got

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the shots we wanted to get,
you know, especially with Golbert Clark going

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to paint up. I thought we
did a good job of popping surge.

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I'm looking for him if he didn't
have him get into the second side,

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but he does have a big presence
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Hey, coach, the team fought
back twice once in the second quarter

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and I get in the fourth to
give themselves a chance in the game that

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they were shooting poorly. What did
it tell you about the team to see

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them fight like this despite the result. Just our grittiness, I think,

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being gritty and you know, still
competing to the to the last horn sounds,

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and that's all we can ask.
You know, you're not gonna make

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shots every night. But we kept
defended, we kept you know, playing

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the right way, and we just
couldn't get shots to fall, like you

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said. So it just says a
lot about just trusted what we're trying to

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do, the process and what we're
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they executed, you know pretty well
defensively, and I just started offense,

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you know, not making seats herders. Hey, ty, I'm just curious

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what went into the I guess decision
making to pull Pat out because he had

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a really good first half plus minus
wise he was dominating, but you pulled

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him early in that third quarter and
got Lou in there. He was tired.

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He asked, what's up. You
know, we we played our stars

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with a lot of extra minutes and
we usually try to, you know,

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but the game was getting out of
hands, so we threw our starters back

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in and try to at least make
a game of it before halftime. And

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we were able to do that.
And you know, we kind of overplayed

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Pat Kawhi and PG in that first
half, but that's what we need to

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do. And the start of that
third quarter, he got he got tired,

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like in two and a half three
minutes, so we had to get

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him out and we brought Lou in
for Pat. You're finding conditioning to be

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a bit of a work in progress
right now. Where you guys, you

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like where you're at, I don't
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It just depends on how many games
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know, back to back, you
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in Utah or if we're in Denver, so it all varies. You know,

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you never know on a night to
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got to play it by ear and
by field. And like I said,

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peg was, I mean Pat Belly
was playing great, and uh, they

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got tired early that third I mean
early in the third quarter, so you

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know he has to come out.
Hey, coach, got a question about

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your assistant total tonight. We had
nineteen assists. This is your second lease

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of the season. Did that have
an impact on your shot making? You

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believe? No? How many shots
to be made? I can't remember.

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What were you? Fifty one?
I think I couldn't couldn't have made fifty

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one. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, coach.

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I had that stat ready for me. I had that start up and

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ready to go. He made thirty
three shots tonight. Yes, nineteen assists

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on thirty three shots. You know, it's pretty good. And I thought

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we got a lot of shots that, like you said, we didn't make

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throughout the course of the game.
So I gotta look at the film.

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But I thought we played the right
way. I thought we shared the basketball,

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guys got open looks and we just
didn't make tonight. Okay, And

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what do you think about your thoughts
on Michael Connelly and his effectiveness today?

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He was great you know, he
was special. I thought we did a

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great job on Donovan, just showing
him different coverages, try to keep him

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off balance. We did a great
job on mcdonovitch, But you know,

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I thought Conley and angles really hurt
us. Angles off the bench really hurt

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us. Getting downhill. I think
he gets seven or eight assists, you

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know, seven or eight rebounds,
and then Connley shot making early on,

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you know, really changed the game
for them. So we did a good

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job on pretty much everybody else,
but Connley was the one that really really

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hurt us. There was head coach
Hiran lu post game after the Clippers lose

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one oh six to one hundred to
the Utah Jazz, talked about his team

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showing some grittiness, showing some fight, and there's some staffs that are representative

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of that. They had six seals
all by PG thirteen Paul George. They

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had eight blocks to just three for
the Utah Jazz. And also when the

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Clippers were a minus eleven in the
first half on the boards, they turned

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into a plus eight in the second
half, so they did a much better

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job to get back into the ball
game. I think part of what were

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the self inflicted wounds were really in
the third quarter when the Jazz put up

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that thirty three spot on them.
Some of that was miscused from the Clippers

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giving them easy shots in transition.
They had six of their ten assists in

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the third quarter, so they only
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but they had some really untimely ones
in the third. Clippers lose by six.

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Coming up next, we'll talk about
Sunday's game against the red hot Phoenix

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Suns, who have reloaded with CP
three, who was getting the most out

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of Devin Booker and DeAndre Eighten.
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more. Clippers talk up next.
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Paul George would hit it three with

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three fifteen left to bring the Clippers
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but that's as close as they would
get. They lose one oh six

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to one hundred to the Utah Jazz
in Utah. Welcome back in the Clipper

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stock. I'm at a Moslin eight
six nine eight seven two five seventy is

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the phone number the Clippers fought and
you just heard from Toronto lou that they

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competed out there even when their shots
weren't falling. I think that's the biggest

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calling. Cowherd like takeaway from the
game, and there are things you can

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take away that are positives in losses. There are things that can be negatives

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in wins that you could take away. Sometimes when it's too easy, you're

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not tested. But tonight was not
that for the Clippers. They were down

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by as many as twenty. They
had to compete and play hard down the

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stretch and play their best basketball in
that fourth quarter when they outscored the Utah

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Jazz by thirteen just to have a
chance. But it was too much Rudy

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Gobert down stretch and it was way
too much Mike Conley Junior, who had

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thirty three points on eleven of twenty
shooting with seven three pointers and a few

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of them were just wide open and
you knew they were going down. He

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was a plus twenty four in a
ball game they won by six. He

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was word of the difference maker.
The Clippers did a good job against Donovan

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Mitchell, similar to how they did
a great job against Damian Lillard last game.

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Mitchell just fifteen points on six or
fourteen shooting. It was all Mike

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Conley. That's the guy who was
beat them many times before. He took

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that first round series loss to the
Clippers back in twenty twelve. A little

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bit too personal. Maybe when the
Clippers had that huge twenty eight point or

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twenty nine point comeback in Game one
of that seven Cape series that wins seven.

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I don't know he hasn't forgotten about
that. The Clippers, though,

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will look to get back on track
in Phoenix come Sunday. We'll have tip

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time for you starting at five pm. That meets Clippers camp down starts at

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four pm. Before we get out
of here, I do want to thank

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the Clippers organization, No It Eagle, Ryan Semen, Ralph Lawler, and

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back in bar Brank my radio partner
Kevin Figures for keeping me steady as usual.

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He'll be on Fox Sports Radio later
tonight momentarily, so keep it tuned

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right here on AM five to seventy
LA Sports. Thanks to you the listeners.

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Thanks to everyone for coming outside their
houses and wondering why I'm parked outside

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them and screaming into a telephone like
a madman. Oh that technologies nuts these

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days. Until Sunday, starting at
four pm with your Clippers Countdown show.

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I'm Adamslin. We'll talk to you
then I'm getting the shot at night. Wall